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SEPARATISTS AFFIRMATION.

Lord 1101,LAND presented apetition from 1 certain S?paratists
resident in London and its vicinityopraying that their altirmatior.s
may be taken in Courts of Justice, is lieu of their oaths, as in the
case of Quakers. The Noble Lord :aid that it was not his linea-
tion to toned an meatus° upon the petition ; which was then laid
on the table.

KENRINOTON TRUST.
Lord HOLLAND presented a petition from Mr. WPM= Cob-
ben. praying that the Bill ter repairing the roads west of Hyde
Park-corbel may not pass Into a law. His Lordship ebserred,
that he himself was friendly to the Bill; but the petitioner stated
that there were false allegations inserted in the preamble. The
Noble Lord then moved that the Petition be referred to the Com.
mittee on the ItilL--Ordered.
TITHE SYSTEM (IRELAND.)
Viscount CIA EDEN presanted a petition from the inhabitantsof
the Parish of *t. Patrick, in the town of Kilkenny, praying for an
alteration in the system of tithes iu Ireland.—Laid on the talde.

NEV FOll NDLA ND JUDICATURE DILL.
On the motion of I :Ai BATHURST. their Lordships resolved '
themselses into a Committee on tt'e Newfoundland Judicature
Bill. The Noble Earl stated to their Lordships, that he had
adopted the suggestion of the Noble Baron opposite, and had di-
vided the Bills into two parts. He found that there could be con.
siderable alterations necessary in that part of the measure which
related to the solemnization of marriage at Newfoundland, which
he meant to be the object of one of the Bills. He would then
move that it be an instruction to the Committee, to divide the Bill
into two parts; which being assented to, his Lordship, in con-
tinuation, observed, that he intended to propose to the Committee
that civil causes, as well as criminal ones, should be tried by a
Jury. The manner in which he meant to divide the Bill was, for
one part to relate to the celebration of marriage, and the other to
the administration of justice. In case a stiffictent number us Jury-
men could not be procured in criminal trials, be proposed that a
Judge should preside, assisted by three Assessors, and in no case
was the accused to be found guilty, unless two of the assessors
were agreed as to his guilt. In civil cases there would be no As.
senors, and there would be an appeal front the Judge who flies'
them to the Supreme Court of St. John's. When a Jury could
be procured to try civil causes, an appeal was only to take place on
questions of law ; but where there was no Jury, then the appeal
should embrace both facts and law.
Lord HOLLAND thought the amendments founded on the best
principles; at the same unie he thought it would answer for the
Assessors to perform the ditties of Jurors, instead of acting as
Judges, to decide upon the facts. lie thought civil causes also
would be better tried by Assessors. lie wished the Noble Earl
had proposed in this measure a Legislative Assembly for the
,Island.

Earl BATHURST was of opinion that Newfoundland was not
fit for a Legislative Asseinblv, and he would always oppose the
adoption of it there. He did not know where to stop, if Assessors,
according to the Noble Baron's suggestion, were to be placed as
Jurors; it would be creating a new principle that he could not
concur in,

Lord HOLLAND said that ingenuity might probably find •
middle name, between Jurors and Assessors, for these persons.
Earl BATHURST then moved, that the title of the Bill be,
" An Act for the better Adinioistration of Justice i• Newfound-
land;" which being agreed to, his Lordship observed, that with
regard to the second Bill, viz. that which related to marriages,
he would move that the amendments in it be printed, and he would,
call their Lordships' attention to them on Tue►dayy.
The House resumed, the report of both the Bills was received,
a•' their Lordships adjounca.

HOUSE OF COJIMONS, TscasDAT, 3laY 6.
The Speaker took the Chair at four o'clock.
STANDING ORDERS.
Mr. LAWLEY presented a petition for leave to bring in a Bill
for lighting the town of Birmingham with gas.
Mr. BRIGHT objected to the petition, observing, that the
standing orders of the House relating to private BON had been
totally disregarded—treated almost as a dead letter. Ile thought
it time to put a stop to such proceedings, and he should oppose
the reception in future of any private Bills that were nut brought
in within the time proscribed by the standing orders of the
House.

