The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-04 00:00:00

CASE OF MR. D. W. HARVEY.
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Mr. POLLOCK moved that certain papers which
had been laid upon the table of the house, connected
with this case, be Vrinted.
Mr. O'CONNELL said the papers were before the
committee, and that they would be ready by Friday.
Mr. HUME objected to the printing of the papers ;
they had been ordered to be printed, but were subse-
quently submitted to the committee. When the com-
mittee had read them they appeared to contain certain
statements which it would not be right to make public
until the committee had made inquiries as to how the

evidence contained in them had been taken, and they
had unanimously resolved that these papers should not
be printed until they had ascertained how far it was
proper that they should be laid before the house.
The SPEAKER said these papers had been laid on
the table by order of the house, and the commission
had no right to inquire whether those papers so laid on
the table should be printed or not. These papers,
after being laid on the table, were ordered to be
printed. Subsequently a motion was made that
those papers be laid before the commission, and the
order for printing them was suspended. The pro-
position of the hon. member for Middlesex appeared to
be this—that a commission appointed for a particular
purpose should control the judgment of that house after
the house had ordered those papers to be printed.
Mr. HUME explained.
Mr. O'CONNELL said that there was one fact
which he wished to put the house in possession of.
Certain papers were ordered to be laid before the
house, and these consisted of the certificate of the
benchers in the case upon which a committee had been
appointed. A second certificate was subsequently pre-
pared, and as it was an irregular certificate he hoped
the hon. and learned member would agree with him,
that that was a document which was not called for by
the house. He suggested that the motion should not
be pressed until the committee met to-morrow.
After a few words from Sir J. SC ARL ETT,
The SPEAKER said that a motion had been made
and acquiesced in for laying certain papers before the
house. Those papers were produced, and the hon.
and learned gentleman said more had been laid upon
the table than were called for. This was an every day
occurrence. The papers had been laid upon the table
in order that the members of the house should be ac-
quainted with their contents. A motion was made
that they be printed. Nothing was more common
than to object to the printing of documents, if it was
shown that they were very voluminous or comparatively
useless.

Mr. O'CONNELL, after a word or two in expla-
nation, withdrew his opposition.
Mr. POLLOCK moved that an humble address
might be presented to his Majesty, praying that a
return of all cases of indictments for misdemeanors,
&c., should be laid on the table.

Sir H. PARKER presented two petitions from
parishesoin Suffolk, praying for a labour rate.
Mr. Alderman WOOD moved for leave to bring
in a bill for the better regulation of cabriolets and
other hackney carriages.
Mr. HUME presented a petition, signed by several
thousands of the inhabitants of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
and another from the inhabitants of Berwick, against
taxes on knowledge, and praying for,a system of na-
tional education to be established.

Mr. BUCKINGHAM postponed his notice of mo-
tion on the subject of duelling.
Mr. Alderman WOOD presented four petitions from
different parts of the country against drunkenness.
Mr. PATTEN presented a petition from Burn
ley, in Lancashire, to the same effect.
General SHARPE presented a petition from the
inhabitants of Annandale on the same subject, and to
the same effect.

Mr. LLO YD and several other members presented
petitions from different places of a similar nature.
The Marquis of C H ANDO S wished to know when
the noble lord opposite meant again to bring
forward (as we understood) the question of the
Tithe Commutation Act, as on that day he (the noble
marquis) intended again to bring forward the sub-
ject of agricultural interests.
Lord ALTHORP could only answer, that he
should give due notice of the time when he should
bring it forward.
Mr. PEASE asked a question which was not dis-
tinctly heard in the gallery, on the subject of the
flour and grain imported into the Isle of Man.
Mr. P. T HOMSON said his attention had been
called to the subject from events that had come under
his notice, and he had directed an inquiry to be made
into it ; as far as that inquiry had gone, not one of the
alleged facts had been borne out,. but it should be
proceeded in.