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SELECT COMMITTEE TO SEARCH FOR PRECEDENTS.

Lord ALTIMity moved that a select committee be appointed to search
for precedents, and to report its opinion to the house whether a bill
to alter and amend the laws relating, to the temporalities of the church
in Ireland should, according to the rules and order of the house,
originate in a committee of &e whole house.
Which, after some observations from Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Stanley,
Mr. Baring, and Mr. Harvey, was agreed to, and the committee
appointed accordingly,
Mr. BROCKLEUUSLST presented a petition from Macclesfield, in fa-
vour of inquiry into the state of corporations.—Referred to the com-
mittee on corporations.
Mr. HUME presented a petition against the Irish Disturbances Bill
from a large public meeting of inhabitants of Edinburgh ; and stated
that the petitioners were so dissatisfied with the conduct of their re-
presentatives in relation to this subject that they determined not to
intrust the petition to their care. The hon. member presented a si-
milar petition from certain inhabitants of Spitalfields, and accompa-
nied it with a like statement as to the want of confidence of a portion
c)f the constituency of the Tower Hamlets in the members fur that
borough. He also presented a like petition from the Political Union
of.Maidstone, and apetition from the parish of Christchurch for vote
by ballot and reduction of taxation.
Mr. CLAY said it would have been more kind and courteous towards
A young Member if Mr, Hume had given him some previous notice of
his • intention to make such a statement ;. had the hon. member done
so, he would have been prepared to inquire how far he had lost the
confidence of his constituents, and to deferql his conduct, if necessary.
Ile had expressed a Strong objection to the bill, though, from his con-
fidence in ministers, he did not oppose its introduction. (Hear.) Ile
intended to oppose some of the clauses in committee. He felt con-
vinced that his conduct had afforded satisfaction to his constituents,
kith the exception of the individuals who had signed the petition.
(hear.)

• VIOLATION OP THE SABBATH.
Petitions praying for the better observance were presented.by Lord

Milton, from two parishes in Northamptonshire ; Sir R. IL Inglis.
from Clapham, Battersea, and other places ; and Mr. K. Stuart, from
lladdington.
Other petitions were presented for the repeal of the Assessed Taxes,
the Abolition of Negro Slavery, and a variety of other subjects.—The
house adjourned at A past 12 o'clock.
FRIDAY.
The Speaker took the chair this day soon after 12 o'clock.
Mr. HUME, in moving the second reading of Sir John
Soane's Museum Bill, took that opportunity of saying that
the measure afforded an example which he was sure the house
would.view with satisfaction, and, he hoped, wouldmark with its
approbation. (Hear, hear.) The object of the bill was to
preserve for the public use, and for the advancement of ii -
ence, all the valuable library and antiquarian and other col-
lections which had been made by Sir J. Soane at considerable
expense, and at a continued labour of upwards of 30 years; and
the bill went to invest in trustees, for the public use and bene-
fit, the whole of this interesting and valuable collection and
library, and Sir John Soane applied the interest of i:30,000,
per cent. consols, to maintain the collection, besides £2OO per
annum for the rent of an adjoining house to his own to add to
the convenience of the public, thus proposing to maintain the
institution in perfection for ever. (Hear.) -He begged to be
permitted to mention one instance of the exertions and disin-
terestedness of Sir John Soane. That gentle Man had (when
neither the government nor any other private individual -could
be found to take it up) prevented Belzoni's sarcophagus front
leaving the country, and had himself paid £2OOO to preserve it
for the British public. (Hear.) It now fornied part of the col-
lection to which the bill now before the house referred—a col-
lection comprising also works of art and manuscripts, one of
which cost no less a sum than £5OO. (Hear.) The list which
was now in preparation would satisfy the house of the inc4l-
culable advantage the gift would be to the public and to the
interests of science; and he hoped the house would afford every
facility to the passing of the bill. (Hear.)
Sir R. INGLIS said that the instances were so rare of persons
capable of estimating works of art being willing to confer a
great public advantage, that he rejoiced to see the present bill.
the gift to the public was such that he could not allow the bill
to pass unnoticed.. No man in the country :lad made so great
a sacrifice, both of fortune and labour, as Sir John Soane, in
forming the collection now so munificently and disinterestedly
bestowed upon the public. He thought it would but be just that
a formal notice rhooid be taken and made of these munificent
donations. But a very short time ago au individual had be-
queathed a collection worth I.:60,000 to the British Museum, and
yet scarcely a word had been said about it. Othergifts had been
bestowed on the National Gallery, of which no mention had
been made. He therefore hoped the directors of the National
Gallery would be instructed to furnish the }Muse annual returns
of the contributions that were made, in .order that the public
might know by whom they were benefited. (Hear.)
Mr. J. E. DEN ISON, on moving the third reading of the Brox •
tow (Nottingham) Compentationßill, observed that it had bean
his intention to have called the attention of the government
and the house to the state of law with reference to the liability
of counties to make compensation for damages done' by rioters,
but as none of Ilis Majesty's ministers were present, he would
defer doing so. until another opportunity.—Read a third,tirne
and passed.

