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TNE.EARL OP DEVON.

Lord DENMAN said he had transmitted their lordships' vote
of thanks to the Earl of Devon, from whom he had received
an answer, which, with their lordships' permission, he would
now read. • His lordship then read, in an audible tone, as fol-
lows :

"Duke-street, June 26,

"My lard,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your lordship's letter of yesterday's date, communicating to me
an unanimous resolution of the House of Lords, and I beg of
you to convey to the house my sincere thanks for the very flat-
tering manner in which my services as clerk-assistant have been
noticed. To merit the approbation of one of the houses of par-
liament of this great country must be to every man a source of
just pride ; but this affords peculiar pleasure to one who has
had the opportunities which I have enjoyed of witnessing the
great talents and high trine of feeling which characterise the
individuals who have concurred in this resolution • and this ex-
pression of approbation from the House of Lords is, 1 trust,
calculated to answer a more important purpose than the grati-
fication of my personal vanity., After more than thirty years
spent in the various gradations of .a lawyer's life, I am now re-
tiring from a high office, for which I was selected by those who
were acquainted with my conduct in other situations. We
know that in the exercise of the legal profession the successful
barrister secures for himself a high reward in the confidence
and admiration of the public before whom lie acts; but in the
more quiet, though not less honourable, stations which it has
been my lot to fill, the meed of praise from the few whose posi-
tion peculiarly enables them to appreciate the due performance
of the duties belonging to them becomes doubly valuable; and
whilst the flattering testimony now borne to my conduct will al-
ways he to use a source of the purest gratification, I think also
the younger men engaged in'the pursuit of a laborious profes-
sion may draw from it this useful lesson—that even Without the
possession of great powers or brilliant talents, they may assuredly
secure to themselves much of honourable dititinction and. of
worldly advantage by the diligentr and faithful discharge of
the duties of those .stations in which they may happen to be
placed.
I beg to return your lordship my best acknowledgments for
the kind expressions with which you have accompained the con-
veyance of the resolution to me; and
"I have the honour to remain, my lord,
" Your lordship's faithful servant,
" The Lord Speaker, &c. " DEVON."
The reading of this acknowledgment was followed by loud
cries of " Hear." _

Viscount MELBOURNE moved—" That the letter addressed to
the Lord Speaker by the Eurl of Devon in acknowledgment of
the vote of this house be entered on the journals."—Agreed to
nem. di:.

OATHS' ABOLITION BILL.

The Duke of RiciamoNn said he had on a former evening
given notice of his intention to propose a bill for the amendment
of the unnecessary oaths' abolition bill. Since that time, how-
ever, some individuals in the city of London complained, that
if this act did away with voluntary affidavits with reference to
commercial papers in this country, it would place them in a
worse situation than individuals in the West Indies, who were
also engaged in commercial speculations. Now, he certainly
did not wish to place mercantile men here in a worse situation
than that in which their brethren in the West Indies were
placed; and, therefore,. it was his intention to move for the re-
appointment of the select committee on the abolition of oaths
bill. The probable view of that committee would be to recom-
mend that the system of taking voluntary oaths in the West
Indies should be abolished, and thus the parties would be placed
on a level. The noble duke concluded by moving that "the
committee on the abolition of unnecessary oaths be renewed."
The motion was agreed to, and the house adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY.
DROGIIEDA ELECTION.
Mr. Gontautim reported to the house, that A. C. O'Dwyer,
Esq., had not been duly elected, and that the Hon. Randall
Plunkett ought to have been returned. The clerk of the crown
haying amended the return, Mr. Plunkett took his seat, as did
Mr. %ors for the borough of Carlow.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
Sir J. Y. BULLER presented a petition from the corporation
of Tiverton against some parts of the municipal reform bill.
Lord BANDON could not let that opportunity pass without no-
ticing a statement in the report of the commissioners in refer-
ence to this borough. The :statement regarded the appointment
of an officer several years ago. The real facts of the case were
these :—The Earl of Harrowby, about thirty years ago, on the
recommendation of the corporation of this borough. appointed
a gentleman to the office of receiver-general of the county.
Finding, however, previous to the completion of the appoint-
.
.urent, that this gentleman had bargained with the corporation
to pay a certain sum towards one of their charities, the Earl of
Harrowbv refused to complete the appointment until this bar-
gain was disavowed and annulled. It was rather unfair on the
part of the commissioners to be bringing forward stories of this
kind relating to matters that Occurred So tnanv years ago; when
professedly amongst all parties the standard of political morality
was by no means so high or so pure as it was at the present day.
(Hear.). At the period, for instance, of Lord North's adminis-
tration, men the most pure, virtuous, and honourable in private
life
,did things in their political capacity of which public men
now-a-days would he ashamed. (Hear, hear.) Having de-
fended Lord Harrowby, he would only add that in this instance,
and in other reports of the commissioners, a strong colouring
had been given to their statements by persons who seemed de-
termined to make out a case. (Hear.)
Mr. BLACKBURN defended the conduct of the commissioners.
IRISH POOR LAWS.
Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Dublin in favour
of a pour-law for Ireland.

