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f ro m so doing now ; but if, upon looking into the Act. he iound that no inconvenience would arise from it, lie would so do on the bringing up of the Report. It wts s ea Ili, intention to off r any opposition to this amend• n ; ; but *hen the Report was brought up, he would sp i n move the amendments he had himself proposed, not •ith a view to lead to a debate, but for the purpose of w o r ding nn the Journals of the House that be did make ~,ct, and such motions. The a meedesent of the Duke of Watuncrion was thee carried without e 'r oe E • f WINCHELSEA then moved, that after, the „ o lds of the Noble Duke's amendment should be i n serted the words—" and upon the faith I hold in our lonD and SAvouti Jesus CHRIST." Ati c e a few words from the Bkheip of I.4ANDATIP. the House di v ided on this amendment, when the numbers appeared— Contents, 1S; Non-contents, 113.—Majority, 98. On our rea,frnission we found Lord TENTERDEN addressing the House, on the clause respecting the Chief Magistrates of Corporate Towns. The Noble Lard ob.erved, he fully subscribed to all that had been • said with reference to the importance to be attached to the E-tabli-bed C.iurch. Human institutions must be maintained by human means. Tire Church of England was,and ought to be su ppor lc „I as pas t of theeonstitution, and all that could elevate it in the eyes of the people wa► important to its interests, and to the interests of the court try—all that upheld its dignity and gave it consequence should be attended to. So long as we have a Church Establishment, so long should we continue to do all that were calculated to induce people to become parties to it, or, at least. to treat it with reverence. He would. therefore. pro ose that there be added to this clatre the words. " That t entet tain no opinion on the subject of religiirn, wr ich can prevent me from attending morning and evening service, according to the ritual of the Church of England." After a few observations from the Bishop of CIIMID, Lore Tonsevi, and Lord HOLLAND, the House divided on the Amend. tent, when the numbers appeared Contents 22—Non Contents M.—Majority 89. Po oar readmission, we found the Earl of LAUDERDALE proposing that the words" within this realm" be omitted, and the words England and Wa:es be inserted. After a few words from the Bishop of CHESTER, the Amend. pent was agreed to. The Bi,hop ..f CHESTER said, that as Dissenting Churches were in some sense established by law, he thought that all subterfuge would be avoided by the adoption of the words 4i the Episcopal Church." The Marquis of LANSDOWN said that although the declaration was clearly meant to refer to the F,piscolral Church and to no other, he could have no objection to the suggestion of the Right Rev. Prelate; but as it was now too late to propose it, it might be done no the b , inging up of the Report. The Earl of ELDON moved, that after the word "disturbed," the words "said Church of Bishop and Clergy thereof " be Inserted —Agreed to. The Earl of ELDON referred to the two last clauses but one et the 13111; to which it would be impossible for him to do justice to night. The discussion on those clauses was therefore postponed until the bringing up of the Report. The Bill then went through the Committee ; the House resumed —the Bill was ordered to be printed, and the Report to be brought aP oo Thursday. Their Lordships adjourned at a QUANTED !AU Timex o'Casce. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Saint, from the Chancery Office, presented Returns from two of the Masters in Chancery. Mr. SHIRLEY presented eight Petitions from different places is the county of Monaghan, against the Roman Catholic Claims.— Ordered to be printed. Mr. R. COLLILLR N: presented a Petition from a Parish in Cumberland in favour of the Roman Catholic Claims.—Ordered to be printed. Sir BY AM MARTIN presented a Petition from the Mayor, ht. of Plymouth, against the Licensing of Alehouses. Sit B. M A RTIN also presented a Petition from the same Body avinsi the present Stamp Receipts. Mr. Alderman WA urn MAN gave notice, that be should to- morrow (this day) presents Petition relative to the losses sustained by Government Annuities. ]lr. AIOOIIR gave notice, that be should on Thursday next present a Petition from the Mayor and Corporation of Dublin against the Itontan.C.stliplie Claims. Mr. FY LER presented a Petition. from the Silk Weavers at Taunton, relative to the depression in the Silk Trade.—Ordered to, be printed. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a Petition from some Parish la the Worth Riding of Yorkshire against the Importaticn of Lead Ore—Ordered to Ile en the table. Sit M. W. RIDLEY presented a Petition from the Roman Catholics of Whittingham, in the county of Northumberland, in favour of the Catholic Claims.—Ordered to.lie on the table. The SOLICITOR • EN ERA L presented a Petition from the physicians and Surgeons belonging to the Medical and Chirurgical Society of Lotian, praying the House to inquire into the diffi pities that attended Students in Anatomy.—Ordered. to lie an the Table. Colonel CHICHESTER presented a Petition from the Roman Catholics of some place in the County of Wexford, in favour of the Catholic Cbinis.