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London, England, 1838-06-14 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JuArE 13.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
On the motion of Mr. ROUND, the time for the Com-
mittee on the Eastern Counties Railway to make their Report
was extended to the Ist of July.
On the motion of Mr PRYME, the Haverfordwest (or
Portfield) Iticlosure Bill was read a third time and passed.
LEITH HARBOUR AND DOCKS.

Mr. L ABO ITC HE RE said that a short time ego a Com-
mittee was appointed to investigate the affairs of Leith Har-
bour and Docks. That Committee had accordingly una-
nimously reported that it was most expedient that a Bill
should be introduced to see on what principles they could
carry the agreement which had been made into effect. Con.
sidering the late period of the Session and the necessity of
settling the question, and that this Bill was partly of a public
and partly of a private nature, and of which a certain
notice should be given, he trusted that on stating
that the report was confined to the assertion that it was fit the
Bill should be brought in to carry into effect this agreement,
the House would allow him to make the motion with which he
intended to conclude, although the report had not been
printed. He moved that leave be given to bring in the Bill.
If this were agreed to, he should move the usual notices.
Sir THOS. FREMA NTLE was not inclined to look
with a very favourable eye upon the agreement to which the
Right Hon. Gentleman had referred, but with respect to the
present proceeding he entirely concurred with it.
Sir G. SINCLAIR concurred with the proposition of the
Right Hon. Gentleman, and expressed a hope that the ques-
tion would be settled as soon as possible.
After a few observations from Mr. LABOUCHERE,
leave was given to bring in the Bill.
Mr. Witham brought up the Minutes taken before the Se-
lect Committee on Negro apprenticeship.
Ordered to lie on the table.
On the motion of Mr. A. WHITE, a return was ordered of
all the dues received by the Trinity House during the last
three years.
Mr. E. VIVIAN presented a petition from Truro against
the Bill for the regulation of Pilotage.
Sir FL VIVIAN presented a petition with a similar prayer
from Plaistoff in Cornwall.
COAL TRADE.
Mr. LABOUCHERE brought up the Report of the pri-
vate Committee on the London Coal Trade Bill, and on the
motion of the same Hon. Member, the Bill was recommitted
pro forma and ordered to be printed.
Mr. BLACK STONE presented a petition from the High
Sheriff and upwards of twenty Clergymen, of the county of
Bet ks, against the grant to Maynooth College.
Sir JOHN Y. BULLER presented a petition from Kings-
town, in Devonshire, against the Order in Council permitting
the importation of Hill Coolies.
Major HANDLEY presented two petitions from places in
Lincoln, in favour of Mr. Rowland Hill's plan for a reduced
rate of postage.
Mr. PEMBERTON presented several petitions from
Parishes in Yorkshire, praying that Church property might be
applied to ecclesiastical purposes.
Mr. Sergeant JACKSON presented a petition from the
minister and inhabitants of the parish of Rathdrum against
the national system of education in Ireland.
FREEMEN'S ADMISSION BILL.
On the Order of the Day for the House going into Com-
mittee on this Bill being moved by Mr. WILLIAMS,
Mr. HUTT rose to move that a clause be incorporated
with the Bill, to the effect that after the passing of
the Act no person whose name is or shall be upon
the register for the time being, as entitled to vote
in the election of a Member of Parliament for any
city, town, or borough in England, shall be registered, in or-
der to entitle him to have his name inserted in any list of
such voters for that city, town, or borough for the
following year, to have paid any poor rates or assessed taxis,
except such as shall have become payable from him previously
to the 10th of October in the preceding year.
Mr. WILLIAMS suggested that this clause could not now
be inserted, for the preamble of the Bill went only to
abolish the stamp duty on the admission of freemen, and the
clause now proposed was for a totally distinct object, and if that
clause were added to the Bill, the Bill would (as we under-
stood) be the same as a Bill that had already come front the
House of Lords.
The SPEAKER gave it as his opinion that the clause could
not be introduced.
Mr. HUTT of course felt it hi; duty to bow to the Chair,
but he was sorry that the clause could not be introduced, as
the subject was of very great importance. He should with-
draw the motion.
The Bill then passed through Committee, Mr. ALSTON in
the Chair.
The House resumed.
