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IMPERIAL PiRL I A MENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS,
THURSDAY, JULY zt.
Tat various Bills upon the Table were forward.
ed in their respetlive stages ; among these the Mi.!
litia Amendment Bill, and three other Bills brbught
up yesterday horn the Commons, were
,severally
read a second time.
The Scots Inland Navigation Bill passed through
a Committee of the v>hole House.

Thd Poor's Maintenance Bill was also commit.
ted; risspening- this measure the Earl of RADNOR
had some Ainendtnents to propose, but not appear.
ing to. be •fully prepared therewith, it was'agreed,
alter a short .cnocerence between his Lordship anti
the LORD•CtrANCELLOIt; that progress should be
reported. The House then resumed, and the Com.
Init tee weredireeted to sit again on Monday. -
The Marquis. ofISAIeISRURY reported His Ma.
jetty's Answer, .to the recent Address of their Lord.
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The Earl offiTcsTMOß LAND presented a Message
oin His IVlipie:ny rehtive to the situation of the
Eious6 of,Ourge, similar to that delivered to' the
Communtqaml to which we refer.

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' I,oriship then innYed, that His Majesty's
graciima Message he taken into consideraticin bn
Monday .nexr, and the. Lords summoned thereotW
which were Mered accordingly.
Sir WM. SCOTT and others brought up a Bill for
amending a „cerjain Clerical Error in the Clergy
Residence Bill' sVas forthwith read a:firs
time.

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The Order of iheDay being read for going
,into
Committee on the-Rill: " to suspend, until the
rst day of July 5803, proceedings in adions,,yro.
secutions, and proceedings, under certain Ads
lating, to. the Woollen IVlanufatlure, and also under
an At of the reign `of queen Elizabeth, so far.:ai,
the same relates to certain persons employed or con..
cerned in the said manufadure," •
The House immediately resolved into the
Lord WACSINGVIAM in the Chair.
Mr. Fielding was heard at some length as Com.
sel for certain Petitioners with respet to particular
parts of the. Bill.

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'After the Learned Counsel had elinci44ed hit ad.
dress,

Tl'4 LORD CHANCELLOR rose, and delivered
his opinion upon the general subjeft at some length.
He was necessarily led to repeat much of what he
had advanced on the subjeft on a former evening.
With respeet to the present Bill, which was regu.
larly and more immediately under consideration,
he observed, It required the attentive consideration
of their Lordships, and necessarily called fora con-.
siderable extent of 'alteration. The title was by
no means a true representation of the Bill itself,
which in ono of its Clauses went to suspend, not
only the anions or prosecutions pending, but even
the
.relevant A of Parliament; that obviously
quired amendment. The principle which should
guide the Committee with respea to the present
had a teference to
.the' general subjeft. This
was certainly one of great magnitude and import.,
ance ; it had received a great deal of consideration
in Parliament, and reciniretta great deal More. The
evidence given before another House' of' Parliament
WAs 'no regular data for their LordshipS
to anti upon;
they should proceed' upon evidence given ,before
thetryielvel ; the •subjedt was of a complicated yia.
tutu, and required much 'and deliberate investiga,
tiost; The questions . respeding the machinery,
'particularly the Gig -Mills, and also the afrair of the
apprentices, were of .rhat .deicription. On these
several Lordship made a few .observationi.
The provisions in the 'Bill as it now stood went to
;area the legality of the aetions, which he seemed,
to ;say was not the int'ention ; the `objet was to,
suspend, anii not destrtiy:the ...idiom'. After 'a
few further obtervations on these points, he stated
Ilk intention to inAe 'for the omission of the first.,
clause, and to-i'prbpose other amend its
the Bill, proceeding on 'the grounds he,hact stated.'
In the course of the Leading-the Bill, his-Lottl.
ship re'ir,tii:irly moved ail ,above, which meeting the
scow of the Committee was immediately agreed to.
'1 he title of the. Bill was also amended, and the
term of Its operations extended to tile:itit of July,
864.
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#ciusE .offCOMMONS,

THUiI&DAY, JULY 21.

The Rause then resume l---the Report WO re.
crive&—and the Bill with the amendments ordered
to be re-printed.
The Earl of Rost' 1.1 after a few•
observations
delivered in. a very-low-'torte of voice, moved‘the
second Yeading of the 6lasgovo--Theatre Bill. .
The 1,0 RD CIIA IVC L LOP'
role not tonppose
!1 t.. ion of the Noble Earl, but - to stale:that his
objeCtions to the Bill in its present shape,-were of
an invincible nature, poisibly they might in some
,dewee he obviated in a' Comrnittee: the Bill, he
observed,r. wenf to repeal. the Aft relaring to' the
general foahjee,); as far as it relatitd to' the single in-
wanes of Ci gow, and to put the proprietori thereof
in every. respeA•on an equal'footing with any of
those who heiclUnder Majesv'sLettetit' Patent.
After a few observations on the nature of 'Letters
Patent in such cases; and on the peculiar niture of
theatrical property, he said that care shOuld be '
taken that nothing should be done inconsistent
with the Ad-, alluded to.
The Earl of ROSLIN spoke in explanation,. and
Alluded to some fads which he seemed to consider at
favoufable to the rneasuse.
The Bill was then read a second time, and 40n..
rnitteil for to_nymow.,
' Mr. WtLL t AMS, Secretary to the Commission of
Inquiry, presented the 4.115 Report of those
'Constnissioners-which was Ordered to lie on the
Table:
'WILLIAM MACDoWrtiti tsq. W's Morn at
the 11,kr respefting his proposed evidence, before the
Committee relative to the Glasgow Theatre.
Stitbe private business was' then disposed of, after
which their Lordships adjourned, till to-morrow,.

?Hit House went into a Committee of the whole
House on the Clergy Residence Mistake Bill.—On