The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-21 00:00:00

COURT'S OF-LAW:

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Mr. TOOKE presented petitions from St. Andrew's
Holborn, and St. George the Martyr, complaining of the
inadequate manner in which the land tax had been levied.
He had also a petition, from the Incorporated Society of Attor-
nics and solicitors throughout the United Kingdom, stating,
that having observed the destruction of the Houses of Parlia-
ment by fire, and the necessity thereby of rebuilding them.
they were anxious that the Courts of Law should be removed to
a more central situation in the neighbourhood of the Inns of
Court, where most of the professional•men live, and where the
Courts at Guildhall and the City Courts could be incorporated,
thus saving considerable time to the witnesses and suitors,
great trouble to the practitioners, and affording more space for
the new Houses of Parliament and the Committee rooms ad-

joining.
Major BEAUCLERK supported the prayer of the peti-
tion relating to the land-tax, and hoped that the Hon. Member
for Truro would move for a select committee on the subject.
CASE OF JANE CAMPION.

Captain PECH EL presented the petition of which he had
given notice, on the subject of this case; and, as the Attorney-
General was not in his place, he trusted the Government
would order the allowance of this poor woman to be restored.
He would not have presented this petition if there had been
any remedy at law ; but this woman could not sue ; she would
be thrown overboard as a married woman if she attempted to sue.
She was a femme covert and not a femme sole, and she was
entitled to all the privileges of other married women. She
prayed that her petition might be referred to the Ecclesiasti-
cal Judges, and that, in the meantime, directions might be sent
to the magistrates to suspend the proceedings against her. If
this were not done, on Monday next this unfortunate woman
would be sent to the House of Correction.
Mr. F. M AUL E thought it was not a case in which the
House could interfere. The Magistrates in this particular
case consulted the law officers of the Crown, and had
acted on their opinion, and he thought that the Magistrates
were justified in acting upon that opinion. He did not
know that that House could send directions to the Magistrates
to suspend these proceedings.
Mr. T. R. KEMP thought that this was a case of great
distress, and that the prayer of the petition ought to be granted.
The petition was then laid on the table.
The same HON. MEMBeR also presented a petition from the
fishers of Brighton, praying for a better regulation of the

fisheries.
Dr. BOWRING presented petitions from Kilmarnack
against the Tipling Act ; also from a certain body of Dissent-
ers, praying to be allowed to celebrate their own marriages.
Sir G. CREWE presented a petition from Derbyshire,
praying for better protection to the British fisheries.
BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMMITTEE.
Mr. KEMP begged to call the attention of the House
to the adjourned debate to the question of the right
of the Members for Greenwich to attend the Brighton
Railway Committee. He moved that the Members for Green-
wich and Kent be allowed to attend the Committee.
Lord G. LENNOX would not be doing his duty to the
supporters of the Bill if he allowed volunteer members to be
put upon the Committee, who were strongly prejudiced against
the line which he advocated. If, however, the Speaker
was of opinion that the present motion was in order, he
(Lord G. Lennox) should, waive his objection.—( Cries of
" Chair.")
Captain AL SAGER was also opposed to the introduction
of the name of the Hon. Member upon the Committee.
Mr. BARNARD had never wished that any substantive
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promoters, of the Bill if new names were now,to bo added
to the Committee.—(Hear, bear.) They bad been sitting
11 the evidence that had been gone through should
daily for the last three weeks, and was it to be supposed
that a
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