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The Legislative Council sent down 4 Bill, passed hy — branch, for the prevention of fraud by a i et s ol wie vt personal property. Read a first time. Seow Bul to wat 1o ries the Lieut. Governor to prohibit the exportation of saltpe ir aud other articles used in the manufacture of Gunpowder.

The Hon. COL. SECREFARY said the latter Dill had pecn fntroduced into the upper House, in conformity ith a elreuiar dospateh from the Calenial Minister, recommending oe, of such a Bill, which despatch he laid upon the table. similar meastre, he provumed, would be passed by all the Colonial Legislatures ; the object of it—as was obs lous enough— was te prevent any trade arising between Rossia and the Colonics, for the supply of materials used of Gunpowder.

The Bill was then read a first tue 3 second time, committed toa commit agreed to therein, read 3 third time, passec the Cyuacil.

the rule susponded, read eofthe whole House, and

uy.—The petition praying for the

Petitions again taken . ' rule rred fo the

erection of a Court House at Cascuinpec, was fF ed} > epecial commitiee already appointed relative ty the division ol Prince County.

Petition for a Light Hous Light House Committee.

Petition of Daniel Wall, a I yydist—Referred to th committee appointed to report en a petition from Lot 30, respecting claims of Loyalists to land ont

e special hat township. { The Hon. Col. Treasurer presented the School ¥ isitor's Report as laid before the Board of Education. Hlonse adjourned.

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Having met in the afternoon, Mr. il re ae Committee appoimted for that purpose bad pegs the address to Wis Excellency respecting & survey of Lot 30, an that His Excellency stated that he wonld comply with the desire of the House. i

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Petitiens again taken up.—A petition praying aid towards a Library at Tignish—referred to Supply.

The following papers, laid hefore the Executive Council and | referred to the House of Assembly, were then tuken up and read :-—~Petition of Maxime Galicnt and others, respecting the erection of a bridge at Haldimand river, and report of Superin- | tendant of Public Werks thereon ;—referred io House when in

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Hon. GOL. TREASURER, who was Sceretery at uded to, denied that any such promise had been ' Mr. ‘Uhresher left the Secre-| »,out would be left in a minority val,! .nsure would, therefore, be cast upon were mistaken in their calcula-

lalliance’’? on this oecasion. They were evidently certain, ‘fyom the high and confident tone assumed, that the Govern- on the question, and a direct the conduct of the

[ Phe the time all made with his concurrence. P Oe»

‘tary’s Office, not to make room for any particular individ nor in consideration of any promise being made to him, but because his age and infirmitics rendered him unfit for the

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tions, for the fullowing resolution was carr don a division of

that he had no) 10 to 8 :—

| « Whereas certain syoceedings jaken by the late Napoleon LePage and Jolin Mchinnon, late Preventive Officers, with re- iepect to the «seizure of the American Schooner ‘“s Dragonet,

| were in direct opposition to the orders of, the ( ollector of Ex- lcise and of the Government, and were entirely erroneous ; nevertheless the Government offered to discharge the

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Hon. COL. SECRETARY stated a knowledge of any sach promise being made to Mr. I hreshet as that stated by him. He did not charge the petitioner i with stating an untruth; bat he was certainly under a nis- promise of gy annuity was or could be

