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HOUSE OF LORDS. APRIL lb.
CALCRATT'S DIVORCI BILL. _

hlrrrrt• Adam and Jervice were called to the Bat u !'lured, on
Calcraftli Bill.

Sarah Whitby, servant to 'Miss Love before her marriage, was ex.
~mined. It appeared, trom the statement of Counsel and the evidence,
that C..ptainlush. after Me marrisee, and before consummation,
left Lis wfe to join his regiment at Portsmouth. Lord Ilarborougb
was in the habit of visiting and remaining to a late hour with Mrs.
C:lcruf:, but her further generally sat up when Lord Harborough was
in the hou.e. The servant, on her cross-examination, said she fre-
quently found combs and bracelet', worn by Mrs. C. on the carpet of
the loom where she had been sitting with Lord H. The witness was
always sent out of the room by Miss Love when Lord Harborough
us there, but she was not sent down stain when Capt. Ca/craft
visited.
The LORD CNA NCI.I.LOR, at five o'clock, asked Mr. Adam
wMther he had any more witnesses to call?
Mr. Adam.—Yes, my Lord ; I have wimesses to prove the &dui-
ttry ; anti that he (Captain Calceaft) was prevented being with her
by his military duties, and the necessity of joining his regiment at
Portsmoit

Further proceedings were then adjourned to Tuesday next,
CIVIL LIST BILL.

Lord ALTHORP, and several Members from the Commons,
brought up the Civil List Bill, which, on the motion of
Earl GREY, was read the first time, and ordered to be read a second
time on Monday.
Earl GREY moved that a message be sent to the Commons for a
copy of the report of a select committee of that house respecting the
r.sluetion of salaries of official persons.—Ordered.

BEER BILL.
Lord FOLEY presented a petition from tho magistrates of Wor-
cester,:against the new beer bill. It Pilled upon their Lordships for
some enactment, to stop the immoral effect of that measure. The
petitioners were deeply impressed with the necessity of a legislative
remedy.
The Earl of CARNARVON presented a similar petition from the
Justices of the peace for the county of Somerset, founded on a present.
ment made by the grand jury. The noble Earl, adverting to the grand
jury presentment, said, said, they had reported that many of the worst
crimes committed in the county had been arraned and planned by
persons in beer houses. The destruction of property, and in some
instances crime leading to deprivation of life, might be traced to these
rite-bouses. Such being the sta.e of the coun:ry occasioned by the beer
bill, the Government must be sensible that delay in providing a re-
In:Ay must be dangerous. In the %Vest of England the cyder-houses
had proved a great nuisance, and the misfortune was that cyder-houses
tad bier-houses w.re not open to the inspection of the police as public
houses were. It was a common thing f'r rite keepers of beer.shops to
lock their doors anti suffer persons to remain drinking to three or four
o'clock in the morning, and this was done in defiance of the /da-
gis rates.
Viscount CLIFDEN presented petitions from Kildare and Kilken-
ny, for an alteration in the mode of distributing funds for Edu-
cation in Ireland. Also a petition from Carlow, in favour of Podia-
r:lentary Reform.