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PROGRESS OF LEGISLATION . The following is a tabular statement , showing the progres of all bills which have been under the consideration of the House of Commons during the present session , corrected to June 15 , 1850 . 1 . Accidents on Railways—waiting for second reading-. 2 . Acts of Parliament Abbreviation—passed mtoalaw . 3 . Administration of Criminal Justice Improvement—waiting for second reading . 4 . Affirmation—put off for six months . 5 . Alterations in Pleadings—passed into a law . 6 . Attorney ' s Certificates—waiting for second reading . 7 . Australian Colonies Government—waiting for report ( House 8 . Bankrupt and Insolvent Members—put off for six months . 9 . Benefices in Plurality—waiting for second reading- ( House
ofl- < ords ) . 10 . Borough Bridges—waiting for second reading . 11 . Borough Gaols—waiting for committee . 12 . Borough Courts of Uecord ( Ireland)—waiting for considerration of report . 13 . Brick Duties—passed into a law . 14 . Burgess Lists — put off for six months . 15 . Charitable Truats— waiting for committee . 16 . Chief Justices' salaries—waitingfor consideration of report . 17 . Churches and Chapels ( Ireland)—waiting for second reading . 18 . Civil Bill ( Boroughs ) ( Ireland)—withdrawn . 19 . Clergy ( Ireland )—waiting for second reading . 20 . Collection of Fines , &c . ( Ireland)—referred to a select
committep . 21 . Commons' lnclosure—passed into a law . 22 . Compound Householders—waiting for second reading . 2 ! i . Consolidated Fund ( £ 8 , 000 , 000 )—pissed into a law . 24 . Convict Prisons—waiting for third reading . 25 . County Iiate 3—waiting for second reading . 26 . County Rates and Expenditure—referred to a select committee . 27 . County Cess ( Ireland )—passed into a law . 28 . County Court Extension—waiting for consideration of report .
29 . Copyholds Enfranchisement—waiting for second reading . 30 . Court of Chancery—waiting for committee . 3 t . Court of Chancery ( Ireland)—waiting for second reading ( House of Lords ) . 32 . Court of Exchequer ( Ireland)—waiting for second reading . 33 . Court of Prerogative ( Ireland)—referred to a select committee . 34 . Court of Session ( Scotland)—waiting for second reading ( House of Lords ) . 35 . Cruelty to Animals ( Scotland )—waiting for second reading . 36 . Defects in Leases Act Amendment—passed into a law .
37 . Distressed Unions Advances and Repayment of Advances ( Ireland)—passed into a law . 38 . Drainage and Improvement of Land Advances—waiting for second reading ( House of Lords ) . 39 . Elections ( Ireland)—waiting-for second reading ( House of Lords ) . 40 . Ecclesiastical Commission—waiting- for committee . 41 . Ecclesiastical Residences ( Ireland)—waiting for second reading . 42 . Education—second reading put off for six months . 43 . Engines for taking Fish ( Ireland)—waiting for second reading . _ . __ of
44 . Estates Leasing ( Ireland)—waiting for report ( House Lords ) 45 . Exchequer Bills ( £ 9 , 200 , 000 )—passed into a law . 46 . Exchequer Bills ( £ 8 , 558 , 700)— passed into a law . 47 . Extramural Interments—put off for six months . 48 . Factories—waiting for third reading . 49 . Fees ( Court of Chancery )—waiting for committee . 50 . Pees ( Court of Common Pleas )—waiting for royal assent . 51 . Friendly Societies—waiting for second reading . 52 . General Board of Health—waiting for third reading . 53 . Greenwich Hospital Improvement — waiting for royal assent . 51 . Highways—progressing in committee . 55 . Highways ( District Surveyors )—waiting for second reatling 1 - 50 . Highways ( South Wales )—waiting for committee . 57 . Home-made Spirits in Bond—waiting for first reading . 58 . Indemnity—passed into a law . 59 . Incorporation of Boroughs Confirmation ( No . 1 . )—withdrawn .
