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PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR FRIDAY, FEB. 18, 1842.
1. Municipal Corporations Bill;—second reading.
2. Belfast Election Petition ;—adjourned debate.
3. Corn Importation Act ;—Committee thereupon.
4. Supply ;—Committee.
5. Duchy of Cornwall Bill; Committee.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS, FEB. 18.
1. Mr. Estcourt—To nominate the Select Committee on Stand-
ing Orders :—Mr. Estcourt, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Pendarves,
Mr. William Miles, Sir Matthew Wood, Mr. Robert Palmer, Sir
George Strickland, Mr. Cumming Bruce, Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr.
Ord, Mr. Trotter, Mr. Octavius Morgan, Mr. Childers, Mr. Acland.
—(At the time of private business.)

2. Sir Edward Knatchbull—Bill to regulate the sale of parish
property.

3. Colonel Sibthorp—To call the attention of the House, and
more particularly her Majesty's Government, to the policy of sub.
stituting the payment of the several duties on the importation of
foreign corn at the period that they are entered into, instead of
the present system of payment of such duties when taken out of

4. Mr. Villiers—To present petition from certain persons assem-
bling in London from different parts of England, Scotland, and
Wales, to procure the repeal of the Corn and Provision-laws.
5. Mr. Villiers--In Committee on importation of corn, to move
the following resolution :

" That all duties payable upon the importation of corn, grain,
meal, or flour, do now cease and determine (in lieu of the resolution
proposed by Sir Robert Peel),"

6. Colonel Sibthorp—ln Committee on Importation of Corn,
to move that the Duties on Corn be levied or paid at the period
of Importation, instead of when taken out of bond.

7. Mr. Christopher—ln Committee en Corn Importation, to
substitute the following Scale of Duty :

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Just published, price 2s.
THE PRESENT CRISIS, AND ITS
REMEDY; being a System for the Equalization of
British and Foreign Prices, to enable the British Manufac-
turer to command the Market of the Commercial World ; and
that without sacrificing either the Landed or Funded Interest
of the United Kingdom, or inflicting injury upon any,-one in-
dividual of the whole community'; taking into account the Na-
tional Debt, the Revenue, and the Expenditure of the Go-
vernment.

508. and under 51s. Duty 255.
51s, and under 525. - 245.
525. and under 535. -23 s
O3s. and under 545. - 225.
545. and under 555. -21 g.
55g. and under 565. -20 s.
555. and under 575. -19 g.
575. and under 58s. -18 s.
58s. and under 596., 17s.
595. and under 60s. -16 s.
60s. and under 61s. -14 s.
61g. and under 625. -13 s.
625. and under 635. -12 s.
635. and under 645. - 1 Is.
645. and under 655. -10 s.
656. and under 665. - 9s.
665. and under 675. - Bs.
67g. and under 68s. - 7s.
68s. and under 695. - 68.
695. and under 70s. - 56.
70s. and under 71s. - 4s.
71s. and under 725. - 3s.
725. and under 735. - 2s.

738. ... ls.
8. Mr. William S. O'Brien-1n Committee on Corn Importa-
tion, to move, That all sorts of Grain, the produce of the Colonial
Possessions of Great Britain, be admitted at all times at a duty of
one shilling per quarter.
9. Sir Valentine Blake-1n the event of Mr. Villiers' motion
being rejected, and in consideration of the unexampled depression
of trade and manufactures, to move, that Corn be admitted free of
duty for one year, or for such other limited period as Parliament
may deem fit and proper.
CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS.

Lord Granville Somerset, Sir George Grey, Bart., James Loch,
Esq., Johr Wilson Patten, Esq., and Sir William Meredyth So.
merville, Bart., being five of the Members appointed by Mr.
Speaker to serve on the General Committee of Elections, and not
being objected to by the House, severally took the following oath
do swear, that I will truly and faithfully perform the duties
belonging to a Member of the General Committee of Elections,
without fear or favour, to the best of my judgment and ability. So
help me God.

