The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-13 00:00:00

LAW INTELLEGENCE.

CO VI OP QUEEN'S BENCH, ./kLirll.
61iL7Rtill;RA'tES.--I‘llE kstiN thOltooooo.
t(Ppriiikled from our Paper of Sresttidaq.
Lord DE.N:;fi& thoyght it would b'e better; tinder all ate
circtithstat4a, to allow the cafe to stand over for an lied
or two, to give Sir 1,17!!!Ith:ti rdlleti tide in look into the
Act of Parliament.

After the lapse of about an hour,
.Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT begged to resume his arguments
in the case of the Queen v. Thorogood. He believed,
in consequence of the observations that had fallen from
their Lordships, that it would not be necessary for him to
trouble them with any arguments as to the au-
thority of the Velesiastical Court in the present
case. It would be a monstrous construction of the
Act to limit. the authority of the Court in
such cases. The second objection was rather of a technical
nature, and referred to the want of addition to the defend-
ant. Now, the statute to which his Learned Friend re-
ferred was the sth of Elizabeth, which, their Lordships
would find, referred only to writs De excommunicatione
capiendo, and not De conturnacio capiendo. The Act
which bore upon the present case was the 53d Geo. 111.,
chap. 127, entitled " An Act for the better regulation of Ec-
clesiastical Courts, and the more easy recovery of Church-
rates and Tithes." It began by reciting, that whereas it
was expedient that excommunication and all proceedings
conseqUent thereon should be discontinued, and certain
other regulations made with regard to Ecclesiastical
Courts, and more convenient modes adopted for the rcco-
vi ry of the tithes, &c. ; that from and after the passing
of the Act, excommunication should, save in certain cases,
be discontinued, and, instead thereof, the Judges should
issue their citation and pronounce such parsons guilty of
contempt, and within ten days thereof should issue the sig-
nificavit to them. The forms of the citation and signifi-

