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ever, referable for its size to and other foe htswsprits soil
masts, whet, mode of singleaticks; tor which purpose it can
be employed without the same irijoriou• conseqUeness which
might attend its being introduced into the fah, is of the abip,
and it appears to he loved with silrentage, whir the masts
are made of minty parts, in those which are called the *p.n.
die and the cheeks. The irift white pine timber is stated also
to be preferable to any other timber for packing.catis, carv-
ing, inotildisigs, musical, tustroments, blind., sod oilier ob.
jects where lightness and freedom from knots 4i:desirable.
Independently of the difference occasioned try the arioutit
•of duty, the supply of wood from the Baltic, without ad.
vetting to its superior quality, can be prociesed, from the
difference in the amount of freight and 'reimport, at a rate
coneiderably cheaper 'than wood from North America. As
a emuparative rate of eupensc, hoverer, necessarily differs
according to the particular port where the shipment takes
place, your Committee roust refer the House, upon thio
head of their inquiry, to a table in the Appendix, contain-
ing an account which they are assured may be relied upon,
of the prices of timber from each port, distinguishing the
duty, freight, charges, net proceeds, and rime cost.
The system of duties wliWi has been to forte since the
year ISt,V, and further ailed Vpuii la intsinsurent
however, been the means of imbuing a mule general use
(whirls no other crcuinstatices could hate occaitionerl) of
Canada timber for lionse-hnililing in this country, particu-
larly iu bnilittngs of an inferior description, subject to all
the objections which are stated to attend it. In ship.builtl.
big it has also been more employed than fornietly, and the
Committee have inserted au account delivered in by Sir
Robert Seppings, of the comparative duration of frigates •
built of Canada fir, and of fir from the north of Europe; bast
the use of Canada timber is now stated to be di..coutiourd I.
his Majraly'm docklaids, in consequence of the unravuer.
able result experienced truant its employment. The de-
mand is r wood from the countries in the north of Europe
has been progressively dintioishing, to as to occasion great
interruption to the trade with these countries, particularly
with Norway, whose inhabitants, notwithstanding the pre.
dilrction they have uitiforuily shewn for British rnantsfac-
turee, art out only left without the means of consuming
them, but of paying fur those which they have received
and fur which nearly half a million is stated to hr tarring;
I so that the export of manufactures bas been reduced to
an extent which cannot Ire estimated merely by a re-
ference to the direct exports to thine cuuutries, as it ap-
pears that a considerable portion of the rainufactuira
consumrd in them are introduced thinogli the G ,rinato
fairs. A considerable amount HP capital and machinery
employed in this country in sawing and preparing fur con-
-51/ apt ion the timber impudent front the Baltic, has be. u sD
a areal dee• rendered GieleFl and unproductive Oar the
other hand, a great sisal progressive increase of the trade
with Canada, and of the tonnage employed to import its
wood into this country, tins taken place; though that which
is apparent fur the last two years, may in souse iletzree he
o accomited for by the apprehenviou which has pft.Vallt:d, that
some alteration in the duties would take place about this
lime. . .

