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sent year, were ordered to be laid before the
House.
The .(;onimittees: on the Irish 'Post Rates and
Irish Hides Bills were Inistponed to Tuesday.
The Irish Loan Bill and the Irish Customs Bill
went through Committees, the Reports of which
were ordered to be received on Monday.
Mr. LIJSHINGTON brought up the Report of the
Irish Malt Duty Bill.
Sir FARM: LICK 'FLOOD gave notice that..iit was
his intention to Oppose the -Bill on the third
reading.
The report was agreed to, and the Bill ordered
to be read a third time on Monday. •
Sir T. BARING presented a Petition, signed by
twelvelhousand persodis, inhabitants of London
and its vicinity, praying, that they may be- per-
mitted to give religious instruction to the natives
of India.
On the 'motion of Mr. W. FITZGERALD, the
Irish Assessed Taxes Bill was read a second time,
and ordered to, be committed on Tuesday.
The lobacco Excise .Bill was read .a second
time, and committed for Tuesday.
'rite Report of the Prisoners Relief Bill was
taken into further 'consideration, and'the Bill or-
dered to be read a third time on Monday.
The Report of the Admiralty Registrar's Bill
was taken into further consideration.
Lord CASTLERMAGFI, though he had hitherto
supported this measure as one of general regula-
tion, and though -he admitted„ that looking for-
ward:to the persons who might hereafter . till the
office of Registrar of the Admiralty, the balance
in hand would be better deposited in the Bank
than in the:care of any individual ; ,yet in the pre-
sent instance,.. considering the pr6perty and per-
sonal character of Lord Arden,-he thought it could
not be denied, that every security was,-afforded
which the suitors themselves could desire, and
therefore, in his opinion, itavould be a monstrous
exercise of the power of. Parliament to push the
present •enactment against that individual. He
then moved a clause, providing that the regula •
tions contained in the Bill should not take effect
till after the expiration of the interest at present
vested in the office.
Loril MILTON objected to the clause. proposed
by the Noble Lord.
Mr. ABERCROKBY opposed the clause, on the
ground that it not only obstructed the operatton
of the Bill during the life of Lord.. Arden, but be-
cause, agreeing to they would sanction the
principle, that when a person had enjoyed. great
emoluments for a •considerable tiuu that fact es-
tablished an equitable claim to 'a_ continuance o
those emoluments.

Lord CASTLEREAGH, in explanation said, when
speaking of the interest vested in the office, lie bad
referred to the patent uuder•which it was held by
Lord Arden.
LIERDERT spoke against the claw.
Sir S. Rommt,Y was surprised that the House
should be left without' information from the Crown
LaWyers as to whether or flat ;he provisions con-
tained in the clause proposed would or would not
-be legal. Ile did not believe any' lawyer would
venture to say that he thought it legal to leave
the money of the suitors in the bands of an hull-
vidual, to be by that individual employed .for his
' own :emolument., The Fate Mr. rerceval, when
the subject was first brought forward, from
a conviction in his own breast that it was not
legal, had denied that the money of the suitors'
• was employed by the Registrar of the .-Ad-
miralty for his. own emolument,but had after-
words been. Aliged to confess that in this he had
been mistaken. Ile protested against the doctrine
of its being,inequitable for them in this respect. to
regulate an office, and more especially an office of
such, immense emolument as the one in question,
end of. which the whole duty was performed by
deputy.
Mr. STEPHEN said, that noarginient had .been
offered to prove th'e illegality of the practice, ex--
ceptiby having recourse to false analogies ; he was
t7;grefore relieved from arguing •the question., on
the ground of illegality. This right could not Le
taken from Lord Arita without violating every
right upon which property was held by the cum-
aeon law. •

After a few words from Sir Jontr NEWPORT
Mr. BATHURST, and Mr. MARTIN, the House di,

vicleel.

For the Clause,
Against it.
Majority

,-44

On the motion of. Sir NVILLIAM SCOTT, the
House went into a Committee un the Ecclesiasti-
cal Courts Bill. lie found it necessary, he said,
to make some alterations in the Bill, with a view
to prevent many locat inconveniencies which
would arise from it, if left in its original state.
Sir S. itomILLY thought that the Bill may be
considered as given up, by the alteration that had
been introduced into it. The power of the inferior
Courts should, in his mind, be transferred to the
Consistory._

Sir Wm. SCOTT was convinced that such a plan
would be productive of great inconvenience to
such as liVed at a considerable distance from the
Consistory.
The report was ordered to be received.
EAST INDIA QUESTION.
Lord CASTLEREAOH moved the Order of the
Day for. the House going into a Committee on the
Affairs of India, for the purpose of postponingit
till Tuesday, on which day be hoped to be 'able to
name a time for taking it into consideration.—
lie also mentioned his expectation thatthe Catho.
lie fill would pass through a ComMittee on Mon-
day.: