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PARLIAMENTARY PI?OCEEDINCS..

DOUSE OF LORDS, MAY so.

Counsel were finally hhrd in the Scots Cause of " Thompson
n. Somerville."—Judgment postponed.
On the Appeal of " The Earls of Wemyss and March v. the
Earl of Haddingtou and other," their Lordships judgment was
to affirm that of the Scots Court.

After the resuming of the House for legislative business,
The Earl of CIIARLEVILLE preseuted a Petition from
the County of Carlow, complaining of the injurious and oppres-
sive tendency of the Window Tax in Ireland, and praying relief
•
with respect to the same.
The Marquis of DOWNSHRE presented twos Petitions to
the same effect—one from the Borough of blevrry, and the other
from the City of Londonderry.
The Charitable Education and the Offenders Conviction Bills
were brought up from the Commons, by Mr. Baoronam, Mr.
Restart, and other Niembers, and severally read the first time.
The Earl of ROSSLYN moved the printing of the first men-
tioned Bill, and intimated his Intention, after the prints should
be on the table, to propose an early day for its second reading.
Mr. Locitstear, accompanied by several Members, delivered
a Message from the Commons requesting that Lord Montfort
be permitted to attend the Anti-Monopoly Committee of the
House of Commons, for the purpose of Examination.
The LORD CHANCELLOR having previously put the
question, informed the Mesengera that their Lordships would
send an answer by Messengers of their own.
The Earl of HARROWBY presented a Petition from Ash-
ton-under-Line, in favour of the Cotton Manuf.ctories Regula-
tion Bill.—Referred to the Committee._ _ _

The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved the Order of the Day for
their Lordships resolving into a Ctonmittee on the New Churches'
/1111.--The Earl of Saarrasseav accordingly took the Clair.
Their I.ordships then proceeded to consider and discuss the
various clauses and provisions of the Bill, and in the course of
the sitting, which was of considerable length, several amend
mints, but chiefly of a verbal nature, were made in the Bill.
On the motion of Lord GRE N VILLE, a promise was agreed
to by the Committee, that the decision of the King in Council
should be final and effectual, respecting the Division of Parishes.
A proviso was also adopted, on the motion of the same Noble
Lord, to the effect of saving and exempting the rights of Braze-
nose College, Oxon, from the operadon of the Bill.
Lord HOLLAND gave notice of his intention to move, in a
future stage of the Bill, for the introduction of a clause, which
was read by his Lordship, and the principal effect of which was
to do away the penalties and disabilities imposed by the Act of
the 13th of Charles 11. called the Conventicle Act, on persons
building Churches or Chapels for the service of the Church of
England, or to which persons were liable, for attending the same.
The Bill having passed, the House resumed, and ordered the
same, with the amendments, to be minted.
The second reading of the Queen's Council Bill was fixed for
Friday, and the Lords ordered to be summoned for that day :
and the hearing of Counsel, ace. relative to the Cotton Manu-
factories Ell, was ordered to take place, before an open Out-
doors Committee.

The Bills upon the table being respectively forwarded, the
House adjourned till to.cnorross.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. KIIIKTATRICIC, from Ramsgate Harbour, presented Ac-
counts of the Re,:eipts and lhabursementa of that Harbour.—
Laid on the table.

Mr. P. MOO LIE presented a Petition from Coventry, pray-
ing that Members of l'atliament should render an aceum:t of
their Stewardship to their Constituents.—Laid on the table.
The second reading of the Customs' Consolidation Bid was
postponed to this day three months.
The Report of the Committee en the Middor Duty Act was
brought up and agreed to.
The Reports of the Committees on Silk Manufactures, and
on the London Coal Duty Acts, were also brought up and
agreed to.
In moving the third reading of the 11111 for the Education of
the Poor
Mr. BROUGHAM said, that the Bill only went as far as
an Inquiry, and that it was his intention afterwards to ground

