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HOUSE OF LORDS _
The Royal assent was given by commis
of 40 bills.

THURSDAY

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The Commons' amendments to the Diploma._
lions with Rome Bill were considered and agreed to.
Several other bills on the table were forwarded a stage,
and their lordships adjourned.

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The ifil-qi-eitTer=blig'llfif,-fire'LlOnsolfalPilild Bill,
the West India Colonies and Mauritius Bill, and the Sav-
ings-bank Bill (which is now limited to Ireland, and does
not extend to England and Scotland), were read a third
time and passed.
The Poor Law Auditors' Proceedings Restriction Bill
was committed.

The report on the Copper and Lead Duties Bill was re-
ceived and agreed to.

Mr. C. BaLEn then moved for leave to bring in a bill
to provide for the more equitable distribution of the charge
of -the relief of the poor in certain cities and towns. He
introduced this measure in consequence of the complaint
made by the hon. member for York of the hardship in-
flicted by the present mode of rating on the different pa-
rishes of old towns and cities. He proposed to introduce
the union system of rating into those towns and cities.
lie now laid his bill on the table, with a view of obtaining
public opinion upon it. He had not laid down in his bill
the cities and towns to which it was to be applied, though
he believed that they were 14 in number; and he had left
out of it all cities and towns which were governed by local
acts, merely giving to the Poor-law Commission the power
of extending the act to all cities and towns which applied
for its extension. He would send a copy of the bill to all
the boards of guardians in the country ; and if the princi-
ple of it should meet with approbation, he would in the
next session move, not only to extend that principle to
towns co-extensive with the unions, but also to form all
the parishes of one town into one union.
Leave was then given to bring in the bill.

Mr. G. THOMPSON then took notice for the 33d time of
certain misstatements respecting proceedings in the Sat-
tara case, calculated, as he alleged, to injure the cause of
justice, and.called the attention of the House to the pa-
pers which have been laid before the house relative to the
amount of private property belonging to his late Highness
Pertaub•Singh, Rajah of Sattara, at the time of his depo-
sition in September, 1839, and to the written pledge of
Sir J. Carnac, late Governor of Bombay, respecting it.
He concluded by moving, " That in the opinion of this
House it is required by justice and good faith that the said
property should be transferred to Shahoo Maharaj, the
adopted son of his late Highness, or compensation be
made in lieu thereof."

After the usual answer had been given to the speech of
Mr. G. Thompson. the motion was withdrawn.
In the course of the afternoon the Royal assent was
given to several bills by commission.

HOUSE OF LORDS—FRIDAY.
Some opposition was offered to the first reading of the
Copper and Lead Duties Bill, and
Lord REDESDALE moved that it be read a first time that
,day six months. _ _ __ _ __ _

After a short discussion, their lordships divided, and the
amendment was negatived by a majority of 17 to 13.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-

FRIDAY

On the motion for rending a third time the Copper and
Leild Duties Bill,
Lord G. BENTINCK moved that it be read a third time
that day six months.

The house divided, and the amendment was defeated by
majority of 38 to 25.

The bill was then read a third time and passed.
In reply to a question from Lord G. BENTINCK,

Sir G. GREY repeated the explanations he had given on
a former evening as to the treatment of Mitchell, at Ber-
muda. . .

In reply to a question from Mr. Hume,

Lord PALMERSTON said be was happy to inform the
house that he had received a communication from her Ma-
jesty's representative at Copenhagen, stating that an
armistice had been signed at that city on the 26th ult.,
and-there was every reason to believe that the ratifications
were exchanged on Thursday.

Mr: PALMIR drew attention to the attacks made upon
him by Mr. C. Berkeley in a speech at Cheltenham. in
which he made use of gross calumnies against him as a
member of the Cheltenham election committee. _ _

Mr. AL J. O'CONNELL, Lord G. BENTINCS, and Lord
PALME,RSTON declared the calumnies to be most un-
founded, and regretted that Mr. C. Berkeley could have
been led to indulge in them in the heat of passion.

THE REFORM PARLIAMENT.—This eacoethes loquendi,
says the Times' is a great and growing evil in parliament.
It came in with the Reform Bill, and is the mischief of a
popular representation. Everybody thinks he is bound
to say something on every popular subject. Nobody
thinks of convincing anybody, or of adducing any new
argument. But its.the fashion to speak. A man's con-
stituents like it—his friends like it—a man's wife likes it
—his daughters like it—his tailor likes it—his butler even
likes to read his master's speech. So every debate is
three-parts dribbled away in a distillation of emasculated
slip-slop, from which it would be impossible to precipi- '
tate an idea or elicit a fact. A loose, rambling, conven-
tional mode of mouthing, which has neither the dignity
of oratory nor the solidity of argument, nor the liveliness
of conversation, supersedes the rapid action, the genuine
eloquence which made the " old rotten boroughmonger-
ing house" respectable in the eyes of Europe. Parlia-
ment becomes a spouting club, with the worst imitators
of the worst models. Add to elements like these minis-
ters who can't make up their budget from February to
August—who postpone every government motion in the
session as they postpone the " fish dinner" at the close
of it, and who end by mutilating all that they have pro-
duced—lad you will have the secret of an efhowoit
zue4 and a discontented people.