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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-08 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY.

On the motion for reappointing the orders which had
been dropped the preceding day, Mr. WARD announced,
that, having been treated with the utmost courtesy by the
government, and having lost his motion by the non-attend,
ance of his own friends, he should not renew the subject
in this session. But he could not help censuring, as
childish and silly, the practice of watching a critical mo-
ment, and getting half a dozen members to walk away, for
the purpose of reducing the numbers below the quorum
of 40. In the present instance the result had been pecu-
liarly unfortunate, because it would probably be miscon-
strued by the Irish into a disregard of their country.
Mr. ESCOTT, by whom the house had been counted out,
vindicated the rule of the house which requires the pre-
sence of a competent number of members. He had thought
it is duty to take care that so important a subject should
not be discussed in so thin an assembly.

Mr. ROCHE thanked Mr. Escott i43r having taken a
course by which a flimsy veil had been torn from the
countenances of the professing friends of Ireland. Mem-
bers connected with the existing government had been in
their places, but lords and gentlemen, the leaders of the
late ministry, had all been absent on this pet question of
the whigs. He had twice counted the house, and had
foreseen that it would be counted out; indeed he would
have done that himself, but that he had thought some-
body would say, " This repealer is factious." The result
confirmed him in the opinion that English members were
indifferent to Irish interests.

Mr. R. YORKE said, that though the government would
perhaps have done more worthily and wisely to rescue
this great question from the abandonment of its friends,
yet the responsibility for that shameful conclusion was not
on them, but on the party with whom he himself was ac-
customed to act, and whose conduct on such occasions
was petty and paltry.
' Mr. SHAW, with reference to a particular statement in
the debate on MI. Ward's motion, informed the house
that many thousands of prayer-books in the Irish lan-
guage had been printed and circulated.

- The house then went on to the Limitation of Actions
(Ireland) Bill. The SPEAKER. having left the chair, the
committee heard counsel for certain petitioners against
the measure, and afterwards proceeded to discuss the
clauses in detail.

When the chairman reported progress the committee
had proceeded as far as the 16th clause.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY.

The house held a day sitting, again meeting at twelve
o'clock.

The Hackney Carriages Bill went through committee :
the Highway Rates Bill was read a third time and
passed.

Some discussion took place on committees on the Thea-
tres Regulations Bill, but the clauses were agreed to with
slight alterations.
The house then resolved itself into a committee on the
Irish Poor-laws. On clause 16, which gives power to the
guardians to advance funds to paupers for the purpose of
emigrating, Mr. Ross moved an amendment, vesting
this power in the rate-payers, but the clause was carried
on a division.

On the order of the day for going into a Committee of
Supply, Mr. DUNCOMBE moved, that a petition he had
presented in the month of May last, complaining of the
conduct of the magistrates of Hull in dispersing a public
meeting, on the 13th of April, in that town, should be re-
ferred to a select committee.

Sir J. GRAHAM opposed the motion, and, after a brief
discussion, it was negatived by a majority of 54.
Sir R. PEEL, in answer to Mr. BORTHWICK, would
" not pledge himself " to name any particular day for the
hon. gentleman's motion respecting Don Carlos.
Mr. BLEWLTT gave notice that he should next session
introduce a bill to prevent the sovereign of any foreign
state from sitting and voting in the House of Lords.
The house then formed itself into a committee of sup-
ply, and Sir G. CLERK proposed a sum of £1,281,211 to
be granted as compensation to the holders of the opium
delivered up to the Chinese in ]B3B.
A long debate followed, which occupied the remainder
of the night, and on a division the resolution was carried
by a majority of 47.
The Admiralty Lands Bill was read a third time and
passed.