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HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNnAr.

Mr. DIVETT presented several petitions from licensed vic-
tuallers complaining that the relief afforded them in the reduc-
tion or spirit licences by the Chancellor of the Exchequer would
be delusive an.l totally inoperative.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from certain members
or the council of the Birmingham political union in favour of
the municipal corporation bill as it original's- stoud. The peti-
tioners attributed nine-tenths of the amendments made by the
lords to narrow, selfish, and aristocratic motives.

POOR LAW BILL.
Major Bicauctitax presented a petition from a place in
Surrey against this bill, and especially complaining of the part
of it relating to workhouses, and the separation of men from
their wives. The hon. member asked Lord John Russell if lie
was aware that orders had been issued by the commissioners to
s:op all out door relief this season ? Such orders had been sent
to a place in Sussex where he had been stopping. The opinion
of the clergyman, magistrates, and guardians of the poor in
that place, although friends to the poor law bill, was decidedly
-against enforcing such orders at th►s season of the year. Their
universal opinion was, alit the enforcement of such orders
would spread misery, and want in the agricultural districts, and
that the old, the s►ck, and the infirm, vrho had not anticipated
such a thin, and who bad *laid l.y nothing to meet such an
emergency, would be consigned to starvation. Mr. Constable,
the clergyman of the place be alluded to, had been a great friend
to the bill, but he had lately withdrawn his name from the list
of guardians to the poor, being of opinion that an attempt was
made to carry the bill too quickly into execution in all its parts.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL agreed with the hon. gentleman that
the bill should be carried into effect gradually. He had stated
that as his opinion to the poor law commissioners, and be thought
that their conduct proved that they were fully sensible of the
necessity of acting in this manner. Their reports were for-
warded to him from time to time, and he should certainly parti-
cularly attend to what orders they made.
Mr. RoatNsors was sorry he had not directly answered the
question, whether the commissioners had issued orders to put an
end to out-door relief. He (Mr. II.) had been friendly to the
general principle of the hillibut one clause of the act he thought
a horrid one—he alluded to the bastardy clause. It was a cliff-
graceful enactment. He would'caution the noble lord against
taking a too favourable view of the operation of the act during
the present cheapness of food.
Mr. 'l'. ATTWOOD trusted that before government or parlia-
ment gave their sanction to orders of this kind, for doing away
with out-door relief, they would have orders issued to the over-
seers to find work and good wages for the poor man who woind
be thus deprived of support.

