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Flogging In The Army.
BISHOPS IN PARLIAMENT . March 13 th . —Mr . RIPPON brought forward Ms motion for leave to bring in a bill to relieve the bishops of the established church from the exercise of their legislative and judicial functions in the House of Lords . On a division , for the motion , 58 , against it , 125 ; majority
against it , 67 . COOPERS' COMBINATION , Mr . HUME moved for copies of the correspondence on this subject , which was subsequently agreed to .
March li-th . —In a Committee of Supply , Lord ALTHORP moved that a sum not exceeding 700 , 000 / . be granted from the consolidated fund for the service of the ensuing year . —Agreed to . March 944 h . —The Cambridge petition , for the admission of Dissenters to degrees in the Universities , was discussed at great length , ancl adjourned till to-morrow . Captain GRONOW brought in a bill for
erecting an iron bridge from the Horseferry , Westminster , to Churchstreet , Lambeth . In the evening , on the report of the Ordnance Estimates being brought up , Major Beauclerk objected to the grants of 10 , 000 / . for Nova Scotia , 10 , 000 / . for Kingston , and 8 , 000 / . for tlie Mauritius . Mr . STANLEY observed , that the importance of the works at Kingston , was so highly rated at the time they were begun , that even his hon .
friend , the member for Taunton , than whom a more rigid economist did not exist , offered no objection to the grant . He ( Mr . Stanley ) thought that when a vote had heen sanctioned by successive parliaments , it ivould be very bad policy , when 60 , 000 / . or 70 , 000 / . had been expended on these works , to permit them to crumble to ruins . AVith respect to Halifax , he , of course , knew nothing of its military
capabilities ; but he understood that the fortifications now erecting there ivould he finished in the year 1837 or 1838 , and they were highly necessary for protecting the town and shipping , particularly on the land side . If the House refused to lay out the necessary sums to finish what was now in the course of completion , all that had been already spent would have been thrown away . The works at Kingston were
necessary to protect the canal and the internal communications with Canada , ancl fortified the side on ivhich we were most subject to an attack . Next to Quebec , these works were the most important we possessed in that part of the globe . This portion of the vote was
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Flogging In The Army.
BISHOPS IN PARLIAMENT . March 13 th . —Mr . RIPPON brought forward Ms motion for leave to bring in a bill to relieve the bishops of the established church from the exercise of their legislative and judicial functions in the House of Lords . On a division , for the motion , 58 , against it , 125 ; majority
against it , 67 . COOPERS' COMBINATION , Mr . HUME moved for copies of the correspondence on this subject , which was subsequently agreed to .
March li-th . —In a Committee of Supply , Lord ALTHORP moved that a sum not exceeding 700 , 000 / . be granted from the consolidated fund for the service of the ensuing year . —Agreed to . March 944 h . —The Cambridge petition , for the admission of Dissenters to degrees in the Universities , was discussed at great length , ancl adjourned till to-morrow . Captain GRONOW brought in a bill for
erecting an iron bridge from the Horseferry , Westminster , to Churchstreet , Lambeth . In the evening , on the report of the Ordnance Estimates being brought up , Major Beauclerk objected to the grants of 10 , 000 / . for Nova Scotia , 10 , 000 / . for Kingston , and 8 , 000 / . for tlie Mauritius . Mr . STANLEY observed , that the importance of the works at Kingston , was so highly rated at the time they were begun , that even his hon .
friend , the member for Taunton , than whom a more rigid economist did not exist , offered no objection to the grant . He ( Mr . Stanley ) thought that when a vote had heen sanctioned by successive parliaments , it ivould be very bad policy , when 60 , 000 / . or 70 , 000 / . had been expended on these works , to permit them to crumble to ruins . AVith respect to Halifax , he , of course , knew nothing of its military
capabilities ; but he understood that the fortifications now erecting there ivould he finished in the year 1837 or 1838 , and they were highly necessary for protecting the town and shipping , particularly on the land side . If the House refused to lay out the necessary sums to finish what was now in the course of completion , all that had been already spent would have been thrown away . The works at Kingston were
necessary to protect the canal and the internal communications with Canada , ancl fortified the side on ivhich we were most subject to an attack . Next to Quebec , these works were the most important we possessed in that part of the globe . This portion of the vote was