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Earl GREY replied, to the same effect as the Chancellor
of the Exchequer in the House of Commons.
The Bishop of OXFORD combatted at some length the
arguments of Lord Grey, and appealed to the House whe-
ther it was right, that for the paltry saving of a penny a
pound in our sugar, the nation should be condemned to
share in the shame of Cuba and the Brazils, where the
enormities of the field slave system existed in an exagger-
ated form.

Lord ASHBURTON urged the insufficiency of the mea-
sures mentioned by Earl Grey.

Their lordships then adjourned,

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY

Numerous petitions were presented for and against the
Jewish Disabilities Bill, which occupied the House for a
couple of hours.

On the question of the second reading being put,
Mr. STAFFORD moved, and Lord BURGHLEY seconded
the amendment, that the bill be read that day six months,
the supporters of the latter proposition being Mr. B.
Cochrane, Lord Mahon, Mr. S. Walpole, and Mr. New-
degate. The speakers in favour of the original motion
were Mr. W. P. Wood, Mr. M. Milnes, Sir W. Moles-
worth, and Mr. Shiel. At length the debate was ad-
journed.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY

An unsuccessful effort was made by Mr. HUM and Mr.
STAFFORD to induce Mr. Anstey to postpone his speech
on his " monster motion" to another day, and to allow
the adjourned debate on the Jewish Disabilities Bill to
proceed. The motion includes 40 distinct propositions,
which embrace the policy of every treaty which this coun-
try has contracted with foreign Powers from the year 1825
down to the present hour. Mr. ANSTEY'S present mo-
tion was only preliminary to a motion of a much more
grave and serious character, which would affect the posi-
tion of Lord Palmerston, and perhaps even of the Premier
himself. Having addressed the House for nearly an hour
and a half, and the number of members present being re-
duced from 400 to 39, the House was counted out.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY

Mr. P. SCROPE found great fault with the working of
the Irish Poor-law.

Sir W. SOMERVILLE explained the difficulties with
which the enforcement of it had been attended in a coun-
try to which it had never yet been applied.
Mr. Hume, Mr. F. O'Connor, Mr. S. O'Brien, Mr. H.
Drummond, Sir B. Hall, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. S. Crawford,
took part in the debate. as did also Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN,
who, after the usual fashion of Irish members, pointed
out various measures which ought to be adopted for the
relief of Irish distress, without mentioning in a single in-
stance the means by which they were to be carried into
practical operation.
Mr. PACRE then moved the second reading of the
Epiphany Quarter Sessions Bill, but afterwards withdrew
his motion in deference to the objections urged against it
by Sir G. Grey and Mr. Serjeant Talfourd.
On the motion that the House should go into committee
on the New Zealand Bill, _ _ _

Mr. GLADSTONE said its enactments consisted partly of
suspending and partly of enacting clauses. To the latter,
as they corresponded with the demands of Governor Grey,
be thought that the House could not do better than ac-
cede; but as to the former, he could not understand why
the constitution of New Zealand in 1846 should be sus-
pended for five years rather than repealed altogether. He
examined at some length the despatch of Earl Grey of the
23d of December, 1846, relative to the waste lands of
New Zealand, and after contrasting it with the terms of the
Treaty of Waitangi, came to the conclusion that it was
incompatible with that treaty. He vindicated the con-
duct of the Bishop of New Zealand in presenting his pro-
test, which be believed he had not published to the na-
tives.

Mr. LABOUCHERE defended the despatch of Earl Grey
and the conduct of the government towards the natives of
New Zealand, which had been characterised by the most
perfect good faith. No further information had yet been
received respecting the publication of the protest of the
Bishop of New Zealand ; but the Bishop in sending that
protest to the government at home had announced his in-
tention to express his dissatisfaction with Lord Grey's
despatch to the natives of that island. He adhered to his
opinion that this was a most imprudent course on the part
of the Bishop.
Sir E. BUXTON contended that the views of the Bishop
of New Zealand as to the claims of the natives were by no
means singular, and showed that they were coincident
with those of the Wesleyan missionaries.
After come further diroussion, in which Mr. Aglionby,
Mr. Cardwell, Lord Lincoln, Mr. F. Scott, and Mr. Ad-
derley joined, the House went into committee, when
some further debate took place on the clauses.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY

The motion of Earl FITZWILLIAM, for a return of all
the unions in Ireland in which the board of guardians
bad been superseded and paid officers appointed, was
agreed to.
In answer to a question from Lord STANLEY,
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The Marquis of LANSDOWNE stated that the govern-
ment intended, should the bill for opening diplomatic
regulations with the court of Rome pass the second read-
ing, to proceed with it with as little delay as possible.