Lords Sitting of 2 May 1837

MINUTES.
Bills. Read a third time:—Consolidated Fund. Read a first time:—Recorders Courts.
Petitions presented. By Lord BROUGHAM, from the Legal Profession at Kircalday, against the Operation of the Act of Sederunt.—By the Earl of HADDINGTON and other Noble LORDS, from various places, against the Abolition, and by the Marquess of LANSDOWNE, from various other places, for the Abolition of Church-rates.—By the Earl of WINCHILSRA, from the Guardians of the Poor of West Ashford, for an Alteration of the Law relative to Rating Small Tenements.—By the Bishop of EXETER, from various places, against the present system of National Education (Ireland).—By Lord DOCIR, from Gloucester, for Amelioration of the Criminal Code.

CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of Shaftesbury, this Bill was read a third time, and passed.
Messengers from the Commons brought up a number of private Bills, which were severally read a first time, and ordered to be printed.

DUBLIN POLICE.
Viscount Duncannon Viscount Duncannon moved the second reading of the Dublin Police Bill.
Lord Ellenboroughsaid, he would not oppose the Bill, though he entertained many objections to the measure. It was extraordinary that in the Municipal Bill when in the other House an objection should have been raised to the principle of a graduated scale of taxation, and yet that it should be sanctioned in this instance. Looking to the system of local taxation in Dublin, he did not think the principle of this Bill went far enough. The Government, before they introduced this measure, should have examined into the whole question of the local taxation of Dublin, with a view to remove the multiplicity of demands which were made upon the householders. One tax was raised in

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Dublin which yielded only 5l. 2s. and another 22 l. Such a system could only have the effect of making those persons hostile to the government of the day who were subject to these inconveniences.
Bill read a second time.