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'orders, &e. for the regulation of the business which
might comebefore him. To this amendment he also saw
some objections, but not of such a nature as to en-
danger the success of the Bill on their account. The
other amendments were more of a verbal nature. He
had introduced into this Bill a clause, giving the
Judges a power of fixing the return days at their
discretion after the 1)111 was passed. The Judges had
fixed them already, and they had, in consequence,
been inserted in the Bill—an insertion which made
several other verbal alterations necessary. Lord Ten-
terden had been of opinion that the Bill should not
commence to operate in the Court of King's Bench
till next Michaelmas Term ; for his Lordship had
got his Majesty's warrant, giving the Judges authority
to sit in &Iwo before the commencement of that
term, by virtue of an Act of Parliament which this
Bill repealed. Though he did not think that
the practice of sitting in banco in the vaca—
tion was a practice which deserved countenance,
either from that House or the country at large,
yet, in deference to Lord Tenterden, he did
not intend to make any objection to the amend-
ment which his Lordship had carried in the other
House upon this part of the Bill. That amendment
made it necessary, however, to make some verbal
alterations in the other clauses. Their Lordships
had, however, made one omission in the Bill, which
he looked upon as a great deterioration of it. There
was a great rapidity in the county
.palatine of Ches-
ter, and also in Wales, of getting judgment entered
after verdict. Owing to the special jurisdiction
which prevailed in those parts, judgment could be
entered up within a few days of the termination of
the Assizes. He had proposed to continue to the
county palatine and to the people of Wales this
privilege • but he understood that this privilege had
been taken from them in consequence of a repre-
sentation that had been made by the Master of the
King's Bench, that it would occasion himself and his

clerk a week or a fortnight's additional labour each
year. That did not appear to him a reason at all
satisfactory, and he therefore gave a pledge to
the gentlemen of Wales and to the county pala-
tine, that in the very first Bill which he should
introduce for the further improvement of the ad-
ministration of justice, he would introduce a clause
restoring to them that privilege. He then proceeded
to explain the alterations which had been made
respecting the mode of levying fines and recoveries
in Wales' and having concluded his explanation, re-
peated that none of the amendments which he had

just recited touched, altered, or modified the original
Bill, but were all intended to promote the great ob-
ject which it had in view—the facilitation of the
progress of suits, and the improvement of the admi-
nistration of justice. In conclusion he stated it to
be his firm conviction that this Bill was the most

important measure which had been submitted to
Parliament for many years, whether it were cons'.
dered in reference to its general utility, or in re-
ference to the great improvements which it would
effect in the administration of justice. He assured
the House that in carrying it into effect Govern-
ment had made a great sacrifice of its patronage.
All the offices which were connected with the
Courts in Wales, and which were far more nu-
merous than he had supposed, would cease to exist
from the day on which this Bill should become law.
lie thought it necessary to make that statement, in
order that the public might be aware that Govern-
ment had no other object in passing this Bill than
the promotion of the public interest and the im-
provement of the administration of justice. He
then moved that the House do now take the Lords'
amendments into its consideration.

Mr. C. WYNN concurred with his Hon, and
Learned Friend in thinking that by agreeing to this
Bill, Government had not only made a considerable
sacrifice of its patronage, but had also conferred
considerable advantages upon the inhabitants of
England and Wales. He thought, however, that
the House ought not to accede, without previous
notice, to amendments so numerous and so complex
as those which his Hon. and Learned Friend had
stated to them. He objected, on the part of the
Commons of England, to having it supposed that
they would, as a matter of course, enter immediately
upon the consideration of amendments sent down to
them from the Lords. He thought that it would
be advantageous for the House to make a regula-
tion that it would not agree to any amendments of
the Lords without having one day at least. to con-
sider of them. He therefore thought it objection-
able that the House should at once accede to these
amendments. He considered the omission- of the
choke continuing to the county palatine of Chester
its former privilege of proceeding with rapidity to
judgment, a material deterioration of the Bill. He
thought that If the House were to inform their
Lordships that they agreed to all the amendments
but that which omitted the clause, and requested a
conference, their Lordships would consent to its re-
introduction.

Mr. E. DAVENPORT concurred in the opt.
nioni expressed by the last speaker, and thought
that the House should attempt to procure the inser.
tion of the clause.

The SOLICITOR-GENERA L said, that the
clause had been rejected in the house of Lords, not
for the reasons stated by his Learned Friend, but
because its object being one of the points recom-
mended by the Law Commissioners, their Lordships
thought that it could be more properly carried into
effect next year by a separate Bill.

Mr. MABERLY expressed his surprise that the
law officers of the Crown, in the two Houses of
Parliament, should be at issue with respect to any
part of a measure introduced.
Mr. SPENCE regretted that the clause had been
expunged, particularly as the inhabitants of Wales
appeared to set great value upon its enactment. He,
however, would acquiesce in the amendments, on
account of the pledge given by the Attorney-Gene-
ral to introduce the clause next year.
On the question that the House do agree with
the Lords' amendments,

Mr. W. WYNN suggested that the Lords should
be requested to assign a reason for the omission
of the clause.

Sir It. PEEL thought that the course recom-
mended by the Right Hon. Gentleman would not
relieve the House from its difficulty. The Lords
when called upon for a reason might give a very
bad one, and as far us he knew, so he believed they
would. It would be better, be thought, to remain
satisfied with the pledge given by the Attorney-
General.

Lord J. RUSSELL wished a conference to take
place immediately.
After a few words from Sir R. PEEL, Mr. DAvroz-
PORT, and Mr. WYNN, the amendments were agreed
to, and the Bill was ordered to be carried up to the
Lords.--The House then adjourned.

We understand that at the Levee on Wednes-
day, his MAJEsr•.r, addressing that venerable officer, Sir
ALURED CLARKE, who is upwards of 90 years of age, al.
though he looks considerably younger, said, I, he was
happy to see him at the Levee, as it gave him an oppor-
tunity of conununicating to him in person that he would
appear as one of his MAJESTY'S Field Marshal's on Friday."
SENSATIONS ON BEING HANGED,--I have

the most perfect recollection, said he, even of the slightest
sensations which I experienced; and were the whole busi-
ness to commence in an hour from this moment, I should
feel not the least concern. When the rope had been
fastened about my neck, and when the executioner bad
pushed me from the ladder, I seas seized with a violent
pairs about the throat. Shortly afterwards I felt nothing.
The air inflated my lungs slowly, but pinched up as they
were, the slightest particle of the balmy breeze revived me;
and besides, being highly balanced in mid•air, I might be
said to breathe it at every pore. I can even recollect that
this swing-swong motion was not without its charms. I
beheld external objects as it were through a thin veil of
gauze ; my ear was rather fatigued by a stilly silence ; I
began gradually to lose myself in my meditations, though
I can no longer exactly recollect the subject of them, un-
less it was the money I had won the evening before from
my comrade GREGORIO. MI of a sudden, I gasped for
breath ; I could no longer perosive objects distinctly ; I
no longer felt the swing-swong motion • I vas deal.—
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