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London, England, 1823-06-25 00:00:00

PA R !AMEN T,

IMUSE 6F LORDS, JUNE 24.
Mr. BROODEN, accompanied by several other Members of
the House of Commons, brought up the Assessed Taxes' Com-
position, Prize Abney Distribution, Barilla Duties, Southwark
' Small Debts, and several private Bills ; which were afterwards
read a first time.
A Message from the Commons was also brought up by Mr.
KENNEDY, requesting a Copy of the Report of the Lords'
Committee on the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords : '
also a Copy of the Return of the number of causes decided •In
the Court of Session in Scotland between'lBo2 and 1823, and
the number of Appeals to the House of Lords in the same
period.
The Marriage Bill was read the third time and passed.
The Beer Bill was read the second time.
Lord AUCKLAND said, he hoped due notice would be
given of the commitment of the Bill, as there Were .several parts
of it which appeared to him to ivtint explanation.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The Sagthwark Cenire-of Requests was read a third- time
and passed.
• Lad A. HAMlLTON.presented a petition from the Pres-
bytery of Cambus-nethan, praying for the Abolition of Slavery
in the. West Indies.—Orderod to be printed.
Mr. HUME presented a petition freer a Malster of the narna
of Driver, of the town of Yarum, in the County of York, corn,
plaining of grievances which be had suffered under, the Excise
Laws, and praying that the said laws might be amended.
Mr. BRIGHT agreed that the operation of the Excise Laws
was oppressive, and thought that a revision' ar4l consolidation
of them was necessary.
Mr. LUSHINGTON was not prepared to give any opinion
off-hand on this particular case.
Mr. PENMAN presented a Petition from Mr. B. Cochrane,
complaining of great irregularity which had taken place in the
examination of his accounts with the Victualling Board,'and of
the great expellee -to which he had been put in establishing his
claims against the Government. The• Hon. Member desig.
Hated this case as- one of great Oppression on the part of the
Government, and hoped that the attention of lion. Members
would be called to it when the petition was printed.
. Sir .I..YORKE declared that, whilst he was connected with,
the Victualling Beard, the utmost attention had been paid to
the accounts of the Petitioner, which were of a very complicated
nature.. He believed that there had always been the greatest
-disposition on the part of the Government to do justice to the
Petitioner.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, justified from the facts of
the case the conduct of the Victualling Board. • •
The Petitiortivas then brought up. On the motion that 'it
be laid on the table,
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Mr. T. WILSON was of opinion that there had been some
improper delay on the part of the Victualling Board.
After a few words from Sir I.- Comte, Mr. G. BENNET,
-Sir 0. COCKBURN, and Mr. Cn-oxEn. the Petition Was laid
on the table. "
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It was ordered that .the Petition .should be printed on the
'notion of Mr. DENMAN.
Messengers from the Lords brought down the Marriage Bill.
Mr. S. WORTLEY presented several Petitions from York-
shire against any alteration in the duties on Wool.
Mr. 0. RENNE=T presented a petition from a female inha-
bitant of Preston, complaining of having been committed for
debt, in default of any other gaol to the House of Correction
of Lancashire, and treated as a felon.
Lord FIFE presented a petition from a person engaged in
the herring fishery of 'Banff,' praying that the importation of
oak staves from the north of Europe might e alwed.
Mr. S. RICE presented a petition fromb Limloerick for the
equalization of the duties on East and West India sugar:
The same, lien. Gentleman laid upon the, table a petition
froth certain Attornies and, .Solicitors' of, 'lreland, praying the
Repeal of the law requiring an Annual License.
I,OIIEIGN POLICY. •
Colonel PA LMER. gave notice, that on Thursday next he
would submit a motion on the Foreign Policy of the Country.
On the motion of Mr. Go E Llll7 R N, leave was given to bring
in a Bill for the Union of the two Parishes of Kilkiernan anti
Kikobbin, in the County of Dublin, after a few words from Sir
NEwronT.