There can be little doubt that any material diminution of
the ditties on fulfils' timber, would almost itumerliaiely
lead to an increased demand of that article for must pur-
poses of building, and esiahle the countriea which produce
it, but more especially Sweden and Norway, very greatly
to incresult their consumption of Marsh produce. As this
circumstance, however, could not take place without dint'.
nishing the demand for Canada timber, it must hi some de.
gree affect the profits of the capital now vested iu shw.mills
and other machinery in Canal., which has been stated by a
gentlemen interested in that country, to consist of from
100,000 f. to 160,0001. It could slut be considered as di-
rectly affecting Ilse interests" of the Canadian landholder,
as the valve of the timber sold at Quebec does nut exceed
by much the expense and labour of procuring it fur ship-
metal, and alit landholder himself gets little or lambing fur the
timber. Saint portion of the shipping now engaged in trans.
'Porting the Canadian tinther to this country might probably
he compelled to seek for other employment; and although
there is reason to expect that the increased supply from the
North of Europe would be chiefly imported in British ves-
sels, the average difference in the length of voyage might
render a smaller amount of shipping 'sect...sae; to carry on
this particular branch of trade. Bor the Committee ejOilOt
persuade themselves that the facility of proeurtog.the best
and cheapest commodities fruits tuber courant*, so Its.
genital to the iuteresta of e ttttt mercy, can he found ulti-
mately detrimental so those of navigation end 'shipping, the
great instrument by which commerce is maintained; more •
especially at a time wheu it appears by the concurrent testi-
loony of the heat-informed prisons, that the rate of freight
and other eircunistassces atteodarit uo Britt* shipping,
enable it to enter orto a successful competition with that of
every oilier country ou the globe. The Committee, at the
same time, indulge a confident hope that the consideration
of the state of some other branches of trade in stitch they
are about to engage, will suggest the memos of g;viog ad-
ditional employment to the shipping of this countr y.
The Committee would by no means however *suggest fur
the adopt. of Parliament, any sudden alteration of the
existing system, by which wood, the growth of Canada,
might he entirely excluded from the mealul of curnpetstiuu
in the British market. Aud they therefore submit, that uu.
der all the circumstances in which. thia trade has origi.
slated and hero carried out. it may be still ex;rediesit to
compensate to the Canadrin merchant and importer, by
such limited duly as may be necessary for that purpose,
the difference of freight and transport, so as 10 bung
1 their wood into the British market uu equal term,' wilt,
wood of the same dimensions the giowth of other
couritries. But site Committee are of opinion, that if it
should be found necessary fur purposes of revenue, to let the
amount of fluty on foreign timber exceed what is necessary
, fur she purposes they have described, a duty correapondiug
with the difference should be imposed on the import of tim.
bur the growth of the American Colonies.
ludependently of the above general considerations on the
I reenlations of this trade, the Comnsittee (eel it their drily to
notice Iwo points of a subordinate nature, iu which it ■p.
pears that some. alteration in the tenting regulation would
us any case be nquistie.
It appears that, from the same duly having been imposed
in Great Within ou deals trom eight to twenty feet, while
in Ireland the deals were divided into live classes, the lowest
! of which was from eight to 12 fret, the Norway deals, which
are all of small dimensions, have laboured under an unfair
! disadvantage in the Rtilish market. The Committee subs
i mit that it would be expedient that all wood, the growth of
foreign countries, should be admiltro into this country, any
jut to an rpml proportinuate rale of duty, suit that for Iliu
purpose a graduated scale, according to the cubical commas,
allould lie adopted.
It appear,' ulso, that according ill the present mode, the
I standard lesmilred of deals pay less idiom would be chargeable
upon au equal quantity ot sided fir timber c ■nd the Cum-
mittee arc satisfied that Parliament win Ihnik It expedite*
to remove ill's impedient from the employment of British
; capital in saw 'lolls, by making the ditty payable on deale
at least equivalent to that on timber in she
Ihe Committee have annexed a ropy of so mach of the
evidence as relates to die subject mailer of that. Report.

ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Yesterday afternoon a 'genteel
looking yitissig woman, d dis a lilac-coloareed sprig
C./1i,.11 :own, alb scarf, white straw honnet tritnated with
black ribbon, aid black Veil over it. threw herself into the
canal at the hack of the City At inr.City-road. wo masons,
Islam had passed shout fifty paces, beanug the splasb ie the
water, looked hack, mod perceiving what happeued, raw to
the spot; both jumped to sad succeeded is rescuing her
hum a watery grave. A considerable time duped before site
could be prerui led owe to give her aiidrees, which was at
Jobies-row, St. Luke's, to which place the .ea carried
her.

