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which the case could be allied, why, he would ask, vies an in junction granted in the first instance? Why this interference of Count of Equity with Courts of Law ? By the statute of Edward the Sixth it was enacted " that no matter determinable in the law courts of the realm should be entertained before any other tribunal" This tyranny and domination of equity over the law of England should cease. If there was an at cumulation of business in the Court of Chancery, and if delays did exist, to the great inconveni ence of the suitors of the Court, it might, upon inquiry, appear that these delays in the regular hueinesa of the Court arose from this species of interference, which ought to be discountenanced and • date. nnct line drawn and observed between the duties of (Puns of Law and of Equity. (Hear, hear.) The gemleman to whom he al luded had been thus left, after a recorded verdict in his favour, as though it had not been pronounced at all. Ile would next advert to a case which the lion. and beamed Gentleman (the Solieitor- Genteel) would not forget, who he was glad to see in hi. present place, whether he wet meted to it by special appointment or not. It met the nom of Cobb se lord !Maniere The delai there arose merely out of an interlocutory proceeding--out of tine of those dayertrinnents which ore occasionally got up, alternately " to please and tease" the suitors of the Court. This was a case which oc curred in 1812, and he should be bore out by the lion. and Learned Gentleman (the Solicitor-fiercest), if a wonderful forget. fulness had not lately conic over him, in the correctness of his state ment. It had been forty times in the paper, and although the in terlocutory matter, which was formal and unimportant, had been disposed of, yet judgment on the essential pious of the case was still depending ; the body of the case had been i e of. It remained sell for judgnient, and might remain so until a more ser:otts slay of judgment ehrealel arrive. (Hear. hear, anti a laugh.) The last ease to which he 'Mould refer was pee which sould de ether in all its branches the abuses he had compliannt of, and powerfully illustrated the potations he had ;terrain...ly laid down. It was • case to whirls he had partially re'e-red before; it wax one, he believed, that was well known—" Pena r. Middleton." A bill was filed in 1791 in this suit ; it was for the production of cer tain accounts of an othee, on which there happened to be a wind mill, and this wind-mill was me the least prominent or important part of the property that formed the subject of litigation. The suit had commenced in 179.1. and on a reolonable and moderate expectation, it might have been expected to terminate at furthest slat. 17116. But it remained slumbering in the Master's office until 1015. Ile would not make this a subject of com plaint against the Master's office; for he was not p repared to say that in the intermediate tittle the subject had been discussed or revived, or that the case wax one, the urgency of which demand ed that it should be speedily disposed of. He aeributed its slum bering then an long to the dormant nature of the Court of Chancery. lie would recommend that a Rapper should be kept for the Cmart, in order tie awaken the many suits that were long destined to sleep there, unless reemiree were had to smite such expedient. (.1 laugh.) Before the case had nearly arrived at a termination, the wind-mill which bad since dimppeamil, and of the site of which scarce a n:e. motial remained, bad since become quite interirovra and connected with this well-known case, to the history of which it was as impor tant as the siege of Troy was to the Pied. When the litigation had advanced so far as 11118, it was not worth the paper with which the wordy litigants carried on their warfare. It owed its celebrity principally to the circumstance of having concerted intn a caricature the Coon of Chancery. The caricature was painted in Chichester, *Lich place the flea. and Learned Gentleman opposite fermented, and therefore he nom be able to know how nearly its inhabitants approach the Beano) character. The Court of Chancery was re presented as this wind-mill, pervious to all the winds; the inha bitants of Chichester were placed in view of it ; it was addreseed to the Bar, and had underneath the appropriate motto, "Sire jedice fie eq." (A laugh.) The lion. and Learned Gentleman opposite (the Solicitor General) produced it himself in Court on one occasion, in the year 1818, to the eosins!' discomfiture of the gravity of the Courtsof Equity, which was not to he wondered at, considering the effects which thew Conies reduce upon the country. (A laugh.) In 1817 two exceptions bud been taken to the bill filed in this suit, the decision of which left the main question undecided. The Hon. and Learned tlentleman then read a bill of coyest, continu ing from the year 1817 to the yen 11122, during every term of each sucensive year. The Chancellor had frequently promised judge. went M the course of the litigation, and the lion. (lentleman ex. cited much pleasantry In enumerating the various instances in which his Lordship postponed judgment. Ile enumerated also the various items charged for the attendance of solicitors, for re. tirenees to masters, far the tieing of counsel in the argument on those exceptioes, and other law expenses, the itetns of which amounted to Mil. Thus they were thirty years passing through stages of the proceeding, and, for the sake of dramatic effect, they would take fifteen years before the third and final act was coin. plated, by which time either judgment would be obtained, or the whole of the litigated property would fall into that Charybdis of Chancery, the dead-fund. After such cases ax these Is hail cited, would it be said that there., not exist justifiable grounds of complaint foe delay ? Let miefidence miser —let dexterity evade, and hardy firmness horsy,--here stood proofs and dectinients of his anertiona, canspicutrus gad unremoved. (Cheers.) it had betel asked, when this subject was Steiner brought forward, what system he would substitute for that at present in operation ? It WitS not to be expected that asysatiefactory system could be proposed by him, who wax aimaileaet ignorance of the subject, however he endea voured to make asp, by dili e enee anti attention to it, what he might be otherwise deficient in. He war not prepared, use any person be expected to be so, to say what schefne koiad to adopt; such& scheme, to be satisfactory, could only be the It of the inquiry he courted. (Hear, hear.) Waving any to pl: suggest a scheme or system, he would throw out a fferi n =a, which., in the eanskieration of the subject, might not be a - ins of notice, The llou. •M ember for :Milberg (Mr. J. Smith) tau night adverted to the stamp duty, and in the proposing of the reductioa of that impost, Ile coincided in opinion with him. This was a nainoe_rievance to others. There wax a practice in the Register's ()flke, in the return of the orders, to introduce into them the bill and newer to which they referred. The mandatory part was very brief, and contained in a small compute. The introduc tion of the bill and answer here greatly augmented the expenses, and was unnecessary, for there wax • rented of them already in the Court. Lord Kenyon had ...aid, when he was Master of the Rolls, nary weed in such documents cost the suitor a shilling. There it tt ninety folios in each of three dectiments, and only six of them ed of relevant matter. There were but ninety words in each and thus each one of these folios that were relevant, ax well as thogreater part of them that were not an, amounted to the ex. erisitant charge of 21. Ma upon the sultan of this Court. This was &charge that could not be justified on any equitable principle. Ile supposed that upon 'hie es on all other subjects, his informs ton was incorrect; lie understood, however, that the charge at the office was three shilling'', though the price of the stamp was bat feurpence. Ina cause of Chinnery and Chinnery, the poor and very wretched widow was desirous of proceeding