The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-05 00:00:00

- 42 other places. The Noble and Learned Lord also
presented a petition from the corporation of merchants cf
Glasgow, praying to be heard by counsel against the Bill
for establishing a new Court of Bankruptcy ; also far
an alteration of the jurisdiction of sheriffs in cases of
• bankruptcy. With respect to the first part of the peti-
tion, he believed there was no such Bill as was therein
alluded to before either House of Parliament ; and with
regard to the second, he might now state that a commis-
sion was about to issue for the purpose of instituting an
inquiry into various matters connected with the law of
Scotland, and that this sheriff's jurisdiction in bank-
ruptcy was one of the five heads of inquiry which had
• been pointed out as constituting the field for the labours
of the commissionyrs. He mentioned the subject of the
commission the more particularly in consequence of a
gross misstatement which had found its way into one
newspaper, and which was the more inexcusable as being
built up:m a suppression of part of what he had stated
when announcing the establishment of the commission.
The subject of attack assumed by the writer was, that this
was to be a measure of expense, and that the commis-
sioners were to he paid, and the paragraph proceeded to
say that the Scotch lawyers, like the English, would no
doubt be glad to share in such a thing as the profits of a
commission. Now, this might be a very pleasant ob-
servation if there were a tittle of truth in it, hut the
fact happened to be the other way. He had dis-
tinctly stated that the commissioners, greatly to their
credit, had offered to serve on the commission
gratuitously, which, therefore, as fu• as the ex-
penses of the commissions were concerned, would not
cost the country a single farthing. The person who saw
the attack, and directed his (the Lord Chancellor's) atten-
tion to the subject, had the curiosity to look into the
paper further, for the purpose of ascertaining whether
there had been a suppression of what he stated to their
Lordships with respect to the gratuitous services of the
Commis-ioners, and it was found that the statement had
been (he did not say wilfully) suppressed. He repeated,
his statement was not there, but the comment did ap-
pear, slandering the Government and professional men,
who were supposed to he snatching at emolument in an
unbecoming manner. He ,N as not in the habit of making
complaints on such subjects ; he did not believe, that in
the whole course of his life he had ever complained of a
newspaper statement with respect to himself; but here,
where he found gross injustice done to others, by imputing ;
to them mean and unworthy motives, at the very moment
when the individuals in question were giving a remark-
able instance of disinterestedness, he thought it his duty
to complain of so gross and scandalous a misstatement,
and to express his regret that any writer should have re-
sort,d to such a course.—Adjourned.

MAJORITY AND MINORITY
ON THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S MOTION,

DUKES.
Cuml4erland
Gloucester
Beaufort
Newcastle
Northumberland
Wellington
MA RQUISSES.
Salisbury
Bute
Thomond
Exeter
Cholmondeley
Aylesbury
Camden

MAJORITY.
EARLS.
ILonsdale
Verulam
,Brownlow
l3eauchamp
Eldon

BARONS.
Colchester
Clanbrassil (Earl of
Roden)
Ravensworth
Delainere
Forrester
Bexley
Penshurst (Viscount
Strangford)
Feversham
Lyndhurst
Melross (Earl of Ibid.
dington)
Stuart de Rothsay
Wallace
Wyn ford
Coventry
Northwick

VISCOUNTS.
Sidmouth
Gordon (Earl of
Aberdeen)
Beresford
Willoughbyde Broke
Colville
Hay (Earl of Kin-
non!)
llynevor

EARLS.
Abingdon
Orkney
Dartmouth
Delawarr
Bathurst
Norwich (Duke of
Gordon)
Beverley
Mansfield
Liverpool
Longford
Wicklow
Behnore
Caledon
Rosslyn
Limerick
Powis

B IRONS.
Montagu
Gage
Saltersford (Earl of
Courtoun)
Calthorpe
De Dunstanville
Rolle
Bayning
Carbery
Dufferin
Redesdale
Ellenborough
Arden
Sheffield (Earl of)
Me!drum (Earl of
Aboyne)

BISHOPS.
Bath and Wells
Bristol
Gloucester
Rochester
David
Ossory
Exeter

TELLER.
Lord Kenyon

PAIRED OFF.
Earl of Malmesbury
Duke of Rutland
Manners

The Lord Chancellor

MINORITY.
EARLS.

DUKES.

H R. H. the Duke
of Sussex
Somerset
Richmond
Cleveland
MARQUISES.
Lansdowne
Northampton
Westminster
Westmeath

Ripon
Granville
ISCOUNTS.
St. Vincent
Melbourne

BARONS.
Dacre
Stourton
Berners
Paget (Uxbridge)
Howard ofEttinghan
Petro
Dormer
Stafford
tlyron
Howland cf avistotik;
Gower
Holland
Sundridge (Duke of
Argyll)
Foley
Suffield
Lyttleton
Dundas
Liltord
Dunally
Barham
Gardner
Lynedoch

EARLS.
Shrewsbury
Huntingdon
Thanet
Tankerville
Hillsborough (Mar-
quis of Downshire),
Albemarle
Oxford

Cornwall s
Radnor
Cadogan
Chichester
Gosford
Grey
Morley
Amherst