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PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS BILL.

Viscount DUNCANNON moved the second reading of
this Bill.
Lord REDESDA LE objected to the measure on the
same grounds on which he had opposed a similar measure
the other evening. He thought so important a mea-
sure could not be properly considered at so late a period of
the Session. He moved that the Bill be read a second time
this day three months.
Lord DUNCANNON supported the Bill.
The Marquis of WESTMINSTER considered that the
Bill was so important, and yet so simple .41 its details, that it
should be passed. He had always beet: a supporter
of the Reform Bill, but the portion of it rjerred to,
and to be altered by this measure, was a great blemisii upon
it. It would be treating the wishes of the people with cot;-
tempt if the measure was rejected or withdrawn.
Lord BROUGHAM entirely concurred with the Noble
Marquis in hoping that the Bill would be pressed to a di-
vision. Vast numbers of persons on whom it was intended
to confer the franchise by the Reform Bill, were deprived of
it by the rate-paying clauses.
Lord HARRO WBY said that this Bill was an altera-
tion in the Reform Bill, which had been considered by the
supporters and opponents of it to be a final measure. The
payment of rates was the test whether the parties were
worthy of the franchise, and this Bill would, if passed,
create a diminution in the qualification.
Lord BROUGHAM explained. It was utterly impos-
sible that either in works or Bills there could be anything
said to be final.

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Lord DUNCANNON said that this Bill only applied
to such voters as had been once on the register, enabling
them to vote if afterwards in arrear.

Lord HADDINGTON said that the franchise had by
the Reform Bill been pushed to a great extent for the
purpose, it was stated, of making the measure a final one.
The House then divided, when there appeared,
For the second reading 55
Against it 66
Majority against the second reading
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then laid on the
table supplementary papers relative to the commerce of the
United Kingdom.
The Bishop of EXETER presented a petition against
the abolition of Church-rates from several places in
Kent. Also a petition from Manchester, praying for
the repeal of the Poor Law Amendment Act ; he bad
moved for a return some time since, which was not made,
but on moving for the return being made forthwith, when it
was made, it had been said that he bad thus compelled the
the expense of a return made in 500 pages ; hut this was
fault of the Commissioners, as the return he had moved for
was contained in three pages. The Right Reverend
Prelate then read a letter from a clergyman, stating
that the workhouse in the Union where he resided
had been for nine months without a chaplain, and the
inmates had not been permitted to attend any place of
worship ; but that about five weeks since a chaplain had
been advertised for with a salary of 25/. per year.
MUNICIPAL ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

Earl of Stanhope, the Marquis of Salisbury, Ford Fitzge-
rald, the Bishop of Exeter, and Lord Braybrooke, were
then appointed Managers of a Conference with the Com-
mons on the subject of this Bill.
On their return the Marquis of SALISBURY stated
the reasons of the Commons, but in so low a tone of voice
that we could not catch the purport of it.
The Earl of RADNOR said that the Right Rev. Pre-
late had shown him the letter to which he had referred,
and he would beg him to read the whole of it..—(Hear.)
The Bishop of EXETER read the last paragraph of
the letter, which was to the effect that the number of in-
mates of the workhouse was 60, of which one-half were
children of ten years and under, and of the remainder two-
thirds were idiots or bedridden.—(Hear.)
The Earl of RADNOR said that if the Noble Lords
had attended to the representation of the Right Rev.
Prelate they must see that the stress he laid upon the ab-
sence of a chaplain, although the service was read by the
master, and the hardship of not permitting the paupers to
attend the church, was, according to the lust paragraph of
the letter, not well founded. The number of the inmates
amounted to 60—the number never having exceeded 60,
one-half being children of ten years and under, and two-
thirds of the remainder being idiots or bedridden. It should
be observed, also, that the letter was dated the 12th of
June, and this was the 13th of July.
Earl STANHOPE said that lie believed the confine-
ment of these paupers in any clay of the week was alto-
gether illegal, and if they thought fit to assert their rights
they could bring an action for false imprisonment against
the master of the workhouses.
The Bishop of EXETER said that he did not suppose
the Noble Earl (Radnor) meant to insinuate that he (the
Bishop of Exeter) had acted unfairly in not reading the
whole of the letter. The Noble Earl had asked him where
it came from ? He handed it to him, and he read it, and if
he had wished to conceal anything was it likely that he
would have given it to the Noble earl ? He had referred
to the letter, not in reference to details, but in reference to
principles. The last paragraph was, " one half children of
ten years or under, and of the remainder two-thirds idiots
or bed-ridden." One of the great arguments in favour of
this regulation was, that if they permitted the paupers to go
out to attend church, they would e.o to the beer-shops in-'
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stead. Now, was it likely that children of ten years, and
under, would do any such thing ? But what was to be
done with the ten others ? There were thirty children,
and twenty idiots or bed-ridden ; but what was to be
done with the remaining. ten ? They were to be confined,

ill order to join with these idiots Mill bed-ridden in serving.
God workhouse, instead of gig where they had a
right to go—and M the way of which he triseted nothing
nould be suffered to stand-- Leir parish churc!:. Why,he
ll'ottld repeat, were these ten to Le kept in ? World they,
if they were permitted to go out, breed a riot or tumult
to
the town ? The matter, however, was really so trumpery
as a plea in favour of the system drat he should feel ashamed
If ;.”, Rom men t L-1 upon it any longef,
The rati of RADNOR said that he 64 made no insi-
nuations, but he had only wished the Hou to, 11044:v the
real facts.

