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/MUSA OF

The Do:re.,•al Electiou
day—

Haneywood, Eaq
Lord Howe, air Th.. NI agya, BEM
••••' /Ira PM, Sart
Robert .Wanners, Esq. Voiotia Cling
&urges Illourue, Eat Way Chine,
Kea. A. Rope, Bea W. b LAus)
Wm Dudley, Esq. INd Geo. F. Hue, Bart
Was. Bagwell, Elmo !d
Tim E.
Tim Irish Aserosea Takes, aid Ivish &mi. Duties BAL.
wee read • first tithe. readin II Is
fu t.b.wormwr.
Mr. Wardell's brought up Olt Ms Lobe, Itrar'stioit
Lll, Militia Pay Will Claikii4 Bill, sad tim Ain.un Umtia
Animate Bill. They wart Metell• ly read • first true,
amid ordered to be read • seesnei tqae to-egorrow.
This Spirit Drawback Bin was read a MAI time tad
PEA
The Pa•sddire Bill wain's(' a seemed time, tad ordered
I. be essamitted two wiltgr.

DARDAXEIIES
Kr. W. 'revue& puetpueru mottos *1 the Expedi.
lion to the Dan'amisikr, winch stood fur tu-storreet. set%
that day week. _

SCOTCH JUDGES.
The Loa o AlblIOC•TI of SCOTIA" II o irstelit vy a Report
of a t'inosoittet, respecting tl • Salaries,/ tie Judgta of
Scotland, o bleb was laid on the add tar dared to

snme It 41st hiataverable Gentleman eine notice, that
umt he altauld suttel;t a diket.w. to ale/14,15e, for
the purpose wf pupas's:lg to bring is a Bill lava the wad
iterrt*

The LORD ADVOCATe orSt 0 FLAND then mristol,-
" That the Mouse p tat. • Comulttee resportiog the
grautui of Atussities or Pensions ta the Smith Jokes, op-
us their reit, mg from ante., sod that .t at as tostriset.ott Is
the said Cmooldive, to ratorarseod to ths aeon to en......e
His Majesty to treat an Loamy to the Lord Pres ,:e t ai:d .
°ober J oi.!gra of flit Court ufSesinou, the Lure' Justtet, I lerA,
sad other Judges tof the Cow ufJosaw wry, the I,u t. L•eli
Baron, sad the Dame@ of Evalrolawer is Seottat.d, to take
Flare from flow respective revivalism."
Uponthis motion being proposed f• on. ti.i CI al.,
Ilr. Astacaostats rare, and add, that t• .
House had been induced to believe, by the propo- 1
of such a motion, that the Brion' of 'Excliequei iu
Scotland held situations equally laborious and in.-
portant as those in England, hot the fact win,
that as to the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, it
lc., 4..o.biblisthed by Act of Parliament at the tin 4
.aftlair Vaismeoradiolie-jwiranditiwn 4W-that Cease,. -
win thereby expressly limited to the trial of retest al
cantos. Even to that respect, their potter was
wetly confined, for in whatever cause real estatta
' ;atom to be the creation at issue, they could riot
decide. These were left to be determined by
fiewiCo:rt of Ire mseicting,i,t safely anltihy say, thatecom
common o
thels heweroiSco t-
s p
tof
the flarons of &chequer was limited to a very few
revenue ftuses, which were to be determined so
cording to the proceedii...,s in England. That
• kj, net was composed /iris Lord Chief Baron sad an
Elm -h Baron, skilled iu the English law • and
:rt a 4.., • - •lteme, there acre other three Bo:romi.
ii
44.
..61n,
at .i: . . -...ii•e.
.ini..an,elrOetherryr
. ' ty,...tok - st:aality juries, and they had
• .`,!;414. . • *rtli.
havrit/bot pePet, ;bey went ea..., i.t 4 it. 'Lissy
Vita
acted cellist:l,l;4h. upd rent Ipso us cm ails ; so
that thitil• y; averred to be extremely ii i.iteral„
audit° opliortituity occurred for callieg forth . x-
ItTaordiustry * vigour or exertica. I I the month of
March, I tso7. an order ass made by the House,
tibial, if it had been complied with, and now 1,...
fore them, the Right linuouraide C.;, :. ,o. mato. ', ' o
had uncle this proposal. would have tilt it to toe
li:s imperative duty to adopt the best means of re-
d icing. and not of increasing, the expense of that
Court, It was en order for the production of a
return of all causes tried in the Cowl of
Etchequer, is Scotland, for the last lifd en
yeas,preceditig the first day of January itsti7,
which. although it had been made out, bad miter
yet been preseuted to the House. The result of
thatdocument was, that they had tried four mutes
in the course of a year. This surely could not bis
considered en ardsons duty that these Judges had
to perform. It was a duty etrusiderod so little lt..
borious, arduous. or important, that ins one gond,.
man at the Scotch bar had ever thought it worth
his while to make himself master of tlia Illoglitb
how for the purpose of practising in the Court . f
Fa:chequer in Scotland. On the contrary, it lit.
came indispensably necessary to lime the int it
common points of a bill and answer hiuught up iits
En4land, to be down and settled by some geiii li
man at the Euglish bar; so that iu every point c f
view t':eir duty appeared very t,:tli:iz iimier 1. 'to
oonfirmattou of thi-•, be might with the utmost .....
&knee eallin aid every appointment of these J oti gi • e
since the first establishineut of that Court. '1 hey
had not been sektted frois amongst those parsons
who had mostdistingiished themselves at the Bor.
but, on the contrary, from amongst thole who Intl
little or no practice. The last Lord Cmef Ba•o”,
he believed, bad not lead the goof: tipon his lis. k
for 13 years. The people of S'_otkond he blew
very well ei,,t4skt.theduty imposed upon d e
'limns Pf Am:hopper in Scotland was so solos.
portant. that u0..140 iuerease as that prepared
co uld Becoitie uircasraary. Tit,- present Lout Chi. f
4, 1111.spilleid farmed an reception, as he hod
Adard4drowile of Saaidand, and bad Jiro-

