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'l'llE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, .1.6_,V 1

It wale rtnesse tr; diaetteeresshernetbeeprereiserafaaferring sL:oo
Kls Islinatenants first commtinced ; 4,4 Viird
Eldon 'had himself alluded to it in the ceurse of a debate in
1831, upon a subject similar to the present. The Noble and
Lesrced Lord then read an extract from the eebate in Clues_
tion, in which Lord Eldon slid. " That the Lord Chancellor
hAd l,ie Veteiit plaSitist lot cif lteepinss net of, the ecm-•
iiiisSion sal ttkpeatie nllothsoeVer I t 61. the ; biit ht bePed that
the Piddibe of etheirnitnieetion bettqlm the (.treat Seal read
the Lords Lieiitenfilit tvottld eief ;.:ontleisctl,-d
cation which °tight ei;6r to LP tarried oil' lii tiil {`reel;dnd
11105 t. inannefaa-.With respect to the nomination -pa!
sena whet ought or ought Lot to hr put into the comniissioe."
—(llcar, hest.) At all events, then, they bad the autho-
rity ct isotd Eldon fee this practice, who bad himself acted
upon it. 'the Noble and Leaftiefl a'ao rererred to cases
su far back as 1710 and 1790, showing that ibis pfaetiaB sat-
iated In those periods.
Lind BROUGHAM asked if these cases referred to the
appointment of Police Magistrates?
The LORD CHANCELLOR replied in the negative,
and said that they related to the appointment of County Ala-
gistrates. If the Lord Chancellor was, to exercise any dis-
cretion at all in these matters, be must say that he was at a
loss to know how that discretion could possibly be exercised in
a more temperate mode than by asking the Lord Lieutenant if
he had any objection to the names proposed for the Commis-
sion, and by paying attention to any objection which the Lord
Lieutenant might have to offer.—( Hear, bear.) All the re-
spensibility of the appointments to the Commission of the
Peace rested with the Chaeeellor. The Lord' Lieutenant
was certainly consulted, as an important public officer, but he
was not the responsible officer in matters of this kind. Every
Lord Lieutenant admitted that respect was and ought to be
paid to his recommendations, but no one claimed it as a right
that they should be adopted, neither did any one suggest any
other way in which this prerogative ought to be exercised.—
( Hear.) With respect to any memorials, as such were named
in the motion of the Noble Baron, if there were any they
would be found in the returns for Which the Noble Baron had
'roved. He was quite ready to admit that, in appointing to
the Commission of the Peace, there should be no principle of
exclusion acted upon—( Hear)--and he denied that an'y such
principle had been acted upon. There ought to be no ex-
clusion—(Cheers)—and if there was—whether it arose from
ra tv spirit, either on the part of the Lord Lieutenant, or of
the Clerk of the Peace, or any other individual, it. showed
that things, where such a principle existed, were far from
being in a healthy state. (" Hear, hear," front Lord %aro-
chile.) The Noble Baron, he was glad to find, assented to
that. (Lord ‘Vharneliffn was here understood to say that
there hid teen exclusion.) He (the Lord Chancellor)
denied that there had been any exclusion that could rightly
be called so, and he was convinced that in any county wher-
ever anything bearing the appearance of the slightest exclu-
sion had taken place, it had been the fault of the Lord
Lieutenant.—( Hear, hear.) He had now discharged what
seemed to him to be his duty upon this part of the question,
and it was his wish before be sat down to set himself right
with regard to certain allusions which a Noble Duke (Wel-
li egton) had made in a former debate to certain transactions
in which he (the Lord Chancellor) had been concerned, The
Noble Duke had on that occasion alluded to his appointment
of a person to the commission of the peace who had himself
been bound over to keep the peace. (Some explanation here
took" place between the Lord Chancellor and the Noble Duke
which, although it excited considerable laughter, Aid not reach
the gallery.) Another case to which the Noble Duke had
referred was that (San individual who, having stood a con-
tested election and afterwards been appointed to a ship, had
also been recommended as a fit and proper person to be ap-
pointed a magistrate. He (the Lord Chancellor) had cer-
tainly'been written to by the father of this person, arid it
was not until after he had been so written to that he
afterwards wrote to the Noble Duke naming him for the
commission. He did not know that in the meantime he bad
been appointed to a ship, and this case, if good for anything,
was so to this extent, that- it showed the • advantage of
communication with the Lord Lieutenant--( Hear, hear)—
for there was no doubt that a magistrate ought be a resi-
dent in the county. The other case to which the Noble Duke
referred was that of an individual who had been an attorney,
but who had retired and become a sleeping partner in the firm.
