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Contracts. ly to legislate for' the Church of England,. against which they are united by principles of conscientious hostility. I object to the Bill, be cause it offers to the Church of England false se curities. It proposes, by way of security to the Church, a❑ oath to be taken by the Roman Ca tholic Clergy, which no conscientious Roman Ca tholic Clergyman can take, or can keep. It is contrary to their religion, or what they call their religion, to swear that they will enter into no communications with• the Pope for the dis turbance or the overthrow of the Church of England ; their creeds and oaths, their preaching, writing, and. ministering, having all a tendency, directly and indirectly, to the overthrow of the Protestant Church, as every body knows, who knows any thing of the decrees of the. Council of Trent, and as we have been lately informed by a Roman Catholic Bishop, who stated it as his objection to the oath proposed by the Bill. I object to the oath, because it is contrary to the Acts of Union,..by which the Potestant Religion_ was declared to be inviolable. But this Bill ab rocrates the securities which were intended to preserve it inviolate, and has provided no equi valent. My Lords, the objections to the Bill are endless. They may, perhaps, be in a few words, its utter inconsistency even With the religion of that foreign Church, which it was intended to serve ; its ruinous neglect of - the Church of England, which it ought to have taken care of: and the consequences which may be expected to follow from so great a change in our laws by the loss of many, perhaps indescribable properties, of • the English Constitution, which has given to this country its present transcendant power, dignity, and character in the world. My lords, the oppo nents of the Bill are often called upon for a proof of the danger of admitting Roman Catholics into Parliament and Offices of State. Can there be greater danger than that of granting political power to persons, who, having views and inte rests foreign and hostile to the Church of Eng land—who tell you beforehand that it is contrary to their religion - to swear that they will not em ploy that power for the overthrow of the Esta blished Church ; whose religion also may compel them to betray the counsels of the King." [DAILY EXTRACTS PROAI TUE MORNING- PAPERS.] [MORNING HERALD:]. The adjourned debate upon the question of Parli'amentary Reform, moved by Mr. Lambtosi, was resumed last -night, and closed rather un expectedly at an early hour. The division will be found still more curious. It would appear that lion. and Right lion. Members grew weary of hunting the question, and:as usually happens in a protracted chace,-but few were in at the death. The motion for a Committee was negatived by a majority of 55 to 43.. PA it L. IA AI 2*: HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL, 18. Counsel were heard on the Miller Divorce Case, and further 'proceedings were postponed till after the holidays.—The Charitable Lands ,Transfer Bill went through a Committee pro forma, and was ordered to be printed.—The St. Luke's Parish Rate Bill, the Manchester Im provement, and the Don Navigation Improve ment Bills were brought up from the Commons by Mr. Byug, Lord Stanley, Mr. S. Wortley, and othtrs, and read a first time. CASH PAYMENTS.—The English and Irish Bank Cash Payments Bills went respectively through Committees, and the Reports were received.— Adjourned. 15th May, 7th June, [Till: limns.] Mr. Lambton's motion for. Parliamentary Re form was decided as it. were by surprise, in a House consisting only of one hundred and two Members, and the numbers,. exclusive of the tellers, were for Mr. Lambton's motion 43, and against it 55. What? only .55 votes for the present,Constitonand,organization- of the- British Parliament Mr. -Canning, it Is said, ap peared with a large book under his arm, like the Champion at a Coronation clad in armour; but the Right Hon. Gentleman did not take up the gauntlet which had been thrown down by a chi valrous opponent. He simply stated, that as neither the Mover for the Committee, nor the more prominent Members on either side were. pre sent, he should not detain the gouse from going to a division-. HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY, APRIL FT MISCELLANEOL-S. - • iIIreWESTERN moved for an .A;,-eqent of the Woallen Cloth eiported from Great Britain between the years 180 and Ifril;distiliguishing the quality; and , alio en eieco7nt of the Shee' and Lambs' Wool imported into Great Britain ha the same period.