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W. CROKER. 0 TnE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK . VLADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IE ELECTION of SIX DIRECTORS r sof th e EAST INDIA COMPANY being appointed or.WlO the Bth o f Ap r il n e xt, th e f avour o f 7°11 . , t VOTE and INTEREST is requested for the follow 'r Gentle Men; vis. 40SIAS DU PRE ALEXANDER, Esq. ROBERT CAMPBELL, Eeq. NEIL BENJAMIN EDMONDSTONE, Esq. Honourable HUGH LINDSAY JOHN MORRIS, E q. JOHN GOLDSBORO - UGH RAVENSHAW, Esq. Which will much oblige, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most humble servants, John Petty ,Mutipratt William Astell Juries Pattison John Loch Richard Chicheley Plowden Henry Alexander Charles Elton Prescott John Baillie merge Raikes John Bebb Ueorge Smith James Rivett Carnac James Stua r t William Stanley Clarke John Thornhill Robert Townsend Farquhar &etty Toone James Law Lushington my St . George Tacker Campbell Majoribanks Wigratu John Masterenan ....William Young Charles Mills. z.ast India House, March 25, 1829. 10ii iiPROPRIETORS OF,EAST INDIA STOCK. LAnnts AND GINTLICMEN, RAVING the honour of being reeom t, mended to you by the DIRECTORS of the DAST. INDIA COMPANY, as CANDIDATES for the IRECTION to be chosen th is year, we take the liberty ieqnk the favour of your VOTE on the DAY of ELECTION WZDNXIMAY, the Bth of April next. We are, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most ob e di ent and most humble servants, JOSIAS DU PRE ALEXANDER ROBERT CAMPBELL NEIL BENJAMIN EDMONSTONE HUGH LINDSAY JOHN MORRIS JOHN GOLDSBOROUGH RAVENSHAW. tut India House, March 25, 1829. • BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL. 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" A peculiar and somewhat affecting. tone of pathos runs through some of them ; while a subdaed raillery, combined with no small insight into huniannature, is apparent, and highly amusing in others."—Age. " This is an entertaining collection of tales, put together after the manner of the Sketch Book."—Sunday Times, Sept. 14. Reviews may he bend in almost all the principal pnbli cations. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(LAST NIGHT.) Sir A. GRANT, and others, brought up from the House of Commons the Militia Ballot Suspension Bill, which was read a first time. On the motion of the Earl of MALMESEVRY, se veral returns were ordered of the quantity of foreign grain imported into this country since July last. CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION.—(PETITIONS.) Petitions, praying that no farther concessions may he granted to the Rotnan Catholics, were presented from Falkenham, Heaford, and several other places in Lincolnshire, and from Dunstable and other places in Bedfordshire (in all 20 petitions), by Earl BROIVNLOW;—frorn inhabitants of the city of York, by Lord FAVERSHAM;—from several places in the county of Antrim, by Earl O'NEIL. The Bishop of WINCHESTER presented similar petition from Horsham, in Sussex. The Right Rev. Prelate observed that the petition was respectably signed, but he could not concur in its prayer. Before he proceeded to say a word on the subject to whickpie petition referred, he wished •to ;. take the oppor of correcting a misrepresenta tion which had gone forth to the public as to what had fallen on a former evening from a Right Rev. Relation of his, who was at present prevented from attending in his place by a most severe domestic calamity. His Right Rev. Relation was represented to have stated in his place, when speaking of a peti tion which he had presented from certain clergy or the Church of England, in favour of emancipation; (as Ai e understood), that,the clergy were inacces sible to reason, and untuto44experience, on the subject of the Catholic question: - That such words had never been used, and could not have been used, by his Right Rev. Relation, would be readily ad mitted by all who knew him. The words used by his Right Rev. Relation were, that " those who be lieved that the clergy were inaccessible to reason, and untutored by experience, on this subject, would see from the petition then presented what a very erroneous estimate had been made of their character." With respect to the measures which would soon be before their Lordships, he would observe they should never have his support if he thought they tended to the subversion or injury of the Constitution or the Pro, testant establishments; but he would support them because he believed that they would tend to the union of all classes in support of the Constitution. There was a great difference between a political and religious union. It was to the political union he referred, and he was satisfied that it would tend to promote general tranquillity, and