But this person was not thus disqualified by law, under the
circumstances of the case, from being raised to the magistracy.
The Noble and Learned Lord then concluded by observing
that he was perfectly satisfied as to the course of duty he had
to perform, as well as that which it was his determination to
perform.—( Hear.)
The Duke of WELLINGTON wished to remind their
Lordships of what had passed a few evenings ago on the sub-
ject to which the Noble and Learned Loral who had just sat
down had referred. The Noble and Learned Lord had
stated, in answer to his Noble Friend who had on that occa-
sion introduced the subject, that he considered it his duty to
make inquiry respecting certain magistrates of tho county of
York. But the description of inquiry which the :Noble
and Learned Lord referred to was not one which was
quite fair to the Lord Licutenant.—( Ileac, hear.) If
the Lord Chancellor was first to receive recommendations
from all manner of persons, and then go to the Lord Lieu-
tenant to inquire whether there persons so recommended were
fit and proper persons to be appointed magistrates; in such
cases the. Lord Lieutenant would be obliged to say, that such
persons as were so recommended to him were not proper
' persons for this reason, and were so for that reason—( Hear,
hear)—and that which ought to be altogether private and
confidential in such matters was thereby entirely put an end
tie —(1-leara hear.) He, for one, must say, that he could not
write confidentially to a Load Chancellor under such circum-
stanees.—(Cheers.) The individuals who gave this sort of
recommendation as to appointments to the commission of the
peace must be, he was convinced, of a low order is socict),
and not of the gentry of the country, because in the these
cases to whielt he had on a former occasion alluded, he was
sure those who had recommended the individuals in question
could not be persons of weight or consideration in their
county.--( Hear, hear.) In 1835 the Lord Chancellor ap_
pointed a person, for. whom he (the Duke of Wellington) had
the greatest personal respect and regard, to the commission
of the peace, but that person had certainly been bound over to
keep the peace—( Hear, hear)—and he (the Duke of Wel-
lington) could never approve of his being placed in the corn-
mission.--( Hear, hear.) He, however, had never alluded to
that subject from that day to this. The Noble Duke then
read an extract from the law relative to the appointment of
Magistrates, and contended that an attorney, although only a
sleeping partner, ought not to be appointed a Magistrate.
He woud maintain that Magistrates ought to be selected ac-
cording to the old law of the land--( Hear, hear)—and that
selection ought to be made from among the principal and most
influential gentry of the county, and not of the description re-
commended by the Noble and Learned Lord. As to the other
case, if a person went to the Noble and Learned Lord, and
recommended an individual as fit to be appointed a Magis-
trate, and the Noble and Learned Lord then went to the Lord
Lieuterant on the subject—in that case the consequence
would he, that the odium of rejection fell upon the Lord_
Lieutenant. The Noble and Learned Lord had stated that
he did not find there was the slightest objection in the case to
which he referred, and that he had inquired into the character
of the individual in question (so we understood the Noble Duke)
But he (the Duke of Wellington) had received intimations
upon this subject since the question was last debated, arid from
those statements it remained to be seen whether the Noble and
Learned Lord was not likely to he deceived with respect to
the way in which he obtained his information on these mat-
ters.—(llear, hear.) All he wished was to see the Noble
and Learned Lord open his eyes and see his way more clearly
upon them. He insisted that the law of the land had declared
that the office of Magistrate should not be a political one.
The Noble Duke then concluded by observing that to keep
these appointments untainted with any party character, it
was necessary in making them to go to the first people
of the county, out from whom to make selecti ins, for anion
them would be found tliC best and truest friends cf the coun-
try.--( Cheers.) (The Noble Duke was very imperfectly
heard throughout.)
