Star. — London, England, 1825-06-01 00:00:00

en." k A shooro.. Canada tdok . all our manufActures; pro- Tided with the means of payilig for them by heroes pinced on a proper footing. It their Lordships coati de-ed her situation and near what neighbour-ohe-Astas placed, they would see the propriety ni Adopting a li boral policy towards her. On all priuciples o( free trade, ju.tice, and policy, thsapresent measure ought to be adopted. lie strongly recommended to the Landed Interest to look. at the question in a more liberal point of view. By acting sts,.they would not only do eredft 16 themselves, but serve the hest interests of the country. Earl ROSSLYN contended, that the measure would. • yield no irnmediAte advantage to Canada.: It w4s only • a first step to pledge the House to break down next year the whole system of the Corn Laws, which must destroy the present connec tion between landlords and totants. The Earl of LIVERPOOL complained that his argu ments had been arisreprc-entedr Ai tri tbs. present mea sure, instead of coilside-ing it as pa* of an attack on the Corn Laws, he had distinctly stated that it was independent of any • change which might be mad,: in them. He rested the whole peas. sity of the case on this, that it was lit to adopt a more liberal system with respect to cur Colonies. The Earl of LI AIEBICK opposed the Bill. ,• Lord ELLENBOEOU 011 thought it a most beneficial men sure, especially that part of it which related to the-Colonies. . He regretted that any duty was imposed on Canadian Corn, and wished it to have been placed on the same footing as that cumin from Ireland • Lord ENNISKILLEN opposed the measure. The distresses which landed proprietors ILA suffered in Ireland could only be known by those who bad been .resident on their own orates, • and who having no funded property had been obliged to live an borrowed money. The Earl of CARNAItVON recommended that the meanie • should be postponed till the next Session. Lord REDESDA LE maintained, that to allow a free trade in corn, would be to effect a complete revoludou in the constitution of property. It was a Ease and most dangerous policy to pursue. The liossse then divided on the Amendment — Present. Proxits. Contents Non Contents 24 • 15 Majority against the Amendintut Lord LAUDERDALE said, that as the Bill was still to ro - which was then but thinly attended, he into the Committee until Monday moved the Order of the Day for the ity Courts Bill pro forma. in order to r.—Adjourned at Nuts o'CLocK. OF COMMONS. Labour Company's Bill was read a third the recommitment of the Hants and auud that in the Select Committee the an Irre;ular and improper manner, by the Chair. the proceedings of the Committee, question. , the recommitment of the Bill, the deserving of every attention, as tending between Bath, Bristol, and London. the recommitment, and Mr. F. PAW/Lill .new nothing of the merits of this Bill, the Committees which he had attended I been very cleverly got rid of. This to have been highly irregular, and that deliberation which It ought to have to prevent a certain bias on the minds Committee., but at least the House ,roceeilin. b s were strictly regular. 'hied the Committee. ithdrew his amendment, and after a few HETGATU,' the question was put, and the recommitment of the Bill wail —.ll was read a third time and passed. notice that he should to-morrow present a of London, for an aktration of the presented a Petition from the Cotton favour of a reduction of the hours tted a Petition frees the Ship Owners of the misrepresentations of the Union presented a Petition from the Operative Cut. ' 'iidgr, agaiust the re-euactmsan of the presented a Petition from the College of ;ainst the It ish Prisoners' Bill. :AILSZLL. a Retum was ordered of the imported Into Great Britain and Ireland, in presented a Petition from the Operatives in against the re-r.nacunent of the Com- presented by Mr. lIUAIE, from the Dublin. ... slut it was absolutely necessary some fut the ptutection of persons employing referred to the Committee on the Combina. presented a Petition from an Individual, conduct of the Magistrates of Chichester, for Victuallers' License. imony to the respectability of the Ma , who read the Petition must be sur , had not had• his license granted. He think there was some reason, to him (Mr. induced the Alagistrates to refuse a backed as his application was by so great .rishioners. Irom the cases of oppression which were Sighly necessary for the Secretary of anent to take some steps on the subject. :bought some restriction