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BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

Lord BnonG ti Am wished to call their lordships' attention to a
matter of very considerable importance. They had now ar-
rived at the 3rd day cf July, and, though they had entertained
some motions, the public business which they had expedited was
to the amount of about zero. In fact, there had been no leos-,
tation at all. The municipal corporation's hill, and other very
important measures, were expected to come up from the other
house. Those measures could not, however be submitted to'
,their lordships for a considerable time. lie could not help
wishing, therefore, that their lordships would adopt some mea-
sure by which the business could be expedited. He suggested
that they might discuss and agree to resolutions embracing the
principles of some of the contemplated measures. If this were
done, they would hereafter, when the measures were introduced,
have only the details to consider.
Viscount Nlnt.lioutlNE said, that if the general feeling of the
country called for the great and comprehensive measures, which
required grave consideration, their lordships must be prepared
to make those laborious exertions which circumstances de-
manded. It was impossible for them to withdraw themselves
from the consequences necessarily attendant on the considera-
tion of such important measures. If the suggestion of the no-
ble and learned lord were acted on—if they were to proceed by
passing resolutions—he was convinced that no time would be
saved. It would oaly be the means of superadding a consider-
able portion of supernumerary labour to that to which, in the
ordinary course of proceeding, they would be subjected.
Lord BROUGO A m said, it would be a rot tnight or three weeks
before the municipal corporation bill could be presented to their
lordships; and in the mean time he thought that they might do
something with the Irish church bill.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that it was necessary, in
the first place, before they could take any such step as had been
recommended, that there should be laid before the noose that
information on which the' bills alluded to were founded. If he
were not mistaken, two parts only of the four reports on which
the municipal corporation bills bad been founded were at pre-
sent laid before their lordships. Although the bill had made
considerable progress in' the other house, still only two parts
had been placed on their lordships' table. How, then, could
they come to an accurate decision in the absence of the neces-
sary information ?
After a few words from she Marquis of Lansdowne and the
Earl of Devon, the conversation was dropped.

LORD MCLGRAVE'S CIRCULAR TO THEIRISH MAGISTRATES.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY rose. pursuant to notice, to
call their lordships' attention to the circular which-had recently
been addressed to the magistrates of the north of Ireland by the
Lord-Lieutenant. That circular appeared to cast a degree of
reproach on the magistrates, who were anxious to perform their
duty impartially, arid to the utmost of their power. The noble
marquis then read the circular, calling on Irish magistrates to
prevent any Orange processions on the 12th July. (He the
marquis) thought that had any disturbances been expected, that I
it would have been better to have issued a proclamation. Ile
should, therefore, be glad to know why this course had been
adopted. Since the passing of the act prohibiting them (two
or three years ago) he believed that no such processions had
taken place as thoSe that were alluded to in the circular. When
he recollected the procession which accompanied the Lord
Lieutenant into Dublin, to stop which nu attempt had been
made, it did appear to him that the conduct of the Irish govern-
ment was nut distiugufshed by impartiality. He had been in-
formed that an individual who had held a situation in Dublin
Castle, under each succeeding Lord-Lieutenant, for forty years,
had been recently dismissed to make room for a relation of
Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a name certainly ominous in Ireland.
If that individual, Sir Stuart Bruce (as we, understood,) had
been dismissed, without consideration, after forty years' ser-
vice, to make room for another, it was, he conceived, au act of
great harshness.
Viscount MEtnounrsE said, that the document tir which the
I noble marquis haLLreferred.. explained itsail very -iuts.ilis;bl7..si
-The situation of parties in Ireland, (and it should be recollected
that the subject had been brought before their lordships) and
the statements made by noble lords on the other side of the
house, that, owing to circumstances to which they then adverted,
some disturbance was likely to arise on the 12th July, gave a
complete answer to the noble marquis, as clearly pointing nut
the necessity. that existed for sending forth that letter. The
noble marquis had said, this mode of proceeding was extraor.,'
dinars-, and that it would have been better to have issued a pro.
clamat ion. But this course had been adopted in 1829, in 1832,
and in 1833. On each of those occasions a eirctuar had been
sent forth. Here then were precedents that fully justified the
proceeding. As to the general observations of the noble mar-
quis, he should only say that the government of Ireland was
conducted on principles of the strictest impartiality. With re-
spect to the case of the individual to which the noble marquis
had referred, it was the first time that he had heard of the ar-
rangement. The Lord-Lieutenant had, however, a rip.ht to
make what arrangements he pleased in his household. These
were points of which their lordships certainly could not take
cognizance.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, JULY 3

The Speaker took the chair at half•past three o'clock.
The SPEAK ER informed the house that he had received a pe-
tition from the CroiNn-olliee, Dublin, complaining of an unuue
election for the counts' of Carlow;

NEW SOUTH WALES.
Mr. H. BULWER presented a petition signed by 6COO fiee
inhabitants of New South Wales, praying that a legislative
assembly might be granted to that colony. The population of
the colony consisted of 60,000 persons, the revenue amounted
to £135,000 per annum.. Over this large population and reve-
nue was placed a governor exercising au almost unlimited
authority—an authority only limited by the executive council,
the greater part of which small body were named by the exe-
cutive government, and the remainder by the governor him-
self.—The petition was laid on the table.