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ipprehenswn, for no made to Mr. Thresher by the Goversment. ; | Hon. "Me. WREGAN remarked a eee. | necessary expenses incurred by those proceedings, in order to suggestion about getfing an annuity might have been casually ‘save the then Preventive Officcrs harmless ; and whereas the y made hy Sir Alexander himself'to Mr. t hresher, | conduct of the late Napoleon LePage and John McKinnon, in leine the Government to secure it. After @ few / adopting a course at variance with the commands of their ‘further obse suttons from other hov. members, Mr. I. | superior officers, would, if recognized and encouraged, be sub- ee — ial tod the petition, moved that it | versive of that due subordination and regularity which should Haviland, who warmly supported the pet my" i dment | at all times prevail, between superior and wibordinate ooite. be referred to Supply. Mr. Muirhead mover in amen ead cab ufarts’ dak is Wnagedined We Canaria a. that the prayer be neyecnen i ages = : application now before the Committee for a grant of money Petition of Isabella Ross, widow of the late Clerk As-istant | fen this House, the Government having already, ss above of the House of Assembly, was taken up and read. Mr. H. stated, offered to pay the necessary expenses attending the Haviland meved that it be refered to Supply. Mr. Perry | unauthorized seizure, and the House in Committee of Supply moved. in amendment that it be referred to the Georgetown will make good the same.”’ make provision for the support of petitioner’s the money voted for the relief of the poor. was taken oa the original motion for sending the petition to Supply: A yes— Messrs. Douse, Yeo, Palmer, Haviland, Wightman, MeDonald, Dingwell, Munro, Whelan, Mooney, MeGill, Longworth — ] Nays — Hons, Col. tary. Col. Treasurer, Messrs. Perry, McIntosh, Clark, | om spee ' ; Muirhead, Laisd—7. and detraction in the columns of the Islander during McLean’s

Several hon. members having obtained leave of absenge for | management of it, but he is entitled to much consideration for

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Mr. Palmer’s disappointment regarding the division was

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a few days, the House then adjourped. having attained in the last issue the most conspicuous position we os ‘that any unprincipled writer could arrive at, for skill in the Monpay. March 10 ‘use of the long bow. Duncan had the courage to shew his 4 “ é 9 +t4c J . | i < . «gs : ‘ugly phiz. in town during the past week, and as Ings has the The Hon. Col. Treasurer presented a petition from Thomas | “? © I ooo ls ° Robson, of Sackville, N. B., praying a grant for the invention | printing of the Journals, the editor had an opportunity, through 2ODsSON, OF SuCa ce. ae -y Pay ga gre

| the help of his friends in the House of Assembly, of looking

of'a Fog Bell. Reterred to Light House Committee.

l The question of precedence has been Boived alpha | ja takes the Jead, France follows ; Great britain ean | ; 88 Up the

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to her, then come Russia and Sardinia, and Turkey The first fenit of the Conferences hag been sienature of an armistice, to apply to land operations Only, ang lt extend to the dist of March. Prussia is trying hard tg ladmitted ; but she has noclaim, and will doubtless be exe]

| The Ministerial papers tell us that Lord larendon will ASSUME {a high tone,—that Lord Palmerston is determined to maj ‘a high position, worthy of the country he represents,

| added that the Emperor of the I rench is 1n perfect accord |the English Government. If this be true, the negotiations | will soon terminate one way or the other. Speculation apy, ‘the result is useless. The people of England heartily dosing | peace ; but upon adequate terms. They expect conditions | equal to their exertions and their sacrifices : they wouj@ on them and obtain them, or continue the struggle, They think ‘thus, not because they desire a continuance of the war bat | because they feel that firmness at the present moment will /conduce to the restoration of European repose. The hews

| the Crimea is almost wholly confined to the completion of ‘destruction of the Docks, and the blowing up of Forts St | Nicholas and Alexander at Sebastopol. The operation seems ‘to have been performed with very great ekill: the docks are g — of ponderous ruins : the Forts are a mass of rubbish, The sunken shipping will be the next oljject of attention, This work will be difficult because it must be, for the most ' performed under water by divers ; but the meansand a mt are at the command of our officers. There is every Teason to expect that the Russian fleet, once sunk. is sunk for ever, ‘Thy last accounts left the armies in good condition—all, howegs very dull, of course, at the prospect of a peace wi test of another campaign. It is evident that little will be by the armies on either side until it is seen which negotiations at Paris are likely to turn. The apparent of Russia to put an end to the war, raises a suspicion in minds that she is notsincere, Sir E. Lyons has left

to resume the command of the Black Sea fleet : and Vice- Sir R. Dundas is re-appoimted to the Baltic fleet.

