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e Morning till Ten at Night. Ad-

Wood pavement is about to be introduced into Manches
ter, Salford, and Leeds.

There arc one hundred and eighty-five subscribers to the
Derby Stakes, of fifty sovereigns each, at Epsom, 18-12.
Madame Doras Gras will revisit this country in the autumn,
to fulfil her engagements at the approaching festivals.
The new five-act. play, about to be produced at the Hay-
market, is understood to be from the pen of Mr. Serle, and
founded on the story of Richard Cromwell.
Ashton Hall, the baronial seat of the Duke of Hamilton,
in Lancashire, was offered for sale in Lancaster last week,
but found no purchaser neither did the surrounding lands
---abolatsillem hundred acres.

Oxford is still in the north side of Newgate ; he eats,
drinks, laughs, and sleeps well, but has a turnkey with him
night and day. His friends express themselves perfectly
contented with the verdict.

Sir E. W. St. John Mildmay, Bart., was drowned in the
Thames, yesterday se'nnight, by falling overboard, in conse-
quence of the insecurity of a rail in the steam-boat Rose,
when the vessel came in contact with the wharf.
A CROWDED HOUSE.—I never played to a full house in
Dublin, says Mathews, but once, in Crow-street, and then
they knocked down the doorkeepers and got in for not
—" Bunn's Stage."

MR. RICHARD OASTLER.--We understand there is som
intention of bringing this gentleman !for-ward in the conser
vative interest, as a candidate for the borough of Sheffieh
at the next election.—Sheffield Iris.
The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe has
Barham as the lady in waiting on the Queen ; and I
Byron ha § succeeded the Earl of Listowel as the for
waiting off her Majesty.

ucceeded

A pension of £5OO per annum reverts to the civil list by
the death of Sir Robert Baker, formerly chief magistrate of
Bow-street. Sir Robert had been in receipt of the pension
nineteen years.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.-On Sunday last, no less
than six sermons were preached by six different clergymen,
at six different places of worship, in these towns, from the
same text, " Remember Lot's wife !"—Cornwall Onzette,
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A destructive fire broke out, on Friday night last, in the
carpet manufactory of Messrst Machmichael, at Bridgenorth.
About eleven o'clock the flames were seen to burst forth from
the windows, and so rapid was the conflagration, that in 15
minutes after the fire was discovered the roof had fallen in,
crushing in its progress the whole of the machinery, destroy-
ing upwards of £5OOO worth of property, and throwing desti-
tute from 200 to 300 hands.

SINGULAR PHENOMENON.—At Ellingham, Northumber-
land, on the 9th inst. from 12 to 2 o'clock, there was a tre-
mendous hailstorm, accompanied with heavy peals of thun-
der. The snow was actually above two inches thick in some
parts, and the people were making snowballs on the 9th of
July—a thing which never occurred before in the recollection
of the oldest person in Ellingham.—Berwick Warder.
Mr. Greg has, it appears, on account of ill health, expressed
a desire to retire from the representation of Manchester.
Three gentlemen arc spoken of as probable successors to the
honourable gentleman on the same (the liberal) side, viz.,
Mr. Villiers, Dr. Bowring, and Mr. Milner Gibson, all corn-
law repealers, and progressive reformers. Mr. Cobden, who
has also been solicited to come forward, declines the prof-
fered honour.—Evening paper.

FROST, JONES, AND WILLIAMS.—The Maw,
ship, Captain Muddle, which sailed from Falmouth on the
28th of February last, with Frost, Jones, and Williams on
board, arrived at Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on the
4th May. On the 30th April information was given that it
was the intention of the convicts to take possession of the
ship, and carry her to America; and John Black, a convict,
was to navigate the ship. One of the guards was in the plot.
THE WEATHER.—The weather in this district continues
of the most unpropitious kind : nothing but rain, and heavy
rain too, accompanied by occasional cold winds, day after
day. In the early part of last week a good deal of hay was
housed, but since that time no progress has been made, and
the grass which is cut must, we fear, be beginning to take
harm. St. Swithin was a rainy day, and the believers in the
evil influence of such an event seem likely enough to have
their prejudices strengthened.—Blackburn Standard.
NATURAL Cuaiostrr.—A duck in the Rector of Slaidburn, about a fortnight ago, hatch possession of hatched he
ducklings, one of which had three perfect legs eight
, and is now
the possession of Mr. Jackson, surgeon, at Slaidbnrn. in
A proposal to light Lisbon with gas has been made to the
government by a Parisian company, who offer to do it for the
same money which the preSent mode of illumination costs—
offer will be
that is abot £ll,OOO per annum. It is thought that the
u ac cep ted.
ORDINATION.—An ordination was held in Bangor Cathe-
dral, on Sunday, by the Lord Bishop of the diocese. Orders
were conferred on the following gentlemen, viz. :—Priest--
H. W. Jones, 8.A., Jesus College, Oxford ; Ellis R. Pring,
8.A., Magdalen College, Oxford. Deacon—John Jones,
8.A., Jesus College, Oxford.—North Wales Chronicle,
FALLING OF THREE ARCHES OF THE GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY.—On Friday the three last of the recently-
constructed arches near the Bristol terminus of the Great
Western Railway fell in. The foundation was first obrr,v_ed,
to give way on Monday tact

