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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS.—TVESDAT, ArGrst 2.
The Luau CHANCEI.IOIItOOk his seat at 6 eckek
PEIIIII9NS PRESENTED.

roMNIN4ItuN ur WuIIILMIEN.—By the Eirl of CLA-
RENDON. tr m Manclwittr and SrHord, !mil :Cicr pacer,
ecouplainour of the %ma itialactory state of th lan with
selerenee to the combination of workmen.
TI.ItKEY AND RUSSIA.—THE DANUBIAN
PROVINCES.

'the M of CLANRICARDE—My lords, I wish to
put a quetim to my noble friend the Sure t try for Foreign
AGM* respectiag the reptht which be may hare to make
with reference SO the Danubian provinces. It appears from
Ilse reperts in the aewspopcn that the Russians arc in ea-
tire possession of the Danubian provinces. The report is
part:near to which I elude states that the commander-ins
also( of the lisissian forces had ordered the Ilospodu of
Moldavia not to transfer any tribute to the P.-it's, and in-
formed him that any tribute paid to the Salt in must be
paid over agaia to him. M ire thin this, it is it %tea that
thou persons to whom the local adminis,r,'ion of the
Gauntry is :minuted have 'acme ordered to ..a further
eossmumesti in with Con dantinople. It .s Mi.:m:44lu that
such aids as those can take place without I.adiog very'
directly to events which we may all have UCCA-1311 to de-
plate. (Hear, Mar.) It is, there tare, of the hi/h..: inte-
rest to Ibis country and to this hoes' that we should tae put
is possession of whatever iatinnotion can te off riled to as,
without ancoovealessise to the public service. (Hear, hoes.)
It is a matter of tliagreotest importance ; need l hold it to he
impossible foe Europe, or France, or Eng:end, to submit to
sub an estcasiou of territory in that direction by Ruins,
awl each a elimbhtlon of the Turkish empire, without the
g r and smut fearful consequences—(bear, hear)—not
only to the happiness of Turkey, but to the material Ms.
rests of all dames in E hope, but above all in Germany,
Prune, and this country. (Hear, hear.) it is n matter on
which ycur losiships must wish to have the fullest infur.
motion • and, therelore, I hope my noble friend will not
thiak me indiscreet if I ask him whether any such reports
as thou to which I 114 f 3 referred have reached him 01-
i:sally—namely, thu assumption of the :lovers ionty of the
proviso* to which I allude by Raseia ? (Hear, hear.)
The Earl of CLARLNDON—My lonic. so tar frau
thinking that my noble fiiend has committed any bolster:y.-
00n upon the quccien which he hos now put, I
can assure him that I t do so entirely the some view as ha
does upon what would be the rs suit, not only to Tarkey,
but to Europe, and more especially to this country, of any
permanent alienation of that territory to w hich he :diodes
from the Turkish empire, that I am glad be hot put to me
this quest." in order that I may satisfy the public mind,
as far as I am able, by giving my noble friend all the in-
humation of which I ens is possession. (cleer, hear.)
By a despatch, dated the 17th of last month, I learn from
Lord Strattcrd de RA .::ffe, that a urninunication had
been mode by the Cossal-Lieneral of Russia to the llosps-
dar of Moldavia informing him that his reditionv with the
Ottoman government were to cease, and that the trdiute
usually transmitted to Constantinople was to be placed at
the disposal of the Minion government, upon thogrcand,
as it was stated, that although there existed no intention of
sloth:ling the interest institutions of Moldavia, or el alter-
ing the existing order of things, yet that during the military
occupation ut the province the action of the sovereign
power was necessarily, though temporarily, suspended. I
lave to state also that the Turkish gocerument expected
to uccive similar information from the Hospudar of Wad-
Ischia, but I have received a despatch this morning from
the British Consul at Bucharest, Mr.Colquhoun, dated the
22nd of last month, which says that up to that time—al-
though it might hays been the evening before—no suds
communication had been made by the Hapodu. Sash •
communication, however, it was naturally cape ;ted by the
Porte would be made to the ,Ilospodar of Wallachia, and
it was the intention of the Porte, as soon as that communi-
cation had been received, to order the llospniari to with-
draw. and to cease their functions. (Ilene, hear.) And
Lord Stratford de Redeligfe further added that, in that
event, he should consider it highly improper that the
British Consuls ia the Principalities should continue to ex•
erase their functions. (Hear, hear.) I lost no time, my
lords, in commurneating to Lord Stratford de Radcliffe the
satire approval of her Majesty's government of the course
he proposed to adopt. (" Hear, hear," from all tithe of the
house.) I can only further inform your lordships that
by • messenger who leaves London to-night, I shall
instruct Sir Hamilton Seymour to demand the explanation
to which we are entitled from the Russian governmeot,
(Load cheers.) Other matters remain, my lords, pietty much
the same as before.
Lord LYNDHURST put a question to the noble earl,
which was quite inaudible in the gallery, but in reply,
Tb- Earl of CLAREN DON said that he had not received
any information on the subject.
SUMbIARY JURISDICTION (IRELAND) BILL.—
PETTY SESSIONS (IRELAND) BILL.
The reports ea the above bills were received with amend-
C▪
O"RTS OF COMMON LAW (IRELAND) BILL.
Ten bill went through committee.
ENTAILS (SCOTLAND) BILL.

