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IRISH BANKERS ACT.

Mr. CALL.iott•N moved fur leave to bring in a
Bill to repeal certain provisions in the Irish Brooke's
Act. The Honourable Member stated that some
new measure was necessary for the better regulation
of the s)stem acted upon in Ireland under the
existing law, which passed half a century
Mr. !ASLIB FOKSTEII said be would not object
to the introduction of the Biil, though he would not
pledge himself as to any particular course in the
future stages of the suersure.

to w'
postpone the cont.' erstion until 'lett all a
fuller attendance of Irish Members.
Lord A LTHORP, from whist. had fallen from the
Hon. and Learned Member 114 r. Foster) hoped,
that time would be given to discuss fully the stature
end object of the proposed measure.
Nlr. C. GRANT said, that his I-lon. Friend had
mentioned to him his intention of proposing the
present measure, but that lie had tint held out to
him any prospect of .venttsal support. Ile would
cot object to the introduction of the Bill ; but in
airing so, he must not be understood as pledging
himself to support the Bill, if it should be carried
tom • further stage.
Mr. CALLAGHAN said, that, under these disco**.
raging c irciimstances, he saw no use in verse/tering
with the Hill. lie must however say, that the cots.
sequence of not snaking some alteration in the
prevent state of the regulations of the Houses of
industry is Ireland would he, that tevrtal hun-
dreds of peepers in Fruity pariah's would he thrown
loose and unprovided fur upon the country.—He
consented to withdraw, his mot'
IRISH PARTNERSHIPS.
Mr. Alderman Wools named for leave to bring in a Bill to
roanote the rmoloyment of the Pour in Ireland in fisheries
and maitufactorics, by the encouragement of Pariserships.
The worthy Alderman said, that this Bill stood over from
!I lest Senior. It waa only an amendment of the old law.
The alteratioo grab actually access try to induce English
capitalists to embark their property its trade in Ireland;
live, were many errors and ambiguities in the existing Ad,
'. %Dhoti it wont., he well to amend and obviate.
Mr. L. Fovrta complained that this was the third
Rd/ introduced within half an hour, to alter the law in
Ireland. This Bill professed to encourage fisheries and
minnfirtenrcs, and yet in it there was not one word shoat
caller. It was not however of the omissions' but of thehadcontents of flee Bill that he complained. It had fur a long
tone been the practice of Ireland to admit occult partner-
ships, amid whereever any ambiguities formerly occurred,
they had been in an many recent instances pointed oat and
explained by &rend 0000 s in Courts of Equity, that the pew
I tire it arch partuerships was rendered quite clear mud inlet-
lieible. He could not therefore see the utility of the worthy
Aliterminex preposition.
Mr. Wit. !Jammu. said, that though these matters may
il
be clear enough in Ireland, yet it did not follow that people
in Esigland wire equally converses. in the decisions of Irish
I Courts of Equity. In the present state of Ireland, it was
very desirable to encouraze English capitalists, and he was
therefore in favour of any explanatory measure which could
Live that tendency.
Mr Pt.UNIt rel. said thie was not • Bill of regulation, bat
ono which went at once to sweep away, by au unqualified
repeal, whalevir had grown systematic in a code of commer-
cisl law which was perfectly understood by the people. He
hail had great eaperience in the Equity Conrts of Ireland,
and he mold assure the Home that be hail nut observed
any difficulty in the operatioa of the existing law. The
worthy Alderman had nut yowled ant the defects in the
eavitisig rode—hail lie done so it was competent fur him to
propose a sarc.fic remedy, instead of which lie called spun
Varhamessi to repeal the whole code.
Mr. Alit. mum Worm) replied, that he bail stated, as he
cm.ceir,..l, the real Object of his Bill, which was to remove
I the prevailing uncertainties respecting partnerships in the
Cow is of Law. which prevented in a great degree English
ltArt•tliste rmliat king in Irish trade. He could state a spie-
l' Tic evil, as the law stood, which he was ready to prove. If
soi necult or sleeping partner went into the counting.house
of the firm in which he was engaged to look over the books,
he was liable, according to a division in the Courts to be
P ' tel down as nu attire partner, and his whole property to be
1 i,,pren.ibk•Air the affairs of Ate content. Now the fair, and,
t as to England, the legit principle was, that an occult partner
'armlet he merely liable fur the property be had embarked,
the munnal of which was registered, where any man could
t see it 14r one shilling. There was, it was true, not one
i
S nord abort fisheries is the old Bill, bat be meant to intro-
' dare the subject in the aininsdniesst. In introducing this
topic, he hail no other wish than to serve the trade of
Ireland, and augment its prosperity; harming, as he did,
many capitalists who would, if the proposed alterations
were adopted, embark a part of their property with the
Irish reside'''. But if the Gentlemen of Ireland had no
totting for the interests of their own country, nor any desire
to increase its wealth by the introduction of English
capital,* could not help it ; Vibe Irish Geallemen would not
interfere for their own country, it was no fault of his; he
wis ready to withdraw his motion. If it was nut worth their
while to attend to their affairs—if they thought them sat
little worth Ihrir attention—he must only leave them to
take rare of them as they could; and express hit readiness
to withdraw his 'notion, in the propositiou of which he was
&Inseminated by • wish to serve the trade of Ireland.
Lon' JOCrILIIII hoped the worthy Alderman would sot
:. withdraw the Bill. He certainly should, in the first is.
stance, support the motion of the worthy Alderman, as he
felt himself Nitwit to support any measure which had a kill
ileac, to encourage the embarkation of the capital of se
English merchant in Irish trade.
After a few words from Mr. Wm's', Mr. Alderman
MOOD obtained leave to bring in his Bill.
1 MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS IN SCOTLAND.
Mr Mtiwerett, gave notice, that on Thursday week be
p, winslit submit a motion to the. House on the state of the
manufacturing districts in Scotland.
STAMP DUTIES BILL. .
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Inv! CASTLEREII6II t37.orrolir the seated
reading the New•paper Stamp Duties Bill.
SEIZURE OF ARMS BILL. _ _ _

