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HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH moved that the petition of the
East India Company, presented on the 14th inst. be referred
to a select committee, which was agreed to.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY, after regretting the ab-
sence of the Duke of Wellington, moved an address to her
Majesty " to direct that there be laid before this house co-
pies or extracts of all communications between the Foreign-
office, the Admiralty, and the British authorities employed
on the coast of Spain, that have taken place between the 28th
July last and the present,period, relating to the convention
of Bergara ; together with a copy of the said convention."
The noble marquis entered into extensive and very inte-
resting details in support of his motion.
After speeches from the Earl of CLARENDON and Lord
ASHBURTON, who condemned the manner in which Maroto's
conduct had been glossed over, the motion was agreed to,
and their lordships adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY.

After the presentation of many petitions,
Mr. LABOUCHERE said (in answer to Mr. Williams) that
as the commercial treaty with France was still under nego-
tiation, it was quite impossible for him to state what was
likely to be the arrangement regarding English manufactured
silk goods ; at the same time he expressed the opinion that
he thought there was a good deal of unnecessary alarm on
this subject; adding, that it had never been the intention of
her Majesty's government " to abandon the principle of an
efficient protective duty."
Sir R. JENKINS called attention to the petition of the
East India Company, presented on the 11th instant, "for
further alterations of duties on articles of East India pro-
duce ;" and he, in consequence of such petition, moved eight
resolutions, declaratory of the expediency of reducing the
duties on sugar, tea, &c., of East India growth, for the
purpose of encouragement.
Mr. LABOUCHERE called on the house to pause before it
pledged itself to these resolutions.
The discussion was of considerable interest ; but the mo-
tion was disposed of by acceding to the suggestion of Sir .1.
C. Hoemousit, to refer the Company's petition to " a select
committee."

Mr. HUME afterwards moved for, and they were eventu-
ally ordered to be produced, copies of any correspondence
with the Foreign-office, or the British authorities in the Le-
vant, as to the continuance of monopolies agreed to be abo-
lished by the treaty of commerce with the Porte ; and of any
representations made as to the increased duties levied by the
said treaty of commerce in the provinces of the Danube, or
in Egypt and Syria :—a comparative statement or return of
duties levied in the Turkish empire on articles exported and
imported by British and Russian subjects, under the new
treaty and under the old one :—and a return of the rate of du-
ties levied on imports from and exports to Great Britain in
Turkey Proper, and in the Turkish provinces of the Danube,
and in Syria and Egypt, previous to and since the late treaty
of commerce with the Porte.

