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%TATE BUSINESS BEFORE
TIIE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The,Select Committee appointed to consider the mode
in which the duties heretofore attached to the office of
counsel to the Speaker, with regard to the private
business, shall be performed; and to propose such re-
gulations respecting private business generally as they
may think fit; and who were empowered to report the
evidence taken before them, together with their
opinion thereupon, from time to time, have considered
the matters referred to them, and have agreed to the
following as their first report:—
tad
Your Committee have proceeded, in t instance,
to consider that 'portion of the subject rep to them
which relates to the duties hithertb attach to the office
if counsel to the Speaker with regard to private bills,
and as public inconvenience might result from any de-
Lay in the House coming to a decision on this point,
;hey submit this as their first report, reserving the re-
mainder of the subject referred for future consideration.
The vacancy which has recently occurred in the office
1f counsel to the Speaker has led your Committee to
,he following considerations:—
First, whether, under the circumstances, it would be
desirable to revert to the system and regulations under
which the private business of the House was carried on
srevious to the present session, some of which posses-
ing undoubted advantages, were only abandoned under
he impression that their object might be better attained
mder the supervision of the Chairman of Ways and
Means, assisted by the counsel to the Speaker.
Secondly, whether any other system could be adopted
which would attain the same object.
Thirdly, if the whole of the recommendations of the
Committee of the last session should be carried out, in
what way the office hitherto held by the counsel to the
Speaker, now vacant, shall be filled.
With this view your Committee have sought:and been
favoured with the opinion of Mr. Speaker, and have
taken evidence from those authorities in the House and
connected with it who have had the most experience in
the conduct of private business. They also took the
opinion of the counsel to the chairman of Committees
in the House of Lords. The result bas been an unani-.
mous expression of opinion, that the recommendation of
the Committee of last session with regard to private
business should be carried out; and that, under present
circumstances, an officer should be appointed, of com-
petent legal knowledge and experience, whose principal
duty it shall be to assist the Chairman of Ways and
:cleans in the supervision of private Bills in their pro-
gress through the House.
Your Committee, attaching great weight to these
opinions, and having given the subject due consideration,
have determined to recommend to the House the adop-
tion of this course.
Your Committee would direct attention to the evidence
of the Chairman of Ways and Means, as more especially
denoting the nature and importance of the subjects to
which the attention of this officer would have to be
directed.
They b• hew, that the present arrangement may be
carried into effect at the expense of a salary not exceed-
ing 1,0001. per annum ; and they would suggest that, in
making the new appointment, it be stipulated that the
whole time of the officer be throughout the year available
fur subjects connected with the service of the House;
that the office be made subject to the direction of the
Speaker, and to such regulations and additions of duty
as the House may hereafter think fit to impose oil a
further consideration of the system of private business,.
Your Committee will hereafter direct their attention
to the other portion of the subject referred to them, and
will especially consider whether, as opportunities may
offer, the conduct of private business may not be im-
pro'', dby a diff-rent arrangement of duties, and eco-
nomy pottier, d by greater concentration.
Feb. 13, 1851.

RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF TUE SUN.

SIR,—In Sir Smuel Romilly's "Political Diary"
there is this entry—" April 1, 1807. Lord Erskine
delivered up the Great Seal, and it was given to
Lord Eldon. Two days before Lord Erskine parted
with the Seal, he appointed his son-in-law, Edward
Morris, a Master in Chancery. Sir William Pepys
was prevailed on to make a vacancy by resigning.
This is surely a most improper act of Lord Erskine's.
Ile ought to have considered himself as out of office
last Wednesday. This is a matter which will draw
reproach on the whole Administration; though in
every other department they have most scrupulously,
as I understand, abstained from waking any pro-
motions."

It has been suggested to me that the insertion of
the foregoing in your paper at the present moment
will save some trouble both to those who may be dis-
posed to solicit place, and to these who may be
thought to have the power of disposing of it.
I am, Sir, &c.,

CHARLES PURTON COOPER.
Lincoln's Inn, Feb. 24.

