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not vastly like to associate with them in the goy erAment
of a corporate town, under the new law, were it to pass.

—Times.

Lord Melbourne, it is said by his friends, and his man-
ner evidently confirms the truth of the report, feels most
keenly his deserted state in the House of Lords. Th e
whole history of Parliament presents nothing so degrading-
as a Minister possessing only 39 votes in the Upper House,
more than one-half of those consisting of the Administra-
tion and its immediate connections, and these opposes: by
an overwhelming majority of more than three to one. Aocl.
this is not all. Many supposed stanch friends have left
town, cooled, or unwilling to appear at the hour of need ;
while, " worserer still," some whose votes were considered
ee;lain have turned their backs upon themselves, and unex-
pectedly jone over to te eney. In the meantime we wit-
ness part ot.L''e Press vehntingm the most inflammatory asper-
sions against the House of Lords, designating them as a
band of selfish oligalchs, wedded to anuses, and opposed to
every species of reform. If the Lords know when to stop,
they will not only have an: ply vindicated themselves 40m
these calumnies, but will have shown to the country that it
possesses in that branch of the Legislature not only a bui-
wark against. revolutionalinnovation,plait a protection for the
poor man's rights, which the latter has not on this occasion
found in the Reformed House of Commons. But recurring
to Lord Melbourne ; where was the foresigit which ought
to distinguish the Statesman upon such occasions ? Why
were the amendments which are now adopted by an over-
whelming majority in the Lords, resisted when proposed in
the Commons by Sir Robert Peel ? The Noble Viscount
and his colleagues must have known that such would be
ease ; and was it not therefore the obvious part of common
pra;lence to avoid the melancholy show of Parliamentary
weakne,'s, and of decertion, which the late divisions in the
House of L.ords ban exhibited ? • We say this under two
impressions :—the one that the general feeling of the coun-
try is with the House or" Lords thus far :—the other, that
the Commas will find it n'eeessary to yield to these amend-
ments, or the greater part them. If such be the ease,
the country may reasonably ask- why was not such a com-
promise acceded to at first, and w,by are we to be exposed
to the mischief of a collision which n:ight have been, with
so much facility, and with no loss of character or consis-
tency, avoided .1
—Morning Herald.
We have always felt and expressed the fallest confidence
that the Corporations Reform Bill would not bn sent back
from the House of Lords to the House of Commons with-
out having received at the hands of their Lordships many
important improvements, tending to secure to the towns of
England and Wales, more effectually than the measure in
its original state could have do.ne, the advantages of a pure
and judicious local administratiosa and to protect from the
danger of prodigality, or misapi')i.ication, the ample funds
and the important patronage left the power of Corpora-
tions. It is now evident that wry confidence was well
founded. The House of Lords have divested the measure
of much that was pernicious and danEverous in its former
character, and have engrafted upon it various judicious
and well-considered clauses, every one of which is evi-
dently calculated to render it more efficam. aus for the
beneficial public purposes which its authors pi fessed to
have in view when they submitted it to the wisdora' of the
Legislature. The amendments proposed last. night by
Lord Lyndhurst, and carried in their Lordships' C.;.."`m-
,7-uttee by an overwhelming majority, will, however, be cow-
sideeed by all competent and reflecting persons as the most
valuiaLle and important that the measure has yet received-
An amexAment previously adopted was intended to provide
that none but persons distinguished from the rest of their
fellow-citize),'s by their greater respectability and indepen-
dence, should be eligible as Members of the Town Council.
The amendmeat, of last night secures the further and still
greater advantage that in the councils, consisting entirely
of persons so qualificd for their office, there shall always be
a certain proportion oie Members in such a position as may
shelter them from " the pressure from without," and admit
of their forming and aciing upon their own independent
judgment in every. emergency. The House of Lords has
very prudently resolved that Pne-fourth of the Members
of every common or town counejl, shall be Members for
life ; that., where there are now hlembers for life in the
Council of Corporations, they shall not be displaced
by the Bill ; and that, where the nun:ber of life Mem-
bors does not come up to the required proportion,
accar,ding to the present constitution of a 'Corporation,
the ri.tober shall be made up by election. These, we
repeat, are most excellent alterations of the Bill. They
will give to the governing bodies in Corporations a degree
of weight an respectability, which, under the measure as it
was concocte4 by his Majesty's Ministers, they never could
have obtained. They will thus afibrd to the towns an ad-
ditional guarantee for the integrity and intelligence of their
local government,
acid for the faithful and honourable dis-
charge of its duties, and they will accomplish this impor_
tant purpose in a manrre.r which, so far from impairing, must
considerably increase, the value of the municipal franchis,„
in the hands of the humbler classes of burgesses, by enabling
the latter to repose a more ioportant trust, and to confer
more honourable station, that, any which would otherwise
have been at their disposal, uocn the most meritorious or
the most favoured of their felles,--Atizens.—Morning Post
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PARLIAMENTARY PILOCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF commoiys.
ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR Tfll S DAY.
1. Malpas's Divorce Bill-Committee ; Counsel and witnesses.
2. Registration of Voters (Ireland) Bill-Second i•eading.
3. Inns, Alehouses, and Victualling Houses Bill-Committee.
9. Clandestine Marriages (Ireland) Bill-Report.
b. Landed Securities (Ireland) Bill-Committee.
6. Fines and Recoveries Office Bill-Committee.
7. Supply-Committee.
8. Steam Vessels Pilotage Bill-Further consideration of Report.
9. Glass Duties Bill-Second reading
;0, Cruelty to Animals Bill-Report.
Special Constables Bill-Third reading.
12. St. Margaret's Rectory rill-Committee.
13. Chm:ities Comroissioneis Bill-Third reading.
14. Wood Duties Bill-Third reading.
15. Spirit I...'eenses and Wine Permits !till-Committee.
16. Clerk or t'e Crown Bill-Report.
17. Exchequer .Bills Bill-Committee.
It 3. Insolvent Cocrts (Ireland) Bill-Third reading.
19. Larceny (Irelin..d) Bill-Committee.
20. Sheriffs (Ireland,\ Bill-Third reading.
21. Certiorari Bill-Committee.
112. Civil Bill Courts (fr,'land) Bill-Report.
23. Constabulary Force (;reland) Bill-Report.
24. Lieutenant-Colonel Fail man to attend at live o'clock.
1:5. Dominica Relief-... Report thoreupcn.
26. Letters Patent Bill-...Repor.
'l7. Election Expenses Bill-Furt:er consideration of Report.
20. Tithes on Turnips Bill-Third reading.
29. Tithes Recovery reat:ing.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY.
1. Sir Ci;arles Broke Vere,-Petition of the East Suffolk Agri-
eultura Society, praying for some measvre effectual relief.
2. Major Beaotlerk,-In Committee on Inns, .Zlelionses, and Vie-
tualling,-hou'scs Bill, to move that all such houses be allowed
heneefo.;waial all kind of music for the enter:ainment of the
public.
3. Mr. O'Connell,--4)etition respecting the administration of jus-
tice in Newfoundlel.l.
4. Mr. O'Connell,-PetiOn on the case of the Baron de Bode.
5. Mr. O'Connell,-Petition relating to the Gurtroe Alas:acre.
6. Mr. Walter,-Select Comn, lace on the Thames Tunnel.
7. Mr. Warburton,-To refer to Select Committee the Petition
of Silas Pearse, relating to a contract fur limestone for the
Breakwater at Plymouth.
8. Mr. Serjcant O'bighlin,-To move a Clause in Tithes Reec..
very Bill relating to the Society of Fr.'end.i.
9. Mr. Harvey,-To move the insertion et- a Clause in the Ex-
panses at I!:lections Bill.
DROPPED ORDERS OF THF., DAY OF IIc.:STERDAY.
1. Imprisonment for Dabt ( Scotland) Bill-Third re ading.
2. Arrestment of Wages (Scotland) Bill-Third reading.
DROPPED NOTICE OF MOTION OF YESTERDAY.
3lr. Wyse,-Bill for the establishment of a General Board of
Charities in Ireland.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS GIVEN LAST NIGHT.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20,,
Mr. Hume,—Resolutions relating to official appointments.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21.
!Jr. Chan'ellor of the Exchequer;—ln Committee on Consoli-
jzp.d hunt Bill, to add Clause of Appropriation.
TUESDAY, AUGUST'
Mr. Ewart rektive to Select Committees.

