The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-02-09 00:00:00

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I.IIIPRRI.dh PARLI.JMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS. Fitsopa, Fie. 8.

Mr. Dawes from the Crown Office, presented returns
of the election of two Representative Peers for Ireland,
in the room of the late Lord Tyrawley and the Ist* Mar-
quess of Londonderry.—Laid on the table.
AeIICUt.TUUAL OUTROS,.
LOrd HAVRE wished to.heow whether it was the in-
tention of the Noble Earl opposite to call upon the House
shortly to pay the attention due to the Agricultural Dis-
tress now existing in the country. If the Noble Earl
should not'answer in the affirmative, be (Lord Deere)
should give notice that he intended to bring the question
forward in the course of the next week.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL did not mean to propose
an► measure immediately upon that subject. Bat a
Noble Friend of his, in another ptire, bad given notice
of a very early motion, is which he was to bring the
views whirl, his Majesty's novernment entertained upon
that question under the consideration of the 'House of
Commons. Under these circumstances, he (the Earl of
Liverpool) thought that it would be right for the pre-
, sent to suspend any proceeding upon the subject before
their Lordships. This appeared the more convenient, as
al, measure for altering the laws must originate in the
of House.
rl SOMERS presented a Petition from the Inhabit-
_ ants of the Hundred of Withbridge, in the island of Ely,
complaining of Agricialtural Distress.—Laid on the
table. •
6 STILTS OF inaLsxn.
T►e Earl of LIVERPOOL felt uncertain whether the
Bill ender the consideration of the other House would
be passed in time to reach their Lordships this evening.
He was unwilling• to put them to any inconvenience;
acid as he conceived that they would have no objection
to sit tomorrow, he should now• move that the Order of
the Day for suspending the Standing Orders, which
stood for this day, he discharged,and he renewed for to-
morrow, when at five o'clock, after the Bill hail been
read, he would introduce the subject to their Lordships.
• The Marquess of LAN'SDOWNE thought it was ra-
therinconvenlent for the House to sit on Saturday on a
Bill of this importance, which 'slight have been more
fay discussed on Monday. Yet as he felt in comes
with the Noble Earl that if the measnres proposed wars
necessary, so time ought to be lost la passing thee.
he should not object to the motion, mud should only hops
that their Lordships would attend to give the subject all
the consideration to which it was entitled by its import-
ance. The motion was then agreed to, the notice fixed
and the motion of the Earl of Li-

for to-morrow, . on earl
verpool the Lords were ordered to be summoned.—Ad-
joased.

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• HOUSE OP COMMONS.
The House met at two o'clock, and then adjourned to
-Eve, in order to carry op the Address to thentrone.
At five o'clock the SPEAKER accordingly took the
Chair. when
'Lord FOLKESTONE rose to enquire whether it was
inlconformity to the rules of the house,- for an adjourn.
mein of a few hours to take place, upon the occasion of
- catfliwg an Address, and for the house to wet again on
the tame day. He wished to know whether it was irre-'
guise, or whether precedents were in existence to show
that thepraetice had previously obtained. lie wished to
know this, because it was a practice, Gish might be pro-
ductive ofmach inconvenience. Fonnstance, the usual
hour of messing in Members being four o'clock, any
Gentleman coming to take the oaths at that hour, would
not End the boast sitting, and the consequence would
he that he Would be excluded from partaking, lit him be
ever so desiroits of doing so, in any debate which might
• " take place upon tbat night. It had been usual, he
'Tht, upon all fortneroccasions, when the house went
O an address to the Crown, to adjourn to the fol•.
bwi g day.
. 'The SPEAKER explained, that the practice of swear-
, itiein Members at four, was only in pursuance of the
6Onvenience of the /louse. In point of &et, the House
adjourned at each sitting to ten or eleven o'clock, ac-
cording to the lateness of the hour at which they rose,
in the ensuing day. Therefore, if the House met at
two instead of four, Gentlemen were perfectly compe.
tent to take the oaths at that hour as well as at any
other. In cases like the present, he was aware that the
oldinary course was to adjourn to the next day. But
with regard to the power of adjourning for a shorter
period, be could see no reason why the House had not
the power of adjourning for three hours as well as for
fenr and twenty. Undoubtedly, with regard to prece-
dents, it had frequently happened that the House had
zdjenrneti for short periods, so as to make two sittings
in a day. But whether there was a precedent in which
it had adjourned from any hour previous to four, to a
later period of the same day he was not at that moment
prepared to say.
The Marquess of LONDONDERRY said, there was
sa precedent of no very long standing which bore clearly
npon the present case. The Noble Marquess then read
facie, the Journals of the House, that in January. 1917,
the House met at two o'clock and adjourned to live of
the same day, in order to carry op AO Address to the
Prince Regent.
• After a few words across the table from Lard
FOLKESTONE, the Marquess of LONDONDERR V, Mr.
Tignstev, and Sir J. Ntvecir, the subject dropped.
• The SPEAKER. communicated to the llonse the most
iracions Answer of his Majesty to the Address, which
Fad been carried up.
. Mr. 11. DRUMMOND and Mr. A. CAMPBELL brought
err. Reports from the Edinburgh Police Committees. and
Cloaked leave to bring in Bills for the Watahing and
Lighting of that City, founded thereon.
MR. HENRY HUNT.
Mr. Alderman WOOD said he held in his hand a pe-
tition • from Mr. Henry Hunt, with whose name this
house nos not entirely nnacquain•eil. This individual
was now confined in Ilithester gaol, and Isis Petition to
this • house was to complain that he had been prevented
. by the gaoler from seeing his family, his solicitor, or
^sins medical adviser. Mr. Hunt complained, that for
scone time past his confinement in Ileltester gaol was
areravatcd by every circumstance of inhumanity and in-
ittentioti to his wants anti feelings which his gaoler
ennui offer. It would be recollected, that npon the re-
presentations of Mi. Hunt, a Commission of Inquiry
wee:made ont for Ilchester gaol. Since the first sitting
Of that Commission to the present time, Mr. Hunt bad
been placed in an extraordinary situation—he had been
Peatell in every respect as a felon, and debarred from
all communication with his solicitor and physician.
F:nat his long and close confinement his health had
been much impaired, and as his medical adviser lived
ARP miles oti, he was exposed to all the consequences of
a weak state of body, without the immediate aid of me-
dical advice. lie (Mr. Ahlermait Wood) understood
that there were certain rules for the regniatiow of this
.rison, framed by the Magistrates, tinder an Act of Par-
t mem, and signed by Iwo or three of the Judgett. But
it was a little extraordinary that thourli these rules had
been made for several years, they were never signed by
the Judges. But it was a little extraordinary that
t-hough these rules had been made for several rears,
they were never signed by the Judges until the last As-
sizes for the county of Somerset. He certainly thought
this no extraurditiary circuited:ince, and he could not
accouat fur it where ise than by sapposing that the

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