Lord BROUGLIAM merely wished to refer to one
expression used in an improper sense, out of justice to
the individual, in reference to whom it had been employed.
lie alluded to the word ‘• barratry." Now, the inch.
vidual who had been referred to lead certainly not been guilty
of any " barratry," although he might have co:131114:rd
a " battery," the word barratry- being usrd as applicable
to a person who wan the etirrer-ue of suits, but not to
one who had committed a breach of the peas, . With regard
to :he office of a Magistrate being a political one, he hoped
that the people bad long since learned the necessity of keep-
ing the channels of justice pure by every possible mean:,
and he must confess that he did not think it was keeping
them pure, if any portion of the community were excluded
front the office of magistrates—( Hear, hear)—but he did not
know that it had ever been laid down as 4 principle that p
should be permitted to enter into the subject. lie
thought that the Noble and Learned Lard on the Woolsack
had pursued the best course in applying to the Lords Liete•
tenant when he was called upon to appoint any man to tie
office of magistrate, -but at the same time if that plan .were
not carried out in a proper manner, it put the Lords
Lieutenant in a very disagreeable position. The course which
lie had pursued. was always this—he uniformly applied to tie
Lord Lieutenant, lie receiv,id,perhaps, a recommendatiou
from the county Member, or a borough Member, or front
some respectable person wholly unconnected with political
affairs, and he made it a rule uniformly to apply to the Lord
Lieutenant, and if he satisfied him that the individual was un-
fit to be included in the commission he felt to Ist
his duty th take upon himself 11 o responsibility of not appoint-
ing .hint, and he never in one instance told the parties that he
would -have put the individual on the list of Magistrates if it
had not heen for what the Lord Lieutenant had said, for be
should consider that if he did so he would have been guilty of
e great breach of confidence. The matter was not, in fat t. ,
in the hands of the Lord Lieutenant, but in those of the
Lord Chancellor, and how it arose that the former bad ob-
tained such a large share of potter it was not easy to say.
• The Earl of WARWICK complained of manner in which
Magistrates had been inserted in the Commission of the Pr e-a
of the county of Warwick, and also under the Municipal
Corporation Bill. He believed he could state from whom the
recommendations for their appointments proceeded ; et any
rate, if he could not name the individual, there was no rser-
son in the county of Warwick who did not attribute them •
to a certain whipper-in, or active canvasser—as the Noble
and Learned Lord on the Woolsack would say—Mr. Joseph
Nrkc3—( Laughter)—who being Secretary of the Cor-
phad, perhaps:, only acted fairly in for-
w Friends of the Ministers. The
oarreatiinon
g Commission,
views o the.
same objectionable method had been adopted in the appoint°
merit of charitable trustees, arid he thought it highly objse-
tiortable.
' After a few words in reply from Lord WHA RNC UFFE,
Love was given to withdraw the motion.

JRISH lI.JNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BILL.

t'ieeurtt. in moving that the report on
VOrnocfite.9ll.l Bull s'heod Yeecevea, otseived that
the!e 1;ail
' tthe Co mitt'e6. icntro'deteal mans/
amendments, whir;, 4A%le ;ier3f
.vortimilnek stilaie. ott sefi:.`efi
we-e very complicated, and technical--( Hear,
bear)—end they depended much upon lee. 4 4ircierristances
niwther. they could or could not be properlyf applied. lin the
ihOrt tdteTeel which hal elapsed since their introductien, ff
bed been ineyei'h!C: I'?7 hie!eelf and his Noble Friend on the
Woolsack t ) form any decided ofiltilteil tee those amendments ;
&it iflhey woe edowed—though from the oteteee °f some of
them lid hits, say pelt he was far from concurring-zet:Of
they were peraisted :45' 1,7 P their Lordships it would not be
a reason for his not proctine) with the Bill ; even if
those amendments were retained, he wouente on that account
seltandon the Biil.—( Cheers.) He begged to say it.7..nr! a
,he
lied dint ern former occasion, that the amendment whit:T.'
their Lordships tied thatle ha the. qualification of burgesses—et
qualification establi•hing tenement should be rated at
10/., including repairs and iasurentA leppeafed. to him to be
one of the greatest olj2ctions to the altl well
knew that the actual value of a tenement was far beyond did
value at +sill, hit was rated. He had seen statemeete that, in
Belfast, Dublin, Limerick, nod other towns, this rule was berm,
out, and that the actual Was far beyond the rated value.
Such, he apprehended, WAS the case every where ; such, he
entnhdencnagsene;stsiuocnuabilty Wag iiiyafotnbi:
Eng-
land,apph e
suchn dt d
nns alwaysi
n
Ireland,woulity would be that for a UV. rate the real value of the houeo
would be
would be 121. or 13/.. or eyen Iths, a year. It was evident,
therefore, that the proposed qualificetien would be a great
deal higher than the qualhication in this counts j', tted he feared
that the governing bodies in the new Corporationg teeld
not be much less exclusive than those which they at present
possessed. Ile thought that the situation of the Legislature
would not be answered;; that the measure would, not be
satisfactory; acd that the Corporations Would not answer
the end for which they were established, of giving to the
towns a - regular Municipal Government, based upon
popular election, and including in the sphere of their
operation those persons in the towns who were generally
respectable, and who ought to have a share in the
local government. He believed that. their Lordships
in the amendment which they had introduced, had acted
upon the supposition that a high qualification would essiet
those principles which were generally called Conservative.