darin, convic

litirsuay nigh
sunk ver vii A
y considerably. The arches nearly adjoin,
bridge across the feeder.—Bristol Mercury.
VISIT OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER TO YORKSHIRE.—
Monday last her Majesty the Queen Dowager passed throe
Leeds her
wn
ood. way
et Ha
Her Majesty
majte-eswtyoowd House,
as h
receivedt seatewith alol thefth os
monstrations of esteem and attachment which her mar
virtues entitle her to. Before her departure from Yorkshirt
Bolton Abbey, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, will b,
honoured with a visit from her Majesty.
RE-ORGANIZATION OF THE CHARTISTS.—Neither the
late defeats experienced b trap chartists, nor the imprison-
ment of their leaders, andportation of their chiefs, have
broken their spirits, or fill them with despair ; on the con-
trary, they are again in the field, and are collecting their
scattered forces under the banner of (as they term it) moral
and passive resistance. They have already determined upon
a convention being held at Manchester, and have elected de-
legates to sit on it. On Wednesday night they held an open
air meeting on Clerkenwell Green, when a man named Spur
was chosen to represent the working men of London. They
intend forming a society for securing, at the next eneral
'election, the return of such candidates as are Chartists No
matter whether their favourite candidates be confident or not
of being returned, the chartists will carry them to the poll,
and get for them as many votes as possible. In places which
return only one member, they will rely upon their own
strength ; but where two members are returned, they will
endeavour to join with the whig or tory party, so as to secure
the return of at least one chartist member to
parliament. A
fund will be immediately raised for defraying the expenses of
those elections. Lovett is selected to be one of those candi-
dates. The London chartists are resolved to make a grand
display of their strength on the occasion of the dinner 'to be
given to Lovett and Collins on the 3d of August. Mr. Wak-
ey will presicle, and several other members of parliament
have been invited to attend.-I{l4rning Redd.

Emperial Varllamint.

heir. The clause prohibiting the regent's marriage with a
foreigner, had been introduced into the former bill because
illustrious persons to whom the high office was to be intrusted
HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. were both females, and it was thought that they would be
he motion of Lord puricaNNoN, the East India Mu- able to exercise their duties less sul juris if under any foreign
,c. Bill was read the second time. influence. This, however, could not operate in the present
Marquis of NORMANBY, after the Bishop of Lichfield case. The regent was prohibited from leaving the country,
esented a petition on the subject, said that next ses- and it could not be supposed that he would, if a foreign alli-
swn, in consequence of the information he had received, he ance were contracted, be so much under the contraLof his
would move the appointment of a select committee respect- consort as to be incapable of exercising rightly the powers

ing the Sunday traffic on canna
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a bill to con
for a limited time the Bill of Exchange Act, exempting cer-
tain bills of exchange from the operation of the usury laws.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE condemned the act as oppressive

and injurious in its operation.
The bill was read the first time.
The select committee on the Sale of Beer Bill, on the mo-
tion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, were nominated.

-
On the motion that the Municipal Corporations (Ireland
Bill be read the third time,

Lord DUNGANNON stated that several certain lords oppo-
site were disposed to view this bill favourably, if there_could
be introduced into it some other provisions regarding the
boundaries and regarding compensation. With the view of
making such amendments, lie proposed that the third mad-
ing should be deferred till Monday next.
The Duke of WELLINGTON repeated that he could not
withdraw his opposition, especially after what he saw passing
in Ireland, in reference to this subject, as well as regarding
other matters. He could not vote for the third reading if
there were retained in it the present large powers of im posing
local taxation. He should require that there be introduced
some such limitation as existed in the Scotch Corporation
Act

Lord DUNCANNON said that he would endeavour to pre-
pare a clause to meet his grace's views.
Lord LYNDHURST cons►dered that it was meant to be im-
parted that the proposed arrangements regarding compensa-
tion and boundary would be in accordance with the amend-
ments that had been heretofore proposed.
Lord DUNCANNON answered that such would be their
character.
The County Constabulary Bill was read the second time,
on the motion of the Marquis of NORMANSY, and ordered
to be referred to a select committee, that being the wish of
several peers.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY
FARNHAM RECTORY BILL.