Lord KINNAIRD moved the third reading of this bill.
Certain amendments were proposed by the Doke of
BUCCIALTII, which were assented to by the LORI" CYAN•
natt.int, and the bill was read a third tame and passed.
ENTRY OF SEAMEN BILL.
This hill was read a second time.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES (IRELAND AND SCOTLAND)
BILL.

On the motion of Lord Kinsman, the house went into
committee u this bill.
The Earl of DONOt'GIIMORE we. understood to move
an amendment excluding I:eland for three months, on the
ground that the minor corporations of Ireland were in so
corrupt a state that any intIIPUTO like the present would
inevitably be enaverted into a job in the earryiog out.
Lewd MONTEAGLE warmly supported the bill, and
said that there was no part of the United Kingdom is
which the taste for information had more increlacd of late
pests than in Ireland.
The Earl of WICKLOW had hoped that this bill would
have snot no opposition in their lordship' house, minas that
although an Irish bill, not one member of the other house
had risen to oppose it. He believed it would be attended
with the mom beneficial results.
The Earl of DONOUGHMORE withdrew his amend-
ment, sad the bill passed through committee.
STAMP DUTIES (No. 2) BILL.
This bill was road • third time and passed.
The Turnpike Ants Continuance, and the Highway Rates
Bills severally pissed through committee.
The Resilient Magistrate., Inland; Turnpike Trusts
Arrangements; Sheep Contagious Diseases Prevention,
Bills, were severally read a third time and passed.
The Sheriffs Court (Scotland) Bill was reported, with
amendments, as were alto the Election.' 818, and the
Burgh Harbor. Bill.
CHICORY.
Lord TORRINGTON, in rising to present • petition
from the merchants and planters of Ceylon, complaining of
the treasury miaow which permitted the mixture of chi-
cory with coffee, said that the petitioners complained of the
great injury doss to their trade by the rescinding of the
missile of the late government, known as the Derby minute,
and prayed that if the present minute were not rescinded,
the duty on chicory and coffee might be itioalistsl, and thus
• fag competition be established io open market. The differ-
ence between the minutes of the late and present govern-
ment we. this. The Derby minute permitted the sale of
chicory by grocers, but provided that it should be made up
in separate parcels and labelled. The minute of the present
government permitted its being kept louse, and per
its mixture with cuff..., provided it wax called
a immure. He had seen these packajvis analysed,
and found that respectable traders contented themselves
with adding 2-) per cent. of chicory to the coffee, but that
is ..nine emits 70, SO, and even 90 per cent. was added.
This was called the mixture, and was sold it. sue,E. but was
in feet nothing more or Ices than dandelion, and was proved
to be very min/ions to the constitution. It did appear to
him that if the government were deterintutd to permit the
Mixture, they should. at bast, fix the quantity, as it was
said that under the prevent system the small party of per-
sons who had influenced, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer were making the enormous sum of 1,203,0001.
a year. It was a rem akiblo feet that immedi.
ately after the promulgation of the Daisy minute
the consumption of coffee increased, and that it de-
clined when that minute was rescinded. People all over
England were usable to get pure coffee, and he wished to
learn from the governucnt whether it was their :attention
to carry out their own minute vigorously and afectually,
and also whether, at some future day, perhice ii. the nest
newton of parliament, they would grant committee of
Inquiry.
lho Earl of ABERDEEN—I should be !ippj to see an
end of the great chicory question—(laughtor —which he.
occupied the attention of Parliament fur so ;onv, and upon
which there has been a great difference o: orinion. I must
say that the noble lord in the statement which he has made
has been guilty of very great inaccuracy in many respects.
My herds, in the lint place, the alteration mode b the
Treasury minute to which he has n fern d was rendered'
necessary by the incanei nience, the hardship, Rod the diM.
comes to which the common people of this country were
exposed by the sale of coffee as directed by the minute of
the late government. 'l be noble lord says —this is the first ,
time that I have heard such an swerVon—that chicory is an
injurious iubstanoe. Why, my lords, half the coffee in En-
rope is chicory—(laudliter)--especially the South of li
France. I will venture to say that in tLc South
of France the quantity of chicory that IS used is
twice as great as the quantity of coffee. At all events,
it is certainly anything but • deleterious sa'•atitute; and
it is preferred, rightly preferred, by the uses of coffee-
driaken. Your lordships probably prefer pure coffee—
(lmighter)—but the great male of consumers prefer the