—eOrdered to be printed. Colonel CHICHESTER likewise. presented a Petition from a hlifik in the County of Susses, relative to this Wool Trader- Osetted to be printed. tatanote warms. Mr C MORGAN presented four Petitions from Benefit Societies held is the To of Newport, County Monmouth. against the palest Friendly Sopieties BEIL--Referred to the Committee of the aid Bill Mr. EGERTON presented a similar Petition from Stockport. Refund to the Cenunitteee. Mt. 1113 RNA I. presented a Petition to the unit effect from a Society in High Holborn, which bad been in existence 114 years.— lteletted to the Committee. Mr. DAVENPORT presented two similar Petitions from the , County of Chatter.—Referred to the Committee. • lie. J. WOOD presented five similar Petitions from Prestos:ow Referred to the Committee. Sr G. ROBINS presented twelve Petitions to the same of kom Northampton.—Referred to the Committee. Mr. Alderman W AITHhIAN presented two similar Petitions 1 411 the County of Chester.— Referred to the Committee. Mr. DUN DAS presented eight Petitions to the same effect front 'Pyle ).—Referred to the Committee. FYLE it presented a similar Petition (tom Coventry.oot Referred to the Committee. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented Ave Petitions from lnetttgy Societies in London.—kisferred to the Committee. lie. Alderman WOOD presented three Petitions to the same 'fort from Cheshire.— Referre,: ,o the Committee. Mr. LEN NAIAD presented two Petitiefll from the County of leffolk to the some effect.—Referred to the Committee. Mr. T. P. COURTEN AY pr.:z-n.ted a Petition from a Friendly Ronny sailed the Smilers—'Laughter}—a. Society held in the Imo of Stockport, in Cheshire, against the Bill for regulating 'fluidly Societies. lir. F. BARING presented a similar Petition from the United lonely of Shipwrights. Mr. LEYCESTER presented two Petitions to the same effect treat Alverstock, Hants, end from a Society held at the 11at.41 in Hand, in Frederick -street, Potties. The Hon. Metab.or oll.zrvcd lie the principal objections of the Petitioners to this Bill were isond,•ci spots the clauses which compelled them to refer their db. Mel to a Megistrete, tweed of settling them under their own titration Laws. and those which meddled with the management of , lint funds. The objections to them seemed so strong among the linens most interested in the question, that he hoped the Hon.' Itemiser would withdraw his Hill for the moan Session. isr FRANCIS BURDETT presented two Petitions on the ttisse sehject, from Societies held at the Old George ht Drury-lane, sad the !Ulf Moon and Seven Stars, Stanhope-street, Clare-market.. • Tine Petitions were referred to the Committee upon the CORPOitATIoII OF LUDLOW: • Sir FRANCIS I:II3RDETI presented a Petition hem the inhabitants of Ludlow, in Shropshire, corn-. ihining of the proceedings of the Corporation in' the conduce of an Appeal before the House of Lords, and c hoging the Earl of Powis and Lord Redesdale with improper conduct upon the subject of that Appeal. The 114 ronrable Baronet, alter observing that he conceived one part of this Petition to involve questions of con tiderable imisortaoce, read a portion of the Petition, vrltich explained the grounds of the Petitioners' corn pl lira. It appeared that for some considerable time past, the burial ground of the Borough of Ludlow has been so completely filled with bodies, that many of the c fans appeared above the surface. and corpses were dog up scarcely half decomposed. The inhabitants applied to the Corporation, which consists of a body of Alder _ men and 25 Common Council, praying them, as they were in pos , ession of all the lands of the Borough, and intrusted with the trusteeship of those lands for the be nefit of the borough and its inhabitants, to grant a portion of land as a receptacle for the dead. That prayer the Corporation refused, and the inhabitants then required them to surrender the burial ground, and site of a Chapel in the town, which hid been left to the inhabitants for their use and benefit by a townsman. The Corporation refused this request also, and let the ground for a term of 99 years to one of their own body, at a rent of one pound fourteen shillings a year. The inhabitants immediately commenced legal proceedings against the Corporabon, and under the au thority of that Act, called Sir Samuel Romilly's, the late Sir Thomas Plumer, then Vice-Chancellor, decided in favour of the inhabitants, declaring the case to be one of the most flagrant he had met with. It came out after. wards, howeirer, after a consultation with some eminent lawyers, that this decision of the Vice• Chancellor could not be maintained, because the proceedings ought iict to have been taken under S r Samuel Romaly a Act, but by information, and upon an appeal to the House _ _ of Lords the judgment was reversed. The Petitioners. now complained—first, that the funds of the borough had been used in tedious and unnecessary litigation; and next. that the Earl of Powis had improperly inter fered with the Appeal while before the House of Lords; and that the Ein of Redesdale had seen the briefs of Counsel, and had been otherwise consulted upon the subject of the Appeal, he being to pronounce a decision upon it. On