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HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY

The scene in the House of Lords, which, from Lord
Brougham's violence on Tuesday evening, might have
been expected, did not " come off."
Lord ABERDEEN briefly explained, that he had under-
stood his learned opponent to acquiesce in the course he
had adopted, and to reserve his opposition for a future
stage of the bill. and, as an evidence of his inclination to
consult Lord Brougham's convenience, consented to a
yet further postponement.
Lord BROUGHAM professed himself entirely satisfied
with this explanation.
_

The bill for the enclosure of Hampstead-heath having
been withdrawn, their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY

Almost the entire sitting was devoted to the proceed-
ings in committee on the Irish Arms Bill. The opposi-
tion to several clauses, particularly to that which provides
for the affixing of a mark or brand on each weapon, was
factious and vexatious in the extreme ; however, the most
important clauses were got through in the course of the

evening.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY,

Messengers from the House of Commons brought up a
request that their lordships would permit the attendance
of the Duke of Wellington to give evidence before the
shipwreck committee.—Leave was given for the attend-
ance of the Duke.

Lord WHARNCLIFFE laid upon the table of the house
copies of the correspondence with the Lord Chancellor of
Ireland respecting the dismissal of Irish magistrates.
The Earl of ABERDEEN then moved the second reading
of the Apprehension of Offenders Bill, by which an inter-
national system of giving up offenders was to be esta-
blished with France and America.

