The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-11 00:00:00

1 PE RI AL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS.-TIIMSDAY, FEB. 10.
I tit 'MID CIIAMMLIOII took big *oat at S o'clock.
PETITION PREsENTED.

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rA1.1.11111 1101/.IIIIT P .ANORA —By Lord BEAUMONT,
from flalby. rreyhog fur the free diettP.utiost of pasha-
attetary pew V. to !Peary and other in.tituta.
COMMON LAW PROCEDURE ACT.

Lord CAMPBELL h d the Lonna to 1.7 oa the table a
due :meat to sen.h he wished to attention. Perlis-
MeLt hal el, puted a legislative power to the judge. with
reference to ta.e regulation of proem dirge in their respective
Ly tlie lull pawed lest session nt parliament wespeet-
kw common law proesdute. A power was given to the
jul.tes to make rube and re4ulations to carry hate full effect
the autents ins .1 the legislature • but it war necessarc that
they shoal he laid before both. I:nano' cart:anent, and it
we. not anti the exparotios of three month, that they
would become Lew. la the exercise of the power given to
them, the ja 14. a had most anxiously framed a set of rules
and repel salaam to govern the proceedings in the succaiur
courts 4. W. sernineta r, anal Lw th.e car) mg into street the
intantioos of the enamor' Ltw Procedural Act. lie could
venture to say, titer there were co men in the country
ni,To authors than the judges that the law should be
adnsanistera mizh all !umble simplicity. esti:dation, au I
twei.omy ; a.. 1 it was upon that principle that the
eegula sons 11.1 heea framed. Its had the satistaction .1
Meting that the Pr t. dare Bill of last snsion heal trarked
adrairalt:y : it bad gremly se.provcd the practice of the su-
perior courts, end rendered their proctedar44 more a xpecli.
tins, single, anal economical. (Hear, Lear.) if par:4-
am' should disapprove of any of the rules which the
judges had frana. d, there would be ample time t. bring an
a hall to ..Iter thous but if nut, no the tint day of Tinily
Tetra they would become the Lew of the land.
TUE. WAR IN AVA.

The Eirl of ELLEN BOlt01:“ II gave notice that he
would, ti,:norrow (this day), elk the noble earl at the head
of the gusarninent whether he ha,: any ohjectiun to lay tot-
fore the house a letter from a stcret c ,mraittee at the ludia
House, dated in Ottolnr, IVA), giving inAruetions as to the
operations of any future war in Are; and alto, wheLher the
government a ,re ready t•. lay !lei nt. ,:arliament papers cc-
pl•ne'.ury at the prowat war in Ara, and the means by
which it w as he. !y to be turmiint
LAW IcErtnal.

The LO Dt• lAN C e:LLO slid that, on Man.lay neat,
he Atould piep ited to snake statement to the house
RS to the intent ...of of the govt neat on the sutjeet of
legal reform.

MAYNOOTIL

The E tel 4f WlNCliiiiEAgivenotiee that he should
shortly mote for a petition to inquire whether the brach'
of ithicatien at the College of lkleTenoth nu net mon
BM, iit with the great principles id civil and religious
lihctt).
BAIL IN CRIMINAL CASES.

1.r,l CA Ml'ilEL said the:r luribitips might remember
that after the case of the bate Mr. O'Cidinell before their
lordships house bad been disposed ot, his noble &pelican(
frie nil, Luru liyndbitnt (the Lord Chencebor) brought in a
bill which had Ws its object the admitting of miens who
'night ►ave bean convicted of an offence to bail, pending
togs 1111112 • writ of error. That bill bad been
ric.,;;,d, with rime inconvenience, and hail not, perhaps,
been framed with Vie necessary caution. Where tree
Attorney-General prosecuted there was no danger of col-
lusion, but it often happened that prosecutions were insti-
tuted by private individuals from very improper motives,
and there was often the danger of collation between the
prosecutor and the defendant. lle knew of cases sines the
bell to which he referred had become the law of the lend
•here persons who had been convicted of the moet d
lout .ir. nets hid escaped penis :meat. The object of the
bill ho was abort to introduce was to guard against that
evil.

Tee bill was thee read a first time.
CHANCERY REFORII.