as administranix to her Intsband, and she was advised by her respectable solititee not to proceed, as the order would surpass, in point of expense, the amount to which, under her husband's will, die was entitled. Vet they were told that there was no grievance. no delay, no suffering in the Court of Chaticery. ' l'he next matter to which he shoed call the attention of the Ileum wee to the occurrences in the Man. tea office, with respect to what were termed the Master's report. Wheel a direction was given in the abater to take an account be. tweet luigating parties, the object wax to intone the Court what was the state of the property of the deceased. Here again he was credibly laureled. that when the report ass funaehed, not only did it onnain what wes the state of the property, but a schedule was appended, cuotalniug every article of property of which the deceased died posaeseed, from the most valuable down to his pail of dippers. (A laugh) 'rhea: reports cost generally RV. not asides* AIL sommintes atif. and men 484, and not a little of this dente seemed to him, with the Imperfect light that he posgesW , incurred for no other purpose than to perplex the suitors el that Court. lie had no doubt that until Some interference with the system commeicol, tidier there or else. where, these thinge would continue, ax far as the Court itself via concerned, so permanent ' , coned to all the tenure by which the Noble Lord preserved his officinl station. It was a mere vi sionary expectstitin to fancy that that Court would ever reform a nti--a unlike the notion of the hair-brained knight, that hie wire would starve hituecifto death when his back was turned. Ile was told din a practice was now nual among the abater' of that ileemseable Court ifs issue forth their warrants to four different an liciten eentainti at the same time. If they all obeyed the warrant, the comognence of their punctuality was, that • scene of unsung and hotelmen and, sometimes, even more active hostilities arose, in order to amain whet was termed a free audience. Ile was told that many of the solicitors were thus disappointed, end many such n outrage peered away inoperatively. 'Po set himself right with a reepenalde body of men—to densunstrate as it were that the odici. tune had no interest in `• the law's delay"—to rescue them front any weekend regard tat the administration of law as it was there 'ulna estered, be would state one or two circumstances. At the com mencement of a CIIIIV, tied in its cute , stages, she solicitor was compelled to nuke heavy advances: the payment of coma eel,' fen, kw instance, in itself often no telltale amount;—if, et :acne, he was to bo kept out of his money till the canoe was huts!, which mount a period of 211 or SO years he would either have the phaeure at working for fleabite.; at all, or IMP land charge something snore than that to which he was *tried, emitted: hut if, with a scrupulousness which In of • too reinantie character easily to expert, and whirls was in truth mere romantic then henna, the ',theater charged merely that to which in strictness he wee entitled, then would not he not tie half paid, aid therefore it followed that he was not interested in those delays. Ile thought it right to env Mita touch in vindication of • most respectable body of 111L11. These were the mere details of the ' question. Ile dunda now advert to nee of twit subjects Of a more' general mature, which it was tit should be deliberately investigated, Ana by that be meant not at the emcee-mon of official permeates__ not by the opinions of men interested in the present delays—but by the universal opinion tat both parts of the prukesion. Ile approach- i ad cow the ominoualy phrased part of the rase, called the dead-1 weight, amounting at prevent to the SUM of 200.001.11. above one mil. hon. He was aware that by Act of Parliament s• nut' part of that sure was appropriated • but wish reference to future antes, it Wight tat be subjected to deli berate inquiry whether, with reference to this' :end, some more expealitirsus way of giving waiters relief :night not be deviled. lie thought that Me Accauntant-Coceral should tome ocenitmal notices from hie office concerning the WIC • of 'lint turd ; but he pretended rot to Say miser at lament Ilan that it was • subject well meriting inquiry. Again on the subject of bankruptcy : on that point he was certainly of opinion that there shnuld be orer the department of bankruptcy a jut-indiction detached from the duties of the Lord Chancellor, and tor this reason--the pt.' formance of that duty commenced its modem times; until the time of Curd Nottingham there had beet: no in terference at all by tile haled Chancellor in such cases ; fur three eueesative Chancefawships there had arisen not mere shun twenty. one instances is which such an interference took place. It was not timid Lard Hardwickea time that tliejurholiction eeterided, and it wax • jurioliction not to be justified by mated principles more than at was by salient precedent. On the subject of appeals, he had spoken of it as an upper from the Lord Chancellor in one Court to his opinion in another. It wan what his HOll. and Learned Friend, the Member for Winebelies (Mr. Broughau), had on a former occasion, in classical language, or rather in classical allusion, termed an appeal from Cesar to Cesar, a if he (Mr. Brougham) would excuse him, an appeal from Phillip to Phillip. The ancient appeal from Phillip drunk to Phillip sober was well underloond. It was an appeal from outrage and excess to calmness and consi deration and humanity. Therefore the appeal from Phillip drunk to Phillip sober he could understand, hut he undo' not understand an appeal from a Lord Chancellor sober to a Lord Chancellor equally sober. Indeed the tendeaey of such a system had been ' completely anticipated by the Right Hots. Gentleman opposite ( 3lr. Secretary Canning) when he ventured to predict that II was only another addition to the sufferings of a patient, who had already (wen bled through the Court of Chancery. The event had proved the correctness of the Right I lon. Gentleman's anticipations. One hundred and forty-four causes were set down to be heard when the V ice-Chancellor wax appointed ; there were now one hundred and four appeals, and in II:23 there were one hundred and nine appeals. There was another subject to which the attention of the House had frequently been called, and which abundantly deserved to be consi dered. lie meant the separation of the political front the judicial character of the Lord Chancellor. In the first place, in the misfit of an argument in which the fortune of an individual was concern_ el, he had to spring frosts the Bench to take into consideration vs subject in which the interest of the whole nation was engrossed. The consequence of such interruption hail frequently been deplored by the Noble and Learned Personage. was clear that forgetful.' ness must ensue, and then the very revival of the 'subject implied a loss of time. But independently of this consideration, lie asked. if such unceasing panegyrics were passed upon the Constitution—if it were true, as it wax supposed to be true, that the Judges only wanted to be relieved front the influence of the Crown to be ren dered independent, and that such relief had wisely been given to them—what was there in the case of the first Judge of the land to render it different? Why, it true with respect to other and inferior Judges, was it not true with respect to the lord Chan calm ? I Ilion that point he, however, offered no opinion ; he only asserted that the subject was fit for consideration and inquiry. He was now about to bring his arguments to a conclusion ; and he was desirous very shortly of considering the charges which, during the last Session, had been brought against him. It was said by his llion. and Learned Friend, now the Solicitor-General, that all the eases he had produced came from one single office-one solitary offirifia, as he classically termed it. (A laugh ) He had endeavoured to improve by experience, and he had produced that night no one case from that office, and no two from the same. (Hear.) It