Star.
London, England, 1830-07-01 00:00:00

ags. o'coun.

Mr. O'BRIEN begged to call the attention of the house to a
letter which had lately appeared ih a public newspaper, in which
members of this house sere grossly abused.
The SPEAKER begged to know if the hon. member intended to
make a charge of a breach of privilege ?
Mr. O'BRIEN replied in the affirmstive.
Th► SPEAKER observed that it was necessary to give notice be.
fore he should introduce a sullte: of that kind. The proper mode
was to produce the newspaper with the publisher or proprietor, in
older to identify the author of the letter, and the house would then
know how to proceed.
Sir J. YOKKE observed that the hon. member wanted to make
a statement.
The SPEAKER observed that these was no subject Wore the
house.

5/r. SLANEY gave notice of a motion for the next Session, to
bring in an Act to cause an open space to be reserved in the vicinity
of every great town, to give the poorer classes an opportunity of
exercise.

Petitions were presented from Great Yarmouth against the duty
on coals carried coastways; several from different parts of Ireland
against the proposed increase of duty on stamps ; from South Mot.
ton, in Devon, against the duty on coals carried coastwise ; from
Plymouth and other places, against the patent medicine acts ; from I
the inhabitants of one side of the Edgware-road, complaining of an
extra charge of Id. for the delivers of letters in that quarter.
Mr. S. RICE brought up the Ara report of the committee on the
Irish poor.
Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from the county of
Galway against the Grand Jury presentments. The hon. member
called the attention of the house to the extreme distress which pre-
vailed in Ireland. He had lately, in a letter from a priest in the
county of Clare, received a frightful description of the misery
which pervaded that part of the country. He here read the
letter, which represented the state of the poorer classes in a most
appalling light.
Mr. O'BRIEN, in rising to agree to the representation of dis-
tress now made, took that opportunity of expressing his surprise
that the hon. and learned member should have adopted a period
when distress was so prevalent, to recommend to the people of Ire-
land to make a run on the banks. The hon. member here censured
in unmeasured terms the conduct of Mr. O'Connell in this respect.
He regretted seeing in the public papers a letter from that hon.
and learned member, reflecting on himself (Mr. O'Brien) and other
members of that house, for their parliamentary conduct. It was
to such calumniating conduct, (observed Mr. O'Brien.) that the
learned member owed much of that popularity which he enjoyed.in
Ireland (hear).
Mr. O'CONNELL presented petitions from the prisoners of the
Four Courts' Marshal in Dublin, complaining of the treatment
which they experienced t two from Drogheda, complaining of the
Customs in Ireland, and of rozd.jobling ; two from parish,' in the
county of Waterford, against the proposed increase of taxation in
Ireland.

(ha the motion of the bon. and learned Member, a copy xu or.
dated of the Address of. the House of Assembly of bower Canada
to his Majesty, respecting some lands belonging to the Roman Ca-
tholic seminary of ►foutrea. This land, he observed, was with-
held from that seminary, so the grounds that they were not a cor-
potation ; yet, by the French law, the ►etninary was entkled to it,
and was in possession of It for 70 years.