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-t,. hope that he might hate some communicant-tit
ith the Lys Officers of the Curren, ur *time of hi.
N,ujesty's Ministers, on the hest mode of carrying
matter into execution.
The ATTORNEY-CW(6RM., in rising to oppose
:Ins motion, did not mean to discuss all the argu-
..titeeta !HO -bribe 7Hers. Mover: He expected to
iiilliseerd some specific measure of redress sop
gggpd vo "wet the era, and *then submitted to die
AlLheal"'""4+Ban lbe -I.mishittire. So fie
rak hieingdoile, The mode nominee(' suggests a
greuritoratiini in the existing plan ot ofintirtiniting
wohhe justice. 'There was no einftlit.thst tIW Crown
'haul the ;sweet cif issuing special ettenehisliotss, meal
Iserhaps some Annie arrangement for the dispatch
4,f• business in the northern centilitre moy be tultoPt.
eel ; but it was rplitft iinposallile, be lyiprilterwied,
to tolerate such-a *titers! proposition es this, tinh-
orn the greatest presitset &It beratibis end consider...
tiuu. Some ariengeneent lair be iiereisiry, but it
-could not be effiteled by this afieriden +Mention eh
-the constitution of the judicial &tun of the colts.
try. He would. Illetefore, Move the preiritfut gains.
-tinn, as the Hon. Gent. had mot "hint!
•grnonds for the milieu he thought ptoper lb
tutrke.

Sir C. Moat-% expressed gnat 'unwise et thb
coarse taken by the Hight Hon. and Learned Cleo.
'Unman oppoine. He engin rather to here atevid
.tstal amendment thou *et th► question in this
'use, by a eminter-inotka. The Hight His. Oms
',mid. that his Hoe. Friend had side *it lib

thesen _
fem. • Had he net nrasits•ty sheiks li=2:—
.of aureate Siul crying "ohm the ed
•tires eE pumice was deloyell Until often its decisions
some •seadered nomailiasg to the claimant',
treason. was foetid why the ntrthern etilinties shonlll
sot have justice administered to them in the um,
portion it was desk wet to ether' parts' of the NW&
-try. Cernwell has m dislidt as Cdneherland, and
yet it had two As.isee in a year. 'Bristol certaisq
.had only sew, bat by • particular rotate, a genteu
chimed with capital offence could have his rinse
shortly mord for trial into aoe of the adjoining
counties. It waseureh! no tenurial departure Amu
the established practice, as had been mid, to hive*/
Spring Assizes extended to the notthern counties,
which were now confined to the counties of York
and Lauce.ter. The additional expense would be
comparatively nailing. What signined two or three
thensassd pounds a yesr, to have equal justice done
to all at home, when the country Sherwin int little •
if Kiting 400,000/. to Spain, far a preemie& et tais
years distance of abolishing the Sieve Irrade
(Herre.)—The evils wove peat in private interests+
in the Northers counties, owing to the delays that;
took place in the adasiaietration ofiustice. It was
well said in the ohloherieransiitieus naafi wendertrws,
wwJJi darerenis, and this woe complete infraction
of those wholesome ;Smithies.
Lord CASTLMAIIII raid, that hie Right Hem
Friend. in moving the previous questiere, mealy
mesas to say that the House was net prepared to
see its we, through the course recommended by
the Hon. Gentleman. which was in fact a re-ma-
drlting of tame of the Courts in Westminster
flail. It was quite impossible to adopt the major
proposition of the Hon. Member without admitting
a variety of others which branched from it. He by
no means meant to say that some arrangement in
the Northern counties might not be necessary, bet
this should be done by an inquiry, which the Hen.
• Gentleniau should have moved for in the first in-
tance, instead of adopting his present coarse.
• This was the meaner in which the resestion was
darted for an inquiry into the advainistvation of
justice in Wale". The proper course would be to
begin with au inquiry, and not at the outset to
.tart with a leading arrangement, which could osdy
Le met by the previous question.
Mr. M. A. TAW LOIL said, that he ires not tied to
any particular course, all he wanted was to have a
great evil redressed, and it mattered little to him
in what manner it was done so the evil was re-

moved.
Mr. IhouGustr was glad that it ease of this im-
portance, where the delay in administering justice
amounted in effect to ■ denial of it, *as -met by a
;general desire, at least for an inquiry into the•geiew-
auce. He therefore recommended WI Hon. Friend
to withdraw his present motion, and immediately
sulwititte in its plies. one for au inqairy.
Mr. W. SMITM held a letter in his hand point.
ing out the extent of the existing evil.
Mr. W•aan was glad that an inquiry em about
to be made into so extensive an evil. The exteti-
.ioes of the machinery of the law wool& without
any innovotion in its constitution. remove the dor-
iculties at present experienced in the northern
counties.

• Sir M. W. limey cordially ■pprored of en in.
. quirrinto the mutter complained 4.
ilir. WTNN complimented the Moo. Never on
his application to the lament subject. He differed
.rich him is to the fortu of is motion, es it went to
make a material change in the plan of administering
the and just on the rye of the Spring Amines.
An inquiry would certainly facilisoks She attain.
went of the overmany redrew..
Mr. M. A. T•vt.ott then withdrew Ms motion.
anti gare notice. that be would more fir se jir
gutty to.fanrrow.

ARBITRARY !IMPRISON MEW.
Sir FRAIICIS Bunotre presented a Petition tram
James I,reelo. of the county of Lancaster. The
Petitioner complained of being arrested tatty in
April last and thrown into a tiongettet. where be had
euthing toile in hat filthy straw. Ott the erns.
ing of the 7th 01 April he was brought up to Len.
• oi h ten others, and corned before the Seem.
hay t.l S otr, on a charge of tremon. He can.
.I.IAIIIO, as they were seadiug him •op from the
foundry, of Ilan trans that were put on him, and the
gooier otonrerellt ea Donut your prated limbo, if
you do one behove yourself I'll gat tom art iron
collar." When brought before Lord Skimped*.
the Noble Lord told hien that the charge spinet
Imo come from a respect:Ma sester, and that he
would be brought to trial, and weir* due notice.
4,, May-hut the Petitioner woe removed to Chelsea.
where lie was handcuffed, mil his clothes
taken from 1 every night and restored to him
every tuuuninK On the I.4th November lost. he
th.elitirged without trial, and bound over to
.attend in the Coon of King's Broth on the first
,t.tv of the lost 'term.
Tile Petition watt laid ea the told., mad ordered
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Mr. Baut (.:tAm had to present a Petition entitled