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IN THE HIGH COURT OF

fIUESEMAIL—On the 29th of May, 1855, an
Iniunction was granted by the l•ligh Court of Chancery, and
the 11th of June following was made perpetual, against Joseph
:ranklin ar,l others, to restrain them, unler a penalty of one thou-
sand pounds, front imitating-Mrs Meilic;ne, which it protected by
loyal ',otters Patent of ringlarel, and secured, by the Seals or the
~,eo:c de Ph srnmole do Paris, and the Imperial Cones° of Medicine,
clonna. „

TRIESEMAR, Nd. 1,
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errors it is invaluable.

TRIESEMAIr, No. 2,
tactually, in the short space of three days, completely and entire*
adicates all traces of those Disorders which Capatvi and (Inbeh,
Lye so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin Of the health.
,f a vast portion of the population.
TRIESE MAR, No. 3,

s the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, whk
infertunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in
evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all tit(
41rsaparilla in tile world cannot remove.
TRIESEM AR, Ncs. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell
.111 of all nauseating qualities. Tney may lie on the toilet teal
sithout their use being suspected
TRIE•4E MAR, Nos. 1,2, and 3 . es-Orl lo tin ease?, price Ils., or
.our cases in one for 334 , which saves I Is. ; and in N. cases, whereby
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. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton; J. Priestly, chemist, 62,
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lESBA DEN . RNILAVAY COAIPANI
FIGHT PER CEN'T. rit7.FERENCF, 81-lAltfes.
: he Company is pretiared to receive Alm:le:Mons for Prefereece
- ..11-es of tit. each, bearing Li ..ht rer Cent. interest, payible tfalf-•
fr,y in London, Paris, onFranto, t, at the option it the Fielders.
first instalment of 21 ner share will be payable-on allotnieift;
• seeimti 21. "on 'the 31st 11ter...11 next, and. the remaining' 2/ on the
i-t May neNt. T. e amotett of these shares ti tie issuol will not
,xeeed !MOM, being Lie amount required to open the hoc to
:zreleshe•ine, oppesde to- :lie:Tn. •
Applications mar he made in the subjoined form to the Company's
keokers, A. A.. E-loghtei, 'Esq., 11, Atigel-couet, Thro4ntertoti,
otreet ; and :Messrs. Ilraqg and Stoeladele, fi, Throgmereen-street ;
or to the Secretary, at th .se offices.
London Agency, 18, Cannon-s:roet, City, Loudon, •
16th February, 185 G. -
By order of the Council. •
W. W LANDER, Secretary.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Council of Administration of the Wiesbaden RailwityComp Any.
Gentlemen.—l request that yon will allot me Eigat ner Cent.
Preference Shares of 61. each in the Wiesbaden Rail Way Ceeenany,
and I agree to accept the same or .any less number to,t yea may
allot me, and to pay tie inkhelmenis thereon at the dates fired In
your advertitenient of the 16th February, .1856.
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• MCC lIEQ LTF.R DILLS.
Office of her :Majesty's Paymaster-General,
Whitehall, 29th Febrnay, 1853.
HE• EXCHEQUER • BILLS, dated in the
Months of ll,ean-,er, 1851, WO Mlreh, 1k55 (per Act 17 Vic.,
cap. I? Anno 1854), with the Interest tine thereon, will be paid off
err the 17th March, 185 S; when the Interest via cease.

:Such Wile will be received at this office- daily, from half-past tett
1111 three Web ck, until the lOtb day of March, 185',, inclusive.
Printed Forms, cmtaining instructions for the preparation of the
Lists, ~nd the arrang,enicut of the Bills, may he obtained on applica-
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The hearer; must endorse etch bill with their .usual signatures,
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w here the names elholders are in•• erted in the hills, the inqrsemews
of stub holders must also be obtained previously to the. lists and
buts • being left for examination.

NEW 131i.L , bearing !Merest at the rate of twopanceimlfn nnv
1,3.: the day, upon every one hundred pounds, anl date 1 the said 17th
day of Macch, may be obtaated in payment of the principal o
the whole; or part, of the F.xehequer hills issued under the• Act aty•ve•
mentioned, 9n the claimants spe the. amount of
new tints rein' red by t&in.

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. The New Bills, t,,getivr with the Interest on the Tullis left on or
before the geld 10th diy of llarch, for exchange, will be s'svul on ,he
18th.eay of March, '1115; ; the bearers must attend at tide uttketu
sign receipts for the payment of Principal and Interest.
Payment, in Loney, may he obtained. at this oftige fir any of the
sad Exchequer 1311 k, oroViously to the said 7th :lay of 51 troll, 18 i 6,
upon the claimants leaving* the bale for tX4llll,l;Ltion one day prior
to that on Which such payment is desired.
N.B.—Ali Exchequ:r BiNs datimi orior to December, 1854, have
been keyioasty adverti,ed to t,e paid off.

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HOUSE OF LORDS —(YEsTrizais.y).

The LORD CHANCELLOR t)Ok his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

ROYAL CO NtVHSION.

The Royal assent wag given 'by commi.ion to the
House of Commons Officers' Bill and the IVl4ropolitan
Pollee Bill.

The Royal Gunnthsionersbwere the Lord Chancellpr,
the Duke of Are', and the Eirl of Harrowby.
Their lordships' adjlurned Jarinar pleasure.
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TKe holue le:a3ter-eble,l at five n'el.ek.

