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PARLIAMENTARY. HOUSE OF COMMONS.
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Parliamentary. House Of Commons.
PARLIAMENTARY . HOUSE OF COMMONS .
f Feb . 27 . The House went into a Com . mittee on Mr . Sergeant Onslow ' s motion for a Repeal of the Usury Laws In the previous debate on the motion that the Speaker do leave the Chair , which was carried by a majority of 16 ,
( Ayes 48 , Noes 32 , ) Mr . AJderman Heygate , who strongly opposed the motion , quoted the authority of Dr . Adam Smith : Mr . Wynn said , in answer , " The worthy Alderman had appealed to the authority of Adam Smith , and seemed to place great reliance upon his opinion .
Now , " said the Right Honourable Gentleman , " I am not fond of quoting the opinions of Mr . Jeremy Bentham ; but I must say , that his celebrated work on this subject is one of the most complete and satisfactory answers that ever proceeded from the head of man . ( Loud cheers . ) It is the most perfect specimen of logical accuracy , in all its parts , that
ever was written ; and I have it from an authority so high as to place it beyond all doubt , that even Adam Smith confessed himself mistaken . " ( Loud cheers . ) The speakers besides those already named were , for the measure , Capt . Maberly , Mr . Huskisson , Sir John Sebright , and Mr . Baring ;—against it , Sir R . Heron , Mr . Robertson , Mr . Calcraft , and Mr . T . Wilson .
March 16 . Dr . Lushinoton obtained the appointment of a Committee for consolidating the Criminal Laws . The state of Ireland is in frequent discussion in both Houses . This subject involves , of necessity , that of tithes , the grievance of which begins to be generally perceived . Mr . Pjlunkett has brought
in his promised Bill for securing ; the Rights of Sepulture to the Roman Catholics and Presbyterians . —A very important Petition has been presented to the House of Commons by Mr . Grattan from the Irish Catholic Bishops , complaining of
abuses in the Funds for Education , and praying for measures fpr securing the education of the Irish poor : and on the motion of Sir John Newport , an address has been voted to the Crown , praying for a Commission to inquire into the state of Education in Ireland . In the debate
on this motion , the necessity of general education was universally allowed , and it was conceded on all sides that while national education should proceed upon the principle of religion , there should be nothing sectarian in it , nor , under cover of it , any design of proselytism . ^ -Va-
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rious petitions have been presented on , the subject of Church-grievances ; one from a parish consisting of 13 , 000 Statute Acres , which is united to two others , of larger extent , but in which there is no
Church , and the petitioners declare , that they saw nothiog of the Rectqir , an 4 knew of his existence , or of the Church Establishment itself , only by the demand of the Tithe-proctor for the tithe I
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SWITZERLAND . Geneva . —Establishment of a Literary Censorship . The Representative Council of this city has just enacted , by a majority of two thirds of the suffrages , a law suspending the liberty of the press during the term of a year . AH writings , on
whatever subject they may treat , will be subjected to a censorship . It i 3 very paiaful to witness a measure so injurious to the progress of the human mind , taken by a city in which education and philosophy appeared so generally diffused .
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sent Civil Divisions of Wales into Hundreds and Conimots . By John Jones , LL . D . and Barrister-at-Law *
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188 Intelligence . —Parliamentary . —Foreign ? Poland * Switzerland .
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POLAND . The President of the Police , at Warsaw , published in the beginning of January of this year , an Imperial Decree ,
commanding the Jews of that city to leave their habitations in the principal streets , ancT to remove to the less frequented quarters , by the 14 th of October next . —mmmmm ~—
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The intelligence from Brussels exhibits a very pleasing instance of Toleration , ; published as if to shame certain Irish prelates who dispute the right of Roman Catholics and Protestant Dissenters to sepulture , according to the ceremonies of their own religions , in parish
burialgrounds . The article to which we allude is dated Basle , March 3 , and is as follows : —The city of Lucerne has done itself honour by a remarkable act of toleration . The city is inhabited by Cathorlies , who alone enjoy the public exercise of their religion ; the few Protestants da
not enjoy it , and their dead have hkherto been buried without any funeral attendance . Some of the Catholics , d ^ approv-. ing of this intolerance , resolved to put an end to it , and the Members of the Government consented . This resolution was carried into effect on the death of a
lacemaker , a Protestant , born in Saxony-Matters were arranged to give him a very brilliant funeral , at which the majority of the inhabitants of Lucerne , almost all Catholics > attended . —M . Muller , the ? principal Catholic clergyman at Lucerne , one , of the most enlightened men in Switzerland , followed , and delivered , at the grave , a discourse suitable to the occasion , which was generally approved .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/60/
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