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:%1 AYO PETITION.

Mr. WETHERELL moved that the House should
receive evidence at their Bar in support of the Peti-
tion from the Petitioners against the return from the
county of Mayo.
William Grieve, agent to Mr. Curwen and other
Petitioners, was introduced to the Bar of the House,
who stated that he could not proceed for want of the
names of the sureties I.r the recognizance; that he
had written to Dublin to Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Cur-
wen% agent, on Thursday last, and he expected an
answer in the course of a week.
After the evidence had withdrawn,

Mr. WETHERELL moved that the time for
entering into the tecognizance should be enlarged to
the 18th April next, which was agreed to accordingly.

'HACKNEY POOR 7BILL.

Mr. NIELLI§H moved the second reading of the
Hackney Poor till.

Mr. iV ROTTESLEY said this Bill contained a
clause, the principle of which had been often before
reprobated. He certainly thought some reason ought
w be given why such a clause war, necessary in the
parish of Hackhey. He did not, however, mean at
present to oppose the second reading.
Mr. ROSE supported the Bill.
Mr. BYNG said, if the p-arish of tfackney did not
make out as good a case as those parishes who had
*obtained similar Acts, he should certainly oppose it.
Sir EGERI'ON BRYDGES, though desirous
not to oppose a measure of this nature, could not ap.
prove of the clause in question.
Mr. MELLISH was ready to agree, that unless
the House should ba convinced of the necessity for
the existence of the clause in question in the-Bill, it
ought not to be supported. But he could not see
why the parish of Hackney, which was in a similar
situation with the sixteen or seventeen adjoining pa-
rishes, all of which had obtained Acts containing
clauses of the nature of that now objected to, should
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1 oe pat on a different footing from their neighbours.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY wished the Honours.
ble Member to inform the House, what there was
peculiar in the Parish of Hackney, that the inhabi.
bitants should not be subject to the same laWs which
prevailed throughout the other Parishes of the king-
dom. The Hon. Gentleman hi'd said that similar
enactments had been obtained i the sixteen or seven..
teen adjacent parishes. This fight be the case, but
how did it affect the parish of 'Hackney ? He was
not desirous of dividing the House, but he thought
it was incumbent on those, who brought forward a
Bill so injurious to the lower orders of people, to shew
what was so peculiar in this parish which required so
particular a law. There were ten thousand parishes
in this kingdom;, and in this manner by introducing
one law for one parish, and another for a different pa-
rish, the greatest confusion and uncertainty would pre-
vail throughout the country. These Poor Bills were in
general passed in silence. The House would be asto-
nished to know all the Bills which they had'passed.
They were not aware of the laws which they had
made for prticular parishes. . it might be right to
make. the landlord pay the poor's rates, and to place
him under the necessity of recovering again from his
tenants ; but if such a measure were necessary, why
confine it to the Palish of Hackney, and not extend
it throughout the kingdom ? There was not a pa-
rish throughout the country which did not contain
persons of the peculiar descriptirn alluded to in this
Bill ; and there w‘is no reason why the same law
ought not to prevail in all those other parishes as in
this ? But the House would have an opportunity of
considering this cicstion.more fully after the recess,
and the general sense of the House might then be
taken. He thought therefore the second reading of
this Bill should be put off till the first Thursday after
the recess.

Mr. WROTTESLEY observed, than when he
spoke before, he did not know that a Bill had been
framed according to a report before the House.
Mr. MELLISH wished the Learned Gentleman
(,`;ir Samuel Rom& y) to give his attendance in the
Committee, when the clause objected to should be
introduced. The delay required might be of great
detriment to the parish of Hackney. II itnswer to
what had been urged respecting tl.e necessity of the
clause, he cfaild say, that selbBo mild only be
collecteJ from 4760 houses. This Bill was brought
in by petitioners who paid 4'26,00.0 of poor's rates,
and another Bill was to be brought in by a part of
the parish who paid a much smaller proportion, and
if the delay proposed should take place, the second Bill
would have the.precedeir;e,
Alter a. few words from Mr. WET/!ERELL, Sir S.
Roittu,v, and Mr. ROSE, the /louse divided—For
the second reading, 37 ; against it, 36.—Majority in
favour of the second reading, 1.

COLONIAL OFFFES:
Mr. GOP3OURN' produced Papers relating
to appohittnFitts to offices in the colonies, called for

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by an tion. Member (Mr. Craver) on the preceding
evening, which he moved to be printed.
Mr. CREEVEY hoped the second reading of the
Colonial Office Bill would be allowed to stand over
to another day. The papers produced were of the
greatest importance to the proper understanding of
the question, and ought to came into the hands of
Members previous to discussion. On examining these
papers, it would be found that all the offices were
held during pleasure, except that of Chief Clerk
of the Island of Jamaica? 1)44 by Sir. Evan Nepean.
During the twenty-eight years he had filled this of-
fice? he had only • been one month in Jamaica. He
askcd no longer a delay than Monday or Tuesday.
Mr. GOLBOURN said, if the 'Hon, Member
could skew that the papers bad the least bearing on
the measure which was to come before the House to-
morrow, he would not oppose the delay. The Hon.
Gentleman had adverted to Sir Evan Nepean's com-
mission : the fault found with the Act of the 22d
of the King was, that it gave a power of getting an
unlimited leave of absence.

After a few words from Mr. Wurrl aE4n, the
CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. ABEHCRONNIE,
and Mr. BRAND, the papers were ordered •to be
printed.
Mr. GOLBOURN then moved that the second
reading of the Colonial Office Bill, which stood for
to-morrow (this day) should be postponed to Friday
next.—Ordered.