Nov. 27. PETITION of Mr. Gourlay on the Poor Laws, and on Emigration 142

of Mr. Roger Flattery, respecting the Arigna Mining

Company.

28.

148

176

221

of Thomas Parkin, respecting Joint Stock Companies,
and the Uncertainty of the Law..

233

(General), of the Roman Catholics of Ireland

......

407

9.

of the Starving Weavers of Blackburn, respecting the

Corn Laws

412

Mar. 2.

as 19.

8681

VI. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

Nov. 28. Resolutions relative to Committees on Private Bills

1827.6 to

Mar. 22.

......

Convention between his Majesty and the Infanta Regent of Por-

tugal, for providing for the Maintenance of a Corps of British

Troops, sent to Portugal, Dec. 1826, signed at Brighthelm-

stone, Jan. 19, 1827

154

1302

VII. LISTS.

Nov. 21. LIST of the Minority, in the House Commons, on Mr. Hume's

Amendment to the Address on the King's Speech......

Feb. 16. --- of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on the Grant

to the Duke and Duchess of Clarence

of the Minority, on the Army Estimates

94

540

599

Mar. 6. LIST of the Majority, and also of the Minority, on Sir Francis

Burdett's Motion, for taking into consideration the Civil

Disabilities of the Roman Catholics

Page

1009

of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on the Corn

Resolutions

1122

12.

of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on the Corn

Resolutions

1153

15.

of the Minority, on the Conduct of the Corporation of

Leicester, with regard to the recent Election....

1217

16.

of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on the Grant

to the Duke and Duchess of Clarence

1247

of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on Mr. Hume's
Motion respecting the Mutiny at Barrackpore

1340

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Parliamentary Debates

During the FIRST SESSION of the EIGHTH PARLIAMENT of the United Kingdom of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, appointed to meet at Westminster the 14th of November, 1826, in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King GEORGE THE FOURTH.

return to the place where they usually held their sittings, and there proceed to choose a fit and proper person to be their Speaker; and that they should present the person so chosen at the bar of their Lordships' House to-morrow at two o'clock, for his Majesty's approbation. The Commons then withdrew, and their Lordships heard prayers. After which, the oaths were taken in the usual form by the Lords present.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Tuesday, November 14.
CHOICE OF A SPEAKER.] The mem-
bers being returned from the House of
Peers,

HOUSE OF LORDS. Tuesday, November 14, 1826. MEETING OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT.] This being the day appointed for the meeting of the New Parliament, several Peers assembled at two o'clock. Soon after that hour, lord chancellor Eldon, the duke of Wellington, the earl of Westmorland, the earl of Liverpool, and the earl of Harrowby took their seats in front of the Throne, as his Majesty's Commissioners. The Lord Chancellor then directed the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod to proceed to the Commons and summon that House to attend at their Lordships' bar forthwith. The Deputy Usher proeeeded accordingly to the House of Commons, and soon after returned, accom- Mr. Sturges Bourne rose and said, that panied by the clerks of that House and it now devolved on the House to proceed a considerable number of the members. to the discharge of a most important The Lord Chancellor stated to the Com-duty, namely the election of a member to mons, that his Majesty had been pleased fill in the ensuing parliament, one of the to issue a Commission under the great seal, appointing certain lords therein named to open the Parliament; which Commission the clerk would then read.The Commission having accordingly been read, the Lord Chancellor said, that in obedience to his Majesty's commands, he had to inform the Lords and Gentlemen then in attendance, that as soonas a sufficient number of members of both Houses should be sworn, his Majesty would declare the causes which had induced him to call the parliament together. In the mean time it was his Majesty's pleasure, that the Gentlemen of the House of Commons should VOL. XVI. NEW

most honourable, and at the same time one. of the most arduous offices, that could be conferred upon an individual in this country-that of Speaker of the House of Commons. Happily, the House had not, upon the present occasion, to encounter the difficulty of selecting from their body any untried member, who might inadequately discharge the duties of that high and arduous office. They possessed as member whom they had already elected to fill the office of their Speaker in three successive parliaments, and the experience of those successive parliaments had abundantly confirmed the wisdom of their B