RATING OF TENEMENTS BILL.
Mr. PRYME moved the second reading of the Rating of
Tenements Bill.
Lord G. SOMERSET believed there was another Bill of
the same description before the House.
Mr. PRYME said the Bill of the Hon. Member for Buck.
ingharn and his own were rival Bills, but it had been arranged
between them that the Bills should be both printed and taken
into consideration on the same day.
Lord G. SOMERSET suggested that it would be better
to postpone the second reading in the absence of the Honour-
able ),lember for Buckingham.
Sir R. INGLIS said the proceeding of the Hon. Member
appeared to him very like stealing a march.
Mr. PRYME denied that his conduct merited such an im•
putation. He, however, had no wish to press the question,
and begged to defer the second reading to that day week.
SPIRIT LICENCES (SCOTLAND.)
On the motion of Mr. GILLON, the House went into
Committee on the Spirit Licences (Scotland) Bill, Mr. JERVIS
in the chair.
Sir G. CLERK objected to the principle of the Bill al-
together. He thought it the more convenient course to
state his objections, and conclude with a motion that the
Speaker should leave the chair. The object of the present
Bill was to withdraw from the controul of the magistrates
of Scotland every inn and tavern in that country ; for according
to the Bill as it at present existed, if a person once obtained
his certificate, as long as he remained on the same" premises
he was not called upon to renew the license, unless be should
have been guilty of such offence as caused him to be convicted
three times. Such a Bill, he thought, would be productive
of so much inconvenience and disorder that Parliament ought
not to tolerate it. The present Bill would not have the
effect of assimilating the Scotch with the Irish law.
The Irish Act was passed because it was found that there were
much doubt and difficulty in a licensed person obtain-
ing his certificate from the Magistrates, and therefore
they were not called upon to go through all these
forms ; but as a substitute they were required to obtain
a certificate, signed by six householders, that he had
conducted his house in a proper manner, and then the Excise
were obliged to grant the certificate. That was quite at vari-
ance with the principle of the Bill before the House. That
Bill, however, was allowed to be in force for only three
years, when an important alteration was made in it, by the
law requiring that in addition to the six householders
the certificate should be signed by the Chief Constable of
the Police. Had they any such officer in Scotland he might
have no objection to such a certificate ; but as they had not, he
trusted a majority of the Committee would assist him in
throwing out the Bill. He wished that Gentlemen opposite
would pay particular attention to this subject, and he trusted
the House would pass a similar law to that which was
passed for Ireland in 1836, that no grocer should sell;
less than a pint of spirits at a time, and that the'
spirits should not be consumed on the premises, or within a':
quarter of a mile of the place where the spirits were sold.
He sincerely trusted, however, that Gentlemen would take:
this subject into their serious consideration, and agree'
with him in throwing the Bill out altogether.
Mr. GILLON contended that th idea of making men
sober by Act of Parliament was preposterous.—( A laugh.
With respect to those persons who obtained licenses for public
houses, however respectable, they were obliged to returnl
every year to the magistrates to obtain a certificate, and were
frequently obliged to travel a great distance for that pur-
pose. The Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Sir G. Clerk)
had attempted to alarm the minds of gentlemen on this subject.
The whole object of the Bill was to relieve a respectable
portion of the community from the inconvenience and expense
to which they were subjected by a jobbing Magistracy.
Sir G. STRICKL AND thought that the license ought to
be granted as a matter of course, and that it ought to be for-
feited only upon the misconduct of the licensed person.
It was in his ( Sir G. Strickland's) opinion better that the
excise officers should grant the license as a matter of course;
and that the beer-seller should be deprived of his license if he
acted improperly.--( Hear.) But this Bill went further, and
proposed to do away with the necessity for renewing, annually
the certificate of character signed by six persons resident in
the parish. Now he (Sir G. Strickland) himself knew a
case of a beer-seller who had acquired a notoriously cad cha-
racter—was he to be exonerated from obtaining a new certifi-
cate of character ?—( Question. )

