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LONDON :
TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1838.

Lord MAIDSTONE last night brought under the notice
of the House the language used by Mr. O'CONNELL at the
Crown and Anchor. The Tories mustered in great
strength. The attack was made on a man peculiarly ob-
noxious to many Honourable Members. There was a
great probability of succeeding against him—and the ho-
nour and (Agility of the House, the business of the nation,
the time of the Legislature, which verily has none to spare,
were all cast aside for the chance of obtaining a personal
and party triumph ever the redoubted Mr. O'CONNELL, a
Catholic and an Irishman! Lord MAIDSTONE disappointed
expectation by his perseverance—for it was generally sup-
posed that important considerations connected with the
character of the house would have induced the cool
and temporizing leaders whom Lord MAIDSTONE usually
follows to place him under some moral restraint. The
wildness of the pretereding, however, had its party advan-
tages, for several Liberal Members, giving the body of the
Tories credit for some discretion, made no exertion to be
pres( nt, and so allowed the Tories to carry their point by
a pitiful majority of nine. Lord MAIDSTONE'S speech was
not so wild, we admit, as the proceeding, and he placed his
interference en the ground that he had been a Member
of the Salford Committee, which being composed of a ma-
jo!ity of Reformers, and having declared the Reform
Member duly elected, his Lordship was not, of
course, guilty of perjury. He, however, felt his ho-
nour proportionally assailed. The Times, indeed, has
imputed perjury to the majority of the Committee.
Mr. O'CONNELL, in obedience to the dictates' of the
SPEAKER, followed Lord MAIDSTONE, and justified his
words by referring to the cheers given by Honourable
Members when the names of their friends were drawn en
Election Committees, and the canvassing far attendance
before Ballots, and by quoting the charges publicly made
by Mr. C. BULLER, the chronicle, and the Times. Other
Members, in the course of the debate,' justified the state-
ment, particularly Mr. MORGAN O'CONNELL, who quoted
a letter contained in the Limerick chronicle of the 10th
instant, written from the House within five minutes after the
Ballots had been struck, by some Tory, which said, so con-
fident was the writer that the decision of the Committees
would be partial, "we have lost Salford and Rox-
burgh—but we have gained Ipswich." Singular
enough, last evening, the report of the Ipswich Com-
mittee unseated the Reform Member, while in the
other cases, the decision had previously seated the Reform
Member, confirmed the prediction in all its points. Now,
when the theory thus enables a writer to arrive at such cer-
tain conclusions, is not its correctness palpable to the whole
world ? Is not Mr. O'CoNNELL's accusation confirmed by
all the testimony that can be obtained on such a subject ?
The House of Commons, however, instead of humbly and
contritely expressing sorrow at being detected in such a
wide deviation from rectitude, was further pleased, after a
spirited debate, in which Sir EDWARD SuODEN, Lord JOHN
ROSSELL, Sir ROBERT PEEL, the CHANCELLOR. Of
the EXCHEQUER, and Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT, took the
principal share, to reject Lord Howler's motion to
pass to the Order of the Day, by 263 to 254, and
to declare that the charge of Mr. O'CONNELL, so con-
firmed and so proved, was a false and scandalous imputa-
tion on their honour and character. Of course the
Members of the House of Commons being judges in their
own cause—there being no appeal from their decision,
and the Press standing much in awe of privileges—the
House of Commons is at liberty to vote as it pleases,
unshackled and unchecked, by any consideration of what
is due to truth ; and the world is bound to admit that
in the opinion of the House of Commons to charge the
Members of the Election Committees with perjury is
false and scandalous. Proofs go for nothing, the dictum of
the judge in his own case is decisive, and the public must
not impugn—the electors must not gainsay—the Press
must record in silent admiration, the decree that to charge
the Members with perjury is false and scandalous. The
folly, however, of coming to such a vote •n Lord MAID-
STONE'S instigation was made immediately evident after the
first resolution was carried, by Mr. CALLAGHAN declaring
in his place, in spite of the warnings and admonitions of the
SPE A KER, that he entirely concurred is all the opinions and
expressions avowed by the Hon. Member for Dublin. He
openly defied the power of the House, and must, of course,
if the blouse be consistent, be committed to Newgate.
Mr. RocuE, Mr. Gnu's, Mr. SOMERS, and Mr. H.
GRATTAN, took a similar course. All expressed their con-
currence in Mr. O'CoNNELL's opinions, after they had
been declared a breach of privilege, and all like Mr.
CALI,AGIIA-N must be punished, or the House will
suffer the SPEAKER to be bearded in his Chair. Pro-
bably a number of other Members will resolve that a deci-
sion of the blouse shall not prevent them from expressing
what they regard to be truth, and Ncwgate or the Tower

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