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Lord LIVERPOOL agreed in this opinion, but expressed his fears
that and alteration now made in the Bill might risk its being lost
tbr the present Session.
Lord CARNARVOII, on this saggeition, withdrew his amend-
nient.—Adjourned to Friday.

ArtmAY.
PLACF.S IN REVERSION, AND SINECURES.

Larl Gitosys:siou rose to make that motion, of which he had
given early notice, respecting the abolition of Sinecures and Places
held hs Reversion. It was by no means his intention to take up
much of their Lordships' rinse; the subject had so often been dis-
cussed, that little remained to be said upon it. lie should, therefore,
witia the utmost brevity, submit to their Lordships the abstract of his
opinion. lie thought it radically wrong, and peculiarly so under
the eircumsuinces of the present times, ground and'oppressed with
enormous hurthens as the people were, that useless offices and idle
officers should be paid out of the public purse. There was, however,
one case *Welt might very naturally be supposed to star.d as an ob.
,:ection to his proposition, he meant the reversionary grant its the
I)uchess of Gloucester, of tke Itangership of hagshot Ileads. Nothing
could be snore plausible, nothing snore true, than that if high charac-
ter and exemplar• virtue could constitute a claim of such a nature,
that claim would be substantiated in behalf of the Illustrious Per-
sonage alluded to. But he considered those very vittues of the Illus-
trious individual as strongly supporting his argument, liecause it set
forth a very dangerousprecodent. The Noble Earl then, after sonic
further cursory remarks, made three successive motions; fist, for
the abolition of all offices in reversion; secondly, for the diceontimi.
ance of sinecure places; and lardy, for a plats of general practical
etenFitny. . . .

'l'he ;notions were revernlly put fro:-: Wec7sack, and each was
ze.iected without .;;.creation.
l'he fulls on thy table ,+erc thl'i: !:V^:32 stage, and
:lu:it Lordships adjourned.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MosnAv, Jt- NE 1.
Mr. T. Sill ru brought up the Report of the Bani.rupt Coin-
rnissioners' Salaries. The Resolutions were agreed to.
Lord LASCELLES nsutieti the third reading of the Cutlery
Jill!.

Mr. WH A RTON opposed the 2d Clause, which prevented
the manutiseturers of hammered steel, front stamping the
word " steel" on their gelds.
Mr. Foam wls'ied to see all these fraudulent snarls on
different species of goods prohibited.
Mr. lift'r.:C;HAM said, the Return, as t 0 the. tampering with
the Assessment of the Land-tax in Westmoreland, bad 41014
been made ; and from it, it appeared that all his statements
were perfectly trne. This paper skewed that the assessment
could not be made till Juoe, and, therefore, could not Ise
amended in time fur the election, if a dissolution should soon
take place. The order to delay the Assessment was signed by
two persons, one of whom was Chairman of the prineipal
Electioneering Committee ha Westmoreland. lie trusted the
proceedings would have the efleet of pt eventing a recurrence
of such improper conduct.
Lord LOH THER said, several persons lately in Westmore-
land came forward voluntarily, and desired to be taxed fur
the Land-tax, certainly a novel proceeding. Information was
respired by the Tax Office in London as to it, and that caused
the delay in the Assessment. The I Ime,Gent. (Mr. Brougham)
had made a must unjustifiable use of LurdI4OIISHAWS name,
in a matter with which he was unconnected.

Mr. Ituot.cti im said, it was an indecent thing to set an
Election Agent con esioitling, as such, with the Commission-
ers of the Tax Office.

Mr. W. W Y t. NE said, that if an interference with Elections
should take place by Commissioners of Taxes, they would be
liable to severe punishment by the House.
Sir J. Gnats 44 said, the Assessments for the Land-tax had
gone on quicker iu Westmoreland, than in any other county.
Here the conversation dropped.
The Regency Bill was read a second time, and committed,
after some observations from Mr. 'rieraey, who 'proposed a
reduction of the expences ot the Windsor Establishment ; and
expressed his surprise that a provision had not been made for
the demise of the Prince Regent ; and from Mr. Canning,
who contended that delicacy should withhold the Home from
makinn." any alteration in the Windsor Establishinent.—Ad-
journed.

TuEsuAv.

Mr. J. Spurn moved the second reading of the Bankrupt
Laws Amendment Bill.

Mr. WROTTMEY said, that Westin' of 30,0001. had been
judged snfficient fur the erection of a proper building for the
Commissioners of Bankrupts;
.should a Committee be appoint-
ed, the accommodation would probably be better and at had
the expense.
The Rill was then, after a few words from Mr. SMITH, read
a second time, committed, reported, and the Report ordered
to be taken into farther consideration that day three months,
and to be printed.
Sir F. litai Imre presented a Petition from Longlohorottgb,
in favour of Annual Parliaments and Univorsal Suffrage. The
Petitioners, he stated, to be chiefly old people: the age of one
being 39, of another 64: and of the youngest 54. He also pre.
sented 12 Petitions from Lancashire, eight from Edinburgh,
20 from Birmingham, eight from Dundee, 30 from 31iddlesex,
one from London, 2:i from Westminster, three from Warwick.
and 51 Irma Mary-la-bowie, containing the same prayer.
Lord COCHRA Nr. theta presented 39 Petitions from Leeds,
43 from Bridgewater, and 39 teom Portsmouth, veining for
a radical Reform, Annual Partiamtuts, and Universal Sur-
(rage.—Laid on the Table.
Mr. LA sIBTON stated, that not being in his place when the
Petition from the City of London had been presented upon
the subject of the equalization of the Poty on Coals, be gave
nutiee that nett s.ssion he should moose that the Duty on
Coals, wbetber carried by canals ur by sea, sbould be equal.
lied.