Cambridgeshire ... Cheshire!! Cumberland Durham.. Herefordshire. 14 Leicestershire. 6 Lincolnshire 6 Norfolk.... ... 4 Sussex 12 Warwickshire. 8 Westmoreland 3 Wiltshire 12 Scotland. The NUMBER of MEMBERS sent by each County, &c. to Parliament.? Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire 14 Surrey 16 14 20 6 4 34 45 OFFICERS OF STATE. (APRIL, 1829.) MINISTRY OF ENGLAND. Duke of Wellington Right Hon. Robert Peel.... First Lord of the Treasury (Prime Minister). Lord President of the Council. Secretary of State for the Home Department. Master of the Mint. President of the Board of Control. Treasurer of the Navy, and President of the Board of The above form the Cabinet. As in adverting to any Proceedings in Parliament, the Reader must Shortly will be Published, HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DIGEST; OR, DICTIONARY OF READY REFERENCE, TO THE RECORDED PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES, IN BOTH HOUSES. FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME: BEING AN ANALYTICAL INDEX:-I. To HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND, from the earliest Period to the Year 1803. II. TO HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, from the Year 1803 to the present Time. WITH An INDEX containing the Name of every Member who took a part in the said Proceedings and Debates. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, will be first published. Such progress has been made (Twenty-five Volumes having been already gone through) that it is confidently expected to publish this important Volume in the course of 1830. HANSARD'S Parliamentary Debates During the THIRD SESSION of the EIGHTH PARLIAMENT of the United Kingdom of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, appointed to meet at Westminster the 5th of February, 1829, in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty GEORGE THE FOURTH. HOUSE OF LORDS. ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.] The Duke of Wellington moved, that this bill be read a first time. The Earl of Harewood.-My Lords; I am well aware that it is not customary to object to the first reading of a bill which any of your lordships may think proper to present; nor do I intend to deviate from the ordinary practice. But, before we read this bill a first time, I beg leave to put a question to the members of his majesty's government; and that question is, whether there is or is not at this moment levied in Ireland, under the assumed authority of the Catholic Association, that which is generally denominated rent? Before we proceed one step with this important bill, I wish to have an answer to this question. The Duke of Wellington.-As far as I have any knowledge, no such thing as Catholic rent now exists. The Earl of Mountcashel.-I have received letters this morning from Ireland, stating that rent is, beyond all question, still paid to the Catholic Association. The bill was read a first time. The Duke of Wellington then moved, that the bill be printed, and that the second reading should take place on Thursday, in case the printed bill should be laid on their lordships' table to-morrow. Lord Bexley said, he trusted that the noVOL. XXI. NEW} {series.} For ble duke would not attempt to carry this bill through the House with so much precipitation; for which he was quite sure no precedent could be found on their Journals. On any bill of great importance, time was generally given to noble lords to make themselves fully acquainted with its principle; at any rate, no such hurry as was now proposed was ever attempted. A week was the least time allowed between the first and the second stage of important bills; and he would, with their permission, state very shortly the various intervals which had taken place between the first and second readings of this measure, whenever it had been previously submitted to their consideration. several years no other proceeding was had for some time after the first reading of the bill, except the presentation of petitions on one side or the other and in no case that he knew of, was there ever less than fourteen days allowed for its consideration. He would run over a short statement which he had drawn up on the subject. In the year 1809, a bill was brought in, by a noble earl whom he then saw in his place, for the purpose of repealing the Oath against Transubstantiation that bill was read a first time on the 25th of May, and the second reading was fixed for the 10th of June, leaving an interval of sixteen days between the first and second stage of it. In the year 1821, the next bill for the relief of the Roman Catholics was brought into their lordships' B |