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Member net to withdraw the Bill, but to adjourn the dis eussion with the view of a general measure being intro- (laced on that subject. After a few words from Mr. EWART and Mr. Rictraan PoTraa, the introduction of the Bill was postponed till the 15th of April. FACTORIES BILL. Lord ASHLEY said, that having o bserved by the votes that the motion of the Hon. Member for Lancaster was deferred, be begged to ask that Hon. Member when he intended to bring it on ? Mr. PATTEN bad no intention of postponing his mo tion. The notice was inserted in the votes without his consent, and he believed by mistake. Lord ASHLEY said that m ,ny Hon. Members, who felt interested in the subject, were absent,...under the sup- _ . . position that the motiun was deferred. He himself had been on the eve of leaving town, and remained only he. cause he had understood that it was by some mistake the notice had been inserted in the votes. He suggested to the Han. Member the propriety, under the circumstances, o f deferring his motion. After some discussion, Mr. PATTEN agreed to defer his motion till Tuesday next, on the understanding that Lord Ashley should not move the second reading of his Bill on the same subject previous to that time. GAME ACT. Mr. LEONARD moved for l.ave to bring in a Bill to repeal the ith clause of the last Game Act ; and to enable all tenants to shoot over the lands in their po,session, un: less retrained by a special agreement to the contrary with the landlord. The clause, as it at present stood, was the occasion of much injustice and hartiship to tenants. He knew of several instances in which it had acted, not only contrary to the intention. of the lion. Member who intro duced that Bill (who, he regretted, had not a seat in the present Parliament), but frequently contrary to the con ditions on which the leases were taken. One instance within his knowledge occurred in Hertfordshire, which was attended with peculiar hardship. A gentleman had taken a farm under the express condition that be should have the exclusive right of shooting over it; and, at the time of making the bargain, he mentioned that he would not give the rent for which he bound himself upon any other condition. By the practice of that county, however, there was no clause to that effect in the lease, and the only manner in which it was made to appear that tenants had the right to sport over their lands, was, when there was nu clause inserted reserving the right to the lanolord—the omissiun of such a clause being considered as conferring the right upon the tenant. Sonn afterwards the Gain,• bill pawed, and took from tenants all right to sport, un ki.s they had an express condition to that effect in their leases. i'ho consequence was, that this gentleman was _ _ , kpriv*d of his just right. But that was hut one of many simil4r instances of injustice. He would allow that that !Reuse was not liable for the insertion of the clause of which he complained. It was introdoced in the other House, with the belief and expectation that that House would never pass it. The whole Bill was disagreeable to the great proprietors in the other House, and they had hoped that, by the insertion of such a clause, they might get rid of it altogether. They were, however, disappointed, for the Bill, as it contained much undeniable good, was not rejected on account of one objectionable clause. But it was not in justice to the tenant alone that he wished for the repeal of that clause. He was sure it would be found necessary to do justice to the landlord oleo, as it would do away with all ambiguity, and allow him to retain the tight of sporting where he wished ; while it would put it beyond doubt whether he had the right or not. The Hon. Member concluded by moving for leave to bring in a bill to the effect above stated. Sir E• KNATCHBULL seconded the motion. Mr. HEATHCOTE said that the Came Act bad not been found to have the effect anticipated by the proposer• of it. Crime had increased to a most alarming extent since the passing of that Act. He thought that the ques tion should, at all events, be postponed. Mr. BARING concurred. With respect to tile ques tion about the increase of demoralization, it was rather difficult to assign the cause, for both the Game Act and the Beer Bill had been passed in the same session. He was himself inclined to lay blame on the Beer Bill. The question being put, Mr. WILLIAM BROUGHAM said, that the House would certainly do well to revise the Bill, bat ought to retain the principles of it. The atrocious offence of poi soning game, for instance, ought to be punished as a misdemeanor, instead of by fine. The Hon. Gentleman then related an instance of dreadful destruction which he had witnessed of a friend's property in this way :—A boy who had been discharged, revenged himself by poisoning a vast quantity of pheasants. For his (Mr. William Brougham's) own part, he would decidedly say, that in his capacity of a Magistrate, he would certainly rather trans port any man for seven years who bad been guilty, of such an atrocious offence as this, than for petty larceny. fie considered the former an offence of the greatest enormity. Mr. FAITHFUL was perfectly astonished at the decla ration of the Hon. Member. It did not appe tr to him that there was any more moral guilt in poisoning a pheasant than in shooting a sparrow. The came laws appeared to him as most unjust, arbitrary, and tyrannical ; they were a protection to the rich, and an injury to the poor ; and they ought to be altogether repealed. Mr. AGLIONBY denied that there could be any rob bery of the poor in the matter of game—for the good rea son that they had no property in it. Game he considered to be the property of those on whose lands it was fed, and he did not see that anybody had any more right to rob a man of his game than of his poultry. He would be the last to wish to deprive the poor man of an iota of his property or rights, but he did not see that they had the slightest property in game. After some few words from Mr. HEATHCOTE and Mr. LENNARD, the Bill was ordered to be brought in. LAW OF LIBEL. Sir FRANCIS VINCENT moved for a Bill to alter and amend the law of libel. The first thing he should desire, would be the repeal of that part of the Six Arts, and of that Bill brought in subsequently, which ciimpelled all persons publishing pamphlets, &c., to enter into bonds themselves, and find securities. He would also do away with all ex-officio informations ; he would make libels a sub ject for action or indictment, and not en arbitr ,ry ex officio information—a proceeding originated in the tyran nical Star Chamber, by which any law officer might keep out of the way any person whom he thought objection able. He should also desire to protect proprietors, pub hailers, and printers from being responsible for acts over which they can show they had now