Lord STANLEY then rose to bring forward his motion
for leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws relating to the
registration of voters in Ireland. He began by expressing
his opinion that the success of such a bill in this house must
mainly depend on the exclusion of all party considerations,
both from the measure itself, and from the statement by
which it was introduced. He did not propose to make any
alteration in the franchise, or in the manner of taking the
polls, but only in the registration. He stated in detail the
points of difference between the systems of registration in
England and in Ireland, and the abuses and grievances
which are generated by the Irish system, and which have
been fully exposed in our strictures on the evidenc.f talcen be-
fore the committees for the examination of fir : ici votes.
He represented in particular that a voter once put, upon the
registry gets a certificate which lasts him eight years, and
which cannot be recalled, however the qualification be after-
wards disproved, or even though the voter have lost his inte-
rest in the property. The certificate, after his death, may he
banded to a stranger for the purpose of personating him. It
is a document which cannot be questioned by an appeal to
the judges, not yet by the returning officer; and, even on a
petition against the return, the election committee may de-
termine not to open the registry ; or if they open it, the vo-
ters whom they strike off are not thereby removed from the
register, but come again to the poll at the very next election.
Government brought in several bills,
.by their law officers
for Ireland, to correct these evils, which had been fully ad-
mitted on both sides of the house * • but the first of those bills,
that of 1835, was not sent up to the House of Lords till the
29th of August, too late to be considered in that session, and
the subsequent bills were not even forwarded through their
stages in this house. No division, not even an objection, had
ever occurred to check the proposed reform ; yet, to that
hour, not one of the abuses had been remedied. He then
stated the remedies he had to propose, which were princi-
pally these :—That the registration (instead of being quar-
terly, and lasting for eight years) should be annual ; that it
should be held, as now, before the assistant-barrister ; that
the appeal to the judge of assize should he permitted, not
only as now, against the rejection, but also against the ad-
mission, of a vote; that the whole system of certificates
should cease ; that costs should be awarded upon frivolous
appeals or defences; that after an objection overruled, the
burden of proof, if the same objection were repeated, should
lie on the objector ; and the registry should not be revisable
by an election committee.
Lord MoRpETn, after excusing the neglect of the govern-
ment to carry forward the bills of its law officers, on the plea
that there was reason to apprehend their rejection in the
stitarosisioreof Lords, attempted a strain of rather awkward sar-
e Lord Stanley, he flippantly said, had, from an ob-
structor,
becomereceive his saugcgoeisitsitornusc t\ovirth; ain.edspect, thoughyet
tgoovtreerant hmeinnti
with confidenceo
o franchises e d ‘r Ir . O'Connell's bill
another matter. Ministers had
between thes tvo. ocf,luansttrsieesss;iobnuftoriftiiey assimilating
perse-
vered, on the one hand, in resisting the fundamental changes
opposed
pressed upon them by the Irishnation; who honoured them
confidence,twoitahnyitsalterationswhich should on th
other,
contract,oey within too narrow
caned not consent
limits, the now existing legitimate franchise of the Irish
people. Mr. Sergeant JACKSON gave the history of the past delays
in the legislation on this subject, and rebuked the endeavours
of Lord Morpeth to be severe.
Mr. O'CoNNELL attacked Lord Stanley as the known ene-
my of the Irish people's franchise. However, it was manl
y
he said, in the conservatives to have made him the leader of
this measure, because this was openly to set Ireland at de-
fiance. The principle of this bill was vexation and expense.
Already in every county there were counsel, attorneys, and
paid swearers as to value, all employed against-the voters;
and now the expense was to be yet increased by an appeal.
He liked the word " obstruct;" there was nothing he would
not do to obstruct such a bill. It took no account of the
greatest evil--the intimidation practised on the tenants. Lord
Stanley would have done better to attempt the cure of the
of the English registration before he
acknowledged defects
thus volunteered a new secretaryship for Ireland. Surely
the noble lord could not think there were so many judges, in
whom the country placed confidence, as to make popular a
bill with an appeal to their bench.
Lord STANLEY said he would not be induced, by what had
passed, to depart from the temperate tone which he had pre-
scribed to himself,at the outset. He was not surprised at
Mr- O'Connell's opposition, for he had read a resolution of
the Loyal Registry Association of Ireland, passed when they
had seen only his notice of motion, and could know nothing
of the contents of his bill, instructing the. liberal members
for Ireland to 0
to direct thePishowed,
Irish nation. Lord Stanley then
by an exact c
limit than the English, as
it. Such were the guides who pretend-
edin no one instance that the
intimated, and reprimandedMhrirnlor
comparison,
contract the Irish franchise to a narrower
in the bill.
sions on the judges.
Leave was then given to bringhis O'Connellindecent had
a nia groundlesslyds 1..
Mr. HOME moved for returns, regarding the number of
in
&c., in England, Scotland, acrd Ireland.
in counties, towns,
continuation of former
that there be laid
dis-
cussion, the house divided : the numebaenrds•weAref_terfouriuthceh
mo-
tion
upon the table of
87, against it 76; majority, 11.
Sir F. TRENCH moved
connectedle
i
this house, forthwith, an account of all expensesin
with the experiments of the Bude light,
corn
mencement to the present day, including erection ofr
machi-
nery, wages, and labour, and remuneration of the inventor
also, the expense of removing and again replacing the lustre;
and shades ; which motion, after some conversation, was
agreed to.
Alderman Sir M. WOon moved that the Corporation of
London having, on the 12th instant, resolved to present an
address to her Majesty, her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the mar-
' riag! of her Majesty, and by the ancient,custom of the City
of London the !lava': being permitted to wait on her Ma-

