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the other night. by s. Noble Friend of mine not now present,
for I would venture to point out the consequences of a rejec-
tion of tins measure, aott the evils which would arise from
such a course. You must not misunderstand me,
wish to app. a. to your iears, for I know well that Gar is the
1 ist ptssiof, of the hum ,u heart, whicii would in any (levee in-
fluence the decision of the House of Peers. I appeal to your
”ruder,,,,, ant your justice. I appeal to your prudence that
you will not, without the most solemn and sufficient
conviction, reject a measure of the importance of the one
at present before your Lordships.--( Hear, bear, and ()lasers. )
I, continued the Noble Earl, appeal to yuur good sense, to your
justice, not to adopt the recommeudatioa which has been put
to you of a different character, and that which I have been re-
lating to you, and by which you will declare yourselves fixedly
resolved to maintain a particular commercial and fiscal
policy, the effect of which is, say what you will,
and must always be, to impose ' burdens upon the
many for the benefit of the few.--(Loud cheers.)
I do adjure your Lordships to search clossdy your hearts before
you come to a decision upon this great question ; I do adjure
your Lordships, in considering it, to blot out from the inuer-
moat recesses of your hearts every lurking feeling
of self-interest; I do implore you to dismiss from your
minds every lurking prejudice, and satisfy yourselves that you
are sincerely anti purely anxious for securing the common
Pod.—(Cheers.) If your Lordships adopt that course, I can
anticipate with confidence the result ; and I do fully believe
that if your Lordships pass this measure you will ere long look
back with alarm to the time when you doubted what could
be its effect, and certainly look back with satis-
faction to the day when you gave your
sanction to it —(Cheers.) You will look back upon it with
satisfaction, because you will then be able to feel and to con-.
.emplate that you have done all that in you lies to remove a
reproach upon the legislature of this country; that you have
done all that in you lies to sympatise with the poor in their rug-
ged path through life; that you have done all that in you lies
to mitigate the p- meval cause—that you have done all that in
you lies to soften the hard fate of those whose lot it is to earn
their bread by the sweat of their br0w.....( The Noble Earl sat
down amidst tremendous cheering.)
The Duke of BEAUFORT tpolugised for obtruding himself
upon their Lor sh ps at that advanced hour of the morning,
but he felt it to be his duty to state the course
he intended to pursue upon this most important occasion.
He objected to the present measure on two grounds, first,
because obviously impolitic; second, because it was unjust.
He considered it impolitic, because it lett the country de-
pendent for the supply of food upon foreign countries. Had
the measure been brought forward by Noble Lords
opposite, he would not have felt so strong an
objection to it. He objected to the tariff when that measure
was brought forward, but he was told at that time that he
knew nothing at all about it, and to have patience, and he
would get his boots, and gloves, and every thing else cheaper;
that the rents would be the same, and that corn would remain
untouched. There was one case where this Bill would ope-
rate most unfavourably. He had au estate in one part of the
country which brought him in 5,0001. a year. His tenants
were all small farmers, and he could not turn them off. One
family had been for three hundred years on that
estate, and the other had been for four hundred
years. He felt prouder of those tenants than of any
ancestral honours he could toast of, and he would rather cut
his arm off than part with one of them.—(Cheers.) The
Noble and Learned Lord, who spoke on the other evening,
said that the tenant farmers were perfectly indifferent in this
matter. The Noble and Learned Lord was a great authority
on most questions, and he (the Duke of Beauford) was
always very willing to concede to his opinion ; but
in this instance he must dissent frem him. They
proved that they were in earnest in the South Nottinghain
election, where they formed themselves into a Committee ,
and returned the Hon. and Gallant Member who now repre-
sented them, free of all expenses, and most bitterly did he
lament that the name which would go down as the brightest of
that age would be associated with a measure which he be-
lieved
would inflict irreparable ruin to the country.
The DUKE of WELLINGTON—I cannot allow my
Lords that this question should be put from the Woolsack with-
out addressing a few words upon the vote which you are about to
give. I address you under many disadvantages ; under
that of appearing before you as a Minister of
the Crown pressing this measure on your adoption, which
I know to be disagreeable to all with whom I have been living
in terms of personal intimacy and friendship. But I felt
myself bound in duty to my Sovereign not to with-
hold my support upon an occasion like the present.
But I have taken part with my Right Hon. Friend in this
measure, because I was aware it was one which he was resolved
to carry out. It is not necessary that I should enter further
into a detail of the circumstances connected with this transac-
tion. I know that I rise here to-night with a
considerable degree of prejudice against me ; be
that as it may, I beg to tell your Lordships
that the same course which I then pursued I would again
pursue if the same thing was to be done over again, and it is a.
course which I conceive I, in gratitude to her Majesty, in
whose service I have the honour to be, am bound to take. It
may he true, and perhaps it is true, that I ought
to have no relation with party in this House,
and that party ought to have no relation
with me. That, my Lords, is just as you may think proper,
but I feel satisfied with the justice of the motives by which I
have been actuated ; and I would be sorry to think they caused
any dissatisfactirm in your minds. I know I have no claim upon
you for the confidence you have reposed in me for many years
past—a confidence which enable me to transact the business of
this House, that has been intrusted to me from time to time.
But, my Lords, I will not omit even on this night, possibly the
last cn which I shall ever venture to address to you any advice
again-1 will not omit giving you my counsel as to the
vote which you should give on this occasion. My Lords,
my Noble Friend, whose absence this night I lament, and
who addressed you a few nights ago, urged you in
the strongest manner to vote against the measure,
and told you in terms which I cannot imitate that it was your
duty to step in and protect the public from rash and inconside-
rate measures which might be passed by the other House of
Parliament, and which should in your opinions be inconsistent
with the views and opinions of the public. My Lor, s, there
is no doubt, whatever, that it is your duty well to
consider all measures that are brought before yon, and
that you should give your vote upon them as you
think proper, and most particularly to vote against those which
appear to me rash and inconsiderate. But 1 beg leave to point
out to your Lordships that it is your duty to consider well the
consequences of any vote which you may give upon any sub-
ject in this House, and to consider well the situation in which
you place this House by the voles which you give. My
Lords, this has been the practice of the House or,
previous occasions, and I have myself more than once pre-
vailed upon the House to vote for measures upon which the
Members of the other House have pronounced positive
opinions. Now, my Lords, I beg you to look a little at
the measure upon which you are going to give your vote,
and look at the mantes in which this measure has come
before you, and at the consequences which are likely
to follow from your rejection of it.—( Hear, hear. )
It should be recollected that this measure was recommended
in the Queen's speech, that it had been passed by a large majo-
rity of the House of Commons, that majority comprising more
than one-half of the whole of the House of Commons. This is
the more valuable, because it does not interfere in

