The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-24 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF LORDS.---FYIDAY.
Lord SIDNEY presented a petition from his relative, Lord
ries Townshend, only brother and heir-presumptive of
Marquis Townshend, which, from the extreme novelty
rcumstances, as well as the character of the applica-
ited much interest. The petitioner stated that his
)they had, in 1807, married a Miss Gardner, of Chat-
'rom whom, however, he separated almost immedi-
er their union. A suit in the Ecclesiastical Courts
ide the marriage was commenced, but while it was
ding the Marchioness eloped with a person named
s, to whom she was married at Gretna-green in 1809.
Is person she continued to live, adopting his name
r„„...ing as his wife until 1823, and by him she had six
children, all of whom bore the name of their father until
1823, when they were baptized as the children of the Marquis
Townshend. These facts he claimed to be allowed to prove
before their lordships, that the testimonies of the witnesses

to whom the circumstances were known might be perpetu-
ated, and the more especially as the title of Earl of Leicester,
the second in his family, had been wrongfully assumed by
the bon. men
Some conve

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ation ensued as to the manner in which an
investigation so wholly unprecedented should be proceeded
with, and a committee was ultimately appointed, at the
suggestion of Lord BROUGHAM, to search for precedents.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

discussion took place as tow—h.ethet:Mr, C. Bt!lle!'s

motion, respecting the bribery alleged in the petition of Mr.
Warburton to. have taken place at Bridport, could be consi-
- glit of a question of privilege, so as to take pre-

cedence of all other business.
The SPEAKER decided that it could not come under the
class of questions of privilege ; and Mr. BULLER, therefore,
gave notice that he would bring it forward on Thursday next.
Mr. MITCHELL and Mr. B. COCHRANE complained that
the petition had been printed in the Morning Chronicle,
contrary to the understanding usually acted upon in such
cases, and said it was hard upon them that they should not
have an earlier opportunity of defending themselves from the
gross charges made agoinst them in that petition.
Mr. C. BULLER said Thursday was the only day he could
bring it forward, the others being order days.
In reply to a question from Lord PALMERSTON,
Sir R. PEEL said that the commissioners who had been
sent out by the noble lord to examine into the North Ameri-
can boundary had made their report within the last few days,
but the annexes to that report were net yet completed. When
those annexes were ready, the whole would be laid upon the
table of the house.

STAFFORD 013R/EN asked the noble secretary for
Ireland if it was intended to proclaim the county of Tippe-
rary where so many outrages had recently taken place.
*-1 that those statements were much ex-
' f! first four months of the year 1841 the
amber of offences in Tipperary was 305. During the same
period of 1842 the number was 327, but the number of the
more serious offences was materially diminished. The go-
vernment had sent an increased force into the county, and if
that should not be sufficient a still greater number would be
added. He felt confident, however, that the exemplary con-
duct of the catholic clergy, in denouncing all illegal pro-
ceedings from the altar, would ultimately be attended with
the success which their exertions merited.
The house then resolved itself into a committee of supply,
and Capt. BOLDER° proceeded with the ordnance estimates.
A conversation arose respecting the non-adoption of Capt.
Warner's projectile, in the course of which
Sir R. PEEL said he had caused an offer to be made to
Capt. Warner to make a trial of his invention upon a large
scale at the expense of the government; but this he declined
doing except certain conditions were attached, to which the
government did not think it advisable to accede.
Mr. BROTHERTON expressed his satisfaction at finding that
neither the late government nor the present government had
rewarded this gentleman for his infernal invention. (A laugh.)
The ordnance estimates having been gone through,
Mr. S. HERBERT moved the remaining navy estimates,
-reed to.

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