The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-09 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at the usual hour.
CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL.
This Bill went through Committee, and the report was
ordered to be received to-morrow.

VALUATION (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill also went through Committee.

EXCISE DUTIES BILL.
This Bill was read a second time.
The Game Duties Bill was read a second time.
COMMON FIELDS ENCLOSURE BILL.

On the motion of Lord ELLENBOROUGH the
House went into Committee on this Bill.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that the object of the
Bill was to afford facilities for the enclosure of corn-

mon, arable, and meadow land, and not for the en

cleosure of waste lands.

If the Bill did not suffi.

ciently provide for this object, he was ready to ac- •
capt of any amendments whatever that would accom-
plish that object, without the slightest possibility of doubt.
The Bill had not for its object the enclosure of waste land
—it was confined entirely to land that was cultivated. He
was desirous to be permitted to put in various amendments,
and have them printed, and then they might consider the Bill
on Thursday or any other day that would be more suitable.
He would shortly state what amendments he was going to
put in. First of all, he did not think it just or expedient
that persons who possessed lands to the extent of two-
thirds of the value should have the power to force all the
proprietors, however numerous or preponderating in num-
ber, to change the position of their lands, and come into
their plans. He proposed that this only should be done
by two-thirds in number as well as value. The Noble
Lord referred to some other amendments respecting the ap-
pointment of an umpire to the retaining of the present maps,
valuations, &c., and concluded by moving that the amend-
ments be printed.
Lord HOLLAND had been much pressed to submit an
amendment, which would secure an open space near large
towns, or all towns containing over 5,000 inhabitants.
There were some parts of the Bill which were in his opinion
very objectionable, and he confessed that it took him com-
pletely by surprise.
Lord ELL ENBOROUGH said, under the Bill as it
at present stood no waste could be enclosed. If such an
amendment as that suggested by the Noble Lord was pro-
I posed, it would be better not to pass the Bill at all.
After a few words from Lord LYNDHURST and HOLLAND,

The Duke of RICHMOND suggested that, after the
amendments were printed, it would be better to refer the
Bill to a Select Committee. - The Bill was a most impor-
tant one.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH complained of the incon-
venience of having such important Bills sent up at so late
a period of the Session.
The Bill was then reported, and the amendments ordered
to be printed.
SECULAR JURISDICTION (YORK AND ELY).
The Secular Jurisdiction (York and Ely) Bill was read
a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow.
MEDICAL WITNESSES.

Lord WH ARNCLIFFE moved the second reading of
the Medical Witnesses Bill.

After a few words from the Duke of RICHMOND,
the Bill was read a second time.
SCOTCH COURT OF SESSION BILL.

The LORD-CHANCELLOR moved the second read-
ing of this Bill, which he said was founded upon the Re-
ports of two Royal Commissions of 1834 and 183.5. The
Bill was to effect a saving of great expense to suitors in the
fees payable by them, which it was calculated would
amount to from 15,000/. to 19,0001., being one-fourth
of all the fees now payable by them. Their Lord-
ships would, therefore, be most anxious to pass
such a Bill, for otherwise it would be impossible for the
savings to commence for another year. The Bill was one
of mere detail, for the purpose of reducing salaries and
abolishing unnecessary offioes. There was, however, one
provision in the Bill for the purpose of altering the busi-
ness of the Court. Heretofore the most important
business had been left to the decision of the Junior Judge—
the Bill proposed that that business should be henceforth
transacted in.the full court, and that the Junior Judge should
take his place in that Court. It provided also that in place
of 4 principal clerks of Session and 4 of issue, that four
shouM do all the business, and that in place of 8 clerks
assistants there should be only four. It also reduced some
minor offices, which it was unnecessary for him to men-
tion. These were the principal objects of the Bill, and as
it had been introduced in the House of Commons before
the time fixed the other night for Scotch Bills, he hoped
their Lordships would give the Bill a second reading.
The Earl of ROSSLYN complained, and thought he
had just reason to complain, that a Bill of so much impor-
tance as this should be introduced into that House at a
period when they could not have a fair opportunity for its
examination. This Bill involved changes of the highest. and
greatest importance in the Supreme Court of Judicature in
Scotland, and considering the importance of the measure,
the great doubts that rested upon it. He confessed that
he did not think they were acting fairly by that House, by
the Court of Session, or by the people of Scotland, in bring-
ing forward this measure at this late period of the Session.
It had been stated that the effect of the Bill would be to
equalize the duties of the Lords Ordinary ; but as it gave a
power to the suitors to apply to whichever of the Lords'
Ordinary they pleased it would overload, any one of them
who happened to be popular with business to the exclusion
of the others. The Noble Lord concluded by moving that
the Bill be read a second time that day three months.
The LORD CHANCELLOR explained.
Lord WYNFORD complained of the late period of
the Session at which a Bill of so much importance was in-
troduced. Whether the Bill was a good or a bad one,
they ought to have time to consider it.
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House
divided, when the numbers were—
For the second reading 27
Against it
Majority against the second readin —lo
STANARIES COURTS BILL

The Earl of. FALMOUTH rose to move the second
reading of the above Bill, and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

THE ARMY.

The 15th Hussars have marched from Portobello barracks
for Newbridge.
The 91st from Newry for Drogheda.
The Ist battalion of Grenadier Guards will leave Dublin for
London on the 10th.

The 3d Light Dragoons, one troop, from Clonmel to Wa.
terford.

The 59th regiment has arrived at Malta from Gibraltar,
having been relieved at the Rock by the 52d from Cork.
The 53d's head quarters have arrived at Corfu from Malta.
The 42d regiment have embarked at Corfu for England.
The 60th depot at Cork, from England.
The 14th depot at Naas, and the 75th depot at Wexford, are
about to exchange quarters.
The 74th have arrived in Perth from Londonderry, through
Glasgow.
The 93d regiment, from Beggar's Bush to the Royal bar-
rack, Dublin.

A troop of the 3d Light Dragoons is ordered to Waterford
to act as a guard of honour to Lord Mulgrave.
A company of the 34th regiment has left the Pigeon-house
Fort, Dublin, for Ashbourne.

The 47th regiment at Portsmouth from Cork.

The Barossa transport arrived at Malta on the Ist
ult., from Gibraltar, with the 70th regiment ; and the Par-
melia on the 26th of June, from Cork, with the remainder of
the 59th regiment. The Prince Regent transport sailed on
the 18th of June, with a detachment of the 53d regiment,
from Corfu.

Letters have been received from Italy by the Mar-
quis of Hertford, giving a most unfavourable account of the
provinces in the Papal States, wherein the cholera rages to a
frightful degree. In some places there are 80, and in others
130, dying in a day. The peo?le are flying from the pestilence.
The new Universities Club-house in Pall-mall,
near the Palace, is in great forwardness, and will be a hand-
some and spacious building. It is roofed, and the ballustrades
are already erected on the top of the front wall, which is to be
covered with composition, according to an architectural design
highly ornamental. In point of decoration, when finished, the
exterior will not be surpassed by any building in the same
neighbourhood.