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ere matters that would be for the committee to report upon.
Sir E. WILMOT seconded the motion, whichwas agreed to.
Sir M. WOOD, having presented a petition from the no•
bility, gentry, bankers, &c., of the metropolis, praying that
the house would adopt some means for opening Waterloo
Southwark, and, Vauxhall Bridges, moved for the appoint-
ment of a select committee to take into consideration tht
several plans for the improvement of the metropolis, con-
cerning which reports were made to the house in the year:
1836, 38, 39, and 1840, together with any other pls for tin
same object which they May deem worthy of conansideration,
and also the petitions_ for throwing open the bridges free of
toll.
The motion was agreed to, and the house adjourned.

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HOUSE OF' LORDS.—WEDNESDAY
The House of Lords did not sit to-night.

• HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
Lord J. RUSSELL, in moving the order of the day for the
house resolving itself into committee on the parliamentary
voters (Ireland) bill, explained the course which government
intended to pursue with respect to it. He said it wag the
opinion of the ministry that the vote of Monday night could
not be considered as conclusive on a question of such impor-
tance. The second reading of the bill, containing, as it did,
the proposal for a £5 franchise, had been affirmed by no less
than 301 members of that house ; and the amendment, which
had been carried on Monday night, was not moved with the
view of negativing any franchise proposed by the bill, but
Was moved by his noble friend (Lord Howick) as a kind of
franchise which he thought good, and which he proposed as
an addition to the franchise proposed by the bill. It would
be perfectly consistent, if the house should adopt the fran-
chise proposed by government, that it should also adopt the
franchise of his noble friend as an addition to it. He should
therefore proceed with the bill, and ask the sense of the
house upon the franchise proposed by his noble friend (Lord

Morpeth). .
Lord HowlcK said it might be convenient to the house, if
he stated to the house the course he meant to pursue. He
still continued of opinion that the county franchise should
be settled upon the principle he had proposed, retaining the
existing franchise of beneficial interests, and opening up a
further franchise; by means of occupation. The house had
affirmed the principle of s property qualification, and he
would say in reference to what had fallen from his noble
friend (Lord J. Russell), that he never would have dreamed
of proposfng his amendment, except as an addition to sonic
other franchise. If the house should agree upon sonic otlit r
franchise, he should then, and in that case only, move his
amendments. The most important of the amendments was,
that which went to alter the occupation franchise, by doing
away with the necessity of a lease. He would not, however,
interfere with the progress of the measure before the house,
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by proposing amendments which, though in his opinion, per
fectly satisfactory, had, nevertheless, no chance of beim; ac
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At the same time, this amendment
falling to the ground, it was quiteimpossible for him to sup-
port the clause the government were about to bring under
the consideration of the house. The proposal of a clause
which there was no probalility would pass into a law, would
have the effect of leaving this subject another year without
any attempt to remedy its evils. Neither could he support
the bill of his noble fiend (Lord Stanley), believing, as he
did, that nearly all the evils of the Irish system of registra-
tion flowed from the undefined state of the franchise, which
no bill merely dealing with the registration could possibly

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