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ifustier proceedings upon it. As soon as a foundation should
been made by the appearance of the first Report, he I
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imam—, should take an opportunity, without waiting for the others, of
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Introdudng such Immediate measures as the necessity of the ,1
ses.osees; ease might require.. For it would do but little good to Walt ' , i I
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ditan the abuses had been pointed out, and then to send them ' (
to Courts of Rquityi
.
The Bill was then read a third time and paired. t
nNas; The Salmon fishery Bill was read a third time, and passed.
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on which The Dublin College Paper Duty Bill went through; a Coma t)
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e, and all mitten—Report tosolorrow. .1
hers. PA NTIFIEGNs',.."
d Allen. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT presented a Petition flan NI.
cholas Cundee, proprietor of the Pantheon Theatre, *adage
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that having obtain al S license for that Theatre from the Lord - 1 t
1
L ~ Chamberlain,
,he had spent a large sum of money under that
license in fitting it up for the purpose for which it was intended,
nine an that without any cause of complaint whatever, on the Nla=
LoGYtf of Hertford becoming Lord Chamberlain, be refused to - t
Rd of the the Petidonet to carry on the Entertainments which had been
given for some time at his negro. That the consequence et l . •
et. - this was the ruin of the Petithaner who had been thrown into . . .
et• prison, from which be had obtained his relief under the Inset.
the last vent Debtor Aet. Ile understood no reason whatever was
assigned for this capricious esercite of power by the Lord Chant. •' I -.it, I '
berlain. The. Petitioner prayed for tome alteration of the law
,Eno if thy which thqaterson koldine the Mace of Lord Chamberlain
TORY ; trrightlit polvented fmitt suck am arbitrary exercise avower ai :! , i . I
that by which the Petitioner had been received.
DISCHARGE OF FERGUSSON.
lON, The Order of the Day for bringing up Thomas Aroma ' 1
having been read,
.nications. Lord A. HAMILTON said, that if it had not been the prat. . I
Nnatona tine of the Chair to reprimand offenders in cases like the present,
o D T.
he should have moved that Thomas fergusson be reprimanded, I
Lln on Sr- i
but as that naturally devolved to the Chair, he should merely move j ounsn s.
se of Con- that the said Thomas Fergusson be called in and discharged. ' ' I
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re's. Me- The motion having been agreed to,. Thesm/ Ferguson was
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Resin,. introduced at the Bar.
The SPEAKER rose and said :—" Thomas Perinatal), this
et-street House has received the Report of its Committee of Privileges, i
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respecting the letter Which you have written, to a voter of the -
County of Lanark, with a view to influence his vote at an Eke- 1 ° li
H. of don. This House has resolved, that in writing such a *tee,
TANA ; you have been guilty of a corrupt attempt against the freedom ,
;lnal Plan. of Election, and of a high breach of its privileges, and has ccrn-
t I
reatise on mitted you to his Majesty's jail of Newgate; your Petition has
cork, one been received, and in consequence of your contrition, and of the • ...
to view of full and complete acknowledgment of your offence, and in the I l
°graphical hope that what you have already suffered will operateas a warns
ruing with. ing to you, and as au example to others, this House la willing
eh are the to emend to you its lenity as wen as its justice, and lam to ae- ! I
n, Africa, quaint you that you are discharged on payment of your fees. 4
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'ly-formed Thomas Fergusson.then retired, and on Lord CASTLEITAO/ell ' r,
arranged. motion, the Speaker's Reprimand was ordered to be entered • k • •
on the Journals of the House.
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FEVER IN THE METROPOLIS. .4I
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Mr. BENNET, in presenting the Report of the i l
.ESENT Committee on Fevers in the Metropolis, stated, that : i ,
th in Eng- the inquiries of the Committee have been extended ••,, ,
Surd °ld to the Hospitals and Fever Institution, and that in the I 1
Inn, Esq.
1
nd, in the course of the year fevers hid alarmingly increased !
F Ely. to seven times their ordinary number. This was in •
n, Forte- a great measure owing
.to the practice prevalent in
les• Pre' hospitals to mix contagious cases with common ones. .