11-mu COERCIVE BILL

Petitions against this measure were presented by Mr. Chap-
man, from the parishes of Street, Kill, Kiiibread, and Mual-
farnham, in the county of Westmeath ; Mr. Finn, from the parish
of Rosivane, county iiiikengy; Major Beauelerc, from the in-
habitants of St. Mary Newinfton ; the parishioners of Wands-
worth and Clapham, and the political unions of Gravesend,
Horsham, and Milton; Mr. Lynch, from eight places in-the
county of Donegal; Mr. J. Talbot, from New Ross; Mr, Ser.
geant Perrin, front Monaghan, Kilmore, Drunisna, and Gra-
uard; Mr. Walker, from the parish of Druinconagh, county of
Wexford; Mr. Maclachlan, from Galway, and six other peti-
tions from various trading bodies of the same place ; Mr. Guest,
from Merthyr Tydvil and two parishes in the county of Mona-
ghan; Mr. I'. Gladstone, from the electors and inhabitants of
Portarlington; Sir R. Keane, front Killeagh, Corbally, and
Tramore, county of Waterford; Mr. Marshall, from the oliera-
tires of the borough of Leeds; Mr, \Varre, from the inhabitants
of Hastings; Mr. Gaskell, from the working claiSes of Wake-
field, Dobcross, and Saddleworth ; Mr, Kinloch, from the p
unions of Frome, Abbotshall, and Edinburgh, and trout
the borough of Irvine and the parishes of Alloa and Killicoul.
hie; Mr. Hull, from the inhabitants of Kingston upon Hull ;
'Mr. C. Fitzsimmon, from seven places in the county of Uuhlin;
Mr. White, from two parishes in the county of Leitrim; Col.
Williams, from the inhabitants of Ashton-under-Lyne. This
petition stated that unless the tithe laws were repewei, the, Irish
heirarchy abolished, and poor laws introduced into Ireland, the
people would, from their distresses, •he driven to anarchy and
revolution, and praying the house to repeal the ministerial mea,
sures of coercion, to reduce the duties on-Malt, hops, soap, and
sugar, to abolish all taxes on knowledge, houses, and windows,
and to arrange for the better accommodation of members in the
house; Mr. J. Fielden, from Coh; Lancashire; Mr. F. O'Con-
nor, from several places in the counties of Cork and Carlow.
Mr. O'CoNzvEtt presented petitions from Bury, Rochdale,
and Preston, Lancashire; from the Political Union of Kidder-
minster, signed by.ti,329 individuals; from Keighley, Yorkshire,
and the city of Chichester; also a petition to the same effect,
signed in one day by upwards of 20,(XX.) inhabitants of the city
of Dublin, including the names of men of the first wealth, ani,t
others who had hitherto been attached by ties of hope to the
Anglesey and Stanley. government. The hon. and learned gen-
tleman presented similar petitions from Winghana, Kent; front
the journeymen butchers of Dublin, from an inhabitant of Wor-
cester, named Oswald Bradley, from the town of Wexford, front
the Trades' Political Union of Dub:in, from the members of the
Volunteer Association of Ireland; from a parish in Meath, and
six petitions from parishes in the city of Dublin. Also petitions
with a similar prayer from Ballinacrue, county of Cavan ; front
the master butchers of Dublin, from- Ballybay, county of Mo.
naghan; from Athenry, county Meath ; and from two parishes
in the county of Wexford. The hou. and learned member abito
presented a petition from the inhabitants of the city of London-
derry, agreed to at a public meeting convened by the mayor, to
the same effect, most numerously and respectably signed; also
a petition against the bill from the youths of Dublin, stating
that they would rather die in their youth than live to be slaves;
also petitions from the workmen of the Carron Iron-works, from,
the youths of Galway, from Sir Charles Wolseley, from the
commercial clerks of the city of Dublin, from the town of Dun-
dalk, the manor of Grangegorman, and from three other pa-
rishes in the city of Dublin. The hon. member presented a SO.
cond petition from the National Trades' Political Union of Dub-
lin, against the measure of coercion, and praying the house to
address his Majesty for the removal of the right lion, secretary
for Ireland from that office; and a petition, with the same prover,
from the carpenters of Dublin. Also petitions from the parishes
of St. Michell and St. John, Dublin, for the rejection of the
bill, and the repeal of the legislative union; from Kilmaedaugh.
and Newport, county of Mayo ; from Rathangan, Kildare;
from the town of Naas, from the Political Union of liathangan,
from the Independent Political Club of the city of Ltmdonderrv,
and from the town and liberties of Celan, in the county of Kil-
kenny; all to the same effect.
Similar petitions were presented by Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr
Christmas, Mr. Buckingham, Mr. °Terrell, Mr. Hawkins,
Mr. Martin, Mr. H. Grattan, Mr. J. O'Connell, Mr, Lehi];
Mr. H. Bulwer, Mr. Aglionby, Mr. C. O'Connell, Mr. S. Bar
ry, Mr: Gobbett,' Mi. T. Attwood, O'Connor Don, Mr. M,
Philips, Mr. Vernon, and 'Mr. Grote, the whole of which were
ordered to lie on the table, and at three o'clock the Speaker ad-
journed the house to five o'clock.