Lord CAITL;;;;ZilIltti; moved the Order of the Day
that the Meuse du resolve itself into a Committee upon the
Srisiitr of Arms Bill.
Mr. I.amweott ruse and said, that from the best and moat
r.ci,ii iaturntation be had been able to obtain, his opinioos
1,..,1 beret confirmed respecting the state of the county of
Du:'tam He adhered, therefore, to his first opinion, that
iiii ity whatever existed fur extending the provisions of
this Bill to the county of Duelists. There were nu secreted
anus there, nor any such spirit as that which was attributed
to the people of the county by ►is Majesty's Minister,.
Au extravagant statement respecting that county, bad
iiliprarril under the brad of " State of the Nation." in a
Ministerial Paper—(the Hon. Member did not name which
of tilt Government Priiiiit)--which the Magistrates them-
'wives f, It it their dnty to contradict as perfectly erroneous,
ii,r,,ezls the Clerk of the Peace of the County, whose letter
1,, had seteived to that effect. The only way that remained
1 ir iiiiii hi record his opinion was, by moving interact inns to
tae curontittee that the Bill should not exteod to the county
vi Durhim.
Mr. Powxtr7 was sorry that Wealthl not entirely concur
:Is the view takes of the county of Durham by his Hon.
s'olleagite. At a meeting of the Matistrlstit on a late occs-
situ thirty-six out of thirty.eight Magistrates were shoo-
lot, I, of opining that it was expedient the yeomanry should
remain on permanent ditty. He keret that many palls of
slur county weer tranquil, but the precautions of the Ma-
1041.:Ites shewed that preventive measures were necessary.
Sir. I.assirron's motion was negatived.
Sir. Biome complained strongly of the coercive nature of
this Bill, which was in effect mainly directed against the Ai&
tressed unemployed population of the country. The stale
of that distress could be appreciated, when he informed the
House, that eat of 10,000 frames ■t Nottingham, 3,171
sire isisertgauyed. He saw the other day in the country per-
who were a sort of matter maunfactuters, who employed
sus I. men suid apprentit es, chasing the ditches at wages of
a Silliiillg lIW eighteen-pence a day. Coercive and Gagging
'nil. ,any aggravate, but could out remove such a state of
itiiiirrati. There was no proof of any disturbancrs at Not-
tingham—why then in the uhiiruct of proof should guilt be
inferred? Ile would therefore move that tastructiom be
cirrus to the Committee to except Nottingham from the
vim., •tioo of this Bill.
Lord Itancurrs, in seconding this motion,coateoded that
the . Beet of these measures .11131 d he to keep olive sslsls of
,iritation smog the unfortunate people of the coesdry. la
our iIIMUO oat 618,000 inhabitant., 1,1100 were oat of este

