HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, IN THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE FOURTEENTH PA R- LIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. SIXTH AND LAST VOLUME OF THE SESSION. Railway; Middlesbro' and Redcar Railway; Cockermouth and Workingto: kailway ; Falmouth Harbour. 34. and passeul :--Quinborowe Borough ; Leeds and Thirsk Railway; Great North of England and Richmond Railway; Totnes Markets and Waterworks ; Blackburn and Pres- MINUTES. BILLS Public.--1". Seal olice Abolition. ton Railway; Eastern Union Railway Amendment. PETITIONS PRESENTED. From Landowners and others, Reported.-Real Property Conveyance (No. 2). 3*. and passed :-Banking (Ireland) Bishops' Patronage of St. Helen's, Lancaster, against, and from the same places, in favour of the Saint Helen's Improvement Private.-1*. Norwich and Brandon Railway (Diss and Dereham Branches); London and South Western Metro- politan Extension Railway; Glasgow Junction Railway; ANKING (IRELAND) BILL.] On Irish Great Western Railway (Dublin to Galway). Motion of the Earl of Ripon, Bill 24. Saint Helen's Improvement; Oxford, Worcester, and read 3a. An Amendment made. Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland) ; Dublin The Marquess of Clanricarde proposed and Belfast Junction Railway; Cork and Bandon Rail- the insertion of a clause, as a rider, to em- way; Great Western Railway (Ireland) (Dublin to Mul- and Hartlepool Junction Railway; Richmond (Surrey) Dublin, to exercise equal privileges with lingar and Athlone) ; Great North of England, Clarence power the Hibernian and Royal Bank, in Railway : Liverpool and Manchester Railway ; Newry the other banks; which, under this Bill, and Enniskillen Railway; Waterford and Limerick would have the power of issuing notes in Reported.— Taw Vale Railway and Dock; Belfast Im- Dublin. These two banks had been going on under the impression that these privi- The Earl of Ripon felt it his duty to argue the question over again. The par- and Bury Railway (Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool Rail- way and Bury Extension) ; Scottish Midland Junction I 1839, that no promise had been held out 1 tr täen.. or errement entered into, br: the said book to the sheriff, which took tire Guverneli, tr ested to them the should be called “The Jurors' Book." Params IT DOT asazu. This provision, he thought, was quite sufirimenima uameh. B1. passed. cient to prevent ali mistakes which might occur in the making up of the one general RRS "TERNT.' HI: The Lord list from the serenal particular lists. NotCuer ur more i. Second Reading withstanding, however, all these precau. 01. Intrider regulations for tions in securing an accurate transcript of mon emua i serumnas tat correctess of the particular lists into the general list, tik Juris buis ninac, said that this which was afterwards to be copied into ESTE in puranee. Every the vovk to be delivered to the sherif", it tiluf erst iti orang jur. ful., was possible that some error miglii creep in: 2. Dan selector ei jurus. must be to correct this, he proposed to enact that of ora: neres: ii erant Perror concerned the clerk of the queace should cause jury 1. inkt hit sonsue of lesince. The lists, so uliowes and signed, and the general difiche te z trwa rin it wouil. list, 1o be placeà among the records in his sat i z ier sus tride Szature of office, and allow the same to be inspected in Sa 210 17. c. 9:, tire at ali reasonable times, without fee, by tri mus* et snitt difier- art person who is the 3rd and 4:h William din Lemn men erieret. unes 11., would be entitled to varuse the copies variisis Pius quali- of art of the just üsts veltered to the Íri ngent a nit a thuse ciers of the peace bor the time constable and ison telt ua: 230€ 2 maut, collector or mecha Fe had also prosurrecte for the rided, that the cron Enok should be TRA IL PET 525. senec found to contain any name which should Ta a tier to make no: be contained in gry one of the jury STS. pars tantsurd b-COD* bal sa 1: tie uzea a at one nisbatid not ther opens in suci. bu sou be kuul ij. Her l'at's never's Sanch ir Iubs OTETT - Ris Court, POTI (2 ost one to the sid ni rus icmia, to su sterior under-siers sai che des in the peace reaciret, temas e soceros isine San ms: Insert of ཚཡིན པ ས ས ལྷ་ པ ས * -- ༣་ལོ - * རྒྱུ་དང་''ཨཱ་ Si : Sebut 2:19 Sac da Conceia the ra eine: Didrigoribe is cath of he said 6 5 7 Railways {JULY 4} Coasting Trade. intimate the intention of the Government Bill read 24. RAILWAYS--COASTING TRADE.] The of England Railway many of the directors The Lord Chancellor said, that the were coal owners, and they had made a challenge to the array could only arise contract to supply their coals from Durham where there was an error between the lists to York at three farthings a ton up to a signed by the magistrates and the Jurors' given quantity, and beyond that at a farBook; and he thought sufficient precau- thing a ton. The practical result had tion had been adopted to prevent any such been that coals had been delivered from He was, however, willing to meet Durham to York at five-eighths of a penny any particular case in which an error per ton. He had no doubt that in time coals might have occurred, which should not would be delivered from the midland counnecessarily challenge the whole jury list for ties at all the great marts of consumption the assizes. per railway at a halfpenny a ton per mile. Lord