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TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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BILL FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE PEACE.
Lord CASTLEREAGH, in moving the Order of the Day, for the
House to resolve itself into a Committee on this Bill, observe I,
that it was his intention to propose, that the House should go into the
Committee, pro torma, for the purpose of receiving an Amendment
which he wished to be incorporated into the Bill, and that the Bill
should then be printed, and re-committed to-morrow.
The House resolved itself into the Committee.
Lord CA sTIFREAGH stated, that the present qualification of Magis.
trates was 1001. a year in landed, or 30-31. in funded property. It was
desirable, however, that in the disturbed districts, a greater number of
Magistrates should he created than could be done consistently with this
rgulation. He should therefore propose a clause to empower his
Majesty to put into the Commission of the Peace individuals whose
qualifications were less than those which the law at present prescribed,
observing, that this power was only to be co-existent with the Bill,
and co-extensive with the disturbed districts.
Mr. Ti ERN Ey characterised this proceeding of the Noble Lord as
the most extraordinary of all the extraordinary things he had ever
known him to do. Having got the House into the Committee, on the
pretence of introducing some little technical alteration in the Bill, the
Noble Lord proposed a clause, the effect of which would be coin-
, pletely to chance the whole character of the measure. The propo-
sition was neither less nor more than to enable Government to super-
sede the respectable and estiblished magistracy by the substitution of
their own agents. In common decency, he trusted, that after making
so great a change in the Bill, the Noble Lord would not press the re-
commitment before Thursday.
Lord CasTLEßEacti replied, that he saw no reason for the surgest-
td delay. The clause might be discussed not only in the Committee
to-morrow, but on the Report, and on the third reading of the Bill.
He, however, agreed to withdraw the clause for the present, and to
introduce it at some future period.
After some further observations the Report was brought up, and
ordered to be taken into further consideration to-morrow.
The C:IANCEI.I.Oit Of the Excn roe ER moved for leave to bring in a
Bill to enable the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the custom
'louse fees in the West Indies, to enquire into the amount of the proT
petty cif the Crown in South America and the West Indies Leave
was given. The Bill was th-n brought in, and read a first time, and
crdered for a second reading on Thursday next.
Lord PALMERSTON!: moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the pur-
pose ofextending the sante all •wance to Foreign 3s to British Officers
wounded in the service. Leave being given, the Bill was brought in
I and read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.
I Adjourned at half past two.
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WFDNF.SIIkY, JULIi 15.
There being hut 35 members p:esent at 4 o'clock, the House of
course adjuurned. .

THCRSDAV, vs.•; 15.
On the furttter consideration of the Bill for Preserving the Public
Peace, General larleton, Mr. Giles, Mr. Tierney, Mr. W. Smith,
Sir S. Romilly, and Mr. Sheridan strongly opposed the clause em.
powering, Magistrates to enter any in •ti's dwelling and seize his arms,
consideripg it an infringement on the rights and liberties of the subject,
h the state of the country by no means justified.
Lord CAs ri.ER and others supported tlheclausei and argued,
in reterclice to the apparently quiet state of the disaffected districts._
that althosigh the disturbances might have decreased, the bad spirit of
them yet ellisted. The disaffected might be a little quiet at the ap-
proach of justice, and while Parliament was considering the means of
quelling the,;r outrages; but their dispositions would not the less
shew themselves afterwards. The Committee divided, when the
clause was carried by 77 against 18.
Mr. SHERIDAN gave notice, that on Monday he should move for
the correspondence that had taktP hl ce tet ween the British and
French Governments ; at the same time he expressed himself highly
satifie I with the conduct of Government on that I:midi:cis.
Mr. BATH uR ST moved the first reading ail Bill (vim the 1 orris tot
facilitating the administration of justice in the Count of Chano;ty.
Sir S. Rost' 1.1.‘ wished to call the attilition of the House to the
gravity and importance of the measure, which went, in tact, to take
the Chancellor out of the Conic of Chancery, by giving him a deputy,
and to place him entirely in tile Honig, of Lords, for the hi-aring of
appeals. It was a B:II, easing the Lord Chancellor of the greater
portion of bin ditties, 111't at the saine time securing to him all the
tees and e:noluments in the same !winner as if he had d.schArgen those
duties. 1:e misted it was not the intention Ministers to press it
through Parliament this Session.
Lord C
s STLZR EA.G it said, it was Ilse wiab of Ministers that the lilt
should pass the present Session. Mier soinediscussiOn, the ilia Ails
I read a first time.—Adjourned.

rttnAv, JULY 15.
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