The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-30 00:00:00

REPEAL OF THE UNION.

Earl GREY gave notice of his intention, should the re-
solutions relative to the repeal of the union be brought up
from the House of Commons to-morrow, that their lord-
ships should immediately proceed to the consideration of
them.

Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from the
Protestant dissenters of Sheffield, praying for relief. The
noble lord.then stated that he wished to draw the attention
of his noble friend, the Secretary for the Home Depart-
ment, to a subject which he considered required some little
consideration, namely, the great expense to which counties
were put in furnishing returns which were ordered by both
Houses of Parliament. He hoped something would be
done in this matter, as the grievance was becoming very
great. . .

- Lord MELBOURNE said that however great the griev-
ance might be it could not possibly be avoided, because he
apprehended that, by the law of the land, every
public officer, of whatever description, was bound
to make one return within his department, which
should be called for by either house of parliament or by
any competent authority. It was a matter undoubt-
edly which required the most serious attention both
of the government and parliament. There was at pre-
sent a committee of that house sitting on the county
rates, which, in his opinion, might very well take this sub-
ject into their consideration, and state what was best to be
done.

The Exchequer Office Bill was read a third time and
passed.
OLD BAILEY JURISDICTION BILL.

On the motion that this bill should be read a third time,
The LORD CHANCELLOR stated that he wished
to have it re-committed, for the purpose of introducing
some verbal amendments. Before, however, moving that
it should be re-committed, he wished to state, that
he anticipated the most happy results from it,
and that it was with the greatest satisfaction
he found it had brought forth a very great degree of warm
approbation from the ancient corporation of the city of
London. They had suggested a few alterations, and,
with the exception of one, he had had the satisfaction
of concurring in them, and of adopting such sugges-
tions. (Hear, hear.) The one that had been rejected
was originally part of the measure, but, upon recon-
sideration, it had been agreed by him and the other
learned judges, that it would be better to strike it out. It
was necessary, however, for him to add, as he had done on
three or four occasions, when he hadthe honour of obtaining
the concurrence of their lordships to some important al-
terations in the law, that vested interests of persons
already in office were affected by this bill. He
only persisted in carrying through those particular
measures as a distinct avowal of his expectation
that the same just consideration would elsewhere be given
by way of compensation to those who might be in-
jured by the measure, without any fault of their own.
The same principle would guide the operations of the pro-
posed measure as in the case of the Court of Chancery,
which had proved satisfactory to all parties. (Hear.)
The amount of the population was 1,820,000, over
which this bill was intended to extend its autho-
rity. A portion of Surrey, Kent, and Essex had
often had their prisoners tried at the Old Bailey, while
their respective districts were charged with the expense,
which would be obviated by the proposed measure.
Lord WYNFORD entirely concurred in the principle
of the bill.-
The house then went into a committee on the said
bill, and after the introduction- of several verbal
amendments by the Lord Chancellor,
The house adjourned till to-morrow.