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the Otiort-banri-writrr was directed to attend—and the same
as. notified by Mr. SPIAIt IR Is, the Mrvarogert,
Mr. Clarke,from the Privy Council Office, and Mr. Alvon,
from the County Court of bliddlesea, prilieuted certain
pryer►, por‘tetut to °rift r.

CORK HARBOUR IMPROVEMENT BILL
0: Ilse euutiniii 01' Mr N. CoLTHUItter, this Bill was read a
Fecund time. the Hou. flartitiet thee, inured " that this
H.ti he eoutsaitte.;.7
HtrtieteMelt said, be felt it to be his duty N
- mete to the House the very awkward sites's.° in which he
was 'staved with respect, to this Bill. Some time *Mee, witch,
A. Otruett Nought in the' Hill; he had reeeN aed
letter from the MaVow of Cork, and frees a nisenberaf titer.
is... Lents:, 1'4,0.44114g 1/11161 amdainaly 1101 hie mould cis., My
vireo°, t is, the inossore. By the very mine post there was
1.1,,u forum dell to bins, a teeter, agreed to It u i'e'ry
oildrr-
vas mei tins; of she niereautile interest iu Cort, telling ute
lent to oppose the 6:11 He was sorry :to ?Baal that to greet
auo decided a difference of sops " ranted in the city of
Cot she fare wao, that en far from feeling a distrust-
lit.ri 11. r0111111,116/lilt -sloe psi-sent measure, many of the inira
bitonts, perms of gnat respeelability, were decided,' Op:.
pc*, si suit. When he said ibis, be begged to obeterve, that it
..v:l6, 1611116 soy" a great and mum desirable object, 51,,t
Ihe hal hour shouldi be pr0p...4 improved Those silo' tie.
azitie.s. the Bill were precisely of the same
4:pinion. They thought Come measure for the improve.
toe's* and atom, of the tiarbour might to be adopted,
—hut it inie.lll. Immodest duty to %tate, that they diftreed,
• most cosetelielly, rei to the nature of The ramnoris, 'from those
iudividna';i ab.s appriderel of this bill. The 1.11 *eta so
1,01'9".* a considerable. finial lets ten the city of Curl—. a taitt:
Eso Melt would nut miry aiTet t the Mayor, COrp011111S)19,
11111,1 w cult ly uses Clisult, b1(1 iu which the populatims •I huge
went deeply interested. He found that a public Meethig
oaf cell. el, h, the month of May I..st, in the-CoMmereini.
buthliegs, 16 the city pf C.ork, fur the purpose of coloside.ing
this measure. Mr. Cuthbert; one of that must respectable
trerehatele in that city, 'Avoided °Vet it. the uhrect
.4 the hleetilig, an be load afrAJS, ObserVed, was to
dentin...! The Merits of the* Coto Sheehan' hill ; het Mat
sueseitax dill nut curve td .tiey itreision although it ap-
peared clearly that the sektiMenhe of abuse who attended
it were hostile to the BBL Two dajs afterwards, he fumed
arowher nieetiiig was assembled, 111 rollllllUellre Of the
e;.rnicr not having corm to say resolution, at which Mr.
kze aikshanksi presided—aid the Unttlernen who met on that
uccasient, agreed ensaniusesisty to it Melee of reoulattirma
e:moint the Bill. Here, to go;.rd airmail treat being mis-
understood, he wished to stale, that he did but mom So
ermoure the Bill ; perhaps whew the measure was duly con-
sidered it might be found naubjrctionutile ; but nue he
must observe, that it came on him entirely by surprise. The
beet meeting retetive to Ilse Measure look place in the
tuoistli of May. They were now, le, the month of June,.
eery sires the termination of the 5e11614116.-110 111K1I it was net
pos-ible fur those ho Were hostile to the Bill, to state, he-
-fore a Conimitteri, their mesons for wishing it to be rejected.
He mulct stood, that, aecordierg to the Orders of the Hulse,
it was necessary that • week *Mould elapse betweee the
second trading of a l'riVate Bill, and Its Suntan coat-
milted. But he understood the Hionottrable Bennett
meant to more fur the suspension of the standing metre in
this 1[866,111 order that the Bill dwell be comtditted to-
morrow. He, however, sidiattitted to the Hon. Baronet,
wbether it ti °edit ant be realer, as consequence of the meet.
legs that had beer held, et which opinions were expelourril,
decidedly in opposition to the measure, to postpone any
f rather proceeding on the subject, owl, the ease iug SessiiM.
Al ibis period, when it was nut possible to collet the senti-
ments of those who were most deeply concerted in the pro-
vision* of the Rill, it would not be proper to burry it through
.:he !lunge. He Impish, therefore, the Hon. Baronet would
coasted to put off the measure Ositil ail early period of the
Inez! Session, when ill the parties concerned could be heanl
by Connorl at the Bar of the House, asst a proper uppurtet.
• tidy wunld be given for hearing evidence. It was said, that
eeey few of the greet merchants signed the Resolutions or
Petition against the hut those who opposed it
were iu the middle rank of life. This objectiou was easily
aisseirord. The Bill went to impose a tax tin collies. and on
eoesting vessels whirl, carried provisions to the city. Its
,operoufaur sloen:fme, effett‘d in • very poem degree, she
aktlers of such vessel,--assol, through them, the Iltcessaries of
life atittld to a tartans degree be taxed. It ass nut the
weelthy and extcsieive 111610111111 that woultl feel its opera.
Sion, bat 1,14..0'14 rd mole bumble uterus, anti whose cue,
ilortefore. called more especially fur the prolecttua of the
,Legisleture. He eutictirril it wuuld be tery nhj. el tamable
Au Mort, this 111r6SUIV through the House at 60 late a period
sett. the Session, when, by petpoiling it mail the eitioningSes-
, rhos; full I ime wutelill be given fur a pauper discussion of ill
moat.. ale Was pieced, will reopett to this Bill, in a upend
• Ineiefel sitstaituu. Those WllO wart is favour of ii had wise,
ire believed, to great expense to effect Owir thjeci, and a
gentleman of greet repel:lability had male toter from
Ireland, in order to welch its progress. 011 the tots...!
hid, a Cieuticisars lust berm sent over with a Petilitia
s.i the measure, *droll had been put into the 1466116 of
the Hon. Member for Shrewsbury (Ms.. Bennett). He learued
from That l'eliti ~,, , sad tee believed the firs to he iso, Mat
IVY, was a 1111/11, popular feeling against the Bill, and
her...lure ler hoped the Hole Baronet world adopt the ("nose
he had yowled um, awl abstain from pressing the Bill fur.
!her at present—or, at all,revnlll, that he would nut piaci.
plate any of its stages through the House.
The Sr/cairn said, that where a stremg oppoiiiim was
mend' 0(.1 aaaiiist city private Bill, il stare was the par-
tic, of the House to suffer any of the regrlae stages In he
'envied or passe d ove.. This bring the rate, it was for .Gen.
Hemel, cousele r silothee there true any p1f0111.1.1 of the
pirscut Bill parsing thrungh the Committee and Mill teed.,
lug 111 Ibis House, sod afterwards proceeding through all •
ita vixens iu the House of Lord*, with a proper rlegice of
emosidera.irin. Would there be time for pauccei:ing nuns-
Lirly wroth it? Whatever diopositiroo the Howse might reef
is, assist iti the areeteratiu• of a measure, by suspending
• the standing ord. to, when- all the parties were agreed, it was
ti., clestuinaly, obese 11 private measure was opposed' Its
ri lax rt y of them. •