He did not exactly know the ground cn which their Lordships
had formed this opinion, or had come to the conclusion ; but
be knew that already a similar experiment had been made in
Ireland when the Parliamentary franchise in the eottnties
was raised from 40s. to 101., and making all allowance for
the manner in which this qualification might have been
lowered by the perjury which it was said had been com-
mitted, and for the false valuation.which it was said had been
palmed upon the Revising Barristers, still it was impossible to
deny that the consequence had been the raising of the franchise,
a" he begged their Lordships to consider well whether the
effect had been to produce the good which had been antici-
pated, whether the effect had been to strengthen those princi-
ples Which it was their Lordships' wish to strengthen, and
whether there was any reason to anticipate any different ope-
ration in the towns from a similar measure. He begged to
say, that he still disagreed in the amendments; he still thought
them objectionable. He thought that they would counteract
many of the advantages of the Bill ; that they would he ob-
noxious to its good working, and that they would probably pre-
ventto ebtyir a
up large majority mqnsjeostriiotyn, of
to that
propose
House,
se
its being ultimately satisfactory ; but, at the same time,
n-
as those amendments had been distinctly advised, and had been
supported
orte
to d
subject,men t s, or
but
on
the third
t o takethe sense
readingof e
their w
owould .pr
l Lordshipsro,ai'it was
aswgeoaat theshi
o other
rootpahom
addition
s
dn
ots
hit*,
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ir.sdtoai
enedtgooliwev
enonsf
bi
onyt
hst ceh hre e dB ui
townsel An to, t
which
nhadi
el ahol
ws
Moe
rto htneaiot f
eioproamfl aGt ioooavni ofir foe
qualification
than was now proposed ; end, except these alterations on the
third reading, he would outer
of
Ltterdßßilßl.
i no
dw what
Learned
ttedd°j
no further obstacle to the pasting
FuLsrltiGefnaHdi
len rciosomn eNuhori
bro d
e, awannidtdl thehe e
LearnedonNf
eo
sbslree,
dr
iNetrnhi sdactia, uihnne-t
disappointedsawteasadgroeta:floyrcing co rp or
Corporations
tnhse twoon
son
lo to
w amendmentsos, of
proposedhi s Noblet to
give those towns mea • ns of obtaining Corporations on applica-
tion to the Crown, in the meantime vesting their corporate
power in certain Commissioners. He ( Lord Brougham)
thought with his Noble and Learned Friend that the towns in
schedule B were too numerous, and that by g • ranting Corp-
orations to all they would be going too low. For the same
reason in the schedule of the Scotch Burgh Reform Bill in
1833, he had yielded to the opinions of a Noble Earl, for
whom he entertained great respect. He had given up some of
towns in the schedule, and instead of having gone too far, he
thought that if be had given up eight or ten towns more, in
which it had been found impossibleto work the measure well,
he Would have improved it. For the same reason, then, that
he had in 1833 consented to alter the Scotch Bill as it came

from the Commons, he would agree to an alteration of sche-
dule Bin the present Bill ; but if they struck ont all the towns
in that schedule they would be going too far. The natural
line was to keep in the schedule all the Parliamentary
boroughs(Hear, hear, hear.) They were of some conse-
quence and importance. He would leave the residue to
petition ; and even if there were any Parliamentary
boroughs of a s:nall class they might be omitted ; but all cities
and towns of consequence, or of ai•y extent, ought to be
included in The Bill. So much for the first amendment of
his Noble and Learned Friend. To the second, which was of

far more importance. he (Lord Brougham) had a more serious
objection. lie would not go over the ground taken by the
Noble Viscount ; for, undeubtedly, though they might talk of
a IN. franchise, yet if it were regulated by the rate, it would
amount to 14/. in real value. It was immaterial for the rate
what was the value ; and Whilst Noble Lords said that they
would give a 10/. franchise, they adopted a test which would
exclude all 10/. houses, and would really give a franchise of
10/. 14/. er 151. Another reason why he (Lord Brougham)
differed still mere from his Noble and Luarned Friend was
one to which he would call his Noble Friend's serious atten.
