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London, England, 1840-03-13 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS, ilLiftcH 12.
Their Lordships met at Five o'Ciock.
EAST INDIA PRODUCE.
On the motion of Lord ELLENBOROUGIL it
was ordered that Mr. Benjamin Green be summoned to
attend before the Committee on the East India Peti-
tion, on Monday next.
Lord COL BURNE presented a petition from a body
of West India proprietors, deprecating any altera-
tion in the duties upon East India produce,
whereby the interests of the West Indian colo-
nies might be injuriously affected. The petitioners
did not apply to their Lordships merely on account
of their own interest, but for the sake of that of
the labouring population, and they prayed to be heard
by Counsel at the bar of the House. He called their
Lordships' attention to the great experiment now being
tried in the West Indies, and hitherto with success.
But it was still in a state of infancy. The cultivation
had been diminished to a great extent, whilst its ex-
pensiveness had increased ; and the colonies were in a
condition which required the protection of the mother
country. Their Lordships ought, therefore, to weigh
with caution any measure which might affect the ex-
periment which was equally important to the cause of
humanity, and to the commercial interests of England.
He moved that the petition be referred to the Com-
mittee on the East India petition, which was agreed to.
Lord ELLEN BOROU GH presented a similar peti-
tion from another body of West Indians, and it was
also referred to the Committee.
EDINBURGH AND LEITH GAS BILL.
The Earls of HADDDINGTON and ROSEBERRY
presented petitions from the city and county of
Edinburgh, in favour of the Edinburgh and Leith Gas
Bill ; and the Bill was subsequently read a second time.
CHURCH PATRONAGE (SCOTLAND).
The Earl of ROSEBERRY presented a petition
against the intrusion of Ministers, from the presbytery
of Dalkeith. It was signed by the Moderator.
The Marquis of BUTE presented several petitions
to the same effect.
RATING OF SMALL TENEMENTS.

Lord DACRE presented a petition from the guar-
dians of the poor of Hetching, praying that the occu-
piers of small tenements should be exempted from the
payment of the rates, and that the liabilities should
be with the Landlords.
VACCINATION.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH brought in a Bill to
provide for the more efficacious practice of vaccination,
which, after a few words from the Marquis of Normanby
and the Earl of Haddington, was read a first time, and
ordered to be read a second time, the discussion to be
taken on Monday.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
(IRELAND).
The Marquis of NORMANBY said, that in conse-
quence of the question put to him on a former night
by the Noble Marquis opposite (the Marquis of West-
meath), he bad made inquiries, and he found that the
statement made by the Noble Marquis as to the com-
mutation of the sentence of death passed upon a
man named Lynam convicted for murder recently in
Dublin, was correct ? He learned that there had al-
ready been executed for that crime four of that man's
ccomplices, and another afterwards, convicted during the
Vice:°Yalty of the Noble Earl opposite (Lord Hadding-
ton) hatll received a commutation of the sentence of
death to tra2sportation for life. To discuss the grounds
of the cornmuta:.;Qa in that House would be exceedingly
inconvenient.
The Marquis of WEST MEATH asked whether sen-
Judges who tried the prisoner,
r communication with the
he thought their
Lordships must in some degree refer* to the evidence
which came before the Committee which ad sat last
year, when it was proved by a most resclectable
witness that in that unfortunate country there W."
a sympathy with murderers among certain classes,
and when a person said that an individual whom
he had employed to personate a police-officer, to take
up a man against whom a warrant was issued for a grievous
offence, and inquired of that person how it was he had es-
caped injury while engaged in that office, was answered
that he had nothing to do hut state he was keeping for
murder (that was, had committed murder) and was flying
from justice, to insure him the hospitality and protection
of the neighbourhood. Under these circumstances the
Government of that country could not be too cautious
how they interposed between the verdicts of the Jury and
the conviction and condemnation of persons who had
been engaged in so atrocious a murder as this, and
it would be more satisfactory to him to hear that
the Noble Viscount had taken for his guide the practice
which obtained in this country, of laying all the circum-
stances of the case before the Judges who had tried the
prisoners, before the prerogative of the Crown was exer-
cised. He therefore begged to ask again, whether the
sentence had been commuted upon the opinion of the
Judge who tried the offence ?
The Marquis of NORMANBY was understood to
reply,he could not answer the question without entering
into a discussion on the subject ; therefore he declined
doing so.
Lord REDESDALE asked the Noble Lord (the
late Chancellor of the Exchequer) when the Exchequer
documents he had moved for would be laid on the table?
Lord MONTE AGLE said he thought it probable
they would be ready on Monday next.
The House then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, He 12.

The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before four
o'clock.
Viscount Cantilupe took the oaths and his seat for
Lewes.
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On the motion of Mr. LOCKHART, the Glasgow
Brideweit Bill was read a second time, and ordered to
be committed.

Vv
Lord HENNIKER presented a petition from a pa-
rish in Suffolk, in favour of the Eastern Counties Rail-
way Bill.
On the motion of Lord STANLEY, the North
Union Railway Bill was read a third time and passed.
Sir J. YARDE BULLER brought up the report
of the Committee on the Torquay and Dartmouth
Roads' Bill, and the Bill was ordered to be re-committed
on Thursday next.
Mr. SLANEY presented a petition from an indi-
vidual named West, against the London and Greenwich
Railway Bill.

Mr. -STRUTT presentod three petitions from Derby
against the Corn-laws.
Mr. E. BULLER presented a petition from a place
in Staffordshire, complaining of distress, and praying
for an alteration of the Corn-laws.

Mr. P. W. CAMPBELL presented fourteen peti-
tions from different parishes in Argyllshire against the
intrusion of Ministers.

Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition from Car-
lisle cleprecating any interference with the internal regu-
lations and Custom-house laws of China.

Mr. CORBALLY presented a petition from Meath,
against the importation of foreign flour into Ireland.

-Mr. WADINGTON presented three petitions
from Suffolk against the repeal of the Corn-laws.

Mr. WILLIAM EVANS presented a petition from
Glossop praying that the Corn-laws might be imme-
diAtely abolished.

Mr. LOCK HART presented petitions from Glasgow
against the intrusion of Ministers.
Mr. DENNISTOUN presented petitions from
Glasgow, in favour of the repeal of the Corn-laws, the
Desi2n3 Copyright Bill, and Universal Suffrage.