ploy. Ile, in every view of the ease, lookefl at this. mewl.,
as one of the in oil arbitrary and najustitiable that had ever
been submitted to the considetation of Parliament. They
bad no'y to look to its practical operation in Ireland. where
every ssiseces of horror and atrocity hail beet, eisnintitsed in
a county so unhappy nod go misgoverned by the arts of
man, and yet SO blessed by Pruvidenee.--( Hear. hen' 4--
The atrocities perpetrated it, that country under this Act
had been well described by an How. :timber last night (Mr.
Hatchinsain)--they were sorb sa no nuns could contemplate
without horror here. Against the midnight search fur arms
he would protest, and would declare his determination in
the same words as an Hon. and gallant General hail ex-
pressed his—that if ever his house was attacked at mid-
night he 'Wald (eel it ht, linty, too long as I.e possessed the
real feelings of an Englishman, in resist such a mode of pro-
ceeding. He suuld mist it as became him.
Mr. tlivxman briefly supported the motion.
Mr. MAR/1/1, on perusing the Hill, felt erinvineed that it
contained nothing which could affect the pour man's riches
Or property except he possessed Are-arnm, for which lir could
'have no use. Had the Bill been one for the protection of
game, the Gentlemen opposite would sot have objected to st.
The motion was then negatived.

Mr. PROTIIRROF then spoke at some length, hut almost
wholly in indthle in the gallery. He seemed inclined. from
the few obw.rratiunt which were audible, to stoppurt the new
Bills thronghort.

Mr. Arrows hoped the insportance of the measures before
Parliament would be sufiicient apology fur trnohling the
Howse with the recital of his opinion. on a subject already
exhausted. He considered the cause of the disorder com-
plained of In be distress, which disorder was heightened by
persons inking rid saw Inge of that (flatten, to increase the fer-
ment of the public mind, though he hoped that each a
feeling was very far from being general. He did sot
wish to recur again to the Manchester subject, bait
be lamented the refusal of inviry into it. He did nut
think the prevalent alarm warranted the impending toes-
sores, which he considered as some of the most repug-
nant to the constitution sod the rights of Englishmen, and
most contrary to the old right of possessing arms for the de.
fence of families and their properly. He commented on the
terrific, and as it would moot likely happen, indecent cir-
cumstance of houses being entered by night, on the informs.
Lion of an informer unseen and unknown. Ile thought the
evidence communicated to the House by the Prince Regent
ant sufficient 11 warrant such a measure. Hr dill out
approve of subjecting all the counties to the effects of
the Bill whew in many of diem (Durham arid Nottingham Lad
been just policed, he would add his own, Southampton),
there was no indication of disturbance to give a plea for
the application of the measures. Those who supported the
present measures must have done it from regard for Mims-
ters, and not for the Government, and would lament too
Isle the evil their fears hail mode them run into. He apolo-
gized for trespassing, having before confined himself to a
silent vote.

