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The Nonts MARQUIS postponed his motion on this sub-
ject, for the purpose of obtaining further communications
on the point.

BOROUGH OF WARWICK.

Lord WYNFORD presented a petition from the bo-
rough of Warwick, against the bill for uniting Leamington
Priors with that borough, and praying that the petitioners
might be heard at the bar.
Lord DURHAM, in objecting to the petition, went at
some length into the circumstances that took place before
the committee upon t! .e subject in the House of Commons,
and observed that if the house concurred will the prayer
of the petition, it would be a useless waste of time and an
extravagant expenditure of the public money.
After a few observations from Lord WYNYORD, the
Marquis of CLANRICARDE, and the Marquis of SALISBURY,
Lord WYNFORD asked the noble Earl (Durham)
when he intended to move the second reading of the bill,
because he would give notice that on that day he would
move that Counsel be heard at the bar of the house.
The Earl of DURHAM said, that before naming a clay
on which he intended to move the second reading of the bill,
be should like to know what course his Majesty's mi-
nisters meant to pursue, because this was the first of a
series of five or six bias that were coming before the
house, relative to bribery at elections. Did they intend
in all these cases to hear witnesses at the bar of the
house, and to incur a heavy expense in going over the
same grounds again, and in hearing the same evidence
as had been given before the House of Commons ?
If they agreed with him in thinking that the other house
was the fittest to purify its own representation, he should
be prepared to state such a case on the evidence that had
been presented, which had been given before the House
of Commons, as would entitle him to call for the second
reading of the bill.
Earl GREY said he did not rise for the purpose of
entering into the merits of the case, nor into the fact of
whether corruption had prevailed to the extent stated ;
neither was he then prepared to give his opinion upon the
question of whether the house was bound to hear evidence
—be rose on account of the call made upon tbeGovernment
by the noble earl (Durham), to state what course,
in their opinion, the house ought to take, upon the
bill then on the table. It was a matter of very grave
consideration, whether upon a question which came before
the house in its judicial character, it was right to indict
such a heavy punishment upon any individuals without
affording them an opportunity of vindicating themselv. s.
When the question came on, be would be prepared
to give his opinion upon it as an individual; as it was,
he had risen to say that he did not consider that it was
his duty as a minister to take any steps upon the
subject.—(Hear, hear, from the opposition side.) As an
individual, he would be prepared to state the views he
entertained upon the subject ; but as the case was before
the house in its judicial character, be did not think he
should be doing his duty in acting as more than an indi-
vidual member.
The Earl of DURHAM said he had made the call
upon the government because he remembered that in
the case of East Retford a former Government took
up the question, and the noble duke then at the head
of the Administration stated the views of the Government
upon it and took the lead in the matter ; he thought that
the same precedent might hare been followed in the present
case. He then gave notice that he would move the second
reading of the bill on Thursday the 24th April.
Lord WYNFORD then gave notice, that he would
move on the same day, that the parties be heard by ccun-
ael et the bar.

E.el DURHAM presented petitions from the Pro_
testant dissenters of York-street chapel, Walworth ; of
Wandsworth, and several other places in Surrey, prayim;
for a removal of the dis ibilities under which they laboured.
Earl FITZWILLIAM presented a great number ~f
petitions from Dissenters to the same effect. He
said he regretted the meagre provisions of the
Marriage Bill introduced in another house. In his
opinion there ought to be no communication between
the ministers of the established church and those of the
Dissenters upon such a subject. He also thought that
the church ought to be a society separate from and inde-
pendent of, the state.
The NOBLE EARL then presented several petitions
from the members of the Established Church at Biggles-
wade and several other places in the West Riding of the
County of York, praying for protectio❑ to the Established
Church.