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Pari iament, 
SE OF LORDS. 
‘onday.— LIFFE asked if any record of the spe: eech 
—Lord Wi 
of the Lord High Sieerard would appear in = proceedings, 
wet on, se had ordered to be published, of the trial of 
the of Cardigan. 
The eg Pec of SHAFTESBURY said he would make the necessary 
inquiries on the subject. 
Lord WHARNCLIFFE gave notis hat 
ould bring in a bill to baccen eA all on bts my a a peer prin 
lege in case of c a a Pe a sae hanes be! 
hi 
relations with Persia. is lordship entered fully into the subject 
of the relations between the two countries, chat these 
relations hi been interrupted for up Ss of two years ; 
ad interests of 
Bri 
this of the world, had been left entirely with- 
out the su of aresident minister at t urt; that such a 
state of things was unfor’ te, bec: it had been the 
policy of this country for many years to cultivate with Persia the 
closest and most amicable alliance; and a considerable sum of 
money had been expended by the English Government for pur- 
es connected we _ it. The time of the occurrence of 
lenatio ‘as ‘ireumstance veo — 
we were at w: He did not mean to say that a cessation of di- 
plomatic intercourse, or unple: tt discussio: hreats, or 
the abrogation of existing trea was itself; but he 
thought that when we forcibly took possession of a part of th 
pes —, Lesage hp to the P vithout a co t, and 
to hold pos ssession, it was an act It might 
fat, 6 or F anit 
= “ 7 
onvince, wish for ies more 
pect rig ex noel: oie f affairs than had y: 
= ey rded. 
unt MELBOURNE, in reply, stated that although the nego- 
tdetions on the subject had not yet been brought to a conclusion, 
ence and ee, that could be furnished 
offered to the Queen’s bi Tr, 
pass over with less notice than had been taken of it. — honed 
however, that the differences between the tw uid 
te) arranged to their m Lahetn oy 
Tuesd The report of the mittee on the hold En- 
at 
franchise! ment Bill bist Bac = up, and ordered to es wits ited 
n @ bill to amend the laws relating 
e dest reese | in Ireland. as led took the 
eeemtion pi explain the precise pice oe oe asure, lest 
the objects of it might be supposed to be \ wither ht range 
than they now i toad 
The Bishop of Exerer renewed his complaint that a particular 
Governor of Canada had not been laid on the 
ordinance by the 
table at the same with others, bo Piz geared that = 
thirty days allowed by = —— for the consideration 
it were di is! inn 
Viscount Me. erg oul NCANNON 
that the omission he feral of C aettihent and agreed Phare the 
days should yoni rom the period at which the ordinance 
was actually furnished to their lordships. 
Duke of WELLINGTON suggested the 
sideration had been iden Sartened, the Tht re rev. relate 
might rectify the by bringing forward, a ys earlier, 
few 
i 
ishop E postponed till Thursday 
se’nnight, the pr resentation of the petition of which _ had given 
ere im reference to the incorporation of the Seminary of 
St. Sulpice, at Montreal. 
On the motion of Viscount DuNCANNON, a return ordered 
and fitting up the Tice for the 
to the First Lord of the Trea- 
sury to ascertain th ith before the other House for 
e Administration of 
Facilitating Justice in Courts La Equity, 
care should be taken to introduce a clause providing a 
tion for all persons having vested interests in their p> Mews Su 
aclause could not be ~ mk their ere op and et noble per 
would be sorry that the ss of the bill should be hazarded 
= promised to attend to the recommend: 
Thursday. Lord ‘BRovomaM boars oy ue he ae string 
in a bill on the subject of the of the hand-loom 
eg 
unt Edgecom 
hed Mr. Snow Harris for his tebe, 
NTo said that arrangements to 
pro; 
ig ea Bishop ~ ‘Loxpow presented a petition from a 
ssex against any ee Pim wat the College of May- 
Also oh mer oe m from ity against the idola- 
trous 2 neaaaense re ara Sede 
In an: r to a question by Viscount Mahon, respecting the in- | 
ternational copyright law, Lord Palmerston said that propositions | 
ment for the bill they had introduced, in which 
grappled with all the difficulties of the question. 