THE CONFERENCE.
At the close of the conference with the Hone of Lords, Lord
John Russell having reported- to the house the result, moved
that the amendments of the lords to the Municipal corporations
bill be taken into consideration. This motion being agreed to
the amendments were read at the table by the clerk.
Lord JOHN It ussau. then addressed the house at great length.
He could have wished that the lords had agreed to all the
amendments made by that house, but he had to state that those
alterations io the bill to which he bad an insuperable objection
had been abandoned by the lords; His lordship then proceed-
ed to notice in succession .the amendments and alterations
made in the bill by the other house; these, he said, would be
best judgetiof after the bill had come into operation, and be
would not hesitate to say that considering how much this bill
had been amended by different hands, and how the original de-
sign had in some measure been departed from, it was impossible
for parliament to'go on for any considerable time without tak-
ing this matter into consideration. (Loud cheers.) He came
then to consider this bill as a whole, and whether the House of
Commops would be justified to the country and to their consti-
tuents in assenting to this measure. (Hear, hear.) H e did not
think it would be wise to attempt any fresh amendment, for the
real queition was whether they could present this bill to the
country as a foundation of great improvements in its municipal
institutions. He had no hesitation in saYing that he so con-
sidered it. (Cheers) In the first place, all the various bodies
who were self-elected, with their various and discordant privi-
leges. were put an end to. ( Hear, hear.) The system of ap-
pointing justices, which the House of Lords had declared to be
bad, was also at an end, and they had a system raised at last
upon a round basis, which it could not be denied was a great
gain for the better, affd would assist in securing what remained
to be acquired. Besides this, there was the introduction of a
good system of justice in the boroughs. Their recorders would
sit to dispense justice, men being well versed in the law, and
not appointed: Merely as a compliment. In another respect a
great improvement had been made, because, although they had
admitted the preservation of the rights of property, as they were
styled, to freemen, and.of their right to vote for members of par-
liament, yet trey did away with them as municipal electors
altogether, (hear, hear,) and if they would enter into the muni-
cipalconstituen_cy, they mint enter under the uniform rule of
paying rates. With respect to the boundaries, ninety-three of
these harchglis,had their boundaries settled by the commission-
ers under the boundary act, and this would be a great improve-
ment. There were various other great improvements in the
bill, and one in particular, which did not belong to any party,
was that one which prqvicied that there should be in future a
good police in those towns by means of a watch committee ap-
pointed by the popular council, and referring to them all ques-
tions relating to the quiet and safety of the town. (Hear, hear.)
Containing these advantages, then, and containing the germ of
many other improvements, he might say that this bill laid the
foundation of good government for the municipal towns of the
kingdom: Among other advantages which it held out, he
looked particularly, and indeed to nothing Tore than, to the
proper distribution of charitable funds; and as it' was provided
that these funds shoold not be abused by indiyttluals, but should
be distributed according to the intention of the donors; looking
at these advantages eltegAther, although he wad not altogether
satisfied With the bills be was content to take it as Raves, since it
could not be Considered Ps be a final measure. It was useless
for.him to'make aoyaleclnfation on this suhject, because those
who had framed the amendments had taken special care that, it
shoeld net be -50...c005ic1gred......( great ch eeri n ) Viewing it,
then, in that light, he thnitgfit that he was justified in recom-
mending the House, ,of commens to put an end to the contro-
versy which had been carried on,' and to take care by assenting
to Mesa amendments that the bill should' become an act of par-
liament. (beer, beer.) lie bad oo doubt himself that when
the new.constitution ef. these boroughs Came into 'effect, and
when the new elections should take place, they would-find that,
there bad been great improvements in the gevernmetit of then;
—that they would find many defects removed, many abuses cor-
rected, and that the working of the bill itself Wouldshow hoW,
with the consent of the Muse. of Lords, the whole system might
be improved in a future session.. '(Hear, hear.) He knew
that with respect to any great measure of this kind it was
not possible in a :mixed censti:trtion like ours to tarry into
effect at once all those refiring which one tuightthink necessary.
As,longas he had a 'rat in parliatnent, in all those measures of
i
reform n" Which he had borne a humbler part, it had always
been• his maxim tie yield something to which he was opposed,•ln
Order' to have some measures placed upon the statute book
Thich should attest* the progress of our legislation, This was
' the course he had pursued with respect to the repeal of the test
a. nct corporation acts, for, Objecting as he did to any.declaration,
ne was glad to get the solemn declaration of parliament that the
riacramental test was a profanation and an abominetion. A
different line- of conduct was followed by those who mew/ years
atgo, Upon the Doman catholic question, gave up the bill be-
cone seats in
_patliament were pot conceded. He had always
thooßht-that if that bill had then been passed 'at once, the re-
,xnaiteing clause ofoseets in parliament would have been much
sooner conceded thew it wits. (Hear, hear.) ' Now with re-
spect to measures of this kind, if we lived under the sway of an
arbitrary mobittch. or ander a tovernment totally democratic,
we might. pass the* it once
,lust as they were originally pro-
posed. The. King,of, Pi-notes many years ago issued an edict,
by vrbich all corporate officers were to be elected by house-
holden. Ha had tie difficulty in doing that. In the same way,
in a government purely popular there would be no difficulty in
carrying through measures as they were framed. But we lived
under a tempered government, and he wished to see all the re-
forms which he thought necessary carried into effect consistent-
ly with the maintenance of our existing institutions and our
tempered government. He would say, that if we were prepared
to abandon that tempered form of government, we should suffer
much greater evils than we might otherwise be called on to 'en-
counter. He was therefore prepared to propose that the house
should agree to the amendments made by the lords, looking
forward, as he did, to the future prospects of ,annther session.
.(Great cheering.) A gond deal would be gained by this step
towards the reform of the corporations in Irehtml (bear, hear,)
which must necessarily be introduced in the coarse of the en-
suftg sessiim,T There were various other subjects which A:ailed
loudly upon their 'Attention. There were reforms to he cerried
Which related to the grievances of she dissenters, and a reform
of the English church, which, by the consent 'and ailowirl of ell
parties, required to be carried into effect. He should think it
of great advantage if, in-aced of having to begin again with a
reconsideration of a vshole bill upon this subject, and to go over
all the discussions they had already had, they should have this
bill carried into a law, and that they should only find it neces-
sary:A° examine into the defects remaining with respect to
this measure, that they might carry on those other reforms of
which the country stood in need. (Cheers.) He thought, too,
that they should in that way carry into effect, as far as it lay in

