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until Monday, Sir B. 'HALL brought under the notice of
the house the alleged misappropriation of the money ad-
vanced under the Landed Property Improvement (Ireland)
Act by Lord de Freyne and a Mr. J. O'Neill.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY

Lord JOHN Rtisski. moved the order of the day for the
house resolving itself into a committee of the whole house
on the sugar duties.
Sir J. PAXINGTON moved an amendment to the effect
that the remedies proposed by Government would neither
afford relief, nor check the slave trade, to which the dimi-
nution of the cultivation of sugar in the West Indies had

After explanations from the CHANCELLOR OF THE Ex-
CHEQUER and Mr. P. FRENCH, with respect to the pro-
ceedings bad on these cases, the subject dropped, and the
motion was agreed to.
The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, in reference
to the application made by the deputation of Trish mem-
bers, on the subject of the spirit duties, said he had con-
sulted his colleagues, and it was considered that no suffi-
cient grounds had been laid for making any such change
(that of fixing the differential duty on rum at sixpence
instead of fourpence a gallon) as had been suggested.
Sir J. PAXINGTON moved the issuing of new writs for
Derby, and in the course of the debate which ensued, Sir
J. Tyrell having made an attack upon Mr. Hume, and
other members acting in concert with him, that hon.
member was warmly defended by Mr. Ellice and La-
bouchere, the latter stating that no man ever sat in that
house who had brought to the public service a purer or
more disinterestedness. Had the hon. member's object,
on the contrary, been a sordid and personal one, and had
he devoted to that sinister purpose one tithe of the in-
defatigable industry, the fearless energy, the powerful
ability that he had devoted to the service of the people,
he could long since have secured that object, as many
men of infinitely less claim had done. The hon. member
for Montrose, however, had acted upon other and far
different principles, and he had his great reward in the
respect and esteem of all parties alike within and without
the walls of Parliament.
On a division the motion for issuing the writ, contrary
to the views expressed by Lord John Russell, was nega-
tived by a majority of 15, the numbers were 97 to 112.
r The adjourned debate on the sugar duties was, after ex-

given so great a stimulus.
Sir E. BUXTON seconded the amendment, and after a
discussion, in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Mr. Seymer, and Mr. Hume took part, the debate was
adjourned to Thursday.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

on the motion of Lord MORPETH the Health of TownS
Bill was read a third time and passed.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

TUESDAY

Mr. HUME concluded a speech of above two hours' du-
ration by moving " That the House of Commons, as at
present constituted, does not fairly represent the popula-
tion, the property, or the industry of the country, whence
has arisen great and increasing discontent in the minds of
a large portion of the people ; and it is therefore expedient,
with a view to amend the national representation, that the
elective franchise shall be so extended as to include all
householders ; that votes shall be taken by ballot ; that
the duration of Parliaments shall not exceed three years ;
and that the apportionment of members to population
shall be made more equa
Dr. BOWRING second(

i the motion

Mr. H. DRUMMOND followed, in opposition to the re-
solution, contending that political power should be con-
fined to those who had property, to the exclusion of those

constitution of that House would secure a di

'notion of

s between Sir J. Pakinglon and Mr. J. Wilson,
resumed by Mr. P. MILES, the other speakers being Mr.
B. Hawes and Lord G. Bentinck, the debate standing
still further adjourned until Monday, on the motion of
Mr. G. TFIOMPSON.

planati

the national expenses, then it would be composed of re-
presentatives who, to satisfy their own petty and local ob-
jects, would sacrifice the national interests -
constitute the House as they pleased,

11 it would be

garded relieving the ._ Lord G. BENTINCK having in the course of his obser-
. to tell them vation reiterated the charge of the withholding of the Ja-
e them food, that . maica despatch by the Colonial-office from the committee,
. the great mass of mankin,, Lord JOHN RUSSELL took occasion, on speaking to the
be relieved by any legislation wha question of adjournment, warmly to defend the noble
, ..
Lord JOHN RUSSELL commenced his speech by com-
Colonial Secretary. and, in the strongest terms and per-
plaining of having been misrepresented by the bon. mem- sonal allusions, to condemn the persevering assiduity with
ber for Montrose and others, with regard to the observa- which this charge was persisted in by the noble member
tions he had made on a late occasion with respect to the for Lynn, which was devoid of all foundation whatsoever.
feelings of the people on the subject of reform. He did The discussion was continued for some time, the house
not deny that he had expressed his belief that the middle being in a most excited state, amidst deafening cheers and
and working classes were not in favour of the people's counter-cheers from all sides.

powerless _ ...c aistress of the people,
it would be a gross delusion to tell them that any reform
of Parliament could give them food, that anything but
misery was the lot of the great mass of mankind, or that
that misery could be relieved by any legislation whatever

charter or the
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mit that declaration had been used as a declaration
against all reform, whereas he had gone on to say, after
having excluded these specific measures, that the people
desired a gradual progress in reform • and, in using that
term, he had excluded no species of reform, Parliamentary
or fiscal, which it might be useful to adopt. The noble
lord then proceeded to argue and combat the propositions
contained in the resolutions submitted by Mr. Hume,
concluding his observations by referring to events which
had been and were every day occurring around them. ex-
pressing his hope that, at such a time, the House of Com-
xcrons of England would not think it right to go into vague

and indefinite proposals for reforming—proposals which
did, indeed, apparently evade the principle of the people's
charter, but which, in reality, could not stop short of that
great change in the constitution. He would rather hope
that they would think it due to the institutions it was their
advantage to inherit—that they would think it due to the
other branch of the Legislature—that they would think it
dne to the people whom they represented—to give a stead-
fast negative to the motion then before them.
Mr. W. J. Fox followed in favour of the resolution.

Mr. DISRAELI in his most sarcastic strain exposed a
Parliament as constructed after Mr. Hume's plan. He
then showed the fallacy under which this new reform cry
had )t up; vir

been g

the inc:

;e of our public

ion. In the year 1828
t present it was only
so redistributed as to work in

tune and the increase in our to
our taxation was £49,500,000
£47,000,000, and that, too

Our expendi-

fore, the popular plea
.er showing that the

unsatistac-

ley must of

:ecidedly.a middle