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diet cold be Wed la undertake the *tics. . Yoh
sok ibressily of a third gaol delivery sac AR.
„estimable. The case which had letel,•.100.
:fatted st Maidstone was not 'wifely new,
tod before *marred. .t the Hose piece. He
ropelessied three Leaned flerjeants sitting at
*wee time in dllrereat roosts to try poitinere et
&w ow., to assist the Judges in tbe.sielivery of
sisk mot, se es to amble them to proceed to opal
the Commission at the neat twee on the appeisitetl
&yr mid if each asetber year as 1,11 shriek',
ewer, there woald be no end to the evils which
skit an overflew of tile. /prisons would .ssweies.
If it were famed irons/ to increase alie semeisee
of die Judges, he thought it highly objedioemble,
segieemis which he need nut then state, time keg
'Wu few in tech Cowt shooed sit oa term beteinaia.
Hit they should all take the rel delimit, in turn ;
for es orreceenat should theft% be each a siting as
Judge fee ernsiosl eases ooly. The salaries were
already tee aiggerelly, so mock so that be had
knows Bay matinees of individuals refusing the
Ow incense they could yet *OA to undettake it
at the present roe of the salaries. It was impossi.
bit:therefore that ony addition to their • expellees
Maid fee • moment be thought of
After a few welds frees Mr. Cuateroostas
Stites sad Mr. D. Sew—
The Marquis of Loa nonoltaY said, all that be
had heard abused the propriety of the course pro.
posed by bit Aught Ronootable Friend, of leak-
ier the mpeciteent in the home counties in
the Iris Isolosee, as alfusding the greatest fa-
cilities ler drawing a cornet inference ea to
the' mortieshility of adopting a similar pewee&
isi sea male extending to the other counties.
That sort ef cantioo in the 'Bede of proceeding was
the more necessary, as the istoeure, if hued to be
preetimble. sod once adopted in this amenity.
would be looked for with sense anxiety is Ireland
else; he there, as well as here, the calendar, were
found to press heavily on the counties; and in or-
der to give the general measure a fair chance of suc-
cess, they Night to start with a plan se well di-
gated as could possibly be, in the first Instance.
TM Pentium was then read and ordered to be

printed.
Mr.Wttttaws wished to know whether the Right
Hos. aestivates (Mr. C. W. Wyatt). the Pram-
ideal of the Board of Control, iutesided to bring
forward any mum having for its object an el-
timbal in the administration of Justice in Wales ?
Mr. C. W. WTIIII said, that he had no such in-
edible, at present, as it was Ins opinion that any
mime of that sort could only be coosidered with
1161111111 r when viewed in connexion with the re-
gulations which it might be thought proper to
sent iso the some subject in this country.
WILLCAIIS thee gave notice, that, as soon
siMe the Easter recess as the professional geotle-
meimhould have returned hoot Circuit, he should
'wig the subject under the consideration of the
Huse. by moving to refer it to • Committee of
the whole Roue.
IMARIUAGE ACT.
Dr. Peitt.Ltstoas rove mauve for knee to bring
is a Bill v. oilseed the Marriage Act. He stated
the great injustice resulting heat the clause by
which the marriages of miser, by license were resi-
dual nail and rind, if the teehuical legal consent
of. geardisort had not bee* obtained. The
Leissed Doctor stated four cues which had
bees recently decided iu the Arches Court. in
which; .after a cohabitation of 36, 30. and 30 yews,
epee proof that the husband hod not attained his
majority at the tense of obtaidnig the license
(though such license had been obtained on the oath
of the hosband that he was of age). the marriages
were all declared null and void ab iairio, and the
;woe, if any, bastardised. The alterations which
he should propose would go to abolish the nullity
clause prospectively; and in all cases of marriages
had without the consent of the parents or guardian.,
it should only be competent to impeach the marriage
duritig tire minority of both the contracting parties ;
hat to abolish entirely all that part which makes the
tuarrisge null and void fur ever. To avoid any
erasion of the Act by the parties going abroad and
remaining out of the kingdom till they came of
age, it should be competent for parents or guar-
drails to in.titute a suit, the setae as if the parties
were actually in England. As there were many
cases where parties, through ignorance or inadver-
tence, had contracted marriages which were liable
to be dissolved, but were anxious to have their
warriors legalised. ire should propose a clause
niskiog all such marriages good, unless impugned
within 6 months after the passing of the Act. Them.
together with some alterations as to the mode of
publishing balms, would comprise the whole of the
alteration* which be proposed to make in the law as
it stood at present. The Learned Doctor concluded
by moving for leave to bring in a Bill to amend
the Marriage Act, vshien was granted.