Then the Petitions severally complaining of undue Eleetions and
Returns for the following places were referred to the said Com-
mittee, viz. :—Great Marlow, Alexander Higginson and others.
Electors :—Nottingham Town, Francis Hardwick and Robert
Gray, Electors :—Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, Ralph Bernal
and William Dougal Christie, Esquires :—Thetford, Sir James
Flower, Baronet :—Clitheroe, Edward Cardwell, Esquire :—Cli-
theme, John Taylor and William Whalley, Electors :—Lewes,
Edward Monk and Gabriel Egles :—Harwich, Sir Denis Le Mar.
chant, Baronet :—Harwich, Sir Denis Le Marchant and Electors :
--Wigan, Charles Standish and Charles Pascoe Grcnfell, Esquires:
Rutland, Viscount Campden and Electors :—Longford County,
Anthony Lefroy, Esquire : —Wakefield, Jose Luis Fernandes and
Lawrence Hitchon, Electors :—Sudbury, John Warwick and
Joseph Martin, E;ectors :—Bridport, William Pearce Stanley,
Esquire, and others, Electors:—lpswich, John Cobbold and others,
Electors.

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Belfast—An objection being taken to referring the petition of
George Hamilton Chichester, Baron Ennishowen and Carrickfergus,
to the said Committee, the same being a petition of a Lord of Par-
liament, the said petition was read :
Sessional Order," That it is a high Infringement of the liberties
and privileges of the Commons of the United Kingdom, for any
Lord of Parliament, or other Peer or Prelate, not being a Peer of
Ireland at the time elected, and not having declined to serve for
any county, city, or borough of Great Britain, to concern himself

in the election of Members to serve for the Commons in Parlia-
ment, except only any Peer of Ireland, at such elections in Great
Britain respectively, where such Peer shall appear as a candidate,
or by himself, or any others, be proposed to be elected ; or for any
Lord Lieutenant or Governoi of any county to avail himself of any
authority derived from his commission, to influence the e:cction of
any member to serve for the Commons in Parliament"—read.

Motion made, and question proposed, "That the said petition
being the petition of a Lord of Parliament, be not referred to the
said Committee :"—(Mr. Thesigcr :)—Debate arising thereupon;
debate adjourned till Friday.
Then the petitions severally complaining of undue elections and
returns for the following places were referred to the said Com-
mittee, viz.:—

Belfast, George Hamilton Chichester, Baron Ennlshoiven and
Carrickfergus, and Archibald M`Brair, an Elector : Cardigan
Borough, Pryse Pryse, Esquire: —Nottingham Town, Joseph
Braithwaite and others, Electors :—Waketleld, Honourable Wil-
liam Sebright Lascelles:—Wigtown, &c., Burghs, James Blair,
Esquire, and Electors :—Rochester, Viscount Melgund :—Ro.
cheater, George Jefferys and James Chesson, Vectors :—Glou-
cester City, Francis Buchanan Hoare and Charles Frederick
Cliffe, Electors :—Blackburn, William Turner, Esquire :
Tipperary County, Honourable Cornwallis Maude and Wil-

11am Ponsonby Barker, Esquire :—Lichfield, Ricitrcr
Esquire.—Southampton Town, John Rushworth Keele and
others, Electors: Southampton Town, Joseph Lankester
and others, Electors :—Newry, Sir John Milley Doyle :
Nvwport, William John Blake and Themai Gisborne, Esqrs. :
Elgin, Bre„ Burghs, Thomas Abereromby Due, Esq. :—Bewdley,
Robert Monteith, Esq., and Electors :—Reading, Thomas Mills,
Esq. :—Penryn and Falmouth, John White Dixon, Elector :
Thetford, William Watts Wickes and Edward Palmer, Electors :
Nottingham Town, Richard Young Booker and Joseph Newton,
Electors :—Wareham, John Hales, Calcraft, Esq.:—Newcastle.
ur ier-Lynte, George Cooper and Henry Broomhall, Electors:—
Lyme Regis, Richard Sellers and others, Electors :—Merthyr
Tidvil, Edward Williams, Elector:—Harwich, John Bagshaw,
Esq.:—Stafford Borough, William Holmes, Esq. :—St. Ives, Ed.
win Ley, Esq. :—Rutland, Robert Hawley and John Arthur
Gardner, Electors:—New Windsor, William Frederic Fergusson,
Esq.:—New Windsor, Charles Stuart Voules and Joseph Brown,
Electors :—Flint, Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, Baronet, and others,
Electors :—Cork County, Nicholls Philpot Leader and Robert
Longfield, Esquires, and others, Electors :—Kerry, Arthur Blen.
nerbassctt, Esquire, and Electors :—Louth, Lewis Upton and
William /Sunbury M'Clintock, Electors :—Kinsale, James Francis
Comerford and George Dunn, Electors :—Downpatrick, Thomas
Dixon, Esquire, and Electors:—Waterford City, Thomas Wyse,
Esquire :—Shrewsbury, William Yardley and John Watton, Elec-
tors :—Stafford Borough, William Heath and others, Electors :
Dudley, William Adams Smith, Esquire :—Barnstaple, Robert
Budd, Elector:—Belfast, Archibald M'Brair and George Kennedy
Smith, Electors:—Waterford City, Sir Henry Winston Barron,
Baronet, and Thomas Wyse, Esquire :—Athlone, Thomas Glynn
and John Dowde, Electors :—Bridport, Joseph Bartlett and others,
Electors :—Sunderland, Cuthbert Vaux and George Reed, Electors.
Dublin City Election—Petition of Electors, complaining of
that Election (App. No. 1); referred to the General Committee of
Elections, and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons,
papers, and records.

