House Of Lords, Friday, M...
PARLIAMEATARY INTELLCENBCE. Lord CARBERY presenteda pedtion from Thomas Allen, the agent of Francis Stephen Dillon, one of the claimants of the Ros- common peeragg, praying that the consideration of the claims to the said peeragc might be postponed, as the petitioner's client, being a prisoner fer debt in Dublin, had not yet been able to procure certain documents necessary to lis case. Lord RED ESDA presented a counter-petition from another claimant, of the natne of Dillon, stating that he had been in at- tendance for 40 days with his witnesses, and praying that the consi- deration of the case mizht not be unnecessarily postponed. After some conversation, it was agreed to Postpone thie further pro. ceedings on the claim until the 13th of the present montl. Lord CARB3RY presented a petition from the clergv and other inhabitants of the diocess of Cork ind Ross, which complained that a school had been removed from Ross to Cork, and that the salary allowed to the school had been taken away bv the board of educa- tion, and prayed that the sanme might be restored. Lord RAVENSWVORTrI presented a petition from a parish in tbe county of Durham, praying for the abolition of slavery. On the motion for the second reading of the united general gas bill, the LORD-CHANCELLOR stated some objections to the word- ing of several clauses, and hinted that themeasure requi:ed more con- sideration than it appeared to have received elsewhere. He reminded their lordships that no redress could be obtained from the company except in their corporate capacity. He observed that one dause pro- vided that their capital should: iot succeed L,000,000l., but how much that capital was to be, wh'ether 1001. or 100,0001., wasno where stated. After a sbort conversation'lreiteen .the LoiRD CHA-N-CELLOR, Lord REDESDALE, and the.Eail of SIIAFTESBURY, the second reading vas postponed till Monday. The exchequer bills works bill, the rum dluties bill, and the sugar bounties bill were comnmitted. The Mtarquis of LANSDOWN presented a petition from the town of Brixham, in Devonshire, near Torbay, praying for the en- actment of a law to facilitate the recovery of simaU debts.-Adjourn. ed to AnndAav- HOTTSE, (TF T,OP1flZ T A f e