The Duke of RICHMOND said that he thought the
practice of not reading letters upon the presentation of
petition a very wise one ; hut when a Noble Lord rv--
ferred to a letter it certainly was his duty to read the.
whole of the letter. He was quite sure that the R!ght
Rev. Prelate had not the slightest intention of concealing
atlytl‘ing which ought to be known, but it did appear that
the letter atblueed other facts, which it was most important
for the House to know.—( Hear, hear.) The complaint
was that the residents in these workhouses had been de-
barred from attending divine service. From the letter is,
self it appeared that the Clergyman and his coadjutor con-
stantly attended the inmates. He (the Duke of Richmond)
was one of those who wished exceedingly that every union
in the country should have a paid chaplain, remunerated in
a sufficient manner. In most unions he believed there at-
ready was a chaplain appointed. He preferred also that the
paupers should not be permitted to go out on the Sunday
(Hear, hear)—because if they were permitted they would
return, as had been proved in the report of the Commis-
missioners, in a state not very creditable to themselves. He
would also ask the Right. Rev. Prelate how were they to
get foods to build new churches, for in many cases the
churches were not now sufficient for the accommodation of
the parishioners ? In the letter, too, not one word was said
whether the inmates belonged to the Church or not ; and
this was an important matter for consideration. There was;
a Noble Earl who took every opportunity to call these
workhouses gaols and prisons. What would the Noble Earl
say if a servant of his petitioned the House because the
Noble Earl had transported him to Germany for seven years
Hear, hear," and laughter)—the servant having gone
all the time voluntarily ? He trusted that the Noble Earl
would soon forget to call them gaols and prisons, and that
he would visit them himself ; for really the use of such
names was, after all, no argument.—(Hear, hear.)
The Bishop of EXETER explained.
Here the conversation dropped.
The report on the Central Criminal Court Bill was
brought up, and the third reading fixed for to-morrow.
After a conversation, in which Lords BROUGHAM,
LYNDHURBT, and the LORD CHANCELLOR took part, the
Burglary Bill was read a third time and passed.
On the motion of Lord DENMAN, that the Punishment
of Death Bill be read a third time,
Lord BROUGHAM observed that the Bill now con-
tained a clause, which provided that offences which had
been hitherto capital, but were to be so no longer, should
be tried by the Judges instead of being brought before the
Quarter Sessions. He would propose that that clause should
be struck out, upon the understonding that a Bill in refer-
ence to that subject should be brought in at an early period
in the course of the next session.
The Duke of RICHMOND thought that there could
be no objection to the motion on those terms ; and he trusted
that it would go forth to the magistrates that his Noble and
Learned Friend had sanctioned the principle of the clause.
Earl STANHOPE presented forty-four petitions from
4,375 persons engaged in factories, praying the House for
some legislative enactment to the effect that persons under
twenty-one should never be allowed to work more than ten
hours a day, and on Saturday only eight. The Noble Earl
also presented petitions against the Poor Law Bill from the
owners and occupiers of land in parishes in Suffolk, Derby-
shire, Kent, and Glamorganshire.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

Yesterday morning, between six and seven o'clock,
Mr. Hetworth, a builder, residing in Cle►eland-street, Fitzroy-
square, while superintending his workmen at a house in Nor-
ton-street, fell from a scaffold to the ground, a considerable
height, and received such serious injury that he died about an
hour afterwards.

On Wednesday night a dreadful accident occurred
at Battersea to a Mrs. Elizabeth Kendall, the wife of a sill
weaver, and the mother of a large family. It appears that tl
poor people had suffered great distress; they were in arrea. s
of rent, and daily expected that the landlord would levy a dis-
tress warrant on the few articles of furniture they possessed.
To avoid such a misfortune the poor man, late on Wednesday
night, hired a cart for the purpose of carrying away his goods
and family. It being a very dark night, and having some dis-
tance to go, the mother and children got on the head of the
cart, which had not proceeded far before the former fell off into
the road, and both the near wheels went over head and body,
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GERMAN VOTARIES or ToßAcco.--Every man,
without exception, is smoking ; each little table has its lamp
(though it is broad daylight) for the sole purpose of lighting
the pipes and cigars ; and so unremitting are the votaries of
tobacco, that yonder is an old gentleman actually eating and
smoking at the same, the long pipe being pushed into one
corner of hi., mouth, so as to leave an entrance in front for the
spoon or fork. At the table just below us are two ladies, both
young, and both pretty, and opposite are seated two gentlemen,
each with a cigar in his mouth. Now another man has joined
the party, and the smoke of the three cigars is directed full
into the ladies' faces ; the last puff has gone right under the
pink bonnet of one of them, and is curling round the roses and
blonde, and among her glossy ringlets.--4 Summer in Ger-
many.