Lord Sr. LLTONARDS nee for the purpose of lay.
ins on the table • isimher of bills of which be
had gists notice in Nos...tuber last, and he bail
to thank his uuble and learned friend on the wool-
sack foe beams given directions to the officers Cl the court
a Chancery to afford h:ia the &edifice he bad required in
the preparation of the bills. He would state the provisions
of in. several bills more full 7 on a future occasion. The
Ant bdb was for the forth •r trio f of suitors in the Court of
Obaneery, and Its object wee by • proper and new arrange-
meet in the Acceuutesit-Ucheraes shier, and for the proper
enaaagement of the fonds under his care, to enable the
geed to reduce the 'apeman of litigation to such limits as
thighs prevent improper litigation. lle had no doubt that
by tie working of this bill, sad by the due administration
si ten tuna., tie emanate of suits in Chancery would be
✓astly reduced; and that funds sofa:lent would he oh-
based to ensblo the government a: no distant day to erect
Mete for the administration of justice by the new VINO.
Obatice!lins, with rooms attached, by which the sew
system might be fairly developed ; and shortly afterwards
to relieve the canolidited fund of the 26,iksOi a year which
It now contributed towards the payment of judges in
Chaantry. H. behoved it would also prevail not only the
brokerage sad jobber's profit but unaneessry sales of
Mock ; sad that miens wend cease to operate which had
been essoodereil unseemly by which the Conn of Chancery
beak a portion of the brokerage, and which fermi d a part
of the fund. That would be entirely swept away, and the
!sada would be operated upon by sales or purchases
to a crest amount with moneys belouning to the suitors.
(Hear, hear.) Another provision was, by the proper diatri-
bute.ni of unclaimed dividends, to give to the court sew
hails by which they might he enabled to relieve the suitor.
The LORD CHANCELLOR end that of course any
inseaure which had for its object the setaeg of expenses to
suitors deserved the most serious consideration ; and whe-
ther the bill of his noble and learned friend would have
that effect, must depend on • variety of details in that bill,
sad the Lamle in which they would be likely to work. His
noble end named friend had had the kindness to send him
• eopy of the hill; but he had been unable to snake himself
master of its details; mad this lentil not appear surprising,
when he stated that it did not, strictly speakiag, deal with
the legal question, but with • financial one. The question
se to hew the transfer of funds at the Hank of England
would or would not be likely to operate to the benefit of the
suitors of the court, was ode which required grave eolith
erotica. lie did not for a moment mean to say that the
bah was met • eery salutary measure, but it depended on •
variety of details, and the keepiug of the accounts of funds
amounting to above 48,000,000/. sterling, and i: must be
Lathed at with gnat attention before the house would give
its libiaat to such a meunre. Ito hoped, when the bill
was printed, that it would be allowed to lie on the table fur
emus censiderable time.

Lard ST. LEONAUDS was quite willing to send the
Ml, with the Wien which he wen about to introduce, before
• *elect committee.

lhe bill wu theu read a first time.

The neat series of bills relsteiTrilusatica, and he could
assure their lordships that no bill+ hail ever been prepared
with greater care and caution. There were three hills on
this subject: the first relatcd to the regulation of lunacy as
far as that jurisdiction was directly under the Court of
Chancery. The great object of the bill w.ts to regulate the
proceeding and dealing with the property of lunatics under
the care of the court. The emir: hail visitors of its own,
bet some alteration in their powers was required. The
effect of the bill would he greatly to imam the expenses
and throw much more caution around the subject—to pre-
vest the summoning unnecessarily of juries—unnecessary
reference from the Chancellor to masters in lunacy—the
unneeessary attendance of the neat of kin, which oftea
encased great expense—and to prevent unnecessary orders
by the Lord Chancellor. It introduced, for the first time, a
Amber practice en the p irt of the Lord Chancellor with
reference to lottery ; sad in that way it would save great
espouse. It was intended to meet great difficulties which
kW occurred ; and he believed, if it pared into a law, that
peat convenience would arise from it. It provided for
OWN of temporary insanity—also for eases where the head
a a family was seised with some sudden aberration of
mad, and nobody could take the money at the banker's to
provide for the necessities of the family; and it further
provided for the alas of a person of very small property.
Very few eases, in fact, sould arise which it did not pro-
vide for.

The bill was then read a first time.
The °Nee% of the second Lill was to consolidate all the
laws relaung to lunatic esylutne. A great many difficulties
lad arisen in the edminiatratien o! the Is., and greater care
was required of Inclines than could be given under the ea-
feting law.
The bill was then read a first time.
The third bill was also ler the c ire end treatment of
Issatiee, and was intended to be an amendment of the bill
known ea Lord Shaftesbury 's Sill. It contained a number
of provisions which had been found by experience to be
seeessary. Every possible care had been takes at once to
Beard the subject from any danger of the false accusation
of lunacy and improper confinement, and at the same time
to ovoid unnecessary expense in establishing lunacy where
a person was manifestly lunatic. This bill would not, how-
ever, touch the case of criminal lunatics, because he rather
usderatood that it was the intention of the government to
bring in a measure on that subject. It was one which re-
quired to be treated by kali'. Thera was no doubt that
axe-tenth or one-eleventh of the criminal lunatics in this
eouutry deigned lunacy to escape Iron the punishment of
their crimes. If he could snake his voice heard he would
pray such persons not to adopt that course,for he recollected to
have seen is a lunatic asylum in Ireland two men who
had bees gusty of murder,_uciler, atrocious circumstances,
but who had boss acquitted on the ground of insanity.
They wore so doubt sans when they committed the crime,
sad se they were when be saw them ; and he should never
hips the agony of mind they expressed, with tears stream-
ing down their cheeks, at being obliged to pass year after
year of sanity in the society of, and turrouaded by, lunatics.
It wee a greater punishment, they said, than any which the
law could impose upon them. In Britlewell criminal lune-
tica were there as in a gaol, their bodily ailments were
mudded to; but no attempt was made to mire them of
their insanity. It was not, however, benne' an insane
man had committed a crime that the were sot to restore
hie to a state of sanity if possible. if he committed an
offiento when insane he was not an au...eatable subject;
why ahueld he not, then, have the same treatment 64 any
other lunatic, with a view to recover his •enses ? (Hear,
hoar.) lie had no doubt it wee a subject which would be
taken op by the government. (Hear, hear.) There was
use claim in the bill whirls he we. then iotrodecing that
hailed lead to some discuss on. lty a,: art by which par-
liament gave the peak! and !envies the A•nctit of cqinfais-
sioners—s;: of whom were paid-AI-9:4 tu Hospital was
exeliseled fro or its operations, unless by the order of the
Lord Chancellor or the S:ereary of State. By
the proem bill, that pnruna of the act ex-
and Mg Bethlehem would be rep..alod, and it