--Ordered. . - Petitions for Reform in . Parliament were presented 'from ' Northampton, by Sir Gearge''from Tavistock, by Lord Ebrington; from Alford, by Sir Robinson,; 'Robert Heron; from Cambridge,- by Lord Francis Osborne, and from Nottingham, by Mr.•Denman.—They were ordered to lie on the table. Mr. W.'SMlTll_brotight in a Bill, which was read a first time, for the improvement of that Tart of Westminster which adjoins the two Reuses of Parliament. The House went into a COMmittee on the Assessed Taxes Bill, and a Resolution was.agreed to, for extending the power. of Composition in respect of those Taxes, for a further .period of six years. The :louse then returned, and the Report of the - Committee was ordered to be received to-morrow. The House also went into a Committee on the Irish Court of , Chancery Bill, the Irish Courts of Law Bill, and the Metropo- Fs Police Bill. In the latter Committee it was stated- by Mr. HENRY CLIVE, that Government intended to remove the Shadwell Police Office to Marvlebone, and to controul the pre sent regulations relative to Coffee-shoos. Mr. BENNETT approved of the itesolutions, but thought they did not go far enough. It was proved before the Police Comuiittee, that the High Constable, if a coal-merchant, sup plied the public-houses and the brothels, and therefore hadi an interest in the :ncrease 'of one, and the protection of the other. He was authorised by several London _Ma g istrates to say, that if a Committee of Secresy were appointed, they could expose scenes of iniquity which iliould startle every one. • 'After some observations from Mr. 11. Clive and Mr. M. A. •TAYLoit, the Resolutions were agreed to, and the House re sumed. . p. CLOSE OF THE BRITISH CiALI.P.RY. ' PHIS GALLERY, for the 'EXHIBITION and SALE of the Works of Modern Artists, IS OPEN `'AILY from Ten in the Morning until Five in the Evening, 4 4 will be CLOSED on SATURDAY, the 9Sth Inst. • Admission, 15.—Catalogue, By Order, 'JOHN YOUNG, Keeper. ~* :,d ` The Gallery will h e re - opene d ear l y i n M ay, with a ' O LLECTION Q 1 the FINEST WORKS of the ANCIENT MASTErts. The division in the Cabinet upon the Catholic Question has ceased to be matter of surprise, but is not therefore marked with less obvious incon sistency. How singular, for example-, in Lord Liverpool to turn out a Lord, of the Bedchamber for voting again'st him upon the repeal. of a tax, and yet himself to continue in office, or to allow of men's continuing in office with him, who both vote and speak against him upon a question which he professes to be of the most vital im portance to the welfare of the nation and the permanence of. its establishments. How absurd This (lay were published, in Svo... price tis. REMARKS on the Bishop of Peterborough's Comparative Views of the CHURCHES of ENGLAND 444 ROME. By the Rey. G. GLOVER, A.M. ite.etor of Southrepps and Billingford, Vicar of Cromer, and Chaplain to his Royal Highness the-Duke of Sussex. London : Printed fur Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Pater noster -row . 'Just published, most extensively embellished, Price, is. ONE'S POLITICAL SHOWMAN—AT a • HOME! Exhibiting his surprising A r tifi c i a l C a bi ne t, an the Wonderful Beasts and Reptiles—All alive! alive 0! By the Anther of ',THE' POLITICAL HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. ._ Twenty-four Cuts o f th e as t on i s hi ng C ur i o Si t i es an d k:rsat ureSl—viz. The Monster—The Showman—The,Show c,i°"l---Bags—A C rocodile—A Mask—The Locust—A Scor hT,P--1:11e Lobster—A: Prime Ct ntch —The Oppossuw—Black ‘ --- itat-Bait--A Cadge Anchor—:lWater - Scorpion—Dirk- Patrielit—Musie—Th e Blood bound—The I tector—A Booby— t4V . . 3, T %%opeciny Flat—The Slop-pail—My Eye—The L eg iti ma t e " o pire. I.ondon: Printed for WILLIAM HONE, 45, Ludgate-hal, 4 ... T?d sold by all Booksellers throughout the Country. Orders, .7i'lt.ll r emittances, punctually executed; and Bills, for doors ' d sh op -windows enclosed. -........._..,,__ , in Lord Castlereagh to profess that he will re linquish his situation if he cannot perpetuate the War Malt Tax, and yet to retain his situation when the Catholic Question is decided against hint by the influence ofhi3 own colleagues! (b.) CATHOLICQUESTION - : b Tile Speech of th a t L earne d P re l a t e , t h e 'ishop of Sr. Davrn.'s,.made such an i m p ress i on " Tuesday night in the House of Lords, that h w ekleem it our duty to give it as correctly re "'led in Th e illorn.ing Posi-of this day:- I ' c The Bishop of ST. - D.avin's.