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curing the full, fair, and free Representation of the
People. •
Mr. E. Turner,—Bill for the Prevention of Duelling.
Captain Polhill,e—On the Motion of Mr. Turner to
introduce a Bill for the abolition of Duelling, to move,
as an Amendment, It is the opinion of this House, that
it is inexpedient to interfere with the existing Law,
which is already sufficiently stringent on the subject of
Duelling.
Sir Charles Napier,—Address to the Crown, that her
Majesty will Le graciously pleased to confer an honorary
distinction on the surviving Officers and Men engaged in
great Naval Actions.
Mr. Christie,—Address to her Majesty, praying that
she will be graciously pleased to issue a Commission to
inquire into all matters relating to the Statutes, Reve-
nues, Trusts, Privileges, and present general condition as
regards Education, Learning, and Religion of the Uni-
versities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the Colleges and
Halls in those Universities.
Captain Peehella—To call the attention of the House
to the system of imprisonment, and the length of con-
finementao which persons are subjected as defaulers
under the Acts for Assessed Taxes and Game Duties.
Sir Henry Winston Barron,—Bill to regulate and con-
tad Charitable Donations and Bequests in Ireland.
Mr. Macaulay,—Resolution on the subject of Gwal'asr.
Mr. Statl'ord o:43rien,—Bill to prevent Vestries being
held its Churches in places whose population exceeds
One thousand persons.
I\lr. Butler,--'To move. That this House do resolve
itself into a Committee, to take into consideration the
e x diensy of imposing a Tax upon the Absentee Pro-
prietary of. Ireland, in a manner and to an amount to
be then specified, with a view to assist in i elieving the
two miliions and a half of her Majesty's subjects in
that country, allowed by men of all parties to be half
starved, halt clothed, and lodged in habitations which
- are inadequate to protect them from the inclemency of
the weather.
- Viscount Palmerston,—That an humble Address be
presented. to her Majesty, representing that this House,
sharing the deep abhorrence with which the peopla of
this Country. regard the Slave Trade, most earnestly be-
seech her Majesty not to consent to any alteration or
modification of any of the Treaties now in force be-
tween her Majesty and Foreign States, far the sup-
pres:}sion of the Slave Trade, which, by weakening the
L. means which theae Treaties now afford for the preven-
tion of that piratical offence, might tend to render more
easy the perpetration of so detestable a crime.
Sir John Ilanmer,—To move, as an Amendment to
Viscount Palmerston's Motion, That this flouse will
resolve itself into a Committee, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the Papers presented to this
Parliament, by the Command of her Majesty, upon the
affairs of the Slave Trade.
Mr. Milnes,—To move an Amendment on Lord Pal-
, merston's Motion relative to the Slave Trade, to the
effect that it is the opinion of this House, that Treaties
between this Country and any Foreign Country, entered
into for the purpose of abolishing the criminal traffic of
the Slave Trade, by means of a mutual Right of Search,
should be regarded as partial and temporary experiments,
which melt leave the question at all times within the
control of the two Governments.
Viscount Ebrington,—To move for the following
Papers respecting the Archdeaconry of Armagh
1. Copy of the Instrument appointing the present
Arclulewon of Armagh ; and Copy of any Orders or
. Acts of . Privy Council in Ireland for disuniting the
parishes forming the Union of Armagh.
2. -Copies of any Memorials or Letters which may
have been addressed to the Irish Government on the
subject of the severance of the union of parishes forming
the Archdeaconry of Armagh ; and of the Answers
thereto. . .
8.- Return of any union of parishes in Ireland dis-
solved under the Act 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 37, a. 124.
Mr. Christie,—Bill to discontinue certain prosecutions
in the Arches Court of Canterbury, for refusal to make,
or join, or concur in making a Church Rate, and to pre-
vent any similar prosecutions.
Mr. Baring Wall,—Select Committee, to inquire into
the progress of the Buildings_ of the Houses of Parlia-
• men t, and to report to the House.
Mr. Cobden,—Select Committee, to inquire into the
effects of Protective Duties upon the National Revenue.
Dr. Bowring,—To call the attention of the House to
the necessity of giving effect to the recommendations of
the Commissioners of Public Accounts, on the payment
of the gross Revenues into the Exchequer.
Mr. HUme,—Copy or Extracts from the Correspond-
ence between the American Ambassador and the British
Government, respecting the admission of Paddy and
Rice, the produce of the United States, into Great
Britain, at the same rates of Duty as Paddy and Rice
were admitted into Great Britain from the West Coast
of Africa. .
Mr. Hawes,—To move, That an humble Address be
presented to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty will
be graciously pleased to order the Postmaster-General to
make an Annual Report of his proceedings, and of the
Revenue, Cost, .Management, and State of the Depart-
nieht. Also, to move for the following Returns:-
1. An Estimate, by the Post-Office, of the Cost of
carrying into effect the plan of Rural Distribution laid
down in the Treasury Minute of August 13th, 1841.
2. A Return (or, if the facts are not ascertained, an
Estimate, in either case stating which), Ist, of the num-
ber of Go'veinment Letters corresponding with the
amount of. Government Inland Postage included in
Return No. 201 of last Session ; 2d, of the amount of
Late Letter Fees ; 3d, of the amount of Registration
Fees ; 4th, of the amount of Additional Rates on un-
paid or underpaid Letters ; and, sth, of the amount of
other sources of Revenue included in that part of the
same Return, No. 201, which relates to Inland Letters
and Revenue :- Also, an Estimate, in detail, of the Cost
of managing the Money Order department.
