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PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, Maims 22.
Mr. Irvine, from the Custom House, presented the annual
accounts of the trade and navigation of the United Kingdom, up to
She sth January 1823.
Mr. Pitt and several Members from the House of Commons
brought up two private Bills.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL laid on the table copies of certain
mete* under the treaty of Ghent.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH presented a petition from the Attor-
neys and Solicitors of the Metropolitan Law Society against the
Articles of Clerkship Enrolment Bill. His Lordship observed,
that the petition was very numerously and most respectably signed,
stostaining the names of several of the moat eminent gentlemen
to the profession. They complained that by the Bill against which
they petitioned, those who had not paid the fee of 1201., which had
been paid by them, would be enabled to act as attorneys without
having so done. An increase in the number of attorneys would
naturally follow, while those who had acted according to law would
be placed in a worse situation than those who had acted in contra-
diction to it.—Read and laid on the table.
CATHOLIC CLAIMS.
The Marquis of DOWNSH IRE presented a petition from the
Protestant inhabitants of Newry in tamer of Catholic Emancipa-
tion. His Lordship observed that the petition contained, among
other most respectable signatures, the names of two Magistrates of
the county of Down.
MUTINY BILL.
111, Army and Marine Mutiny Bilis were read a third time and
pawed.
SCOTCH JUDICATURE BILL.
Lord GIFFORD presented a petition from the Agriculturists of
Wigtownshire in favour of the Scotch Judicature Ba.
Oct the motion of Lord 51ELVILLE the Scotch Judicature
Rill was read a third time and passed.
Thorl i l for the protection of gardens was read a second time,
and ordered to be committed to-morrow.
ANNUAL DUTIES BILL.
The Annual Duties Bill was read a second time, and ordered to
be committed to-morrow.
The Irish Judicial Inquiry Bill wits also read a second time,
and ordered to be committed to-morrow.
The House then adjourned.
MOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY, Masers 22.
BRITISH GAS-LIGHT BILL.
Lard LOWTHER moved the second reading of the British Gas-
light Bill.
Alderman WOOD moved as an amendment, that the second
reading be postponed to that day six months.
Mr. E. ELLICE slid. that the line of conduct which hr should
lay down for himself in voting for Mils of Joint Stock Companies,
was to support them when the objects of their formation were be-
yond what could be effected by private capital, or when they aid
not interfere unduly with individual indu.ory. Ile was desirous of
taking this opportunity of calling upon Government to state whether
they intended any interference with these Joint Stock Companies
OYe Member of the Cabinet, in another place, stated thu intention
to' Government to interfere--other Members of the Cabinet bad
given their opinion on the inexpediency of such intetference. It
was right that the public should be relieved from the very un.
pleasant and doubtful situation in which they were now placed,
from the circumstance of not km wing whether Government in-
tended to interfere or not. . . . . . .

The gallery was cleared for a dit Won, but no division took place,
the Bill was read a second tinn.
NEW CORN 1%1 MEET BILL.
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Mr. CURTEIS moved the ;econcWsilliT;.r;ithe Bill for the
Erection of a new Corn Market, at the end of Mark-lane, in the
City of London.
The SPEAKER wished to observe, before the House came to a
eletision on the second reading of the Bill, that the Standing
Orders of the House had not been complied with in bringing for-
ward this Bill. It was requisite that due notice of such Bills as
the present (and from the great mass of business before the House
this should be attended to) should be given. It had been said that
the present was an exempted case, as the erection was alleged to be
of an Exchange and not a Market,. and his authority fur the
exemption of it was relied upon. He denied that he gave any
*pinion to that effect. If a question were proposed to him he
vi,uld, of course, answer it to the best of his ability ; but he
woald answer it in an abstract way, and not hastily or incautiously.
He was desirous of saying thus much in vindication of himself, and
in the shape of information to the House, that the Standing Orders
Lied not been complied with.
Mr. CALCRAFT, on his own part and that of the House,
thanked the Speaker for the information he had just communicated,
and should in consequence of it feel it his duty to oppose the second
reading of this Bill.
After a few words from lilt. CURTEIS, in explanation, the
se•-end reading of the Bill was negatived without a division.
Lord STANLEY presented • petition from Manchester against
the Bill for the formation of the London and Liverpool Railway
Conteany.-A-Otdered to be laid on the table.
THAMES QUAY.
Colonel TRENCH brought up the Report of the Committee to
which the petition of his Grace of Norfolk against the Thames
Decay Bill was referred. The Committee were of opinion that the
allegation complaining that the Standing Orders of the House had
rot been comialied with was unfounded.
Mr. T. WILSON presented a peti:ion from the proprietors of
the East London Water Works, against the Thames Quay Bill.
—Ordered to lie on the table.
WELSH IRON MINING COMPANY.
Mr. LITTLETON presented a petition from thirty-two per-
sons against the Welsh Iron Mining Company Bill.—Ordered to
t.e on the table.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE.
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Upon the motion of Mr. P. ORENFELL the Royal Exchange
As.sorance Company Bill was read a second time, and ordered to
bt committed.
METROPOLITAN WATER WORKS.
Mr. T. WILSON presented a petition from the proprietors of
the East London Water Works against the Metropolitan Water
Works Bill.