Sir N. Cot:rattan expressed his ermvirlica That The owe-
pure we. alit be found entremely useful, as it was intruded
the cciatial improvement of the riser and belabour of
yolk In his opinion, when a lucid question of this soil aas
opposed. the hest course that could br pursued was to r ud
the Bill to a Conensince op maim. He would be khr hit
man 'to introdeace a measure prejudicial to the city uf Cut k, or
opposed In the interests of thole whom he had the humour to
represent ; bin he belie red that a vast dtajoriteuf the mercan-
tile interest, and, indeed, of livery impeccable alms, wee fa-
vourable to the pr., real 11111. it had beets stated, as au as omens
against the Bill, that .t was broualet in et a late period of
lime SeSitiOri. HOW Mould the fact? It was in 143bacepteuere
of the earnest represcdtaituses of atom isdieridnals in the
city of Cork, who were bosstile to the measure, that it wee
postponed. And he theme.. it wax a little unfair hie those
who necasiused the delay to come forward now, and endan-
ger 11w fate of the Ball, nut uu account of its we'll.. but
b. rinse the Session was far advanced. Ile was perfectly
aware that a period of three weeks mast elapse between Ida.
first awl second reading eiVa hill of this gamma—awl, when
tlee pees, ut 811 l was read the firs! t,".e, 1:c view., to the
parties who Were hostile to the measure, and informed them
that three weeks would be allowed them to Make nineteen,
represernatiuus they pleased against the BM, butt that aro
too titer time would be granted. A week's delay, to the win
ditiary comae, nitio be allured between the second rear:hog
aid the Committee. But he would .ask, what advasitsko
roan,' be derived from that delay, when every person knew,
it would be impossible to receive auy einaructiosas (rule
Cork; ur mop answer Jo the reprearanatious that might lee
sent over, in proper time ? Besides, be Brie, vtd that the
parties wbu objertztl to the Bill were, at *Ws to ~,,, cut, pi:f-
leetly ready to state theea objections before the CIAS4
Thr Srasitri Midi be bed not alluded to the lateness. of
the Serstuas ass radon for stopping a Bill its its progress.
IShal he Lang waits llad "hem a private Bill was cuntested,
the Notate, ihate?nuth as it had laid down certain rule. fur
time securily of the .phbhc as well as of persons interested,
always insisted an their being complied with.
.Sir N. CoLatiuttsw stied, whether staadint order was
nor, waived?

The Sri",ARBIL Mid, IM veal in which i he question pnt
was aameesebst sacral.. dl itand!hg order ticrt Sf :"{••
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