The Sun.
London, England, 1833-03-13 00:00:00

certainly was a general understanding, that the petitions
e elating to the Irish Bill should alone be presented : but
the House could not prevent other petitions being brought
before it, if Hon. Gentlemen offered them. He had given•
notice of a motion, to call the attention of the House to
the propriety, in the present state of business, of always
taking the orders of the day before notices, during the
progress of the Irish Bill. He did not intend to take the
sense of the House on that motion, but he only wished
that an understanding should become:to on the subject. He
hoped that gentlemen would not press their notices, and
allow the orders of the day to take precedence, so as not
to interfere with ti►e progress of the Irish Bill.

WARBURTON was underrood to _ ask, at what
boor of a night the Noble Lord contemplated bringing
the debate to a close ?

Lord ALT HORP could not possibly say beforehand.
He thought if any one question were decided at not a
very late hour, so as to allow other business to come on,
the debate might then terminate.
Mr. WARBURTON wished to ask the Hon. Member
(or Worcester, if it were his intention to interfere with
t he arrangement for presenting petitions against. the Bill?
If the Hon. Member meant to raise the question, he had
letter do it then. He thought a resolution might be
moved, that no petitions should be presented to-morrow,
but petitions relative to the Irish Bill. If there were no
objection to that mode of settling the question, he should
have no objection to move such a resolution.
Mr. ROBINSON said the present mode of proceeding was
neither more nor less than an interference with the rights
and privileges of the House. —(No, no. ) If he were
not allowed to present petitions which he thought of im-
portance, and if be were not allowed to submit motions

which he had regularly given notice, what was that

but infringing on the rights and privileges of the Mem-
bers ?—(No, no.) He admitted that there had been
an understanding across the table, between the Noble
Lord awl the Hen. and Learned Member for Dublin;
and he know that the House generally acceded to
those understandings to which the parties most in-
t rested caw. He did not
_wish to interfere with
such understandings; but he wished to ask, would
the Noble Lord assure him auy day on which he might bring
forward his motion. Ile had a notice fixed for the 2fith,
cn a subject which he considered of great importance—
when was he to be assured of an opportunity of bringing
that forward? The notice-hook, up to the 20th of May,
was filled up with motions four or live for each day, and
motions of a description that each of them would, as
things were now discussed, take four or five days to discuss
it. If the country was not to be altogether deceived—
and if the House was to have time for deliberation—
something must b,,, done to obviate the pressure of business.
He wished to know whether all other business was to be

put au end to till the Irish Bill was passed ?
Lord ALTHORP had always supposed that the deci-
sions of the House would be guided by good sense and
discretion. Ile had, however, been apprehensive that the
eagerness of gentlemen to bring forward motions would
lead the House to attempt to do more business than it
possibly could do in one session. That apprehension had
been real zed. On looking at the notice-book, he found
so many notices of motions on very important subjects,
that every man acquainted with business must know it
would be impossible to get through them in one session.
Mr. HUME asked, was all the business of the country

to give place to the Irish Bill ? On two grounds the
Bill, he thought, should be abandoned—fist, because it
entirely interrupted the business of the House; secondly,
because by every account from Ireland it would quite
unnecessary to put it into operation. But as to the pre-
cise course to be taken on the question before the House,
he would not come to any uuderstandieg.
Lord ALTHORP thought it strange that the accommo-
dation granted to him by the minority in the last Parlia-
ment should be refused to him in this.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. D. W. HARVEY had been, and still was, a most
determined opponent of the Bill ; but having been intro-
duced, the sooner it was got rid of the better.
The SOLICITOR,GENEILAL, and another HON. MEM-
BER, briefly expressed themselves to the same effect.
Mr. A. BARING said that the Ministry showed no
disposition to afford information or encourage general
discussion on the great questions of Tithes, Corporations,
the Bank Charter, and the East India Company. In his
opinion the four, as enumerated by him, might be pro-
posed on one day—(A laugh)—and then left for the
general discussion of the country.
After a few words from Mr. WARBURTON about
Irish petitions,
Lord ALTHORP hoped he should be able to introduce
the measure of Church Reform on Thursday. The pro-

position of the Hon. Member for Essex was a most extra-
ordinary one. If the four Bills should be proposed in
one day, they would be attacked all through the country
by the opponents of Government and its measures.
Mr. BARING said, if a Bill were once brought forward,
it would be impossible to prevent a general discussion
of it.

Mr. RUTHVEN said that the Irish coercive measure
was introduced to draw public attention from the violation
of the pledges made by Government. They were thus
enabled to shift aside the questions of economy, reduc-
tion of taxation, &c., and deny the country the relief
which it had a right to claim et their hands.—(Hear.)
An Hox. MEstBEJ having made some observations,
which were quite inaudible,
The House resolved itself into a Committee upon Ex
chequer Rills.