power of control or prevention. At the same time it should he required of all such persons to deliver up the name of the author of the libel complained of. He would also include in the same exemption all booksellers and venders, for the inadvei tent sale of a libel. He would have the justice of an alle gation left in all cases to the sole judgment of the Jury. He would have the Counsel for the defendant allowed to be heard last. In the event of a verdict against the de fendaut, the prosecutor should be obliged to insert the verdict and the principal points at least of the case, in six daily or weekly papers, as is done in France ; in order that those who had real the libel in the original paper, should see its refutation in the verdict of the Jury. The question being put, The ATTORNEY GENERAL rose merely to say that he was not inclined to oppose what should appear to be the opinion of Parliament. Leave was 'he' , given to hrinz in the Bill. PAROCHIAL REGISTRATION. Mr. WILKS moved for leave to appoint a " Select Committee to consider the general state of parochial re gistries, and the laws relating to those registries, and the registration of births, b iptisms, deaths, and burials, in England and Wales." This was a subject of the highest importance to all classes and denominations. In 1497, Cardinal Wolsey introduced a number of excellent regu lations with respect to registries, which were still in pre servation, but in which many improvements might }et be made. In the reign of El:sibeth, a Parliamentary measure enacted that there should he a summary made of all parochial registries, for the purpose of ascertaining the precise parochial statistics of the country. The year 1552 was the time of the origin of baptismal registration. In the Protectorate a new system had been introduced, of which experience had shown the convenience and excel lence, namely, that this registration should be a civil, and not an ecclesiastical regulation. It was a principle of that system that the clergy might he present, and, if they pleased, make it a religious ceremony ; but the re gistry of marri ages an d bi rt h s was t o b e a c i v il regula tion. After the restoration of Charles 11. this system was abrogated. No further alteration was made till the Act of the 6th and 7th of William and Mary, by which the duty was imposed on the people of registering births, marriages, and deaths. This was compulsory, and the object of it was that a correct registration should be pre served in each parish. The parishion ers were compe ll e d , live days after the birth of a c:.ild, to notify that to the authorities. By the 52d of Geo. 111., Lather alterations were made. The Bill then brought in purported to be for the re t istration of births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths; but, by an alteration made in it in the House of Lords, that Bill, when it became a law, was tumid not to contain one word about births. He mentioned this as a proof of the crudities of our legislation. The schedules of that Bit were altered in the House of Lords, and births excluded. It seas, therefore, only a register of baptisms and mar riages and deaths, and not of births. Yet this Act way fir only I undation for the security of property. By the regulations of 11312, it was required that the reports of the births, &c., should be made to the Privy Council, but those reports bad never been made. Another provision was, that the churchwardens and overseers were to make a duplicate return of all their registers to their diocesan, who was to take care of them, and provide a place of safe custody for therm But that provision of the Act was never executed. There were only three dio ceses in the whole kingdom in which any place had been appropriated for the safe custody of these duplicate returns. In no one diocese had an alphabetical list been made out, so as to afford a knowledge of what existed, and an easy access to it. In London, Chester, Bristol, in those dio ceses in which were congregated the great masses of our town and manufacturing population, one-half of the parishes never made any return at all. The returns which were made according to the statement laid on the table, were very often irregular and incomplete, and, con sequently, of very little value. He asked whether that state of confusion was proper for a great country like this? By this Act the churchwardens were to send their returns postage free, but as they did not always comply with the regulations when the postage was to be made, they were not received at the diocese, and sent back to the post-office. There they accumulated, and the accu mulation actually became s great, that at length the post office burnt them to get rid of them. Thus the duplicates en which all men bad to rely for the security of their pro perty, were destroyed as an incumbranee. He bad fur ther to observe, that the voluntary registration of indivi duals was not evidence. Baptisms too were no proof of age. It was necessary, therefore, to have a registration of birth, and that was what was wanted. The present system was replete with imperfections, alai permitted a great many subjects of dispute without any means of re medying them. In Wales, for example, two-thirds of the people were Dissenters. In England and Wales, as he kr ew on good authority, there were 8,250 dissenting chapels. At least one-third of the people of England and Wales • • were dissenters from the E4ablished Church. How were these people to obtain the advantages of registration? There was no provision for registering their births and baptisms. Their own registration too was no evidence in the courts of law. That. was a subject of interest to members of the Church of England, as well as to the Dissenters themselves, for there was no man who might not find his property and his children's property, depend on the registration of a Dissenter. On contrasting our institutions in this respect with those of the continent, they were found to helrtme imperfect, and he felt as an Englishman, as much ashamed, as he f-h inconvenience as a Dissenter, by a system that was made a reproach to us in every part of Europe. He would not particularly refer to France in which there was a general system of civil registration. In every commune every birth, marriage, and death, was registered by the Mayor., In Holland, the birth of every child was registered within three days after it occurred. In Austria, the Catholic clergy were obliged to receive the documents of other clergymen and to enter them with their own, so as to form one general system of local registration. No system in any part of Europe was so imperfect as that on which the descent of all pro perry depended in this country. Considering the im portance of the subject, he thought it would be better to refer this matter to a Select Committee, rather than that he should move for leave to bring in a Bill. He wished to have either a general system of civil registration, such as that established in the Protectorate, or that the clergy of the Church of England, if they would m iintain the present system, should be bound to make it a complete system of registration of births, marriages, and deaths ; and they should be bound to receive and register the births, marriages, and deaths of the Dissenters, es well as of the members of their own congregations. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL heartily concurred in the object proposed by his Learned Friend. He would not enter into any details, but would reserve to himself the right of discussing them hereafter. The SOLICITOR GENERAL, as a member of that commission on real property, the report of which the lion. Gentleman had quoted, was well aware of the de fective state of our registration. It was more easy to trace a pedigree 500 years ago than five years. The Him. and Learned Gentleman then related several in stances when entries had been forged for the purpose of proving pedigrees. The entries were made in Bibles, to which the artificial appearance of venerable age was suc cessfully imparted. Indeed there was a regular manufac tory of Bibles for that purpose. He begged to express his cordial wishes for the success of the motion. Mr. K. TYNTE having the honour to represent a county in which mere a very large body of Dissenter', felt rejoiced in an opportunity of congratulating the Dis senters and the people of England upon the liberal man ner in which his Hon. Friend's motion bad been met by his Majesty's Ministers.—The motion was then agreed to. ROMAN CATHOLIC MARRIAGES. Mr. PATTEN said, that in conse quence of the regula tions respecting the presentation of petitions, his name stood so low upon the list that he had not yet been able to present several petitions which he held, prayirg the Hous, to leg:dize Roman Catholic marriages, without subsequ.nt confirmation according to the rites of the Established Church. He concluded by giving notice of his intention to bring in a Bill for that purpose. CLAIMS OF MR. D'ARCY MAHON. Mr. SHEIL moved for a " Return of the Retirement Allowances given to D'Arcy Mahon, E.q. and the other Provisional Commissioners of Stamps in Ireland upon the consolidation of the Thuds ; of the number of years for which each of the said Commissioners was employed in the Revenue ; of the principle on which said re tirement allowances were calculated respectively; and if the places or (Aces to which any of the said Provi sional Commissioners have been since presented, with the amount of the yearly emoluments thereof." This gentleman had acted for thirty-right years in the adminis tration of the Stamps in Ireland, as Comptroller and In spector, and subsequently he was raised to the situation of Commis•ioner, and all the reward which he had obtained on being superannuated, for so long a period of service, was a retiring allowance of 2701. per annum. Mr. SPRING RICE had no objection to give the pa pers. He was happy in bearing testimony to Mr. Ma hon's merits. Mr. ROCHE said a few words in favour of Mr. Mahon's claims. The motion was then agreed to. The Marine Mutiny Bill went through the Committee, and the report was ordered to be brought up tomorrow. Mr. SPRING RICE brought up the report of the Committee of Supply, and resolution passed last night on tie army estimates, which was read and agreed to. Leavewas then elven to bring in the (Army) Mutiny Bill. Mr. ALEXANDER BARING moved for an account of the total number of persons entitled to receive half yea:iy dividends at the time of the last half-yearly pay ments, particularising each deticription of stock and of terminable annuities, distinguishing those whose dividends amount to Si., to 101., to 20/., to 50/., to 300/., to 300/., to 2,000/., and also distinguishing those dividends which are to he paid to public companies.—Agreed to. Mr. BARING also moved for an account of the quan tity of gold and silver coin and bullion imported and ex ported from India and China, and to Europe and America respectively, distinguishing gold from silver, and coin from bullion, from the earliest period from which such accounts can be furnished. Mr. ATTWOOD gave notice of his intention, on an early day after the Easter recess, to move for a return of the names of all persons possessed of 10,0001. and up wards in the public Funds on the Ist of March, 1819, or the nearest day to that date at which such return could be made out ; and a similar return for the Ist of March, 1815, or the nearest day to that date at which such re turn could be made out. Mr. HODGES prey , -nted petitions from Gravesend and Bexley against the Beer Bill. NIINISTERIAL CHANGES. Mr. S. RICE moved a new writ for the Northern Di vision of Lancashire, in the room of Mr. E. G. Stanley, who had ampted the office of one of his Majesty's Prin cipal Secretaries of State ; and also one for the city of Westminster, in the room of Sir John Cam Hobbouse, who had accepted the office of Chief Sect etary for Ireland. Mr. W. WYNN presented five petitions from places in Montgomeryshire, for the better observance of the Lord's Day. Mr. BARRON presented ten petitions from the city of Waterford, against the Irish Coercive Bill. Mr. HUGHES presented a petition from Plymouth, for the abolition of slavery. Mr. TENNANT presented petitions from Belfast and Badynina, for the better observance of the Sabbath. Mr. EVANS presented a petition from Leicester, in favour of the Irish Coercive Bill, and four petitions from the sante place, for the better observance of the Sabbath. Mr. YOUNG presented a petition from 516 unemployed mariners belonging to the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, complaining of want of employment, stating that a great portion of the shipping bad become useless in consequence of the depression of the mercantile marine, and praying that some redress might be granted, not to themselves di rectly, but to their employers, so that the latter might be enabled to give them occupation. Mr. YOUNG 4180 presented a petition from Shoreham, Littlehampton, Arundel, and Chichester, complaining of the heavy stamp duties upon maritime insurances. Mr. COLLIER presented a petition from Plymouth, for an amendment of the law of debtor and creditor. M r, WYNN ELLIS .presented a petition from Leict ster, against the Ir:sh Coercive Dill, and, in sa doing, be ob served that the counter petition which had been presented that night from Leicester, had been hawked about for two days, and every effort made to procure signatures ; but they had only obtained about a thousand. Mr. RUTHVEN, in moving for certain returns, spoke at considerable length ; hut withdrew his motion after some discussion. The House adjourned at a little before twelve. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 28. