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imprrial parliament.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY.
The following members of the Government took their
seats :—Lord John Russell, premier ; Sir George Grey,
home secretary; Col. Fox, Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Lord
Palmerston, foreign secretary ; Mr. Jervis, attorney gene-
ral; Mr. Labouchere, secretary for Ireland ; Admiral
Dundas, Mr. C. Wood, Lord Marcus Hill, and Captain
Berkeley.
After several railway bills and other business bad been
disposed of, in reply to some remarks from SirJ.Graham
Mr. T. Duncombe,

addressed to LI

Lora JOHN HUSSELL.—After what has,passed, 1 tbtns
it will be necessary for me to state to the house what are
the intentions of her 'Majesty's Ministers with respect to
the Poor Removal Bill, and -I
hope it will tend in some
degree to remove the despair of my Honourable Friend
the Member for Finsbury. It is our fixed intention to
proceed with it, but with respect to the provisir
to the residence of the poor, there is certainly some
douh' I can assure my honourable friend that it is our
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determination to proceed wit.. , bill without delay.
(Hear, bear.) I certainly voted with my hon. friend the
member for Malton as to the instructions to be given to
the Committee, because of the existence in the minds of
many of no great doubt as to the expediency of the provi-
sions with regard to the residences of the poor. (Hear,
bear.) I would like very much to have a general com-
mittee with respect to the law of settlement, which was
most complicated and difficult (hear, hear) and
do trust the bill will get all the benefit of such a com-
mittee. Having said this much, I have a short statement
to make to the house. Her Majesty's ministers having
very lately accepted office, and not having all of them as-
sembled in consequence of the necessity of vacating their
seats and attending on their elections, I do not think it
would be wise to state the particular measures which we
propose to carry out, or in what respect we propose to
alter the bills at present before the house. (Hear,
bear, hear.) I will make a statement on Thurs-
day with reference to what period I propose to bring for-
ward the Sugar Duties Bill. lam quite aware of the in-
jury which would result to trade and commerce generally
should this question remain unsettled, and I will, there-
fore, when 1 fix a day, give notice for a further continu-
ance of the sugar duties fur a short period, as the mea-
sures which I may introduce may meet with very great
opposition. At the present moment 1 have no further
statement to make to the House.

HOUSE OF LORDS—TUESDAY.
Earl Powis and the Bishop of SALISBURY presented
several petitions against the union of the bishoprics of St.

Asaph and Bangor

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lord there would be no delay in int
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Lord BROUGRAM gave notice of his intention to call
the attention of the house to a subject arising out of the
appointment of Sir T. Wilde to the Lord Chief Justicesbip.
Ile alluded to the compromise between Lord Denman
and the government, whereby the former agreed to re-
- £BOOO per annum, instead of £lO,OOO, the
the sum named by act of Parliament.

ceive on
latter bei

Earl GREY reminded the- noble lord that he was
Chancellor at the time, and it was his duty to have in-
quired into the matter.
Lord BROUGHAM was astonished to hear one noble
lord contradict, on his own knowledge, what he bad just
now asserted on his honour that he was ignorant of. The
truth was, that nobody knew anything about that which

concerned everybody, and for which nobody cared
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was the case, according to the noble earl's notion, but it
was not his notion ; and as he was not nobody, but some-
..

body, he believed that this was a matter which required a
careful investigation.

Lord CAMPBELL regretted that his noble friend had
not brought in a bill on the subject. He knew that his

large majorities with which his measures were threatened,
and he also knew that if he had introduced a bill on this
subject, it would have passed both houses of the legislature
with perfect unanimity. Ms noble and learned friend
could not say that he had disapproved of the arrangement,
and continue to hold the Great Seal, and he (Lord Camp.
hell) knew his spirit and his courage too well to suppose
that if he had failed in carrying such a measure he would
not have continued to hold office; he would not suffer
his opinion on such a subject to be overruled. The noble
and learned lord, therefore, appeared to him to blame
himself, after the manner of the Pope, who said, "Judico
me eremari." He acknowledged himself to be in the
wrong. _ _ . . .

Lord BrtouG HAM said, that if he took a s! are of the
blame to himself, so must his noble and learned friend now
on the woolsack, who was his successor in office, and who
had likewise failed to introduce such a bill.

The LORD CHANCELLOR di claimed having any share
in the blame ; and the subject then dropped.

--vie.—

HOUSE OF LORDS-THURSDAY

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The Bishop of LONDON moved that the order for the
committee on the Clerks Correction Bill should he dis-
charged. He did this in consequence of the noble and

learned lord on the wcolsack having informed him that
there were certain provisions in the bill of which he could
not approve. He hoped that the Government would con-
sider the subject, and by next session prepare a measure
to give the bishops some more effectual power of punish-
ing clerks.
The Bishop of NORWICH presented a petition from the
"Undergraduates and Bachelors of Arts of Cambridge,
intended for the ministry, praying for an alteration in
the Ecclesiastical Criminal Law. The right rev. prelate
stated two cases, showing the difficulty which the bishops
bad in dealing with clerks, who by their conduct brought
a scandal on the Church.
The Lord CHANCELLOR said that there was no one in
the house who felt more deeply than be did the ineffi-
ciency of the law in this respect as it stood at present.
The fact was, that the bishops had not the power to do
their duty. However, he thought it would be inexpedient
to discuss the measure, now that the right rev. prelate
intended, and, in his opinion, most properly, to withdraw
it. He should merely add, that he should feel it his duty
to give the right rev. prelate every assistance in his power,
with a view of framing, by next session, a measure which
would attain the objects intended by the right rev. prelate.
The order was then discharged.
The E;rl of RADNOR pointed out that ten or twelve
peers had signed the protest against the Corn-law Repeal
bill who had not been present at the discussion, which
was at variance with the rule.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, on bringing up the re-
port on the Annuity Bill of Lord Hardinge, moved its
restoration to the state in which it had been brought up
to that house.—The Duke of RicumoND opposed the
amendment ; but after a discussion, shared in by the Earl
of Ripon, Lord Brougham, the Marquis of Clanricarde;
and the Earls of Galway and Wicklow, the amendment
was carried, on a division, by 47 to 18. The annuities
granted to Lords liardinge and Gough will therefore not
be payable to those noble lords during their lifetime, but
will commence with their descendants.