Lords Sitting of 17 July 1845

MINUTES.
BILLS. Public.—1a. Turnpike Acts Continuance; Militia Ballots Suspension; Loan Societies; Highway Rates; Borough and Watch Rates; Art Unions; Unlawful Oaths (Ireland); Commons' Inclosure; Apprehension of Offenders.
2a. Recognizances for Costs in Bills.
3a. and passed:—Administration of Justice (Court of Chancery) Acts Amendment; Statute Labour (Scotland); Law of Defamation and Libel Act Amendment; Drainage by Tenants for Life; Dog Stealing; Constables, Public Works (Ireland).
Private.—1a. Earl of Powis's (or Robinson's) Estate; Shrewsbury and Holyhead Road.
2a. Direct London and Portsmouth Railway; Tacumshin Lake Embankment; Erewash Valley Railway; Irish Great Western Railway (Dublin to Galway).
Reported.—Norwich and Brandon Railway (Diss and Dereham Branches); Saint Helen's Improvement; Falmouth Harbour; Follett's Estate; Winchester College Estate; Bowes' Estate; Duke of Bridgewater's Trustees' Estate; Aberdare Railway; Brighton and Chichester Railway (Portsmouth Extension); Guildford, Chichester and Portsmouth Railway; Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway.
3a. and passed:—Birmingham Blue Coat School Charity Estate; Sampson's Estate (Ward's); Wear Valley Railway; Preston and Wyre Railway; Harwell and Streatley Road; Saint Matthew's (Bethnal Green) Rectory.
PETITIONS PRESENTED. From Longford, for the Better Observance of the Sabbath.—By the Marquess of Londonderry, from Landowners of the Baronies of Ards, and Castlereagh, and numerous other places, against the Tenants' Compensation (Ireland) Bill.—From Commissioners of Supply of Nairnshire, for Insertion of Clause in Railway Bills, to compel Proprietors of Railways to Compensate Creditors of Turnpike Trusts.

IRISH GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
The Earl of Besboroughbrought up the Report of the Select Committee on the Irish Great Western (Dublin and Galway) Bill, to which the petition had been referred. The Report (which the noble Earl read in a low tone at the Table) was understood to state, that it had not been the practice of this Company to require references from applicants for shares, and that allotments had been made to persons under feigned and fictitious names, and to paupers and others who had no means of paying the requisite deposits; that the system adopted was one which tended to defeat the object of Parliament in its rules on this subject, and that the reduction made last Session in the required amount of deposit had had the effect of facilitating the commission of fraud. The noble Earl concluded by moving that the Report should be printed, together with the evidence in the case, and that it should be referred to the Committee on the Bill.
Lord Broughamexpressed his belief that it would be better not to enter then into any discussion of that Report, but to wait until it was printed with the evidence, according to the Motion of his noble Friend.
After a few words from the Marquess of Clanricarde and the Earl of Wicklow,
Motion agreed to.

APPREHENSION OF OFFENDERS.
The Earl of Aberdeenlaid on the Table a Bill for facilitating the Execution of the Treaties with France and the United States of America, for the Apprehension of certain Offenders. We had received from France and America all the offenders for whom we had applied; but in consequence of technical difficulties, it had been found impossible to surrender to France any one offender, and to America only one or two. The Bill provided only that the warrant of the Secretary of State should in all cases be directed to some one of the police magistrates of the Metropolis, instead of the magistrates generally throughout the country, so uniformity of decision should be secured.
Bill read 2a.
House adjourned.