lbw] himself very much upon vjiyiotts emeaeinsta ;
but timie of the others a ere in geoeratl selected two,
tuuna;-x those from whom ti,evtither ,Jilgist, in
Sciitraild wc.e appointed. vi;(4llret! 111 Cog-
• lead and Ireland the Judges half heel additional
remouenstiou given Mem by the geatit of pensions
Or annuities ; but in irtpird to t;,ein,• the case was
extremely different, the duties' of allot them being
very arduous to perform, and t bey tit go
tile el rruits. With respect to the'Clinirinesi of the
QuArter Sessions 111 IrCIZILId, he could only speak
from -what he had heard in that House. As to the
general aature of that situation, report was
such that it was hardly possible to imagine any one
more arduous, inure important, or one that should
he more faithinlly and ably discharged. Tili. case
ought, therefore, to stand upon its own pm/Molar'
merits, awl he only wished that it should test upon
the return that had been called for in 1807, mid if
from that it appeared that the duties were snore
arduous Mau what he had stnted, he should will-
ingly acquiesce in the proposal now made.
The LOAD XDVOCATE of SCOTLAND said, he
should wish to apply the principle upon which lie
hail brought this measure forward with what the
llon. Gentleman who bad just spoken had stated.
Hill proposal was, to put the Judges of the Supreme
Courts of Scotland upon the same footing as the
Supr,lne Judges of Eitel:tint acid Ireland nail been
Signed by Acts of' Parliament. About nine years
ago an Act was passed to citable Ili* Majesty to
grint anuutties to Judges in Englund, after haviug
served fifteen years, or ht come infirm or superao-
nuated. A similar legislative enaettuent was passed
iu 1800, extendjng these annuities to the Judges iii
Ireland. The avowed object era., to euahle His
Majesty to appoiut Judges to the Courts, who were
alfle to fill their situations in a manner consistent
sidle the dignity of the-nation, and to place the
Courts themselves upon a proper footing. It was
mpoised uow _to exteuil these provisions to the
Supreme Judges of the Court in Scotland.—
In regard to the Juilgssi of the Courts of Session
and Justiciary, no objection had been Made,
and he presumed ilooe was intended to be made ;
mid as to what the Ilmionrahle Gentleman
had stated iu regard to the Barons of Exchequer.
ho could. assure the House that he (Mr. A.)
was is some respects Mistaken. dm to the duties
they had to perform, they were .somewhat more
extensive than had been stated—they haviug not
only to try all revenue causes that may ewes be-
kre them, hat also duties of a iniaisterial nature,
*Mich occupied the tr. eiitest portion of.their time.
At the nuts of the Union, there wIS no such ests-
blislinient reserver', as in toe mire of the Union with
Irelassi ; and all the ministerial Judie , as to the ins-
sageineat of the public revenues, devolved upon
the lairoos of Exchequer, which ditties had con-
tinued with them ever since", they sometimes act-
ing w coosequence of requisitions fosins the i..ords
of the Treasury, and sometimes in cousequeace of
their.acknowledged tului.terial power. If it was
, to tie said, that such pewits, when disqualified by
unfit :.uty, must retire from such situations unpro-
tided for, or that they must still fulfil [hose dot',
the Honourable Gentleman was advancing more

