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London, England, 1845-06-19 00:00:00

SCHOOLMASTERS (SCOTLAND) BILL.

This Bill was read a third time and passed
LEEDS AND WEST RIDING RAILWAY BILL.

Lord BROUGHAM presented a large number of petitions
In favour of this Bill.
SMALL DEBTS BILL.

Lord BROUGHAM said this Bill, which was to save small
debtors the expense of employing attorneys and solicitors, had
been sent back because it contained a provision giving a deputy-
gaoler the fee of a shilling for swearing the affidavits of
persons placed under his charge. The Commons, therefore,
objected to the Bill, because it passed a tax, and it ought there-
fore to be sanctioned by them first. He had struck out the ob-
jectionable words, and he now had to move that the Bill, as
amended, be read a first time.

Lord PORTMAN objected to the Bill because it proposed,
for the first time, to give deputy gaolers the power of adminis-
tering oaths.

Lord BROUGHAM said the clause did not affect the prin.
cii le of the Bill, and he had no objection to strike it out.

'I he Bill Has then read a first time.
COMMON LAW PROCESS BILL.

Lord CAMPBELL said he had to move for a Select Com-
mittee of their Lordships' House, to search the journals of the
House of Commons respecting three Bills, which their Lord-
ships had sent down to them. He was under the impression
that such a Committee would report that, after the Bills were
read a second time in the House ot Commons without any discus-
sion. the Committees on them were postponed for six months. It
might be supposed frem this that the Bills were unconstitutional
and likely to act unjustly towards Ireland, but the fact was not
so. Representations had been made to him that debtors '
holding preperty in Ireland were in the habit of residing out
of the kingdom, and thus evading the just claims of the credi-
tors. For it was a technical rule in the law of England and
Ireland, that no process could be served without the debtor re-
sided within the jurisdiction of the Court whence the were issued.
It was a measure so well considered and of such a beneficial
tendency that he thought such a course to be most extraordinary.
He thought that when the Government supported a measure in
one House of Parliament, they should also support it in the
other. He thought the Secretary of State for the
Home Department should have got up in his place and
It was necessary that provision should be made fort the serving
of process in England or Scotland, or even in France or
Germany, so that a person who had contracted a debt in Ire-
land, and who had left that country, might be placed within
the pale of the law, and that a creditor might have a
remedy against his debtor. A Bill giving those powers
passed with the consent of the Noble and Learned Lord.
and stated that they had been approved of by her Majesty's
Government.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the whole mistake
lay in the Noble Lord entrusting these Bills to a Learned
Friend of his in the Lower House, who had never read them.
Alter a few words from Lord CAMPBELL,
Lord BROUGHAM said, that the law was in a most shame-
ful state. and he hoped that if the Noble Lord again brought
in such Bills, he would entrust them to other hands than the
Learned Sergeant.
The motion was then agreed to.
BISHOPS' PATRONAGE (IRELAND) DILL.

The Bishop of DUBLIN moved the second reading of this
Bill.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved that the second
reading be postponed until the 30th instant, It was only laid
on the table on the 16th, and he would venture to say that not
one Noble Lord, except himself and those who had received
private intimation of the fart, were aware that the second
reading would be pressed to-night. It was a most important
measure, and greater time ought to be given for its consi-
deration.

The Earl of WICKLOW considered that there was ne
necessity to postpone the second reading beyond to-night. The
Right Rev. Prelate was anxious to leave this country to attend
to his duties in Ireland. He (the Earl of Wicklow)
looked upon the Bill as a natural consequence of the
Bill of last session ; and, besides, it was necessary that no time
should be lost in passing the measure, that the claim on the
Right Rev. Prelate might be settled.
Their Lordships then divided, when there appeared—
Contents— For the second reading 35
Non-contents
Majority
(LEFT sirroie.)

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