The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-02-15 00:00:00

P '1 ATE:s 111111M=IIM— of still mere importance. It would be, in unsay cases. Impracticable correctly to ascertain the settee of a• pub lit meeting, tinless the negative as well •as the affirms ' Ow of a question were put. He Could not trouble the . Ntiuse with the different cases in which Sheriffs had' _eted improperly—they woold be for the ionsideratiodi tt the Committee. With respect to the case of Nor diumberland, the Requisition hod been signed by a Treat number of persons possessing property to a great extent : the object of the Requisitionnts was perfectly legal. The Sheriff objected to call the Meeting, not t oo the ground of illegality—he assigned no such gromaLl be acted merely on his own discretion. The object of • the meeting which he refused to call was perfectly. le ' 'AI; 41)•11 considering the rank of the persons who sign ed the Requisition, and the general respectability of the Comity, not the slightest danger or inconvenience was !tittle to occur. The Honourable Member next alluded to a late dot of Parliament, the Act against tumukuous Meetings. which took away the rights of the people to hold public meetings, and gave to the Sheriffs an exten sive and dangerous power. It was not the intention of the Legislature to give so great a discretion to the She riffs; for he remembered a declaration made by Minis ters in that House, when the Act in question was under eon:adoration. The Ministers declared, that the mean ing of the Act was to give the sanction of law to that which existed before only by sufferance. He contended ew, that the Important right of Petition was, by the n power given by the Act in q uestion, great!), endangered. Htrusted that the House would take some measures to limit that power witbio certain bounds, either by amend ing or repealing the Act altogether. He would wil lingly vote for its repeal, because he was convinced that the inconvenience and danger complained of was occa sioued by that law. He hoped that he brought forward this subject in a manner not likely to increase the agita tions of the country; far different, indeed, was his ob ject. His object simply wa s, to correct what appeared to him to be an abuse of power, and to prevent the re currence of acts so irritating as those of which he coin laioed.-7 he Honourable Member concluded by u m i t ering, " That the Petition presented, on the 9th in stant, to that House, from the Inhabitants of Chester, complaining of the conduct of the High Sheriff in re fusing to cSI a County Meeting, should be referred to a Select Committee, to examine into the matters therein sated, and to report to the House thereon." Mr. DAVENPORT, in a low tone, requested to know what was the difference between the present motion and a u..otion of wl.ich notice was given by au Honourable tiontlemen (Mr. Creerev)? Mr. BEAUMONT said, that the object of the two mo tions was very distinct. His (Mr. B.'s) object went na-iely to prevent the recurrence of an evil. The oh pet of his Honinitable Friend went further—it went diately to the consideration of the Sheriff's con duct, with a view to have him ceusured or removed from Mr. CREEVF.Y said, he thought that the motion of LI:, Honourable Friend would have been for a general i•upiiry into the conduct of Sheriffs as to the exercise of ti.tir discretion in refusing to call County Meetings. • Such, he thought, would have been the object of the tuition suggested by the refusal of Sheriffs in various coauties—iu Oloucester, Berkshire, Kent, and other . places. The motion of which he (Mr. Creevey) gave I.4tice last night, stood on different ground—that mo tion was suggested by facts stated by different members, trove w hich it appeared that the Sheriff declined putting an Amendment, or proposing a negative to the Address. his object, in glviug the notice of last night, was to bring the conduct of the Sheriff before the House, with a view, in case it should appea r that lie had acted km roperle, of having hip) censured by the House. lt ap ileared *to him that the motion of his Hon. Friend was exactly the same as that of which be had given notice. Lord CASTLEREAOH said, the object of the motion, it appeared to him, was to inquire tido the conduct of tt.e Sheri ff , with a view to ground some further proceed- Lg. lle begged to observe, that it was by no means a n..itter of course