on the capricious powers was necessary. the evils of the Licensing System were the number of public-houses. :ad, aid laid on the table. ;it OF IRELAND. that he should move on the 14th of wt the state of tlte Church of Ireland. OF CHANCERY. in ri••ing to present the Petitions on.the subject of the delays iy, made some obseriations oa the Report of :he Corn rrissionerS into the subject. He had been resent there were in the Court of above 400 causes and appeals; ctiti•ms, judgments, and motions, ancrie 1200 matters and things unde• disposed of. And according to the these had been disposed of, it years to dispose of the hindermost his were the result of the labours loin, it was high time to see what ;ren from the long delay in bring l port of the Commissioners, he anti 4 be hastened when this matter subject for the consideration - of remedy be applied by legislative , some Umber otherriationa on the Court of Chancery, the Learned . to present se' el at. Petitions, which discharge. of .his duty as a Mem tough $ e n.q aware chat any in them could ite controverted. — which ;,,e should call the attentum irom Sarno , ' Fat mt.r, otie I,f tie . Mary's, Newington; complaining delays attending a suit in Chancery - J•ro• '~'~*.--+ter _~ which the Petitioner had defended. Here tl elearred Gentleman read the following extracts from the bill of ootts, which excited great IJughter in the House:- 1824. s. 1. Doe. -6. Attending Court, three petitions in the paper for judgment, when the Lord Chancellor went partially Into the matter, and requested to he fur nished.with the repealed local Act, which he said he would read, and give his judgment to marrow 7. Attending Court all day, three petitions in the paper, when his Lordship said, " he bad to leave early, b■t would not fad giving his judgment to.morrow morning." S.—Attending Court all day, three petitions in the paper for judgment, when the Lord Chancellor adverted to the question of jurisdiction, which he desired to be again spoken to, and requested that the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, they being the Lords of the Manor of Walworth, should attend him, and appointed Saturday nest for that purpose • and requested to be informed as to the mode Of appointing overseers at the time the Charity was founded 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 11.—Attending Court all day, three petitions, when the same were 'called on ; and Mr. Shadwell ap plied, an the part of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, to let the petitions stand over, and the same were ordered till the first seal before Hilary Term, to give the Dean and Chapter an opportunity of considering what course they should take 1825. .2 0 0 Jan. 11.—Attending Court on three petitions, when Mr. Shadwell, on the pan of the Dean and Chapter stated, he was not prepared to go on ; and the Lord Chance)lor ordered the same to stand for this day fortnight peremptory . • 25.—Attending Court all day, three petitions on the paper, but same not called on 26.—The like attendance this day 67.—The like attendance this day . 28.—The like attendance this day . 29.—Attending Court, three petitions in the paper; same caUtd on, and ordered to stand for Tuesday next, for the ean and Chapter to prove them selves entitled to interfere in this matter as visitors Feb. I.—Attending Court all day ; three petitions in the paper, but same not called on • 4.—Attending Court all day; three petitions in the paper, bet same not called on • • 3.—The like attendance in Court this day; three petitions in the paper 9.—The like attendance this day . 10.—The like attendance this day • • 11.—The like attendant* this day • • • 23.—Attending Court, when the Lord Chancellor directed the Registrar to put the petitions in the paper for Tueeday next . . 0 6 $ " This," said Mr. Williams, "is a dies era notandas, as it k only 6i. Bd. and neither 21. nor 11. lOs." March I.—Attending Court on three petitions; same in the paper, and called on, when the various points suggested by the Court were again argued at some length, and his Lordship promised to give his judgment this day week . 2 0 0 2 0 0 . 1 10 0 • . 1 10 0 . 1 10 0 . ' 1 10 0 2 0 0 1 10 0 1 10 0 . 110 0 . . 110 0 . 1 10 0 1 10 0 B.—Attending Court i but the Lord Chancellor did not give judgment according to his promise . 