The Administration of the Earl of Derby, with Mr. Disraeli

Chancellor of the Exchequer, replaced Lord John Russell's Administration in Febru- ary 1852. It professed Protectionist principles, but promised to be guided by the opinion of the electoral body. It conducted business till the 1st of July, on which day the prorogation took place ; and the dissolution of Parliament was annLunced the same evening. On the 4th November the new Parliament assembled. On the 11th the Queen opened the busi- ness of the session in person ; and on the 10th December Mr. Disraeli pro- pounded his financial scheme. Debate followed ; and on the 16th—the fourth night's debate—a division was taken upon the resolution for ex- tending and doubling the House-tax ; the agreement being that the result should be deemed decisive as regarded the entire financial scheme. By 305 to 286—majority 19—the resolution was rejected, and the Administra- tion retired.

Reckoning the session as having commenced at the delivery of the Queen's Speech (November 11), the period taken by the Derby Administration stands thus : Lords, 22 sittings, 26 hours. Commons, 26 sittings, 146 hours.

ABERDEEN MLNISTRY, 1853.

The Earl of Aberdeen's Administration, with Mr. Gladstone Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, succeeded the Derby Ministry in December 1852, but did not commence its regular Parliamentary functions till Thursday the 10th February 1853. At the outset, considerable time was taken up in making arrangements for the trial of controverted elec- tions. Mr. Gladstone made his financial statement on the 18th April. The session closed on Saturday the 20th August, Reckoning from the accession to office till the prorogation, the time occupied stands thus : Lords, 96 sittings, 290 hours. Commons 146 sittings, 980 hours.

Add to these figures the time occupied by the Derby Ministry, and the sessional total is

Lords, 120 sittings, 317 hours. Commons, 175 sittings, 1128 hours.

LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS. I. MINISTERIAL.

Female Convicts.

Betting-houses. Registrar of the Privy Council. Copies of Specifications Repeal. Employment of Children in Factories. Newspaper Stamp-Law Defined. Office of Examiner, Court of Chan- cery. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.

Cathedral Appointments. Aggravated Assaults.

Hackney Carriages, (Metropolis). Sheriff-Courts, Scotland. Burgh Harbours, Scotland. Sheriffs, Scotland.

Universities, Scotland.

Bankruptcy, Scotland. Entails, Scotland. Registrar of Meetings. Malicious Injuries, Ireland. Valuation Act Amendment, Ireland. Grand Jury Cess, Ireland. Taxing-officer Common Law Business, Ireland.

Dublin Parliamentary Registration. Encumbered Estates Act, Ireland, Continuance.

Resident Magistrates, Ireland. Crime and Outrage Act, Ireland, Con- tinuance. Turnpike Acts Continuance, Ireland. Linen, &c. Manufactures, Ireland. Dublin Carriages. Drainage of Lands, Ireland.

Public Works Act Amendment, Ire- land.

Turnpike Trusts Arrangements, Turnpike Acts Continuance. Sheep, &c., Contagious Diseases Pre- vention.

Highway Bates. Land-Tax Redemption. Land-Tax Redemption Act Amend- ment.

Land-Tax Commissioners' Names. Loan Societies.

Friendly Societies. Defacing the Coin. HELM WHICH HAVE BECOME LAW.

_Financial.

Income-Tax.

Succession-Duty. South Sea and other Annuities Com- mutation.

South Sea and other Annuities, Pro- vision for Payment. Soap-Duties. Customs-Duties.

Excise-Duty on Spirits. Stamp-Duties. Stamp-Duties No. 2. Consolidated Annuities, Ireland. Insurances on Lives : Income-tax Exemption. Transfer of Aids.

Exchequer Bills. Consolidated.Fund.

Consolidated Fund, 4,000,0001. Consolidated Fund Appropriation. Saving-Banks Annuities. Metropolitan Improvements (Repay- ments out of Consolidated Fund.) Public Works Loan.

Stamp-Duties on Patents for Inven- tions.

Sales of Bullion.

Inland Revenue Office.

Land Revenues.

Assessed Taxes.

Duties on Horses Let for Hire.

Hackney Carriages Duties. Customs Tariff.

Colonial.

Clergy Reserves, Canada. Coinage Offences, Colonies. Government of India.

Miscellaneous.

Merchant Shipping.

Pilotage. Customs Acts Consolidation.

Charitable Trusts.

Transportation. Apprehension of Offenders Act Amendment. Stock in Trade Exemption. Passengers Act Amendment. Poor-Relief Act Continuance. Mutiny. Marine Mutiny.

Entry of Seamen. Naval Coast Volunteers. Militia Pay. Militia Ballots Suspension, &c. General Board of Health. Indemnity.