The Marquis of BIi,EADALBANE presented peti-
tions from Scotland against the sale of intoxicating
drinks.

CEIARITABLF, USES BILL.

On th(l motion of L.,r.1 rcEDESDA.LE; the CharitAble
Useg Bill kvn9 read a firgt time.

Lord BROUGHA.NI, in presenting a nPtition from
the lawyers of the Irish bar, ircluding the Qipen's coun•
seta, praying that in any arrangement adopted ha- leu'ai
education in the United Kingdom the benefits of such
measure be extended to Ireland, expressed his hope that
the subject would be taken int) their lordships' serious
consideration.

JOINT STOCK BANKS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This bill pftgßed through, owurimittee.
TURNPIKE TRUSTS ARRANGEMENTS BILL.

The Earl of HARROWBY moved the second reading
of this bill.

The Ekrl of DERBY expressed hia objection to the
second clause, which seriou <ly affected the rights of per-
sons connected with turnpike tru-its. The bill was alto-
gether a tuo4t extraordinary one, arid required explana-
tion.

The Rill of HLRRO WBY explained the object, of the
clanseg, and he should he prepared to amend some
the elaules in elnimittee.

After a brief c9oversatiou the bill was read a seelnd
time, on the under itanding that it should be amended
in equitnittee.

APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE HOUSE
OF LORD,.

The Earl of DERBY rose to inove for a select core- .
mittee to inquire a bather it was expedient to make any,
and if so, wi‘at provision for more effectnelly securing
the efficient exercise of the functions of this house as a
c curt of appollatejurisdiation, and that such committee
report their opinion thereon to the house. The noble earl
said by the prisent motion he did notintend to interfere
with the question of his noble and learned friend (Lynd-
hurst) who had so well and So ably brought the subject
under their lordships' coredderation. He thoueht that so
far from even interfering with it, it would derive benefit
from the present motion. He did not consider the ap
pellate juris6iction so essential to the discharge of the
other functions of their'lordships' house as many thought..
if a choice was to be made between the dignity of that
house and the proper clscharge of its judicial functions
towards the country, he should haVe no hesitation in
Preferring the latter. In the first place, how was this
judicial tribunal eractically eetablished ? Theoretically,
the whole house was thatribuna,l, but this was merely a
legal action, for the lay lord practically had nothing what-
ever to do with the judgments which their lordships were
pleased to pass. NOw, the objections to the present
system ke took to be seven in number small the
number of the j edges ; 2, that their attendance was not
compulsory ; 3, that their attendance not being corn-
puleory the number attending was uncertain ; 4, that
there was great chance of a failure of ju-tics in come-
einence of no judgment being delivered ; 5, that in cer-
tain cases the appeal was from a certain fedivideal in
one capacity to the same individual in another capacity ;
6, that the tribunal sits for only half a year, and during
the remainder of the year there was a denial of justice
to the subject ; and 7, that in the case of Scotch appeals,
it was an inadequate tribunal. . Now, with respect t
the sixth objection, which he would mention first, that
was quite ire-separable from the primary question of whe-
ther that tribunal was vested in the House of Lords. If
it were, there was not a doubt hut that this tribunal
could only sit while their lordships were sitting. He
was far from being favourable to facilitating appeals. Tae
considered the! in many cases parties were flattered or
irritated into appeals by their counsel and attorneys in..
the heat of the moment, when, if they had had three or
four months to reflect, they would have saved their
money and also their lordships' time: As to the: appeal
from the judge in one capacity to the same judge in an-
other capacity, it might be possible for the trained legal
mind to do justice in an appeal from himself to himself,
but it was not fair to the jtelge, and brought the admi-
nistration of justice under suspicion. There was one case
to which he might more particularly allude, and that was
where the Lord Chancellor had reversed the decision of
a Vice-Chancellor, and then was appe iled to in that
house against his own decision in the court beloW. As
to the uneertain attendance, it was cies,- that one remedy
proposed by the Government would not meet the case,
t,ecause the creation -of any number of legal peers
would not, make a compulsory attendance. Sappily
political opinions were so divided in this country, that
lie did not think the suitors of the would suffer
by the Court of Appeal being vested in the bands of one
who, though selected for his political oninions, was at
i-e,e same time selected for his conspicuous abilities.
One noble and learned lord (Lord Lyndhurst) was un-
able from. bis great age to attend appeals, nor was the
noble lord at the table (Lord Campbell) in consequence
' of his duties elsewhere. The noble and learned lord on
the woolsack was always there, and his noble and leached