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY having take❑ his seat on the Woolsack, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor, the Sugar Duties Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY laid upon the table a copy of the returns of criminal offences committed in England and Wales during the last 25 years. Lord CLONCURRY presented a petition from Limerick praying for the abolition of tithes. The Noble Lord stated that tithes were the chief grievance of Ireland, and if not attended to in time, would render acts of coercion continually necessary. The great bulk of the people were heavily taxed to support a Church with which they had no communion, whilst the ministers of their own Church were left to depend upon the charity of their flocks. He could state that there were no men more anxious to perform their sacred duties, or more indifferently paid; than the ministers of the Catholic Church. The Noble Lord also presented a petition from the Protestant and Presbyterian inhabitants of a considerable district in Antrim. The Earl of ROSEBERY presented a petition from Brechin, in Forfar, praying for the abolition of negro slavery, and another from Arbroath, praying for a revision of the common law of Scotland. The Bishop of WINCHESTER presented petitions from Bolton-le-Moors and other places, fir the better ob servance of the Sahh ath, and against the Beer Act. Lord AUCKLAND presented petitions for the aboli tion of slavery. Lord ELLENBOROUGH moved for a copy of the correspondence between the Bow d of Control and the East India House relative to the Charter.—Granted. The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from the Protestant clergy of the diocese of Elphin against that part of the Church Reform Bill which proposed to take away their Bishop. Lord KING remarked that a great many petitions had come from the diocese of Elphin of late, although he be lieved it was but a very small district. The Earl of WICKLOW observed that the petitions which had come from the diocese of Elphin were signed not only by the Protestants, but the Catholics, thereby show ing that that part of the Bill which the petitioners com plained of in the petition did not meet with the approba tion of Elphin. The Eat l of RODEN presented petitions from a parish in Dublin, and from Montrose, in Dublin, praying for the better observance of the Lord's Day ; a petition front pa rishes in Dawn, against the Church " Spoliation" Bill; and a petition from the Protestant Clergy of King's Lynn, in Norfolk, and its neighbourhood, playing the House to take into its consideration the distressed state of the clergy in Irel and. Lord SUFFIELD rose to present to their Lordships petitions upon a subject which was of the great•st im• portance to the people of this country—the total and immediate abolition of negro slavery. He had delayed presenting to the House petitions which had been confided to his charge, on account of the confidence he had in his Majesty's Government ; but certain rumours had lately gone abroad, which had induced him to revive the subject. He was fully per suaded that the principle of his Maje-ty'e Government was a sound and right principle, and he hoped that they would be disposed to act upon it. He had no doubt that their Lordships would receive shortly numerous petitions upon that subject, which would more distinctly declare the wishes of the country, that nothing short of the total and immediate emancipation of the slave would satisfy the people of England. lie should have been ashamed, after the pains taken by the Anti-Slavery Society, to trouble their Lordships with the meaning of the word "immediate," were not daily efforts being made to abuse the public mind upon the subject. The wore " immediate," as applied to this subj-ct, only meant to apply to the earliest possible and practicable substitution of legal restraint fir the irrespon sible power the master at present held over the slave. He earnestly entreated their Lordships favourably to consider that proposition, and he believed that they would find that the people of England would be ready to assist them in their endeavours to put down that system. The petition, the prayer of which he was about to read, was from the city of Edinburgh, signed by 22,291 per sons. The Ni.ble Lord then read the petition at length, and added, that he thought it the duty of every English man to make his voice heard in favour of the total and immediate abolition of slavery, if that were his wiab. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that he had not heard the reports to which the Noble Baron had alluded, and, perhaps, it would be more consistent if he were to state what these rumours were. He had himself thought that they would have been called upon before the present pe riod—he would not say to decide, but at least to discuss the question of slavery; and lie regretted that the House had not been called upon to do so. He con fessed, the state in which the question was at present left was one, if not of danger, of inconvenience to the public. If his Majesty's Ministers had any plan upon the subject, it was most desirable that they should produce that plan, and he was quite sure that the delay only tended to increase the difficulties of the question. The uncer tainty of the intentions of Government must create in the minds of the planters and the slaves that degree of agita tion which would render it impossible to adopt any mea sure they might afterwards propose. Lord SUFFIELD, in explanation, said, the rumours he had spoken of were partly whispers among a certain class, and statements put forth in newspapers. However, he was sure that no plan by which slavery was continued would satisfy the public. He was of opinion that it was the West India body that was to be charged with the delay that had taken place. The Noble Lord then pre seated a similar petition from Sheffield, by 11,000 persons. Lord GODERICH said that he was not aware of what Turnouts the Noble Lord had spoken, but whatever they were, Government were not answerable for them. He was not conscious that there was anything that fairly could be called delay in the bringing forward of the question, which was one of very great importance, and required the utmost consideration. Neither did he think that he could fairly be called upon to state the result of any interview between Government and any body. He was perfectly aware of the almost absolute necessity of quickly submitting the question to the consideration of Parliament ; but no one could expect or wish that it should be brought for ward without mature deliberation. Earl FITZWILLIAM said, anxious as he was, and anxious as the people of England were for tl e settlement of this great question, he was sure there was nothing they would so much deprecate as any haste in the bringing for t% and of that measure, by which its efficiency might be impaired. He beieved be was the only one in the House who had lately been in