in particular would promote the peace and improvement of Ire land. If it had been proposed to pay the Catholic clergy out of the_public purse, he could not.supfaFt the measure, because he thought it would have an injurious tendency. But in the measures as they stood, as far as he could be informed of them, he fully approved ; for he saw in them nothing incon sistent with the maintenance of Protestant princi ples, or in any degree calculated to subvert the Pro testant church. Having said thus much, he could not concur in the prayer of the petition, but he would lay it on their Lordships' table. (The above is only the substance of the Right Rev. Prelate's remarks, for, from the position in which he stood, and the low tone in which he spoke, much of what he said was very indistinctly heard below the bar.) Petitions in favour of Emancipation were pre sented from Portsmouth, by the Earl of Carnarvon ; from Castle Blakeney, Killcurry, Killoran, and other places in Ireland (eighteen petitions), by the Mar quis of Clanricarde ; from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke-upon-Trent, and other places in Staffordshire, and from several places in Leitrim, Kildare, Meath, and other counties in Ireland (we believe twenty-fire petitions), by the Marquis of Anglesea. The Noble Marquis also presented several petitions from some of the same places, against the Sub-letting and Se lect Vestry Bills. The Duke of SUSSEX presented a petition from the Minister, Heritors, and other Inhabitants of (we believe) Kelton, in the stewartry of Kirkudbright, praying that their Lordships might sanction the mea sures now before Parliament for the removal of the civil disabilities affecting their Roman Catholic fel low subjects. His Royal Highness observed, that he was instructed to state that the petitioners would not have felt it necessary to address the House on this subject, if another petition of a contrary nature had not been sent up from the same place.. He be lieved that the opinions of many in the country were changed upon this question, who at first viewed it as dangerous to the State, but were now anxious that it should be carried, believing that it would tend to the tranquillity and prosperity of the empire. Several Bills were pressed through their respec tive stages, after which their Lordships adjourned at a Quarter to Six. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(LAST NIGHT.) ROMAN CATHOLIC CLAIMS. Petitions in favour of Emancipation were pre sented from three places in the county of Limerick, by Mr. Fitzgibbon ;—from 13 places in the county of Galway, and one parish in the county of Roscom mon, by Mr. Lambert;—from 12 places in the county of Cork, by Mr. Boyle ;—from three places in the county of Westmeath, by Mr. Take ;—from six places in the county of Limerick, by Mr. Lloyd ; from 12 places in the county of Leitrim, an:l also from the friends of Civil and Religious Liberty in Leitrim, by Lord Clements ;—from the congregation of the Roman Catholics at Greenock, by Sir M. S. Stewart ;—from a parish in the district of Powder ham, by Mr. Pendarves ;—from the Unitarian con gregation of Portsmouth, by Mr. Carter. Petitions against these claims were presented by Sir W. Heathcote, from three places in Hampshire; —from a parish in Caithness, by Major Sinclair ; from several parishes in the county of Lincoln, by Mr. Chaplin ;—from Brampton, by Mr. Mundy ; from Stanford-le-Hope (Essex), by Sir E. Harvey. Several petitions were also presented for the re peal of the Vestry and Sub-letting Acts.—They were all ordered to be printed. Mr. E. DAVENPORT brought in a Bill to ex tend the powers of summary conviction of juvenile offenders by magistrates in certain cases. It was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday the 3d of April, and to be printed. Mr. L. DAVENPORT said, that with the per mission„f t h e House, h e wou l d take the discussion oftheßill, not on the second reading, but on the Committee. Mr. KING presented two petitions, one front the corporals of the North Colic Militia, and ano ther from the corporals and bugles of the Cork Mi litia, respecting the reduction of t h e Mili t i a B i ll. Sir J. MACKINTOSH said that however un willing he might be, he was compelled to postpone till to-morrow the presentation of a petition which he had received from .Edinburgh, in favour of Ca tholic Emancipation. He now rose to present a pe tition from the students - ef theology in the Uni- versity of Oxford, who pray that further concessions may be granted to the Roman Catholics. There is one sentence, of scarcely more than two lines, in the petition, which he would beg leave to read to the House. The petitioners state that they do not fear the result of the measure as affecting the security of the Protestant religion, because they feel a generous confidence in the stability of the reformed religion, 'an►d only fear that it will be disgraced by the in jurious aid of proscripeon and exclusion.