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3mpertat Varltanttni.
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AlOrinaY, nip. 17.
'Lord REDESDA.Lb presented a &osier% fronssahe niisan
tn..'etimen of Witham, praying tor die establishment of a
Court for the recovery of small debts.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' ACT. '
The Marquis of 1 ANSDOW :NE presented a petition from
the manuirediren, tradesmen, and omer inhabitant. of Shepton
Monet, porn for the repent of the Insolvent Debtors' Ac..—
TM in pieaepting this pettdoo, in.imatisi Mat
he did sot consent to tie prayer for repealing the Act, because ha
had always telt that the piinciple of Como Bonoruin we mut
salutary. He was reedy to ad.n:t that great frauds had cr pt la
uadez the Act, and that tradesmen on:pit to ha protected, hub
that protection might be &Warded without die repeal of die Vt.
The petition was re: it, :.tad laid on the tat.L.
The Earl of TANKER% 11. LE pre-cntat a
Jae Wrottealey, Bart. against the !dards -te
GO ginned to several defects ha the bill. raid expie.sal a hope
*it Parliament would love no tittle in hiakinl that bat of all
biles, a fixed law °lnlet-liege, pe,txt as possible.
Lord ELI.ENROBOUG it expressed his regret taut so much
Innosvenience should have b^cn tie resalt of the Act as to occa-
sion the number of petitions on the table. It was a matter of
complaint that no right rev. lord had risen when the bill was
discusaed, to state objecaons, which migitt have induced the
house to avoid those imperteattons which became the cause of
int.
S'I'OWELL said, he did not think even persons of the
rprom-stun were aware or all the inconveniences produced
un bill. They were certainly not coguiceot of many known
to ecclesiastical persons.
The petition wrs read, and had on the table.
Lord STOWELL then drew the attention of the house to the
vast inapoicomx of the subject, and, with a view to the estsblials.
went of a ransistent legislative provision, paused, •• That a
coninduce be appointed to take into convalcraiion the present
...its of the law relative to mama. sed whether any, and 'that
measures, ate uocevvary to randy the same, and to report
thereon to the house."
Lord K L E N ROUG H seconded the motion, and Gcclarnd
he had great pleasure in contemplating the benefit which must
result Irvin the noble and learned iord's endeavour to settle the

petit;os from Sir
Act. The noble

que.tion. •
Atier a kW observations from the LORD CHANCELLOR, the
motion was agreed to, and the following Lords sppo.nual to act
in the committee t—The A ichuiehop. of Canterbury, the hod
Chancellor, Lord Stowell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl
ot Liverpool, Lord Ellenborougli, Lurd Mednidale, and the Earl
of Sheitesbury•
Lad ELLEN BOROUGH then moved that the Marriage Act
Amendment lull be read the e.cind time the day tertoight—
Orrercd.
AGRICULTURAL PETITIONS.
Lord SUFFIELD presented a peutiou from the nobility,
clergy, and genuy, of the hundred of North Erpingham, in the
waist, 9f It urfAlt. complinuing of agricultarat Mantes, praying
for reform, and disclaiming all parumpation in the proceedings
at the Noriolk meeting. .1 he petition was sgned by two 11%111-
.111 A priors. They prayed particularly for a repeal of the malt
Lon The nook earl, on presenting this petition, professed him-
self an advocate for return', and said he woultl undertake to
make the Bishops converts to the doctrine of reform on reh-
g ous grounds.
The petition was read, and laid on the table.
Lotd SUFI lELD elso 'downhill a similar petition from the
hundred of Gramme, in the ts. .oty of Norfolk, which was read
and laid on the table.
AUSTRIAN LOAN.
The Marquis of LANaDOWN E said, it was well known to
the house that large sums of the public money, in the shape of
loans. lied been lavished on foreign powers. In consequence of
iproceedinge in Parliament on tins subject, assurances ord bec
given mitt the re-payment of the Austrian lotto MORN' be Real,-
rioted at the Congiess of Verona. lie withal, the:time, to ask
the noble lord whether he was enabled to state tee, moth of any
ruck neAuumion, and whether any hope was belts out of the re-
aliment of the aunt so iong due to this country.
lie Earl of LIVERPOOL said, ii was not his intention to
enter into the question how far sums of money had been lavished
by this country oo foreign powers. Every tramoicuon of that
eirt must stand on its own bottom. He would. however, say,
that the advance of large sums had preserved the liberty of Eu-
eve "genii the greatest tyranny that ever existed. The noble
not Lien stated, that a discussion had taken place with a view to
the settlement of the question admits' to by the noble marquis,
sod the Giamatti' had come to an arrangement with the Go-
vernment of Vienna. He had no difficulty in adding, that the
erre..gement hail been aim . I to. and his lordship expressed a
Lope that 'lc should be able soon to state to the house the precise
conditions of the arrangement.
Lord ELL ENBOROUG H observed, thathe could never bring
his mind to believe British subsidies had promoted pubic liberty
—he believed, on Mei:unwary , that it mai eiutbcirl certam powers
to 'et up the most detestable ty cony in the world.
Earl DARNLEY asked whether the me sures intended for
the benefit of Ireland wine to be menage' outward by the noble
earl in th house.
The hall of LIVERPOOL, said, the meow sea applicable to
that part of the United leinguoui wuted originate In the other
House of Pertiament
The house then adjourned.
LILSDA T. TED. le.
On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, it was or-
dered that no petition for pirate Dols should be received after
the 24th of March, and no report of the Judges en private bills
should be received after the seta of April.
A person from the Treasury presented certain annual at.-
counts.—Adiourned till to-morrow.
WEDNESDAY, LED.
The LORD CHANCELLOR heard appeals.
The Bishop of CliEsTEit inurn.wa that he gave notice last
session of Parliament, of his intention to bring in a bill to amend
the Act of George 11. respecting the Soleninintuon of Marriage.
Tie subject would probably occupy the attention of the Con.
mitten on the Marriage Law ; and should that be ihe CAW,
his
niessure would be unnecessary. The bill it was his intention to
introduce would not Interfere with the form of mainage, but
ft Ike a mule• ni mut respect to places where marriage is
toleinnised. In some places of worship. untidy, Chapels of
Laic. niarriegev could not take place, and the object would be to
give fri Pity and publicity to marriage, by permuting the solem-
nization in places where, as the law stood, no solemnisation can
eke place. if the Committee made the measure unnecessary,
i ',quad be s source of satisfaction ; if not, he should bring in
a bill.
Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from Beaconsfield,
in Estee, against the Small Deots Bill.
Earl DARNLEY presented a petition from New Bolton,
against the Insolvent Debtors' Act.
The Aumaisdop of CANTERBURY brought in • bill to
make certain marriages good. where licenses were obtained wa-
r soy to law. The Wattage Act passed with en much rapidity.
as to outrun all precaution which ought to have been given to
Surrogates. so that t y granted licenses in some instances ron-
trary to the provisions of Me Act. Pawns contracted marriage
ignorant of the irregularity. and this hill was to legalise such
euarriages. His Genet moved the bill be read the lint time.—lt
as accordingly read.
Viscount SIDMOUTH presented two petitions from the
igy of Noriviab against the Marriage Act —Read. and laid
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A Report from
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Adjourned.
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