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The Earl of MALMESBURY postponed the second
reading of the Middlesex Lunatic Asylum Bill, and of the
County Lunatic Asylum Bill, from Thursday'next to Tuesday
the 29th inst. Their Lordships were aware that the evidence
taken before a Select Committee of the other House had
been printed by their Lordships' order. It was printed to-
day, and would be ready for delivery to-morrow. But
there would not be sufficient time between that and Thurs-
day fur their Lordship to form en adequate opinion of the
evidence. Indeed, although lie now postponed the se-
cond reading of the Bills, it was not at all cer-
tain, but that on Thursday he would move for a Se-
lect Committee to inquire into the state of the law as
respected Lunatic Asylums, with a view of propos-
ing whatever measures might be necessary for their
better regulation. In the other House of Parliament there
had been Select Committees appointed, he believed, in the
years 1812, 1815, and 1817, and three Reports on the
subject had been presented to the House. Three or four
Bills founded on these separate Reports had been sent
up to their Lordships without producing the effect which
it was now sought to achieve, With the experience
of these proceedings before their eyes, he thought that
their Lordships ought of themselves to proceed to inves-
tigate the matter, He gave this notice now, as it was Liossible
that instead of moving the /second reading of the Bills
on Tuesday, lie would move for the appointment of a
Select Committee to enquire into the state of the laws for
regulating the licensing of private mad houses, •
The Earl of LAUDERDALE, pretested against the
course about to be pursued by the Noble Earl. There were
very; many people who thought themselves aggrieved by
these Bills, and who, therefore, petitioned to be heard
by their counsel and witnesses against them, and it
would certainly be most inconvenient, in the Noble Lord's
opinion, to hear evidence at the Bar, and afterwards
to go into a Select Committee for the purpose of having
the same subject investigated. It was strange that thy
Noble Earl, without saying one word on the subject
previously, should come down only two days before the
second reading, and give notice of iris intention to
move fat a Select Committee; and the Earl oS
Malrriesbury reminded the Noble Lord that the se-
cond reading was fixed for next Tuesday week. He
did not think the parties opposed to the Bill could object
to the inquiry of a Select Committee, as they might then
he at liberty to offer such evidence as would best forward
their interest.

After a few words from Lord MALMESBURY, the
second reading was ordered to he postponed to the 29th.
Lord SELSEA, presented a petition from Arundel in
favour of Catholic Emancipation.
The Duke of MONTROSE presented a petition from
Stirling, praying for the repeal of the Corporation and
Test Acts,

Lord MELVILLE presented a petition from the Royal
College of Physicians, Edinburgh, praying that facilities
might be afforded for procuring subjects for disse,lion.
The Earl of SIIAFTESBURY presented a similar peti-
tion from tin Teachers and Pupils of the Aldersg,ate,
street School of Alf(licine.