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110INE

• VIE. QUEEN. 4., vs.
On the mroinis of the Earl of LIVERPOOL. •
Consmirter was appointed to search for precedents
respecting fire forms to be observed by their Lord,
ships upon holohoog 3 judicial investigation fin en-
forcing the attend nice of Peers, awl fur considering
the further iorsrige.nents aretessary, with a view tu
the proceedings to b i.kru upon a Bill before their
Lordships, entitled a Bill fur the I)egradation arid
Divorce of her Maieroly. The following Peers,
among others. constituted the emanutter :
The Lord Chancellor. I 'floe Carl of Shafieshary,
The Archbishop of Canter- • The Earl of Linterlik,
bury, The Esrl of *AI. Genitalia,
The Marquis of Lensdowis, Lord Steteille,
The Earl of Lieo.rppol, Lori Holland.
Bank Note Bill, the Irish Fedierie. Bahl, the
Irish 1-unauc Asylum Bill, and the Turnpike
Roads Bill, weir arverally read a third time, ai.d
passed.

CHANCERY RILL.
On the mourn' of Lord limansuatx., the Morse
resolved itself into a Commoner ul the Irish
Chancery B►ll.
Lord RIDESD&LE, in the Committee, com-
plained of some of the clause* of the 8011, whocit,
though ift tuiuor importance, he yet thought were
ohjectiouable. One of them wed to ul►.•hstt it
place in the office of the Court. If the place of
clerk iu the office alluded to were alilialord, Nod
the Register left t• do she bowie.., the public
would•loie the odorants*. of the woeful check wioch
our of the officers woo upon the other.
The EMI' of Lisitutice soul, that if the clause
in question were left usidii.turluni in the ;'uu►tuit-
tee, it would he °pro fur the Noble Hhil ',record
Lord to urge his objeettone uthoo the third !eluting'.
when he %wild be prepared to *hew him, by a re-
ference to proper documents, that his Apprehensions
could be obviated without the muioomot of thr par.
titular clause.

Lord REDSSIMLB had no objection to defer this
pert of the subject, but there was another to which
be had to call their Lordships' atteriiimi. 1,1 Ire.
land, ■ practice prevailed of taking out process
and never proceeding stibsequentiv iii such a way as
to give the parties agaimt whom the !florets was in
progress rosy notice 011111 ikecinestraion was obtained,
and the sequistrators made their disposi miter to take
posseseion of the estate. In EI:011111 Ito Mill h !brie.
lice took plait.. With a view of remedying this
improper practice in Ireland, lie should suggest a
certain provision. and for the present move tor the
onstwoo9 of all the paragraphs in the Bill, from the
bottom of 'laze 24 down to 111 e 110110010 r page 34.
These paragraphs in the Bid were accordingly
omitted.
The Noble and Learned Lord then proceeded so
shoe, that the only remaining material pert of the
Bill to which he could not give his assent. was the
those, that from and after the tat of August next.
no person who Is, on shall be appointed a Minitel. of
Chancery, shall have the power of holding a twat in
the House of Common., should be be eli-wteil
thereto. so long as lie retains the said n'tice of Mas-
ter. lie had no objection to Ilse principle of this
clause, but he had to its er pose facto operialion;
lie objected to it on 'cement of the manner and
circumstances under which it was introduced. He
repeated, that his objectionwent,u the er post fads
effect of the clause. and not to the principle of a
prospective measure of a similar kind. He should
therefore propose that this words 01," be
strdck out of the clause.