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bers, and though they are divided between total re-
pealers and the advocates of a fixed duty, they
are victorious in argument. Lord PALMERSTON
concluded the debate by a short and powerful
speech, in which the Noble Lord advocated the
broadest and most liberal commercial principles,
though he contended for the propriety of taxing foreign
grain, when imported for the sake of revenue, and
asserted, with something of the inspiration of genius,
that the time is not far off when the Tories, bowing as
heretofore to public opinion, will acknowledge those
principles, and make them the basis of the nationalpoliey.
Sir ROBERT PEEL made a laboured defence of his
sliding scale, and openly acknowledged that it was not
formed from any conviction of its justice, but to please a
friend and disarm an opponent. It is a compromise be-
tween the claims of partisans, not between the interests
of the nation. He dwelt on the mighty interests involved
in the production annually of 45 million quarters of grain,
as if the Corn-law produced them, and not the industrious
labourers, who are denied a reasonable share in the vast
produce. He insisted, too, emphatically, on the protection
which has for many years been given to agriculture by the
law, while the fact is, that the law never has given the
protection it has promised, and has for the last twenty-
five years continually deluded the farmers into promis-
.ing more rent than they could pay. At one
time it promised them a protection of 80s., then 655.,
and now, conforming to circumstances which the pro-
tecting law has been unable to prevent, it promises them
a protection of 565. If protection injures the community,
it swindles the farmer.

Sir lion Ear's speech was not so coldly received as
his former one, from which we infer that he has recon-
ciled his followers to his scheme rather than let in, as
Mr. CHRISTOPHER said, the enemies of the landed interest.
After these two speeches, Mr. ROEBI7CR'S speech was
the lion of the night, but to his able oration we must
take another occasion to dojustice.

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naving AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS-
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t'ley are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain-
ing LARGE FORTUNES,
HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at
LUBECK,

Lord ASHLEY explained to the House, relieving the
heaviness of the debate, that Mr. WARD had made a
most unjust and unfounded attack on him the night be-
fore, for which Mr. WARD pointedly and respectfully
asked Lord ASHLEY'S pardon. The Noble Lord was
satisfied.

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THEATRE•ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 17,

Will be repeated, arranged as a Drama, Handers ACIS
AND GALATEA.—Polypheme, Mr. H. Philips; Acis, Miss
P. Horton ; Damon, Mr. Allen; Galatea, Miss Romer.
After which will be repeated the Ncw Comedy, entitled THE
PRISONER OF WAR. _ _

