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i 'l~ L PARLIAMENT. '6, 41, HOUSE OF LORDS, MAT 22. ‘Niae . Efsbop of Banana, the Duke of Bauroan, and the Earl of ALMA/ILS, took the oaths and their seats. Sir A. Gum., and others from the Commons, brought up me Corporation Funds MI, and several private Ells, which were read sliest time. • Earl STANHOPE presented a Petition from the Landowners of a Pasith . in, the County of Kent, against any alteration in the Laws. •PPIA LI. The , Esti of ABERDEEN called the attention of their Lordships to an inconvenience which arose from, the vie* niosie of administering justice in the {louse. . An appeal fickm one of the Courts in Scotland had I ttely been heard by one of the Judges acting in the absence of the Lord Chancellor, who had reverted the judgment of the inferior Court. but without havilg it in his pnwer to give the reasons for /,is doing so, as he was not a Peer. lie ti ust , d that their Lordships would see iheimportance of making some regulation by which this inconvenience, a very great one to suitors at a dis tance., who knew not the grounds on which their causes were disposed of, should. be removed. - The Earl of ROSSLYN said that this inconvenience bed long been feit, and must always occur whenever a Lord Keeper, or any other person not a Peer, ma sided in. the absence of the Lord Chancellor. In his uion, the best way of obviating it was to advise his Ma: • jesty to make Peers of those persons who should so preside. The LORD CIIANCELLOR said the existing ar rangement, their Lordships would recollect, was not in tended to be permanent, but was only to last duripg the • in IliOuse would supply Its necessary estension. Alter a few words from Mr. Hung and Mr. AldermanWtion, the Petition was ordered to be printed. . Mr. 11Ud1F, moved for an amended Return of the Number of Prisoners confined in the King's Bench Prison, since I ttli 5. Ordered. Sir MP A.RN ELL presented a Petition from the Merchants, Traders, and others of the City of Dublin, upon the subgett attic Paper Eurrency.—Ordered to be printed. Lord MILTON presented Petitions from certain Dissenters of Great DriMeld, and two other places in the county of York, praying a repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts • also similar Petition. from Burlington had'Huddersfield.— Orde red to be printed. Sir R. VIV I A N presented a Petition from the Coroners of the county of Cornwall, praying for an increase of their fees and al. lowances.—Ordered to be printed. Sir R. WILSON presented a Petition from some of the most respectable of his Constituents, being Protestant Dissenters, praying fur the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. He was proud to present this Petition, because It came from just and liberal men, who while they sought to be relieved from their own disqualifica- dons, advocated the removal of all restrictions whatever upon con science in matters of religion. He believed this to be the sentiment of the great body of Dissenters. hir. WELLS said, that in the Borough which be represented, the class to which the Hon. Member alluded, were not generally favourable to Catholic Emancipation. Lord MILTON adverted to the Petition which he had pre sented from the most remote parts of Yorkshire, anddeclared that. throughout the whole of that large county, the Protestant Dig. centers were favourable to the removal of all penalties whatever, imposed upon the ground of religions distinctions. Lord NUGENT said that many of his constituent.; were Pro. had before them as a in favour of Protestant Dis. conscience gene. were favourable to freedom of consel. Catholic Elnan , for human ordi. .4 of conscience. He _rs who were Most friendly to emancipation. ...s constituents spinet Emancipa. certain Prot's- brought op, body of Dissenters, Emancipation. 'There Protestant Disseu. t Noble Lord _.. alluded, drew . Dissenting Clergy of conclusion from bad been In coin drew from the not averse to be should read alluded.—(The Dissenters i• . weight and pro emancipation).—He attempted to mine 'oritakire ?