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FRIDAY, APRIL 22.
Mr. Townsend, the Herald, and Mr. 0.111.0 r,
were again. examined at the Bar, touchiee 1:1*
Chandos Peerage, in the Committee of:Privileges:-
after which the further hearing was adjoureed: to •
Monday. 4
Sir James Saumarez's Annuity Bill, the FOur
Million Exchequer Loan Bill, the Milizia Officers'
8111, and. the American Commissioners' Bill, toge-
ther with five Private Bills, received the Royal
Anent by Commission.
The Bill, and business on the Table was read:
and disposed of.
Lord LIMERICK presented a petition from
John Harney, a prisoner for debt, in the jail of the
Four Courts, Dublin, praying to be taken out of
the exception in the Insolvent Debtors Bill. Lord
- Limerick explained the merits of the prisoner's case,
as they had been stated to him ; but would not take
upon him to be responsible fur the facts. He said:
he understood the petitioner had been tried on an
action for damages ; and, on the trial, the learned
Judge said it was unnecessary to examine more
witnesses, and told the Jury to give a verdict Against
the Defendant, but not to give damages. The •
Jury, however, found a verdid, and excessive de-
maps. On an application to the Court of King':
Bench, the verdia was set aside, and a new trial
granted. the action was tried again in the coun-
try, and the same damages were again awarded.
The petitioner, in conseqt.ence of the great expenc'e
he had been put to, was so much impoverished that
he was unable to defend himself any farther. and
was obliged to remain in prison ; and on those
grounds he petitioned to be taken out of the excep-
tion of the Insolvent Debtors Relief Bill. liis Lord-
ship, therefore, hoped that the petition might be
presented, and lay un the Table for future cove
sideration.
The LORD CHANCELL)R left the Woolsack
to remark, that there was a clause in the Insolvent
Debtors Bill, then on the Table, to except de-
fendants detained in prison damages given by a
Jury, for seducing other men's daughters, from the
benefit of the Insolvent Debtors Relief Bill. That
clause, his Lordship said, he considered as a very
wise and salutary one ; and he should be sorry to
see it broke in upon. He recapitulated the facts
stated by the Noble Earl, and concluded with say-
ing, that the petition inigHt be presented, and lay
upon the Table, but what ought to be done upon .
Jr
the grounds of it, was e rater of future disease
sion.—Adjourned till Moud.ty next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
FRIDAY, APRIL 21.
The House at an early hour attended the Ho,ise
of Peers pursuant to a summons 9y the Black h I,
and the Speaker, on his return, announced that t .e
Royal -.sent ha,i been given by commission to the
Foto. Millions Loon Lxchequer Bills, James
Saumarez's Annti, y, tho Mil: .ia Officers, the Ame-
rican Commissioners, and some private Bids
Petitions were presented from the Cotton Mane-
flEturers of York, and the town of. Perth, prayi:l
for the repeal of the late Al, which were referred
to the Committee to which the former Petitions were
referred.
• Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the report of the
Se!ea Committee rn the Bill respeeting the retaking
of allowances to Adjutants and Serjeants
in time of peace, which was ordered to lie on the
Table. .
Lord GREVILLE LEVESON move., for 3.,
C ,mmittee to enquire into the defects in the liws.
:eating to the building and repai4pg of county,
bridges and buildings, which was agreed to. - ,L
he Expiring Laws and Irish Revenue Bills were .
read a third time and passed.
ILCHESTER EVICTION. .
The Order of the Day being read for taking the"'
Repeat of the Ilchester Elu&ion Co:magner into-fur-
ther consideration ; and the Resolutions being real
a first time, on the motion for their second read-
ing
Mr. SMITH (the Chairman of the Committee) `
rose, and referring to the evidence, said, that the
Committee had ample proofs of the existence of a
conspiracy to deprive the Eleftors of Ilchester
their rights. They did not think ',toper however, •
to report their own opinion, but to refer the- evi-
dence to the House, convineeJ, from the vigour it •
had already shewn in the punishment of violaion
of privileges, that it-would not to auf in the sarti,
manner when the whole of the present subje& shoul.l
be before them. He would :n9t therefore occupy
their time with long observations of his own, behvt:
only imtrufted to move, that the House sh:eil,ll
adopt the Resolutions of the pornmittee, an 4 foikie.;
this up with a motion, that 'the Attorney-GeiteraV
be insrrnaed to prosecute tdr. Thomas tl,
Mr. I>Rr the mlyor, acid the others it-ie.,-Litt
the Report, as being concer:aed in the conspir,,cv..-
. Sir M. W. RII)I,.EN and Mr. WALLA:
thought that the Members .of the Committee otr,!lt. -
previously to explain howmttes,tharge applied to diCt
case of Mr. Davison, agaai4e whom there was ad
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evidence of bribery.
The SPEAKER reminded the Gentlemen, that •
they would have libettrto discuss that in the sub-.
sequent resolutions, tear that was not included in
the present one.
Mr. WALLACE, hmeever, proceeded to urge,
that before any dirati should be given to t.,e •
Attoraey;.General to pr.:secute, the Reese 0;17:1: •
previossly to consider how far its own digni,y
might be involved in it; and whether there was'7.-4° •
not a good cause for its preeteding, it ought, with-
out hearing a min, to send him to trial, with r:.e
fun weight of its authority. The House WAS ad- -g
here in the charaCter of a Grand Jury ; bet the
ter, though they only heard ex park evi.Jente, Lee
vex fauna a bill, unless a good case was f:dly tna.:e
oat upon the midst:tee of the adverse parer. it..
Whale of this Etaineipally se.stai vu, the evidence of 6

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