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THURSDAY, AUGUSII44, 1839.

Ihe House of Lords did not sit yesterday.
The House of Commons met at twelve o'clock, and
proceeded immediately to discuss in Committee the
Metropolitan Police Courts Bill.
Mr. LAW was the most active in his opposition to
its clauses. He wished first that the Police Magis-
trates should sit of an evening. AIN HawEs objected
to " justice after dinner," but he has no objection to
legislation after dinner. But if a gentleman cannot be
suffered to administer the laws after dinner, he should
not be allowed to make them. Mr. LAW moved that
the Magistrates should meet at nine o'clock in the
morning, but his motion was overruled by 49 to 8.
Several other divisions took place on different clauses
of the Bill, which was again discussed late in the
I evening. We shall be considered as wholly given to
, fAit finding by objecting to this 13i11 ; nevertheless,
we must say, that by extending the power of Police
Magistrates it is a bad measure. It may not
be used to bad purpose, but that will not be
owing to the virtue of the Magistrates, so much as to
the vigilance and watchfulness of the press. In fact,
therefore, the law will only fail to be mischievous, because
its operation is controverted and limited by a body
which may be said to have no. legal existence. The
House rose at three, and sat ag.rin at five.
With reference to the Totnes election, Sir G.
CLERK announced that th,,ru was a sessional order in
existence, prohibiting gcriti.emen to vote whose elec-
, tions were not valid, e..nd, therefore, warning the Mem-
ber for Totnes, who, .tvad taken his seat, that he must
not vote till the r',:ti:.rn is tried.
Lord JOHN kr,;SSELL presented a petition from the
Messrs. HANv mu., the printers of the House of Corn-
' mons, anur:uncing that Mr. POLACK had brought an
action„ 'against them for the publication of the evidence
tal--cn before a Committee to inquire respecting New
Zealand, and applying to the House for instruc-
tions. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the
petition was ordered to be printed and taken into con-
sideration this day. The success of Mr. STOC KDALE
has already raised up other opponents of the publishing
privilege of the House, and Mr. POLACK goes to trial
with a verdict already given in his favour, against a
newspaper, on the same case.
Mr. HUME gave notice .0.3 f a motion, on going into
Committee to vote 75,000/. for more soldiers, that the
House should take measures for lessening the grievances
of the people.
Lord J. RussF.f.r.. gave notice of another Police Bill
for Birmingham, in conformity to the suggestion of Sir
ROBERT PEF.a., to-morrow. This is after-dinner law-
making.
The Noble Lord in answer to Mr. PAKINGTON, said
he meant to propose his rural police scheme this Ses-
sron, which will, therefore, we presume, last till about
Christmas, unless 100 Members, carrying, it is true, no
authority- with them, can transact that business in a few
days which it would take the whole House months to
transact. Such legislation can have no authority with
the nation, and will only hasten the progress of that
contempt into which the Legislature is falling.
The Payment of Rates Bill was read a second time
after some opposition and a division. All these Bills
are making great alterations in the laws. Their effects
will not be confined to what the Legislature intends,
but will alter a number of other laws. Such changes
tend to destroy the authority of prescription, and, being
themselves unreasonable, they are overthrowing all
authority. Moral and political confusion already
exists in the public mind, and legal confusion will fast
follow it.
A great deal more business of detail was done, for
which we refer to our report. The House sat till
Half Peal Twelve o'Clock.

The price of wheat rose yesterday in Mark-lane
2s. per quarter. A similar rise took place in New-
castle-on-Tyne on Saturday. The rainy weather
here, which is the principal cause of this rise, ex-
tends, we are sorry to see, to Ireland, and there
threatens great damage to a harvest which other-
wise promises to be bountiful, almost beyond
example. This is a poor prospect for our people
with wheat at 60s. per quarter, cotton-mills work-
ing short time, decreasing exports, short-coming
revenue, increasing expenditure by a continual ex-
tension of the coercive means of governing, and
i the wages of working men being from 9s. to 12s.
per week. It is a sad thing fur the country
when the labour most in
demand is that of the
policeman and the soldier.
Of course, our Corn-law-making landlords, eager
to shirk the responsibility of their own acts, and
conf.G.rdly enough to run away from their own glories,
will take advantage of an unfavourable season, and
-will ascribe the results of theirown enactments to the
laws of nature. To save themselves, they and
their partisans will not hesitate to calumniate Pro- '
vidence, and will spread mistrust of its goodness
through the land by affirming that the sufferings of
the people are not caused by their scoundrel enact-
ments, but by the decrees of the ALMIGHTY. When
the people are starving and complaining, we shall
hear again from the landowners and all their clerical
allies, strange and fearful denunciations of the law
Hof population, and of the unproductive power of
the earth. The people, it will be reiterated, breed
too fast, so that their industrious operations in an
unfruitful soil will not prDvide nourishment for all.
To meet and repel such comments in advance, to
take away from the law-makers, including the
Bishops, the chance of throwing the guilt off their
own shoulders, not to allow them to shirk the awful
responsibility which belongs to interposing between
the wants of man and the Providence of God, is
our present purpose.
What, then, do the Corn-laws decree ?

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