friends (Lord Brougham and Lerd St. Leonerds) were
use .lly able ti. attend. Could teenan ail tition be made
to the number of the judge-4 by whiclismore ecfi erincy
and strength could be given to the judgments of that
house on appeal ? He teou slit not.. At the same time,
he did net say it was not advisable 'to enlarge the tri-
bunal, and that being; so, the firet-coesidirattore forithein
was the most satisfactory mode cif delete, so. Who: were
the judicial peers an proposed by the, poverarnent; to be?
that case the number of judges would be as uncertein
as at present, while they would ran the risk, that whine
they inerea.ed the slumber, they would weaken the an
therity of the court. The noble and learned lord on the
i.eo )I,i:telt had sueeested Ott there should be .officee
ere a peeriee during the holding of the offices:
Certelely there would be the same objection to That
class (if peerages as there would he to the unii,..,ry life
peerages. Still, if, that case, there would be but an
imperfect addition made to the Court of Appeal of their
lerilships' house. Compulsory attendance would not be
•em ed. Assenting it was necs-ssary to incresse the
n ieiber for tee nurpe-e of securine an increased'-atten-
dance, they had the alternative of life peerages, or of
the ellipse nof the judees, er '.awe the assistance of
the judiceit eeremittee of the Privy Ceuncil. In ertler
to obtain a (norms) of four in the j idicial committee of
the Privy Ceuncil, it was thought necessary to name
the ju lee=1ee= from who:n the bele &yield be selected, to
the ext.int of some twenty or twenty-four. , Now, in
order to °leann an addition of four judges in that
house, he hoped it was not thought necessary to create
a betty of twenty or twenty four new peers ; because, in
that cone, their attendance would not be compulsory
when they were required ; and they might, attend on
Occasions when, perhaps, it would not be convenient to
eeet,)ei r, ( eirees It -Tit teet-eseertterretsr
hero! that thee !reuse en! n to deaf with Minor depei t-
meiite hut to decile, appeals from all who beelthre !sigh.
est'autherey in the various leeal depertineuts, and whorl
he considered the hie]) authorities from which the appeals
were merle, it ',vie a matter for serious censeleratien
whether this might not weaken the power of the appeal
judges by increasing their number. It ntust-be reniem-
hered that that house had the power of calling in the
assi-taste of
~the julge-, seen of the equity judges, -it
they were privy councillors. If they were of opinion that
the court of appeal required strengthening by increasing
the number, surely the obvious mode of precee ling was
to avail themselves more frequently of the assistance oh
those constitutional advisers to Whom be alluded. ;At
present, when the judges were summoned, they sat as
mate asistants to advise, but had no power to put a
single question, or at the conclusion of the nreinneut to
give a vote. F lnerly, the attendencseof the judges was
constant in that house ; nay, it was on recur f; of Lord
Somers having rebuked the judges for not being constant
in their attendance in the house froni day to (ley. :tOne
word with regard to Scotch appeals. It, was quitedent that the creation of peers, or of official peers, mould'
not meet the objections to the present system of Scotch
appeals. He thought they ought to have the power of
sutunimoine the most eminent of the Scotch judges to
assist them. He thought that followed as a consequence
if they were to alter the jurisdiction of their lordehips as
a court of appeal. Why should not the reference to the
House of Loris be aseimilisted• to the reference to the
committee of the Privy Council ? Lst the learned lords
sit as a committee—let the committee present its report
to the house in the evecing, acrd the L ael • Chancellor
move its adoption. The law lords in that ease would he
in precisely the same situation as the Judicial Commit-
t-e of the Privy Council. That would get rid of the
fieeion that an appeal was male to the whole house.
lii child not see the slightest difficulty in that course,
the committee sitting and bearing the. appeal, and
the house in receiving the report of thatcommittee, gibing
the effect to the judgment/ of the House of teirls. Let
therm by the appointment of a committee which he soueht
inquire into the best mode of snaking that the best, as it
was the highest, tribunal of justice in the coentre. He
conchi led by moving —o For a select COlnnlittne to in-
quire whether it is expedient to make. any, and, ir _so,
whaeprovisioe'fm More .effeottielly securing the efficient
exerelee of the fuettione of this house as a court ef 'ap-
pal late jurisdiction, and to report theirepinion thereupon."
eses
Lit I te teANVILLE entirele agreed with the noble
earl, thaeif ceuld be itho.vie that the aeMel late jerisdic-
tion of theteltense was not of en vantege tee the c inn try,
it ought to be abandoned. But, believing that that jeria-.
diction maintained the dignity and us...quinces of, their
lordships' house, it was desiralde that they should take
steps to piece Viet appellate jurisdiction on the highest
possible footing. Oa looking atthe worts of the. motion
it struck seem of the members ef the Government, that
exc'e led the consideration (4 the constitutional sub-
ject of life peers se, heel teersf ir th .:ineht eecessary
ti put the words to meet the difficulty Once
between the Crown and that house. When two estates
tof the realm were in collision, the most natural course
that suggested itself was to call in the assistance of the
third -"eaten teTtintetetittretheti eh..ealy been i re r: n
by the representative of the Conservative party in the
other house. He thought if her Majesty's Government
were to introduce a bill without consultation with their
lordshipseit 'Would be met as an improper course, and
that was his reason for proposing the words which be
had introduces!? . As he was not aware that any objec-
tions would tinmadeito them, he would net enter into
the genera! subject further, but simply move to add after
the word jurisdiction, "and further, how any such previ-
sion would affect the general character of the house."
• Leril CAMPBELL thought there would bend ehjec-
tion wl; -vet' t e the propositions which had beetemaile tb
their lordships. He thought it wag not oily necessary fir
their w dienity, be t fot the pulilic weJare, that thejadicial
jurisdiction of their lordships sheuld be maintained. Foe.
many years he was employed in appeals to their lord,
'ship' house, and be was.alanys satisfied with the deci-
siehe, whether they were for or- against him, and he be-
lieved such was the opinion of the public. Fer nine
years after he became a member of their loidships' house
he attended the hearing of every writ of error that was
introduced. He attended with his noble and learned
friend opposite (Lord Brougham) and the late Lord Cot-
tenharn, and he believed, although at that time the de-
cisions had given general satisfaction, public opinion hail,
however, it would seem, changed on this subject, and
hence it was considered necessary to make an alteration
' in the judicial jurisdiction of that house. They had met
11 to consider the best mode of doing so, but he doubted
whether the making of peers for life would strergthen
the appellate jurisdiction of that house: Besides which
they could not be created eithout a special act'of Parlia-
ment fir the purpose. They could not have the assist-
ance of the judges, because they were necessarily con-
stantly occupied with their duties in Westminster-hall.
With regard to official peeratres. they would cease when
the person holding the office ceased' to hold it, and it
Might be that he would cease to be a p,er just as he was
becoming particularly useful. He doubted whether even
summoning the judges for assistance would strengthen
the appellate jurisdiction of the house. His noble friend
(Lord Brougham) bad proposed that the appeals should
be referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council ; hut he preneeed he did so simply because
that committee was a creation of his own, which would,
Of course, make his, name illustrious. He (Lord Camp-
bell) thought they ought to have a judicial committee
of that house, which was, in fact, an ancient institu-
tion of their lordships' house. --They might appoint a
committee not exclusively composed of members of
that house. Committees of reference had been formed,
partial!! Cemposedwif the judges and the law officers of
the Crown. -His opinion was that that committee
should consist of the law lords (menibers of that house).
the Lord President, the chairman of the committee, and
a selection from the judges of England, Ireland, and
Scotland. That committee would sit in an adjoining
room, with all the accompaniments of a court of jus-
tice, and be believed the decision of such a committee
would be mot satisfactory. The appeal from the Court
of Queen's Bench came before the house, and was re-
ferred to the Judicial Committee—that was the King's
ordinary c haying decided the case, the
house finally reversed the decision of the Court Of King's
Bench, reciting the reference to the committee. This
was a clear precedent for what was now proposed. It
was, no doubt, a .naatter of great difficulty, but, as at
present advised, he thought the plan proposed by the
noble lard opposite was the best that could be sugsested.
He hoped, howeier, that evidence would be taken be-
fore the committee ; that the present and late Attorney
and Solicitor-General, the Lord Advocate, Lord Celle-
say, and others competent to afford information on the
subject, would he called as witnesses. He hopo 'they
would have a judicial committee, from which they might
select the proper j edges for each case, and th et thus the
judicial powers of that house would be retained by them,
and would be usefully exercised. ,