time The Noble Liord wished to include in the 10/. the
landlord's repairs and insurance ; and, therefore, he did not
one of lower value; perhaps an 8/. house would be accepted.
say • in words, but held out that it was a 101. house, but
Lord LYNDHURST said—By no means; quite the con-
trary. He meant only a house which was let for 101. bone
those taxes which usually fall upon the
paid by him.
continued—What he wanted them to
Noble Lords against was, the supposition that what
as applicable in the same degree
fitednLea,ourttld,meaßrt,edlinonarnietT
,attisj'aiAloigyA
excell
cedi raising
ntl the t value
Mould
ca
in England, but circumstances were different in
Irrl How little effect would repairs and insurance have
It:airacplapnlidc.abl'eritioe Etensgtlparnodposed might, for aught he knew, be
in
w
in Ireland? Who ever thought th,t a
costlol. much to keep in repair? Who
ever heard of
,a landlord in Ireland keeping such a tenement?
lathe next P.tace, who would lay out much upon its in-
surance? But if he did, it was not likely that it would cost
snore than 2s. 6 i. per cent , and supposing that a 101. house
was worth 2001, the insurance would only be five shillings
a yesr. The fact was, however, that the rate was only
I'. 61. per cent., another instance of a most impolitic tax in
England, and the consequence would be that they would
find the qualdieation to be a very high one, and that it
would not be a rated value of 81. but a real value of more
than 13/. or lel: But what he wanted to know, and what
he could not-understand, was, why there was any qualifica-
tion ? Thero was none in England, where it was only re-
h3lnwaSscoittliaiened,stslaieryre
tvm},laesrea?lol.Bferca,niuesheisetilehree
quired that the householder should be rated for a certain
length of time.w
a
test, and it was considered desirable to
establish
liltnltioselidr:ahteebust7ine Parliamentary and municipal qualificatir n
to prevent a double registry ; but that was not the case in
England ; no qualification was necessary here, from the
largest city to the snmallest town—being a householder for a
q.
certain length of time was se
‘tcient, and every holder of a
house had right to vote. 1 hey had tried the experiment
they
had found the result—there harl been no riot, no confu-
sion—there had been no annoyance to one class more than
another—there had been no partiality shown for one class
over anode r—ror although, under the excitem-nt of the first
election, as under the Reform Bill, one class had been pre-
ferred,
—but since,
in Liverpool awl other towns, a large proportion of the
yet the divineaian h-ad become less and leas
councillors included in the new elections, he believed
nearly one-half were of opposite polities. He thought that
set theuhnridse.froool.ilhisevrso,eerkio)i.:tigin,kit6rr:nns i
tl
ledtosyaslictic.tmonu ntot oughtitnh to be i
that they tetililliecevi'l Irish
oughtenri adt
o
have adhered to the Bill as it was sent from the Commons.
On the merits of the measure its-lf he thought that it was of
einiilihteti sayo im, a
it would
o kindnessul d not be received
Ireland.—(Cheers.) He
importance. but in one pu
towardsha of view it was most important, as
r
heinga Bill which was intended as a meiliture of peace, and
c
that if' they pissed the Bill with his Noble Friend's
amendmentsn
eived
did o
as a boon, yet to a cer-
tain extent its reception would not be less gracious than the
manner, perhaps, in which it was intended to be given, and
certainly than it ought to be passed • to a certain extent it
would not be received with f avour, and, therefore, it might
fidl in a great niemure of producing tranquillity and content-
ment in Ireland. As, however, the Noble Viscount did not
propose to take time sense of the House against the amend.
anent, lie (Lord Brougham) would not do so himself.
Lord H ATHERTON thought that if the franchise, as it
stood in the Bill sent up from the Commons, were not thought
fit to be retained, yet that the Noble and Learned Lord had
not fixed up,. a proper remedy, he thought that the 101. foot-
.chi'e might have beer: retained as a temporary basis, and that.