Mr. R. STE UART said he had been convinced of the
inefficiency of the present system by knowing, that
three persons, of unexceptionable character, had for a
considerable period been deprived of their license, by having
omitted accidentally on a certain day, to produce a new certi-
ficate of character. The difficulty was in arriving at a satis-
factory test of misconduct on the part of the beer-;eller.
On the present occasion he hoped the Honourable Baro-
net would not divide the House, but allow an
amendment to be introduced on bringing up the report.
If the Honourable Baronet then thought the Bill an
improper cne to be persisted in, he should agree to his taking
the sense of the House on the principle of the Bill again.—
(Cries of " Divide.")
The gallery was then cleared for a division, when the num-
bers were:—

For the motion
For the amendment
Majority -31
The Bill is consequently lost.
HACKNEY CARRIAGES (METROPOLIS )
On the motion of Sir MATTHEW WOOD the House
went into Committee, for the purpose of further considering
the Report on the Hackney Carriages (Metropolis) Bill.
Mr. PRYME in the Chair.
Clauses up to 93
were azireed to without any amendment.
Upon clause 20 being called on,
Mr. HAWES said that as this was the last clause
in the Bill, he must now object to any disti.et jurisdiction
being given to try offences committed under the provisions cf
it ; and if the clause giving such jurisdiction were persevered
in he should divide the House upon it.
Mr. PEASE was pleased with the general nature of the
Bill, and on the bringing up of the repo::, he would move a
clause in aid of its general principles of humanity.

co:onel SIBTHORP had always been much opposed to
the Bill. Be would take the sense of the Committee LIFT',
some of he clauses, and if he failed in throwing it out, he lot"
again take the same course upon the third reading.
Mr. HAWES was of opinion that the ordinary Nlagistrates
were quite competent to carry the Bill into effect, and that
there was no occasion for saddling the public with the era-
fen of a new office.
Sir M. WOOD would recommend his lion. Friend to read
the Bill, and he would find that nothing of the kind was con:
templated by it. For his own ?art, he thought it desirable that
a Magistrate should be appointed solely to listen to these COn-
plaints, and who might be paid out of the fines.
Mr. HAWE S said that his statement was borne out by read-
ing the 20th clause. The fines at present levied went towards
defraying the expenses of the police officers.
The clanse was then agreed to.
Sir R. PEEL ,wished to ask the worthy Alderman whether
he intended that there should be a single tribunal for the de,
termination of offences under this Bill, and whether he intends
a
to deprive the police Magistrates of the jurisdiction they at pre-
sent possessf.d ? He wished to know whether the new office
ba
to have an exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction. If there Ivo':
he only a concurrent jurisdiction was it necessary to appoint -
new Magistrate ? If there was to be an exclusive juris•
diction, it would he too much to say that there should be only
one place for hearing the complaints. Certainly this w"
not hold out much encouragement to persons to make Com:
plaints. Most persons would reason that it was much bete'
to submit to the misbehaviour and extortion of the drivers of
these vehicles than waste half the day to go a considerable
distance to make the complaint.
Sir M. WOOD thought it advisable that either a new
Magistrate should be appointed whose power should be exclu-
sively directed to those complaints, or that at the police officie
one day in the week, as was the case in the City. should
be devoted to these matters. He thought that it would ~,,
much better that an office should be erected similar to
that which formerly existed in Essex-street, which delighted
everybody, in common with the Gallant Colonel (Colooe',
Sibthorp. )

The .House then resumed, and the report was ordered to
be received on Monday.
The Westminster Pavement Bill was referred to a Select
Committee.

TENANTS FOR LIFE (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of the Tenants for
Life (Ireland) Bill.