their power, the pledge which had been given by hisnoble friend
Lord Spence; in the last session of parliament. At the close of
that session, his noble friend declared he should be prepared at
the commencement of the present session to introduce a mea-
sure of municipal reform. By the government which was
formed at the commencement of this session, instead of such a
measure having been introduced, they had only been told the
rep rt of the commissioners would be laid before them, and that
it would receive due consideration, but accompanied at the same
time with sundry hints and rumours, that it had been declared
by high authority that the commission appointed to inquire into
those corporations was altogether illegal. ( Hear, hear.) From
that time, however, they had made this step, that they hail in-
troduced a measure which had met with the general consent of
the House of Commons (hear, hear) ; that measure had been
altered; but altered as it was, maimed as it was in many of its
parts, he thought it would stilt fulfil the wishes they (had ex-
pressed on the first day of the session, to see ,Mr municipal cor-
porations subject to popular control"). ( Hear, hear.) With
these observations he would only further take the liberty of
moving, that the house do agree to the amendments made by the
House of Lords. (Cheers.)
At the close of the debate the question was put and carried
without a division.

ORANGE LODGES

Mr. FIUME brought up the report of the select committee ap-
pointed to inquire into the state of orange lodges in England,
and, in moving that the report be printed, stated that it recom-
mended to the attention of the house the orders issued by the
right hon. the Commander of the Forces on the 31st ultimo.
declaring that any officer or soldier who shall attend any regi-
mental or other lodge should be brought to a court-martial, and
be dismissed the service; and the committee recommended to
the house the adoption of a similar principle with respect to per-
sons holding civil offices, that was to say, that any person hold-
ing office under the crown, and belonging to any society joined
together under secret oaths, signs, or tokens, should be dis-
missed from his office. The committee, bearing in mind that
there was scarcely a corps, either of militia or the regular ser-
vice in the army, which at one time or other had not its orange
lodge, and when it also, remembered that those lodges now
existed in regiments serving in New South Wales, Van Die-
men's Land, Corfu. the Canadas, and elsewhere, considered
that nothing short of the orders issued by Lord Hill could put
an end to the evils of a system which appeared to the committee
to prevail to a considerable extent. He should feel it to be his
duty to-morrow to lay upon the table the copy of an address to
the crown on this subject, of which early next session he should
move the adoption by this house. The address would he to the
effect he had stated, namely, to pray his majesty to dismiss from
his service all persons oho belonged to orange or other societies
bound by, secret oaths, qgns. or tokens. (Hear.)
Colonel PERCE V said that he concurred in the hope, that
the orders lately issued by the Commander-in-Chief would put
an end to, and prevent the continuance of, orange lodges in the
army, as being prejudicial to the discipline of the service; but
he could not go to the extent of the hon. member for Middlesex
in thinking that all orangemen, as such, ought to be dismissed
from the service of the crown. ( Hear.) The orangemen had
now
,no secret signs, oaths, or tokens, for they had all been
stated and laid -betnre the committee, and were now in the pos-
session of the whole country. (Hear.) He was satisfied that
the more the orange societies were investigated, the more con-
stitutional they would be found. The orangemen were bound
together solely for mutual protection, the maintenance of the
constitution, and of the connexion between Great' Britain and
Ireland; and he was yet to learn upon what grounds the hon.
member fur Middlesex could justify such a recommendation to
the crowu as that which he had just now hinted at. He con-
ceived the orders issued by the Commander of the Forces not
to be confined to orange lodges alone, but to extend to every
description of association, and it would, therefore, he well if the
hon. member for Middlesex would extend that, research, for
which he was proverbial, to an inquiry into the nature, state,
and extent of other swieties which tie (Colonel Perceval) could
prove to exist in the array, but which had not had the honesty
and manliness to come forward as the orangemen had clone with
their documents and other information. (Cries of "Name."
He would name the society of ribandrnen, which existed in the)
army to a very formidable extent—societies bound together by
secrecy for the extirpation of all those who were attached to the
constitutiou and the throne. There were other political socie-
ties to which the hon. member for Middlesex would do well to
turn his attention. The Anti-TOry Association by its very
name
.proclaimed itself a political society ; so also the 'Franchise
Association; but neither of these had come forward to afford
any information. (Hear.) The whole outcry was raised
against the orange societies, because it was known that they
were based on loyalty and wound up io the constitution of the
country. He had on a former occasion stated that he depre-
cated the existence of regimental lodges, and he begged to add,
that in 1812 he had himself eradicated a lodge-from the regi-
ment he had then the honour to command. But he denied that
they now existed to any thing like such an extent as was sug-
gested in the report. lie could state that the lodge in the 35th
Regiment was put an end to while that regiment was stationed
in Lancashire, and therefore could not now he in existence, as
stated, in Teruplemore. He felt himself called upon to offer
these few remaks on the present occasion.
Mr. AG 110 N BIT said, that until the report was printed, it was
scarcely fitting to enter into a discussion upon its contents.
Thus much, however, he must say for himself and every mem-
ber of the committee, that they were ready to sanction every
word which it contained. The house and the country were
deeply indebted to the hon. member for Middlesex for the inde-
fatigable industry and the perfect fairness with which, as chair-
man, he had conducted the inquiry. (Hear.) •
The report was then ordered to tie printed.