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jesty to receive her Majesty's commands with respect to the
presentation of such address—be it resolved, that Mr. Sheriff
Evans be allowed to wait on her Majesty for the purpose of
receiving such commands of her Majesty.
Lord J. RUSSELL opposed this motion, and moved, as an
amendment, " that the orders of the day be now read."
The house divided, and the result was—for proceeding to
the orders 81, noes 39 ; majority, 42.
On the question that the house do adjourn, Mr. FRESH-
FIELD moved, as an amendment, that the sheriff be brought
to the bar and discharged. Nobody seconding the amend-
ment, it could not be put ; and the original motion being
therefore carried, the house adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS—WEDNESDAY
The Lords did not assemble to-day.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-WEDNESDAY.

Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET moved that the Croydon
Railroad Company should have permission to proceed with
their bill for the London and Greenwich enlargement and
station, notwithstanding the report of the standing orders
committee.

The motion, after considerable discussion, was agreed to
by ayes 95, noes 22; majority 73.
Mr. HUME gave notice that he would move, by way of
amendment to the motion which was to be submitted on
Thursday (yesterday) by Mr. Liddell, that the pension of
£lOOO. granted to Sir J. Newport, from her Majesty's civil
list, be withdrawn from that list, and that the services of half
a century be submitted as a special case to the house.
Lord MAHON adverted to the international copyright bill,
securing copyright to authors in foreign countries; to the
information that negotiations had been entered into for the
purpose of carrying the provisions of that bill into effect ; and
asked whether the negotiations wtre completed, and if there
were any probability of the resulf of those negotiations being
laid before the house during the present session.
Lord PALMERSTON answered that negotiations had been
entered into with various foreign powers on the subject of
copyright. As yet these negotiations had led to no satisfac-
tory result.
Lord SANDON said that having seen in the newspapers a
report that a commercial treaty between this country and
Naples had been concluded, and that the question of the
sulphur monopoly had by that treaty been settled, he
wished to ask whether Lord Palmerston could give any in-
formation as to the truth 'of these statements ?

Lord PALMERSTON answered that he was sorry he could
not confirm the report. Negotiations were still proceeding
with the court of Naples ; he hoped the result would be, and
speedily, the conclusion of a commercial treaty. With re-
gard to the sulphur monopoly, he contended that it was a
violation of existing treaties, and on thatground this country
claimed that it should be abolished immediately, and not
making it a matter of negotiation in the new treaty. From
the accounts he had received from Naples, he hoped soon
to have it in his power to state that the sulphur monopoly
had ceased.
Sir E. WILMOT moved the second reading of the Sum-
mary Jurisdiction Juvenile Offenders' Bill.

Mr. MILES wished the bill to be referred to a select com-
mittee, moving, if that were not consented to, that it be read
the second time that day six months.

After some discussion the motion was divided upon, and
carried by ayes 49, noes 16. After which it was ordered to
be referred to a select committee.

The report of the Vagrants' Removal Bill was presented,
agreed to, and the bill ordered to be read the third time on
Friday.
Mr. SANFORD, for Mr. Pakington, presented the report
of the committee on the Sale of Beer Acts : it was agreed to,
and leave given to bring in a bill accordingly.
The second reading of the Inland Warehousing Bill was
deferred till Friday.
The house then adjourned.

WINDSOR-MONDAY EVENING.