The 1144tise then resolvell itself into a COMMiIIeCOII the
Bill for Searching for Arms._ .

The first clams; being read, and about to be pnt,

Mr. Broom, rose to propose that two Magistratea should
be required to direct the search to be made, instead of one,
and that the words "or by right" should he omitted. He
stronly objected to the whole measure. He trusted Eng-
lishmen were out so debased as to submit to it. Had the
Hon. Members ever seen the distress and agony occasioned
by the execution of a warrant on a commis action, they
woo Id recoil from the idea of submitting the dwellings of the
people to domiciliary visits by night. Among all the things
which quickeued the consummation of the French Revolu-
tion, the crimes sod horrors of which made bum shudder,
there was nothing that acted so powerfully as the domiciliary
visits of the police. Wind difference was there between
those visits stud the right given to Magistrates by the Hill?
It would sever succeed; the searchers would certainly
find the arms, if there were any, missing. Were they
then prepared to force the discovery by torture? He
could out believe that even that House would vote for
such a measure; yet it was ato . y consequence of the
Rill. tie moved as an Amendment, the substitution of
" two" for " one" Justices of the Peace, and the omission
of the words 6' or by night."
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Lor.ICAITLEISACAN 1,11 support of the original chime.
said, that a similar Bill bad passed the Horse is 18 It, and
yet It was assumed that the Hill was incompatible with the
spirit and practice of the constitution. In so period since
the rebellion had tlrtre been such need of such nwasuress.

The only alarm the Honourable Member evinced war, •
dread that the magistrates, whir were the guardians of the poli-
tic rights, sbouklbreak in soil violate them, never coutimple-
tint tbem as protectors; lu twilit show that measures like that
before them were the frequent practice of the constitution.
The HOD. Member seemed to admit by his attempt to
qualify the measure that it was in a great degree accessary.
It was singular that it shunld be so stoutly assumed that no
such measure had ear before been known, when nu longer
ago than 1812 a similar one bird passed through that House,
after the deliberations of many able men upon it, who were
quite a• such Wert-Neil for lite country as the Honourable
Member himself could be. He slid nut Incas to say that
there was no opposition; there was sio more than what
was usual in passing laws of such • character.—
The present Bill Cs" better guarded against the undue au-
thority of Magistrates than that of 1812, which not only
allowed a Magistrate to arise arms supposed to he stoical,
but such as were obviously useful in protecting the house,
because the banditti then traversing the country were avow.
edly in search of arms. He would state the ressou which made
it necessary to grant the power to one Magistrate limeade(
two. Magistrates were to am on information that arms were
deposited which were to be used for illegal purposes. If a
Magistrate then had to scud into a remote district to get
the assistance of another Magistiatr, the arms might in the
mean time he removed; • variety of instances might occur
i• such • period which would render the information use-
less, as indeed the value of it must depend on the prompti-
tude with which it was acted 11111. He would next give his
reason fur givisne the power of search by right. By day
there would be little chance of succeeding in the discovery of
arum. He did nut mean to say, that this was cut a strung,
an odious measure of power, but there was • spirit to exag-
gerate every thiog; soil it was assumed, by very grave au-
thorities too, that the m.a.ures eyed their origin 'solely to
the unbounded and unexampled wickedness of the pre-
sent Ministry. He would chew that the measures bad
been practised before in the working of the Constitu-
tiou, and that too at a period must prised by Great-
Mel! opposite, being that of the %%og Administration be-
fore soil after the rebellious of 1715 and 1745. It se hap-
pened, that no fewer than two Bills of the kind had been
passed before the year 1745, red three after it, all by the
Whigs. The wily ilifferr nee observable was, that they had
carried the principle 14 the present Bill to ■ great pitch of
severity. The first measure Inuit have been carried very
shortly after the Bill of Rights, whets it was yet quite
fresh in their memories—and ao duslit it ought to be
considered a fair sample of those Whig ductile,' which
had been so frequently specified to that Horne. There
was danger at that time as in this; the spirit of discus-
tent among the Highlands, was however a more gene-
rous and ch.valrouri one that. that of the present day. Yet
what was the spirit of the laws of the Parliament of Geo. I.?
They first rased 11111 Act for disarming the Highlanders,
which was without limitation as to time. The 11th Geo. I.
made it highly penal for 'how who had trees smirched, yet
to ►etain arms; the offenders were in serve his Majesty as
soldiers in North America. The 19th Geo. 11. was parsed
to enforce the provisions of the let Geu. I. which was
reinforced with 'treatise orevisious and made it trans-
poristims to posses" arm. at all. Thi■ law had been
passed three times far successive periods of *eves years
each. It ens, in abort, penal in a very heavy degree,
during the reigns of Gee. I. and 11. fur them to have
arms stn any pr. tepee. Really, the Gretlemen opposite
ought to know history a little better, mid mitt describe
Ministers as the must wicked and mischievous, for doing
that which hail beets so often and rigorously done under the
gravest Whig authorities. If the House passed the Bill at
all, they shirtild render it as effective as possible, else the
people would only derive the *errors of it, wishosit pining
any of the adrausages intearled for them by pass.ng it. He
rensioded the Gentlemen opposite that all the coercive Acts
of Geo. I. nod 11. w►sci be had ►ees, alluding to. were en-
forced by one Magistrate. His conscience compelled him to