The bill, after some observations from Lords CAMP-
BELL and BROUGHAM, was read a second time, and their
lordships soon after adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
In reply to a question from Mr. H. HINDE, respecting
the materials collected by the late Mr. Petre towards
editing the collection of British Historians,
Sir J. GRAHAM said that, in consequence of the delay
in the labours of Mr. Petre, and without any disrespect
to his memory, the Treasury, in 1836, had given him no-
tice that he need not persevere in his labours. It was,
however, now proposed, with the sanction of the Master
of the Rolls, to hand over to the Historical Society the
materials he bad left behind him ; and that society was
about to publish a work in accordance with the design of
Mr. Petre.
In reply to a question from Mr. HARES,
Sir J. GRAHAM said that all the regulations respecting
education in the Factories Bill, as it now stood, were com-
prised in four clauses. Those clauses altered the ages of
the children employed from 9 to 13, as it is under the ex-
isting law to 8 and 13; they altered the number:of hours
from eight to six and a half per diem, and gave a power
to the committee of privy council on education to appoint
inspectors of schools, and to withhold grants of money
when they saw cause for so doing.
Mr. GISBORNE then moved for a committee to inquire
into the allegations of the petitions which had been pre-
sented to the house respecting Nottingham electioneering.
The hon. member entered into a lengthened statement of
the proceedings at the two or three last Nottingham
elections, many of his inferences implicating to a con-
siderable extent the Earl of Lincoln, whose conduct, he
said, could not be considered quite consistent with that of
a high-minded man. Although the details of the bribery
and corruption practised at those elections were by ,no
means new, yet they were sufficiently deplorable and dis-
gusting, and presented a strong prima" facie case for the
necessity of granting a committee of inquiry.
Lord LINCOLN entered upon a defence of his con-
duct, and said that corruption had taken such a firm
hold of Nottingham that it could be only cured by
disfranchisement, or by some arrangement by which
the representation of that borough could be divided
_ quietly between the contending parties. For his own
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY.
part he had never done anything either to corrupt
or enslave, and he could safely assert that his father,
Sir T. WILDE moved for a select committee to inquire even in the days when boroughmongering was
.general,
into the progress made in carrying into effect the recom- had never sold a seat in his life. On the contrary, he had
mendations of Mr. Rowland Hill for Post-office improve- invariably expended considerable sums in the legal ex-
ments, and whether the further carrying into effect of penses attending the return of the four members he was
such recommendations or any of them will be likely to enabled in those times to return. The noble lord conclus
prove beneficial to the country. His motion was the re- ded by moving an amendment which he said would ren-
suit of the dismissal or retirement, not certainly volun- der the inquiry more extensive, by investigating the cir-
tary, of Mr. Rowland Hill. The hon. and learned cumstances connected with the last election for the
gentleman proceeded to give an account of Mr. Hill's borough, and the proceedings consequent on the petition
connection with the Post-office, stating that he was a against the return.
plied to by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to superintend_ Sir R. FEEL said he would not oppose the motion, as
the working of his plan. Mr. Hill declined to enter into the interested parties had acquiesced in it; but he could
the service of the Government, but offered his gratuitous not help saying that the precedent was in his opinion a
services, which were declined. After further negotiation dangerous one. It appeared to him to be very hard that
he entered into an agreement by which his services were after the return of a member had been declared valid, he
secured for two years certain, with a distinct understand- should still be exposed to such an indefinite inquiry.as the
ing that if then terminated he should have no other one proposed. He would strongly recommend Mr. Gis-
pecuniary claim upon the Treasury. He then entered borne to consider the matter well before he committed the
upon his duties; but it was only by degrees that the oh- house to a proceeding which might have the effect of sub-
struction of the Post-office authorities could be overcome, jecting any member to a second ordeal after he had estab-
and it was only by the resolute determination of the late lished the yalidity of his return.
Government that the public obtained the advantage of the Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he had never seen less bribery
uniform penny-postage. A change in the Government than at the last election for Nottingham, from which
was subsequently foreseen, and it was not thought delicate charge he exonerated both parties.
to do anything which could bind the present Cabinet, and Ultimately the original motion and amendments were
the result was that at the termination of Mr. Hill's en- all withdrawn and the matter dropped.
gagement he was re-engaged for one year only, and at the The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the order
termination of the third year his services was altogether of the day for the house resolving itself into a committee
dispensed with. Mr. Hill, in a letter to Sir R. Peel, of- of supply.
fered to continue his services gratuitously, his anxious de- Mr. HUME moved the following resolution :—" That it
sire being to see his plan carried into full operation. In appears that Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland re •
reply Sir R. Peel politely stated that the plan had been in ceived for many years, under the sanction of acts of the
operation for two years, and that its principle was well British Parliament, a pension of --£21,000 sterling from the
understood. It certainly was true that the uniform penny British Exchequer for his maintenance and support as a
rate was in operation for that time, but not so the other prince of the royal family of England ; that in the year
portions, upon which depended whether the public were 1837, on the death of William the Fourth, Ernest Augus-
