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NOW deems, aal - aIL" ( g yksig e a : the odd weisitedeed of that woad Aftrownte tattier deoreadem the , • ;yeti (7eedienes add, it was homeheat ea what ar with eddy be takes' to shoplify the Is/ d ew* bed has liceer _-by she Bight oft. red); beliddiet sill lie (Mr. . howdawydateda.,, As Hossusabie Illeolter g thelooser. . Ted spilt of logo* wee Assad So *at ha, twig; of use of ibe Sadows. Tel Awed this g•weelved kW( s Ibeeessittbemiesse at laqdry hue the laws a hoskid. Victor oldish* befterand &elude roma* bat the utheessee I= goo. ' • Ile Maws haw *or ia - 'whim woad wow he wherbor le WO Is be i g a le s ei u la milk et stbaaa pl a aa i r li V i t it. fit, ho ushagoaat should esetieste es they were? Was h. worthy at the OWN et • in the country ? (Hear) War it no dhows* sold behind-head with other countries? Mean Was he We se eafted, was he to chalk out the line of meet? Be tuflAs - be asked whether he was himself edab the remedy he all the evils he complained of ? It would-here answer to bin to ask such questions—had the [loupe no examples of • revision ? was there no modern attempt ? did not the King s( Bavaria lately introduce a general penal code ? had they not as ecample also in a neighbouring kingdom? did not that mast singular man furnish a code of laws to his country worthy at-the admiration of the world ? an individual of whom it might be add as of a distinguished character of antiquity (Cesar), l'citnium assuesceret rebus nallitaribus. In his erten of laws lie had left behind him a lINNIIIIINIIII which will last when the memory of his virtues shall hod fie away. (Hear, heat ). His laws, to use the slang niche Cant s , been tried and worked well, and were the best legacy that :'coos person had bequeathed to his country. (Hear , boo fl ''. or.ourable and learned Gentleman then proceeded d reed II extracts from the work of a Mr. 31iller, on the East of Chancery. Mr. Milla, in enumerating the various impediments thrown in the way • - of causes in that Court, calls the delay a a cryin g evil." Me (Mr. Williams), would not of himself assert p r y,things contained its that book, in which he. however, most concurred; but now they were puPlici juril, and of course -'. .ffivir man bad a right to repeat them. Ile says that Lord Eldon 'lts not since he came into power followed the course of general E rh vensein, nor has he assimilated the practice in his Court to the e of society. 'I hat Learned Lord, he says, " would have t change more necessary, had he contemplated the length of his reign." He goes on to say, that now, at the age of seventy- Ere, he is• likely to look on office not so much a public taus: as a private source of emolument ; that he never was in the habit of hawing the truth spoken to him, to the feeling with respect to the practice in his Court. that the last passport to his favour was extraordinary mediocrity of abilities. ( A laugh.) 11 e (31r. Williams) would have never used such language as this if he did not find it already printed. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman proceeded to Peed several other extracts (men the same work, and in conclusion said that the author could have been influenced by no other motive than that of doing his country a service. The Learntd tiantleman went on to say, that theprseure of that Court called for the inter ference el the House. It was inconsistent with the growing in setted of the people—it was inconsistent with the progress of arts— Allan a strong censure on the jurisprudence of the country, that it - gilded fall and lag behind the general improvements in the acquire kents , a people, and the increasing civilisation of the country. 44180 N bore testimoy to the respectability of Palmer, petitioner. _ iMITH owned that he might bean incompetent witness ;gaestion as the one before the•Houaa, and was ready the duties of the Noble Lord at the head of the were more arduous and important than those of 1 11bIle In the country ; yet be was anxious to state to the facts which bad come within his experience, as grow. present system of that Court. The Hon. Member . ease.in whirl be had been advised by his Solicitor to the to of 5001. justly due to him, rather than get into In another case he had been assignee to a bankrupt, rs were in Chancery 23 years, without any prospect of I settled. At that period he met his ,Hon. Friend the Taunton, by accident, at Bath) and he beaus. a large be bankrupt s estate, they consented to settle the bus:- three hours they had done what the Court of Chancery 044 t. lin three-and-twenty years. He agreed with his Hon. Ilid•Learned Friend that the existing institution of the Court of Oblecery was inconsistent with the enlightened state of the Wilinetty ; and he thought the country indebted to his Hon. and losarried Friend for the speech he had made that night. Mr. E. ELLICE admitted the greatness of the hardships corn tiled of in the petitions submitted to the Howie by his Hon. and ed Friend, but he could assure him that they were trifling in idevparison with cases of persons in trade, engaged in every descrip- Ail industry. lie did not mean to disparage the talents and ants of the members of the Commission which had been to inquire into the state of the Court of Chancery, but Z ill Ts i t ted eri they possessed were so limited as to prevent them from erecting any great good ; besides, the commission was not of a suf ficiently extensive constitution ; he did not think that the subject connected with this inquiry should be confined to the members of the learned profession. There was a practice in the Court of which 'his Hon. Friend (Dr. Lushington) was one of the members, which was that of referring cases to the Register and a certain number of merchants, by whom they were satisfactorily adjusted. He would not say that their advice should be adopted, but he certainly o some valuable suggestions worthy of at. part of the proceedings in the Court of particularly deserving of attention and re fer in which investments of money were made eery. This was a grievance which peculiarly matte& He could speak of this hardship, as of it, in having the superintendence of pro of minors, the eldest of whom was only II resorted to the Court of Chancery for pra t,' unpleasant consequences that might arise ianagement of the property, and what he had to -A the investments made in the Court of Chan 'hree per cent. Consols. This people may .t in the event of a war a fall might take At deterioration of the ptoperty. There was flaunt of Stior 35 millions—a sum equal nearly floating debt, which was placed its this fund, oven to the person placing the money in Chan. in any other way, so as to make it more pro should recollect theconsequences that followed depreciation then took place to the great in. of those whose money was so situated. In : Queensberry certainly a considerable in. as when the moneg was brought into Chan cery the stock was at 5.t., and subsequeatly rose to 9fi per cent. He had another instance in his own experience of the evils of the 'present system, created by delays. It was in the prosecution of the leleovery of a suns not iecceding 1,6001. He had given repeated ' rendances. and although the expenses were between 3 and 4001., 'the matter stood now pis! where it was at the commencement. (Hear, hear.) The evils of this nature were so multiplied and great, that he was satisfied, if the country was canvassed, and its sense taken, the people would prefer to have the Court of Chancery altogether abolished, sad preserve the Common Law Courts alone. I Near, hear.) Ministers ought in take up the real reformation of this Court, and not leave all the odium which attached to the 'present evils that prevailed, to be borne by one individual, who could 'rot possibly attend to it himself. He hoped the Right Honourable Gentleman (Me. Peel) who had already carried so useful and ex . anent a Bill this Session. calculated to introduce great benefit in one department of the administration of the law, would extend his at. tertion to this Court, and aim at the reform of abuses there which hail grown to a height which was beyond all endurance. (Hear.) The SOLICITOR-GENERA la observed that his Hon. and Learned Friend (Mr. William!) had divided the subject which lie brought before the notice of the Howse that night into three heads ; ' Best, the nature and constitution of the Court of Clitineery—ore. •ondly the formation of the Conurbation at present prosecuting an Ihquiry into the proceedings and practice of the Court of Chancery -end thirdly, the five petitions complaining of delay, which lie 'had laid on The table Of the House. He (the Solicitor-General) would commence with the petitions, respecting which he was glad he hear his Hon. Friend remark that lie would not itaawer for their propriety or accuracy ; but that is his capacity as a Member of Pstliament, he did (as it was his duty to do) introduce times peti *- thins and lay them on the table of that House, lodeld be ermald not disparage theiudetent of his Hon.