had then been said by the Noble bud, at that time his 3fajorsty's At torney-lieneral (Baron Gifford), that the praise which he had be stowed was censure and sarcasm, and reserved, like the sting in the tail of an epigram, for the conclusion of his speech. The Noble Baron, too, added, that if he could suppose any compliment FIN. ceeding front hint (Mr. William.) could be pleasing to the Lord • Chancellar, It was a very ignorant miscalculation. I have, said ' Mr. Williams, therefore been most cautious of giving the Lord' Chancellor such offence. I have studiously abstained from men tinning his name from the commencement of my address to the present moment, nor will I. Li laugh.) lf, therefore, for the , I sake of dexterous practice,an argutnent were now put in that shape, ! it would neither have the effect of novelty not the merit of fact. ((dear.) He owned he was at a loss to discover what went the ob.' jections to inquiry. Suppose it should turn out, on this inquiry, due as it was to the country, that the machinery was perfect, but the agents incompetent, it would be cuter to change the men than to alter the system. If, on the other hand, the result proved that the machinery was faulty and imperfect, then came that question— what was the cause? and then again—what the remedy fur such imperfection ? If inquiry were now refused, every reflecting man in the kingdom would at lout know, that though abundant evidence existed of the distress and suffering incidental to a Chancery litiga . It was however a species of distress without remedy. Ile. fore any of the lion. Gentlemen opposite commenced their panegyrics and eIICOMIIIIII,I upon the 'Noble and Learned Lord, he would wish to ask them a single question. If, under such high management and perfect guidance, the Court produced such sad and bitter fruits, what must be that system under future guidance ?—(cheers)—what must be the condition of the people of England, when the power devolved upon inferior persons, and, comparatively, incapable hands. It' was said that lie had, in the former discussion of this subject, brought it forward lOU late ; and this deficiency he had endeavoured to atone for it. The time now, however, was especially convenient for the inquiry, from the absence of all other important considerations. The time, the state of the case, and justice to the people of England, called alike for in. quiry. Was it prudent to refuse it ? (Cheers.) If it were refused then, it could not long be withheld t—at no distant time it must be obtained upon compulsion. He krew the robust habits and the in. veterate prejudices against which he had to counted t and when, perhaps, the moat resolute man this country ever eat (he alluded, to 1 Meer Cromwell) failed in bit intended reonnatioe of the abuses of that Court, he was not vain enough to expect success. Ile, when in the plenitude of his power, made that attempt, and without realising his expectations ; that failure the Protector thus express ed :—" I have freed from tyranny the kingdom —I have conquered the church , —l have kept down the people of England, and I still keep them down,—but these lawyfrs, when I begin to meddle with them, lam covered with failure.' (Cheers.) Whether this, Sir, shall be the result of a motion which meddles with lawyers, I know not ; but I shall no longer abstain from humbly moving, That a Committee be appointed to inquire into the delay and expense of the Vent of Chancery, end the causes tbiraeL--The Honourable, Member sat down amidst lead sheeting. The SPEAKER then purthe queation. Mr. Secretary PEEL rose, not for the nowise of reptylog In detail le die statement of the Ben. and Learned Gentlanaiti. in. deed it was not to be expected that he could follow hint, for it re. quired the skill of a professional man to enter into the various statements with which he had amused the House. To his Hoek. and .learned Friends (the Attorney and Solicits/ General) he should leave, if they thought it fit, slit task of entering into these details. Whether they could be at once prepared to answer casts upon which they had no previous infomeation, and thus to account for the various causes of delay, was a subject upon which itsas most natural for him to form an opinion. Ilia sole reason for rising was, that as this subject had for sense time occupied the at. tentiordof his Majesty's Government, it WY right the House 'Mould at once be put in possession of the views orlssdi they entertained on it. --- 1;;;d A. HA3IILTON (across the tabley—llow long have they entertained it ? Mr. Secretary PEEL could assure that Noble Lord who tw o, irregularly had interrupted him, that he slunld not by such intro- ruptions be prevented front delivering his opinions. The questions to which the !Immutable and Learned Oentleman had, with an ability and moderation for which he gave him credit, called the at tention of the House, were the followmg -Ist. Are these delays in the Court of Chancery ? 2.11 y. What is the cause of these delays ? 3dly. What remedy, If they exist, should we pose for them ? The Honourable and Learned Gentleman had said that it was the habit of this House to speak In a tone of confidence and bolehnsx to which he knew no parallel, denying that there were delays in the Court of Chancery. He (Mr. Peel) had never heard such denials, and he was quite tronvibced that for the last 111 years such delays had not only been admitted to exist, but remedies actually devised for their diminution. In the last year, when the Appellate Juris diction was before the House, the delay was not denied. He ad mitted the delay, and the grietous consequences of that delay, and he was not bohl enough to IRvit the answer anticipated by the Ho nourable and learned ientleman. That the delay existed was not to be questioned, but that it was attributable to any one he utterly denied. No intellectual, no corporeal strength, was equal to the labour' tithe Lord Chancellor's station. Having admitted tile delay. he proceeded nest to the causes of that delay ; and if any Honoura ble tiendeman would compare the business of the present period with the business performed in the Court of Chancery 80 or 78 years since, he would perceive at once that the increase had been quite as great as in any other Court. [Meed this was to be expected, considering that t' :e population had doubled within that time. The increase, ton, of funded property had thrown a consi derable increase of business into that Court. Lunatic petitions, too, had greatly increased, as would be seen front a of ten years during Lord llsrdwicke's Chancellorship with dla same num ber of years of !And Eldon's. Front 1737 to 170, the number of, orders made in such cases =roomed to 4114. From 11181 to 11110, in Lord Eldon's Chancellorship, the ntunberof similarorders amounted to 1.139, an increase of more than double : bat from 1814 to 11123 , the number amounted to 2,d31, ensuing that fire times (benumb', of miler" had been made by Lord Eldon that had been made by Luni llardwieke in the same course of tinsa Again, with respect. to appeals to the House of Lords— Front 17110 to 1770 - 1881 1810 - 448 If to this ea added the lammed pressediur In am Cow , io calm of bankruptcy— . cir erom 1770 to 1770 _ 1790 1800 . 1.000 But in the last year there had been 2,000 mars; The numbs, se bilk tiled, too, hati been increasing proportionably, Ind the sum at the disposal of the Court halt increased. It was in 1740, 129,0001.; in 1820 it amounted to 3-1 millions. Now he was aware that this gradual increase might be attributed in some (levee to the delay (hear), and it might be difficult, he admitted, to ascertain what might be the exact portion which was tree from such an imputation; but he should chew that the money thus placed had graually in creased : In 1740 it amounted to £11.0.000 1746 - - 130,1100 1700 - - - 3,110.000 17110 . . 7,0110,11011 1300 - . 17,5110,000 1020 - . 