to have increased facilities of economic communication, tus succeeded to the throne of Hanover, and became an
Mr. Hill had endeavoured to get various improvements independent Sovereign and a member of the German Con-
effected without success, though he would have succeeded federation ; that he has been King of Hanover since 1837.
had he remained in the office assigned him ; but the Post- and has received annually during that period £21,000 from
office was impatient of the active superintendence of a the taxes of the United Kingdom ; that the payment of a
man who sharply investigated all oral-practices, and had pension to an independent foreign sovereign from the
crushed small jobs attempted to be perpetrated. He had taxes of the United Kingdom is a waste of public money
in fact, effected savings greater than the amount of his and therefore, in the opinion of this house, the pension of
three years' salary. Mr. Hill asserted that there was an £21,000 having been granted by parliament to Ernest
erroneous statement in the Post-office accounts to the ex- Augustus for his maintenance whilst Duke of Cumberland,
tent of £lOO,OOO, and in the face of such an assertion he ought to be discontinued whilst he continues King of
thought the house should grant the committee, and the Hanover." The hon. gentleman enlarged upon the hard-
Government ought to be anxious to bring the matter to ship of the people in their present depressed condition
issue. Mr. Hill proposed the registration of letters to being called upon to pay a sum of money sufficient to
insure their safety, and though that threepence would be maintain 1,000 families to a prince who was never a fa-
a sufficient remuneration, but it was contended that it vorite while he resided amongst them.
would not be too much to allow sixpence in considers- Mr. WILLIAMS seconded the motion.
tion ; and forthwith the Post-office, in order to save itself Sir R. PEEL said that the faith of Parliament was
trouble, charged one shilling. Under these circumstances, pledged to this provision for his royal highness, and de-
he hoped the inquiry would be granted, in order to ascer- fended the conduct pursued by him when he found that
tain by whom the plan had been obstructed, and in what the House of Commons disapproved of the establishment
way the country could realise most readily the great ad- of orange lodges. He opposed the motion, also, on the
vantages likely to result from its full adoption. ground that it would be unjust for the pension was by act
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER contended that of Parliament granted to him for life. To attempt to say
the Treasury minute under which Mr. Hill had been first that because his royal highness became, subsequently,
engaged clearly proved that that engagement was tempo- King of Hanover, and was no longer Duke of Cumber-
rary, with a view to carry out the penny-postage system, land, he could view it in no other light than as an unwor-
and not with the intention of carrying out any further thy quibble. Parliament must have foreseen the possi-
plan which might be in the contemplation of that gentle- billity of his becoming King of Hanover, and would no
man. NN hen he took office he found that Mr. Hill had doubt have made provision for stopping the pension, in
been only engaged for another year, which was the result such a contingency, had they thought it right to do so.
of the care taken by his predecessor, Mr. F. Baring, not He hoped the house would not concur in a motion which
to fetter his successor, for which, and for many similar was alike inconsistent with good faith, and derogatory to
instances of consideration, he took that opportunity of the honour of the country.
publickly returning him his thanks, and begged to assure Lord WORSLEY said that as the pension was given un-
him that he had, as far as possible, endeavoured to carry conditionally by Parliament, it ought not to be withdrawn;
out his intention; and if, in the dismissal of Mr. Hill, he but he thought it right that it should he known that the
bad mistaken the right hon. gentleman's views, the error feeling of the country wne in fnvour of hie following the
was unintentional. The fact was, that it was found to be example of the King of Belgium and of the late Earl
very inconvenient to have Mr. Hill superintending such Camden.
After some observations from Colonel VERNER. in ex-
It appears from a letter in the Northern Star of last
a department as the Post-office, for he virtually super-
planation of the connection of his royal highness with the
Saturday, that Mr. O'Connor has served a writ in a civil
seded the authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
If a similar course were adopted with all the other depart- orange lodges,
dttaricaoi
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Mr. WALLACE said the Duke of Cumberland refused
ments, the result would be great expense to the country,
paper, in connection with the two last Nottingham elec-
to give evidence before the committee on orange lodges,
and an unwise interference with the duties of the respon-
although he knew the object was to examine him as to
Bible officers of those departments. It was in contempla-
tion to give additional facilities for communication by the whether the blank warrants he had issued to the different
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by the number of letters. Mr. Hill's plan for additional the interests of the present Queen—cries of " no, no,"
and " hear.") He believed the name of his royal high-
facilities of delivery was not always applicable, for, in Lon-
don, it would involve the employment of an additional ness was hateful to the whole people of the United King-
elapsed since the last assizes terminated. Surely this is
dom. (Cries of " no, no.") That was his opinion.
pretty strong evidence of the necessity for a winter assize.
number of postmen, at an expense not to be justified by
Mr. FERRAND said he should not be ashamed to say
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any equivalent advantage. The money-order system was,
he contended, superior to the system of registration, and anywhere that he honoured and respected the King of RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,
the A2toat hmienesttianngt
Hanover. (Hear, hear.) He challenged Mr. Hume
the public were availing themselves of it to an enormous
