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He would not go into the details of the matter now, but
1 rally, t.;,:[!-. the, o;d1
Coaawi.siop,rs htio conbidereu and had come
to the opinion that it would be best to fix
a sum for each bishop; the arrangement made was
that certain sums should be said to some bishops and
certain sums received from other bishops, instead of
paying them them their fixed salaries, which would have
borne too much. the appearance of a salaried office. The
bishops were to take the risk of those sums, exceeding or
falling short of the income fixed, and the consequence were
that some of the Bishops had received more or some less
than the sums to which they were entitled to by law,
but there was no claim on the part of the House, or any
one else, to claim these sums, any more than any other
private property.

- Sir B. HALL explained, that what he had said was
that certain incomes were assigned to the sees, but
that certain bishops had received larger incomes than
were assigned, and that having undertaken to pay over
the stuns to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, they had
neglected to do so. That was the substance of his
alteration.

Mr. HORSMAN rose, but was received with loud
cries of "Order," which rendered h impossible for him
o proceed.
Mr. B. OSBORNE then moved the adjOurnment of
the House.

Mr. HORSMAN seconded the motion. His complaint
was that on various occasions he had endeavoured to ob-
tain information, and had experienced not only how dif-
ficult it was to obtain information, but how unfairly it
was withheld.

Mr. W. PATTEN interrupted. The practice of pro-
longing a discussion by motions, the adjournment of the
house had grown so common, that he put it to Hon.
Members whether, if it were persisted in, it would be
possible to proceed with any regular business?
Mr. HORSMAN said he was perfectly in order, and
did not think the Honourable Gentleman had any right
to interrupt him.
The SPEAKER said that if the Hon. Gentleman
wished to remain in order he must keep to the question.
Mr. HORSMAN, amid loud cries of question, rose
again. He could assure Hon. Gentlemen, and particu-
larly the Hon. Member for Newark, that he was not to
be put down by their cries of order. He reiterated his
complaint, that it was impossible to obtain correct in-
foimation of the ecclesiastical questions. Incorrect
answers were often knowingly given, particularly in the
ase of Horsham the other day.
Mr. H. DRUMMOND, as a near friend and relative
of one of the belied prelates, protested against accusa-
tions being brought forward in a manner which entirely
prevented any answer being given.
Mr. GOULBURN rebutted the insinuation that he
had given an incorrect answer with regard to the
Horsham case. He had stated all he knew on the subject.
After a few words from Sir R. H. INGLIS,
Sir B. HALL explained that what he said was, that it
appeared by the Parliamentary return, that the Bishops
of Chichester, St. Darid'e, Ely, Oxford, Norwich, and
Salisbury, received 28,2671. a year more than the in-
comes assigned to their respective sees.
The motion for the adjournment until Monday was
then agreed to.
MERCHANT SEAMAN'S BILL.

I❑ reply to Sir A. WILLOUGHBY,
Mr. LABOUCIJERE said he proposed to take
the Merchants Seaman's Bill at twelve o'clock on Thurs-
day next.
ECCLRSIASTICAL TITLES BILL.

On the motion for the third reading of this Bill being
proposed,
Mr. J. O'CONNELL said, as it bad been found
that it would be mote generally convenient to take
the debate on the questton that the Bill do pass, hoped
the third reading iv.uld be agreed to without discussion.
Mr. REYNOLDS could not sanction the third reading
of this Bill of pains and penalties, because his opposition
remained unabated and unaltered. The answer given
by the Noble Lord at the head of the Government to a
question pet by the Hon. Baronet the Member for the
University of Oxford yesterday, led him (Mr. Reynolds)
and those with whom he had the honour to act, to
believe that no one in the House knew what sort of
Bill this was ultimately to be. Li fact, the Noble Lord
who was the author of the Bill, could not tell
whit new shape it was likely to assume in the next 24
hours.—(Hear.) Howei sr, wiser men, and men more
experienced iu the proceedings of the House than
himself, had advised that no division should
take place on the third reading, inasmuch as, according
to the forms of the House, it would not be competent
for the Noble Lord to expunge or alter any
clauses until the Bill had passed that stage.
In giving his consent, therefore, to the mo-
tion, he begged it to be understood that it was
that kind of consent which an oyster gave
when it was going to be opened.—(Laughter.) He was
not prepared to lend himself to such a farce as
dividing upon the third reading. This political
and religious camelion had changed its hues on every
discussion, and what ,the next hue was to be,
whether green, blue, 'or black, entirely depended
on the collective wisdom of the nation.—
(A. laugh.) He begged to be specifically understood
as reserving to himself the right of expressing an opinion
upon this Bill of pains and penalties against his creed
and his country, when the motion was made that the
Bill do pass.—(Hear.)
The Bill was then read a third time.
Lord J. RUSSELL said it was not his intention to
propose any amendment in the preamble as it now
stood, or in the first clause. The Noble Lord then
moved the omission of the words from "any person" in
the 27th line, to the words " any person" in the 32d
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I she.

