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HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoNnAv.
On the motion for going into committee on the Auction
Duties Bill,
The Duke of RICHMOND moved as an amendment,
that it should be committed that day six months. The
noble duke said he objected to the repeal of the auction
duties, because it was uncalled for. and because, if the
revenue could hear a loss of £300,000, the agricultural
interests had a fair claim to that amount of remission
from the burthens that peculiarly pressed on them. His
grace said he was much pleased that a similar amend rent
had been made in the other house ; for it showed who
there were who would vote for measures—not for men.
If a want of confidence in the government were proposed,
as far as agricultural measures were concerned, lie (the
Duke of Bichmond) would be prepared to vote for it.

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The Earl of DALitousie contended that the farmers
had received their full share of the reductions made in
the articles of timber, coffee, cotton, sugar, glass, &c.,
and treated as ridiculous the idea that the importation of
corn and cattle under the Canada Corn Act and the tariff
would ever materially affect the prices of agricultural
home produce.

Several members spoke for and against the amendment,
when, on a division, it was rejected by a majority of 33
to 15.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY.
In answer to a question from Captain Hoes,
Mr. G. W. HOPE said that Captain Fitzroy had been
superseded in the government of New Zealand. but not
on any grounds connected with the charges made against
him by the New Zealand Company, or at all air_ cting his
personal character or honour.
On the motion for receiving the report on the May-
nooth College Bill,
Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved as an amendment, " That
any provision for the separate or exclusive education of
any particular religious denomination, or for the support
or endowment of any religious sect or sects, by state
grants or funds raised by compulsory assessment, whether
under the uame of tithes, rents, ceases, taxes, regium
donum, or under any other name or form whatever, is a
♦iolation of the rights of conscience, detrimental to reli-
gious truth, anti dangerous to civil and religious free-
dom ; and that all such establishments, grants, or endow-
ments, now in existence in the United Kingdom, ought
to be discontinued with as little delay as may be consis-
tent with a due regard to the rights of those who have
life interest in the same."

Sir R. 11. Iscus said the Roman Catholics were taxed
in common with the rest of the community to maintain
the established church, which was the depository of the
religion of the state.

After some explanatory remarks from Sir R. PEEL
upon the exclusive nature of the education at Maynooth,
Mr. H INDLEY defended the conduct of the dissenters
who had supported the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, al-
though they telt that the present question stood upon a
principle wholly different—that of the endowment of the
Roman Catholic church.
The amendment was negatived by a majority of I 11
to 2

The house having resolved itself into a committee of
supply on the navy estimates,
Lord PALMERSTON drew the attention of the house to
the alarming increase of the slave trade in Cuba and
Brazil, and impressed upon the government the necessity
of active interference by destroying all the barracoons of
the west coast of Africa ; and at the same time insisting
upon the liberation of all those slaves in Cuba Rho have
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land.
sir unlawfully detained in slavery in that
.ciir R. PEEL complained of the noble lord's bringing
this subject forward without giving him the slightest in-
timation of his intention. He did not despair of seeing a
cordial union between France and England for the sup-
pression of the slave trade--a union which would be more
effectual for that object than any other measure whatso-
ever. He would rather decline for the present giving any
opinion respecting the state of the slaves referred to in
Cuba ; but he feared that the loss of General Valdez, as
governor of the colony, had not as yet been adequately
supplied. With respect to the proposal of destroying the
barracoons, whether contrary to national law or nut, he
must say that he did not think they would serve their
object by acting illegally. He thought it probable, how-
ever, that the consent of the native chiefs might be ob-
tained for the destruction of these barracoons by negoci-
atii n.

After some further conversation, the matter dropped.
The discussion of the estimates was then proceeded
with, and occupied the remainder of the evening.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
Sir J. GRAHAM stated, that in consequence of the in-
terference of the Marquis of Normanby, the City of
London had established regulations prohibiting the ad-
mission of the public to the " condemned sermons" in
Newgate. Those regulations appeared to have been vio-
lated in the case of Hocker, and he had therefore directed
one of the prison inspectors to make a searching inquiry,
and upon his report he would, if necessary, introduce a
legislative measure on the subject.
In reply to a question from Mr. BOUVERIE,
Sir J. GRAHAM said, last Tuesday he had received
through the Foreign-office the explicit opinion of the
judge and public prosecutor on the trial of the supposed
assassins, declaring that nothing had been elicited in the
slightest degree inculpating Mr. Mazzini. Had he known
this sooner he would have refrained from his statement
of a former evening, but having made it he could now only
express a hope that his retraction would be made as public
as his original accusation.
„.• the re-rommittal of the Phy.
sic and Surgery Bill pro forrnd, with the view ur
clueing alterations which he conceived to be necessary to
the success of the measure. He complained of the diffi-
culties attending legislation on this subject—difficulties
which, if he could have foreseen them at starting, might
have prevented him from taking up the subject at all ;
but, having devoted so much attention as he had done to
the subject, he was unwilling to abAndon it without ef-
fecting some improvement beneficial as well to the pro-
fession as to the public. The right hon. baronet then
stated at cons:derable length the nature of the alterations
which he was prepared to carry out. If he should not
succeed in this effort at a satisfactory arrangement, he
confessed lie should despair of accomplishing the task by
any future exertion.
The bill went through committee, and the house ad-
journed.