34.000,1N10 These were in his mind conclusive proofs of the gradual progress of the business of the I'mirt. When, therefore, an attempt was made by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to• excite prejudice against lend Eldon, and to attribute to him the delays inseparable front the Colin, the charge tell hannleas thorn hint, and left us• Aston :shed how any one mind was competent to the despatch of so nitteh business. Let the house look at the attendance given by the Noble Lord in the House of hernia, and let them. for that purpose, take the two cases of the Berkeley and the Roxburgh peerages, cases in which the lewd Chancellor attended the Comntittee of Privileges, and they would find that iu the Berkeley ease slope his Lordship sat for thirty-four days, from ten until four o'clock; in the Roxburgh case for ninety-four days did his Lordship give his attendance. And really, while they were on the subject of CIiCT2IIICCS, he would mention one which appeared to him no slight irtliction. It rested on the evidence of a gentleman known to ninny members of that linear upon the respectable testimony of 31r. I:tnerper. In the Hos burgh case, one counsel alone occupied the attention of the Brame of Lords for eighteen ntinutes. The I louse would say No." Well, could it be possible, that one single counsel could last for eighteen hours? (A laugh.) What aill the country gentlemen say, when they hear that eighteen days leas eeenpied by this ihdetatigable advocate? (A laugh.) When they . were complaining of delay, it was really insult, while con. *Smog what portion of it was attributable to others as well as the Lead Chancellor. In the course of the last Session of Parliament the attention of the House of Lords was drawn to the Appellate Jurisdiction ; and they came to the conclusion, thai it was mani festly impossible fit: any person to perform the arduous cloths at. tached kr the laird Chancellor's high office. With a view of meeting the difficulty thus suglested, that Comniission was formed —their labours have been brought to • successful termination, and they have given great satisfaction. l'he particulate attention of his Noble Friend (the lairdChanellor t had been directed to that subject. A commission had passed the great seal, directed to the same points as the motion, excepting the proposed inquiry into the poli tical character of the Lord Chancellor, which lie would take leave to say, without any disrepeet to the House, no Committee of that !louse was competent to decide. (!fear, hear, hear.) %%lien the question Caine to be discufsed, whether it would be desirable to divest the Lord Chancellor of the political duties of his office, he trusted that so imporion a change would not be unaccompanied with the most serious consideration. (Hear, hear, hear.) He could not avoid remarking thar the objection stated by thr. lion. and Learned (leatlemnn, had not been always felt to the same extent at float as that Hon. and Learned Gentleman had represented it to exist in his niind. At no very remote period it had nut operated so strongly on some of that Hon. and Learned Gentleman's friends; Its they, acting in conformity with the practice of the Constitution), had felt no difficulty in placing the same Judge to preside ov;:r the administration of the criminal law on' the land, who sat over the highest of the civil courts. The fact was certainly no orgeorsen firm ad leraiNem, and he (Mr. Peel) only quoted it has a proof that when others were in lower the objection to the union of the judicial and political functions of the land Chancellor's office was not held to he so strong as the cheers the Hon. and Yarned Gentleman had receiv ed that evening would have seemed to indicate. (Cheers.) It had been asked by the llon. and Learned Gentleman why, as a Com. mitten had been appointed to inquire into the Scotch Courts of Justice, • similar Committee should not be appointed to inquire into the Court of Chancery ? Ile (Mr. !'eel) had no hesitation in admitting that an inquiry into the proceedings of the Court of Chan. eery would be attended with great benefit (hear) for, without imput ing any blame to the Judge who presided over the Court, it might easily happen that the forms of proceeding instituted in ancient times might not now be the best adapted to the interests of the suitors at present. (Hear, hear.) He admitted, that if it appeared that °l'll° folios of the bill read by the lion. and Learned Gentle. Dian, only six were relevant to the issue, • reduction of the re. omitting 84 folios would be not only of great importance to the administration of justice, but as a matter at mat gamy to the parties concerned. ( !fear, hear.) Again, when the Hon. and !.earned Gentleman asked why the Accountant-General should not publish an account of what was called the dead weight in lancer', as the Bank did of the unclnimed dividends, he, (31r. P.) without pro fessing to have any information on the subject, speaking rely as an unlearned suan,a4yreed that the suggestion aopeared to be a very proper one, and he could not retrain from acceding to it with o nly this reservation—unless more cogent arguint:ints should, upon fur- door investigation, appear to the contrary. Before he left the prac tice of the Court, he had no difficulty us saying, that its him n ap peared that the whole progress of a suit, from Its commencement to its close, ought to be narrowly examined prospectively, with a view to ascertain whether any unj us t and pernicaous delays were in terposed in its progress, either by the solicitors, by the courted, or by any other quarter. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the removal of the bankruptcy cases from the Lord Chancellor, as it appeared that that part of his jurisdiction was not inherent in the office, but had been devolved on it by Act of Parliament, it was impossible to deny that that was a lit object of inquiry also. Generally speak. ing, three could be no doubt of dm propriety of inquiring what ins. sineo could be abstracted from the office of Lord Chancellor. It was not to be forgotten, that Sir Samuel Romilly had doubted the propriety of withdrawing caws of hanknietcy from the jurisdic tion of the Chancellor, and such an authority war entitled to the gravest consideration. (Hear, hear.) But to the inquiry itself, be (Mr. P•) had no objection. provided it was conducted by those who were most competent to it. Such a body,ffie thought, might be constituted, lie knew that it was difficult to direst questions that came before that llouse, of the prejudices of party politics, and therefore he was apprehensive that it was almost impossible that the Han. and Learned Gent. should not consider that his (Mr. Peel's) ' sole object was to defeat the attainment of a committee of inquiry. 1 (" !fear," from Mr. J. Williams). He would assure that Hon. and Learned Gentleman that his opposition to the motion was founded 'altogether upon his conviction that a Commission more competent might be instituted by the Crown than any Committee of that House. (lieu.) Suppose, upon such a Commission, the Crown called in the aid of the great luminaries of the law, who had retired from the Bench, and those who had been the highest practitioners in the Court—such men as Lord Itedesitale (hear, hear), and Sir Wm. Grant (hear, hear)—suppose that these eminent persons, who had retired from the discharge of their duties with the universal appro., Nation of the profession mid their country, could be induced to devote some portion of their time to such an inquiry —suppose they ' called in to their assistance the Judges and first practitioners in the Court of Chancery,—could there be a doubt that such a Commission would be mere competent to discuss a muter of such grave im portance than any Committee that the House of Commons ~ould appoint; ((gear, hear.) Such a Commission his Olojesty had been advised by the Lord Chancellor himself to issue, and to it this inquiry would he devolved. This course promised more advantage' than could be expected from any recommended by the Hon. and 1 ttleanne; and lie (Mr. Peel) would tell that lion. and -I,lleisuMni. Ura (fAteirsingstbsepboltitronit of such a Committee as in moved for, (voided with the ofthowmWJest Session, had 0 of termination against - the - Mord MOmellos, to which* Peel) for one, would never, in any shape, accede (cheers). r. he f Mood