The Ent of LitattaicK, ao far Irons concurring
in opinion with the Noble and Learned Lard in his
view of this clause, thought it to he so important
as to be almost decisive of the Bill: The justice
of the principle of the clause was slot disputed by
the Noble sud Learned lord ; the contrary, he
admitted it, and wished it should. have proapec.
tire effect. It seemed to him (site Earl of
Limerick) quite evident, that a judicial offi-
cer. such as a Master in Chancery was, ought not
to he a Member of the other House of Perliaineete.
Why then should the principle cutopromised or
abandoned now, if it were considered generally hp...
Why should its efficacy be post posed to
accommodate the situation of one Learned Gentle-
man (Mr. Ellis), for to only one did it at present sp.
ply ? That Gentleman, too, had in fact disqualified
himself; for in his esamination upon oath, before
the Commissioners of Inquiry, he distinctly siuted
the reasons which rendered it utterly impossibli he
Could continue to perforin the duties of his of-
fice, and attend at the same time to the Nisi.
ness of a Member of Parliament. By a reference
to the Report of the Cominissieners of Inquiry,
their Lordships would ere the important nature of
the duties which Masters in Chancery were required
to discharge in Ireland. They were in the habit
there of associating Masters in Chancery with the
Judges in the Court of Delegates ; they had also
offices in the supeitittelidesice of the affairs of loon-
tics, and the particular Maori. iu Chancery. in
whose behalf it is proposed to modify their
clause, so us to etialde him to retain his sent
in Parliament, has himself stared
,upon oath.
that the important and iod,spensitble duties
of his office occupy his Uwe the who!e day for ten
!motitlis nut of twelve iii the year, and that even in
the two remaining months he has important business
to look after. It was said that a great hardship
would he imposed upon this Gentlethan if he were
now to be exclikled train a seat in Parliament. No
such thing. If the pail. of senatorial ambition
had so many n II iireitients fur this Gentleman. he
had only to abandon the ililisiOalf• office which he
held as a Master in Chancery. sod proceed as a
Member of the Legislature in attain the higher
distinctions
_which he thought ley open to him.
Bur, for his part, he could not cooseut to this Gen-
tlentan's being permitted to pursue his career of
senatorial ambition at the expense of the other
important donee which lie ass bound to perform.
Indeed he was rather averse to law officers having

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and Believed, that the isath to otiiio }official office
.was drew:4h tobselilivicv and corruption. l'ltenif
God thlh roar t towtheludgment serf ihrs no lotigir
ripen—(hear, hurl—and the into nilto ierir!...e.
such lane? sssss a woe were not only .tinmpe,esit to I, .1
11011 1141114 'Mil knowledge, bat with also .I,d
I tfr to their station by their iinpreii.kny and
iiicorruptibility. This war the ',roper rilAracter
miry ought to bear. sod hog, lie tr.t.,.(1, would
they cositiaite to bear it; for he listed rife itican.
gingiva inixtme of judicial office with ititY.iiiranic.
1 'er for ansigry 'politics.--(liene.)— If the•one stin't
he attended to, then he would say, let the'other he
siasationed„—lllear.l—ft wis wed, ripot, if this
elause remained in the Dill a matiirest iolustice
would he committed against the tionioltriesits who
littl rh-crtgl the Learned Grath/matt al:tided !i, to
be their repreirentative. Really he could not see
the extreme hardship thus imposed upon the el,!cii;
tars of Do bliti. Ile rhotild soy that, if this clatissi
WWI WO Ifilarted, a much greater loordaleip WOUIII he
:tnitored limn a large number of his coolitr)itieti.
.for live millions of them would be deprived of their
claim ',nun this !Wolter in Chatieery to 'tedium
toe iillieirl duties for which they paid hisn. He
wrr, therefore. strongly of opinion, iii every View he
could take of this subject, that the clause was most
proper, aosrl ought nut to lie modified, He tow
plunented the Noble and Learned Lord (Redeschtle) '
no the interest he hal heretofore taken in the provir
sinus of this Bill, at the mute tutu it was extras
ordinary that this Bill should have so tong slept on
their Lordships' table. Some time had intervened
aiiice it was drawn op under the supervision of a
Noble and Learned Lord, and s Master of the
Roils ; it then lay for a time u tweet, until it
was brought iii sod posed by the Irish Minister io
the other Houser It then remained ma their Lord-
ships' table for that cousidetation to which it was
entitled at in endive period.
The Earl of EaNISKILLCW could not.concur in
the propriety of this clause, so properly objected .
to in its present form by the Noble and Learnd
Lord hear him. Ile thought it very bard that the
Legislature should in this minorr iiitetfere and
d 1•11111.11 an individual from his ollice wit bout may
previous instruction, or the slightest just close.—
He could never consent to harass an ItifilVlthidt in
this manner by an ex post facto Irw. "I'lii,,„ ht.
thought, was had treatment to give the loyal city
of Dublin, and the individual whom the citizetr
had elected as their member. The Ni,hle Lo•ii
talked of the hardship that would be nowise(' upon
live millions of .his countrymen if this 'lame were
not purred; he wished the Noble Lord's country
men bail oftener the pleasure of treeing bun amongst
-ahem to watch ewer their interests.-

