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posed to it, but after hearing the speech of the Noble Lord, be
was decidedly in favour of the adjournment.
Mr. MONKTON MILNES said that as the Hon. and
Learned Member for Cork intended to address the House on
this qUestion, it might be thought advisable that the House
should adjourn, to give him en opportunity of doin so ; but if
other' Hon. Members connected with Ireland' t-ought that
they would continue the debate without the leading of the
Hon. and Learned Member for Cork, he thought they aught
do so still. After the speech they had heard that vening from
the Right Hon. Baronet, he thought the sooner t• ey adjourned
the better.
Sir ROBERT PEEL hoped that Hon. Members having
notices for te-morrow, would adjourn them, in order to allow
the adjourned debate to take precedence.
Mr. COLLETT said he was well acquainted with the sub-
ject of Ireland, and he knew no subject that should be expedited
through the House with greater facility than this. As respected
Ireland, it was more important than the corn-laws. Murders
were on the increase ; two of his own servants had been shot,
and the wife and two children of a man, who was before the
jury giving evidence, was shot at whilst going ho
interestme.
tha He
considered that it would be for the pc t
the measure should be passed as soon as possible.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought that the proposition made
by the Right Hon. Baronet was a very fair one. He thought
that Hon. Gentlemen having motions for to-morrow should
postpone them. If they did not do so, he should vote against
the adjournment.
Mr. O'CONNELL said he had a motion for to-morrow, but
under the circumstances he should willingly wave it.
Lard C. HAMILTON wished to explain ; when he spoke of
Irish Members moving the adjournment at such an early hour,
he had no wish that the Hon. and Learned Member for Cork
should be forced to speak that evening. He referred only to
some of the Hon. Members behind him.
Mr. C. BULLER did not see why they should agree to the
question of adjournment without coming to seine
tie tr
imange •
ment with respect to the business of to-morrow. hslf
had a notice of some three or four deep, but he would willingly
adjourn it in oilier to allow the debate to continue.
Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN had a motion for to-morrow,
but, with the sentiments he entertained upon this Bill, he did
not feel justified in withdrawing it.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
' For the adjournment...........
•32
Against it .......A.....
........................... 98
rsrity —66
On our return to the gallery we found
Sir ft. PEEL addressing the House, He was understood
to say he would agree to the adjournment of the debate to this
day.
After a few words from Mr. O'CoNnELL and Mr. BORTH •
Iviscic, the debate was adjourned.
ART UNIONS' BILL.
' On the motion of Mr. WYSE, this Bill was read a second
time.
Mr. WYSE said that he was prepared to have it committed
on any day that would suit the convenience of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said Wed-
nesday week.
Mr. WYSE assented to the suggestion, and it was arranged
that the Bill should be committed on that day.
The Indemnity Bill was then read a third time, and passed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at a Quarter-past Twelve o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
MONDAY, MARCH 30.
The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the Bills
ordered to be brought in 163, the undernamed Hon. Members :
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway, and
Manchester and Leeds Railway Amalgamation—Mr. E. Ellice and
Mr. Brotherton.
Vale of Neatk —Viscount Villiers and Viscount Adare.
Surrey Grand Junction—Colonel T. Wood and Mr. T. Duncombe.
Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford—Captain Fitzmaurice and

Mr. Hughes.
Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester—Mr. Muntz, Mr. Spooner,

and Lord Alfred Paget.
Scottish Southern—Sir J. M'Taggart, Mr. Forbes, and Mr. W. Baillie.
Lesmahagow. Daiserf, and Coatbridge Mineral Junction—Mr. Forbes,
Mr. Baird, and Mr. W. Batilie.
Leeds and Thirek, worth Eastern Extension (Wath to Hartlepool)
Lord H. Vane, Mr. 0. Buncombe, Sir G. Cockburn, & 31r. Beckett.

SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY BILLS.
THURSDAY, APRIL 2.

London and Windsor.

FRIDAY, APRIL 3.

Kilmarnock and Troon.
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction.

RETIREMZNT OF MR. HILL, Q.C.—Mr. Matthew
Davenport Rill, the eminent Queen's Counsel, who has for a con-
siderable period led on the Midland Circuit, announced on Saturday
that, after twenty-six years' attendance on the circuit, he was ad-
dressing for the last time a jury in the courts of Warwick. The cause
of this is said to be the great increase in the learned gentleman's pro-
fessional engagements in London, on Parliamentary and other busi-
ness. Mr. Hill is a native of Birmingham, and (says our cor-
respondent) " a strong feeling prevails in that town that he should be
requested to come forward as a candidate for the representation at
the next election."
DISCOVERY OF GOLD COIN NEAR STRASBURG.—Four
poor woodcutters of Serven, a village in the valley of 3iaasmunster,
whilst occupied In hewing wood In a neighbouring forest, discovered
on the surface of the earth a quantity of gold coins, of 24 and 48
francs, bearing the effigy of Louis XV. and XVI., nearly new, and
to the amount of nearly 3,000 francs. The joy and astonishment of
the poor men may be imagined, who had never seen so much gold
in their lives. With an honesty which does them honour, they
immediately informed the proprietor of the forest of the discovery,
who had a right to one-half by law. The proprietor, M. Lollier,
land surveyor at Belfast, from a feeling of praiseworthy generosity,
would not take advantage of his share of the sum, but had it dis-
ti ibuted in charity among the poor of the distr"ct. It is presumed
that this money was buried during the revolution.