3. Copy of the Resolutions proposed by Lord Lowther
to the Postage Committee of 1838.
4. Return of any Correspondence between the Tree-
- miry and the Post-Office, since August, 1842, with
reference to the discontinuance of either of the two
Birmingham and Gloucester Mails.
5. The Report of the Post-Office to the Chancellor of
the Exchequer on Rural Pests, mentioned by Lord
Lowther in his evidence before the Postage Committee
of last Session.
Also, to'call the attention of the House to the Report
of the SeleCt Committee of last Session on Postage.
Mr. Mitchelh—Return of the amount of Russia Due
collected in the last twenty years, distinguishing each
year, in Great Britain and Ireland, and of the mode of
its application.
Mr. Shaw,—Select Committee, to inquire into and
report upon the importance of an early and complete
trial of the-Atinospheric Railway system.
Mr. William Williams,— Account of the Public In-
come and Expenditure of the United Kingdom, in the
years ending the sth day of January 1842, 1843, and
1844, distinguishing the actual payments for the ex-
. penses incurred in the collection and management of the
Revenue; for the charges of the Public Debt (the ter-
minable Annuities being also valued by estimate); for
the expenses of the Civil Government; the allowances to.
the Royal Family, and to his Majesty the King of the
Belgans; the Establishment of the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland; the expenses of the two Houses of Parliament,
and the Civil liepartments; the other Pensions on the
Consolidated It on the gross Revenue, and the Civil
List; elso,the payments for the Administration of Jus-
tice, Diplomatic . expenses, and on account of the sums
voted for the-Army, Navy, Ordnance, and Miscellaneous
Services; alSo, Public Works, Bounties, Post-office, the
Quarantine and Warehousing Establishments, . and all
other payments not coming under any of the foregoing
heads; with an Appendix, showing the several items
composing each head of the Account (in continuation of
Parliamentary Paper, No. 494, of Session 1843).
Mr. Charles Duller,—Select Committee on Cobo-
nkation.
Mr. Grogan,—Bill to amend the Law with respect to
Coroners in Ireland.
Sir Robert Harry Inglis,—To ask her Majesty's Mi-
nisters a Question, relative to their intentions on the
subject of the Parochial Assessment Act.
Lord Worsley,—Select Committee, to inquire into the
mode of appointment, the duties, and the present system
of remunerating the Clerks to Justices at Petty Sessions
in England and Wales, and to report the evidence, and
their Opinion thereon, to the House.
Mr. Lyalh—Select Committee, to inquire into the
state and condition of the Commercial Marine of this
Country, and to take into consideration how far it may
he practicable and expedient to adopt any and what
measures to extend the beneficial employment of British
Shipping.
Mr. Elphinatone,—That it is just and expedient, with
the view of 'distributing the burthen of Taxation more
am} fairly among all classes of her Majesty's
Subjects than it now is, to alter and amend the Laws
relating to Probate Duties, and to make Real Estate
(whether such Real Estate be in trust or not) liable to
the same Duties as Personel Property.
Mr. Kellya—asin for
providing an Appeal in Criminal
Cases,

Viscount Ebrington,—When the Government Turn-
pike Bill comes before the Ilous-, To oall the attention
I,f the House; to. the hardship inflicted upon Turnpike
. . Trust:: and their creditors by c o ple
from toll at present enjoyed by all Coaches convcying
any Letters for the -Postmaster-General, and to intro.
duce?, proviso. for remedying this grievance.
Mr. W. 0. Stanley.—To call the attention of the
Ifouse.to the proceedings of the Athlone Election Com-
mittee, and to move for a Select Committee, to inquire
. into nil the circumstances attending the conduct of the
Petitions against •the Return of Mr. Collett for the
Borough of Athlone, at the last General Election.
Mr. Blakemore, -In Committee on Factories (No. 2 -
• Bill, to move, That Clauses to the following effect b
• .. ,
introduced :
The workers of mills or of other works affected by
• the Bill to ba required to take out a License annually
for the working thereof.
•
• Such Licenses to be granted to authorise the working
. , by single Watches, and also to authorise the working
by double Watches.
• • Sin Aile Watches not to, exceed, say twelve, hours_ in
..
each day, including two hours for meals, &e.; during
which two hours the machinery to be stopped.
Double Watches not to exceed in the whole twenty
hours, or ten hours fbr each Watch; one hour in each
Watch to be allowed for meals, &c.; during which hour
the machinery to be stopped.
Children under, say nine,years of ego not to, be em- j
. . ploy-ed. • . '
---11" s umkr,.saY eighteen, years of age not t.) he ern- i
ploy ed in more than 'One consecutive Watch.
The same re ..le.n t -
o, to be employed in more than one
• consecutive Watch.
' • octLeonvictions, for penalties under the Act in any
sEvi' Sl saeignt to de i •
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cedingl---1".-15t,,,44F-"c,,, y.ear.
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,<-•,••i - -2. :...cezons:eonvicted of a fourth penalty under the Act
1.-- - ----' iii_al# quo year. their License to be immediately void.
:140-1,4-), 1-7.-:-War,o)*lc from the said Bill all restrictions
4„ ..4:4,11,-Alriciiindthe.free employment of capita
4,,qiiiyo f.q.yrrying into effect the above Clauses.
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THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 15.
THErommETEn, Lowest, 43 ; Highest, 60 ; Noon, 60.
BAROMETER, 30.2.—W1ND, S.W.

NOTE.—T 4 number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
ftezlng point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
many placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.