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ouspo4 %wry finally heard iu the Appeal of the &lel of
flu.- azruo.t S:tiluag and °Wei?: —Judgment wx.
turned
Appeal of !;seirart, Mercer, and ethers, iittejn.t
elder and other:, Councel were pull/ hc.artl.—Furiho. pru-
ct.c diuz+ itot.skeyhtee 1.13 Fri&V.

TbeMati alld.Wer Doty Bill was read a third time, mud
pa Ned .
The Irish Landlords and Tenants' Bill was brought up
from the (.ominous, and read a first time.
The St. Pancras Chards hill was returned, the amtud-
UltiitS being agreed tu.

HABEAS CORPUS Am ENL.PMENT BILL
The Marquis of Latisoowi, ou kg that
the House should go into Committee on the
Habeas Corpus Amendment Bill, observed, that
the object of the Bill was to extend tlw benefit nr
the Habeas Corpus Act to all persons at al! tones.
When they considered that so long alwriLad
elapsed since the passing of the original
Corpus Act, it won't' not appear surprising that
something should still remain to be door. The
present Bill was intended to enable the Judges to
issue writs during vacation, and to eithiice the tr.
turns thereto. Its object was to ;nevem persoiss
from being forced out of the country iu that
period at which the Habeas Corpus could p,,t
be enforced, as the law at present sunli—
t-I'e was sure that if it could be proved to their
Lordships that there was one hour iii the tear in
which the advantage of this great preteriiiiii s
hut to the subject, they would feel it their dots hi
correct the evil. On the principle there could be
no doubt ; as to the particular enactments, some
might perhaps be objected to, but if they were
really objectionable, might be remedied in the
Committee. There were cases to prove the neces-
sity of the measure. In 1813, a person was hurried
on board ship in the vacation, in consequence I
which the course of justice was fur a time sus e -
ed. He hoped, therefore, that their Lnit!siii. a
would consent to going into the Committee.
Lord EI.T.ENBOROUGII said, he should net object
to going into a Committee on the Bill, bui ohserr-
ed, that during the fourteen years he had tilled Ilia
present situation, he knew but of one instancy where
it was necessary to piton!) for disobedience to a writ
of Habeas Corpus. He objected to the eiwrinms
power pi oposeil to be granted to a single Jtufee,
that of g ranting an attachment against a person 1\ 1,,,
bud disobeyed the writ. If the Julig,. was usable
to call him before him during the v, ration, :mil
oblige him to cuter into is recognizance for his ap-
pearance, and, what was of more lin:nut:nice, to li-
berate the individual against whom the otti:oce was
committed, lie thought that every purpose nouLi
let answered. If the Bill went to invest a single
Judge with the obnoxious power of punishing for
contempt, lie would go ou his knees to have it me-
moved.

After a few words from the Marquis of LAIMS
DOW* and Lord EttEasottounw, the 1301 wrost
through the Committee, mid wu ordered to be
printed with the ameudmenta.