—(Hear.) The petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. LENNARD was intrusted with a petition from the sert_ral congregations of Protestant Dis ewers of the three denominations resident at Ips wich. The dissenters of those denominations were the descendants of those men who left the church when the Act of Uniformity was passed : they were commonly known by the name of the " Old Dis !renters ;" and no men better understood or were more *lmbed to the principles of civil and religious li berty than they were. The petition was signed by seven Dissenting Ministers, which number comprised all the Ministers of those class s resident in Ipswich. The prayer of the petition was verbatim the same as had been presented last year from the same con gregations, when the repeal of the Test and Corpo ration Acts—Acts which more immediately affected themselves,—was under consideration. lie had been requested to explain the motives which had induced the petitioners, at so late a period, to come forward with their petition. Much misconception 'bad arisen on the subject of the opinions of many of the Dissenters, who, as a class, had been represent ed as opposed to concession. The fact was, that they, with many others who were friendly to the measure, bad been content to leave it to the decision of Parliament, seeing that it had come recommended from the Throne, and had been introduced expressly with the sanction of the Government. But as un fair advantage had been taken of their silence, they -had felt that they could not, in justice to themselves or their cause, remain without expressing their °pi `itions for the purpose of refuting the representations which had been tnade of their lukewarmness or hos tility to the measure. The petitioners were as zealous Protestants as any in the country ; but they thought that to inflict punishment or to impose pe nalties on account of religious opinions wad, in the words of Lord Bacon, " to dissolve and to deface the laws of charity and human society, and so to consider men as Christians, as to forget that they were men and citizens," He had great pleasure in presenting " the petition, because it tended to strengthen what he had, on another occasion, stat ed,—that a much larger number were in favour of concession than the enemies of it were willing to admit. Colonel SIBTHORPE had now the honour to present to the House a petition from the united parishes of Washinhorough, in the county of Lincoln, playing that no further concessions be made to the Roman Catholics. The Hon. Bart., the Member for Lincoln, was Lord of the Manor in these parishes, and proprietor of more than a third part of them ; and yet, though he took so strong an interest in favour of Emancipation, only 20 out of the 1,200 male inhabitants which the parishes con tained had refused to sign this petition. The Hon. Baronet, in alluding to the former petitions which his Hon. Colleague had presented from Lincolnshire, had chosen to state that they had been got up by placards sent forth by the Champion of England, and had then contrasted those placards with those issued by his champion, the celebrated Dr. Eady. Now he begged leave to observe, that neither the Cham pion of England nor Dr. Eady were known, nor had any influence in that parish ; " and I draw," said he, " a wide difference between my champion, who sup ports a sound and wholesome constitution, and the lion. Baronet's champion, who is employed in patch ing up a diseased and broken constitution." He did not think that the Hon. Baronet could impugn the respectability of this petition, when it was signed by so many of his own tenantry. Sir W. INGILBY again contended that the pe titions from the county of Lincoln, against Catholic emancipation, had been got up by undue influence, and had referred in proof of it, as he had a perfect right to refer, to the "constitutional" placard of the Champion of England. With respect to this peti tion, which c:ime from the parish where he was lord of the manor, and where he was a considerable landed proprietor, he had only to say that he had never used any influence among his tenantry, either to get up or to prevent the getting up of petitions on this subject. His own parson had told him that he intended to:get up a No-Popery petition, and his only reply was, that he was sorry that he should think such a measure necessary. His own tenants had signed that petition, and though he might la ment that such were their opinions, God forbid that he should attempt to control them.