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HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY.
The Marquis of NORMANBY moved the second reading a
the buildings regulation bill.
The Marquis of SALISBURY opposed the motion, on the
ground that it would enhance the price of buildings, and ren-
der it more difficult for the poor to obtain dwellings.
The Duke of WELLINGTON supported the bill, which was

provementa bill, and both were ordered to be committed on
Friday. _ _

Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that he would move on Fri-
day, for copies of the correspondence with the Port of Nassau
respecting the transactions arising out of the affair of the
Creole.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that when the corn-laws
came again under the consideration of the house, he would
move that it is not expedient to adopt a graduated scale of

Mr. VILLIERS said, he should move that it was not expe-
dient to have any duty upon the importation of foreign corn.
Lord LINCOLN, in reply to a question from Mr. Ewart,
said there was no intention at present of throwing open to the
public Richmond and Kew Parks.

Mr. PHILIPS said that a true bill had been found at the
Old Bailey sessions against a nobleman appointed to i high

station; and he should, on Friday, move fOr a return of the
correspondence which had taken place relative to the circum-

In reply to a question from Mr. DLINCOMBE

Sir R. PEN', said he feared he could not bring forward his
bill for the registration of electors until after Easter ; but
ample time would be given to make the country acquainted
with its details before pressing it forward.
On the motion of Dr. BowumG, copies were ordered of
the communications addressed from Bolton to the Home-
office during the late recess on the subject of Mr. Mott's
report.

Mr. BROTHERTON moved that no opposed motion should
be brought forward and decided after twelve o'clock at night,
unless there should be 100 members present.

Sir R. PEEL opposed the motion, as calculated to obstruct
public business. It would require a total change in the
habits of life and society at the present day to carry out the
object of the hon. member.
The motion, on a division, was negatived by a majority of
200 to 26:

Lord J. RUSSELL moved for copies of letters of the late
Lord President of the Court of Session in Scotland, and the
late Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench in Ireland, resigning
their judicial offices. He did not mean to impute anything
improper in the course pursued by the government, for when
those judges resigned, it was imperative upon the government
to supply their vacancies ; but their long retention of office,
and their immediate resignation on a change of ministry,
raised a pritnii facie cass of suspicion that they had retained
their offices until they could have an opportunity of surren-
dering them into the hands of their own political friends.
Considering the importance of maintaining the purity of the
bench, he thought it would be a great misfortune to the
country if judges were looking to the interests of the treasury
bench instead of to the duties and interests of the bench of
justice. _ _ _

Sir J. GRAHAM said, until that moment he was at a loss
to guess the motive of the noble lord in bringing forward the
present motion, which it now appeared was an attack, not
upon the government, but on the two judges referred to. He
would tell the noble lord that, in the case of the Lord Presi-
dent, he had neither directly nor indirectly any communica-
tion from him upon the subject of his retirement. The right
hon. baronet then referred to the negotiations which had
taken place with respect to the retirement of Lord Corehouse,
and also to those which had more recently taken place to in-
duce a Lord Chancellor of Ireland (Lord Plunkett) to resign,
not upon the accession of a new ministry, but when the ex-
isting ministry was virtually condemned, and quoted from
the noble lord's farewell address to the Irish bar the passage

where be declared that he was not in the slightest degree re-
sponsible for his retirement, for he was requested to do so by
a person to whom he was under such obligation that he was
impelled by an irresistible sense of gratitude to comply. The
right hon. baronet concluded by stating, that the government
had never asked either of those judges to resign, and that he
could never assent to stamp disgrace upon such venerable
persons by producing the papers, unless compelled to do so
by a vote of that house.

Mr. F. MAULE said it was perfectly well known that the
Lord President was for many months incapable, from in-
firmity, of performing the duties of office. He defended the
conduct of the late government in the case of Lord Core-
house, and said that for a long time back the people of Scot-
land were disgusted with the judgments of the late Lord
President. The honourable gentlemen instanced the judg-
ment in the Strathbogie case, in the delivery of which he
allowed his temper so far to get the better of his discretion as
to call the General Assembly of Scotland a set of thimble-
riggers.

The LORD ADVOCATE defended the Lord President, who
had performed the duties of his office down to the time of
his retirement. Very recently he had become somewhat
deaf, and had also an affection in his limbs, which prevented
him from going to court ; and to these affections it was that
his resignation was to be attributed.

Mr. O'CONNELL said a judge should have no politics, and
yet it was generally believed throughout Ireland that Chief
Justice Bustle, after his memory and faculties had become a
wreck—a noble wreck certainly, but still a wreck—still re-
tained his office in order that he might be able to give the
appointment of his successor to his political friends. _

Mr. SHAW defended Chief Justice Bushe ; after which

Mr. WAKLEY said that this was altogether a most edify-
ing discussion, proving the adage, that when a certain de-

scription of people fell out the consequences were sometimes
beneficial to Ethers. He was in the habit of writing on his
parliamentary paper a sort of commentary in the shape of a
note upon each notice of motion it contained ;—to one he ap-
-4..rm " fudge," to another " nonsense," and so on ;
read the motion of the noble lord, in his capa-
mer he marked it " suicide." (C ' I

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of political party services

gir R. PEEL said that he acted upon the very principle
just laid down by the bon. member for Finsbury, by offering
to Lord Cotteuham one of the vice-chancellorships, which,
however, for reasons principally of professional etiquette, and
In which reasons he (Sir Robert Peel) quite coincided, the
noble lord declined. He was not prepared to expect the re-
signation of his right honourable friend Chief Justice_ Bushe,

and when he did receive it, he was compelled to rill up the

vacancy. The right honourable baronet quoted a passage
from a former speech of Mr. Fox Maule, defending the Lord
President, and contradicting the assertion that that learned
judge was labouring under those infirmities which he now
insisted he was a martyr to. (Cheers and laughter.)
Lord JOtIN RUSSELL, in reply, said that the retirement
of Lord Plunket was not a case in point, for the appointment
of Lord Chancellor was of a wholly different nature—it being
an office held during the pleasure of the Crown ; and the real
fault, if any, was that Lord Plunket had remained on the
bench too long. The noble lord then referred to the fact
that Lord Campbell, on accepting the chancellorship of Ire-
land, stipulated that he was to have no retiring pension, and
asked if Sir E. Sugden had made any such proposition. He
thought it would be difficult to convince the country that
those judges to whom his motion referred had not remained
on the bench for the purpose of giving the appointment of
ssors to their political friends.

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The house divided, and the motion of the noble lord was
negatived by a majority of 148 to 75.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY

The Building Act Amendment Bill, and the Borough Im-
provement Bill, were severally committed, and ordered to be
read a third time on Monday.

Lord BROUGHAM postponed his motion for papers re-
specting the Creole until Monday, owing to the absence of
the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. There were
many law lords present, but he would rather defer his motion
until Lord Denman should have the power of attending.