Lord lioLLetin joined in the sentiments of re-
spect which were due to the framers of this 8.11,
but lie lamented to find that it contained tat'
little words which startled the Nuble and Learner'.
Lord opposite. The two little word* " ts. oa,"
had this terrible effect.--(A
stun/film this storming effect which they hid upon
the Noble and Learowd Lord. be (Lord HotleWi)
could not help saying, that so far from his parte:.
paling in this alarm, he thought there were many
and powerful reasons which combined to prove the
tweeinity of the Bill in its present shape. The
claims for its passing were, he thought, strong end
unanswerable. In the first place, the claim, so far
from beiiiir a violation of any principle, was, as ios
deed the Noble and Learned Lord admitted. gene-
rally desirable. It wet in Net wily enforcing the Lee
Parliamenii, though not, lie admitted,-the culteee-
fade Parlimoseali. There were 'Nally reeolutiene on
the parliamentary teem& incapacitating Mane/Lin
Chancery from having seats in the other tiowee.of
Parliament—it was true they were !meted, but not .
positively abrogated •by abuse. Mallets in Chan-
cery, though servants in that Noose, lead some-
times, as well as the Attorneys-General, been per,
milted t.. have *elm So far bar k as the 9th
of James I. there was a Resolution of the Hein
of Commons prohibiting such irersmis to sit tbire.
lie could not help reminding their Lordship!, in
addition to the justice of the case, unit if they
threw out this clause, there was a 1001461.4 Y ,
their risking elsewhere the whole of a bill contain-
snit many salutary and necessary proveirorw. He
did not mean to use this as an argument. ashy their
Lordships should overlook any matter whiebosevi-
ousiv appeared to totem objsetionsible, he ourrely
made the allusion. to impress upon II 110% them that
they ought rather overlook minor points of differ.
core, than by stopping turns expose a useful
Bill to unnecessary delay. Why give this claims
individual application ? it was said. Beaueses
without it, an injury would, in all plobabilery. lx
inflicted 'llion the purity and independeoce of the
House of Cominotis.—(ffear.).—The very recknow..
ledgmeret of the individual himself; shear(' the
utter impossibility of his undertaking the business
of a Member of Parliament, consistently wait the
performance of the duties of his judicial office.—
(Hear, Iseur.)--Ilis office required. accoirPog
to his own evidence, his con.taiii iittentl.toce
tell mouths of the year, aiod that he had also sow.-
ior less 01 business to occupy his attentiou!.4o.
remaining two months of the year. Out of Term,
lie said. be was oleo occupied in the evenings, in
taxing bills, looking over pleadings, awl paying
attention to other official business, which he atilt
perform at home. in the abseuce of' the parties it:-d
the solicitors. This was a most elerlient and use.
ful Master in Chancery, and the just sense he en-
tertained of the weighty duties of his office, isorit
not to be usedenvalurd by imposing upon Mut -other
arduous ditties, towhich he could not possibly at-
tend without urgletting the judicial function's h.
lied to exercise.. If one part of the public were to be
obliged by his services its Parliament, another
and a touch• huger risitstber trust lose ewe
well-founderf claim open bin for the perform-
awe of lima official duties as a Master iu Chim-
e:cry. The mode, ton, by which the individual