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Vrorettino in Varliament.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY.
The Bill for the Conservancy of the Tyne was read a second
time on a division, by a majority of twelve.
The Marquis of LA NS oowNE moved the order of the day for
going into committee on the Irish Poor Relief Bill.

Lord STANLEY repeated the objections which he hnd before
raised against the measure, and after some preliminary discus-
sion the house resolved itself into committee.

The let or maximum rate clause was rejected by a majority
of 8. The other clauses were agreed to as far as the 16th, upon
which, and the three following clauses, a sec.ind division took
place, in which Ministers were again defeated, and the clauses
rejected. The rest of the bill was agreed to without opposition,
and the report of the committee oLdered to be received on
Monday (yesterday).

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY.
The house went into committee upon the Small Debts Act
Amendment (Compensation for Offices Abolished) Bill, when
a formal resolution was agreed to, after a general protest by.
Lord D. STUART and Mr. OFRORNE against the principle of
granting comnensation to the officers of the Palace Court.
The house then went into committed upon the Small Debts
Act Amendment Bill, which underwent much discussion and
some material alterations. A proposition by Mr. FITZROY, for
extending the jurisdiction of the County Courts from .420 to
£5O, met with much support, but was negatived upon a divi-
sion. The Chairman was obliged to report progress, and ask
leave to sit again.

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The Stock-in-1 rade Bill was read a second time, and the In-
land Ports (Colonies) Bill, the Commons' Inclosure (No. 2)
Bill, and the County Rates, Sze. Bill, were read a third time
and passed.
The subject of the recent collision between Ribanamen and
Orangemen at Castlewellan was noticed by Lord CASTLEREAGH,
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On the order of the day for the boom to resolve itself into a
Cominittee of Supply,
Mr. HENLEY moved, pursuant to notice, that a reduction of
10 per cent. be made in all salaries in the departments of Go-
vernment at home and abroad. He contended that Ft kreai.
change had taken place in the condition of !te country since
1831, when the present rate of salaries was fixed. The incomes
of the agricultural and producing classes had been depreciated
20 per cent by legislation ; and it was only right that the public
servants, whose food and other neces.A.aries had been cheapened,
should submit to a reduction. His proposition did not extend
to the army and navy, or the law.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in urging the inex-
pediency, in the present state of the country, of reducing the
incomes of pubic officers, referred to the report of the commit-
tee of 1831, by which the scale of salaries had been revised, and
which had suggested the impolicy of depressing too low the sa-
laries attached to public employments. The fairest way of de-
ciding the question was to compare the salaries paid for corre-
sponding employments in public offices and private situations,
and so far as he had been able to ascertain, the latter were bet-
ter paid ; the certainty of employment in the former affording
an equivalent. He believed there woad be no advantage in
reducing public cal"ics,—wnich were not higher than was suffi-
cient to secure adequate services,—hut that, on the contrary, it
would be most prejudicial to the public service.
Mr. NEWDEGATE supported the motion, arguing that our
late mon'aiary and commercial theories had depressed the ex-
changeable value of the products and labour of the Country; it
was, therefore, necessary to accommodate our expenditure to
this impoverishing policy, and the money payment of itspublic
servants to the real value of their services.
After a lengthy debate in which Mr. V. Smith, Mr. Roebuck,
Mr. Henry Drummond, Mr. Hume, Mr. Herries, Mr. Muntz,
Mr. Cobden, and others, t ok part, the house divided, rejecting
the proposition by a majority of 149 to 102.
The house then went into committee of supply, and was en-
gaged upon the Ordnance estimates until a quarter past 1
o'clock, when the Chairman reported progress, having leave to
sit again on Wednesday. The other orders of the day having
been disposed of, the house adjourned at half-past two.