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into and determined ; the time might he said to he come when the
inquiry and determination should be extended to the duties and
emoluments of the smaller order of Judges, such as Coroners,
Clerks of Assize, Clerks of the Peace, &c.
Sir EDMUND CARRINGTON said, that there
was, at all events, one circumstance, with respect to Coroners,
deserving of consideration. They were obliged at any time, whe-
ther by day or night, to travel, perhaps to a distant extremity of
the county, and the sole remuneration they had was an allowance
of 9d. per mile, for going and returning. He put it to the Howse
whether that was a fair allowance. As to salary, he should say
nothing, but he thought that the office should he supported by an

adequate remuneration.
Mr. ABERCROMBY said that the night Hon.
Gentleman had not replied to the question of his Hon. Friend,
the Member for Aberdeen, whether or not a Coroner's Court was
an open Court. On a point so important, if any doubt existed
it was fitting that that doubt should be solved.
Mr. PEEL thought that the Court of King's
,tench was the prener authority to decide whether or not a Coro-
net's Court was au open Court.
Mr. G. LAMB understood that that question had
been already decided both in the Court of King's Bench and in
the Court of Common Pleas, against considering the Coroner's
Court an open Court. It had been remarked by the Chief Justice
of the Court of Common Pleas, that the fat of administering
oaths of secrecy to the Members of a Coroner's Court, was a suf-
ficient proof that the Court was legally an open one.
Mr. LITTLETON, reverting to the remuneration
oldie Coroners, maintained that it was not sufficient for persons
charged with duties so important.

RATE OF WAGES.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from a large body
of weavers and other workmen, inhabitants of Manchester and its
vicinity, on a subject which almost entirely occupied the minds of
the people in that neighbourhood at the present moment. He
was sorry, however, that he could not agree with the petitioners.
They said that they were reduced to the lowest state of distress ;
an assertion which, he feared, was but too true ; but they were
anxious that some mode might be resorted to of regulating their
wages ; and declared it to be their opinion that if a fresh Com-
mittee of Magistrates were appointed every three months for that
purpose, the result would be highly beneficial. On that point he
differed from them entirely. It was impossible to regulate wages
by any such means. They must he regulated from day to day
by the demand for labour. However, the situatn of the peti-
tioners was certainly such as to -demand attention ; and, in the
conclusion of their petition, they expressed their hope that if the
House could not agree to the plan which they had suggested, they
would grant them some other relief.
The petition was brought up, read, and ordered to be printed.

CHURCH PROPERTY.
Mr. HUME said he had another petition to pre-
sent of a very different nature. It was from an individual who
had frequently addressed the House in that shape—Mr. Robert
Gourlay. The petitioner stated that all Church property was
public property ; and he prayed that it might be so treated. He
reprobated the union of Church and State, as contrary to the
doctrines of Christianity ; and lie prayed that that union might
be dissolved, and that the clergymen throughout the country
might be chosen by the flocks over whom they were to preside.
The petition was ordered to lie on the table.
ALE-HOUSE LICENSES.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM, seeing the Hon. Mem-
tier for the University of Oxford in his place, wished to know
whether or not it was his intention to propose any further
measure fur altering the law respecting the licensing of public
houses.
Mr. ESTCOURT replied that he was preparing a
measure which was now considerably advanced. The course he
ileant to pursue was, to ask leave of the House to bring the Bill
in before the recess, then to have it printed, and to send it down
to the Quarter Sessions, for the purpose of obtaining the general
opinion of the Magistracy with respect to it.
Mr. MABERLY observed, that great private in-
jury had been sustained, by the protraction of some definitive le-
gislative proceeding on the subject. The suspense had occasioned
a complete stop to the transfer of property in public-houses. Un-
der these pressing circumstances, he trusted as little further delay
would be allowed to take place as possible.
CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION.

Lord NEWBOROUGH presented a petition from
the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the County of Carnarvon, pray-
ing that no further concession might be granted to the Roman
Catholics.—Ordered to be printed. - -
COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE BILLS.
Lord LOWTHER, after a few prefatory observa-
tions on the impracticability of actually keeping secret the names
of the Members of the Committees on Private Bills, and on the
great inconvenience which resulted from the attempt to do so,
moved, " That the New List of Committees on Private Bills be

printed."
Mr. LITTLETON, in reply, stated that, although
it might be impracticable to preserve perfect secrecy, yet that his
proposition went, at least, to throw an obstacle in the way of
canvassing the Members of Private Committees ; while the Noble
Lord's proposition went to facilitate that canvassing. There was
also a fee to the Clerks of the Committees for making- out the
Lists; which, although not a matter of much importance, ought-
to be considered. He would prefer moving that the Speaker be
requested to alter the Lists more frequently, in order to prevent
canvassing.
After a short discussion between Mr. Littleton, Mr. Gordon,
Sir Edmund Carrington, Mr. George Lamb, and Mr. Hume,
Mr. LITTLETON withdrew his motion, and the
Resolution was put and carried.
SLAVE TRADE.
Mr. F. BUXTON wished to ask his Majesty's
Ministers, whether they had any satisfactory communication to
make relative to the Mauritius Slave Trade ?
Mr. W. HORTON said, that he had to inform the
Honourable Member, that if his intended Motion for a Com-
mittee on the subject should be as restricted in time and place as
that of last year, it would be opposed.
Mr. BUXTON then gave notice of a motion upon
the subject, for 10th April next.
Mr. HUME gave notice, that on Tuesday next, he
would move for a Return of the State of the Gaols of the Metro-
polis, and for various Returns relative to the Shipping Trade.
The House then disposed of the Orders of the Day, and at seven
O'clock the House adjourned.