cavit were then set forth, and no addition whatever was set
forth in either. The addition referred merely to the
writ of excommunication, the other objection with
respect to the siguificavit not having been issued within 10
days. That he should meet in the same way, for there
was no direction in the Act to issue the significavit in 10
days. The third objection was want of jurisdiction, and
with that ho had already dealt. Now, his Learned Friend
could not pretend to say that all these proceedings were
not regular, but that they were not set out on the face of
the proceedings. There was a further objection which
had been disposed of by Mr. Baron Parke, and it
was this—they say, " Your rate is void, and all
your proceedings are void, not because you have
not followed the form prescribed by the Act of Par-
'lament, but because certain words contained in the &gni.
ticavit are not in the form of the Act." The Learned
Counsel here referred to the words introduced into the
significavit, which he contended did not in any way affect
the validity of the document. The last objection he
should notice was, that the citation should have b:en in the
name of the Commissary, and not in the pame of the Bishop
of London; but it appeared that in consequence of a vi-
sitation to that part of his diocese, therßiehop of. London
had issued an inhibition to prevent the Commissary acting
as such for three rnonthe, from the 17th of September
to the 30. h of November. During that period the
Commissary had no authority, and could not have acted in
the case. The only authority before whom he could he
cited, then, was the Vicar-General of the Diocese. He
submitted, upon all these grounds, that the rule must be
discharged.
Sir F. PoneocK, in support of the rule, said their
Lordships might suppose that the present case had else-
where introduced other topics than what legally belonged
to it. With these he had nothing to do; his only object
was to ascertain whether the imprisonment of. this indivi-
dual was authorized by law, and had been correctly ad-
judged. And tho omission of a single letter from any
part of the proceedings, like the omission of the
letter S where the Sheriffs were called Sheriff,
end in which their Lordships had decided that the
party was illegally detained in custody; was as important
to him ( Sir F. Pollock) as any general question of the
jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Court. The first objec-
tion was, that the party had not been cited before as
proper authority; and he maintained, notwithstanding the
inhibition which his Learned Friend had put in, that the
citation should have been before the Court of, Contentious
jurisdiction. It was clear that the inhibition of the Bishop
only referred to the voluntary jurisdiction, and not what was
called the Contentious jurisdiction, which "'as the peculiar
province of the Ecclesiastical Judge. It- was clear also that
this was not a case in which the Commissary could be
in'-ibited by the Bishop. because he held his office abso-
lutely fur life, and the Bishop had no power to inhibit or
remove him. In Burn's Ecclesiastical law, the distinc-
tion between Voluntary and Contentious jurisdiction was
fully defined, and indeed the circumstance of the Bishop
going into that part of the diocese had nothing to go with
an inhibition to the Commissary, because its terms were—
You shall not presume to visit the churches,
or the clergy, or exercise any other thing be-
longing to Ecclesiastical jurisdiction: or do anything
to the prejudice of our visitation." Neither from the
terms of the writ of inhibition, nor its object and pur-
port, nor the law upon which it was founded, nor the
right of the Judge, who was appointed for life, could the
Commissary be inhibited in his Contentious jurisdiction,
unless by a superior spiritual Court. The citation was
correct enough, but it should have been a citation calling
upon the party to appear before the Commissary, within
whose jurisdiction he lived, and not before the Vicar-