Commons Enclosure, No. 2. Commons Enclosure, No. 3. Whichwood Forest.

Sheriff and Commissary Courts, Ber- wickshire.

New Forest Deer —Removal Act Amendment.

Bittcrsea Park.

Westminster Bridge. Smoke Nuisance Abatement, Metro- polis.

Metropolitan Sewers Act Continuance. Thames Embankment.

Burials beyond the Metropolis. Copyholds. Copyhold, &c. Commission Continu- ance.

Slave-Trade, Sohar in Arabia. Slave-Trade New Granada. Liberated Africans, Sierra Leone.

BILLS WITHDRAWN IN THE COMMONS.

Education.

Truck Act Amendment. Ministers-Money, Ireland. Savings-Banks.

Edinburgh and Canongate Annuity. Crown Suits.

Ecclesiastical Leasing Act Amend- ment.

.Assistant-Jude, Middlesex Sessions. (Lost on third reading.) Places of Religious Worship Regis- tration.

London and Edinburgh Gazettes. Registration of Assurances. (Refer- red to a Select Committee.) Jewish Disabilities. (Rejected in the Lords on the second reading, by 164 to 115.) Number of Ministerial Bills introduced 116 Passed into Law 104 Lost—withdrawn (10), rejected (2) 12

DIVISIONS.

'Total number 257 During the Derby Ministry there occurred .... 8 During the Aberdeen Ministry 249

BILLS WHICH HAVE BECOME LAW.

County Elections Poll. (Lord Ro- bert Grosvenor.) County Elections Poll, Scotland. (Mr. Elliott.) Law of Evidence, Scotland. (Lord Brougham.) Evidence Amendment. (Lord Brough- am.) Bail in Error. (Lord Campbell) Public-houses, Scotland. (Mr. Forbes Mackenzie.) Common Lodginghouses. (Lord Shaftesbury.) Courts of Common Law, Ireland.

• (Mr. Whiteside.) Parish Vestries. (Sir George Pechell.) Elections. (Mr. George Butt.) Municipal Corporations Act Amend- ment. (Mr. Tufnell.) Chancery. Suitors further Relief. (Lord St. Leonards.) Lunatic Asylums. (Lord St. Leo- nerds.) Corrupt Practices at Elections. (Mr' Walpole.) Petty Sessions, Ireland. (Lord Clan- iicarde.) Summary Jurisdiction, Ireland. (Lord L'Ianricarde.) Probates of Wills and Grants of Ad- ministration. (Mr. Hadfield.) Probate and Administration. (Mr. Collier.) Simony Law Amendment. (Mr. Ro- bert Phillimore.) Manchester and Salford Education. (Mr. Brotherton.) Metropolitan Building Act Further Amendment. (From Lords.) Missionary Bishops Bill. (Arch- bishop of Canterbury.) Colonial Church Regulation. (Arch- bishop of Canterbury.) Metropolitan Sewers. (Sir J. Shelley.) Highways, Ireland. (Mr. M9dahon.) Glanders Prevention. (Mr. Ker.) New Trials, Criminal Cases. (Mr. Isaac Butt.)

II. NON-MINISTERIAL.

Lunatics Care and Treatment. (Lord St. Leonardo.) Lunacy Regulation. (Lord St. Leonard.%) Oaths in Chancery. (Lord St. Leonards.) Patronage Exchange. (Bishop of Oxford.

Colonial Bishops Act Extension. (Bishop of St. Asaph.) Vaccination Extension. (Lord Lyt- - telton.) Public Libraries, Ireland. (Mr. For- tescue.) Burghs, Scotland. (Mr. Dunlop.) Convicted Prisoners Removal and Confinement. (Lord Hotharn.)

BILLS REJECTED OR WITHDRAWN IN THE COMMONS.

Parliamentary Electors : to regulate Payment of Rates. (Sir De Lacy Evans.) Attorniea' and Solicitors' Certificate- Duty. (Lord Robert Grosvenor.) County Rates and Expenditure. (Mr. Milner Gibson.) Sale of Lands, &c., Ireland. (Mr. • Whiteside.) Recovery of Personal Liberty. (Mr. Thomas Chambers.) Factories. (Mr. Cobbett.) Juvenile Offenders. (Mr. Adderley.) Episcopal and Capitular Estates. (Marquis of Blandford.) Expenses of Elections. (Mr. Craven Berkeley.) Fisheries, Ireland, No. 2. (Mr. M‘Mahon.) Improvement of Towns, Ireland. (Mr. Ross Moore.)