Mr. H. SU3INER expressed himself to the same effect.
Mr. Alderman S3l ITH thought it unfair to wake an example
of the present petition without any notice, after haring been so
indulgent to many recent private Bills as to waive the enforcement
of the standing orders.
General IiASCOYNE was of opinion, that the best mode of
showing that the House would not suffer their standing orders to be
trifled with, was by putting thetu in operation on an occasion like
the present.
Mr. Alderman HEYGATE wished to remind the House, that
they had suffered Mils to be introduced in contravention of the
standing orders, which were to be attended with great public and
personal inconvenience, such as that recently brought in for the
erection of additional docks, where six or seven '.lundred houses
were to be pulled down, and yet nothing was they said about
standing orders. Ile thought it but fair to allow this petition to
be brought up.
Mr. ELLIS was inclined to think, that, not to *Maw the Bill
to be brought in would be to deal harshly with the petitioners.
after the carelessness that the House had shown with regard to
the standing orders, in many recent instances.
Mr. HUSKISSON said, that if the Honourable Member who
presented this petition were to act on his advice he would with-
draw it. It would be a charity to do so, to the petitioners them-
selves ; as, even if they were allowed to bring in their Bill, the
Session would be over before it could pats through. By that
means all the expenses of it would be entailed on them, and no
purpose whatever answered.
3lr. LAWLEY begged to be allowed to withdraw the petition.
Petition withdrawn.

SUSPENSION BRIDGE.
Mr. Alderman WOOD preheated three petitions from the light.
erranh and watennen of Wapping, against the Suspension Bridge
Bill ; against the St. Catherine's Docks 11111 ; and against the Bill
fur a Tunnel under the Thames._ laid on the table.
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SUNDERLAND CO,ll.
Colonel DAWKINS presented a petition from King's Lynn,
against the Sunderland Coal Bill.—Lard on the table.
IRISH MINING COMPANY.
Sir J. NEWPORT moved the second reading of the Bill for
incorporating the Irish Mining Company.
Mr. HUSKISSON objected to it on the same grounds that he
should object to all the Rills that were now in progress for the in-
corporation of the various speculating companies. Ile had no ob.
lemon that these bodies should be inourporated to a certain extent,
such as enabling them to sue or be sued in the person of any officer
appointed fur the purpose ; but beyond that he did not think it
right to give them all the exemptions which were generally co,.t
ferred on corporations; and he was of opinion, that if people chose
to embark in any trading speculation, they ought to be inch.
vidually liable for the results of the failure of such speculation in
the same manner as if they were merely partners ; he therefore
wished that the Honourable ':arooet would postpone the second
reading of the Bill, in order that sonic communication might be Inal
with Government on the subject.

.Me. ELI.IS observes!, Chit if the House were to go on incor-
porating companies in the way it bad done of late, there would be
title else for Parliament to du.

31r. DAWSON said a few words, after which Sir J. NEWPORT
agreed to postpone his motion.
'AIISrItALIAN COMPANY.

_ .
Mr. JOHN SMITH prevented a petition from the Australian
Companv.which had been formed for the purpose of cultivating the
lambi in New South Wales, praying fur tea ie to bring in a Bill fur
their incorporation.
lieu. GASCOVNE was desirous of knowing what difference
there was in the princildz of the Bill which the present petitioners
prayed to bring ni, trout that which hail just been the subject of
discussion.

Sir:.-11;A.- AC COFFIN said, that he did not think that Podia.
went was the proper place to apply to for this purpose it was a
prerogative vested in die Crown.
The SPEAKER mooted to be allowed to say a few words.
The Standing Order that had been alluded to in the course of the
evening was a sessional one, and passed for the purpose of limiting
the time of receiving private Bills.in order that time might he given
to ascertains better private property or private rights would be of-
felted by them, and to afford opportunities for giving notice to all
parties concerned. This was the sole object of the Standing Order,
and private Bills were not received Aiwa certain period. The time
occupied in these preliminaries should not prevent the Bill from
keeping pace with the duration of public business, and the parties
be thereby put to useless and unnecessary expense.
The petition was then brought up, and ordered to lie on the
'table.
ST. CATHERINE'S DOCKS.

11r..1ldcrrn II EYOA'fF; prrserned pctitim from Vv. ar-

Mr. BLACKBURN mienU(l;7,74o°n front 111.1 brewery of
Warrington. spinet the new Beer Bill.
Similar Petitions were preKentrd front Stockport and Bunithorpe,
by Mr. EDENTON ; from Weymouth, by Mr. WALLACE; DOW
Warwick, by Mr. 31/1.1.3 from a pariah in Suffolk, by Mr.
ocicii t and front Fite, by Sir RONALD FERGEION.—Laid
on the table.