Lords Sitting of 3 July 1848

MINUTES.
Took the Oaths.—Several Lords.
PUBLIC BILLS.—Reported.—Imprisonment for Debt (Ireland).
3° Commons Inclosure.
PETITIONS PRESENTED. From several Parishes in and about London, in favour of the Public Health Bill.—From Limehouse, for the Better Observance of the Sab-bath.—From Northallerton, against the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on the Sabbath.—From Members of several Odd Fellows Lodges, for the Extension of the Provisions of the Benefit Societies Act to that Order—From Norfolk, for the Adoption of Measures for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders.—From Shipowners, and Others, of Wokington, against any Alteration of the Navigation Laws.—From Guardians of the Basford Union, for the Repeal of the Law of Settlement, and for the Establishment of a National Rate and National Settlement—From Protestant Inhabitants of Enniskillen, against the Present System of National Education in Ireland, and for the more Efficient Support of the Schools under the Superintendence of the Clergy of the Church.—From Merchants of Dublin, for the Postponement of the Imprisonment for Debt (Ireland) Bill for another year.—From Guardians of the Basford Union, against the Present System of the Game Laws.—From Kilmornivaig and other Places in Scotland, against the Registering Births, &c. (Scotland), and the Marriage (Scotland) Bill.

ROYAL MARINES—GOOD-CONDUCT WARRANTS.
THE DUKE of RICHMONDwished to ask his noble Friend at the head of the
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Admiralty whether he proposed to give good-conduct warrants to the Royal Marines as well as to the Navy? He believed that the system of giving good-service warrants ill the Army had been already found to be attended with very beneficial effects.
The EARL of AUCKLANDsaid, he agreed with his noble Friend that the practice of granting good-service warrants in the Army had been attended with considerable advantage. He proposed to extend the practice to the Marines as well as to the Navy.

STANDING ORDERS.
LORD REDESDALE LORD REDESDALE moved the following Resolutions in order to their being made Standing Orders, and added to the Standing Order No. 23:—
"The name of the Lord who moves the Second Reading of any Public Bill shall be entered in the Journals of the House.
"The name of the Lord presenting a Public Bill to the House, and of any Lord who shall give notice to the Clerk Assistant that he intends to move the Second Reading of any Public Bill brought up from the House of Commons, shall be endorsed on the print of such Bill; and no print shall be delivered to the Lords without such endorsement; and the name of the Lord thus taking

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charge of any Public Bill shall be printed in the Minutes of Proceedings of the House in connexion with the same."
The LORD CHANCELLORsaid, it appeared to him, that some delay and inconvenience might be created if Bills coming down from the Commons could not be immediately proceeded with by their Lordships.
LORD CAMPBELLsaid, he approved of the principle of the resolution proposed by the noble Lord opposite. He would suggest that the rule brought forward by the noble Lord should be extended to Divorce Bills. It had hitherto been frequently impossible to ascertain who was the Peer who had charge of a Divorce Bill, and much inconvenience was thereby produced.
LORD BROUGHAMsaid, he could see no difference between a Divorce Bill and any other Bill.
EARL GREYsaid, the practice in the House of Commons was, when a Bill came up from that House to endorse it "From the Lords," without specifying the name of any particular Peer; and a similar course prevailed in the House of Lords, to change which he thought would be inconvenient.
LORD BEAUMONTsuggested that it would be sufficient to have the name of the Peer moving the second reading of a Bill entered on the Minutes.
Resolution agreed to as follows:—
"The Name of the Lord, presenting a Public Bill to the House, and of the; Lord who shall give Notice to the Clerk Assistant that he intends to move the Second Heading of any Public Bill brought up from the House of Commons, shall be printed in the Minutes of Proceedings of the House, in connexion with the same:
"The said Resolutions to be made Standing Orders; and to be added to the Standing Order No. 23."
LORD REDESDALEthen, pursuant to notice, moved the following verbal alterations and amendments in the Standing Orders, namely:—
"In Standing Order No. 8, insert the Words—'the House shall proceed to nominate the Chairman of Committees, and' after the Word 'then' and before the Words 'the Committee for Privileges,' and to insert the Words 'the Chairman of Committees nominated after the Word 'reported.'"
"In Standing Order No. 26, to insert the Words 'for the First Time' after the Word 'committed.'"
"To add to the Standing Order No. 31—' That the Lord nominated Chairman of Committees at the commencement of every Session do take the Chair in all Committees of the House,
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and in all Committees of the Whole House, and in all Committees upon Private Bills unless where it shall have been otherwise directed by this House:
'That when the House is in a Committe of the Whole House, if the Chairman of Committees, or any Lord appointed by the House in his Place, shall be absent (unless by Leave of the Committee), the House be resumed.'"
"In Standing Order No. 155, to insert the Words 'for the First Time' after the Word 'committed:
"To leave out the Proviso at the End of the Fourth Section of Standing Order No. 224."
After a protracted conversation, Motion was agreed to.
House adjourned.