SELECT CO

India Territories. (Mr. Herries.) Criminal and Destitute Children. (Mr. Baines.) Railway and Canal Bills. (Mr. Hen- . ley.) Parliamentary Papers : Distribution. Tufnell.) Coals (Metropolis). (Sir John Shel- ley.) Education (Manchester and Salford). Office of Speaker. (Sir Robert Inglis.) Judges Exclusion. (Lord Hotham.) Absconding Debtors, Ireland. (Mr. Napier.) Seamen Savings-Banks. (Mr. French.) Parish Constables. (Mr. Deedes.) Burial-grounds. (Lard Shaftesbury.) Juvenile Mendicancy. (Lord Shaftes- bury.) Union of Benefices. (Mr. Frewen.) Cruelty to Animals (Mr. Thomas Duncombe.) Sheriff-Courts, Scotland. (Mr. Crau- furd.)

Payment of Wages. (Sir Henry Rai- ford.)

Friendly Societies, No 2. (Mr. &the- ron.) Sale and Purchase of Land. (Mr. Drummond. Referred to a Select Committee.) Tenant Right, Ireland. (Mr. Ser- geant Shee. Referred 4o a Select Committee.) Transfer of Land, Ireland. (Mr. Vin- cent Scully. Referred to a Select Committee.) Lord Lyndhurst's Bill for the Al- teration of Oaths was rejected by the Lords on the question of going into Committee.

Lord Shaftesbury's Bill for the Prevention of Bribery was withdrawn in the Lords ; also Mr. Drummond's Combination of Workmen Bill.

Several Law Bills introduced by Lord Brougham and Lord St. Leo- nerds, relating to County Courts, Bankruptcy, and the Criminal Law, remain over in the Lords.

MMITTEES.

Ship Novell°. (Mr. Muntz.) National Gallery. (Colonel More.) Assurance Associations. (Mr. Wil- son.) Strangers & Divisions. (Mr. Ifuntz.) Public-houses. (Mr. W. Brown.) Decimal Coinage. (Mr. W. Brown.) Slave-trade Treaties. (Mr. Hume) Accidents in Coal-mines. (Mr. Hutchins.) National Police. (Mr. Rice.)

CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS.

Members Unseated.

Places. Names. Causes.

Barnstaple Mr. B. Bremridge Bribery and treating by Agents.'

Sir W. A. Fraser Bribery and treating by Agents.

Blackburn Mr. W. Eccles Bribery by Agents. Berwick-upon-Tweed .Mr. IL Forster Bribery by Agents.

Mr. Stapleton Treating by Agents.

Bridgnorth Sir U. Pigott Bribery by Agents. Cambridge Mr. J. H. Astell Bribery by Agents.

Mr. K. Macaulay Bribery by Agents.

Canterbury Mr. II. Plumptre Gipps .Bribery by Agents. Hon. H. B. Johnstone...Bribery by Agents. Chatham Sir J. M. F. Smith Bribery by Himself. Clitheroe Mr. M. Wilson Bribery and treating by Agents.

Mr. Aspinall (who suc- • 1 Treating (in 1852.) ceeded Mr. Wilson) .

Clare Sir J. F. Fitzgerald Intimidation and rioting.

Mr. Cornelius O'Brien Ditto.

Derby Mr. T. B. Borstall Bribery by Agents. . Durham Lord Adolphus Vane ....Bribery by Agents. Frome Hon. Colonel Boyle Office of profit under Crown. Harwich Mr. G. M. W. Peacocke illegal engagement to pay money. Huddersfield Mr. W. R. C. Stansfield .Bribery and treating by Agents. Kingston-on-Hull .. Viscount Goderich Bribery and treating by Agents.

Mr. James Clay Bribery and treating by Agents.

Knaresborough Mr. J. P. Brown West- 1 In a minority.

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Lancaster Mr. R. B. Armstrong.... Bribery and treating by Agents. Liverpool Mr. C. Turner Bribery and treating by Agents.

Mr, Forbes Mackenzie Bribery and treating by Agents.

Maidstone Mr. G. Dodd Treating by Agents. Maldon Mr. C. Du Cane Bribery by Agents.

Mr. T. F. Miller Bribery by Agents.

Plymouth Mr. C. .1. Mare Bribery by Himself and Agents. Peterborough Mr. 0.11. Whalley Treating by Himself. Mr H' IL Whall" (again I Disqualified as above. returned) Bye Mr W. A. Mackinnon 1 Treating by Agents.

junior

Sligo Mr. C. Towneley Bribery and treating by Agents. Tavistock Mr. S. Carter Defective qualification. Taunton Mr. Arthur Mills Bribery by Agents. 7'ynetnotsth Mr. Hugh Taylor Bribery and treating by Agents.

Places.

Athlone Mr. William Keogh. Bolton Mr. Thomas Barnes.

Mr. Joseph Crook.

Bury St. _Edmunds. Mr. J. B. P. Oakes.

