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niversity of Lon

and passed, and tf

it o'clocii

HOUSE OF COMIONS.—TrEstrey, AUGUST 1,

13ishop of London as to the disgraceful way in whiChirT- - took the chair at noon, but more than
half an hour elapsed before a sufficient number of mem-
bers was in attendance to form " a House."
was read a third time and COMMON LAW PROCEDURE BILL—The house went
into committee, and the consideration of this bin was
• -„„‘,, resumed, commencing with clause 37. The remaining
of the bill were agreed to with some verbal amend,

The SPEARE2

The Spirits Bill (Irelanfi
passed.
The E

moved for certa

SHAFTESBURY
rd of Healt

netted wi

1 into s,

Several bills were

forwarded a et,

v, and Ii

BILLS OF EXCHA.RGE (No. 2) BILL.—On the motion
that the house go into committee on this bill, Mr. GRACE
moved, by way of amendment, that the house go into
committee on the bill on that day three months. After
some discussion, the amendment was negatived by 58 to
32, and the house went into committee, but on reaching
clause 4 another discussion arose, and the committee was
adjourned.

reed at

past eigh

THURSDAY, ArGrer 3.
BRIBERY BILL

THE

NEWCASTLE

inov ed the

—" That the suspension of the writs for five boroughs, by
order of the House of Commons, until new legisl
cautions shall have been taken to prevent the re

ativ e pre-

Several bills were advanced a stage.
Petitions against the opening of pnblichouses on Sun-
day were presented by Mr. W. Brown, from the retail
brewers and beersellers of the Ramsbottom district, as
approved at a district meeting of delegate traders, held at
Manchester; by Mr. Bright, from a meeting of delegates
of beersellers in Manchester, praying for an alteration in
the laws regulating the sale of beer; and by Mr. Horsfall,
from the Liverpool African Association, complaining of

which was proved by Royal Com-
missioners to have pre,iiiled in those boroughs, is (within
the meaning of the resolution of this House of the 2d of

e system of briber

-,st) a circumstance of such urgency as to render
:wary the immediate consideration of a bill brought
Jin the House of Commons on the 31st of July, entitled,
An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Laws relating to
Bribery, Treating, and undue Influence at Election
Members of Parliament ; ' and that, accordingly, it is
reasonable that the said bill be allowed to be read a second
time this day, if the House shall think fit so to order'"
After enter:--- '"`"

irregularities in the communication with the west-
ern coast of Africa by the mail contract steamers.
Russo DUTCH LOAlC—Lord D. STUART moved a series
of resolutions, setting forth the conduct of Russia in neg-
lecting the obligation contracted by her, under the treaty
of Vienna, to maintain the necessary works in the chan-
nel of the Danube, in order that no obstacle might be ex-
perienced in the navigation of that river, and that, by the
convention of 1831, it was agreed by Great Britain to
secure to Russia the payment of a portion of her old
Dutch debt, in consideration of the general arrangements
of the Congress of Vienna, to which Russia had given her
adhesion ; and, in conclusion, declaring the opinion of the
Russia having withdrawn that adhesion, and

_,Ag into a statement of the several provisions
of the bill, he said—lt did not follow that if their lord-
ships agreed to his resolution they were subsequently to
pass the second reading 4'

,pon listening to the

the bill, th

should be of opinion that its pros
object in view.

those arrangements being through her acts no longer in
force, the payments from this country on account of that
debt should b e h en ceforth suspended. Si rW. M oLE WORTH
said that, since the Silesian loan, it had been the established
doctrine, the moral rule of civilization, that a public debt
due to an enemy should be paid during war. Bythe treaty
of Vienna Russia was bound to prevent obstacles to the
navigation of the Danube; she had violated that stipula-
tion, and this was sufficient to constitute a casus Belli; but

neither a eaB

b elli nor war itself would

justify t

in repudiating this debt. He explained the
origin cf the debt, under the conventions of 1814, 1815,
and 1831, whereby part of the purchase-money of the
Netherlands colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Demerara,
Essequibo, and Berbice was to be applied towards bring-
ing about a settlement of the affairs of Belgium and the
defraying of certain pecuniary obligations of the Nether-
lands to Russia ; and with these obligations in view we
agreed to pay off a portion of the debt due to Russia in-
urred by Holland on account of the European war, and
engaged to, continue the payment during war. In
Ilusion, he contended that we were bound by treaty
't of parliament, by international la- by

_ aw, and nononr,
riot to suspend the payments en account of this debt.—

After some further discussion the motion was negatived

59 to 7.

from t

rd tim

to Committee of

;5 was voted
and

td the.3lilitia (Ireland) Bill
ssed.

presented by M

priblictonaes on i

Austral

contained important
'eelings of the inhabit,

r.aimnaird against the
Lord's Day, from Man-
and by Mr. Hutt,

id Limehou
louth Austn

The petitioneri

st to the Crown,
)ugnant to the
complained that by this

granting a civi

isions utterly rej
;. TI

upper r

e was to be nominated by the executive
government instead of being elected by the inhabitants,
warded to officers of

mselves, members of the Legisla-
intrary to all justice and propriety. The
ed the House of Commons that when this
should come under its consideration it would
sanction these anomalies and. objectionable provisions.
TEWSPATER STAXTS.—In answer to a question, the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that it would be
the duty of the Government to give the subject their best

me local gc
tive Counc

ring t.

rs for the purpose of rrrouosix
re which mieh

recess, and to employ their en-
to Parliament some
:tory and effective.