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duced. Nor if both Houies had passed it, would
it be one jot more a law until the Royal Assent
had rendered it one. We have been induced to
make these observations, not with reference to
the measure Elb* hefol-e Parliament, but merely
to counteract the pernicious and constitutional
opinion by whiCh•the functions of the Ilouse of
Lords would be reduced to the simple act of re-
gistering the taws passed by the Conimons.

['NEW TIM Ei.l
In the House. of Lords last night, when a pe- '
tition was presented by the Archbishop of York
against further cbncessions to the Catholics, Lord
king again returned to his favourite topics, and
reiterated his trite, although intemperate sayings,
abont the Clergy, and the Church of England, and
religibbs eitablishments, with a persevering intre-
pidity. viliiCh &lilies every check which courtesy or
good feeling might ihipOse. His Lordship is greatly
*istaken, if he iMagines that he renders any ser-
vice to the Catholics by his vituperative attacks. In
the House of Cornirions,'Mr. Huskisson moved the
third reading Of the Warehoused Corn Bill ; and
a conversation ensued in which several Members
participated, and the Bill was passed. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed the grant
of '2OOOl. to Mr. M'Adam, which, after some op-
position, was agreed to by a majority of fifty-six.
A very important communication was made by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the
House resumed. The Right lion. Gentleman
gave notice, that on Monday next he would
move for a Committee, to take into consideration
a proposed augmentation of the Judge's Salaries ;
and he added, that the subject had received the
sanction of his Majesty. 'We are well convinced
that the public will warmly approve of this
measure, as the pecuniary reward which the
Judges at present, receive is inadequate to the
support of their dignified station, and the heavy
and unavoidable expences which the Circuits
force upon them.

[MORNING POST.]
We question if ever an unfortunate Bill re-
ceived similar treatment to that which the pre-
sent Roman Catholic Bill experienced on its
passage through the House of Commons. It would
he utterly impossible to say now whose measure
is before the House of Lords. Sir Francis Bur-
dett obtained leave to bring in the Bill, and se-
veral Hon. Gentlemen were nominated along
with him to manufacture the article into a legis-
lative shape ; while the Hon. Baronet and some
of his partners, feeling the difficulty of their task,
called in the aid of a great professional law-
giver, viz. Mr. O'Connell, who, however, not
giving satisfaction to his employers, ultimately
had his labour for his pains. At last Sir Francis
Burdett produced the united wisdom of one Joint
Stock Popish Company, and dropping it at_the
hospitable door of the Opposition, merely an-
nounced the fact and decamped, leaving the
bantling to he -adopted and brought to maturity
by whom it might. The whole Party then club-
bed to support it for a few days; when Mr.
Brougham, being a friend of Education, and the
Father of the affair not appearing, undertook the
care of the stripling, and with much difficulty and
exertion forwarded the charge a little further—
when he too abandoned it. Sir J. Newport then, in
charity, became sponsor for the ricketty younker,
and carried it for confirmation to the Altar, where
it is doomed to expire under the hands of the
Bishops on Tuesday next. Now, we are totally
at a loss to discover any instance parallel to
this in the history of Parliament. Was Sir F..
Burdett ashamed of his own offsprit,, and did
he therefore desert it as soon as born ?—and
was Mr. Brougham, who benevolently nursed
the brat, also ashamed of its deformity, and
surrendered the tutorship before it was half
completed ? or were both like the Creator of
the Demon' in the Romance, more afraid than
ashamed of the monstrous work of their hands ?
Let the Public be umpire and determine. But
this we affirm that " Westminster's Pride' fl
reckoned without his host, when he thought of
advocating the cause of Popery, and retaining
at the same time the fivour of his Consti-
tuents. " 4 The Baronet" is no doubt an inge-
nious as well as an HotrOurable Gentleman,
but his dexterity in endeavouring to shift
The blame of leaguing with the Papists upon
the ground of " Religious Liberty in this country,"
is too shallow a ruse to avail him. Why, how-
ever, did not he, or the foster-father of the Catho-
lic Bill, carry it up to the Lords ? We pretend not
to know, but we may be allowed to imagine
that a " Radical Reformer" would cut rather a
queer figure at the Bar of the Peers soliciting
their assent to a measure of his own concocting
—and that such a sight as Mr. Brougham in po-
lite confabulation with the Woolsack, would be
too hazardous an attack upon the gravity of the
spectators as well as the performers of so sublime
a scene. Verily this is an unique period of
British history.