The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-01 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PAItLIAMENT
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.• MOUlinr-OF LORDS--(LAST NIGHT).
Several petitions were presented.
AFFAIRS OE GREECE.
7iu -Mtitiiiis of LONDONDERRY wished to know
'When it was the intention of his Majesty's Ministers to put
-the .-Horn and the country in possession of the state of
onr relations with Greece. Those papers had been pro.
mined a considerable time. It had also been stated that a
Prince of this country was actually now King of Greece.
That might not be the fact, but he thought it was .due to
the House and the country that information should be
furnished, and that immediately, upon that subject. He
was also informed that a proposition hid been made to
that Prince to forego his naturalization. He should wish
to have information on these questions from the Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Earl of ABERDEEN was in hopes of being able
to Zap on the table of the House all papers relative to the
question by the Noble Lord. With respect to Prince
Lelpold, be.(the Noble Earl) did not understand any di-
rect question to be put requiring an answer.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY considered that he
lad put a direct question with respect to Prince Leopold.
The Earl of ABERDEEN observed that the observa-
tions of the Noble Marquis were quite correct with
reference to his Royal Highness Prince Leopold. The
Allies had offered the Sovereignty of that State to his Royal
Highness, and (as we undersmod the Noble Earl) it had
been accepted by his Royal Highness, but that some points
in the negotiation still remained to be settled.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that with re-
ference to that part of the Noble Marquis's question,
relating to the naturalisation, he could distinctly answer
it in the negative.
Allis Marquis of LONDONDERRY gave notice, that
if the paperf respecting Greece were not produced very
early in May, he would bring the subject befere Parlia.
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TERCEIRA.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE wished to know
whether his Majesty's Government were in communicafoa
with the Regency established at Terceira?
The Esti of ABERDEEN begged distinctly to say
thef :vere not.
On the motion of Lord DURHAM, accounts were
ordered of the sums paid by the Treasury for the Penryn
and East Retford inquiries.
FAST RETFORD ELECTION.

On the motion of the Marquis of .SALISBURY, Coun-
lel and witnesses were then called in, to proceed with the
examination of thin Election Bill.
The examination of witnesses was continued till nine
o'clock, when the further consideration was postponed
till Monday next. Nothing new was elicited. —Ad-
journed till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(LAST NIGHT).
Mr. NORTH unwed the second reading of the Dundalk
and Castle Blaney 'Boat Bill.
Mr. DAWSON moved, as an amendment, that the Bill
be read this day six months.
A Dehate ensued, in which several Members took part,
after which the House divided, when there appeared,
For the second reading 2B
Against it 2l

.Majority in favour of the Bill— 7
SCOTCH JUDICATURE BILL.
Sir. M. S. sTEWART presented a petition from the
writers and conveyancers of Greenock and Port Glasgow,
and practitioners before the Sheriff Court of Renfrewshire,
to which he requested the particular attention of the Lord
Advocate, for be was confident if the Learned Lord gave
it his attention, he must also give his consent to the just
and equitable prayer or the petitioners. Thg Hon. Mem-
ber stated the scope and object of the petition. Among
other things, the petition declared that the etpenee
of
loisiness before the Courts of Edinburgh is very great;
bat that the expence of the Court of Session is greatest of
ill ; that the High Court of Admiralty, besides its pri-
mary jurisdiction in maritime cases, is cumulative with
the Court of Session in mercantile questions, end that
Besieges prefer it, from the comparative cheapness of its ade
ministration ; but still the petitioners are convinced that
the Admiralty Court may, with great public advantage,
he abolished, as 'proposed by the Lord Advocate's Bill, if
its jurisdiction be transferred to the Sheriff Court?. The
petitioners earnestly prayed that the competagey of the
Sheriff Court, in Admiralty business, may not he line;ted
to ewes below 25/. ; that such a restriction would be very
'detrimental to Scotland, and particularly to sailors and
shipmnstert, in whose interests the Procurators of
Greenock and Port Glasgow must unwitionably he pe-
ett;:arly convenient. He (Sir M. Stewart) would strongly
