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cessae.s. that he should proceed at any length. Again he pro-
Posed, that for the peace the constabulary should be the sole
t fficers employed, like the police in London and some of rise
large towns also in Ifeland, and by this means all rite watch-
:rates and other taxes of that character weeid be removed.
Another. point, which was of great importantea, was that of the
boundaries. There was a Bill in the other House of Parlia
anent for the establishment of boundaries to Corporatione, but
he found that it might not pass into a law, and he did ea think
'that they should take the chance of it. He meant, therefore, in
a Scheduleof this Bill so insert all the boundaries stated in
the Report of the Commissioners. He believed, and he was
informed by persons who were acquainted with the subject,
that the Bill corresponded with the Report of the Commis.
stoners, with one exception, and he apprehended that there
Would be no objection to the course which he proposed, the
House would feel that it would be necessary to provide for the
discharge of the various duties in the administration of pro-
perty in those towns which might not choose to have Cor-
porations remodelled under this Bill, and he proposed, there-
fore, that Commissioners should be appointed for that purpose.
He should propose that they should consider, first the altera-
tions as to the number of towns, wed afterwards those with
respect to the qualification, and 'chat then the amendmeats
consequent upon these shoeld be referred to n Committee
appointed for that purpose,
Viscount GORT se;.Zt, that it appeared to him that the
Noble Lord who bad just sat down, and those other Noble
Peers who had aeriaiesced in the course which he had taken,
were reduced to this dilemma, that they must either admit
that the view *which they had taken of this subject when it
• leas last debated was erroneous, or that the objections
Which they entertained to the Bill being passed into a law
werdlu and futile, or they must contend that Ireland was
n" in ii different situation to what it was at that time. The
Noble Lord proposed to make a compromise, and he thought
that he (Viscount Gort) would agree to it also : for he spoke
of the whole of the Peers on that side of the House, and he
saidithat the large towns should have Municipal Corporations,
quid that the small towns should not. But the whole danger
lay in the large towns, because they had a separate juris-
diction, and they besides possessed great patronage and large
establishments at their disposition. The Noble Lord thought
that the Tithe Bill and the Poor Relief Bill justified him
in the dereliction of his duty of which he had been
guilty ; but he must admit that he did not think
either of those Bills
kith the at all applied to the subject. By
the charter of Limerick the Mayor might sit on the bench
wi
oath Judge of Assize, but before he did so he must take
an ; but ureter this Bill a Roman Catholic or a Radical
Protestant, which he thought infinitely worse—( Laughter)
---might bo Mayor, and exercise this privilege, and
what chance would a Protestant have of recovering his estate ,
1).,Y ejectment before such a tribunal? In short the treaty of
-Limerick and the charter of that city would be violated.—
("ear. (Hear.) He might be told that the aggrieved party could
aPPeel from the decision to their Lordships' House; but he
Confessed that he did not think that the appellate jurisdiction
would long survive. They were granting concession after
concession ; they were coming to the last round—(Laughter)
---they were coming to legislate at the dictation of Mr. O'Con-
bell and the mob who coerced them. Was that the way that
they lately legislated for Canada? There they took away the
Power from the bands of the rebellious Catholics and had I
Placed it in the hands of the Protestants. All he wanted .vas
that the House should be consistent ; that it should ''..:t vote
black one night and white another—(Hear)—and te, for one,
declared that he considered the 10/. qualifice, : to be ue no
security ; for it would soon be broken thrceeih, as every other
qualification had been.
Viscount MELBOURNE said. °
been more fair than that which
and Learned Lord, 4" wet nothing could have
...d been adopted by the Noble
cured his task in a more
c nor was ''.4 possible for him to have exc-
manner, or in a maze. .air, a more clear, or a more candid
eip
lbournle bye)believ which he, •.er more in accordance with the prin.
professed to be actuated. He (Viscount Ne
felling to what 'had
ad that the Noble and Learned Lord, in re-
session bet, passed in the debates at the end of the last
wren the Noble Duke (the Duke of Wellington)
,:vrihdichhirnse':l, had not only correctly stated the expressions
e• , " Ive-. 01: used, butalso the import of them. It was not
his Lifter , •
the e • eon upon the present occasion to go back and discuss
t.
'a. q. AI stion whether he was right in the observations which he
4 made or whether he was not; it was at all times unne-
feessary to revert to by-gone discussions, and it was still more
unnecessary now when there was a disposition to come to a
general agreement upon the whole subject.— (Hear, hear.)
The Noble and Learned Lord bad also stated exactly the
amendments which he intended to propose. With respect
to
could not then go into the point as to the alteration of the
towns in the two schedules, and into the number of towns on
Which Corporations should be imposed by that measure ; the
Point might, be left for further consideration, whether they
should be granted upon the petition or application of a ma-
jority of the rated inhabitants ; but he apprehended that a
considerable portion of the towns in both schedules were of
sufficient magnitude to have them granted. It was not the
Male thing to secure to the towns at once corporate govern-
tnetit with ell its now admitted advantages, and leaving, those
same towns to eels for it. There might be many reasons, in-
ternal dissensions, personal feuds or others, which might pre-
'teat an application ; whereas, if the Corporations were given
at °nee, they
2 would be well received, and they would be
conferring on the towns a form of government which was
I',ow admitted generally to be productive of advantage and
benefit. But the greatest and talost material of the amend-
ments to be proposed by the Noble and Learned Lord was the
