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Smperial Parliament.

HOUSE OF LORD.
MANDAT, MAUCH t 9.

!.eed Hotr.awlW presented a Petition ham the Town of Pool
Aso revision of .he Criminal Code, with a view to the reduction
of capital punishments.
CONSOLIDATION Posts nmt.—The Put of Liverpool
peeved the third reading of the Consolidated Fund Bill.
The Marestie of LANSDOWNE said, he had offered no opposi.
he. to this Bill, conceiving that it was convenient for the public
service it should reach the third reading. It was to give the
Public a beneficial interest 'whin.; out of balances in the hands
of the Bank. This Bill cantle:al the public advantage to one
balance only, namely. a balance of monies accuinsilating..in the
Exchequer. Why the public were not to participate in the in-
terest arising from balances left by the Customs and Excise,
amounting to 3.000,0001. the Noble Marquis could not tell. He
expressed a hope, that the Government of his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent would extend the principle for the benefit of the
public. The Bill was read a third time.—Adjourned.
• TDESDAT. MATCH 30.
Several Petitions were presented against the Insolvent Debtors'
Act, and for Ret ision of the Criminal Code.
A Message front the Commons brought op the Poor law
Amendment Bill, with the amendment mule by the Lords.—
Agreed to.
WINDSOR ESTAIILTSHMENT BILL—The House on the mo-
tion of the Earl of Liverpool, went into a Committee upon the
pvistos Personae Bill.
Earl Grey said, he did not mean to object to the principle of
the Bill, yet he had a few general observations to make which
Might as well be made in the Committee. lie expressed a hope
that he should not be considered as a person who wished to deal
out reward for mikes with a niggardly hand, or deficient in re-
Spect fur the Royal Family. In the eclipse of the Royal Autho-
rity he felt all the respect ant' duty which ought to regulate his
eonduct in 'Parliament. In making a regulation of this nature
they were not only to consider the Sovereign reduced to the most
deplorable of calamities, but as a Sovereign who had ruled many
years over a great, generous, and loyal people. With the observ-
ance of those principles, he trusted he should not be supposed to
act inconsistently, if he stated, that at the time he made those
professions, he considered hinisslf bound to take care, in the pre-
sent distressed state of the country, that no unnecessary expellee
should be entailed on the public. That w a the pnnciple he
wished to adopt, and he could not believe the indignant animad
version thrown upon hint during a former debate, could arise
from any feeling but mere spleen against the Bill it-elf, which
operated to the disathantage of particular individuals more im •
nonliately interested in an extended natablishment.—Earl Grey
then repeated his former objection to flee grant of 10,0001. a year.
to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, for extraordinary ex •
pence,. He could not discover how extra expeaczs were incurred.
Ile was told of travelling expences, but when the House consi-
dered that his Royal Highness resided within ten miles of Wind-
sor, and that his situation as Commander in-Chief gave him the
pawn of providia, horses fur his journeys. extraordinary ex-
pence under that ad could not be made out. It was a grant
oat justified, and it would be a deieliction of duty if he did not
vatest arinst it.
The h amuis of Duvet ?initial and the Earl of LADDER.
DALD supported the Grant to the Duk: of York, and after the
lt,il had undergone considerable discnseione it passed through
Committee.—Adjoumed.

WEDNEFIDAY. li.tllCll 31.

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The Iloyal Assent was given by Commission to twelve Bills.
Ong which were the Exchequer Bills in Aid, the Poor Laws
Ar-endment. the Husbandry Horses, Trial by Battle Abolition,
f„e Nassau Salt Bill, &c.

'The Earl of SuarrEsntritY moved the third reading of the
ibrul Household Bill, which was accordingly read a third time.
The Earl GaosvEX:oll moved fur a return of all places in
H-liersion granted by the Judges of the Courts of Westminster
Jan artry I a t K.—Ordered.
Noble Earl, who had apparently entered the House
intention to oppose th: Windsor Establishment Bill, its the
last alage, was not apprised that the Bill had been read a third
tare, therefore asked the Earl of Shaftesbury when it would lit
read? Lonl Shaftesbury told the Noble Earl the 11111 was read a
third time at xes en Minutes past five o'clock. Lord Grosvenor
etpressed sonte surprise in consequence of the infemation, which
alumna,' amusing, and the subject of merriment, to several
Lurut present.
Horse adjourned:
THURSDAY. APRIL I.
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11n:: .v CATHOLICS OF IRLLAND —Lord Ilord.awn rose
t:.e purpose of giving notice, at the request of a Noble Friend,
ba/1 of Donoughmore.) then unable to attend, of a motion
of code sable importance. The Noble Earl wished him to give
mice of a motion on t;ie subject of the Petition from the Roman
Catholics of Ireland. At the same time he was desirous of con-
afaing the convenience of the House as to the day. He did not
t ith to take the Lords by surprise on a subject of so much im-
pormuce. He could not bring it on before the holidays, but his
mtention was to fis it for the 4th of May, in ease it could not be
brought on sooner. Lord Holland therefore moved that the
House be summoned for Tuesday the 4th of May. The House
vu accordingly Senamoned foe the 4th of May.—Adjouraed.