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IMPERL4L PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—Mosn►T, Mie• 20.

Counsel were farther heard relieve to the Lisli Appeal, fti,
tlington T,Z. hfr. Rurality incuntinuation, and
titian Junin, Counsel, or, b-half of the R?spowli•ist —The
Luther cousideration of the clinic was adjourned ull Wednesday.

MOOT:F.'S DIVORCE.
The Ordes for the Second Lading of the Amended Bill to
dissolve the Marriage between Juhit Moore, Esq. and B attain
Ins now Wife, being read-.
Counsel and evidence respecting the same were called to the
EU'. On the former consideration of this measure, we stated
an outline 01 the case; this Was, in a great degree, subetainiat-
ed by the ev'elenee brought forward this day. As, the neees•
earl facts of the marriage proceedings, in the Ecclesiastical and
Criminal Comte; the endeavours V. levy the damages 'welded
against the Defer.d.ant, Capt. Durnford ; the elopenient of the
Lady ; the endeavours to a ersuarle her to return home, gee.
She was traced be a friend of the Petitioner's to a private
lodging house at Acton, where, it eta proved, she was soon
after visited by Capt. Durnterd. This was in July, 302, and,
in the course of the same month, it appeared, from the evidence
of a female weans of the Defendant, that Mrs. f4lourc went to
Gerstein Domfnrd's house in Berkshire. She then were be the
Mine of Mrs. Dumford, She lived, in all respeEls, as the wife
of Capt. Durofutel, lay in the sante bed, &c. Tint, in Or
1503, they came ti town for about sight or nine weeks;
they resided at Marv-11.Rotine; the la'y lay in there; she
still lived with Capt Dertiforil. It was stated that the Lady had
since been delivered or a second child.
After rem:: observatines were interebangrd between one nr
two or their Lordships, mid Mr. Adam, the Petitioner's
Counsel;
komilly, who appeared on behalf of the Lady, stated,
he had a kw Ur:pertain uhsereations -to n,ake to their Lord-
ships on the elf,.• the Kill, in its present state. He was
aware these more e,:eily applied 31 the stage of a Committee,
het, wain perini.sion of the House, he would then advert to
them. Hit was ant instructed to oppose the principle of the
Bill, as a measure of divorce; but there wereente or two par-
*lila. clause.' in Mahal. which went on a principle, he eon-
eitiveil, contrary to that which had hitherto under! the Legis-
lature such occasions; be alluded to the clauses, shaels
went to t...a .born Mrs. Moore all power and dispreition, with
respect to sits aettied on her, for her own eyeless separate
use,sndjwhi,.i lief husband would have no power over, did
the marriage cont. cur in fell force. They went to derprive her
alio of that which was made over to her for her life, and for
which a rent charge was distinctly assigned, without offering
Bye least cerepensatioe whatever. These provisions of the
Rill their Lerdship., in 'heir wisdom and justice, would take
late their serious consideration
The LORD CHANCELLOR informed the Learned Coun•
set, that such cousiderations were expressly applicable to the
Committee on the Bill ; for which stage, these points, and
some others relative to the disposition of property, &e. were,
niter some farther erulanation with the Counsel, reserved.—
The farther COCl4ll:ratine of the Bill was adjourned till Friday.
Thc Bills upon the Table erre forwarded ia 'heir rester ctise
siagess—Among these. the Land Tea Commies. oneni Name Bill,
lae Irish First Frei:s Bill, and the Prel.erty Tax Amentl.-
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meat Bill, were read a second time.—The last
wies .I,l:red In be p.inr4i
air. ALEXANDER brought up the Slate Duty Exemption
LI, and the Irish Common Lands ?atrium, Bill.
Sir T.l'. METCALVE. brought up the St. Pancras Work-
hot se 811.
-A few Nye,. Ants treys brought up by Mr. Keck, Goseral
Morgsn, and of Genttanzu.—These Bills were severally
read A first tine.
IRISH COMMON LANDS PARTITION BILL.

Oa the occasion of the First Reading of this Bill;
The LORD CHANCELLOR felt it his duty to
call most emphatically their Lordships most serious
and cautions attention to the measure. It was a Bill
which went, or rather attempted, to divide andper-
t!tion,by one sweeping aft, the Common Lands of Ire-
land. 1 si-eme.! to proceed upon an assumption, that
it was as easy a matter to parcel Out and dii.ide those
lands, as it would be to divide an estate bet.: ten three
or four members of a family. In ,ne Bill before
them, there seemed sr, br no attention paid to the
rights of Lords of Ifilo.oor • no esrgadations with
respect to tythes or modases ; no• provisions with
rasped to roads, or other inclosures, which, in this
count: . were, upon t'.e particular cases arising,
subjea of separate Bills; no provisions
for reference to Juries, with respect to contingent
questions of private or individual property arising,in
that most of those necessary provisions or regulations
which were uniformly introduced into Bills of the
kind in this country, were emitted, and this, in a
general Bill, which professed to do that, which was
made the subjea of distinit and separate Legisla-
tive measures in this part of the United Kingdom.
These were considerations which their Lordships
would have most seriously to attend to, when the
Bill should come to be read a second time. For his
own part, he felt these objeaions to the measure so
strongly, that he could not suffer it to go even
thmuri its first stage, without expressing them.
The Bill lies over for a second reading.
The Earl of RADNOR moved, that the recent
Message from the Commons (that which respeas
the attendance of the Earl of St. Vincent, on the
Selea Committee of that House) be taken into con-
sideration to-morrow. Ordered.
An adjournment then took place. Their Lord-
ships stand summoned to-morrow, for the general
consideration of the case of Mr. Justice Fox, in a
Committee of the whole House.