int 'Atm* the MI, because the country was nasafe without
it.
Mr. Dataticitiew said, thos far, then, 11w House had sue.
ereded ; it was at length ackowelsidged that the pr, sent
snes.ore was contrary to the spirit of the constitution ;
whether they were doomed hereafter Cu hear it praised, like
the restrictions un meetings and Ike pee.% as an improve.
meat on the roostiintion, it was insgpossible then to deter-
mine. For the present it was allowed to be a restraint; and
opt. what ground aid A. Noble Lord support it ! He
1.4.1 takeo to • favourite mode of •rgunieut of late; he
turn,ii round to his (air. Ifroughlenea) Hon Friends, and
said, " Didn't I pass marl rot-outlet:a Cow or five years
ago w If faked whether or not he thought the Bills nieces-
sary, the reply was, " I bronchi ahem down heroes. I
thosight them necessary; I only had tools. 1812--now I have
gut fire. Why do you object to these, eilwo you suffered those
to pass Which were ten times worse r Mr. Brougham)
would not allow the argiinwnt ; it did not apply to him or
his Honourable Friend*. The Noble Lord should use them
to thus, wily who sopported him. In reply to the objection
against subject's( bowies to night seeerboig for arms, they
had been 101.1 that by Jay the arms might, on any alarm, or
the approach of officers or troops of horse to seize them,
they might be removed, and the secret, rendered useless.
The same argument lay against passing any law at all.
Was not the Hill itself ■ statutory warning? dud could
there lie any danger in the simpletons, who (upon reading
of its haring passed that House, and knowing as they wool',
from the Neolipepere, the time of its enforcement) shoed,'
neglect to hide their arms' The Bill was the furthest from
givillf any security fur the detection air**. The Noble Lord
1'4.1 beets r:ry. pointedly replying to something which was
supposed to Sw uttered in • another place. He had always
understood that place contained the concentrated essence of
wisdom, which was enjoyed in a particular manner, no
doubt, by his Lordship's colleagues, awl by nose more than
the noble and ingenious Secretary of state for the Hume
Department. Now if Hwy did ens approve of that hope
which formed the object of the Noble Lord's reply, and
which was understood to be a protest, why did nut they
assemble, rad front among their great stores of (engraft
and grammatical merit prepare a costlier-protest ? It
would bare coat them little besides words, in which they
abounded. The Hills of Gro. I. and 11. which had been
thrown against them, had one merit ; however severe they
were, thes answered the purpose for which they were ea.
acted. Those Rills were nu doubt a great violation of the
constitution, and were only to he excused by the absolute
necessity which demanded them. There was then a rebellion
st•lking through the land; there was a disputed succes-
sion; there were foreign aids offered in support of the claims
of the Pretender. Had the country now any rebellion, any
Pretender, any foreign enemy, any domestic levy, any Com-
mission sitting at Edinburgh to administer for the exiled
King? What was there in our case to compare with the
dangers of that period ?—(//sar, frost Ms ilimisteri,,l
—Good God! was it then really to be assumed that the peo-
ple were turbulent la that degree ? Where had there been any
symptom of this rebellion! Was it not discernible that
the rising, as it had been called, had been put off from one
time to another, according to the convenience of Ministers,
until yesterday, which had been positively announced as the
last lime of rising! So full had the people become of alarm
mid (Sanger, that seeing posted on the walls large bills in-
aerilaed Remember the Ilth of November!" it was readily
supposed that this bad a mysterious relation to the *themes of
the rebels, until it was luckily discovered that a connexion