contact with large bodies of the people, and he could assure their Lordships that the feel. ing upon this question was very strong in all parts of the country, and was not now confined to the large manufac tuting towns, as heretofore, for the feeling and wish for emancipation was as great in agricultural districts as in any other. _ The Duke of BUCKINGHAM said he could assure the House that the delay in introducing a measure on this subject was not the fault of the West India Proprietors, for they were most anxious—in !act, no one could be inure so—for the introduction of the Minssterial plan. It was to be lamented that the Ministers bail not made up their minds on the subje ct, which they bad not done, nor, in his opinion, did they act in a becoming way by letting out parts of their plan, whi-pering their wishes to another, and telling the whole world of their disputes, on the subject. Eat' GREY would not he provoked by the attack of the Noble Duke to make any premature explanation of the intentions of Government. There was not one of their Lordships who would not allow that the subject was one requiring the greatest consideration, and that, above all others, it was one which required the most mature deli beration ; and he was prepared to submit to any imputa tions as to delay, rather than run the risk of introducing the question without having had its due share of attention. He would not then throw out a hint of any plan that the Government had in agitation, but would only assure the House that the subject was at that moment tinder the con sideration of the Government. He was most anxious for the abolition of slavery, but he was not prepared to in troduce a Bill declaring that from that moment the slave should be free. There were many conflicting interests which it was necessary to consult. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM explained. The Duke of RICHMOND begged leave to deny, in the most distinct manner, one of the statements made by the Noble Duke opposite. There were no disputes in the i‘linistry with regard to that question. Lord SUFFIELD then presented a petition from Glas gow, by 32,000 persons, to the s ame effect. g°‘' Lord ELLENBOROUGH, as one of the opposition allies alluded to, said that the opponents of the measures of Ministers, were solely actuated by a deep sense of the interests of the people at large, and of the slaves themselves. Similar petitions were presented from Yorkshire and Lancashire, by Lords FI]ZWILLIAM and LILFORD. The Bishop of LICHFIELD presented several petitions from Stafford and Yorkshire for a repeal of the Sale of Beer Act, and for the better observance of the Sabbath. Earl GREY, in answer to questions of the Dukes of CUMBERLAND and BUCKINGHAM, said that he could not, till the Irish Coercion Bill had passed through all its stages and had become the law of the land, state when the House would rise for the holydays. He could not, either, in that state of the public business, say how long the recess would last, but feared it would he a short one._ LOCAL JUDICATURES. The LORD CHANCELLOR rose for the purpose of submitting to their Lordships a Bill for establishing local jurisdictions in England and Wales, similar in principle and in the majority of its provisions to that submitted by him on two former occasions. He would then confine himself to a brief outline of its leading features and pro visions, reserving himself till the second reading stage for a full explanation of its principles and details. Its object was the establishing, as it were, but experimentally in certain districts and counties, but ultimately in all the counties and districts, after its advantages shall have been proved in the experimental districts, local juris dictions, for the purpose of facilitating the admi nistration of justice,—and not only facilitating, but bring ing it home to the door and placing it within the pecu niary reach of every subject in the kingdom. These local jurisdictions would b, so many courts over which a ser eeant-at-law, or a barrister of not less than ten years' standing, should be appointed to preside as judge,—care being taken that those judges shall be men able and ex perienced in the law, and of so high a character, moral and protessional, that the King's subj- cts should have con fidence in their decision. The question then came, what was the kind and amount of jurisdiction which these local judges shoul I exercise? He proposed to give them a power to dispose of cases of debt, and hose cases of wrongs which were called actions of tort, in which the redress was pecu niary damages. The question next was, to what suns of debt or damage he would limit the jurisdiction of the new courts ? In his former Bill he proposed that the judges should take cognizance of all actions for debt where the sum did not exceed 100/., but after much consideration, and frequent communication with the common law com missioners, he was induced to make 201. the maximum sum, at least for the present, which should be brought, as a matter of course, before the local judges. He admitted this was a great restriction, but he trusted that the other provisions of the Bill would do much towards securing the parties-in-debt actions the prompt and economical decisions of the local courts. It was to be under stood that the 201. was a compulsory provision—that is, that the plaintiff in a cause to that arnoun should possess the power of bringing it before the local judges, even though the defendant should not be a willing party. Ano• ther provision, which he would advert to immediately, give the parties in these debt and tort actions, and, in deed, in all actions, the power of submitting themselves to the local tribunal, on both agreeing—treat is, on the mutual consent of the plaintiff and defendant to that pur pose. Well, 201. was the debt compulsory maximum ; then the question was, what should be the amount of ac tions for damages which the local judicature should, in the ordinary exercise of their functii.ns, take cognizance of. He proposed that the maximum in this case should be 501. damages ; that is, cases in which the damages should be laid at or under SOL, it being well known t at prac tically no jury, for reasons which he would not then stop to specify, ever gave damages equal to the amount lai i in the declaration ; so that, in point of fact, the damage maximum, secured, as it would be by the other provisions of the Bill, would be, as in the actions for debt, actually 201. Briefly, then, all actions for debt and damages under 201. would be tried and decided in these local judi catures. Their Lordships, perhaps, were not aware of the great amount of the actions for hums not exceeding 20/., --that is, of tlie great relative proportion which they bore to the aggregate amount of actions tried in the courts of common law.