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London, England, 1836-07-14 00:00:00

IMPERI Ai PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDS, JULY 13.
Witnesses were examined at the bar from ten to two
o'clock in support of the Stafford Disfranchisement Bill.
The Earl of Devon, in the absence of the Lord Chan-
cellor and the Earl of Shaftesbury, presided at the table.
The whole case in support of the Bill was gone through,
with the exception of the examination of a single witness.
The Counsel were directed to attend on Saturday at ten
o'clock, when the evidence on the part of the petitioners
against the Bill was ordered to be heard.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack
at five o'clock.

The several Bills on the table were forwarded.a stage.
The Sheriffs' Courts (Scotland) Bill, and the Turnpike
Roads (Ireland) Bill, were brought up from the Commons,
and read a first time.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY brought up the report
of the Committee on the Commissary Court (Scotland)
Bill.—Bill fixed for third reading to-morrow.
The Marquis of HUNTLY presented a petition from
King's College, Aberdeen, against the Scotch Universities
Bill.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH presented a petition from
eight dignitaries of the Established Church on the subject
of the Church Discipline 841. The petition, the Noble
Lord observed, applied to the Bill as it was, rather than to
the Bill as it stood at present.
On the motion of Lord LYNDHURST, the Bill for
enabling the Master of the Rolls to devise certain premises
to the Society of Judges and Sergeants at Law, for the
erection of chambers for the Judges and Sergeants, was.
read a second time, and ordered to be committed.
The Church Discipline Bill was re-committed.
The postponed clauses were considered and agreed to.
The Bishop of EXETER proposed a clause in lieu of
clause 3, which was agreed to.
The House then resumed, the Chairman reported pro-
gress, and obtained leave to sit amain to-morrow.
On the motion of the LOReCHANCELLOR, the
Duchy of Cornwall Revenues Bill was read a first time,
and ordered for a second reading.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented a peti-
tion from the Clergy of Derby, in favour of a better ob-
servance of the Sabbath. The Most Rev. Prelate, at the
same time, presented other petitions, with a similar prayer,
from Buxton, and a number of other places, in the county
of Derby.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

ROUSE OF COMMONS, JULY 13.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock.
SOUTH METROPOLITAN CEMETERY BILL.
Captain ALSAGER brought up the Report of the
South Metropolitan Cemetery Bill.
Mr. POTTER objected to the Report being received,
as he considered the great body of Dissenters insulted by
many of the provisions of the Bill. The Bill provided
that certain parts should be consecrated, but that
those parts should not which were intended for
the interment for Dissenters—certainly distinctions in these
days were carried to a great extent, but he thought that in
the grave there should be none. There were two other Bills
of the same description, and equally objectionable, as they
seemed to make a marked distinction between Dissenters
and Churchmen. In fact in some places these distinctions
were carried so fiir, that walls were built between the parts
appropriated for the interment of Dissenters and those de-
signed for the burial of the members of the Church.
Dr. BO WRING agreed with the Hon. Member, that
the House could not sanction a Bill which made so marked
a distinctioo between Members of the Established Church
and Dissenters. Surely Dissenters were as much entitled to
Christian burial as Churchmen. He trusted that the Bill
would be re-committed.
Captain ALSAGER was sure that the promoters of
the Bill had no wish to prevent Dissenters being interred
as they pleased ; he bad carefully read all the clauses of
the Bill, and he could not discover any that contained pro-
visions of exclusion.
Mr. CHAS. LUSHINGTON considered it most dis-
creditable in the 19th century, that the members of the Church
of Eugland would not allow Dissenters to be buried in the
same ground with themselves.
Mr. POTTER moved that the report be received this
day three months.
Dr. BO WRING thought this proceeding rather too
severe. He thought• that the Bill ought to be recom-
mitted, to give the friends of the Bill an opportunity of
amending it.
Mr. WAKLE Y said the institution of Cemeteries was
very salutary in so '()Teat a metropolis as this ; but at the
same time he regarded this Bill as such an insult to the
House, and so derogatory to the English public at this
period of intelligence, that he thought they should not
properly consult the interests of the public unless they re-
jected with scorn so odious a measure.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BAINES agreed with the Hon. Member for
Finsbury, that these institutions. were of great
while benefit. He hoped the Honourable Member
for 'Wigan would put his motion in such a way that the Bill
would again come under their consideration. He believed
that Dissenters had no objection to be buried in ground
that was not consecrated, neither did they consider it any
stigma to be so buried.—( Hear, hear.) What he would
recommend was, that the Hon. and Gallant Member should
re-commit the Bill, as there was every dis Position in the
House to promote what appeared to be a great public benefit.
Captain ALSAGER defended the clause. The Bill
had been drawn up to accord with the feelings of the
Church—(A laugh)—and of charity ; and there certainly
was no intention to interfere with the conscientious scruples
of the Dissenters.
Mr. WILKS would recommend the postponement of
the measure, in order tl.at the objectionable clause should-
be reconsidered. The clauses in question went to perpetuate
an odious distinction, which it was not the policy of that
Houie to keep up, and he therefore hoped the Bill would be
re-committed.
Captain ALSAGER had no objection to the recommit-
tal of the Bill, and he hoped Hon: Members would favour
him with their suggestions, so as to make it acceptable.
The Bill was then ordered to be re-committed.
TURNPIKE ACTS.
Mr. F. MAULE gave notice that to-morrow he would
move for leave to bring in a Bill to continue till September
1837 all Local Turnpike Acts.
POST-OFFICE.
Mr. T. BARING presented a petition, complaining of
the local charge upon letters. The petitioners instanced
the case of a letter going five miles, by the present regula-
tions was carried 20 miles, and charged by the mileage.
Mr. WALLACE said he had been requested to sup-
port the prayer of the petition, and he did so with much
pleasure. It was the most sensible and reasonable petition
that he had seen on the subject. He would move that the
petition be printed. " Can Ido so, Sir ? "
The SPEAKER--No. •
The petition was then laid on the table.
Dr. BOWRING moved for Returns of the-Drawback
on the Materials used for the Building of Kirks in Scot-
land.—Ordered.