when a continuous rating of three years should have taken
place, that this:should be substituted. He could not see time
reason of introdueine the columns of insurance and landlord's
repairs to make up the value of 101. Why was this cumbrous
method adopted of making the valuers "state each of these
doubtful particulars in the accounts? They ought, in his opi-
nion, to hose concurred in some general deduction from time
rated value of 101, and that they should then declare that the
balance, whether 71. 10s., or t3l. or 9/ , should be the amount
of qualification ; this would have been a far simpler and better
plan. Another, objection which he had was that they would
establishing to a certainty a higher qualification in Ireland
than in Eno-land ; this they would do for the reasons stated be
the Noble 'Viscount (Melbourne) and the Noble and Learned
Lord (Broughton), but also because there was at least one-
third difference between the value of houses in the two
countries. He had lately had an opportunity of consulting
competent valuers, and he found that CM') in the cities of
Dublin, Cork, and Waterford, where rent was higher tient in
other parts, there was certainly a difference of one-third be.
tweet' the tends of housesehere and similar houses in • Eng-
land ; and was it not then unjust to give a qualification of a
higher value to the poorer country ? lie believed also that it
would be found that in Er,glend the household voters under

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the mume.pr hwehise being less in ntitht,44 'Shan those
under the ParliamenCe," franchise, they were greater. A Fts-
turn of the number had been '.'"'to to the other House, by
which, though imperfect, he found that or seven cases for
gernpgrison might be selected, where there We 40 freemen,
rrAtere the boundaries of that town for each frawebisot
ware /It he two towns of Leeds and Stockport
the Parliamentary rad she eaunicipa.l bountinrieS were coter-
"atinous. In Leeds the ntinilref of It Parliamentary voters
was ftopfitn4, rhile those under' the municinal franchise
amounted. 01 lt7,00; and in Stockport the Parliamentary
electors numl,erdd •),287, and the municipal voters amounted
to 3,320. In Liverpoll 110,,a were fteemen, so that there was
. means of comparing ;he Iltirltbera by the return ; but in
BiritliiV't.lso believed that the numbett were nearly the same
in bah list': ..A4 any rate be was safeirt altpposing that the
number of the dlthWOpal constituencies in Itingland tt:as 100
Pr 200 Fr cent. greatef than'tbe number of 10/. Parliment-
argel,nors. His Noble and Leerned Friend (Lord Lynd-
hurst), wi'; ; exhibited his usual abllity in moving his amend-
ments, had slurred ,97fpr this part or the case in a few words,
by saying that he ftif.7A4 to est.iblish the same franchise in
Ireland as existed in Scotland; but why wit this the case?
BeCiii2se there were no poor rates there. it might be said
there were ro poor-rates in Ireiald ; bait they would soon be in
existence there, and Ilse natural am "tylment would have been
to have made a temporary provision the qualification ; and
then. after the poor-rates had ell4ted for t'sv years, to have
made continuous rating the basis. lie cOn,..tdered it both
foolish and shameful to give a higher quclificatio a to Ireland
eittil Was required in England. For these reason:• ::° oh'
jetted td the Noble and Learned Lord's amendments, although
he would not object to the settlement of these too long .N""
settled questions upon the basis now proposed, the ground of
bis acquiescence being that it would not be possible for many
years W retain the test which was now propoidd ; for so surely
as the system of rating should be a tevr years in operation,.
would the Irish have strong grounds for re-opening the
question.
The report was then received, and Lord MELBOURNE
sugitezterl that it should be read a third time on Tuesday next.
The Duke of WELLINGTON recommended the Noble
Viscount to allow the third reading of this Bill to stand over
till the Irish Tithe Bill and Irish Poor Rate Bill (with which
it was so intimately connected) should be further advanced.

Viscount MELBOURNE said that this Bill was 'ua-
dogtetecilv intimately connected with the two others mentioned
by the 1V;& e. Duke, and he would therefore, with the concur-
rence of their Lordships, postpone the third reading to Friday
week..

Agrocd to.
! Tho Duke of ‘VELUNGTONT gibe notice that on the
third reticliv of the Bill he would propose an addition to the
third clause to facilitate and ascertain more specifically the
qualifications of individisali to vote, to the following effoct :
That every collector of the poor-rates, and other taxes and
assessments, in the respective boroughs, should make out two
alphabetical lists of the individuals liable to such rates and
taxes, and of the payments made by them, and shall, on or
before the .9d of September in every year, cause two copies
(signed by himself) to be deposited with the magisirates of
the borough whose duty it should be to permit such list to be
perused by every body rho desired it, without payment of any
fee, for ten days previous to the time of' voting.
The Qualification of Members Bill passed through Comm't I
tee, and Report was ordered to be received on Thursday.
The other Orders of the Day were then gone through, and
their Lordships adjourned at half-past nine o'clock to Thursday.