Lord ST. LEONARAS warned the hotrelhat this
question could not be disposed of in a. very short time.
It would require considerable consideration, and wit
nesses must be examined, because for some little time
it was impossible to deny that certain channels of public
information and censure had been directed !against the ,1
appellate jurisdiction of the house. He should he very
anxious that the council now practising at the bar of the
houseshould be examined beforetheCommittee,and should
state what Were the objections to the appellate jurisdietion
of the house,and they would then be better able to judge
of the best way of meeting the objections entertained. lie
rejoiced that the committee was to be appointed, if for
no other reason than that they might hear on what
grounds the charges against the appellate jurisdiction of
the house were. brought forward. He had had as much
experience as any council practising at their lorciships' bar,
and he could assert that there never was a time when the
judicial duties of the house had received more atteTi tion, or
when more elaborate or more carefully reasoned judg-
ments had been delivered. He ;must say that in oppos-
ing,life peerages he had not had any idea of oPP"ing
any alteration or reform, in the manner in which their
lordships' jurisdiction was exercised. On the contrary,
As a member of the other house, and as a public writer,
he had always contended for an alteration in the manner
in' which the appellate jurisdiction of the house was ex-
ercised. Not that, he was in favour of taking away the
jurisdiction, because he was of opinion that their lord-
ships would remove one of the main pillars that sup-
ported their dignity and importance. There was not now
the abuse which formerly existed of appeals from the
Lord Chancellor sitting in the Court of Chancery being
heard by the Lord Chancellor alone in' that house, for
it had not for many years been the case that the Lord
Chancellor had not the us3istance of one, or more noble
and learned lords. There was indeed all impression that

