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London, England, 1838-04-07 00:00:00

KINSALE.

The Committee retained the vote of Timothy Casey.

Dr. Bishop was objected to on the ground of insufficient vilue, he
being the joint occupier of a house with his mother and sister. The
Commit tee tetahed the vote.
This left the petitioner in a majority of one.
Another objection on the part of the sitting Member had been partly
heard, when the Committee adjourned.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, ArRIL 6.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
The SPEAKER informed the House that he had received a petition
against the return for the borough of Devizes.

MALDON ELECTION COMMITTEE.

The Chairman of the Maldon Election Comrriittee appeared at the
Bar with their Report, stating that J. Round, Esq., the sitting Member,
was duly elected, that the petition against the return was neither frivo.
lous nor vexatious, and that the opposition thereto was not frivolous
nor vexatious.

Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a petition from Counsel practising in
the Palace Court, praying they might be heard against the Marylebone
Small Debts Bill.

BELFAST WATER-WORKS.
Mr. E. TENNENT- then rose to call the attention of the House to
Life petition which he had presented from the promoters of the Belfast
Waterworks Bill, and to move that leave be given to the parties to
proceed with the Bill on depositing, in lieu of the declaration lodged
in the Private-bill Office, a subscription list, conformable to the
Standing Orders, to be proved before the Committee on the Bill.
He then read extracts from the opinions of Mr. Warren, Queen's Council,
and other lawyers, to show that the conduct of the Company had been
perfectly legal. They had had, besides, several decisions of this House
in their favour, first of the Sub-Committee, then of the Committee on
Standing Orders ; and, lastly, they had the permission of the House to in.
troduce the Bill. The Hon. Member concluded by moving that the
parties be allowed to proceed with their Bill, on depositing, in lieu of
the declaration in the private Bill Office, a subscription list conformable
to the Standing Orders.
Col. VERNER opposed the motion. In the course of the last Ses.
sion a similar Bill underwent discussion, and was rejected. Ho believed
it was intended to present a petition in opposition to the one presented
yesterday; and he hoped, until Hon. Members had an opportunity of
comparing the two petitions, that they would suspend their judgment.
Mr. AGLIONBY supported the motion of the Honourable Mem-
ber for Belfast. The present question did not depend upon the
merits of the Bill, but upon the equitable construction of the
Standing Orders, and the equitable construction of an applica-
tion made in favour of the promoters of the Bill. The Standing
Orders required that a contract should be entered into, and the pro-
moters believed that they had complied with what was tantamount to
such regulation, and when the subject was referred to the Committee on
Private Bills, they decided that so far the Standing Orders had been com-
plied with. The promoters of the Bill had done all that could be required
of them. They had at present got the vantage ground, and there must
he somewhat stronger evidence before the House, to induce them to ac-
cede to the present motion. The promoters now sought to give the op-
posers of the Bill, beyond all legal doubt, a bona fide subscription con-
tract. Upon these grounds, he thought it quite right that the petition
should be agreed to.
Mr. R. PALMER having attended the Sub-Committee, before which
the petition was brought, felt himself called upon to justify the course
pursued by that Committee. The opinion of the Attorney-General of
Ireland had been obtained subsequent to the decision to which the
Sub-Committee had come with respect to the petition. Before that
opinion was obtained the Committee thought they had a sufficient
Prima facie case before them for adopting the course they did.
Mr. O'CONNELL—The Sub-Committee no doubt had a very difficult
duty to perform, and they had performed it to the best of their judgment;
but it did not follow that the decision they had come to was a right one.
The House would recollect that it was not the same parties who were
now before the House as last session. Then they came as a corporate
body, and acting with corporate funds—now they applied as individuals,
and pledged individual security for the works. He trusted the House
would put them in the same position as if they had petitioned in time.
Sir G. STRICKLAND said the petitioners went before the Commit-
tee in the full expectation the Standing Orders had been complied with,
and the parties had done everything in their power for the purpose of
complying with the Standing Orders. The Standing Orders were
never intended for theperpose of taking people by surprise, and of doing
injustice, and he thought the House ought to interfere, and allow the
parties to go on with their Bill.