60 . Incorporation of Boroughs Confirmation ( No . 2 . )—waiting for second reading . Gl . Irish Fisheries—put off for six months . M . Judges of Assi / c—Avuiting for second reading ( House of Lords ) . 6 . ' { . Juvenile Offenders—put off for six months , 61 . . Judgments ( Ireland )—waiting lor third reading- ( House of Lords ) . G . r i . Landlord and Tenant—waitinar for consideration of report . 6 ( 5 . Landlord and Tenant ( Ireland )—waiting for second read-67 . Larceny Summary Jurisdiction—waiting for third reading . ( 5 S . Lift ! Policies of Assurance ( No . 1 )—withdrawn . (>' . ) . Life Policies of Assurance ( No . 2 )—dropped . 70 . Liiu . Mi . &c . Manufactures ( Ireland )—waiting for committee . 71 . Lord-Liuutcnuncy Abolition ( Ireland)—debate on question
of pocoiid reading . 72 . Marine Mutiny—passed into a law . * T . l . Marriages—waiting for third rending . 71 . Medical Charities ( Ireland )—waitingfor consideration of report . 75 . Mercantile Marine ( Xo . 1 )—withdrawn . 76 . Mercantile Marine ( No . 2)—wnitinjr for second reading . 77 . MerchantSeamcns * Fund—waiting for second reading . 7 H . Merchant Shipping—put oil'for six months . 72 . Metropolitan Interments—waiting- lor consideration of report . 80 . Money payment of Wages ( Ireland)—waiting for committee . S | . Municipal Corporations ( Ireland)—waiting- for second rciuliii" - ( House ol' Lords ) . H-J . Mutiny—parsed into a law . h : i . National ( jalln-y ( Kilinhurgh )—waiting for swoml reading . Kl . Naval Prize llulutitw—waitinsr for rov : il assent . hi
) Outli of Abjuration ( Jews )—waiting for second reading . Mi . Parish Constables—passed into n law . H 7 . Parliamentary Voters ( Ireland )—waiting for a committee ( llon-e of Lord a ) . NS . Puror . hial Assessments—wailing for second reading . hit . Party ProcusMons ( Ireland ) -- passed into a law . lilt . Petty Sessions ( Ireland )—referred to a selnet committee . J » l . Pintcs ( Mead Money ) Ki-pesil—waitin- » for royal assent . ' . )? . Puliei ' and 1 inpiovrnu nt ( Srollund )—waiting for second roailinv , ' ( Ilinisi' of L ( inls ) . 0 , "t . Poor Uflief ( Cities ; unl Towns )—wailiiig- for second reading . SM . Population—wailing for coiuinittre . !)') . Population ( Ireland )—waitin <* lor second reading . !» li . Process mid l ' laeiicr ( Ireland ) -passed into a law . 97 . Process ami Practice ( Ireland ) Act Amendment—passed into a law . !>« , Public Health ( Scotland )—withdrawn ,
99 . PuMic Health ( Ireland )—waiting for committee . 100 . Public Libraries and Museums—in committee . 101 . Railways Abandonment—waiting for third reading . 102 . Railway Audit—waiting for second reading . 103 . Railway Traffic—put off for six months . 104 . Real Property Conveyance—waiting for committee . 105 . Real Property Transfer—put off for six months . 106 . Registrar of Metropolitan Public Carriages—passed into a law . 107 . Registrar ' s-office ( Bankruptcy)—dropped . 108 . Registration of Deeds ( Ireland)—waiting for second reading ( House of Lord ?) .
109 . Savings Banks—waiting for second reading . 110 : " School Districts Contributions—passed into a law . 111 . School Establishment ( Scotland )—waiting for second reading . 112 . Securities for Advances ( Ireland )—waitingfor committee . 113 . Small Tenements Rating- —read a third time , but not passed . 114 . Smoke Prohibition—waiting for second reading . 115 Stamp Duties ( No . 1 )—withdrawn . 116 . Stamp Duties ( No . 2)—waiting for committee . 117 . Summary Jurisdiction ( Ireland )—referred to a select committee .