This bill was again discussed ; and the motion of Sir R.
Inglis, that compensation should be made to the lessees for
actual loss, was negatived by a majority of two.
The ecclesiastical duties and revenues bill was, after con-
siderable discussion, and the addition of some isuses, read
a third time and passed.

WARDENSHIP OF MANCHESTER.
Mr. GLADSTONE, in avowing himself opposed to the eccle-
siastical duties and revenues bill, said that one ground on
which the bill had been opposed was, that it placed the
establishment of cathedrals on an insecure and precarious
foundation, and only prepared the way for more extensive
spoliation, and he feared that this was the danger which was
really to be apprehended ; for he did not believe that any
cathedral institution was secure, whether it consisted of
twelve prebends or only two, unless the patronage connected
with it was exercised with fidelity. He should be the last
man to complain of the government employing its power and
influence in favour of those who concurred in its political
opinions; but there was an appointment which had been
made within the last few weeks to which he must advert—
he meant the appointment to the wardenship of Manchester.
He thought the hon. member for Kilkenny %%Ts justified in
saying that ministers did not go far enough, if, when they
suppressed half the dignities of the church, they retained,
with regard to the rest, the system of abuse which had been
acted upon in former times. Of the gentleman who had
received the appointment to which he had alluded, he had no
wish to speak in terms of disrespect; he was a poet and a
scholar; but poetry and scholarship were not precisely what
were required in order to perform the duties of warden of the
collegiate church of Manchester, which was, in fact, the
parish church of Manchester, that was to say, of 200,000
souls, who resorted daily to it for baptism, marriage, and
burial. The government ought to have been glad to take the
opportunity of appointing to such a situation a person who
would have comprehended a position invested with a respon-
sibility of this important character. What had been really
the case? Why, that a gentleman had been appointed whose
distinctions, whatever they might be, were not distinctions
earned in the service of the church, and who, moreover, was
said to hold another charge of an important character in the
diocese of York, consisting of 2,000 souls, and having an in-
come annexed to it of £1,500. He (Mr. Gladstone) thought
the noble lord, the secretary for the colonies, had shoWn so
much anxiety to render cathedral and collegiate establish-
ments conducive to the welfare of the church, that he did
not ascribe to the noble lord the responsibility of this ap-
pointment to an important office of a strictly parochial

confided to him

cliaracter.
Lord J. RUSSELL said, that with regard to the preferment
which had been alluded to by the hon. member opposite (Mr.
Gladstone), he (Lord J. Russell) was not acquainted with the
gentleman on whom it was conferred, having never seen that
gentleman in his life; but he could not, as the hon. gentle-
man seemed to expect him to do, disavow all responsibility
in the appointment ; for it had been intimated to him, that
the appointment was proposed to be made, and, as he knew
of no objection to it, he had not made any.
UPPER CANADA CLERGY RESERVES BILL.
On the question of committing this bill, a short discussion

The he
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en read a second time without opposition.
The law of evidence (Scotland) bill afterwards went through
committee. The turnpike trusts bill was read a second time,
and after a somewhat angry conversation between Lords
Westmeath and Normanby, the house adjourned.

TUESDAY

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—_
After the presentation of a few petitions,
Mr. GRIMSDITCH, on the question for the third reading of
the poor-law commission bill, moved that it should be read a
third time on that day three months. He moved this amend-
ment, he said, not with any expectation of carrying it, but
in order to elicit the intentions of government. He hoped
there was no design to establish a permanent board. The
exist"- ' ,t be a •-• one as far as

_mg law migu, —a goon le unions were
concerned; but the workhouse system should be relaxed
with respect to the unfortunate, and enforced only against
the idle and dissolute. The expense too of the officers was
enormous, and must be reduced.

e having resolved itself into committee,
GRAHAM objected that the bill dealt only with
s of Upper Canada, and not with those of the

Mr. SLANEY drew a comparison between the state of Eng-
land as she had been before, and her state as she was since,
the enactment of the present poor laws. These laws, he said,
had quieted the country, and reduced the rates from seven
millions sterling to three.
General JOHNSON said this reduction was a a fallacy; and
condemned the whole system, as an attempt to introduce a
principle of centralization, incompatible with the liberties of
man. Even the promised advantage of uniformity had not
resulted from this law : and the old and the poor had been
consigned by it to a premature mortality.
Mr. HODGES was of opinion, that if all the particulars
were taken into account, the saving would turn out to be but
little. He would, however, support the third reading of the
bill on this occasion, hoping that there would be found no
necessity to renew it.