Mr. DUNBAR sincerely trusted th.tt there would not be the slight-
est opposition to the motion of his Hon. Friend.

Captain PECHELL said it appeared to him the only question wac
whether the House would allow the Standing Orders to be a perfect
dead letter.

Mr. O'CONNELL said he did mot think it proper to resist the mo
tion any further.

Lord EBRINGTON thought the parties in this case should be al-
lowed to proceed with their Bill.—(Hear.)
The Noble Lord sat down amidst loud cries of ' Divide;" but the
motion was ultimately agreed to without a division, and the Bill was
brought in and read a first time.

Several other private Bills were advanced n stns...
Mr. BAINES presented several petitions against further endowments
to the Church of Scotland, or the schools belonging to that establishment.
Mr. DENNISTOUN brought. up the tteport on the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway Bill,

After some remarks from Lord G. SOMERSET, Mr. P. TnomsoN, and
Mr. WALLACE, suggesting the propriety of postponing the further con-
sideration of the Report, it was agreed that it should be deferred until
after Easter.

Mr. BAINES presented three petitions from Mirfield and other
places, praying that the Negro Apprenticeship system might terminate
on the lst of August next.

Sir R. BATESON presented petitions from Maghera and Banagha,
in the county of Londonderry, against the projected system of Poor_
laws. Also two petitions from the teachers of Browne-street School,
Belfast, for the total abolition of the negro apprenticeship system.
NEGRO SLAVERY.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented five petitions from places in Lan.
caster and Durham, for the abolition of the apprenticeship system.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY presented petitions from Ashton-under-Lyne,
and Welsh Poole, to the same effect.
Mr. BARNARD and Lord HILLSBOROUGH presented several petitions to
the same effect.
Similar petitions were presented by Mr. Aglionby, from different
parishes in Cumberland; by Sir George Strickland, by Mr. Turner, by
Mr. Caley, from different parts of Yorkshire; and by Mr. Easthope;
from Leicester.
Mr. COLQUHO UN presented a petition from the Presbytery of
Kirkaldy, in favour of further endowments to the Church of Scotland.
Lord ELIOT was anxious to take that opportunity of correcting
on error, or rather an inaccurate expression, which had fallen from him
on a late occasion. He had believed, and had given expression to that
belief, that Colonel Jones had headed a storming party at Ciudad
Rodrigo.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Ile bad since been informed that
it was the forlorn hope that Gallant Officer bad commanded. In his
ignorance he (Lord E.) had thought the terms synonimous r he had
not, however, overstated the matter.—(Cheers.) He had been
given to understand that that error had given pain to the family
of a Gallant Officer; he therefore begged to correct himself, and say
that the officer who commanded the storming party on that occasion was
General Napier.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that
Monday he would move a Committee of Supply, for the purpose of takin:;
a vote to liquidate the allowances for one quarter of those who upon the
Pension List.

Sir R. PEEL said he saw there was a Ballot fixed for the 24th inst.,
which was the day uprm which the House was to reassemble ; he
thought that would be inconvenient, and that it would be better to
postpone it till the following Thursday, when there were only two fixed.
He thought it would meet the general convenience of the House.—
(Hear, hear.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said if the proposition met the general con-
venience of the House, he would be most happy to postpone
the Ballot from Tuesday to Thursday, and in such a case he
would move the adjournment of the House till the Wednesday.—Cheers )
THE TWOPENNY POST.
"Arr. HALL wished to ask a few questions of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, relative to the Post-office arrangements. He wished to be
informed whether the reduction of the 4d. post to 2d. had yet taken
place; also whether wholly, or if it was only partial. He wished also
to know whether it was intended that there should be any reducticn
made in the 3d. post; and lastly, whether they intended to allow
stamped covers in short distances.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had, in answer, to say

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at the reduction of the 4d. post bad been carried into effect—the 3d.
postage was to be reduced to 2d. .The stamped covers were in progress,
when an lion.
w
ember of that House waited on him and said the reline.
tion as so partial thst.
it would be an unfair trial of the plan, and
begged that they might not be :.!.'ued. He was not therefore to blame.