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London, England, 1840-07-22 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. JuLY 21.
BANK OF IRELAND.
The Bank of Ireland Bill was read a second time and
ordered to be committed on Friday.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT (IRELAND.)
Toe Impri3onn.cnt for Debt (Ireland) Bill was read a
third time and passed.
The Report of the Committee on Insolvent Debtors
(Ireland) was received.
The House then went into Committee on the Bill, the
several clauses were agreed to, and the House resumed.
The Report was ordered to be brought up on Thursday.
METROPOLITAN POLICE COURTS.
The Report of the Committee on this 13t11 was brought
up.

Mr. F. MA UL E proposed a clause to relieve magistrates
from personally affixing notices on deserted premises.
The clause was read a first aid second time, and, after
a few words from Mr. GRIMSDITCH. it was agreed to
be added to the Bill.
Mr. FOX MA ULE then proposed a clsuae, giving to
the Justices of the Metropolitan Police Courts power to
give superannuation allowances and pensions, in cases of
accid. ntal incapacitation for duty, to the officers, &c.
The clause was agreed to.
Mr. FOX MAUL E next proposed a clause giving to
tradesmen, shopkeepers, and others, an appeal to the
Justices of the Police Courts against the decisions of the
Courts Leets in cases of seizure or destruction of weights
and measures.
Mr. fl AWES of jected to the clause, as interfering
with an ancient and mast useful custom. lie thought it
monstrous :o render a jury of twelve men liable to a fine
for the conscientious discharge of their duty.
Mr. FOX MA ULE slid that the Bill should be re-
printed with these clauses, 83 as to give time for their full
consideration.
The clause was then egreed to be added to the Bill.
A clause was then also added to the Bill giving to the
Aldermen of the City of London the tisane jurisdiction
within the city as the 13111 gave to the Magistrates in the
Police Courts.
The Bill was then ordered to be printed and to be read
a third time on Friday.
The Turnpike Acta (Ireland) Continuance Bill was
read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-

morrow.
The Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill went through a
Committee, and the report was ordered to be received to.

morrow.
The Report on the Toll on Lime Bill was brought up,
and the B II ordered to he read a third time to-morrow.
GRAND JURY CESS (IRELAND).
Mr. PIGOT', in answer to Mr. FITZSTEPHEN
FRENCH, said that he did not intend to proceed with
the Grand Jury Ceas (Ireland) Bill during the present
Session.

The order for the Committee on the Bill was then read
and discharged.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER (IRELAND).
Mr. PIGOT moved the Order of the Day for the
bringing up the Report on the Court of Exchequer (Ire.
land) Bill.
Mr. FITZSTEPHEN FRENCH said that the office
of First Remembrancer was a mere sinecure, while the
holder of the office received 3,500/. a-year,
Colonel PERCEVAL objected to the Bill. Ho
thought it was monstrous to bring in such a Bill at so late
a period of the Session, and he should therefore move
that the Report on the measure should be further consi-
dered that day three months.
After a few words from Mr. Pigot, Mr. Fergusson, and
Lord Morpeth, the further consideration of the Report
was postponed till to-morrow.
EAST INDIA PRODUCE.
Lord SEYMOUR brought up the Report of the Com-
mittee on Eas. India produce.
MUNICIPAL DISTRICTS (IRELAND) BILL.
Lord MORPETH then rose to move for leave to bring
in a Bill to regulate Municipal Distriets (Err land), and to
provide for the compensation of Corporate officers in cer-
tain cases.

Leave was given to bring in the Bill.
The House then adjourned at twenty minutes to Four
it Five o'Clock.

The SPEAKER entered the house at Five o'Clock, but
;here being only 34 Members present, the House adjourned
ill tomorrow.

HOUSE OF LORDS,Jtar 21.

Their Lerdships met at ten minutes before Five o'Clock.
Messengers from the Commons brought up the Eccle-
s;astical Duties and Revenues Bill, the Poor-law Corn.
missions Continuation Bill, the Prisons (Ireland) Bill,
the Canals Police Bill.
The Bishop of ELY presented a petition from the dio-
cese of Ely, against the Ecclesiastical Revenues Bill.
The Bills brought up from the Commons were severally
read a first time.
The Bishop of SA LISBURY presented a petition from
the Dean and Chapter of his diocese agaiust the Ecclesi-
astical Duties and Revenues Bill, and a similar petition
from the Archdeaconry of Dorset. The Clergy, he said,
of the whole kingdom were universally opposed to the Bill.
Lord MELBOURNE said, that as a petition had been
presented for the hearing of counsel nt the bar against the
Bill. He had no objection to the prayer, inasmuch as the
Bill created a new disposition of the property of the peti.
tioners.
The Bishop of EXETER asked the Noble Viscount to
name a day for the hearing of counsel.
Lord MELBOURNE said that counsel could be heard
on Thursday, and the second reading of the Bill would be
taken on Friday.
The ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY, in pre-
senting a petition against the Bill, said that he differed
from the Right Rev. Prelate who had last addressed their

Lordships ; for he believed that the great body of the
clergy were not opposed to the Bill, although, he must
admit, that the deans and chapters were.
Tho Earl of DEVON presented a petition from the
Clergy of Devonshire against the Bill, in the prayer of
which be cordially concurred.
The Bishop of WINCHESTER presented a petition
from the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, praying to be
heard by counsel against the Bill. He hoped die Bill
would not be passed into a law without great alterations
being made in it. He likewise presented a petition against
the Bill from the Parochial Clergy of the Diocese of
Winchester, and he believed the Parochial Clergy gene-
rally were opposed to the Bill.
The Bishop of CHICHESTER presented a petition
from the Dean and Chapter of Chichester against the
Bill, and stating that if the number of the Canons of that
Cathedral should be confined to four,
they would be un-
able to perform the Cathedral service with care and
decency. He believed that the clergy were almost uni-
versally opposed to the measure, and as a proof of it, 240
clergymen out of 300 in his diocese had petitioned against
the measure, although it might be deemed to be fur their
interest that the Bill should miss.
The Bishop of WINCHESTER gave notice that on
Morrl-y neat he should move that counsel be hearJ against
the Bill.
The Bishop of EXETER presented petitions from the
Dean and Chapter of Exeter, from the Dean and Chapter
of Wells, from the parochiil clergy of Cornwall, and from
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The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from
Liverpool against the Beer Bill, and praying that the
petition might he ref rred to the Committee.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from \4 ales,
praying that Clergymen appointed to livings-there should
be persons acquainted with the Welsh language.
The E.u-I of DEL AWARR presented petitions from
Brighton and Chichester, praying that those towns might
be exempted from the provisions of the Constabulary Bill.