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London, England, 1841-02-20 00:00:00

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LONDON:
SAITRDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1841.

The Peers asnetnbled to legislate last night.
The Earl of S
Apm.4HURY moved that the LORD
''SPEAKER give orders to
_publish the trial of the
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earl of CARDIGAN.
The Earl of ELDON took t,lre opportunity of
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If Chancery, a
.„,; at ating that one of the Masters c.
sc
refused ad-
,'') ssenger of the House, had been
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tance on the trial, and to express a Earl
shoPe that
the refusal was unintentional. The Nobi.
,411,43 also adverted to the ATTORNEY-GENERAL ha. „ring
actid there was nothing of moral delinquency ,a
" the conduct of the Earl of CARDIGAN, which was
g 4
~.°lg,. he said, much too far ; the Right Rev.
could never countenance such language.
The Bishop of LONDON expressed his regret at
the sei deuce, and his opinion was that the AT-
Z.C.:411%/g Y-GENERAL had gone beyond his province.
e hoped that their Lordships would consider
whethe,* something could not be done to put an
Clint to &telling. Probably the layiPeers believe
tuey have already done too much, though per-
haps i nadvertently, by passing a law which makes
sand ing a man felony, and• which has already
brought one of themselves into a scrape.
A little diocussion then ensued as to the right
o 1 the spiritual Peers to withdraw themselves,
nd not: to vote on such occasions as a trial. They
thlaYs r( !tire. Lord ELLENBOROUGH contended
at e vet y Peer had a right to withdraw without
ting if he liked. The Peers cannot be locked
'P, then, like a Jury, to bring them to a decision.
The Ila rquis of LANSDOWNE concurred in the
(Tinion th at any Peer might withdraw.
r,."-43e'dHa DESDALE pointed out that the spiritual
t'errs had !withdrawn in other cases.
The Earl .of SHAFTESBURY said it was custom-
frY: for the Archbishop of CANTERBURY to ask
: lave for th e spiritual Lords to retire, which has
:,‘vals, we belieye, been done, under a protest
'at the withdrawal prejudices no rights of the
<s:tiritual PeerF. The spiritual Peers, we believe,rt, finally
prokested against being submitted to '
he imisdictiot t of any lay. Court, and therefore
they would tat no part in any such Court. By
he pi., Dvess of time and the Reformation, the
tood has been reduced to other law than
the Ca non -Law. and we have in our day seen a
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~zstlop carried into a Police-court for a gross of-
,' ;0". We did not hear of any appeal to. his Peers,
h-e t'o.(• :t, we believe, being, that spiritual Lords
the privilege, like Lord CARDIGAN. of
felo~llll..r t
le` 1 ',secure the LORD HIGH STEWARD. for
nit 'd before
an offence they wil,
ai e. - If they-, couvit
befofe .an ordinary tribunal, the 'vex-
eo of Thiel, will more satisfactory to the
° iltry than the verdics.'", in the case of Lord
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wl lie la.rl of MouNTCASITEL adverted to a duel
(la."' eh took place on the morning before yester-
I, in defiance of the law and the soleinn pro_
'Winks which begun and ended on Tuesday.
tie advocated the formation of a Court of Ho-
nour, such as existed in Pruosia, said the discip-
. !hie of the army led to duels, a,-id inquired if the
Ministers meant to bring in any measure to put a
stop to duelling.
Lord _ MELBOURNE admitted the importance of
the subject, but was not prepared to hying in any
measure with reference to duelling.
In a brief conversation on the subject of the
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'"eor-law. (Ireland), the Earl of GLENGALL
amed of the mode in which it was worked.
41k., he Marquis of NORMANDY said directions had
Zn given to follow a strict principle; but Go-
eta meet did not mean to bring in a Bil!, to
Itom d the law.
1r 111 u 2-4( t s nouctrAitt presented two or three peti-
s: us amongst them one from a gentleman
vett trYertrs of age, complaining that a suit for
se re, 2overy of property had lasted twenty years,
nd Nl7.i not Y 6; decided. The Noble Lord ex-
, .r!88exl .a. hope that this embarrassing cause
tight be disposed of on the return of the
edges from circuit.
The 113*
• ish°l3 of EXETER 18 on Tuesday to pre-
4q; Stk • t a
• , petition from Canada about St. Sulpice,
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course to make a speech on that day.
,rd B
ROUGHAIVI, in laying,on the table a re-
, .mtil‘ 9f the number of days the Committee of the

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