alteration ot. the amount of the qualification. The qualifica-
tion, as it et present stood in the Bill, was the occupation of
a house of 51. value, exclusive of those charges or deductions
Which the Noble and Learned Lord now threw in to form
the qualification. Now he presumed that all persons in that
Ilouse bad the same object in view that they intended im-
Mediately to give Corporations and to give them fairly—
( Ilear, hear)—that it would be a matter of satisfaction to all
parties that these Corporations should continue to vr
work
ell--that it was, therefore, the intention of all parties to
unite in each town a great body of the inhabitants—that
it was the intention to favour neither the democracy nor
the arisfoeracy—that it was not intended to confine the
franchise to a few persons, which would only lead to the
contieual discussion and reopening of the subject; but that
it was the meaning of Noble Lords to make a settlement upaat
11 basis really satisfactory, and this would certainly dr:l;ond
upon the nature of the qualification; for if the franchise
were exclusive, or if an unreasonably small numbee were ad-
mitted to it, undoubtedly the settlement wois:td not be sa-
tisfactory. The Noble and Learned Lord .t• Aid
admitted that
absurdity of giving a qualification to 1< 'ad
higher than
that existing in England; and tlae Noble Lerd admitted
also, that a 101. franchise, not eubject to deductions or de-
falcations on the part of the kandlords, would be the same
as by the decisions of the ro•vising barristers exitted in Eng-
land ; but he (Viscount M.elbourne) asked Noble Lords, con_
Si
the relative sit:ration cf the two countries with regard
to opulation with :egard to wealth, with regard to the value
of property, and •::speeiallv with regard to the rents of houses,
to say whether it would really he fair that the qualification in
Ireland should be of the same value as that in England—.
whether the same q
that tualification would suit a
poor, asesuited a
al% country ? The Noble and Learned Lordproposed
he municipal franchise in Ireland should be the p
same as
the Parliamentary franchise; but whether that could be ape
liked to the towns in Ireland he ( Viscount Melbourne) had
great doubt; and considering that the municipal qualifica-
rtion in England was being rated for a certuin
time to any
cinnt, he would ask the Noble and 14; areed Lord whether,
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proposal he would not fall into the same absurdity
_e bee admitted, of giving a higher qualification in Ire-
not then
than was required in the towns in England ? Ile would
Inoitthen discuss the matter further, but would go into Com-
, no.tere_ on the Bel, It was, however, rather puzzling to
Steerrates; the way Clearly through the difficultie3 ; but he thought
tt__ the Committee should seriously consider whether the
eachfication on the face of the Bill was not the heel qualifi-
lon el.ich hould be devised, and whether it would not be
more
fro_itute rrudent to adhere to the qualification he sent up
,`" the other house of -Parliament, Vete to make any
suost.
the' Earl of WICKLO W remailied that it was certainly
gratifvin to him to find that the difference of opieion
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so''°ieven Noble Lords, NNl,ich hal bithe.i existed was in
me measure ab inde-..ed; lie was glad to find that the pointr
difference bet:l'een himself and otl.er Noble herds), and
between them and the Government, were eel* in a peat
degree narrotved, and when he consider:al the discussions
Which had taksn place upon this measure elsewhere, !le
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ugnt that they would he still more nate oetel by the
:‘atpeeeh of his Noble and Lea;ded frith& When the Bill
rteS under discussion in another 01;:eb, there did not appear to
any ebjection to a Flo Palle:his°, provided the means of
is'qrialifing that amour:l, Were arrived at in a niftmtrt• tii.
wining
to the autnore of the Bill. This being Illt Case, he
should be sorry •s is
. the present Se/Islets of Parliament were
t1,1""41 to Pasty over without securing to the country the
c.,,arte.fits of elunicipal Reform.—( Hear, hear.) He always
that
.lered 'that this reform ought to be granted ; he knew
as only a question of time, and it was, therefore,
peculiary satisfactory to him tie.t the SeCien would not be
(11. e. allowed io pass without the adoptiatt of . a setisfactfra mea•
was n-4( I Im7Cabee4rad As to 0..0 amount of the franchise there
Friend and heea.otireac„o between his Noble and Learned
be monstrous ; r tie thought that a 5/. franchise wculd
framing the p,.-. " he thought that Ministers, who in
a-year were 04,1‘adwb Bill had thought that houses of e/
they ese,„ not worth
.t,i
13se low a description of peraons thatia
thQ U. franchise should ''ing tix-d, would not require t i
.t
Was quite out et. tae quest'
f 1 ho continued in
,this 8.11.1--it
I°r.• He was sure that tuts would not
stand part of the Bill, and it was only aterial, therefore,
to know tic,c; the lot. franehir•e should bme framed. He was
gratified to find by
Pietici, and he had not previously
the speech of his Noble and Learned
bail an opportunity of
Wang what his proposal would be, that what lie consi-
dered a bona 101. parliamentary franchise should not
be maintained at that amount in the rating ; because if it were
32acessary that the house should be rated at to/., this provision
the qualification higher than it
Would have the effect of raising
was in this country or in Scotland, and it was admitted by all
that this was not required. Ilis Noble and Learned Friend
lad agreed that the amount should be ascertained by taking
the rateable value, and adding to this the amount of the land-
lord's repairs and of the insurance. So far the Noble and
Learned Lord had opened or extended the reel
of in favour
of the voters, but be (the Earl of Wicklow) feared that there
what those
'could be much difficulty in arriving at a perfect knowledge of
was afraid,
repairs and insurances were to be ; he
admitting the justice of the suggestion of his Noble and Learned
Priend, that there would be a difficulty in carrying it into
effect.
wo Although agreeing, therefore, in the principle, he
11 uld rather prefer a bona fide qualification fixed at a lower
o.°lllinal amount in the rating, without taking into account
'Lie repcia or the insurance, as. there would then bo no