Lord DUNGANNON moved that the Bill be read a
second time that day six months.
Mr. LYNCH supported the original motion, and after $
short discussion, in which Sir R, Peel said that no objection
would be made on his side of the House to the second reading,
on the understanding that the discussion would be taken is
Committee, the motion was agreed to, and notice was give°
by Mr. Lynch for Friday.
BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS.
Mr. O'CONNELL proposed that this Bill should (in the
absence of his Hon. Friend who had brought it in) be per,
mitted to pass through Committee pro forma, and be printed
,
as amended for consideration and discussion at a more COnv
nient opportunity.
Colonel SIBTHORP declared that he had an insuperab_l;
objection to this Bill from beginning to end, as calculate
encourage every kind of trick and breach of confidence by ~t
impunity it conferred. He proposed as an amendment that
be read that day three months.
Mr. O'CONNELL said that it would only tend to a breathelie
of confidence of great public utility between the briber nn'il of
bribed. He wished by this Bill not to destroy the prineiP
English law which prevented a person from injuring hjuirt of
by the testimony he gave, but to enact that by the very le
a witness going into the box and swearing to declare the ant
truth he should thereby, once and for all, be freed Iron; -nee
liability to prosecution for what he disclosed in eviuen-ro-
against himself: At present he dared not, for lie had o,°,
tection. Now this Bill proposed that the witness shetnuf.iiett
be fully protected, but by a different mode • that by, ;a to
the public attained the advantage of the publicity rain's'
the ends of justice.
Mr. WYNN declared h's anxiety to have the Bill brongtbe
in in the most perfect shape, and would give his vote for his
Committee now asked for; but it was indispensable in to
view that the Bill should nat be made a general protcetie
bribery 4ndpPrjury.
Mr. O'CONNELL stated the intention to be only to
tend the protection to those acts which it might be deemed n
cessary to develope in a Court of Justice.
Colonel SIBTHORP pressed his amendment.
The House divided, and there appeared—
For going into Committee
Against it
Majority
The Bill then went through Committer proforma, and svilg
ordered to be printed.
REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (IRELAND)t:tios
Mr. JACKSON said that in the present thin state °_
House he should not press the second reading of ti)
but postpone it till a future day. Coast'
Reports of the Loan Societies (Ireland) Bill, the Sea Bill
Fisheries (Ireland) Bill, and the Grand Juries (IrelarTci
were brought up and agreed to. Ordered to be print an
taken into consideration on Friday. Lt for-
The Linen Manufacturers ( Ireland) Bill was brought
ward by Lord Morpeth.
Mr. WARBURTON declared that it could not be PI;
nutted to pass sub silentio, as several objections in prineir',
existed to the Bill. He now forgot what they were ; indet
he forgot all about it, although he had battled it clause by
clause on a former occasion.—(L iughter.)
Further consideration postponed till Wednesday, the 27th
instant.

The other Gliders of the Day were then disposed of, and
:he House adjourned at Half•past Seven o'Clock.

CAPTAIN PECHELL, M.P.--Never since Brigl,lll,-,
ton became a borough was so decided a declaration made by the vief3evi-
intelligence, respectability, and worth of the town in favour of a ) „ea
ber of Parliament or a Parliamentary candidate as on Friday last, °o
nearly four hundred persons,—comprising men not only of all gr,a d
of
and stations, but of almost every religious sect and of every o'3] ,‘ to
liberal politics,—assembled to do honour to Captain Pechell anuett
testify their high sense of the indefatigable zeal and industry di!Plaotyed
by him in the discharge of his Parliamentary duties, and of his oe.i,ich
attention to the local interests of his constituents." The arrafr-,' th •
" struck horror to the crew" of Tories and their poor slaves when
report of it reached them out of doors—was most gratifying to alco
jest honoured by it, at the same time that the eloquence of it'll ni 0
numbers proclaimed the decided inclination of the most inguentia,,...4
in the borough for the literal policy espoused by the Gallant Mein.",,,
Brighton Guardian.
Pot
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—The Gorbals
have under investigation a case of a very extraordinary naturhe'airtiud
from the bad lessons of a wicked parent to her son, a boyof flin hi'
teen years of age. A grocer in Main-street, Gorbals, had the boy tO
employment as an assistant shopkeeper, who was always 3ttelitiv;cia,
his business, and in whom his master reposed confidence. A feW Wbooe
ago it was observed that the boy's mother had replenished he.rtti
with many valuable new articles, and had decked her person, wairietY ,
apparel, till on some dispute arising about family matters, 3 %tea sifc
circumstances came under the notice of the police, which had h the,
nificantly alluded to by people, who were well acquainted
-
lady's affairs. It appeared
,that she had sometimes by pas- %si-
at other times by chastisement, obliged the shop-boy, her son, t°ict {c oa&
familiar with his master's till, and these fine articles which she ";:iih tlje
time to time been purchasing at public auctions, were paid for ,„, n 1,21
proceeds. Her husband, a respectable man, was surprised at ;0. 30'
grandeur—beautiful rosewood boxes, SliVel- knives and f°d,. vier*
spoons, time.piece, quizzing.glass, and gold chain, elegant chest,
and an immense variety of goods, such as might be bought at the busk
did establishment of Mr. Wooltield. He became uneasy about' t, list
ness, but his wife for a time managed to deceive him, by preiRMI:,Z and
she was in the receipt of presents from relatives in the cast coumssed
actually caused a letter to b..! written by her step-slaughter, 50d P
off for a communication which had been sent along with a 1)°%.0. it: DOA'
goods. The band box was one day brought into the room 3' 01, °-
been taken at the door from the carrier. It was properly „ires in pre- •
the letter was dated Gulling. Of course the whole was opened b that
fierce of the husband—he read the letter—he could have no 0° :00;
his wife had some kind friends in the east country. This W" ":4;
it appeared from the letter, sent by a Miss , a child wll°l°.-ite had
nursed. It was a happy circumstance for the husband that his
such kind friends in the world, as he was at the time out of co,Pl°;,(l
bus
How changed when his son was taken into custody for theft ',trate'
wife for reset, and the above statements laid fully before the ro3gies•
The boy is callous, says little—the mother has told a variety °f strieod4'
She mentioned several sums which she had received from her it peela
but when hard pushed to make out the amount which must Kaye has
applied in the purchase of the articles in her possession, she ssid
,ropert,l
fllind a parcel containing ten pounds. The victualler, wh°'e e.stlMB e
was at the mercy of his unfaithful young servant, has made :lovin pro'
of his whole estate, and finds that since January, instead of has UP
tilted by his business,t he is a loser to the amount,' of 100/., 50" Of Ll"i
way of accounting for his loss, but by referring to the evidence
case.—Scots Times,

