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politan police. His Lordship stated that his own opinion I
Was, that the new police constituted a great improvement
upon the old watch.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from
the eastern division of the county of Sussex, complaining
of county assessments, and praying for a repeal of taxes,
and particularly for a rep•al of the duty on malt.
The Moulins of CLANRICAItOR presented a petition
from the working carpenters of the city of Dublin, praying
for a repeal of the Union, and a similar petition front a
place in Galway.
NORFOLK CIRCUIT.

Lord CALTHORPE Wished to put a question to the
Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack, with regard to
the Norfolk Circuit. That Circuit had experienced con-
siderable and singular inconvenience for some years, owing
to the circumstance of only one Judge of Assist going that
Circuit. Such hail been, unhappily, the increase of of•
fences latterly, that the most serious inconvenience and in-
jury had arisen, from there being but a single Judge on
that Circuit to discharge the various duties which devolves'
upon him. lie wished to know from the Noble and
Learned Lord, now that there bad been the appointment
of some additional new Judges, if it was intended to make
any arrangement to remedy that inconvenience ?
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the subject ad-
verted to by the Noble Lord was certainly one of great im-
portance ; and, undoubtedly, serious inconvenience bad
been felt for many years from the want of two Judges going
the Norfolk Circuit in spring and autumn. He (the Lord
Chancellor) was one of those who deeply regretted such an
inconvenience, and who only submitted to it froM the ne-
cessity of the case, there being too few Judges to do the
business of the country. Twelve Judges had been long
considered sufficient ; but now that three additional
Judger had been appointed by his Majesty's late Govern-
ment, with the sanction of the whole profession, and in
conformity with the wishes of the public, there was no
etence whatever that only one Judge should go the Nor-
folk Circuit. He saw no reason why it should not be
otherwise ; perhaps some persons better acquainted
with the matter might think that the whole arrange-
mint should continue, but, for his part, he (the Lord
Chancellor) could not discover the shadow of a reason
why the evil complained of should not be remedied.
Two of the additional :lilies would he allotted to the new
circuit which had been made, and one would be thus left un-
appropriated. Now, he would say, and the person who held
the Great Seal had usually a voice in such a matter, that is
would be better that two Judges should go the Norfolk
Spring Circuit, and that for that purpose the additional
Judge left unappropriated should he selected. Ile was of
opinion that neither the Norfolk Circuit nor the Midland
Circuit should be seen with only one Judge going it,
assisted by a serjeant or some other substitute. He might,
perhaps, be permitted to take this opportunity to advert
to some suggestions whisk hr understood had been thrown
out elsewhere, respecting certain appointments vested in
l'ie hands of the Lord Chancellor. The suggestions to
which he alluded regarded the Court of C'hencery, and
the disposal of the patronage of the great seal ; and, as
they had been described as worthy of his attention, he
rhould give them all the consideration which they deserved.
It had been said in another place that be (the Lord
Chancellor) had taken upon himself to name an attorney
to a place which would ha more fitly filled by a barrister.
He certainly felt the propriety of that suggestion, and he
had endeavoured to fill the places, the disposal of the ap-
pointments to which was vested in him, with barristers.
Bat the great difficulty to be encountered in aecomplishing
that, object arose from this rireurostance—that the great
seal was only held during pleasure, and that on the Lord
Chancellor's going our, his Secretary, and the other
officers whom he might have appointed, were turned out
with hin►. It was impossible, therefore, for the Lord
Chancellor to call upon a barrister to sacrifice his pro-
fession for a place of that description, and to leave the
bar, for perhaps only a few years, or a few months. On the
other hand it required a person of considerable experience
u liminess to discharge the great and important duties at-
:ached to the office of Secretary in the Court of Chancery.