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diffictlliyiii arriving at the means oflegistering the ind:vidnals
candy entitled. Therefore he woultd rather that a qualification
should be established whiqh wbula be liable to no mistake,
though nominally beIYA- ilk[., hut which, coupled with the ex-
penses, aqd re e. 4.114 an allowance for the new taxation under
the 43e+-law Amendment Act, would ruttolint to a real 10/.
frAnchise. With respect to the Gist amendment as to the num.
bcr of towns in schedules A and B, to which they should
agree to ,crid corporations, he thought the numb& would be
tee 5;111111 if it were confined to A atone ; it was, and always
had been, his anxious wish that all those towns wh'elt returned
Members to Parlitinent should have Corporations( Ilear)—
and that the other towns, on petitioN should have them.
Another amendment of his Noble and Learned Fiend he con-
ibssed that he did not very well like, he meant the amendment
depriving the runtticipal bodies of the power of appointing
their own Constables; he thought that be bad so understood
the Noble Lord's statements, and if that were the case he
should certainly object to it.,
Lord PORTMAN suggested th4t the net annual value ac-
cording to the last column in the schedule of the Poor-law
Amendment Act should be taken as the criterion ; and he
would ask, whether they could not arrive at some fixed amount
for the qualification derived from that net value, without run-
ning any risk by the introduction of other columns? All were
anxious to maintain a fair amount, but whilst considering
whether that amount should be 5/., or 8/ , or 10/., the House
should recollect that it was most important to get rid of this
question at once. Let him, however, remind the House that
the
ee
watch, erashise, onlyund si. ;
under the Act of 9:11 George IV., regulating,
tain towns should have CaoirTmwrahteionnist, w
andus stahiadt tohtahte roan isyh should
not have them except on petition, he 'thought that they ought
not to hold out inducements to those other towns to adopt the
9th George IV., i3stead of petitioning. He was sure that
this was not an Act which Noble Lords would recommend the
towns in Ireland to prefer to the Act which he hoped Noble
would agree to pa:s.--( Hear, hear.)
Lord LYNDHURST suggested that they should then go
into Committee, otherwise they would be discussing two or
three points at once.
The House having accordingly gone into Committee,
The preamble was postponed.
Lord LYNDHURST suggested the postponement of
clauses 1 and 2, to which he lied only formal amendments to
propose, which, having been done,
The 4th clause was accordly read.
Lord LYNDHURST moved the insertion of the words
" inserted in the said schedule A," which would raise the
question as to what towns were to have Corporations.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE wished to know whether
this would leave the question open as to what towns were to
be included in• the schedule?
Lord' LYNDHURST had moved the insertion of the
words to confine the number of towns to those already in the
schedule.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that, if the House
adopted the Noble Lord's principle of having two kinds of
schedules, he could not consent to this determining the
qnestion of how many towns were to be inserted in schedule A.
Th; 'Earl of WICKLOW observed that it was his inten-
ti.:.,n to move the insertion of certain towns into schedule A.
Lord LYNDHURST remarked that the amendment re-
ferred to schedule A; and it would be open to any Noble
Lord, when they came to that schedule, to move to leave out
or to insert any towns. He had moved the insertion of the
words to establish the principle that on part only of the towns
should Corporations be forced, as it were, by the Act.
After a few words from Viscount MELBOURNE, in which
he said that he would prefer keeping the Bill as it came from
the Commons.

