The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-15 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—Patna; Juin 14.
The house mot at 6 o'clock, Lord LAWODALI sat Bleaker.
PUBLIC MOUSES 18COTLAND) BILL.
Os the matins of Lord KLIISAIILD this hill wee read
mad time.
CHANCERY COURT OF APPEAL BILL.
Lad BROUGHAM said the ablest sl this bill. wit"
lased ior mooed reeding, wae sot new atheir lordehive.
He had Wee. introdueed it is the year 1633, bet the imbeds
of Mown sad WEN of hie legal nimbi, who. advice he
had takes. WON 110 t the made up. Lord Bees* sad
Lord Can had samplaiated is their time of the arrears
is Chummy, and stated that so mat was the Warms that
se Lord Chameellor and Meter of the Rik could get
tharsegh It. Bet the smears this VIM sot et.-fifth part so
numerous se they were sew ; and yet, at the billeting of
the 17th 'eatery, it was said by than great men that the
amestat of week to be dem was greater than ay two ma
Meld assemplish. The Levi Chaseellar lad to reside La
the Court el Chassary ter ten mesthlt the ;66 had
ales to sit is their 7 simaks, ; 66d to
bd Ilti•fiediii• zgyaerisdietios true
MI the court. of law sad eq , Ireland, mad
Modena, the two latter haviag" singe the time of
Lard Hams and Leal Coke. 'Tip ni also a Goblet mishear
if
he weight sued anikerletjitli kis sovereign sad his
aflesg; was, meraime, • peteit ofieseillor and the
chief &Meter eljustim Me M mdse the erown is the
appointment of the judits, Mr ',intim he was
responsible. All marten of sow amS erissiaal justice
were name sr lees seder hist Mimi. The duties of
the adze were eo great oft ISiserly so deans
eis:d be had wider lour or flat Oat. He bad endeavoured
to pet over the urea- and bad Wilted Mall, to 'Sot this
object, an :onion which a tam Auld sit make a sward
time io his life, sad fie which lllallg. Oteleshsta aced Lord
Lyadhurst had give him mere Credit thus Ise deserved.
Me had 11113 succeeded in redsolag the impels is their lord-
ships' horse. Ile would sow proceed is state the reasons
why he did not intend to go is Wok the bill before their
loedskips. Something must be dose as relieve the individual
who held the alike of Lord Ckaaasiler, ar d it had been said
that it would be as easy thirst so separate the tquitable
jarisdietion from the appellate ad political funetiens of the
Lad Chancellor. It wee mid you have *ray to sppoint a
shiefjudge is equity, who is to be a chancellor, minus the
Court of Chancery. Now, he admitted that there was mach
plawib.lity is this, but he was sot prepared to give his m-
eant to it without further inquiry. TM» must amessarily be
as appeal from the Master of the Rolls ad the Vise-Chas-
allots. [Seri the noble l ird observed some members
of the salutary os the treasury beaches in conversation.]
If sable lords opposite would not lines to what he was argy-
les, be slight as well atop, for he was addrewire himself to
them and they misht glean some information from ha stee-
l...let which would be of me to them. He Was Laying there
Rua ands be seem repeal is the Comas of Chaocery. At
wow it lay frcm the inferior judges to the Lied Coattail-
ler, ad them was so dilleulty, because that fasetionary was
at the head of the jeers, ass motroutly of greet evanesce
is hie Milileioo. Bill 'appose Ma sew thief judge is equity
to be rely another Vim-Chancellor with a higher as.. sad
a mesewhat larger salary, the difilealty would be very great
as to how they were to arrasge as appeal from the Master
of the Hells or the VittoZbasselkere to bin; it would be

seedy the mom Oleg. awl the appeal wonlei be compass.
Simi; worthless. 'nosy 11110, themiere, driven to the expos
dint of making a Court of .4.! peel in the Coat of Chancery,
composed of the other.' wipes, just as Mere wee now an appeal
from the Courts of Common Law to the Exchequer Chamber
ea a writ of error. It wee impossible to deny that the safety
of the administration of justice depended en the union