/RISH INSURRECTION BILL.
The Order of the Day having been read for the second read-
ing of the Irish Insurrection Bill,
Sir H. PARNELL said, that unless he took this opportunity
of stating his opinion of the course necessary to the well-being
of Ireland, he should consider himself to have negleetedthe
discharge of his duty. But if be failed in his object, at least
the discussion which his proix)sal woold excite nut be-bene-
ficial. Ile was ready to allow that since the 'Government of
Ireland hail been tulintnistered by the Marquis Wellesley much
good laid been done. But this was not a question between the
110454 anti the Marquis Wellesley, but in every respect tin
Entine!) question. lie was also ready to admit that the .pre-
sent .Ministry had bestowed many benefits upon Ireland
within the last three years. But what he meant to. propose was,
that the House should take some steps to inform itself
of the real state of Ireland, before this most uneentaim.,
donut measure was adopted ; that they should connect mea-
sures of inquiry with those of severity. The Hon. Baro-
net referred to the dispatches of the Marquis Wellesley to
chew the distracted state in which Ireland had lately been.—
Independent of this, the late trials in Dublin exposed another
Association called Ribbonmen, whose plans were laid open by
his Right Hon. anti Learned Friend the .Attorney-General, and
which extended to six counties, besides the sixteen mentioned
by the dispatches as being disaffected. Subsequent to that pe.
nod, other counties and districts had partaken of she insur-
rectionary spirit, and the Right Hon. Secretary came to the
House to require this measure' as being necessary to stop the
progress of these alarming disturbances. All these facts
showed that the state of Ireland had assumed an alarming and
most formidable character. It was therefore evident that sonie
cause for these evils was in existence, with which the 'House
was unacquainted. He alluded to the various enactments of
the Ineurrection Act, and stated that from 1706 down to the
present time, it had been the law of the land, at different
riots, for 16 years. Beside; this, the Habeas Carpet Act had
been suspended, and other measures of severity, though not
so unconstitutional in their nature, had beep resorted to: Yet
out of a period of thirty.nne years, only four or tive.had
passed in tranquillity. It, was, thereinto, neceasary that
Parliament should inquire into the subject, end See whether
some other system ought not to be adopted. It was per-
reedy clear that the compulsory system bath tailed. It ought
now to be taken up as an English question; and the House
ought not longer to rest satisfied with the renewal of the
Insurrection Act from year to year. Ile should erhaps be
told that this was too late a period of the Session for inquiry.
But, upon a subject of such paramount importance, he did
not expect to hear such an objection come from a Minister.—
A t all events, he thought the representatives of Ireland would
not do their duty if they suffered this measure to pass without
opposition. What lie mean to propose wail the appointment'
of a Secret Committee to inquire into the subject ; and he
thought he had shown eufficient grounds in support of %itch a
proposition. He was of opinion that great delusions existed
as to the sources of these evils. The Noble Lord at the head
of the Government, although he constently refused inquiry,
had come to the conclusion that he knew. these sources, and
that all the disturbances in Ireland grew out of a contest of
poverty against wealth. The feundation of this doctrine was,
the belief that the poor of Irehind had no idea of political
rights or feelings. Prom personal' communications with the
people of the country, with the clergy, and with the most en-'
lightened inhabitants, he was enabled to say that this opinion
Was most erroneous. lie was convinced that the lowest among
the Roman Catholics was well acquainted with his ease ,in 4
political view, anti felt acutely the exclusions and privations to
which he was subjected. With regard to the etineation anti
employment of the poor, he deprecated any reliance upon such
reined tea 44 beingcapable of removing evils of such a magnita de..
They only led persons who regarded them with' too Touch con.'
fidenee to overlook the real importance of the question. The'
Hon. Bart. then took an historical view of the penal anti co-
ercive enactments of the last century relating to Ireland, lie
oontended they were in violation of the treaty of Limerick, and
quoted Mr. liiirke's opinion in continuation of his own. From 1773 down to the present period, the concessions that had been
nuth had not produced the effect which might have been ex-
pected from them. This way in conaequence of the Combine-,
tion of other circumstances *wider which the condition of the
Pe°l4o. wam goveraa '!`hey perhaps; rather looked to the
Tights which were still withheld from them, than to the comes-
'ions to which they had always conceived themselves entitled.
A ;WOW reason was, that their minds had heen kept in continual