a 
they had fairly 
He had no 
proes bee! to the Government we France, the United States, | doubt, if th were a le that it would pronounce 
he Gunaas = mgd see Saxony, and Prussia, but they had very generally in favour of po vporwmalte — Sir R. barnes begg 
in been attended Bier met satingartory result.—Lord Error in- | the independen tlemmen of England not to treat the present as 
quired whether he of a document lately published in a | a party question, but to view it merely as it might bear upom the 
newspaper, p no a communication from the Austrian | welfare of the people of Irel He looked upon the old 
Minister to the Diet of Switzerland respecting the suppression of forty-shilling freeholders as one of the atest curses of Ireland, 
certain convents in the latter coun PALMERSTON would | and the present bill would nate ave the effect of restoring much the 
not undertake to pledge himself to the accuracy of any documents | same state of things.—Mr, Carew spo in support of the bill. 
in a newspaper, but he had reason to believe that a note had | He pointed out many existing inconveniences in the registrati 
passed betw the authorities named.—The order of the day | courts in Ireland, and read aga fi lergyman of the Esta- 
wi nm moved for the md reading of d Morpeth’s bill | blished Church, describing thos: arer arb 
for regulating the system of Irish registration, | hardest swearer was sure to be ae st suecessful. — p Ho 
Lord STANLEY opposed it at considerable length. He first com- | expressed tion to vote for the poiarn rea thoagh ne 
mented on what he consid the inconsistency of Loi | at the same time intimated that he a not be indisposed to 
| 
the sy 
a syste 
tsfactory clue to the ac 
the franchise a mere mockery. He objected we _ = 
rating rather of qualificat 
ly that it reduced ion 
es ievaght that “ shen aun constituency 
epre: ‘esent int the est degree the pr 
ate cng 
gi i dear 
rent gives him nothing His lordship pose no state 
that if this bill could be ee for Ireland, it would be impossi- 
to abstain fi applying its principle to ‘o England and seotiand 
. The next cfy would be, “Justice to England Govern- 
ment would be bound to tell the House in this debate what their 
intention with respeet to England was. Lord Morpeth might 
delay the ess of abuses ger—he might ex- 
elements of discord, as Lord John said, into the poli- 
tical cauldron—but he trusted the House would resist this 
measure, and he assured that in istance they would 
supported by the people of England. He moved the 
be read a second time that day six months. 
Mr. C. op desired to record his approval of the bill, and of 
the course pursued by the Gov are There was no very wide 
difference as to the regi: medies between Lord Stanley’s 
bill and Lord Morpeth’s; but t the 1 latter was objected to, for that 
which was really its merit, that it removed the whole — 
that of the franchise, as well all as that of the registration. = 
d amount of 5t. re unsatisfactory, gentlemen 
committee fora Serger ous 
a announced his intention to vote against the bill, as 
ke cite regen A enemas vpn aah Irish Reform 
Seah thee fom essary, by at 
ob, the pauper cumaaeahey, 1 08 them. 
ela our of the bill, as simple, 
Page g Se h 
not believe the Irish con- 
be decreasing, bat ie believed by —- the fran- 
bill, the 
cy 
min 
of the ny i to the 
said that if he we: ‘ed to consider it as 
his bill, he must at tall events ook on it as the 
essential without it he did not be- 
bill would give a more enlarged franchise to the people of Ire! 
than was y the people of Englaiid; and he be- 
ieved that he his col wo be completely outbid in 
ise to Ireland. With respect to Lord Stanley’s bill, it 
‘ould conjure up so many difficulties in the way of franchise, 
it in eases go mm farther towards frightening 
iy and fide elector e disfranchise- 
ment of the dishonest voter. His lordship Di to defend 
the franchise based on a five-po rating to the poor, as one by 
means likely to e the constituency to unreasonable 
for he seldom found such a rating that was not annexed 
to a holding of five or six acres. But when he 
glaring a dispro} betw the constituency of Ireland as 
with of Eng! when he saw that the constitu- 
ency was in sas careihiy not. eisposed to consent £0°8 
stitaency went 
to show that while it would remove the frauds an 
complained of, it be a = involve all voters, 
bad, in the sam ae would hold o 
some » extenaton of 
Lord M B presenti a petition 
preying f pss ae into their ir doctrines. 