SITTING OF THE HOVSE.
Mr. S. Ring moved that the house at its rising adjourn to
Wednesday next.—Agreed to.

'LETTERS PATENT RILL

Mr. TOOKE moved the order of th,e day for taking into con-
sideration the lords' reasons for disagreeing In one of the amend-
ments made by the commons in this bill. The amendment re-
lated to the reference to the judicial committee of the privy
council the claims for an extension of the duration of patents to
the inventors. He moved the house do agree to the lords' rea-
son!.

Air. WARBURTON opposed the motion; and
After a desultory conversation, in which Sir G. Strickland,
Mr. Serjeant Wilde; Dr. Bowring, Mr. D. Callaghan, the At-
torney-General, Mr. Ewart, and Mr. Wakley, took part, the
house divided, when the numbers appeared—

For the motion
Against it 23
• Majority
On the motion of Mr. 17. Baring the lords' amendments on
the stamps and assessed taxes bill were agreed to.
Mr. HcME• gave notice, that next session he should move a
resolution to relieve menibers of that house from ,the payment
of fees for the delivery of papers, and from all fees now payable
by them to the messengers and porters of this house.
Mr. HUME moved that a conference be requested with the
other house of parliament on the subject of the resolutions with
respect to printing, &c., adopted by this house three days ago.
Mr. V. SMITH thought it was too late in the session Co effect
any practical result by the communication of these resolutions
to the other house, which could do nothing without the report
upon which those resolutions were founded.
The motion was withdrawn.
On the motion of the Attorney-General, the lords' amend-
ments on the fines and recoveries' bill were agreed to.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned at eleven o'clock.

• HOUSE OF- LORDS.—ToEstisv.
Mr. Bernal and others from the House of Commons brought
up a message requesting their lordships to furnish the commons
with a copy of the fifth report of the select committee of their
lordships on prison discipline.
On the motion of viscount DUNCANNON the request was ac-
ceded to, and the messengers were called in and informed there-
of by Lord DENMAN.
Mr. Bernal and others from the commons brought up the mu-
nicipal corporations bill, the commons announcing that they
did not insist on their disagreement to the recent amendments of
the lords on the commons' amendments. They also brought
up the duties on glass bill, the letters patent bill, and the mar-
riage bill, haring agreed to their lordships' amendments in
those bills.

