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favour, fear, or affection. Tour Reports had already fume from them, and others were to a state of forwardness. Of these, one referred to the 'J igh Cintrt of Chancery, which it was thought proper lieture to refer In the Executive of Ireland, in the eminent individual who holds the office of Lord Chancellor, ud to the Mutter ofthe tint country, who lase suggest. cd some lanais either *of attention or amend. owed. Another refereed 'to 'the office of Clerk of the )'lees of the Eisfcluttuer, but the Nous( Were aware of the Moto 'Of that 'deice at pre. cent. A cleciiivi bed beeis 'bbtained in Ireland, lint on appeal bed since Fee l s 'laid tkicnre 'their I.ord,iiiirs, sod until the setininatioso 'ttf the affair no satisfactory opinion could be given respecting it. In the mean time an Act .4 Parlismeet heal bees pivoted. by which the profits were inspolidled, sue sio further salary was allowed than whitt was coo pidered a fair remuneration for the discharge of the • duties, mud no depoty was suffered. A third Its. 'port referred to the Court of Error. I!efelt %het nothing would be wanting on the poet of Govern. meat, to curry into effect the suggestion contained lit each, and to gratify by every means in eiiir power, the people of Irelsod, by evincing the closest ottraitson to their interests. The Earl of LAUDERDALE alluded to the Re ports respecting the Courts of Justice in that pert ..f the kingdom with which he was more portico. lady connected, end expressed • hope that what be hid beard wee not true, namely, that sonic of the o ffi ces which, had been represent ed its the Re ports es useless, and fit to be abolished, had lately been disposed of anew by the Ministers of the Crown. —/ Heir , hear.) —He hoped that the Com missioner., who were in themselves a hairy expense to the public, should not be continued longer the s their duties required, for if such were allowed, the Commission would become as great w job as any of those which it was the means of detecting. The question was then put, whets the Address was carried without opposition. The House adjourned to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, Aran 10. aMlm• Mr. long fdstest preseis from the Priestess sd lasadoo, praying the Haase to impair* Into the met meats of the Copyright Let, and grant relief from the se verity sif them —Read, and ordered so lie on the table. Admiral FRANK presented • Petition from she Cotton Rlrraw.rs of Glnsgow, prayist the House to pass the Rill for reenlatisig the hours of Ilboar is spinals' cotton factories. —Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Cfn - roN.SPINNIICG FACTORIES. Sir H. Pm. (.resented • Petition from all the cotton-spinaing factories of Stockport, in favour of the Cutouts Factory Bill. The Petition was en titled to great attention, because it come from per eons well mcqinisited with the facts in which they desired alteration. It would chew, that the nuts tors themselves were Petitioners at the bar of the House in favour of their labourers. It was signed by resell master manufacturers, the opinion of one e 4 shots' ought to receive the greatest consider*. *ion; unit of the rest lie was persuaded, that if 'they believed the measum he had brought forward would semi to nny thing injurious to the trade, they would be the last to petition for it. It was, moreover, signed by thirteen resident clergymen, nho had, therefore, an opportunity of knowing the condition of the objects of it ; and by not less then eight medical gentlemen. lie thought the Petition seas of the lint consequence, in *hewing the necessity of the measure lie wished to have adopted.—'flee Petition was then read, it pur ported to be from the labourers above sixteen years of age employed in the cotton-spinisiug ractnries of Stockport, and others of that town,, and stated in substance, that under the existi n g segulatioiss, sorLmen were over-laboured, over- lusted, and subject to oppressive inconveniencies ; that the pertmail experience of most of the pen- tisnwrs spewed how injurious the system was to the constitution ; preyed that a shorter period of la bour might be established ; and added, that the Petitioners had iso expectation of relief, hut from list wisdom and liberality of Peril:einem—such was she selfish conduct pursued, cud narrow principles acted on, by mouse of the masters. Sir J. Gamut% said, the Petition did not de ser‘e any attention Gum the Home. It was signed lhy a set of discontented, starving, good-for nothing am ktnci.; he spoke from Isis own know ledge, fur lie had biro among them, and knew them, and seen thesis. The !loon would be wrong to adopt the sentiments ul such Petitions ; they should well consider before they proceeded on the dangerous principle of restraining free labour. 