there were a great number of ca ere in whieh, there hay-
ine been only two learned heels present, the appeal was
affirmed in ceni,equence of the difference. Now there
never was a greater mistake. Out of 81 appeals, in
hearing which be had taskete part, the noble and learned
lords e who 'erred them had been unanimous in 71. Of Ole
remaining ten one was. the Brownlow case ; in four
others he,differed from The Coaneellerawl Lord Breugh-
ham, and the decision was given by the majeritY ; in an-
-ether he and the Lord Chancellor differed from his nohle
arid fearned•hiend, acid the decision of course here went
with the opinion of the majority. Then there were Cases
in: which he and the Lord Chancellor sitting alone dif-
fered ; the result of which was that two cases were
affirined accorling to the Lord Cnancellor'e opinion, acid
two according to his own. There was nothing extraordi-
nary in that, for it was impossible that two mow desirous
to do their duty ehould not eeeadenelly differ upon the
emnolicated qie,etions.of lam and fact which came before
them, But it was supposed there was no decision if two
noble and learned torte differed. That was not so. For
in point of fact the decree belew was AffirMed by a de-
cisen-of the house. New, although he did not approve
of a tribunal of two pereeee yet it was not open to the
objections supposed. Beth he and the noble and learned
lent on the woolsack bad eat. alone without havicg given
rise to ilivatisfac•lon. much then, supposing the
noble arid leased lord on t e ,voolsa,ek was for affirming
the decision of the court belle', was his opinion con-
fivned and its autheril increased by having the opinion
.of another learned lord sitting with him. The whole
evil, therefore, of the difference between him and his
noble friend was, that tw,) j•t lement4 whice his noble
friend would have revived if sittieg alone, had be •n
affirmed. The uourt of aneeal in Cietteeryewve.in.99_
-tiri-aterieezt of 1 n; cien r;caite i cif tie
'tru.V-; se that in this juri-die`ien, created by an act of
Paidiameot heought in by the Whig G.)vernment of tine
there wes the same constitution of the court as that
which, had Veen ohjerit•el to as semetiinez, occurring in
theieloedships' hon,;e. Nay, at this moment, a bill htui
been introduced by the Trish General fer trans-
ferring the jurisdiction of the incembered estates to te,e
Court of Chancery in Ireland, and by it it was peoposed,
to create a new court of api•ea,, t > cenSist. of the Lerd
Oftener:tier, with an ex-chancellor, if he could be pre-
ened, and if not, a common law .judge. • Si. that here,
azain would he a court of app et! consisting of two per-
eons. It was clear that what h struck the public
mind with regpect to the exercise of this Appellate power
by tem persons, had not made the same impreAion nn
either the present or the late Whig Government. In
1.841 he introduced a hill iete the other house, in which
he proposed that the Lord Chancellor should have two
permanent aesis:antsi to he cane I forde' a,si,tants, to
be appointed by the Crown that it they were peerk
they should have votet, and that if they were not
peers, they shoeld 'neverthele.s • have a right to. speak
nod- deliver their opinions.- The great difficulty was
get a permanent court of appeal. For if they had
.not; they could not obtain thOze fixed ruled of law which
the public had a- right to expect. In '1849 he put:-
dished a work reviewing. the decisione of the house f r
a considerable period, and in the introduction he .a
verted to all that had b•,ea proposed on the. 'subject. He
had therefore a right to say that during- the lest quarter
of a century he had been earnest in promoting a re•
form of the anpella.te jerisiliction as any man. He had a
great respect for the suggeStions of the noble earl, and or
the noble and learned lord oopoeite, but he was certain
that giving an their powers to a committee of the house
would not work. Gmeiderable dissati,faetion had been
expressed that the committee of council had to draw up
report to her Majesty before their de.dision could be
formally affirmed, and there was a movement in *eel.
of giving them the power ,if directly proeouncing a judg-
ment. Now the prepositien of the noble earl would lead
to the same inconvenience. He feared, therefore, that
he should not be able-to support the scheme suggested by
the noble earl. •

. Lord BROUGHAM world not go into the subject,
13.!cawe be felt it wa; inexpedient to anticipate the deli-
heral i of the select committee. H 4 ha-1, hoWever, for
a long period been assre both. of the necessity of deal-
ing with the su'oj, 4.1,nd at the sl•ne time of the diffi-,
enley,of so. Ile impel that the tiutdect wou:d
receive the fullest consideration, and that theTpoinmittee
ail the inf.rmatinn that was da 11)%14:e et be-
affirdril by wituesgoa both at the bar aod:on.the
bench. At the sartM time he must expreas his fear thit,
in c,risequence of the difficuitied with which the subject
was surrouilded, they tnie:ht not be able to arrive a', so l
s'i isfactory a solution of the que,tion as might be desirvd.
'llk 'only rea.on for not dealing furthe'r witie th it bill
wit‘ the fear of fronching ripen the judicial privileg.-ni of
that horse. If they were to make that blab court of
appeal an injury instead-01A benefit to the c oin.ry, then
he would slum ,rt his noble and. learned friend. hut
rather than n it have a airf,rtroPer rem-ely for the
defects complaine I of. he w odd give up the privilege of
appellate jurisdictionalttwPther.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, said that he did not
mean to have said a word upon the suhj2ct, a,,41 should
b.4t for the character of the complaints made azainst,
the judicial character of the house. Ile must say that as
for the complaint. that one lord had heard part of a
case, another another part, and a third gave imigment,
that could only come fr ern rers ms totally unsognainted
with the practi,e and or !credingi of the house. -
that were tru., it wolf he entirely a o trnol4int of the
f,ring. and not of the ju to 11 functions of the house. Tie
won:d conclude by saying 0,21 he should express no
orinion'ution the sui j,ct at present.

Tne resoAution was then a;reed to, and the committee

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Their lorhhips then aaj•mrned at ten minutes past
eight o'clock. ..
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HO C'S E OF COST tiONTS.--(YEaTERDAY.)

The SPEAKEa tnyVaier„C`)iiist• saEt., tx,linT.nsual hour.

Mr. PULMAN appeared at the t;ote of the bongo, and
desired the attendance of the S.-esker in the frouee of
Loris tl hear the Royal agient givea by commiision to
cer'ain bills.

The SPELKER then, accompanied by several members,
left the holm,. On his return he informed the house
the Royal Aeeent had been given to those bills for
which see Lnrl4' repqrt.

Sr J. SFIELLEir presented a petition from the hay-
dealerg in the wtrqpoliß, praying for a measure to pre-
vent frauds in packinz hay. •
Sir J. PAKINC;TON presented a petition from
DroitwiCh, in favour of the Medical Char Hes Bill, now
before the hong,.