-140d, by to appomiag tbat his judgment assent to the truth aid' silbstacy d am vs. stated and prayed for in these petitlailit. assiVer amp* • cons rightly, it was best to take them sword* isaaske aboli ;entente. The Bret was from Seem* P the perish or Ncwington , in Surrey ; an in ai niniVer ia ntabilialf- Peet (he meant nothing disrespectful - by the itallieS) sou vary much in the inteyesui of the Hon. Member for eitalltat rained to the Elephant and Castle Clarity. .tuba lamas of which, from the letting of small premiss, vas • i111...1.1. TOY •••• ....., :rents of the pi ! (Elm*, bear, b Dlr. DErttl* d,t brat petitk Mr. J. Shit *on such a q ***admit *bat Vont earn i miad t *lr mait Mkt li of obi i sr ewe NE ~,. .p Mit dit MP 11 -- a - 4 ibrashat TA it**, ow Oil -bait; and in th weld not do in iind Learned Fi thought theTmight offer tention. There was one •Cbancery which was pan dress it was the manner in the Court of Chancery. 'affected minors and lunatic he bad recent experience of petty to a large amount., o years. A person naturally traction to guard against an) from a mistaken managem complain of was that the i eery were placed io the tin purchase at 94 or 95, but i phee to 60. to the great de now money to the amount to the whole of our floatini apd no option was given to eery to dispose of it in any Stable. The Rouse shout the American war : a depri convenience and injury of 'the case of the Duke of erea•e haJ taken pla-T, . . . . . -- "sr.. tilt• . ~,,,~~. each , —.4es stood, - `:°bill e I tt ga Vs cipal cause of the delay.: the matter bed bees stabesqueotly in the elaster's office, and part of the d bad occurred in the pro grats of the case was owing to the of Counsel, who .often procured the pastponemeut of the hewing of causes for their own convenience. It wouldeeem than that the complaint against ' the Court of Chancery consisted in the Lord Chancellor not having given judgment on an informal petition. The next petition was Selo( Mr. lioneywood Yates, who sold an estate five and twenty ifejedego to Mr. Pitman. It subsequently passed into the bands ea gentleman, once a di-tinguished Member of that Reuse, Mr. Ricardo. Mr. Yates sought the recovery oe this property, on the , ground of the sale by which it was disposed of being an unfair one, ' end bp • te l that Mr. Ricardo had, in a codicil to his will, . .. , ,000/. to defend this property, should his title to • Now he (the Solicitor-General) had heard from radio lo judge, who lived in that part of the country, a t ON* Ow _petitioner's forma property was situated, that there tells se Map* whatever for impeaching this sale; and this peti. den was ' as he supposed. merely to throw an sir of Mi di...ea the of chancery, and so induce the public to believe =homeliest geseinge his suit because an opulent individual 11 to appropriate 50,0110!. to defend hie right to tbfp By the introduction of this part of Mr. Ricode's Wit loto .podebis Ms Yates would fain make the public believe wit smell *Wee proeeeute. his claim In the Court of Uleneety. The • petition which the Hon. Member laid before the Haime was heel Mr. Guromow who was one of the legatees claiming under the will of die late Dem of Queenshemy. The Sueenamy CMS sea genets* knows to every pews.. Aa award 1110,01111. of diem bad hems nide* vour of lb.. Delbe of Bac eleuch, and it had been foreleme . .time abatiat the = given by the late Duke of gibee - es" 'a Id stied etreett. . le Sonsidera ble time the lessee awe det deemed valid, amend 0 they claw set aside, and a nil was order to be gloms belless who held them. LI their dairne were settled, end idly tashi:ms =dorms and debts on estate were settled in the of Session in Scot it was impossible for the Lod ' -=hot to make disteibuden serf the property to the legatees, claims could not coma he until prior ones were satisfied • the Chtneellor could not give away the money of other peopl e. Court of Chancery, in consideration of the large amount of *eiwty in its bands, did mere for the legatees than It was boued V 'b. tad% by main a distribution amongst them of a fourth of their V ei , .. legeeies, and not making a large one In order that it in tbe secure having sufficient funds to meet the claims of creditors and ebbnants, whenever those claims should HO. &sided by the Courts of Session in Scotland. Mr. Guentuow, whetted e l of 5,0001. received, as well as the other Legatees, deb pepttt of his legacy t and he had the authority Olin limey, the solicitor for the legatees, to say, that no blame wbstitior was imputed by the legatee to the Court of Chancery for umemelemy , . W hatever delay existed, existed in the Courts of Salim la d, as their decision was netermary before there could 111,4 bleat of the case. In truth, the Court of Chancery went ookof ha way to accommodate the legatees, mid the executor to the Wats mewed him, that he considered the treatment of the cambs Court of Chancery so far front censurable, as highly comment.. The next petition was That of Mr. Gourley, and his answer Mehl was, that it was the petition of a mailman. An H . mid Leen* Friend of his (Mr. Brougham ) had been knacrtz n for not presenting a petition from that individual ; and la ' ' to ii warn his lien. Friend (Mr. Williams), that he, for , fli petition, would stand in the danger of 'similar laugh.) Mr. Gourley was stronger and taller (a la ) r. Hon. Friend ; and although he knew the courage and spirit of his Honourable Friend—although he was fully aware of the animus with which he would resist an attack or insult put upon him— yet he apprehended that he wou ld stand In equal peril with his lie. sou.able and Learned Friend (Mr. Brougham) fo r ii pthoe selddi 'lda Honourable Friend had omitted to do. He deiserUb four of the petitions which had been laid on the - ;be charged them all with Inaccuracy and misrepresentation, and the last - he with direct and positive madness. The last petition wee urged sfalr. ileathcote. His case consisted in being attached fee t putting in au answer to a bill fi led in the Court of Chancery, sad c suffering the imprisonment consequent on that attachragst. his Honourable Friend seek to take away the power of - techment and impriscitunent from the Court of Chancery. net indeed would be a wonderful eureka in the improvements in the administration of law. It, would appear from these petitions that each of the petitioners would require a separate Court of Chancery of his own construcion. lie. fieathcote would say, " I'll have a Court of Chancery that will not have power to attash an individual for disobedience of its directions. I'll have a Court of Chaney that can't imprison a man, or indict punishment upon him." "Fa have a Court of Chancery," says Mr. Guentnow, "that will sot tat any great difficulty in telling tee to have other men's wooer . And " I," says hit. Yates, " wi I have a Court of Chancier; will recover for me my former estate, because an individual rpeoprietor of it left a large sum of money to defend his title at I will have a Cqurt of Chancery that will not pay ang e ic l ; dee to the circumstance of my not renewing my claim to it and-twenty years, and that will allow me to prac tise my lan delay." And Mr. Palmer in his turn, would sayl'll lama Court of Chancery that will decide impost informa l " petitions, and overlooking the right, of others, will deal in wrong es." Ile (the Solicitor-General) would not further notice the of Mr. fiourlay's proceedings iu the Court of Chaossigic: ' would leave his Hun. Friend to consider what description Of the Court of Chancery would be if the construction of It to these petitioners. The contents of these petitions did eNliffilitr nate from his Hon. Friend ; he anxiously disclaimed being *bp* rent of so spurious an offspring. He would no further trespassed their attention with any observations on the pet tons, and well advert to the composition of the Commission, which formed a prin. cipal feature in the speech of his Hon. Friend. Of that Commis. @ion he could say in justice, that they were indefatigible in their labours to obtain the best inf ormation on the several subjects tam which it hail been entrusted to them to inquire. They had had 70 sittings. and had examined forty-five witnesses, and they anxiously sought for every intelligence from every quarter whence it could be, obtained, without favour or distinction. It had been proposed tiel diviie the report of the Commission into two parts--the that ' relating solely to the proceedings in the Master's office, but it was afterwards resolved upon to form a complete report upon that put suit the practice of the Court together. As to the members of the: Commission, omitting himself, who was not, perhaps, a proper judge of his own qualifications, he could not concur in the. sentlinnits which his Hon. Friend had expressed respecting them. His lion. Friend had imputed a want of philosophy , and liberality to them ; but in adverting to the 3lembers of that Commission, is saw amongst the names upon it that of the learned civilian Dr. Lushington, who surely possessed philosophy and liberality—who had every requisite qualification to discharge his duties in the most effective manner; but perhaps his lion. Friend intended that the shot which he had drod at the Commission should not perforate the board that separated him from his Hon. Friend on the bench be low him ; but that it should fly over to the other aide of the 110264 and light on those who surroundmi him. (A laugh.) Ile was hazz bear testimony also to the competent qualifications of oilier el u of the Commission—the Hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. C the Bon Member for Lincoln (Mr. R. Smith) and Lord I= Another member of the Commission had been, he believed, senior wrangler at Cambridge, and he, it might be conceded, pert= reseed some qualifications for the office. Mr. Bell too wa s member—a man WNW- , 1111.71Z5, both as a scholar and a lawyer, It would be quite unnecessary for him to dwell upon; indeed, he might say that every one of the Commissioners possessed such qua lifications for the performance of the duties entrusted to them, as must, in the minds of all those who considered the question fairly and impartially, free them from the imputations which the lion. and Learned Gentleman had Attempted to cast upon them. The Hoe. and Learned Gentleman had gone very much out of the strict Hue of his duty, in arguing as he did upon the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery. That was not the question before them ; they IMO inqdiring into the cause of the delays in the_practice of that Court; and lie would set the Honourable and Learned Gen. tleman right upon that point, by telling hint that for the la. two hundred years, since the dispute between Lord Coke and Ellesmere, there hail rot been a single attempt to question the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery or a single doubt expressed, thee it had ever usurped powers it did not possess. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had, however, threatened them with some pee eroding% on a future day ; till 'hat day, lie (the Solicitor.Geueral) would reserve any further observations upon the point of jurisdic. ' tiorf; but he would beg the Learned Gentleman, before he made that attack, to call to his recollection, that even tinder the moot brilliant times of the Roman Republic, the Senatorian Court had always a distinct controlling power over the inferior common law courts--a privilege to revise their t' cisions, precisely similar to that exercised by our Court et Cuoneery. He would also point out to hint the Coma of Session in Scotland—possessed of the very same powers. al lien therefore, he repeated, that day of wrath comes which the Learned Gentleman threatened. he had better call to memory that in every celebrated State, whether ane•ent or modern, there always had been some division between the Court of Common Law and that Court which decided causes upon a principle of Equity ; and as the Learned Gentl..nan had not, probably reset,. ing himself far that day, told them what he meant to cut off or what he proposed to reserve of the jurisdiction of that Court—as he had left thent in a sort of terra incognita ; he (Mr. %Vetherell) must content himself for the present by saying, that during the whole cf his recollection. told for 200 years before, there MOWN bed been any occasion escept the one he mentioned when dedieristliction had been called :n question. The Hon. Geode sists bed referred likewise to the state of the business of bask misty. That business had reniticiled in the Court of Chancery ebbe the des) s of Queen Elizabeth ; had belonged to its junsdic dos, lie might say, from times immemorial ; but as it was one of tie questions upon which the Commiasiorrers were about to make a Iliport be would not make any observations upon it at present, :=l:saying, that when their Report came to be presented he was would be found that the Commiselonere had done their duty Is Me public faithfully and honourably, and that their statements mewed glee satisfaction. When that Report was presented it would gym easegia be the Hon. and beamed Gentleman to intsedsme He might then say, that the Commissionens bed dielldir dile se that they had done it ill, or that the in. , kfiluldsinib 111 , be a r int a r r tless,.. ligh he CM r i . l ll -m eth ig e h re t il t ) hen wou as h i l l say,i sothmeatthsiunp other re—__ _ .uy was. ..._ . Cbeactiler. at the time when the ierptiry had scarcely commenced: sad whim Honoorable Gentlemen considered the great hnportancert of One Lamed person's services in the Commission, they mus perceive how much time had been lost by his sheenee. The Com a nicks ens had, however, he war bound to my, • meet nexiot Miro nautili the duties consigned to them se It es their other wittestinns "add allow, but heinsti the asset !PIO mow issillestittstions. Me Coniroistlow W ilyillsilild Power& It toad Mt, as the Ifeseerable and Lem MemieMeres (th e Mem ber fbr I*ll,lll his able and %aim Open* t night. go into the eansideradort of the pram t *yam Efadence in the Court el Oratieery. ft had not the pte ose whether ' that systentwee tor wrong. Owe mitt of its wen, to examine ere t practice of the Court—abs Mete owevyllwg on the gs of the Court of %%in eisiewilttieribmi to the proceedings gibe other Cows et deol litellairperi was to determine whether ant sod what fiertiosig Ole rehentillatila of the Chancellor in E etty east be vsmatiniati wren satiny to say other Cburt. It wee thertibewwltelost dint dielttport, even "bar could , not praises on thaw cosset*V by the g e s s ti e :e t ri i rom the her y limited tertrais with *Ma la vested it. And here he begged distinctly to stank that he net mean to say it might