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In the Houseof Lords the principal question discussed hap

been that of the Wensleydale peerage. Lord Lyndharst ig determined to resist the attempt, now being made b ment, to establish a precedent for the creation of life ad | Libitum. Once allow the hereditary character of the House of | Lords to be destroyed and that branch of the legislature, the

| noble Jord declares, will be forthwith dependent on the Hou | of Commons and the ministry of the day. “And ifour heredi

Committee on roads, bridges, and wharfs. Petition of W. Me- Donald, light-house-keeper at Panmure Island, praying for an assistant ;—referred to Light House Committee. Report B. Davies, Esqr, of winter mails hoats ;—re ferred to Committee of Supply. W

‘he Tlouse again went into Committee on the Bill to amend 1 consolidate the Acts relating to the sale of spirituous

The Bul was agreed to with some amendments.

tam Report of Commissioners on the opening of a nev nquors. line of road at Murray” Harbor; and also the report of com- missioners respecting “the opening of a new line of road from Enmans’s to Matthewson’s, at Grand River ;—referred to House when in committee on the consideration of all matters relating | salary to their teacher. to ronds, bridges and wharfs.

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MR. HEARD'S PETITION. m

Petition of William Heard, aud also petition of merchants wuzcil and frecholders of Charlottetown, recommending the prayer TUESDAY, March 11. of Mr. Heard’s petition to the favorable consideration of the; The Hon. Col. Secretary laid before the House a report of House, were taken up and read. Qn a motion being made} John Doirant, necompanied by a plan, respecting certain by Mr. McDonald to refer the petitions te Supply, a long repairs required to Darnley Bridge. and auimated discussion ensued, in the course of which the ' ; fou. Col. SECRETARY detailed the circumstances under which Mr. Heard’s steamer was employed in the summer of Janders, Teacher, praying for a retiring allowance was read, last year to carry the mails between Charlottetown and Pic-| and referred to the Cininieditee appointed to report as to the tou—he shewed that there was 00 contract entered into, as necessity of m the preliminary to the signing of any contract was, that com- | missioners shou!d examine and report on the fitness of Mr. Heard’s boat for the service she was intended for---that com- missioners did examine ayd report on the boat-—that comm‘ssioners were not political partizans of the Govern-|« Your Committee appointed to report on the seyeral petitions went and unfriendly to Mr. Heard, but rather the reverse, | praying that an Act may be passed to prevent the running at and that their ability to discharge the duty assigned them | jayge of swine, submit the following report---That although could not be questioned ; that their report wes decidedly un-!

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jury is doue to private property, as well as the | ‘ Road Correspondent’s duties in former years, Mr. McGowan,

‘into the Auditors’ classification of the Public Accounts for the | peerage is thus overawed, where, he asks

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he Georgetown Grammar School, praying for am increase of | for this plain reason, that Mr.

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ig provision for sick and sged Teachers. |

those | jarge, presented the following report which wag agreed to :--| |held the latter office under the Tory Government, and was

ast year. Let us see what use he made of the opportunity. Ife states in the first place, that £15 were paid to Mr. Coles

for a visit of inspection to Mill River Bridge. Now, there

Mr. McDonald presented a petition from the trustees of | is no such entry in the Public Accounts, nor any where else,

Coles never received one penny for any services rendered by him in connection with the erection of Mill River Bridge. In the next place, he states that £130 are paid to the Clerk of the Council ever his stated allowance—that is also untrue. The next item with respect to the Assistant Clerk of the Legislative Council, is a misrepresentation. ’ The next statement, which informs us, that a declaration , to the effect, Clerk of the

vas made by the Liberal party some years ago that ten pounds would be sufficient to pay the Executive Council, 2s a downright falsehood.

