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Article PARLIAMENTARY ANALYSIS. ← Page 6 of 23 →
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Parliamentary Analysis.
numbers were—for the original clause , 37 ; for the amendment , 130—majority against Ministers , 93 . —Lord Lyndhurst then moved a new clause , to secure to freemen the right of voting , as was secured to them in the Reform Act , in respect of Members of Parliament . After a short discussion , the gallery was about to be cleared for a division ; but Lord Melbourne , who had opposed the amendment , said , as the numbers had so preponderated against him on the form er division , he would not trouble their Lordships to divide . —The amendment was
agreed to , as were some other amendments . 17 ft . —Corporations Bill . —Lord Lyndhurst , on clause 25 , moved an amendment that one-fourth of the Councils , or whatever the bodies might be called , should be elected for life . Lord Brougham and Lord Melbourne , at great length , resisted it , as striking at the foundation of the Bill . The debate occupied the whole evening ;—for the original clause , 39 ; for the amendment , 126 ; majority against Ministers , 87 . lSft . —On clause 35 being read , which provides that existing Mayors and
Councils shall go out of office , on elections of Councils under this Act , Lord Lyndhurst moved an amendment for their continuance . It was eventually adopted , as were various other amendments . 19 // i The Duke of Cumberland , on presenting a petition from Trinity College , Dublin , for the support of the Church , stated that he had not countenanced their establishment in any place where it was deemed that they could be prejudicial , nor on any occasion where he had not been applied to . 24 ft—Paymaster General's Bill read a third time and passed Militia Staff
. Bill ^ brought from ; the Commons with the amendments agreed to . —Committee on the Irish Church Bill . —On clause 10 being put , moved that the clause be omitted . —Lord Melbourne having declined to divide the House , the clause was negatived , and struck out . —On clause 40 being proposed , which provides that the average value of corn should be the standard of value for tithes , Lord Ellenborough moved that this clause be also struck out The House divided—For the
motion , 35 ; for the amendment , 126 ; majority for rejecting the clause , 91 . — The other clauses were passed without comment , up to clause 60 , inclusive . —On clause 61 being put , the Earl of Haddington opposed it , and the remaining clauses of the Bill , the sequestration and appropriation clauses . —A long discussion ensued , in the course of which Lord Melbourne deemed it right fo declare that if this motion were agreed to , he should not be the party to send back the Bill to the Commons . It would expose the measure to the rejection of that House . —Their Lordships divided , —for the clauses as they stood , 41 ; for their
rejection , 138 ; majority for the rejection 97 . 25 ft . —The Municipal Corporations Law On clause 59 being put , Lord Lyndhurst proposed an amendment—that towns clerks should hold their offices during life . For the amendment , 104 ; against it 36 ; majority in favour of the amendment , 6 S . —On the motion of Lord Lyndhurst , an amendment was agreed to , without a division , to the effect that none but members of the Established Church should be the disposers of the ecclesiastical patronage of corporations . The other clauses of the Bill were then agreed to . 26 ft . —A discussion ensued upon the affairs of Spain , in which Lord
Melbourne , the Earl of Carnarvon , and Lord Brougham took part , and which was concluded by the Duke of Wellington , who expressed his desire that all discussion on that subject should at present be avoided , because he wished to leave the hands of the Government free , and the hands of every Englishman free , in order that they might be enabled to effect that object which was so much desired by all , a termination to that lamentable sort of warfare which was now going on in the centre of Europe . —On the motion for the second reading of the Constabulary Force ( Ireland ) Billthe Earl of Roden moved as an amendment
, that it be read a second time that day six months . —Upon a division the numbers were , for the amendment , 51 ; forthe motion , 39 ; majority against the second reading , 12 . 27 ft Lord Melbourne , on the presentation of the report of the Municipal Corporations Bill , declared his dissent from the amendments adopted in the Committee . Their Lordships eventually divided on the proposition of Lord
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Parliamentary Analysis.
numbers were—for the original clause , 37 ; for the amendment , 130—majority against Ministers , 93 . —Lord Lyndhurst then moved a new clause , to secure to freemen the right of voting , as was secured to them in the Reform Act , in respect of Members of Parliament . After a short discussion , the gallery was about to be cleared for a division ; but Lord Melbourne , who had opposed the amendment , said , as the numbers had so preponderated against him on the form er division , he would not trouble their Lordships to divide . —The amendment was
agreed to , as were some other amendments . 17 ft . —Corporations Bill . —Lord Lyndhurst , on clause 25 , moved an amendment that one-fourth of the Councils , or whatever the bodies might be called , should be elected for life . Lord Brougham and Lord Melbourne , at great length , resisted it , as striking at the foundation of the Bill . The debate occupied the whole evening ;—for the original clause , 39 ; for the amendment , 126 ; majority against Ministers , 87 . lSft . —On clause 35 being read , which provides that existing Mayors and
Councils shall go out of office , on elections of Councils under this Act , Lord Lyndhurst moved an amendment for their continuance . It was eventually adopted , as were various other amendments . 19 // i The Duke of Cumberland , on presenting a petition from Trinity College , Dublin , for the support of the Church , stated that he had not countenanced their establishment in any place where it was deemed that they could be prejudicial , nor on any occasion where he had not been applied to . 24 ft—Paymaster General's Bill read a third time and passed Militia Staff
. Bill ^ brought from ; the Commons with the amendments agreed to . —Committee on the Irish Church Bill . —On clause 10 being put , moved that the clause be omitted . —Lord Melbourne having declined to divide the House , the clause was negatived , and struck out . —On clause 40 being proposed , which provides that the average value of corn should be the standard of value for tithes , Lord Ellenborough moved that this clause be also struck out The House divided—For the
motion , 35 ; for the amendment , 126 ; majority for rejecting the clause , 91 . — The other clauses were passed without comment , up to clause 60 , inclusive . —On clause 61 being put , the Earl of Haddington opposed it , and the remaining clauses of the Bill , the sequestration and appropriation clauses . —A long discussion ensued , in the course of which Lord Melbourne deemed it right fo declare that if this motion were agreed to , he should not be the party to send back the Bill to the Commons . It would expose the measure to the rejection of that House . —Their Lordships divided , —for the clauses as they stood , 41 ; for their
rejection , 138 ; majority for the rejection 97 . 25 ft . —The Municipal Corporations Law On clause 59 being put , Lord Lyndhurst proposed an amendment—that towns clerks should hold their offices during life . For the amendment , 104 ; against it 36 ; majority in favour of the amendment , 6 S . —On the motion of Lord Lyndhurst , an amendment was agreed to , without a division , to the effect that none but members of the Established Church should be the disposers of the ecclesiastical patronage of corporations . The other clauses of the Bill were then agreed to . 26 ft . —A discussion ensued upon the affairs of Spain , in which Lord
Melbourne , the Earl of Carnarvon , and Lord Brougham took part , and which was concluded by the Duke of Wellington , who expressed his desire that all discussion on that subject should at present be avoided , because he wished to leave the hands of the Government free , and the hands of every Englishman free , in order that they might be enabled to effect that object which was so much desired by all , a termination to that lamentable sort of warfare which was now going on in the centre of Europe . —On the motion for the second reading of the Constabulary Force ( Ireland ) Billthe Earl of Roden moved as an amendment
, that it be read a second time that day six months . —Upon a division the numbers were , for the amendment , 51 ; forthe motion , 39 ; majority against the second reading , 12 . 27 ft Lord Melbourne , on the presentation of the report of the Municipal Corporations Bill , declared his dissent from the amendments adopted in the Committee . Their Lordships eventually divided on the proposition of Lord