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case. So great was the inconvenience felt at present, tha.
Counsel were oblged to postpone tl.e meet iroportaw
mattyrs relative to pleading until after Term, when the
Courts adjourned to Lincoln's Inn. Moreover, the present
Courts mere inconvenient for went of room. When Sir
John Soane was desired to design a plan for the Courts of
Law, he proposed two plans, with neither of which he
was satisfied but the cheapest of which was adopted.
much to the aanoyaneo of the architect, who, feel-
ing his reputation t.) be at stake, petitioned the House
of Commons against it, but without SUCCQSF. It was,
therefore, not only desirable that the Courts of Law
should be removed to a more convenient spot ; but that
more convenient Courts should be erected. With respect
to the convenience of the situation of the present Courts
to those gentlemen who practised before the Houses of
Parliament, that practice was confined to very few, and
those few were generally almost exclusively engaged in it.
It was said it was very convenient to those gentlemen
of the law who bad the honour of scats in that House, but
such a consideration could scarcely form an item in the list
of objections, and it was the general practise of these Gen-
tie.nen to return ironic after the business of the
Courts. Nothing then remained kit those old histo-
rical associations, which, however laudable, must
not he suffered to weigh against the more substantial
grounds of public convenience. Many spots had been
named and submitted to Mr. Barry, the architect, but it
was found that the best was in Lincoln's Inn-fields. Toat,
however, was a mater for further consideration, and had
better be left to a Committee. Ile submitted this was a
question of great importance, and one that from the resp,e-
tabillty of the to, titioners was well deserving of the conside-
ration !of the House.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir E. \V IL N.lO seanided the motion.—Agreed to.
Mr. R. GORDON moved for leave to b ing, in a Bill
to make fuit'Arir provision for facilitating and completing
the distribu ion and payment of compensation for claims
upon the a'oolition of slaverv.—Granted.
METROPOLITAN BRIDGES.

Sir MATTHEW WOOD presented a petition from
the nobility, gentry, bankers, merchants, and other in-
habitants of the metropolis and its environs, praying
the House to adopt some means for opening Waterloo,
Southwark, and Vauxhall B:idges, free of to;ls.
The Hon. Meml:er then moved for a Select Committee,
to take into consideration the several plans for the improve-
ment of the metropolis, concerning which Reports were
made to this House in the years 1536, 1838, 1839, and
1840, together with any other plans for the same object,
which they may d( em worthy of consideration ; and also
the petitions presented to this House for the purchase of
the interosts of the proprietors, of Waterloo, Southwark,
and Vauxhall-bridges, in order to their being immediately
opened to the use of the public free from toll ; and to re •
post their opinion as to the expediency of adopting any of
the said imprnvcmcnts, and, also, as to the best means of
carrying the same into elfeet.—Granted.
CROWN COMMISSIONS.

Mr. HUM E moved for a return of the several Com-
missions issued by virtue of any letters patent of the
Crown, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great 13;itain and Ireland, and under the Seal of the
Duchy of Lancaster, since the accession of her present
Majesty, distinguishing each class and the amount paid
for cacti Commission; stating the several fees and charges
constituting such amount; and also stating to whom the
said fees arc respectively paid, and what amount to each.
Also, an abstract of the number of Commissions of each
kind issued in each year, and the aggregate amount of
fees and charges received for the same.