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Average Amount
Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—Williams,
Clinch, and Co 10,540
Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 46,369
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,616
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter-
borough—Messrs. Yorke
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson,
White, and. Simpson lO,OlB
Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverford west—J. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and
Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven,
and Co
Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 33,110
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and
Co 41,445
Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co 5,795
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds,
and Co 4,724
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches-

ANerigeAmount
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 69,629
Wtst Riding Union Banking Company, Hud-
dersfield
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
W hitehurch
Worcester City a al County Banking Company,
Worcester... 4,900
York Union Banning Company, Yolk 66,556
York City and.C(• inty Banking Ccropany, York 86,146
Yorkshire Bankir. -;Company, Leeds
113,648
Y. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Taxes, Feb. 1, 1845

lates, which ordination and consecration they could de-
rive only from the See of Rome. Therefore, by the
ancient constitution or common law of England, which
time only can destroy, the title to the spiritual peerage
is canonical ordination and consecration in communion
with the See of Rome The law
now tardily, and, we suspect, not very honestly, does
recognise that spiritual peerage belongs to Catholic
prelates—and, indeed to them alone. We should like
to see this great question tried at law. Suppose the
Moss Reverend Archbishop Daniel Murray insists that
he is, as a British subject, and by virture of the law of
England, the true, legal Archbishop of Dublin, and
claims to sit in Parliament, instead of Dr. Whateley,
and so appeals to a court of justice, what would be the
probable decision on such an issue ? Dr. Whateley
could only show that he derives his cure cf souls, as
bishop, from a lay tribunal. Dr. Murray could show
that he has the canonical ordination and consecra-
tion required by the ancient law to entitle him to
a spiritual peerage, which Dr. Whateley has not.
Consequently, he is, in our mind, the true and
legal Archbishop of Dublin, and not Dr. Whate-
ley—and he, instead of the latter, should be
called to sit in the British House of Peers."
We shall nor, of eourse, be supposed to acquiesce in
this Romaniaing conclusion. But it is evident to us
that Sir R. I'eel, by the idle and most mischievous
provision which we have cited from the Emancipation
Act, and by the consequent unavoidable evasion in the
Charitable Bequests Act of the local titular recognition
of the Roman Catholic prelates, whom he recognised,
has created an embarrassment which is by no means
merely fanciful. How much better, in the first place,
never to have enacted the penal provision 1 Or secondly,
to have repealed it openly—And thirdly, to have given
the Roman prelates their entire popularly acknowledged
titles, accompanied simply by a saving clause for the
concurrent legal rights of the Protestant prelates. What
would have been simpler than to have recognised Dr.
Murray as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin ?
which he is.

IMPERIA

32,095

7,721

11,655

9,142

9,839

ter-Day and Nicholson
Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey-Foot-
ner and Son 3,798
Royston Bank, Royston-Fordham and Sons 16,227
Rugby Bank, Rugby-Butlin and Son 13,820
Rye Bank, Rye-Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 28,807
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate-Nash and
13,716
Co
Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross-Pritchard
and Allaway 4,098
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden-Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury-Burton, Lloyd, and
Co 18,414
Scarborough Old Bank, 3carborough-Woodall
and
Co
Shrewsbury and ilarket, Drayton Bank, Shrews-
bury-Adams, Adams, and Co
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury-Rocke, Eytons,
and Co . 38,86
Sittingbourne and Patton Bank, Sittingbourne
-Valiance and Son
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton -Maddison and Son
Southwell Bank, Southwell-Wilde and Co.
St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's-J. S. Story 3,790
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury-Messrs. Brodie 22,631
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury- Brodie and
King 9,932
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton-Atherly and Fall
Stone Bank, Stone-W. Moore 7,942
Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge -Rufford,
Wragg, and Ce 15,954
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford-Stevenson and Co 12,87'
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton,
Cayley, and Co.
Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge-Bate and
Robins
17,590
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
-Beck, Downward, and Co. 21,516
St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's-Gib-
son and Sturt
Taunton Bank, Taunton-Messrs. Badcock 26,757
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill, Rundle, and
12,769
Co
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury-Rol ph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton-Duns-
ford and Barne
13,795
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston-Yorke and Eland 11,165
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-But-
cher and Son
Towcester Old Bank, Towcester-J. and S.
Percival
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and
14,460
Co.
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith,
23,739
and Co.
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford-Wells and Co. 13,461
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick-
Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 28,677
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox
Brothers
West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield-Leatham, Tew, and Co 45,453
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chap-
man, and Co 14,395
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester-Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire Bask, Winchester
-Wickham and Co
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank,
Weymouth-Elliott and Pearce
Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank,
Wirkesworth-Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech-
Gurney and Co.
Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe-P. and W
Hancock
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-Good-
ricke and Holyoake.
Worcester Bank, Worcester-Farley, Lavender,
and Co. 13,835
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester-Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 83,975
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster-Farley
and Turner
Whitby Bank, Whitby-Frankland and Wil-

