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the party interested, they proceeded in his absence. He
should then, and in that case, content himself with
moving that the petition should lie on the table, reserving
to himself the right of adopting any future measure he
might think necessary after Government should have more
fully inquired into the facts.
The petition was ordered to lie on the table.
CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION.
Petitions, praying for Catholic Emancipation, were pre-
sented by Mr. A. Dawson, from the Catholics of the collo-
t!4r4 of Monaghan, Down, and Louth ; by Mr. Brownlow,
from the county of Antrim ; by Mr. Caleraft, front a parish
in Suffolk ; and by Mr. V. Fitzgerald, from various parishes
in the county of Clare. Petitions against it were pre-
sented by Mr. ;Mcqueen, front several parishes in I-h,d-
fordshire.

CORN LAWS
Sir I'. LETHBRIDGE presonted a petition from certain
Landed Proprietors of the county of Soinerset, against the
Corn Laws Resolutions.
GLASS.

On the motion of Mr. HUME, certain Accounts were
ordered to be laid before the House, of the Amount of Duties
and Drawbacks no the Importation and Exportation of
Glam.
Mr. V. FITZGERALD presented a petition in favour
of the Catholic Claims, from Ennis.
Mr. BROUGHAM presented the following petitions :
Nine in favour of the Catholic Claims, from Connaught,
Tipperary, Cork, Leitrim, and Roscommon ; and seventeen
petitions against the Friendly Soriety Bill.
[Mr. COURTENAY said, that he intended to modify
the present Bill, and to leave it for discussion after the
present Session].
Three petitions against the Test and Corporation Acts;
a petition of the Roman Catholics of Kildare, against any
further grant to the Kildare. street Society ; a petition from
the inhabitants of Cockermouth, against any protecting
Duties in favour of Weet India Produce; two petitions in
favour of affording facilities to Anatomical Dissection.
Mr. DAWSON presented a petition front the town of
Bandon, near Cork, against any further concession to the
Roman Catholics.
Lord NUGENT presented five petitions in favour of the
Catholic
Lord W. FITZGERALI) presented a petition from the
parish of Kildare, and three other places in Ireland, in
favour of the Catholic Claims.
Mr. GEORGE BANKES presented a petition from the
Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of East Retford,
praying that they might be heard at the Bar of the House,
against the pending Bill for the Disfranchisement of that
Borough. The petitioners stated that they had never re-
ceived any pecuniary consideration for their votes at any
Election of East Retford. He was one of those who
thought that an early day ought to be fixed for the discus-
sion of this measure, without refer< nce to any thing which
might be pending elsewhere.
The petition was brought up and read.
On the question that it do lie on the tabk.,
Sir JOHN BRYDGES lamented there was a necessity
to proceed to the disfranchisement of East Retford ; but
bribery had been proved, and therefore this House was
bound in duty to visit the offence with punishment. As
innocent persons, however, would iu this case suffer for the
guilty, he hoped the interests of the former would be pro-
tected by the House, as far as was consistent with making
a due example of the latter; and he confessed, that for this
reason, he proposed a partial saving of their rights, by ex-
tending the franchise to the neighbouring Hundreds, in-
stead of altogether depriving the Borough of sending Re-
presentatives to Parliament, and conferring the privilege
upon some of the large manufacturing towns. He re-
peated, he regretted the example that must be made, as the
punishment would not fall on the right head, but that it
would be a verification of the lines of the poet—
" Little rogues submit to fate,
That great ones may enjoy the world in state."
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Mr. J. S. LUMLEY, in the absence of the Gallant
Admiral (Sotheron), his colleague, gave to tics, that
unless some steps were taken on this Bill before Mon-
day, he should on that day move the issuing of two new
writs for East Retford.
EXPENCES OF PRIVATE BUSINESS, FEES, &c.
Colonel DAVIES wished to state shortly the objects of
the Bill. The Hon. Member then went shortly over the
great expends which attended Road Bills, Canals, Rail-
ways, and every other improvement made for the purpose
of facilitating the internal trade and commerce of the coun-
try. He would instance one case alone—that of the Man-
chester and Liverpool Railway Bill, which was introduced
in 1820 ; that Bill cost its supporters no less than 00,0001.
that Session, and yet it was lost. The Bill was again in-
' troduced next Session, and nearly the whole forms were to he
gr.ne over, at an increased expense. True, the Bill
was carried ; but it cost those who felt bound to oppose it
no less than fifty thousand pounds. He intended that the
Committee for which he was about to move should also
inquire into the present mode of appointing Committees
up" -..a:rs, which, as it now stood, he conceived so cum-
brous as gwegly to retard the progress, while it added to
the expence of private Bills. The Hon. Member con-
eluded by moving " for the appointment of a Select Com-
mittee, to inquire into the mode of conducting Private
4usiness in this House, and the Fees paid thereon ; also
on ail Fees paid on Trials of Controverted Elections of
Members to sort•: in Parliament ; and further, to inquire
into the mode of appointing Committees o❑ Pt ivate