with libelling the Duke of Cumberland, who was the first On Wednesday, an additional distance of 15 miles of solved, " that a'Provisional committee be formed in the
extent. If any other proof were required that Govern-
person who had aided him to a seat in the House of Com- the London and Dover Railway was opened to the Public. 1 Queen's Prison for the purpose of raising funds for the
ment was alive to improvements in the Post-office, it might
moos. Though lie now attacked his royal highness, he The railway now extends to Folkestone and is therefore defence of Mr. Ledford, indicted for breaking the Queen's
be found in the appointment of Lord Lowther as post-
was not ashamed to ask his assistance to obtain a seat for
master-general, a nobleman whom Mr. Hill had eulo-
only seven miles from completion. Prison, in order to raise the question of the ille lit of
the borough of Weymouth. The honourable member On Sunday afternoon, about three o'clock, an accident 1 imprisonment for debt before her Majesty's Judgesg olthe
gised as one of those enlightened individuals who were
Queen's Bench.
defended the orangeinen, who would be found standing occurred on the Manchester and Leeds Railway which
zealous for Post-office reform. In fact they were gradu-
by her Majesty should the people of Ireland be driven proved instantaneously fatal to Anthony Gray, the engi-
ally introducing every advisable improvement, without
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, Mr.
into insurrection by those who would never venture to
rushing into multifarious plans, for the purpose of giving neer in charge of a luggage train.
stand by them in the struggle. Colburn, the publisher and bookseller, obtained a verdict,
a boon to the letter-writing portion of the community, at Mr. Edward Powell, a civil engineer, is taking roes- • Mr. C. BULLER said he should vote for the motion of sores for the establishment of a railway between Worces- with 40s. damages, against the proprietors of the Atlas
the expense of those who were not so deeply interested in
Mr. Hume, but in so doing was not actuated by any per- newspaper for a libel upon him. For the defendants it
epistolary correspondence. By the treaty respecting the ter and Cardiff, to connect the great populations of the i was urged that they had onl y attacked the system of puff-
sonal feeling against either the person or conduct of the
Post-office recently entered into with France, a great re- midland counties and the north of England with the po-
, 13ng publications, and had meant no personal imputation ;
King of Hanover. He contended that the pension was pulous districts of South Wales and the south of Ireland.
duction of rates had been obtained, as well as other ad- King
the verdict of the jury implied that in their opinion
not unconditional, for the act stated that the object was AN OMINOUS PRECAUTION.—BERLIN, JUNE 19.
; the article did involve a charge of personal misconduct.
vantages to the commerce of Great Britain. Government
bad nothing to fear, therefore, from such an investigation to .
make competent provision for the younger branches of
royal family. Now the Duke of Cumberland having 0
The directors of the new railway of Frankfort-on-the-
APPOINTMENT
Oder have resolved to keep at every station a quantity I or CHAPLAINS TO GAOLS.—The law
as that proposed; and he should, therefore, agree to the I the
officers have given their opinion to the Home Secretary,
motion, merely altering it so as to confine it to the inves- i become King. of Hanover, the object of the act of Parlia. of bandages and medicines, in order that in case of acci-
that the appointment of chaplains to gaols is by law vested
tigation of the manner in which the penny-postage system ment was satisfied, for it was no longer necessary to make dent some relief may be given in the first instance. It
were to be wished that the directors of other railways in the magistrates, and not in the town-council. The
had been carried out. a competent provision for a person who was now a foreign
would follow this example. ; question, however, is not free from doubt, and Sir James
Mr. F. BARING said that the whole of Mr. Hill's plan I Sovereign. He warned the house not to try the patience
The London Grand Junction Railway Company has 'Graham proposes, therefore, to prepare a clause, to be
was comprehended in the engagement made with him,
i and said that this
though it was ant' • impaled that its adoption must be gra- Sir H. DOUGLAS opposed the motion, wound up its affairs in a somewhat satisfactory manner introduced into the prison's bill, vesting the appointment
1 of the people too far.
to the shareholders, inasmuch as instead of being called of the chaplains of borough gaols in the borough dual. It was with great regret that he bad perceived
Bavaria had shown
Mr. I
I Duke of Cumberland than the King of upon to raise money to pay off liabilities, they are to re. trates, and not in the town-councils.
country should:not behave with less generosity toward the
magis-
Hill's retirement'from the service of the public and from
his great capabilities, the Government, havin and
its ceive a dividend of Bs. 6d. tier share on the advances they ' -P
1 ....,LECTION OF CHURCHWARDENS—IRREGULAR CLO -
bargain with him, might remedy the evil by g
finding some I which he had made him before his election to the Sov-
I to his son King Otho, to whom he continued the provision
have made. The loss of £4 or £5 in the first instance is, SING OF POLL.—The Birmingham Advertiser of 1 hurs -
other situation in which his abilities could be employed to ereignty of Greece was thought of. as Mr. Cash, the chairman, stated, better than Proceed- day last contains a long report of a case argued in the
advantage. It was not to be denied that the Post-office The house then divided, and the motion was negatived ing obstinately with the undertaking, which might even-
by a majority of 197 to 91. Court of Queen's Bench,—The Queen v. the Vicar and
authorities were adverse to the plan of Mr. Hill, and they
1 tually entail a loss of some £5O per share. . This was said hwer of Aston (Birmi. It seems at
ought not therefore to be left wholly to their own
control The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and iin reference to the result exhibited by the working of atChurc the elections of a churchwardenngh foram t)he parish, onth the
in carrying it out.the house adjourned. 1 short lines connected with the metropolis. 18th of April last, upon two candidates named Oliver and

