The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-20 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT,

ROUSE OF LORDS, TrIURSDAT, MAY 19.
nistmoming the LoaD CJIANCELLOR came down at an
:arkg hour.
Their Lordships first proceeded to a Committee of Prisi-
tees on the Henniker eerage, whereupon the claim was
I.rade out.
Afterwards the Committee went into the claim to the An-
hatuiale Peerage, in which witnesses were examined, when the
further proceeding was-adjourned to Monday se'unight.
The next claimant was to the Gardiner Peerage, in which
case witnesses were heard, when proceedings were adjourned

; dir.
Prayers were read by the Bishop of Gloucester at 12 o'clock,
when. the House proceeded with Appeahr.
The Appeal of " Aubrey v. Meade," from the Court of
-Chancery in Ireland, was heard out, and dismissed with costs.
" Scully v.. Scully," from the same Court, was now called
far, when the Solicitor-General and Mr. O'Connell were heard
the appellant; after which this appeal was adjourned to a
fut4re day. --
.A4l:;43arned at four o'clock, during pleasure, and in twenty
nintites 'the ri ouse rearmed.
Upon the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY the Strat-
fc.rd.le-Bow Burial-ground Bill was nail a third time, passed,
and wessaged to the Commons.
ESSAGES FROM THE COMMONS.
• kir. Brogden and others brought up the Irish Bankers'
Partnership Bill, and some other Bills, which were afterwards
rend a first time.
The Earl of ABERDEEN presented a petition from the
kir4;istrates of Paisley, against the Equitable Loan Company
t"ipou the motion of the Earl of LIVERPOOL, the Ware-
'reused Corn. Bill was read a second time, and committed
Thursday, when their Lordships were ordered to be sum-
scir..ed.

• SHEERNESS PETITION.
rite flrl of DARNLEY took this opportunity, when their
kc;:ciships were not engaged in important business, to correct a
uris-statement in the Newspapers, with regard to a petition he
presented the other day. He must confess, at the same time,
shat it was wonderful the reports in the Journals were so cor-
rect as they generally were, when he considered the difficulties
which.those persons who took their proceedings had to contend
with. After the Papers took notice of the improper manner in
which the petition from Sheerness was got up, they mentioned
that he presented a petition _from some parish in Kent, but
emitted the name, that of Gillingham. This petition was nu-
merously signed, and it was proper that the subscribers should
have the benefit of it.
SCOTCH PEERS.
Viscount MELVILLE gave notice that he should, to-mor-
row, move the second reading of the Scotch Peere Trials'
Bill, for which, also, their Lordships were directed to be
summoned.
The College of PhysiCiane Bill, the Scotch Poor Relief
Bill, and. the Irish Chancery Court Bill, were read a second
time.
Ekosbie's Divorce Bill passed through a Committee, and was
reported with some amendments.
The new Thrown Silk Bill, the Naval Asylum and Green-
wich Hospital Consolidation Bill, the Pembroke Market Bill,
and some other Bills, passed through Committees of the
Rouse.
Adjourned, at half-past five o'clock, to to-morrow, when the
Lord Deputy sits for the furtherance of Appeals.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. DICKENSON presented a petition from certain land-
owners in the county of Somerset, against the Western Ship
Mr. MONTEITH brought up the Report of the Clyde Na-
vigation Bill.
Mr. CURTEIS brought up the Report of the London and
Idanchester,Equitable Loan Bill, which was laid on the table.
Mr- C.•DUNDAS presented a similar petition from Telford
_and Boreferd, Somersetshire, against any alteration in the Corn
Laws.— Laid on the table.
CURTEIS presented a similar petition from Samuel
Square, corn merchant in London.
SALMON FISHERY BILL.
Mr. LINDSAY presented a petition from the county of
Perth against this Bill.
A similar petition was presented from the county of Devon.
Mr. H. -DRUMMOND presented similar petitions from
Pratteit Lord Gray, and from the proprietors of Salmon Fisheries
on the rivers Dee and Don, in the county of Aberdeen.—Ordered
to be printed.
Mr. TR E MAINE presented a petition with a similar prayer,
from an individual in the county of Cornwall.
Sir I. COFFIN said Hon. Members were mistaken about the
seiPnon. The fact was, that they came earlier to the South than
the North. A large shoal came into Cardigan Bay from the sea
id the month of January, and they could not arrive at the coast
of Scotland till the month of July.
After a few words from Mr. D. Gilbert and Mr. H. Drum-
mond the petition was ordered to be printed.
A petition against the Salmon Fishery Bill, from certain in-
habitants residing on the River Shannon was also presented,
and laid on the table.
Mr. LINDSAY presented a petition from the Prevost and
Burgesses of Cupar, against the reduction of die Duty on Foreign
Linen.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. S. RICE presented a petition from a parish in the county
of Limerick, in favour of the scheme of Irish Emigration to
Ganada.
Sir J. IiERESFORD presented a petition from Berwick-
upon-Tweed, against the Duty on Sea-borne Coal.
stir R.SHAW presented a petition from the Chamber of Corn-
merce in Dublin, praying for a revision of the Butter Trade
•Laws.—Laid on the table.