—(Hear). had an off::: but the stated for the Lets of York- fallen from the It still ap. conclusion from ■ from other esperlenceo, that of Kent were printed. Petition from the ird the mu r could occapt possible-4- rould be her House did not affording dateable, but they would !great body should en. plain com r bankrurcy like lunacy, te Court of iciness, whe h4d mure for the pto pan of the person. His be brought could resolve House, for the 13th of gave to the lictioa in cases Ifferent occa. of theCoutt was always Learned Per. ..at could be respect for that (ways his opi• fined, that the took away is and legal conferred upon the Lord, feel 'as oppressed, partite bank ,Aim If he in contem answer the be now ad mnplaints pf uently urged, in that Court,' taken to ill. I were often la promises ing but kind presided in form, but he tcy. He felt •ould do the I. Na man , tch than the :ce-Chancel 'ant, the buii- Phe three to Coon of , ice-Chancellor't Cowl, sad the Rolls and, willing. to do their duty. 100 s something more was necessary. TO . of Chancery did not commence with They misted long before his time. S. similar evils were complained of, and eminent solicitor, with the concurrence most able of the profession, suggested a 'Marlow, but it was never acte I upon. Three years aeo a Commission was appointed to insifre, into the subject, and in conformity with their repo( t, a' Bill *as brought in last Session which was to be the panacea for every evil. It being then late in the Ses sion, the matter was given up, and resumed in the pteseht Session, by Lord Ly,ndlturst. He brought in another Bill that was to cute everything. Where was that Bill? What had become of it? It might be on the table. Could any person shew it to him k was such a Bill that no man date touch it, and he under stood the result of this Commission was never to see the light again. ,Upon a former occasion he had the good fortune of having the support of his Right Hon. Friend(Mr. Canning) upon thisvery subject.OnMarch 11, 182$, the question then being the appointment of a Vice Chancellor, his. Right Hon. Friend observed, that if the Chancellor was to be stripped of any branch of his labours, the part least objectionable to be withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the Court was Bankruptcy, that having been superadded by Statute to the Great Seal. Such was the opinion then expressed by his Right H in. Friend. and he felt assured that there was no measure by which the present Administration would sender themselves more acceptable to the country than'by taking up this subject. He was borne out in this opi nion by the Report of a Special Committee r f the Com mon Council of the City of London. (The Hon. Mem ber read an extract from the Report, recommending a Petition to Parliament for the establishment of a sepa rate tribuual in cases of Bankruptcy.) Sir Samuel Ro rrsilly explessed a similar opinion in 1812, and said that he did not consider the Secretary of the Court in Bank ruptcy an accountable Officer, that a great part of the Lord Chancellor's emoluments arose from fees nomi nally paid to the Secretary, but for which be was at. countable to the Chancellor. The Committee which sat upon that occasion declared it highly objectionable that a high Law Officer should derive any part of his salary from fees nominally not payable to him ; be cause if there should arise any ground of complaint against the Secretary, that complaint must cowl before the Judge . himself, into whose hands the fees came. The exis'ence in the Court of Chancery of a patentee place that brought in from 6,0001. to 12,0001. a year, which was conferred by Lord Thutlow on an infant (he did not know whether it was now held by the son of the late Chancellor), and the person h 0144 ing which might perhaps never have been in Chancery lane, was itself a proof of the necessity of some altera tion. Such things should be done away with. The lees' last year, in Bankruptcy alone, amounted to 17,0001. The Commissioners in their Report were not favourable to a separation of bankruptcy trom the jurisdiction of the Great Seal, but they gave no satisfactory reasons for it. They did not pretend to deny that it was a source of great interruption, that it pressed more than aay thing else on the Court, that it occupied more than three parts of the Chancellor'. time. (Here the Honourable Member referred to the opinions of Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Woodcock, Mr. Montague, and others, in favour of separating the jurisdiction in bankruptcy from the Court of Chancery.) Mr. Shadwell in his ex , amivation said, that even three angels would not be able to get through the business of Chancery. If a se parate jurisdiction were established, there could be no difficallty in finding a person capable of discharging the business in bankruptcy. Suppose that his time should not be wholly occupied, he might be otherwise beneficially employed either in hearing appeals in the House of Lords or elsewhere. The situation of appeals in the House of Lords was I subject for set ions consi dera ion. They had often heard that no decree of Lord Eldon had been reversed there. But the fact was, that,, Lord Eldon himself was the person who heard the cause again, with the assistance sometimes of Lord Redesclale, a Bishop, and one of the Lords of the Bedchamber.— They were told that in future the business in appeals would be disposed of more expeditiously in the House of Lords by the assistance of two other Judges. Why trot have a Judge expressly for the pur pose? He Might be employed also in the Cockpit, where great and heavy complaints were made for the want of proper Judges. The alteration he now sug gested in the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery *as called for by the country, and he never should give it up while he felt confident that right, and the voice of the country was with him. Government should come forward and relieve an individual like himself Irom the necessity of venturing too far upon a subject of such importance as thy. The Hon. Member concluded by moving. "That the House do resolve itself into a Corn. mitten of the whole House, for the purpose of taking into consideration the 13th of Elizabeth and subsequent Acts, giving to the Lord High Chancellor of England the jurisdiction in Bankruptcy." Mr. HUME seconded the motion. The ATTORNEY.GENERAL then rose, and said, he would not be doing justice to his feline upon the occasion, if be did not admit that his Honourable Friend was an able and zealous advocate in a useful cause.— He certainly had not the g.sd fortune to agree with his Honourable Friend, iu the views which he had taken ; but he, nevertheless, did think, that the public would be benefitted by his Honourable Friend's exer lions, although the benefit, he believed, would not be of the exact nature which his Honourable Friend pro posed. With respect to,the motion of his Hon. Friend, it should have his cordial support, if he could bring himseT to see, that its being agreed to by the House, would be productive of any one good purpose. It did sot appear that his Hon. Friend had any specific plan to recommend to the Committee, and that, in itself, ought, perhaps, to determine for him the course which he should pursue; but, nevertheless, if it could be de monstrated to him that the suggestion of some plan would necessarily follow from the House se.olving itself into a Committee, he would look upon that as affording sufficient grounds for agreeing to the motion ;' but as he could not, however, anticipate any such re sult, he, therefore, thought It his duty to give the mo tion his decided opposition. The reasons he would bring for* ard, in answer to what had fallen from his Hon. Friend should be very short. He assured the House that he would not trespass long upon their attention. Nis facts arkii argurneuts lay ,witlyin amy tir(sXciw compass. In the first place he would obsess., that it always had been his opinion that they ought not to make 'places to fit men, but that, nn the contrary, they should endeavour to find men whoye 'slums and whose powers. renJered them fit for the places alto id 7 m exittence. Ilts , eedom 6 - 1 1. . '. ,1 br-f • • lemma to cm per messroa., eow• ............, .-- —___ ___ 7 a - present Session. With respect to the case in qnestion, the Chief Baron niche Exchequer who presicjed had be- stbvied all possible attention upon it whilst discussed at the bar, and had taken a whole day to consider before Mr. Lord NUGEN'T said that many of his constituents candidate, declared a h n ir d h t e t r t the Catholics. had always, when beton y ise deterin 'on to vote in D. W. HARVEY said, however friendly Prete he gave his judgment. He therefore trusted that the enters might be to the principle of freedom of crouch Tribunal in Scotland would be satisfied with the re- versal of the sentence, as the result of the most serious C pat' core might