After which, the Popular earc.e, entitled THE WIND-
MILL.—The Marquis de Rouenlle, Mr. Morris Barnett ;
Sampson Low, Mr. Keel ;Marian, Mrs. Keeley.
Doors be opened at alt put Six, and the Performance
to begin rt Seven o'clock. Boxes be., Second Price, 2r. 6d.
Pit 35., Second Price is. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second
Pr:ce Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 17,
Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr.
W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Groves°, Mr.
Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ;
and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble.
After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas
Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK; OR,
'IARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW.
Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven. Dress Boxer, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.;
First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, Si. 6d. ; Pit, 35.;
Second Price. 2s. • Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the
Boxes to be taken Of Mr. Grogan at the ,Box-office, from Ten
till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be hid solely of Dlr. Andrews, bookseller,
167. New Bond-street.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
Another new Domestie Drama, combining intense interest and
such 'powerfully electric situations and effects as have never
been attempted in Dramas of this description.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 17,
Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts,
entitled MARY WHITE ; Cr, the MURDER at the OLD
TABBARD.—Savage Sam, Mr. E. F. Saville; Baynard, Mr.
Dale ; Gi!es, ; Mr. Gardner Mary White,= Miss Vincent, the
acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy.
After which, THE WILD IRISH GlRL.—Shelah O'May,
Miss Vincent, in which she will dance her celebrated Donny-
brook Rant, and sing several humourous chaunts, and a new
Medley Epilogue.
To conclude with the Grand Romance of THE LADY OF
THE LAKE.—Roderick Dhu, Mr. Dale; Fitzjames, Mr. E.
F. Saville ; Malcolm, Mr. Seaman ; Blanch of Devon, Miss
Collett.

Boxes, 25.—Pit, Is.— Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes
only,
at Half-past Eight.

I do swear, that I will truly end faithfully perform the duties be-
longing to a Member of the General Committe of Elections, with_
out fear or favour, to the best of my judgment and ability. so
help me God.
Committee to meet at a quarter before Four o'clock to-morrow.

sake of little Oliver and Nell. At home or abroad, in
the streets, the theaties, the Legislature, any where and
everywhere, at great balls in his honour, public dinners
in his honour, at the Universities, factories, museums,
libraries, and all places, public or private, you have no
conception of the enthusiastic shoe•."

Stu ROBERT PEEL'S SCALE has been drawn up with
one single object, that of keeping his party united. It pro-
mises, we regret to say, to be successful, and if not re-
gisted by the public it will be carried through Parliament.
ufill be efficacious against the Whigs, to defeat whom
rho Tories will starve the people by the way. They do
not design this perhaps, at least they say so; what they
aim at exclusively is, to keep themselves in and keep
out the Whigs, and to attain this single end is the object
of Sir Robert Peel's wonderful scale.
CONVEYANCE OF LANDS BY THE DUKE OF CORN-
WALL.----This Bill, brought in by Mr. Pemberton. has
for its purpose the removing of doubts which at present
exist, as to whether, under the peculiar form of inherit-
ance by which the Prince of Wales stands- seised of the
Duchy, leases and grants made therefrom will be good
and indefeasible estates in, law for longer than his life.
The enactments proposed are to render all such valid
fOr the full time specified in the indentures, provided the
dine does not excevd thirty-one years, or, in the case
of waste lands, ninety-nine years ; covenants in his
Highness's leas?' to be as effectual as if he were pos-
sessed of an absolute estate, saving certain rights speci-
fied. Her Majesty to be acting guardian during the
Prince's minority,

We cannot conclude this brief notice of the proceed-
ings, last night, without adding that Sir R. PEEL seems
more confident, and more determined, than he was on
Wednesday. From the Parliament there is no hope !.
GOD helps them who help themselves.

In the House of Commons a great deal has been said
of the amount of capital vested in the soil. 'What does
this mean? So far as the landlords are concerned, they
have obtained from the land a continually increasing
rent, but they have invested no additional capital of im-
portance in land. We have heard on several occasions
of their ruining their tenants by their exactions. We
have heard of tenants investing capital in improvement.;
by which the landlords have profited ; but we know of
no capital the landlords have invested in the soil. They
have wrung capital and income out of the land. They have
obtained a greater price for land as population has ad-
vanced. 'We deny that they have invested any capital
in land.