On the motion of Lord COLCHESTER, a message was sent
to the Commons desiring that they might permit Mr.
Barclay and Mr. Manning to be examined before their
Lordships on the Bill for the Disfranchisement of the
Borough of Penryn.
The Duke of WELLINGTON moved the second read-
ing of the Life Annuities Repeal Bill,
Lord KING—No person, unless he were the father or
the dry-nurse of this Annuity Bill could have any objection
to smother it, or feel unwilling to get rid of it. The Bill
had already coat the country many millions. It was one of
the greatest blunders that ever proceeded from our political
Chrysologos, or Chancellor of the Exchequer. A more
foolish Bill had never Passed Parliament. It was scarcely
credible, but at the same time two Bills were brought into
operation to counteract each other. Two antagonist prinei•
plea were at once acted on to relieve us. We found our-.
selves at the end of a long war with a large amount of
permanent debt, and charged with a large number of Life
Annuities on account of half-pay. To get rid of these,
two nostrums were applied- —one was the Life Annuity
Bill, and the other the Dead Weight Bill. By the first
we changed a part of our Permanent Debt into Life
Annuities; and by the other we changed the Life Annui-
ties, due to the Army and Navy, into a sort of Perma-
nent Debt. By the Dead Weight Bill project we spread
a large number of Life Annuities over a larger surface,
that we might have at present a smaller sum to pay.
By time other project, having a larger permanent sum
to pay, we converted it into Life Annuities, doing by
this Bill the very reverse of what we had done by the other.
Two more absurd schemes never were broached, anti
we had lost very large sums by both. We had lost mil-
lions by one and millions by another. If a private gen-
tleman had done such a thing, what would be said of him ?
If he found his estates encumbered with a mortgage, and
charged with life annuities, would he grant annuities to
relieve himself of the mortgage, and charge himself with
mongrge to pay off his annuities ? It would be the most
absurd thing possible, and both the measures would be
equally injurious.— (Hear, hear.)—lt appeared that our
Chancellor of the Exchequer had not done this unawares.
In the copy of Mr. Fialayson's letter to J. C. Henries,
Esq., he found it stated, that it " is now eight years since
I first pointed out to Lord Bexley, then Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the loss which he feared had been incurred,
and that the Life Annuities were not then of great value."
What had been done ? Nothing from that time till the
present Bill had been brought in. For eight years this
Life Annuity Scheme had been bringing distress and
ruin on the country. There was, at the time
the Annuity Bill was passed, an Insurance Com-
pany, whose business was ruined by it. They said that if
they sold annuities at the same rates as the Government,
they should be ruined ; and if they sold them on worse
tr rms, they got no customers. He did not mean to call
their Lordships' attention to all Mr. Finlayscn's calcula-
tions ; but there was one statement of his which was per-
fectly clear. fle stated that three columns had been inter-
polated into the account, which made the whole fallacious.
The fact was,he supposed that these three columns were inter-
polated to render theresult confused, and for this advantagethe
three columns were added. This interpolation was very
expedient, to conceal the actual result of the measure. It
was very inexpedient that those annuities were ever granted,
and probably they would have been revoked before now,
had the accounts been kept correct. There was one
part of Sir. Finlayson's calculations which was very
piton. He had taken the results of the year when the
annuities were granted, and compared them with the
price the public gave for Consols; and he found that a less
sum, by 10,750/., would have been paid fir Consols than
for Life Annuities. The loss on one year then, up to
March last, was 10,7501.: we had paid so much more for
Annuities than we should had to pay for redeeming debt.
This was one of those good things we had received from
those political quacks, who followed without intelligence
their peculiar line of practice. We had Chancellor of
Exchequer atter Chancellor of Exchequer, who had fol-
lowed no other practice than that of subjecting time public
to copious evacuation. We had first Dr. Van Butchel, who
recommended strong purgatives; then we called on Dr.
Eady, or Easy, who said, " Oh, yes, Van Butchel
is right ; we must go on with the evacuating system."
First, we had the Forty-eighth of George 111., which was
purgare; then we had the Forty-nint of George
which was iterum purgare (a laugh), Then came
the Fifty-second of George for granting Life Annui-
ties, which was iterurn re purgare. Afterwards we had
the fifty-sixth of George 111., which was clysterium
donare._(A laugh.)—and that was followed by the fifty-
seventh of Geo. 111., which was re elysterium donare.—
(a Lingb) ; and all this was for the poor public.—(llear,
hear.)—There were very few of these practitioners, who
out of respect to themselves, told the patient all which they
did to him, and perhaps it would be cruel to him to let him
know how he was dosed and evacuated. He hoped, how-
ever, that the time was come, when these quacks biting
out of office, would never be allowed again to come in ;
that the patient would now he better treated, and that the
viscera of the public would no more be troubled with their
nostrums.

Lord BEXLEY said, that of the merits of one of the
systems the Noble Baron had called in question—it was not
for him to speak. The other was in existence before he
was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his only fault was,
that be had not altered the measure of his predecessor,
that he had not come down to the House to overturn
the law of the land immediately he had heard that it
was possibly disadvantageous. It was in Mr. Per.
ceval's time that the Bill far granting Life Annuities