be a reason investigation, the more so as theie was no individual cipation, as they living better acquainted with the law of Scotland than the Chief Baron. He staled this in order to remove any prejudice which might exist against the decision of that " - Mr. leaned individual. As to the inconvenience itself arose from the constitution of the House. It had more LlClll—Mear, hear). • thaw once happened that the Seats had been 1164 in __ Commission, and that tl% Judges had sat for neatly a reit: ic e did : n o c e i necomessanlyr_frollow zealthat fortbe y fr svere fat 1 very for Lord their being opposed to Cath considered Catholics advocates for ha nonce& which might interfere with freedom of cored to believed h m e mofigohotosaye,othreat werethose Dine e nt r er oo s who ra we r re rm itz BATLEY said, jut there was not one of P his c it who did not demand& pledge from him to stoic against The Petition was ordered toile printed. Howie& presented a similar Petition from CVO cant Dissenters of the County of Northumberland. ~. whole Session to hear Appeals, without being allowed Th e Question being put that the Petition be brought explain to express their opinions or ezpl • the grounds of their Mr. JONES said, be represented a large body of decisions to the House or the parties. The incanve- nience, therefore, was not a novelty, but had been felt before. He pledged himself, however, to direct his best attention to the subject, in order to prevent its con- tinuance beyond the presenetession. It appeared to him • that it could not be done by an order of the House, but that it would require an Act of the Legislature. Yorkshire were favourable to Emancipation. roteestli which he out Lord MILTON said he did not draw this conch one instance The Earl of ABERDEEN said that !lathing was far- sentiments expre ssed titer from his intention than to impugn the judgment mane 'of the Chief Baron, to whose profound knowledge and attention lie bore testimony. Lord COLCHESTER stated that the situation in which the House found itself had been noticed in the ltepott of the Committee on its appellant jurisdiction , sod that it had been recommended, as the Judges were allowed in other cases to give their opinions when re- qnired, that the Speaker for the time bring should be authorised, though not a Peer, to give I,is opinion on shire mons On and they were tea man, hostile to Catholic Emancipal was a ten a v r lyg o reat trem tten b le between etwee; arli admitting e P (Milton), from one solitary instance to the conclusion chac ' tbe great body of the Dissenting only. He distinctly stated that be bad b munieation with many, and that the inference he drev by them was, that they were nol ipation. To illuminate the Hon. Member, be again the paragraph of the letter to which he before silo u paragraph stated that by far the greater number of Yorkshire, and the most considerable foe .their weigh petty in the county, were favourable to arum* should appeal to the House then, whether he attempts present o t f h c e a se rr m o i r me r i rs of the Dim .., the Hon. nten Gentleman Yorkshire tunit se y of knowing, :I n igh w t :or a differnt en opinion ee , be Gentleman had no right to misunderstand what be al purpose of contradicting the opinion that the Dissente JUNES fsu s s at l , e notwithstandin g what what had falle the appeal case before him, as well as the le • which his judgment was founded. Till this was effected in a legislative manner, it might be pope/ for the H use solitary Instance. by an Order to empower the Judge who, presided pro impore to deliver his opinion and his reasons. CORM LAWS, Lord BEXLEY said that, understanding that the Noble Earl (Lauderdale) would not be able to attend pe No .a b ed te Lard, to him he aut did a n c ot yet Ind himself illundnated. Lo iir r . d W lt E l MILTO N .-- , Dissenters k. laard drew his condos catmint I had contemn! • : N e leneb fel le t y quite convinced, from cap however it iniest be in Yorkshire, the Dissenter of adverse to Emancipation. The D Petitions sure read, and ordereclto . be printed. 'I 111 the House for a considerable time, and the inconve- nience of the delay being greater -than that of his all- sence, there would he no limiter postponement of the Dissente rs USIIINGI ON presented a similar Petitia rs of Stradbrooki, Suffolk.