—(Hear.) This great relative proportion would appear obvious to them when he stated, that out of 93,000 affidavits of debt made in the year 1826 (the last of which be possessed a re turn) in the three courts of common law in Westminster ball, not less than 30,000, or about 1•31, were for sums under 20/. ; 18,000 for sums under 50/ ; and the re maining 15,000 for sums above 501. Again, out of 890 suits, tried in London and Middlesex in 1830, not less than 330, or more than 1-3 d, were for sums under 201. ; while in the country, judging by the returns from the Oxford circuit for the same year, the proportion was trill greater, there being not less than 160 out of 340 causes fur sums under 201. tried in that circuit. He bad stated that the jurisdiction in cases for 20/. would be compul sory. He proposed, that when the plaintiff and defendant both consented, all actions, without restriction of amount at issue, might be disposed of by tne local judges. He expected much better results from the provision than could appear on the surface at a first blush. Another provi sion, which he also expt-c•ed would work advanta geously, was that which would enable eitl.er patty in an action for debt to compel the other to answer upon oath as to the facts of the case : by this summary arrangement all the advantages of the roundabout, tedious, and expen sive process of filing a bill of discovery would be secured at a cheap rate and promptly. There was another pro vision of this Bill to which he had on a former occasion specially invited their attention—he meant that which would invest the local judges with an arbitrary power; in feet, invest the local courts with the character of courts of reconcilement. Noble Lords could not readily believe the advantages which had accrued from this admirable prac tice in those counties in which it had had a fair trial. By the judges—persons eminently competent from education, professional habits, and standing—pointing out to the parties the real grounds of an action—the right and the wrong, they not only saved the necessity of endless litiga tion, but vindicated the high character of the profession from all imputation of interestedness and professional dis ingenuousness. In France these courts of arbitration had been tried, not, he was bound to state, with such xtensive results as in Belgium, and ;at- less than in Denmark and Norway. Tois reconciling practice was first adopted in Denmark in 1795: in the following year the causes were re duced no: less than two-thirds—that is, but one-third was not disposed of without going into court, by arbitration on the part of the judges. He hail on a former occasion quoted the returns of two periods of nine years each, in order to place the beneficial workings of this reconciling practice in a strong light to their Lordships. In the earlier period not leas than 448,000 out of 724,000 cases were so disposed of ; while in the later period—in that eliding in 1822 not less than 21,000 out of a total of 31,000 (that is 2-3ds) cases were so settled, without the expense and delay of formal litigation. The next prov sion related to the equity jurisdiction with which he proposed to invest the local Judges. In his former Bill be extended this equity jurisdiction to wills and legacies as well as matters of hankruptcy ; but though his own conviction was un altered, he thought it better to omit it in the present, the rather as it might be more advantageously made the sub ject matter of a special measure. lie proposed, then, in the present Bill, that the local Judges shall be to all intents and purposes local Masters in Chancery and local Commis sioners of bankrupts—that is, that they shall in their several jurisdictions and localities exercise all the func tions which appertain to the office of Master in Chan cery, and which appertain to the office of Bankruptcy Judge in the new Bankruptcy Courts, which had, he was proud to say, produced the best results, and were held in strong esteem by the mercantile world. Of course local official assignees should also be appointed, in order to make the bankruptcy jurisdiction of the local courts as efficient as it was universally admitted to he in London. The last object which he had in view in drawing up the present Bill was also very important. It proposed to re lieve debtors who had gone through their examination, and made a satisfactory disclosure of the whale state of their affairs, from imprisonment. In this respect the BM would be an apt precursor to one which be understood was about to be introduced in the other House of Parlia ment, which was also founded on the recommendations of the common law commissioners, and which would go the length of abolishing imprisonment fur debt altogether. The want of proper measures to obtain full and ac curate information respecting the pr o perty of debtors was severely felt. This want was intended also to be supplied by the Bill he had the honour to submit to the House. Its application would be g e ner a l, as far as it was practicable to be so, and it was thought that it could, with very little alteration, be applied to almost every case which might occur. He thought that the prin ciple of not allowing the arrest of a debtor under any pre tences except those of refusing to answer que-tions relating to the disposal of his property, or of refusing to surrender it, was just and incontrovertible. Indeed,. in no case i n his (the Lord Chancellor's) opinion, except under cir cumstances in which property had been fraudulently ob tained, or negligently managed,—in short, in no case e gc• pt where contumacy or criminality could be shown, ought any debtor to be detained. Such he believed to be the opinion, too, of all who bad paid attention to the subject. With regard to this part of the measure, be had to repeat that it was based on the recommendations con tained in the repert of the Common L .w Commissioners, shit in drawing it up every regard bad been paid to imparting to creditors every security which it was possible to extend to them. In fact, its provisions would be of greater benefit to creditors than of advantage to debtors, and he had no doubt that when the measure came to b fully discussed by the Legislature, it would surely be adopted. It would be innposiiible, he thought, to achieve the objects to which be had stated the Bill bad re- Terence, except by the establishment of local courts ; r but that being done, then every facility for the ac complishment of those objects would be afforded. He had another Bill to present, the subject of which he would then simply mention. It was in tended to effect an alteration in the appellate jurisdiction of the Privy Council; and he hoped ere long that a similar alteration might be effected in the appellate jurisdiction of their Lordships' House, which he could assure them was a subject of the gravest importance, and one which required the most serious consideration. He should not, however, detain the House by any observations