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and Lord ASHBURTON also addressed the House, after which
the Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second
time on Thursday the 28th inst.

The Marquis of NORMANS; postponed his motion on the
subject of outrages in Ireland to Friday.
The Western Australia Bill was read a third time and
passed, and the Insolvent Debtors' Bill passed through Com-
mittee, after which their Lordships adjourned to Friday.

The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock.
Mr. CAMPBELL, from the East India House, presen ',ed papers
with respect to the pensions granted to Viscount HAEDINQE
and Lord Gotion.
Mr. FERRAND postponed the questions which he had
given notice of putting to the First Lord of the Treasury,
relative to the Bingley Union, to Thursday next.
Mr. Fox MA= then moved, pursuant to notice, for leave to
bring in a Bill to enable Christian congregations in Scotland to
obtain sites for places of worship, manses, and school-houseL•
He had intended to have gone at some length into the ob-
jects of the measure, but as he did not see the Lord Advocate of
Scotland, or the Home Secretary, in their places, he supposed
the proposition he had to bring forward was not objected to;
he should content himself with making the motion of which
he bad given notice.

The motion having been seconded,
After some observations from Sir R. Nous and Sir JAMES
GRAHAM. who came into the House in a few momenta after
M. Fox MA CLE had made his motion for leave to bring
in the Bill—leave was given to bring in the measure.
After some observations from Mr. Stafford O'Brien, Sir G.
Clerk, Sir R. Inglis, Lord G. Bentinck, Mr. Blight, and Mr.
W. Mies, the Custom,' Duties Bill was read a third time and
passed.

Dr. BOIVRING then moved, pursuant to notice, that an
humble address be presented to her MAJESTY, that the would
be gaeiously pleased to direct such correspondence, or
extracts on the subject of the quarantine law 3, as had taken
place Cth foreign Govetarnents since the last retutns to
Parliament, to be laid on the table of the House.
After some discussion the mction was agreed to.
Mr. CHRISTIE withdrew his motion relative to supplying
clothes to new-born children in workhouses.
Mr. BANKF3 then moved that Wm. RocKarr have leave to
state his case at the bar of the House with reference to the
Bridport election.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the mction.

Mr. CHRT.TIE then moved his amendment, which was to
the effect that the petition of WILLIAM ROCKETT Should be
referred to a Select Committee.

Some considerable discussion took place, the original mo

tion was withdrawn, Mr. CHRISTIE'S amendment was
put as a substantive motion, to which an amend-

ment was moved by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL; and upon a
division the amendment w 23 carricd, the SPEAKER giving
his casting vote in its favour. The debate on the original

motion was then adjourned till Thursday.
The Railv,ay Companies Dissolution Bill went through
Committee, and the report was ordered to be received to-

morrow.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned.