DISSENTERS.
In answer to a question by Mr. Wilks, Lord JOHN RUSSELL
stated, that early in the next session he would introduce mea-
sures relative to church rates, registrations of births, marriages
and deaths, and dissenters' marriages.
ROMAN CATHOLIC OATH.
Sir IL INGLis conceived himself called upon to make a few
observations with respect to something that had passed on the
presentation of a petition by him a few nights ago to that house.
I-le had certainly not beard that which had been (as we under-
stood the hon. gentleman to say, who spoke in a low tone, and
amidst considerable noise) reported to have passed on the occa-
sion, although he was in his place. lie had merely done what
he conceived to be his duty nu the presentation of that petition,
but it appeared that he had been very *grossly attacked by an
hon. and learned gentleman opposite. As to the scandal of
that hOn. and learned gentleman, he would rather be the sub-
ject of it than otherwise, but he did deprecate any course that
was calculated to prevent free debate in that house. Either
there or elsewhere he should .he ready to explain all he had
stated on this question,
Mr. O'CositsEt.t. said, that as to what he had stated, he had
done no snore than confine himself to the debate Lefote the
house.

Sir R. Nun s.—You descend to personalities.
Mr. O'CONNELL—Personalities! The charge made against
him was that of perjury; and was a person who accused another
of perjury to appeal to the sympathies of the house if the party
repelling the charge resorted to personalities ? He had given
an answer to the charge which had been brought against ;
he should not do so any more; hut if any person accused him
again of perjury, he would not, in refutation, resort to person-
alities, but he would tell him in plain and more modern language
that lie was lying. (Cries of " Oh, oh !" " Hear, hear, and
" Chair, chair.") To gentlemen who cheered at this, he would
only say once more, that if he were accused again of perjury,
he should just use language in repelling the accusation equal in
character to that which was applied to him. That was the way
he should meet the charge, and be never would consent to be
bandying civil terms with any man who should dare to make
that charge against him again, feeling there was no man in that
house lest capable of committing such a crime than himself.
Sir R. 'No Lts then called upon the Speaker to interfere to
protect the freedom of debate in that house, and it being his
business to protect the individual honour of members.
The'SnrAgnalaidimanndoribtedly language bad-Veen used
which could only have been- used in, the heat of the moment. Ile
could not but regret hearing it said of the statement made by
one of the oldest members of that house that his statement was
false. No doubt the language that had provoked that expres-
sion had been strong also; but he should never cease to say
that the use of such expressions was not only extremelyincon-
venient, but most undesirable. Freedom of debate never could
be so well preserved as by hon. gentlemen maintaining that
calmness of temper which ought to characterize the proceed-
ings of the House of Commons. He did hope that this matter
would now be at an end.
IPSWICH ELECTION.
A long discussion arose respecting the parties now in custody
on account of their conduct in this business, who were ordered
to he brought to the bar of the house on the following day.
Mr. Giseotouss: gave notice of a motion that the Attorney-
(ienerat be instructed to prosecute all the parties implicated in
the bribery practised at the Ipswich election.
Messrs. Bignuld and Booth were ordered to attend at the
house on Monday next, and Mr. Keith, Mr. Money, and Mr.
Pilgrim-were also ordered to attend on the same day.
GOVERNOR OF INDIA.
Mr. W. PR AR n rose, pursuant to notice, to move for copies
of ally communications which had passed etween the board of
commissioners for the affairs of India and the court of directors
of the East India Company, on the subject of the revocation of
the appointment of Lord Heytesbury as governor.geueral of
India. He said he did not regret that he bad not enjoyed the
'opportunity of bringing forward his motion at an earlier period,
because he wished it to be considered upon its own merits, apart
from all personal and political motives. The East India Com-
pany desirous of having a permauent successor appointed in the
room of Lord William Bentinek, Lord Heytesbury was selected
by Sir Robert Peel's administration, but in April the noble
lord's appointment was cancelled by authority of the iign ma-
nual, au extreme exercise of power for which some urgent rea-
son should be assigned. Under these circumstances, he was of
opinion that the house ought to have an opportunity cf express-
ing its opinion, and be begged to refer them to the act of 1833.
He nudes stood that a communication had been made to the
court of directors by the board of control, that the two months
Would not be counted from the cancelling of Lord Heytesbury,
but from the return t.t. Lord W. Bentinelc. Now this, he must
say, was an unconstitutional exercise of the crown; for, suppose
that the two-months had elapsed before the arrival of Lord W.
Bentinck, and that a change of ministry should take place in
the interim, the new ministry might very fairly not think them-
selves bound by an arrangement made contrary to the express
provisions of an act of parliament, and in that case the appoint-
ment, to which the court of directors would otherwise have a
right, would lapse to the crown. He would now ask whether
there were any reasons for' the objection made to the appoint-
ment bf Lord Ileytesbury? If the right hon. baronet (Sir J.
C. Ilobliciuse) would say. that he did not consider the govern-
ment of India Would be safe in the hands of the noble lord—it'
he thought that the commands of government here would not be
obeyed by the noble lord in India. then his motion would fall to
the ground; but i! he (Mr. Praed could show that the only