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PLATE GLASS.

A Petition was presented from the Plate Glass Nlanofne-
turcrs of Lancaster, praying for leare 11. brim( in a Bill to
extend the powers of their C,orporatiuu.—ltesd, suit re-
ferred to a Committee.
GAME IN WALES.

Mr. HADDOCK/ brought in his Bill fur the Preservation
of Came 111 cc. lain pads of Wales.
On Ilse question heisie put that it be read a first time—
Mr. CCRWAN hoped the time would 1,111111 come for enter-
ing into u comprehensive exaininal ,f the whole existing
system of Game Laws, mod their effrets on the morals Rust
liberties of the mapie. The 11111 of last Session, wide!, he
bail opposed wills all the force and earnestness in Isis power,
cum:Aimed stoniest scessivrly severe and cruel VIINCIMCIIIN
and, he trusted, it would he reconsidered by the House. He
understood that mister the provisions of it, one individual
was suffering smiler confinenteut, and penalties to die
amount of 1,000 f.; moil by certain parts of ir, the power
was taken fawn the Crown of remittiug the penalties rouse.
natal un its violation. When the subject of the revisal of
the Crienioul Code of the cooties, should he brought before
Use 11141,e, Ile sincerely trusted that the Game Laws should
Han) the first object ut its illVelllieldloll.
After some remarks from Mr. Manniocits, not audible in
the gallery, the Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be
read a seared time and primed.
ItESTIIICTIO?i ON CASII PAYMENTS.
_ _ _

Mr. H. DAVIS said, he held iu Ins hand a Peti-
tion from the Bankers, Merchants, and Traders, of
Bristol, against the too ►peedy resumption of Cash
Payments. The language of it was as respectful
as that of any Petition ever presented to the House,
•nd, he believed, expressed the opinions of his coil-
stitueuts of all parties un that important subject._
f Hear. j—Though it was said to he the Petition of
merchants, banker.. and traders, it was not signed
by any bankers. Though the Petitioners appre-
hended danger from an immediate resumption of
cash payments, they were far from taking the same
view of the question with► Mr. Cropper, or going
the leiigth lie had—to evince which he should read
a passage in the Petition ; the part referred to
stated, that the Petitioners were of op' ' the
period might reasonably be expected to arrive when
C*llll payments might he resumed with safety to
the public—a...tills% which, they prayed the House
Hot to sanction tiny measiire with that object at the
present, which might have the most injurious effects
on the trade, credit, mid prosperity of the country—
and that all due discussion should he gone through
jireelotis to the adoption of a cli-fiiiitive measure.

Mr. Ei.r.ts would have considered himself guilty
of great presumption, hied lie attempted to take a
part in the discussion of the night before. Though
the result of 'that discussion was not that which lie
de.ired, and which he thought was due to the ex-
ertions and eloquence of his Right !lon. Friend
(Mr. Tierne,), yet having seen the list of Me 11l i l ets
intended to be put on the Committee, from that,
coupled with the circumstance that it was not yet
completed, and therefore still open to improvement
in its composition, he hoped the vouistry would de.
rive much real good from its Ittliours. When lie
said it was open to improvement, lie did out mean
to insinuate that there was uu► is cotisidelable ap-
pearance of fairness in the formation of the list. If
lie had taken any part in last night's discussion, it
would have been oso the subject alluded to by the
Noble Lord, as to the unfavourable effect of fo-
reign operations on the state of our exchatiges. If
the Noble Lord had referred to the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, he would have found a much better
solution of that phenomenon. The Chancellor of
the Exchequer could have informed the Noble
Lord that such a state was the natural consequence
of Ins own financial schemes, both formerly and in
the present Session. Sure be was, that if some
means were not Nitro to defeat and prevent the
tricks and devices of that Right Hon. Gentleman,
all the benelits of the Committee would he lost. It
was useless to expect any beneficial streets from it,
till that deceitful system of finance was put un
rod to.