11 free labour had been restrained when lie was a boy, he should never have bad the honour of possessing a seat in that House. Mr. CURITEN 'Ail, he was averse from granting the prayer of the Petition. The Petitioners asked that their time of labour might be reduced to ten hours and a half: if that was conceded, the next prayer would be that it might be brought down.to Moe. The House, too, should take warning that if the principle were nice adopted in the case of the cotton-spinners. there was net a trade in the kingdom but would desire the same interference and the same redaction. lle thought an alteration was arisisalile, but he verily believed it would come at no great distance trout the 'parties interest ed themselves : lie believed the masters, if left to themsnlver, would shortly reduce the limits to twelve. Sir R. Peri. said. that the diameter of the Pe. tithmers was eery different from that "trimmed In the Hum Alt•tubrr who spoke last but 0111'...". ilistiy Of them were of great respectability, eiskaged is* the trade tin unwires—many of them professional gentlemen. The cesteinty of their opinion was de. tired from long experience. He was glad to hear 811 ' a lm a ledgmesit frosts the Holt. Member who had just %at slows* of the expediency of alteration, and that the hours of work bad been tainted to au extreuselength. that the syst em of Air. DUTTAIWONTH i lw r i baus lah .ur of working people 14 or ls hours a day, through the whole of the north of England, was tantalum, and had there ',reduced a general feeling against it, the inhabitants being generally appteheiniire it would lead to the production of a %lege' it rate race. Mr. FINLAY knew perfectly well there were t its connected with, and eri.itig from, all maim fintureeitt was, that they coatied labourers to SURGEONS IN IRELAND. Mr. PEEL. presented a Petition from the Royal College of Surgeons iu Ireland against the Sur gery Regulation Bill. They complained that the Bill gave liberty to all who had obtained a license in an English or Scotch College, to practise, and to insist un the right of entering into consultation in every part of the empire, while to the obtaining such license an oral examination only was twee.- sarywhereas, its Ireland, by thn•ir charter, the College was debarred f conferring • license but after an apprenticeship of fi ve years. This in equality was • grievance to them ; they deemed it nut reasonable that licentiates of the former Col leges should be entitled by the ititended law to every advantage they were possessed of, with so much len previous preparation and expense. They. did not, however, wish to enlarge the grievance, or extend it to others; what theyi wanted was, that they should be put on the same looting with men of the saute profession in the other parts of the em pire, and would be contented with► an alteration in their own charter ; they, however, submitted, that an oral examination alone was insufficient to give the public an assurance of the competency •f per sons to enter on so difficult and responsible a pro fession. Sir J. NEWPORT said, the Petition was most ere• difable to the parties from whom it came ; it was not at all in the spirit of monopoly...they wily wanted an equalization of qualification and of pri vileges. Mr. PEEL said, that, from the wont in England and Scotland of ■ rule similar to that in Ireland, for granting licenses, they were in the former coon• tries frequently conferred on candidates after in adequate preparation, and comparatively short time, sosliort lie understood as 18 months. ....... The Petition was read, and ordered to lie on the toble. Mr. EGERTON presented w Petition from the Salt Manufacturers of Bristol, praying an aliena tion M the Salt [Am.—Read, and ordered to be referred to elle Committee on the Salt Lam,. Mr. C. BAaCLAY presented a Petition from the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the parish of St. Botclph, against certain clauses in the Paged Laws Amendment Bill ; another from the parish of St. Saviour's to the same effect ; and a third from the Churchwardens of a pa►ish in Sur rey against the Parish Vestries B►ll.