The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-11 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, FEB. 10.

Mr. BEST, from the Bank, presented accounts of all Exche.
quer Bills purchased by the Bank on which any sums had been
advanced to the public service pursuant to Act of Parliament,
and also of the applications made by the CnANcELLort of the
EXCHEQUER fur advances from the sth of January 1824, to
the sth of January.lB2s.—Laid on the table.

STANDING ORDERS OF THE HOUSE•I,
Lord HOLLAND rose to call the attention of their Lord-
ships to an Order of the House, by which their Lordships bad
resolved to place a certain Act, the Act of 31st of Henry the
Eigth, as an Appendix to their Lordships' Standing Orders,
and had ordered their Lordship? Standing Orders to be print..
ed. This was done, he thought, in opposition to one Standing
Order the 104th, which he requested might be read. This order
was accordingly read by the Clerk, and purported that no new
Standing Order should be made, unless a notice was previously
given and their Lordships summoned. The Order to which he
had first adverted had been made in violation of this order, or,
what was worse, by an invasion of it. The addition of
this Act, by way, of appendix, was something he never heard of
before; it was an inroad on the Standing Order of their Lord-
ships, and he was afraid it might not stop there. He saw no
good reason for printing their Lordships' Standing Orders, ex-
cept those which relate to the business of persons out of doors;
they, indeed, could not be made, but he saw no use in printing
the other, except it was to revise and improve them. He con-
sidered the Standing Orders as the great protection of the Mi-
nority in their Lordships' House, and having generally been in
the minority, he had a strong predilection for them, and should
-be one of the last men not to support and enforce them. But if
printing them was intended now to call the attention of the
world to them, it might first be necessary to revise them, and
make them more wholesonie and practicable. But if this were
not done, it was better that they should not be printed. There
were some of them which he believed it was physically and
morally impossible to enforce, and he could not, therefore, see
any reason for printing and reviving what it was possible to
enfbrce. The Noble Baron sat down without submitting any
motion to their Lordships.
STATE OF , IRELAND.
The Order of the Day having been read,
The Earl of LIVERPOOL rose, pursuant to his notice,
to move the revival of the Committee of last year, to inquire
into the State of Ireland. The subject being already fami-
liar to their Lordships, he should not trouble them with many
words. He should only state the general object of his motion,
and the course of proceedings which he should propose to
adopt. Their Lordships were aware that a Committee had
been appointed last year to examine the nature and extent of
the disturbances which prevailed in certain parts of Ireland
which had been subject to the operation of the Insurrection
Act. As the object was to prove the expediency of continuing
that Act, the inquiry had been limited to the counties where
it was in force, or was likely to be put in force. But though
limited in point of locality, it had gone far into general subjects
not immediately connected with its original object, and the
Noble Earl himself, who had previously proposeti a more ex-
tended investigation, had expressed his approbation of the dis•
position which his Majesty's Ministers had shown to give every
possible latitude to the inquiry, and also of the superior conve-
nience of a limited, over a general investigation. With respect to
the question which the Noble Marquis opposite (Lansdown)
had put to him a few days since, he had not hesitated to answer
that he had no objection to extend the present inquiry to all
parts of Ireland. Some words of qualification should however be
put in, more to direct the Committee to what should be the sub-
jects for inquiry, than with a view to confine it. The motion