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Road Correspondent, “ being £60 more than was paid by the

The next item, which states that £100 are pai

ancien regime,’ isa wilful misrepresentation. The £100 salary is paid to the Road Correspondent and Assistant Clerk of the

Legislative Council. Mr. Morpeth, one of the Tory party,

|yaid in something about the same proportion as Mr, Bali is

tavorabie to the employment of Mr. Leard’s boat as a mail| pyblic roads, by the going at large of Swine, yet your Com- | packet, aud that therefore she ceased to be employed, and the | yittee think that a law to compel all persons to keep their

Lady !e Marchant was taken in her place; that notwith- | swine from going at large, while it would operate beneficially | standing, Mr. Heard continued to ply the Rosebud between | jg some settiements, would be found oppressive to many of

Charlotietown and Pi:tou, as an opposition boat, to the| the new settlers in woodlands, Your Committee cannot, serious injury of the Government contractor, until forced to therefore, recommend the prayer of the Petitions.”

lay her up early in the autumn, when it was deemed unsafe to run her during the prevalence of moderately hig House again in Committee on the Bill relating to summary —that Mr. Heard then publicly complained of the want of getions before Justices of the Peace. Progress reported.--- liberality on the part of the Government in not employing | Thea the House adjourned.

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now paid; there was no objection then. With respect to the

it is true, received only forty pounds from fhe Treasury, avi IE PAID THE ROAD ORDERS VERY OFTEN BY GIVING GOODS OUT OF | 118 snop, and then there were only fifteen or sixteen road dis- tricts in the Island, with which the Correspondent had to keep |

up accounts, and only between two and three thousand pounds appropriated to the road service. Now, there are oyer thirty road districts in the Island, involving more than double the)

correspondence and more than double the accounts, and about

his boat, when, from the cireumstanees related, it was im-,| ee | ‘ : :

. oo ‘ : aia sen ees cuneate ence mn mat ee oe eight thousand pounds are disbursed for the roads and bridges possible fur the-Government to do anytaing of the Kind j--- ™ ta Th TH vA [ae | ka Wa F eg ae wl : “ae ae

ad oi) tg <a f..med in carrying several mails Gi ait Sh ost Jee re SR ES Be cea service. Even if the whole £100—which is not the case—had | and that for the services peri nmea 1D carrying several matls | Ba, a Bi dk beg Ee dE fH saa i between Chalottetown and Pictou, oa the Rosebud’s trial } ; See ae py ; been given for the performance of Road Correspondent’s |

ir Xs a‘ en liberally remunerated by the | wistrnnerie — ies. it w , ‘ ‘ , , 5 | trips, Mr, Heard had been hi oe i by t A CHARLOTTETOWN, MARCIE 24, 1856. duties, it would be more dearly earned than the £40 under the Government. lle was therefore not entitled to any grant ei etal ‘ eee old regime,

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EDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

7 silane ins ; POCE The Hon. Mr. WARBURTON and others on the same, PROCE : or . . ; ae a i i eee ing Acts of Session—formerly done by Mr. Cundall for 40s.”’ | side of the llouw-e supported these views, and argued against Savas win teat Welle Deakeias Of ony imposes Gemeneielll 5 | the principle of encouraging disa ypointed publie contractors | REAR WS OS Ee eee oe We do not believe that Mr. Cundall ever indexed the Acts of |

>) : : ‘. + e val rei : ji i : fo fe. ‘on ai , ‘. se ana ai a canine * ° . ‘ . : to come before the House with applications similar to Mr. | 2 Me House daring the past week, beyond receiving reports | 414 Session for 40s., but this we do know, that nobody but him |

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Messrs. McDONALD, PALMEG, DOUSE, and others, said they be by iid vote for the pete | Mr. Longworth, relative tu the petitions of the | going to Supply, not from party feeling or con-ideration for | Mr. Heard as an individual, but from a sincere desire to en-| courage what they considered a great enterprise for a small |

and Jobn McKinnon, formerly Preventive Officers, praying onl compensation for services alleged to haye been rendered and | }

The next statement in the Islander says :—‘‘ £10 for index- |

| 2 AeA . ; 1 « j ¢ ers y y | . ~ - -? ‘ ‘of special committees on routine matters. On Wednesday | )4. indexed the Acts of the Session ’since the present Govern- |

