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LOCAL TOENS BILL.

Their Lordships, pursuant to the Order of the
.Day, resolved into a Committee -on this
The _Earl of LIVERI'OOL proposed a few, Amend-
ments to different parts of. the 13i11, chiefly of a
verbal nature;

The Earl of 'LAUDEIZDALE urged a variety of
objections to the measure in its present shave.
uu particularly dwelt upon what he conceived the
uuncessary and extreme severity of the provision,
in inflictirtg such a. degree of punishment upon
individuals who should have in their possession
papers engraver! so as to-imitate Bank of England
Notes in the way described in the Bill.' his
Lordship moved forthe omission of.this clause.

;:oine conversation arose between the Noble
Earl and the -Earl of Ross, in • consecluence of
some observations made by the former as to the
comparative amounts of the .circulation of the
Bank of England paper; and that of the Provin-
cial Banks; acid respecting the powers giVeq-
theformer by the Bill, with reference. to Oat. of
tie _subject.

.The.--Earl of LIVERPOOL defended the regula-
tions proposed by the Bill in that respect, as
arising out the necessity of the case, and as a
proper degree of security to be given, in the pre-
sent state of the country. •
The Question being put on the Earl of Lauder-
dale's motion, for omitting the Clause ,in
tint), it was negatived Without .a divis on.
El the course of some fqrther discussion, the
Words " Coined, or," were omitted by the. Co-
m on the suggestion of the Earl of Lauder-
dale 5: and a similar amendment was made in the
title; on the ground, as urged by the Noble Earl,
that the public should not be habituated to. the
idea that a power, that
,f coining, which ap-
pertlined to tic-So.vcreign alone, were 7 vested in a
the -Bank.

The Bill beisg,gone through by the Committee,-
the House resumed, and ordered the,Report to, be
received to-morrow.

EX OFFICIO INFOIIMATIONS.

The Earl of Mollt.t begged leave to retinest of
his Noble Friend (Lord .Holland), that he Ny o t!,d.
agree to let Palmer's Compensation Bill have the.
precedence, in the order•ofdiscussion to-morrow,
of those Bills•relative to the above subject, which
his Noble Friend had previously gien notice Of
his intention to bring forward.

Lord HOLLAisw had no -objection- to comply
with the request of his Noble Friend, though his
obervations of every day, 'and-particularly with
reference to passing circumstances in Ireland,
convinced hint of the necessity of bringing for-
.ward the subject as soon as possible: He thought,
however, after -the 'discussion alluded to by,the
Noble Earl, it would be too late to bring on one
of such peculiar importance as his intended mea-
sures, and therefore that he;should.have to post-
'pone it. He could 'hot then name any particular
day, 'as there were Noble Lords who maybe de-
sirous to take part in that discussion, whose con-
venience he wished to consult.

Earl GREY took the prent, as ..perhaps he
should have no future opportunity this Session, of
expressing his full concurrence in the measures
about to . be proposed, ,by his Noble Friend, or
tending to check a power so liable in'his abuse to
be productive of the most dangerous conseqUepecs
to the freedom of discussion. The, recent circum-
stances in Ireland inthiced him to think :it inore
necessary, than ever, where, instead of that system
of conciliation which was to be expected, after
what passed, prosecutions were carryirg.on sub-
jects relating to the Catholic , Question ; and. he
had heard of the Printer of a Pamphlet, entieed
" An inquiry into the PenalLawS against the Ca-
tholics," having been summoned on the part of
'the .Attarney General, to appear before him at his
house, to SIMI; cause why an information should
Lot be Mod: A similar procee_dag to this, he was

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the lawyers he conversed with on the
v.-as eNirelv unknown to them..
question for the, second reading of the
lighways Bill, a conversation took place,
:11,.n Earls of Lauderdale, Radnor, Hard-
,ovds Elliot and RedeSdale participated.
:nentioned.Peer moved, that the Bill be
read a second time that day three months, which
-s-,,as'neatiied without a 'division, and the
Is read a second time, and committed for

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AritI.I.A'NTJURISDICTION ANIS COURT OF CHAN-
CERY BILL.
Lord ItE.DESDALE moved - the ,consideration of
the Report Of this Bill, and took the' occasion to
express his surprise that he
,had. been previously
called on to assign the ground 4 upon which he
proposed the Bill to the House. He then stated
that it was originally founded on a report of their
Lordships' COmmittee on the .subject, made so far
Imek as May 1811, and adverted to a variety of
.considerations, more Allan once
.previously ana
ably urged by -his Lordship,' to , spew that the
great accumulation of Appeals in that House,
and the vast increase of the business, of late years
especially, in the COUrt of Chancery, rendered it
necessary that,,an Assistant should be appointed
to the Lord Chancellor;•in the transaction of the
business•-of. his peculiar Court, in order to enable
him to devote an adequate portion of. his time to,
the assisting in-the hearing of, and deciding upon
. Appeals, as 'Speaker'of their Lordships' House;
an ani,Ligement .partieularly recommended by the
report, and of the necessity of which all theie.
LOrdships must long since have been convinced.
The Noble and Learned Lord concluded by mov-
ing a verbal aritendinent -or two in the second,
clause of the Bill. These, after a few words from
Earl of Radnor were adopted. •
The Lo ari • CITANCELLOIt, in an argumentative
and forcible speech,expressed his full coneurrezice
in every thing that had been adVanced by his INTo
bre and Learned Friend, and said thA be was con-
scious that when lie was dead and gone, the 'sub-
jects of the country would be of opinion 'that a
measure of the most salutary and satisfactory na-
ture that could be adopted would be one which
tended to bring their appeals to that House.„_and
their suits' in the, Court of Chancery, to a
speedy decision... His Lordship then adverted
to. some de6ilc.l considerations of the practice
of the Court. of Chancery, in illustration of the
subject to . the Bill referred, and to
evince the
„necessity of its .adoption :—lt was
riot the visible occupations of the Chancellor, be
' observed, that Were to be alone considered. He
Must give his days, his hours, and his nights to
the consideration. of his duties, and even in the
retirement of his house, and the privacy of his
closet, if he nieant to do justice. And a consci-
entious attention to the cases of those capital ma-
. lefactors which lay before the Crown, with refe-

rence to a mercifid administration of justice, not
a little enhanced the anxious labours of the high
judicial officer in -question ; and the Noble and
_Learned Lord added a variety of other observa-
tions, all tending to evince not only the necessity,
but even the justice to the subjects of the country,
of the adoption'of a measure of the kind.
The. Report being agreed to by their Lord-
ships, the Bill was ordered to be engrossad, and
the House, at half-past Seven o'clock, adjourned
till to-morrovv.