Her Majesty wore a petticoat of white net over white
satin, trimmed with silver blonde and pearls.
The train was lilac and silver-shot tissue, trimmed with
silver blonde. The stomacher was trimmed with diamonds
and pearls.

After a few words from Lord CAMPBELL in reply, the
amendment was defeated by a majority of 30 to 8.

The head-dress a tiara of diamonds.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert wore a Field-
Marshal's uniform, with the ensigns of the Orders of the
Garter and of the Golden Fleece, the latter splendidly set
in diamonds.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNDAy

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Sir R. PEEL said it was his intention to have the corre-
spondence laid upon the table of the house relative to the
removal of the West India mail packets from Falmouth
to Southampton.

All the company having arrived at nine o'clock, the
Archbish'op of Canterbury, followed by the Archbishop of
York, the Bishop of London, and the rest of the clergy,
entered the chapel, and took their places within the pre-
cincts of the altar. In about ten minutes the procession
entered the chapel, a voluntary being performed on the
organ. On her Majesty reaching the entrance to the
chapel, her Majesty's private band, stationed in the Royal
closet, under the direction of Mr. Anderson, performed
the chorus in Handel's Coronation Anthem, " God save
the Queen."
Her Majesty seated herself on the north side of the
altar, at the end of the haut pas. On the side of the
Queen were Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the
Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duchess of Cambridge.
Opposite to the Queen were the ing and Queen of the
Belgians, the Prince and Princess of Oldenburg, the
Cr,wn Prince of Wurtemburg, Prince Reuss Lobenstein
Eberedorff, and Prince George of Cambridge. The Prin-
cess Augusta of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand
Duke of Mecklenburg Strelirz, stood in front of the altar,
the Princess supported by the Duke of Cambridge, and
the Grand Duke by the King of Hanover. The Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, having the Archbishop of York and
the Bishop of Norwich on his left hand. and the Bishop
of London on his right, then commenced the ceremony.
The responses of the bridegroom were given in a clear
distinct voice, but those of the Princess were scarcely
audible. Sir George Smart presided at the organ.
At the conclusion of the ceremony the bride approached
the Queen, and was saluted by her Majesty, as also by the
Duchesses of Kent, Gloucester, and Cambridge. The
Grand Duke received the congratulations of all those
about the altar.

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On the proposal of the first clause of the Irish arms
bill, _ _

Lord J. RUSSELL said that he had voted for this bill up
to the present point, believing an arms bill to be neces-
sary for Ireland, but the bill should be made consistent
with that now in existence. It should not assume the
shape of a coercion bill ; and unless the objectionable
clauses were abandoned, he should vote against the bill on
the third reading.
Lord ELIOT contended that, owing to a want of the
means of identifying arms, the existing bill was not as
efficient as it ought to be. He also challenged Lord J.
Russell with not acting with his usual candour, in thus
opposidg a measure at the last moment which he had
hitherto supported, and which, so far from being a coercion
bill, was infinitely milder than a bill the noble lord him-
self supported while he was in power.
A good deal of discussion took place on the clause, and
after some divisions on amendments to that aid to clause
2, they were both agreed to. Several other clauses were
agreed to.

The Royal bride and bridegroom then left the chapel,
attended by their suite, and were soon followed by her
Majesty and the rest of her illustrious relatives and visi-
tors to the great dining-room, where the registration of
the marriage was made, and was attested by the august
and illustrious relatives, and by the Ministers and officers
of State.

The benchers of the Inner Temple will give a grand en-
tertainment to the King of Hanover on Wednesday the
sth of Ju y.

Her Majesty the Queen contemplates a visit, in August
next, to Warwick Castle, which is undergoing the most
extensive embellishment that the taste of metropolitan
and local artists can accomplish.

At her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday last, three
queens were beheld in the same box, her Majesty the
Queen, the Queen Dowager, and the Queen of the
Belgians.

An elegantly-wrought counterpane, made by the in-
mates of the Royal Victoria Asylum for the blind, in
Newcastle. on-Tyne, having been forwarded to the Duchess
of Kent, her royal highness most kindly consented to pre-
sent it to her Majesty, and a letter has been received
from Sir Henry Wheatley, stating that her Majesty has
been most graciously pleased to accept the same. Her
Grace the Duchess of Northumberland has given a dona-
tion of five pounds to the funds of the institution, and has
been pleased to accept one of the beautiful shawls wrought
by the inmates.

The aggregate of the incomes surrendered may, therefo £97,250re,
be estimated. in round numbers at £lOO,OOO, which is
two-fifths of the whole revenue of the church. The
average for each of the 469 individuals is £207. Many
of the seceding ministers are among the best paid in the
establishment."
The Duke of Sutherland resists all entreaties of the
free presbyterians to grant them sites for the erection of
meeting-houses on his estates in Scotland.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.