The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-21 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY S UMMARY.

In the Loans, last night, a motion was made (but subse-
quently withdrawn) by Lord TEYNHAM, for various Returns of
convictions in Kent, since the Poor Law Amendment Act had
been in operation. The Marquis of CAMDEN corrected some
of the statements which had fallen from the Noble Mover.
There was some conversation on the subject of the Municipal
Reform Bill, and the rejection of Mr. Hogg's protest. On
the motion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, the second read-
ing of the Roman Catholic Marriages Bill was postponed.
His Lordship proved the propriety of the apppointment
of Mr, M. Dermott as one of the Commissioners. of
Education in Ireland. The Bishop of EXETER persisted
in maintaining that a speech which the individual in
question had spoken long before his appointment, afforded
grounds of disqualification and exclusion from employment.
Lord MELBOURNE, in answer to a question put by Lord GLEN-
GALL, said that it was not the intention of Government to
advise the renewal of the Irish Coercion Bill ; and that a
measure, based on a Report of the disturbed state of Queen's
County, made by a Committee of the House of Commons in
1831 and 1832, would be substituted. The Seamen Enlist-
ment Bill was read a second time. The Report of the Com-
mission of Inquiry into the Post Office was brought up, and
ordered to be printed.
In the COMMONS, on the motion of Mr. PATTEN, the Reports
of the Committee, now sitting, on Orange Lodges, was
ordered. The first Report was then presented, and a debate
full of interest, and pregnant with instruction, followed. The
Duke of CUMBERLAND retained and authorized Mr. Sergeant
JACKSON to argue that his Royal Highness had been condemned
in error. Warrants (said the Learned Sergeant) for the
for the formation of Orange Societies were now never granted
without consent at the Horse Guards. Mr. Sergeant
JACKSON, in conclusion, was understood to state, that he was
not instructed to deny that certain warrants had been signed
by his Royal Highness as Grand Master, before Orange
Lodges had been prohibited by the House, but he had never
issued or caused them to be issued since ; and if they had been
circulated it was done without his consent and without his know-
ledge. Mr. GRATTAN but conveyed the sense of the House
wh2n he said that on a matter so vitally important as
thr: then before them, the whole subject should be well
sifted, and a complete investigation gone into immediately.
After some observations on the Scottish University Bill from
Sir R. PEEL and Mr. BANNERMAN, the latter Hon. Member
I remarking that he had incurred some odium in Scotland from a
mistaken zealotry for promoting the union of the Universities,
the Bill was postponed. In relation to the expiry of the Irish
Coercion Bill in August 1, Lord J. RUSSELL announced to the
House, that it was not the intention of the Government to
renew it. Notice of motion was given for two Bills to be
brought in by Lord MoaraTtr, one for the better suppression
of Local Disturbances ( Ireland) ; the other regarding the Po-
lice ( Ireland). The Order of the Day for the third reading
of the Municipal Corporation Bill was then moved by
Lord J. RUSSELL. Sir R. VYVTAN presented a petition from
Bristol against the Bill, and contended that Ministers were going
to sacrifice the sacred rights, the vested interests, &c., of the
honest, incorruptible freemen of British boroughs. The Hon.
Member prudently abstained from dividing the House, and the
Bill passed without any division whatever. Sir R. INGLis,
Mr. S. R. LUSHINOTON, Mr. SCARLETT, Mr. M'LEAN, Mr.
BORTHWICK, Sir J. R. REID, and Colonel SIBTHORP, all
spoke against the Bill, characterising it a measure of spolia-
tion, an attempt to introduce republicanism, a destruction of
that Conservative body which a Corporation always formed ;
that the independent freemen were most unconstitutionally
deprived of their ancient and most valuable privileges, &c.,
&c. One of these Hon. Members predicted the predomi-
nancy, when the new•registry was made, of aristocratical and
monarchial principles in the House. Mr. GROVE PRICE made
his maiden speech on the same side of the question. He had
been returned by freemen—he, therefore, would speak upfor
freemen. The House manifested the most unequivocal symptoms
of impatience during the delivery of the Hon. Member's speech.
Mr. O'BRIEN'S motion to give two representatives to the
county of Cork, in lieu of Stafford, was lost ; as was also
another motion connected with the Stafford Disfranchisement
Bill, made by Mr. BULLER. The Postage Bill, with a rider
to regulate Packet Postage, was passed.