—Bead, and ordered to he on the table. The Committee on the Steam-boats Bill was postponed till Monday next. The second reading of the Purchase of Game Bill was postponed till this day week. The second reading of the Copyright Bill, and the further comideration of the Report on the Cot. • too many home, but that was not confined to the het Factories - Lill, were severally pestpened to tlir cottou-spinning; soother was, the eispioying of same day. children at too early an age, bet neither was that Mr. Sr : tines - a Bottalst . said, that the Wilier peddler. It bad been twined before the. Com. consideration of the Poor Laws Amendment Bill mittee of Inquiry on the Cotton-spinning Factories, stood iimong the Orders of the night. but as sun that children hod been employed at a much earlier onerous amendments had been made, he would age in the cotton-weaving trade, and in the pot. move that it he recommitted. aeries. The lion. Barorwt wished to confine the General Tnortetoe wished a maximum were (operation of the principle to the cotton spinning; established which would not be exceeded in the as but once CASIJI . I.IIIIII, it was impossible. The sesemenis. grievances were far lighter than in the weaving Mr. S. BOURNE raid, it probably would. branch ; the unfortunate weavers were compelled to On the .SPEAKER'II leaving the Chair, overwork themselves iw a snitch greater degree. Mr. STURGF:S BOURNE Arid, that the Gill, ns ' from the inability to maintain otherwise their wives I amended, ought to lie printed. which would resider and families. Our whole system meat he altered it better sinderetood. before we could, with safety. alter the hoed of la. I Alderman Wools said, lie wished to propose haat. The masters who had signed the Petitiois, some new clauses. might diminish the hours in their own concerns to i Mr. S. Botinse said, they might be proposed what ditent they pleased. He accused the Right after the Bill was printed. Hon. Baronet who originated the measure, of en- The Bill then passed through the Committee, tering into it from principles of humanity alone, was tottered to he printed, the Report brought up, without regarding the great ones of national policy and ordered for further consideration ots Monday and interest. Convinced that the restriction of free next. taint* weeild entail poverty and misery on the Pe- Sir CHARLES Illoeca observed that Monday was titiouers themselves, he felt bound to oppose the too early a (ley. Bill. whenever it would be again discussed. The Perish Vestry Bill was then retammitted, passed through the Committee, the Report brought Mr. W. Weals did not approve of trenching on the priesciple of free tabour; but lie thought the I rap, ordered for further consideration on Monday plinciple did not apply to children of such tender next, and to he printed as amended. year'', is appeared to be commonly employed in WAR IN INDIA. cottowspi 0000 ing factorial. He would maintain that Mr. HOWARTH rose to ask for information from it lii ronformable to the great principles on which Geistlensen who sat opposite mu a Very important !Ivey iteight to act, to take tip the proteetinh of such subject. He alluded to the hostilities said in hr re of thige who 'COW not help themselves. They commenced in India. In a letter that had lately had sinfieans in their owls power to prochre au elle. appeared from that couutry it was stated, that the viation of their grievaisees ; they were in worse Peishea l o ud taken up arms against the Company's ci!•cuttestances than bound apprentices. Th e l e tt e r, troops—th a t a Muhratta force or 40.000 men had 1, if over-worked, might lay their ease, in order to made an attack on about 4,000 or the Company's redrew, Ltefore a magistrate. It having been MIX'. I subsidiary forces—that they had repulsed the et ad that childrett *ere generally tasked beyond whet I tack, with the lon, however, of some officers and their health end Strength would allow, this made i a severe ol sughter—that the Company's troops, out a fair case for the interference of the Honer. I bein,g a few days afterwards reinforced, in turn at. The Petition *as ordered to lie on the table. I tacked the Peishwa, defeated him, took possession It/.WARDS FOR GONVIctIoN. of hie end drove him into the interior of his territories—that two officers of nor forces having Mr. LITTLET4iN presented a Petition from the fallen into his hands had beets executed. such High Sheriff end Greed Jery of the county of Sod- Ind, praying that the /louse would take into its t cases it was usual to take the earliest o pp o rtu n ity o f laying authentic information bef ore th e H ouse , an d emssideratims the present eysteM of giv;rog statutory communicating it to the public. For thi s r e a suis lie rewards for the coaictiosi of offend e r s , the abuses implied to know whether the statements were found it had given rise to, and would provide a remedy. ed. iii order to relieve the suspense wider which 'The Hon. Member sushi; he Was sure the Petition the hiends and relations of the forces in that part ars would not proceed on light grounds or trivial of the world laboured under. If the frets were AM Seca rrences. To be consinced of the good grounds stated, they inspired him with considerable alarm— on which their Petition rested, one need but look iuto our laws, or hear an uccousit of the conduct of was he to consider they were ? our police officers. Ile hoped, however, the evil Mr. CANNING said, it was undoubtedly true the was not quite so great es usually represented. lit Peishwa had commenced war—true that in two his own npiniou, it would he injedicions to abolish actions the British forces had hail the advantage; the whole system ; he would rather see it modified, but the Government was not in possession of such by leaving the propriety of greeting rewards to the returns as they would be authorised in making discretion of the trying Judge.