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SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock .

COMMON COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.)

After some formal business,
Mr. R. STEVENS appeared at the bar, with a petition
stating that it was intended to apply this Session for an
Act to prohibit the erriploymrnt of children•tin sweeping
eliimre).s, in conformity with the recommendation of a
Committee of the House of Commons, and desiring the
Court to exercise its liberality in aid of the expenses of
procuring an Act,
Mr. OBEARD moved that it be referred to the Finance
Committee, to consider the petition.
Mr. GALLOWAY cordially seconded the motion, and ex-
pressed his sense of the laudable exertions made by the
petitioners in furtherance of this object.

consequence of the patriotism of John Wilkes. He knew
that many great and good men supported this question of
privilege, but he rimembered a saying of George
111 , who had had great experience of parties, and he
said, " I never yet knew the heads of opposite parties come
together, but they were wrong.”—(Laughter.) Let the
privilege be granted, and then no one need ever be punished
for a libel—all they had to do was to get up a petition
libelling their enemy, and get it presented and printed, or
get calumniatory evidence given before a Committee,
whether true or false did not matter, because it was not
given on oath, a report would be made, it would be
printed and published at the sale shop of the House of
Commons, and the work siould be done. The
Sheriffs bad sworn to obey the Queen's writs, ad they
stood thus ; if they obeyed one they were punished, and if
they obeyed thefother tribunal, they were punished by the
other. They were high-minded men, or they might at
once get out, for it had been whispered to them that if
they paid the money, made their bow and apology to the
lion. House, there would be a grant from the secret
service money. But they were high-minded men, anxious
only to do their duty, and they would suffer :other than
tarnish their honour.

Mr. WELLS said the Central Criminal Court met on
Monday, and how was the business to be done. If he had
a brief for a prisoner who was convicted, he would mcve
an arrest of judgment on account of their absence from the
making of the panel of the jury.—( Laughter. )
Mr. TAYLOR said it was gross tyranny on the part of the
House of Commons, and their privileges were so undefined
that they might flay the Sheriifi alive if they pleased. They
were setting themselves above all law, which the people
would never allow. If the House triumphed on the pre.
sent occasion they woul,' triumph ever common sense, over
law, and over their own honour and dignity.—(Cheers. )
He had never heard of such an attempt at caching arbi-
trary power since the days of Nebuchadnezzar —( Laughter)
Mr. PRITCHARD rose amidst loud cries of . " Divide,
divide," and " Wire, Wire."
After sonic time of confusion,
Mr. PRITCHARD proceeded, and contended that the pri-
vileges of Parliament were part and parcel of the law of
the land, as hid down in many of the text-books, more
especially in Judge Blackstone's book.

Mr. LAWRANCE was quite sure that if they intended to
liberate the Sheriffs, their petition would be of no use.
The Court wanted much information upon the subject.
He thought the petition would have the contrary effect in-
tended.

Mr. ASHURST thought the claim of privilege made by
the House of Commons was inimical to the liberties of the
subject. He, however, objected to the wording of the
petition, inasmuch as the Court in it was prejudging a
question quite contrary to the judgment of Lord Denman.
He trusted the present difficulty would lead to an amended
law of libel.

Mr. JONES (Bishopgate) said Lord Denman merely
laid it down that the House bad the power of committal,
anal no more. Had the cause of the committal appeared
on the face of the warrant, the Court declared they would
have considered the legality of it or not, according to
the resolutions of the House all in the Court were guilty
of contempt, for they were questioning the privileges of the
House, and they might all expect to be waited on by the
Sergeant at Arms.
Mr. WIRE replied.
The Question was now put by the RECORDER, and the
petition carried by an overwhelmieg majority.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at 4 o'clock, when a
number of private Bills were read a first time.
Mr. BA YNES presented a petition from some place in
Oxford against the payment of Church-rates.
An HON. MEMBER presented a petition from some place
in England against any further grant to Maynooth College.
He also presented a petition praying that House, in the
event of the Queen's marriage, to require certain securities
for preserving unimpaired the Protestant religion as by law
cs:ablished.
Mr. ROACH presented a petition from a parish in
Cork, praying for the extension of election franchise and
the reform of Municipal Corporations in that country.
Mr. P LUMPTRE presented several petitions from va-
rious parishes in Kent, praying for Church extension.
Mr. REDINGTON presented a petition in favour of
Church Extension, and for the Reform of Corporations.
Mr. BAYLIS presented a petition praying for inquiry
into thn doctrines of the Socialists.
Sir J. YARDE BULLER presented various petitions
from Devonshire, praying for Church Extension, and for
the discontinuance of any further grant to the College of
Maynooth.
Mr. H. GRATTAN presented a petition from Leith,
praying for the extension of the elective franchise.
Lord C. MANNERS presented a petition from Lei-
cester, praying the House to take into its consideration
the insufficiency of religious instruction, and the necessity
of Church Extension.
, Mr. STEPHEN FRENCH presented a petition from
the Medical Profession of Tipperary, praying for Medical
Reform.

