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HOU.E OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY

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HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY

The Duke of WELLINGTON moved that the " Corn-law
Repeal Bill" be read a first time. _

The Duke of RICHMOND rose, and, with considerable
emphasis and warmth, entered his protest against the mea-
sure and the mini.ters by whom it had been introduced.
Be regretted to see the distinction which was drawn be-
tween public and private honour. Sir Robert Peel was a

man of strict
pettehyb!e; an

be did not co
as a vublic w

lour;
Tarriworth his word was

unim-

is bond. But

der it to be inconsistent with his honour
to abandon all the principles he had ever

'aers to violate promises

. _
pledges. The present parliament, elected or the support
of protection, had no right to abrogate it ; and he trusted
that the House of Lords would sustain their character
with the country, and stop rash and dangerous legislation,
full of peril bolt; to great interests and public confidence.
... .

He, ho-wever, reser

cond reach tig

ed his formal opposition till the se-

Lord BROUGHAM thought that a conscientious change
of opinion on the part of a statesman was honourable,
hmond that hc

ber of the g
Advising a di

i the

form Bill

vernment which, in 1831, never dreamed of
solution of parliament till it rejected the Re-

After an exchange of explanations from Lord Brougham
and i.e Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of LONDON-
DERRY deprecated personal attacks upon Sir Robert Peel
for a change of opinion, seeing the Duke of Richmond
had himself very frequently changed his position in that
house. _ .

ft; Duke of Rion MOND assured the house that he had

on the second reading of the bill, he intendec
to abstain from perscnl considerations.
The Earl of RIPON was glad to hear this assurance,
partly for his own sake [this raised great laughter, the
rol.le earl, as Mr. 146binson, being the author of_the

altogether

_. . ,
Corn Bill of 1815,1 and patt o y n. account of Sir R. Peel.
Ile was. however, ready to meet any atta,ks which might
be made upon him for his share in the awful responsibility
of the pr

t rror. Cassius. in your threats,

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Mr. FERRAND put four questions to Sir R. Peel, relat-
ing to the present state of the Bingley poor-house, and
Sir R. Peel gave to each of them a distinct reply. The
result was, that notwithstanding the remon.trances of
Mr. Ferranti, Sir R. Peel refused to retract the charges
which he had preferred in June, 1842, against the Board
of Guardians of the Krighley Union.
A number of que-tions were then put to her Majesty's

government of so miscellaneous a character, that Sir R.
Peel wished to have them placed on record, in order that
the public might he aware of the multiplicity of topics to
which the prime minister of England was called upon to
turn his attention in the course of half-ao-hour. The
questions related to our own tariff, to the German Zoll-

verein. to the Binglry workhouse, to the visit of Ibrahim
Pachi to this country, and to the erection of an cwt.-stri-
a', statue to the Duke of Wellington at the top of Con-

A desultory conversation on the conduct of Mr. Mur-

_ the-secretary of the Ecclesiastical Commission, with
regard to a private bill before the house last week, then
took place, in which the Attorney-General defended the
proceedings of that functionary. The defence, howeVer,
produced in reply a still more severe attack foci Mr. E
was a 'Lem" Denison. In the conrse of the conversation, a letter,

which had been addressed to the members of the House
of Commons by Mr Whyte. a sulicitor of the same
Commission, and which had been declared by the
Speaker, in pzivate, to he a high breach of privilege, was
put in by Mr. Hume, but'was not read to the house in
consequence of Sir J. Graham's having expressed, on be-
half of the commission, their regret that one of their offi•
cers should have so misconducted him-elf. The conver-
sation, which from its commencement to its close was al-
lowed to be most irregular, was stopped at last by Mr
Flume's withdt swat of the letter which he had put in as a

breath of privilege.
The SPF AK R then read to the house a letter addressed
to himself by Mr. S. O'Brien, dated that morning, from
the prison of the House of Commons. The substance of

.
it was, that the committee of selection had not been for-
mally appointed this session—that its order enjoiniv.ghitn
to attend as a member of a certain committee, and his im-

prisonment for non-compliance with that trder, were both
informal and illegsl, and teat he was therefore entitled to
his immediate di..charee.
On the motion of Mr. O'CONNELL, i
Mr. S. O'Brien's letter be printed and circulated wit

ordered that