—(Cheers.) — He left them to the care of their spiritual pastor; and he believed that their pastor taught them their duties correctly, though he differed from him in opinion on this subject.—( Hear, hear.)—He was of opinion, that a considerable change had taken place in the feelings of the people of Lincolnshire of late years, and he founded his opinion upon the circum stance that out of twelve members returned from different places within it, seven voted in favour and five against Catholic emancipation.—(Hear, hear.) It was his opinion that the county of Lincoln was emancipated from the bigotry which some gentlemen seemed inclined to attach to it. Sir G. HEATHCOTE felt as much interested as either of the members for the county of Lincoln on this point, and he was inclined to believe, from a letter which he had received that morning from a clergyman in Lincolnshire, that no such excitement existed in the county as had been represented. As he was on his legs, and as he had the pleasure of observing the Right Hon. Secretary in his place, he could not, as an humble individual, refrain from re turning to him his sincere thanks for what he must call the very noble part which the Right lion. Gent. had taken upon this question.—(Hear.) Mr. CHAPLIN did not deny that there might be many gentlemen of large property in the county of Lincoln favourable to the Catholic claims; but he must retain his old opinion, that the mass of the population was decidedly hostile to them. The petition was ordered to be printed. THE ENGLISH BAR. Sir J. SCARLETT had a petition to present in favour of Catholic Emancipation, signed by 324 gen tlemen of the English bar. They desire the House to adopt measures for the removal of the disabilities affecting the Roman Catholics ; and they state the lively interest which they take in the consideration of the measures then before the House. He felt it to he a high honour to be the medium of presenting such a petition to the House. In 1825 he had pre sented a similar one, which was signed by 150 of the members of the bar in London; in 1827 he had presented one signed by 200; and now, to the third petition there were 324 signatures. It was with extreme gr a tifi cat i on t h at h e d ec l are d his par ticipation in the opinions which were so well ex pressed in this petition, and which he had hitherto advocated only by his silent vote. They expresser; their gratitude to his Majesty's Government for the wisdom and firmness with which they bad intro duced and sustained thi's measure in Parliament. It was important to bring before the House the opi nions so expressed of a large and enlightened body of the community, who were, as he had already said, so peculiarly well qualified to come to a sound conclusion upon such a subject. He mentioned this, not to detract from the respectability of any of those persons who had signed petitions of an oppe,; site character, but to call the particular attention of Parliament to the evidence given in this petition of the support which was tendered to this measure of his Majesty's Government, by a set of men of such preponderating talents, learning, and information. The petition was then laid on the table, and or dered to be printed. Mr. A. DAWSON presented several petitions from the counties of Armagh and Louth, in favour of emancipation, and against the indiscriminate dis franchisement of the forty-shilling freeholders. Mr. SLANEY presented petitions from two pa rishes in the counties of Gloucester and Somerset, in favour of the Bill for altering the poor laws.— The petitioners, as well as all others who had con sidered this subject, were anxious to substitute, as far as possible, labour instead of pecuniary dona tions, for the relief of the agricultural poor. After a few words from Mr. W. SMITH, the peti tion was laid on the table. On the motion of Mr. G. DAWSON, several returns relative to the Apothecaries'-hall, in Dublin, were ordered to be presented to the House. Lord G. CAVENDISH presented a petition from Scarsdale (Derbyshire), in favour of the Ca tholic claims, which, from the great respectability of its signatures, he contrasted with that presented on a former night from - Chesterfield. After a few words from Mr. MUNDY, the peti tion was laid on the table. Mr. W. SMITH presented the 15th report of tile Cominis&ioneis for bridges and roads in the Highland, of Suo land. Gen. O'NEILL presented a petition from the corporals of the Autrun Mili:ia, against the Militia Suspension Mr. HUME presented a petition from Thomas Dillon, hotel-keeper and coach-owner, of the city of Dublin, against the continuance of tolls, which had been a long time complained of upon the Naas road. Mr. HUME presented five petitions in favour of the Roman Catholic claims—one from a parish in the county of Cavan, and four from Dissenting con grations in Lancashire.