7,525

4,542

29,80

9,427

4,95

58,38

1,737

kinson
Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-Charles Foster and
Sons
Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster-
Everett and Co.
Wrexham Bank, Wrexham-J. and S. Kenrick 2,773
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-
Messrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurney,
Birkbeck, and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth-Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 12,697
Yeovil, Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten
York Bank,' York-Swann, Clough, and Co 45,725
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal , 8,770
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 48;892
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
ford .... ....
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield
Cumberlana Union Banking Company, Work-
-32,095
ington
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 13,528
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
-127,008
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company,
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,295
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,830
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington 25,496
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 138,547
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 17,957
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 35,782
Hull Banking Company, Hull 27,515
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 13,989
1 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax. 44,960
Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,365
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 20,088
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough .. 26,959
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 4,068
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 47,994
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 48,161
Leamingtol Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Leeds and West Riding Banking Company,
17,900
Leeds
Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds • 13,733
Ludlow awl Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,212
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 31,283
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 73,609
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
375,310
London
North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 53,970
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 76,995
NorthamptonAire Banking Company, North-
ampton ....•
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 48,227
53,531
Pares's Leic3st(rshire Banking Company, Lei-
cester •
Saddleworth Making Company, Saddleworth-
33, 7,970
563
Sheffield Bankiitg Company, Sheffield
Stamford, Spaloiog, and Boston Banking Coin
pany, Stamibt ii .
Stuckey's Bank;f.f; Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, spa Somersetshire Bank, Lang-
. 332,810
port
Shropshire Banl. ir.g Company, Shiffnall ...
Stourbridge and Lidderminster Banking Com-
pany, Stourbi idge 57,278
Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company,
Sheffield
Sheffield and It Alio- rham Joint-Stock Banking
Company,
and S\ St
ttisdleydale Banking Company,
stßonikchtomnoanndd ..
1.,neia52,839
Swaledale
.m
County Banking Com-
pany, Stnd ock
t' r
Storey a
:i.t,i.roaa's Banking Company,
Shaftesbury .. ....
dlaphsiwreich
wSuffolkoiver Bankinghaip
t ni aCompt
aaffn
nyr,
Sheffield and lict:ord Bank, Sheffield
Banking Com-
pany, 9,660
137,310955
derauhamupsiteolyi
Union Bank, Wakefield 34,442
WpstakneydeNldVi3ainv
Whitehaven Joint• Stock Banking 14,661
Company,
Whitehaven . . • „28,84 Q
Warwick and Leunitt_gton Banking Company,
Leamington
West of England and South Wales District
BMA, Bristol, ....o„. 76,302

20,021

18,358

12,166

7,010

THE SON, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1R45.

ANIENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 5.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'clock.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.

Mr. H. JOHNSTONE presented a petition in
favour of the Caledonian Railway Bill.
PONTEFRACT AND GOOLE RAILWAY.
Lord POLLINGTON presented a petition in
favour of the Pontefract and Goole Railway Bill.
A great number of petitions for new railway Bills
were presented, but the petitions were read so indis-
tinctly that the designation of not one of them could
be correctly ascertained in the gallery.
SLAVERY.
Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from the
Anti Slavery Society, signed by the chairman, against
the importation of Coolies into the West Indies, an
expedient which had been tried in the Mauritius, and
altogether failed there. The Hon. Gentleman pre-
sented another petition from the same Association
against the employment of an armed force on the
coast of Africa to suppress the slave trade—an object
which, in the opinion of the petitioners, could not be
effected by means of war.
PUBLIC-HOUSES.

Mr. BRIGIIT presented a petition from Durham
against the extension of public-houses, and for the
restriction of the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sa-
turday.