Mr. lircK, approving the principle of the poor-law, yet
regretted the continuance of the commission ; Mr. WIL-
LIAMS declared such continuance to be a mere waste of
public money ; but Mr. WARD, considering the new system
preferable to the old one, expressed his intention of support-
ing the third reading, though not without adding a hope that
the whole measure would receive further improvement.
Mr. DARIIY complained of the peculiar hardships suffered
by those who, after marrying on the faith of the old law,
were left helpless under the new.
Mr. WAKLEY imputed much of the evil which had existed
under the old system to the mismanagement, idleness, negli-
gence, and ignorance of the magistrates. He objected to the
continuance of the powers of the commissioners for a single
day.

Sir C. DOUGLAS and Mr. EATON supported the amend-
ment, as did
Colonel SIDTHOILP, who said that Ministers, a most inca-
pable set, had directed all their efforts against the country's
institutions, assailing the church, undermining the navy, and
oppressing the poor.
Mr. F. MAULS told the gallant Colonel that his invectives
against Ministers, though amusing in the house, had little
effect in the country. For the present, the Government
asked merely a renewal for one year, and early in the next
session they would be prepared to consider the requisite

lower proN ince.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL intimated a disposition to introduce
some provisions touching the unsold lands in Lower Canada.
Sir C. GREY gave his view of the reasons which had caused
the agitation upon this subject in the upper province to be
greater than in the lower.
On the second clause, enabling the governor in council to
invest the proceeds of the sales in Canadian securities, Mr.
GOULBURN moved an amendment, substituting the British
funds.'
Sir C. GREY thought it important that the money should
be left in the province, which was greatly in need of circulat-

improvements.
Sir F. BunnErr thought that the period of the session
formed of itself a sufficient objection against the present pro-
gress of a measure so serious. That measure had increased,
instead of allayed, the evils it dealt with, and had created an
ill feeling between labourer and employer, between rich and
poor, which it would be very difficult to heal.
Mr. W. ArrwooD, who had seconded the amendment,
complained that the commissioners had acted in opposition
to the report of the committee which had been appointed to
inquire into the poor laws ; and he could not but think it fit-
tin;; to oppose the renewal of powers to such commissioners.
Lord J. RUSSELL said, the commission had been intended
as a permanent one, though the first experiment of it was con-
fined to a period of five years. Further powers would be re-
quired from parliament for the useful working of the system.
but the pressure of other business in the present session had
obliged him to postpone the subject until a future one.
Mr. MUNTZ considered the poor law as a great oppression
to the labouring classes, especially in the manufacturing dis-
tricts, where they could obtain no relief but on condition of
selling off their all, and going intothe workhouse.

t„
The third reading washen carried on a division by a ma-
jority of 74 against 16, the ministers having swept all the
public offices for votes.
Several bills were advanced a stage, aad Lord MORPETU
obtained leave to bring in a bill to provide for the compensa-
tion of corporate officers in certain cases in Ireland. The
house then adjourned till 5 o'clock, when there not being 40
members present, it stood adjourned till next day.

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

ing capital. -
Mr. HUME said that the adoption of the amendment would
increase the discontent of the colonies.
Lord J. RUSSELL was adverse to the amendment. The
colonists, he said, had a strong feeling upon the subject, and
would be much disl)leased by a measure reflecting upon the
validity of their securities.
After a few words from Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and another
speech from Sir C. GREY, the house, by a division, negatived
the amendment by 58 to 28.
On the seventh clause, enabling the governor in council
to appropriate three-eighths of the fund produced by the re-
serve sales " for purposes of public worship and religious in-
struction in Upper Canada, Mr. GLADSTONE proposed to
leave out the words in inverted commas, so as to give the
governor a general discretion of applying this fund to secular