NGW ORTH, | ae hufeay ” ‘bate arose o1 » renor , r | ‘ , LONGW ORTH, | afternoon a warm debate arose on the report, presented by ment came into office. Surely, therefore, an honest partizan of ate N. LePage |;

he Tories, like Mr. Cundall, would not overcharge the public. The statements about the salary of the Private Secretary are nearly all untrue.

eountry like this, and one in which Mr. Heard had embarked | expenses incurred in seizing the American Schooner Dragonet, | ‘£10, to Superintendent of Public Works for plan of new

> . ‘ } : ‘ ant iy . . . much eapitaland incurred heavy loss. ‘That bir steamer had Jast summer, for assumed violation of the revenue laws. afforded much accommodation to the publie, was manifest yy) 7 enough from the encouragement it had received from the travelling community, but that that encouragement had not . ae a ‘ ° , ie if | ¢ | been such as to reimburse him to any thing like tue amount | of outlay occasioned in getting his boat ready for, keeping her on the station. ‘The Hon. Mr, PALMER, in the surviving petitioner, came out furiously against the Go- ; ' jew, tetinetiyv yh re nes Iw at. . . sa% advocating these views, distinctly and ee stuted, vernment for not having met the demands of the petitioners, ‘ “us Government of wrong doing in| . , » di / that he did not accuse the (i o i, ee, | by paying their expenses, and dividing amongst them the £100 refusing to employ Mr, Heard’s bost after receiving the

Commissioners’ report---there was great necessity for caution

of Supply, so as to give a grant to the petitioners. Every

penalty exacted from the master of the Dragonet. With pre- and care in entering into a contract for such an important | nce and effrontery unsurpassed, he quoted law, almost with- service, after the unfortunate casualty of the Fairy Queen; out end, which had no direct reference to the case, bat the

and he had no doubt that had he, (Mr. Palmer), been a | object was, to confuse, cajole and deceive the House. Mr. |

member of the Governmet he would have acted with respect |

the matter under consideration just as the Hen. Col. | ; ‘us ‘ la und lis colleagues had dag aa esi Gaiety meme _ “on of the SRT ~ i pty i withhold us support from the application then belore the | that nothing short of the £100 should be given to them. Mr. House. But viewing the petition on its own merits, and|Douse descanted on the great injustice of not supporting re- without any reference to tac Government, he would support yenue officers in the execut the application for a smal! grant, as 2 reward for individual | eaterprise,

dlon. Mr. WIGHT WAN spoke favorably of petitioner’s | claims oa the score of enterprise, but considering his position | asa member of the Government, and remembering how fairly | and liberally the petitioner had been deait with by the|the gasconade very quictiy—replying, Government, lic could not vote for the petition going to Sup-| LePage had acted not only contrary to the orders. of the ply, as his doing so would be equivalent to a censure upon! g, himself and his colleagues in the administration. ce

The discussion in which nearly all the members present participate!--but for whose remarks in an extended form | awe have not space---having been brought to a close, the Hon. | their seizure was an illegal one—that the £100 penalty re- ul. Secretary moved in amendment to Mr. McDonald's motion “ that the prayer of the petition be rejected.” The Llouse divided :---For the amendment---Hons. Col. Secretary, Col. Treasurer, Messrs. Mooney, Wightman, Whelan, Clark, | Laird, McGill, Manro, Dingwell, Perry, Muirhead---12. Against it--- Messrs, McDonald, Yeo, Douse, Longworth, Palmer, H. Wavilaud---6. Pra er rejected,

Montgomery was also uncommonly zealous in his efforts to

minority, in shprt, with the exception of Mr... Haviland,

not meeting the demands of Messrs. McKinnonand LePage.

partment with which they were connected, viz. the Excise, Govyernment—that they were told by the Attorney General

i covered was not in consequence of their proceedings, but owing to the subsequent action of Mr. Clark—that their con-

duct throughout had been contumacious in the extreme, and

\that the Government had signified their willingness to pay

‘some little expenses incurred by petitioners of putting con- Petition of George Thresher, praying for an annuity of . se : , = ’ stables on board the D net i £50 iz consideration of his long services as former Deputy | eae Te Sakis, sh aiet