alone he would divide the House rather than suffer a motion so unjust towards the eminent and • respectable indi.' vidual who presided over the administration of justice in this eoentry to pass unopposed. (Chews). He was not speaking M the Chancellor in his political capacity. He was treat ing .him solely as a judicial character , as to which he would allow no comiderations of personal feeling to bias his judgment but those solely whidi proceeded from strict justice. (Cheers.) He (Mr. Peel) implored the House not to consent to a vote which would hare an air of criminatioe. Ile would ever contend that, as to the judicial character of the Lord Chancellor, no doubt could waist that he was entitled to the highest praise. (Cheers.) As to the Clutneellor's political character, he ( Mr. Peel) would bear au testimony, as his evidence would probably be put out of Court; but he would repeat, he believed that no individual who had it'll leteed the public had been more the object of unmerited oblate, and attack than the Lonl Chancellor. (Cheers). The foulest ca lumnies had been stated respecting him, not indeed in that House r because the feelings of honour which prevailed among its member ' prevented them from loading their countenance to these but attempts to produce obloquy had been directed againia p tr= Chancillor front quarters which ft was impossible for him to IN. Me. He bad been represented as a man anxious only to preserve the eaorntous emoluments and pstronage which he was said to pos. sees, sod forward to resist every plan of reform by whisk bia emu laments or patronage was likely to be reduced. From his (Mr. Peel's) conscience lie believed, there never was a charge more on. founded. The profits of the Aim warn nearly the same as they bad been for a considerable period. They were large, but woe there an man in that House of opinion that the office of Lord Chancellor, for the highest emaible state reasons, ought not to he splendidly endowed ? Its income had, however, been grossly ex aggeratcd. It had rot amounted for the last three years to 12,0001. after.every reduction had been taken from it, (hear, hear,) and he was sure that none of those whom he had the misfortune to impose in that House would grudge that at high an officer should receive • fitting remuneration. (Hear, hear, hear.) It was right that the first man of his day should not be tesipted to remain in his profes sionalpursiiits because he could draw larger emoluments from them. God forbid that be Mould consider money as the sole object In re g the conduct of men; but, however it might be disregarded e l y sill some individuals, it was not to be overlooked by the public in adopting general regulations foe the wages of office. (Ilean) It would be a pitiful and paltry economy that would divest office of its richly earned emoluments. (Cheers.) Ornc of the most cur. rent calumnies against the Lord Chancellor was that by which he was represented as opposing everpecform that tended to diminish his income. What was the fact ? •Whenever it had been pmposed to relieve him from any part of the burden of his duties, the wish be had always expressed was, shut the expense should be defrayed by himself. (Hear hear, hew) It was grimed , that it was not to impose *hi champa-nrielk him if the duties bad increased his physical ability to diepharge them ; yet he had always ed the point, and imbued open taking upon himself the ad. expense of the office created to moist him. Towards the salary of the Vice-Chancellor Laintl. was appropriated from that of the Lord Chars:cline. (Hear, hear, hear.) There were other seta of the Lord aancelleewhich, when these base insinuations were uttered, should be made known to the public, that they might be enabled to appreciate them It was not generally known that ' he had splendidly endowed oscea in his own gilt. (Hear, hear, ' hear.) &TM years ago new arrangement's were made in the office of the Secretary of rapts, by which much additional Ilabour was imposer( upon that officer. At that time the same ho. lidays were allowed as in the Bank, but the lord Chancellor tied. ing how inconveniently these liulidaya operated upon the despatch of businue, determined to reform the mactice, and directed the of ficer to attend every day. For this additional ',Mout. some addi tional compensation was, in die opinion of the Chancellor, due. ' From what quarter did he draw it ? It was never known till that evening that he endowed it from his own the (Cheers. !'his sacrifice of his emoluments during the seven yeah hail ansonnted to a sum of thirteen thousand rotunda, which he had paid for the bent& of the public to an individual, in order to effect a great reform in his office. (Cheers.) That in stance alone ought to diw)rove the calumnies circulated against the Lord Chancellor. But it had been said that he gave his attention particularly to lunacy and bankruptcy cases, because he derived considerable emoluments from them in the shape of fee*. lie did indeed bestow a vast renion of his time to cases cf lunacy, but he received in no shape a fee of a single sixpence from them. (Hear.) They were a matter of indifference to him, but in so far as the nee meaty of an early decision of ffieni brought them under his notice; and from this regard to his duty the odious iptia-ence wa a drawn, that he attended to them for the sake of the emolument he derived from them. (11 car, heir.) With resp ect to c Atte% of bankrnpter, the Chancellor was now occupial, and had been, he (Mr. Peel) knew cwt how many days—ills learned Friend the Solicitor Gene. ral could perhaps taco infirm the House (a laugh)--with an appli. cation analog out of a cue of bankruptcy (r.t-porie Orinistead in the matter of Howard and Gibbs). '1 he foe on that rose parable toll the Lord Chancellor was 12s. ski ( lieu, hear.) • Tne !loose could judge whether that punt was hilly to he an inducement to mkt: a bankruptcy petition out of the onlMary course of business. There calumnies he knew had not been mentionol, nor had they received any countenanot in Cat House, because he knew that lie bed there no deal with sien a uf honour. There the question as. sinned a different form. Adknitting fully the integrity and abi lity of the lord Chancellor it was contended that his habits of indecision end delay were productive of the greatest mischief. But If the Hoene found a man, after twenty-two years service on the judicial bench, possessing unrivalled talents and unspotted inte grity—even if he were somewhat indecisive—would not every motive of sound policy . permit, nay, in outsider:lion of his splen did abilities and solid virtues, compel them to obliterate the re. collection of some hesitation in the discharge of his duties ? (Loud cheering.) " Because his failings, leaning to Virtue's side." made him unwilling to pronounce that judgment by which he was to raise one family to prosperity, and inflict perhaps utter ruin upon another, he did not deserve condemnation. Even if he was constitutionally unwilling to give judgment, the House, recollect ing the infirmity of human nature, should throw into the other scale his universallv-admitted high talents, and as spotless an inte grity as was ever before witnessed on the judicial bench of any country in the world. (Loud cheers.) In fact, it had been shown that the delays arose from the enormous mass of business that had accumulated in that Court. There were instances, it had been alleged, in which the hold Chancellor had been called away front the consideration of causes which had in consequence, it was sup posed, been forgotten, and that delay hod thus intervened in the progress of the suit. The Honourable and Learned (lentleman had alluded probably to the Lord Chancellor's attendance when the Recorder made his report before the King in Council. It was the dutr of the Lord Chancellor to advise the King as to every case. His mind was then to be diverted from cases of equity, and brought to the consideration of those involving life and death. it had been his (Mr. Peel's) lot to send for the bard Chancellor on some of those occasions, and lie cmtld assure the House that the performance