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ory different from those supposed ; tbeY were these ;
If he had permitted letters from France to be delivered: on
a Sunday, how could he refuse to permit them to be deli-
vered from all parts of the country ? and if he allowed them
to be delivered in town, how could he refuse to allow them
to be sent out of town on Sunday? These were the difficulties
that he felt and acted on when he had been asked to con-
sent to the delivery of the French letters on Sunday.
Though he was not one who would vote for all the Sabbath
Bills that had been introduced into Parliament, still he
would not consent entirely to desecrate the Sunday in that
way.—(Hear, hear.) If he had allowed the French letters
to be delivered on the Sunday, the merchant must have
stayed at his counting-house on that day to receive them,
and the merchant could not have stayed without requiring
his clerks to be there, and these clerks would have been
employed on the business to which these letters related,
so that, in fact the Sunday would have been as much
a day of business as any other day in the week.—(Hear,
hear, hear.) He had refused to lend his assistance in
producing such a state of things.(Hear.) He should now
only observe, that he had no personal hostility to Mr. Wal-
lace—he wished that the Hon. Member had none towards
him. On a former occasion the Hon. Member had treated.
him ill ; and it happened that when one individual had
treated another ill, the former often felt a certain degree of
hostility towards the person whom be had injured. He
should not attribute motives to the Hon. Member, who
was not there to answer for himsef, and perhaps he was but
the dupe of others, who had made him the channel of bring's
in g charges against a department, which be would venture
to assert would bear a comparison with any other depart:i
ment in this or any other country.—(Hear.) He trusted
that their Lordships would agree with him, that after what
had been said elsewhere, the observations with which he
bad now troubled them were absolutely necessary.
The Marquis of CONYNGHAM had noticed the mis-
take of the Hon. Member for Greenock, and must say
that a more unjust statement never appeared.
The Earl of GOSFORD knew nothing of the state-
ments in the petition. The p etitioners were very respect-
able men, and he felt it to be his duty to present a petition
thus intrusted to him.
Mr. Bernal and others brought up the Irish Tithe Bill ;
the Church Temporalities (Ireland) .Bill ; the Bridges in
Ireland Bill ; the Civil Offices Pensions Bill ; the Exche-
quer Bills Bill ; the Foreign Enlistment Repeal Bill ; and
the South Australia Colonization Bill.
The Insolvent Debtors (India) Bill was reported.
On the motion of Viscount MELBOURNE, the Irish
Tithe Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a ,T
second time on Monday next.,
The Irish Church Temporalities Bill was in like manner
read a first time, and the second reading fixed for Monday.
The other bills brought up from the Commons were
likewise read a first time.
The Fever Hospital (Ireland) Bill ; the Assessed Taxes
Composition Bill ; the Militia Ballot Suspension Bill,. the
Almanacks Stamp Duties Repeal Bill ; and the Militia
Bill, were read a second time.
The Turnpike Road Act was reported, and ordered to
be read a third time to-morrow.
PROXIES.
The Marquis of WESTMINSTER said, that in justi-
fication of himself, he must make a few observations on the
subject of voting by proxy, with respect to which he had
given notice of a motion that he had not been able to bring
forward this session. He said, that when he gave notice of
his intention to introduce that important subject to their
Lordships' notice, he was fully prepared to bring it on, but
he had been preveded by one accident or another, till the
unsettled state of the Government compelled him for a
time again to postpone it ; and since the Administration
had been re-organized, the discussion of even more impor-
tant topics bad left no time for the consideration of this
question. He trusted, however, that when it was brought
before their Lordships, as he intended, they would have
no hesitation in foregoing their present privilege. He
trusted, too, to see other measures adopted. That most
disgraceful statute, the Septennial Act, ought to be brought
to an end, and he trusted that reform would be carried
into various abuses in the most piercing and searching
manner. Unless these questions were undertaken with a
desire to settle them properly by the Government, they
would not satisfy the reasonable part of the inhabitants of
the country, and they would not long be able to hold their
places.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, August 6.
The SPEAKER resumed the Chair soon after Five o'clock.
WATERFORD ELECTION.

The SPEAKER announced that the parties who had peti.
tioned against the undue election for the city of Waterford
had failed to enter into the usual recognizances, and that the
petition had consequently been discharged.

THE POST OFFICE.
Mr. R. WALLACE rose to present a petition, but before
he did so the Hon. Gentleman said he wished to repel an im-
putation which had been cast upon him a few evenings age in
consequence of an assertion which he had made, that Members
of Parliament were only allowed to receive a limited number
of letters. He held in his hand a communication which he
had received on the 16th of April, 1833, from Sir F. Freeling,
and in that communication it was expressly stated that Mem-
bers of Parliament were entitled only to - receive a limited
number of letters on Monday, notwithstanding the interven-
tion of Sunday. Beyond that number Sir F. Freeling went
on to say that the postage could not be dispensed with, and,
as this communication fully bore out the statement which he
had made, he regretted that the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. V.
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that he had been badly treated. It was the duty of the Post
Office Solicitor to prosecute public delinquents, and he there-
fore hoped the House would order him to prosecute the late
Postmaster-General for the fraud which had been practised
upon him. He had that day received a letter from Liverpool
stating that the King's tender had been employed in " tugging"
vessels in the river of that town, and as this was a great injury
to the small craft he thought it should be put a stop to. The
Hon. Gentleman concluded by presenting a petition from the
inhabitants of Pollockshaw in favour of law reform in Scotland.
Lord ALTHORP said that he should have inquiries made
as to the statement of the Hon. Gentleman respecting the
King's tender, and all he could say was, that if it were true
the abuse should be corrected. _ _

The petition was ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. MAXWELL wished to call the attention of the Noble
Lord to the state of the twopenny post, which he said ope-
rated most hardly upon persons residing beyond a given dis-

tance from the metropolis.
Mr. LE NN ARD moved for a return of the number of per-
sons committed to prison on charges of highway robbery in
Ireland, during the last four years. The Hon. Gentleman, at
the same time, presented a petition from Maldon, against the
proposed increase of the duty on spirit licences.