Vadianuntary Diarp.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
MoNnAr.—Bills read a third time and passed—Turnpike Roads, Military and Naval Pensions Repeal, Saving Banks Amendment, and Custom Duties : Lord Goderich and Duke of Wellington on the Silk Trade. Read a second time—Be- netices Resignation, National Debt Appropriation], and Irish Butter Trade. Other. Bills forwarded a stage. Petition against the Bankrupt Laws Consolidation Bill from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Tu Es DA v.—Bills read a third time and passed—Composition (Ireland), Slave Trade, Deserted Children (Ireland), Pilotage. Other Bills forwarded. Petition from Newry Chamber of Commerce against the Butter Trade Bill.
WEDxssnAy.—Leigh Peerage to be further considered next Session. Petition from Lutterworth against slavery. Bilis read a third time and passed—Exchequer Bills, Butter Trade. Read a second time—Sugar. Tnvasnay.—Bills read a third time and passed—Sugar, Welland Canal, National Debt : on the latter, Lord Bexley and the Duke of Wellington spoke in praise of the Sinking Fund. Fa WAY .—The Royal assent was given by Commission to the Exchequer Bills, the National Debt, the Military and Naval Pensions, the Welland Canal, the Customs, Regulation, the Pilotage, the Slavery, the Lunatics' Estate, the Charitable Lands'
the Administration of Justice the New youth Wales, the Composition (Ire4 land), the Promissory Notes (Ireland), the Butter Trade (Ireland), the Watching clad Lighting (Ireland), the Deserted Children (Ireland), the Turnpike Roads, the Holyhead Roads, and several private bilk—The Appropriation Bill, and the Walcot Charities' Estate Bill, were read a third time and passed. Petitions against slavery fron; different places in the counties of Gloucester, Bucks, and Bedford, from Rochester, Uxbridge, and Chatham, and from the female inhabitants of Chipping Norton. —Adjourned to Monday.
ROUSE OP COMMONS.
IdoivoAv.—An adjournment, in consequence of a letter from the Speaker to the Wad Clerk, announcing the death of his father, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
TUESDAY.—The Speaker thanked the House for its kindness yesterday. A New Writ for Lymington, in the room of T. Divitt, deceased. Petition from Sir Hugh Dillon and others, against Mr. O'Connell's return for Clare, and praying the substi- tution of Mr. V. Fitzgerald : ordered to be considered 21st of August. Petitions— from John Holmes, against the law of recognizanees ; from Wigan, against the payment of workmen otherwise than in money ; from the silk-throwsters of Man- chester, against any alteration in the duties on foreign thrown silk ; from Staines, against negro slavery ; and from Biddulph, relative to the recovery of small debts. Sugar Bill read a third time and passed. Ecclesiastical Corporations (Ireland) Bill read a first time, and to be printed. The House adjourned to Friday.
Fain Av.—Petitions against Slavery—from two Dissenting Congregations in Man- chester, from the Protestant Dissenters of Charlton in Gloucestershire, from Colne, from Southampton, from Newcastle in Staffordshire, from South Shields, from Lutterworth : Conversation between Sir. J. Mackintosh, Sir G.Murray, Mr. F. Bux- ton, Mr. W. Horton, Mr. Sergeant Onslow, Mr. Peel, Mr. Otway Cave, Mr. Bernal, Mr. Horace Twiss. Petitions against additional glass-duty, from the Grand Jury of Clare ; from Newton Pagnell, against the malt-duty ; from George Seymour of Chi- chester, against the magistrates for refusing abeer-licence ; from Tregony, in favour of one-pound notes ; from Valentine Blake, praying for a new writ for Galway, in the room of Mr. James Daly, who had caused a report to be circulated that he had been called to the Peerage. (Laughter.) French Tariffs of 1894 and 1828—Notice by Mr. Eyler of a motion next session. French Shipping—Return of duties payable in British ports ordered. on the motion of Mr. Attwood. East Retford—Notice by Mr. Denison of a motion next session to transfer the Franchise to Birmingham. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction—Notice by Dr. Phillimore of a motion for next session. Attornies—Notice by Lord Nugent of a bill to prevent attornies from acting as magis- trates of Cities and Boroughs. Office of Lord Chancellor—Notice by Dr. Lushington of a bill next session for transferring part of the business. Imprisonment for Debt —Petition from Walter Honywood Yate, late proprietor of an estate purchased by Mr. David Ricardo : Observations by Mr. Hume on the law of imprisonment, and returns ordered to show its operation. Claims on France—Petitionsfrom me:0=ns in London and persons in the Colonies, in respect of property confiscated during the Revolution Conversation between Mr. R. Grant, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir J. Graham ; and notice by Mr. R. Grant of an address to the Crown next session. Adjourned to Monday.
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