—Read, ordered to public. While ray doubt (as some dud) remained on lie on the table, and be printed. the subject, it would be wrong in the Government to satictiois any account. The Hon. G e ntl emen Mr. Alderman Wont) presented a Petition f ro m ksie* the Free Waterinen plying at the different bridges the g better than he did, th a t f ro m th a t p ar t o f lobe iorivate intlligence frequetitle t oo ipped of the Metropolis, ageism the Bill for building a the public. Ate far i e ts he knew, no life of an Eng- Bridge at Itothethithe.—Read, and ordered to lie hell o ffi cer was lost i n a c tio n , a f e w ( we b e li eve on the table. The same mend,er presented (as we „to col. 'levee) had been w oun d e d. I t was t rue th a t two had Janet', not in the conflicts. The intelligence col lect) seven P e ti t i ons f ro m A s h ton - un d er -Li ne , rested one lwi a date ; aske Birmingham, and other place'', for Parliamentary did pre on believe etter the lett th er' out he would sa were y he he disl. d Reform.— Read, and.orderett to lie on the table. The Honourable Member compleisted of the delay A Petition was presented from the Ministers andi making a commu n ic a tio n to th e H ouse , b u t lie Clearchwartleiss of the perish of Pancras Against ,vas well aware that emmitunicatisins respecting that the Nodes Poor Bill.—Read, and ordered to lie I part of the empire were usually very slow its being ou the table• made, and ouly mad. on partidilar occasions. A Petition was presented by the Right Hon. G. However, if the Hon. Member would femme a CANNING, from an individual (whose moue we lion to obtain such information as the Govern could tint hear), against any alteration in the Con- meet mold lay before the house, he would toe veyencing Law,.. 11101 t ready to bring it forward, end to assist its shaping the motion, so as best to attain it. object. Howatern said lie would avail himself of the valuable assistance of the Right Hoe. Cen fleet JII. A Member, whose name we rout(' rot ascertain, agreed that the Latins of India did not receive that attention in the House they were entitled tp. Ne thanked the Ilion. Mentlr'r who had introduced the subject berme the House. Mr. BROUGHAM rooted fur some papers, whose title we could not learn, which were ordered. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Lord A. HAMILTON was fully enure of the dif ficulty of introducing a motion such es lie had given notice of. He would sword himself from the danger of sayiug any thing hurtful to the feelings of iiidividuals—but lie %sus prepared to state such a case as would chew a breach had been committed on the iniiileges of the House, and that would convince the House there were grounds for its interference. 'floe independence of Parliament was the source of ell our Ironer and greatness—to maintain that was Ins object—but wliatever might be the result of his motion, lie hoped it would appear that he was not actuated by any but public motives. The charge he had to make was that of a private contract for the purchase of a seat. He Wai perfectly aware of the disagreeable nature of such a charge ; but he thought it due to the county lie had the hottour to represent. and in which the fact happened, to bring the matter before the House. That the House might fully understand the case, he must premise. that about a year and a half ago Sir Alexander Cochrane had commenced canvassing the County of Lanark—that wince that time the contest had continued between him and himself— that the whole influence of every dependant and partisan of the Government had been exerted against himself. The continuance of it so long had irritated in a high degree the friends of each partv.