Mr. Beamel. inquired fur some returns relative
to the Slave Trade. which he lied moved for so
lung ago us February last,
Mr. Wttoot replied that the returns were pre.
paring.
Mr. Bomar prroeoted a Petition from the Corn
Merchants of Bristol. begging the House to take
their case into consaderatiou.—Petitima ordered to
lie op the table.

ORDNANCE ESTINATES.
The CIIANCRLLOR of the EXcIitQUER moved
the °Mee of the Day fur the House to go into a
Ceoniit..e of Supply.
Mr. Hutto raid, it would he in the recollection of
the House that eight millions of money had come
into the privy purse of hie late Majesty, of which
the Hoare had no knowledge, and seer which they
font no control: Tin. .rove from rurplus revenue
it Gibraltar and other places, and front Droll, of
Admiralty. Us the act:moon of his presets Majesty
annual act-altos of thete twins, were directed to be
Ltd on the table of the [louse. 010 Monday last se.
countr, in conformity to this direction. were furnished
for Demerara and Ottirelter. In the account for De.
Inetara, there appeared a sum of 24701. butane, of
the „woo, of 11.4 keilasseor, after paying the
"Polimia of it. He wished to he informed if that
.not was to be brought in *id of the via bile service,
or go thin the Privy Perm as heretofore. Accord.
bit 10 the Gibraltar return, there was an MM. of
?twine of 3,031., riot of which 1.6614 bad beep
Paid to officers' families. With respect to the
bal‘f" of 2,1131. he had the saute question to
amk, In o„.00lle of the Droits of Admiralty on
the VI January, 111111, be observed there wee a

lwascsa he siosioU be *le tt Mime, it
it seem Wnvostedl Wee. ti-yield so interest, or if it
Ames, lodged in ,the innitail of the receiver or any
stiset*iiteer ; 'O.llOOl. ON also stated to have beim
toesimd last year ; wools titer be nay 'bisection to
finish the items of that sum
. The ClUNelLbell tithe INewesueswaid„ that
the maw some to which the' Hon. Member bud
;alluded as surplus from the Colonies, had venous
claims eta them for the purposes of the Colonies:
for. instance. that from Dammam was as daimed.
Mr. Hues irked if, after 'these claim. were
ostiatiod, the remsinder of the' funds were to be ap-
plied to the posblic service!
The CIIIIIICILLOR of the Ekcsleoga could not
,altewer that qoestion at the peewit moment.
The House then remised itself into a Committee.
Mr. Wasp named that the suet of 448,7441.7•. 4d.
be granted to his Majesty foe defraying the charge
for extraciedioaries of the oeduauce, after deduct..
ing the sum of 4.4,0004. received for the sale of
. old stores.
Mr. Hums said he wished to maker few oboe,.
stions, Omagh he mast premise that it was im-
possible, from the accounts as presented, for soy
one to give an opinion foondtd on a minute ex•
aminotion; he must therefore make his *biro ione to
large sous. What he new alluded to were the
items in the Colonies under the head of current ser-
vices. and repairs. , As a specimen of these, lookiog
to Demerara, would be found as item for exits pay
of engitieers. He hod imagined the !loose had
voted abeady for that service. Under the head of
repairs, an item for so much, estimated by Genteel
Moon. Now he (Mr. Hume) wished to know how
the General, living in England. could estimate for
repairs to be done in the Colonies abroad ? The
Howse had voted money for repairs and work.
for the Colonies which ought to have been borne by
the Colonies themselves ; and what he particularly
objected to was the stun of 10,0001. for repairs to
the sea bask at Demerara. From the report of Ge-
neral Mann. which had been laid on the table, he
would read two or three lines. which would con-
viace the Committee 014 this expense ought not
to be borne by tins country. [The Hogs Member
then read from the repon that the bank was neces-
sary to preserve the ordnance buildings, but that
there were other military buildings which were in.
terested in the preaervatiou of the sea bank, bat
above all, the colony was must interested in its be-
ing kept up ] He,(Nr. Hume) contended therefore,
that being for the protection of the town, the town
ought to bear the expense. The colony had a
Legislative Body, who voted the necessary supplies,
and why. if this bank were so essential to the co-
lony. did they not provide the money, instead of
leaving Great Britain to defray the expense ?