of that duty consumed no small portion of the Lord Chancellor's time. There were, perhaps, 411 or MI canes through which he had to travel. The consequence wa•, that, on retiring' from the Conn of Chancery, he had to apply himself to the reading of each individual case, and not unfrequently he was in the habit ,of abstracting notes with his own hand. ( !fear, hear, hear.) In more than one instance the rising sun the next morning hsd found him still occupied with the task which the night would not enable! hint to cothplete. (Cheers.) After having been fourteen hours in , the Court of Chancery, he was sometimes fiir seven or eight hours I afterwards engaged In the consideration of the cases of those unfor. tunate individuals whose life or death depended on his advice ' (Hear, hear, hear.) If the consequence was unavoidable delay occasionally in some cases, could it be fairly imputed to the lode. cision of the individual ? If, indeed, it was proved that he , gore himself tip to idleness or indolence ; if he did not fully de.. vote to the public service the time that was due to the public ; if, for 22 years, he had not denied himself every indulgence and plea. I sure, and cut himself oft fruin the society of the world, in order to I ! perform his public ditties, could it be fairly urged as a matter of blame because he was not physically able to go through the whole of the ditties that devolved upon him ? (Loud cheers.) While he (11r. Peel) carefully guarded against suffering his personal feelings from interposing in tic consideration of this important question of public justice, yet, when he recollected the speeches delivered on this subject last year, notwithstanding the moderation with which die discussion was that evening prefaced by the Honourable and I Learned tientleman, he was of opinion the concurrence of the House would lead to an inference of the sane nature, and as he could nut consent to any motion for the crimination of the Lord Chancellor, and as he believed the House joined with him in that sentiment, he hoped nee would reject the motion, and he was satisfied the counery would confirm the decision. (Cheers.)( The public were not ungenerous or ungrateful, and he was satis fied that they did not wish to see that rare and eminent man, who] for twenty.two years had administered justice in the Court of Chancery, with that honoured name, which, whatever temporary obloquy might attach to it, would, illustrated as it was by the sett vices df Eldon and Stowell, yet shine conspicimite in the judicial annals of the country, sink beneath successful calumny, and sutler I hiedeclining days to be embittered with stigma, or evenwith the ap pearance of stigma (loud cheering) ; and he believed, if the House resolved to prevent so unholy a consuniniation, the people were ge nerowi enough to support the House in that decision. The Right lion. (lent. then sat down, amidst loud cheering from the 31iniste rial beaches. 31r:A1lERCROMBV said he could not refrain front giving his sincere and unqualified congratulations to his Hon. and Learned Friend (Mr. J. Williams) on his success. (Meer, hear, hear.) The congratulations he had to oiler to the public would be subject to some qualification, in consequence of what had fallen from the Right lion. Gentleman who had just resumed his seat. The pub lic were, however, bound to ascribe the success of the inquiry into the proceedings of the Court of Chancery, to the undaunted seal and great abilities of his lionourable and Learned Friend, who, at the opening of his second campaign, found the enemy ready to concede every point for which the war had been commenced. The Right Hon. rienthinan had assumed, that the Lord Chancellor was unable to pertorm his functions as the office was before executed, on account of the great increase of business. It was true there was an increase of eases of lunacy, the natural and obvious consequence of an increase of population ; but there was no portion of the busi ness of the Court that occupied so little of the Lord Chancellor's time es petitions of lunacy. A point of the greatest importance for any commission to investigate, would he to reconsider the institu tion of the Vice-Chancellor's Court. (Hear, hear, harp. Ile called on these who might be appointed commissioners to ascertain how much hail been respectively done by the Lord Chancellor. the Master of the Rolls, and the lord Chancellor, and from that cal. i culation they might be enabled to see vrherlier there really was that , inability to execute the office of Lord Chancellor as heretofore. The state of business before the bordChancellor was a most import tent object in the inquiry of this commission. Before the Lord Chancellor no original cause was set down for hearing, only ap peals: the number of bills tiled was therefore unimportant, in they wore_ fassitigisalipicimist Aber by the blaster of l the Rolls or the Vlce-asatc&ller. ' There was no return of business by the Asiter of the Rolls; but he challenged the Solicitar-General to state the time when such little assistance was rendered by the Master of the Rolls. When the business done be fore the Vice-Chancellor, who in fact disposed of all the original causes, was considered, that fact would aflord an unanswerable I reply to the argument of the Inability of the Lord Chancellor to execute his duties as heretofore. The Vice-Chancellor had dis posed of all pleas or demurrers up to last Hilary Term. They were few in number. The original causes set down last Term were in a counte of hearing. The further exceptions were brought up to the long vacation, anti the bankruptcy cases were the same. Be fore the present sittings would be over, not only Easter Teem, but a large proportion of the causes aTrinityTenn, would be disposed of. This despatch of business of the Vice-Chancellor, who heard all the original causes wholly, disproved that the Lord Chancellor was under any present incapacity of going through his duties as heretofore. One of the great objections to the bill fur establishing the %Ice-Chancellor's Court was, that it would have a tendency to induce every cause to be heard twice over. There could be no doubt that appeals were a great grievance to the suitor, but the Lord Chancellor had, by a forced construction of the Act, aggravated the evil by admitting a great number of illegal appeals. In ordinary cases of appeal it was necessary that the signatures of two Counsel should be obtained. but this important security against frivolous proceedings was departed from in the case of motions, and any dissatisfied person might have the whole question re argued. It was desirable that no appeal should he heard before a superior Judge, but on the sante grounds tntl on •he clinic facts as before the inferior Judge, but persons were allow .1 on an appeal from the Vice-Chancellor, to fire new lOW &vita, rod on an amend ed case obtain • contrary decision, to the gre .t prejudice of the dignity and character of the infiticr Judge. Bankrupt pe titions dismissed by the 'rice•Chai tribe, w...re re-heard by the Lord Chancellor. When an objet ion was raised in IPI7, his Lordship stated that he would mho* the re-hearing, if the petition was signed by one CounseL Thus the facility of ap. peal was increased, suitors prejudiced, and the character of the inferior Judge dishonoured. The N'ice-Chancellor's Bill was founded, not on the state of business in the Court of Chancery, but in the House tel Lords. The preamble stated that great incon venience and delay was so/alined in the appellate jurisdiction ; but now that objection was removed by the appointment (lithe Deputy Speaker. lie (Mr. A.) would rest the case on the bill of costs pro_' ducal by his lion. suit Learned Frierd. Every item in that bill had been allowed by the Master. It spoke for itself therefore. He had no great confidence in the Commission about to be issued. The I grievances were all old, and well known, but the Lord Chancellor had retrained from aticmptirg to amend them, until he hail been 23 years at the head of the Court. (Hear.) The Right lion. Gent. now treated the motion as a personal attack on the Lord Chancellor. Ile