—Ordered to be pri Collin' OF CgAneEltlfs Mr. M. A. TAYLOR rose to bring forwar t, - discussion of the New Corn Law, which would ter- tion of which he had given notice. He shoul ' tainly take place next Friday on the question for going the attention of the House as shortly as 1 into a Committee. (Much interrupti sn below the Bar.)• It wou l: The Scotch Fraudulent Bankrupts Bill went through a Commit- possible for him to discharge his duty if the i tee and was reported.—Adjourned. ii►— not give him their attention. The subject, not HOUSE OF COMMONS. much scope for eloquence, might not be phi Mr. W. DUN DAS presented a Petition from Edinburgh io fa- if they gave their attention for a short time, tl your of the Salmon Fisheries Bah—Referred to the Committee. see that it was one which deeply affected the I Mr. BIRCH presented a Petition from Nottingham against the licensing Bill. of the people. In treating this question, he 1 The House went into a Committee, and evidence was heard upon deavour to guide himself by the dictates of p the Grahame Divorce Bill, which was ordered to be reported to. mon sense. It appeared that, originally, b ' morrow. was not appended to the Great Seal, but, 1' Mr. HUME said, that as an Appeal was to be made front the was brought under the jutiscliction of the Report of the Committee on the Oil Gas Bill, and as a Report was expected upon the matter front the liaronsof the Exchequer in Scot- Chancery by statute. In all matters of busii .II land, he should move that the consideration of the Report be Pour then of a Judge or any other person, if he .. ii pond until to.morrow se'unight. than he could do, the best way to provide to Sir R. Fnaoussno and Mr. Ketotinar objected to the delay. i After a short conveisation,in which the &macre, Mr. Catcearr , pet discharge of the duty was to get rid of p i ( i: Mr. DIJNDAS, Sir Fa !CNA/I:MS(1U, and Mr. BRIGHT participated , ' business, and transfer it to some other per therotponenteld was agreed to. - motion was the very simplest that could I Sir R. FERGUSSON presented Petitions from the incorporated before the House. It was, that they shots li l Masters and Seamen of the Port of Dundee, and Irani certain Incor- porated bodies in the same place, in favour of the Salmon Fisheries' Bit —Referred to the Committee's% the Bill. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a Petition front certain Dis- senters meeting in Jewia.stiect, praying the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. Mr. GRANT presented a similar Petition from a place in De- vonshire. A similar Petition was presented from Salisbury. Lord F. OSBORNE presented a si,:iilar Petition from a parish be Cambridgeshire. Mr. Id A BERLEY presented a similar Petition from Abin g don. into a Committee of the a hole 1 Elizabeth and subsequent Acts, which g; Lord H Mr. STANLEY presented similar Petitions from Rochdale and (lest! eitoekport.—The Petitions were ordered to be printed. themselves the purpose of taking into consideration tl High Chancellor of England jut isdictir of bankruptcy. He had before, upon diffe skins, brought before the House this subject o of Chancery, and exposed its delays. He a met by the assertion, that the Noble and Le, son who presided in the Court was all that ed. He eutettained the highest respec Noble and Leal ned Person; but it was alwa Mr. tlentuousu presented a Petition troll) the Seamen of itioi, of iii n, and of that opinion he still remained Newcastle, signed by lotto names, praying for the Abut Impressatent.—Ordered to he printed. . Noble and Learned Lord's want of decision i s • Mr. J. WOOD presented a Petition from cettain CottunWeayers, much of the benefit which his great talents of Ashton-ender-Line, in t h e r u m my o f Lancaster , praying that a knowledge might otherwise have conferred f Select Committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency of country. His Sus pine was that the Noble 1 fixing a minimum of wages. The i ion. Member said, that be de. in g the weight of business with which he was '[ sired to zee a Committee appointed, because he was Silty it would relieve the minds of the rslltlOLltri from the erroneous opinions as hod nqt litog before endeavoured to sepa to the object they sought to obtain. til ti Lte g y ht hi t el h rn e the jurisdiction of the Cot t 11. Itlr. PHILLIPS said, he would rake the opportunity of Cor e. new Administration had it i reeling some mi.takes which had herb made iti fermenting to the .4.."