BLACKPRIARS-BRIDGE.
Mr. HAWES gave notice, on the part of the Members
for West Surrey, that he would move to-morrow for leave
to bring in a Bill to carry into effect the Report of the
Committee upon Blackfriars bridge.
COURTS OF REQUEST.
Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from certain per-
sons, complaining that they had been summoned to the
Court of Requests for a small sum, and that the expenses
were 300 per cent. more than the debt. The same
Hon. Member Presented a petition from certain labourers
in factories, praying the House not to make any alteration
in the Factories Act that would add to the hours of labour ;
also a petition from the surgeons of Andover, complaining
that a person was practising in that town who had obtained
his diploma by means of fraudulent certificates.
Sir F. POLLOCK defended the course pursued by the
College of Surgeons. He did not wish to object to the
reception of the petition, but would leave it to be dealt
with by the House as it might think fit.
After a few words from Mr. WAKLEY, the petition
was ordered to lie on the table.

BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.
Sir CHARLES BURRELL rose to bring before the
attention of the House what he considered, at least, to be a
great breach of decorum, if not of the privileges of the House.
It had been stated that the reason why he gave his vote in
favour of Stephenson's line was that he had had 15,000/.
awarded to him for land belonging to him through which
that line would have to pass. He begged leave to state,
for the information of the House, that this was totally
untrue. If he were capable of acting in such a way as had
been imputed, he would not only be totally unworthy of a
seat in that House, but undeserving of being received into
any society of gentlemen. He spurned the idea of being
considered capable of so base and disgraceful an act. After
some further observations which, from the low tone of the
Hon. Gentleman's voice, were totally inaudible, he con-
cluded by moving that Mr. Cundy, a party implicated, be
summoned to appear at the bar of the House on Monday

Captain PEC HELL was taken by surprise by this mo-
tion, nor did he expect that the Hon. Baronet would have
brought such a trumpery question before the House. He
imagined the Hon. Member was, when he rose, about to
bring forward something of a graver nature. He alluded
to a rumour which was afloat with regard to an Hon. Mem-
ber of that House, as having been tampered with by a large
shareholder in this line of way, with a view to prevent the
presentation of a petition. This was what he expected the
attention of the House was about to be called to. As to
the charge brought forward by the Hon. Baronet, it was a
mere trumpery thing, a mere matter of conversation, and not
worthy of occupying the time of the House.