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be to lower the price of corn, not to raise it; and
consequently to diminish the rents; but thoarats to
which he had alluded were those rents which bad
been raised very high, in consequence of the d-
owners speculating own Very high prideof grab.
• Mr. ELLIOT explained.
Mr. HUSKISSON believed, most tonkienti
sly,
oi._
that the measure would not raise the price of 'co
Its effect would be to keep the price fraud much ac-
tuation—perhaps to keep it betweenlOs.and the
80
quarter. Even were it to be kept at 80s. whi ha i
denied it would be, would not .that be much' tter i
than the fluctuation which had been 'witnessed fkom
the high price of ISOs. down to the low price of 55a ?
Would not 80s. be a lower price than the average of
the last tea years ? The object he, and those irho
thought with him, had in view, certainly was to raise
the price of corn above 555. a quarter; but by no
means to render it permanently dear in this country.
*As to the Petitions which had been presented on the
subject, Goy forbid that they did not:pay atten-
tion to the Petitions of the People. But it was their
duty to weigh the arguments which thou Petitions
contained ; and, having sifted them to the bottom,
then to judge for themselves and act according to the
best of their discretion. It would. not appear won-
derful that the petitions should contain io much an-
swerable matter, when it was recollected that the
ground of many of them was the statement said .to
have been made by the Chief Magistrate of the Me-
tropolis ; who declared, that when wheat.was 80s. a
quarter, the quartern loaf would. be Md.-.a fallacy
so'obvious that he *ould not occupy the time of the
House by repeAting its detection. . •
Mr. BARING explained. . • •
• The House then divided—For the second reading,
2413—Ag inst it, 56—Majority, 162.
,• While st targets were excluded, a motion was made
that the Bill snoilld he committed on Monday next;
and Mr. liAtir.c. moved, as an amendment, that it
shoule! be 'committed on Monday se'nnight. On a
division the numbers were—For the commitment on
Monday next, 215--Against it, 44—Majority 171.

mvimi. DILL.
' On our re-admission into the Gallery we found the House in
a Conunittreon the Mutiny Bill, and Mr W. Fitzgerald object-
ing to the expression " indecent haste," which bad been used by
an Honourable Member (Mr. Bennet).
Mr. WIIITBR FAD said, it the expression had any application
at all, it oils to the Noble Lord (Palmerston), and not to the
Chairman or the Committee of Ways and Meats.
Lord PA LMERS lON odd, when he should End it necessary
to take lt %sons of decency, from the specimens which he had seen
of the Honourable Gentleman, (Mr. Bennet), be would not think
of applying to him.
Mr. BENNE'T would distinctly say, that he did not apply the
ezertuton to the Chairmao, but to the Noble Lord, and ha re-
peated it, that the manner in which this business was attempted
to be hurried through at that hour of the night, was a most
decent act. He considered a Bill which had the better govern-
men of. the army for its object, to be a moot important mea-
sure. How did the Noble Lord know that be would DK. pwsue
the "ante course at he had on tormer occasions when Mutiny
BIM had been brought forward ? Gilder these circumstances he
was determined that the Bill should not pass witbmit his attempt-
jog to lotroduce some alteration.
Lord PALMERSTON wondered that the Hooourable Gen-
tleman had not taken an opportunity of expreosing his ophdosou
a former evening, when the Bill was read a second time,
Lord Mil:1 ON said, the Honourable Member had perhaps,
from the feeling of the moment, used stronger language to ex-
press his sense of what was doing than he otherwise would have
employed.
Mr. MANNERS SUTTON knew that It bad been the anus
thief 14s Noble Friend to Involute-we qiterssioq to *pawl
BIS, es k mar ler*o short a period, and lbe subject was tit *Sae
again so soon before the Home. Nethiug was kneaded insulting
to the &silky of the House. .
Lord PROEY hilted the Nobja Lira would not persist on
going into the object at that We hour.
Mr. WHITBREAD contended this would be the proper time
to make any alterations iu the Mutiny Act.
, . Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY odd what was most objectionable
Iraq, that It happened merely by acddent that any body.bed had
as opportunity of proposing any, alteration. This was the Pi
time, and net, as was proposed, a late period of the Session.lre
did not wonder that bis Honourable Friend bad kit some Mig-
ration at the manner in which Is was attempted to burry through'
this Bill.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, there was
nothing unusual iu the proceeding of his Noble Friend-4ks
hur)--and if any person ttiought it was unusual, it was from,
their nut observing the Orders of the Day.
Lord PALMERSTON said, it had stood two days on throe-
den; and if any Member *abed to propose any alteration, and
did not know of this order, be was grossly deficient in his duty.
The next Bill must by necessity be brought on in the early part
of June, which• could not be said to be a late period of the
Session.
Mr. BENNET wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer
If be conceived there was nothing unusual In bringing in a Bill on
one day at past three o'clock in the morning, reading it a second
time at past two o'clock, and hurrying it through a Committee
about one o'clock
After some further observations, the Chairman reported pro-
gress, and the Bill was ordered to go again through a Committee
of the House on Monday next.
The other Orders oldie Day were. then proceeded In, after
othich the Howe Adjourned at HaNiest One o'Clocb, to Mon-
day next.