0 6 8 He had another Petition from Walter H.Yates, who stated that he was entitled to several valuable estates in Glou cestershire, but that he is unable to recover them, from his scanty means disabling him to file a bill in a Court of Equity. He had also a Petition from Gommow, who is entitled to an annuity of 3001. a year. under the will of the late Duke of Queensberry, compla;ning that he was for seven - years without receiving a farthing of it, although there were large funds belonging to the es tate in the hands of the Accountant of the Court. He had also a Petition from Mr. Gourlay, who dated the origin of his ruin to the Court of Chancery, in which he complained r,f his successes; but they were like the victories of Pyrrhus, and he was only by them rapt dited in the course of ruin. He had also a Petition frank Mr. Es . cott, a prisoner in the Fleet, for not answering interrogatories. He had been two years and five months in confinement, and he stated that he was entirely igno rant of law proceedings and trusted to Jones,who was co defendant with him,and to his Attorney. He was residing at Lincoln, and was brought up by a Special Messen ger, at an espente of 501. and lodged in the Fleet Prison, where, for the first )ear and a half of his confinement, he suffered the greatest misery, having lost his intel• lects ; and he would have absolutely perished for want, if it had not been for the humanity of the Warden, Mr. Brown. AU these Petitioners called upon the House of Commons for redress of their grievances. The Learned Gentleman said, there was one other case, that of the Tonbridge School, in which, after an appeal for which there was no sort of foundation, it was referred to the Master, and in his office it remained for two years, till his death : it had now got into the hands of another, and when it would come out no one could say. One generation of boys (for whose benefit in promoting their education the charity was intended) had lost their chance entirely. So that whether the Lord Chancellor had doubts, or whether he decided promptly (as in this case), yet whilst there were four or five thousand a year to fasten on, the matter could not be got out of the clutches of the Court of Chancery, and so it was'one hundred and fifty years ago. Hudibras was advised by the Squire, in default of all other means to win the widow (and he had used some pretty direct ones, a; was proper in the case of a widow), to file a bill in Chancery against her, which would either— " Bring her over to be his wife, Or make her weary of her life." (A laugh).—The Petitioners all prayed relief from the House of commons, and he did not doubt but the Commissioners would hereafter pray for similar relief. It was in vain to think that such a Court would reform, itself, or flog itself, like Sancho—(Lori laughter).--By the old constitution of this country, inquiries were made into the Courts of Law, and that House still had a Committee of Justice. But the name alone remained; it was a disgrace to the country, to be so far behind all the rest of Europe in the cheap and speedy administra tion of justice. It was no answer to him, to say he Wii unable to point out a remedy. Whether or not the evil could be remedied, it certainly was the duty of the House to make the attempt—whatever was worthy of being attempted, was attended with difficulty. In Bava. via a new and impartial Penal Code ha &been introduced, and late ruler of France had in like manner left be hind him a monument that would survive the memory both of his tiiumphs and defeats. The Hon. Member then alluded to a recent work, by - a Gentleman of the name of Miller, on the subject of the Court of Chancery; and real from it an extract relative to the character of the Lord Chancellor, stating, that he had it in his power to have reared a noble monument to his memory, but he thought that he neither was fond of alterations himself, nor liked them from others; and that submis sion and mediocrity of talent were the passports to his favour. The writer went on to say, that the Lord Chancellor was ignorant of what was the opinion of the Public as to the conduct of his Cou.t ; but that State of things . could not last long, as it was sn opposed to the enlightened views and' liberal policy of his col, leagues. Tire Honourable Gentleman observed, that he himself would not have made such a statement, had it not Ahead) , been in print, and become. public pto- w ~,.~T :~ 'petty—(Loud Ater:ng).