on the last-men tioned Bill; but if he might be permitted, he would just state the subject of a Bill which• he intended to introduce (we understood) before the Easter recess. This Bill would be directed to effect some important reductions in certain low offices—namely, the Six Clerks-office, the Report-office, the Register-office, and several others. It would also effect the abolition of some useless and cum brous places connected with the Cruet of Chancery, to the amount of four or five and twenty ; remedy delays in proceedings, and a►ridge expenses. In short, the Bill he proposed to introduce would impart greater justice an i accuracy to the proceedings of every branch of the Court of Chancery. The following would be the list of the reductions in the offices to which he had alluded :—ln the Six Clerks-office a saving of 29.0001. would be effected; in the Report-office, a saving of 4,300/. ; in the Register-office of 10,500/. ; in the Masters'-offices of 11,157/. ; which, with the further fees now received in those offices, to be abolished and compensated from the Suitors' Fund, amounting to 14,000/., would make a total saving of 68,957/. a year. He would say no more of the contemplated measure than this, th it much confusion would be prevented by it in the administration of the pro ceedings of those different offices. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM wished to know whether the establishment of the local courts under tha Bill p-e- seated to the House would supersede the jurisdiction which the local courts at present in existence exercised ; and also whether that Bill would affect the regulations for empannelling juries ? The LORD CHANCELLOR, in answer to the last question, was understood to say that the provisions of the Bill would not affect the sheriff's right of assembling juries. With retard to the establishment of the courts, that would very much depend upon circumstances. The extent, im portance, wealth, and population of different district, would have a material influence in regulating the numerical amount of those courts. Wherever there should he fours,' to be more than sufficient business for one court, e , ' could be added, in order to insure the adequate a , flu. nistration ofjustice. In some instances, perhaps, the cou after despatching all the business in a particular dis trict, w• uld remove to another district, and by that means the manifest inconvenience of bringing parties from a great distance to attend trials would be obviated. As to the ques tion whether the new courts would supersede the jurisdic tion of the old local courts, he would merely remark that there were 280 of these courts at present in ex , stence, must of which, he had reason to believe, were totally inoperative ; and some of them, indeed, had had no business to transact for the last 50 or 60 years. There were, he might add, many of them which entirely reversed the benefit which ought to result from legal tribunals, creating mischief rather than doing good, and enhancing, rather than di minishing, the expense of processes. The abuses, indeed, and u.istnanagements to which those courts were subject were so many arguments for the establishment of the new local courts. He must, however, con'ess that instances were here and there to be met with in which the proceed ings of the courts at present existing were conducted in an exemplary manner; and he would add, that on the abolition of these courts a just ant full compensation would, no doubt, be awarded to all persons connected with them who could establish a title to it by their services. The Bi,ls were then read a first time.—Adjourned. LIST OF TIL OF EIGHTY-THREE (TELLER IN( lIVNIE'S MOTION FOR REDUCING CURE GENERAL AND FIELD-OFF' For Mr. Hume's motion Against it ENGLAND. Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth Bayntun, S. A.—York Beauclerk, Aubrey Wm.—East E MINORITY 7LUDED), WHO VOTED FOR 6,9001., THE PAY OF SEVEN SINE. ICERS OF TILE ROYAL MARINES. 83-1 141 9:24 3 Rippon, C.—Gateshead Thicknesse, R.—Wigan Tooke, W.—Truro Torrens, R.—Bolton Turner, W.—Blackburn Tynte, C. J. K.—West Somer- Surrey Bewes, T —Plymouth Briscoe, J. I.—East Surrey Brocklehurst, J.—Macclesfield Buckingham, J. S.—Sheffield Bulwer, E. L.—Lincoln Chaytor, Sir W.—Sunderland Clay, W —Tower Hamlets Collier, J.—Plymouth Cornish, James—Totness Curteis, E. B.—Rye Dawson, E.—South Leicestersb. Div ett, E.—Exeter Evans, W.—Leicester Ewart, W.—Liverpool Faithful, George—Brighton Fenton, J.—Rochdale Fielden, John—Oldham Fort, J.—Clitheroe Gaskell, D.—Wakefield Gisborne, T.—North Derbysh. Grote, Geo. —London Gully, John—Pontefract Hall, Benjamin—Monmouth Handley, Benjamin—Boston Harvey, D. W.—Colchester Hawes, B.—Lambeth Hodges, T. L—Kent Hutt, W.—Kingston-on-Hull James, W.—Carlisle Kemp, T. R.—Lewes I .ister, E. Cunliffe—Bradford Marsland, T. Stockport Molesworth, Sir William—East Cornwall Morrison, J.—lpswich Parrott, J.—Totness Philips, Mark—Manchester Ph illpotts, J.—Gloucester Potter, R.—Wigan Ricardo, D.—Stroud Rider, T.—West Kent Roebuck, J. A.—Bath setshire Wilks, J.—Boston Williams, G.—Ashton Warburton, H.—Bridport Wason, R.—lpswich SCOTLAND. Gillon, W. D.—Falkirk, &c. I Oliphant, Laurence—Perth Oswald, J.—Glasgow Wallace, IL—Greenock Wemyss, J.—Fifeshire IRELAND. Baldwin, Dr. H.—Cork City Barry, S.—Cork Co. Bellew, R. M.—Louth Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co, Evans, G.—Dublin Co. Finn, W. F.—Kilkenny Co. Fitzgerald, Thos.—Louth Co. Fitzsimon, C.—Dublin Co. Lalor, Patrick—Queen's Co. M'Laughlin, L.—Galway o'Brien, Cornelius—Clare O'Connell, D.—Dublin City O'Connell, Maurice—Tralec O'Connell, Charles—Kerry O'Connell, John—Youghall 0 Connell, Morgan—Meath O'Connor, Fergus—Cork Co. O'Dwyer, A. C.—Drogheda Roche, D.—Limerick Ruthven, E. S.—Dublin Ruthven, Edward—Kildare Shell, R. L.—Tipperary Vigors, N. A.—Carlow V bite, Luke—Longford TELLER. Hume, Joseph—Middlesex LIST OF THE MINORITY OF 157 MEMBERS WHO VOTED FOR MR. ROBINSON'S MOTION, " Th.t a Select Commit ee be appointed to consider and revise our existing Taxation, with the view to a repeal of those burdens which press most heavily on productive industry ; and the sub stitution of an equitable Tax on Property, in lieu thereof," For the appointment of the Committee 1571 66 Against the Committee, and with Ministers 223j ENGLAND. !Palmer, R—Berkshire Adams, K H —Carmarthensh. 'Pease' Josep h—S o uth Durham Aglionby, A.—Cockermouth Peel, Col. J.—Huntingdon Attwood, Thos. —Birmingham Philips, M.—Manchester Baillie, J. E.—Bristol Plumptre J. P.—East Kent Barnard, E. J.—Greenwich Potter, Richard—Wigan Bayntun, S. A.—York Ricardo, David—Stroud —WBaetsht: Kent Benett, J.—South Wiltshire Rfloideebru,c'kf,ho J. A as . Bowes, T.—Plymouth Bentinck, Ld. G.—King's Lynn Romilly, J.—Bridport Bolling, W.—Bolton-le-Moors Rotch, B.—Knaresborough Bowes, John—South Durham Russell, C. —Reading Briggs, R.—Halifax Shawe, R. N.