IMPERTAL PARLIAMENT.

BOUS.e OP LOAD.) J'o7l 3.
ADULTERATION OF COFFEE.

Lord IV HARNCIAFFE presented a petition com-
plaining of the adulteration of coffee; and in presenting
it he would wish to direct the attention of their Lord-
ships to the important subject of the adulteration of
coffee by the admixture of chicory and other matters.
The Noble Lord then proceeded to detail the pro-
visions of the various Acts of Parliament which had
at different times been passed on this subject up
to the year 1840, when a Treasury Order was issued,
permitting the adulteration of coffee with chicory.
From that time there had been a continual increase in
the substitution of chicory and other adulterations for
coffee, and now the consumption of coffee had
been seriously affected, and, as a necessary con-
sequence, the revenue' had suffered. At the time
this order was issued, all the chicory was
imported, and liable to a duty, and therefore
the loss to the revenue was only the difference in the
duty between chicory and coffee; but now chicory was
grown in this country it was subect to no taxation, was
protected, in fact, by the amount of the duty imposed on
foreign chicory, and thus the revenue was injured by the
substitution of an article paying no duty for one paying
a high duty. The Noble Berm declared himself dissa-
tisfied with the various reasons which his Right Hen.
Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer had assigned
far continuing the Treasury minute of 1849, and con-
cluded by moving that the petition be laid on the table.
Earl GRANVILLE would not reply at that momont
to the arguments of his Noble Friend, as the subject had
already undergone the fullest discussion elsewhere. As
his Noble Friend had referred to the question of revenue
he would just say in reply that it was not desirable to
make any change in the fiscal arrangements respecting
coffee on that ground. The increase in the consumption
of tea and coffee, to which his Noble Friend bad referred,
was quite sufficient to explain the reason of the diminu-
tion in the consumption of coffee. If the Government
could take measures to prevent chicory from being sold as
coffee, it might be desirable to do so; but it had been stated
that a whole array of Excisemen could not prevent the
adulteration. The Treasury minute of 1840 was made on
the representation of the dealers that it was impossible
fur the Excise to prevent the mixture of chicory with
coffee, and that under such circumstances it was impossible
for them, who. sold unmixed coffee, to compute with

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those w
sold it thus adulterated. If this were true
ten years ago, it was still more so at the present mo-
ment. He would not say that either Sir F. Baring,
Mr. Goulburn, or Sir C. Wood were infallible autho-
rities on matters of finance ; but it was something, he
thought, in favour of the present system that each and
all of them had determined not to rescind the minute
of 1840.
SMITHFIELD MARKET REMOVAL BILL.

Lord BEAUMONT then gave notice that he would
move to-morrow that the standing orders be dispensed
with in respect to this Bill.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