It was absolutely necessary, for the proper administra-
tion of justice, that the office should he filled by a person
of experience, and no barrister of experience would at,
cept of it. Ile (the Lord Chancellor) had tried in vain
to get an experienced barrister to take it. Now if the
placo were given to an inexperienced barrister, the duties
would not be performed, and thus would arise a great
And grand evil, worse by many degrees than the mischief
complained of respecting the appointment of solicitors—
namely, that it was giving them au undue means of show-
, ing favour to the suitors in the. Court in which they prac-
tised. He begged to state that the persons filling the aims-
throe alluded to in the departments to which he had the
power to appoint, had renounced all their private proles-
shutl practice in the departments in which they were em-
' played under the Great But if a barrister, who in-
tended to go back to his profession, filled one of those
situations, there might he greater danger of his making
friends amongst the suitors in the Court, in order that
he might have their aid when lotreturned to his profession.
Ile spoke only of what might possibly occur, constituted as
human nature was. That certainly was felt by his pre-
decessors, and the °dives to which allusion had been math,
had been held by solicitors very recently, with the excep-
tion of one pl lee. He did not suppose that any charge
was intended to he made against him with regard to the
general disposal of the patronage attached to his office.
No man could consider that patronage a greater burden
than he did ; and there was nothing he wished more to
' get rid of. It was the usual practice when a new Lord
Chancellor Wag appointed, to dismiss all the individuals
who held office tinder his predecessor. Now when he
(the Lord Chancellor) was appointed to the. Great Seal, his
first observation was, that he would not dismiss one of the
individuate who held office under the former Lord Chan-
cellor. lie was told, however, that it was absolutely
necessary to theorise two confidential secretaries who, in
consequence of the matters confidentially intrusted to them
by his predecessor, tout,' not be retained ; he retained,
however, five nut of seven persons who tilled situations
under his predecessor, and one of them, a Learned Gentle-
man whom he had appointed to a particular Ake, Ire had
never sten until he came to thank him (the. Lord Chan-
rellur) for doing so. He could declare, that no human
being that he had ever known or seen before, had received
an appointment from him in Church or State, with the
exception of two individual*, from private motives, and the
nature of those motives, lie was sure, would he properly
appreciated by their Lordships and the public, when he
mentioned the mimeo of Romilly and Clarkson, as those of
the two patrons whom lie had so appointed.—(hear.)
The Colonial Avis Validity Bill went through Com-
mittee, and was ordered to be reported.
Adjourned at Twenty minutes to Seven o'clock till
Monday next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Dre. 17.
ILCIIESTER ELECTION.

Mr. GREEN brought up the report of the Commit-
tee on the Ilehester Election, which declared that the sit-
ting Members had been duly elected ; but that the peti-
tion against their return, and the opposition to it, were
neither frivolous nor vexatious,

Mr. LEADER moved for a new writ for 'Beerhsiston,
in the room of Lord Lovaine, now Earl of Beverley.
'fhe SPEAKER said, as the Noble Lord had not yet
hart a sulattiona to attend the House of Peers, he begged
the lion. Member to postpone his motion for the present.
—Postponed.
Mr. U, DAVIS presented four petitions from Bristol,
p4iying for a repeal of the House, Window, and Assessed
'Taxes.

Mr. LABOUCIIERE prevented a petition from Somer-
mdahire, praying for the repeal of the Award Taxes.
An Ibm, Manne:u. presmited a petition from Manches-
ter and its neighbourhood, and another from Bromley,
praying for a repeal of the Duty on Printed Cotton.. The
petition war supported by Mr. Green, Mr. D. W. Hervey,
Alderman Weithman, Mr. Drybdale, Sir J. Newport, and
Mt. 11.,berly.
CORBETT'S REGISTER.

Lord PALMERSTON requested of the 'fon. Member
opposite (Mr. Trevor) to postpone the motion of which
he had given notice last night. lie made this request
on account of the absence of the Noble Lord (Althorp),
who represented the Government in that House, having
been suddenly called from town iu consequence of a severe
domestic calamity.
Mr. TREVOR Asked what day would he convenient.
Lord PALMERSTON hoped by Thursday next the.
Noble Lord would be able to Attend. If, however, any
thing should prevent his doing so by that time, he could as-
sure the Hon. Member that Ministers would not ask for
further delay.
Mr. TREVOR contented to postpone his motion on
Thursday next.