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PLATED CORNER DI S r plate-
with Strong Silver Edges and Handles.—A Set of rtouitl,„e'
Corner Dishes and Covers are offered, complete, for Eig''r en
or a set with richly ornamented Edges, Handles, ike.' "'fern,
neas. The Handles take off the Covers : the set th'ki,g Golds-
Dishes when required. T. COX SA VORYS,
mith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, -
Doors from Gracechurch-street.)
be elected COM.
N.B. A variety of Second-hand Watches may
price Two Guineas each. Warranted.
Wi;hrdon, (Serer

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BIRTHS. s of gills"
On the 11 th inst.. in Hanover-square, the Countes
M.
borough, of a son, still-born.
the lady 0r '
On the 10th inst., at Bury St. Edmund's, Alicia, r
Bayne, of a son.
On the 9th inst., Mrs. C. J. Monkhouse, 0 f Craven-atree
,
Strand, of a son. -
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MARRIED
Rev. John I:.ckley, of Credenhill- H
On the 12th •
inst. at S *
Stone Poole, Esq., eldest son of Jo hft mbe Pool, F.5.r.,.
Bridgewater,sep useo
to Maria •of Sir R. Westinace"t„
On the 12th inst. , youngest daughter Beth,"l
•, , t. George's, Hanover-square, Gabrioelf
inst., John Edmund Eckley, Esq.. eldest son
eldest d court, cre
daughter of W. C. B d E
ran ram, sq., of Gower street,
e'
ford-square.
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Hcrefordshir~•, to Eliza,

DIED.
At Moulmein, in the Burman Empire, on the 14th of Januia.g:
Captain Henry Robert Moore, 62d Regiment, eldest son of t
tenant-Colenel Moore, half-pay 14th Foot, aged 27.
On the 9th inst., at Park-lane, Croydon, aged 80, Susannah, re-
Lot of Mr. W. Blake. Ur. l''
On the Bth inst. at F.ffingham, Surrey Dorothy, lc; fe of i of
Stanynought, eldest slaughter of the late'William Collins, Egi''
Richmond. EA.'
On th.e 12th inst., aged 81, Phillis, widow of J. Ramos,
formerly of St. James's Palace.
On the 9th inst., Mr. Vincent Edward Van, aged :.'.l, eldest s°ll
of Mr. T. Van. Tooley street. 63'
On the Ilth inst., at Hertford, Daniel Mardall, Esq., aged
rIY
On the Bth inst., at Swansea, George Wilkinson, Esq., forrne
of Cleat Coram-street, Russell-square.
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