General, within whose jurisdiction be did not live. The
next point was that the Ecclesiastical Court had no
jurisdiction, or in other words, that the jurisdic-
tion of the Court did not appear. The Act die-
tinctly
stated that " nothing herein contained shall
interfere with the authority of the Ecclesiastical Court
in sums above 101." Now that plainly in-
timated that as the Act was not to interfere .in cases over
101. , it was intended to interfere in cases under 101., unless
the party had been previously before the Justices. That
not having been the case here, it was clear that the Court
had no jurisdiction. There was a case before the Eccle-
siastical Court of Hereford at the present moment, which
was suspended on that very point. The next objection to
which lie would refer was that there was no addition. The
defendant was designived " John Thorogood, of the parish
of Chelmsford, in the county,of Essex," but there was no
addition of knight, esquire, gentleman, farmer, labourer, or
anything of that sort. The citation; the significavit,
the writ, and the warrant all followed the same form, hay-
ing no addition to the name. Now, both the statute of
Elizabeth and the 53d 'Geo. 111. concurred in the neces-
Sits, of an addition, without which it was distinctly held
that the proceedings must be null and void. The next
objection referred to the omission of the ten days being set
out in the signifieavit, and on that point, at all events, his
Learned Friend was clearly out of Court. From anything
appearing on the face of the document as to the time when
the contempt was committed, it might have occurred at so
distant a period of time as to oust the Bishop of any au-
thority he had. On these grounds he trusted their
Lordships would consider that the party was entitled
to have the writ set aside. His Learned Friend had relied
upon the decision of Baron Petite, before whom the
case came on a motion for a writ of Habeas Corpus. He
had the learned Baron's judgment, and it was clear from
it that many of the points now presented to their Lord-
ships had never come before him. Independently of that,
it was one of the blessings of Weir constitution that the
decision of one Judge might be appealed from to another,
and the greatest latitude was allowed in all cases where
the liberty of the subject was concerned. In the case now
before the Court, he submitted that the authority of the
Commissary was not taken away by the inhibition, and
that the party ought to have been cited before him, and not
before the Vicar-General. He submitted that the
authority of the. Court to interfere at all was
not disclosed in any part of the proceedings. He sub-
mitted further, that it did not appear even where
the party ought to have gone, or when. He submitted
that the citation of the Bishop should have been set out—
that the statute of additions applied to the present case.
and that the want of that. addition in the form given in the
Act was no answer to the objection. He submitted lastly,
that there ought to have appeared on the face of the citation
the offence complained ofe and that the significavit should
have been shown to have been issued 10 days after the of-
fence had been committed, of which there was no proof
whatever.. On these grounds he trusted that their Lordships
would be of opinion that the proceedings ought to be quashed,
and the party who had now been in confinement over since
- January 1839 should be set at liberty. He regretted that
these objections had not been taken some time ago, in older
that. the unfortunate defendant might have thrown around
eleine that protection which by the common law of the land
hiswas.entitled to.
Mr. MANNINO and Mr. Real:vex followed on the same
side, and.
The COURT said they must look more minutely into the
case before pronouncing their judgment.
- The arguments occupied the Court for upwards of five
hours.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, MAY 12.
THE NORTHAM BRIDGE-ROAD COMPANY V. SOUTH WESTERN

RAILWAY COMPANY.

