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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY

The Arms (Ireland) Bill again became the subject of
discussion, on the motion for resuming the committee,
and after a long speech from Lord CLEMENTS,
Mr. WALLACE moved that the committee should be
postponed for six months.

- Nfr. S. CRAWFORD seconded the motion, and said that,
from the moment his arms should be branded, he would
become a repealer until the Arms Act should be repealed.
In order to avoid being placed in that position, he should
avail himself of the forms of the house, in every possible
wah to oppose the passing of the act.

. .....
Mr. V. STUART opposed the amendment of Mr. Wal-
lace, though he thought it would be his duty to vote
against the bill altogether on the third reading.
The house then divided, and the amendment of Mr.
Wallace was defeated by a majority of 104 to 27.
The house soon after resolved itself into committee,
and the remainder of the evening was occupied in the dis-
cussion of the various clauses.

HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE brought the eternal sub-
ject of the dismissal of the Irish magistrates under the con-
sideration of their lordships by the following motion :
" That it appears by the papers before the house that the
Irish Government has dismissed several magistrates from
the commission of the peace on the ground that they had
intimated an intention to attend meetings to petition for a
repeal of the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland,
after a declaration by her Majesty's ministers in both
houses of Parliament that her Majesty was determined to
uphold the said union, although it was allowed that such
an intention of attending such meetings before such de-
claration was not a sufficient ground for dismissing ma-
gistrates from the commission of the peace, and that to
dismiss magistrates on such grounds is unconstitutional,
unjust, and inexpedient." The noble marquis contended
that the effect of the course pursued by the government
was altogether contrary to what had been anticipated, for
the result had been to raise those magistrates so dealt
with to the rank of heroes. Those repeal meetings were
not illegal, and it was even to be inferred from the Lord
Chancellor's own correspondence that he did not think
them so. The noble lord admitted that the repeal of the
union, even if it could be peaceably accomplished, which
it could not, would be most injurious to both countries.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that this motion was
obviously directed against the Government, and in defence
of that Government he must say that the acts complained
of were forced upon the Government, which would not
have done its duty if it had not carried them into execu-
tion. After what had passed in Parliament it was notori-
ous that the repeal of the union was disapproved of by
both houses ; and, under such circumstances, the Lord
Chancellor of Ireland found Lord Ffrench, and other
magistrates, presiding over and attending at meetings, and
urging forward proceedings, the object of which was to
carry the repeal of the union by terror, force, and violence;
and this coursewas pursued by the very men who should be
employed to arrest the parties who might be guilty of
breaches of the peace, in following out the line laid down
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