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melasisit an alningement should be
• catapel Shet.lif of Lanark to be pellallis
neatly resident within hitt jurisdiction or set. NS
wee net disposed to re commend a deviation hew
de genial practice se applied to the other counties'
igiffiesdand, but he thosAbt there were sufficient
steisnds in the case of Innerkshire to justify the'
inteepiies. With respect to the duties of the
/*Miff, it was sonecessery to eater into details?,
otierhod been most concisely stated by one of the
Jobbat writers that ever wrote on the laws of Seat.
Aired—he meat Si, Gene Mookeneie. He NM •
.mist the Sheriff was 4411te chief and resat imps*.
est officer of the Coen—his duty was le terry she
inn into executes, sod to -preserve is pence of
his testy." At this moment Glasgow sea the
second city in the empire; it contained we less
Ans 140,000 inhabitants, and within the last
. • r there had been three times more criminal,
bi Glasgow than in soy other Sheriffdom
• lit Seethed. The question then for the House Sie
yeander was, whether so *Seer having ouch Is.
Often sad semerees duties to perform, shield
or should et be resident. If he required Eby.
oeher iadsceesents than the facts he had stated foe,
airkieg him support the proposed alteration, bar
shield And it in tba Report of the Camiudeo
name% for they positively declared the ;
for the fotsre the Sheriff should be perms:
y resident. It was admitted on all hands that
anengessiest should be made. Some
=oddities, Sheriffs' Substitute, with incranird
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; but if soy incense of salary were made.
31 weld best be bestowed on the principal officer,
.eaneke it worth his while to reside within hi. puns.
Action. Besides, they had the representation of
the load Magistrates, who strongly recommended
that Lanark should be excepted from the general
vole. Look to the condition of the inhabitants in
that great anoufteturing town. In 1820, at one
Special Commission, there were no les. than fifty
jells for treasonable ad seditious practices. Under
three circumstances. could any man doubt the tie-
veil of the proposed alteration ? With respect to
• Ille.erode in which it should be introduced, it would
.1011111,11111 tent with t below of Scotland and the digui iy
character. But Government was de-
11.111ilded I. make an alteration, in order to render
the Sheriff of Lanarkshire permanent.
Mr. ABBILCRONIT mid. that however proper it
atiebt be that the Sheriff of Glasgow should be per.
liraserst, it did sot oppose necessary that the ahem-
_ ars.elleildidelltend faiths,. However, it was clear
petitions hod an idea dist some more eaten.
.este.elionge was contemplated ; bet that, speaking
the Sheriffs should be resident within
jecuens while the Courts Edinburgh
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,ssiere sitting, we a circuastaace not to be expected.
• ••411t. Ptah said that it was within the 'oiliest*
Crows_ to hereon the salary. He had
Alias the *abject under his coosidenition, and he
• stullid sae care that any oddities of salary which
• .4610111,10,-ftede should be suitable to the duties
-Assl theipmetal nature of the case.
• • n4,oad ist. Hamilton, the Lord Advocate, Mr.
"'Seel, Mr. Kennedy, sail Mr. Drummond, said •
. feir words esah.
The Petition was ordered to be printed.
A Message tram the Lords announced their
Lordship.' assist to several Bill., and requested
she sweat of dm Rouse to the Admiralty Quorum
Bill.
lOWAN CATHOLIC PEERk
Aire Casino rose to give notice of a motion on
o subject of considerable importance to which he
~reposed to call the attention of the House. The
Noose would -recollect the steps which had been
taken in .lost Session. by his Right Hon. and
Leveed Friend in regard to 'the 'theist' Roman
Catholic disabilities. He would now merely state
the historical grounds of his intention as to the cnes•
✓ eore which he was to propose. Those who had at.
tended to the debates of last Session on the motion
of his. Right Hon. sad learned Friend, would not
fail to •recollect the discussion in that particular
'ironical Of the subject which regarded the Padua.
?notary clauses, sod the state of the existing law
1; to the privileges of Parliamentary Peers.—
Upon this brand' of the subject it was hie inten.
ties to move 'fns leave to bring in a Bill. If
leave should be granted, tie would then bring that
portion of the laws affecting Roman Catholics more
particularly before the House. He declined Bay.
lag any thing upon the larger measure at this time;
ehuuld it be brought forward, he would be found
in his place ready to use his best exertions fur the
removal of the disabilities. He had risen at this
*nee, because he felt that any postponement of the
notice until after the holidays would endanger the
evportunity foe discussion during the remainder of
the Sessioo. He would therefore jive notice of
i motile for the 30th April (that being the first
open day after the holidays), for the repeal of the
Act of Charles 11. so far as would relieve Ro-
man Catholic Peers fuom the penalties to which
iney were now subjected. for sitting and vot-
ing in the Haase of Lords. He was not aware
whether the question of Emulations& would
come on or not. He had given this early notice or
.bis intention as to one particular branch of the sob.-
lee, that he might not inconvenience the profiteer,
'of that measure, if there were any intentions eater.
!shied of again bringing it forward. He thought
it right also to declare, that though he did not feel
bound to explain all the motives which influenced
his conduct in the discussion of a great coostito.
trerisl question. affecting the liberties of one consi.
derable portion of the subjects of the realm, yet,
upon his honour, he was influenced iu this case by
uo personal representations or intimacy with any of
the noble persons ioterested, and that he had nut
had any communication with them direct or indirect
upon the subject of his motion.
sir. PLUNKITT (after being generally called
upon by the Home) rose, and begged leave to take
that early opportunity of expressing the extreme
gratification he felt that the Right Honourable
Gentleman should have considered any portion of
the subject which he had brought forward 16.1 Ses-
sion as deserving of his attention. That particular
branch of the subject was indeed a very principal
iirarlion of the general measure; whatever portion
of it should be taken up by the Right Honourable
Gentleman would, without doubt, become of in-
d importance. As to his intentions in regard
to the general measure, he would be happy to give
she House exact information, if he had the
power to do so; but he slid final considerable dif-
ficulty in determining if it were best to bring it for.

