Star.
London, England, 1830-04-30 00:00:00

BALI: OF BEER BILL.

lUr. DAVENPORT---presCtitcYPetiCh;;;:from Lynn, Appleton
Hall, &c. Chester. against the beer trade bill.
Lord STANLEY presented petitions from lice:lntl victuallers of
Wigan and Warrington, against the beer bill.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the
object of the present bill was to enable any person to take out a 11.
cense to sell beer, but it did not contemplate any alteration of the
law as regarded the preservation of good order in such houses—
neither did it contemplate any alteration of the law for the regu-
lation of the sale of wine nd spirits.
The petition WAS then ordered to be laid on the table.
Lend STANLEY insect' for a return of the amount of duty on
stamps and adv:rtiscmerts on newspapers published hi England fur
the last twenty years—Agreed to.
Mr. BY NO presented a petition from Uxbridge, praying for the
abolition of the punishment of death for forgery.
Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice, that it was not his intention to
allow any Irish business brought on after twelve o'clock at night.
Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from the letter-press
printers of Dublin, aguinst the assimilation of stamps in Ireland,
with those in England, which could not fail to ruin the newspapers
of Ireland.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from the merchants,
traders, mechanics, and others, of the town of Galway, praying
that the Galway Franchise Bill might pass into a law.
Mr. HUM E said, he thought that putting the seal of the corpora.
don to a petition to that house should be Inquired into, as a breach
of the privileges of that house.
Mr. NORTH said, that there could have been no intention of
fraud, upon the part of the Mayor of Galway, who, doubtless, sup.
posed he had authority for what he had done.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT thought that the circumstance ought
to be inquired into, for it was not the brat time that such a proceed.
ing had taken place.
Mr O'CONNELL thought the fraud was not to be presumed,
and be admitted the respectability of the Mayor, who had signed
the petition, but still 'expectable people did strange things as mem.
bets of Corporations. Ile should, on a future day, move for a Se-
lect Committee upon the subject.
Mr. O'CONNELL presented several petitions front places in Ire.
land against the Vestry System in that country, and stated he should
move for a Select Committee on the Vestry System of Ireland.
Mr. DOOHERTY begged leave to ask the honourable member
for Clare when he intended to present the petition reflecting upon
hint (Mr. Dogherty), which he had announced that he would bring
before the house.

Mr. O'CONNELL said, the facts of the case were not yet suf.
ficiently before him to induce him to present the petition, and he
would not bring it forward until he was sufficiently in possestion of
them ; nor even then, if he thought the result of his inquiries in.
sufficient to support the charge made in the petition. He had
never given any pledge to bring the matter before the house; he
had oulytransmitted copies of the petition relative to the Borriso.
kane trials, to the secretary for Ireland, stating that in the absence
of the hon. and learned gentleman, he should not present them if
the noble secretary thought them of importance.
Mr. DOG HERTY said, that at a meeting in Ireland, unless the
newspapers grossly misrepresented the hon. and learned gentleman,
he had pledged himselt to make his (Mr. Dogherty's) conduct the
subject of investigation at the bar of the house. Under these tit.
cumstances, the hon. member ought to afford him the opportunity of
clearing his character from imputation.
Mr. H(JME spoke to ordvr.
Mr. O'CONNELL said he did not know what the newspapen
might have said ; but if the facts, as stated to him, were correct, he
should feel it his duty to act upon them, and present the petition ;
but at present he had not such evidence as would warrant him to
do so.

Sir C. WETHERELL said, he did not think the character of
the hon. and learned gentleman (Mr. Dogherty) should thus be kept
afloat. If the hon member for Clue had a case to produce, let him
produce it ; if not, let him say so at once. (Hear, hear.) it was
most unfair thus to substitute insinuation for accusation, and it was
his duty as a lawyer, as a member of parliament, and as a gentle.
man, to adopt one COUTIIe or the other.
Mr. O'CONNELL said the speech of the hon. member who had
just sat down was the most extraordinary he had ever heard. He
had never uttered one word in that house as to the nature of the
petitions, either directly or indirectly. He thought he had adopted
the most prudent and cautious course in acting as he had done. lie
appealed, therefore, to the Speaker, if the hon. gentleman was in
order in thus questioning him upon matters which he had never
alluded to in that house.

The SPEAKER decided, that though not strictly in order the
convenience of business, as well as the course of practice in that
house, warranted the asking of questions upon particular occasions.
Mr. DOGHERTV next asked if it was the intention of the hon.
member for Clare to bring his conduct before the house relative to
the trials at Cork. Ile stated that he would drag him to the bar of
the house to answer for his conduct, and now he wished to ask the
hon. member whether it was his intention to do so, and if so, at
`what time ?

Mr. O'CONNELL said it was his intention to proceed as soon as
he should have obtained the necessary documents by order of the
house. His object was to inquire how far a counsel was warranted
in having documents in his pocket proving a witness for the Crown
to be perjured, and yet proceeding upon his testimony to obtain a
conviction. He could not have moved for the papers until after the
dose of the last Cork Assizes

Mr. NORTH said that the hon. member for Clare was pursuing
a most extraordinary course, and he put it to the hon. member whe-
ther he had not better review his course, and withdraw his pro-
posed Motion.
Lord MILTON here rose to order, and the matter dropped.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL presented a petition from the inhabi-
tants of Bandon,complaining of the distress under which they wens
suffering.

PAIILIAMENTARE REFORM.
Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice of an alteration of his motion for
the 6th of May, relative to parliamentary reform. Instead of the

course which he had previously proposed to pursue, he should move
for a committee of the whole house upon the subject.