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LONDON,
THURSDAY EvENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1837.

Yesterday, being Ash Wednesday, the Lords did not sit.
In the House of Commons petitions from Pctw•ortb, and
from various places in Scotland, were presented. fur the
abolition of Church-rates. -

The following petitions also were prescntea—for Cor-
porate Reform sal the Extinction of T;thes in Ire ;
for the Repcal of the Duty on Soap ; ag,linst the Pcor
Laws Amendment Act ; for the estahliFhtnent in Wales of
a system of Education in Engli,:h, in order to amalgamate
and bring the two countries into a closer connexion ; and

OM! signed by upwards o:2,00 persons prang for inquiry
into the creation of collusive votes in Scotland.

On the motion of Mr. D. BROWNE, the adjourned de-
bate on the Reform of the irish Municipalities was then
r,•sumcd, and was brought to a close ht a quarter past two
o'clock this morning. No division took place, awl leave, of
e,,urt.e, being given to Lord JOHN Ruse, LL to bring in
Bill, the Noble Lord accordingly brought up the Bill, which
was read a first time. The secend.reading was understood
to be fixed for Friday n'unillit.

It is noticeable that Sir JAMES GRAHAM was the first
of the pack to give tongue, and declare the determination
of the Tories to deny Reformed Municipal Institutions. to
Irehied. From this overt declaration o► hostility, which
was loudly cheered by Sir R. PEEL and Lord STANLEY,
it is presumed t hat the Bill is doomed to destruction by the

Couzcrvativcs.
'The speech of Lerd ?tIORPETH will be read with much
interest. Nothing can he more triumphant than his admirable
vindication of the Irish Governmmt—nothing mire conclu-
sive than iti2 refutation of the c..1-nunious libels retailed on
Tuesday by S7rgeant JACKSON, and his followers.
Noble Lord utterly demolished each and every charge
which formed the stock in trade of the Tories.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice that he should post-
pone the question of Poor Laws for Ireland till Monday.
The Grand Jury (Ireland) Bid was read a second time,
and ordered to be committed this day. .

The debate on the subject of the Irish Municipal Cor-
porations was brought to. a close at an early hour thi '
morning, then Lord JOHN RUSSELL obtained leave to
bring in a Bill for the Reform of those Institutions. On
the whole, the debate has been a remarkably heavy one—
all business and matter-of-fact on the one side ; all prosy
rigmarole on the other. The two most efficient speeches
have decidedly been those delivered by Lords JouN Itus-
sem. and MoneEnt, who by dint of stubborn facts and
pertinent arguments, have made out a case to which their
opponents have in vain attempted to offer a reply. As for
Sir ROBERT PEELS laboured harangue, it was tamer and
more equivocal than usual, which is saying a great
deal for it. The Right Honourable Baronet did
not venture upon a bola, manly opposition ; but
contented himself with sundry small cavillings and
carpings at matters not worth an instant's consideration.
All we can gather from his last night's speech is, that on
the whole he prefers Tory to Whig policy. But no, we
do him injustice. However discreet he might be on other
points, he was explicit to a degree on the subject of the
" clemency" lately exercised by Lord MULGRAVE, in his
capacity of Administrator of the laws in Ireland. Here,
there was no mistaking his meaning. Here, he went the
whole hog of unleavened Toryism. But this was per-
fectly in character, for nothing could be more appro-
priate—nothing more natural, than that an influential
member of the Tory party—of that party who mas-
sacred their countrymen wholesale at Peterloo ; who
for upwards of thirty years exercised despotic sway
over the kingdom, taxing it ad libitum, . and filling the
dungeons with those who demurred to their proceedings ;
riding rough-shod over justice, honour, and humanity ;
holding the Constitution at arm's • length, and laughing to
scorn all idea of righteous and merciful legislation ;—no-
thing could be more perfectly in character, we say,
than that a member of this tyrannical faction should
enter his most earnest protest against a Liberal Lord
Lieutenant's disposition to legislate for Ireland, in the
spirit of mercy and forbearance. All that the Tories had
to urge against Ministers, was, that their Irish policy had
partaken too much of that quality which SBAKSPEARE, in
his noblest passage, expressly terms, " an attribute of
GOD himself." Though Lord MORPETH proved to de-
monstration that the mercy exercised by the Earl of Min.-
GRAVE in his capacity of Viceroy, was in perfect accord-
ance with the strictest justice, yet still the Tories persisted
in their cuckoo cry—Sir ROBERT PEEL, ih particular,
making this part of the question the subject of a sorry jest,
just as if the tempering of justice with mercy were
a thing fit only to be laughed at ! We trust Ireland
will not lose sight of this joke of the Right Hon. Baronet's.
It is worth nothing except for its animus F but in this res-