TITHES' INSTALHENT (IRELAND) BILL.
Lord WHARNCLIPPE, after adverting to the circumstances
which rendered the introduction of this bill necessary, proceed-
ed to obseree',that it. was quite impossible to expect that the
clergy of Ireland could repay the sum of £650,000, which had
been advanced to them. Their situation precluded them from
paying it, and the sooner the public mind was made up to the
loss of that money the better. The Irish clergy possessed' a
tight, a legal right, to claim tithes, and an equally legal right to
collect them. .They had never applied for relief; they had only
called for that to which they were fairly entitled. 'They had
asked for the means of obtaining their-legal rights. They were
perfectly justified itv doing this; and he would say that the
government were bound In vindicate the law with respect to the
rights of the clergy, which they had not done. He felt that it
would be an extreme hardship on the Irish clergy if, situate as'
they were, the repayment of this money was demanded from
them. He could not avoid, before he sat down, expressing the
strong feeling which he entertained with respect to the resale.
tionlhat had been agreed to by the other house of parliament,
on the subject of the church revenues of Ireland. They had,
by their vote on that subject, recognised the extreme prinaiple,
that no settlement of the tithe question could ever take place
unless the measure introduced for that purpose was connected
with an appropriation clause, respecting a supposed surplus of
church property. That there was no surplus, that there could
be no surplus, if justice were done to the protestant establish-
ment of Ireland, was perfectly clear. Why, then, should they
have so strenuously asserted a mere abstract principle? It was
argued, he well knew, that in sonic parishes in Ireland there
were no protestants, and that in others there were very fete;
but, even admitting this to be the fact, still he would contend
that the state of the protestant establishment in Ireland did not
justify such a measure as ministers had proposed.
Viscount 111.1ti.auctiNs. said he should pass over the obsetva-
lions made by his noble friend with respect to the bill originally
introduced by ministers. He should be very unwilling to advert
to it, as the subject had been already discussed in that house.
He would merely say, that in bringing it forward the object of
ministers vas to carry into effect, as far as they possibly could,
their anxious wish to settle the tithe question in Ireland. 'fo
the proposition made by his nob!e friend to remit at once the
debt due by the Irish elm gy to the public he could not consent.
It was stated at the time that the bid Warti introduced for grant-
' ing this loan, that it was to be considered as a charge for the
maintenance and sustentation of the protestant clergy in Ire-
land; but it was also distioctly stated that the money so granted
should after a certain time he recovered. On that clear and
distiuct understanding it was that ministers bad broughtfurward
that bill, and on that principle, and no other, parliament had
been induced to concur in it. His noble friend . had said, that
the sooner the matter was settled, the sooner the acconnt was
closed, the sooner the debt was remitted, as there Was no chance
of recovering it, why, the better. Now he was quite ready to
have done that, if their lordships had agreed to the other bills,
and thus made the general settlement of the whole question,
which would have been likely to lay the foundation of lasting
religious peace in Ireland. This, however, their lordships had
not done; and he would risk whether, under these etrcum-
stances, ministers would be justified now, without considering
the peculiar circumstances of different clergymen, in at once
remitting this loan? He would ask was it not right to inquite
whether clergymen had obtained the means of paying that which
had been advanced or not? Could they, in the honest discharge
of their duty as ministers—could they, acting in a proper eco-
nomic spirit, at once, and without any consideration or arrange-
ment whatever, give up all this money to the clergy of Ireland
without any one reason to justify them in taking such a course?
His noble friend 'said that the clergy never could pay this mo-
ney: He did not mean to say that, as to many cases, that might
not be the fact; hut he believed that it did not by any means
apply to all. It would assuredly be prosper for the government
to enforce the claims where it was necessary, but certainly not
where the justice of the case,-or a sympathetic feeling for the
situation of the clergyman, called for forbearance, anil rendered
the recovery of such claims ditliculf. His noble friend had
gone a little into the general question, and bad consura. the
conduct of ministers in office and out of cilice. He 'had can,
sured their proceedings in the House of Commons and in that
house. He certainly. could nut in any respect agree with his
noble friend in the view which he had taken of those proceed-
jugs. In his opinion the measure which lie had introduced with
respect to the Irish church was wise and prudent; and he
thought that, if their lordships had agreed to the reasonable

reformation of the church establishment in. Ireland which had
b,•eu proposed, there would have been, not merely a hope, but a
certainty of setilirl: this much-agitated question on a safe and
reasonable foundation. Their lordships had, however, viewed
the matter in a different lizht; and deeply did he deplore, in
common with his noble friend, that the sv.tletrient of this ques-
tion was left in so uncertain a state.

