SCENES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. 



THE two Houses of Parliament still continue in collision. The 

 Commons refuse to accede to the amendments of the Lords, on the 

 Irish Corporation Bill; while the Lords are understood, up to this 

 date (the 27th), to be resolute in their determination to make no con- 

 cessions to the Commons. 



We are not without hopes, however, that the Peers, when the 

 question is regularly brought before them, will see the folly and 

 the danger of holding out any longer, and that rather than let the 

 existence of their order be exposed to the most imminent peril, 

 and the country convulsed from one extremity to another, they will 

 yet approach the Commons in a spirit of conciliation. 



We have, in the Monthly Magazine for April, May, and June, dis- 

 cussed the question of a collision between the two branches of the 

 legislature so as to leave nothing new to be said. Before the ap- 

 pearance of our August number the question will be either finally set 

 at rest by a peaceful adjustment of the differences between the 

 parties, or the country will be in the agony of a crisis of unparalleled 

 importance. 



Nothing of any special interest has occurred in either House of 

 of Parliament during the past month. No great measure has been 

 brought before either the Lords or the Commons ; and, as the session 

 is now drawing to a close, nothing of great importance is to be expected 

 to take place for the remainder of it, other than the debates and 

 decisions relative to the measure of Corporation Reform for Ireland. 



In the Lower House, the only things which now seem to attract 

 attention are the private squabbles between Members, which have of 

 late become of such frequent occurrence. One of these alike discreditable 

 to the parties engaged in them, and to a House which tolerates them, 

 took place on Tuesday the 14th. Mr. O'Connell had been attacking 

 Mr. Walter, the Member for Berkshire, in his capacity of a proprietor 

 of the Times newspaper, when the following scene occurred: 



Mr. WALTER and Mr. KEARSLEY rose to order. In reply to the general call of the 

 House, 



Mr. KEARSLEY proceeded to address the House. Sir, said h<?, if his Majesty s 



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