than what hr thought the Howse would g; %long
Isio.ll*.in in supporting. The Honourable Gentle-
woe had adraitted.that there was °se Judge of that
Cam, who win certainly well qualified to discharge
the most laborious duties, and he (the Lord Ad-
vocate), while he concurred with hits, thought he
slight hare also alluded to the senior Baron, who
had come from this country, who had proved an
able aii.istant in the English law ; besides whom.
there were others who had practised many years
with credit to themselves, and were fully compe-
tent to till these situations. When he came forward
with this proposal, At was not aware that any
ohiection would be stated ; he trusted, however, that
the House would always act with impartiality to
every part of the atiitedkingdom, and that what is
given to one part of it will not be denied to another.
He was sure, that as to this there could lie no dif-
fertnee of opinion. Scotland has never had conse
to repent of the confidence she reposed in Eni-
lund. She had, since the Union, been honorably
and liberally dealt with, and any deviation loom
eueh a eitoduct had only been ticcasioned by igno-

error, or mistake. •Undro such eireum-
' etanoes, it was only necessary to represent the ease,
or appeal to the joeticeof England, and she never
has had came to regret it. At the end of the
Engl..ll Act there was a clause thrown in a. to
Scot?a,.ll raisin;; the salaries of the Judges of
the Court. of Session and Eaehequer ; but there
was that omission of which he complained as to
their *ties. (Here the Right llormerable Gen-
tleman entered auto a cotupeAlmn ofikeselinies of
the Eirgraih, Irish, and Scotch Judges, br which'
he .unwed that even the inferior; Judges of the two.
former were a greater burden upon the nation,
than the supreme Judges of the latter.] He should
only farther observe, that supposing the llonone.
able Gentleman to hare been right in his state-
ment, the inference would still be, that where
Judges exercised very laborious duties, they would
be more inclined to retire, and wherever tair la-
butiN were lee urinous, they would out be so
touch disposed to do vo: and in the case of the Ba-
rons of Exchequer it would never happen that an-
winters wonid benign's-red, toreept when permanent
infirmity, or extreme old age, rendered them indis-
pensably necessary.
Mr. tissay Marna said, he could not conceive
that eitiier justice or dignified liberality, as the
Right Hon. Gentleman had expressed himself, con-
sleek in a wasteful prodigality or the public mn-
nry. He could not allow this motion to rely w ith-
out opposition ; and the more e!pecially, as he
thought nothing had been at all urged, that in the
least did away what had been stated by his Hon.

Friend. If the Judges alluded to had-been taken
&oat that description of persons who occupied va-
luable and lucrative situations. they might perhaps
be thought entitled to such' annuities; but. from
whit he had yet heard, he thought it would
only he granting pensions to persons to enable
them to retire from retirement. The Itight Ho-
nourable Gentleman hod enlarged more upon
the ditties *eve Judges bad to perform; than
upon the 'Menial respectability of the situa-
tions they pr...intifly occupied. If the question
Mom to rc.t tiperis the point, whether or not there
were lal...oiuns duties molested ? it might surely be
deterusi.sed with the ittorost Trreeision. by authentic
evittorscis Iseilig pra./a,,;:z.: to the 'louse ; but if this

we more a nominal thou a real racer, he would
Hout.e, beAlre they took atom from the op.
ptitsed peo:ile of this country, to pause before they
to the public burdens. !levy ought to
hive the •return already called for, but which had
not yet been proilucetl, in order that they wield
know c \actly what those duties were. If they
"acre nom: would be more willing than he
was to Inuke an adequate addition to their rrutune-
rat,nu,
and lie hoped that in the rehiliov which
Scottaod had placed in Lagland, she would neter
have occailoa to complain that she had I.eeit de-
ceived. But he saw 110t1IIIP4 Oka ehould have
called for the observation .ins tile preseat instance.