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. B. CLARKE presented petitions from Kil macon and Mullinavat, in the county of Kilkenny, against the Sub-letting Act, and the Bill for the Dis franchisement of the Irish Forty-shilling Free holders; also a petition in favour of the Roman Catholic claims.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. BANKES postponed his motion for the usual grant to the British Museum, in Committee of Sup ply, till Monday. Lord EBRINGTON presented a petition from Newton Abbot, in favour of the Catholic claims. QUALIFICATION AND JURISDICTION OF MA- GISTRATES. Mr. Secretary gave notice of my in tention this evening to Move for leave to bring in a Bill, the object of which will be the consolidation of the laws relative to the qualification and jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in counties. It will be an abject of this Bill also to facilitate the execution of their duties by that class of public functionaries.— No person can have a better opportunity of witness ing the manner in which those duties are performed by the Magistrates of the United Kingdom, than the individual who holds the office of Secretary of State, and proud I shall be on every occasion to bear my humble testimony to the advantages derived by the country from the gratuitous and zealous labours of the Magistrates of the United Kingdom. I trust that I shall never see the day, nor contemplate the probability of its arriving, when the jurisdiction they now possess shall be transferred to other hands. —(Cheers.)--It would be impossible, I think, to transfer that jurisdiction to any other hands by whom it would be administered with greater be nefit to the country. Besides, it is of the utmost importance that the gentlemen of England should be charged with the duties connected with the administration of justice. It will be an object of this Bill rather to facilitate the execution of those dit ties, than to trench on the privileges of Magistrates, or to limit their powers. There are about twenty three Acts of Parliament now in force relative to the qualification and jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace. They have been passed at different periods of our hist sry, and some of them are of a somewhat com plicated nature. I think it manifest that it would be productive of great advantage if we were to act as to this subject on the same principle on which we acted as to the Criminal Law, and unite into one Act of Parliament the various provisions to be found in the different enactments now in force, and apply such amendments as the lapse of time and change of circumstances may render necessary. The chief object of the Bill will be to consolidate the laws relating to the execution of the duties of Justices of the Peace. In the course of that consolidation it may be advisable to supply some defects that may be found to exist, and make some regulations to which the law does not apply. As the Bill can be so much better understood by reading it when it is printed, I will not occupy the time of the House by entering into any minute explanation of its pre visions on this occasion. But when the House has read it, I will take the first opportunity which this time of the year will afford us to give as full an explanation of all its provisions as I possibly can do. It is a question whether it would not be advisable to raise the qualification of a Justice of the Peace. The present qualification I cannot but think is too low; for the possession of 1001. a year is all that is requisite as the pecuniary qualification for a Magistrate. When we observe that property has increased so much, and that so many individuals ate to be found fully qualified in every respect, and in sufficient numbers, to discharge the duties of this office, I doubt whether it is not expedient to raise the qualification from the present amount to some thing not greatly above it. I am unwilling at pre sent to express a positive opinion on this point, until I can ascertain, by local information, how it will :affect practically the different parts of the country. Tlio question is, whether it would not be advisable to raise the qualification from 1001. to 3001. a.year. I Mould nut propose to disqualify those who may not be disqualified to that amount, and who are now in the commis-ion of the peace; but I believe it would be an improvement in the counties at large if a higher sum, at least than a 100/. a-year, was fixed for the qualification of cetnity Magistrates. I do not propose to alter the qualification of Magis trates possessing local jurisdiction. This Bill will abolish the distinction between Justices of the Quorum and other Justices. This distinction is founded on no good reason, and was applicable only to times that are passed. This Bill will leave no distinction between the power of Justices of the Peace. It will also supply a defect in the pre sent state of the law, and enable a Magistrate to compel the attendance of material witnesses in all cases they are required to decide. It is clear, that if we confer jurisdiction on the Magistrates, it ought to be complete; and therefore we should give them the power to compel the attendance of material Witnesses. The Bill will require the Magistrate who issues a summons personally to hear the com plaint. 