Lords Sitting of 24 July 1843

Preamble
MINUTES.] NEW MEMBER Sworm—The Lord Polwarth.
BILLS. Public.—2a, Schoolmasters Widows' Fund Validity.
3a. and passed:—Scientific Societies.
Private.—1a.. Burry Navigation.
2a. Gorbal's Police; Infant Orphan Asylum; Rochdale and Manchester Roads; Cromford and Belper Roads.
Reported.—Gilbert's (or Miller's) Estate; Tay Ferries.
3a. and passed:—Great North of England, Clarence and Hartlepool Junction Railway; Dundee Harbour.
PETITIONS PRESENTED. By the Earl of Ducie, from the Vale of Clwyd, (Denbigh) in favour of Free Trade, and for the Total and Immediate Repeal of the Corn Laws.

BREACH OF PRIVILEGE—KENDAL GAZETTE.
Lord Broughamsaid he had given notice of a motion to bring to the Bar of the House the editor of a newspaper, who had accused a Member of their Lordships' House with having, for his own private views, brought in a bill. He had since received a letter from the individual, William Browne, which he had communicated to his noble Friend on the Woolsack, and other noble Lords, and that letter, coupled with the deep regret (which Mr. Browne had taken the earliest opportunity of publishing in his paper), induced him not to proceed. The writer said, that he had not the slighest intention of committing a breach of the privileges of that House; the article was inserted through inadvertence. He was most heartily sorry for the insertion, and he tendered his humble apology. Understanding, also, that Mr. Browne's circumstances were such, that the expenses of coming to London would be ruinous to him, he would not make the motion of which he had given notice.
Their Lordships adjourned.