therefore was unfit to have any share in the advising or issuing of such a Commission. It we. impossible, circumstanced as Lord Eldon as that he shouldbe qualifies' to appoint the Commission. The object of the Commission should be, to produce a beneficial re sult to the public ; but this could nut be done if the Comniisaion were appointed merely for the purpose of meeting either the present or any other case which might be made out against the Noble Lord at the head of the Chancery. Mr. IA WEIL% R'l' said, with all deference to the opinion of his I Learned Friend, he must vote against his novion. The mode of proceeding by Commission would, in his opinion, be the pet ferable one ; it could be vested with ex:ensivc powers, and they could if I necessary he amplified; and if the proceedings of the Commission were not deemed aatistactory, they would be exposed to the discus. Sion of the House, and, if thought proper, his Learned Friend might again bring forward his motion. lie would return his thanks, and, he believed he might add, the thanks oldie country, to the lecamed Member, and hoped he would postpone his motion for the present, and wait until the result under the Commission was ascertained. Ale. BROUGHAM said, that if, in concurring with the wish expressed by the Right Honourable the Secrets •-y of State for the Home Department, and with his Honourable Friend who had just sat down, for the investigation of the state of the Court of Chan cery, by the appointment of a Commission, it was not for a moment to be inferred that the question war to be withdrawn from that mode of inquiry for which he felt the greatest veneration, which was the most o f the most constitutional, and the most likely to lead to beneficial results—he meant the inquisitorial power' possessed and exercised by that House; if such were to be the inference, he would not rOll, rut to the proposition as he did at present; if such were the inference, he would show its error, for he would divide and take the sense of the Roust" upon the subject. But agreeing as he did with his Honourable Friend. that they were not parting with the control which they ought to have—agreeing with Lint, that the motion could be renewed at a future time, he consented to the arrangement which had been proposed ; and he must also be permitted to say, and he be. lievod the country would agree with him in the sincere con. gratulation which he offeree to his Learned Friend who origin ate(' this motion, for the distinguished and the increased (if it were possible to increase it) talent wide(' he displayed upon this night, and upon the last Session, when he introduced the same inquiry ; and lie would not congratulate his friend alone; he would also con gratulate the country at large upon the great benefits and the im. portant advantages which had resulted from his exertions. (Ilea-, hear.) It had been stated by the Right Honourable Secretary for the Home Department, that this same inquiry had suggested itself to the Lord Chancellor. This he was hound to believe, as he had been thus informed of it ; but that this inquiry would have suggested itself to the Chancel:6es mind, a ithuut the aid of the motions of his Learned Friend, was another preetatioe which he was not bound to believe, as it had not been communiated to him. Of this proposition he had never beard the affirmative, and therefore he felt himself at liberty to maintain the negative : he felt himself at liberty to maintain that this inquiry would never have become the idea of the Lord ('hancel. loo; it would never have been a subject of contemplation with him, were it not for the motion of his lion. Friend last Session, and the notice of a similar motion fur this. As to the commission at present proposed, he felt he had less cause of complaint respecting it than any other person whatever; for in the are of the Scotch commission issued last year, he had suggested a measure precisely similar to that which was now spoken of, and if there wa. every reason for granting it on the subject alluded to, there could be no possible reason for withholding it with regard to the Court of Chancery. The great source of his anxiety would be how and of what deserm. tion of persons the commission would be composed. He had beard a tepee that appeared to him every thing but incredible, that it was to be composed of individuals chosen and appointed by the Lord Chancellor himself. This was utterly incredible; it was mere. dible that the Lord Chancelidr, so remarkable fur his habits of hesi. tation, a habit advanced even by his most attached friends, for the purpose of mitigating and extenuating whatever infirmities he might possess—it was Mipossible that he should not shrink from the task of appointing a Commission of his own friends, to examine andfin. quire into the charges brought against himself. (Hear.) He would wish that the Commission were moved ; it would be satisfactory to him if, upon a judicial injquiry, there were some of the Judges placed upo.i it. He also would wish to know the instructions that would be given to them As to the mode in which it was consti. toted, it was a matter that affieted the House more than it did those who composed the Commission. If the Members were chosen with the real object which he had heard professed—if they were instructed to examine into &butte, and not to stifle inquiry —if they were suffered to exert a nuelerate power of authority., he would anticipate must bene fi cial results. Ile said he wished foe a mixed Commission ; he would hive joined in it 'serums who had no coo. nection whatever with office. As to its actual constitution, that. in his opinion, was of no moment: his only demand upon this score would be, that it should rot be composed exclusively of those who enjoyed the favour and confidence of the Noble Loaf at present at the head of the law. In illustration of this mode of thinking, he would venture to give his opinion, that with respect to the Scotch l'ommission of which he had spoken, it would be found of no weight whatever ; it would be unproductive of any edentate; it would lie utterly inefficient : but for the few persons who IMO sent from this country, who had no connection whatever with the Aim or the parties of the country—but fur these persons there would ha report at all, or what was reported would be utterly useless ; and the Commission would be, he would rot say nothing, but next to it ; and lie anticipated similar consequences, if the present Coro. nussion were composed exclusively of persons appointed and chosen by the Lord Chancellor. Mr. PEEL said the Commission would not be thus appointed. blur. BROUGHA SI was certain that the result weak' be as he described, if the Commission consisted entirely of persons connected with the Court of Chancery. It was true, if the Commission wax Ito make an inquiry into the conduct of other Magistrates, the per. sons composing it might be chosen from all the Courts, and meted with equal powers : but lie was disposed to think th at, after all, the Cotuntission would not be thus constituted. The Right Hon. Secretary was merely sounding the House. Rut he would repeat, the consequence of the Scotch Contmission would be as be stated, if it were not for the infusion into it of certain persons from this country unconnected with office, and who had no partialities to gra. tify. He did not wish to see th e Commission composed exclusively rt. penal* accustomed to the practice of the Courts here, because, from long experience and habits of life, callous to abuses, and indif. ferent to them, they did not see them ; and, from the customs of their life, they would wish to touch them with a gentle and wattle band. Abuses would not appear in the same light, or in the same point of view, to these individuals and to others ot edit/cant dcsaip. tom ; and lie would admit he could not expect a remedy foe the abuses at the hands of those whom he had described. Justice would, in his opinion, be procdred at the Meeks of the Commission only, upon these conditions, that the evidence should be exactly and accurately reported, that the names of the witnesses should be takes