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according to the usage or Parliament, The course
which I should suggest to be taken under these
cumstances is, that this House do immediately ap-,
point a Committee to search the Lords' Journals, for
the particulars which have occurred respecting this
Bill, so as to acquire a proper knowledge of the
transaction, and then to report their: information,
when, with the facts before us, we can determine
what further measure be necessary for the mainte-
nance of the privileges of this House.
On the motion of Mr. HERRIES, a Committee
was appointed, in pursuance of the Speaker's sug-
gestion, who shortly after reported that they had,
in pursuance of the directions of the House, searched
the Lords' Journals, where they found that this
Bill had in its progress received an amendment,
notwithstanding which it was put into the Com-
mission last Friday, and then received the Royal
Assent. The House on the present occasion forth-
with directed that a conference be held with the
Lords, to require what explanation their Lordships
had to give respecting the circumstances under
which this Bill received the Royal Assent.
Thorndike's Divorce Bill went through a Com-
mittee ; Counsel were heard. The Bill was re-
ported, and read a third time and passed.
On the motion of Mr. PROTHEROE, a return
*as ordered of the expences incurred by the Com-
missioners of Public Records.
LAW COURTS.

Mr. D. W. HARVEY said he had a petition to
present from Mr. James Anderton, of Bridge-street,
Black friars, attorney-at-law, and ether practising soli-
citors of the city of London, who complained of a
grievance to which he entreated the attention of the
members of his Majesty's Government. The practis-
ing solicitors of the metropolis were in number
about 3,000, and they paid above 200,0001. a year
towards the resources of the country. They com-
plained of an utter want of accommodation for them-
selves and their witnesses in the courts of law, and
that they were daily obliged to walk about in the
cold hall of Westminster while attending their pro-
fessional business. They likewise complained of
the great danger to which the records were exposed
in the hall, should any fire take place in that quarter,
as had been lately in the adjoining Abbey. They
further complained that they were charged ss. for
every consultation in what was called the robing-
room. The subject and the utter want of adequate
accommodation had been already more than once
mentioned in this House, and it was time to hear
something better than mere promises to remedy
these inconveniences. _

Mr. HERRIES lamented that in the absence of
his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Peel), whose attention
had been called to the complaints of want of accom-
modation in the courts, he was unable to give the
Hon. Gentleman any information upon the matter.
Mr. HUME hoped that the Hon. Gentleman
himself, and his Right Hon. Friend, would just take
a look into some of these rooms about the courts,
where business was to be despatched. He (Mr.
Hume) had once gone with a friend into one of
them, and such was the pressure and confusion, that
he thought himself fortunate in escaping with the
skirts of his coat.—(A laugh.) The state of these
places was, in fact, quite a disgrace to the country,
considering the extravagance and expense of its
building outlays.—The petition was then laid on the
table.