PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. [From the Globe, 16th July.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 246, 8 December 1847, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. [From the Globe, 16th July.]

In the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Brougham proposed three resolutions, denunciatory of bribery at elections, introducing them in a long speech, in which he expressed his horror at the venality practised at the last general election, and his fears for the coming one. The Marquis of Lansdowne, however, suggested that the resolutions would be productive of no practical good, on which ths learned peer withdrew his motion. In the House of Commons yesterday, Lord John Russell observed, that in consequence of the Duke of Wellington having, on public

grounds, deprecated the removal of the statue from the arch at Hyde Park-corner, as an act of disparagement to himself, be had it in command frpm her Majesty to state to the house that no further steps would be taken to effect such removal. The house then went into a Committee of Supply. Having resumed, the New Zealand (No. 2.) bill was, after a long discussion, read a second time. Several other bills advanced a stage. Some discussion took * place in Committee on the Bankruptcy and Insolvency bill, and the house divided twice on the bill, which eventually passed through Committee without amendment.