these grounds, And as the Petitioners had a strong belief the tesponde(:ts in the Appeal had been tampered with, they prayed the House to institute . . inquiry into the whole of the proceedings. The Hon. Baronet having moved that the Petition be brought up, it was read at length. Lord CLIVE, in rising to say a few words upon the subject of this Petition, expressed his regret that th- Hon. Baronet had not mentioned the subject to him before he came down to the House, as it would have saved much time, and enabled hint to make inquiries for a more sati,factory explanation. As tar, howeve , , as his Noble Relation, or the Noble Lord who had been mentioned (Lord Redesdale) was conceined, he was sati•fied that they had no objection to the fullest and most rigid inquiry. After observing chit the Chapel, which had been for some time in a slate se ruinous, as to make it the subject of presentment for a nuis ance, the Noble Lord proceeded to enter into a history of the proceedings, as detailed in the Petition. It being the opinion of Sir Anthony Hatt and others, as well as of the late Ltd Gifford and Lord Lynd hurst, that the appeal ought to be lodged, hi, Noble Relative (the Earl of Powis) felt it his duty, as Re corder of the Borough of Ludlow, to make inquiries into the truth of the allegations brought against the Corporation; and in doing so, he had certainly held some conversation with Lord Rxdesdale, as to the pro. priety of maintaining the appeal. It was t e opinion of that Noble Lord, as well as of others, that the deci sion of Sir Thomas Plumer was erroneous, and it was constqoently reversed ; but he pledged himself to prove, that there w as no ground for the complaints of the Petitioners, or for the imputations of corruption which had been cast upon his Noble Relative. The Noble Lord concluded 4 intimating an opinion, that this Petition had Leen got up by the Agent or the Steward (as W e understood) of the Gentleman who had rately presented a Petition against the return of the sitting Member for Ludlow. Sir JOSEPH YORK E complained that the Noble Lord had made no observation upon the subject of the people of Ludlow b:ing without a burying-ground. Lord CLIVE did not speak of that, becau-e it might seem that he wished to pi aise his Noble Relative. The tact was, that the inhabitants claimed the chapel and burial.ground as being parochial, and the Corporation contended it was private, Ind that the palish had no right to it whatever. His Noble Relative had, under these circumstances, at a very considerable expense, procured a piece of ground, which he had given to the town as a burying-ground, and several bodies had been interred in it within the last six months. Upon Use motion, that the Petition be laid on the Table, The SPEAKER observed, that the Petition contained two prayers. The first, which was a perfectly just and legitimate result of the grievances of which the Petition complained, prayed the House to institute an inquiry into the wasteful manner in which the Corporation had spent the funds which it held as Trustees for the benefit of the inhabitants at large. The second part of the prayer of the Petition was, that an inquiry might be instituted into the conduct of Lord Pow is and Lord Redesdale, in the exercise of their functions as Judges in the other House of Parliament. As this WAS a prayer most unusual, and as it was evident that no such proceedings or inquiry could be had at the bar of that Ilouse, he would recommend that the Petition be withdrawn for the purpose of amendment; and in doing so, he trusted the House would not suppose that be intended, in the slightest degree, to in errupt or ob struct the privilege of the people, in presenting Petitions to that House.—(llear, hear). Sir F. BURDETT could not object to this suggestion; but ho repeated his opinion, that there seemed to him something like a denial of justice in the facts stated by the Petitioners. He thought it, indeed, a most eatra or dinary proceedin3 for a Judge to have any intercourse with the parties, when he knew he would be called upon to Lord jud3mcnt in the cause. Lord CLIVE hoped, if the Honourable Baronet saw any reason, upon inquiry, to abandon the intention of praying an investigation, that he would grant him the favour of a personal interview upon this subject. He had a high opinion of the Honourable Baronet, and a great respect for his character; and he was anxious that the Honourable Baronet and others should not abandon the subject with any doubtful impression upoi the conduct of those who were connected with it. Sir F. I3URDETT said he would be proud to receive] any information from the Noble Lord upon the subject ;I but at the time he presented the Petition, he had no idea that he could have become so personally connected with k. He was afraid, indeed, that he had unconsciously drawn a very heavy burthen upon his shoulders; but he would endeavour so to discharge himself of it, as to give satisfaction to the Noble Lord, and fulfil his duty to the country. all I • 1 IA fo obi PC I, wp 1$ to Ic hid) Bbl feel . 