THE BLEACHING TRADE.
Mr. WALLACE presented a petition from the
operative bleachers of Lanark, Renfrew, and Stirling,
complaining of the oppressive nature of their occupa-
tion, and, as we understood, praying for legislative re-
gulations. The Hon. Member gave notice that to-
morrow he would move that the petition be printed
with the votes.
MEDICAL REFORM BILL.
Mr. ESCOTT presented a petition from the medi-
cal practitioners of Hampshire against the Bill intro-
duced by her Majesty's Ministry.
TROOPS FOR THE COLONIES.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Reading (as
we understood), praying the Hou'e not to sanction
the embarkation of any troops to those colonies which
were destructive of British constitutions. He (Mr.
Hume) could not agree to the whole prayer of the
petition.

UNEQUAL TAXATION.
Mr. HUME also presented a petition from the
Provost and Town Council of Montrose, complaining
of unjust and unequal taxation in the borough, and
praying the House to institute an inquiry into the
grievance, with the view of getting it removed.
CARLISLE, DUMFRIES, AND GLASGOW

RAILWAY.
Mr. EWART presented a petition in favour of the
Carlisle, Dumfries, and Glasgow Railway.
NOTICES OF MOTION.—THE GAME-LAWS.

Mr. WAKLEY gave notice that he would move,
upon a future day, for a return for the years 1832,
1833, and 1834, respectively, of the names, occupa-
tions, and ages of all persons accused, convicted, and
punished for breaches of the game-laws ; distinguish-
ing those who were married from those who were
single, and stating, in cases where the punishment
was imprisonment, whether the families of the hus-
band, or the father, were supported out of the poor-
rates.

AMERICAN CORN.
Mr. MILES gave notice that he would move for
returns, stating the amount of American corn imported
since the passing of the Act.
FOREIGN SUGAR.
Mr. F. BARING gave notice of his intention to
move for returns of the quantity of foreign sugar im-
ported into the United Kingdom during the past year.
SCOTCH BANKS.
Mr. MACAULAY gave notice that he would ask
a question of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to-
morrow, relative to the law as affecting Scotch banks.
RAILWAYS.
Mr. WALLACE wished to ask a question of the
Government relative to the accommodation of the
public on railways; but having understood that the
President of the Board of Trade had resigned his
office within the last few days, he did not know to
whom to address the question. Perhaps the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer would be able to answer the
question.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, perhaps the Hon. Member would better obtain
the information he required by moving for a specific
return on the subject.
Mr. WALLACE, seeing the Right Hon. Gentle-
man the Member for Newcastle in his place, he would
put the question to him. He wished to know how
many of the railway companies coming within the
provisions of the Act of last session had complied with
the regulations laid down in the sixth clause, as to
having seats and protection from the weather for the
conveyance of third-class passengers ; and also how
many had failed so to comply ?
Mr. IV. E. GLADSTONE said that as this ques.
tion had reference to the provisions of the law rela-
tive to railroads that had passed some months ago,
satisfied
with e pro.
the
visions
he would endeavour to answer the question. The
w quite e
came
me within the
charge of one penny per mile for each passenger ;
they had strictly complied with that clause ; the
complaints on the part of the passengers were
very few, and the different companies had
expressed their entire satisfaction with the Act.
He need not trouble the House with reciting the
names of the companies who had complied with the
Act of last session, because they had all complied
with it, with the exception of one or two. The
Board of Trade had required, in all cases,
seats in third-class carriages, and likewise that
effective protection should be supplied ; and the
Board of Trade considered that such protection
was supplied, as those carriages might be
entirely closed when the weather was severe.
In every case the companies had complied with
these regulations, and the House would be
glad to hear that the result of the Act of
last session had been to afford increased accommodation
to persons of the poorer classes who travelled by rail-
road. He had only that morning received a memo-
randum of a report agreed to at a meeting of the
Grand Junction Railway Company, from a Director,
in which it was said that the writer felt much plea-
sure in stating, that by the Act of last session
the Company, without much injury to their receipts,
were able to afford accommodation to 2,500 poor
persons who could not otherwise be accommodated,
and who could not afford to pay the price pre.
viously charged. He would mention also that the
London and Birmingham Company, during the late
quarter, had carried about 48,895 passengers
in third-class carriages, at the rate of a penny per
mile for each person, being about 193,000 persons in
the year more than the London and Birmingham
Railway carried before the law of last session came
into operation. In previous years the number 'of
third-class passengers conveyed was 65,000, instead
of 193,000, showing that the number of passengers
had nearly trebled.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. WALLACE gave notice that he would avail
himself of the suggestion of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer ; and gave notice that he would move to-
morrow for a return, showing not only what companies
had complied with the regulations prescribed by the
Act of last year, but also those companies who formed
an exception to the rule.
SESSIONAL, ORDERS.