csinneseon
Not only had patients died, but nurses, medical at-
, price 108. -
A Vindi- tendants, and students themselves, had fallen victims • 1
d *edition, to the-fevers which they had caught. The free cir- s i •
:sediDP t° culation of air which was wanted to prevent fevers,
was injurious in chronic disorders, and yet from
M.S. want of room it became necessary in most hospitals • ' •
to mingle all patients. The Committee were of °pi-
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nion, that if it were possible to remove the fever -
A
Thompsos, cases from the zest, the spreading of the contagion I • ,
would be considerably checked. 'I 0 this effect, though
arch e. the on a very limited scale, the Committee requested that '`
t it
Meal was
.Government should give (2000/.. to the Fever Institu- " ; I
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tion, besides 10001. granted last year, in order to ' I
me's,
onion from enable it to increase the number o( beds from 69 to . • I
and oppres- 100. He trusted that the attention of his Majesty's 1 - ,
eying relief Ministers would be turned to this recommendation, 4
as the Fever Institution was of all others that which
Petitions to
,
tithe other required the most assistance froni the country. He .
then moved that the Report be printed.—Agreed to.
iction Bins SCOTCH BURGHS.
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cium rimer.
M Sir RONALD FERGUSSON presented Petitions '`
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first men-
Ili
first
from the Royal Burghs. of Cupar in Fife and Bre-
i• 1
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ints should chin, against the Bill brought in by the Lord Ad-
vocate, and for a reform in the-Constitution of the . j
Ad-
d reading.
1, delivered Scots fitughs. •
. .
i Mont fort
dee of the Lord A. HAMILTON presented a Petition from
. the Burgesses and Householders of the Royal Burgh
ily put the of Inverness, praying that the Billfor the regulation
'hips would of the Scots Burghs may not pass into a law, and for
, 1.4,
Reform in the Constitution of the Scots Burghs. i
from Ash-
es. Regula- SCOTCII COURTS. '
Sir JOHN NEWPORT *said, it would be in the
recollection of the House, that some time since the j
i.
he Day for
v Churches'
first Law Officer of the Crown for Scotland, had '
e Cask. 1
discuss the stated in this House, that certain Acts of Parliament
me course of in Scotland had gone into desuetude, that the Su- . 4
rat amend- preme Court of Law in Scotland had the power of 1
the Bill.
,war agreed pronouncing what Acts of the Legislature were, and
in council what were not in force ; and that it was so. well
i Parishes. known that such a power was exercised by the Lords
ame Noble of Session, no man from that part of the country
uof Braze- i.
could be ignorant of it. Now, as it was important • '
move, in a that the people of Scotland, as well as the people t•
Ruse, which of other parts of the Empire, should know by what •
. '
F which was laws they were bound, and for that purpose that they
the Act of should look to the Statute-book, and not to the pro-
on persons
Church of ceedings of .Courts of Judicature, it was important 't
•
rig the same. to know what laws were, and what were not, in
irdered the desuetude. This was important, not merely to the 1
people of Scotland, but also to the people of the other
as fixed for
r that day : parts of the Empire who might have connections ' t 1 '
tton Manu- with them. One ground that was stated fotßa law's •
/ •
t open Out- not being acted on was so extraordinary, that it i
it
carded, the • ,
could not fail to astonish the house ; a law was con-
'
sidered as in desuetude, and no longer binding, when
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for a long time it had not been acted on ; so that in
esented Ac- proportion as a statute had been operative in the pre- ' )
Harbour.— vention of crime, in that proportion was it to be • i
~
ry, py- considered a nullity—(hear, hear.) It was stated
!nt I t
omeletra of farther in some particular instances, some parts of
4
to table. an Act were in desuetude while other parts were in i -4'
on Bill was force—(heae, hear.) Whatever opinion might be en- .•, 1 1
toy Act was
tertaint,: of the absurdity of some of the Scotch sta- •
tutes, it beknged to the Legislature, and the Legis-
Lctures, and lature alone, to repeal the law; and if a Court of
fight up and Law thought fit I.) erect thein..elves into a Legisla- .
Cducation of ,
ture, it was full time to warn them that they had
exceeded their duty. Ile concluded with moving,
• • t
nt as far as that the Lords of Session, the Judges of the Court
is to ground ,of Justiciary, and the 13.:reas of the E4cheeuffse be ,
.
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