Mr. O'CONNELL presented 17 petitions from places
in Queen's County, Donegal, Couaty Down, Galway,
and Westmeath, praying for Corporate Reform, and the
Extension of the Suffrage in Ireland.
Mr SMITH O'BRIEN presented a petition from some
place in the county of Limerick, praying for an extension
of the Suffrage, expressing the satisfaction Gf the petitioners
at the good conduct of the Irish in England during the
late disturbances—( A laugh from the Opposition benches)
—and expressing a hope that there would be no return to
a system of arbitrary Government.
Mr. EMERSON TE NNE NT moved that the Order of
the Day for the second reading of the Designs Copyright
Bill, which stood for te-mm row, be postponed.—Ordered.
Lord GEORGE LENNOX gave notice that, on
Thursday, the 13th of February, be would move that
there should be given to .the House the names of the
Members of the Naval and Military Commission, and the
number of days they had sat.
Lord STANLEY gave notice that, on the 13th of Fe-
bruary, he would bring in a Bill to amend the laws re-
lating to the Registration of Voters in Ireland.
Mr. EMERSON TENNE NT gave notice that on the
6th of February be would bring in a Bill for the purpose
of regulating the rules regarding stage-carriages in Ireland.
MT-. DARBY and Sir E. SUGDEN postponed their
motions respecting the Messrs. Hansard and the Sheriffs.
THE MINISTRY—ADJOURNED DEBATE.
On the Order of the Day for the adjourned debate being
read,

Lord POWERSCOURT rose and said the result of
the speeches last night must have been to convince her
Majesty's Government of the truth of the old
adage, " that
.it was comparatively easy for a
man to defend himself against his enemies, but that it re-
quired supernatural aid to guard him against his fi
( Hear, hear, and laughter from the Opposition.) Of all
the speeches which had been delivered upon this debate
none were more calculated to injure the Government than
the two principal speeches on their side of the House—the
speeches of the Noble Lord ( flow:ck) and of the Right
Honourable Gentleman the new Secretary at War
(Mr. Macaulay). If the Nobb Lord were in
his place, he (Lord P.) would congratulate him upon the
open and the manly manner in which he had avowed his
reasons for resigning his post in the Government—tea-
sons, not from any personal motive, or from disappointed
ambition, but on strong public grounds--( Dear, hear)—
and he might congratulate gentlemen opposite on the sup-
port of the Noble Lord, coupled, as it had been, with a
speech which must inevitably injure them most deeply.
With regard to the other spo. eh to which he alluded, and
to which he would but briefly refer, he must say that it
was a new thing and, in his opinion, a most unpopular
thing, for a-Member of the Cabinet to come down to that
House, and boldly and openly declare that he upheld and
admired that system of agitation to which the country
owed all the evils it was now labouring under.—(Tory
cheers.) He thought it was a new thing, and altogether
an unprecedented thin. for a Cabinet Minister to conic
down to the House and speak in terms of disparagement
of the high and honourable office of a Privy Councillor,
in terms which expressed that that high and honourable
office was merely an empty name, and a nominal title of
distinction.—( Cheers.) It appeared to him to be a new
and anomalous thing for a Cabinet Minister to rise in his
' place in Parliament ostensibly for the purpose of answering
a number of serious charges brought against the Adminis-
tration of which be was a Member,bytho Right Hon. Baronet
the Member for Pembroke, and instead of alluding in the
most distant manner—( Renewed cheering)—to any one
of these charges, to fly off and talk about the Reforma-
tion—about some nondescript animal, half Roundhead,
half Cavalier—about the times of Milton and Raleigh, and
fifty other things, which had no more to do with the matter
in hand than if he had talked of the sudden death of
King Rufus, and entertained the House with a
panegyric upon his heroic deeds.—(Cries of " Hear.")
He ( Lord Powersecurt) thought the speech, evidently well
digested—( Cheers from the Opposition)—concluded in
a very odd and peculiar manner. If he saw any resem-
blance to any hero, it was the ancient Roman, who, as long
as hef ound hostile weapons against him, defended himself
with great bravery, but when be found a mortal
blow had been inflicted by a friend, breathed out those
memorable words, "et to Brute r lie trusted Hon.

Gentlemen opposite would take example from that noble
Roman. He (Lord Powerscourt) rejoiced at the oppor-
tunity of expressing his cordial support of the motion of
his Hon. Friend the Member for Devonshire. It was a

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