." .^ brio .. forward any measures to i public what had fsl!en from bum a few eights ago. Ile did Mt I - .."‘... ‘s . b wonder t ha t what they said should sometimes be mistunieritood , purposes lie had in view; he should not b when he recollected the di ffi culty which they bad of hearing am- dressing the Hoots! on this subject. COR ratty what fell from each other. Upon a former occasiou he stated the delays aft Chancety had been Irequel i upon the authority of a letter from hlaticitest, r, dated the nth of and of . the expense attending proceedings in play, that the's% ages of hand-loom weavers had beenlaised twenty ' per cent. for which he had been represented as say cent per a long time no e ff ebtual step was ti • but for cent. Again he li4d been made to say that cotton twist was the vestigste the subject . Promises of reform only article in which an improvement had taheu place, whereas made, but the result proved how little sac - ' what he did say was just the tertrar.—Thi: Petition was ordered to were to be relied on. He entertained nothin be printed. - feelings towards the Noble Lot d who now 1 •• fist N. COLTH U ROT presented a Femme) from the Shipping Interest of Cork, praying for pro'setion.—Or 'ered to he printed. the Cou t. He might be desirous of refoi Mr. HUME prrselat'sl a Petition (tow as, individual , complain- might also think or the ptofits of bankruptcy or see internal tesulatious of the Fleet l'i two, and of the bard. let of confident that Noble and Learned Person we -- gaups whick persons confined there were made to undergo. The best lie could, but that eras not enough. llL; , no, m a m ma slate d, t hat he tit sight there Was much ground for the complaints of the Peti:ioner, and that the Government ought went through the business with more lisp its ',. so ion:ocm anti ate low far is could be removed. present Master of the Rolls while he was V:C Mr. Soretary BOURNE said, that the subject bad not escaped lot. ‘Vere it not for him and Sir W. thaw the, emotion of the Government ; hut the Lord Chief Justice and. tress en Chanter) , cOuld not have gone on. the other Authorities believed themselves to be without the pottier 'i of applying remedies. If that proved to be the case, he should be Learned Persons who now presided ill the . re ' t !..,. ! 'v. v... , . •. 40 % ; 440 , •..,.. r , • • . , • . fee- legistatla asslstattee : Mlsell • Chaseetr. she Vic compelled to all upon the House bad already been doitkby the riertiatt• tied recommendglione of • were botb,ave , an prbs.,Cvausdatee_and tise• Commiselou width , were form/rills ati- • wipes however, rlidlitd; abd Ma Right lion. Pribed. who ppereded him, appointed opt N a idargsun to the prisonii fronawhieh the dtk sliorld receive attend• evils of the Court v ai p ;i Slice he.had coitus into office, he bar be*VAisle to make tie/ rd Illilon. Thi omit" a rem, sokth a i,urse amiqfroper a/andante ; and - lie ,f4r twit as 1783, h ped t h a t an assistant for dispensing medicines would also be pro- Mr. Foster, an ern tided. li th e internal regulations Which required remedy should ' 1 ultlmatety be Mond beyond the authority of those who had the of some of the MI , highest power over the establishment, then he bad no doubt the remedy to Lord 1 "- Tl.. . 0.9, man 2 Friend would recollect th t he had al-A as pro,,,,,t_ d upon this, his objection to having any suhtrici ion fiom the power of the Lord Ch racellor made, or to :illy rni,, Gelation of the Court of Chancery. He had prof essed t is opinions when he had not a seat in the !L at L ure, 1% e ; , 0;r yams the Vice Chancellor was cleared; and i n then speaking upon the subject; he felt that it would be vagary for him to mention the name o f the di,. tinguished individual who had lately filed th e office of Lord Chancellor ; he would not , however, d we l l upon it, noe . s ay more than the occasion absolut e l y rr. gulled. Of that Noble Lord, as a lawyer and a J u d ge, ieerybody must speak in ll terms o d f ii t t h in e 4 vaei,hed iii bet highest re spect.