Sir D. EVANS gave notice that on the first favourable
opportunity he should move a resolution di4ipproving of
the conduct of the G ,vernment in refusing to raise
troops in the colonies while they wrie(l on enlistment
in neutral States co, trary to interiationa! ;awe
THE CRIME A.N COMMISSION.

Sir J. PAKINGTON rose to put a question to the
Under Secretary of War, of which he haft previ:ins:y
givenihim notice. It was with respect to the letter writ
ten tri Mr. Fader, who lately filled the office of Cm-
mi:isary-General in the Gime:l. Mr. Fihlsr stated that
as soon as he became cognisant of the charges contained
against, hilt in the reporrs,alluded to. he wrote a let.ter.t
Lord Panmure in reply. Mr_ Fader expressed a strong
desire that that letter shluld be • laid upon the table of
that house.. Although the report containing the charges
against him was dated the 10th of June, he had-no
knowledge of the charges br.mght against him till he
saw them in the newspaoPrs seven months after. He
wished to ask whether therm would be any objection to
la the written reply of Mr. Filder to 1.4.-ird Panmure
before the house, and thus do him the same justice as
had been accorded to L.,rd Cardigan and the Earl of
Lucan. •

Mr. F. PEEL said there would be no objection to
lay the letter on the table I,f the house. He would not
then enter into the circumstance., that 1,1,1 L ,rd No-
mura to recal Mr. Filder, but felt sure if he did so they
would find it quite satisfactory.
THE CAPTURE OF PRONE.

Main. REED agked if, th'e're would be any objection
to lay on the table certain despatches receive;l from
Major Godwin, detailing the capture of Prone ?
Mr. F. PEEL said the question had better be put
to the President of the Beard of Cofltrol.
BRITISH MUSEUM.

Mr. TIEYWOOD asked whether the Government in
tended, 'in c-nsequence of the vacancy of the offices of
principal librarian and secretary of the British Museum,
to. carry out the recommendations of the Royal C numi"
sioners of 1850 with resp.-ct to the ab dition of these two
offices, and the appointment in their pace of two otfi.
ceri, to he notuinated by the Crown ; .the one distin-
guisbed for attainments in literature, to have the super-
vision of the library, the manuscr]pts, the prints, the
antiquities, and the medals ; and the other, emisent for
attainments in natural history, to have the supervision
of these departments of the Aiuscum which were devoted
almost exclusively to natural history ?
The CHA.NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
it Was not intended to disturb the present arrange-
ments.
REFORM OF THE CORPORATION OF TILE
CITY OF LONDON.
Sir J. SfTELLEY asked the Secretary of State for
the Home Department when the bill for the reform of
the Corporation of the City of London would be brought
forwar l by the Governs eat ?
Sir G. GREY said he hoped to bring it forward on
an early day.
ABOLITION OF ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.
Mr.- COLLIER asked the Solicitor-General when the
bills for the abclition.of the eccle'iasticll courts, and the
transference
of their juriSliction to other tribunals,
would be introdUced by the Government

The SOLICITOR•GENERAEsacertainIy before
the recess.

ALDERSHOT CMP BILL.

Mr. MACARTNEY asked the Clerk of the Ord-
nance whether he had any objection to lay upon the
table, previous to the second reading of the Aldershot
Camp Bill, a plan of the roads'and- ways intended to
be abolished and clos3d under .the provisions of the
said bill I

Mr. MONSELL slittthe plans bad been lodtzed with
the clerk of the peace of the county, and if the hon.
memberwidhed for them to be produced he should move
for them,