Mr. YOUNG having moved the order of the day
on sessional orders,
Mr. E WART rose to bring for ward the motion of
which he had given notice ; but
The SPEAKER said that the Hon. Gentleman's
motion had reference rather to the standing orders
than to the sessional orders.
Mr. EWART said he would then bring forward
an independent motion on the subject to-morrow. He
did not know whether the Hon. Gentleman, the
Member for Oxford, intended, as a member of one of
the Committees of the House, t 3 bring forward the
subject. If he did so, he (Mr. Ewart) would co-
operate with him, but if not, he would feel bound
to bring forward the subject in a separate motion to-
morrow.

to serve as a Peer of Ireland, bath ri £ht to vote
in the election of any Member of Parliament " Ile
(Mr. Williams) believed this was a point that had
been disputed by Peers. Another order was to the
effect that " it is a high infringement of the
liberties and privileges of the Commons of the
United Kingdom, for any Peer or Prelate, not
being a Peer of Ireland, to interfere himself
in any election for a Member of Parliament."
These orders, if they could be enforced, would be
most salutary ; but were they not violated daily ? It
was well known that a large portion of the
Members of that House were returned by
Peers of the realm, in direct violation of those

standing orders. He should like to know if a case
were distinctly proved against a Peer of a violation
of that sessional order, how it could be enforced ?
What power—what means had they of enforcing it?
None. No Hon. Gentleman would venture to say
that they had any power of enforcing it. What
use was it, then, for the House to main-
tain orders of this showy sort, declaring
their independence of Peers, which every man in the
country knew did not exist. Let them deal honestly
and plainly with the country, and admit the existence
of that which they had not the power to avoid. Let
them place Peers in the same position as other indi-
viduals, so as to be enabled to prosecute them when
they violated the law of the land by commit-
ting bribery. He had drawn the attention of
the House to this subject last session, and
lie hoped her Majesty's Government would take
this question into their consideration, and make
sessional orders more in accordance with the real
position of the House. It was not creditable to them
to continue these orders. They were not like those
laws which had passed in bygone ages, and had be-
come obsolete; but these orders were passed annually,
and therefore they ought to be drawn up in such a
manner as to give the House the po er of enforcing
them. He did not intend to submit any motion on
the subject, but should content himself with having
called the attention of the House to it.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did
not consider that the members of the Government
were more interested in this question than any other
Member of the House. These privileges were the
privileges not of the House only, but of the who'.e
people of the realm. The right of deciding on the
return of Members was vested in that House, and

there was no other legally appointed tribunal for the
decision of those quest ons. As Members of that
House, they had the right of deciding if the persons
whose names appeared upon the poll were proper vo‘ers
or not, and from the earliest times it had been decided

