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HOUSE OF LORD
The Marquis of NORMANDY mov
the buildings regulation b`"
The Marquis of SALTS
ground that it would enha
der it more difficult for the poor tq o
The Duke of WELLINGTON -suppo
eventually read a second time, as wg
Provements bill, and both were order

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.-THURSDAY

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came again under the consideration of the house, he would
move that it is not expedient to adopt a graduated scale of
duties.
Mr. VILLIERS said, he should move that it was not expe-

dient to have any duty upon the
Lord LINCOLN. in reply to a

said there was no it

public Richmond and Kew Park
Mr. PHILIPS said th

Old Baffle

station

corresponde

t a true bill had been found at the
,ainst a nobleman appointed to a high

should, on Friday, move for

•eturn of the

ich had taken Place relative to the circum-

In reply to a question from Mr. DUNCOMBK,
Sir R. PEEL said he feared he could not bring forward his
bill for the registration of electors until after Easter ; but

e time
its det

uld be given to make the country acquainted

'ssing it forward

the commanicatic

On the motion of Dr. BO;RING, copies were ordered of
-ms addressed from Bolton to the Horne-
lite recess on the subject of Mr. Mott's

Mr. BROTHERTON moved that no opposed motion should
ought forward and decided after twelve o'clock at night,
finless 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
3abits of life and society at the present day to carry out the
3bject 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 cf 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 prima' facie cass of suspicion that they bad 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

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. lie
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 bad
taken place with respect to the retirement of Lord Corehonse,
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 thz Irish bar the passage
where he 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

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. fie 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 be
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

s resignation was to be attributed.
Mr. O'CONNELL said a judge should have no politics, and

yet it was generally believe-El throughout Ireland. that Chief
Justice Bushe, 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.

after which

Mr. SHAW defended Chief Justice Bush(
Mr. WAKLEY said that this was altogether a most edify-

scription of people fell out the consequences were sometimes
beneficial to others. He was in the habit of writing on his
parliamentary, paper a sort of commentary in the shape of a

but when

motion it contained ;—to one he ap-

;e," to another " nonsense," and so on ;
e motion of the noble lord, in his capa-
arked it "suicide." (Great Laughter.)

It was, he thought, a reflection on the good Sense of the
country, that the judgment-seat should be made the reward

of political party services

Sir R. PEEL said that he acted upon the very principle
just laid down' by the hon. mernber'for Finsbury, by offering
to Lord Cottenham one of the vice-chancellorships, which,
however, for reasons principally of professional etiquette, and

lined. He was not prepared to expect the re-
s right honourable friend Chief Justice Bushe,

he was compelled to fill up the
vacancy. The right honourable baronet quoted a passage
from a former speech of Mr. Fox Manle, 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 JOHN 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
their successors to their political friends
The hous

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vided, 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 ahould have the power of attending.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
Sir R. PEEL placed on the table a schedule of the towns
which were proposed to be included in the list of those from
which the corn law averages are henceforth to be taken.
In reply to a question from Mr. M. Grnsorr, the right
hon. baronet said that when he came to make his financial
statement he would state the particulars of the duties to be
levied on the importation into this country of salt and fresh
meat, live cattle, swine, &c. ; but he had no objection to de-
clare, and he hoped he should be pressed no further at
present, that he was of opinion the existing probibition could
not be maintained.

In reply to a question from Dr. Bowring,
Sir R. PEEL said it was quite true that Russian goods
were admitted into Turkey on more favourable terms than
British, the reason of which was that Russian goods were
admitted under the old treaty. English goods were admitted
under a separate treaty, and in that treaty there was an
article providing that British goods should. be admitted on
the same terms as those of the most favoured nations, and it
was still a question whether that article of the treaty could
not be enforced.

Mr. CHRISTOPHER gave notice that he would move a scale
of duties upon the importation of foreign corn, as a substitute
for the scale proposed by Sir R. Peel. By the scale he should
propose the duty would be 255. when the price at home was
50s. and under 515.. and diminish ls. in duty for every
shilling increase in price, until the latter reached' 605., when
the duty would be 14e. At the ss. duty the scale would be
the same as that, of, the right hon. baronet.
In reply to a question from Mr. Roebuck,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the 'Municipal Cor-
porations Act would be ready on Mon:
In reply to a question from Mr. HAWES,
Sir J. ChtARAm said that he considered the subject of the
better regulation of the medical profession one of great im-
portance, and had directed his attention to it with a view to
propose some alteration, and did not despair of being able to
bring in a bill upon the subject during the present session.
Sir C. NAPIER asked if there was any objection to lay be-
fore the house a copy of the instructions given by Sir Robert
Stopford to General Mitchel, General Jochmus, and Captain
Stewart, after the submission of Mehemet Ali, together with
other papers relative to the amelioration of the inhabitants of
Lebanon, as was promised by the allied powers.
Sir R. PEEL said that many of those papers could not be
found it; the
Record-office, and could not, therefore, be pro-
duced ; and, with respect to the others, they would, if pro-
duced, defeat the object the gallant officer had in view. He
would assure him, however, that every effort would be made
by the present government to cause the Porte to fulfil its
engagements with respect to the amelioration of the condition
of its subjects in that quarter
moved for a return of the number of jury
Mr. F. MAIME ion of the Court of Session cases in the first division
91qq till the
31st July, 1841, •, . from the
specifyir, those
Ist January, l--,
Lord President of the Court of Session. pre-
sided,in which the late
whichLor
any other and what judge presided.
and those in
His object in wishing
for these returns was to ascertain whe-
ther his statement of
Lord the previous night, which had been
contradicted by the
Advocate, was or was not correct.
Sir J. GRAHAM said there was no imputation upon the hon.
gentleman that he had purposely mis-stated any fact; and,
,
as agreeing to this return would be a greater imputation on
the motion of the preceding
the late Lord President than
opposition.
evening, he must give it his decided.
Mr. F. MAIILE said he had no wish to press the motion to
.
a division, but he believed his statement was correct.
Mr. Wanctxr could not understand why the motion should
be withdrawn ; and the right hon. baronet (Sir
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use a gentle expressionr,raftheeirror on' the ministerim.
was to be remembered that the Right Hon. Lord Advocate
bad pledged his honour as a gentleman and as a member of
that house that the late Lord President had never been absent

and the

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bould be above

and as that house

had tne r►gnt ►eguimately to supervise their conduct, he did
not see why a motion like this should he refused.
Sir R. PEEL said that the ►notion contained a reflection
on the late Lord President stronger than even that contained
by inference in the motion of the Previous evening. The
house had, doubtless, the power of super sing
but if it it dulged itself in passing such
tl►c conduct
of the judges ;
motions as the one before them,.the effect xvould be to pre-
• d'ce the administration of justwe.
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11;1 ii,CoNNELL said there were contradictory statements
- - surely, as they had the power, they
them authenticaed. Why would they not

Is to certain fact
Dueht to ha

afraid of the result.
On a division, the motion was negatived by a m • •
aionty of
139 to 113.

Mr. Mtr:itEs then called

ion of the house to the

mmitted to the

New Bailey Ilous

of Lan

.ster, in t

non-attendance on some place of

Sir J. GRAHAM admitted that these parties were very se

veruly arid unjustly punished, and condemned the principle
of applying temporal penalties to the non-performance of
personal religious duties. lie believed that on Wednesday
last the whole of the members of that house, if prosecuted,