ward is the present Session or early iu the next.
He would Dot hide his intention to bring forward
that enamor, again; he was only unsettled in his
opinion es to the most peeper period. It was the
intention of the Roman Catholics to have intrusted
No with the Petition which they were anxious this
roe to have preientrd to the Honor; they had up.
prised him of their purpose. lie answer to them he
had acknowledged the high sense he tell of the
honour done to him; he promised them to lay their
Petition before the House, and to endeavour to
befallen the attention of the House to the jeeps*.
mice of it by each reamns as he might be able to
urge. He need not make any declaration, to the
House to shew how deeply he felt fur the macaw
of the question, and how anxious he must be
to bring it forward. He could not speak with
certainty as to the wishes of the partite or their
friends, either within or without the House. He
confessed that he had no grounds for forming an
opinion as to the period which they would consider
most preferable for the purpose. The Catholics of
Irelaod, he knew, would be governed by the opi.
oioos of those whom they considered as their most
sincere and zealous friends. In whatever period the
question might be brought forwerd, into whatever
bands it should fell, it would have his zealous, warm,
and cordial support. He wee happy that his Right
Hon. Friend had made this allusion to it, ow ac.
caret of the course which he had taken in doing so.
He was glad that his Right Hon. Friend bad dose.
it without any consultation with the noble persons
who were to be benefited by the measure. They
had a right to priority of redress. They were the
.last persons who were deprived of their liberties end
dignities by what was then deemed the policy of the
times, and they ought to be the first restored.
Mr. TigiNET said, that there was only one
opioioo ou the importance of the subject of eman-
cipation. If the Right Hon. Gentleman hod made
up his own mind. he need scarcely be at a lon for
the opinion of the friends of the measure without
the House or within it, on whatever side they might
be. All were agreed that there could be no time
fitter for proceeding then the present. Bet
time went so fast, that unless the notices were
given before Easter, from the absence of Irish
Members afterwards, there would remain little
hope of bringing it forward till it would be too
late hi the Session to do it with any probability of
success. He hoped that the Right Honourable
Gentleman would have his mind settled speedily as
to the propriety or impropriety of bringiug the
question forward this Session. He could mot coo.
ceive from whence the objections were to arise. The
progress of the Bill last Semion—the success of it
io passiog that House—and the minority in the
Lords, were circumstances calculated to excite rea-
sonable hopes of success. To be sure, the Right
Honourable Gentleman had opportunities of know.
log things which passed elsewhere, from which the
House were excluded; but he could not help
thinking the season very importune and inviting,
especially when he reflected on the very great ins•
portence of the question in regard to the present
state of Ireland.
Mr. Bright and Mt. Plunkett rose together.
The House called for Mr. Plunkett. Mr. Bright
was about to persist in addressing them, but was
induced to give way.
Mr. PLuscart was sorry to obstruct the address
of the Hon. Gentleman. His immediate reason foe
doing so was the general call which had been made
on hi= to proceed. It would have afforded him the
hi/best satisfaction if he could have been more ex-
plicit in declining his opinion on the choice of the
proper period for moving the question, but he
really felt that he had not enjoyed sufficient oppur.
!unity for making op his mind. He was anxious
to accommodate the views of the Irish Roman Ca-
tholics. He believed that they were not directly
anxious for the bringing to of the measure voider all
the existing_ circumstances. For his own part he
had some doubt about the propriety of agitating
ell the topics belonging to the subject at present.
11 He was determined to exercise his own discretion
with a view to success, without suffering personal
considerations to weigh with him. He would seek
discussion when he thought it likely to become
useful ; but he could not consider the subject in
the light of an annual measure, which was to be
debated Session after Session. He owned that he
could not arrive at the conclusions come to by the
Right Honourable Gentleman on the result of
the proceedings of last year. The more favour-
able the position in which the question thou
stood, the greater the advances then made, in
the same degree did his apprehension of diffi-
culty increase—he approached it with more tee.
mulous emotion than when he felt that helves fur-
ther from the point of success—not knowing front
what particular point obstacles of insuperable dif-
ficulty might be thrown up. It was some guide to
him to know that the present state of Ireland was
not such as to lead the friends of the measure to be
very anxious for speedy discussion. He could not
think it right to bring it forward without a moral
certainty of success. The consequences of din.
cession might be very considerable either way.
If the measure were successful, the effect would
be most conciliatory—if otherwise, the existing
causes of irritation would be increased. He did
not think this a favourable season for it. The call of
the House moved for by Isis Right Honourable
Friend, the Member for Cork, oould give an oppor-
tunity of going into many of the particulars inci-
dentally, and information would most likely be ren-
dered 'of which the House stood in much need. As
to and access to particular information, as it had
best surmised by the Right Honourable Gentle-
men. he had on information to act on except that
which was equally available to every Member of the
House.

Mr. BRIGHT made a few remarks, the import of
which was not heard in the gallery with sufficient
clearness to state it with certainty. He was under.
stood generally to object to the measure pro-
mised in the notice, as oue tending to increase the
prevailing discontents.
Mr. CANNING understood it to be most irregu-
lar to discuss the merits of a subject on a notice.
The House would not fail to observe that his mea-
sure, if successful, would hive one desirable effect
that of adding a most valuable acquisition to the
Legislature.
Sir J. NIWPOIT said, that in relation to the state
of Ireland, the measure must be considered in a
point of view quite opposed to that of the Hon.
Member for Bristol. One great reason in favour

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