urge upon the attention of the House and of the Loot Ad-
vocate the great public tollemtage of conferring the full
jeriedietkin of the Admiralty no those most efficacious and
coioparetively cheap tribunals the faleeriff Courts of Scot
land (which bad been so ably and ao juatly characterized
by his Learned Friend the Member for le:naresborough, in
inis powerful and comprehensive statement last night), end
snaking such jurisdiction alternative with the Court of
&seine] in all such cases shove 251., and restrictive to the
Sheriff Courts in those under that sum,—(Hear, hear. )
For proof of the great practical efficiency of the Sheriff
Comte, he would only refer the House and Parned
Lord (and no one was better acquainted with the Coe4i-
tution of t!,ese Courts than the Learned Lord) to one of
hie own returns, from wields it appeared that out
of 66,239., causes decided in the Sheriff Coto to in Scotland
in three years, only 564 were carried by review to the
Supreme Court.—(Hear.)—The petitioners also prayed
that all inferior Admiralty jurisdictions should be ieb,oe
Belled, and merged in the Sheriff, and in particular that
this House may interfere to abrogate the authority of the
Water Baillie of Glasgow, the existeneenf whose authority
they atlted to be a serious grievance to per:oils residing in
Renfrewshire. Ineooeluaion the petitioners declared that
there was much to amend in the judicial system of Scot,
land, and, if permitted, they would demonstrate the expe-
diency of introducing jury trial in tivil cases, before the
Sheriff, parties being always allowed the option of a trial
by jury or by the Judge alone, and they •t that they
would further demonstrate the expediency of empowering
the Sheriff to enforce his own decrees by imprisonment '
without the heavy expence of eignat letters of horning and
,caption ; and that the Sheriff should have the power of
awarding sequestration of the smaller class of bankrupt
estates, and of determining cases of cessio bonorune; they
prayed this House to take these matters into considert-
tion ; and be (Sir M. Stewart) prayed that his Learned
Friend (the Lord Advocate) in particular to take them
into his oseosideration, and, if possible, to give them
speedy effect. Seeing his Hoo. Friend (the Umber for
.Ayr) in his place, lie could not help expressing an anxious
hope that he would, without delay, renew his useful and
much-required Bill for the transfer of heritable bonds by
simple endoreation, by which he would confer very great
benefit upon Scotland at large.—(Hear.)-14 also trusted
'that his Hon. Friend (the Member for Stirlingshioz) would
turn his great practical knowledge and acute mind to the ,
truly important subject of seisios, with a view to their
complete revision and reform; and that he would extend
dill further the powers of that most valuable statute, the
small Debt Act, for which he would deserve and receive
lite gratitude of his country—(Hear, hear)—and he hoped
'tees vigilant friend', the Umbels for Westbury and Aber-
&era, would keep their chastening hands on that master-
grievance the Fee-fund, until it was altogether suppressed ;
qr. at least, compressed into much more moderate dimen-
seen.e.—(Hear, hear.)—lle begged to take this opportunity
,Of Paying, that the observations that lie made pee a former
evening, as to the L•igh rate of writers' charges, applied
to the charges on corm-yawing, and especially the ad va-
boron charges, which ought to he done away with alto-
gether. As to the charges for court business, he presumed
to give no opinion ; but from the differeuee of opinion that
ire understood eziated at present among the leareeed bodies
011 the subject, as well as from the nature of the soyct
itself, he thought that, iu justice to the Lords of Session,
to the learned bodies themselves, arid especially to the pub-
lic, one of two courses should be adopted by Parliament
—either that a parliamentary commission ehould be forth-
with appointed tote the regulation and publication of the
ssvhole of these charges, or that they should be left alto.-
gether without any regulation, and quite open to free coin-
petition.—(Heer, hear.) He anoved that the petition be
brought up.
Mr. MAXWELL took that opportunity of informing
the Learned Lord that there was little or no ligeet.llity felt
in Scotland to the improvements which lie had reeentily
proposed to make in Scotch Law.
The LORD ADVOCATE was happy to bear that no
hostility was entertained in Scotland to his Bill, as he must
canteor that he had been apprehensive of a different result.
After a few words from Mr. KENNED 7, n. DRUM"'
TIOND, Mr. Hume, and Sir C. FORBFS, the petition was
laid on tho table, and ordered to be printed.