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imperial Varliament.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—Mos.

..DAY.

A number of petitions were pre_tftted from nurnt.rous
places in the dioceses of St. knaph and Bangor agui.:st
the union of the sees St. Asaph and Bangor.
.

Lord BRouGnAm, kn presenting a petition from Sir
Augustus &Este. whose claim, he said, to the Dukedom
of Sussex, the Earldom of Inverness, and the Barony of
Arktow, was now before the Committee of Privileges.
The petitioner stated that one of his witnesses, the Che-
valier Bunsen, the Minister from the Court of Prussia,
was about to leave this country, and would be absent for
three months. He, therefOre, prayed that the evidence
of the Chevalier Bunsen should be taken de bene esse,
due notice being given to the Attorney-General.
After a short discussion, the petition was laid on the
table.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY.

The SPEAKER informed the house, that the sureties
offered for prosecuting the petition against the return of
Mr. Bruges for Devizes were found to be unexceptionable.
Mr. W. GLADSTONE, in rising to propose the resolu-
tions of the Railway Committee, said, as the Lancaster
and Carlisle Railway happened to be one of those upon
which the question would arise, whether it ought to be
considered as a competing line, he should take an oppor-
tunity of proposing that the committee upon the bill
should be deferred for a time, in case the house should
agree to the resolutions he was about to move. These
resolutions he had now to move in conformity with the
desire of the committee of which be had now the honour
to be the chairman, and as they had already been placed
in the hands of the house, he hoped hon. gentlemen had
made themselves acquainted with them. The right hon-
ourable gentleman concluded by moving a resolution to
the following effect :—" That in each case, where bills
are now pending to authorise the construction of new lines
of railway competing with one another, such bills be res-
pectively referred to one committee."

- The 'notion was opposed by Col. Sibthorp, and a divi-
sion having taken place the motion was carried by a ma-
jority of 200 to 3.
Before the house resolved itself into committee of
Supply, a conversation was originated by Mr. Borthwick
about the appointment of a time for the discussion of the
poor law.

- Sir J, GRAHAM announced the intention of govern-
ment to bring on that subject when the factory bill should
Lave been disposed of.
Mr. WILLIAMS then entered into a general survey of
the army estimates, which, he contended, were too large to
be borne by the country in its present distressed state,
and proposed that they should be referred to a select
committee

Mr. S. CRAWFORD complained of the unconstitutional
nature of so large a standing army. Why was it neces-
sary to the safety of life and property that the standing
army should be so large? He moved, as an amendment,
a resolution that the maintenence of a large standing army
was unconstitutional and dangerous..
This amendment, after a brief discussion, was nega-
tived by a majority of 79.
After some other votes had been agreed to the house
resumed, and the further consideration of the estimates
was postponed nntil Friday.