that Peers were not admitted to vote for Members o
Parliament ; and, although not a lawyer himself,
he would venture to say that it was contrary to
the law of the land for any Peer to do so.
As regarded the elections of Members of Parliament,
and the decisions upon them, that House was the
sole judge ; and he would take it upon himself to say,
that if a Peer should claim the right to vote at an
election for a Member of that House, the House had
the undoubted right of rejecting the vote. It was
the privilege of the House to prevent any interference
on the part of Peers with the election of its Members ;
and for his part he should he very sorry to see any
alteration made in the resolution to which the Hon.
Gentleman referred. He believed that any altera-
tion would be an abandonment of the privileges of the
House, and of that control which it ought to exer-
cise over the election of its Members.
Mr. WILLIAMS said, that as the law now stands
a Peer goes before the revising barrister, and claims to
have his name inserted in the list of voters. The
barrister knows nothing of the sessional order of the
House of Commons, and he allows the Peer to be re-
gistered as an elector. Now, what he (Mr. W.)
wished to ask was whether, as the House had no
power to strike the name out of the registry after it
had once been inserted, there was any means by
which this privilege could be enforced
The SPEAKER (no answer being given to Mr.
Williams' question) proceeded to read the orders,
several of which were agreed to seriatim, when
Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE said he should take that
opportunity of renewing a notice which he had given
last session of Parliament, of his intention to move
for a Select Committee to inquire whether, in any
counties or boroughs empowered under the Re:orm Act
to send Members to the House of Commons, such Mem-
bers were returned through the illegal or unconstitu-
tional interference of Members in the House of Peers ?
Theßight Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exch-
equer said he should be extremely sorry if any altera-
tion were made in the standing resolution, thereby
implying that nothing would horrify him more
than its violation by any Peer of the realm.
Why, the Right Hon. Gentleman must know per-
fectly well, that there was not a single county
Member, and that there ware very few borough
Members sitting either behind or before him, who
did not previous to their election consult some Peer
or other for the purpose of obtaining his influence ;
either requesting him by letter, or almost by
supplication on their knees, to concern himself in their
election —(Laughter.) He ventured to say that in
the case of some of the vacancies which had occurred
recently, Peers had been consulted and requested
to concern themselves in the elections; and
if a Peer had not given his consent to the
individual standing for the borough, which partly
belonged to him, he ventured to say that they must
have been deprived of the present Secretary for
Ireland.—(Laughter.) Yet, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer got up in his place, and with a solemn
look, and still more solemn voice, declared
to that House that he should be sorry to
see any alteration made in the existing resolution.
He would test the Right Hon. Gentleman's sincerity.
When he moved for the Committee, he would under-
take to prove, as he had said before, that there were
very few Members, either for counties or boroughs, in
whose electionFeers had not concerned themselves. How
the Right Hon. Gentleman could maintain his gravity
while making such a speech, was to him (Mr. T. bun-
combe) utterly inconceivable. If they put the resolu-
tion in force, three-fourths of the temporal peers, and
two-thirds of the bishops must be convicted of an in-
fringement of the privileges of the House of Com-
mons. 'What a mockery, what an insult was it
to pass this resolution unless it were enforced.—
(Hear, hear.) The time had arrived when it should
be either acted upon or expunged. He himself had,
on a former occasion, voted for its being expunged.
He would much rather, for his own part, that
Peers appeared on the hustings, and voted for Mem-
bers of Parliament. The more they came in contact
with the people, the more would their prejudices be
removed. They would find the hu•nble mechanic
and others, who were now deprived of the right of
voting for Members of Parliament, possessing as much
ability and snore patriotism than themselves; they
would find men who did not wish to obtain
seats in that House for the purpose of acquir-
ing some dirty star or garter, for the paltry
purpose of obtaining a peerage, or for the
idiotic purpose of securing a baronetcy.
If this resolution were not expunged—if, after this
warning, they still adopted it, they need not be sur-
prised if he called upon the House to act upon it, and
he would in that case promise them that he should
move for a Committee of the House to inquire into
its operation and whether its intentions were carried
out at the different elections.
Mr. HUME said he had frequently appealed to
that House upon the same subject, how they could
reconcile the spirit of the resolution with the practice
observed at many elections. That was not a mere
question, as his Hon. Friend (Mr Duncombe) seemed
to think it, for the Minister more than fur any other.
It happened that a Minister frequently sat on those
benches, having, perhaps, fifty behind him acting as
fuglemen on those occasions. He (Mr. Ilutne) had
again and again, for many years past, warned the
House upon the subject ; but to hear common sense
appealed to by the Minister was something new, and
how, he asked, could this resolution be maintained
on that principle ? He recollected a number of in
stances in which inquiries were instituted before that
House, and in which it had been shown that Peers
had been known to propose the Members,
and, in fact, to return them to that House.
He agreed with the Hon. Member who had last
spoken, that it would be better if peers were to go
more among the lower classes—if they were to go
to the public hustings, where they would at least
learn that which would do them considerable good,
namely, the feelings which actuated the lower
classes. He was quite prepared to vote for the
abolition of the resolution.
The gallery was then cleared for a division. None
however took place, and the order was agreed to.
ADMISSION OF STRANGERS TO THE
HOUSE.

Mr. CHRISTIE said he believe 6 he was at liberty
to state that the amendment he was about to propose
was sanctioned by the Speaker. When he moved a
similar amendment last session his proposed alteration
was resisted by the Right Lion. Baronet opposite,
because from its wording it had reference to other
parts of the House than the body. His present amend-
ment, however, had been drawn up in strict accordance
with the views of the lion. Baronet opposite, and it
fully met with the concurrence, as he had previously
stated, of the Speaker. Under these circumstances it
would be unnecessary for him to trouble the House,
and he would simply move the following amendment :
" That the Sergeant-at-Arms attending this
House do, from time to time, take into his custody
any stranger whom he may see, or who may be re-
ported to him to be, in any part of the Howe or gal-
lery appropriated to the Members of this House, and
also any stranger who, having been admitted into any
other part of the House or gallery, shall mis-
conduct himself, or shall not withdraw when
strangers are directed to withdraw, while the House,
or any Committee of the whole House, is sitting, and
that no person so taken into custody be discharged
out of custody without the special order of the House.
That no Member of this House do presume to bring
any stranger into any part of the HOMO or gallery