Lord BROUGHAM reminded their Lordships that in
the spring of last yn ar his late lamented friend, Lord
Cuttenham, had presented a Bill to them, in which they
bad concurred unanimously, and had afterwards sent to
the House of Commons. It was a Bill abolishing patro-
nage producing great emolument, and among other
ogees it abolished the office of chief registrar of the
Court of Bankruptcy, which produced to the holder
1,200.. a-year, and transferred the duties of it to the
Lord Chancellor's chiet secretary, and on his accepting
the office the emoluments were to cease and determine.
He had been much surprised to hear that this Bill had
been denounced in the other House as something
very like a corrupt proceedirg—in a word, as
a job—and bad been lost accordingly.—(Hear, hear.)
Would to God that we had more such j bs
Mr. Lergesnt Lawes, the chief registrar, had died a few
weeks before the introduction of the Bill, and his duties
were performed provisionally under anotLer artange•
went. Lord Cottenhatn, therefore, inserted a clause in
the measure to give validity to ail the prciceediugs in
bankruptcy which had taken place subsequently to
Sergeant Lawes's death. When the Bill was rejected
this clause was, of course, rejected also, and the conse-
quence was that all the proceedings in bankruptcy which
had t .ken place since sergeant Lawes's death were in-
valid. The qaestion he wished to wit was, whether it
was the intention of his Noble Friend on the Woolsack
to introduce forthwith a Bill to give validity to those
proceedings?
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that his Noble
and Learned Friend had °meetly stated the facts of
the case. His own attention had recently been called to
the matter, and he found that the office of chief regis-
trar was essential to give validity to the most important
proceedings in bankruptcy. This disagreeable state of
affairs was entirely attributable to those who took
upon themselves the responsibility of throwing out
Lord Cottenham's Bill. It would be necessary to bring
in a Bill to give validity to the proceedings in bank-
ruptcy which had taken place since the registrar's death.
Fortunately the blot had not been discovered, otherwise
the greatest confusion must have been caused. Persons
who took on themselves the responsibility of altering

or rejecting Bills were not always- aware of the cons;
quences that would flow from their acts. Complaints
had recently been directed against him because he had
not done as much as lay in his power since he became
Lord Chancellor to carry into effect certain recom-
mendations contained in reports of Committees. It was
said that two reports had recommended the abolition of
certain offices, one of which was that of secretary of
briefs, and another chaff-wax.—(A laugh.) It bad
been made matter of reproach to him that he had not
complied with the recommendation of the reports al-
luded to by abolishing these offices. In the first place, he
could find no such reports at all; he believed none such
had ever been made. It those who made these state-
ments had only taken a little trouble beforehand they
would have found that the offices referred to had been
abolished for years. It was also stated that he had
seven secretaries. It might as well be said that the
First Lord of the Treasury bad a number of secretaries,
because the Secretaries of State were subordinate to
him. (So we understood the Noble and Learned Lord,
who was occasionally heard very indistinctly.) When
he entered on his office the Lord Chancellor had two
gentlemen of the chamber—offices which might fairly be
deemed sinecures. He abolished one, and reduced the salary
of the other. Lord Cottenham had reduced the salary of
the gentleman of the chamber from 1.0001 to 7501, and ho
(the Lord Chancellor) had now reduced it to 5001. The
office was no sinecure now. The gentleman of the
chamber, as he was called, was always at his (the Lord
Chancellor's) house till midnight, and sometimes later,
engaged in the performance of arduous duties. The al-
terations made in the law of bankruptcy bad diminished
the duties of the secretary in bankruptcy, in consequence
of which he had been deprived of certain fees, and re-
tained only his salary of 1,200/. The salary of the prin-
cipal secretary was also 1 2001. Teat officer'e services
were not personal to the Chancellor; his duty was to
make certain reports, which were submitted to the head
of the Court. Next came the secretary of presentations,
with a salary of 200/. The officer received every morn-
ing all the letters addressed to the Lurd Chancellor on
the subject of Church patronage, and replied to those
which required an answer. It was this officer's duty to
make inquiries as to the qualifications of persons to be
presented to livings, and to obtain a certificate on that
bead from each candidate. The office was held by
a nephew of Lord Cottenham, and its duties were
constant and responsible. The salary of the secretary
of commissions was 400/., and it was his duty to insti-
tute inquiries as to the fitness of the persons recom-
mended for the commission of the peace, particularly in
boroughs ; for the recommendation of lords-lieutenant
for county magistrates might generally be relied upon.
The secretary of lunatics was a most important
office, and the salary was 8001. The salary of the secre-
tary of decrees and injunctions was 301., which was
about as much as the office was worth. It should be re-
collected that it was only in July last that he entered
upon his office, and since then his attention had been
directed almost day and night to the discharge of his
duties. It was said that with respect to the Court of
Chancery there had been too much inquiry and too little
done. W het these complaints were made for he knew
not, but if the party making them had taken some
trouble he might have known what had been done. It
was true a great deal remained to be done, but he ven
tured to say that a vast deal had been done. From 1824
downwards various orders had been made which ope-
rated seriously on the practice in the Court of Chan-
cery. Even as late as 1850 Lord Cottenham issued a
body of orders of considerable importance. A Bill in
which Vice-Chancellor Turner took an interest had
also had a material effect on proceedings in Chan-
cery. The orders he had referred to were the means
of bringing hundreds of cases into the paper for
hearing which formerly must have waited a con-
siderable time before arriving at that stage.
It was only those who knew not the evils
which were generated by alterations made by rash
hands who undervalued what had been done. A great
many changes had of late years been made in the bank-
ruptcy law—indeed it had been altered five or six times.
The consequence of those changes was that no large
bankruptcy was worked out now in the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.—(An indignant cry of " Hear," from Lord
Brougham.) How it happened he knew not, but the
parties who formerly came to the Court of Chancery,
with all its evils unredressed, with bankruptcy cases,
would not go into the Bankruptcy Court, but preferred
having recourse to i private tribunal of their own. It
was difficult to ascertain the cause, but certain it was
the new system had not worked in such a way as to
induce the merchants of London to have recourse to it
to determine bankruptcy cases in which they were in-
terested. It was notorious that not one out of twenty
large cases was worked out in the Bankruptcy Court.
This he stated on the authority of most respectable soli-
citors. As regarded the attack on himself, it was calcu-
lated to bring odium on the Government as well as him.
He would lose no opportunity of introducing amend-
ments into the Court of Chancery. A commission was
sitting. to which he mentioned any defects which struck
him. It was most unjust to accuse him of not wishing
reforms to take place, for he was a reformer before re-
form was in fashion, and he would not cease to be one
now.