-My Lords, I am wholly unable to do justice either t ne great importance of the subject before the lv°ltse, or t o m y own conv i c ti ons , ye t I am un -I.`ilitig to give the vot e whi c h I s h a ll d o t hi s Ny ll ir i l t against the second reading of th e Bill, i l out endeavouring at least to stat e th e groun d s R ; 41 ? obj ec ti ons t o it. B u t, b e f ore I state t h ose — }, °tl ncli, I wish to make a sin g l e obs erva ti on on 11- at fell from the Noble Earl, )vhose eloquent V e i ,ch clos e d th e d e b a t e o f l as t night. The ihNe Earl o b serve d, th a t the Constitution of Is , c ountry is 6 essentially Protesta n t, b u t no t . Cctusively so.' My Lords, the history of the °lls titution` if I mistake not, requires both ti , t l s• From the Constitutions of Clarendon, iliwards, its Protestant character was form- It was forming by the variety of checks th; t:ll ,,lvere given to the intrusive authority of it• - ei - rope by the laws of Edward I. and HI.. in fired H, and others. It was formed, and 1-1 great measure completed, by the laws of ib en r3r VIII. It was finally completed by lv . li e Statut e of the 30th of Charles 11. It completed, my Lords, by the active f rom u sion of the Pope and his jurisdiction b e ;., the Constitution. I object to the Bill, , n - d ' a use it appears to me contrary to the very - "i t Z i f w which your Lordships are here assem r The writ of summons convened Parlia (?,eat A The to consult for the defence of tile i i `, lirc h of England ; super rebiis quibusdem ar- Li defensionein regni Anglice Ecclesice Angli cerlce concer ventibus. - But the Church of Eng -14.t1 never can b e d e f en d e d b y g i v i ng po i power t o h er greatest e nemy, the . Church ftlea R ome. I object to the Bill, because it ap to me contrary tosthe oath which I took at ! com mencement of the pr e s en t P ar li amen t. lu Bill recognises th e f ore i gn j ur i s di ct i on, I then swore does not exist, and ought not 2 exist within this realm. The oath expressed Tylen rea tal sentime n t s . I took it without the smallest .l r eservation whatsoever; an d a t th e t i me Was resolved to fulfil the tenor of the oath. It erns to m e , th ere f ore, if I were to vote for the .41)14I sho u ld f als i fy my oath and my declara !")n• I object to the Bill, because it appears to ':`,le contrary to one of the highest prerogatives of itl,e Crown. The King is Head of the Church England by 'common faw, as well as by sta _'vt4e. But, if tbis Bill were to pass into a law, it s ould be a great encouragement to the. Papal Power ; that power which the Roman Catho t:,st hold to be superior to the sovereignty u t n the realm. Every encouragement. therefore, Papal power, is a diminution of the autho ' or the Crown. My Lords there are irnt:Zv_o_,ther objections to the Bill. I object to adl..-aase it appears to me a most pernicious houniractiy, permit the members of a foreign , itber zlild subjects of a foreign Sovereign, to House of Parliament without re gouncin - 6 their foreign allegiance ; and Especial- MAJORITYAND MINORITYoN Tnu QUESTION rOnTrIE SECOND READING or TUE CATHOLIC BILL. • FOR THE SECOND READING OF TIIE BILL. Sil9seX Leinster Dundas Grafton Duncan Stewart of Carnes Devonshire Melville - Can horpr Lansdowne Hood l)unsutnville Camden Gordon (Aberdeen) Wellesley ' Anglesey Granville Lilford Thanet Clinton • . Ellenborough. Albemarle Dac re Lauderdale Jersey Howard of Elf. Abercrombie Cow per Ilownrd of W, Crewe Harrington Clifton (Darnley) A ilsa (Cassilis) Wnrwick King Churchill FitzWilliatri Portsonby (Beshoro.)Ilill. De La Warr , Grantham Elgin (Scotch) Spencer Holland _ Roseberry Fortescue Sauridge (Argyle) Colville Caernarvon Hawke Stair Rosily a Foley Headfort (Irish) Grey Ashburton Conyngham Harrowby Grauttey Charlemont Minto Somers teltnore St. Gertnains Amherst Donoughmore Morley Grenville Blesin i on Torrington Auckland Norwich (Bishop) Somerset Bedford Stafford Bnte Derby. Suffolk Essex Carlisle Oxford Dartmouth Waldegrave Hardwicke Darlington Hillsbro' Grosvenor Mu'grave PROXIES FOR TIIE BILL. Hereford Carysfort Bolingbroke Alvanley Anson - Hutchinson • Keith Erskine Say and Sele Monteagle Sondes Granard Dude Brenda!bane Berwick Lynetlock Sherborne Melbourne Bray brooke Qaeen:berry(S.cotch) Mendip Tweedale Ynrbro' Belhaven Gwydir Kingston (Irish) Cawdor lVtouut Cashel Carrington Clancarty Glastonbury Rochester (Bishop.) AGAINST THE SECOND HEADING OF THE BILL. York Lonsdale Harris Beaufort Cathcart Lothian (Scotch) Newcastle Vernlam . Saltoun Northumberland Whitworth Napier Wellington Brownlow Enniskillen (Irish) Winchester Hampden L.ngford Cornwallis Sydney - Alnyo Northampton Curzon O'Neill Pembroke Sidmouth 1 hifferin Bridgewater - Lake Canterbury (Archb.) Westmorland Exmouth York Winchilsea Hay (Kinuoul) London (Bishops) Cardigan . - Boston Winchester. Shaftesbury U , ynevor • V Worcester Abingdon alsingharn.. . Bangor Plymouth Bagot - . Hereford. Coventry Kenyon Lincoln Macclesfield Fisherwick (Doneg.)St. David's' 1 Pomfret Selsey .:- Salisbury Harcourt Belle V St. Asapn . Chatham Bayning Lty - Bathurst Bolton . Cheste'r Ailesbury Northvrick. Gloucester Mount Edgcumbe Eldon Osford Digliy St. Helen's Peterborough. Mansfield Redesdale Liandad' T Liverpool Arden • - xeter ... ~ •. Romney Gambier Chichester Beresford Abergovenny Ross (Glasgow) Kilmore (Irish) 4 3ogher, ' Kilialoe PROXIES AGAINST TILE BILL Clarence Craven Wodehowe Richmond Nelson - Loftus (Ely) Marlborough Orford Sheffield _ Itut: - land liarevrood Manners orset • Beauchamp Cornhermere Srdit•httry Falmouth • hleld rum (Aboyne) Bath Dudley mid Ward 'Prudhoe Hertford Maynard Home (Scotch) Exeter • De Clifford • Kellie Cholmondeley Zouche • Balearras Huntingdon Willoughby deßrokeForhis Dere.igh Middleton Gray Stamford • Rivers Thomond (Irish) Scarborough Rodney ' Carrick Pottlett Gordon (Huntley) Farnham. Aylesforti Montagu • Charleville Graham Tyrone (Waterford) Carleton Portsmouth Suffield Durham (Bishops) Radnor Douglas of LochlevenChiehester Norwich Stuart of Cast. Stuart Hereford Egremont Saltersford . Carlisle Strange Brodrick Armagh (A rehb.) Mahnesbury - Rous . Lord Analey's Prosy against the Dill srrived too late, or he Majority Ruud have Oren 40. . - . [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Our Readers will see from our Report, that Mr. Lambton's motion for a. Committee of the whole House, to consider the state of the Representation, was lost last night by a majority cf twelve in a House consisting of only ninety-eight Members. It will probably occasion no small surprise, that a question of so much importance, 'and one in which so great and respectable a part of the people of this country took so deep an interest, should have excited so little interest in the House. I t,is true there W 4.5 some little management. in the case, for the divii , ion was brought on unex pectedly at an early hour in the evening i in the absence of Mr. Lambton, Mr. Hobhouse, and Mr. Maxwell, and other advocates of Reform, who had gone Up stairs for a few minute's to get some refreshment, and who were shut out. But allowing for this, the attendance was riot such as the question deserved to have. We have heard, indeed, that some dissatisfaction was felt on ac count of the motion having been brought forward in the necessary absence of Lard Londonderry. But the respect due to the people of England ought mot to have allowed any feeling of this kind to influence the minds of Members. We understand that in. consequence of the Act passed after the close Of . the late war, for granting Pensions to Seamen after a stipulated term of service (without taking securities for their appearance when r*.quired), such an - increase of burthen has been thrown on the chest at - Chat ham, that the funds have been rethiced above two millions ; and opinions have been taken by the Officers of Greenwich hospital to ascertain whether this fund could be.' legally ~applied to such a purpose, it being originally, created ,ind maintained to form .a provision, for maimed and wounded Seamen only. The:opinions of the ablest lawyers are againSt such diversion of the fund.O.) • • ['MORNING POST.] The interest excited by the motion of Lambton, on the subject of Parliamentary Re- form, may be . pretty accurately collected from the division 'of last night—the numbers being, for. his motion 43, against it 55 !! A Vestry. or..En 7 closure Bill will fre q uently procure a more nu ? merous attendance: ) The cause is so wretchedly thread-bare that 'little else - was-to be expected. Mr. Lambton wk too modest, in supposing that the contemptuouS manner in Which it was treated had any thing• •to do with him.