—East Suffolk Br gstock, W. P.—East Somer. Spry, S. T.—Bodmin setshire Stanley, E. J.—North Cheshire Briscoe, J. I —East Surrey Stewart, John—Lymington Brocklehurst, J.—Macclestield Talbot, C. It. M.—Glamorgan. Brodie, W. 18.—Neiv Sarum shire Brotherton, Joseph—Salford Tennyson, Right Hon. C.— Buckingham, J. s.—Sheffield Lambeth Bulkeley, Sir R.W.—Anglesea Thicknesse, R.—Wigan Bulwer, L.—Lincoln 'Todd, J. Ruddell—Honiton Cavenish, Lord—North Der. Tooke, W.—Truro byshire Torrens, Cayley, Sir G.—Scarborough Trelawney, W. 1,. S.—East Chaplin, T.—Stamford Cornwall Chapman, A.—Whitby Tynte, C. J. K.—W. Saterset Chaytor, W. It C.—Durham Tyrrell, Sir J. T.—North Essex Chichester, J. P. IL—Barnstaple lyrell, C.—West Suffolk Clay, W.—Tower Hamlets Vaughan,Sir R.—Merionethsh Cobbett, William—Oldham Vernon, IH. G. J., V.—South Collier, J.—Plymouth Derbyshire Cornish, James-1 otness Vincent, Sir F.—St. Albans Curteis, H. B.—East Sussex Walter, John—Berkshire Curteis, E. B.—Rye Wason, Rigby—lpswich Dare, R. W. H.—south Essex Watkins, J. L. V.—Brecon Davies, Colonel—Worcester Wigney, I. N.—Brighton Dawson, A. E.—South Leices- vvilks, John—Boston tershire Williams, G.—Ashton Dick, Quintin—Maldon Willoughby, Sir H. P.—New Dundas, J. C.—Richmond ca , tle.under-Lyne Evans, Wm.—Leicester Wood, M.—London Ewart, W.—Liverpool Young, G. F.—Tynemouth Faithful, G.—Brighton Fenton, John—Rochdale Fielden, John—Oldham Fryer, R.—Wovlerhampton Gaskell, Daniel--Wakefield Gisborne, T.—N. Derbyshire Goring, H. D.—New bliorehaml Greene, T.—Lancashire Grote, George—London Guest, J. J.—Merthyr Tydvil Gully, John—Pontefract HalcomO, John—Dover Hall, Benjamin—Monmouth Handley, Wm. F.—Newark. upon-Trent Handley, Benjamin—Boston Handley, Henry—Lincolnshire parts of Kesteven Harland, W. C.—Durham Harvey, D. W.—Colchester Hawes, Benjamin—Lambeth Hawkins, J. H.—Newport, Isle of Wight Henniker, Lord—East Suffolk Hodges, T. L.—East Kent Hodgson, J. —Newcastle-upon- Tyne Hornby, E. G. —Warrington Hughes, Hughes—Oxford Hume, hery, J.—Middlesex Hump Hutt, Wm.—Hull Hyett, W. H.--Stroud Ingham R.—South Shields , John—Southwark James, W.—Carlisle Keppel, Hon. G.—East Norfolk Key, Sir J.—London Langton, Wm. Gore—East So. mersetshire Lennox, Lord W.—King's Lynn Lennox, Lord J.—West Sussex Lister, E. Cunliffe—Bradford Locke, W.—Devizes Lushington, Dr.—Tower Haml. Marshall, J.—Leeds Marsland, Thomas—Stockort Nanney, J. E.—.Carmarthen Newark, Vise.—East Retford SCOTLAND. Dalmeny7l:oral-ImTerkeithing G Lon, W. D.—Falkirk Jdlinston, A.—St. Andrews Maxwell, Sir John—Paisley Maxwell, John—Lanarkshire Oswald, R. A.—Ayrshire Oswald, James —Glasgow Sinclair, G.—Caithness -shire Stewart, R.—Haddington, &c. Wallace, Robert—Greenock IRELAND. Baldwin, Dr.—Cork City 'Barr, G. S.—Cork Co. Butler, Hon. P.— K enn y Co. Finn, W. F. —Kilkenny Iltzsimon, C.—Dublin t o. G rat t a n:AL—Meath Co. Lalor, Patrick—Queen's Co. Lynch, A. H.—Galway M‘Laughlin, L —Galway Martin, T.—Galway Co. O'Brien, Cornelius—Clare O'Connell, Daniel—Dublin O'Connell, Maurice—Tralee O'Connell, C.—Kerry Co. O'Connell, John—Youghall O'Connell, Morgan—Meath O'Connor, Fergus—Cork Co. O'Dwyer, A. C.—Drogheda Roche, Wilham—Limerick Reche, David—Limerick Ruthven, E. S.—Dublin Ruthven, Ed.—Kildare Sheil, R. L.—Tipperary • Sullivan, Richard—Kilkenny Vigors, N. A.—Carlow TELLERS. Robinson, 0. li.—Worcester Warburton, H.—Blidport PAIRED OFF. OF r .,, Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 3 per CPnt COI 6...47 M 4 M 3% per Cent. shut Ditto Red.... New 3}4 per Cent 3 per Cent. Ann. 1724% 4 Per Cent. 1826 .... -- Rank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 18(. 0 shut Oct. 10, 1059 shut Jan. 5, 1960 l6 15-16 % Jan. 5, 1SSI) - April 5, ISBO --- )an. 5, 1070 -- Nfolesworth, Sir William—East Cornwall O'Connor, Don—Roscom , Co. --...-.---...---- , UAli Al (IN 0 C 1.41 .• .„.., New 5 per Cent. ....... .... 4 , India Stock ....... ........... *M. South Sea Stock ......... ... Old Annuitie5........... ».• 85 14 ~ Ex. 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Commerc i a l BuildIng_L:00000 *O ll, Et e LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1635. ne o In the House of Commons last n i g h ''' C. I writs were moved for in the room of Sir of HOBHOUSE and Mr. STANLEY, the fbr in , er tt j whom has been appointed Secretary for lre' s ies : coloo dite and the latter Secretary for the These are appointments that will, noed oub t, cl°ubht'cr o f general satisfaction. But it will be roses that the Hon. Member for W e , btinin r ster going to stretch himself on. The u°ve"nTtusl of Ireland is no sinecure. It requires PerPiteo activity—the perpetual .exercise of sh ads 4' and liberality. Sir JOHN is by no me an. f cient in these respects. He has no Iscl‘;:vite gacity, and if he bring equal patience and "-niforo tiality W . his task, he may do. Bu t t 0 rg-sters Ireland on any other principle than that °' 0 to impartiality, would be about as ridiculous • t h attempt to check the cataract of Niaga ra , bull-rush. Mr. STANLEY will be m ore 3 " 1: ?, 1 10 ' A. 0 .- in his present than his past situation. ` - ot , be of his fire, and spirit, and decision wil l I - 'f il l amiss in the Colonies. But we hope he enter on his new occupation wi th hO e pa tuous abhorrence of a job. We "-'l,l will begin by breaking the neck of T h a t Charles and Lord John system• nje tt patronage will have reference rather t ° 0 10 1 than to birth. That he will prefer plebei3navele to patrician imbecility. Hitherto the i g - v idecif tnents of our different colonies have been u r t n - ,iliel for the most part, between the two gret is. lo l of the Noodles and the Doodles. L u iv ; '1 Noodle has been the represen tative of ` - 1 9 in this island ; my Lord Doodle in I ll° , lis tf , brothers and the half-brothers of th° 6r r ; fingered the loaves and fishes he re ; t " - t he cousins and second cousins of the other/ ititi It is time that this flagrant system o f fa s i p should be done away with. It stiu's I nostrils of all reflecting men. We know not who is to s ucceed °" r Ittly HOBHOUSE at the War-office. Itu llWii h ot of Mr. ELLICE or Lord Howielc , " hlf most efficient successor would unques ti f l :erd Sir H. PARNELL. He is a long-vie' „peo li :: of the public—a steady Reformer---ao - et e' promising economist. We do not I ° 4 o o tb share he took in shaking off the NVO III. incubus which had squatted so I ° ll g o ol' fi r chest of poor, oppressed, slumberinl'ell Bull. The name alone of Sir 0. F i j : f a would be a tower of strength to af t r ot; ministration. It would be an additions' v for their sincerity. tea to Lord GODERICH has been apPliltthe office of Lord Privy Seal, vacant by signation of the Earl of DotHA Among the many crying grieva—e 0 the attention of Parliament ne s l ' afflict this country, there is none tO re , 0 state of the libel law. 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