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BREACH OF NAVAL DISCIPLINE.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY, MAY 12.

The Speaker took the chair at half-past three o'clock.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from 5000 farmers and
graziers of Northamptonshire, in favour of the Islington market
bill.

• • THE MINISTRY.
The following mmbcrs of the new government, at the call of
the Speaker, proceeded up the house in a body, amidst cheers
from the ministerial benches, and took the oaths and their seats:
—Mr. S. Rice, Sir J. Hobhouse, Sir H. Parnell, Sir J. Camp-
bell, Mr. P. Thomson, Colonel Leith Hay Mr. W. H. Ord,
Mr. Rolfe, Mr. Labouchere, Sir T. Troubridge, Sir R. Donkin,
SirG. Grey, Admiral Adam, Lord Seymour, Lord Dalmeny,
and Mr. R. Steuart. •

Major Beauclerk presented a petition from a place in Surre
against some parts of the Chelsea water works bill.

NEW WRITS.

On the motion of Mr. E. J. Stanley, the following new writs
were ordered to be issued :—For Stroud, in the room of Colonel
'Fox', who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds • for the county'
• of Kildare,' in the room of It. More O'Ferratc, Esq., who had
been appointed one of the Lords of the 'Treasury; for the
southern division of the county of Stafford, in the loom of the
Right Unit. E. J. Littleton, who had been called to the House
,of Peers; for Maltori, in the room of Sir C. Pepvs, who had been
appointed cum of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal ;
-and for Poole, in the room of Sir J. Byng, now Baron Strafford.
.Mr. I..ABouctiE-RX gave notice that on Wednesday he would
,moveithe appointment of a select committee to consider and
-report the best place for snaking a harbour in the vicinity of
Edinburgh, with due regard to the public interests and accom-
modation.
Sir J.•CAseears, presented several petitions from Edinburgh
*against the Leitli Trinity Harbour bill.
Mr. OSWA LD presented some petitions from Scotland praying
the house not to grant any money for the endowment of churches
in Scotland.
Lord S•rsist.o presented several petitions from Ireland and
Scotland praying for 4irotection to the established churches of
those countries,
Sir 0. Moscky presented a petition from a parish in Staf-
fordshire, expressing the alarm felt by the petitioners at the late
proposition adopted by the House of Commons for applying the
surplus revenue (if any such existed) of the established church
of. Ireland to purposes neither ecclesiastical no: exclusively
protestant, stating their conviction that such a Measure was
fraught with danger to the civil and religious liberties of both
. countries, and praying the.bouse therefore not to adopt it. The
hon. baronet, after expressing his cordial coucurtence in the
sentiments contained in the petition., gave notice that to-morrow
he would present a petition from StafforAlshire, signed by .5400
persons, ou the subject of county-rates,
Captain ALsscßii presented a petition from (as we under-
stood) Merton, in Surrey, expressing the alarm of the petition-
era at the resolution adopted lately by the House in reference
to the Irish church—a measure that they conceived pregnant
with the destruction of the established church in both countries,
praying' that the House would, upon reconsideration, adopt no
such proposition.
Mr. ComevoN presented petitions to the same effect from
Ringwood, Portsea, Farnham, and other places in Hampshire,
•

. .
THE rO.O,R,'LAW AMENDMENT DILL.
Mr. CODBETT .(who spoke in a very low tone) presented pe-
titions from High ,Wycombe and another place for the repeal
of the poor law bill. Referring to the statement contained in
one of those'petitioris, he said that it was true that the landed
aristocracy of England had made encroachments on the rights
of the people, and that he should be glad that, rather by an
act of parliament than by their own act, their rights should be
restored to them; but if not by an act of parliament, he wished
to see them regain them by (heir own act. The honourable
member then presented a petition from the inhabitants of
Hounslow, praying for a repeal of the poor law amendment
act. The petitioners set forth several instances of barbarous
and cruel treatment of poor persons under the operation of this
bill, and adverted to the results of several coroners' inquests in
the neighbourhood ofLondon held upon the bodies of infants,
and in which it has been determined that child murder has been
the consequence of that measure. The hon. member, who had

Mr. D. W. HARVEY asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
whether the three learned judges who had been appointed
lords-commissioners of the great seal had been permanently ap-
pointed, and whether, in consequence of this appointment, they
were to receive any addition to their present emoluments.
THE CH ANCF.LLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that it was not
intended that the appointment should be parmanent. With
respect to the second part of the question, he was prepared to
state that no new or increased charge would in this respect be
thrown upon the public.
Mr. ,HUME gave notice that he should to-morrow move for a
return of the number of ex-Lord Chancellors now receiving
pensions, and of the amount of the pensions paid to each.—
(" Hear, hear," and a laugh.)
Mr. G. BERK T.EY postponed his motion for the setting
apart a portion of the strangers' gallery fur the accommodation
tiun of ladies.