This wee said to be only an item on account,
sod would he repaid ; if so, there was between sixty
and seventy thousand pounds invested in the funds
of this country for the security of the paper
currency of the colony, from which this snot of
10,0001 i for the sea bank could be borrowed. The
allowances to the Governor of Demerara he thought
too great. The Governor of Semmes received
sal, 14001. a year. whilst the salary sod alloeroaces
of the Governor of Demerara amounted In 6,000 L
Here was oho a Vendor Mester receiving 6,5001. a
year, and a Colonial Secretary, and a Deputy
Secretary. Between 3,000/. and 4,0001. was re-
united to this country for the Colonial Secretary,
who was a child at school : 8,000/. a-year was drawn
from the Colony altogether for the Secretary
and Deputy-Secretary, though neither of them
had, he believed, ever seen the Colony. He noticed
also a house was allowed for the storekeeper, whose
duty he imagined did not require one, es he ought
to be with the stores. If, meteed of these great
allowances. a moderate and fair scale *mewled by
the Government, the Colonies would. he ass per-
suaded, he able to pay the whole of their own ex-
penses. He thought a stand ought now to be made,
and nothing could be more reasonable than to begin
by refusing the grant of 10,0001. for Demerara.
The allowances to Berbice were subject also to the
same remarks, but with that the House had no-
thing to do, but they were to take care that they
got nothing• from this country. As to the lonian
Islands, the same observations applied to them as
to Demeter*; but there was one item of udditiunal
pay to engineers which, under the Treaty by which
hie Majesty became glisrdiun of the Islands, we
ought not to be called upon to defray. Great Bri-
tain we* not to contribute any thing to the nada-
tory expense of the Island, except there were above
8,000 soldiers employed. Where was an item of
1.951/. for repairs of the buildings atFevershim; bat
es they were now let to Mr. Hall, lie could not see
whiten' expense for repairs should he incurred, when
he believed there had not been an ounce of gunr
powder made there the last six yeerr. He üb.
served a reduction of the estimate for the civil
establishment at that piece, and so fir he (Mr.
Home) gave the Ordnance Department credit.
Waltham Abbey was also kept up, though there
wus confessedly gunpowder enough in store to last
fur twenty years. He thought that though this
establishment might have been necessity at its first I
commencement, it was no longer necessary, and that
the supply by public contract was a better mode,
and in *hot opinion be was borne out by the Coin-
miesionets of Military Inquiry. As en instance he
would mention the new cuirasses for the life
guards (blues). which cost 3,0081. and upward.,
when, as he was informed, they could have been
supplied (if pet up at public contract) for ',goo/.
The Honourable Member conclarled by moving
that the vote be reduced by 10,000/. for the sea
bunk at Demerara', and u,ooot, for the lowan
Wands.

Mr. WILMOT said he had not heard from the
Hon. Member any thing which called le question
the propriety of the work. at Demerara. It stem',
therefore, merely es an item on account, and to be
repaid. He (Mr. Wilmot) thought it would be an
unjostifiehle act to appropriate any part of the
money invested hI the Nods of this country us a
security for the colonial paper, sad that the least
objectionable mode was to let the sem stand as an
item in the Ordnance Estimates. He would not
now go St any length into a defence of the colonial
system, but he would observe. that the Hon.
Member had greatly earl/greeted in his state-
ments. He sane be ewers that a law had
lonely passed forbidding any person to hotel •
place Ur the Colonies which they did not serve
in perm*, end that the ocriy patent place in !Itine-
rant hod been reduced is etuoltsmetit Goal 0,0001.