to put an individual, charged with pos. bib e misconduct, to the trouble and expense of bringing witni Ws from the country. He apprehended that it wonld be better if the honourable member for Nor . ti.omberland and the honourable gentleman behind him, %%wild postpone the question until they hail the whole iJeriis of the case before them. Then the house would be able atone view to see the nature of the delinquency cliurpil against the Sheriff. It was a subject well de scrying of attention, and before they came to the discus sion of it, they certainly should have the facts and me rits of the case before them. He threw out the sugges lion, not by any means for throwing any embarrassment in the way of inquiry. He wished to have the matter put in the most distinct and intelligent manner, and ith that view he suggested that the motion should be allowed to stand over until the whole of the facts should Le collected. Mr. DENMAN said that a Petition had been pot i%to his hands, which he would have presented early in the evening if be were aware that the motion was to hare been brought ou. A requisition had been rime time since presented to the Sheriffs of Middlesex • , for A County Meeting, which they declined calling. Mr. Sheriff Waithman, in case his conduct should be objected to in declining to call that Mettitig, had cer fain papers to produce to the House which would joss - -tify his conduct. The ques tion before the House was certainly very important, and he was glad to hear the • • Adoration made by the Noble Lord ; but he thought that declaration was a little incooststeat with the con . • tkuct of - Ministers, particularly at the Hampshire Meet •.- ilig..ilbsisainulid tug attend that Meeting and openly oppoer the object fir which it was loft but aes ben at' iliem'signed a counter requisition. Mr. BEAUMONT assented to the suggestion at torilCairlereagh, and the motion was withdrawn ihr - • tie }resent. SCOTCH JURIES. • Mr. CENNEDY, in bringing forward his mods., said that it was of the utmost importance to remove ape'bitit th.it might casually appear on the admisis• trition Of jdetice ; he did not mean to cast the slight impsitatio\ on the conduct of the Learned Judges . lo Scotlaod, sad he felt be was only attempting to re here them wben endeavoured to remove defects in the administration of justice. In the year 1701, an Let' was passed in Scotland which might be properly called - •the Habeas Corpus Act of that country; it was an Act • to ware the liberty of the subject, by virtue of whieb, any individual charged with an offence, might com pel the prosecutor to bring him to trial within a limit ed time. Unfortunately many persons were denied Cie benefit of that Statute, because the expense .of seeking for redress under It o•ss too bear; for those individeals to meet. Again, persons were only entitled to the. benefit of the Act of 1701, who pow ► ipusly quali,fied *Actuation by going to gaols persons . _ • out eibailtould not obtain the benefit of the provisions of thot Act. • Another defect to which be felt it neces sary to allude, was the arbitrary pidgin:ins proastancei in - Scotland, no matter what the punishment, froisilek matlltet :fine, up to transportation for five years, ash, for life; Sledges pronousced arbitrary judgments-- , political offences also came under the cognisance of those Courts. By a late Act, which naturally excited alarm la this country, a man convicted of She second z .s:t .• " . ~ • 1, • rt. C ~. • S}~ . a • offence in the case of libel, .was made subject to tlip punishnient of banishment; hut in Scotland it is the law to transport a man for the first offence.—(Hear. hear !) —I n the course of the last year, an individual in that country. convicted of a seditious libel, was transported for five ears—{Hear, hear.)