was passed ; and he cautioned Mr. Perceval against the
probability that the calculations on which the scheme was
founded were fallacious. Mr. Perceval, however, believed
'"the calculations of those men of business he had entrusted;
he believed, on the best authority, that many advantages
would accrue to the public from adopting it, and tharefore
he had submitted the measure to the House. If the Noble
Baron had ever read Mr. Finlayson's letter with attention,
he would not have made his observations. Mr. Finlayson
had been employed since 1819 in verifying his conjectures ;
and if lie had taken eight years in ascertaining whether he
was correct or not, was the Treasury to be blamed that it
had not at once adopted his suggestions? Up to January
last he had not made his Report, and his Noble Friend
could not act till a Report was made. doubted if that
Report was now made. As to the loss of 8,0001., men-
tinned by Mr. Finlayson, it was only stated that it teemed
Itobe a loss. If the Noble Baron had looked into Mr.
Finlayson's letter, he would have seen that all his calcula-
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end 3 per cent, made a difference of 19 millions in tlir
resalt. It also depended on a calculation of the value as
during the whole period. Mr. Percival had founded his
measure on calculations which made it apparent to him,
that the life annuities would he more advantageous than a
perpetual debt, and he acted on the principle, which he
(Lord Bexley) approved of, of shortening the debt by
substituting annuities for a permanent debt. As the annui-
ties fell in, so rule!' debt was extinguished, and a good deal
of debt had beetYso extinguished. A great deal of informa-
tion had been collected on this subject in two Committees of
the House of Commons, which sat in 1819 and 1827, to
inquire into Friendly Societies, and the country had been
much benefited by the investigation ; but the result shewe,l
that the law of mortality-in this country was net yet un-
derstood. As to that other plan of his own, to which
the Noble Lord had alluded, it did undoubtedly tend to
lessen the immediate pressure of the burthen, b'y extend-
ing it over a longer period. The one was an exchange of
a perpetual debt for an increased temporary charge ; the
other was calculated, in the meantime, to afford consider-
able relief. He would not, however, enter more largely
into the subject, as he intended shortly, on calling for some
accounts, to state the reasons why he had agreed with the
opinions of those Statesmen whom in early life he had
known, and whose memory he should always venerate.
Viscount dODERICI.I rose to say a few words regard-
ing the course he had pursued as to the granting of Life
Annuities. There might be, as the Noble Lord (King)
said, quacks in finance, as there were certainly pretenders
in other matters as well as in that branch of the public ser-
vice. Though the Noble Lord thought that House might
be raado a Foundling Hospital for wit, he could not follow
his example, and favour their Lordships with another
course of clinical lectures. All that was incumbent upon
him to explain was, how it happened that no step had
been taken, while he held the office of Chancellor of the
Exchequer, in consequence of the representations of Mr.
Finlayson. With respect to the last letter the Noble Lord
refers to, he would see by its date that it was addressed to
the Treasury, when he (Lord Goderich) had no concern
with that department. The date was the 30th April,
when he was Secretary of State. He never saw it,
nor heard of it, tl!1 the commencement of the
present year. Until the attention of Parliament hail
been called to the subject in the other House, be had never
seen it. Soon after I became Chancellor of the
Exchequer (said the Noble Viscount), Mr. Fin-
layson called on me with a handsomely bound book, con-
taining some very intricate calculations, which he wished
me to investigate. It was my duty to examine it as far as
I could, Ho said his book consisted of calculations in which
he had been engaged by the Noble Lord (Bexley) who
had preceded him in office, and that they were suggested
by an idea that tl.e duration of human life, especially that
of females, was longer than was generally believed by per-
sons who had made it their study. If it should so turn
out, it would follow, that the annuities granted under
Mr. Percival's Act, in 1808, involved a loss to the pub-
lic, because that calculation was founded on a supposition
that the duration of human life was not mere than that as-
sumed by Dr. Price. This is a subject of great importance,
not only as to finance, but as a general question interesting
to all classes of persons. The inquiry tends to throw
light on a subject, which has engaged the attention
of so many philosophers and statesmen. When 1
am told that Dr. Price and the Northampton Tables are
so utterly erroneous, I cannot forget, that though people
differ more or less as to their preciseness, they are the
foundation of all the annuities granted by the greater part
of the officers of Insurance Societies in this country. It is
true that the investigations of Mr. Malthus, and some
others, into the ratio by which life increases, had thrown
doubt on them ; yet nothing had then appered to satisfy
any man of common sense that the matter was so clearly
estabished that it was to be assumed as a new basis for the
future calculation of the value of life annuities. Mr. Fin-
layson should have extensive schemes before him. He
wanted not merely to alter the Annuity Act, but he lad a
great variety of plans respecting deferred annuities, and
indeed every possible combination of that kind which could
be devised. I directed him to proceed, as 1 thought some
useful information would result from theinvestigation which
was going on at this public expense. I saw him on va-
rious occasions, and pressed him as to the progress of the
inquiry. As to my coining down with a particular pro-
position, founded on the communications I had had with
Mr. Finlayson, nothing could be more absurd. It is at
any rate no part of my medical practice, in whatever
quackery I may indulge, to do things piece-meal. I am
desirous to have the matter finally settled. I understand
that Mr. Finlayson is himself very doubtful whether he
can clearly establish his case at this moment ; and if he
cannot, what will heroine of the Noble Lord's argument ?
Lord KING explained,
The Earl of LAUDERDALE said the design of the
Dead Weight was to save the present generation the ex-
pence of a part of the burthen they ought to have borne.
The Noble Lord, at the saute time, defended the principle
of the Life Annuities, the object of which was to burden
the present generation for the benefit of posterity. If
these were not contradictory propositions, he knew not
what contradiction was.--(Hear, hear.) He agreed
with the Noble Viscount (Goderich), that Parlia-
ment should be cautious in touching Mr. Finlaynon'a
calculations. The grand' discovery made by a part
of the Finance Committee, in the other House, in
duced him to receive future information from that quarter
with less readiness of conviction than he should have done,
if they had been more cautious in this instance. He
would not be sorpriSed if it turned out that the duration
of human life bad increased. The tables might turn out
not to have been accurately calculated, but rather in favour
of the offices that granted the annuities. It might be in-
tended, in a certain degree, to insure a pro.fit to the offices,
and some of them had gained so much that there was
great probability the tahlea had been originally framed more
favourehly to the offices than they should have been.
The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be committed on Thursday.
The Marquis of SALISBURY moved foe Bettiros
the Foreign Wool imported during the lag seven years,
distinguishing the quantity easib year.
The Earl of WARWICK presented a petition from the
Justices of peace of the county of Warwick, in General
Quarter Sessions assembled, respecting the great numbers
of juvenile offenders.