Lord Brovenam moved the second reading of the Bill to ex- 
tend the provisions of the roemigs act to the county of the city 
third time on Monday. 
—B presented a ition 
of the voauval of the West india Packets 
ath. ‘The noble Eari aes ha the 
gs 
ie 
ns, be laid befor 
MatsovRy said that Gove! 
company to convey the West ee Ere ea and 
company to decide from whe: 
After a few words from Earl Mivro the motion was agreed to. 
OM MONS. 
Mi aidity <-Warsetous petitions ssh e presented for and 
the Trish Registration Bills. 
Milnes, Lord Coionel Stoddart was still suf- 
he was using 
exertion to procure release. 
E. Kenceece mores for an account of all sums paid to 
the Poor-law Commissioners from 1836 to 1840; and an account 
F lenge to which the Poor-law Commissioners were 
costs incwred, and the results of such 
against 
er to a question by Mr. 
of some peels a condi 
the habit, at least, of 
age oe citizens. 
‘wesday.— Viscount Mo: presented a petition in support of 
his storishis Reristration Bil, emanating from a public meeting 
held at Dubli 
persons. 
hfield gave notice that when the House went into com- 
shitttote on the Poor-law Bill “ should move certain aegregny 
Mr. Pendarves moved for returns of the quantity of tin, lead, 
of in England and Wales. i 
Mr. F. Maule ohaaaed leave to brin; ill for removing 
dabts 5 to the contingance of certain local turnpike acts. 
Mr. the committee on the address ¢0 Her 
billin committeé.— Dr. lmynoy objected tudes it wis 
lo away ith the enactments of the Reform Act. ‘hi re 
already f dei i 1 the ituency of 
as the hon. and learne ember for Dublin.—Mr. Pieorr said that 
ambiguity and perplexity must 2, caine the franchise was 
alle ved to depend on value, because value matter of 
ion only. . The ju dges 0: of Treland wi re di ide question 
was 2 bi ne he 
thought it w: aera which ‘heh house ought not to entertain; 
but the enactments of that bill would aggravate all the w evils 
of the present em. He also argued that the amount of rating 
which should carry the franchi: it was matter of consider- 
tion in committee.—Sir W. F TT was ready to admit that it 
ald be convenient to s' i i 
proposed would promote that su 
extent, fo x ee the 40-shilling freeliolder bad at Eicusthe 
his land at a rent of 
the guise of a 
Bill, but the very constituti 
Mr: MAcAvLay said that each 
from whom it 
of his noble friend, 
ill pers 
we 
entan 
culties, best ok sme Sate! voter to an alm minterrup' 
litigation. ~ He was certain coat th 
He 
fae net w rhether there or 
should not be a change, but whether there should be one change 
once submit te. a yearly cuiseession 
of chance in Ireland 
Ansan acre to inquir 
sppotntaents “indeed if 
, not in an' ratte = thbee of Wat 
jose who pt son to api smear to the 
ionald 
de 
to victory. 
-— ought to have been pret Indeed, if 
had not fallen im with the Texel nae bas ep would 
en taxed to her utmost ene! Tish soil. The 
own misgove! 3 let them conv 
mate onion disgrace to the nation, an 
into a means of glory 
the hearts 
ly onitin; in one irre- 
skin earn 3% 3S, the sam ren 
ernment. 
the motion of Brornerros the house then adjourned, 
Wednesday.—The second reading of Lord StaNntsy’s ; Registra- 
tion Bill was postponed Fr cy —. till Friday. 
gnome sos te rpeth’s Bill was resumed by 
believed the 
Mr. BroraerTon. rv effect of the bill would be te 
draw the two elosely together. 
. Mr. MrEns the authors of the bill with having brought 
it forward, y intention ope of &: ng it, but with 
‘alterior i ature of which it was easy to guess: The 
feal way to benefit Ireland would be to extend the system of 
Li 
2 and of 
cei eens sin fe 5 to Gevern- 
tor coker aie oe 
af or es 
brought im his bill; Po Na Fa bry Rat | 
