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printing bills, reports, and other papers. 3,000l. for reprinting journals. 16,150/. for Toulonese and Corsican emigrants, Dutch naval officers, and St. Domingo sufferers, and 7,000l. for American loyalists. 3,306l. 10s. for confining and maintaining criminal lunatics. 6,7361. 8s. 10d. for allow ances to French protestant refugee clergy. 10,5071. 16s. 8d. for retired allowances to public servants. -These votes were all agreed to with the above single exception.

The house then resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow.

The merchant vessels' apprentice bill was read a second time.

The Solicitor-General brought up the report of the marriage act repeal bill, and the bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The other orders of the day were then read, and the house adjourned.

House of Lords, March 21.A person from the treasury presented certain annual accounts. The bills on the table were forwarded one stage.

The Earl of Darnley called their lordships' attention to the number of appeal cases then before the house (two hundred and seventy-six); and thought some measure should be adopted to render justice with less delay in which he was supported by the Earl of Liverpool.

The national debt reduction.bill went through a committee.-Adjourned.

House of Commons, March 21.Several petitions were presented. The Southwark market bill was read a first time.

Sir Robert Wilson moved for a return containing an account of the

rough of Southwark from 1819 to 1822, distinguishing the amount, names of parishes, and commissioners for each year; also an account of the number of persons imprisoned under decisions of the court of requests of the said borough, particularly within the hundred of Brixton.-Ordered.

Mr. Hobhouse gave notice, that he would on the 15th of May next, as the earliest possible day after the holidays, submit a motion for the repeal of the window-tax.

Mr. Wallace moved that the warehousing bill go into a committee, which after some discussion was carried by 82 against 8.House resumed. Report ordered on Monday.

On the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the house resolved itself into a committee upon the beer duties acts -House resumed. Report ordered to-morrow.

The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the house adjourned.

House of Lords, March 24.The royal assent was given by commission to the annual mutiny, the marine mutiny, the yeomanry (Ireland), and the arms (Ireland) bills; also to the Plymouth gaslight, the Portman-square improvement, and several other private bills. The commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Melville.

Petitions were presented against the turnpike act-the coal dutiesthe insolvent debtors' act, and from the West Indies complaining of colonial distress.

The Earl of Aberdeen moved for an amended return of the number of appeals.--Ordered.

The Earl of Liverpool said, there total land-tax charged on the bo- was another account which it would

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be desirable to have, and that was the number of day's which the house had sat on English, Scotch, and Irish appeals, respectively which he would move for on some future day.

The Earl of Liverpool moved the third reading of the national debt reduction bill.

The Marquis of Lansdown said, that agreeably to the intimation which he had given, and in order to make the bill what; it professed to be, a measure for the relief of posterity, he should move, as an amendment, that 5,000,000l. should be left out, and 3,000,0001. be inserted instead.

The Earl of Darnley differed from his noble friend as to the amount of surplus; he did believe there was a surplus of 5,000,000l. but he should vote for the amendment of his noble friend, in the hope that 2,000,000l. of it might be applied to the reduction of taxation.

The Marquis of Lansdown said, there was at present a sum of 5,000,000l. disposable, because 2,000,000l. of stock had been created.

The Earl of Liverpool, Lord King, and Lord Bexley, afterwards spoke.

The amendment was then put, negatived without a division, and the bill read a third time, and passed.

The Earl of Liverpool moved the third reading of the King's property bill.

Lord Ellenborough begged now to ask the noble and the learned lord on the woolsack for his opinion on the question, whether his Majesty could dispose of the personal chattels of the Crown without an act of parliament.

The Lord Chancellor replied at some length in the affirmative.

After a few words from Lord Redesdale in support of the principle of the bill, it was read a third

time.

Messengers from the commons brought up the marriage act amendment bill, with amendments, to which their lordships agreed, and the house adjourned.

House of Commons, March 24.Petitions were presented complaining of agricultural distress-against the duties on coals-the hawkers and pedlars bill.

