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LONDON :
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1839.

In the Lords more petitions were presented against
the In.l.and Warehousing Bill.
In reference to the motion relative to the Adminis-
tration of Justice in Ireland, which Lord BROUGHAM
is to bring on next Tuesday, the Noble Lord said he
should undoubtedly bring it forward on that day.
The Noble Lord's reference to this subject pro-
duced an animadversion from the Earl of WICKLOW,
oa those who had committed a gross breach of confi-
dence, and a gross breach of privilege, by allowing pri-
vate drafts of Reports brought down to the Committee,
and marked private and confidential, to go forth to the
public. He thought 'Ale matter ought to be inquired
into. It was published io the Dublin Evening Mail,
the Orange paper, Lord RODEN'S journal. We hope
the matter will be inquired into, not that we think the
publication of the least importance, but because we
should like to see this gross breach of confidence traced
up to the Peer, be he saint or sinner, who was guilty
of it.

A little conversation took place on Lord BROUGHAM'S
intended motion, but his resolution is quite unalterable.
Lord WARWICK referred to the petition of LOVETT
and CeLLINS, presented by Lord BaoucatAx, and con-
tended that the Noble Lord had been imposed upon.
Lard,,BaOuGHam said the statement of the Noble Earl
confirrnEd that of the petitioners. We have read the
Report of the Magistrates presented by Sir EARDLEY
WILMOT to Parliament, and we are quite of Lord
BROUGHAM'S opinion. Every word of the petition is
substantiated. Lord BROUGHAM added, that they were
kept nine days in prison before bail was accepted, and
he stated a fact, which we have great pleasure in re-
peating, as conferring honour on the gentlemen
concerned, namely, that Mr. LEADER and Sir W.
MOLESWORTH wrote to Birmingham, and offered them-
selves for bail. Then, when it was found that they
were not defenceless, forsaken men, the Magistrates
accepted bail, which ought to have been taken in nine
hours, Lord BROUGHAM said, after the men had been
arrested.

We are glad also to see the attention of their Lord-
: ships celled to their own iniquitous legislation. The
Corn-laws were petitioned against, and Earl FITzwIL.
LIAR, who presented the petition, reminded the Peers
of the drain caused on the Bank of England by purchas-
ing foreign corn, which had reduced that Corporation to
a dangerous condition. Unfortunately, at present, the
weather makes this subject of peculiar importance.
A few days more such cold rain as we have had
for these four days, will place the harvest in peril.
Prices are again looking up ; corn is already ordered
from abroad ; more gold is going out to purchase it ; the
Bank is endeavouring to bolster"up its finances by a
loan contracted in Paris ; and the country is placed in
a very dangerous situation by the Corn-laws. They
will be repealed, probably, by the weather ; and the
Peers will for evcr have lost the opportunity of retrieving
their character from one of the heaviest charges that were
ever brought against a trusted and.honoured Nobility—
that of starving their confiding fellow-subjects to enrich
themselves. " Most of the statutes or acts, edicts,
arrests, and placarts of Parliaments, Princes and
States for regulating, directing, or restraining of trade,"
said FRANKLIN, " have, we think, been either political
blunders, or jobs obtained by artful men for private ad-
vantage under pretence of public good." Our Houses
of Parliament have not altered since FRANKLIN'S time,
though they have perhaps become more audacious.
The Inland Warehousing Bill, as we predicted, was
!thrown out on a division by 48 to 38. Lord Asn-
BURFON'S motives we cannot presume to ques-
tion, though the house of BARING is a great mercantile
house, having large connections with the sea-ports, and
probably not many with the inlacd towns. Of course,
this rejection of a measure could not originate in what
Dr. FRANKLIN called a job. The Bill was, however,
thrown out, like so many other Bills. Never can the
Peers want a reasonefor such casting away ; when they
can allege none other they throw out Bills from wan-
tonness, as for example the Copyhold Enfranchisement
Bill on Monday night. It pleases them to wanton in
their power and to strangle the offspring of the degraded
and unresenting Commons. Their Lordships are not
to sit to-day.
Petitions against Church-rates and for Church Exten;
lioni
n the Commons, show the hatred of the people
for clerical rapacity, and the zeal of the clergy in ex-
teading their dominion. Which will beat? We bet on
the laymen. Avarice will overcome piety.
Mr. LaßouctlEßE answered a question put by Mr.
BERNAL, by stating that the Government had received
no intelligesce whatever that the Negroes of Jamaica
were arming, or had refused toqiay rent. Why should
they ? They have no Corn-law.
Mr. BtouNT took his seat for Totnes as he was the
first comer; and Sir GEORGE CLERK is to-morrow to call
the attention of the House to the necessity of renewing
the Sessional Order for both Members, in case of a dou-
ble return, to withdraw.
Ai. CHARLES GREY, with the best intentions, brought
forward a measure to enable the people to hold annual
meetings, and to give the industrious classes a regular
means of influencing the Legislature. His proposition
Lows that we live in extraordinary times, but Sir
CHARLES explained that such meetings were consistent
with the old laws and practices of the country. Con-
trary to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, he said it was difficult to
say what constituted a legal or illegal meeting ; but Lord
Joins expected all the Birmingham people to know
that whish the Judges did not knew. Sir C. GREY'S
motion occasioned but very little discussion, and was not
pressed to a division.
Mr. T. DuricomßE brought the case of Mr. THoito-