-(Hear, hear) opacities, by qualities ot the first or-ler, an d it these was anything which, in the latter, could b e i mputed ts ins as i faultit was that excessive and coostitetion4 caution, which in him amounted tie indecisi on:4 w d el i !. It was, undoubtedly, well intendei, and not mho, quently produced considerable b -nest to patric i d al suitors; b t:a t n a d mon brought al o e n t h at il p u blic generally, individual generally, i t created much reproach. He did not say this with a view to Walt with the Noble Lord upon that account, but hikasmieded that. if a Judge be placed in a particular allitsatios. and if the excess of a laudable quality on that Amid happen to produce discontent, it does not WI fross that, drat- there should be a n y su b traction Ade from the powers of the office which he fill e d , or that any alteration in the Constitution should be b r o ug h t about. It was said at the tiin, when a Vice Chancel. br was first appointed, that it a Gentleman of ordinary •t4etits and application were promoted to the office, that ,he would be able to dispatch the greater pottion of tie business of the Court ot Chancery, and that the area in that Court would speedily fall away. Sir John Etach, the second Vice-Chancellor, made the truth of ;this (though not agreed, to by the House at the timt)ob rvious by hi oolrn example. He was, therefore, he thought fully joatifiej in saying, that if there always would be 'efficient Judges, such as they had then, thJe wduld not be the least necessity for subtracting horn the power of • I the lewd Chancellor, nor would the people ever ha ve :- cause _ for complaining of delay. He was not one of .those rho thought that bankruptcy cases should be, if necessity, under the jurisdiction of the Chancellor. He 'had not that superstitious reverence for those who filkd that great office. which would induce hint to assert :hat there wets not ,numbers of men who could not do t h e business as well; but he thought that, before the Hone decided upon the expediency of separating the juri-dir• tion in matters of bankruptcy front the Court of Chaa• cery, it ought to be first established that a necessity —a positive necessity—for such proceeding did mist; and in proof that it did not, he would, if the House %valid ,give him leave, drily and shortly state 'to them what the business of the Court of Chancery actually wa.. He ;would take the last year, state the total number d .causes, and point out what number of causes the Vice. Chancellor took ; but before he proceeded to. do tbis, he would, for the benefit of those Honourable Member of the House who were not acquainted with the prao tice of the . Court of Chancery, enumerate ti e classes of causes which usually came before that Coin. 'Else first class consisted of those causes in which a P was filed and an answer put in. These causes frequently find their way back again before the . under the name of causes for further directions;" DM class consisted of exceptions to answers; then petitions, then motions, and, lastly, content t which occupied so short 'a space of time as scarcely be worth mentioning. With respect to petitiers, wished to observe to the House, that no murrourlinl been made about them until within the last two yeas During the four last terms, SOO causes of the first do had been brought into Court, 76 for further direr( tlo exceptions to aoswers, 45 pleas and demu•ters. these, in the first class, Sir J. Leach (the Ma ter of the Rolls) disposed of 258, of 9S for further dirt ct 77 exceptions to answers; how many in the class, he might have disposed of be had not tI fortune to know. Taking a period of four years, ft: ascertained that the average number of Equity disposed of last year, amounted in the aggregate of the first class, 174 for further directions, 47 escep:it rs to answers, 15 pleas and demurrers. Ot these, boor many did the House suppose that one Judge was cap• ble of discharging ? Toe Vice Chancellor, berme his illness (taking as lie before stated, four yeei , and obtaining the average in one, by dividing the ir number of causes by 4), discharged 450 of the tint el. 212 of the second and third ; and 79 pleas and d. @sorters. By deducting, therefore, the average of causes disposed of by the Vice-Chancellor in one year, from the average number of causes disrlitd of by all the Judges last year, the House would teal that it followed, that only a hundred and thirty ' the first class, nine cf the second class, and ' of the third. would be left to be