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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

goitsg*F.Lqiimat Ty enDAY. MAT 31.

After hearing evidence at their Lordships' bar, further
proceedings on the lialibury Peerage ChLilll Marl' pustp..ued
Till Tharsda),

The Dui:i.as of U;llll3Nick's Annuit) hill *as read a third
time and rased.

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ME. AL•CILBURN, Sir C. POLE, Wr..Daets, soul others,
fru. the Howse of Cooonniuns, brought sip the Irish Militia
Volunteer Bill, the Gaon, lAws Regulation 8011, and I.:ve-
nl Private Bills, which were laid upon the table, and seve-
rally read a fir4tOute.
Mr. Aletnuder ai.d Mr. Grins were heard fur the .4p/rel-
iant in a Scotch Appeal Cause, Coolies e. Houytaati, Bart.
and others, when the Hume were satisfied, and ;oithuut
bearinz the Respoodente Costive!, derided that the Judg-
ment ui the Comet below be edit oted with rusts fur tlit.lte-
'pendants.
HUSH CLERGY RESIDENCE BILL.
Upou the motion tie the thirst reading of this
Bilt—

The Earl of 111otita proposed an alteration in re-
spect to the Chaplains of Peers. lie oisseived, that
the Bill, in his opinion, tended to deprive au lrish
Peer from leasing in -hit- hint.* a Chaplain, Who
could hold a living by itiapeissutioti, in the sane
wanner as the Chaplains of Eti;lisli Peers. by
the fourth article of the. At of Union, it WAS pie.*
hied that Peer*. of Ireland. should have and enjoy
all theimmunities and priefirges of English Perris,
aint he conceived that hiving a Chaplain In hie
house, holding other by dispensation, was
one of those privileges inciuded in the fourth arti-
cle of l: pion.

Lord 1-14wKessuay. the Bishop of Ltssentelto
Lord Batten) t I.E, dad Lord HAIIIIIIWBY. dill hot
agree with the Noble Earl (Moira) iu his construe-
two of the 4th artier of Umott.•

Sam observations were mud shy the Duke of
NORFOLK the of I-
-AUDEAD•LE, who said,
that tit the time of the Union with Sitotlutid, Pres-
byterian Peers immediately pussews•d the right of
haring a Chaplain of the Church of England in
their houses, freed from actual re,ide,lct ; and tliie
Use Scratch Peers posse.sed by mesa* of-a-provision
is th-iiii*Ael of linismositnitar to thasiaaalideed to
by the Noble Earl (Moira.)
The Earl of MOIRA then proposed, that a clause
might be iutroduced to tlini purport—s. That the
p.-ivilegcs of Peers. Archbishops, and Bishops of
Ireland, in regard to their Clutplaius, be excepted."
was agreed to utianiulow-ly. The Bill was
then read W third time, and passed.

IRltifi GLEBE HOUSE BILL.
This Bill was nleo read a third time when
The Mk, of Noarout submitted it to the
censideratiou of the House, that in consetiitence of
the number of amendments made in this Bill, it
might probabli be in danger of being rejected by
the Colombo.. From the. late debate in that
House, of the merits or demerits of .which he should
not then wry any thing, one piece of information
was given, that a vast twormrtion of time imputation
of Ireland were Catholics. It, England the pro-
portion was not one to a hundred, such had been
the progress of time reformation, and it was to be
lamented, that the same happy effects had not
beet, produced in Ireland. In his opinion a great
part of the mischief arose from there beings* few
houses where the Clergy could reside. Reconsi-
dered this Bill of such" importance to the welfare
of Ireland, that to avoid the danger of its failure, it
had better pass in its original state ; and, thenfo-e,
he should move, tic Fhat all the amendments intro-
duce! by their Lordships should be rejected."
Lord Ileorstute argued in favour of tl:e
amendments.

Upon the motion, " That the Bill pass with the
Amendments," it division took

Coatenta 6—Nos-Contents iOritY 4.
The Nil then peareti. After some routine Lau.
litters the 'louse adjourned.