Lord Et.t.HairrortouGn observed, that the course pursued by
akinisters had materially impeded the operation of Lord Stan-
ley's- excellent act.- It had excited the apprehensions of the
landlords, who would not advance money to the clergyman,
which they feared they never could recover. When he looked
to the resolution which was placed on the journals of the other
house, he that there was no hope, not the slightest, that
thetr lordships could ever agree ts; it. He would :my that that
resolution had created a new, an unnecessary, a most unfortu-
nate obstacle, to that union of public men which the noble
marquis ( Lansdowne) and the noble viscount (Melbourne)
Must acknowledge to be essential to the public good, because it
was essential to the proper government of the country. While
that resolution stood, there could not be formed a government
equally beneficial to all parties, and firmly determined to do
their duty towards all their classes. There was no hope• of it.
In saying this, he spoke not of views which he might himself en-
tertain as a public man, with respect to the operation of that so.
much-talked-of appropriation clause. He spoke from feelings
of a more general and extended nature. He spoke with refer-
ence to the feelings—the religions feelings—of a great number
of people in this couutry—feelings which rendered it perfectly
impossible for them ever to agree to any such principle. (Hear,
hear.) How was it possible, he would ask, that the other house
of parliament could ever cordially unite with their lordships in
legislating upon great national questions, when such a resolu-
tion as that to which he had adverted stood upon their journals
—a resolution which effectually prevented public men„ whose
sentiments on many other points might coincide, front uniting
together
l'he Marquis of WESTMEITII greatly regretted the state of
entanglement in which the conduct of ministers had left this
important. question. lie attributed to the conduct of ministers,
in proclaiming the extinction of tithes, the great cause of the
depreciation of property in some parts of Ireland:
l'he Marquis of La NsnowNii (who spoke in a voice scarcely
audible) said. that with respect to the remission of the loan to
the Irish clergy, it was impossible to lay down so general a rule.
Some of the clergy might have received the insane of repaying
what had been advanced to them, while others could not ' • anti
it was certainly necessary that a distinction should be made in
those cases. lie, however, could not consent that a very large
sum of money should be taken from the pockets of the people of
England to support the clergy of the church of Ireland, especi-
ally as their lordships had rejected a measure which would have
gone far to tile.settlement of the tithe question. The noble lord
(Eilenhorough) had stated, that while the resolution of the
House .uf Cernmons remained, on the journals of that house it
was impossible that there- could be a union of public men, for
the government of the country. He regretted that any difficulty
should be interposed to prevent the union of public men at the
present moment ; but he felt himself bound to defend the reso-
lution of the Souse of Commons, as being perfectly constitu-
tional. - . .

