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London, England, 1849-07-20 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 19.

Zhe House resumed at Six o'clock.
Messengers from the Lords brought up several Bills.
METROPOLITAN BAKERS.
Mr. CHARLES PEARSON presented a petitiott
from master bakers in Clapham, praying that the Baktri
Bill may not pass into s law.

UitDNA N CE ESTIMATES.
Sir DE LACY EVANS called the attention of the
House to a number of inaccuracies which appeared in
report of what ho said yesterday, in the discussion of the
o:ddance estimates, published in the Morning Chronicle
The Hon. Member for the West Riding was ready le
corroborate the inaccuracy of which he complained. f
the first Waco he was made to say that the existence Of
their naval supremacy depended on the maintensneeo
fortreses in Bermuda, Malts, and the lonian IsIallug;
lie stated, certainly, that those fortresses were of great
importance, but he never uttered such nonsense as to 851
that they were necessary for the maintenance of Britio'
naval power. The Honourable. and Gallant Officer also
read another statement in the same speech, relative to
the fortresses of Malta end Gibra:tar, which, be oil
was alto inaccurate, and appealed for the accuracy °t
his statement to the Honourable Member fur the Wes
Riding.
The SPEAKER informed the Honourable and Gallant
Officer, that no corroboration of his atatemeni was lie.
cessary.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from the mereb°,ll
and tradesmen of Singapore, calling the attention of I_l
House to the treaty entered into between Great Britain
and the King of the Netherlands, relative to the Bast°oo
Archipelago, and the violation of it, as regarded Bri'l
subjects.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition against thew
stamp duty on advertisements and on newspaper° gene
rally, as being a tax on knowledge.
THE QUEEN'S 'VISIT TO IRELAND' the
Mr. FRE WEN, seeing the Right Hon. Gentleman
Secretary for Ireland in his place, called his attention
to an article which appeared in the last number 0' 0
paper, called the Irishman, published in Dublin, antiverir
ably written. In that article it was stated that wh°°le-•
illuminated in honour of her Majesty's visit would be
marked man; and they all knew what that meant
Ireland.

Sir IV. SOMERVILLE said that he had never sel
the paper alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman, but he 114
heard of it. of
Mr. COBDEN wished to know whether, instead, r
illuminating for her Majesty, the money collected le
such a purpose, would be applied to the relief of the
suffering poor in the south of Ireland. •
Sir W. b'OMERVILLE replied that no illumination
would take place by direction of the Government.
Mr. OSBORNE, in reference to a statement mado,LY
him the evening before, in the discussion on Smitbfle'".
market, when he :.aid Professor Owen had no praetiT
and which it was laid hurt the Professor very Ectlft
stated in explanation, that the language was not his, 11u1.
that he had taken the statement from the evidence °

Dr. Compton, given before the Committee.
WES I'MINSTER GRAVE-YARD.
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Mr. MACKINNON ealltd the attention of the
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Lord the Member for Bath, as one of the Boan't,",
Health, to the complaints which were daily made of $1"
burial-ground attached to Sr. Margaret's Church, Pfii,rip.fi
eularly by Members and officers of the House, and asP—of
it he would take measures, by applying to the Bisho
London, to have interments prevtiated during the Pre
valence of cholera.
Lord ASHLEY heard with great regret those els'
plaints to which the Hon. Gentleman alluded; but it Ills
quite impossible for liiin to communicate officially
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the Lord Bishop of London until ho received authell
information.
Sir CHARLES BURRELL had been informed tbasho
morning by the physician who attended his family,
the effluvia complained of arose from gas-works In "
neighbourhood.
Lord ASHLEY said that calavia from a grave-lara
could not be mistaken.

THE TAXATION OF THE COUNTRY' Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND then rcse to move, Pti"f ..
suant to notice, " That whereas a greater amount of Isf
ation is levied upon the people than is required for the
good and efficient government of the United Kingdnl33;
and whereas large sums are expended in supPortit
needless places, extravagant salaries, and unnecessary
,
works and establishments; and whereas the present
ation of the country depresses all classes, and espeeluthe
the labouring clas:.;es, by diminishing the fund for 110
employment of productive labour—it is the opinion of to
House that adtqutte means should be forthwith adeP.Fer
to reduce the expenditure of the Government.
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several years he had been pressing upon the Govero3te be
the necessity for making some radical change n the
mode of raising the revenue, and some reduction Inhed
expenditure c,f the country. The last time he brose'ea,
the subject he asked for a Committee in which, if grattoe
they might have gone thoroughly into detail, and ed,
found out where economy might have been practiller
One minister turned him into ridicule, while selt,sii•
warned the House not to be led away by so new 11 ere
nurus. The blue books on the table of the House" oe
his justification for persevering in pressing the subject tiO
the attention of the House. He feared her Dlogiless
Ministers would judge his motion rather with assocte;erf
connected with other motions, similar in words but been
dissimilar in tendency; becau,e they had usually That
made by Members wishing to damage the CrovernTrhos
end to establish some other faction in their place. 'I:, at
was not the C. 1.9 now. In fact, the days of party der
an end. If the Government were to be po
feated in any covert way, there was Ise
party to succeed them. lie regretted thl.'6l, of
powerful party existed to whom the Soverelgeirer
the country might have recourse if need be; but, net as
theless, they must deal with things as they way, litagOt
they might wish them to be. It might be an adote..toe
or it might be a disadvantage. But one advantage
o'tta•
out of it—an independent Member had now the °Pia tb°
nity, if he thought it right, to carry out measures. of
puldic good, for, in point of fact, the great inter°
the eAintry had always been sacrificed to partY4bot
poses. From the time of the revolution—he ines,e_:.rest
of 1888—down to the present time, every great i."
ibt
of the country had only been made the battle-fiencli.
`notion fight in that House. It was so during the -v woo
revolution—it was so during the American war--Itros
so during the Canada rebellion—it was so on the &rade.
13ws, and it was now every day the case on free
Some people readily adopted that course, really bet., bo
they were very farfrom it. One Hon. Member, "