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Article PARLIAMENTARY ANALYSIS. ← Page 7 of 7 Article HOUSE OF COMMONS. Page 1 of 11 →
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Parliamentary Analysis.
The Lord Chancellor said ?" t would amount to putting a resolution upon the books , that the lay lords were not equally competent to discharge their judicial functions as the law lords of the House . AE that was done was a mere matter of form , and not of substance , and he thought the privileges of the House were not worthy of such discussion as the noble Lord had thought fit to raise . —Lord E . explained , and said that Ms only anxiety was that the forms of the House should be observed .
House Of Commons.
HOUSE OF COMMONS .
March 23 rd . —On the motion of Mr . Spring Rice , the Pensions Duties ' BiE was read a tMrd time , and passed . —Mr . J . O'Connel brought up the Report of the Committee on the BE ] for improving the navigation of the rivers , lakes , and estuaries of Ireland . The Cambridge petition , for the admission of Dissenters to degrees in the University , was discussed at great length . Captain Gronow brought in a BiE for erecting an iron bridge from
the Iiorseferry , AVestminster , to Church-street , Lambeth . In the evening , on the Report of the Ordnance Estimates being brought up , Major Beauclerk objected to the grants for Nova Scotia , Kingston , ancl the Mauritius . —Mr . Stanley observed , that the importance of the works was so highly rated at the time they were begun , that even his hon . friend , the member for Taunton , offered no objection to the grant . —Mr . AgEonby and Lord John Russellseverally
, addressed the house , which afterwards divided , ancl the votes were carried by a majority of 54 . —The Exchequer of Receipt BE 1 was recommitted and reported . —The Stafford Borough Disfranchisement BiE was read a third time , ancl passed . —The Hertford Borough BiE was re-committed . —The second reading of the House-duty Repeal Bill was postponed tUl the 14 th of April .
25 ft . —At the morning sitting , Sir S . AATiaBey presented a petition against the Bill for granting 1200 / . out of the County rates to the Chairman of the Middlesex Sessions . —The debate on the Cambridge University petition was resumed , ancl again adjourned . Sir J . Tyrrell inquired whether the Government had made any representation respecting the outrage on English fishermen by a French vessel?—Lord Palmerston replied , that the government had
instituted inquiry ; that correspondence on the subject was now proceeding . —Colonel Evans presented a petition for the relief of the Polish exiles . —Lord Palmerston said , that Government had all possible sympathy for the Poles , but it could not propose any grant upon the subject . 26 ft . —At an early sitting , Mr . Ramsbottom and Sir J . Pechell presented petitions from Windsor against the proposed line of the Great AVestern Railway , and praying that it miht be so arranged as to pass
g through that borough . Referred to the committee on the bill . —Mr . Buckingham gave notice , that on the 24 th of April , he- would move an address to the Crown , praying for relief for the distressed Poles residing in this country . —The House then adjourned till Monday , the 14 th of April .
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Parliamentary Analysis.
The Lord Chancellor said ?" t would amount to putting a resolution upon the books , that the lay lords were not equally competent to discharge their judicial functions as the law lords of the House . AE that was done was a mere matter of form , and not of substance , and he thought the privileges of the House were not worthy of such discussion as the noble Lord had thought fit to raise . —Lord E . explained , and said that Ms only anxiety was that the forms of the House should be observed .
House Of Commons.
HOUSE OF COMMONS .
March 23 rd . —On the motion of Mr . Spring Rice , the Pensions Duties ' BiE was read a tMrd time , and passed . —Mr . J . O'Connel brought up the Report of the Committee on the BE ] for improving the navigation of the rivers , lakes , and estuaries of Ireland . The Cambridge petition , for the admission of Dissenters to degrees in the University , was discussed at great length . Captain Gronow brought in a BiE for erecting an iron bridge from
the Iiorseferry , AVestminster , to Church-street , Lambeth . In the evening , on the Report of the Ordnance Estimates being brought up , Major Beauclerk objected to the grants for Nova Scotia , Kingston , ancl the Mauritius . —Mr . Stanley observed , that the importance of the works was so highly rated at the time they were begun , that even his hon . friend , the member for Taunton , offered no objection to the grant . —Mr . AgEonby and Lord John Russellseverally
, addressed the house , which afterwards divided , ancl the votes were carried by a majority of 54 . —The Exchequer of Receipt BE 1 was recommitted and reported . —The Stafford Borough Disfranchisement BiE was read a third time , ancl passed . —The Hertford Borough BiE was re-committed . —The second reading of the House-duty Repeal Bill was postponed tUl the 14 th of April .
25 ft . —At the morning sitting , Sir S . AATiaBey presented a petition against the Bill for granting 1200 / . out of the County rates to the Chairman of the Middlesex Sessions . —The debate on the Cambridge University petition was resumed , ancl again adjourned . Sir J . Tyrrell inquired whether the Government had made any representation respecting the outrage on English fishermen by a French vessel?—Lord Palmerston replied , that the government had
instituted inquiry ; that correspondence on the subject was now proceeding . —Colonel Evans presented a petition for the relief of the Polish exiles . —Lord Palmerston said , that Government had all possible sympathy for the Poles , but it could not propose any grant upon the subject . 26 ft . —At an early sitting , Mr . Ramsbottom and Sir J . Pechell presented petitions from Windsor against the proposed line of the Great AVestern Railway , and praying that it miht be so arranged as to pass
g through that borough . Referred to the committee on the bill . —Mr . Buckingham gave notice , that on the 24 th of April , he- would move an address to the Crown , praying for relief for the distressed Poles residing in this country . —The House then adjourned till Monday , the 14 th of April .