--Tbat indi vidual was now undergoing that punishument—a punish ment which he understood was considered rather lenient. Another point, to which he would allude, was the power assum ed and exercised by the Lord Ailvocate, of filling ex-ejsrio informations, by which .emans he took away from the accused the benefit of a jIITV. in the first instance. Another grievance on the accused party, was, that he was denied the benefit of any informality that might appear. Where such informality appears, the prosecutor " d e serts the diet," pro loco ct tempore, and the party is sent back to prison, and brought up for trial a second time for the sante offence. Another crying evil was, the mode of selecting Jurors for criminal trials. The practice was, that fortv-five persons were presented by the Sheriff, out of which-fifteen persons were selected as a -buy to try the case. I n Srotlanel there were four Counties within the Circuit ; the Sheriff returns at Edin burgh 45 persona for each of those Counties, waking 190 persons in the whole. Those names are delivered to time Judge, and out of them be selects 45 persons at his wiil and pleasure. Ile was far from sempoosing that the Judges acted improperly or partially,, but be sule spitted that those were preliminary arraogemeots which might not to exist. It should he recollected, that in all oases—in cases of murder or of robbery—eight Jurors oat of fifteen were sufficient to convict the accused. In ,si country, where one man might lose his life by the de cision of another, the greatest caution ought to he ob served in the selection of Jurors.—( ear, hear.)—The I bon. gentleman next observed, that though Sir lieorge M'Kenaie stated that the right of peremptory chal lenge existed in Scotland, such right did not exist, and was not sanctioned by authority. The remedy he proposed was, that the jury, instead of bring Reinitiated as they are, should be selected by ballot. .He would also give to each party the right, to a small amount of peremptorily challenge. He would give the prosecutor the right to challenge three Jurors, and the right to the accused of challenging these also. Ile did not wish to go farther ; in.a country where the life and fame of an individual might depend on the voice of a single man, no party teling should be allowed to exist. In England, the right of pe remptory challenge., in cases of capital felony, was always exercised, and was generally permitted in other cases, as long as Jurors conkd be fraud. He under stood that the Learned Lord (the Lord Adeocate) in tended to introduce some measure of amelioration with respect to the Law of Scotland; he would be glad to find that the qnesti , in concerning the selection of Juries was intended to be embraced in that measure, bat he was not aware that such was the intention of the Learned Lord. The Honourable Gentleman con cluded by moving for leave to bring in a Bill to re gulate the appointment of Jurors in cm insinal cases in Scotland. Lord EINNIY6 Fait!, that lie regretted the absence of the Learned Lord (the Lord Advocate.) It was not to be supposed, that he (Lord IL) could 'be able to reply to the statements that had been made; indeed, it was not necessary, for his lion. Friend had gone into matters which were quite extraneous to the object of his Bill—(Hear, hear.) —His Hon. Friend 11104.14- 1 luded to what lie called arbitrary punishments be would state the nature of those arbitrary punishments. Where an individual stood accused of offence which was death by the law, the Lord Advocate had the right of restricting the libel, which was, pro taato, restricting the power of the Judges in favour of the accused.—lle was not prepared to assume or deny the propriety of the change propoied ; but in the absence of the Lord Advocate, and in the utter ignorance of the House, with the exception of two or three Members, lie hoped his liou. Friend would con tent himself with having the Bill read a first time, and letting it lie over. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR said, it was rather unparliamen• tart' that his Hon. Friend should be assailed becalm. he brought forward the motion in the absence of the Noble Lord, whose duly it was to he present. He did not see why, if time lard Advocate was absent, their tongues were to he tied ; the Noble Lord should rather have apologised for the Learned Lord than have inculpated his Honourable Friend. His Honourable Friend had brought to view the arbitrary power exercised by the Court of Justic iary, to instances of which he (Mr. T.) had happened he witness in a ease, the details ot which were printed, and which was also to be found in the debates of that House ; he meant time ease of Mr. Muir and Mr. Palmer.—(bear, hear. !) —lie (Mr. T.) had been in the House in time time of the debate, as well as in Edinburgh at the time of the trial, anal certainly, its common with many others, he did not think the verdict was that which would have been given by an English Jury.--(lsear !)