The PoErNd
Order
T ofNt ID7yRIAv
was
tChlelnl Sr
,Ei.Adl
faErNiTeal3riliLigL. Counsel
and witnesses on the Penryn -A.),isfranChisement Bill. The
Counsel were acmcdiagly called in.
Air, Hlst.msoN, for the petitioners, recalled John Pactley'
and croo-examined bins at some length, as to the evidence
he had given before the Election Comusittea of the other
House. Witticia slid not recollect what he had stated.
He did not now recollect whether Mr. Anderson, formerly
a candidate, had told bins to get money of Mr. Sowell
but he did recollect that on Friday last lie had spoken °I "
suns of 2751., and after he had seen it he spoke to Mr.
Stanbury to pay his bill, and Stanbury bad promised to pay
it on Saturday.—On his re-examination, by Mr. Anass,
nothing material came out ; and to some questions limo
various peers, he swore that a dinner seas given by Mr.
Manning to his voters, after the Election ; the witnessss
Itiacdkcgt,iebeunttio,esl2la vdonteersverausiool:
ss ereignech' instead of a dinner
afterwards seen eight or tesi
of them at dinner; but he could not specify their naine,i,
Air. Teed was also recalled, and produced the canvassing
book with which be had gone round to the voters of Penryti:
and with this be refreshed his memory sufficiently to 1„.
able to este the names of voter. who bad referred Lim, or,