any way with her Majesty's prerogative. Noble Lords
might say that in consequence of this decision of
the House of Commons, the Government might be in
danger. But that was not the subject of consideration,
and it mattered little whether this fact was proved by the re-
sult or not, and the real consideration was whether this House
would approve of the decision or not. It should be recollected
that decision came from the recommendation of the Crown,
that the Bill was unopposed, and that it came on upon the re-
commendation of the other branch of the Legislature. The
House of Lords stands alone, and I think that in the considera-
tion of this question that deference ought to be paid to public
opinion. If the Lords refuse to take the course of the Corn-
mons, the effect will be to reduce the power of the constitu-
tion. Let U 3 take the effect of the rejection of this
Bill. I believe that the results of the rejection of
the measure will be infinitely useful in bringing
op the opinions of the other House of Legislature.
I must conclude in that case that another Government would be
formed, but whether there was another Government or not,

this measure would again be brought before you
during the next Administration. What would you do in
that ease? Would you reject it a second time ? Do you mean
to go on that way, discussing the measure in another
Parliament three or four months longer ? But the Noble
Lord (Lord Stanley), mod the Noble Duke (the Duke of
Richmond) have said that Parliament should be dissolved--
(Loud cries of " Hear, hear," from the cross benches)—in
order to see whether the constituencies that re-
turned another House of Commons agreed to the
measure.—( Hear.) if the Noble Lords have really
so much confidence in the results of another election, and think
public opinion is as much in their favour, why should they not
rely on the election which in the ordinary course of the law
will take place in a little more than twelve months ? You might
test the principle of the law which will not come
into operation till after three years —in 1849.
that Parliament can take into consideration this measure, with-
out interfering with the prerogative of the Crown, or calling
on the Crown to dissolve Parliament immediately. You
hrve before you two alternatives. You may dissolve
Parliament, and have the Bill again brought up before
you, or pass the Bill now. You shall have
an election before it tomes into operation—when will be the

proper time to appeal to Parliament to prevent the provisions

•
of the memure coming into operation at the end of three
years.—( Cheers.)
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and their Lord-
ships divided, when there appeared, _

Contents Present . .
Proxies 73
—2ll
Non Contents present
Proxies
—164

Majority for the second reading -
The Bill was then ordered to be committed en the llth of

Their Lord,hips then adjourned at live o'clock to the 4th
of June.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 28.
The SPLAXER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
Several Railway Bills were advanced a stage.
The Manchester arid Birmingham Continuation and Welsh
Junction Railway Bill was withdrawn.
The Railway Companies' Bill was read a second time and
ordered to be committed.
THE ANDOVER UNION.
Lord COURTEN AY moved that the Select Committee on
the Andover Union should have leave to report the minutes of
evidence taken before them from time to time.
After some discussion the House divided upon the motion,
when there appeared—
For the motion
Against it Bl
Majority against the motion ...... —65
BRIDPORT ELECTION.
On the question, k hat the decision of the Committee on the
Bridport Election should be reconsidered, some considerab!e
discussion took place, in which Mr. Hindley, Mr. Bankes, the
Solicitor-General, Mr. T. Duncombe. Sir W. James, Sir
De Lacy Evans, Sir R. Peel, Mr. Hume, Mr. Law, Mr.
•t♦iirsei odnb
yt hae
majorityqu estion of
3r2e,c,tihn;ri do ebrei niogg thfoer decision was
Stuart Wortley, and Mr. Wakley took part, and upon a di-
onsi
d e
rnaetgi
oan.
48, and against it 80.
The Report of the Committee of Supply on the Miscel-
laneous Estimates was brought up :Ind agreed to, and the other
orders of the day :ieing disposed of, the House adjourned at Twenty Minutes to Eight o'clock.

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BART ---We have
DEATHt. (
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JOHNdeceas
empire, Sir John Trevelyan, who
seat, Nettlecombe Court, expired
Somerset, at the adval'e 211
last., at his
this day
was the sot. of the fourth Baroliet by the daughter of age of 86' Ile
Esq. He succeeded to the title in .15211, having previouslyrP SYmend,
the daughter of Sir T. S. Wilson, Bart., an eminent city
married
lie was a Deputy•Lientenant for Northumberland, in w 7
_merchant.
as well as in Somerset, he held estates, which, with theht'7tlll county,
his son, Walter Calverly, born in 1797. The baronetcy Waser,„„° to
in the reign of Charles tile Second, being conferred by that monarch—ted
on a member of the luridly in return tin the services rendered
them to the royal party lit opposing the republican forces.unde);
Fairfax and Cromwell.
Lord Stanley is suffering, from slight indily,sition,
and was in •consequenee prevented from dining with' the Duke ens
Diicliess of Beaufort, on Weduesdrq hist.