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London, England, 1842-05-09 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships met at Five o'Clock.
THE TARIFF.

The Earl of HARDWICKE presented a petition
from Cambridgeshire against the reduction of the duty
on the importation of horned cattle.
EDUCATION IN IRELAND.

Lord LORTON presented a petition from a place in
the county of Longford against the present system of
National Education in Ireland.
IRISH MAGISTRACY.

Lord DE GREY, in answer to a question from a Noble
Friend on a former evening, had to say that the
name of Mr. Bidduph had been struck out of the list of
Itish Magistracy.
The Marquis of NORMANBY regretted that his
Noble Friend did not accompany his answer with some
explanation as to the reasons why a just any necessary
a measure had been so long delayed. He agreed with
his Noble Friend that it was no part of the duty of the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to read the newspapers.
But the ignorance of the Noble Lord on the subject of
Mr. Biddulph's case, showed that there was very great
remissness on the part of those who ought to give his
Noble Friend the proper information on such matters, and
when such remissness was habitual, the newspapers were
not to be despised.—(Hear.) When he (Lord N.) had
the honoar of filling the office of Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, there was the greatest unity amongst all
branches of the Irish Government, and no trial of im-
portance took place without his being informed
of it by the law officers of the Crown. The case of
Mr.Bithlulph was three times brought before this House.
and yet for two months no notice was taken of it by the
Irish authorities. That the dismissal had taken place
at last might be regarded as an intimation that the Right
Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government would do
as much justice to Ireland as was consistent with keeping
his party together.—(Hear, hear.) He concluded by
moving for a return of the correspondence relating to
the case.

Lord DE GREY had no objection to the production
of the papers, and could only say that he had acted in
the case of Mr. Biddulph as soon as the information
came before him in a tangible shape. He (Lord Grey)
had acted not for himself, but for the country over
which he was placed ; and when he found he did not
give satisfaction to that country, and to the Sovereign
who committed the government to him, he would resign
the office.

The Parish Property Bill was read a third time, and
the Kensington and Knightsbridge Opening Bill, and
several private Bills were read a second time.

THE COPYRIGHT BILL.

A Message from the Commons brought up the Copy-
right Bill which was read a first time.
Lord LYNDHURST said he should move that the
Bill be read a second time to-morrow, and that the dis-
cussion be taken on going into Committee.
Lord BROUGHAM entirely concurred in the course
proposed ; and he was sure that all who took any part
in the discussion of this measure were actuated only by
one motive, to secure to literary gentlemen as much ad-
vantage from their works as was consistent with the due
protection of the rights of others.
THE MAGISTRATES OF SUNDERLAND.

The Marquis of NORMANBY lisal to request the
attention of their Lordships to a subject which he had
mentioned before they separated on Friday last. He
would, however, say one word in the first place as
to the order of their proeeedings- He found there
was a disposition shown the other night strictly to
adhere to a rule of the House, to which he had
not seen much regard paid on former occasions. He
had no objection to make upon that subject ; but he
owned that he had found the other night. with a feeling
of disappointment, mingled, perhaps, with other feelings,
that honourable men, who bad come forward at the
earliest moment to repel unfounded accusations, had the
justification delayed by the backwardnes of the Noble
Marquis (the Marquis of Londonderry) to bring
the question in any shape before the House ;
that Noble Marquis being their accuser to
whom, with a generous confidence, they had
trusted to make their defence as public as the charge.
He had now only to ball upon the' Noble Marquis to make
good his former charge, or else to retract it. He should
Lead to thier Lordships certain resolutions which had
been forwarded to him by those gentlemen—resolutions
which had been agreed to at a meeting of the Ma-
gistrates
of Sunderland, at which Mr. Rchard
Spoore presided, in the absence of the Mayor.—
(The Noble Marquis then read the resolutions in ques-
tion, which were to the ellect, that the allegation that
the late Government had appointed a number of magis-
trates who were all Whigs was incorrect ; that the alle-
gation that the magistrates had refused licences to
any but Whig voters was totally unfounded ;
that out of eleven parties to whom licenses had been
granted, four had voted for Lord Howick, two for Mr.
Attwood, and the remaining five had not voted at all.)
Those Magistrates had also forwarded a letter to
the Noble Marquis, repelling, in the most re-
spectful manner, the charges he had made,
and that letter, it was stated by the Noble Marquis, had
been forwarded to him by certain gentlemen, all
()f whom were Whigs. Now what would he
thought of the knowledge of the Noble Mar-
quis on the subject of the Magistracy of the county
over which he presided as Lord Lieutenant, when the
House was informed that the Mr. Spooro who had
signed the letter to the Noble Marquis was a Con-
servative ?—(Hear, hear.) The Nohle Marq,uis had
refused to do justice at once to those parties.
The Noble Marquis need not have expressed any opi-
nion on the subject, but having done so, he was bound
!o give the same publicity to the answer as to the ac-
cusation. But the most important part of the case was,
that the Noble Marquis had made an accusation
agninst the Magistrates that they had refused licenses ,
to every person not of their political opinions.
To ascertain the justice of the accusation it was neces-
sary
to know who were the parties applying for such
licenses. Of sixteen licenses applied for eleven
were refused, and of those refused, a majority of
two to one were those who voted for Lord Howick;
four voted for Lord Howick, and two for Mr. Att-
wood ; the other five had no votes. The mayor
of Sunderland was Sir Hedworth Williamson,
the late Member for the northern division of the county,
and High Sheriff, and those who knew him must feel
that there never existed a person less likely to he a party
to any such proceeding. He had constantly acted as
Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, and he had autho-
rized him to say, that no licenses had ever been
refused on the ground of politics.—(Hear, hear.)
Besides, Sir Hedworth Williamson had assured him that
he never heard of such a thing discussed as the granting
or withholding licenses cn party grounds. If the Noble
Marquis opposite had heard that party feeling was
allowed to prevail in any such way, it was his
duty to have made such representations as
would procure the inthiediate dismissal of those
gentlemen from the Magistracy ; instead of recom-
mending that an equal number of the opposite
party should be sent to job the other way.—(Hear, hear.)
He thought that the Noble Marquis had shown great
credulity, and had been greatly imposed on. His lend-
ing himself to the injurious aspersions upon those gen-
tlemen, of whom he ought, in his capacity of Lord Lieu-
tenant of the county, to be on all occasions the careful
superintendant, and when they were unjustly accused,
or grossly maligned, the steady protector and earnest yin-
dicator—showed that the Noble Marquis was not fit to fill
the office which he held. This was more completely proved ,