• ;le did not intend to reflect on the conduct of his oppo. edits; but lie could not forbear 'growing that an unfair and improper hostility lied been exercised against him. He had cominneicated his intention to the Noble Lord Horsiest whom his charge was di. reefed, Lord Douglar. He hind no hesitation ito as serting, that sonie one was guilty of a breach of privilege, who it was, would hereafter better appear. The circumstances of the case were such that it would be improper in the extreme to pass it o'er, and it was impossible to investigate them in any other way. The case was this letter he held isi his hand had been written by Thos. Ferguson, VII under-rector of the Noble Lord alluded to. He must be sionisrelly supposed attached to the interest of Isis master. and of his master's friend; Sir Alec. Cothrinie. He hod already apprised the Noble • '' .\ 10 .\ \ 1 %.• *.; k .ord of his intention to firing fartrieti . flue moron; mid had received an 1111b111 slowing a knowledge of the transaction in Very ,ponersi terms, art general, that all hi. issertiero% miglo„ he founded, without contradicting the inference, that tbe.letter had been written under hit Lordship's authority. He would read the letter, which lie conceived so written. The letter itself would shew lie had brought no iinputa tion half so strong as itself. In whist lie bad said, lie had endeavoured to torten the feeling« excited in him by the Noble bird'. ativirer. " Dear Sir"— it was addressed to William I)ykee, Esq. a free holder of the county of Lanark, and the purport— ( Rend, rend I ) " According to soar Admire, 1 at length commnairated to laird Douglas the proposition fur procuring a ignition for your young friend, M r . Dyk es . lam authorised to say, ,Lae lie will proenre an eligible one, on condition that yon will support his interest on the next general election. As you are independent of the Hamilton intervit.l would ad. rise you to embrace this offer, if you have, made nu promise to them. Yon have been ill used. At Glasgow ill tell lon all about the matter. Sir Alexander Cochrane is not at borne, or 1 would cosisidt hilt. Have the goodness not to mention this till the whole shall be arranged.—(oa cries of Dar, flee r)—Dated 114th May last." The letter stated, " I am authorised"—mentions at full length the names or both the candidates— sari, " Have the goodness not to mention this till the whole Matter is arranged." Whot was thee authority, and what the nature of it, he did not know; but he must believe that the offer was founded on some sort of authority—at the same time lie wished to avoid raying a word to impeach the truth of the Noble Lord'. declerittion. Either Lord Dangles authorised this letter to be written, or lie did not ; iii either Case an inquiry was De( tweary, to get at the individual who had thus violated the privileges of Parliament, and to ascertain the real circinnstances of the case. The proper way would be by calling on Ferguson to state on what authority he had had so written. If this individual were summoned to the bar, such an 'nomination might be had as would be satisfactory in the result to the individuals cmicerued, and also to the dignity or the House. There was au other form of proceeding open, and that was, by ordering the Lord Advocate of Scotland to prose cute the party offending, Against the latter cootie he (Lord Archibald Hamilton) had en Objec tion, which, Oithout disrespect to the individual, lee would Mention. The Lord Advocate had al ready shewn a decided feeling relative to this election contest, he had manifested a zeal (an honest one perhaps) for one side of the qnestion, and against hue (Lord A. Hamilton's) interest. Under such circomstanees, he mold not exactly think the Lord Advocate was the fittest person to conduct a prosectition of the nature of this.— He would therefore prefer having the inquiry car ried on at the bar of that House.—He wee not aware that lie could adduce any precedent distinctly in point for the course he Meant to recommend. The Act of !SOO, commonly called CUMCII'd Act, might certainly embarrass II particular case, that is, a case where the answers of the party may expose him to penalties elsewhere; but here the answers could have tin such effect, for the offence be ing committed iigotinst that House, it were best to keep then] cognisable there alone. The Noble Lord concluded by stating, that he bad no per sonal feeliugs iu thus shortly bringing the subject before the House, he merely introduced it on pub lic grounds, and in behalf of an independent, un bought, mid utibiassed set of freeholder., whose rights were thus attempted to he invaded, and who had heretofore returned him freely as their Repre sentative without fee or reward. He then moved that Thomas Ferguson he ordered to attend at the bar of that House on Tuesday, the 21st of April. lo thus na 11l ill g the day, the Noble Lord begged not to be understood as fixing an ioconve. Mem day—lie would readily accede to the nomi. nation of one a little more distant if this should ofilird any convenience to the individual. tee moo ser4tut ernanderstine.