LIST' OF ;71E MAJORITY
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Of 37 (Teller included), • who. %TO": against the Clause in Mr.
Buckingham's Bill which authcrizes tc-r. ayers in Cities, Ton ns,
and Boroughs,. to form Public Institution; for the benefit of the
htimbler classes.
bs6ng, F. T.
Becket., Sir John
Blake, N. J.
Blaroue, W.
Buller, Sir J. S. Y
Clement.,, Lord
11.
eiden. J.
Not:house, Sir J. (
Hi, Lord
Lef,rr, C. 5

Lennox, Lord G.
NlangleA, J
Mattio, ilon. Fox
01.eria I, 1:. M.
O'Loghlen, Sergeant
Parker„l.
l'elhAtn John C.
Percy, al, t'o onel
l'hiihros, C. NI.
Ponlter, .1. 1.;.
Rolfe, It. M.
Ituthven, F.
Cu'nen, E.
MINORITY.
O'Brien, W. S.
t.et'onnt,ll,
Jowph
W•
It.
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Ilona m,
Thomp,,on, t

iztiss:4l,._Lold John
sni„h, onion
Sfelerset,E.: Ira G.
Steuart, It
Stuart, Lord lludlcl
Tonle, C. J. K.
Walker, C. A.
wiLiatos, W. A.

TELLER
Teoke, %V,

Rail ec, E
Ballwin, Dr,

Cbarl•N A-
Wakley, Thomas
Walker, R.
Warburton, U.
J.

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Bo!dere, Henry (i.
Brittgirthtt, Hewitt
Buckingham J, S.
Ct thington,
Eivrtrt,
Jeiiino I, C. Lt., 0.

:rELLica.l
Wyse, 'l*.

1-IA-vm ARKET rATRE:—The new farce last
night is by M. G. Dance, and a very pleasant piece the
materials are not very substantial, which at nil events is in
favour of the lightness of the performance, but nevertheless
there is meaning in the plot, which enforces a good though
not very new practical lesson for ,conduct in life. The act-
ing was unexceptionable throughout, but especially, as will be
anticipated, of barren. who undertook rather a new line, and
succeeded in it admirably ; independently of what he said,
and the manner and tone in which he said it, there was a
laxity-about his gait, dress, and deportment that well -helped
to sustain Vie s.lrt of character he represented. There is no
doubt that it will have a good rtn, and as little that it will
deserve the run it will have.