CASE OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC RESI-
DUARY LEGATEE,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn,—A few days ago the ensuing case came be-
fore me professionally. A Roman Catholic testator
has left a considerable legacy to the trustees of a
Roman Catholic chapel to be applied in masses for bis
soul. The executor, who is sole residuary legatee,
considers the legacy excessive, regard being had to
the amount of the testator's fortune, and having been
informed that the purpose for which the legacy is ap-
plicable is mode unlawful by an English statute, be
has manifested a disinclination to pay it in full. It
bas, however, been intimated to him by a Roman
Catholic priest, that unless the entire legacy be paid,
there may be obstacles in the way of his partaking of
the religious comforts looked upon by those profes-
sing his faith as indispensable. Now, in common
with some other counsel to wholnl have communi-
cated the facts, I am desirous of learning through the
columns of your paper, whether it is the duty of the
Roman Catholic priesthood to use the spiritual
power of their Church in order thus to defeat an enact-
ment of the English Parliament, or whether the above-
mentioned intimation may be considered as proceed-
ing only from mistaken zeal ?—I am, Sir, &c.,
CHARLES PURTON COOPER.
Lincoln's Inn, Feb. 22.

tis,—The salt water
baths
are to he reconstructed
is Liverpool,
SALToI, o on
WATER
George's Pier,Bk
at considerable expense.
LIVERPOOL
a t
The present
building, according
to the engineer, is in a bad condition ; its foundations are de-
fective ; its walls cracked and swayed ; its internal fittings
almost worn out; and its machinery totally inadequate.
Having such a character the building has been condemned,
and the plan proposed as a substitute gives four plunge baths,
two for ladies and two for gentlemen. The area of each of
the ladies' plunge baths is 1,800 superficial feet, and each of
the gentlemen's plunge baths 2,16 o.L.being in all a total area
of nearly 8,000 superficial feet. There will also be forty
private baths, and four private plunge baths, with their
dressing-rooms. It is proposed to make salt water cisterns,
which will hold upwards of 50,000 gallons of water—equal to
the requirements of 1,000 bathers, and also fresh water cis-
terns capable of containing 6,000 gallons. It is very pro-
bable that by means of an accessory part of the plan all the
private bathkin Liverpool can be furnished with salt water.
Of the very poorest classes in Liverpool, it is estimated there
are under instruction in the charity schools of the town
about 20,000, the period of education being from four to
twelve years of age, or extending over eight years in the
life of each. The average attendance at school is a little
more than three years. There are thus in the course of one
generation two and a half sets of pupils educated mire or
less, or about 50.000 individuals. The number of teachers
is estimated at 800.
THE OFORTO WINE TRADE.—SOUTRAMPTON, FEB.
24.—The following is an extract from a private letter re-
ceived yesterday by the steam-ship Euxine, from Oporto :
" The annual report of the Wine Company is come back
from Government. Of the 34,000 pipes approved by the
tasters as first quality, 9.000 pipes have been taken off and
added to the 18,000 pipes classed as second quality, and
licensed to be shipped to any place out of Europe, leaving
25,000 pipes which are permitted to be exported to Europe
or clsew here. This is justice to England! and thus the de •
mands of the British Government are set at nought. It is a
positive and well-known fact that of the 18,000 pipes classed
as second quality, a large portion consists of the very best
wines produced in the Douro, but will not be allowed to go
to England unless covered as they will be by licenses, which
will be bought of the holders of the firs' quality,
at probably
from 3/. to Si. per pipe. Independently of this there is the
extra duty of 31. 10s. per pipe imposed on wines going to
Europe, i. e. to England.
HALTING PLACES.—The necessity of taking some
steps forthwith in this matter has been urged on the Sewers
Commissioners in a letter signed with a great many names of
respectability and note; and on the part of the Commission,
suggestions were thereon invited, to which a response was
promptly made by a still greater number of influential men,
in a letter addressed to the secretary of Ike Commission,
pointing out what might be done towards oh awing sites, and
recommending the Commission to encourage private parties
to provide waiting-rooms or halting-places, in connexion
with shops, &c ; but in the meantime advising the organi-
zation of a dozen establishments throughout the metropolis
by tke Coraraissiori itself as an OXlNZplee•—.Builder.