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IMPERIAL PARLIASfEriTT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JULY 18.
Lord LUMLEY presented a petition from Mansfield, in
the county of Nottinghain, against the Seut.;:i and Irish
'Vagrants Removal Bill.
Mr. HOPE presented a petition from the workmen of
Cnpar Mills, k the county of Fife, against the Bill for the
regulation of labour in factories.
Mr. MULLINS presented a petition from a parish in
the county of Kerry, against the tithe system.
Mr. O'CONNELL supported the petition.
Mr. W. BROUGHAM brought up the report of the
Committee on the General Registry Bill. He then pre-
sented a petition from the Jutish of Sr. Mary, Luther-
hithe, against the Vagrants' Removal Bill.
Mr. O'CONNELL pre*ented a petition from the
southern districts of the county of Dublin, agreed to at a
meeting assembled on the top ofthe Three Rock Mount sins,
against the tithe system. He also presented a petition
from Mr. Cobhett, which as coming from an individual
could net be printed, and th,refore the Learned Member
said he would trouble the House with its details, some
parts of which, however, he said he could not concur in.
The petitioner stated that the provisions of the Reform
Bill in respect to registration were extremely complicated,
and it would be almost impossible to carry them into
effect. He also complained that they tended to put the
franchise into the hands of the rich and to mbar.
rass the poor. He conceived that every man who
was liable to be drawn for the militia was entitled
to a vote. The Hon. Member hoped that suffi-
cient security would be given for a free exercise of votes,
by the House visiting any improper foterf-rence with a
severe punishment. The petitioner prayed for annual
Parliaments, universal suffrage, and vote by ballot.
Mr. HUNT said the petitioner had abused him for ad-
vocating the very measures which he was now anxious
should be adopted. The petitioner hail been veering round
for some time in his publication ; and now, rifler
the Reform Bill had passer!, be came forward to
have it completely altered by the intrtatluc-
tion of annual Parliaments, vote by ballot, arid
universal suffrage. He was, and always should be, ready
to vote for a snore extended measur, as he beii,.ved it to
be the only means of preventing bribery, which was now
going on to a great extent. At the present moment voters
were having their rates paid for them. The voters of
Stafford were all bribed. The Hon. Member did not
know any person better qualifi••d than tt.epeti:ioner to turn
round from one side to the other.

Mr. HARVEY thought the clauie in the 13 11 which
made it compulsory upon voters to pay their rate: on or
before the 20th of July, was a great it-Moot...rot to bribery,
hut he could not see that it would he prevented Ii annual
Parliaments, universal suffrage, and vote by b .11or. If
such a measure ever become law, the G ,vernment of the
country would have to be entirely altered, as a limited
monarchy and a hereditary aristocracy were totally at vari-
ance with annual Parliaments.
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Mr. CAMPBELL denied that the electors of Stafford
had been bribed. They were as respectable a body, at any
rate, as the electors of Preston.—(Laughter.) He thought
with the Hon. Member for Colchester, that the clause in
the Reform Bill, with reference to the payment of rat a,
would have a great tendency to increase bribery-, which
would not be put an end to by the Bill now upon the table,
unless the clause he bad proposed was added to it, namely,
that all Menthe's before taking their seats should make an
oath that they had not been guilty of bribery.
Mr. O'CONNELL, in moving that the Petition should
lie on the table, observed, that he should not enter into
the quarrel of the petitioner with the Hon. Member for
Preston or himself, but he wished to know if the present
Bill had gone up to the House of Lords with universal
suffrage attached ti it, the Hon. Member for Preston
thought there would have been the least hopes of its sue-
cess.—(Heat, hear.) The people of England have hail a
great boon granted to them by the Bill as it at present
stood, and he (Mr. O'Connell) had no doubt they would
duly appreciate it.—( Hear. )
Mr. HUNT had no doubt if the same force had been
used as had been applied to the passing of the present Bill
in the House of Lords, to a Bill giving universal suffrage,
it, or any other Bill, would have passed. In his opinion,
the vote by ballot was the only means of preventing bribery.
INNS OF COURT.
Mr, ITATI_V_R3L..4.I,I-,,1.,..t; wi rue motion winch he
brought forward yesterday, with respect to Inns of Court,
would have been resumed to day, but as he found that was
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not the case, he should, if an. occasion presented itself,
revive the motion this evening; but if no oppottunity
offered, he should bring it forward on Thursday the 26th.
Mr. O'CONNELL explained th.it the petition he pre-
sented last night from the LAW Society of Dubdn, was in
favour of the Civil Bill, and nut against it, tit had been
represented.

Mr. VERNON presented a petition from Chester,
against the Scotch and Irish V !grants B. 1.

On the motion of Mr. PORTMAN, the Highways
Bill was committed pro forma, o: d. red vi he princrd,
and the Report ordered to he taken in.() consi-
leration that thy three months. He hoped that the
measure would be brought forward at a furore time by the
secretary for the Home Departinebt. It cuss

cessary that those laws relating to highways should be
condensed and improved. At present one magistrate
could pass the accounts of a tru-t, and ►here was no
He trusted country gentlnuen who kne•v these laws well
.vould take them into their considvratiou, an f s . improve

v.ein in to give eatasfaction both to the pablic and the

surveyors.

11117. ESTCOURT was glad that this course had hem
4ursued, for there was a great deal in the present Bill
which would not at all work well iu country pa, fishes.
Mr. J. WOOD was very sorry that the state of public
business was such at the present advanced p riod of the
-ession as to prevent his Ron. Fiet,cl fioo, going on

with the Bill, which was well c ticuleed to improve these
Lave. The delay would be productive of one gipid—the
more the public c,insider.•d the provisions of the Bill, the
more they would be satisfied.

Mr. CAMPBELL moved the second read'ng of the
General Registration Bill. only meant that it should
be committ-d pro forma, and he would then move tnat
,he report be taken into consi.-!eration that t:Lty three
months.

Mr. HERRIES hoped that no one would he considered
41 giving his ssnction to the principle of the Bill, because
40 opposition was offered to it.
The BM was then read a second time, and ordered to
be committed to-morrow.