The cod fishery on the west coast of Shetland com-
menced upwards of a month ago, and has been very successful.
Small boats have taken from 300 to 600, and sloops 2,000 cod
week. A smack from London has come here, and has bad
great success. Her crew salt the fish on beard, which is
plan our fishermen ought to have adopted long since. Nothing
but successful example will, however, break them out of their
old habits, and it is to be hoped that the success of the smack
will induce others to embark in our fisheries. Under proper
management, and with a few active hands from the south, there
is no speculation which would answer better here than the cod
sloops. The ling fishing has not been very abundant as yet
owing to the unsettled state of the weather, which, until v^rf
lately, has prevented the small and very inefficient boats, which
our fishermen continue to use for prosecuting it, from gettit g
to the fishing ground. The seethe have not yet appeared si
any groat quantity. On the west side of the islands, there is
said to be a good appearance of herrings; but our boats will
not generally go to look for them far a month to come. The
Dutchmen know better. A few days since our harbour and
town was enlivened by the arrival of no less than 86 sail of
herring busses, each manned by about 15 hands, from Holland.
They all railed on the 25th inst., to prosecute the early her-
ring fishery on the coasts of these islands. Scarcely a single
boat from Shetland has yet gone to look for herrings.—Shet-
land Journal.

Last week, as some workmen were excavating a
edicr under the mansion of Lord Sherborne, at Sherborne,
they discovered four ancient coffins, of immense weight.
Three of them are without corers, and one of them was co-
rered with a lid, about three fourths of its length, with a star
engraved on the part over the breast. The heads were almost
all perfect, but there were no inscriptions to record the names
and rank of the deceased.

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BIRTHS.
On the 11th inst., at Kimbolton, the lady of B. Welstead, Esq.,
of a. son
Ons the 11th inst., at Hunnington, near Hales-Owen, the wife of
the Rev. R. B. Hone, of a son.

On the 3d of April, at Kandy, the lady of E. Rawdon Power,
Esq., Private Secretary to his Excellency Sir R. Wilmot Horton,
Bart., of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Boulogne-sur-Mer, the lady of Geo. Alex.
Sloper, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., Mrs. H. Arnold, of Marchmont-street, of a son.
On the ith inst., at Maze-hill, the lady of Stacey Grimaldi, Esq.,
of a son.

On the 12th inst., at St. PancrasMARRIED
New Church, Lieut.-Colonel
Charles Dixon, of the Royal Engineers, to Miss Isabella Annen, of
Blackheath.
On the 12th inst., at St. Mary's, Bryanston-square, William
George Nash King, Esq., Commander R.N., to Sarah, only daugh-
ter of the late T. lulkeley,,Esq., of Montagu-square.
On the 11th inst. at Christ Church, Henry Kent, Esq., of ,
Lyon-terrace, Maida-hill, to Miss Maria Ann Powell, of Cunning-
ham-place, St. John's-wood.
On the 12th inst. at St. Paul's, Islington, Benjamin Lewis, of • t
Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn, and of Highbury-grange, Esq.,- to
Jemima, only daughter of John Wilson, of Highbury-grove, Esq.
On the 11th inst., at Islington Old Church, J. C. Barrett, Esq,
of Vigo-cottage, Northampton, to Mary Ann, widow of T. Saps•
worth, Esq., of Park-terrace, Highbury.
On the 12th inst., at St. Mary's, Stoke Newington, Mr. Henry •
John Atkinson, of Cateaton-street, Cheapside, to Amelia, second
daughter of B. Massey, Esq„ of Paradise-row, Stoke Newington.
On the 12th inst., at St. John's, Hampstead, Mr. Robert Hill,
of the City-road Wharf, to Mary Ann, youngest daughter of W.
Rochfort, Esq., of Hampstead.

DIED.
On the 10th inst., at Hampstead, aged 49, Sarah, youngest
daughter of the late John Hetherington, Esq., of Newington-green.
On the 7th inst., at Old Hall, East Bergholt, Suffolk, Pater
Godfrey, Esq., age 69.
On the 10th inst., Eden, second son of the Rev. S. Marindin,
a..-°ed 11 mouths.
On the 9th inst., at Margate, Georgiana, wife of Mr. Delferier,
of Sloane-square, Chelsea.
On the 10th inst., in Torrington-square, Kate, wife of C. R.
Bigge, Esq., and eldest daughter of John Scovell, Esq.

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of Middlesex.—. Friday, July 14, 1837.