not be necessary to mainsails elletstise M the con. stitution of the Court of Chancery ; but thattlis Riposald not, nor could not, touch upon that subject,hem So eity Mane of its objects of inquiry. Small, however, tae IMAM *MS imiebe sown in description, they would be found WINO* as to their results, for they embraced the whole efffieCourt of Chancery, from the first filing of a bill, or spetition. down to the registering of a decree, cant ' d vais misty of infor ,:r. minion, and, he was bound to nay, A rent lied eftwalisdictory evidence. The Honourable and Leersed Osetistsen Ni sill, that it is not in the power of the Coen of Cbsseery *Os per rrieVi swia In ci!esi.tiPenrist;icsdroiefttoan„ii*gett. hi ten tot e ( deo • 4l: i te m i l na ni tsa y ie his ebpallent y to coati the pow* Wof Chancery of directive* lase so a jury when s. mindthaae a wilt of personal prepay, _he, Dr. , WIN WNW to say that such a measure timid be at -with bends to the country. One of the malty benefits which must arise from any alteration of the Chancery moosedings would be the leavening the expettse and difficulties of the transfer of real property! he, (Dr. Lushington) had lately sees the mere abstract of the title to one single estate, which, though drawn out by one of the most honourable solicitors In London, actually filled soo brief sheets, and he actually believed that not one line of that quantity could have been omitted to the perfect security of the title. in the present state of the law respecting property. Ciountry Gentlemen should therefore interest themselves a little more on these questions, for they would find that it was not only the expense of law stomps, but the expense of guarding against litigation, which made the transihr of real property amount - to so large a sum ; there was no reason that he could see why a remedy should not be applied to that evil ; and he thought it was worthy the attention of the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite (Sir. Peel), who had lately set the Legisletors of the country so splendid an example, and entitled himself to the lasting gratitude of the nation for alterations which a few years ago would have been denounced a. jasobinical. (Hear.) Lord Bacon had told them that Time was the greatest of all innovators ; and he thought that when commerce had no altered all the relative situa tions of life, the system of laws which prevailed in former days should not be continued now. He would riot pull down until they were prepared to build up, but he thought that in these times, when they proved a disease they should not be refused *remedy. (Hear.) He was happy that theiesent discussion would not pass without producing some good e , and . he would conclude by declaring that a Commission to r uce permanent and effectual benefit to the country, should be composed of the most eminent lawyers--of tbeablett statesmen—of merchants of every class of society—so as to form a combination of human talent. Such a Commission, in vested with proper powers, might point ought the means of pm curing that desideratum—cheap, easy, and effectual justice. He ' had made no allusions to the past ; he had not imputed blame to those who at present presided in the Courts of Justice; he had endeavoured to point out where they might find a remedy for evil, not how to fix blame upon an indieWual. (Hear.) Mr. 3f. A. TAYLOR said he had many years ago called the attention of the House to the delays of the Court of Chancery, and the proceedings of the House of Lords in appeals, and he could say that he had at last forced the Lords to alter that course which had been for 25 years declared to be pregnant with evil to the suitor, as a Noble Friend of his had asserted in the other Home without contradiction. The great objection to any alteration was, that it would displease a certain individual. Such an objection he would not allow fur a single moment ; he would appeal to the Hon. Gen tleman opposite—he could appeal to the Learned and Noble person (Lord Eldon) himself, whether he had ever uttered an expression of hiin but in kindness' but he must contend that when great evils were proved to exist, the people should be permitted to complain, and claim redress without being said to libel the individual who initialed in the Court which ts the ,abject of their complaint. The country, he would indeed say still farther, was very ill treated whin they did complain, without receiving immediate relief. (Hear.) The flon. Gentleman then observed, that after twelve years strug gle the state of the appellant jurisdiction in the Lords had been altered, and Lord Gifford appointed to preside. Much good had been done by that arrangement; the House of Lords were begin ning, much to their credit, to get rid of all the arrest of appeals, and he would ask why they were not to have the same beneficial alterations extended to the Court of Chancery itself, where theserne abuses were acknowledged to exist, without being supposed to libel the Chancellor, by demanding those alterations, or complaining of his delays. lie happened, unfortunately, to be absent from the debate which occasioned the appointment of the Commission ; but he would have objected to any such Oonmaiesion composed of such persons. Why, who was at the head of that commission ?—the very Individual who the public say ou of " Hear, bear" , which , under its present lit to expedite the business of that Court (Cries I constitution, proves so ruinous to in ividuals. His Hon. and Learned Friend (Sir. IVilliamo hail stated several instances of the evils of the Court, and shown clearly that the system did not work well; he, himself, had known an amicable suit which actually lastedithirty. three years (hear)—an amicable suit too; and it was no unusual thing.cor a suit in equity for 3,0001. to cost 1.5001. even to the successfiii*arty. (Hear.) At'ould the Right Hon. Gentleman 1 (Mr. Peel) opposite, who defended the system, like to be in Chan , cery ? (Hear, anti a laugh.) Would his Learned Friend the Solicitor- General like a suitil in Chancery. (Laughter.) At present, it was true, he had nothing to do but repose after the labours of the day, but it would be otherwise if he was a suitor of the Court. It was otherwise with some of those whom the Learned Gentleman de fended as a Counstl. (Hear.) When lie made his motion there were 220 cases on the paper, and of these four had since been disposed of (so he understood the Hon. Gemleinan), and one was before the Master, and one partly heard ; he could not therefore look upon the Commission as any thing mere than a sop thrown out to teed the people, and lie vdry believed they never could do any good until the whole system was sunk to the bottom. Mr. Palmer, it was said, hail been before the Court five years, in a mere petition upon a Charity. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said (across the table) that the petition had only been properly tiled two years. (Loud cheering.) Mr. TA YLOR continued—these two years, for that was quite enough fur his purpose—two years upon a petition of charity, without any approach of a decision. Ile had known two women who were possessed of a twelve years' interest in some property ; of that property a solicitor had possession; they brought an action of ejectment, but lie contrived so to hang up the proceedings in Chan cery by a writ of error, that one of the women died at the expi ration of nine years' without obtaining any advantage from her in terest, and the other in the same situation About half a year ago. He saw too, upon looking over the paper the other day, that se veral eases which he remembered when he was at the Bar, re mained there still. The grievances in short were numerous. His Hon. Friend had stated them in a fair manly way; a remdy should be granted, and if it was refused he should vote for a Parliamentary inquiry. From the Commission, in his opinion, no good could come ; they had already been sitting thirteen months, and if it be us the Learned Gentleman (Dr. Lushington) had told them, that the Members could not attend, from professional engagements, it was their duty to come forward and state their inability, that others might be named to supply their place. The lion. Gentleman then concluded by observing, that the Country Gentlemen acre too luke warm upon the question, and related an anecdote illustrating that observation, of a gentleman afro wished him to ',resent a petition upon the delays of Cha.icery, but atterwarda withdrew it, from hey ing got Ills business done in the interim. If every one was so selfish as that gentleman, the poor would long have to complain of the tardiness and expense of Chancery proceedings. air. Secretary PEEL, after the able manner in which the question had been discussed, would not have taken any part in the debate, had he not been more than once alluded to by the Learned Gentle. man opposite (Mr. NVilliams). That Honourable Gentleman had intimated that be (Mr. Peel) got the Commission appointed to elude Parliamentary inquiry on the subject of the Court of Chancery. To that lie pleaded not guilty. His wish had always been fur the fullest and most effectual inquiry, and lie runny saw no gond ob jection which could be urged against those who held the present Cornminsion. It was true they were Lawyers, but so al..° were the Ma-there of the inquiry into the Scotch Judicature, - WhiLli he had last night heard called one of the ablest and most impartial that had ever Liken place. Judges, too, to the number ot six sat in that Commission, although the Learned Gentleman seemed to consider them disabled to pronounce any opinions with regard to their own .Court, and yet the Report had been praised, he repeated, by all parties concerned. His opinion of Lawyers ass somewhat higher than that of the LearsM Gentleman, for he thought a conscien tious Lawyer entitled he even more attention upon such a sub „Net, thaw say saber pow. He was sorry that the Commis iebosers holiesoombeeme report, even if it had been of one of the , Master% ellissa, to show ehilaxaething had been done; but when be MIMI that they hatelesttly, in spite of their other numerous MMlSMlliene, sat seventJ tffeOn s 101 szantiaed forty-five witnesses— , =ttle assured the lik. moped no kind of examine at they rejected Sitailtilsoma s and drat it was their intention ise pin& "is iriliq ilis y soldsowee• thought it would be slisiodl. shisliew ouregiell, and that he had not in tended to stop jet imago. their appointment. indeed, Commission directed the Comosimionm to inquire into the practice of the Court, with a view to see whether any part of it could be re moved without detriment so the public. The Honourable and Lamed Gentleman had said, that the law relating to the transfer of reel property was very defective, and ought to be inquired into: But if he (slr. Peel) had included this subject in his reference so the Commissioners, would not the Hon and Learned Gentlemen haws said, that his object for doing so was to withdraw the amoeba of the Commissioners from the practice of the Court of Chao/ow, which was the principal purpose for appointing the Commission IP But let him not be misunderstood on this subject. If the Maloof the law relating to the transfer of landed property were no defective as the Hon. and Learned Gentleman said it was, gin; God's sake let it be altered, whatever might be its antiquity. If the law were such as had been representett, then he would say it wan a disgrace to this country, and ought to be altogether altered. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had no sincerer friend than him self for effecting such an object. But it was not a proper subject for the existing Commission to inquire into. He must confess the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had brought the subject forward in a different tone now than he did last year ; and he i 3lr. Peel) woo in consequence certainly more inclined to attend earnestly to _what the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had to propose. He is on say one word on a subject of importance which had been Weide,. tally touched upon this night--he meant as to the present state of the criminal law. He had no objection to state that it was his intention to proceed with all the various branches of the law in the same way that he had already done with regard to the law relating to Juries, He was anxious to reduce the various Statutes relating to the Cohninal Law into a sort of code, es r ecielly those which at present Mimsl the penalty of death, the number of which, however, had been over-stated. There were about 80 or 100, and not 156, as an Honourable Member had represented. An Honourable ,Baronet (Sir M. W. Ridley) had given notice of a motion to brae a Commission appointed to inquire into the whole body of the Criminal Law. He did not differ in the least with the Honourable Baronet in the principle of the measures, but be thought it would be better that each subject should be taken up separately. He had reason to doubt whether the appointment of a General Commission would be the best mode of proceeding on so complicated a subject. If the lion. Baronet would. therefore, postpone his motion, and let him proceed as he had done with the Lew of Juries, he thought the object of the Hon. Baronet would be more effectually answered. He was certainly of opinion, that the Criminal Law ought to be taken up first ; and he should have no objection to reduce it to what might be termed the Criminal Code of this country. He thought this the best opportunity of throwing out these observation's, and to assure the Honourable Baronet that his only anxiety was, that, as the laws of the country were considerded to require revision, the best mode of doing so should be adopted. Mr. HUME said, before the question was put, he was desirous of pointing out to the House what he considered to be a very ne cessary subject of reform. (The Hun. Gentleman then read a long passage from a work written by Mr. Miller on the nature of the offices of the Court of Chancery, the whole of which cost between 200,0001. and 300.0001. a year, and a great number of which offices were nothing more than sinecures.) The Members ought to begin here, and do away with such a source of uncoestitutional influence possessed by the Lord Chancellor. Sir M. W. RIDLEY said that after what had fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Peel), he certair.ly should feel dis posed to relieve himself from the task he had undertaken, by con senting to the proposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman, and withdrawing Ins motion for the present Session, reserving to him self the right of bringing it forward next Session should it appear necessary. Mr. PEEL begged not to be misunderstood. Ile did not object to the principle of the Hon. Baronet's motion, hut only as to the mode of carrying it most effectually into execution. Mr. ROM:MUSE said the exertions of the Right Hon. Gent. (Mr. Peel), in the reformation of the laws, had already entitled him to the gratitude of the country. lie thought the task could not be in better hands, and if he persevered in the same improving course, he would only add to the high reputation he had already acquired throughout the country, and throughout Europe. (Hear, hear.) There was one question he wished to ask. He had heard that certain informations had been filed by the Commissioners of Charities; he should like to he informed what progress had been made in those informations, anti also what had been done by the Commissioners. This question hail been put by many individuals : people said to him, what has been done in consequence of your friend Mr. Brougham', great exertions respecting public charities ? He honed the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Peel), or some other Hon. Member, would give him some information