When all the seceders from Sir ROBEET PEEL'S Cabinet,
in November, resumed their places with one exception, the
public very generally believed that Lord STANLEY had been
the original and main cause of the dissensions in the Minis-
terial camp; and those who pretend to some knowledge in
pelitical changes, foresaw that he was destined to be the
leader in the House of Lords to that party who had
resolved to oppose the new measures. Several
reasons justified such a conclusion. The most care-
less observer could see, that though Lord STANLEY
had joined the PEEL Cabinet, and professed him-
self a warm supporter of the Conservative Government, he
and the Premier never worked cordially together; there
seemed to be a mutual want of confidence, the Colonial
Secretary seldom spoke in the House, and wnen he did
speak, a sort of apprehension seemed to prevail on
the Treasury bench that he might exceed the bounds of
prudence, and thereby complicate a Ministry of a hete-
rogeneous character. Lord STANLEY, finding himself thus
hampered, and compelled to play a very inferior part in
the Commons, was not at all averse to a seat in the
Lords, where he might act as a leader, and in a very
brief time assume those functions for which the age
and infirmities of the Duke daily rendered him less fit.
Even then, however, he was still hampered, for the veteran
chief seemed not at all inclined to abate his authority or re-
sign a post which he had so long filled. The corn-law
question, therefore, came very opportunely, and in the eyes
of the discontented Minister, warranted him in setting up as
the leader of a hostile party. In that character he now ap-
pears, and it will be for the House of Lords to judge whether
he possesses those qualities which suit their staid
and Conservative principles ; and also whether the
very circumstances under which he takes his place
can recommend him to their favour. A rebel to
his late chief, a sort of mutinous pacha, collecting
to his camp all the discontented and slighted and obstinate
of a community to which he never could claim kindred,
animated perhaps as much by personal as political motives,
and from the ardour of his temperament disposed to go all
lengths to denounce his late friends as cordially as he de-
nounced his older friends, the " thimble-rigging " Whigs,
he cannot be much trusted by men who will forgive
the occasional backsliding of the Duke of WEL-
LINGrox (because they know he is the best friend
of their order), but who will be slow to place
confidence in a juvenile Tory, who is surpassed by few in
his political gyrations. He was an ardent and useful sup-
porter of the Reform Bill—he beautifully described the party
that he would now lead as the " remnants of a broken
faction." He mutilated the Irish Church by cutting off
some ten or twelve bishoprics ; and he was a distinguished
member of a party who would either conquer the House of
Lords, or swamp them by the creatioa of new Peers to an
extent unheard of even in the most dangerous and cor-
rupt times. What proofs of repentance or capability for
office has he given since, or indeed during his
whole political career ? He excited the most dire
hostility to himself and his colleagues in Ireland by his
conduct as Irish Secretary ; as Secretary for the Colonies he
gave universal dissatisfaction. He was the bane of every
Cabinet in which he sat, and quarrelled with a very respect-
able Conservative leader, though ostensibly a Whig--Lord
MELarounNE—in fact, broke up his Cabinet for a time;
and in November he performed the same kind offices
to his friend, Sir ROSEET PEEL. We put these circumstances
forward as matters of fact which form part of history, and
cannot be disputed—they are facts which it becomes the
Conservative Peers well to consider before they desert a long-
tried leader and enlist themselves under a new general. They
may not find it inappropriate also to inquire who are to be
Lord STANLEY'S colleagues, should he, by an adventure of a
very hazardous character, be able to upset the PEEL Mi-
nistry. In a new House of Commons possibly there
might be some changes, and he might find some little
additional aid to the very scanty support which he
could obtain at present; but the House of Lords re-
, mains the same—all the leading Members there are
already engaged, and it wocild puzzle a politician
to select even three practical men in whom the oonntrv—we
may say the Peers themselves—could place more confidence
than in Lord SrAmarhimself. RICHMOND, not overburdened
with consistency or prudence, was faithfully described by
Lord BROUGHAM last evening. ASHBURTON, notorious for
speaking one way and voting another, has gone the whole
round of the compass. But it is needless to make further
selections. Lord STANLEY may annoy the Government by
his violent speeches, but he will make little impression on the
Peers, and the great measure sanctioned by the country and
by a vast majority of their faithful representatives will, in a
short time, become the law of the land.

For a considerable period the great uncertainty which has
engaged the popular attention has resolved itself into the
simple but significant question, " What will the Lords do?"
Of the acquiescence of the Commons there was a moral con-

