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the benefit of landlord and tenant. Nor did he see any
such raarked distinction between our tenantries which
should render the assimilation impracticable. As to the
replevin, he would merely make a few observations. There
are laws which require sheriffs to appoint deputies to grant
replevin in the most convenient situations in their coun-
ties. These laws are generally evaded. It appear* from
a paper which he moved for during the Session, that
out of thirty-two counties, twenty-five have no deputies,
three have one, one has two, three have four : so that
a poor man may have to travel 3$ or 40, nay 50 miles,
to the county town where the Sheriff resides. Nor was
this alL' He must take in two persons to become his se-
curities ; they probably would be unknown to the sheriff
and refused, or perhaps his affidavit of value may not
please the sheriff. He (Mr. Jephson) had known a man
sent back twenty-five miles, because the affidavit of the
value contained the valuation in figures instead of being
entirely in writing; thus the possibility of getting justice
was denied at the threshold. There are many counties
in Ireland where sheriff's replevin* are not known. The
tenant is here obliged to sue a Chancery replevin. In
only six or seven counties are sheriffs' courts known, and
only in three or four of them are suits carried to issue and
execution. So that the people aregenerally left to the remedy
enjoyed by the people of this country before the reign of
Henry 111. The "festinum remedium" of replevin
by plaint is unknown to them. He desired to ask any
gentleman acquainted with the law, wiiether under such
circumstances, he would advise a tenant to replevy ? The
probable loss, with ever so good a case, would be from 601.
to 1001. Would any gentleman, acquainted with our
Irish tenantry, say that 99 out of 100 could afford this ?
—Would the House say that the law affords pro-
tection to this people? As to the Bill which he had in-
troduced last year, he was by no means wedded to it ; his
desire was to draw* attention to the subject. He preferred
referring his Bill to a committee up stairs. It• it should
be taken' up by abler hands, his object would he gained.
Mr. S. RICE said, nothing snore required correction
than the law as it at present stood, between the land-
lord and tenant, and therefore he should . second the
motion. He thought that the Honourable Member
however ought to wait until he saw the Sheriffs' Bill which
would soon be before the House, as then he might take
care that none of the provisions might clash.
Leave was then given to bring in the Bill.
A Message was brought front the Lords stating, that the
Royal As4ent had been given to the Westminster Sessions
Bill.

Mr. Secretary PEEL presented two petitions against
the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts ; one from
the Magistrates and other inhabitants of Bolton in the
Moors, and the other trona the Clergy of the Diocese of
Canterbury. Although he differed from the petitioners us
to the course which it was adviseeble to pursue, yet he felt
bound to present their petition. He had also to observe,
that both petitions concurred in expressing sentiments of
high respect for the Protestant Dissenters.
The petitions were then laid on the table.
The Passengers Regulation Bill was read a third time
and passed.

The other Orders of the Day
,were then disposed
.of, and
the House adjourned at a Quarter. past Five.

THE ELECTORS OF SUDBURY.-RE

TIREMENT OF MR. WILKS.