--( Loud criet of Hear, !ear./-1t was impossible to look at this matter lightly, after a letter of this kind had been delivered—it was written by somebody. I do not say that Lord Douglas (with whom I am inei c . qitainted) has enthorised 11w writing or transmission of such e letter—this would he improper in me, under any circumstance., and itaritelll3riy an m ew the discleinier ee have just hewed; hut a letter is written by Ferguson.—(Meter, Gear.)—'Phis is surely s corrupt act, tent eanuint be evasively ever- Ititiked.—(Hear, heor.j—The Right Hoe. Gentle man opposite (Mr. W. Muddle has sat down with out suggesting any postponru►ent for further in quiry or examination, and hr does tine because. he says he has the Nittlionty of Lord Douglas to con tradict the imputation cast epe) him. To what does this contradiction, after all, amount ? Tr• nothing more than that the accused meets (and I • have no doubt very looped)) the charge with a de claration of not guilty, and that,, therefore, the ConictonEt of tuglaiel ought not to pursue the in quiry. was a monstrous doctrine, and in direct variance with the practice of Parliament. —( Hear, hear, hear.)—They had acted (lit . ferently, in 1779, when the Duke of Chemins Kid' written e letter to influence an election—they had acted differently in the affair of the Mavor and Corporation of Oxford—and they had seed differ ently whenever their privileges had been inn mired topoe.-11lear./—lt has even been the practii e when complaints were urged utiaccompsisied by a particle of evidence, to refer them to a Committee of Privilege. It is alone for the House to consider and ste who is the guilty person on all allegations of complaint, and we should totally forget what we owe to our own dignity if, on complaints of this description, whoever be the parties leitimise!, we hesitated for one moment to prosecute the inquii v to the utmost extent of our cusistitutional power." —(Lund tries of Hear.) . The Lout) ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND would, in the first instance, complain of the variance between the notice given by ti n ' Noble Lord opposite and the motion lie had now beolielit leeward. , The notice was regarding the interference of a Peer ill the election of a Member for that Hulse.—/Late, hear, front the Itioposition ilenehes.)—He begged leave here to ask the House if the Noble Lord hail this night adduced any proof of such au inter ference as he described from such a quarter?— On the contrary, his statement of this evening, went Merely to affect an individual in the employment of another, said to he a factor of Lord °tingles's, and yet the Nohle Lord is hitheelf to be charged with acts, which, if committed at all, were dune by others of whom he knew nothing. In opposi tion to the statement merle; the House had the po sitive averment of Lord Douglas; that he knew no thing of the matter. The than Whose name was also mentioned, had retracted his original elate ment, and dotted that lie had any authority for what he had done. It wits clear that they had no evidence at all to justify an inquiry into the con duct of Lord Douglas ; as to Ferguson, the question was separate and exclusive. And what war the proceeding called for as against this individual fie was to be summoned to the bar. Clad the Noble Lord turned in his mind the questione he would put Ferguson, when so attending, and would they be such an, if forced to answer, would criminate him in another place ? Surely the ends of justice against such au individual would be best at tained by a prosecution ; and frotwithstanding whet had fallen from theNohleLoM relative to his (the Lord Advocate's) feelings, he could assure the house of the etlective steps he would at all tidies the to the best of his abilities, in furtherance of any prosecu tion which they might command him to institute, be the parties who they may that the ease intalved. —(Hear.)—To institute such a prosecution would be not only consonant to the law, but fair and open, and just towards the individual. But here the man was called On to tome forward, and perhaps eli minate himself without any notice; this surely was net consonant to the principles of justice or the percher of Parliament. As to the influence which the Noble Lord opposite was pleased to insinuate, that he had exercised in the county of Lanark, he could assure him that he had not influenced ally body relative to their votes at the approach ing election, and for this reason, that lie had no influence to exercise in that quarter.-(A leugh.l If' he had the means, it would be auother questime for he should most certainly give his support tothe eullittit Admiral who was opposed to the Noble Lord opposite, and for whom hr had the most cor dial personal attachment.