Lords Sitting of 31 July 1862

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILLS.—2a Consolidated Fund (Appropriation); Court of Common
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Pleas (Officer for Acknowledgment of Deeds); African Slave Trade Treaty (No. 2); Bankruptcy Act (1861) Amendment; Burial Boards (Mortgage of Rates).
3a Excise Duties; County Surveyors (Ireland); Recovery of Poor Rates, &c.; Highland Roads and Bridges; Moveable Property (Scotland).

DRAINAGE (IRELAND) BILL.

  [BILL No. 235.] SECOND READING.
  Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
  THE EARL OF LUCANput it to his noble Friend (the Marquess of Bath) who was in charge of the Bill, whether he would persevere, at this late period of the Session, with a measure which contained upwards of eighty clauses, which took six months to pass the House of Commons, and which contained so much that was of an objectionable nature.
  THE MARQUESS OF BATHsaid he had been asked by a friend to find a noble Lord to take charge of the Bill; and as he had not found any one to do so, he had consented himself to move the second reading. Though he did not agree with his noble Friend that the Bill was of so objectionable a nature, yet he felt that it would be necessary to introduce several amendments into it. As it would be impossible at that period of the Session to give those amendments the consideration which they deserved, he should not press the second reading of the Bill.
  Order for Second Reading discharged; Bill withdrawn.

TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN. THE FORDINGBRIDGE MURDER.

  QUESTION.
  THE EARL OF MALMESBURYasked the noble Lord the President of the Council, Whether there would be any objection to lay before their Lordships any Correspondence that might have taken place in reference to a convict of the name of Gilbert, who had obtained a ticket-of-leave, and who had since committed a murder, of which he had been convicted. There was a strong feeling in that part of the country where the murder took place that this man, who had been previously convicted of a number of crimes, including rape and burglary, ought never to have been allowed to go at large. He hoped his noble Friend would cause some inquiry to be made on the subject.
  EARL GRANVILLEsaid, he was not

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  acquainted with the circumstances of the case, but would make inquiries.
  House adjourned at a quarter before Six o'clock, till To-morrow, a quarter before Five o'clock.