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PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS, Jurtz 6.
The Bankrupt Laws Amendment Bill was
brought up from the Commons, and read the
first time.

Mr.-Mason, from the India Ifouse, presented
an Account of the• Charges and Revenues of the
several Presidencies in India ; and the Resolu-
tions of the Court of Directors, granting Salaris,
Pensions and allowances.

The Irish Inland Navigation PM, and tbe
Seamen's Wages Bill, were each read the third
time and passed. '

The Sale of Bread Bill, and the Trish Public
Works Bill, passed through the Committees, and.
were reported.

The Irish Rate of Interest gill, after a few
words from the LORD CHANCELLOR, and the
Earls of DerrouGrNoar and -Limuttrcx,.passed
through the Committee, and the Report was 'or-
dered to be brought up to-morrow.—Adjourned;

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
TheGlerave/ey Divorce-Bill was read a second time. The
House went into a Committee ore it, and witnesses ware ex-
amined et the Bar in support of it, by Mr. Puller.
The House resumed, and the Bill was ordered to be read a
third time.
Mr. H. SUMNER presented a Petition against the Poor
Laws Amendment Bill, from Bermondsey parish. .
Similar Petitions were presented from the Hundred of Kelt,
in Norfolk, by Mr. Coke ; froth Exeter, by Mr. Courtenay.
The Metropolis Gas Light Bill . was read a third time. *A
clause, the import of which we could not learn, was proposed
by Mr. C. Smith, and opposed -by- Mr. Byng. The- Gallery
was cleared for a division, • but the House did not divide, and
we understand that the clause was negatived, and that the Bill
passed.. - •
A Petition against the Poor Relief Amendment Bill was
presented .front St.-Mary's, Leicester, by Mr. MANSFIELD.-_
The objections of the Petitioners were 'principally directed
against the clauses to preVent removals, and to fix a maximum
.for the rates. In these objections Mr. concurred with the
Petitioners, and declared that he should oppose the Bill at
every stage. ' •
-; Mr. MANSFIELD presented similar Petitions from the
Parishes of St. Margaret's, and Of All Saints, Leicester.
Mr. SCARLETT asked whether the Petitioners •stated'at
What sum per pound they were rated to the poor.
Mr. MANSFIELD said that they did'not.
Mr. HALDIMA ND presented a Petition 'from the :Manu-
facturers of Worsted Yarn in the County of York, against the
Foreign Wool Tax.
Sir F. BURDETT said he • had a Petition to present from
Geo.. Williams, 'Esq. .complaining of the practice,pursized in
Lancaster Gaol the gaoler, onder the rules of the ,Magis-
trates, in intercepting and opening all letters addressed to the
prisoners in the-prison. Mr. Williams.mentiened in his Peti-
tion, that in a case in which complaint had been made to hire
by a prisoner, , and in which lie hal returned .an answer, that
answer had been intercepted, opened, and ;not 'delivered 'to
Whom it was 'addressed. He prayed that the Boon Would
take measures to prevent such practices.
Mr. JAMES said, he had hiniself complained, on a former
petition, that his own letters had been' broken. open by the
aoler, in a similar case. He thought that not even an Abt of
the Legislature would be warrantable for the opening of letters,
and he consequently hoped the prayer of the petition ahould
be attended Ito. •
thatt sthao us ttcohpt
szlechotTbrYe.trt
to the communication between criminals in the prison and their
thel'Yllgo.oßdsnit lalee4Pinße4.aiCfAlAthtep.i&risoitn.7l,
associates withoht. A general rule was therefore made for the
opening of letters.
•Mr. BENNET thought the power should not be left in the
hands of the gaoler, but in the hands of the Visiting Ma-
gistrates.
Mr. WILBRAHAM said, the gaolei necessarily stopped the
letters in the first instance, but he was under the superintend-
'ante of the Visiting Magistrates.
POOR RELIEF BILL.
Mr, SCARLFTT presented' Petitions in favour
:Of the Poor
Relief Amendment Bill, from the parishes ofSt.Paneraa,
