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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-07 00:00:00

imprriat Varitanunt.

HOUSE OF CONEWONS—WEDNESDAY, jut.t, 1.
(Couciuded from the STANDARD of F.riday.)
woLvEnHAsiptoN
Lord JOHN RUSSELL brought up the minutes of evidence
taken in the Wolverhampton inquiry, which On the motion of
his lordship were ordered to be printed.

THE SCOTCH Cli CECIL
Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved "That an humble address be
presented to his Majesty, praying that 'his Majesty may be
graciously pleased to appoint a commission to inquire into the
opportunities of religious worship and the means of religious
instruction, and the pastoral superintendence afforded to the
people or Scotland, and how far these are available for the re-
ligious and mural improvement of the poor and working classes;
with a view to obtain information with respect to the state of
their attendance on places of worship, and their actual con-
nexion with any religious denomination; to inquire what funds
are, or may hereafter be, available for the purposes of the
established church of Scotland, and report from time to time, in
order that such remedies me.y be applied to any existing•evil as
parliament may think fit."
The motion was agreed to.
IPSWICH ELECTION.
Mr. JACKSON informed the house that Mr. O'Malley was now
in attendance, and moved that he be brought to the bar.
r. O'Malley having been placed at the bar--
The SPE A X Elt addressed-him to the following effect :—" Peter
Frederick O'Malley, this house has found you guilty of aiding
and abetting a witness in absconding to avoid giving his testi-
mony before the committee to whom the petition complaining
of an undue return for the borough of Ipswich was referred. In
weighing the guilt of those persons who have violated the privi-
leges of the house on'this occasion, the house has hail no hesita-
tion in coming to this conclusion—that those who had so aided
and abetted witnesses to abscond are, in the judgment of the
house, most guilty and most deserving of punishment. It is with
peculiar pain that I state this to a gentleman, a member of the
profession to which I myself have the honour to belong; and I
hope that in discharging the duty now imposed on me I shall
be excused by the house if, in consideration of the circumstances
in which you stand, I dwell with, less severity on you than perhaps
in strictness I ought to do. In your petition you state your,
ignorance that what you did was in violation of the privileges
of the house. This is an excuse which the house will receive
from no man, and least of all from one in your situation. In
your attendance as counsel before the committee you leagued
yourself with those who sought to obstruct the due administra-
tion of justice by aiding others to abscond to avoid giving their
testimony. This was conduct on your part on which I ain sure
you can never reflect hereafter but with deep regret. In con-
sideration of the circumstances stated in your petition, of your
regret for what you did; and also considering what it has heard
as to the state of your health, the house in its lenity has con-
sented to *hOrten the term of your imprisonment, and I feel.
assured that you will receive with due gratitude the ►ndulgence
which has thus been extended to you. 1 have now to inform you,
that you are discharged on payment of your fees."
On the motion of Lord J. Russell, it was ordered that what
had just been said by the Speaker be entered on the journals.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BILL.
The house then went into committee, and proceeded to the
36th clause, when the chairman reported progress.

EXPENSI,S AT ELECTIONS BILL.
In consequence of some objections taken to this bill, as hav-
ing provisions in it with respect to the qualification of mein,
bers, which were considered to go beyond its ostensible object,
Mr. Hume agreed to withdraw it for the resent.
Mr. OLIPHANT obtained leave to bring in a bill to abolish
the convention of royal burghs in Scotland.
The bill was subsequently brought in, and read a first time.
The other orders of the 'day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned at a quarter past one o'clock.