Mr. PROTHEROE rose merely to soy, that lie had
received no letter or intimation from his constituents
on the subji.ct of the Prtition.—( Ilear, briar.
Mr. LAMoroN understood that the Petition was
not the act of ■ny public meeting, but had urigi-

meted with a 'set of private mercliatits:iij
and that no politic notice lied been given of it—he
therefore protested against its being considered as
the Petition of the inhabitants generally.
Mr. CALCRAFT '4'o, be should have been silent
resprciiiig the 11,4 of the Committre, which lie
also had •ern, had lie olusti%ed in II the name el a
person on his side of the House, alto had not ill-
e.red, token any active part the lirterdilig night,
but who was in every respect roost coinnetebt to till
the Conitilittee—[We understood %tr. Broliglium
to have been the Gentleman alloiled bud
been sorry to notice the omission of a Gentleman,
as well qualified as any in the country to serve ou
the Committee, and lie looked upon the omis•iou
to lee as great a breach of candour as could well be
committrd.—•//Isar./--The list bad fourteen
Members from the opposite side of the House, and
seven from his, which was any thing but fairness.
His Honourable Friend had been by far too liberal
io upplying such a term to the proceedings of
Gendernen opposite. That the House taught under-
stand the mode in which these Serret Committees
w!re appointed, be should just state, thm he once
happened to be scrutineer on such all occasion. end
out of about one hundred and twenty lists, ninety
were ill the same hand-writing. and that was celled
election by ballot.—Mcnr./ lie bad on former
occasions differed with great pain from his Right
Honourable Friend, and from many other Gentle-
Men %lib whom he was in the habit of acting. lie
should not have paid a word on the subject, but
for the professions of candour and fairness made by
Gentlemen opposite.
Mr. 1E1.1.13, in explanation, had not said that
great runless had been used by Grea.tleinelo oppo-
site. IVliiit he had said was, that Members had
been taken (corn both sides of the Htinse, and as
the election was not yet closed, he hoped that others
extremely well qualified would yet be added, and
that much good would follow to the cuuntrj front
the labours of the Committee.

Mr. TtEnNEy amid, that if Gentlemen on the
other snit ilAti no objection to withdrawing one name,
lie should request of them to do so, lor the prirpo.e
of introducing that of an Ilutiourable acid Learned
Friend of Ins (Mr. II gleam, we understood).
No matt was more likely to be usehtl in such an in-
quiry than his Learned Friend—on any subject
coma cied with political economy, especially the
present, his Learned Friend would /rues such in-
formation to the inquiry as would not fail to throw
great light on it. lie put it to the candour allot
moderation professed on tile opposite side of the
/louse, whether his Learned Friend shotrld not find
a place on the Corninittee.—(b.ar,hear.)—ile load
been himself left in a minority last slightt, but it
was a noble one. Without wishing to make the
question a party one, which be was anxious to
avoid, he was sure it would give the gteatest
faction to the cotintry that his Learned Friend were
placed MI the Committee.—(hear, leear.)
Mr. LAIVSON said, that objections might tae
made to the appointment of the Committee being
left to the free soul independent judgment of every
Member in the Douse; persons selected sepal ittly
Illlght form a MUM nmiht and incorigiuous conjunc-
tion, lie had himself seen the list of twenty-one
Menibeis alluded to, and lie lend made one altera-
tion therein, exercising that discretion winch an
liori. Member had said young Nlemhers ought.._
He bad taken out the name of au lion. Gentleman
who bad a place in Doctors' C , and who
was, lie supposed, very coinprtemt to fill it; but not
therefore endowed with the inforniution that might
qualify him for an inquiry into the affairs of the
Bank—mud instead, therefore, he bail iiisertrul the
name of one of the late Members for Yorkshire
(Lord Lascelles.)
M'. H. Davis said, the Petition was as respectful
in its language as any that could be adopted.
Mr. 'FRANEY just wished to ask the lion. Gen.
denial', whether it was or was not the fact, that a
paper, continuing the substatice of the Petition, bad
been pooduced at a club of hankers and merchants,
and accidentally put into the bands of the Chairmaii
--whether it was not said, that that wits a most excel-
lent opportunity for the chili expressing its arose
against the resumption ()leash payinents—cud whe-
ther the draught of the Peililoll, after being signed
by the Chairman and members, had nut been sew
round the town for signatures? Ile believed half the
Petitioners were mint aware of the extent to which it
weal. lie had heard that a clerk in one eminent
commercial house had signed the Petition out lit-
half of his employers, without their knowledge.
Mr. IL DAvis Was obliged to the Right [lon.
Gentleman for the statements lie haul made to the
louse—they wear all quite as new to him as to ally
other Member in the Douse. De haul never heard
of the Petit:oil originating in a club-house, or
bring sent round the town for signatures. It was
not signed by a single banker.
The Honourable Gentleman afterwards qualified
his statement by saying, that it wet signed by
persons who were both hankers and merchants.
Mr. TILLEN,EY said, that tines Gentlemen must
then have acted w one capacity and signed in an-
tarugh.)
Petition was diets read and ordered to lie on
the table.