The Earl of RODEN said the clergy of Ireland had not come
forward to seek for anything except that which was their own
Undoubted right. (Hear, hear.) They were placed in the me-
lancholy, deplorable, and wretched situation in which they now
stood by means of the government itself, which had not asserted
the rights and dues of the clergy, and vindicated the insulted
law, as they ought to have done. There was not an individual
in Ireland who did not know, that at one period the question of
tithes might have been easily settled, but this was prevented by
the declaration of ministers in the other house,that tithes should
be forthwith extinguished. At that time the south of Ireland
would have been ready, in a foltnight or three weeks, to pay the
tithes that were due; but the declaration of ministers put an
end to that state of things. All that was then wanted was, that
the government would prove that they were really in earnest
—that they were determined to enforce the law. If they had
done so, the legislature would not have been placed in their
present unnatural situation ; but the noble viscount informed
them that government were ready to give up this loan if their
lordships would have acceded to the Irish church bill. But
neither the clergy of Ireland, nor himself, nor those who took
the same view of the subject that he did, would ever consent to
receive such a bribe as an inducement which should lead them
to desert their duty. They would never, in consequence of any
such remittance, allow the alienation of that property which was
intended for the support of the protestant faith to the propaga-
tion of another and a very different faith. He nevcr %mild
consent to the alienation of one farthing of that money which be-
longed to the established church for the purpose of inculcating
religious doctrines against which he protested. He had sworn
at that table that he believed those doctrines to be erroneous,
and, as a consistent man, he never would lend himself to any
measure which would assist in their propagation. (Hear.)
The bill was then read a third time.
The Duke of WELLINGTON presented a petition from the
corporation of Yarmouth, thanking their lordships for the al-
terations which they bad made in the municipal corporations
bill.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he rose to state, on behalf
of a noble earl, (Radnor,) that, in what that noble earl had said
with respect to Shrewsbury school, when the examination on
the subject of the corporation of Shrewsbury was proceeding
before their lordships, he had not the least intention of reflects
ing on the cheracter or conduct of Mr. Baker.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS-WED2iESDAY.
ROYAL ASSENT.

Lord Denman,. the Earl of Shaftesbury, arid Lord Rosslyn
attended as his Majesty's commissioners, to give the royal as.
sent to the following bills, viz.—the glass dutieS bill, the stamp
and assessed taxes bill, the militia staff reduction bill, the Muni-
cipal corporation bill, the tonnage admeasurement bill, the
slave trade (Sardinia) bill, the slave trade (Denmark) bill, the
weights and measures bill, the charities commissioners' bill, the
poor law act amendment bill, the cruelty #r) animals bill, the
lectures' publication bill, the recovery of tithes bill, the tithe of
turnips hill, the oaths abolition bill, the land revenue (Scotland)
bill, the reform of parliament (Scotland) bill, the savings' hanks
(Scotland) bill, the forgeries (Scotland) bill, the imprisonment
for debt (Scotland) bill, the • excise incorporation (Scotland)
bill, the tithes instalment (Ireland) bill, the sheriffs (Ireland)
bill, the Shannon navigation bill, the North American colonial
association (Ireland) bill, the Islington market bill, and the
Cave-hill and Belfast railway bill. •

MnSSAGE FliOM THE COMMONS.

Mr. Bernal, and other members, brought up the letters patent
bill, and reported that the Commons did not insist upon the
amendments; also the fines and recovery bill, the grand juries
(Ireland) bill, and the capital punishments bill.
The house then• adjourned at ten minutes to four o'clock till

to-morrow.
HOUSE OF COMMONS—WVDNESDA Y.
The house met at three o'clock, but no business of the slightest
importance was brought forward.
The house was counfell out shortly after the meeting.

DREADFUL FIRE IN SACKVILLE-STREET,
DUBLIN.
About two o'clock on Sunday morning the watchman sta-
tioned near Carlisle Bridge observed fire issuing from the
house of Mr, Fergusson, the perfumer, and he immediately
alarmed the inmates, who were buried in sleep, unconscious of
their danger. By the time that he succeeded in arousing Mr.
Fergusson, the flames had spread with frightful rapidity, and
the entire building, and the human beings that it contained, ap-
peared doomed to destruction. On attempting to make, down
stairs at the first alarm, Mr. Fergusson was driven back by the
terrific obstacles that opposed his progress. All communication
with the lower part of the house was cut off by the fire which
had nearly consumed the stairs and rafters that supported the
floor of the second story. Plunged into despair by this circum-
stance, Mr. Fergusson repaired to his bedroom, where his wife
and children were assembled, in a state of the greatest distrac-
tion. They bad
_given tip all hope of escape. when Mr. Fer-
gusson recollected that they could get out on (fie roof of one of
the neighbouring houses, by means of a small window which
looked out on the parapet. Having placed his wife and children
in safety, be returned to his bedroom for his pocket-book,
which contained money and bills of exchange to a considerable
amount. The flames 'had already reached the room, but he
succeeded in securing the pocket-book, and he returned to the
window through which his wife and children had escaped. On
laying hold of the wood-work of the window, in order to climb.
through it, it gave way, and he would have been precipitated
through the floor of the room, which, by this time, was nearly
consumed, had not. his wire caught him by the collar of his
• dressing gown, and in this way sustained him until he had re-.
gained his hold. Ho lost his pocket-book while endeavouring
to save himself.. The entire family were most providentially
saved, but the house and every article of furniture and property
which it contained were consumed.

EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF YOUTHFUL
ENTERPRISE.

We have been informed on the best authority of the follow-
ing instance of youthful enterprise and perseverance. Mr,
Charfes HowardAshworth, the fourth sprviving son Of the'
late Mr. Ashworth, the barrister, of Manchester, somewhat
more than three years ago was *suddenly missed by his fa-
mily, who heard no tidings of him for several months. Re•
taus Oen onlyseventeenlears of azel..and it being known' that
he had but si7feyorrunds in his pocket, and the. choleraming:
Violently at 'the tune in Liverpool,, where he was last' seen,
Many fears were entertained that ho bad been hurried off' by-
that fatal thiorder among strangers, who, for some reason or
other, might conceal it from his friends. He was, in the habit,
whenever be received fresh pocket money, of travelling on footto every rerriarkable place within his reacts, and on Such occa-
sions need to seek out the cheapest lodgings consistent with
cleanliness, in order to make his funds carry him as far as pos-
sible—this habit would naturally strengthen the possibility of
the fate suspected. They still, however, entertained the hope,
from a knowledge of his early passion for travel, and of his
constant companions, Bruce, Paike, Captain Heed, Lander,
and some other worthies, that he might be gone on some long
excursion. This at length proved true. A letter was received
from the banks of the Missouri, in North America, stating
that he had proceeded so far on his Projected journey; but since
leaving civilized parts had been utterly without money. He_ has,
since,• without the means being afforded his family of sending
him any Suppliei, from the utter uncertainty of Ins position at
any
.given tune, travelled chiefly on foot, up as fat as fort St.
Louis, Upper Mississippi,—visited Lake Michigan—joitied
tt
company of fur traders--passed over the continent of North
America—gone down the coast, iu company with a Captain
Stewart, for two hundred miles—and embarked front the Mouth
of the Columbia, whence he reached Onolulu, one of theSand-
wieh Islands, in tbe Pacific, and was heard from through the
brig Eagle, lately arrived from that quarter. Op one occasion
he travelled through an utterly wild and uncultivated country,
with only a few poor Indians of the Sioux tribe, on fnut, fur
five hundred *miles, dependent on their own resources, even for
a meal, and suffered the greatest possible hardships. He says,
in the last letter, received by his elder brother, the Rev. T. A.
Ashworth, that what are called the savage and blood-thirTty chil-
dren of the desert, have ever been the most kind to him, and
in their wigwams he bas chiefly slept, at their simple board
most commonly eaten, and been welcome without itiottey and
withciut price; hut that frequently also he has had the wilder-
ness for his couch, and the desert air for.his supper.—Mcrneltester
Herald.

CAUTION TO PURCHASERS OF SECOND-HAND CARRIAGES.---.
TWO cases of great hardship were decided by the Commissioners
of Assessed Taxes at Dolgelley on Tuesday last. Hugh. Jones
of Hengwrt Ucha' had purchased a car from Mr. Richards of
Caerynwch, upon which a crest was painted, belonging to the
la&r, and which had not been obliterated by Mr. Jones, and
he was now charged with the duty for using the said crest. The
sureeyor Produced 'a case lately decided by the Judges precisely
in point, and the charge against Mr. Jones wan allaaed. lie
very warmly remonstrated against the decision, and. threatened
to bring the case before the judges. Lewis Pugh, Esq. of Tyny-
celin, was also charged for armorial bearings, and it appeared
that he had purchassed a second-hand four-wheeled carriage, on
wll7-11 there was a different crest. The commissioners dt.cided,
on the strength of the case produced by the surveyor, that he
also was liable to the duty. We would therefore recommend all
persona Who happen be in a similar predicament, to lose no time
in erasing the offending crests or coats of arms from their car-
riage, to save themselves from the tender mercies of the survey-
ors of taxes.-.-Carnarvan Herald.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.