Sir J. Newport brought in a bill to provide for the better regulation of the office and elections of county treasurers in Ireland.— Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.

Sir T. Lethbridge gave notice, that on Monday, the 3d of May next, he would submit a motion relative to agricultural distress.

It was moved that the report of the committee of supply on the miscellaneous estimates be brought up. The report was then brought up, and its several items agreed to.

The report of the beer trade bill was brought up, and the house assented to its resolution.

The report of the merchants' vessels' apprentice bill was also brought up.

The report of the warehousing bill was read.-Bill ordered to be recommitted.

The house then formed itself into a committee.

Mr. Wallace proposed a clause to prevent French watches coming into the market with English marks. And also an amendment, that if any bottling of wines took place in the docks, it should be

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The house resumed, the report was received, and the bill ordered to be read a third time on the 21st of April.

The grants in aids bill was read a second time. To be committed to-morrow.

in English bottles. Both these that all the documents tended to clauses were agreed to. throw a light on this transaction, by bringing the whole of the cir. cumstances fairly forward. The documents he should move for in the first instance were, " Copies of information on which the commitments of certain persons to the gaol of Newgate, Dublin, for a conspiracy to murder the lord lieutenant, were founded." The honourable member then detailed the circumstances of the riot.The house divided, when there appeared for the motion-Ayes, 32 Noes, 48,-majority, 16.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice, that he would on Wednesday next move an address to his Majesty on the subject of a monument to be erected to Earl St. Vincent and Lord Duncan.

Mr. W. Williams obtained leave to bring in a bill "to regulate the right of voting at borough elections, arising from real property, and to prevent occasionality.

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Mr. Cripps obtained leave to bring in a bill to increase the power of magistrates in cases of apprenticeship.

Sir J. Boughey stated it to be his intention to move for leave to bring in a bill of a similar description, but differing from it in some points..

Mr. M. A. Taylor inquired, whether the bill of the honourable gentleman (Mr. Cripps) related to only parish apprentices, or included those bound by contract and indenture.

Mr. Cripps said, it would apply to all apprentices.

Mr. Sykes obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the act of 7 Geo. III. c. 21, relative to quorum, magistrates in cities and towns corporate.

Colonel Barry rose to move for the production of certain papers of great importance, as they respected the discussion which was to take place in that house on the 15th of next month. The house would see, when they came to that discussion,

Colonel Barry then moved for the production of a copy of the recognizances into which the prisoners had entered; and also of the rule of court calling upon them to enter into such recognizances.

The motion was then put, and carried; as was also a motion for the list of the witnesses examined on the late state trials at Dublin.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, that as the act of the last session had only given the trustees of naval and military pensions the power of making agreements for the sale of them from year to year, and as by some inexplicable omission it had not given them the power of making an agreement for the sale of them for a term of years, he now came forward to ask for leave to bring in a bill to remedy that omission.-Leave was then given to bring in the bill. It was accordingly brought in, and read a first time.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned.

House of Lords, March 25.— The Duke of Northumberland presented a petition from Newcastle

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upon-Tyne, against the insolvent debtors' act.

The Earl of Kingston moved for a return of the number of committals in Ireland under the insurrection act.

House of Commons, March 25.— Petitions were presented against the present licensing system-the duty on coals-the alteration in the duties of sugars.

A new writ was moved for Lymington, in the place of Sir H. B. Neale.

Mr. Cripps brought in a bill to increase the power of magistrates in apprenticeship cases.

Mr. Pascoe Grenfell gave notice, that on Wednesday the 16th of April, he would move for certain returns, containing an account of the balances of public monies in the Bank of Ireland, and also of the number and amount of Bank notes in circulation at this period.

Mr. Dawson moved that an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that his Majesty would be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this house copies of two reports of the Royal Society of London made to the Secretary of State for the Home department respecting the properties of gas, and the gas-light establishment.-Agreed to.