on the subject. Mr. BROUGHAM said that it was in his power to answer tbs. =of his Hon. Friend as to the operations of the Commis. appointed to inquire into public charities up to a certale Nage; but his information beyond that fell abort. There was a Metter that divided light from darkness, beyond which he could net :he meant the Court of Chancery. As to the proceedings le that Court there was a Cimmerian mist which would not admit his sight to penetrate; but the duties of the Commissioners he could speak of. NVhat had been done by them was very voluminous and very valuable. The accumulation of their labours formed, he believed, twelve or thirteen very thick and unshapely folios. He could not say he had read them all through ; but he had looked at several of them. The duties of his profession would not admit of his reading and digesting so many bulky vo lumes ; but from what he had seen, he ought, in justice to the Gen tlemen !engaged, to say, that the Commissioners appeared to have made a very great and valuable progress in their inquiries. They had, with extraordinary diligence and research, ascertained facts that were previously unknown to the world ; they had made in quiries into a great number of Charities, and bad traced them to , their origin through all the labyrinths of many years' abuses. If their progress were not so great as might be wished or expected, it should be stated that the Commissioners had many more difficulties and retardments to encounter and overcome, than were at first ima gined or anticipated. The information, however, which they had already obtained, was of infinite value and of infinite curiosity. Nothing had escaped their vigilance; and much which was con tained in the volumes forming the result of their labours was particularly Mterestirr n: to those who delighted in antiquarian re search, and he could hope that the very Important facts that had been discovered, and which would form an a 'reeable portion of the history of this country, would not be withheld from the world. An observation had been made that night that Commissioners WON good for some things ; he considered that the truth of this °beer vation was fully established by the volumes of Reports of these Commissioners. But although he perfectly agreed in the opinion that for the purposes of inquiry, where much communication ne. cessarily took place with various persons in various parts of the ern pire, and where remote facts were sought to he ascertained, the ap. pointment of a Board of Commissioners was highly serviceable, , and perhaps better adapted for the object than any other mode; yet when the object to be attained was of an abstract nature, which had nothing to do with making inquiries, such as the consolidas don of the statutes, or where anything in the nature of &bride" ment, or to speak more generally, where the duty to be per. formed was that of working upan any given materials, either in the digesting of the present law or forming a new one ; there he eon. ceived the work would be much better entrusted to the hands of in dividuals. In any such duty be thought a board of Commissioners would rather impede than accelerate the object, as so many opi. Mons and feelings would be almost unavoidably productive of great hindrance and delay. He should therefore much rather confide 'such a task to the unimpeded and uninterrupted labour of one man, whose individual and undisturbed application was, in his judgment, a much better way for digesting a statute, although a Comaussion might be better calculated to extract and collect matter for legisla tion. Now as to the volumes on the table of the House, be con. sidered that they eontainedinuch information, which had been hither tolost to the country. With regard to the result of the Commission he was quite certain that much good might be done to the country. It had been his province to bring in two Bills, the one relating to education, and the other to regulate public charities. lle had seen in the count of the first two years of the labours of the Coinmis , abusers, ma, facts on which to found a legislative enactment. But what with the opposition of one portion of the House against one of the tiro Bills, and that of another portion against the other, it was found that he had no chance of carrying either, and he pur posely desisted from attempting to do so, because he thought he ' might have don: mischief. With regard to his co.:duct in ref:rence to this subject lie begged to say a few words. He had been so often attacked and charged with having first brought the question of public education forwarcLand then of having abandoned it, that he trusted the House would allow him to explain the reasons which had influenced his conduct, and which he hoped would show how littlehe merited those attacks. Her Majesty the late Queen having determin ed to appoint him to conduct her cause in the House of Lords, and it being at that time the opinion of several that no Member of this House could attend there in the character of Counsel on such an occasion, lie had resolved to quit his seat in the House of Corps twins for the purpose of devoting his whole time and thoughts le her Majesty's interests. But having previously undertaken the task of conducting the question of public education and public chari ties, and ea it was uncertain, when once a Member left the House, whether he would return to it again, he, notwithstanding a very impaired state of health, and an uncanuing demand of other duties on his attention, suspended all hit other proceedings for forty-eight hours, for the sole purpore of collecting together his ideas upon those,two questions, and it would be in the recollection of many that lie came down to the House, and in a speech that somewhat wearied their attention by its unusual length, expounded the subject as wail as his ability would admit, with great labour to himself, and it was then that he brought in the two Bills. He, however, experienced a very extraordinary opposition at that time from a quarter which he had least expected t the Mem- ' beat who ranked on the aids of the Dissenters were particu- I lardy opposed to one of those Bills. Instead of persisting in his efferts to that opposition, lie yielded to their prejudices, hoping that time and reflection would have their usual consequences, and remove those obstacles which their fears had raised ; and trusting that a full and free discussion of the subject out of doors would have its due effect upon their minds, and that before long they would have met him half way, and would have informed him which of the two Bills they would esesent to take. But lie had certaioly been in some degree dlaappeinted in Dot haying been invited by them to proceed. He, however, had not thought it advisable to bring in the Bets again, because he was afraid of hurrying matters, lest he should excite atresh those anfoundod adiees ni which timee mi g ht scarcely yet haves Wiwi, elellerds be hogged to .aisofo -4ho Mom he had by no mom leen to the tinkled t hie opinions respecting the expediency of seine Nish laesnosarmitiondopold ' were still the same, thew. bora Ai 100 , lose sight of it. He h ad atitinmod ihh or-Pionlibill es die I:ns to , in order to remove any offiseffiest inegeensidineffing 'NO, have been entertained as to the inodisos of his otominst. In ad vert in g to the utility of the Ceedolisaielk he knew, Ind he was sure, that his Honourable Friend Ob. 111lor for Weseetimeter, kir. Hobliouse) would be muck plena tabor ft, that is dm way of prevention only the labours of MON Commissioners Ind already produced the greatest and man Wedeln( effects to RIO lowan. The very fact of such a Otionduloo being In oniultalme hid alarmed many who had till then boos moat gionalp soisoshig and abusing the funds of public *Ada& Blokige balm !ng when the Commissioners w ooM ants, in *OR geodes, those who bad been In the cesmam add WI* of abusing these charities, bad set their boor la . -pospaessi themselves in the best manner they could to meet dmir judges. 