—Beforikhe sat down, he would only make one concluding remark. The inielligenct of the country locked to the Hbuse for a remedy— (Hwy—Whatever might be asserted by Xaswyers, i puffing the craft by wnich they lived, he (Mr. Wit. , Hams) mould assert, that the great body of the people of England, the growing information, the march of in tellect, the gbrious progress of arts and science amon them, demanded that some effectual remedy should be applied w the evil. The neglect with which the sub ject had already been treated constituted a most serious imputation against the Parliament, and he trusted that a system of jurisprudence would no longer be allowed to exist, which was in deplorably behind the whole polity of the kingdom. Mr. DENISON burr testimony to the respectability of Palmer, the fist petitioner. Mr. J. SMITH owned that he might be an income petent witness upon such a question as the one before the House, and was ready t•, admit that the dutiei of the Noble Lord a' the head of the Court of Chancery were more arda•ms and important than those of any other man in the country ; yet he was anxious to state to the Home some facts which had come within his ex perience, as growing out of the present system of that Court. The Hon. Member then stated . a case in which he had been advise) by his Solicitor to put up with the loss of 5001. justly due to him, rather than get into Chancery. In another ca e lie htd been assignee to a bankrupt, whose affairs were in Chancery 23 years, without any prospect of their being settled. At that period he met his lion. Fr iend the Member for Taun ton, by accident, at Bath; and he being a large cre ditor on the bankrupt's estate, they consented to settle the business ; and in three hours they had done what the Court of Chancery could not do in three-and twenty years. He agreed with his Hcn. and Learned Friend that the existing institution of the Court of Chancery was inconsistent with the enlightened state of the country ; and be thought the country indebted to his ion. and Learned Friend far the speech he bad made that night. Mr. ELLICE was of opinion, that little, if any good could arise from the Commission of Enquiry into the Court of Chancery. The Noble and Learned Lord attempted to do what no human being could execute. But improvements could be 'bade if set about in a proper manner. When the money of mi nors was placed its the Court of Chancery, the Court took upon itself the sole controul of the property, and put it in the 3 per Cents. The Funds might be at 90 at the time of the investment, but should a was break out they might fall to 50, and half of the property might be lost.—That had happened during the Ame rican War, and might happen again. In a matter of about 1,4001. which he was littga 4 t ,, iain Chancery, be had already paid from 3001. to and the case was as far as ever from adjudication. It would be better that the Court was wholly abolished, and the subject left to the Common Law of the land. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL laid, he was glad to hear his Honourable Friend say that he did identify himself with statements of the Petitioners with regard to the Elephant and Castle Charity. It appeared, he said, on the hearing of the Petition before the Chancel lor, that the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury were in terested. It was only in January last that the accounts of that body having been received, the Petition was in a state of maturity to be heard. Cases stood over on account of Counsel, as well as on account of the Lord Chancellor. Delay generally proceeded from cases being badly - got up, The original Petition having been badiy framed, had led to all the consequences come ' plsitied of by Mr. Palmer. Mr. Honey wood Yates, complained, because 50,0004 had been left by the late ) Mr. Ricardo, to guard the title of his property in Gloss. cestershire. There was, in fact, no foundation whatever' fur Yates's complaint. But his object was to throw ri dicule on the Court of Chancery, because so eminent an individual as Mr. Ricardo had left 50,0001. to protect his title. It was an argument so ludicrous as to call, for no answer. The next was Mr. Gummow, butler to her late Majesty, and one of the legatees under the Duke of Queensberry's will. The Duke of Buccleugh I claimed 100,0001. for leases. The claims altogether were not less than 400,0001. In settling this great question, the delay was first in the Court of Session, which was guilty of that offence, as well as the Court of Chancery. No blame could be imputed to the Court of Chancery, for not paying to legatees and annuitants what was subject to the large claims he had mentioned. The Lord Chancellor had however gone out of his way to accommodate the legatees ; for, concluding that owing to a rise in the value of the funds belonging to the Duke of Queensberry, enough would remain to pay the other creditors and hand them over part of their be quests, he first ordered one-fourth of the latter to be discharged, and afterwards another one-fourth, making altogether one-half. No later than yesterday he, the Solicitor-General, obtained the consent of Mr. Murray, one of his Grace's executors, to state to the House that the Court had in that instance gone out of its way to accommodate the parties interested. The fourth Peti tion was that of Mr.Gourlay,of which he would only say, that ty the Honourable and Learned Member for Winchelsea had been knocked down because he had not presented a Petition fur Mr. Geurlay, his Honour able and Learned Friend, the Member for Lincoln, had better take care he did not share the same fate for having presented this Petition—(Hear, hear). In short, he should charge all the Petitions with misre presentations, and the last was nothing less than direct and positive madness. All that could be desired from these Petitions was, that there ought to be five Courts of Chancery—one to please each of the complainants. He should trio say a few wards relative to the Com mission to enquire into• the practice of the Court of . Chancery. His Honourable and Learned Friend would not assuredly say, that it had not been laborious, when he was informed that it sat already seventy days and examined forty-five witnesses, combining the most ma terial information. The nest topic he should advert to was the history of the Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery. The Honourable and Learned Member for Lincoln had said that it usurped the functions of the Star Chamber, but he asserted that since the di,pute between Lord Coke and Lord Eilismore, nothing of the sort had been attempted. He would also rem nd his Hon. and Learned Friend, that the Equity Jurisdiction of the Court was similar to that which the Piztorian Court of Rowe ezerci ed over the Common Law c•f that Republic. and that which the Court of Session in Scotland exer cised. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman concluded by deal noting the Petitions as deceptions and fallacious. Dr. LUSHING lON was animus to state a few words, explaining t! - .e delay in laying the Report of the'Com- I nsissioners bt rote Pa.liamen . F:om the professional avocations of the Members, it was impossible for it to sit from day to day... The indisposition .of the Vice- Chancellor, and the engagements at Lord Redesdole, had alio retarded tie performance of the duty. Nor could anything be more improper, than to have brought up the Report ()don it wars maturely considered. 'Tilt • :~' .~~ t - House, besides, ought not to meet too much - fruni'dse C po o w m er mi t s o sio sa n y , .w w h h e e n th t er ts t p h o e w j er uri s s w d e ic r t e io l n im e i f te tte d. C l o t uhradt yeas right or wrong, but to report on it as it was f und, and he certainly should have hesitated to undertake the duties of a Commissioner, if they went further. But small as they appeared, they were of cqnsiderable ex tent. The . and Learned Gentleman ex pr to contend that the jurisdiction of the Court mospect•ng personal property ought to be altered, and that the validity of wills disposing of- such pro,-etty ought to be tiled by a Jury. He also drought the abuses in the transfer of real property ought to be eradicated, for l e himself could state one case in which an ah.tract of a title to an estate occupied 800 brief sheets. Now he saw no reason why. these defects should not be rem veJ. He only wished the example of the Right Hon. Ge ,, fl man (.Ir. Peel), in the present S ssion should be 101 l lowed—an example which, seven years ago would be considered nothing less than Jacobinism. In a word, the system was not 6t for the present day—but they should not attempt to pull down till they bad the materials to build up again. What they found bad hr theory, and bad in practice, ought to be remedied. The object ought to be, to give justice cheaply, easily, and effectually. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR had often endeavoured to im press on the House the ruinous delays in the Court of Chancery; but he had always been defeated, from a dread of offending certain individuals. After a struggle of 12 years, a Deputy Speaker had been appointed in the House of Lords, and the appeals had in consequencl rapidly diminished. But had he been in the House at the time, he would not have agreed to the Commission so constituted. Who was at the heed of the Commi.- sion ?