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HOUSE OF LORDS,.WEDNESDAY.

The Local Silver Tokens, GeMilitia. Adjutants,
the Scots Exeise, the Coffee importation, ,ind the
rand .Tax Deeds Bills; Were brought ,up froiu the
Coinnions by Mr. Lashington and otherigeeTbers,.
aud .severally read a first time
Some discussions took place on the third read- ' -1
ing of the Margate Hathour.Bill, in consequence
of an amendment moved by'Loed.Redesdale, rho
'observed, that several of the' provisi-ons. of the _
Bill were highly oppressive : one
.of its enact-.
meats in particular was' extremely curious, viz.
thatevery lady who thought prOper to use a ,hover
bath at Margate was liable through -it to an iins.
postof ten shillings towards` the.,repairs of the
pier. Now what connection there-was' between a
shower bath and the pier at•Margate be was ut-
terly at a loss to know. It was noticed in the
course of the above, by the Earl of Liverpool,
that the proposed AMendment might probably, at
such a period of the Session, pros'elfatal to the
Bill: And on the question being put, the Amend--
meat was iwgatived -without a division. •
• JUDICIAL BUSINESS,
Lord REDESDALE called the serious attention of
their Lordships to this subject., and ad veeted to Some
extraordinay cases of hardship and grievance,'re-
suiting from the very long. time certain 'Appeals
were pending in that HOuse. To remedythese,
he observed., .would be impossible while the Noble
Lord, who presided on the' WoOlsack in that
House, had so much of his time engrossed by
onerous duties in another place ; nothing could
be done unless adeOte assistance was affurded
to the Noble and Learned Lord, with respect to
the business in the Court of Chancery ; tills was
the only effectual as well as leading remedy, and
it was his intention speedily to propose that this •
Object be taken into their Lordships serious con-
sideration, in the' hope that even in the present
Session, a Bill might be brought io, so as to en-
'able the. House jig diSpose of the. large number of
Appeal Causes which were in arrear. •
The LORD Castercter,ba adverted to the situa-
tion of delicacy in which• he stood with respect to
the particular subject adverted to by his Noble
►Friend. It
,would be sufficieot to apptise their
_Lordships of the nature and extent of the evils,
were they to inspect their own Journals. Among
other points, they would therein see-liow many
hours had been allotted to the consideration ofmat-
ters of privilege—how inanydaysTh ere were spent,
necessarify and usefully,- in the examination of wit-
nesses relative to the- Orders in Council; they
recollect .that the person 7who was
obliged to attend even for the purpose of making
a House, Was under the • necessity t f spending
four or 'five hoUrs in the execution of his duty else-
where, before he came. down to that House.
They would with difficulty believe, and- hewas'Ale
most afraid•t6 tell it,- that in the course of the
present Session, When there were between two
and three hundred appeals, some of them of near
forty years standing, he did not believe that
above seventy or eighty hours • bad been in the
power of the person he alluded to, to' allot ,to the
hearings. The powers both of his,body and his
mind were devoted to the various duties of his
office, and he was conscious he bad so devoted
them ; but it was the, opinion .of the most expe-
rienced then in the Muse, and in the profeision,
of this opinion, that the • unanimous, concurrence
Of their Lordships' Committee on the subject,
which was, that it "was really impossible that the
judicial business of the House could be done, if
assistance s; ere not given to the persOn who held.
the Great Seal, in. the discharge of his numerous
avid accumulated duties. A question has been
staried, 'in adk assertion, that thereivas ho more
Chancery business now than in the time of Lord • .
Hardwicke. If this were true, it Was the most
surprising truth that, lie believed, was ever ciOn--
innnicated to him. ReeurKing to ;the subject' Of
their Lordships appellant jusisdiction, tie Noble
and Leakped Lord observed, that lie • never lived
twelve. hours. that he did not receive same petition
for- the expeilitieg some cause, Which 'had long
laineOn the table; in some of which 'sack eir-
euthStances were set for th, as reacild silo:Lk-their
Ipeclshipsto be acquainted with. But what could-
he do in such a case.? . He could not proposeto.
the House to do that whicli was prayed for, with-
but prejudice to those suitors whase cases stood.
before thine whose cases were so hard. What was
the proper or most effectual. remedy it was not
for him to say, further than that soiLe retnedy - -
ought to be applied, unless they Nvtl.re to
deny that justice to the subject, which he wan:en-
titled to in such, cases. • , ,

Lord Et:LENTiOtOUGH.aIso felt the present total
inability of the. House to perfora its of.:iCiai fine-
tions as the Bernier resort. The accumulation of
that biisipess was now so great, that they must'
.some
confess themseb,:es 'fairly bankrupt, unless some
mode or remedy be appPed to tl:e
evil. If the N,'Oble Lord who presided on the
Woolsack was not enabled, by affording him" as-
sistance in another place, it was impossible he
could make any eltectual Way as to t.ie great mass
of jitdiciaLbusineS's before them.
The Earl of ..4IrkIIPO,OL observed, that, the Com=
mittee of Inquiry last SesSidn had recommended
that course which they thou:a-ht. most .expecFent
for the. prirpoSe. He was aware that some diffe-
rence of opinion existed, as to the precise mode,
and may still exist, but he had ,to intreat their
Lordships to consider that some remedy should
he_applied -; 'the best if possible, if not the second
.;eF.,,t, in order to do awn or' lessen the evil in
question. A Cormoittoc of Inquiry had also been
appointed by.the other House of Parliament but
ate was free to confess, notwithstanding th'at