—He bad on this point the testimony of a man ot no mean authority, who was present the whole time, he 1111•411 t the late Sir S. Romilly. Mr. Emeimmiue, a lawyer of the first eminence, declared, that on that oc casion the Court of Jesticiary had misunderstood the law, When they sentenced the prisoners to transporta tion. The law said, that persons convicted of sedition should be" banished from their pleasant fields and na tive homes." But this never bad been nnderstooel, or could. be . neally interpreted. a s g ivin g a p ower to transport time prisoner to a particular place, as they did those prisoners to Botany Bay.—The case was brought before the House of Commons by the present Commis sioner of the Jury Court (Mr. Adam); the Judges ea coped censure with very great difficulty, and no one who heard that debate, could suppose that the law gave the power assumed of banishing beyond the seas fur sedi tion and libel. But, forsooth, they were nut to speak of Scots law, unless the Lord Advocate was present. In the House of Lords, the Chancellor decided on Scots law, though no Scots lawyer, and in that House, even if the Lord Advocate had been presets.. be should take .on himself to decide according to Isis own jails- , meet. Mr. J. P. Grant said, the principle of the Bill bad bees laid by his Hon. Friends on grounds which rm quired no amplifiea.ion, but he should rectify a mistake of the Noble Lord (Lord Binning), who supposed that it was only when a libel was restricted by . the Lord Ad vocate that an arbitrary power was exelicised by die Court of Justiciary. Within net a great many years. la. those cases in which by the law of Scotland they were enabled to inflict a punishment, of which the tautest ex 1111st was banishment from Scotland, the Judges bad as- AMA the power to transport the prisoner to a particular Wised. ac under the Transportation Acts in England, and a recent case, for one of these °Kentaro in which Its- liebnient was the utmost legal punisheseit, the prisoner Was emmoromended by an unanimous Jury to the Why of the Court, and that Court, in its lenity, transported kilo ler five years. . Lord liiNfNl I explained. Leave was to - bring in the Bill. • RRITIRH FLOUR. 11r. CU RTI ES. after ameationi tag dads ter law dais a rootlet bad prevailed of supplying oar gareisifte abroad with American is preference * Eagilsb Flare matted for as aamaat of all the Cora and riser, the produee of America and foreign countries contracted for a different practice prevailed in the Ordnance by his Majesty's Victualling Office within the last three ment ? (- years. m Mr. WARD mead, that the practice in the Deana., The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained Departent was, after ascertaining that during the war the colonial garrisons had been sup- of the articles about to be disposed of, to sell them k plied as they best might b e, but that in the commence- private contract, and this e rt en' was p ursue d a ment of the peace , the Trea sur y had issued an order that cause it was felt to be a guard against those et. they should be supplied with British corn and flour. nation' which were so often semi to exist at pohi te During the two years that this system had prevailed, a auction , . great part of the flour it as returned unserviceable, and the Mr. RICARDO, adverting to the extraordinary i on ,. strongest representations were made that American flour of Exchequer Bills at par from the Treasury em ir t i ne , only might be pent out. American dour lead fot two ago, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer declined to years been supplied. Rut on the representations of agri- account for when called upon in that House, took ocp. cultural gentlemen, and on its being proved that British lion to ask the Right Honourable Gentleman %Aeo n ., floor might be so prepared as to be equal to American the transaction referred to was now in a state to admitef flour, the Lords of the Treasury bad changed their sys- explanation tern. