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London, England, 1824-03-11 00:00:00

'AT-Tic/01E1(8 AND NOTARIES.

Mr. PHILLIPS presented a petition from the attorneys and
solicitors of the town of Manchester, praying that the Act of the
41st Oeo. 111. might be amended, and that attorneys practising
beyond twenty miles from London might be enabled to take out
faculties as not Aries public—Laid on the table.
AIESSAHE FROM THE LORDS.

A message from the Lords, requesting that the Report of the
Committee which sat on the Linen Trade of Ireland in the Ses-
sion of 1822, might be communicated to their Lordships.
On the motion of Mr. GOULBURN, the Report was furnished
to their Lordships.
COMBINATION LAWS. .

Mr. HUME presented petitions from the journeymen tin-plate
workers and from the journeymen shoemakers of London and its
suburbs, against the Combination Laws--gefetred to the Com-
mittee.

EXPENSE OF LAW PROCEEDINGS.
Mr. HUMS presented a petition of W. Honey wood Yates, Esq.,
one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Gloucester, pray-
ing that the House would take into its consideration the great expense
attendant on law proceedings. The petitioner stated, that he was
entitkd to two estates in the county of Gloucester, but that the
frightful mots of suing for their recovery amounted to a denial of
justice. He was told that he might sue he forms paverie, if he
would swear that he was not worth Eve pounds, but this he could
not dot he therefore prayed the House to interfere and check such
expenses.—The petition was ordered to lie on the table.
SALMON FISHERIES.

Mr. HUME presiM;a;itentioTyfro;CYlye:Merehants and Bank.
era of Montrose, pmyirit that the House would not enact any law
relative to the Salmon Futhery until a full inquiry bad taken place.
Laid on the table.

SURVEYS IN IRELAND.

Mr. S. RICE rose to bring forward the motion of which he had
given notice, and as he did not anticipate any objections from the
Right Honourable Secretary, (Mr. (loulburn,) he certainly did not
feel himself called on to go into any length on the subject. His
motion was for a new Survey and Valuation of Ireland, and if
this was conceded to him he should follow it up by moving that a
select Committee be appointed to whom the matter should be re-
ferred. He felt that such a measurchs this was, above all others,
expedient for the benetit and welfare of Ireland, and he was re-
joiced to find that the Government of Ireland had felt the necessity
of it, but as he was sure that this motion, if granted, would not in-
terfere with the objects they were pursuinf, he relied on the support
of the Right Secretary, thinking that they might work
well together , and render mutual assistance. He would not occu-
py the time of the House any longer, but conclude by moving that
a new Survey and Valuation of Land in Ireland might take plate,
and that it might be referred to a select Committee similar to that
of 1821 to consider and report on.
Mr. DAWSON was glad that the subject was likely at length
to be taken up in earnest, as he was convinced that it was • measure
much wanted in Ireland, as, according to the present system, it was
a tax operating very severely on the peasantry there • but he
trusted that, in taking this survey, it would be made from actual
observation, and not from any surveys that had been before taken,
most of which were inaccurate and unworthy of any reliance being
placed on them ; nothing could indeed be more genes and improper
than they were ' • he should suggest that if the business were to be
done at all it ought to be done effectually, and in • business-like
way ; it might perhaps at first cost a little money, but it would In
the end give the greater satisfaction.
Colonel TRENCH suggested, that the proper way of doing It
would be, by the co-operation of the Irish Government and the
head of the Ordnance.

Sir J. NEWPORT did not think the method proposed by the
gallant Colonel was the best, but the present system was a most
intolerable nuisance, and he wondered that the people of Ireland
had submitted to it so long. In some cases the rates were made on
what was termed a Plough Land, and these plough lands varied
from 108 to 800 acres, and he would ask if this were not a most
absurd and a most partial mode of rating. He was glad to find
that a new survey was about to be instituted. A Committee above
' stairs was certainly the fittest place to discuss the details, as nothing
could be agreed on in that House because they had no evidence
before them.

Mr. H. BROWNE wished to exemplify the utter uselessness of
any of the present surveys, by a circumstance that happened within
the county that he represented (Mayo), where a survey had beer.
made, when the ground was completely covered with mow which
rendered it impossible to fix any valuation on it, or to ascertain the
quality of the land.—Leave given.
Mr. HUSKISSON moved that the House should resolve Itself
Into Committee for the purpose of adding a Resolution to the Fo-
reign Silks Bill. The Speaker having accordingly left the Chair,
Mr. Huskisson moved a resolution,that one-half of the duty should
be allowed as a drawback on manufactured goods deposited in the
warehouses before the 25th of 31arch, if taken out within 30 days
after. Mr. Huskisson stated that the eidy precaution that Govern-
ment would take, when the goods were deposited, would be to see
that they were new.
Mr. }:LLICE stated that the liberal conduct adopted by
the Government on this occasion had given such complete satisfac-
tion to the delegates of the Ribbon Weavers of Coventry, that they
had left town that day for the purpose of employing men to manu-
facture goods to be warehoused agreeable to the concessions of Go-
vernment.

After a few words from Mr. Alderman WOOD, the resolution
was agreed to. The House resumed, and the report was ordered to
be read to-morrow.
Mr. HUME wished to ask the Right Hon. the President of the
Board of Trade whether it was intended to repeal the Spitallielda
Act.

Mr. IICSKISSON said that considering the attention that had
been devoted to that question during the last Session in the House
of Lords, he did not think that the repeal could emanate from the
House of Commons, but if such a Bill were to come down to that
House from the other,be would give it all the support in his power.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned.

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