118 . Sunday Fairs Prevention—passed into a law . 119 . Sunday Trading Prevention—waiting- for second reading . 120 . Technical Objections Restraining—withdrawn . 121 . Tenants at Rackrent Relief— waiting for second reading ( House of Lords ) . 122 . Tenant-right ( Ireland )—waiting for second reading-123 . Tenements Recovery ( Ireland)—put off for six months . 124 . Titles of Religious Congregations—waiting for second reading ( House of Lords ) . 125 . Titles of Religious Congregations ( Scotland)—passed
into a law . 126 . Trustee Bill—waiting for second reading . 127 . Turnpike Roads ( Ireland)—waiting for consideration of report . 128 . Turnpike Roads and Bridge Trusts ( Ireland)—passed into a law . 129 . Vestries and Vestry Clerks—waitingfor second reading ( House of Lords ) . 130 . Weights and measures—waiting for third reading . 131 . West India Appeals—passed into Law . 132 . Woods , Forest , &c . —waiting for second reading .
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AN ORIENTAL PETER THE GREAT . From an article which appears in the Morning Post of Thursday we learn that General Jung Bahadoor , whom the fashionable world are lionizing at such a rate , is a much more remarkable personage than most people would suppose from merely meeting his name in court circulars , or as having been present at fashionable assemblies and dinner parties . From the account given by our contemporary it appears that Nepaul stands towards our Indian dominions in
the same relation as Switzerland does towards France . A hardy population of excellent soldiers occupies the Indian side of the Himalayan Alps , a line of country which has always maintained its independence against all efforts from the plains to annex it to the empire there established . For centuries these hill regions were split into many more rajes , or principalities , than Switzerland contains of cantons , and they continued so until the epoch of Clive ' s conquest of Bengal .
At that period a man of great energy , named Prithee Nerayann , became Ilajah of the Goorkhas , one of the three tribes which had occupied the valley of Nepaul for many centuries . Under that prince , and his successors , the power of the Goorkhas has been gradually extended and consolidated . In 181 . 4 they were engaged in war with this country , and it was not till after two arduovis campaigns , in which
we brought 50 , 000 men into the nel 1 against them , that peace was concluded . During the last fifty years several violent changes have taken place at Katmandoo , the capital of Nepaul , and the last of these , which took place some years ago , raised Jung Bahadoor to the office of Prime Minister and Regent , during the minority of the infant Rnjah , and the result is that he and his associates are the uncontested rulers of the whole country . According to the
Post : — " Jung Bahadur is now the do facto ruler of Nipal There is no faction capable of making head against him —none even that he has any reason to fear . The entire military and financial resources of the country are at his disposal . Instead , however , of resting satisfied with the accomplishment of all these aims of his ambition , and now enjoying his luxuries and his ease , building palaces or accumulating treasure , as most in his situation would do , the idea has come across him to visit England , in order to see at the fountain head the sources of her vast power—that he may learn to apply similar means and
similar principles to the advancement of his native country . The motive , so far as we can ascertain or imagine any motive for his coming , is precisely that which impelled Peter the Great , of Russia , to leave his half-savage countrymen , and to seek in the more advanced communities of Europe the means of their improvement . Jung Bahadur and his brothers , and the other members of his suite , are thus objects of extraordinary interest , as well for those engaged in ethnical studies as for those who watch the progress of nations , and would mark the influence of individual character upon human a Hairs und upon tho future destinies of a
great and rising race of men . " A grand banquet was given by the East India Company at thu London Tavern on Saturday , in honour of tho Nopaulese Minister . Tho company inchuli ' d some of tlin principal functionaries of state , memhers of both Houses of Parliament and a number of gentlemen connected with the East India Company . With a view , no doubt , to dazzle tho eyes of the Oriental visitor , tho display of gold and silver plate , rich and rare exotics , and wax lights was unusually maguiiicent . Iu front of the chairman
was a large plateau , consisting of five pieces , formerly the property of Prince Esterhazy , and valued at 1500 guineas . The centre piece was a silver-gilt Roman figure , ornamented with frosted silver doves , and grouped around with hot-house plants and passion flowers . In the middle was a glass basin and fountain , in which sported numbers of live gold and silver fish . On either side was a magnificent silver shell
vase , in burnished and frosted work , and filled with rare exotics , and beyond these Prince Esterhazy ' s chased silver vases , lined with ruby glass . At the top of the centre table was a large silver-gilt " Warwick vase , and a profusion of vases and candelabra were interspersed among the more solid accompaniments of the feast . On the right and left of the chairman were some splendid gold goblets and tankards , set with rubies , emeralds , and diamonds .