Lord BROUGHAM protested against the extraordi-
nary and unnatural course taken by his Noble and
Learned Friend. His Noble and Learned Friend rose
to reply to a question which at the request of his Noble
and Learned Friend he had postponed putting until then,
in order to give him an opportunity if answering a
charge made against him of nut abuli►biug some offices
which he (Lord Brougham) had abolished years ago,
and then his Noble and Learu-d Friend—not content
with defending himsulf—must feeds carry warfare into
the territory of an ally, and attack him (Lord Broug-
ham), who had actually afforded him the opportunity cf
being heard in his own detenc-,.—(HeAr, hear, and
laughter.) Yes ; his Noble and Learned Friend had
chosen wantonly to attack him, but he was prepared to
defend himself. His were the " rash hands " which
dared to interfere with the ancient and venerable system
of bankrupt law, and to establish the new jurisdiction of
the 9ourt of Bankruptcy. What I did his Noble and

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other adbuse. rd lie
took his scat in coast to declare that i; was a system! of
corruption and abuse from begitiniag to enu ? The so-
licitors, it seemed, Isere against the Bankruptcy Court.
They were tight. Under the old system a bankruptcy
was a regular annuity to a solicitor.—(Hear.) Those
worthy gentlemen sighed .to think that out of 20 in-
solvencies only one went to the Court of Bankruptcy, to
be " worked up" as his Noble and Learned Friend de-
scribed the process. How this end result cline about
his Noble and Learned Friend did not know, but so it
was; there must, however, he opined, be some reason for
it. There was, and he would tell his Noble and Lc arned
Friend what it was. By improvements introduced into
the law the old system had been so ranch amended as to
give now the greatest possible encouragement to parties
to do that which had at all times been regarded as the
perfection of an insolvent law, namely, to have the bank-
rupt's property divided among his creditors, instead of
waiting until it had been run away with partly by pre-
ference creditor* and partly by respectable solicitors,
to whom the bankrupt's property was a nice little income.
This was it which had causA not more than 1 in 20 of
insolveacies to be carried to the Court of Bankruptcy to be
worked up. And who had a right to complain of that?
If the cases were otherwise settled, it must be by the
wish of the parties. If the creditors found they could
wind up the affair without the expense•and delay conse-
quent upon going to the Bankruptcy Court, who had
any right to complain? His Noble and Learned Friend
took care to inform their Lordships that ho was the friend
of law reform. It had been his (Lord Brougham's) lot to
see many friends of law amendment from the time of
Lord Eldon, but they were all friends to the cause in
general, Come to particulars, and they objected to
every reform proposed. When these professing reformers
were called upon to act their acts directly belied their
professions. That was the class of law reformers to which
his Noble •and Learned Friend belonged, and he was
almost disposed to place him at its head.—(Laughter.)
There was another circumstance which might in some
measure account for the small number of cases carried