t isposei of by Chancellor and the other Judge. He could not % wor t he believed, could any body doubt, that the number of causes thus left to be disposed of by Or t, Judges. could be easily discharged by one of intel.i sad activity, its not much more than a single Term: the House should bear in mind, that the Viet-Char was only a subsidiary Judge, one only appointed to take d ea the over flowing of the Court of Connect y. He to now come to the jurisdtctton in bankrupt caw, which his Right lion. Friend bad more particulag directed his mo ion; and, in trder that tis to ble should be as little disadvatuageous as posi side of the question which his Hon. Friend • he would take the last four years, during wh i c h bad been a greater number of sosl pet i t ions in matters bankruptcy, than during any four receing. Th e average number of these petitions, the consideration • which his Hon. Friend wished to sever fess the Ceu: Chancery the four years previous to the Vice Chancellor's was 590 ia each year of the four; an d tsii;:; (for in consequence of it an arrest had been create: they would find that theVrce Chancellor had discbargn upon an average 453 in each of these yea's, " 1 "_ i h being deducted from 590, the average amount a those in the last four years, only left 143 to be disposed of by the Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls. And he would again ask the House, tak;ng all the causes that would be thus left, the 13(1 of one on, the nine of another,and the 143 bankrupt pe:itionl W2l there more left than could be discharged by one act,: and intelligent Judge in a single Term ? It they µu s !`' look to the progress of the Court of Chancery, sine: IN Vice Chancellor's illness, when he found that an aria' had accumulated of the causes of four Terms, - entire year, they would see that lie bad begun aith e ,tc ducing that atrear, in the proportion of a Term year, and this he had done, up to the presen t pea % and he could himself say, that he believed , and the ' ' were were Hon. and Learned Friends of his in ' House, who could positively inform the House, e o:tbe i s tti d co a tio e ez y ttraoa . uali t tli b bieyou e in S tseh r mmh u i j et, i t truth ib.°mbore number u o i ail i e n f io rrii ' or ldnliAe:il:, tefaorteth.teietitri2golb; -he i I t w h a i y e s would wiuld n l:e t L id' ores the power of ' PI eople eve r b ane CI was not one of TI :es shoold be, ( f o• Chancellor. He Cl r those who filkd dc him to asseit :hat an :ould no t d„ t i e len • 11l ting the jinhnic. la e Court of Chia. 11 Al a necessity —a ha ig did mist ; and wi be to them what the fog eded to. do this, ap d with the pray ay crate tt e r•nioss 'bra aefore that Coin, Lo es in which a 811 be se causes itot so. ala before the Coon, We T directions (the of wets; then Caine Lo , content emus, for roe as scarcely to tha to petitiors, Fe an, no murmur hal Ch he last two years the s of the first alas Co further directions, dm d demu•rers. Of pre the Ma ter of the no ther dirt ctions,af Ch ny in the to Hi had not the gkil Sir hour years, Ise bad mi 'of Epity cases the i aggregate toseo tha ons, 47 mei:onto t It] . Of these, hoer coi Judge was caps. to :hancellor, before ,'tics aced, four years, 01 dividing the tcral cot oof the first class, ' . ash 79 pleas and cl.• cos a average number •mi Chancellor in one lie causes disputed he -louse would fiat Le; •ed and thirty ot an I class, and sone gas isposeei of by vie axe s could not dab!, wil t be, that the stole wip oseJ of by the two bee one of intehigeto tell single Term; and b e ; le Vico•Charcellor Wei appointed to take b e 1 10 till ma n nnoktr more u r y pp . ta rHt caliec s u i o: I t I . 1 ; 4 a.t hat 1,i 4 st atetnett „,,,,w Is passible to th e • ill—en Friend advocated, to zing which there ha, ons M matters cf hie Ile o fliaPo r ardc.n l ect° l rac l a n d : Idileaji d lnr.er'etr i g s d e cTe. h ot:sn a "lll: r T:l grd itee:°:;ff; . c4 i ll hese yea's, wlnet He :rage amount of an, • left 143 to be sio he Master cf the ow he House, taking wa the 130 of one son, 11( •upt pc:aloft-, 0 c o: geJ by one actor wh as ?It they wad th t hancery, sine: tha L. Ind that an Wee thi our Terms, ores eel ad begun •Lith re It n of a Term el fee se present pen t . ro, elieved, and the jo; ids of his in tLe in i the House, 1 1 . 4 114 ' 4 l C • C fa i <4