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behalf of Lord Perceval, to their wive*, who clearly intia
mated, in various ways that they wanted money.
-Charles Francis Ady, who, in .1826, was engaged in
canvassing the Borough as the agent of Lord Perceval,
proved that he had been referred by the voters to their
wives for answers to kis application; and be mentioned
several equivocal expressions which the voters used, de-
noting, as he believed, their intention to stand oat for
money.
One of the witnesses admitted that he had seen a cat
sold for 401. during the Election; a canary 'bird was sold
at an equally high price. In short, animals of all sorts
sold high at that period.—(A laugh.)—The same witness,
when asked by the Marquis of Salisbury, whether he 11,ai
ever been employed elsewhere on electioneering specula-
tions, replied, that be hid been engaged in a similar way
at St. Alban's more than once, and had received from the
voters there answers similat: to those given him at Penryn.
laugh, )__The voters at St. Alban's found it very
difficult to " make up their minds" in giving their votes.
--(A laugh.)
At ten o'clock the witness was ordered to withdraw.
A short conversation then ensued as to the future course
of proceeding, in which the Earl of LaunntnaLe, the
Lord CHANCELLOR, Earl GREY, the Earl of CAR NAB,
volv, and the Earl of Faystouria took part. It was settled
that the further consideration of the measure should be re-
sumed on Friday, if the Motion relative to Ireland which
stood for that day, Would allow; and that it should then
be Settled if their Lordships would again sit on Saturday.
Their Lordships then Adjourned at Half-past Ten o'clock.
till Thursday neat.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Aram 2,2.
This day being fixed for the ballot for the Ludlow Elec-
tion Committee, the gallery was not opened to the pablic
until five o'clock.

Oxford-street, presentedinstthellfimboeforea Friendly
tiienouse
iSociety i n
re-
gulation of Friendly Societiee,
Lord ENNISMORE presented a petition from certain
Members of the Hibernian Joint Stock Company in favour
of the Bill for the dissolution of the Company.
The Noble Lord moved- the Order of the Day for the
second reading of the Bill, for the dissolution of the Hibet -
nian Joint Stock Company.
Sir GEORGE HILL seconded the motion after a few
observations.

Mr. GRA.TTAN opposed the Bill. He said the Com-
pany was supported by some of the principal merchants in
Dublin, who thought that the Company was of great
importance to Ireland. It was a mere jobbing squabble
between two Companies in Ireland, and he thought the
British House of Commons should not sanction such a
proceeding. The capital of the Company was entire, the
business of the Company was confined to the dis-
counting of bills, and no danger could arise •to
any part of the community. If the petitioners were
discontented, they had nothing to do but to trans-
fer their shares, and there would he an end to all re-
sponsibility. All the power the Legislature bad giver the
Company was the power of suing and being sued. The
Company was founded ou a simple deed of Parliament; and
the House had no right to interfere. He therefore intreated
the House to join him in opposing the second of
the Bill.

Mr. SPRING RICE said, that as there was a great
deal of business before the House to-night, and as the ques-
tion under discussion was one of considerable importance,
he thought it advisable to have the discussion Tostponed
to a future day.
After some observations by Sir G. Flzt.r., Mr. V. Frrt
GERALD, and Mr. GRATTAN, the further debate waszpost-
poned to Thursday next.
LUDLOW ELECTION PETITION.
Mr. DYSON brought up the names of the nand).4.,
chosen to serve on the Ludlow Election Committee, which
were as follows :—Sir James Farquhar, Hon. H.. Arbuth-
not, Mr. Morrison, Hon. M. Milbank, Sir J. Craddock,
Mr. F. Wilson, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Cwoper, Lord Ennismore,
Hon. W. I.ascelles, Mr. Cartwright, Hon. G. Ponsont.y,
Mr. Estcourt, Mr. Chaplin, and Mr. Powell.
The Members were sworn at the table.
Lord STANLEY presented a petition from certain
land-owners of Carmarthen, praying that they may ha
heard by Counsel against the Denbigh Rail Road Bill.—
Referred to the Committee on the Bill.
Lord STANLEY presented a petition from the mer -
chants of Manchester in favour of the Manchester Im-
provement Bill, and also a similar petition from the Clergy
and other inhabitants of Manchester.
On the motion of Lord STANLEY, the Manchester Im-
provement Bill was read a second time and ordered to ix-
committed.

BIRINIINGHAM.
Mr. LAWLEY moved the second reading of the Bir-
mingham Improvement Bill.--Read a second timt, and
ordered to be committed.