Campbell would strictly confine He fully agreed that the support of the himself to a challenge of the array in par- coasting trade was a great national object, ticular cases. to which much ought to be sacrificed. Lord Denman thought it possible that Lord Ashburton said that the coasting there might be error in the lists, besides trade, which was one of the vital interests that arising from unindifferency or mis- of the country, ought not to be sacrificed B 2 error. to them, or engagement entered into, by, the said book to the sheriff, which book the Government, to extend to them the should be called “ The Jurors' Book.” privileges they now asked. This provision, he thought, was quite suffiAmendment negatived. Bill passeil . cient to prevent all mistakes which might occur in the making up of the one general JURORS (IRELAND) Bill.] The Lord list from the several particular lists. NotChancellor, in moving the Second Reading withstanding, however, all these precauof the Bill for making further regulations for tions in securing an accurate transcript of more effectually securing the correctness of the particular lists into the general list, the Jurors' Books in Ireland, said that this which was afterwards to be copied into was a subject of great importance. Every- the book to be delivered to the sheriff, it thing connected with obtaining a fair, full, was possible that some error might creep in: and impartial selection of juries, must be to correct this, he proposed to enact that of great interest to every person concerned the clerk of the peace should cause jury in the due administration of justice. The lists, so allowed and signed, and the general difficulties he had to deal with he would list, to be placed among the records in his state in a few words. By the Statute of office, and allow the same to be inspected the 3rd and 4th William IV., c. 91, the at all reasonable times, without fee, by high constables and collectors in the differ- any person who, by the 3rd and 4th William ent districts in Ireland were ordered once IV., would be entitled to peruse the copies a year to prepare lists of all persons quali- of any of the jury lists delivered to the fied to serve on juries, and to send those clerk of the peace by the high constable and lists to the clerk of the peace of each county, collector or collectors. He had also prowhich lists were to be corrected by the vided, that if the Jurors' Book should be magistrates in petty sessions, and signed found to contain any name which should by them. The parties were then to make not be contained in any one of the jury out one general list from all those lists so lists, or if any name which should be conhanded in, and deliver the same to the tained in any one of such lists, should not clerk of the peace, who was to copy them appear in such book, it should be lawful into a book, and deliver that book to the for Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench sheriff, which was to be used by him as in Dublin, or any Judge of the said Court, the jury-book for the ensuing year. He upon complaint thereof made to the said proposed to repeal the latter part of this Court or Judge, to order the said sheriff'er enactment, and instead thereof to enact under-sheriff and the clerk of the peace that when such list should be duly cor- respectively, to produce the said Jurors' rected by the justices present at such spe- Book and the said jury lists to the said cial sessions, the lists should be marked in Court or Judge; and if upon inspection of their presence with the successive numbers the said book and jury lists any such error 1, 2, 3, &c., according to the number of should be found in the said Jurors Book, such lists; and when the lists, so corrected the said Court or Judge should order the and numbered, should be allowed and same to be amended, and such amnendment signed by them, the justices should cause should be forth with made and signed by the one general list to be made out therefrom, said sheriff, or under-sherifl, and clerk of containing the names of all persons whose the peace, in the presence of the said qualification should have been so allowed, Court or Judge. He thought he had arranged according to rank and property, thus sufficiently provided for insuring a which general list should be compared by correspondence between the Jurors' Book the presiding justices at such sessions with and the particular lists which were to be the lists so allowed, signed, and numbered, corrected by the magistrates, who, in corand should be corrected by such justices (if recting them, would act judicially, and necessary) by reference to such lists, and without appcal. If any suggestion could be made to correspond therewith; and the be made for giving additional security presiding justices at such sessions should against error, and of making the Jurors' sign the general list at the foot of each Book correspond with the original lists of page, and deliver the same, together with the high constables and collectors, than the lists so signed, to the clerk of the what this Bill provided, he should be glad peace, who should thereupon cause the to adopt it. He thought it proper to mensame to be copied, in the same order in tion that, since the Bill was printed, a which the names should be arranged in the communication had been made to him by general list, in a book, and should deliver a gentleman who acted a part of some |