- (Hear.)—He had ...et to learn that it was disgraceful to oppose the Noble Lord's re-election. If, indeed, it was, lie believed it was a disgrace which, he was likely at no distaste period to share with the majority of the electors of Lacark.—(Hear./—The Noble Lord had been very properly reminded of the active interest maiiie Tested for his own election by a Noble Duke witty whom he was connected. lie also knew that *ogee (commonly called parchment votes) were made for the occasion to promote his views.—( Hear.)—lle would repeat that there was nothing in this transaca tion.to affect Lord Douglas ; and this was the first moment he had beard a word about Ferguson. If the House took tip the case of the latter, he thought It prosecution would be the most direct and effective proceeding. Mr. BROUGHAM said, that the speech just deli vered by his Right Flom and Learned I. riend tr munded him of another old adage, " that there was nothing new under the sun."—(A laugh.)—For in the whole code of the wit-lieges of Parliament, he could find 110 chewer like that touched upon by his Learned Friend. Luttrell he admitted, that the House had certain privileges, but he seemed to contend fist the Noble Lord (Lord A. tlanithou) was bound to give a precire and formal notice of his complaint in the manner ordinary notices were given. This was a total mistake, for the Nehle Lord reed not have given one instant's notice; he might have gone directly up to the tattle with tl,e letter, and the House would have beeii bowed to itiquire into the matter of complaint at mice, evil to give it precedence over every other order or uu tire. His Right Hon. and Learned Friend had gravely expressed a hope, that the Noble Lord hail turned its his head the questions he would tisk Ferguson when brought to the bar. There ass no doubt that he had. The first would probably be—•' Did yon write this letter ?" A refusal tit answer would of course consign the individual to the custody of the Serjeant-atsArtns. Ills Mr. WYNN suggested that the lever on which this complaint was founded should he brought up to the table, and handed to the Clerk fur the pnr pose of being formally read.—This was accordingly done, and the motion for the attendance of 1110132113 Ferguson w:is put front the Chair. Mr. W. DuNoas said he should have thought that after the correspondence which the Noble Lord opposite had had with Lord Douglas he would have been satisfied that no further proceedings were ne cessary, As this was, however, mifortonately not the case, and that the Noble Lord was not satisfied, he yet hoped the House would, when they heard the coMenunication lie had to make to them. He was authorised by his Noble Friend, Lord Douglas, to say, upon his solemn honour, that there was no foundation directly or indirectly. fur the interference alluded to having been made with his knowledge and privity.—(Heur,from the 7'reasury Benches.) — lie solemnly disclaimed having given any ouch di rections, and he further says that the House is ton generous to doubt the truth of this his unqualified assertion, and too just to give way to hasty and groundless suspicions.. —(Hear, hear.)—Could the House suppose the Noble Lord so base as to pledge Ins honour in thin mariner to an u n truth, and must they not disbelieve him if they admitted •n inquiry under circumstances now s ol e mnly con tradicted ? Having said thus north on the part of Lord Douglas, he would address himself more particularly to the Noble Lord who brought for ward this motion. There was a good old adage which lie would do well to remember, it was, that " he who had glass windows should take care and not throw the first stone."—(4 laugh./ He was ready to admit, that the purity of election ought not to be trenched upon for an instant. But did not the Noble Lord (Hami!too) recollect. that when he was first returned for the Comity of 11,0-nark, nark, the influence of s Peer had not been, as was now charged indirectly. exercised for him. but a Duke of the first rank—Ohe allusion teas under stood io refer to the Mike of Haniiltoni—had di rectly oust personally wtitten, arid applied for the interest of the electors in behalf of the Noble Lord opposite ?—(Hear, hear. )—A complaint of this kind did not, therefore, collie with the best grace from such a quarter. The Gallery was now about to le: cleared for a division on the maim', when Mr. WYNN rose and eddressed the House as follows It is quite impossible that a complaint of this nature. which is for the tender of a direct bribe, and is therefore a most serious ii,v&sion of the privilege& of this House, can be ova, I entit tif oi Was 111 N il they mitt