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and to deprive them of the services of honest and
talented men—(Hear)—as they would be compelled
to look to the House of Lords alone for dignity and eleva-
tion, and would, therefore, become trucklers to tho
Ministry of the day.—( Hear, bear.) As to the Judge
being excluded for fear he should be interested in judicial
questions affecting his constituents—if that principle were
good, why not send out all the landholders from that
House on the discussion of the Coin-laws—(Laughter,
and hear, hear)—because they were personally, pecuniarily
interested in voting against the repeal in order to keep up
their high rents ?—( Hear, hear, and cries of " Question.")
Wily it was too much to the question.—( Hear, hear, and
No, no.) This was a great constitutional question.—
( Hear, hear.) And he begged the House to recollect
that the present Lord Chancellor, when Master of the
Rolls, had sat in the House, and was so noble an ornament
to the Bench that the House could not but deem itself
honoured by having numbered him among its Members.—
( Hear, hear.) He thought the constitutional rights of
the people would be violated if any more security were re-
quired than that they should exercise on any individual ap-
pointed to the judicial office the same choice which was re-
quired to be exercised at the re-election of those who
had been appointed to Ministerial offices.—( Hear. )
Mr. HUME—Sir, 1 differ entirely from my Hon.
Friend.—(Laughter.) I think any Member, elected by
a large constituency, must, if be performs his duty to
them, have the whole of his time thereby occupied.—
( Hear, hear.) And I think in the same way that the
public, after having made an ample provision for the re-
muneration of the Judge, are entitled to the whole of his
time and energy.—( Hear, hear.) Indeed, Sir, I think that
no paid officer of the Crown should sit in this House.
Colonel SIBTHORP supported the motion.
Col. T. WOOD supported the motion, considering
that a Judge of so great importance as the Admiralty Judge
ought to have no political bias.
Mr. T. DUNCONI BE would repeat the vote he gave
last Session upon this subject, and support the motion of
the Noble Lord. He objected to Judges sitting in that
House, because he thought the fewer placeman they
bad the better. He should give his support to the mo-
tion, and in doing so he felt glad that reforms appeared to
be coming from the other side of the House.

Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Com-
mittee divided, when there appeared—
For the motion Bl
Against it

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alawrity against the motion —lB
The clause was then agreed to as originally proposed.
Clauses up to 5 were agreed to.
On the clause providing a retiring pension of 2,0001. a
year to the Judge of the Admiralty being put,
Mr. WILLIAMS objected to it on the ground of its
being without precedent. Lord Stowell had no retiring
pension, and he did not see why the present Judge should
have one. He should move the expulsion of the clause
altogether.
Mr. HUME seconded the motion.
Mr. MORE O'FERRALL supported the clause.
With respect to the observations made by the Hon. Gen-
tleman, as to Lord Stowell having no retiring pension, he
must consider that the income of that Noble Lord was
enormous, in many years amounting to as much as
12,000/.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE believed that this was one of
those jobs which disgraced that House. He should, there-
fore, support the expulsion of the clause which was to
carry it into effect. It was an unworthy pension, and he
trusted the House would reject the clause.
Mr. JONES did not see why the two offices of Dean
of Arches and Judge of the Admiralty Court were joined
in the Bill, and they might not be held by the same person
as the appointments were made by different powers.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw but no division
took place, the motion being, as we understood, withdrawn.
Sir JAS. GRAHAM did not see any provision in the
Bill for the maintenance of the independence of the Judge.
Was he to be removable at the pleasure of the Crown, or
on what footing was he to remain ?
Lord J. RUSSELL said, care would be taken to bring
up a clause providing for such a case.
On the motion, that the clause do stand part of the
Bill, strangers were again ordered to withdraw.
The House divided when there appeared—
For the Clause 46
Against it
Majority • —24
The remaining clauses were agreed to, and the Bill was
reported with amendments. The Report to be brought up
this day.
Lord INGESTRIE gave notice that on bringing up
the Report he would renew the motion for excluding the
Judge of the Admiralty Court from Parliament.
In a Committee of Ways and Means, 11,000,0001.
was granted for the payment of Exchequer Bills fer the
present year.
The Vaccination Bill was read a second time. The
discussion to be taken on going into Committee.
Mr. WAR LE Y gave notice that in Committee he
would move a clause prohibiting inoculation for the small
pox altogether.
The other Orders of the Day having been disposed of,
Lord J. RUSSELL obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
continue the Poor-law Commission for a limited period.

Also one for the better Administration of Relief .to the

Poor in England and Wales. At that hour he would not
enter into any statement respecting the Bills. He was
anxious to have them printed and circulated during the

TeCCSS.

Colonel SIBTHORP said, unless the Noble Lord's
Bills were very different from those of last year, they
would meet with his most strenuous opposition.
Mr. BLACKSTONE suggested the gradual diminu.

tion of the number of Commissioners. He thought the
Board of Guardians were now becoming able to act for
themselves.
BRITISH CLAIMS ON PORTUGAL.