He thought it was pretty evideat, that persoas •in
high situations at the Scotch bar had never in
gt-
nerul been selected to till these offices. The co-
vi,ions made to the English Judger were nothing
more than adequate to their laborious duties and
their responsibility. It appeared that the Judges
in question had duties so far from being felonious,
that there was one-thnsi of the yt ar when they did.
nothing at all, and as to their ministerial duties, he
believed they could consist of siotl.:ng more than
merely passing warrants, or writing, thcir name.
The 'Hon. Mr. linYte, (Solicitor-General of
Scotlaint) said; he could n,t liclp expressing some
sitrprnai at the oppositioa which had been made.
Tins measure was brought fora at tl to the llonse not
as a matter of favour, but of justice. These Jni Iges •
formed a supreme Court NI Scotlawl, its much as
any in 11:141a:id. To state the number of cause*
that hail come before them, from any 'return made,
was not it linr sway of aueeting the question.
House were to look to the real nature of the im-
portant business which that Cotirt was in the prac-
liven(' perforating, whether in trams time or not.
Previous to the Union, there were Jmlges of the
Coast of Exeltequce in Scotland, who were
aEknow-
'rait(ed by the low of Scotland ; hut it occarred to
those who braiight titan: that intriorfaut measure,
that a Court fraincci notiq Eaglishpruiciplessloodd
bra Initablialle) in that country. Accordingly sotto
afterwards an act parsed: which shored that it was
utali following up th'e articles of the. Union, by
these as constituting a supreme court, sod
as suet. he contended 'that it was entitled to as
1 grest respect as any Court in Westiniaster-laill.-
14 that Act it was provided that the Court of Ex-
.chequer, hi Scotland shoiald have the sante powers
as the Court of Exchequer i.l Elightud ;
that it should he a court of record, anti then
specified the tiature the duties to be per-
formed. Iliiving.this before them, lie Ooaldusk

the lionse of Commons, whether it was possiivle
for them to withhold their protection he con-
curred with his Right lion. Friend who had sub-
mitted the proposal to taco), that it was a were'
oinission in the Act which granted annuities to the
English Judzos. But wriaf he whilsed the House
to attend to wiss that tale Judger in question had
mo►t unportaut duties to perform, although they
might not have so autoy revenue causes to try as
those in England had, a circumstance that was
greatly to the credit of the toantry in which they
presided. They superiatended the collection of all
the revenues in Scotland, and passed all pular. as
! counts of monies. la partienlar, they had of late
hart the additional duty of attending to all the ac-
counts regarding the militia.
Mr. Aaracaomatc, in explanation. said, that al-
though he had stated they were not persons of great
eminence at the bar, yet he aid not infer they were
improtver appointment., o • that they were ant
highly reapectable character.. He wit* not. how-
ever, disposed to alter his °Onion, from any -thiog•
he had vet hi mt.

Mr. WHiIriBREAD stated, that in his opinion no
principle could be more wise or crews ierate to act
alma, than to grant a liberal remuneration to all
persons in public. laborious, and resp4asilde offices.
excluding at the same time those that were mere
OW. The Judges of the Isu.i deserve to be well
paid and were the duties of those in Scotland
eqintliy arduous and laborious with those in Eng-
land, nothing could be more wise than making
adequate provision foe' them in their old. age. A
corn,i:irison lied been made, between the salaries of
tie Ene:ish awl those of the Scotch Judpx, and
from that coup arison he could not help thiukhnt
that the salaries of the Huglisii Judges were even
yet toe small. I 'fear! Hear ! freer !) He should
wish the present question to be postponed till cer-
tain returns a ere made which were formerly order-
ed. Front what had been stated in the deserip-
tion of the utE-e., they a,,peared to be of asuature
which wound not ine:lne Into to grant awe remune-
ration lityand the actual duties specified in Huse