to the Bankruptcy Court—a thing which seemed so
sorely to have gravelled his Noble and Learned F:iend
—and that was the prosperity of the country. But what
did his Noble and Learned Friend object to? Was it
the official assignees? If he did, he was the only
person who took that view of the case, except perhaps
his friends, the respectable solicitors. When the ap-
pointment of the official assignees was under considera-
tion, a member of the banking firm of Smith, Payne,
and Smith stated that the change would cause his
house to lose 7,0001. or 8,000/. a-year. The banker
alluded to the profits which his firm derived from the
immense sums left in their bands by the supineness
generated under the old system. The barker was jus-
tified in his anticipation. At the end of two years atter
the establishment of the system which his (Lord Broug-
ham's) hands were accused of rashness for creating, up-
wards of one million and a quarter of bankrupt pro-
perty was obtained by the exertions of the official
assignees and other officers of the Bankruptcy Court;
and in a year and a halt more the sum recovert d ap-
proached two millions, all of which had been lying for
years and years—some portion as long as 20 or 30 years
—in different banks, owing to the idleness of creditors'
assigitees and the supineness of those respectable soli-
citors rwerred to by hi* Noble and Learned Friend, all
of whom bad more or less interest in letting things sleep,
and not winding up—in leaving creditors unpaid; ay,
and in leaving the bankrupts uncerificated; for in many
cases, in consequeece of the exertions of the offic. rs
acting under the now• for-the-first-time-openly -eon-
dernned-sy stem which his `rash hands" had eteablisbe.d,
bankruptetes were superseded on payment of 20a, in the
pound. Here the N,ble and Learned Lord proceeded to
eulogise the system of ihrr e cla-sea of ceritticati s este-
Wished under the new bankruptcy-law, and concluded by
expressing a hope that their Lordships would lotgiee
him fur having felt it necessary at some length to repel
the gratuitous attack made by a person whom he had
always regarded with partiality upon the system which
had been feuuried by tits " rush ninth."
The LORD CHANCELLOR, considering what he
brought upon the House, c.aild nut but to el some n levet,
though he had not seed one word that was celculated to
affect the feelings °lbis Noble and Learned Friend. He