HOUSE OF COMMONS

WEDNESDAY

Many petitions were presented ; among them were several
(presented by Messrs. T. Duncombe, Wakley, &c.) for the
dismissal of her Majesty's ministers.
Lord MURPETH brought in the municipal districts (Ire-
land) and compensation to corporate officers in certain cases
bill—measures rendered necessary by what passed on Mon-
day between the Duke of Wellington, Lord Lyndhurst, and
Lord Duncannon, in the House of Lords, in reference to the
municipal corporations (Ireland) bill.
Mr. E. TENNENT said that he should bring forward his
motion regarding the delay in adjusting the British claims
on Brazil on the 4th of August.
Mr. HUME intimated that he should on Friday direct at-
tention to the mode of keeping the public accounts—his ob-
ject being to secure the adoption generally of the system now
practised at the Admiralty and Navy Pay-office. He also
gave notice, that when the clergy reserves Canada bill should
be again brought forward, he should submit a resolution de-
claratory of the expediency of selling the clergy reserves, and
applying the proceeds to the purposes of education.
Mr. AGLIONJY stated that on Friday he should move the
consideration of Feargus O'Connor's petition.
Sir J. GRAHAM, in answer to Lord J. Russell's inquiries,
said, that, in consequence of the delay that had occurred in
printing the papers, he fe•tred he should have no chance of
bringing forward, this session, the question of taxing rail-
ways ; but he hoped that•during the recess the subject might
have the most earnest consideration of her Majesty's minis-
ters.

purposes.
Lord J. RUSSELL assured the house that the words in
question were introduced with the specific sanction of the
Az chbishop of Canterbury.
Mr. PARKINGTON was satisfied with that authority •
But Sir R. INGLIS thought himself bound, notwithstand-
ing so high a sanction, to express his disapproval of the pro-
posed appropriation, seeing that it was in the teeth of an act
of parliament, granting the whole fund to the uses of the
Protestant churches.
The clause for guaranteeing from the consolidated fund
the annual sums of £7700 to the Church of England, and
£l5OO to the Church of Scotland, was opposed by Mr. H umE,
but carried on a division. The clause was then agreed to, as
were also the remaining clauses, and the report was ordered
to be received on Thursday next.
The church temporalities (Ireland) bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday.
The canal police bill was read a third time, and passed.
The notices of elections bill was read a second time.
On the motion of Mr. SHELL, the linen manufactories
(Ireland) bill was read a second time.
The other orders of the day having been disposed of, the
house adjourned at a few minutes before two o'clock.

The affirmation bill called forth a good deal of discussion.
The question of going into committee was carried on a divi-
sion ; and in the committee -several amendments were pro-
posed.
The marriages act amendment bill, the punishment of
death bill, the constabulary bill, &c. were afterwards for-
warded a stage. _

On the question that the house resolve into committee of
supply, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE claimed the right to bring for-
ward a motion respecting Thorogood, of which he had given
notice ; but it was eventually decided that Lord Sandon's
notice had precedence.
Lord SANDON then called the attention of the house to the
state of our commercial relations with foreign countries. In
the first place, he desired to know how much' longer the
blockade of Buenos Avres was to be continued ? The pro-
perty locked up by it, he said, was of the value of a million
sterling ; and in Monte Video, likewise, there were large
British interests at hazard. He next adverted to the differ-
ential duties of Portugal, by which our shipping had been
almost wholly displaced from the commerce between that
country and our own; and blamed the government that they
had not applied to parliament for powers which would have
enabled them to retaliate with effect. He complained of a
similar displacement of British shipping in the trade with
Spain, and urged that England's great sacrifices for the pre-
sent Spanish dynasty gave her especial claims to a more
favourable treatment. If Lord Palmerston had any assu-
rances to afford to the house of a more satisfactory nature
than his former vague statements, it was time, at the close of
this long session, that such information should be produced.

Lord PALmERsToN contrasted the tone taken by his op-
ponents when exciting government to adverse dealings with
foreign nations, against the tone of the same parties when
censuring government for running into the hazard of hosti-
lities.
Mr. MACLEAN observed that Lord Palmerston had care-
fully abstained from distinguishing how much of the increase

HOUSE OF LORDS—WEDNESDAY.
The bishops of ELY and SALISBURY presented several pe-
titions aga nst the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill,
in which some of the petitioners prayed to be heard by coun-
cil before the house.
Lord MELBOURNE observed that it would be better to
avoid any discussion upon the merits of the bill at present,
but he would offer no opposition to the hearing of counsel in
support of the opinions which the petitioners held. He
thought that Friday would be the most convenient day for
that purpose. _