returns.
Mr. Rost said, that while he agreed that it
might be proper for the !louse to have more in-
formation npoti this subject, )et he could not
help observing, that if the !louse shotild make a
proilsiou by way of a.innity for the Jud;;cs of the
Courts of Session and Justiciary in S.:otlenel, it
would not only be injodieioits, but be thought in-
vidious, not to include the Barons of Exclicqmr.
It would tend to 'overeat the country fi on% gettir,,T.
men of high c1::-.raettr to fill thc.e offices. It
aright be owing to the upri,;:it jurlginents
and reTectability of the Judges, that an few
causes came lafure them. If they a, re men of a
different stamp. robot:4r the ne Aar of gorses
iniOtt he. Me-mated.
Mr. thefts' Msterte, in explanation, said, he
did not mean to speak unfavourably of the present
Boons, nor detract front their profe—ional cha-
racters.
Mr. MACDONALD observed, that he never eisold
consent to make additional rants, merely for the
purpose of preventirg any invhbous ifouirictioos
being created. The Court of Session in Scotland.
he in:4lit say, edisimiste7el the-whole of the jos-
fiee 1 that century, the Court of Exchequer did
not, and therefore the Judles ou,4lit not to Le put
neat the same fouti,:k .11 hen it was asserted.
that their ditties extended to the tnel of only four
manses in the :‘, alk. little nas pr.& forined. and there-
fore little should he riven.'
Mr. Dutiful' could not think; it iir•ce4cary ia such
a question to oic.t for a..e ittiiri, g made, a.
the duties of the Barons of the Etclie, ,er true not
confined to the exereise of their functions.
They frequently had to coutront the Government
of the country. and had the pooer r.t udv 'sing. the

trenotry not to gr".!lt certiat
and Cq 11eChtre \ NNI11)1,,I
cuurta. .13,y ti), :-.•

••• S:LiArlOs,
thrnr•;ll
to LK 111,1

singled out, for their impartiality and judgment,
from amongst those p:. stung at the bar, according
to the express provision iu tin. act. The Sheri&
of Scotland art persons taken ham the liar, and
had inost important duties to perform, mid this was
esiwcaudy the eu..e with the Sheriff of the county
of Edinburgh, which 'Ace the preseut Lord Chief
Baron fottneily occupied. llc might, therefore,
take it fur grunted, that they must be men as fully
tompetent to till such situations as the Judges
of any other court.
Sir FeAmcis BeavErr said, that he understood

I.e cdije of Lord Chia Enron had Leen bestovir4

upon the permit who occupied the situation of
Sheriff of Edinburgh. as a reward or remuneration
for services he had in that situation pertbrined.
He had not heard one single word to contradict
this fact, nor had lie heard any one reason, from
those connected with that country, that could en-
title these 'ham). of Exchequer to any sort of
extra remuneration. He certainly should vote for

the House having fultlitr Mform.ation on the sub-
ject, before they came to a +vision. Ile did net
think it uus at all uecessary or beucticial to

- .
the public, that prisons should retire from anv
situations with pensions. merely because they hail
enjoyed those situations for a number of year..—
They ought from the first to be amply paid for
their services, and it' the remuneration bestowed
were not sufficient. he for one would have 1110
ut to raise it to a reasonable and fair couipf•usa-
tion. It could not answer any reasonable purpose
to give Juiigist pensiot,-. when they retire. The
Haase must already see the consequences of allow-
lux such a practice to creep ia. • Because they had
Kneoted pe•esions in Wine. ii.stances, where the
labours were acknowledged to be arduous and Ail-
ticult to be performeil;they were now to be applied
to by perste'. who had nu such arduous duties ins-

posed ul►w► them. He could not Think he was
doing his duty in watching over the public purse,
were he to squandei it away in granting auuu►t►ea
without any legal Parliamentary ground being laid
before them.

The Cie e cet hot of the EXCMCQV es contended
that the Hon. Baronet's scruples cud* objections
were injudicious, if not illiberal ; since, were they
to have e et;ht with the Douse, a certain descrip-
titan of law officers in Scotland, even after they were
incapacitated by age or inbniiities for the import-
ant situation they field, would lie compelled to offs-
date, as ii :mil, to the public detriineot,oe, with •
patriotism very unusual in these times, retire from*
their situations to poverty and distress. Whatever
might he the Hoimaratile Baronet's notions with
respect to other public officers, it was extremely
unjust to extend them to legal officers, who Laving
passed the most considerable part of their liver in
the public service, were fairly entitled to public
remuneration, even- though incapacitated from
performing the usual duties of office. Besides,
it was drawing an unjust line of ibstinctioa between
the Judges of the Court of Lxchequer and other
Courts, though the duties of that Court required
men of equal talents to those Judicts provided tar
its other Courts. It had been said, he believed
without foam:at-ion, that there .were • seldom r four
causes tried yearly in that Court. He was inclined
to believe the flambee of canoes was winch nearer
400. As he was not tierf.ctiv well informed on
this subject, he would refer the House, and that
with souse degree of confidence, for information in
this particular, to those Gentlemen who hod been
appointed 'on the Commince to consider on the
Scotch Spirit Distillery. He concluded with ursiug
the impropriety of permittinz the judicial charac-
ter fo be upheld by men rendered incapable to
fulfil its duties, either throujih debility of body or
mind.