— Had greater talents been pressed into its service—had Lord Archibald .Hamilton, or Sir Henry Parnell, for instance, brought it I'orward, it. mist have been dispOsed of in the same way. The Hon. Member was therefore precipitate in charging two Hon. Members with treating him cOn temptuously, because they laughed when he was in the House.- Of this he himself must ite s.atis. fled, as both the 'Hon. Gentlemen he had the good sense to point out, assured the House that they were not thinking of him. It will perhaps be consoling to him to know that there are other ob jects that can provoke laughter. llis friends, however, we have no doubt, will be able to prove that thero was nothing ridiculobs iu his believing hbnself to be the subject of a scornful laugh in the House of Commons ; and, in the fullness of our benevolence, we will even acknowledge, that if he should conceive himself to be au objeCt of derision elsewhere, there would be nothing very absurd in the supposition—nothing that could make his admirers think less highly of his in tellect than they do at present. • Mr.ABERCROMBY presented a Petition from several Merchants and other Inhabitants of Edinburgh, praying for a Reform of the present Council of that City. , Referred to the Coinmittce of the SCOL9 l3urghs. air THOMAS.ACLAND presented a Petition from 'the Freeholders of Devonshire, complaining of the distress they suffered under the pressure of Taxes, and praying for a reduction of expenses, ari abolition of useless offices, and such an inquiry into the state of the representation as might restore public con fidence. The Hon. Baronet said he concurred in opinion with the Petitioners upon - the propriety of reducing the public ex -i-enditure, but he could not promote what was called a Reform in Parliament. _ . Lord EBRINGTON concurred with - the Petitioners ' anti bore testimony to their great respectability. The Noble Lord supported the Petition at some length ; referring principally to some circumstances of a local nature. The Petition was ordered to be printed. Lord J OHN • RUSSELL presented a Petition from the In habitants of Plymouth, praymg for a Parliamentary Reform. They complained, that the right of voting for the Borough had become vested from the Freeholders to tie Corporation. The Noble Lord presented a Petition shnirat in its-prayer'frout the Freeholders of Huntingdon.—The Petitions were ordered to be printed. A similar Petition was presented by Colonel JOH:KSTONE from the Inhabitants of Euston—Ordered to be printed. • . Mr. CORE presented a Petition to the same effect from the FreehOlders of Suffolk. He regretted that • the independent Member for the County .was not present, to whom the Petition might have been entrusted with more effect. The Honour able Member stated his conviction, that nethingbut n Reform in Parliament would relieve the country from its present suf ferings. Mr. COOCH, one of the Members for Suffolk, 'said, he was as independent as the Honourable Member who presented the Petition, though he did not possess so many acres. He (Mr. (3.) supported the Ministers, but he was under no obli gation to them ; and he had never either bought or sold a vote. He denied that the Petition contained the general sentiments of the country. Mr. WESTERN supported the Petition at some length, and Mr. GOOCH' explame4.---The Petition was tudered to be printed: Mr. CURWEN presented a Petition for Reform. from the .freeholders of Cumberland. Mr. BROUGHAM supported the Petition ; and said, that a more respectable body of men than that which attended the Meeting at which the Petition was voted, he never saw in his life. • Lord I.OWTIIER said, that the large attendance was to be accounted for - from the circumstance of there being a large fair on the day upon which the Meeting was held. After 'a'conversation between Lord Milton, Mr. Wallace, arid Mr. Brougham, the Petition was ordered to be printed. Sir.R. WILSON presented a similar Petition. from the Bo rough of Southwark. Mr. BANKES presented a Petition from the Trustees of the British Museum praying for further means for carrying en the p.irposes of the I.stabliOnnent.. PARLIAMENTARY REFor..m. Mr. LAMBTON then rose to bring forward his motion. At this - moment the House presented a singc.lar appearance; the Opposition side of the House being filled with Members, while not ,rno--e -than 20 Members were thinly scattered over the Ministerial Benches. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and. Mr. Bragge Bathurst were . seated side by side, on the Treastify Bench, and they were the only Members on the . Bench •so designated. Mr. Lambton said, he rose to bring under. the consideration of the house the state of the Repro.. sentation of the I'Tople of England. He was at all times most unwilling to trespass upon the time and attention of the House, and be could assure the House, that nothing but his anxious. desire to. promote a great public good, and to put an end to those dissentions which 'prevailed generally among all classes of the community, could have induced him to take up a great and important question, to which lie felt himself not compe tent to do justice. Among the difficulties which he had to .contend with, was the disinclination which had been invari a bly shown by that /Raise to the subject--a disinclination founded, perhaps., on the reluctance which ail men and all bodies of men had, to listen to accusations. of • themselves. If any proof were :wanting of .that disinclination ? he shonld find it in the. state of the .benches opposite . to lute.,—(Hear, hear !)—The preticat state of those benches might almost tempt him to make his motion at once, and take the sense of the House upon it, for his .flon.•Friendi would far , outnumber the chosen few he saw opposite to him. Under . ' all the circumstances, how ever, he would not sutler himself to be'tempted into So irreatu- Tar a course. If the .•attendancr. on the 'Ministerial Benches was meant as a mark of insult to himself, he should treat it with contempt.—(Hear, hear !)--If the insult was pointed at the question which' he had the honour to bring forward, it would be a lesson to' the people of England when they heard of. the contempt with which their complaints were treated, and the manner in which thegreat question upon which th e y r es t e d all their hopes, was received by the Right Holt - Twins oppo site.—(boud laughter.),--(We presit:he the Hon. Member al luded to the Chancellor of the r xchc q uer and- . Mr. Bragge Bathursto—Upon a questir;n which agitated the minds and excited the hopes of every class of the community, the people of England, would hear. of the way in which it was graciously li -received by the two representatives of the oyster dredgers of Harwich.—(Laughter.)--Ile (Mr. Lambton) felt the disadvan tage under which he laboured in following . the eminent and Allustrieus characters who had at various times brour,ht this question under the conaideratLet of the House. He had to contend also against the overwhelming eloqueTce of a RIO': lion. Gentleman, who had invailably opposed himself ttiAtt Reform, and never exerted his great taints with more zeal an 1 energy than when they were directed against a.- - e extension af the system of representation. Under - these circumstances h trusted the House would extend that indulgence, which wa ; at no time more necessary than on the present oceaeion. ITC was anxious to conciliate a large portion of the eon:rho, nity, who loudly, but steadily _comploir.ed. Of that • depri vation of the benefits of ti l e Constitution, Whiet.h was tee effect of a long system of misrule and nrismaeagemert, of gress and notorious corruption. Undoubtedly a' sea- Tit of discontent had stalked abroad, Which coal to longer be lulled by promises which had been as readily - male as they were openly violated. The effect; of rationed &iv 7R.. ton, and the consequent c xpansicn of irteliect =tong ieel:A.f.a and middle classes, rendered it impossible that the systeni of misrule and-delusion could be enntinned. He was confirmed in this opinion by an authority, by withd; lie se:ould scarcely leiVe expected to find his argument supported. autho4ty to which he alluded was no other than that of Mr. i;testitteetedst, who had declared in his charge to thew-elect .'try at Maechflster, that the great diffusiOn.oflearning rendered it ne - sa-etaey voirttOpt different .measures from those welch pecvailed earies.a eaditat of ignorance. It would be a s abs ur d, continued. - t.hat Leer *1 Judge, to adhere to the measures formerly adepttd antler the new circumstances which had arisai, as to treat animated doings in the same manner es things inanineete. ln these see tie ments; he (Mr. L.) cordially