'There have been instances in which Magi strates who have issued the summons have not heard the complaint; but though I believe this practice is very rare at present, it is one that ought to be entirely suppressed; and the Magistrate who issues a summons should be obliged personally to hear the complaint. The Bill will make regulations for holding Petty Sessions throughout the country; and it also contains a general form of conviction its all cases, for which the law-has not already provided. lfn many instances it is given when an'Act is passed conferring the jurisdiction on the Magistrates; but in others there is TIO form of conviction, and it is left wholly to the discretion of the Magistrate. It seems to me more proper to give a general form of conviction, instead of imposing on the Magistrate the responsibility of inventing a particular form in every case that comes before him. A general form should, therefore, be substituted, in order that the practice might not vary in every place. The Bill will require Magistrates to make a return to the Clerics of the Peace of the amount of all fines and penalties ►hey may have imposed for a certain antecedent period. If the power to impose these fines and penalties be given, it is but right that there should be pe►iodical returns, which will present a correct statement of the amount of this public pro perty. The Bill will also determine inabose cases which are not provided for by law at present, when an appeal shall be allowed against a summary con- , viction. It also contains a provision of great im portance for regulating the fees of Clerks to Justices of the Peace.--(Cheers.)--I have now drawn an outline and stated the principal provisions of the , Bill; and I think, when it is examined, the Howie will not find • that any material objection can be urged to it. This Bill will much facilitate the exe• cution of the business of Magistrates, by laying down simple and precise rules where the Acts of Parlia ment are silent. I have the greater confidence in this Bill because it has been prepared by a Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hobhouse), than whom no individual can be more capable of framing better regulations for the office of a Justice of the Peace; and I must say that that Right Hon. Gentleinan e who has retired from public life, has given an ex ample of true patriotism, in thus bestowing on his country the advantages of his sedulous labours, and of :his eminent knowledge of the law, and of the great experience lie derived from the nature of the public duties in which he was engaged. The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving for leave to bring in a Bill to provide for the better execution of the office of Justice of the Peace in England. The question having been put, Mr. HUME objected to a money-qualification-- whether 100/: or 3001. aeyear—being made so pro minent a feature in the proposed Bill ; and he did so because he thought the possession of property should not be rendered the principal—he might say the only—qualification for exercising the jurisdiction of a Magistrate. He thought the Right lion. Secretary's object ought to have been to induce, persons, whose previous acquirements and knowledge had fitted them for the office, to undertake it. There should be some adequate test of the fitness of candi dates for the Magisterial chair before they were allowed to sit in it. He did not think money the very best qualification, and was of opinion that the simple fact of a man possessing 3001., or even 30,0001. a year, afforded no pledge of his capability as a Justice of the Peace. The Right Hon. Gent. was not adopting the best mode of having public business performed. He knew many men of a hundred a year infinitely better able to perform the duties of a Magistrate than many fools who had ten or twenty thousand per annum.—(A laugh.)