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER snit Mr. Mr. CURWEN said, that the only difference betweea that he should have no objection to explain the tw o . American and English flour was, that the former was action when the account was finally wade up. kiln-dried, which of course might be dour with the lat. Mr. WARRE expressed a desire that mute di s ti nct ter when it was sent to hot climates. explanation or estimate should lw laid before the Wai t Mr. HU3IE protested against a departure from the with tespect to what wasxalleml Regent•etreet. principle that the Government should Rupp'' , itself at the Mr. HUSKISSON said that the most eatieesetere n 4 cheapest market. accurate information was furnished upon that s n ai ert i n Atter a few words from the CHANCELLOR of the the Report of the Commissioners of lifoods mid Mein EXCHEQUER, the motion was agreed to. wi lat. WhAadßltheEeninqialuidredbenflohreen l i tr ie g H en o t u -s se treet *as lik v iy 1 lONIAN ISLANDS, Colonel DAVIES wished to know how long the In- t o h e com pl e ted. specters of Militia were to he kept up in the lonian M r. HUSKISSON stated, that from the progress that Isle', where militia (as appeared by the returns) was had been made in the buthlinas, be had reason to he. ; liens that the street would be completed in two yeere embodied. Their salarie s amounted to about 40001. they weer nominally paid out of the revenue of the The Committee of Ways and Means and Supply w en Wand, hut while those revenues were insu f f i cient for deferred until Friday. the insular expenses , they were iu realit y paid by this RI .t LT DUTY. country. Mr.GOULBURN said t he Ins p ector* were officers on U n the Order of the Day for the second reading of po the Malt Duty Bill being read, the Staff, and were appointed for no definite time. Mr. CREEVEY rose to oppose the motion. He bad, Sir J. NEWPORT wished to know whether any more he said, two or three short reasons for resisting say lop Reports were to he made front the . Commissioners on of SuPP, I under existing circumstances. The fi rst er e. the Fees of Enelish Courts of Justice , of which not One n son was, that although the House 11 , 14 been sittieg fi n had been presented for two years? three weeks, no estimate of the public expense hali s t No answer was given. been presented to the House from any departmestre Mr. BROCUHA3I, in reference to the Inspectors in the Administration ; and he would not consent to gnat the lonian Isles, wished to know whether they were t he public money to any department, until a dear state. continued when there were no militia ? meat of the ground of its application were previonalyesee Mr. GOULIWR3I said, though there was no mi municated to the House. In this resolution, indeed, Ise litia embodied at the time of the returns, that did nut was the more confirmed by the language which Ire es. pro.. , e that the militia did not exist. deratood was unreservedly used about the Treasary,lee Col. DAVIES said,lse could explain bow the fact wa .• w hi c h w as generally believed by its adherents — nut/le In reality there was no militia. tinder the old Govern that the present would be a very short Session.--[Hest, meet of tee island there were village officers who train hear, from the Treasury Bench He meant that it to ed the militia, and who tailed thew out at certain times andrratood about the 'treasury that all the public I'M. to exercise. Since the British Government had com nem would be over before Easter ; that ia, that elio,. 'unwed, they had been called out, and they bad una- tern were safe, that the Queen was sacrified, and tlet ninsously refused, because there existed a system of mil- nobody cared about money—Dear, hear, and a laugh ea rule and usisgovernmetit in those islands, which, the the reposition Benches.] —The estimates ought to b sooner it was put a stop to the better for our connexion two or three weeks before the House, in order that sad with those islands. 1 bat subject, however, would he Members as were disposed to attend to their duty, mg' la brought substantially before the House. But as to mi• rare an opportunity of examin i ng the do uments. Ups litia, in point of fact, none ex isted, and the Inspectors tots, and upon other ground, he felt it his duty to oppose were Sinecuriets, the grant of any Supply, until the will and the wool Mr. tiOULIit:IIN briefly observed, that the state- o f t h e public were attended to by Ministers. He la 4 emote respecting the lonian Isles, when they came to been told that a certain Lay -Lore of the. Admiralty be examined, would he found inaccurate. (alluding, we understand, to Sir G. Warrender), as he Mr. C. GRANT moved for leave to bring in a Bill to I was called by some, but whom he would call a sine regulate the Office of Clerk of Assize, and Nisi Pries cure and sham Lord, had been beard to declare,in these and Judges' Register in Ireland.