Mr. LAWLEY presented a petition from certain inha-
bitants of Birmingham against the Birmingham Improve-
ment Bill.—Referred to the Committee on the Bill.
Lord EDWARD SOMERSET presented a petition
from occupiers of land in Gloucestershire, against„ the Bris-
tol and Gloucester Railway Bill.—Referred to the Com-
mittee on the Bill.

Mr. A. DAWSON presented a petition from certain
inhabitants of the county of Louth, against the Bill for the
Inclosute of common Lands in Ireland.
On the motion of Sir T. LETHBRIDGE, the Bristol
and Gloucester Railway Bill was read a second time, and
ordered to he committed.

Sir F. BURDETT presented a petition from R. H.
Calm!, a Staffordshire warehouseman, in Covent-garden
Market, praying to be heard by Counsel against certain
clauses of the Bill for improving Covent-garden Market.
Referred to the Committee on the Bill.
Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition from
a great number of the Proprietors of Sh.res in the Tiler-
nian Banking Company, praying its dissolution, and the re-
turn of the money paid up upon their Shares.

ADMIRALTY COURT (IRELAND).
Mr. GEO. LAMB, seeing the Right Hon. Gentleman
(Sir J. Newport), who had a motion upon the subject of
this Court, in his place, took the opportunity of stating one
or two circumstances, which he thought would have the ef-
fect of inducing him to abstain from bringing forward his
motion, or postpone it at least for the present. In the first
place, the Judge of the Court was on his way to this coup,-
try to place his situation at the disposal of his Majesty ; and
in the next place, the very moment the Right Hon. Gent.
had stated to him the nature of the complaint against the
proceeding of the Court, he had directed an inquiry before
the Commissioners, As any debate in that House upon the
subject of Courts of Justice was at all times inexpedient and
to be avoided, he hoped the Right Hon. Gent. would see
the propriety of waiting the result of the inquiry.
Sir J. NEWPORT consented to postpone the metier,
until that day fortnight.
Mr. LAMB had nt objection to any course of inquiry
which the Right lion. Gentleman might think proper to
suggest upon this subject.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.
Mr. BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
Chairman and Secretary of the Delegates from the Friendly
Society of Manchester, against the Bill before the House.
The petitioners to the House on this subject amounted
altogether to above one million, and he coincided with
them most fully in their objections to the Bill. The retro-
spective clar.iae was, in his opiuion, well calculated to
I. some media
fications, would be persevered in.
The Petition and two others were brought op by Arr, its
Pire-
crease iitigation. He objected also the Arbitration Clause,
to other clauses. Under these circumetancra,
suggested the expediency of withdrawing the Bill for the
present Session.
Mr. HormousE concurred in the opinion that 11.-e-te
were several objectionable clauses in the Bill.
Mr. COURTENAY was unwilling to give up the
nresent Bill, as otherwise all the inconveniences of the old
late must remain in force.
Mr. P. THOMPSON
hoped the Bill, WICI
BROUGHAM, who remarked, on bringing it up, that he
did not disapprove any measure which might be necessary
ihr the protection of the Ignorant and unwary ; but he
thought the present Bill was a bad one; it had a bad
name in the country, and it was not likely to obtain the
beneficial objects for which he had no doubt it was in-
tended, that he suggested the expediency of not pressing it
• during the ensuing session,
111 r. LITTLETON presented a petition from the
Millers of Staff trdshire against the importation of flour.
Colonel SIBTHORPE presented several petitions from
Lincoln and other places, against the Corn Resolution,,
praying for greater protection to the Landed Interests.
Mr. FRENCH presented several petitions from the
county of Rescommon in favour of the Catholic Claims.
Mr. WESTERN presented two petitions from Malden,
in Essex, representing property to the extent of 60,000
acres of land, praying that when wheat bad fallen below
what was called the pivot price, the duty should increase
two shillings, as the price fell one shilling. The petitioner
also complained of the mode of taking averages.
Mr. ROBINSON gave notice of his intention to move,
at a subsequent stage of the discussion on the Corn Reve-
lation, the adoption of the scale of duties of last year.
Pet tions against the Fri. ndly Societies' Bill wire pre_
tented by Mr. Francis Baring, from the Friendly Society
of Portsmouth ; by Mr. Hume, from ten Friendly Societies
of Winchester, Manchester, &c, ; by Mr. Alderman