down, and the various parts of the investigation should be korona as they appeared : them matters should not be left to discretion, but should be directed by the warrant of the Commissioners, end every thing should be submitted to the observation and the notice of the House, where it would be looked on with jealousy. These preen. nous he considered absolutely necessary, otherwise justice could not be expected. If it were allowed him he would undertake to appoint &commission, and he would bring before them two pairs of witnesses, one of whom should endeavour by every possible means to stifle inquiry, and make an apology for abuse of every description, whilst the other pair would pursue a course directly op. polite; and the Commisslon, if it depended on the ttteswll as uwhhooeeyy of such witnesses, would have to make a report not only not alike, t utterly and totally different. He therefore would nut have ino expectations of beneficial results from the commission until he its instructions, or rather the individuals of which it was composed, lie did not care for its constitution ; all he sought for was that doe members should not be cramped in their powers, and that they should be instructed todirect their consideration to certain points,and to the bearing of these points upon the matter at issue. If this mode were not adopted and persever.l in, the Commission would not, in his opinion, produce any bene fi t from the inquiry. Whilst the inquiry was upon these abuser., there was one that he impel would not be forgotten,. which, though perhaps not as serialise evil as the delay complained of in the ('uurt of Chancery, wataill carried to a grc and injurious extent—be meant the eit•• This was a vous evil ; and it was well known thaffedivi. duals man day as issamies, lathy than seek leillosa and it often ha that a person abstained frau seekingjostime though perfee y convinced and aware that he Must oven wine his adversary, but also aware that he would, though pking oei otnls a , have more to pay than the original demand, end he thought it better to acquiesce in an unjust demand. This was go. mostly the ease in debts to the amoeni of ten or twelve pounds. IL. I there was not an opportunity for going to a small debt court, this was a great, a cruel grievance. It was as object of most se. rims inquiry, and he thought the Right gable Gale tlemen should leave this matter also open as enquiry. He ' would not, however make any remarks in this stagy of the transaction ; he would wish to consider it at another period without prejudice. There was also another system of abase to which he would allude, and which existed, as well as abuses in the Courts of Equity—the abuse of the common law courts. It was fits so state the argument used by those who defended the abases of Equity to throw them upon the great increase of business which took place iu that (7teirt, whilst none took place in the common law courts. It was fa:r to mention this, both in the light of a defence for the Court of Chancery. and as an argument affecting the common law courts. Btu this, as it defended the Court of Equity, and as it hoe against the courts of law, was unavailing, foe the business in the common law courts had increased in a niuch greater proportion than in the Courts of Equity; this he would st..te to be the case from the time of Lord Mansfield, who tried at Guildhall 60 cams to that of Lord Ellcnborougb, who tried :All ; and there are now upon an average from three to four hundred each term. As to the increase in die Court of Chancery, respecting lunacies, and exceptions and answers, it awnings' nothing compared with the increase of Nisi Pries causes, and even those causes in the law courts were gotten rid of, and their arrear, as compared with that in the Court of Chancery, was in. significant ; the case was tried and decided at once in the Court of King's Bench, and was Anal, at least as far as a verdict could be called final ; the cause decided on the 20th of December was often not in existence on the 20th of November. The most im. extant trial brought to issue last term was thus circumstanced. Ile did nut mean to say there was no delay in them Courts, but it was not equal to that complained of in the Court of Chancery. He therefore was of opinion, that as to the Commission should be added a power to inquire into the abuses of the Common Law Courts, and this would, as a matter of course. comprehend the law side of the Court of Exchequer. Ile would again assert, that the country had gained considemble advantage from the pers. Terence of his Learned Friend ; and in the present feeling of tle (louse, and after what hod been heard, lie would advise him not to press his 111Mi0:1; but with this understanding, that he would not be lettered by the appointment of the Commission, and if the conduct of that Commission wer.i not approved of, he would most assuredly renew his motion ; he would suggest to him not to take the sense of the House at present. 31r. CANNING said, that in the present stale in which the House appeared to be, and after the 'Teethes which had been auntie, be would trespass upon the House but for a few minutes. In the speech which had been delivered by the Hon. and beamed Member who had just sat down, his chief and principal exception was to the formation of the Commission, and his apprehension was that It should not be certain in its result, efficient in conferring beet& upon the public, and sincere in its intentions. It would, be trusted, be a source of eatisfaction to the 'louse to see another Minister of the Crown come forward and give a positive and unqualified assurance that it was not only the intention of the Noble and Learned lewd at the head of the law, but also his Majesty's Government, to make this Commission at one sincere, serviceable, and efficient. Nor could he conceive bow any imputation (if such imputation were thrown out) could be supposed to attach itself' to Ministers, of wishing to Mae with the House. It would be hard to impute, at that time of day, an in. tension on the part of the Government to trifle with the House and with the country, upon so grave and important a subject as that which the appointment of the Commisson would endeavour to effect. As to the nature of the Commission, with which the Honourable Member wished to be acquainted before he could anticipate any beneficial result, it would not be a work of difficulty to point out and specify the elements of which it would be composed. It would be difficult to mention .he names of the individuals. as some of those to whom the offer ' was made had refused to accept the important situation • but upon this the beamed Member insight depend, that those el ement which the coniteission was to be composed, would be under the os eye of Parliament and the country, and they would perform their duty without fear or favour. As to the subject of the abuses lof the common law courts, and the proposition made by him of adding a commission to that proposed ter examining them, what, lie would ask the Honourable anti Dfarned ;Bendier. would be the consequence of the proposition originkted at his side of the Howse? Would it not expose his ftier.is to the imputation of adding this I:emulsion fur the purpose of dividinejt he blame, of spresdiq and as it' diluting the subject for consideration, that inquiry m' tbe stifled altog I thee (I I ear.) Ile, therefore, trusteed the Hon. 'em ber would adhere to his original motion, as that best calculated for effecting the purpose which he he had in view, and if, in twos*. quence of the appointment of the l'ommi•sion. he postponed his motion, be would sot be precluded from coming again before Per. liament. The eyes of the Government were open to the conse quence of the system. They were most anxious to simplify the pro. l eveling's, to shorten delays, and advance, as fa, as they could do it, the administration of justice. He would take upon himself to de. clarethat the Commiseion would enter roost minutely into every part • of the sunject originally proposed, and the entire should be subject to the cognisance of Parliament. With respect to the origination A I