Doctor LAWRENCE thought there never was an
opposition more just ti Mill that against die prewar
grant. The duties of tlw vivo:olcm were vo light,
and there were so many to fulfil them, that it M.ll
onnecev.are to make arc particular provision for in-
dividual inai.posit; .ir incapacity ; the greater part
of theol'♦lc(.'ourtvousistiug.notintr,iug
cati.‘eii, hut in nuditii:g accounts. The Minister
had mvir a demand of a grout, without shewhig
its in halt:. to the lkave ; if he could exhibit any
proof. of th:), or any io.nilwr near 400 ratismi. Mg
yearly !rind to that Court, no doubt the I lours
would grod his request, and iwrrnit the motion to
pass. Until such proof was eshiltited. the House
would do well to resist it.
After a few words by Mr. V.ARRIAT, in support of
the ori...inal motion, the question was called for. and
• dir..i.•l toeili place, when there appeared fur the
amendment— •

Ayes g%—!does Gs—Majority 43.

The nr;•zilial motion was then put and carried.
The Hoax then went into the Committce, in
which a Resolution, correapondeat to thr iustrue.

resolvt,i.

After a few observations by Mr. Basilic-I.os
an.; the .3.Ib9OCATE-CiLSSRAL O.I*StoTLAI4D,

Mr. ila% RI A observed, there existed an imperi-
ous necessity on the House to look with peculiar
jealousy Oa the grants of pro-ions is Scotland,
since it had been discover( d by the C,intnittet of
Finance to which hr Iheln•iged, that en enormous
iii,rease in that species of public expenditure had
taken place ',nee the ut ceisiou ofll.r present :%Ja-
jowly to the Throue ; that tuerwase wits already
right times the original expenditure in pensions at
the arc. anal amonuted to 40,000 h per ann.
31r. Wm. Smtrit thought ate deLihte Of the
Judges of the Court of Exeht9uer in iskotlaufl
must he of a very extraordinary isature indcril, if,
out of five Juch.res, not even one cool:: be procured
to decide ram e,liscs. manually ; whic% it %ins gene-
rally aditinteci was the greatest extelit of tiieir

nAg, the CcANCELLOR Or the Eactit-
QUER, alul thf• Lunt ADA Of ATE, d the re-
solution, which wis reah4fed by Do. ;or LAWRENCE
and )Ir. WHITURI: to, "olio pti-o:o4ly ar2.tiel the ne-
res,ity of itu.in.:rinz into tl.e proiiriety o; the
grant lo .fore It it woula prillmilay hr
to.. lier to itignire into the matter after the grant
haa e:, .n . _ _

)li. Vk v.:Divot leprol)at,..l the prrrialltation of
vntiri!f. for the re,olction, after the ifilorniation of-
forae.l to that lloti,e frovi the Trre.ent di4rossi(.n.

S:r .lairs INFAiruitT tontri.ed it h
Sot i tl.tt IU-bust' to itiro.-Ln b!3te
hr paiticiOar AIM upon wilirlt t 6. paytrivut 0.
I. V 4.1 Ji.7,-.able. It ( os,ht
t rfiet.l; :irchiu,r, ti ,tls!A a fluid tia

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deficient for the disburiPment of these•petw;chl:‘,
they would become cluugeghte tiit the geuend its
venue of the empire.

Sir AaTuua Pisecorr declared himself as warm
a friend as any in that House to a cii,plitied
due provision for Judg9 retired from oilicial
ties, after a long period of active and useful sc;-
vice. Still he could not. iu the toresent unexplained
state of that fund, and pending an iuvestigstwn
into its amount, support a resolution so pleupi-
tately pressed.
Mr. L'oTt.a supported the resolution, and con_
'jarred it both just and wise to extend to the
Fcritch Judges a similar provision as the Judges of
the other branches of the Usbited Kiqi;doui loco.
eutitled to by au Act of the Lt gishituic.
The question was theu loudly (ailed for ; on
a division the numbers were—

Apo, la favour of the Rem. 90-:-lless 31-3isj 4g.