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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY

Sir W. MOLESWORTH called the attention of the house
to the subject of the expenditure and government in our
Colonies, and entered into a long statistical statement of
the various amounts expended in order to support the
different colonies, some of which cost us more than the
total amount of our exports to them. The hon. baronet
Concluded a very lengthened speech by stating that if large
sums of money were to be spent on the colonies, they
might be much more advantageously applied in promoting
the emigration of all classes of society, so as to make the
colonies as much like the mother country as possible.
The hon. gentleman then moved—" That it is the opinion
of this house that the colonial expenditure of the British
empire demands inquiry, with a view to its reduction:;
and that to accomplish this object, and to secure greater
contentment and prosperity to the colonists, they ought
to be invested with large powers for the administration of
their local affairs ;" and added that if the house agreed to
it, he should, in the early part of the next session, move
for a select committee on the subject.
Mr. HUTT seconded the motion ; and after speeches
from Mr. HAWES and other hon. members, the debate
was adjourned.
Mr. ANSTEY then rose, upon which the house was im-
mediately counted out.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY

On the reading of the order of the day for resuming the
debate on the repeal of the union,
Mr. R. M. Fox did not feel inclined, in the present
condition of Ireland, to raise a debate on this subject. He
therefore moved that the order of the day be discharged.
An objection in point of form was taken to this motion
by the SPEAKER, _ _ _ .

Mr. R. M. Fox therefore moved that the debate be ad-
journed to that day six months.
After some remarks from Mr. ANSTEY, Sir B. HALL
thanked Mr. Fox for having saved him the trouble of
making the same motion. It was batter that the order
should be discharged, or the debate adjourned on the mo-
tion of the repeal leaders, inasmuch as that step would
show the fallacy and absurdity of their whole proceedings.
lie taunted Mr. John O'Connell with not having the
moral courage to argue the question, which he had himself
brought forward, and to take the sense of the house upon
it. He begged to remind Mr. Fox that the commence-
ment, origin, and progress of the republican movement in
Ireland could be traced to the Repeal Association. He
hoped that after this the house would hear no more of
lion. gentleman going over to the other side of the water,
and. saying that the House of Commons would not enter-
tain the subject of repeal.
A discussion of some interest then took place, in which
Mr. REYNOLDS, Mr. GRATTAN, Mr. ANSTEY, Mr. UR-
QDDART, Mr. RICE, Major BLACKALL, and Lord J. Rus-
BELL took part. The motion for the adjournment of the
debate was then put and carried.

On the motion that the house resolve itself into com-
mittee on the Waste Lands (Ireland) Bill, some discussion
took place between Sir J. WALSH, Mr. P. SCROPE, Col.
DUNNE, Mr. REYNOLDS. Mr. FRENCH, Mr. 0. GORE,
Sir G. GREY, and Sir D. NORREYS ; but as Mr. FRENCH
declined to divide upon his own bill, the motion was ulti-
mately negatived without a division.
On the motion of Mr. W. FAGAN the Life Assurance
Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed
on Wednesday naxt.

The Sale of. Beer Bill went throuzh committee. The
report was ordered to be received on Wednesday.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-THIIRSDAY

Lord BROUGHAM asked the Marquis of Lansdowne
whether there was not ground to suppose that the accounts
received in London the day before respecting an out-
break in Ireland, and the defeat of the troops, were not
grossly exaggerated.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was happy to be able to
state that there was almost a certainty either that the re-
ports in question were altogether unfounded, or that they
rested on the slightest possible foundation. He assured
the House that the Government were in possession of a
despatch from the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, dated 3
o'clock Wednesday afternoon, which came to them by a
Queen's messenger, and which contained nothing relating
to any outbreak. A letter had also been received by the
Government, dated 6 o'clock in the evening of the same
day, which was equally silent as to any such event. Cir-
cumstanced as Ireland was at present, it was of course
-fiery probable that an outbreak might occur; but he
trusted it would be attended by consequences far different
from what had been reported.
After some observations from the Marquis of LONDON-
DERRY in praise of the ministerial policy in Ireland,
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, that since he had
last spoken he had received another letter from Dublin,
dated seven o'clock, Wednesday evening, which made no
mention of any outbreak ; he felt, therefore, warranted
in believing that no such event had occurred.
The Health of Towns Bill was read a third time and
passed.