3lany had commusicated to him information which ended most materially to accelerate the inquiries of the Commies he had received letters of the most satisfactory and pleas* ~ the perusal of which had given him very great plignme, iroot per sons, some signing their names and others an yew stat e d that from mere ignorance they hid misa)tylied and heat other for consience' sake, informing him that they bed an. ticipated the visits of the Commissioners, and Wading dot volun tarily which they felt apprehensive they should isdinowina hors been compelled to do; and then communicable dnd ll* neigh - boors had not done the same (far conscience* mks, 11‘110= 1 ). (a laugh) and giving such information respectdair ir . as proved of the greatest service. El& Alt WON Vl/14 of those abuses which had not been actual, issvostigand had been reformed, from the apprehension of thu applaiadt of such an investigation. There yes • osiggestine which he would beg to make, as he conceived if Intd would be of in. finite utility. He could not expect the Cbmgissiotaers individually to read through the whole of the report of thoilnossolgediank but although it was not a very practicable task for any pens to read through a huge volume of a thousand or so papa, pat it was very easy to divide such a book, and apyteopriate ID or SO paw to oath. He wished therefore that each of the Commissioners would take KWIC certain portions of those volumes--for instance, a curtain county, or part of a county, in which the Charities exisewl—und .get that part printed and circulated in the thighboodkeil Of this. Charities. This would soon get Insertioh in the ceiebor'pepers, and the people would then learn what and where *ere the public institutions, the benefits of which they were entitled to. Such a mode would in effect be better than even the plan of regis tering title deeds to an estate. In the latter ease persons were obliged to go to the register o ffi ce, and there pay a shilling in order to see the title deeds which were enrolled ; but if the course he re cotninended were to be acted upon, every man would be able to go 'the county paper office, and en paying sixpence or sevenpence, Mown at once what was his title and his property. This was in his view of the caw a very proper and necessary method to be pursued. As his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hobbouse) would, perhaps, not be dn. posed to read through the whole of the 13 volumes folio of the Reports, he (Mr. Brougham) would inform him that there was (as we understood) an Index, showing the counties in which inqui ries had Seen made, the name and number of the charities which had been examined, and the nature of thole charities. He would now answer, as well as he could, the question of his Honour. able Friend, as to the informations that had been filed, in con sequence of the labours of the Commissioners. He was afraid. by the by, that his was a very long answer (hear, hear); but it was MK quite so long as an answer in Chancery (a laugh), for his would shortly have an end, whereas that never ended. (A laughs .) He was now then arrived at that awful gate into whiat he lie should never tinter—he meant the gate of Chancery. (A la ugh.) It might be well described as the gate of darkness, and through oed which no light ever entered. There had been, he understood, about 27 informations filed by the Commissioners. Many of them had been filed several years, but none, he believed, had been brought to a hearing. He was at a loss to know the caste of this; the delay could not be on the other side, for he had been told that answers had been put in by the parties to many of the bills several years ago, and yet their cause had not been heard. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL here addressed Mr. Brougham across the table, and said that some of the causes bed been heard. ' Mr. BROUGHAM.—He was glad to hear it : but still many of the moat important ones had not. This, however, was but the steal course of that Court, and they were only taking pot luck with all the other unfortunates in that unhappy region. (A laugh.) He should conclude his observations by stating his opinion re awning the result of the Commission which had been obtained by Rio Roo. and Learned Friend (Mr. J. W iiiiitint) to inquire into the abases eel delays of the Court of Chancery. That opinion 11116, that the answer which his Hon. and Learned Friend would receive would be very unsatisfactory. If he were to say otherwise, he was sure that his Hon. and Learned Friend (the Solicitor-General), whose powers of countenance were very great, would nevertheless be un able to hold it if he (Mr. B.) were seriously to say that he expected any benefit to result from that Commission. Whet they were do. ing he hardly knew ; it seemed that they were got into Chancery like their clients. (Laughter.) He remembered that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman (the Solicitor-General), when speaking of the Catholic Bill, objected to the clause which appointed a Commis. shim of Prelates to regulate the correspondence between Ire. land and the Pope. " Why," said the Solicitor-Gement), " the persons you propose to appoint are parties interested in the very abuses you wish to control. They are Catholic Bisho, whose interests. would netestearilyfavour any corresponden ce with t he Pope. To appoint therefore such a Commission, would be just as absurd as if my Right Hon. Friend who sits near me, (meaning the Chancellor of the Exchequer)—ft was very odd that he should mention a Chancellor-(a laugh)—having had his con duct questioned, a Commission should be appointed to inquire into the charge, consisting of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secreta of the Foreign Affairs, and the First Lord of the Treasury. " What", asked the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman, " would be said of such a Commission ?" Why, his (Mr. Brougham's) newer would be that it would be very absurd, and extremely unsatisfactory, and most monstrous; but still it would not be half so absurd, nor half so unsatisfactory, nor half so mon. strous, as If it were proposed to put the Chancellor of the Exche quer (hear, hear,) at the head of the Inquiry; but who would ever expect any such a Commission to be appointed, or if appointed, any real good to result from it; and yet that was exactly the nature of the Commission of his lion. and Learned Friend, which had been appointed to inquire into the practice of the Court of Chancery and the abuses thereof, and see whether the abuses, if any, were the fault of the system or of the man. And who was that man ? ‘Why, John, Lord Eldon. And who was the man ap pointed to superintend and conduct this inquiry ? Wby, the same John, Lord Eldon. To say after this that he was disap pointed in the result of the labours of such a Commission would be erroneous. It was not possible for him to be disappointed, for be expected nothing, and he had got exactly what he expected, and be could not get less. Something had been said about the Scotch Commission, which was a very different sort of thing certainly, because there the Commission was composed of men who were competent judges of the subject, and who were not interested in the decision they should come to ; and, above all, a very able man superintended their inquiries, and that was the Lord Chancellor. (A laugh.) He thought no one was better qua lified than that Noble and Learned Lord to conduct such a Com mission, although he did net consider him the best and }Weft person to inquire into his own conduct. He must do that Noble Lord justice, for he had a very high respect for him. (Loud laughter.) His talents and his subtlety of mind were very great ; he knew no oue who possessed • more acute and penetrating intellect. If he (file. Brougham) were a