—Leave given. circles of which this Lord was such a splendid ornament, Mr. C. GRANT moved that to-morrow the Houser,- that h . e . would i ld comedown and indict signal chastiseme nt solve itself into a Commit t ee un the Acts respecting the upon hi m kam. ( .) fhe pi. r . ed in his purpose to g Judges' Registers Salaries. resist th e Su pp lies ; but still he was determined tepee S . In answer to a question fro m Mr. Creevey, sever e. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had emir. Mr. C. GRANT said his object was, in pursuance of voured in some degree to satisfy the public desire dew the recommendation of the Commissioners on Irish trenchment. It had not, however, been stated, is what Courts of Justice, to take away the fees, and to pay the departmo the th r ent snch ee( of reductithe Lon wouldd of the Admiralty; take place. Het te officers by salaries to be made up b y a stam p duty on return t ay Lor IDs begged to express a hope, before the M m Meads who m 1 rutin parts of the proceeding s. On the motion that the Committee of Supply be post- this Lord had invited to attend his benefit, that bewed\ potted to Friday, be graciously pleased to carry his threat into exiteatim SCOTS MALT DUTY. with some clemency, that he would condescend to Mi. Lord A. HAMILTON asked whether the Chancellor gam his punishment for ohl-ecquaintance-sake , and fns of the Exchequer intended to make any alteration in the duty on malt, which, in the Northern C ounties and in a recollection that he was once among those with ' Asa he (Mr. C.) then co-operated, generally acting, too, is Scotland, amounted to more than the price of the article? the ultra side — 0 laugh, and hear.! The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed, ) had obtained much information on this subject. and that the number of me n and shi pp in g should lay it before the House ; but he did not find sea - bad been already voted by the Howse . and it was new proposed only tv sun for making any alteratio n is the dut y , beyond that With thensual lovelies for carryingthose votes into elect. alleviation as to malt made f rom beer or big which was respect to the Estima tes to which the last spike made last year. hadreferred, care remold he taken to hare them laid be e ton PRLVENTIVE SER VICE.—REVENU E. the House, so as to afford time for their due mai- Mr. W.SRRE said, the Chancellor of the Exchequer nation. had stated, that smuggling had of late decr eased ; but Sir ROBE RT WILSON declared his container he was rattier inclined to f ear, that the Chancellor of the with the resolution to resist the grant of any seethes Exchequer was not quite correct. He wished, however, to know, whether duri n g the whole p eace, the Chancel- until Ministers should slew a disposition to knee the grievances of the people. ler of the Exchequer intended to continue the present system of high duties on Foreign Spirits and other ar- Sir T. LETHIHMIXIE said that he was an advocate for t h e exercise of a reastioitinnal jealousy with respect to the public expenditu re, i but as be must consider flu tides, which made the temptation t o smuggling so great? In fact , the Rev enue was now protected, if t was protected, at time po int of the hayonet.—(Hear.)— opposition which Mini s t ers ex p erienced from the 'eke sole of the House vexatious, be felt it his duty to swift From Beach , / Head to the Thames, the coast was lined the motion. with armed omen; at every step they met a seaman . with Colonel DAVIES declared, that the House was ewe pistols and cutlass. This system, which was projected 1 by an active naval officer, the cores consisted of 13(10 liarly called neon at time present crisis to exercise its old constitutional privilege of stopping the 'sr W I seamen, who patroled the coast night and day. It be- , came a matter fur consideration wit Cher this would tend the in consequence of the state of the country, and than manner in which the overwhelming power, note( to improve the naval service. The midshipmen and young officers were subjected to the worst temptations, Crown, but of Ministers , was now used to Omuta* j wishes and to insult the feelings of the people. and wereunder no effectual e np erintendance. An Act After some remarks by Mr. Hu ms on the epithet ate was passed lag Session.