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Article PARLIAMENTARY ANALYSIS. ← Page 2 of 7 →
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Parliamentary Analysis.
16 th . — The Lord Chancellor moved for returns connected with public education , which were ordered . Several petitions were presented by their Lordships , for the better observance of the Sabbath . 17 th . —A conversation respecting the in tendedmusical festival inAVestminster Abbey , was introduced by the Duke of Newcastle , who described such performances as contrary to one of the canons of the church . —Earl Grey saw no objection to such a festival being conducted
in the Abbey precisely in the same way as during the reign of George III . —The Earl of Malmesbury spoke to the same effect ; after which the conversation dropped . The English and Irish Judgments' Bill went through a Committee . The Smuggling Act Amendment Bill was read a second time .
21 st . — The Duke of Gloucester presented a petition from the members of the Senate of the University of Cambridge , against the claims of the Dissenters to admission therein , and exhorted their Lordshi ps not to interfere with an institution which had produced so many ornaments to the literature and piety of this country ; hut to resist the removal of those tests wMch hacl hitherto been deemed necessary . 22 nd . —The Marquess of Lansdowne moved certain resolutions
relative to the printing of parliamentary papers , ivith a view to decrease the expence . —Agreed to . The Exchequer Offices' Bill was read a second time , and passed through a committee .
24 th . — LORD Lyndhurst presented a petition from R . R . Roe , Esq ., who has been imprisoned five years and five months , under a judgment of the Irish Court of King ' s Bench , which judgment having been argued on a writ of error here , is stdl in custody , being unable to pay the fees attending the prosecution on the writ of error .
2 . 4 th . —The English and Irish Judgments' BUI was read a third time and passed . ¦ Several petitions were presented . "S & th . —The Duke of Newcastle called the attention of ministers to the funeral processions of the Trades' Umons . —Lord Melbourne knew of no means to prevent such processions , but hoped they would be abandoned by the people themselves . The Marquess of Londonderry did not think the Unions Ekely to die a natural death . They were stiU
increasing in numbers . Lord Eldon thought it was the duty of government to discountenance such assemblages . The Lord Chancellor agreed with Ms noble and learned friend that vast and unnecessary numbers assembEng themselves together were illegal ; it was because he was the sincere friend of the working classes of the country he was an enemy to Trades' Unions ; and he would add , that of aE the pernicious devices that could be imagined for the injury of the interests of the working classes , as well as the interests of the country at large , nothing was half so bad as the existence of Trades' Unions .
The Exchequer Offices' BiE was read a tMrd time , and passed . — The Duke of AVellington presented a petition , signed by 153 bankers , & c . of Liverpool , against any alteration of the Corn Laws : also a petition , signed by 2119 owners and occupiers of land in the county of Derby , complaining of agricultural distress .
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Parliamentary Analysis.
16 th . — The Lord Chancellor moved for returns connected with public education , which were ordered . Several petitions were presented by their Lordships , for the better observance of the Sabbath . 17 th . —A conversation respecting the in tendedmusical festival inAVestminster Abbey , was introduced by the Duke of Newcastle , who described such performances as contrary to one of the canons of the church . —Earl Grey saw no objection to such a festival being conducted
in the Abbey precisely in the same way as during the reign of George III . —The Earl of Malmesbury spoke to the same effect ; after which the conversation dropped . The English and Irish Judgments' Bill went through a Committee . The Smuggling Act Amendment Bill was read a second time .
21 st . — The Duke of Gloucester presented a petition from the members of the Senate of the University of Cambridge , against the claims of the Dissenters to admission therein , and exhorted their Lordshi ps not to interfere with an institution which had produced so many ornaments to the literature and piety of this country ; hut to resist the removal of those tests wMch hacl hitherto been deemed necessary . 22 nd . —The Marquess of Lansdowne moved certain resolutions
relative to the printing of parliamentary papers , ivith a view to decrease the expence . —Agreed to . The Exchequer Offices' Bill was read a second time , and passed through a committee .
24 th . — LORD Lyndhurst presented a petition from R . R . Roe , Esq ., who has been imprisoned five years and five months , under a judgment of the Irish Court of King ' s Bench , which judgment having been argued on a writ of error here , is stdl in custody , being unable to pay the fees attending the prosecution on the writ of error .
2 . 4 th . —The English and Irish Judgments' BUI was read a third time and passed . ¦ Several petitions were presented . "S & th . —The Duke of Newcastle called the attention of ministers to the funeral processions of the Trades' Umons . —Lord Melbourne knew of no means to prevent such processions , but hoped they would be abandoned by the people themselves . The Marquess of Londonderry did not think the Unions Ekely to die a natural death . They were stiU
increasing in numbers . Lord Eldon thought it was the duty of government to discountenance such assemblages . The Lord Chancellor agreed with Ms noble and learned friend that vast and unnecessary numbers assembEng themselves together were illegal ; it was because he was the sincere friend of the working classes of the country he was an enemy to Trades' Unions ; and he would add , that of aE the pernicious devices that could be imagined for the injury of the interests of the working classes , as well as the interests of the country at large , nothing was half so bad as the existence of Trades' Unions .
The Exchequer Offices' BiE was read a tMrd time , and passed . — The Duke of AVellington presented a petition , signed by 153 bankers , & c . of Liverpool , against any alteration of the Corn Laws : also a petition , signed by 2119 owners and occupiers of land in the county of Derby , complaining of agricultural distress .