When men speak of- tenants investing capital in land,
what is meant ? They drain land ; they clear it ; they
pulverise it ; they heap manure on it ; in short, they
employ labour on the land, and nothing more ;
and they have as good a right as other capitalists
to expect a profit on the capital they have
applied to employing labour. But it is quite clear
that the whole of the capital they have invested has been
employed in setting labourers to work. Now if wages
are kept up by Corn-laws, as is said, it is clear that'the
Corn-laws have compelled the farmers to give more for
the labour they have employed than would be otherwise
necessary. The question then really comes to th:s, that
the Corn-laws make the farmers invest a nominally
larger capital in the land, not an increased quantity of
labour—aid then they require the community to pay a
higher price for its corn to reimburse them for the
expense the Corn-laws have put them to. This may be
amusing to political schemers, bpt, nonentity as in the
end it turns out to be, it is death to the people.
Dr. SMITH has shown with great force that a bounty
on The export of corn, which in its effect is tan-
tamount to the duty on corn imported, has ultimately
no other effect than to lower the price of the pre-
cious metals in the community, or raise the
price in our country above the price in other countries.
This is the effect of our Corn-laws. 'They raise nomi-
nal prices, and sanction a general system of plunder ;
but they do not encourage agriculture or promote its
improvement. They inflict irreparable injury on the
people—we believe they only nominally raise the amount
of the landlords' income and the tenants' profits. They
annihilate trade, and enable some men to say they have
30,0001. .a year, who would otherwise be obliged to say
they had only 27,0001, though the latter sum would,
with free trade, buy quite as much, or more, of all other
commodities as the former. The race of jolterheads are
sacrificing the community to a mere name.

We could not but admire the naivete with which.more
than one Member referred on Tuesday night to Mr.
HU§HISSON'S opinions, and dwelt particularly on the
Net that the Right Hon. Gentleman always deferred to
what was practicable. Mr. LABOUCHERE quoted an opi-
nion of Lord STANLEY'S, borrowed, no doubt, from Mr.
Hustussort, in which that Noble Lord said he was for a
fixed duty, but it was not practicable. Now the practica-
bility of which Mr. HusxissoN spoke, and which Lord
STANLEY imitated, were in fact then, as now, nothing
more and nothing less than the resolution of the land-
lords to maintain their station, as Sir E. KNATCHBULL
expressed it, by taxing the people's bread.
Mr. ThisFussoN was, through his whole life, a trading
politician, and was dependent for all his political power
on the Tory aristocracy, whose . servant he was. Ile
was obliged to fashion both 'his conduct and his opinions
by their desires. What he meant by practicable, and
what Lord STANLEY, who unthinkingly followed
him, meant by practicable, was what the Tory
aristocracy would consent to. Neither of them thought
of what was due to justice or due to the people, they
only though of what the landlords would allow. Now,
it must be for every reflecting mind a curious thing to
See the trimming and subservient opinions of Mr. Mrs-
tissoN, adapted to his station and his time, now quoted
as the guide of Parliament. The most defective analysis
at once convinces us, that Mr. llosic ISSON'S opinions were,
in fact, the offspring of the selfishness or political
seoundrelism of the landlords from 1815 to 1828; and
they are now quoted as solemn wisdom, and made the
guide of Parliament. We do not, in all these quo-
tations, get one step beyond that selfishness which is at
once the parent of' our laws, and was the parent of Mr.
HusussON's practical opinions and conduct. •

Machinery and its effects, have, during the present
debate, been much discussed, and great pains have been
taken on the Tory side, to prove that it is productive
of many evils to the manual labourers, whom it displaces.
At the same time, Sir R. PEEL has acknowledged that
machinery is beneficial, and we may safely conclude
that it cannot be dispensed with, and must be continually
'extended and improved, if this country is to remain a
great nation. Such being the leading facts in our mo-
dern economical history—machinery being of great ad-
vantage to society, and in soma cases injurious to indi-
viduals, what have those statesmen done, who undertake
the regulation of railways, and deplore the effects of com-
petition, who regulate the sale of land at the antipodes,
and adjust the supply of labour to the market in the An-
tilles, to check this admitted evil, and compensate the indi-
viduals for the sacrifice which the welfare of society de-
mands of them ? Nothing, absolutely and positively
nothing. They have entirely neglected this part of their
-duty, and only complain of the selfishness of capitalists,
while they advise the displaced labourers to be patient
and submissive. Were a clerk displaced by reform-
ing a Court., the officials of Whitehall wd allow
the Parliament no rest till he was compensated
out of the public revenue. But he is a sort
of gentleman, and dependent on the Government ;
the hand-loom weavers are of the labouring classes, and
independent men. The one is taken care of ; the other is
left to perish. The Tory statesmen, who meddle with
every thing, cannot allow the evil effects of the use of
machinery on individuals to go unalleviated without ad-
ding to their disgrace, and to the hatred they already
deserve at the hands of the cheated labourers.

Mr. Charles Dickens has arrived safely in America.
We read, in a private letter from Boston, that "no
Prince or Potentate that ever reigned was ever half
g° worshipped as he is by these people, and all for the

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