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London, England, 1814-06-08 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The Copyright Bill went through .a Committee.
The Report Was received; and the Bill ordered to
be taken 'into' fuiter consideration on Alonday
se'nni lit.
The Overseers of the Poor's Bill went through
a Committee. Time Report was received, mind the
Bill ordered to lie taken into further consideration
on this day se'unight.
The Highway Bill-went through a Committee.
The Report was received, and the Bill ordered to
be taken into further consideration on Tuesday
next.

The Irish Fever Hospital Bill was read a second
time, and committed IoT Friday.

GALWAY VOTERS BILL.

, -
On the motion of Mr. BLAKF., that the second
reading of the Galway Voters Bill be postponed
tun to- morrow,

Mr. DALY proposed, as 'an amendment, that the
Bill be read a second time this day six months.
Mr. PEELE objected to the Bill. lie saw no
reason why the Catholics of Gal Way should be
placed in a better situation than the _Catholics of
Dublia, Waterford, or any part of 'lreland: If
any alteration were necessary, it would be better.
to take Away the exclusive privilege which the
Protestant:, of Galway enjoyed, than to give to
the Catholie3 of that town privilege's greater than
those enjoyed by the Catholics in any other part
of the kingdom. The-Elective Franchise of the
Catholics of Ireland was granted and settled by
the Act of 1793 ; and he saw noreason why the
.c
se' of Galway shotrld form' an exception to the
general tale.
Mr.• BLAKE -said, the Catholics of Galway would
be placed in a very bad situation unless this Bill
passed.
Mr. D4Y again opposed the second reading of
the. Bill.

The Gallery was cleared, but the House did not
divide ; and the Bill was ordered CO be read a se-
cond time this day .six months.
When Ive were admitted into the Gallery, we
found Mr. PEELE on his legs, moving for leave to,
bring in a 'Bill to amend the Insolvent Debtors'
Act in Ireland.• One of the alterations was, to
give to a single Judge the same power, in vaca-
tilus, of hearing the cases and discharging debtors,
that the Court possessed in Term. • He said, the
Judges had, ito their honour, undertaken to per-
form this additional labour. Leave was given,
and t'he Bill was brought in, and read a first time.
. Mr. PEELE then moved forleave to bring in a:
Bill to amend and consolidate the Acts of
the Irish Parliament, enabling Magistrates to
settle disputes between Lab,airers and their Masters •
in Ireland. He said, the provisions upon this sub-
ject were scattered in two or three different Acts of
Parliament, which, in fact, had no direct connec;
Lion with the subject.* The object of the present
Bill was to combine into one Mt these various
Enactments, and to remove some doubts that at
present existed in the law upon this subject.—
Another .object of the present Bill was to
enable Magistrates to give to the labourer a
compensation for the loss of '• time which the
labourer frequently suffered in the event of a
pate between bins and his Master.about wages. If
the Master refused to pay, the labourer, of course,
applied to a :Magistrate for relief; but it might
happen that ten days might elapse before
he could recover his money. This loss of time.
was, to a poor man, a most serious grievance ; and
many of the Irish who went from Mstant parts for.
work, would frequently give up the wages that
Was due to them, rather than be kept from return-
ing home. He proposed, therefore, to empower
the Magistrate, where the right of the labourer to
his claim was clear, to giant to bins a coin-
pensation for the loss of time Which he .sutfered
jfn enforcing his right.
Leave was -given-to bring in the Bill, which was
brought in ana reada first time.'
Mr. FEELE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
explain and amend the 50th of the King, relative
to Mail-coaelLes in Ireland.
Mr. PELLE RISO obtained leave lo bring in a Bill
to explain and amend the 43d of the King, for the
Improvement 4f the City of Dublin.
A Petition was presentod from Sunderland,
signed by 5000 persons, against any change in the
Corn Laws.
Sir CHARLES BURRELL Saitl, that many of the
Petitions span this subjNt had obtained signa-
tures in rather a singular way.- in Kelso they
wen,t sV far a to get the signatures of the Freu‘4l

pr.lsorien.til'e.tetition was ortlerett tolk do Ow
table.

FEES OF WWI.Ts OF JUSTICE.
Sir Joirs N EWPOr.T rose to make his prothised
motion upon this subject.. He went into consi-
derable details, to prove that some abuses pre-
vailed in different Courts relative to Fees, and
contended that it was the duty of Parliament,
from time to time, ,to institute inquiries into the
practice of the various Courts, to prevent the
abuses. which would otherwise inevitably occur.
The Right lion. Baronet then moved a series of
Resolutions, declaratory of the vat ions points
urged in the,course Of his speech. Upon the first
Resolution .being read by the'Speaker,
• Mr. PEEL E rose; and st:ggested to the Right
Honourable Baronet the.propriety of postponing
the discussion
,to ••onte future period. From the
short notice that had been given, it was .impos-
sible that the House could have anticipated the
nature of the Resolutions, .the first, of which he
decidedly condemned. Ile did not rise to oppose
the. motion, but only to put it to the Right Hon.
Baronet, whether, considering the thin state of
the House, and the absence of the Ministers of
the Crown, necessarily caused by the arrival of
the Illustrious Personages who.-were.expected, it
would not be expedient to defer the cousiderat,ion.
of the sultjcet to some future occasion., The
House, indeed, was hardly prepared to go into it;
,for, of the various returns referred to by the Right
lion. Baronet, only one, be believed, that re-
lating to the Court of King's Bench,-was in d:
possession of Members.
Mr. P.QNSONI3 Y said, he was glad ,:to bear the-
lion. Gentleman say he had no objection, to the
principle of the measure, because such Motions
as the present were of the utmost use to the pub-
lic, by callin the attention of Parliament front
time to time to the various abuses that existed.
He had,. no doubt his Right Hon.-Friend nould
willingly concur in the wish expre.sseti by the
Hon. Gentleman,. for postponing the discussion
at present.
Mr. PEELE explained, and begged that he might
not be understood as giving any pledge to support
the principle of the motion. He had not given
any opinion upon the subject.
Sir J. NEWPORT then withdrew his Resolutions,
and fixed them for that day se'nnight.
Mr, Homa SU MNER' moved fur leave to bring in
a Bill to enable Magistrates tobuild .proper places
to preserve public records, &c. Mr. Banks, Sir
C. Monek, and Mr. C. 'Wynne, stated their ob-
jections to time object of the proposed . Bill ; and
Mr. H. Sumner said, thatshe bad moved for leave
merely in consequence of instructions he bad re-
ceived ; but that, as it ,appeare=d to be contrary to
the sense of the House, he had no Wish to push
it. He therefore withdrew his motion.