The amendment was put and agreed to without a division,
and the clause as amended was ordered to stand part of the
Bill.

On clause 6,

Lord LYNISI-IURST moved to leave out the words "rated
to the relief of the poor," for the purpose of introducing as an
amendment the words "of the yearly value of not less than
101., to be ascertained and determined as hereinafter men-
tioned ;" and then, after keeping to the words of the clause,
adding, " such yearly value to be ascertained and determined
in the manner following, and not otherwise, namely, that it
shall be composed of the value of the premises rated, as they
are hereby required to be, under the provisions of an Act
passed in the present session of Parliament, to the relief of the
poor in Ireland, and of the amount of the sums for landlord's
repairs and insurance, as estimated and stated in such rates."
Viscount MELBOURNE should certainly take the sense
of the House against this amendment.
In reply to a question from Lord PLUNKETT, the nature
of which did not reach us,
Lord LYNDHURST said that the value of property
was the rent which it would produce, or which the landlord
would obtain, he keeping the tenement in such a state of
repair as was necessary to enable him to obtain the rent, but
making a distinction between landlord's repairs and tenant's
repairs. This was the value and was the principle of rating
under Mr. Poulett Scrope's Bill ; that would, in fact, be the
value of rating under the Irish Poor-law Bill, the landlord's
repairs necessary for him to obtain the rent being stated in
another column ; but in order to obtain what was practi-
cally considered the clear yearly value, and to conform to
what was the rule acted upon under the Parliamentary fran-
chise in England, he had consented to add to the rated value
the landlord's repairs and the insurance for the purpose of
conferring on Ireland what was practically the value in
England.

viscount MELBOURNE having made some observation
which we did not hear,
Lord LYNDHURST thought that it would he.found in
practice that it would require more than an 8/. rating to make
a 101. house.

