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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1841.

Lord LYNDHURST last night gave notice that
Le should, after Easter, present a petition for an
alteration in the law relative to theatrical repre-
sentatiors.

In answer to the Duke of WELLINGTON, Vis-
count MELBOURNE said that he proposed, on
Tuesday, the 6th of April, to move an adjourn-
ment to the 22d of April.
Their Loriships transacted no business what-
ever, and ctlournerl till Thursday.
In the House of Commons Lord ELIOT, as
Chairman of the Walsall Election Committee,
reported that Mr. GLADSTONE was duly elected;
that considerable treating, however, had taken
place, which bad not been traced to the sitting
Member or his agent.
The Committee'to try the Canterbury election
was sworn.
Mr. MUNTZ gave notice of two measures—one
to compel medical men to write prescriptions
and labels in English, and the ether to regulate
the safety-valves in steam boilers.
In reply to an lion. Member, Mr. GORDON,
the Steetary of the Treasury, stated that the
collectors of taxes in Peebles and Selkirk had
received no instructions to accelerate their col-
lections.
In reply to Sir R. PEEL, the CHANCELLOR Of
the EXCHEQUER said he would make his finan-
cial statement on April 30th.
In reply to Mr. Hume.., the same Right Hon.
Gentleman said that the Government bad entered
into an agreement by which the mails were to be
carried on six days of the week by railways, and
on Sunday by coachds. We presume that this
is limited to Scotland, and regret to see so much
deference paid to supercilious over-righteousness.
The correspondence on the subject is to be pro-
duced. Mr. LAEOUCHERE persisted, in spite of a
remonstrance from Sir R. PEEL, in his intention
to ask the assent of the House to his West
India Customs' Resolutions on Monday next.
In reply to Mr. HERRIES, the CHANCELLOR Of
the, EXCIIE.QUER stated that the time which had
been taken from the public by closing the Post-
office earlier, to enable the accumulation of let-
ters to be sorted under the new system, coup
not be restored to it. The great increase of cor-
respondence, and the establishment of the Money
Order Office, had prevented the return to the
old hour of closing the Post-office, but he hoped
the period of returning to it was not far distant.
We are bound to say that the public has reasoe
to complain on this subject. The delay in sort-
ing and delivering letters in the metropolis h
very great, which arises from an inefficient plan
of sorting ,the letters, which might, we art
persuaded be • much facilitated by mechanical
Tans. The public, by the use of boxes for dif-
ferent places, might be made to sort the letters
without trouble s they post them. Such an
immense place as the metropolis should be di-
vided into ten or twenty districts, and the let-
ters for these districts should be' sorted when
put into the district post-offices, as the letters for
Manchester and Liverpool, sent from London,
are sorted before they leave the metropolis, and
are not all sent to both fawns in one bag. We
hear continued complaints oa the score of late-
ness of delivery and early closing the pot._
offices ; and not to promote an improvement in
these particulars is 'to bring the new and excel-
lent system into disrepute !
.Mr. THNNENT postponed, .to April 21, the
Copyright of Designs Bill.
Mr. PA KINGTON moved that a Select Com-
mittee be.appointed to inquire into the state of
the colony of Newfoundland. He grounded hi:
motion on the number of petitions presented
on the subject; on the religious dissensions
which exist in the colony ; and on the strange
use which the Legislative Assembly had made
of its power. It took a medical gentleman into
custody .for a breach of privilege because he had
quarrelled with a Member, and on a Judge re-
leasing him on a writ .of habeas. the House im-
prisoned both the Judge and the Sheriff. The
lion: Member also referred to some violent con-
duct at the election for St. John's, and concluded
a long spaeeh by moving for a Committee.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL did not oppose the mo-
tion, but stated that the course he should adopt.
would he dict4ed by the condtict of the Assem-
bly of Nne!fonndlancl, Whatever might be the
opinion of the Committee. He dissented from
several of the general doctrines of the Hon. Mover
He. was favourable to free institutions in our colo-
nies,and he quoted passages to show, nonvi thstand-
ing the apparent turbulence at Newfoundland,that
the colony had
pro6pered very much since 1832
when the Constitution was established. He ad.,
mitred that disorders had taken place, which did
not allow him to object to the proposed inquiry.
After a few words from Mr. HUME and Mr. mn
- J. O'CoxNEen• the motion was agreed to, the
Committee to be nominated on Thursday.
The House then-again went into Committee on
the Poor-law Amendment Bill, and was so occu-
pied the remainder of the evening. Considering
the vast consequences which, we think, are in-
volved in the undertaking to educate pauper
.ebildi'ectlatt discussion which took place on the
itiftW
Vt chaplains
of the Church ex-
t • Dr. LuftEINGToN
/ 'W: of the tStablished Church,- to
• ,a 4 if our
nl7-e!:* vie" be correct, it will
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