Mr. KNIGHT Baum,. said that on behalf of the plaintiffs
he had simply to move his Honour for an injunction, in
this case against the defendants, to restrain them from
using the railway, as an inevitable consequence of the de-
cision the Court had come to yesterday. He felt it to
be perfectly unnecessary to offer another observation then
to the Court.

Mr. M. D. HILL appeared on behalf of the defendants.
It was with very great reluctance that he again appeared
before his Honour in this case, and he could appeal to ,his
Learned Friend, Mr. Jacob, to confirm his statement, that
it was only at the earnest solicitation of that Learned
Gentleman that he did a} tear, because, in truth, he felt
that the legitimate labours'of both the Solicitor-General
and himself in that court had terminated yesterday. But,
however, as the granting of an injunction was founded more
on the dictates of natural justice, than depending upon the
display of any extra learning in equity. he hoped he should
bo excused for going into the case. The facts of this case
were fully before the Court in June last, and he should
briefly rccal them to his Honour's attention. The Learned
Counsel then proceeded at considerable length to argue
against the injunction.
Mr. KNIGHT BRUCE replied, when
Tne V:cE- CHANCELLOR, on the understanding that the
defendants would commence immediately the building of
the bridge for the passage of the Nortbam-bridge-road,
directed the motion to stand over, with liberty for either
party to apply to the. Court ; and the motion made by tbo
defendants the preceding sl2y was dismissed with costs.

THE FAST-DAY.—The citizens of Aberdeen
had the good sense to allow the clergy to keep their Non-In-
wi With one eye at
trusion fast themselves. In the forenoon, net a single shop, ss
as we are aware, was shut, with the exception of one which
n e-h a l
somef l i k
lei
aal f
-scci
ohzoeonl -
obro ys
ow
closed
dg a t
see
en, instead
-)1 eight, P.M. prayersfar
a s ld
andone-half—like
only c s; e
; in honour of the occasion. The attendance
in the churches was miserably thin, which, we have no doubt,
would have a most humiliating effect on The preachers.—
Aberdeen Herald.
Mr. Starkie Downing, Professor of Law in the
Un versity of Cambridge, is mentioned as likely to be the new
candidate on the Liberal interest for the borough.— Cambridge
Chronicle.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC jOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)

Who are the Repeaters ? The 'Government, whose
mild, Lemma equitable, and paternal sway, has con-
ciliated the affections and won the confidence of the
Irish nation—or the tactic:a, whose reckless and insane
hostility has lashed them into fury ? Who are the
Repeaters? The Government, whose motto has been
" to Ireland," and whose earnest desire and
strenuous eir.olts have boot to assimilate the laws and
institutions of both eunntries, and thus extend to every
Irishman, without respect to treed, the full privileges
and rights of a British subject; and thus render England
and Ireland, in reality, what they are in name, integral
portions of a " United Kingdom"--or the House of Lords,
which has thrown out three successive Bills for Municipal
Reform in Ireland, and which at this moment avows an in-
tention of dealing in the same manner with the fourth,
unless it can be clipped and pared down into a measure
which shall leave the corporations of Ireland what they
are at present—hostile for:eesses planted in the midst of a
hostile population_outworks of an obnoxious ascendancy
—strongholds of a ditested faction ? Who are the Re-
peaters ? The Government, who carry into operation the
plain meaning] and avowed intention of the Catholic
Emancipation Act—or the men who raise a howl of rage
at the appointment of a solitary Roman Catholic Privy
Couucillor ? In fine, Who are the Repeaters? The
men, to keep whom in (Igice the grateful high nation are
predated to make any sacrifice—or the men, to keep
whom out of office they are prepared to go to any extremes?
(From the Standard.)
The Bishop of Exeter might hare epared himself the
trouble of explaining, as he did last nigL, that he had
never spoken disrespectfully of the Ecclesiastica;Fstablish-
ment in Scotland, or refused to it the character of a Chris-
tian Church. The very parties who charged his Lordship
with the expressions disclaimed by him, and proved by
the united testimonies of Lords Haddington, Lans-
downe, and others, never to have fallen from his lips—well
knew, that when making the charge they were giving ut-
terance to a falsehood—well knew, that what his Lordship
said was this, that though the Church of Scotland is by
law established in that part of Great Britain to which its
name directs, it :s not the Established Church of the em-
pire. This proposition is too obviously incontrovertible to
allow of hanging a calumny upon ic, and therefore it was mis-
quoted by those vi ho lose no opportunity of reviling the met;
they fear—reviling of course those most bitterly whom they
fear most. fig this class of men, most dreaded by the haters
of all that is good, the Bishop of Exeter justly occupies a
high, perhaps the highest place : his surpassing talents—
his untiring zeal—his fearlessness—and, above all, his
spotless character, and exemplary devotion to the duties
of his sacred office—mark him out as a man at once to
be dreaded, and to he successfully assailed only by misre-
presentation and falsehood. As we have said, therefore,
hie Lordship may spare himself the pains of correcting
misrearescotation and exposing falsehood.
( From the Courier.)
It is fortunate for the country that the Conservative
Opposition in the House of Commons is composed of men
who are sincerely desirous of promoting "good Govern-
ment," without regard to party.politics; and that feeling it
to be their duty to take upon themselves one of the most
important functions of a Government, that of instituting
beneficial mtasures for the consideration of Parliament,
it is not less fortunate that " her Majesty's Oppo-
sition" possess the experience and ability as well as
the will to enable them to supply the deficiencies of the
men to whom the Government of the country is at pre-
sent confided. Sir Robert Peel last night, called the
attention of the Governineut? to the evil effects result-
ing from the continuance 'on the Statute-Book of that
part of the Law of Rating iskich renders the stock of a
trader liable to be included in the, amount of value by
which the rate to be levied on him is to be regulated.
As the law at present exists, the stock of a trader is
iiable to the poo: -rate. So the Court of Queen's Bench
has decided ; arid the Poor-law Commissioners, acting on
this decision, have given notice that any rate made without
including the stock of the trader is invalid. Now, although
such is the law, every one knows that such has not been the
practice ; the difficulty of earning such a law into effect is
such that by a tacit understanding, it has not been attempted
to be enforced. Though law, it was obsolete law.