The Committee then divided—
For the amendmeit.
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4gainst it
Majority
On our return to the gallery,

Viscount ME LBO UkNEWas addressing the House, and
we understocd him to say that as he considered the opinion of
their Lordships had been decidedly expressed by the fete
sion, ht-., should not trouble them by debating the question any
fuataer.—( Hear, hear. )
The Marquis of L A NSDO WNE considered that the qua.
lifieetion proposed by the Noble and Learned Lord was far
from being the best that could IR! devised, and that the mode
of ascertainining the value would work great inequality in re-
spect to the rights of different parties.
The clause as amended was then ordered to stand pst of
the Bill.

Lord LYND HURST then said that the remaining amend-
ments which he wished to propose were of a nature be thought,
Which might be with greater convenience to their Lordships
discussed on the bringing up of the report ; he would there-

fcre suggest that in the mcnnwhi!e those amendments should
be admitted pro forma and printed. The Noble and Learned
Lord then moved seriatim the insertion of the amendments re
biting to charitable trusters, the c:mstabulary• fox?, and the
boundaries of boroughs, as stated in his opening speech, with
a view to their bring pi inted.
This being agreed to the House r,sulied, and the report
was ordered to be received on Tuesday next.
The Bills on the table were advanced a stage, and the House
adjourned at a quarter past nine o'clock.

Parliamentary Electors in Cities and Borong,lis entitled
under the Reform Act, will lose their totes for the next
yoar, unless they pay on or before the 20th of July instant,
:41 the poor's rates (AO window tax, if aly) payable from
them, in respect of their premises previously to the 6th
of April last. County voters must send in their cla'rris by
the 20th of July instant':
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A DETERNITED JVItYMAN.—At the Exettr
gessions on Tuesday, a man named Stone was tried on a charge of cm.
beetling a truss of goods which he had been entrusted to take to a carrier.
The Jury, alter some consultation, turned to the Court, and the Fore.
man stated to the Ileettldef that they eauld not agree, there being as was
futiloured &even for acquitting the primner, and one for pre.
litilincing him guilty. The Re. order told the Jury that they must al
agree Lefore any verdict could be taken, and they ware accordingly
locked up, an officer being sworn to keep them in safe custody, without
refreshment. This was at six in the evening, and they continued lucked
tip until noon the fo'llowlng day, when the business of the sessions hay.
ing terullnated, the Recorder sent for them to know if they were agreed,
and was answered in the negative. S He then asked if there was any pro-
bability of their agreeing within a reasonable time, but the answer was
" No." The Learned GcntOman Own ordered the proclamation to be
made touching the prisoner, and there being no other evidence, he was
set at libe,ty, and the Jury discharged. When the Jury werediscliarged,
there were two for finding the prisoner guilty and ten for acquitting him,
the single dissentient havicg gained over by his eloquence one of his
brethren during the night.—E.rcter Gazette.
LA FONTAINE.—CoIasse also composed the music
of Astree, a tragic opera, written by La Fontaine, and produced in
1691. A characteristic anecdote is related of this celebrated poet. At
the first performance of this piece he was sitting in a box behind come
ladies whn did not know him. They heard him constantly saying to
himself, " Wretched ! detestable ! trash :" until at length one of them,
weary of his re,seated murmurs, said to him, " Oh, Sir, the piece is by
no means bad—the author is a man of genius, the famous M. de la
Fontaine."—" Well, ladies," said he, very coolly, " the piece is not
worth a farthing ; and this V. de la Fontaine, whom you talk of, is a
Llocklicad—he tells you so himself." At the end of the first act he went
away, and, going into an adjoining coffee-house, sat down in a corner
and fell asleep. A gentleman of his acquaintance coming in, and seeing
him, exclaimed, " What! M. de la Fontaine here! should he not be at
the first representation of his opera?"—" I am just come from it,"
said La Fontaine, rousing himself and yawning, " I sat out the first act,
but was so completely sick of it that I could not stay any longer. Really
the Parisians have a wonderful stock of patience."—Hogarth's Musi.al
Drama.
BOROUGII OF CLONMEL.—TIIC Attorney-Gene-
ral, Mr. Ball, will immediately address his constituents in Clonmel.
Some foolish people talk of a contest; but we shall be
very much our.
prised, indeed, to hear that even the Conservatives of Clonmel could be
guilty of any such absurdity.—Dublin Evening Post.
A joint-stock company is establishing at Coblentz
for forming a railroad from that city to Erns, which will be carried by a
tunnel about ai French leagues 4n length through the heights of Pfaf.
fendorf, near Ehrenbreitsteln, and will consequently be longer than any
railroad tunnel out of England. The road is estimated to cost 360,000
thalers (about 1,300,000 francs), of which sum the tunnel will take
220,000 thalers.