dlestoteand Northiam, in Sussex.
Mr. BERNAL asked when . the Honourable and Learned
'Gentleman intended to propose the further consideration of the
Report of this Bill? •
Mr. SCARLETT- stated that 'heintended to bring it on
was now a dropped Order) foi Thursday week.
The 'further consideration of the'Repert of the• Poor Relief
Amendment Bill was fixed for 'Thursday (this :day) week ac-
cordingly.
A Petition was presented from the Parish of Henley. (Ileittr)
against any alteration ofthe law. ofsettlement.
Mr. P.-MOORE presented a Petition against the Poor ,Re-
lief Amendment Bill from Coventry.
Sir 'R. WILSON, presented a stroilai Petition from Liver-
pool. The Petition,. he observed, expressed in -forcible 'lan-
guage the. bjections to this Bill, which, though now callektea
" Poof Relief," might be Snore properly called a Poor Spolie-
tion Eill.—The Petition was read.
Mr. SCARLE'TT contended, that the Bill was a measure
friendly to the'peor, and that every friend to their real interests
must support the Bill. .
Mr. CALCRAFT said he should endeavour, wherathe_ dis-
cussion of the'Bill came on, to spew that 'a real , friend to _'tae
poor, and to the best interests of the country, Might ,opptise.the
Bill. He was couvinced that the great majority of the contrie
butors -to. the 'poors' -rates were • hoatile to it.' Ile did not think,
therefbre, that all. who'supported it should be called enemies bf.
the 'soon .
..Mr. SCARLETT said, what he objected to waax
et nick-naniceen the. Bill. Ile was 'ready to haire tee-Bill :de-
cided on ',iv the sVeigiit'of,-facts or argnments tint he thalittale'
that to call it a eneasus-e of spoliati.; was a factious anode •
meeting it (Hear,. hear.!). As to the asseriioii that. the greittel
proportion of. leyspayeas were hoatile to-the. Bill, on that T., E-
tionfe ,Wen at, issue with '.his Honourable Friend. -Ittiertat hel
eecollected, that the greater partuf the contributors to the poorit'
rates were'tliernselares poor, and that they were often, byme.,es
of: payrntrits made to these-very rates, drawn within
'fatal circle if their pperation. • :
R. WILSON said, that in effect the Bill ninst be aetp..
nation Bill. - it teek away from the poor the .of wren
-
n-anre .in. those. cases, in which,
,by'the utmost labour, they coal,
icot obtain a livelihood. . •. . .
Mr. C',ALI7RArr expirdned. His feelings svere
eageitiat the Fill esitioatt of•any man, though he *ea aware to.;!:
there was ilanger:in _unguarded expresisionaretiPtang ee
was not, however, the least apprcheasion that a line of the I'tl'll
would ears. .
Sir C. BURT apnroveil 'of the Bill, anti 'thosiOt. thei'
Gallant-General Wilsoo-ithourd be cautious- m 'apely-
ing .terms to it Whicheenight=lia.ve •the effect of, eaeitiee; tat-
greundeet irritatien.-arrne petition was ordered to be printe'ch
Sir WILLIAM lMi CRESPIGN Y • 'Called the -au! 16:end/
the llousef W a V.; titian he ;had peesentea some time crt
i.
,plairting of the roilt:!r.ct of a tax-gathereie named Harrison, asl:o
was Continued in einpleYneent notwithstanclinte the hetoritty au
hisatnieco*neluct. . . • . . ,
. Me. LUSH,INGTON assured • the Hon. Baronet he :email'
melee ineuiry inw the circurnstanee ; bad never before sitar
. ,
of theMan'n no:no.
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••• 'CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION. • •
Dr. LUSII I NC:TON roselo_presoritnPotition-,fsecires 7,
Thomas 'Dolby, a .printer,
could nobrefrain from expressing'hissurprise,.:thrttii
although it was now considerably past .5,-o'cl,!('k,
none of his .Majesty's _Ministers were- present :in •
the House, as he much wished that 'they sneuid:
hear the complaints set forth in -this Perition.l
than which ntrne could _hl' of greater ittaptsrleoirtaa
The 'Petitioner complained_ of haying :been_prose-.,
cuted by that "Society„ which bad taken trent
'itself the denomination of, " The Constitutional
Asociation." Re likewise coenplained., 'that-after