_ .
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented a petition in
favour of the bill; Lord Devon, and the Bishops of Winches-
ter. Chichester, and Exeter, other petitions against the mea-

in our exports and imports proceeded from the trade with
our own colonies; and that he had taken, on the score of
pacification in Spain, a credit which was properly due, not
to the policy of England, but to the energy of France.
Mr. HAWES reproached the tory party with narrow views
on commercial subjects, and a constant unwillingness to
cheapen the great articles of consumption, such as bread,
timber, and sugar.
Mr. E. TENNENT adverted to some of the evils which had
followed from ;our too long endurance of the now abandoned
blockade of Mexico, and from our still unsettled dispute with
the government of Brazil about the affairs of Para. Mr.
Sheil, Mr. D'lsraeli, Mr. Ewart, and others then took part
in the dscussion.
The house afterwards resolved into committee of supply
pro forma, Dlr. BARING stating that at so late an hour he
would not propose any resolutions on the estimates.
The loan societies bill, &c. were then forwarded a stage.

The Loan CHANCELLOR having then moved the second
reading of the Regency Bill,
The Duke of Sussex thought it incumbent upon him, from
the position which he occupied, and his near relation to her
Majesty, to express his opinion upon the measure, of which
in its general principles, he highly approved. He had had
some experience in regency bills, and had taken an active
part in the discussions which took place upon that by which
George IV. had been appointed regent during the life of his
father, and he was happy to observe, that there now existed
none of the acrimony which was then exhibited on both sides
of the house. Although, however,. he concurred with the
framers of the bill in its main features, and especially as to the
extent of power to be intrusted to the regent, he thought,
that as its object was to secure the direct succession
to the throne from every possible contingency, they
had not gone far enough, no provision being made for the
custody of the heir in case the regent himself should be re-
moved. However improbable so lamentable an event might
be, it was still not impossible, and, while providing for one
contingency, it would be surely impolitic to neglect another
of equal importance. The Lord Chancellor had congratu-
lated the house upon the fact that it had now to legislate upon
this very delicate question when every portion of the consti-
tution was in full efficiency ; but in the case which 'he had
supposed, the magistracy of royalty would be wanting, and
the difficulty would in consequence be increased. He would
appeal both to his illustrious brother the Duke of Cambridge,
and to the noble lord at the head of the government, to vin-
dicate him from the supposition of being actuated by any
motive of personal ambition, and in fact he had until that
moment abstained from any mention of the subject, in order
to avoid an imputation of the kind. Ihe clause by which the
regent was precluded from giving his assent to any bill which

would alter the succession to the throne was—aj most wise
one, and in the one which went to protect the interests of the
churches of England and Scotland he perfectly concurred; but
he thought that some additional restrictions should, under his
peculiar circumstances, be imposed unonthe prince. In case an
event, which would be universally deplored, should take place,
it would be probable, and indeed perhaps expedient, that the
regent should contract another alliance, and the considera-
tion would then arise as to whether an union with a subject
would 1".! desirable. No law existed to prohibit such a mar-
riage, mid even if a foreign alliance should be contemplated,
partiament could not interfere, unless the prince should ap-
ply to the other house to make some additional provision for
her support. He thought, therefore, that a restriction
should be introduced to the effect that no marriage which
the prince might contract should be legal, unless after a de_
claration of his intention had been communicated to both
houses, and had received their approbation. He laid the
more stress upon this point, because in the bill which had
been passed in the reign of his late Majesty a similar restric-
tion had been imposed upon the Queen Dowager and the
Duchess of Kent. By the observations which he had made,
he did not intend to offer any opposition to the bill ; he
thought that everything should be done which would tran-
quillise the mind of the illustrious person most immediately
concerned ; and if he had had an opportunity, he should have
made the suggestions he now offered before the measure had
been introduced to the house.
The LORD CHANCELLOR expressed his satisfaction at the
approbation which the general principles of the bill had met
with from the illustrious duke. With respect to the objec-
tion that it did not provide for every possible contingency,
he thought, however, that it was scarcely consistent with the
wisdom of parliament to legislate by anticipation for a longer
period in advance than was absolutely necessary. He trusted
that, under Providence, the office contemplated by the bill
would never be required ; but even if it should, the house
would then have an opportunity of providing for the more
remote contingency to which the illustrious duke referred.
Parliament had in every former case on record adopted that
course, and even if the casualties to which two lives were
subject were provided for, it would be impossible to do more
than lessen the probability of a failure in the custody of the