cohenned. He h innself lied an opportunity, within no very disteen parlor, of judging -Of die - ince-450. intelligeric.c geoishoilsee*O4o4lotedititko. ,North of England. They exaninsedthegettet pnnte, of • national policy with the niost yigilard attenn ern men &old. doubt - that the lower - and middle orders of sodicty, nine *dee at one time remarkable only for - their apathy, and subseevitaey to the higher classes, were now as much distinguished fcr a spirit of active zeal and intelligence, which wanted only a fit occaaiOn to be called forth in every part of the empire. Theanarnerous Petitions which had been brought befora-tne 'Heusi:, all Mahe:Leg on the necessity of Reform, ought to convince teem then the just and , salutary work of amelioration and coticcision would alone satisfy the minds of the people. Sooner or later complete justice must be done ; and was the present state of the country such as to render ft wise or expedient to defer it ? We hada debt of 850 2 000,0001.,an wined expenditure of 5:?,000,000l a a system of galling and oppressive taxation, . with a rev:tett:lk falling off in proportion to the severity of the public lartheas. Our commerce was in a state of extreme depression, and a; to the agricultural interests, while the higher Classes were reduced to the greatest difficulties, the labouling chsses were in a stede of actual starvation. We had a standing army of 80,000 men, - and that military system which had excited the constitutional jealousy of our ancestors was now openly defended, while it was no less openly avowed that seats in flat, Hoose were pub licly bought and sold. Alarms of conspiracies and rehellioe.snad been repeatedly raised, and they were told nolonger ate) than. last night, by a-Noble Lord opposite, that this was - the first year of dornesnepeac,e. Ourgaols were overflowing with criminals, are our eyes perpetually disgusted with most barbarous, bleodY e eied wanton executions, the effect of the' unnecessary severity of out criminal laws. Neither was there any accession of honour to the national character by the policy which we . had pursued abroad. Our repeated violations of the most sacred pledges- a dour conduct towards Norway, Genoa, Saxony and Perga—our steady support of all the feudal abuses which it was the object of the Holy Alliance to maintain and bolster up, were little calculated to add to raise this country in the estimation of foreignem-- Under such circumstances was it not natural that every relleit ing mind should endeavour to ascertain the cause.ofth:is degra dation of the national character? They need not look fat far the source and origin of that degradation, for it was tc - e found in the corruption of that branch of the Legislature which professed to represent the people of England. The undue exercise of the prerogative, and the tyrannical encroael t men ts o f the Crown were succeeded by an easier and surer method Or in the liberties of the people through a.corrupt majority of the House of Commons. Since th a t f a t a l,p er iod, the liberties of the people were at themercy of the existing Adnainistradon e ressi, we only owed it to their forbearance, that they had not haaaa. completely destroyed. Such a weight of power had been ehroten into the hands of the Government, di:zoneh the inituence_of the Crown, as the peopl e i n th e present state of tee representaden were incapable of resisting. The peat Majority of the Rhi,te sentatives of the pee p le were'. returned.by the crop-: and a • few Peers. Was it not, therefore, the duty of ea ery true lore: ci Lis country to endeavour to - xsstrain and diminish the infest:mt. e of the Crown, that influence which had increased the national debt to the amount of • 1,000,0001. during the late reign ? he people of England were not in effect represented in the Legisla ture, for he was ready to prove at the liar of that House, that 180 individuals returned by nomination or otherwise nalaSsehan 380 Members. He would not trouble the House by entering into details which were so eotorious to be familiar to eyershere ber of the House. One Noble Lord not now in his place teed ro reason to-bedelighted by any accession of constitutional weight which had accrued to his character, from the course he had taken with regard to the return of Members to that House. To pre-- vent the further continuance of this . system of things was the object of • his motion. In his opinion the elective