mixture. New, bow can you enable dealers to mix the two
substances ? Not as was auerapted by the minute of the
late government, which made separate packets necessary.
Coffee when ground rem iiued as • Port of powder, while
chicory Leconte in the packet • soft of solid cake; and as it
I was impossible for patties to mix them themselves, it be.
' came necessary that they sheuld be ground in order that
the milieu.' might exist. Another reason was the expense.
If a poor man came fir an cunce of coffee and en ounce
of chicory, rho making • packet of each aches& greatly
to the expense, trouble, and difficulty of furnishing bim
with what be required ; and therefore the great mass of the
common people infinitely preferred having the mixture
mule for them. The noble lord says that tie matter has
been neglected. lb* re guletion under which chicory is
permitted to be sold is, that • label shall be distinctly placed
on the packet stating that it is • mixture of coffee and
chicory. 11. pretends to i:osbt that the penalty is in-
curred if coffee is sold without that label. No such doubt
can possibly exist. If the label be not distinctly affixed the
seller is undoubtedly liable to the penalty. But the noble
lord has gone further ; he has, I must say, in the most un-
warrantahle manner, insinuated that of of the highestt
respectability have neglected their duty and
guilty of • sort of complicity in fraud. (Hear,
hear.) To show how truly the exiting minute
has been carried mat, I will read to your lordships • Mum
of the prosecutions under that very provision which the
noble lord contends is of so little efficacy. "There ere
upwards of 130,000 persons licensed to deal in coffee in this
country, and each of them has hems served with a copy of
the enclosed general orders. The officers of the board have
made 2,5 a special visits for examination, buying samples,
which have been &ellipses& at the laboratory, and on which
474 prosecutions have been instituted, not a siugle prosecu-
tion without a conviction." N.w, I think your Imuships
will adroit that that at low shows that there has been a:ti-
vity and honesty in eerrying out the provisions of this Trea-
sury minute. (Hear.) I can only pay that the accusation
or insinuation against the pr per conduct of these officers is
utterly calumnious, and has no aunt of foundation. The
n be lord mentioned a particular dealer whose name I
fordo'.

Viscount TORRINGTON—John Cassell.
The Earl of ABERDEEN—Exactly—whom the noble
lord supposed to have been specially favoured by the autho•
reties, and to have had a lie. use from them to sell collie
without the prescribed label. Naw, I learn from the beat
authority, namely t►e head of the department, that the
toffee of that man has been reputedly analysed and has
been fiend to be pure. Therefore he sold that which he
professed to sell. The noble lord made a statement as to
the amount to which consumption has been diminished. Now
I have here a return of the quantity of coffos taken out for
home consumption in the three months ending the sth of
July, 1843, as compared with the mama period of the pr-
emium year. The quantity in 1842 was 8,000,0001bn.; the
quantity is 1853 was 8,977,0000 m, an increase of nearly
1,040,01101 be.
Viscount TORRINGTON said the returns to which be
hail referred extended up to the sth of June ; he had uonc
latcr.

