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to 1* verbaily the use as that which ball been
thrown out.

The SPEAKER said that he thought the Noble
Lord would have known better than to Conceive that
the usages of that House were ruled by the uses of
any other place. No name appeared on the sheet of
the petition; was tile Nable Lord prepared to say
that no nante was .11fitt:d to it?

Lord COCHRANE acknoseleJged: that in that
sense there appeared to be no name to the pnition,
Phe SPEAKER—Then the Noble Lord is not at

i betty to •resent it.

Lord CoCH KANE was happy, at least, that he
had been the means of acquainting the public with
the ruhs 01 the House.

The SPEAKER—They are not new: for they
have existed in that state for ages.
Lord COCHRANE presented a petition for Par.,
liamentary Reform from the Freeholders, Manufac-
turers, and other Inhabitants of the township of
Quick, in the parish of Saddlewortb, in Yorkshire.
Mr. CANNING, with the courtesy due from one
Hon. Memiyer to another, wished to know whether
this petition was not the same with that which the
House had already rejected ?
Lord COCHRANE said, that it did not appear
to him to be the same. But he did not go into ver-
bal criticism.

The SPEAKER.—The Noble Lord would do his
duty better to himself by answering • the plain ques.
tion, whether the petition be the same ?
Lord COCHRANE.—I am really so confused by
all the observations which have been made, that I do
not recollect exactly what the first petition contained.
The petition having been read, Lord COCHRANE
moved that it lie on the table.
Mr. CANNING had waited till the Noble Lord
had made that motion, in the hope, and with the
conviction, that though he had not taken the trouble
of perusing the petition, yet, alter having heard it
read, and found that it was in every term expressly
the same as that which had been rejected, and that
which he had himself consented to withdraw, he
would not, after the dignified and friendly warning
of the Speaker, persist in forcing the House tnreject
it a second time. Gun forbid that the subject of lte•
form should not be discussed in Parliament ; but did
the Noble Lord think he introduced it with advan.
rage as he now did ? The Noble Lord had been told
that petitions must have the sanction of some name,
and that had appeared ►:diculous to an Honourable
&stone, who said, that they might then be am ibuted
only to the few contained on the original sheet. Buz
even in that case the House would receive the petition
as of one. Did not the langtiaige of those presented
this evening, prove them to have been, if not the work
of the same hand, as they were evidently, thermana-
tions of the same mind ? When hundreds of petitions'
presented the very same sentiments, expressed in dta
very same words, could any min lay his hand upon
his heart and say, that he did not believe them to be
fabrications ? He hoped the House would allow the
Noble Lord to withdraw the Petition; or that he
would not at least press it in the House on the same
grounds.
Lord COCHRANE did not mean to be pertina-
cious, but knowing that the substance of all the peti.•
tilos which he held was nearly the same, he had only
moved that the present be allowed to he on the table,
a motion which any Member was free to oppose.
Alter a few words from Mr. Alderman SisITU,
the question was put and negatived *about a dreasiow.

ERC:IIITARY OF THE ADMIRALTY.

Lord MILTON wished to know whether a report
which he had heard was collect, that during the
short state of war with Algiers, the salary of the
Secretary of the Admiralty had been raised to the
war allowance; as, it it had been the case, he should
think it his duty, at a future period, to make a niotieni
upon the subject ?
Mr. CROKER stated, that the salaries of the
Secretaries bad been put on the war allowance dur-
ing the time that the war with, Algiers lasted. A,
to the Noble Lord's motion, he shoulil meet it with
pleasure, as he would be able to give satisfactory
reasons for the measure which had been adopted.
ADORCIIO 70 fll6 PRINCE.

The SPEAKER acquainted the Home that the

Address of both Houses had been rim:hied this do
to the Prince Regent; to which I Alb Royal Highness
had been pleased to return a gracious answer.—(See
the Lords.)