Lord SA NDON moved for copies of all correspondence
which had taken place between the Committee of British
Claimants on the Government and the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, so far as relates to the formation of a
Commission for investigating and deciding on such claims,
and the nomination of a Commissioner on the part of the
claimants, commencing from the Ist day of July 1839, up
to this day ; and also, between the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, or Lord Howard de Walden and the Go-
vernment of Portugal, on the like subject, during the
ame period; and the letter from the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs to Lieutenant-Colonel Bristow, dated
he 4th day of April 1840, and Lieutenant-Colonel Bris-
tow's reply.
Lord PA LMER ST 0 N said he could not agree to the
production of the papers, for two reasons: Ist., the ar-
rangement was incomplete ; and second as the Portuguese
Government had partly acceded to our demands, it would
be inexpedient to publish correspondenc• containing ob-
jections which had since been moved. It was a corres-
pondence of charge and accusation between the parties,
which he thought should not be made public.
ADMIRALTY COURT.

Capt. PE CHE LL moved for a return of fees payable
n the Registrar's-office of the High Court of Admiralty,

DUTY ON SILK.

Sir FREDERICK TRENCH moved for an account
of all silk goods imported for home consumption in
the three years prior to the sth day of July, 1629; also,
an account of all silk goods imported for home consumption
in the three years prior to the sth day of January, 1840,
with the amount of duty paid on each article; specifying,
in both periods, those entered by weight and those entered
by value.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT (IRELAND).
Mr. PIG OT obtained leave to bring in a Bill for abo-
li,hing arrest on mesne process in civil actions, except in
certain cases ; for extending the remedy of creditors against
the property of debtors; and for the further amendment of
the law and the better advancement of justice in Ireland.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House Adjourned at Half-past One.

MOST IMPORTANT TESTIMONIAL OF LIEUT.
MAZTER3, H. P., LATE OF litE ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND
VETERAN COUTANIES

(Cerificate.) St. John's, Newfoundland, 12th March, IS3B.
Conformably to a Garrison Order, dated 9th March, 1831,
for the assembly of a Medical Board to take into consideration
the state of health of Lieutenant Masters, R. V. C., and to
report accordingly, We, the undersigned, Staff Officer and Civil
Practitioner, forming the Board authorised by that order, after
a strict examination of the case of Lieutenant Masters, consider
h:in as entirely unfit for military duty. Lieut. Masters has
for several years been afflicted with rheumatic gout which has
produced serious functionary derangements of his stomach,
liver, and other viscera, and finally given rise to infirmity,
weakness and enlargement of the articulations, especially of
the ancle joints ; his general health and constitution is much
impaired, and, therefore, in our opinion, he is incapable of fur-
ther service.

(Signed) ANDW. FERGUSON, M.D. Staff Asst.- Surg.
EDWARD RIELLY, Surgeon.
Letter of Lieut. Masters to Mr. Prout, 229, Strand, London.
Hawley, near Bagshot, 13th Jan. 1840.
SIR,--Considering that the public would be greatly benefited
by the publication of the extraordinary benefit whichs havederived by taking Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills,
,here-
with send the particulars of my case, and the
first
attacked with
11
Certifi-
cate, by which I was invalided.
rheumatic gout in 1826,
from whichwas
Drs. Rod, Horner, and
period to 1533 I was
ender the treatment of the late
Davis,
all of Hampstead.
Jacobs, as well as by the present Dr.
From 1833 to 1338 I was at St. John's, Newfoundland, doing
duty as a Subaltern in the Royal Veteran Companies, where
I suffered most severely, and was under the care of Sur-
geon Ilewson, R.S V. ~
private practitioner
Fer__hea
guson, and Mr.
practitioner there, without
being able to prevent the mist violent fits of the gout three
or four times annually, which becoming so bad caused
the Garrison Order for the Medical Board, as before named._
About the middle of last February and the whole of March my
u 'ngs were dreadful ; in fact, I was unable to move with-
out being carried; when Major Birch, of Crondale, near
Farnham, a Magistrate of this county, kindly commisserating
my situation,
called on me for the purpose of taking my affi-
davit, that I might receive my half-pay ; and seeing me in so
miserable a state, advised me to try Blair's Gout and Rheu-
matic Pills, saying, although not gouty himself, he knew
several who had derived benefit from them. 1 had previously
been advised by a then neighbour, Mr. Fedgent, of Aldershot,
to try them, but I declined until the Major recommended them.
I commenced by taking them according to the directions; and
after taking six pills, found a cessation of all pain, and the re-
mainder of the box effectually settled that fit. I have since
had several attacks, hut as soon as I feel the least sensation of
the disease I take the pills, which have at once removed all
symptoms,-1 may also mention that the chalk which had
formed on my ears has disappeared, and where it formed in
my fingers is decreasing. I have ceased to have those very
weakening perspirations to which I was subject before trying
the pills. Were you to print my case, and appoint an Agent in
St. John's, Newfoundland, where my sufferings were known,
and where there are so many afflicted with Rheumatic Gout,
you would vastly increase the sale of this valuable
__nr!i4
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JOHN MASTERS,
Lieut. H.P. Royal Newfoundl Veteran Companies.
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