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London, England, 1839-04-12 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 11.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Fire Minutes past Five o'Clock.
There was a tolerable muster on the Opposition, but
a ve►y thin attendance on the Ministerial side of the
House.
The Earl of H ADDINGTON presented a petition
from the county of Caithness in favour of Church Ex-
tensio►► in Scotland.
Lord BANDON presented petitions from the Grand
Jury of the county of Cork, and another place, against
any alteration in the Corn-laws.
A Message from the House of Commons brought up
the Mutiny, the Marine Mutiny, and other Bills.
Mr. Barker, from the Court of Bankruptcy, attended
apd delivered in certain papers.
Lord FALMOUTH presented a petition from Fal-
mouth, in favour of a uniform penny postage agreeable
to Mr. Hill's plan.
Lorl HATHERTON presented a petition to the
same effect.

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Lord REDESDALE presented a petition to the
same effect. •

Lord CAMPERDOWN presented a petition to
the same effect.

Lord G LENELG presented a petition praying for
some regulations for the better observance of the Sab-
bath.

AFFAIRS OF THE EAST.

Lord ABERDEEN wished to ask the Noble Vis-
count opposite a question, in reference to papers
which had been produced during the recess, explanatory
of the war in the east. In those papers mention was
made of a Russian agent in that country, with respect
to whom it was clear his interference had had consider-
able weight with the proceedings of the Governor-
Gereral. Ile (Lord A.) took it for granted that
explanations had been demanded and received from the
Court at St. Petersburg ; indeed he understood such
had been the case, and that those explanations had been
satisfactory to her Majesty's Government. Farther
it was stated to be the intention of her Majesty's
Government to lay those explanations before Parlia-
ment. If such were the case he must say he thought
it would have been a natural and fair course to have
produced those explanations at the same time at which
the papers were produced containing the matter,
to which he hid referred. That would have been
a stra;ght- forward, manly, just, and honest course, but
probably it was not one that would have been agreeable
to her Alajesty's Ministers. However, he wished toknow
whalier such explanations had taken place, and
whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Govern-
ment to lay them on the table.

Lord MELBOURNE said, it was perfectly true
that explanations had passed with respect to the inter-
ferenee of the person alluded to, and that those expla-
nations had been perfectly satisfactory. He certainly had
hoped that those papers would have been in a state to have
been before their Lordships by this time, but they had
taken a longer time to be printed and prepared than he had
expected ; still those papers, containing the explanations
to wlii,ll the Noble. Lord had referred, should un-
citostionably be laid on the table. What the
Noble Lord might mean to insinuate by saying
the course adopted in respect to those papers was not
the fair course, and that the fair course might not be
suitable to the wishes of her Majesty's Government
—( Hear, hear)—he could not exactly understand ;
Imt it was, perhaps, according to that peculiar
courtesy and agreeable style of expression which pre-
vailed in that House, and which very often made all their
Lordships appear to say contrary to what their real
feeling and character were. No body could have a greater
respect for his Noble Friend opposite than himself,
but he must say, that he (Lord A.) had the most un-
happy and most discourteous mode of expressing his
opinions of any one in that House, and in proof of
this he had only to refer to the Noble Lord's own state-
ments in the House.

Th Duke of WELLINGTON said, erroneous im-
presions having been created, it would hare bern proper
tiat the explanation should be made as near as possible
at the same time.

The Earl of ABERDEEN regretted that his obser-
ations had not met with the approbation of the Noble
Viscount, at the same time, he must say, that they were
not uttered with that intention or view.—(A laugh.) He
entertained a great respect for the Noble Viscount, but
if the Noble Viscount imagined that he (the Earl of
Aberdeen) would refrain from making such observations
as he thought proper, upon the course pursued by the
Noble Viscount's Government, the Noble Viscount
Was mistaken. He did no more than his duty in
making those observations. And in the present case the
Noble Viscount had no excuse whatever. He (the
Earl of Aberdeen) had not complained of the delay in
delivering the papers—on the contrary, he thought they
had been delivered too soon, and that a sense of justice
should have kept them back till the explanations bad been
de'ivered also. The papers which he (the Earl of Aber-
dcen)wished for would require no time in selection,because
be apprended that the Noble Viscount would produce
those explanations in a full and complete form. What-
ever he might feel bound to say, however, as to the con-
duct of the Noble Viscount's Government, he still
entertained—as he had for many years, and as he hoped
be should continue to do—the highest respect for the
Noble Viscount personally.

CHURCH EXTENSION AND EDUCATION,

The Bishop of LONDON presented petitions in
Favour of Scriptural National Education, and of extended
provision for spiritual destitution in the Colonies.
HAND-LOOM WEAVERS.

Lord DUNCANNON presented (by command of
her Majesty) the Handloom Weavers' Commission Re-
port ; also the St2nnaries Commission Report.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMO,VS, APRIL 11.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
Mr. Campbell presented papers from the East India
House.

Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from
Salford against the Birmingham and Manchester Ex-
tension Railway Bill.

Mr. BARNARD presented a similar petition.
Sir M. WOOD brought in the London Approaches
Bill, which was read a first time.
On the motion of Mr. SANFORD, the Parrett
Navigation Bill was further considered, and ordered to
be engrossed.
Mr. IN4 A CKENZIE presented petitions from'parishes
in the counties of Peebles and Ross, praying for
Church Extension in Scotland.

Mr. O'BRIEN presented a petition from a place in
the county of Clare praying for equal rights with Eng-
lishmen.

PRISONS (SCOTLAND) BILLS.
Mr. M'LEOD presented a petition from the Provost,
Magistrates, and Town Council, of the Royal Burgh
of Ins erness, praying that the Prisons Bill might be
passed into a law, only that it should be so modified
as that the expence of maintaining prisoners should fall
upon the public generally, and ❑ot on the inhabitants
of those parishes in which the gaols are situated ; and
that compensation might he made in some shape to
those Burghs which have Court-houses attached to the
gaols.

'The Committee on the petition from the Grand Cen-
tral Irish Railway, had their time to report extended
to the 30th instant.

POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS.

Mr. WA LLACE presented petitions, praying the
House to adopt Mr. Hill's plan of a Penny Postage
from the Royal Burghs of Perth (signed numerously by
Whigs, Rldicals, Chartists, and Tories), of Jain and
Cr,i' and from a Wesleyan Congregation in Radnor-
shire.