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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY, APRIL 27.
Several petitions were presented against the Maynooth
Grant, and one against Nunneries.
' ADMIXTURE OF COFFEE AND CHICORY.
Lprd TORRINGTON presented a petition from the mer-
chants and traders of London and Westminster, com-
plaining of the Treasury minute with respect to the sale
of coffee mixed with chicory, and entered into a statement
of the reasons which rendered the rescinding of that
minute desirable. He shewed the great falling off which
had taken place in the consumption of pure coffee since
the issuing of the Treasury minute; and explained that
the petitioners did not seek for an increased duty on chi-
chory, but that it should be sold separately instead of
mixed. His lordship concluded by moving that the peti-
tion be laid on the table.—The Duke of MONTROSE sup-
ported the motion.—The Earl of DERBY admitted the
importance of the petition, and expressed his dissent from
the doctrine laid down on the subject by the late Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. Though there might be some
difficulty in rescinding the Treasury minute complained
of, the present Government would give their best endea-
vours to prevent the spurious mixture of deleterious arti-
cles with coffee.—The petition was then ordered to lie on
the table. DRAINAGE IN IRELAND.
The Earl of Rosse gave notice that on Monday next he
would move for the appointment of a select committee to
inquire into the operation of the acts relating to drainage
in Ireland as administered by the Board of Works.—
Their
lordships then adjourned.
THURSDAY, APRIL 29.
RECEPTION OF GENERAL ROSAS AT PLYMOUTH.
The Earl of GRANVILLE drew the attention of the
house to the published accounts of the honours which had
been paid to General Rosas on his landing at Plymouth,
and asked Lord Malmesbury whether instructions had
been given to the authorities there to treat the ex-Dicta-
tor with" official honours.—Lord MALMESBURY replied
that no instructions from the Foreign-office, nor, to the
best of his belief, from the Admiralty. had been sent down
for the reception of Gen. Rosas with official honours.—
After some further discussion the matter dropped.
THE SANITARY STATE OF LONDON.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY brought forward his mo-
tion on the sanitary state of London, and after entering
very fully into the statistics of the subject, and demon-
strating the miseries which a large portion of the popula-
tion suffered under the existing system, concluded by in-
treating the house to pass a resolution to the effect that
the sanitary state of the metropolis required the imme-
diate interposition of the Government.—The Earl of
DERBY declined to follow Lord Shaftesbury into his sta-
tistics, and complained that he had failed to point out any
definite measures by which the great evils of the existing
system might be remedied. He thought the noble lord
should have laid a bill on the table which might have
been calmly discussed, instead of moving this abstract
proposition, which unreasonably called on the house to
settle a question at once which had been a puzzle to Par-
liament for the last ten years.—After some further dis.
cussion, In which Lords Carlisle and Harrowby and the
Duke of Newcastle took part, the Earl of DERBY sug-
gested that the word " immediate" should be omitted in
the motion.—The Earl of SHAFTESBURY having agreed to
this suggestion, the motion, as so amended, was agreed to.
—Their lordships then adjourned.
FRIDAY, APRIL 30.
RECEPTION OF GENERAL ROSAS.
The Earl of MALMESBUEY gave some further explana-
tions as to the reception of General Rosas by the
authorities at Plymouth.
The Copywright Amendment Bill passed through com
mittee, and the Exchequer-bills Bill and some other bills
were read a third time and passed.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY, APRIL 27.
A considerable number of petitions were presented
against the Militia Bill, and on various other subjects.

MEMBRRS' OATH

Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice ;f an intended motion
for a committee of the whole house on the subject of
Members' Oaths.

ALTERATION OF TUE COUNTY FRANCHIM

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Mr. LocKE KING moved for leave to 4
bring in a bill to
assimilate the franchise and procedure at elections in
counties to those in boroughs, by giving the right of vot-
ing to occupiers of £lO a-year tenements; to limit the
polling to one day, and the time of proceeding to an elec-
tion to eight days.—Mr. CAMPBELL opposed the plan, as
calculated to open out fresh sources of corruption at des.
tions.—Mr. HintE supported the motion ; and asked the
Government to say " aye" or " no" to it.—Lord
3. MANNERS, on the part of the Government,
had no difficulty in saying " no." If a motion of
this nature, which would effect a revolution in the county