Mr. IrIACARTNEY rave notice accordingly.
MR. ROEBUCK'S MOTION. -

hir ROEBUCK Waite riret Lort *1 the Trek

vary what would be the moist conve)
to bring forward his motion; whethk
it when the Speaker left the chair,
bring it forward as ,e ,uhstantive motion ? •
Lord PALMERSTON said it rested enthe
the hon. member himself. The Government wt
prepared with 'an amendment to the motion.
THE M`NEIL-TULLOCH REPORT.
In answer to a question from an HoN. MEMBER,
Lord PALMERSTON said that . this inquiry would
be public, reserving a discretionary power to the court
to conduct any paint with closed deers. The commission
would have no power to take evidence on oath. , To
give that power a special act must he passed.
THE 'MONETARY SYSTEM.
Mr. MUNTZ indeed for a select committee to inquire
bow far tfes present_ monetary system was in accordaece
with the requirements of the country, and to consider i
it could not be improved and amended. He (Mr. Mum'tz
had abstained for six
,years from mentioring this sub-
ject to see the effect the gold discoveries would
have on this question. That had not caused
the Alteration he contemplated; (Rear.) He had
ceieddered this question now for forty years, and he
thought the only war to understand the subject was
by taking a retrospective view. of the question,
and to do that it wait necessary to g 3 hack is .
the reign of William the Conqueror, (Laughter.) Hon.
gentlemen might laugh, but it was necessary
to do that, because that period was the only
sound . period connected with the question
when the Ti. sterling was a pound weight
of silver. Alteration's took place in the currency
in the reign of Edward the Third, Henry
the Eighth, (been Elizabeth, and William the Third. •
In 1760 the paper money in circulation amounted to
four millions, in 1785 to seven millions, it, 1790 to
eleven millions, and in 1797 to sixteen millions.
This went on increasing, and depreciating the me-
tell(' currency, until 1810, when a committee
of this house recommended the Bank of England
resorting to cash payments at the end of two years, but
which fortunately wae net carried out. The hon. gen-
tleman then traced the changes that had. taken place
since that period, anti alluded to the various panics that
bad occurred, and to the passing of the Ret,rat
vhiAt he hoped would have • been the means otritizro-'f
u,44%;, stu*i_tile„touirti-Jitce
fter the
defeat. of
ark:ye:pi:at:no
rnneNrVa
tth
wisgsoe: in 1849;
Whie:t ho bat been disappointed: (titigli- •
o
they had the late Srir R. Peel in office, who Bap-.
tto;rert)CedrinAn. a mast
laws, which
and the othrr the money law., which were to
ree per ImAel. It became necessary for that statesman'
•to aletnion one.de ocher these mea iuree, 'and 'being
plbaerwrinbsgu—sihtoentloe, .
pledgettnuere to the' motiey laws than he was to 'the
• cereeays; he gave up the latter. The Bank of Erigla;nd
in 1847 as Teeilri.Y stopped payrsent as at any
veriod o itt exietence, and had it not been.
for tl at celebrated letter, which was to do everything, ,
but. did nothing, the Each would never have been
able to rieht iteelt• and .in 1844, the act that was
then pailful WAS f 0 necessary to support the AC'. of
1819. After that came the railway speculations, which
the late Sir H. Peel (neouragred ; and, lastly, theiibld
discoveries at a timeivilen the whole monetary systenfWas
ebout to explode: 'AI he wislied fur was a fitiily 'dot-
stituttd committee to examine into the qu'eetieet 40-as
to rive setisfaetion to all classes.
Mr. PEACOCKE sueeeeted the appointment Of ;the
committee, but on different grounds from that of the
hon. member for Birmingham. Re denied thatethapeice
of gold was fixed, and said he should ritherthe ounce of
teolei was coined into four sovereigns instead of fire. The
hon. member proceeded to follow the hon. gentleman (111 r,
Muntz) through what he .caPed„ his fallacies. He elepe
ported the appointment of the committee, mainly be-
cause the principle of fluctuation in the Bank Act 01
1844 hal been a failure.