BrMgraorth Mr. Hen. Whitmore Cbckermouth Mr. Aglionby.

General Wyndham.

Cork Mr. Sergt Murphy.

Mr. William Fagan.

Cirencester lion. A. Ponsonby. Dartmouth Sir Thomas Herbert.

Derby Mr. H. T. Bass.

Guildford Mr. R. D. Mangles.

Mr. James Bell.

Harwich Mr. D. Waddington. Declared to be duly Elected.

Names. Places.

Leicester

Names. Sir J. Walmsley. Mr. R. Gardner.

Mayo Mr. 0. Higgins.

Mr. G. H. Moore.

Newry Mr. William Kirk. New Windsor Lord C. Wellesley. New Bow Mr. C. G. Duffy.

Plymouth Mr. B.. P. Collier.

Southampton Sir A. Cockburn.

Mr. Willcox.

ranee:— .. Mr. Thomas Mills.

nunton Sir John Ramsdell.

Waterford County Mr. John Esmonde. Wigton Burghs. Sir John IPTaggart.

Dtawarran Durham

Ennis

Finsbury Gloucester Harwich Herefordshire

.Petitions presented, but withdrawn.

Against. Places. Against,

Mr. Fending. Lancaster Mr. Greene.

Mr. CabbelL Leitrim Mr. Montgomery. Mr. Heathcote. Mr. Brady.

Mr. Bruce.

Mr. John Sadleir.

Mr. John Alexander.

Sir Timothy O'Brien. Hon. C. Lawless.

Lord A. Hill.

Mr. Her.

Mr. J. H. Hamilton. Mr. Taylor. Dublin Mr. Grogan. Mr. Vance. Mr. Maguire. Mr. Atherton.

Mr. John Fitzgerald. Mr. Challis. Mr. Philip Price. Mr. Bagshaw. Mr. James King. Mr. Booker. Mr. Banbury. Hereford Bur R. Price. Mr. Clifford. Mr. Lowe.

Mr. Henchy. Mr. P. O'Brien. Mr. L. Bland.

Knaresborough Mr. Dent.

For the following places Commissions of Inquiry have been issued, and the Writs suspended.

Kidderminster Kildare King's County Dublin County Cashel Clonmel Down Bradford Carlow County Carlow

Places

Blackburn Boston

Mr. Wickham. Mr. J. G. Phillimore.

Mr. Milligan. Mr. F. W. Russell. Mr. John Ball. Mr. Roger Smyth.

Leominster Limerick Labia"' Londonderry Court- Capt. tones.

Mr. Bateson.

Louth Maidstone Mallow Meath Mr. Kennedy.

Mr. Whitman.

Sir Denham Norreys. Mr. Lucas.

kliddkeex Mr. Bernal Osborne.

New Sanaa Mr. Chap Mr. Baring Wall. Neribik (W. . .31r. Bagge. Mr. George Bentinck. Norwich Mr. Peto.

Mr. Warner.

Pontefract ..... Oliveira.

Mr. M. Milnes.

Sligo County Sir H. G. Booth.

Mr. Swift.

Stoke-won-Trent Mr. Lewis Ricardo. Hon. F. L. Gower. Surrey (E. D.).— Mr. Mcock.

Hon. Locke King.

TiPPerant Francis Scully. Westmeath Mr. Megan.

Mr. P. Urquhart.

Wexford County Mr. John George. Toughed Mr. Isaac Butt.

Cambridge. Maldon. Kingston-on-Hull. Tynemouth.

COLLATERAL PROCEEDINGS.

Derby Election: Inquiry by Select Committee into Major Beresford's (W.B.'s) interference Reported December 16, 1852. Norwich Election : Inquiry by Select Committee into alleged Corrupt " Compromises." Reported March 17, 1853. Berwick Election. (Similar inquiry.) Reported June 24. Durham. (Similar um Reported June 23. Plymouth : Inquiry intrakupt Practices Reported July 1. Peterborough Elections : Interference of Earl Fitz- william Reported August 8. Election Petition Recognizances: the state of the law Reported July 15. Dockyard Appointments : Conduct of the Derby Board of Admiralty Reported May 23. Dockyard Appointments : Inquiry into the Resto- ration of Lieutenant Engledue Reported July 22. Chatham election : Sir John Shelley's motion to prosecute Sir Frederick Smith for bribery is negatived by 188 to 78. Dockyard Appointments : Mr. Keating's Motion Condemnatory of the Election Practices of the Derby Board of Admiralty was brought on, but not pronounced upon, through the tactics of its opponents. -

Bill for the better punishment of Bribery. Treat- ing and Intimidation, brought in by Mr. Wal-

pole% read a second time; and lies over for next Session. Barnstaple. Canterbury.