EVENING lON,'._.II,DIT
v
! appeared in the reports as if he had ?MTO V I.P:=_-i7s-lr's‘
'refused the request merely to allow the wr l.rts. 7,- e••------'
over from Monday till Thursday, whereasds ..1 '.. s'tl' •-• :-.-, t
ken all which was required, he would ha 6,1 Cldc2 sr '' 4,-?..-
acceded to it; and it would be in the recoqeeatair .--a.. L-.13.eh.V -f
1
the House that he had expressly asked if thqss-aii;ress?"asei4s,
be any objection to give an assurance that, esint -,-----N't.-5.
would not be opposed on Thursdasa—( Hear, }fear, .a. ~.:.,,i 'if IT'
cries of " Oh, oh," from the Ministerial beaches.)
He thought he was correct in making that statement. To
that application the Hon. Secretary nad made no answer, o,
and his proposition had been met only by cries of " Nev,..
no, go on, go on ;" so that he had no other alternative but
to proceed with his motion ; and to the question
whether he was justified or not in so doing, he
could only answer that he thought he was justified
When a majority of the douse had decided in favour of his
motion.—(Cheers.) Such being the case, he naturally
expected there would be no further opposition to the
issuing of the writ.. It had Leen decided in his favour by
a full House—(Cheers)—the House coosistiug of nearh
460 Members.—( Cheers.) In such a fall House as that, .
he had been supported by a y Ma'orit of 11.—(Loud
cheers.) After such a decision,1 be' had hoped that
he should not have ericouretered any further opposi.
flog. But the minority, who, h
imagined that they would have heentehe majority—(Op-
position had
(Op-
position cheers)—had felt their disappointment so* great—
(Clieers)—that unable either to bridle their passion, or to
restraiu their resentment—( Loud cheers)—they had de.:
termined to have reoourse to fornis, fur the purpose of de-
feating the decision of the House. Every-body in the
House knew tie power that could be exercised by a
species of Parliamentary tactics which the public-
perhaps did not altogether understand. Every
Member of Parliament was aware that the mino-
rity had it in their power, by having recourse to
these tactics, to defeat a majority. This power,
it was true, Will, not often put in force. He bad always
thought it a great Meet in the law that such a power
should exist, and if it. were often put in practice be was
sure it would be found necessary eventually to provide
some remedy for this defect. 'Perhaps no person was
more conversant with minorities than himself---( Cheers from
the Ministerial beriehes)—euriog twenty-eight years that
he had been in Parliament. yrith.the exception of one short.
Session, it had been his misfortune always to take his seat.
on the Opposition benches.—( Cheers and laughter.) He
was, therefore well used to minorities. Ile was far from
contending that minorities were always in the wrong ; on • .
tLe contrary, he thaught that minorities were frequently in
the rig tit._ ( Hear, hear.) But, oa the otner hand, he would'
contend, twat a minority either in the House of Commons
or elsewhere, seere called upon to bow to the decision
of the majarty,—('c Hear, hear," and cheers.) If such
were not the case, how could any business [so carried on''.
—( Hear, hear.) Hr condemned altogether this system,'
and although be had frequently voted in minorities,
he had never in any singic instance countenanced
any factious proceeding of that sort.—( Hear.) It was
not for him to say what coarse should he pursued.
but this he might say, that although the House had de-
cided that the writ should not be issued, if he could only
find three other Members to back him,as had been stated
by the Hon. Member fur Kilkenny, he should feel it his duty
to stop all other public business.—(Hear, hear.) The.
Hon. Member concluded, by moving that a new writ should
issue for the borough of Ludlow.
Calonel S I JiTHORP seconded the motion.
Mr. E. .1 STANLEY agreed with the Noble Lord,
that the country would duly appreciate the proceedings •
of the House last night —( ficar)—and ac: accordingly.
Those proceedings would not eaaily be forgotten, and he
would venture to say they would have !heir weight with the '
country. He thought the House ought to be most careful.
before it issued a new writ for the borough u Ludlow. lie
found in the Illorning Peal that " Mr. Stanley said he dis-
tinctly told the Noble Lord it was the anxious %visa of his
Noble Friend to be present, and se propose some mea.sure
to check the system of corruption that had been practiss.d
at the recent election." In the 7 iwa there was sa_
similar report of what he had stated. He thought these
quotations from Papers not advocatilig the principles
he professed was a fair representation of what took place,
and therefore he confidently appealed to the lioth'e and
the country, whether he did not rest his case for p:461.-
ponement on the unavoidable absence of the Noble Lord;.•
and his anxious desire to be present.—(Hear, hear.) lie
had staled it was the intention of the Niible Lord to pro-
pose some measure to check those evils. What he had stated
to the Noble Lord in the morning was, that ire
could not say whether it was the intention of
his Noble Friend to move the further postponement of the -
writ, because he was not prepared to say what would be
done on the proposition he intended to make, or what
ulterior course he might think it right to propose. He
certainly had thought he had asked for nothing more than;
had been almost 'invariably conceded.—( Hear, bear.)
The appeal which the Noble Lord the Member
for North Lancashire, made on a former night, was wil-
lingly and cheerfully responded to.—(hear, hear.) He-
Tight also mention an instance in the other House of
. _