nets up stairs."
Mr. LITTLETON was ready to support the first part
of the Non. Member's motion, but he could nut cons.ant to
alter the measure adopted last year as to the mode of ap-
pointing Cocntnitters up stairs, which was admitted upon
all hands to work well. A; to the expenses of the Man-
chester and Liverpool Railway Bill, it was not a ease in
point, as it oemirred under the old and defective system of
ippointing Committees, which was amended by the measure
of last year. Ile moved as an amendment, that the further
discussion on this motion be postponed till Tuesday next.
The amendment was put and carried.
Dr. PIIILLIMORF. postponed his motion to extend the
powers given by the Ist Ceo. IV. cap. 76. to the Deputy
Warden of the Cinque Ports.
CORN TRADE.

Mr. F. LEWIS brought up a Bill to arneod the law re-
lat;,✓e to the Impot tation of Corn. It was read a first time,
and ordere4 to be read a second time on Friday next, awl
to be printed.

COUNTY BRIDGES.
Mr. GEORGE BYNG moved the second reading of the
County Bridges' Bill.
A ..lort conversation took place upon this motion, in
which Mr, c.RIVPS, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Lord
LOWTISER, anti Mc, SyKrs took a part.
After a few words from C,olonel WOOD, the Bill was
ordered to be read a second time c:-; Friday the I Gth.
The other Orders of the Day were dispOsed of, and the
House Adjourrta at Ilalf-past Seven.

NS THE POET.—" I went to see
laid out for the grave," Faye Mr. ALLAN CEINNINOHAM ;
" several elder people were with ow. He lay in a plain
unadorned coffin, with a linen sheet drawn over his face;
aild on the bed, and around the body, herbs and flowers
were thipif.)y strewn, according to the custom of the coun-
try. He WEa wasted by long illness ; but death had not
increased the swarthy Imo of his face, which was uncom-
monly dark and deeply marked, his broad and open bross
was Gale and serene, and around it h'4; sable hair lay in
masses, slightly touched with gray. The roar:, where he
lay was plain and neat, and the simplicity of the poet's
humble dwelling pressed the presence of death more closely
on the heart than if his bier bad been embellished by ye-
nits', and covered with the blazonry of high aneeFtry and
rank. We stood and gazed on him in• silence for the space
of several mimitca—we went, awl others succeeded us; nut
a whisper was ht hnl. This was several days after his
death."—Lockhart's Lifs of lian;s.

NrMT To THE DEAD SEA, TILE .10111)AN'
AND JERlelviiPh.e--reAst,i4hoarinf-apna(sitGeleven we arrived''., at the
the %eater, and found it name otnoi rha stood. M. e tasted
Dead Sea;
:eantod hitter beyond any
thing we ever tasted. I read the
poaeo tt vo eja;rrlivheof.l
the German tra-
vellers l)fatmew xi. 11-24. At half
at the Jordan, where the Greek pilgrimsusually visit it,
is,iowna,
ia•tillttlifitnli.li
and where the Israelites passed over
I read to the German travellers Joi,lnia ii:
again •,and
.to my-
self alone the fourth chapter of Joshuja
Germans Matthew iii., and then
I sent word to the principal Itabliies
tslipeir.ilto,radlauni,pli.anyet,hi efoiriatmhee
coofmt.hereZloiefr;t,d:,e
Jev,„.grarinetfo_irt)e:
I left Jerusalem,
of Jerusalem, that I should, if the Lord should
pray for them at the river Jordan. Brothers KING and
l'ist: swam across the Jordan, and took a walk in the plain
of Moab, in the inheritance of ilrEt.taFN ; I then read again
in my little Hebrew Bible, and in the Hale Bible which
dear Mr. SINEoN gave me. The whole country round is
a desert inhabited by wild Bedouins ! At six we arrived
at Jericho. We took up our lodgings for the night, men
hand
horses altogether, in an open yard of the castle. The wole
Dumber of inhabitants amounts to three hundred souls.
'lime Arabs here around us are true genuine Arabs, who are
as free and wild as tkeir desert. I asked one of the Arabs
" which do you like lost, the city or the desert ?" Arab.—
" I am the son of the desert, I um not the son of the cite."
—Wolfs Missionary dolling