week the master, having been absent half an hour, found
viction ; of the behaviour of the aristocracy there was a vet;
that the lad had not done any work in the interim ; on being
general dubiousness. Thus, the whole problem of commer•
cial change has been justly regarded as hinging upon interrogated, he stated that he had been at breakfast during
the period, and surely the time was not too great
theil decisionb of their Lordships, and the public
seduced into this consideration from
the posit'aive
members of that for such a purpose. The master, not satisfied
eatzlezi,oLindulged.
animosity t
august
ogutaht e proposed
assemblage
measures in villictheprrnseormldeiofwith. the. excuse, seized a yard measure and
with it inflicted a most violent chastisement on the poor boy,
have at different
veritable party continued in exi If any beating him for more than ten minutes, until he presented a
most pitiable spectacle, his arms, sides, and legs being covered
conscientiously directed against the acceptance of weere
and Customs' Bill, it was evidently a party of Olf the Corn with wales and bruises. The worthy magistrate most pro-
and
views
t
prietors, animated with false impressions and arguani
Pfluonn.ifyortinutinyiactteedlatdhe
mhihg.hest pecuniary penalty in his power,
But
gwhthe delinquent 5/., which sum was immediately paid.
rotten premises. Impressed, probably, with ag upon
should
.this person be permitted still to keep the
rooted idea of the accuracy of their own
to inflict on him a con-
upon political economy, and considering,possibly,'s tinued series of indignitiesisservice,
and annoyances, which are so
the mutations of opinion among the most
anymaster, even without committing
- statesmen of this generation as merely the express violation of the law, and
evidencesby which the spirit may
of indecision, it is not altogether surprising that be broken, the existence rendered' •
these
.miserable? Why should a
cherishers of the protective system should adhere with man who had proved himself so unfit to have the care of a
the most
pertinacious resolution to their original sentiments; per whatever, be permitted to retain one against whomnY
vre re-
peat that such a display of perseverance is not surprising • his most malignant feelings must have been sWI •
o cancel and we are ready to acknowledge the non-existence of such have not steps been taken t the excited?
indentures, and to
a party—of a party anxious for the conservation of Place the boy under • some kinder-hearted master? 'We trust
the system for whose destruction the multitude that some steps may be taken with
this object by
were struggling with ean unanimous accordance— the benevolent institution w
have
would have been en anomaly in the history in loco parentis to the boy, and we doubt not that they
of revolutions, no matter whether those revolutions were will discharge their duty
as
betchci,emes them. There is
political, ecclesiastical, or commercial. The presence of a nothing of greater consequence in
anagernent of public
institutions than that the strictest sett:
body anxious for the preservation of what is regarded by all
over the actions of the persons to whomatintTl should be kept
others as obnoxious is an invariable adjunct in such extraor-
eleves; and that, on any violation of contraecyt,eonrtr.ust their
dinary junctures as the present ; in a human sense it appears
behaviour on the part of such persons, their cenduelnajhr°oPer
to constitute a necessary concomitant in such a spectacle,
Some
be exposed and punished with the utmost Severity.
while, in an historico-poetical point of view, the existence of
years since, inl Ireland, Mr. and Mrs. HoLLAnn, personsni
such a body is to a certain extent agreeable—it emits the
of considerab e wealth, were charged with Cruel and
last glimmerings of what must soon be classed among the
treatment of two bygones,—it is the final representative of a nearly obsolete inhuman orphans, who had been a
prenticed to them, The complaint was inVeathretPd.
race—it is the mingling of the voice of the Past with the
P proved to be well-founded ; the case was sent
jubilations of the Present, and the sanguine promises of the
to trial, and the master and mistress each sentenced to
Future. Such we ealitiva to be the palliation of a Protec-
twelve months' imprisonment, the society by which the
tionist party now-a-dr:ye, when the principles of free trade
appear to have permeated every other section of the children had been apprenticed having retained counsel to at-
tend and watch the proceedings; but this was not all, civil
social system. In pla nor language, the Protectionists
proceedings were also instituted, and in each case a verdict
form the symbol of those agricultural fallacies P
by which the mercantile transactions of our forefathers have of 4001. damages, with costs, was obtained against the par-
been regulated and crippled ; and as the representatives even ties. We cannot too earnestly impress on all persons who
of ancestral errors we have been, and still continue, ready to have apprentices the absolute necessity of treating them
kindly. They take upon themselves serious duties and solemn
award them a conceivable amount of consideration. If ob-
stinate in their attachment to a most erroneous and ob- obligations. The above case will, we hope, convince them of
the danger they Maur of severe punishment and heavy
noxious cause, they may almost shadow the under
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