Secretary and Registrar. The petitioncr stated that such | the rennet was still willing to pay those expenses. an annuity was prowuised to him by Sir Alexander Banver- Of course this explanation failed to satisfy the minority—

aa Government af the time of his leaying the Secretary's strengthened, as usual, hy the support of Messrs. Cooper and Office,

ongworth moved to refer the report to the Committee |

Tory member of the House was drummed up for the occasion ; | 4, p and in|and Mr. Palmer, who appeared to have had a retainer from’

appeared to be horrified at the conduct of the Government in '

The members of the Government and their supporters took | th that McKinnon and.

| but also contrary to the express and repeated orders of the |

eould not have been regarded in any other light than as an Westmoreland Bank not being received at the “attempt to get money under false pretences; but nevertheless May further state, that we haye been informed

| Laird, Mr. MeIntosh, to his credit, coming out of the * unholy | P.

‘Market—being a useful political agent, he must be well fostered.”’ The above is a quotation from the Islander—the italics are -ours,—the £10 alluded to were paid to Mr. Henry Smith, by ory Government— whether or not he was ‘‘a useful political agent,”’ the Islander people best know.

| The statements respecting the Queen’s Printer’s accounts ,are all false, as might be expected. The Queen’s Printer’s

of the Legislature, which are weli known to be contract works. With respect to the £100 which Mr. Whelan is said to haye charged for Stationery, it is another most glaring falsehood. He never charged a shilling for any such thing. But the whole article is, from beginning to end, such

a tissuo of misrepresentations and downright falsehoods, that

; ; it seems incredible that any man could be so foolish as to pub- ion of their duty, and the whole |); wits ‘a

knew must be exposed. On Saturday evening,

| Mr. Lord and Mr. Coles brought those fabrications to the notice ,of the House of Assembly, and the latter refuted them in toto.

|The minority were nearly all present, but so ashamed were

| word was said in justification. Mr. Palmer was as silent as

the graye. The indefensible character of the paper was tacitly j admitted by its friends.

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haye discontinued the notice in reference to the Notes of the

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CORRESPONDENCE OF THE EXAMINER.

Lonvon, February 29th, 1856. The members of the Peace Conferences are now assembled at aris, and the dificult work of negotiation began on Tuesday.

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charges last year did not amount to the sum stated—that sum includes the cost of printing the Journals of the two branches

1ey of the misrepresentations of their pet paper, that not one |

, will be the | for the hereditary monarchy? The question is probably os i of the most im} irtant that has arisen sinee the passing of the Reform Bill. It is the first step in a great constitutional struggle. Lord Brougham and Lord Campbell pointed outte — the means for preventing a collision between the | Crown and the Buyons of iz, by issuing another | patent granting the barony of Wensleydale to Sir dames Parke jand his heirs. This wou! heen an easy solution of the difficulty, but the Lord Chancellor has staked his reputationas the creation of life peerage, and refused to adopt 1 coute qui coute. The struggle came on in the House of Lords on the 22nd inst., the attendance of peers und visitors being unusually large Lord Glenolg stepped in to the rescue of the government moving that the following questions be submitted to the judges: —‘*Is it in the power of the Crown to create, by patent, the dignity ofa baron of the United Kingdom for life. What rights and privileges such rank Lord Cam denied that the judges were the ¢ ystitutional advisers of the peers in such a matter. He maintained that the proper course was to proceed to the committee of privileges, and to have the question there discussed, The Lord Chancellor supported g reference to the judges, as did also Earl Granville, but the resolution was opposed by the Earl of Winchelsea, and Lord Brougham, and uitims.tely rejected by a majority of 142 against 111. Their lordships then went into a committee of privi ind Lord Lyndhurst moved for a report, declaring Lord Wem sleydale not entitled to sit and vote in parliament. His lordship declured that the only conclusion that could be come too, after perusing t! r es for life, was