of great judicial power.-sad imtrgrity on the heath
and ability ia the practitioam of the bar. Hyde these
'egoists' must be combined to give • pare, satisfactory, end
able %don, ttttt ion of justice. (Hear hear ) But that, in
his opinion. was bound up with sootier thing. namely, the
high dike of the great seal, and the exalted and eranecen-
dental functions of the dignitary who filled that office—
(lna, hear)—and if they did anything which should lower
that office—which should obscure the splendour of that eta-
flon—if they took away from the bar that prize, now in
prospece, which quickened and invigorated every min who
pat as the rob of an advocate, oven doss to the encase,
bat pinatas sad meritorious special pleader and equity
draftsmas—if they took sway from them the prospect of
wising that great eminence which now soothed their labours
and emoted them ander their temporary privations, and
nastuitly renewed disappointments in practice, if thole
lordships took that away, and the members of that learned
pressen§ belonged no loaner to • body of which the Illas•
trious chief (the Lord Chancellor) wee at the'llead,—if *try
were ma 'a to feel that they no longer termed part of a
body si adorned, so fortfied, end so exalted, he was certain
that tee elms of practitioners at the bar would be lowered,
sad that they would lower in prooartion the body from
which the judges themselves must be thane. (Hear, bear.)
It was also to be considered that the Lord Chancellor was
the head of the judges: they gone, it was true, by a light'
of their own. but also net a little by the reflection of his
splendour. If noble lords who were making so muck
win at the end ot it • hone would go into
the Cent a Chancery to bold their COIISTIlt!iON
they would and it perfectly quiet. Ho wield
not speak in the midst of ouch a noise. To resume his arma-
ment, be might say that there could not tat a greater differ-
ent* between the duties of the Canceller in the Court of
Chancery, and those which be had to perform in that hone,
where he had the power of eating is the equity Ind
common law judges to he his satemon on tho woolsack.
Da't let it be suppssed for • moment that say evil
would arias from the great seal being put into COM.
mission. It was in commission eight months in 1835,
but since 1835 they had bad two additional vice-chancellors
appointed, so that there would be still the same number a
courts as there were &fare 1842, when there was
only a Matter of the Rills sad one vice-chancellor.
What be should suggest was this—take the long vacation,
sad enter on the inquiry with a strong desire to arrive at the
bast result, and do all this in a calm temper when the voles
of party was hashed, when the kmaiol the commons was no
fame hoard. lie was sure he was flattering, he was sure he
was wimpliment.ng them when he compared the H one a
Commons with so industrious as newt as the bee, with •
little sprinkling of the drone and the wasp among them.
He should say *hes elms to this question when the hem and
the noise of parliamentary onfliat were at am end. Take
time for deliberation, for maturing your plans, and, above
all, (or isqulry. Well. then, how wen they to determine
k ? His plan would be this—have a commission ^f four or
five learned persons, and let them call before teem all the
learned judges, all the clerks is Chancery—a most able,
worthy, and independent body 01 men, who were strongly
impressed with the idea that some such change must
take place. Let them enatine these gentlemen,
and he was morally certain that a body of evi-
dence would be gathered which would guide their steps
with angering safety. He rejoiced that his noble woad and
former colleague the bead of her Majesty's government had
taken up this qnstion. In conclusioa the noble lord moved
that the order of the day be discharged.
The order was then disclose/ad accordingly.
DISTRESS FOR RENT (IRELAND) BILL.
The Karl of LUCAN moved that the house go into eon-
Wine on this bill, and said from the general support he es-
mind on • former «Ago° he did not anticipate that awe
would be any objection.
The Earl of CARLISLE said he must oppose the motkm,
especially as there west bids before the House of Comatose
which, to a great degree, redressed the grievances em-
llaned of by the noble lord. He suggested to the noble
ord to ennead the bill on the present occasion. If he
would not, he must call on their lordships to oppose the bill.
The Earl of LUCAN acceded to his lordship's sweeties,
and the bill then paused through committee pro forest
ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL.
The Marron of WEITMEATH moved that ths hones
moles itself into isommittso on this bid.

The Esti of CARLISLE said additional clauses were
proposed which he eertain'y should not accept. Attar what
the Miter night, it was not t►e intenion of her
'sty'e government to offer any farther opposition to the
II it now stood; but t►e amendments wen entirely
fresh matter.

The 11arquis of WESTMEATH rid he wanted to stop
the Eacurchered Esters Commission Iran phis( away
estates. That commission was now *dually confiscating the
LIT:y of the conefry.
Earl of CARLISLE suggested that the noble marquis
should take one stags of the bill now, sad that they should
dinars the amendasests a'terwards.

Tie inrq au of WESTMEATH acceded to this sag-
potion. (H.u.)
The bill then ward throush committee pro forma.
The Marquis et WESTMEATH said ►e should moss the
third reading of the bat on Tuesday, and should thus intro-
duce the amendments.