The E Ifl Or ABERDEEN—But I have; and an increase
of I,ooi ,000Ihs. shows thst under the present minute there
has been no diminution. Now, the fact is, that chicory is a
substance which, up to last year—up to the passing of the
minute of the late government—was, I believe, used with-
out any restriction whatever. Friar the year 1840, up to
the year he lore last, it was le ft to dealers and the public to
please themselves with re:ard to the use •of this mixture.
There seems to have been no restriction, and chicory was
not considered in the nature of an adulteration. The in itter
which has been mixed with coffee is not, as the noble lord
has stated, a spurious substance, but one which, if I were
obliged to characterise it, I should say was roller salu-
tary than otherwise—(laughter);—and for this reason
it was left open for the public and the dealers to do as they
pleased. The restriction made last year was found practi-
cally impossible, or at leant practically inconvenient, to
execute, in consequence of its increasing tho trouble and
expense, and also p ing the possibility of the mixture
taking place, from the different description of the substance
when ground sod packed in the manner that was necessary.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer inquired most deliberately
and extensively before he issued the present minute, and
was governed solely by a desire to meet the public demand,
and to suit the publin convenience, particularly of the lower
classes; and, notwithstanding the expression of • contrary
opinion, I am cenvineed that the great body of consumers
in this country of the lower orders have every reason to be
sa7i,tied with the minute at present existing. (Rear.)
The Eul of MALMESEL RY said that since the minute
of the late was superseded by that of the present government
he had heard no sufficient reason assigned for the chase,.
Lord MIA RNCLIFFE entirely concurred in the noble
viscouut'e object, and hoped that in the neat session the
whole matter would form the subject of inquiry.
Lord BEAUMONT said, having listened with great at-
tention to the statement of the noble viscount, he must say
that he had subsequently heard nothing from the noble
earl to upset it (Hear, hear.)
The Duke of ARGYLL said it mieht be a great eonve-
'fleece sad saving of trouble to the pcor man to have the
coffee and chicory mixed for him.
The Earl of WICKLOW hoped either that there would
be a return to the Treasury minute of the last government,
or that the government would institute an inquiry neat year.
Lord MONTEAGLE was sorry that the noble lord who
introduced the subject hsd thought fit to make an unwar-
rantable attack on public Permits. (Hear, bear.)
Viscount TORRINGTON denied that he had made any
attack. He distinctly stated that he did not bring any
charge against any persons. All be said was that there was
a feeling out of doors that certain public servants had not
done their duty to the public in the matter.
Lord MONTEAOLE was glad that he had obtained such
a disavowal from the noble lord.

Lord REDESDALE said that the growers and salvers of
chicory mast have some great and undue influence on the
government, because chtcdry was the only article in favour
of which the law which prohibited and punished the mix-
ture and sale of a sputtoas matter was suspended. lie
thought that there ought to he an inquiry.
The subject then dropped.
IRISH LANS BILLS.

The Earl of DoN01;01IMORE wished to know when
the Irish land measures, which were of great importance to
the tw:ders of property in Irtland, would be fined.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE said that he would fix the
second reading of the L indlord and Tenant Bill and the
Tenant Compensation B:11 kr TuPsday next.
The Berl of DONOUGIIMORE—And the Leasing
Powers Bill 7

The Duke of NEWCASTLE said he would fla that oho
for Tuesday.
The E tit of WICK LOW wi,hed to know when the Land
Improvement Bill which stood for a third reading would be
taken.

istount CANNING thought it would be better to take
the second reading of the other bills before proceeding with
the third reading of the Lsod Improvement Bill.
After a few words from the Earls of Wicatow and
DoMOVOMMORI,
Lard MON TRAGLE thought the better course to pur-
sue would be, to discuss the two bills together, on the night
which had been already named, and leave the third read-
ing i.f the other bill to stand until the two bale in question
had been disposed of in the winner suggested by the noble
viscount.

After a few words from the Earl of CLANCAMTY and
Lord DoNovcanoas the coeversetion dropped.
Their lordships then ao.journed shortly attar 8 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY, Aix. 2.
The Smazza took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the West London and Crystal
Patce Railway Bill were considered and agreed to.
The following bills were mod a third time and passed :
Archbishop of Canterbury's Estate Bill; Richmond (York-
shire) Burgsge Pastures Bill ; Sated Park Estate Bid.
Jesus College Estate Bill and Wa►d Jackson's Estate
Bill, ware considered and ordered to be read a third time.