existed between this and " the riches! Stale Lottery Wheel
ever drawn, containing eight prizes of 20,0001," though,
afterwards, it was discovered that there were only four prises
of 20,0001.—(fmegkler )—He begged pardon for intritdieng
on the departm.ut of the Chancellor of the Exclurser. The
rebellion of Scotland hail been aggravated and much height-
ened by those very measures which the Noble Lord was so
apt to approve ; their Whig predecessors lacked the expe-
rience which they had kft for the prevail Parlianseut. It
was noi by those TeRSOfeS they rxtingaished the rebel-
lion, hut by following them up by a series of contains.
tory ones. Immediately after the rebellion, they abo-
lished the residue of feudal tyranny iu Scotland; it was
to the abolition of heritable jurisdictions, that wisest and
most constitutional of their m rrrrrrrr that they owed
their eventual success and tranquillity. it was the wise
policy of • Lord Chatham to throw the Government sin
the confidence of the Scotch people; this enabled him to say,
as he had done, that he had gone North in search of merit,
awl had found it, whereas his predecessors had found nothing
but rebellion. Such was the case that be should draw from
the Acts of Gee. I. and 11. instead of the partial and naked
statement of peculiar facts used by the Noble Lord. The
present motion should certainly have his support. He
maintained the right of keeping arms, not only for private
defence, but to *hew the Government, if they neglected or
infringed the Consiiintion, that they were in danger of re.
siPIXIIIre front every man.—(Honsfrom the Ministerial side.)
—Those were not the times, nor was he the person to utter
sentiments which might rouse up the people to overturn or
assault the Guveromeid. If the doctrine he had urged was
wrong, be had the greatest authority to support hint, whose
words he had almost copied. Blackstone had its two places
said the same thing. After some further remarks, the Hun.
and Learned Gentleman concluded his speech, and sat dow•
amidst much cheering.
Mr. CANNING the• rose, and said, that he was willing to
allow the principle last asserted by the Hon. Gentletnau,
properly qualified. He hinted at the danger of such a speech
going forth. If any proof were wanting, that the constitution
required • qualificatios of the right of bearing arms for de-
fence, he could spew it in that immortal Statute the Bill
of Righte. 'lle words of that Statute were, that all subjects,
being Protestants, were to have arms. Ile did not mean,
by poiating out this qualification, to intimate that the ex.
clesiou of Catholics was • necessary measiere at present. He
only wished to phew that the right, even in its first declara-
tion, was not unqualified, and to insist that it must at all
future periods, as well as stow, be qualified according to the
convenience of society. That brought him to the provi-
sions of the statute before Obeli'. He appealed to the Bill of
Rights, and the spirit of that Bill, and their Whig ances-
tors who hail enacted it, and required them to assist in re-
straining a right, the exercise of which bad become danger.
ors. He admitted that a sufficient case ought to be furnished;
but he thought that after allowing the Training Bill to
pass, which implied some acknowledgment of danger, they
ought to enable the Government to seize the arms which
were thus admitted to be in request. There bad been
two or three stubborn attacks made on the measures
Sled on this Bill among the rest. " Its highly unconelitu-
linual," says one; "its quite unpreeealeoted," says another.
It certainly was nut unconstitutional, or the House would
not be sitting, as it then was in Committee spun it. As
to the other case of precedents he should furnish them from
that wonderful era of Whig Administration the Hon. Gentle-
men opposite prided themselves upon .0 much. In doing it,
Ids slboahl, by necessity, reply to • document, containing false
and impudent assertions, respecting the period alluded
to. He then read the Protest of some Members of ;he
Peerage, against the Bill, in its passage through that
House. He was of opinion, that it was a libel on the
great names signed beneath it, in which the real persons
had no concerti. For their habit■ of life, education, and
thought, must be such as to lead him to suppose that they
had read " finsullett's Continuation of the Motor/ of Eng-
laud." He would prove to the House, that the Whig exposi-
tion of the right of carrying arm., as it appeared in the enact-
messisof the period referred to its the protest, namely, the Re-
bellions of 1715 and 1745, differed only by a greater degree of
severity from t►e present Bill, and he particularly aiktressed
himself to those in whose tars the speech of Ilse Honourable
Gestkma■ was yet ringing. He then went into a close
examinations of the provisions and penalties of the Bills
before mentioned by Lord Castlereagh. Having iron-
clnded his review of them, thus—he rid, it appeased that
from the rebellion of 1715 to 1745. and from that period till
it pleased God to put an end to Whig administration alto-
gether, the Statute Book hail never brru without some re►ere
Acts of the Whigs. He compared the Art of Gee. 11. with
the present, and fumed the penalties and provisions of the
latter were by far the mildest. He concluded by objectiug
to the Amendment.