051 ati or nee Ito Id is w• ANATOMY. Mr. Secretary PEEL presented a Petition from the President and Council of the London College of Sur geons, praying the House to take into its consideration the state of the law in regard to the providing dead bodies for dissection. The Petitioners complained that medical students were obliged, at a great expense, to resort to France for the purpose of receiving that instruction from the dissection of bodies ; Which no models were able to afford; and that while they were thus debarred from perfecting them selves in the knowledge of their profession. they were liable to prosecution for ignorance. He confessed he could not help admiring and respecting the prejudices and the feelings which opposed the views of the Peti tioners; and although he understood that an Honourable Gentleman ( Mr.Wdrburton) was about to mike a motion for an inquiry upon this subject, he was convinced, from what had come to his knowledge, that little good could result from it unless it was conducted with the greatest delicacy and care. The Right Hon. Gentleman can• chided by observing, that he had done every thing con sistent with the present state of the laws to-forward the vie‘‘s of the Petitioners. Sir JOSEPH YORKE sugge,ted, that it might be very advantageous for anatomical purposes, that the bodies of persons who died by suicide should be given up for surgical dissection. He did not mean the bodies of persons who perished by suicide under delicate cir. _ cumstances—but those whose bodies were unclaimed. He thought much advantage would follow from the investigation of the brains of persons dying in that way. The Petition was then brought up. Mr. Secretary PEEL, in presenting a Petition on the same sub ject from Huddersfield, in Yorkshire, expressed an opinion that by making the dissection of bodies a punishment, such as the Gallant Admiral suggested, it would have the effect of strengthening the prejudice which generally prevailed against the subjecting of bodies to anatomical dissection. The Petitions were severally read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Secretary PEEL, brought up the Report of the Commis. sioners appointed to inquire into the state of the Supply of Water to the Metropolis.— Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Sir J. MACINTOSH presented a Petition from the Medical Society of Edinburg'', praying for the adop tion of some mean. for the promoti'm of Anatomical Science. Tile Hon. and Learned Gentleman strongly recommended the Petitic n to the attention of the House. In Paris tfe means of acquiring anatomical knowledge wer e t enty times as great as in London; and the con.equence was, that 500 out of 2,000 medical Audents repaired to France for their education. On. te.s 1,0,1 e means of improvement were adopted, they must continue to derive the ple , ent inAdequute supply - • - from the clanuiestine and conirabend disinterment of the deAd. which was a sch , of to fit men for the worst purposes. His Gallant Friend was wrong in imputing so many suicit'es to London. It was the greatest capital in Europe, and had the fewest suicides.—(Hear, hear). Paris, which was half the size, had three times the num- ber. It was in vain to look to executions of criminals tor a supply. He was happy to say that they too were greatly on the decline. He found that in 1733, the xecutions for murder, for London and Middlesex, wets in the proportion of 1 to 10,000; for the last seven years it was as I to 70,000. The punishment of death, he thought, should be less frequently resorted to. Sir J. YORKE was of opinion that all the felons should be given up to the surgenns after execution. After a fete words front Mr. WAR BURTON, the Petition was read, and ordered to be printed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER presented a Petition from the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough against further concessions to the Catholics . — Ordered to be printed. _ _ Mr. HARVEY presented a petition from twenty thousand silk st eaveis in Spitalfields, praying for a pro tection for their labour. He said it was now manifest, from the conduct of the Ministers in the Cern Bill they had introduced, that a system of monopoly and exclu si-n was to become a part of our permanent policy. He Asked Ministers in what way it was proposed, while they gave protection to the strong—the owners of the soil— to afford protection to those whose only property was their labour ? The most heart.reii,:ing evidence of their distress was already before the House, as taken by the Committees. The p titioners did not ask that their labour should be prot-cted by the exclusion of other labour. They first prayed that all labour, and all ex. change of commodities, should be free; but they also say, it you choose to throw protection around other com modities, afford us protection for our labour; and they pray that the poor may not be excluded from that pale of protection which was raised around the privileged orders. Not only the thoesands who had signed the present petition, but the millions who had no property but their labour, united in this demand. On the question that the Petition be bruutht np. Mr. FYLER was a wate that great difficulties at tended this question. The principle, that labour would find its own level, held good in infant States, but in countries where there was a superabundant population, it was by no means the case. la this country the