On Monday evening the electois of Sudbury re-
sident in London, attended at the White Hart Inn,
Bishopsgate, in consequence of an invitation by cir-
cular letter, to meet J. N. Macleod, Esq., a gentle-
man understood to be of highly respectable family
and fortune, who has come forward as a candidate
for a -seat iri Parliament, which. will shortly be va-
cant by the retirement of John Wilks,Esq. jun., from
public life, and his resignation as one of the Re-
pmsentetives of the ancient , and loyal borough of
Sudbury.
The retirement of Mr, John Wilks, jun. has not
yet been announced to the public; and as it may,
perhaps, be the last time on which they will haVe
occasion to hearof him, it:will not, perhaps; be unac-
ceptable to preface the account of the circumstances
of his retirement, by a short retrospective statement
of some leading circumstances in his early public
career, which are not generally known.
Before 1823 he had so little professional business,
that 40 endeavoured to obtain money and popular
pity as an author, lie wrote a patriotic life of the
late Queen, also a biographical dictionary of pious
people. He paid great attention to the Dissenters,
awl hgered. in the Evangelical Magazine-in which
he inserted an aavertlsement, expressing his-willing-
ness, upon a payment of ksaitable-premitim, to ad-
mit into his family, as an articled-clerk, a youth of
pious ways, provided it could be shown satisfacto-
rily that he had received -a sound religious educa-
tion from his parents. Mr. Wilks also, a 3 the pub-
lic are already aware, endeavoured to tat up a joint
stock company, to obtain the due observance of the
Sabbath by enforcing the laws passed for that pur-
pose in the reigns of Elizabeth and Charles I. His
merits were not, however, appreciated by the sects
in wbo,se peibs he walked, His activity was, per-
haps, too great far them, and being straitened in cirs
cumstances and indisposed to welt for the sitcceSs
which otherwise ha would no doubt have obtained
in that line, towards - 182+ he started another pros
JO, for a joint stock company of a different charac-
.ter. This was pentrived, and it succeeded. Scheme
efter scheme followo, until the end of 4524, when
he found, himself surropnded 1-? y Minister
of State, Members of parliainept, 4 large portion
of the aristocracy, who, with mercl,,,rds end hankers,
courted his favour and patronage in the bestowal
pt'tkepterships, &c. &c., in joint stock compa-
nies, the ineeppliuis of which, as they never
.had been, there was no retiseln to apprehend
ever would be, exposed to public gaze by. the ipteF.7
ferenee of the press. In the year mentioned, he
had 4 sumptuously . furnished town house in New
Broe4-street ; was possessed also of a splendid
mansion at wheee h.? kept three carriages
and fourteen eurriage horses; four pgp'44s far
equestrian establishment alone, and a cm:responding
ninnber for the interior of what may be called his
pitlace. The Lord Chief Justice of all England, who
resiged iri comparative obscurity in the same neigh-
bourhood, an 4 drove to town in a carriage and pair,
was Often compelled to reelzp wev in order to avoid
being overset by the vehicle eoint4p,sel
Wilks, jun., the solicitor, who was driven to town
; ,evriage and four, frequently preceded by outriders.
He gage piacely entertainments, to which men in
office were not straazers, and the neighbourhood-of
his residence was Crowded with the olendid equi-
pages of his guests.- He had and estithliShinent at
ikursoate during the summer, and during the winter
apartmea; et Long's Hotel, where he gave au-
dience to men a di,stipeti9ll at the west end of the
town, and , thrice accredited end supremely happy
was the member who could win his smile of 'oecogs
lotion when he joined the ride in . the Park. At
this period it was proudly declared in Parliament,
that the stable piesprerity of the companies of his
formation was eqtuil tO £h ,t of the Bank of
F,,gland. At Sudbury, •he was .recei:;el with
open yrms. Almost every other house was decorated
with his banner„ and he was returned in triumph as
the firm supporter a a.? Church, and a champion
of the anti-Catholics.' He then deelared to his I
friends, that that was but a step to greater things;
.and that within twelve months from that time they
would 2e,e him possessed of power and patrOnage to
reward their zeal and services. The famous meet-
ing of the Welch Iron Company was hisll/041(M
and William Clark was his Wellington. His Par-
liamentary phalanx was broken. He was now " de-
serted in his •utmost need :" .defeat after defeat ex-
pelsion kilter expulsion followed, until lie had not a
single company eft. It! was now beset on all
sides, but he • still disputed evpry inli of grouch
with his enemies. He rallied rigorously iii lii~
House of Commons on the subject of the Cornwall
and Devon Mining Company. He made his last
desperate effort :a the Court of Chancery, to compel
the payment •of .0,0004 Cron; the Directors of the
latter Company. Being defeated there, nos having
fail in Os efforts to establish a weekly paper called
the Tory, which _was to depend for support chiefly
on the manner in which j,L ;4vacated the policy
!lanctioned by Lord Eldon and the hue 'Marquis of
Londonderry, he was reduced to a state of the
greatest financial embarrassments, and was only
preserved by the exercise of his Parliamentary
privileges from imprisonment for debt Having
lost all the money he had made, he stood little
chance of regaining confidence or professional'