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g tue chart creating pect : that this had never been done by the Crown without the consent of parliament, and that which was now sought to be effeeted had never before occurred in the history of the country. Ear y moved the following amendment :—* That the highest iegal authorities having concurred in declaring the Crown? possess the power of creating peerages for life, and this power having been exercised in former tunes, the House of would not be justified in assuming the illegality of the patent ereating the Right Hon. Sir James Parke, Baron Wensleydale for life, and in refusing, uj assumption, to permit him to take ! at aSapecr.”” Ki anbope (better known ag Lord Mahon) supported the original motion ina speech of -reat ability, and which called forth the repeated cheers of the house. The Duke of Argyll declared that government had had recourse to the creation of this life peerage in order te improve the zppellate jurisdiction of the house. Lord Brougham held, in common with Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Campbell, and Lord St. Leonards, the oj at the creation ofa life peerage giving, a seat in parliament, was beyond the Royal perogative— if they would—illegal, according to the law and constitution of the country. The Lord Chancellor again defended the part the government had taken in the creation of this life peerage, or, on & division, I Lyndhurst’s motion was carried by a majority of 92 against 57, The report of Committee of Privileges affirming Lord Lyne hurst’s resolution was adopted on Monday without a division,

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|matter had been fully considered. Cn the 10th of February the House of Lords, in reply to a question from the Earlof | Hardwicke, Lord Panmure said nothing that gallantry and “seience could effect would be left fndone to ensure the destrae | tion of what was above the water in Sebastopol or beneath it. | On the 2lst, in the Commons, Sir Joshua W almeley’s motion for throwing open the National Gallery, the British-Museum, and other public institutions on Sundays was fully discussed, and was inct by a direct negative—the majority against the motion being overwhelming and conclusive—376 against 48. The only man of mark who spoke in fayour of the motion was Lord Stanley. That young nobleman was listened to witl attention and respect, but his delivery is so indistinct thick as to mar the oratorical abilities he otherwise possesses. It was probably out of consideration for him and his noble father that none of the opposition leaders spoke in the debate, although they all voted against the motion. Lord Palmerston gave a decided negative to the proposition, adducing as a reason, among others, the general expression of the country against it. The first division, testing in some degree the ministerial strength in the Lower House, took place on the 15th February, upoms question connected with the Irish judges. Sir John Shelley (sometimes called Sir John Shallow) moved for returns Te lative to those functionaries, three of whom are of the respective ages of 85, 84, and 82, Baron Pennefather, the eldest, being blind, Ministers supported the motion which was op Mr. Napier and other oppositionists, and only carried by 4 majority of 11. The government want the judges to resign order that they may appoint Mr. Keogh and other partisans in their places. This is objectionable enough, bat at the same time the public think, whoever they might place on the that certainly a blind man ought not to sit on it. In addition to Mr. Lowe, another member of the government has bee charged with plagiarism.

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A Bill introduced by the Irish ‘soliciter-general for the regulation of juries, is declared by Mr. Whiteside te be the same measure he introduced himself the other night, but Mr. Fitzgerald, unlike Mr. Lowe, attem a defence, Mr. Whiteside’s measure, he said, was drawn an old bill, and he went to the same source. Unfortanatelf, | several mistakes had found their way into the printed ort Mr. Whiteside’s bill, and all these are to be traced in 3 Fitzgerald’s measure, thus showing at once the materials used by the Irish solicitor-gencral. It would appear that oo of the administration is not so firm as its friends could wish: the defeat of the Government on the Wensleydale peerage question has already been adverted to. This defeat bas bee followed by a check almost as severe in the lower House. Dues on Shipping bill has been virtually abandoned, he been referred toa select committee. Mr. Lowe’s habit : calling things by their right names has alarmed timid fi , ead by driving them into opposition, led to the result thus dicated. The debate came on on Monday, and it was ie |anticipated that the division would prove unfavourable to /Government. Mr. Lowe was accordingly put up to restore confidence ; but his candid and trenchant mode of reasoning only made matters worse. The opposition was led Sir _ Frederic Thesiger in a very effective speech ; and seco A | Francis Baring, the quondam Whig Chancellor of the Bs

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