certainly did regret being the cause of so much vehe-
mence, but at the same tune he begged leave to say that
he had no intention of applying the term " rash hands "
to his Noble and Learned Friend. His Noble and
Learned Friend had spoken of his partiality and kindly
feeling towards him (the Lord Chancellor). He had no
doubt that he did feel most kindly towards him, but he
must say that the specimen he had given of his kindness
and partiality was of a somewhat singular kind. His
Noble and Learned Friend knew that he was as sincere
a law reformer as he Wei, and, if it were not that it
might lead to another half-hour's occupation of their
Lordship.' time, he would add, not so rash a one.—(A
laugh.) Would his Noble and Learned Friend allow him
to ask who were his instruments in putting an end to the
old at rte of things regarding bankruptcy ? Why, it was
himself (the Lord Chancellor) and the lion. Mr. Ers-
kine.—(Hear.) He did not know whether his Noble and
Learned Friend was a party to the annihilation of the
Court of Review; but that had passed away, as had
some other things, and another system was established
in its room. This session they had seen another system
by way of reform introduced, and such changes they
ware likely to have from time to time as long as they
lived—(" Hear, hear," from Lord Brougham)—and very
properly so, no doubt. But he nevertheless felt bound to
say that a little care at the beginning would render such
trouble unnecessary. What he had said was that those
individuals who did not know the course of the law or
its practice, were rash in attempting to make alterations
in the law: He did not, bewever, apply those words to
his Noble and Learned Friend; on the contrary, he
said that great as had been the labour and pains which
his Noble and Learned Friend had taken in amending
the bankruptcy law, unfortunately the amendment did
not succeed. Beyond that he had said nothing to war-
rant the discharge their Lordships had just heard. His
Noble and Learned Friend said the new system had re•
duced expense, had given certificates, and had done a
great many other thiugs; but be must tell their Lord-
ships, after all that had been said, that creditors would
not go into the Court of Bankruptcy; they did not find
it to their interest to go into that court. Whatever ad-
vantage his Noble and Learned Friend might wee in his
new system of bankruptcy, he begged to say that both
the solicitors and merchants of London were content to
forego all those advantages; and he would add further,
that out of very numerous bankruptcies, the largest, the
most important, and those most requiring the advan-
tages of a good system of bankruptcy, were just the cases
that were managed elsewhere. It would not do to say .his
was the fault of the solicitors, for their clients were men
of intelligence and business habits, and if they found
that their solicitors were following a course contrary
to their interests. they would soon check it. the
Noble and Learned Friend had been a party to ptssing
laws that created not a few difficulties and involved
people in expense. The public were ne doubt indebteri
to him for his efforts in the cause of reform, but he (the
Lord Chancellor) would, nevertheless, not forbear
making suggestions occasionally to his Noble and
Learned Friend, even thoueli he should sneak of hi.
partiality" for him, and call him an enemy of reform,
and even though he should forget that he was an instru-
ment in his hands in bringing about his reform iu the
bankruptcy laws.—(A laugh.) Why, nob' dy could say
a word to his Noble and Learned Friend about his gills
but it put him in had temper—(A, laugh)—hut that
would not preveet him doing so whenever the oecasioe
might arise. He had passed not a short iife. All that
life had been in the profession of the law, and he had
seen not only the advantages of reforms, ceuticusly
adopted, but also the mischiefs that had arisen trim
constant alterations in the law, and from an increase of
expense to those who bad occasion to have recourse to
it. Therefore he did not consider every ore that brought
in a measure to amend the law a reformer. He certainly
should apologize if he had applied the term" rash hands:"
to his Noble and Learned Friend; but be bad not done
so. He used the words with reference to those who
were wholly unfitted to make alterations in the law,
being fully impressed with the conviction that whatever
changes were made should be done with the best care
and caution, and should proceed from the best informed
minds.—(Hear, hear.) In conclusion, he begged pardon
of their Lord: hips for having called his Noble and
Learned Friend upon his legs, and having thereby been
the means of detaining them so long.—(A laugh )
Lord BROUGHAM was not merge that the offence
of his Noble and Learned Friend was in the nature of
suicide; he had thought it was in the nature of r081:1•
slaughter; but it now appeared that the changes which
he repudiated so much; and which were embodied in the
Bill for the amendment of the bankruptcy bystetn, were
his own changes. His Noble and Learned Friend was a
party to it, for he said he was one of these who prepared
this measure.

The LORD CHANCELLOR—Not this, but that.
Lord BROUGHAM—WeII, that. 11Is Noble and
Learned Frisad was employed in preparing
that noes
sure, and it was of great advantage to the system. That
system worked so well, and the Commissioners did
their duty so admirably, that any aeal from their
judgment was found to be superfluous;pp and that, he
begged to say, was the only change that had taken
place.
The subject then dropped.
The Representative Peers for Scotland Bill was read a
third time, on the motion of Lord REOESDALE.
On the motion of Earl GRANVILLE, the Patent
Law Amendment Bill was read a third time and passed.
The Prisons (Scotland) Bill, and the Survey of Great
Britain, &c., Bill, went respectively through Committee.
The Manchester Water Companies Bill was read a
third time.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF G'OM,vIOLVS. July 3.
COURT OF CHANCERY ANil JUDICIAL COM-

'DR ['TEE BILL,

The House then w,nt into Committee on this Bill, Mr.
C. LEwis tri the Chair.
ci„,e 1, which provides for the appointment of two
judges to constitute, with ,the Lard Chancellor, a new
court of appeal,
having been put,
Mr. J. sTuAitr said that the clause was one which
seemed to him to rr quire great cousidcration. The Biel
had been alluded to in the House of Lords as one affect.
leg their Lordship,, privileges; and althcugh hes did not
think that it tre eh• d on muse privileges, it would, no
doubt, materially effect the duties ot the House or Lords
as'a court of appeal from the Court of Chancery. He
b,lieved that if the two new judges were to sit in the
House of Lords, instead ot the Court of Chancery, a
very important public advantage would t'e g'lened in a
perfectly unobjectionable manlier. The supreme appeal
court would then be strengthened, without any interfe-
rence with the privileges of the Howe e f Lord.-J, or with
the duties of the Lord Chancellor. lie had further to
'observe, that under that Bill the duties of the regestrars
would be considerably increased. field he would strongly
recommend that an additional rpgioirar should in conse•
cluence be appiated,