Except as a show , however , the grand banquet was of little value in the estimation of the Nepaulese . They took their place at table with the rest of the company , but did not partake of the entertainment . After sitting for a few minutes , they withdrew to another room , where they partook freely of a variety of fruits served up to them , especially of the lychus , a fruit imported from China , somewhat resembling a walnut in shape and size , with a kernel that tastes like a raisin . They did not partake of any liquid , not even water . After dinner , they resumed their seats at table , but manifested the same abstinence throughout the evening which they displayed at the commencement .
After the usual routine toasts had been given , the Chairman of the East India Company proposed the health of the Prime Minister of the Ilajah of Nepaul , and Commander-in-Chief of the Nepaulese forces , in a speech full of compliments and good wishes . The Nepaulese Minister replied with much earnestness in a very eloquent speech , but as it was in his native tongue , General Cavanagh , his interpreter , had to translate it for the benefit of the audience . He expressed his high sense of the kindness and courtesy they had received ; they had suffered much in crossing the sea , but the reception they had met had repaid them treble for all those sufferings .
Lord Brougham , whose health had been given , coupled with that of the distinguished lawyers present , embraced the opportunity to make a speech . After alluding to the object of the Nepaulese mission , he said : — *• He would venture to hope for their sakes , for the sake of their country , for the sake of this country , and permit him respectfully to add , for the sake of the Honourable East India Company themselves , that they would be enabled to carry back to their own country the most ample assurance that there existed no disposition whatever in any quarter of this country , whether on the part of the company , or the India Board as it was called
in the East , the Board of Controul as it was called here in the West—that there existed no disposition whatever on the part of the Crown or Parliament , or people , or the Company , to encroach in the very least degree { loud applause ) on any peaceful neighbour , or to spare iu the least degree any hostile nation . ( Applause . ) That was the true rule of peace—never to break it , and never to suffer it with impunity to be broken ; and above all things that they will be able to convey to their master the most positive assurances from all quarters that there is no intention whatever to diminish by a single acre the distance that separates our eastern frontier from the western frontier of China . ( Great applause . )"
The " Health of tho Visitors , coupled with the name of Lord Stanley , called up that nobleman , who spoke of the great debt which England owes to India : — " If there was any object more worthy of consideration than another , with reference to Indian policy , it was the importance of developing the great resources of the empire . To India we owed a large debt for having supplanted her in her native manufactures ; they owed it , therefore , to them in return to do all they could to develop the natural resources of the country—to promote their industry , and to increase their wealth , and to spread civilizationand
the blessings of religion , industry , , happiness among untold millions of people . This was an object worthy the ambi'ion of statesmen—more important far than the most successful Uiumphs of arms which could bo recorded . ( Hear , hear . ) And he knew no higher triumph or greater boast than the reflection that we had near us not only those whom long habit had brought into constant intercourse with us , but that we were gradually widening the circle of our friends , and bringing even the princes of the East into personal communication with the civilization and power of England . ( Hear , hear . ) Ours was the happy lot to see , not indeed victoiies of arms or conquests of territorial possessions ,
but the triumphs of influence , example , and friendship , which he trusted , throughout the world , would only be exerted henceforward to promote mutual good will and friendly intercourse amid all the nations of the world . ( Cheers . )"
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LORD BROUGHAM AND CHEVALIER liUNSEN . In consequence of the interest attached to tho debate on Lord Stanley ' s motion , on Monday evening , the gallery-doors were besieged before the hour of opening by a far greater number of persons than could bo accommodated with seats . The peers' benches in the body of the House were well filled , the majority being on the Opposition side ; while the steps of the throne
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Leader (1850-1860), June 22, 1850, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1843/page/4/
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