(hroneht in by the Secretary of the Treasure), in which perhaps the House would he fion, and the observations of the Smuts', aid dr paged to have been applied to the opponents oftbe ow surprised to learn, that any one person landing a single tr esers artaco. in reply, pint of foreign spirits, was subjected to a fine of one Sir. J. NEWPORT declared that be could set er • liundred pounds. This penalty was imposed, not only sistenly agree to the opposition which had beta wads, when a cargo was landed, or where the offender was an to the motion before the House. fur as the supplies W habitual smurglrr, but for the most collet centraveniion been voted, so he thoug ht should the Ways and Maw of the law. He could no t illustrate it better than by alio• an example: a man, who had been out fishing, on Ills Mr. J. MARTIN was determined not to mot: return Lowe, was apprehended by a Lieutenant of this any grant of money to the Government, until the blockade system, with literally one pint of foreign spi- estimates were presented in a more dear sod iate, rits in his pocket. The Lieutenant brought him before a Magistrate, and demanded the infliction of this penalty. scarcely be withdrawn from this purpose by the wolf The 31agistrate who knew that the man was not a smut shapes, too, than they had yet appeared ; and beams 2ler, was aware, that by the infliction of this penalty e truly an alteration took place in the modeofdrawing a? should ruin him, declined to act (for no power was given these Accounts, they were not likely is their declaration of time Chancellor of am Eschwiner, !het et in time Act to mitigate the penalty.) The officer re onstrated. 'she Magistrate said, 1. I know the proyi- state to be at all intelligible to posterity—( hear, bear ! on the Opposit i o n B enches.) lions of the Act of Parliam ent as well as y ou do ; but 1 A division here took place, and the numbers wers - ' ) will not be the instrument of raining this man for this trilling offence, and if you insist, you must go to another For the motion ... • 7 1 . Magistrate." Against it . • • Sir ti. Ct)CKBURN said, an o ffi cer had been sent to i was accordingly read a Melia Majority . . . . ....t am . inspect the Preventive Service, who reported that the The Bil . _ ransfero re; Midshipmen who were employed behaved remarkably committed for to-morrow ;as was the T well. Some dirtinrnislied actions had been performed Bill. by these officers ; for it was to be observed, that the snuggling was not carried on merely in boats. Hat the passe d. The Queen's Annuity Bill was read a third OEO 4 tile Ralh O Pt. mogglers came in armaments of 100 each. There_ were In a Committee upon the Master of pegelar returns of killed and wounded of these offi:ei e. tea St• ti c t as in time of war. erne Bed s'' — lemad)Acte, a conversation took place haw Sir J. Newport, Mr. Hume, Mr. D. Bee ~._.n o OLD swims. Mr. GRENFELL rose to tall the attention of the implon's abuses discovered by the Commissioners for House to an article to which very little attention bad her whose name we could nu t learn, upon taw into the State of the Irish Courts ofJestioe. o eart2rW. been hitherto paid—he meant the Old Stores. He saw w i t h 'regard to the exaction o f fen. aftet widw` in the estistrites of the last year 263,0001• set down in l ow i ng .. . • the Navy Department. without explaltation as to the mosointoans were a greed to. --- alli Coaaah' i manner in which they were disposed of and in she Ord -4310 t/. per annum to he paid fl oat i of .auoi lhe to to do nines 213,0001. The old Ordnance Stored were. be oh t i t ter rettea' S areyed, sold by private contest% valid' WY O t rtice to Muter* in the Coen of Chancery. epee ...„ c e Fund to the Master o f tee Rolls —s he deetreeact as it prevented that emeriti beet served to prMest the public saltiest jebblas. of illness. - w hi c h from o ffi ce after twenty years service. or ill ° eel" — Len a be s° Sir G. WARRENDER seated. that Slit Old Naval Mr. HUMS suggested that prevision a---I ri o, Stores were always sold by Odic aistioll. to guard against any such gr an . e i.e a • is do Mr. ORIINPgLia was aware of this practice with perhaps a year's service, by t wit** lalLe , regard to the Naval Stores. bet he wished to know from health ast:l qualdicationscorsay WI" fiat.t r _ r i * a the Secretary of the Ordains. Office, ipso what ground .ilaster in Claaacery, as was thaws, nar t after a shod dila- ' _ • - - 1 I L .. . j t --r I th (1 of , be Ti (it wl .es 0. 4' !