EXPENCES OF APPREHENDING VAGRANTS.
Sir T. ACLA ND rose to bring forward the motion, of which
he bad given notice, to enable Magistrates at Quarter Sessions
to regulate the expences for apprehending persons charged un-
der the Vagrant Act. From the discussion which had taken
lace in the last Session of Parliament on the Vagrant Laws,
it wouldbe unnessary for him to recur to the objections then
made to the fine which fell to the informer on the conviction
of a vagrant. It was right and proper that the individual who
apprehended another, obnoxious to the laws, should receive
fell payment of all the expences to which he was subjected,
and, accordingly, by a former statute, any Justice was em-
powered to order payment of these at his own discretion.
Another Act, passed two or three years ago, authorised the
Bench of Magistrates to regulate the amount of such expences
by a table or scale, as they in their judgment should think fit.
Thus, the power previously granted to the individual Justice
was taken out of his hands and given to the Quarter Sessions.
It hail a most salutary operation in the county of Devon, where
he had access to know the facts ; and as he did not doubt that
it would be a useful addition to the law as it now stood, lie
moved that the power conveyed by the Act above alluded to,
should be revived in the terms he had mentioned.
Mr. ESTCOURT opposed the measure. He felt jealous of
soy enactment which tended to restore the informer's reward
thr the apprehension of vagrants. This Bill was, in his opi-
:lion, wholly unnecessary, •for the law at present directed .Jus-
tices to order payment of such expences by the treasurer of the
county; and to them it was matter of choice whether the allow-
ance should be great. or small. But there was another statute,
lit Geo. 111., which enabled Magistrates at Quarter Sessions
to regulate the extent of these allowances ; and when the regu-
lations were framed and approved of by the Judges at the
Assizes, the JuStices were obliged to act under them. Mr. •
S. BOURNE said. it was unnecessary to load the
itatute-botik with superfluous Acts. lie wished to know how
the law at'Present stood before assenting to any alteration of it.
M. SYKES contended, that the evil was of that amount as
to call for legiilatiie remedy.
Sir T. ACLi AND said, lie would withdraw the Bill for the'
present, to affordan-opportunity for inquiry.
COUNTY COURTS' BILL
• Lord. AIe,THORP moved the third reading of the County
Courts Bill. . :
Colonel TRENCH regretted that the Bill gave power to
low attornies to practise in the County Courts. Several cases
had occurred at Cambridge, which shewed the impropriety of
permitting such persons to appear on behalf of the poor suitors.
In the Cpunty Court there, the amount of cases, ten years ago,
was 82 ; but for the eight subsequent years, when low Actor-
nies began to practise there, they had grown to 480 annually.
Courts of that description ought, in his view, to be a sort of
. domestic reconciling judicature, in order to prevent litigation ;
bat that charactir could not be given to them, as long as low
attornies were allowed to prevent an amicable arrangement of
:the disputes; As ,a .strikiogillustration of what lie hid said,
he would allude to the town of Wells, in the county of Nor..
folk, where, two. attornies settled about forty years ago. A
gentleman of great weight in the county discouraged their re-
sidence_by all the means in his power; and in order to prevent
litigittiOo„ he instituted a Court of Reference, and solicited the
poor man to bring his. cause before him. The consequence
was, that the attorrties left the place, and no such being hay
been seen there for upwards of thirty years, although m a
town, not many miles from Wells, there were not less than
eight nttorniest, who fattened and throve on the litigation which
they excitett. Fqr these reasons he would tiove, that a clause
be introduced into the 13i11,.perrnitting the parties brought be-
ibto the 4 my Corrti to sand a friend these'ttirepresehtthesta,