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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9.

Couxstt. were heard at considerable length fin. the Appel.
lant, on the Appeal Cause from the Court of Chancery
Joseph English Keighly v. the East India Company.—After
Which their Lordships deferral the farther hearing of the Case
till Tuesday.
Mr. ilostioust, accompanied by several Members,
brought up the following Bills from the Commons, via.
The Annual Indemnity Bill, the Malt Tax, he Place
and Pension Duty, the Sugar Bounties Drawback, the East
India Bonds Duty, the Bank of Ireland Restridion, the
Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill, and the Irish Martial Law
Continuation Bills.
They were severally read a first time ; the two last men.
tioned Bills were, on the Motion of Lord HA wicessuay,
ordered to be printed ; his Lordship at the sank? time gave-
notice of his intention to move for the second reading of those
Bills (as the Measures were intimately connedeAwith each
other) on Monday next.
The Earl of DARNLEY, previous to the Order
of the Day being read, wished to obtain some infer.
matiun on a Subjrit confessedly of the highest. im.
pottsnee: seeing the Noble Secretary of State in his
place, he would take that opportunity. The sub.
jed in his contemplation was such as that not only
that House, but many thousands of 'His Majesty's
subjeds must regard with the utmost concern. He
alluded to the Volunteers, respetting whom, he
begged leave to ask, if it was the intention of
1114-• Majesty's Ministers to propose any general
Regulations previous to the ensuing Recess.
Lord lIAWKESBURY shortly replied, that he
knew of no intention at present on the part of His
Majesty's Government to propose any specific mea.
sure, previous to the Recess, of the nature to which.
the Noble Earl alluded.
The Earl of DARNLEY resumed the topic : he
by no means whited, he said, to pin the Noble St-
CRETs.II7 of STATR down to any particular time
for proposing such a measure as he had alluded to;
he was fully aware, not only of the importance but
of the delicacy of the subjed. He repeated the
anxious view in which it was very generally re,
garded. It was not his intention, however, then
to go into any detail upon the subjeCt, but there
were one or two prominent points, which struck
him so forcibly, that he could not refrain from ad.
vertitig to them, and endeavouring to press them
On the attention of the Noble SECKETARY, 'as re-
quiring the most serious consideration of His Ma.
jesty'r, Ministers, and calling for adequate 'Vila.
lion. He first adverted to the consideration of the.
way in• which the services of several Corps were
originally accepted on the part of Government,
which certainly appeared to him to have been done on
liberal principles, with respect to allowances, &c.
but in regard to those' he had to observe, that a
system had been latterly aded upon, which ap.
,peaked to him to be the reverse of the former con.
dud. of Government in that respell. The second
consideraticin to which the Noble Earl principally
adverted, and which he seemed to regard as one of
extreme delicacy anti importance, was the idea of
the force in question, appearing, in some points
of •view, as a species of Military Democracy. Ha
thought it incumbent on him thus early to throw
out those considerations, as meriting the most se.
rious and anxious attention on the part at His Ma.
jesty's Government. The Noble Earl also alluded
to certain difficulties which had arisen under the

present Volunteer system, which he thought it
would he important speedily to obviate what
he seemed principall7 to advert to, Was the re-
gulation .of exemptions, &c.
Lord ;if ATKESBURY, in the course of his re.
I ply, obscOed, that he should avoid at present enter-
! ing into 'any-detailed' view whatever of the subjelt.
He agreed with the Noble Earl as to the great int'
portanee of the subjeft ; it was one therefore which
naturally attraded the serious attention of His Ma..
jetty's GovernMent : their Lordships, however,
would be at the same time aware of the complexity
and intricate nature of the general subjeti,the variety
Of details which it embraced, and the correspondent
difficulty of forming adequate regulations. He
agreed also with the Noble Earl, that 'certain diffi.
culties had arisen in the progress of that system of
measures, but of that nature as that they could not
fairly bc'expdled to be in the contemplatitin at the
time, of those by whom, under the circumstances of
the case, the Bill was originally framed 4 He repeat.
ed that' the subjeli certainly occupied the serious
attention of His Majesty's Ministers—but while he
Ovule thin avowal, he wished to be understood, as by
no means' committing.. himself with respeitt to the
in t rodu&ion of any specific measure upOn'the subjeft.
The Earl of DARNLty and the Noble SacttErA.
Rl' of StAt it. spoke severally in explanation.
I'he Order of the Day being react,- their Lord.
ships resOlvecl into a Committee on the Bank. Re.
atrinion 13111, Lord WALSINOHAM in the Chair.
;The different Clauses and Provisions'of .the Bill
were regOlarly gone through, and approved by the
Committee. •
On the eonsideration.of the Preamble of the Bills
Lord KING rose, and made a variety of ohtervi.
tione on the general ittbjell. • [lad he been.preseint
at the second reading of the Bill yesterday, he said
he wOuld 'hive brought forward some arguments
Which iota 'him fOrcitily as 'militating.against the
principte'',ofilie BM: the present not being the regtflar
oppartitnity forAiSeqtssiog the principle;he should sty
very little orfthat head. He however could not 11101 cl
expte_ssitig"hia '
surprise that a Bill of this .nature
and importinei; should have adrianced so far in
its progress in that licluse without any OileOli being
assigned for its passing, or without any information
whatever on the subjed being laid before their
Lordships, to evince the necessity for continuing
he tnastsure. Some reasons should,' hethoughti he
assigned for the necessity of such a measure' being
Fessed, in the present, beyond that of any former
War) Of of any period prior to.the year I 7.71.4 hen