Mr. TlltftneY wished the Right Hon Grettletnan would
persuade his colleagues to imitate some of the go nd done by
the Whigs, justead of copyist; them wily in defect,. They
were indeed dealt hardly by. As there was nothing very sib.
is etiustable iu the arguments of his Honourable Friends,

they were new called on Is answer a paper whirls hit
Lodehip had got from weather piers; bat being rather
•ttaide to manage it with sufficient dexterity. had band-
ed it rarer in his Right Hosourable Friend, who, to
he ogre, had her n a little rough with it, and he (Mr.
Tierney) was (kabinet whether he had sot committed
breach of privilege. The Right Hotiourable Gentleman was,
however, happy to have coy thing on which he could rimit
changes, especially if it gave as opportunity fur assaolting the
Wings. Was his enmity so implacable to them that be could
not erase, even when they were willing to acComamodate
themselves to she fears of others? °boom too, the Right
Honourable Gentleman had his ease ready rut mad dried,
fur in the warmth of his speech be had dent the paper
across the table, and then it was in a tolerable stale of
preparalitos Perhaps it would not be impossible fur Ilse
Whigs to fralernise with the Right Honourable Gristle-
soma ; thete was a time when be sat nearer to them,
and if they were going to step into power, who could
tell but that the Right Honourable Gratlemos might
tender his friendlier, and, looking right sod left, observe to
his new friends," you can easily dispose of me; you see f
am not particular about my rompany." The Right How.
Gentleman (Mr. Tierney) combated the legal and historieal
Bergmann of the previous speaker at great kerb; he con-
chided by caromed, obit-ohs' to the proposed Bill, sod sap.
parting the Amendment.
Mr. WILSON spoke in support of the Amendment.
Mr. B. WILIIIIMIAN argued against the Amendment.
Mr. Wiliam said the main question was, was dome suffi-
cient degree of danger to juseifythe measure? After the