lii OL tIN Sir) _N,

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty hail a dintier party last evening at the new
Palace. There Were present their Serene Highnesses the Duke
of Nassau, the Hereditary Plintic. of Nassau, Prince Malinke
or Nassau, Prince Christian of tlONteitl, .and Ptinee• Ernest of
Hesse PhiliflpBthal Prince Esterbity the Austrian Artibassa-
dor, Count Porno_ di 11)rgo thc ItuSsian Ainbacsador, the
Russian Amhasta'or Extraordinary and the Countess Btroga-
noir, the Austrian Ambassador Extraordinary and the Prin.
ti!ss Schwarzenberg, the Netherlands Annb.ssador Extraor-
dinary and the Baroness van de Capellen, Prince dtt Putbus,
Prussian Ambassador Extraordinary, Baron Bulow the Prus-
sian
Minister, the Danish Minister and Baroness Biome; M.
Dedel the Nethciands Minister, Baron Gersthrff the Saxon
Minister, Marquis of Conyngham, and Viscount Palmerston.
The band of tic Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards was
in attendance during dinner at the Palace.
It is her Nlajevy's intention to give a grand diplomatic
dinner at liackingham Palace on Wedaesday, the 25th of this
111011111..

Her M ijesty, accompanied by the Duchess of Ketit and the
Princess Hohenlohe, took a drive in the Packs yesterday after-
noon in open barouche, drawn by four fire; s.
Viscount Melbourne lied an audience yesterday of her
Majesty.
The Hon. Miss Cavnidish and the [lon. Miss Cocks have
succeed 4 the Hon. Miss Pitt and the Hon. Miss Spring Rice,
as the Miids of Honour in waiti 1g on her M Ijesty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess
of Cambridge, and P, ince George of Cambridge visited her
M jes'y the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough-house.
Her Majesty took an airing in a pony phaeton and four.
Mr Cayley had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yes.
tcrday in ,Downing•street, to present a memorial from the
Central Agricultural Society of Great Britain and Ireland, in
favour of the re-establishment of the Board of Agriculture.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. It was attended by Viscount Melbourne, the
Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell,
Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Ilolland, Mr. Poulett
Thomson, and Visc...unt Howick. The Council sat an hour
and a half.

Marslie Soult and Mr. White, Consul fur Granville, trans-
acted business yesterday at the Foreign.office.
After the dinner party at the Palace yesterday, her Ma-
jesty had an evening, party. Strauss's band was in attend-
ance, and was stationed in the picture gallery. Amongst
the company were the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland,
Marchioness of Norraanby, Marquis of Anglesey and two
Ladies Paget, Earl of Liverpool and Lady Louisa Jenkinson,
Lord and Lady 41in Russell, Lord and Lady Barham, Lady
Rivers and Hon. Miss Pitt, Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord Alfred
Paget, Sir Henry and Lady Wheatley-, and two Miss Wheat-
ley, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Cavendish, lion. Mr, and Mrs.
Ashley, and Hon. Miss Spring Rice.