Mr. DRU NIITOND recommended that if the house
in an evil hour appointed this cenatnittee, the gen-
tleman forming it should be examined on the bullion
report. This was a difficult sueject to be dealt
with, and was as near as any political qnes-
tinn could he a question of science. The effect of
the discoveries of gold in Australia and other places had
llacl the same effect on the Bank of England as if it
bad issued an enormous mess of paper money. the
effect of which bad
~ been t i cause ppecillatiou,
and set the manufacteereei at work, who miduced more
cools than there ware people in the world to consume .i
them, and hence &rid, went abroad to pay their
debts. After alluding to en •‘ :mining romance " that .-
had lateiy been published, and urn doubt regd,by hon.
gentlemen, namely, "The' Hi-tore of Enghind,':. by
Macaulay —(laughter)----he said that they Could not ._
by'law.alter the true, state of the case, no prevent
the precious Metal 'from bein'g the measure of value
without increasing the di,asters complained of. The
soundest winks! to be eiven' to the house on ;this filled-
tipn was. eireilar to that Mr. Arthur Young gave ter
the Canveption' et Paris. He was asked what wax the
beet law they, could pass .witti respect to the
price of corn, aMI he replied, "My bent , advice to you • ,
ie to trier yeur clerk to putt his inkstand down the throat
of the filet man who speaks about corn."' 'And if the house
did that with respect te those who spoke in that hone
on the currency, it wool I he the best course they could
adopt. (Renewed 'allele er.)
yin. MALINS.had frequently expressed his belief that
the act of Sir 'll:feel required na,etitieation.The greatest
supporter which that art lied was
.the ignorance of the
ci osekev wit.eleetenyethistecacetene. . .(I.leare) Ha 'i11,..
li7v-mlii.o4 tEl,cfrii7iibieet-4ns so exceerlin.ily diffisult and
mysterinnn es the hon. gentleman who hail just spoken
would hare the house to imazine. Before the passing of
Sir It Peel's act.; there wee ne absolute restriction upon
the issue of notes by the Biek of Eoglaed. The directors
of the benk wero the+. nett' jielg-s as to theamount of paper
that ought to be issued ; nevertheless, the discount was
never below 4k per cant. The consequence was, that those
s eitibn changes which heti taken place in the rate of iste-
resksitice the pasirre of Se. R. Peel's act could , ot. happen.
Poi the first time in the histery of the hank, a restriction
was.put nuon the is'ote of notes in 1814 by his Act.• it .
I),.pnened 11t,.t OP (Cover,ueent et `hat 'tithe owed the
Bank ef Begland 14X00,C00i, and Sir R. Peel said, "I will
divide the batik into two-departinents—heneeforth there
shall ha an issue rleptrtment end a bank department.
Oa a certain day, when this act shall come into operation,
the securities repros retina the 1 10: 0 0)31.; debt must b 3
pet in the issue depertmtio t, and the gold department shall
consist ,if the amount of gold then in the ban't," which
h tpooned to be 10.030,0101. The irelik was permitted to
is•ne notes representing that amonnt of gold, as well es the
11,033,0001. debt due from the Government, so that alto- 4
gether the Bank of England might issue notes to the extent
of '24,000, 0301 But lie (01-r. Matins) believed that notes
to the amount of about 4,000,0001. were always retained in
the bank as a reserve foul ; the notes now in circulation
beingsomething under 20 003,030% lint let the house ob- .
serve the fallacy of S r R. Peel's Act. The notes of the Bank
of Eriglend, whichrepre:e,te,l the debt due by the Govern•
merit at the ti me of the passing of the act, viz., 11,009,0001 e,
had not a single ounce of gold in the bank to represent
them. The evil of such a state of things as that roust be oh-
Id ens to every rine, and therefore urgently c.illed fora remedy.
During the yeer 1855 there were no lass than eight varieties
iii the minimum rate of discouut. The minimum rate at
the Bank of Englan t at present was for short bills 6 per
cent., and for hills exceeding two mouths 7 per cent. The
consequence of these fluctuations was roost inconvenient.
If Sir R. Peel had sail that notes should represent gold,
there would be some seiner in the system, for then not more
gold than notes would be issued : but that theory was im-
possible. If they adopted the principle of issuing no more
notes than eel", they would stop the monetary transactions
of
l ft4l7 "entre. He Ranted to know why the mngical surer
000,030/. had been fixed upon- -a alma which was to lit
all feet for all times? He thought that the argument of his
lion. friend proved too much. The hon, member for Bir-
mieghatti hal directed the attention of the house to the
;t tto of things which had occurred in the year 1817. Io
the sprieg of 1847, in April, the jeold in. the Bank of Eng-
len I hail got very low. The res-rve sank to a very low rise;
the rate of interest became Yerybigh. Bat it was announces
that the difficulty was, over. But the amount of geld gra-
dually diminished, and in Oct. the amount was not more
then 8,0,10,0)01. The batik hid issued 14,000,01 a. notes,
to be payable in gold, when there was no gold to, meet
those notes and at that perh d the circulation amounted to
more than 20.000.0001. Th , reserve of unemployed notes
was reduced to 2,000,000/., and the Bank of England would
have been obliged to stop reiyment, if the then First Lord
of the Treasury (Lord J. Russell) and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer (Sir C. Woo l) had not issued a letter authoris-
ing the Ilauk of England tot() beyond the limit sanctioned
by law—to,he at. liberty to issue any amount of notes
which the exigencies of the country might require. At
that time there were deputations from merchants and
bankers to the Chancellor of the Exehequer, and, ulti-
mately, the governor. and directers of the Bank of Eng-
land went up to the right honourable gentlemen to Deere.
sent to him that unless some steps were taken for the pure
he a sto -page. Oee in,ei chant who had
pose of relaxing the provi,ions of Sir Robert Peel's bill,
a legal tender),
could hibiut directly this let!.
there would.
onfeYtheeeiarsehlankers. It was,
yivtiitbteere
been
and
foundactuianlsenxfa7ireinent ofeo
r thatut e this
and the public
cGotp7: 7laedpd p.l
t.enhaoerti- ei I:, 1 oisilver
sn in hoardingth the
hoafnmd
so
commercialnimof
'etas:retinue of this Country. He (Mr. Matins) could on.y
express his surprise that eight years had been suffered to
Oreob/b.
elapse without the applicatio, of , • ~e remedy to a state of
therefore,
things so inconvenient ant dangerous. He ili.lnot advocate
any extreme measures with regard to monetary affairs. In
the month of 4hette there were I ',00.t,000/. of gold in the
Bunk of England, and 32,00 ),0001. of notes might be issued.
•At that time the rate of discount was 2j per cent., but
now it watt 51 per Sent. If the amount of gold should con-
tinue to go down 3,000,0001. more than at present—to
7,000,0001., when 21,0r0,003. notes might be issued—the
average circulation required by the public being 20,000,00'3.
-the revenue would be only 1,1100,00.:1. And he would
ask, if this should occur, what security they hail.that within
the next three months they might not have a national
b .nkrantcy, unless another letter were to be issued by the
First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Bx-
che-ner, authorising the Batik of England to violate the
law? He wished to ask the right hon. gentleman the
Chancellor of the Exchequer what course he intended to
adopt ? Would he take a timely view of the question, and
allow the whole subject to be inquired into?
the object of the motion of the hon. member 1 What was
for Birudng-
ham ? Let them be wise in time, and not postpone their
reforms and alterations too long ; for if they drew too
much on the public toleratiee, the people would rash in
and abolish their inonetasy laws altogether.

Mr. POLL. A RD:URQUHART said, if they consented to
the uno.ion of the hon. ruetubtT for Birmingham, an impres.
sion would go abroad that they did not regard with that j ust
Ulm-ranee which they ought to do those two propositions—
lowering the standard of gold and diminishing the conver-
tibilityof the note—which, he believed, if adopted
world
be most injurious to a great commercial country
like
id
t England,hi
r security,
vrhica depended so much arson credit. By
agreeing
tie motion, they would diminish their credit
ar
and increase the rate of interest which
vto
the' now paid. It was the gond faith which this country
had alwa s maintained that enabled them to rake* money
upon such advantageous terms, and gave' England so mush.
power and influence among the nations of Europe. Ey
adhering to that good faith they, in this small island, were
enabled to say to the ruler of the vast tentones of Russia,
" Thus far shalt thou go, and no fin then ;" and they were
also.eoabled to so far reduce the general taxation as to
place it in the power of the poorer classes to procure cheap
bread, tea, sugar, coffeet and other necessaries of life. In
feet, this good faith was the mightiest weapon which their
Itit44lllll violded sit tat pretrat amok.

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