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steternests be had beard front the lion. Members for Lanes-
shire and Lanark, be could not but think that • selficsent
cue had been made out to justify the House in peaslnt it.
Lord Gesso, CAVENDISH expressed his detrasissatins
to support the amendment. He wished to brow from the
Noble Lord, why the County of Derby hod been included
within the operation of the Sill!
General Gmlovelies said, that cosvinced as he was of i.e
arceiseity of the measure, be MO not satisfied with the march
by nigh..
Sir M. Vf. RIDLit believed the dill was necessary, bat
argued against the clause empowering the search by night,
and others of its provisions.
Mr. Livirr•Voit was (avowable to the general principle
of the Bill as accessory to prevent the explosion of a rebel-
lion In the disturbed counties, of which there was some
danger; but sakes the asersdnsent should be carried for
taking sway the nocturnal search, which might become the
source of great Musa, be should feel it his duty to oppose,
the measure wholly.
WILIIIRTORCH thought that the perfect publicity at-
feudal as all transactions of that maitre, by mesas of
Newspapers, would prevent ell improper exercise of the
powers conferred by the clamors.
Sir .1. Uttar said, that if the clause respecting the noc-
turnal search were insisted on, he should, fur once, oblige
Gentlemen opposite with his vote.—(A laugh.)
Mr. PROT/WWI said a few words, which from the cos.
fusion in the House were sot intelligible is the gallery.

Tie Homo thee divided. The number, were—
Foe the original motion.. 415
For the amendment lO7

Majority lOB
The astrodomes, was t►e►efore lost.
Or the clause bring read. specifying the conaties and
places to which the Bill should extend, a conversation arose
us the state of Westmoreland, Northumberland, and others
of the adjacent counties, is which Mr. Burster; Lord
LOWTSER, sod Mr. BluttlinAJl, participated.
General WALLACS said, that he believed, from the juror-
elation be bad received, that Carlisle was is as dangerous a
situation as any other place in the country.
The city of Coventry having beta included in the clause—
Mr. P. Moots said be had written a leiter sad bent a espy
of the Bill to the Mayor and Coencil of Coventry, and that
though the Corporation of that city were engaged in hos-
tilities wit► the rest of the inhabitants almost as regularly
as his Majesty's Ministers were with the people of Loudon
and the rest of the country, they, in their answer, had not
ventured to say Inner than that there was nothing to be ob-
served is that city but loyalty, pod order,and "obedience to
law. Bat be should reserve the further übrervatitbas he bad
to 'make on this Bill till the question on receiving the Report.
Sir M. W. RsoLry observed, that he was sure it would
gratify the Noble Lord to learn, that front intelligence
which be bad received that morning from the tows be re-
presented (Newessile•upon-Tyrse), there was every appear-
mace there of tranquillity being restored, and that the
people were rapidly abandoning those habits and practices
into which they bad been seduced by the machinations of
the evil.disposed.
The clause was thee agreed to. When the remaining
clauses had been read—

Mr. TIBIMILY asked, which albs Bills the Noble Lord in-
tended tie brie( under the consideration of the House

tomorrow!

Lord CASTLYREACH said. that he considered it to he essen-
tial to the security of the country, that they should all be
carried thrown% the different stages with the utmost prac-
ticable dispatch. But the measure lie was must minions to
press to-morrow, was the Stamp Duly Bill.
Mr. BROUGHAM said, that the Noble Lord must hive
been aware that ibis was the Bill the meet likely to be op.
posed, not only on acumen of the stamp duties, but the re.
citerrisaacee. _ _

The Howse thee resumed, the Report was brought up, and
ordered to be received this day.
BANKS (IRELAND).
Mr. CALLAGIBAN brought m a Bill to repeal the Baskets'
Art (Ireland), which was read a lint sad s►cond time, or-
dered to be printed, sad committed to the 10th March.
The House thew adjourned at • QUARTER PAST
ONE O'CLOCK.