franchise should be extended to all householders, leaseholders and copy holders ; all decayed, venal and corrupt boroughs should be disfranchised, and a return should be made to Menthe' Parlia ments. It was not his intention to enter into a long history of the origin and constitution of the House of Commons. He would merely 'allude shortly to the various Acts; width had been passed at different times with reference to this subject. He was aware that this was a dry subject, but he relied upon the indulgence of the Rouse in affording him a patient hearing. The Hon. Member then referred to - the ,3tl Ed. I t;• - Chr. 11., the Triennial Act . passed in theihh . year of William and Mary, and 1 Geo. I. or Septennial Act, and' proCeeded to 'eats and comment upon the • several clauses. The Shiite/Mita Act • was, in his opinion, a • most daring and unconstitutional - exer, cise of authority. It •was founded, uud.oubtedly; epontirennie: stances of temporary necessity, for ihwas nossihle -that a Ma— jority adverse to the Brunswick family, might have -been deea turned at that time. .Historians differed much upon, this pab•itedis • his own opinion, however, was that hoWever grateful was bound to be for the exclusion of the' Stuarts, they most ever regret the means by which that excitation had been adetiria ed as most dangerous and unconstitutional. With reg.thl to electors, he was satisfied, after the meet mature deliberation', that all freemen possessing property, and cositeibutirtg to ibis support of the State, possessed the right of vetting, by. the Lars:and Constitution of this country. Tlie Hon.Mernter referred to the first writ of summons in the reign of EdVto , L, 7'H en. IV.' c. 15,11 Hen. IV., and 1 Hen. V. in confirmation of this opi nion. A hundred and thirty-four' yeara after this rightehed been solemnly recognised, came the 'Act. of BHerr. Vt. whiles first limited the right of voting for knights of the Oilireto fevz holders to the amount of 40s. "'lle next branchof the trkcitArt which he should propose was the. clisfeanthisetrient rupt, venal, and decayed boroughs. As to 'whether the Ovuorat of those boroughs ought to receive compensation, as aueested by Mr. Pitt, he was decidedly of opinion that they etOltheled. 'These dealers in the White S/ave Trade would hot t. d ,Petted. of any thing which they ought to possess, They would aced helve their land and houses, their legal and constitutional postaety, and they would be debarred tinly.of their corrupt anal. arse-ea,2:l - practice of selling seats in Parliament. •It was - doubtedly difficult to obtain a mean between numbers p_a . ro party, in apportioning the right of voting. Pro/sett e r was cer tainly, the best basis on which to found' the Eleetavelitenchise, because it afforded the best pledge of the unbiassed and:sle pendent exercise of that franchise. The rystem of r.otinionaly corrupt and decayed Boroughs loudly called foe Reformation. He was not so presumptuous as to say, that the plan which he had to propose was the best that could be devised ; out in bringing this question forward, it. was but fair to state at 'once in what way ,he thought a change of the present system Might be most beneficially carried into effect The pritieple 'of change was not- new, it had been acted upon at 'varioite !lines and in various instances. This apeared from tt1e.137 11.714.1. and no H.' VIII. The 34 H. Viii. extended,' `gave tfie elec tive franchise to the County Palatine' f.Chester, aird the 25,1 A. 11. gave to the inhabitants, of Durham the power of senkatng two Knights for the 'county, anti two Pongesst for the• He (Mr. L.) was peculiaely • intexested in this laid statute, and he was above all others called upeon to. maintain the rights-of the unrepresented classes of the community who wereli'otie t taxation, and consequently of all houeholdeis e leeseholders; and copyholders. With this view. he had I* - rt.pritatti a Bi'4,•, with the assistance and cordial co-operation ot a Leaned Friend, the heads of which he would proceed to detail, thoagh he w at aware, that in so doing, he must trespass considerably /spent the patience and indulgence of the House. The Hot ertat i le Member then entered into a min to detail of the provisyahe of. the Bill under the heads of election far sbsuicts, Lratl‘f4r coun ties. He was awoire, he said, that' theie details tenet falnue the Henze, but having pledged limaell to being forleaseis