--The Hon. Member next proceeded to suggest the propriety of introducing a clause into the Bill to prevent Clergymen from becoming Justices of the . Peace: ; except in cases where other individuals capable of performing the duties of the office could not be found. There were some counties in which there were few of the Justices who were not Clergymen ; others, he admitted, where clerical Magistrates et ere not so numerous, but he believed the number of those shires to be very small in which the clerical did not predominate, either in the magisterial list or in regular attendance on the Bench, ()vet the lay Justices, who were generally outvoted by their more sacred brethren. He was oppposed to Clergymen being appointed Magistrates on several grounds; but it might be sufficient to say, their at tention ought not to be diverted from the sacred duties of their office by secular employments. In saying this, he was aware he should be met, as upon former occasions, by the assertion that justice could not be administered in many places, except Church men were allowed to perform the duties of Magis trates. There might, perhaps, be a few instances in which such would be the case, but he held those as the exceptions to the general rule. What he maintained was this,—that on no occasion, except there existed an absolute necessity for so doing, should the names of Clergymen be put on the list of Ma-' gistrates. He disclaimed any intention to attack the characters of Clergymen; but he had always held the duties of the stations to be incompatible. He could have wished that the Right Hon. Secretary had brought forward a more effectual measure than this appeared to be for controlling the jurisdiction of Magistrates, armed, as they were, with a terrible power which had been increased in an immense de gree during the last 30 years. The exercise of such an authority required more caution, temper, and knowledge, than were usually displayed by its pos sessors. He thought the Right Hon. Gent. did not go far enough—that he had not adopted a proper plan to meet the exigencies and remedy the evils of the case, and secure to the public a better and more effectual administration of justice on the part of per sons intrusted with the office of Justice of the Peace. Mr. HOULDSWORTH was of opinion, that the lawyers did not always make the best Magis trates, and dissented from the opinion of the Hon. Member for Aberdeen, as to the unfitness of Clergy men to perform the duties of Justices of Peace. With regard to summonses, the hearing of a case ought not to be confined to Magistrates who had issued them, as appeared to be the intention of the Right Hon. Secretary. What was to be done in the event of a Magistrate who had issued a summons for the hearing of a case being taken suddenly ill ? Was the case (which might be one of an urgent nature) to stand over on that account ? Mr. PEEL said, the Hon. Member had enti:ely party r t amlliysubnudtertshteoodllim. Magistrate He who summoned mean tosay p thaty before him should be disqualified to hear the case. What he intended to convey was, that a Magistrate id should not be able to compel parties to attend , ex d not ad ex cept he had previously heard a statement of the complaint making out the necessity of instituting an inquiry. Mr. BRIGHT, after complimenting the Right Hon. Secretary on the manlier in which he had taken up the subject, suggested whether it might not be better to refer the whole law to a Committee to inquire and report thereupon. In answer to a repetition of Mr.HOULDSWORTH'S objection with regard to the issuing of summonses, male by Mr. LOTT, Mr. I EEL said, his objection was, to prevent persons from being compelled to appear before any justice of the Peace till the Magistrate should have first heard the nature of the complaint; the Magis trate was to satisfy himself by hearing the charge whether it was necessary to institute any further inquiry. Mr. E. DAVENPORT thought it might be de sirable, if any obligation were imposed by the Bill, making it necessary forall persons previously to their first acting as Magistrates, to attend a certain num ber of times, and on certain occasions, at the Ses sions, in order to learn their duty. His object in making this proposition was, to prevent persons utterly ignorant of the law and their duties as Justices of the Peace, from filling the magisterial chair. There could be no harm in adopting this proposal. It was of great importance that by the Bill before the House, the duties of Magistrates should not only be defined accurately, but detailed minutely, and strongly enforced ; especially a, a great part of the Magisterial authority was at present . discretionary. • Mr. GORDON ridiculed the idea of having a LLD NETTING FOR PRESERVING FRUIT FROM FROST, BLIGHT, AND .BIRDS. GENTLEMEN, GARDENERS, and OTHERS, supplied by th e h un d re d we i g ht, h a lf, Si . "t ", or net, at 20s. per cwt. ; selected best quality at B s. per cwt. 112 lbs. ; selected all small mesh at V. cwt., at GEORGE GIMBER'S Net Warehouse, 10 , Crooked-lane, near the Monument. 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