Judge, or a subordinate o ffi cer in any other Court, either in England, rebind, or Scotland, and his conduct was to be investigated, he did not know any man he would rather not have to make that investigation .than Lord John Eldon. He was the most suitable inquisitor—the tgost acute and penetrating intellect he knew of, and a man who spared no one but himself (hear, hear), so rigidly unyielding was he. But it was unreasonable to expect that he would exercise these peculiar talents on himself, and become his own judge. There was but one Instance of such a piece of self-condemning justice, and that was s Catholic one. (Laughter.) It was recorded of a certain Pope, who having taken cognizance of all his dreadful crimes, passed sentence upon himself, and decreed his own auto dill a. His words were " judico me crimine, et judicatus fait, et absolutus felt sanctua." But it was not to be expected that such an cr umple was to be followed in the present day. Nothing else but a desire on the part of the Chancellor to become a saint in after-times could induce lihri to act as this holy Pope had done. He (Mr. Brougham) was, however, afraid that the Noble and Learned Lord had so strong an esteem fur his estate, as tenant for life (a laugh), that it would snake him neglect his reversion in • saintship. (Much laughter.) The Petitions werd then ordered to be brought up and read. Mr. J. 'WILLIAMS replied. He sail that with reliant to what would be done by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's (Mr. Peel's) commission, he would express what he had to say in three words, which were—" we shall see." What had beets said about Farmer was not the fact. He denied that he had selected eases to bring forward to the House ; he might have adduced much stronger ones if he had thought proper. The question was now loudly called far. The petitions were then ordered to be !winced. CORPORATIONS IN IRELAND. Mr. GRATTAN moved for lists of all persons admitted into corporations in Ireland from the Ist January, 1812, distinguishing whether by birth. service, or ment.—Ordered. LUNATIC ASYLUMS (IRELAND.) On the motion of Mr. GOULIWR N the House resolved itself into a Committee, in which Resolutions were carried prepa ratory to the introduction of a Bill ro amend the Ist and 2d 01 George IV., respecting the funds for providing for ,Lunatic Asy lums in Ireland, so as to enable the Lord Lieutenant to grant sods sums as from time to time should scent necessary for this parpole• the said sums to be repaid by the several counties in which the Asylums were situate. The House resumed, and the Chairman reported. C'OTTON .'il ILLS. On the motion of Mr. Ift MUM:SE, the House resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill for limiting the hours of labour ot children in cotton mills. Mr. HOBHOUSE addressed the Committee at some length, and in the course of other observations stated, that there was no wade which worked so many hours as the children in the cotton mills. It was with extreme surprise and grief that he perceived any epee sition to whet •ppearec to his mind one of the most reasonable and moderate prc that ever Game before that House. He had a° —. ' r .1.11 t:i iiittEl'l6ll s. .. . ' _...,•va1 - - - - - - 4.P' - • • ails year. The matey was to be laid out in the education e ebileiikaad Relent for the day was** rid thereof, and sit down 'by decluring, The Honourable and Learned Gentleman (lift. J. Williams) bad, gm- a di ff erence Sf opiates arose in the f a m ish as soda beat meesal that the four petitions pre sen ted that night were the most deceitful, with much ability. contended that the inquiry which he (Mr. Peel) eto applying this money. The two parties in the perish not unfounded, delusive, and improperly fabricated petitions that bad had proposed, would be a waste of time ; and he had also complained ill. on this point, applied to the Vice Chancellor. It mole e . ever been laid upon the table of that lino‘e. that the terms of his motion for an inquiry had been consider- , fir by appeal before the Lord Chancellor, and in the paitiod Dr. LUSH INOTON, in accounting** the delay in the main- ably limited by the tams of his (Mr. Peers) minim. He bed, k e . ND- in that Court, no mention was made of a claim which the ellig ;alien , laid. th e Waite moat bear in mind that th e Commission , one however, referred to the terms of the Commission, and had found he Chapter of Canterbury had upon the premises that pie Ai % Measurable Gentleman, the Member foe Liecnin alone excepted, them hi be as extensive as those proposed by the Honourable and Clay come to the Charitk odes th4er them cleettinstaneesi the Cbanall.o teas sakly composed of persona holding important professional si. Learned Gentleman. They were at least quite as comprehensive. ear, refused to earl& is thk bdberselisetisien, and peetpeasi Mielleak sad abet IL wee dwellers utterly impossible that they The object of the inquiry of the Commissioners was, es to the form At. until the auras al she pep sod Clam[ el Canterbury. who could attend, without serious injury to the public business, in earl. of the proceedings from the commencement of a suit to its close. rhe mil‘ht aftermei" peg is their dam foe 3 e of the site on sue Ceerta ofJnltiee. (Hear, hear, from Mr. Williams.) An. This appeared to him to be as full as the circumstance required, or, l a which the proakas steak Aral be obtained, was the prin. I ree rem for the delay was, the unfeetenete illness of the Vice. indeed, as it could be. But was that all ?—By no means : the ~~ Amok .tTr.r~ -pia/ *I 110 1 0 4 41 inismil IN& em as stair it Os Ma lion Tiro ri at mai who pup the at:a " elfl =IN apt alarms :vadat Nadia's@ i sessivad al fors Wllm las ham* he M har k and it 1)1111 iliminutbe and activity Mr. /il entering int tied in inter qestion of g not then el the same tin had been 1 strictness. any one soil hours each after a deli upon, and tl the period halation, tt Even in the labour, and they were to give relief, terence. Mr. WM already had New Lanari persons were died their we overwork. 1 deration of ti free labour tl ao pay to the 'night be co worked a err Indtev. Th( one felt more tained that ti to the nodes of diminishir how it could Mr. Secret, 'Gentleman ti gating the to anxious, by b proposed ground °libel b• much me Commission Committee co Wei which tl distinguish b that it frequer was a temptat by declaring, was that the h prejudicial to the protection free-labourers. be conducted b Mr. TULIK considered as fi favour it, fie st to those origins minister, as he tient, and that opinion of mar mills of Mooch hours a day in period one hour hood of this and not attended to amendment, du instead of twelve Sir F. BURT by the Honoura Bill. Mr. PHIL]; nation of the 31 body might be 1 R 18,900 l a yea Intng their ou ery relrect. testimony of sot way in which th also that the evil polite ; and of t that one of the! epfnion the Hou Injure the manta advantage over n Mr. TLTLK e Mr. GORDO children in rhos chiefly of their It as free agents. an on their behalf. we should act wit tuns from the int Mr. HUMUS! posed the Amend not think that aft , Burdett) he wou had no interest in nicated with any .founded on what Mr. TULK the Lard STA NLE Manehes:er, and o sobjeet had h;en r he thought the pri to the cotton spiny health of the child 19:1 nr that the state titionan were dire Member (Mr. Tull Mr. TRA NT 0 Mr. HUM E dep IlMwsure originated this mantle. the The clauses were GRANTS the Rgtor TO ord The House then The CHANCE! Hill fee making a 'Highness the Duke Ur. HUSIE obj A1?-nber for Wine •mlemen, who hi The CHANCEL • been perfectly well I posed to-night. Sir J. SEBRIG stage. Mr. S. RICE ti Member (Mr. Bros reading. and seven reading. The Bill was rem elms is Thursday n The CHANCEL Bill for making a pr et her Royal /Lem It wee read a first 71.4.47. arr. Humusso: enbrrieed, the Ai next more 1111 of Geo. 1. other Orders $12 . 27 . red a t r.