The house resumed at 5 o'clock.

The Earl of DARLJ.N.GTON wished to know when the Mutiny
Bill would be brought foiward. -His reason for- asking was,
that he meant. to take advantage .of the occasion, as the most
fitting and convenient for offering some remarks on a •royal
warrant, bearing the signature of the Secretary at War, in se.
lotion to soldiers' pensions,. which had been lately issued, and
which, he conceived, contained enactments very prejudicial to
the soldiers' iuterests.

Sir J. Ilonnousn hoped to be able to bring forward the Mu-
tiny Bill before the hmydays. . The warrant to which the noble
lord had alluded was wholly prospective in its operation, anti
had not, as he should be able-to show at the proper time, been
issued without the =Wrest consideration and the /*lest aPpv-
bation of the military authorities.
Mr. BEISNAL, as chairman of the Hertford,l3orough Election
Committee, appeared at the bar with a message requesting that
the house would send a message to the House of Lords request:
ing the attendance of the Marquis of Salisbury, to give evidence
before that committee, and to produce ,copies of the leases or
indentures under which certain (named) ejectors in that bo-
rough held tenements under his lordship. -
Mr. Hymn wished to know whether the proceedings of the
committee would be at a stand-Still till the message bad been.
complied with? . if so, the hou.se was bound to act immediately
upon it.
Mr. BEnNat had received the message so very lately, in fact,
not till after 4 o'clock, when the day's proceedings of 'the cum-
mitte.e had terminated, that he could not take it upon himself to
give the hon. member's question a distinct answer,:
It was ultimately agreed to, that the message should be ti kien
into consideration on Monday next.
A conversation; from which no decision resulted, took ii:ve
On the Fropfiety Of devoting different days or hours for .thv

(Continued to page 269.)

The REV. EDW. IRVING.—This gentleman appeared before
the Presbytery of Annan, on Thursday last, and after a long.
trial, in which he displayed great energy and powers of mind,
sentence of deposition was pronounced, on account of his here-
sies, and he therefore no longer sits under the wing of Mother
Church of Scotland. -
The prospects of the Ministerial Candidate for Islarylehone
May be judged of from the furious ill temper with which his parti-
sans. assail their opponent. No falsehood, however monstrous, no
misrepresentation, however extravagant, is spared in the endea-
vour to prejudice the electors against Mr. Hope. Even the
ordinary civilities and courtesies, which we trust Conservative
gentlemen will never forget, are tortured by these unfortunate
Ministerial partisans, into high crimes and misdemeanors
against the purity and freedom of election. We wish the
adversaries of Mr. Hope a better temper; if they are to be
beaten they might as well allow themselves to be beaten with a
'good grace. If Mr. Hope is successful, it will be because the
electors of Marylebone are weary of the stupid and dishonest
Administration which his opponent, if returned, would support.

An extraordinary attempt was made by two convicts
.to es-
cape from the hospital ship at Woolwich, on Sunday, the
following manner:—The keeper, hearing a noise below while
the remainder of the prisoners were at church, went down to
ascertain the cause, when a most singular scene presented
itself. One of the prisoners had his irons off, and the other
one was just accomplishing the same task. Alarm being given,
both the delinquents were immediately doubly ironed ; but the
instrument they used for getting their irons off cannot be
found, although diligent search has been made for it.—Kentish
Gazette.

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By T. COGLAN, -
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