(Front the. Correspondent of the Morning Herald)
In consequence of a desire expressed by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert to go out with the hounds on Monday
next, accompanied by the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg
and his brother Prince Ernest, orders have been transmitted
to the Castle for the private apartments to be got ready for
the reception cf her Majesty and the court, on which day (if
not on the Saturday preceding) the court will arrive at Wind-
sor, for a few days during the ensuing week.
It is expected that on Monday next the stag will be un-
carted at the Salt Hill, and that her Majesty will drive to
" the meet" accompanied by her royal consort and her dis-
tinguished visitors, and attended by a numerous suite), to
witness the turn out.
Six or seven hunters have been purchased expressly for
the use of the Princes Albert and Ernest. They arrived at
Windsor on Tuesday last, and are now in the stables attached
to Cumberland Lodge.
I send you the following list of Prince Albert's household
as it has reached me, but without vouching for its strict ac-
curacy. I believe it to be correct. It may be considered as
an extraordinary circumstance that the name of Lord Alfred
Paget does not appear on this list. The cutting down of
£50,000 to £30,000 has made sad havoc with the original
household arrangements of the Prince. It is expected that
Lord Alfred Paget will shortly receive a lift in the household
of her Majesty.
The following is the list :
Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. for Chester, who was Comp-
troller of the Household from 1830 to the end of 1834, to be
Groom of the Stole, at a salary of £BOO per annum.
Lord Boringdon and Lord George Lennox, Lords in Wait-
ing. Salary, £5OO per annum each.
Colonel Bouverie, of the royal horse guards (blue), and
Lieut.-Colonel Wylde, Equerries in Waiting. Salary £5OO
per annum each.
Sir George Anson and Mr. Seymour, Gentlemen of Ho-
nour, or Grooms of the Bedchamber. Salary £3OO per an-
num each.

Mr. George Anson, private secretary. Salary £BOO per
annum.
- - - -

From this statement it will be perceived that the salaries
to his Royal Highness's household amount to only -1'4200
just half the sum named before the legislature reduced his
income two-fifths.

COURT CIRCULAR.—ToPsnA v.
The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne. had
audiences of the Queen yesterday.
Her Majesty had a dinner party, last evening, at Buck-
ingham Palace. The company consisted of their Serene
Highnesses the Duke and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe
Coburg Gotha, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke and Duchess
of Bedford, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland, the Countess and Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope,
the Earl and Countess of Verulam and Lady Mary GrimstOn, •
Earl of Erroll, Earl of Uxbridge, Viscount Melbourne, the
Hon. Berkeley and Miss Paget, Lord Robert Grosvenor,
Lady Fanny Howard, Hon. Miss Murray, Miss Lister, Ba-
roness Lehzen, the Marquis of Headfort, Count Kolowrath,
Baron Alvensleben, Baron Lowenfels, Baron de Gruben,
Baron Ernest de Poellnitz, Hun. Charles A. Murray, Hon.
General Sir W: Lumley, Lord Alfred Paget, Col. Wylde,
and Mr. Seymour.
The band of the Coldstream regiment of foot guards at-
tended at the palace during the evening.
Sir Benjamin Brodie was called on, yesterday, by desire
of Dr. Chambers, to visit her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, who has suffered lately from an Attack of rheuma-
tism.
Yesterday was the birthday of the Duke of Cambridge.
His royal highness received visits of congratulation in the
course of the day from his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and their Serene High-
nesses the Reigning Duke and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe
Coburg Gotha. The foreign ministers and most of the no-
bility called and left their names for his royal highness, du-
ring the day, at Cambridge House.
In the evening the gentlemen of the Duke's household
dined with his Royal Highness.
The Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha,
and Prince George of Cambridge, visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager, yesterday, at Marlborough House.
The Duke of Sussex, the Duke and Prince George of
Cambridge, visited the Princess Augusta, yesterday, at Cla-
rence House, St. James's.
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence entertained their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke
of Montrose, Lord Frederick Gordon, Sir Robert Gordon,
Col. Wood, M.P., and Mr. George Wombwell, at dinner,
on Sunday, at his residence, in St. James's Palace.