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Secretary for the Home Department, intended to bring
in a general measure witu Tegard to the recovery of
Small Debts.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he Igid obtained leave to
bring in sunk a Bill, which had bee►i for some time pre-
paring, and was now almost completed. His attention
' had been directed to the subject for some
Mr. HUME asked if it had not been descided that
no local Small Debt Bills should be allowed to :ireeeed
till the general measure was brought in?
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said there was an order'
already upon the books for postponing those local Bills
till the general measure was brought in.
COMBINATIONS OF WORKMEN.
Mr. WARD asked if it was the intention of the Go •
vernment to introduce a Bill with regard to the combi-
nations of workmen, or to propose the reappointment
of the Ccmmittee whiell sat last Session upon the
subject.
Lord J. RUSSELL said it was not his intention to
propose the re-appointment of the Committee. With
regard to any measure which might be founded upon
the evidence of that Committee he could not positively
state.
LORD LIEUTENANTCY OF IRELAND.
Lord J. RUSSELL asked the Hon. Member for
Kilkenny what course he meant to pursue with regard
to the motion of which he had given notice for to-night,
with respect to the office of Lord L'eutetiant of Ireland.
The Government intended in the first place to move
thel)rder of the Day for a Committee upon Irish
Railways, and the only motion with regard to Supply
would be to rostpone it.
Mr. HUME—If the Order for Supply be read be-
fore half-past ten, I shall move my resolution.
LIGHTING OF THE HOUSE.

Sir F. TRENCH postponed the motion he had
upon the paper, with regard to lighting the House,
till next week. At the same time he wished to state
that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had erroneously
charged him with all the expense incurred by the
experiments upon this subject, whereas he was only
chargeable with 391. the remaining thousands being at-
tributable to the Right Hon. Gentleman's ow❑ office,
and to the experiments of Dr. Reid.
SUPREME COURT OF SCOTLAND.

Mr. GILLON gave notice that upon the order
of the day for the Supreme Court (Scotland)
Bill he should move that the two Judges who
had been appointed to the Court of Exchequer should
also perform the duties of Commissaries (as we under-
stood).
PROHIBITIONS ON BRITISH HARDWARE.
Mr. WARD gave notice that on Tuesday he should
move for a return of the prohibitions upon British hard-
ware, imposed by France,,Prussia, Belgium, Switzer-
land, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal.
BELGIUM.

Mr. lIUM E inquired of the Noble Secretary for
the Foreign Department whether there was any truth
in a report which had gained circulation that the British
Government had agreed to coerce Belgium, if she were
unwilling to the separation of Luxemburg and Limburg.
There was something so discreditable to this country in
that rumour, that the sooner it was refuted the better.
Lord PALMERSTON said he had not heard of
that report till it had been communicated to him by the
Hon. Member for Kilkenny, and he was glad that he
could assure the House that there was no foundation
for the rumour.—(Hear, heir.)
VACATING OF SEATS.
The SPEAKER said, that as the Hon. Member for
Southwark had a motion on the paper, which he an-
nounced to be prefatory to the vacating of seats by
Members of this House, perhaps it would be considered
that that motion ought to have precedence.—(Hear.)
Mr. HARVEY then rose and said that in conformity
with the recent precedent ha supposed there would be
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no opposition to the motion, AO; he would conclude
with making.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he believed the only
objection to this return was that those papers were
already on the table of the House, and he observed that
the most essential part of the motion for the purpose of
the Honourable MeMber, namely, the date of
the appointments, seemed to be included ; therefore
he would suggest to the Honourable Member
whether it would not be as well for him to consult the

papers already on the table of the House, and see if
he required any additional information.—(Hear.)
Mr. HARVEY said it had occurred to him that it
would be more convezient for Honourable Members

to have a small paper with the simple fact
stated upon it, than to have a large volume
which very few would read, and very few might
see. As to the fact about the date of the
1 appointment, that might be ascertained by a compliance
with the return, because his motion called on Lord
Dorham to ,3 t out the appointments before ho left Eog-
lan,l. The time of Lord Durham leaving England, or
of his return,was a matter of no uncertainty ; therefore,
if they had a return of those two periods, they might arrive '
at the object he sought. At the same time it would be
-more correct to insert in the return the day and the date
of the specific appointment, but as to calling the atten-
tion of the House to the Report to which the Noble Lord
had alluied, he thoulit it would be obvious to the
,House that it would be far more convenient that this
simple extract should be in the hands of Members, than
that they should be troubled with a large Volume.—
( Ilcar, hear.)

Mr. LAB OU C HERE said the papers already before
the House comprised all the appointments made by
Lord Durham before he left this country or since. As
the whole of the Nets the Hon. Gentleman wished for
wera before the House, it was scarcely consistent with
the usages and convenience of the House that they
should be given over again.—( Hear, hear.)