Mr. Hume presented a petition from Cape Breton, complaining of the great injury to their interests in being united with Nova Scotia, and governed by the same laws.After a debate of some length, in which Mr. Wilmot, Mr. Bernal, and Mr. Bright took part, it was ordered to be printed.

Lord John Russell put a question to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs as to the situation in which England stood with regard to foreign

powers,-whether she was bound either directly or indirectly to guarantee the crown of France to Louis XVIII. or any of his successors in the Bourbon family.

Mr. Canning replied that by the existing treaties, a revolution produced in France in favour of the late Emperor Napoleon or any of his family was a casus fœderis, which called upon the Allied Powers to take up arms to put it down. In case of any other revolution, excited either by means or in favour of any other individuals, there was no other stipulation than this-that the Allied Powers should assemble to concert and consult what measures they ought to take. It was impossible either for him or any other member to state what might be the result of such deliberations.

Mr. Lennard moved an address to the Crown for 66 a return of any decrease of the expense in the third class of the civil list since the 2d of May, 1822, stating whether such decrease had been occasioned by any diminution of the number of persons employed, by the alteration of the rank of the persons so employed, or otherwise:" which was opposed by Mr. Canning and Mr. Huskisson, and supported by Lord J. Russell, Mr. Hume, and Sir F. Burdett. It was negatived by 50 against 24.

Mr. Grey Bennet moved for certain papers connected with the proceedings of a military court of inquiry held in the year 1818 upon Lieutenant-Colonel Home.-The motion was rejected.

Mr. Wilmot moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws relating to Newfoundland.-Leave given.

Dr. Lushington moved "for leave to bring in a bill to consoli

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date, amend, and declare certain general enactments relating to the crime of forgery."-Leave given.

The Lord Advocate obtained leave to bring in a bill for the better regulation of the Sheriffs' Courts in Scotland.

General Gascoyne moved “for a copy of the warrant dated March 6, 1820, directing officers on half-pay, and widows and orphans of officers receiving allowances in Ireland, to be paid in Irish currency."

Lord Palmerston then submitted a similar motion for copies of warrants, dated severally the 25th of October, 1812, and the 16th of May, 1815, relating to half-pay pensions. Ordered.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved for leave to bring in a bill to consolidate "the several boards of customs and the several boards of excise in Great Britain and Ireland."

Sir J. Newport said that the plan of the right hon. gentleman met with his entire concurrence. He hailed it as a most beneficial measure, and was sure that it would prove particularly advantageous to the commercial interest.

Leave was then given to bring in the bill.

Dr. Lushington moved for and obtained leave to bring in a bill for facilitating the examination of witnesses in foreign countries.

Mr. F. Buxton moved for copies of all the correspondence which had taken place between the Court of Directors of the East India Company and the Government of India relative to the existence of slavery in the British possessions in India. -Ordered.

The same hon. member moved for copies of the communications which had been received by the

East India Company since July 10, 1821, respecting the burning of females in India.

The prison bill received some verbal amendments suggested by Mr. F. Buxton, was read a third time, and passed.

The other orders of the day being disposed of, the house adjourned.

House of Lords, March 26.—The Royal assent was given by commission to the national debt reduction, the King's property, and the marriage act repeal bills: the commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Montrose, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.

The Earl of Kingston presented a petition from Sligo, complaining of the tolls which they were obliged to pay, and also of a breach of their charter.

Lord King presented a petition from Reading against the debtors'

act.

The Lord Chancellor pledged himself that if a bankrupt law did not originate in the other house, he would bring one forward soon after the recess.

Lord Liverpool laid on the table dispatches from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to the right hon. Robert Peel.

Some conversation took place between the Earl of Liverpool, Earl Grey, the Earl of Darnley, and Lord Melville, upon the subject of sundry papers relating to the negotiations which had been carried on upon the subject of the differences between France and Spain, which papers the Earl of Liverpool proposed to lay upon the table, on Monday, 14th April.

Earl Grey said, he was not desirous of prolonging this discussion, but there was one word used by the noble Earl (Liverpool) of which he

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