Parliament is here a measure of the greatest importance
was postponed for the convenience of a Noble sad Learned
Lord who was on a visit in the country.—( Loud cheers.)
He thought that in this ease ;i:.• might fairly contend:
for the postponement, inasmuch as. this.: was not the case of
a writ bring issued on the death of an inciirdual, or on the
recession of an individual to office, but a a rit IN:jog issued
after a grave and solemn consideration of a great Oa" of
evidence specially reported by a Committee of the Maytag
of COMIIIOIIR, in which it was stated that bribery and treating
had existed to an alarmieg, extent. —( No, no ! hear. hear.) •
Bribery had certainly exist( (1, and treating to a very great
exterv. The !louse had expressed a wishto take into con-
sideration the evidence, and if it had not. been intended to
propose certain ulterior measures be knew not why tar
House did not i minediately proceed to the consideration of it.
That being the case, and his Noble Friend having ex-
pressed a wish to be in esent open the debate, basing r
pressed his wish to introduce some general measure in
order to attempt to clack dirge practices, he thought it
was not too much to ask for the postponement of the
issuing of the writ for three days—(Cheers)—until his
Noble Friend should he in his place.
The Earl of DARLINGTON was certainly not an-
swerable for what appeared in the newspapers, but the
lion. Gentleman had certainly never once said that he ap-
plied to him on the account or at the request of the Noble
Lord. What he had said was that he wanted the discus:
sion of both writs to go together.
Mr. STANLEY said the impression was strong upon
his mind that he had given his reason for asking the post-
ponement of the motion, and it was confirmed by what had
taken place in the house respecting the writ for Cambridge.
Mr. HORSNIAN wished to say a few words upon the
sui jest. In consequence of what had taken place, he
be begged to call the attention of the House to the
latter proceedings of the Committee. It was true the
Committee had net reported as to general bribers,
but there were allegations of general bribery
which counsel wanted to prove, but the Committee
declined. They came to the resolution that Henry Clive
was guilty, by hirns?ll and agents, of treating. Counsel
were then asked what course they intended to pursue.
Mr. Cockburn wished to pioceed to prose general
bribe r,, with a view to ulterior proceedings. Atter
a' othe; consultation, the Learned Gentleman said he
v ould proceei with his proof in ti:e case of Thomas
Ilevriek, and havnii, concluded that he would
leave the eac. in "the bands of the Copititttce,
The Committee had found on a single case that lir. Clive
had been guilty, through his agents, of bribery at the Lud=
low election. But what had conic out on that single case ?
Let the House hear the conversation which had taken
place on the occasion between the party who had been_
bribed, and :he person who had offered the bribe, who was
the wife of the agent. " She asked if 301. would do.
said no. What did she say then ? She asked if .iOl.
would do. I said no again, ss I understand you were
giving loot What did she say in answer ? She said
no, and that 501. was 10/. more than they had
given to anybody."--Loud cries of " Hear, hear.
hear," from the Ministerial benches. ) The House
should feel that witness on the occasion was a credible one.
becaure it was on his evidence the Committee had come tea
that decision. When that case had come before the Coto-
mittee they) had been precluded from the inquiry.
He (Mr. Horaman) wished that before the writ
was issued the evidence should come under the conside-
ration of the House. He had stated that to his Noble
Friend the Secretary for the Treasury, and he had wished
to state it to the Noble Lord—(Darlington) but
he had not an opportunity of doing so. On Ttusday
night he was not in the House when the matter
was alluded to. He was told last night that a request war
to be made to the Noble Lord as to the postponement of
the writ, and there was certainly a belief on his side of the
House —( Hear, bear) there was a belief that the.
request would be complied with. He was very sure
thin if the request had been properly understood
by Hen. Gentlemen opposite, they would have been ready
to accede to it. He thought that as two days were all
that had been asked for, in order to enter into a further
investigation of the case, such a wish should have Ince
complied with.—( Hear, hear.) He would in that tale
have deferred to the judgment of the House,
and even now if Hon. Gentlemen would come to as
arrangement, he would not press the motion which he had
to submit to the House on the subject. Should no
such arrangement be come to; he would matte ,the
following reotien " That a Select Committee be
appointed to inquire into the extent to which
treating bribery and corruption prevailed at the late
and at the previous elections for the borougb of Cam-
bridge, and that pending the inquiry, the writ for the
borough be not issued."
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no division
took place ; and en our return to the Gallery we found
Lord PALMERSTON on his legs. He had hoped
that his Honourable Friend, Mr. Horsman, would base
moved agaiu the motion he had made last ight,
that the debate s!.ould be adjourned to Thursday.
If he had done so, he should have felt it his iduty to have
voted with him. If the House was prepared to decide
upon the present motion, he, for one, would vote with hie
Noble Friend.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the
House crivb!cd, when there appeat ed—
For the amendment
Against it
Majority against the amendment —36
On the original question being put from the chair,
Mr. WA R. 13 R.TON said that he Bose for the purpose
of moving that the farther consideration of this question
should be adjourned to Thursday next. He merely- pro-
posed that the further consideration of this question should
be deferred to the earliest day on which the Noble Lord
who represented the Government in that House could. at.
tend, and he did this on the ground of the effect which
would be produced upon the other boroughs of the United
Kingdom if the delinquincies of the borough of Ludlow
were passed over as nothing out of the usual coquer-and
if no notice were taken of the transactions which bad taken
place in that borough. It seemed to him that the best
step the House could have taken would hail. been to have
assented to the motion which had been negatived. But as
that motion had been negatived, he wished to know from
the Noble Lord what shield of protection he would spread
over the other boroughs of the United Kingdom.? How
would he protect them from the occurrence of such transac.
tiQIIS as bad taken place in the borough of Ludlow ? Th.