—(Hear, hear) —Why, the very individual into whose conduct inquiry was to be instituted. He knew where an amicable suit had occupied 33 years. It was admitted by all practitionrrs, that 3,0001. only would be gained at the expense of 1 5001. He had himself called upon prisoners in the King's Bench, in a state almost of de.pondency, who would never have 'been imprisoned if speedy and substandal justice had been dote. Last year be was looking over causes which he recollected when was at the Bar. He recollected some which had existed fir upward. of twelve years. The House was bound to grant redress, and It the Parliamentary Commission did not speedily make a Report to the House, he hoped that the Parliament itself would take up the subject. Mr. Secretary PEEL, after the very able manner in which this subject had been discussed by the Honour able Gentlemen who had preceded him, and by the Honourable and Learned Member who had introduced it, would not have said a word upon the question but for the direct allusions which had been made to him more than once in the course of the debate. In one part of the Honourable - and Learned Gentleman's speech he had directly adverted to him, as if he (Mr. Peel) wished to impede or defeat the objects of an inquiry into the delays of Chancery. He denied any such ins• putation—(Hear);—he wished for a full and open in quiry into the whole practice of the Court of Chancery. He denied that any inference to the contrary could be drawn from the manner in which the commisssion of last Session bad been constituted. The fact u as, that Government had good and ample reason to adopt that sort of constitution, from the success with which the Commission of Inquiry into the Judicature of Scotland had been attended—(Hear, hear).—lt was but the re ceding evening that he had heard that commission very highly eulogised in that House, and yet it was composed entirely of Lawyers—the very men aborts the Hon. and Learned Gentleman thought the most unlit to be admitted upon committees of that kind, but wbo were in such commission associated with Judges, as ilia-best qualified to report on the condition of tt eir own judi cature. Now, for his own part, he could with perfect disinterestedness declare, that he had a much higher opinion of the conscientiousness and integrity of Law yers than the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite, who ought to know them so much better—(A-laugh).— An Hon. Gent. had argued that a Master in Chancery was disabled from conducting any inquiry into matters of accounts because he was not an accountant. Now, it was very odd, on the same evening, to hear it con tended by the Hon. and Learned Member, that a M4ll was disabled from inquiring into questions of legal proceedings because he was a lawyer—( Hear, hear). He would fairly own, that he had hoped ere this, that the Report of the Commissioners appointed last session would have been made—(Hear). He thought, ton, is would have been much better had they determined to report in the first place on some isolate.: and specifio branch . of their inquiries, instead of waking to prepare their general Report upon the whole of the topics em braced by the commission; because it was quite evident that any such general Report on the Court of Chancery must of necessisy be postponed for a con siderable time. But when he considered that these Commissioners had already sat seventy days—(Hear)-- and had examined 45 witnesses ; and had adopted the excellent rule of rejecting no witness who came forward voluntarily to tender his evidence or to furnish infor• oration ; and when he reflected that they had theii awn various avocations also to attend to. and knew that it was their intention to publish the whole of the evidence taken before them, and not merely their general report upon it ; he would again ask what possible object he could have in view but a full and perfect examination? But what were the names which he found in this corn mission ? There was the Noble and Learned Lord at the head of his Majesty's Law Officers ; could any thing like a toleration of unfairness or disingenuousness be dreaded from him ? But if the guarantee of his Noble Friend's integrity and Character were insufficient to ensure the public confidence in this Commission, would it not be confirmed even by the names of others' who were his colleagues ? Was there not the Hon, and Learned Member foalchester (Dr. Lushington), whose speech of that evening had so weltattested the manly independence of a mind that would not suffer anything