agri cultural interest was supported, and he therefore thought that labour, the only property of the poor man, should also be protected. The petitioners did not say that there should be a scale of wages, but that it should vary from time to time according to circumstances, and hai there should be, on occasion's of variation, a meet- ing between the masters and their workmen, when the majority on either side should determine the question. Mr. CHARLES GRANT did justice to the eloquent and able manner in which the subject had been brought forward. The Hun. Mover (M , . Harvey) knowing he was treading on delicate grounds, had abstained from entering into a general argument. The Spitalfields Acts had been repealed, because they had been found to be injurious to the manufacturer; and although many attempts had been made to renew those Acts, they had been invariably unsuccessful. The Right Honourable Gentleman then said, that part of the Petition which prayed fur a regulation of wages by a majority of mas ters or workmen, as it might chance, praying also for an unlimited importation of corn, the abolition of sine cures, &c. proceeded to remark that these prayers were too extensive in their ramifications for him to enter into. Several Committees had sat on this question, and their Reports had invariably set their faces against meddling with the prices of wages. As far as he had understood, there was no lack of employment at pre sent. The majority of workmen in Spitalfields were now receiving 16s. or 17s. a week, in the manufacture of gros de Naples ; but the subject of machinery, to which the Petition referred, he should be ready at a proper time to prove that it was essential to the prin ciples of free trade, and no case had been made out to induce the House to alter the laws as at present esta blished. Mr. lIUME thought the Petitioners were decidedly incorrect in their notions on the subject of machinery, and agreed fully in the observation of the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. C. Grant). He also thought that the Petitioners were wrong in asking for a fixed price of wages, as he was satisfied it would be injurious to them. Notwithstanding that he agreed in the general expres sion of the Right Hon. Gentleman, he would maintain that the rich were protected at the expense of the poor, ,ltd insisted upon the right of the latter to have a free importation of all the necessaries of life in the same manner as there was a tree trade in their commodity, ttiir labour ; so that, as there was a reduction in the price of their labour, there should be a reduction in the price of provisions. Mr. ALEXANDER DAWSON said, that the peti. iioners not ask Parliament to regulate the price of wages, but to allow the petitioners—the persons most interested in it—to regulate it from time to time. The Honourable Member thought, if such a piss could be properly matured, it would give great satisfaction to thousands, and - tens of thousands of individtikli. • Mr. PAULET THOMPSON remarked, that When the prayer of the Pe ition went to ask for a minimum of wages, and the re-enactment of the old • Spitalfields Acts, which were absurd to a degree, he could not but oppose the prayer sought for. The Spitalfields Acts:had caused the erection of silk manufactot ie. at Paisley, *ea clesfield, and other places; and to grant their pre;itni prayer would be to inftet an injury on the petitioners, So far from the artizans in the silk manufacture being badly off, he believed they were in a fairer condition than the majority of our manufacturers. The Hon. Member had no doubt, if he were allowed to bring silk manufacturers to the bar of that House, they would admit the correctness of his statement, and say thit the silk trade was now in a more flourishing state than it had been during the last forty years. Mr. Alderman WAITIIMAN could not admit that the improvement in the trade, mentioned by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. P. Thompson) had taken place. The Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. C. Grant) had said, that the price of labour in Spitalfields, in the manu facture of gros de Naples, had been reduced from SOs. to 16s. per week—this was the vet y thing he com plained of; and although he generally agreed with the principles of free trade, be thought that having a com petition in our own markets of French goods, a must injurious effect had been produced, both upon the master and the man, by the reduction of both the profit and the wages. Notwithstanding that the Petitioners were, in his opinion, wrong in some of their conclusions, there were many points in which they were right, particularly those which referred to the continuance of excessive taza ation without the benefit of an unrestricted trade in corn. Mr. C. GRANT explained. When he stated that five or six years ago the very best workmen received 25.. or SOs. a week, the majority of the workmen re. ceived only 101. or 124. a week. At the present moment eight-tenth; of the workmen in Spitalfields were em ployed in the manufacture of gros de Naples, and on the whole were in receipt of better wages than at the period alluded to. Mr. D. W. HARVEY explained. He observed, so long as the labouring classes were oppressed at the expense of the rich, so long should he complain of the injustice done to them, and advocate their cause. The Petition was then brought up ; and on the ques tion that it be printed, Mr. FRANKLAND LEWIS defended the Govern. ment against the imputation thrown out against them by Hon. Members. His Majesty's Government ought not to be charged with an indifference to the labouring part of the population, because they had ascert iined satisfactorily, that a minimum of wages was a measure highly objectionable. His Majesty's Government were anxious that all classes should receive protection, and he was decidedly of opinion that all had it, whether in the sink of silk, cotton, or corn. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, in looking at the ques tion generally, and at the relative prices of corn at home and abroad, was of opinion the manufacturer in this country was prejudiced to the extent of lull 4.0 per cent. The Hon. Alderman, however, thought that the silk weavers were not aggrieved by the abolition of the Spitalfields Acts, and that any obstruction to free labour was in opposition to the essential principle of free trade. Sir G. PHILLIPS was of opinion that the manufr.,:- toting labourer did not receive the full value of his labour wising out of the high protecting duty on corn, any more than the agricultural labourer did :.the party who detived the benefit was the owners of estates, and not the formes. The Petition was then ordered to be printed. UNITED STATES. Mr. S. WORTLEY said he rose for the purpose of putting a question to the Right Hon. Gentleman the S:cretary for the Colonies (Mr. Huskissont. Tre House would recollect that last year there was laid - upon the table Copies of a Correspondence which had been car. ried on between the late Mr. Canning and Mr. Galatin, respecting their commercial intercourse with the United States. The correspondence was brought down to Jan. 1827. The question had not then been terminated, but was open to further negotiation. Be was sorry to see an impediment to the free commercial intercourse of the two countries. He wished to know in'whatstate the negotiations had been since July last ? Mr. HUSKISSON said, there could be no difficulty in answering the question of the Hon. Member. A .correspondence, as he had stated, had taken place, and in consequence of a publication in the American Papers, it became necessary for the British Government to require some explanations from the Government of the Visited States. This correspondence would be shot tly laid before Parliament—together with the Treaty of Commerce, and the regulations respecting the settlement of the North West boundary: He admitted the policy of maintaining a good understanding with the United States—and he felt satisfied that the correspondence would prove what efforts were made to secure that object. SUPPLY. On the motion of the CH A NCELLOIt of the EXCHEQUER, the House resolved itself into a Conunittee of Supply to his Majesty, Sir A. GRANT in the Chair. The CH A NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then moved that the sum of £4,000,000 out of the produce of the Consolidated Fund, be granted to his Majesty. - The motion bring seconded, was carried unanimously. The House then resumed, and the Report was ordered to be re. ceived tomorrow. The Scamps on Cards and Dice 13111 and the Crown Solicitor* Bill were postponed to Friday next. On the mutton of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the Cotta. mittee of Suppif was postponed to Wednesday next. Mr. HOME wished to inquire it any progress had been made in the Bills relative to the Stamps, to the Excise, Etc. of last Sew don?-and if any, when they would be introduced? The CHANCELLOR of the EX CEIEQUER replied, that the reason why these Bills had not yet been brought forward was b's newness in office; they would, however, be brought forward es early as prhsiblet.• After s few words from Mr. Baton; the subject dropped. PROMISES AND croasanorrs' BILL. The Report of the Committee on this Bad was brought up—the amendments agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Friday neat. lITCORDII •AIIAI<CC STU. The Report of the Committee on this Bill was also brought ur the amendments agreed to, and ordered to be read a third time Friday seat. TURI , PINZ pin SILL. Mr. LYTTLETON moved the Order of the Day foe the re sumption of the debate on this Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob jected up the fund which was created . by fees tanTurtno giving Turnpike Bills—nor could he see why fees on these Bills should be given up, while fees on . othei'Bills should be allowed to remain—the mare - particularly as these fees were now precisely the same in amount as they were 130 years ago. The Right Hon. Gentleman moved as an amendment, that all parties applying for a renewal of Turnpike Trusts, who demanded an in crease of toll, should continue to pay fees as heretofore; but in the opposite cases, the fees should be paid out of the Treasury in money provided by Parliament. Mr. LYTTLETON could not acquiesce in the pro position of the Right Honourable Gentleman, as it was ill calculated to answer any remedy to the eiisting abuses. The effect of the Resolution of his RighiHon. ,~ '! ( .! i!