like evasion, or a want of faith, in any such inquiry as that which was the object of the commission—(liear). The language of his (Mr. Peers) reference had, however, been com plained of as going to justify the suspicions nf the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. But he must contend, that at the fiery least they were as comprehensive as ibehe of the Honourable Gentleman's reference, which lat er was in these terms—" lnquiey into the dealt and ex penses of the Court of Chancery, and the causes thereof." The object of the commis:ion of last Session was thus stated—" Inquiry into the tor ms and process of snit, frcm its first insti ution to its close." Why, these 'terms surely opened every detail c nutected with the system of Chancery proceedings, and the Chancery C( irt— (lkar). Was this all, however ? By no means; for the reference would be thus and wheter any fart' of the present jurisdiction of the Court can be rembired."—:. (Hear). Now, with respect w what had Ireen said about the pre.ent defective state of the law as to the traester of landed property, had hi (Mr. Peel) referred' any such ,:xtcauve subject to that Commission to tepoit on, be- / i' main before the House, valid would propose to defer going next, which was agreed to. Lord REDESDALE mo • second reading of the County its postponement until Friday. HOUSE ( The Tropical Free Labou: time and passed. .. • Mr. C. DUN DAS moved 1 , . Berks Canal Bill, on the grow Bill had been disposed of in as voting the Chairman out of tb Mr. R. SMITH defended and moved the previous questi .• i • Mr. BRIGHT supported puhlie interest of which was de f t ' to facilitate the intercourse bet Mr. ESTCOURT supported tin opposed it. 1 ' 1 : Sir T. D. ACLAND knew 1 11 tut he bad beard in one of the yesterday, that the Bill had be 1 clever mode seemed to hint to I ( ' - the measure had not bad that , had. It might be impossible to of the Members attending Cc •-.)' ought to see that the proceedin Mr. MONCK defended the Mr. IL SMITH withdrew t , words from Mr. Alderman H I V \ the original moposition for t • agreed to without a division. . A The Glasgow Harbour Bill • Mr. J. SMITH g •ve notice - . ~. Petition from the Merchants o law of Nlerchant and Factor. • Mr. J. MAXWELL prese ' i Spinners of Renfrewshire, in t 4 of labour. i ', Ii General PHlPPSpresented Scarborough, complainiug of I IV I Society. Lod STANLEY presented ton Spinners of Stayley Midi Combination Laws. • Mr. MABEIILY. presence Physicians of Edinburgh, agai 11 •• .:f: 49n the motion of Sir H. Ps Timber and Stores imported the years 1821, 2,3, 4, and 5. Mr. HUSKISSON presento the Sta ff usdskire Potteries, ag. billation Laws. A similar Petition was for • , Journeymen Tanners of Dubli / '' Mr. GRENFELL said, th ~,• I measure shou'd be adopted fog I . numbers of men. The Petitions were referred , i • tion Laws. . 't Sir F. BURDETT presen 1 ' . complaining of .the conduct of 1 I refusing to grant bins a Vitt': Mr. POY NTZ bore testin .• gistrates ; but yet everybody prised' that the Petitioner hat ' . / • therefore could not but think Poyatz) unknown, which is I ' license to this individual, bad . . • a number of respectable parisl Mr. HUM E thought, tram i of daily occurrence, it was hi . . 1 State for the Home Depattme II 1 Mt. M A BURLY thought i • exercise of magisterial powers Mr. HUSK ISSON said, t.I not tube cured by extending' ~ The Petition was then reel , . : s , council . I Mr. 11 UM E gave notice `t ' / June, for a Select Committee . k, - Coy nT I : • I,l' Mr. J. WILLIAMS, I I 4 to Bich he bed in his hat • '4: ~., in the Court of Choicer, # . the delay in presenting ti i 4 . appointed fo itiquite it I i , i tamed, that at fres , Chancery, for hearing , ./i ' . and there were in Pet it I (including cause) aboVe cided an .1 now to be dis average rate at which 4 would take about 40 ye: of these causes. if thi of consummate wiciorr • -- folly could ach'eve. Er ing forward the Report . l cipated the time wou l d t .• would be thought a fit the Legislature, and a r _ (enactments. Alter , so n proceedings in the Co . . Gentleman proceeded to 1# -1(la said be did in the di r ti bee of Parliament, flint i ! • part of the statements it , The first Petition to wt, ; . Ili Chas eh wardeas of St. h l ig the oillortses and dell . • • . . 4 , be worth egpot , I tAtIOn. when it was eciftidered also that it could gulf come in Btitjah ships, the more the, demand should increase, the more would trade prosper. Canada tdilc . all onr minittficturest she should be pro- 1 f i 4~ ~~