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The question upon the amendment having been put,

Mr. TIERNEY , in order to prove that he entertained
no feelings of hostility towards Ministers, would abstain
from dividing the House, on the express understanding
that steps were in progress for the formation of an Admi-
nistration, and that the necessary arrangements should be
made previous to the holidays.
Mr. Secretary CANNING—I camot pledge myself to
the accomplishment of what the Right Hon. Gentleman
requires before the Easter recess.

Mr. TIERNEY was placed in an awkward predica-
ment, and found that, although the Right Hon. Gentle-
man's communication relative to the formation of a Mini-
stry could have been made several days ago, yet that no
time for its formation, was, as yet, fixed, and that we
were still to be kept in abeyance on the subject of a Go-
vernment. His object was to make it felt, that, until
the matter was settled, no further grant /should be given.
To this course he was driven by the conduct of the Right
Hon. Gentleman, and he (Mr. Tierney) could not help
it. He had been only told that the matter was in course
of proceeding, but had not been informed whether the pro-
cess was to he quick or slow. He repeated, that until an
Administration was formed, in which confidence could be
placed, they ought not to part with the public money, and
persisted in his original intention, to take the sense of the
House on the subject.
➢lr. W. WHITMORE looked with the greatest possi-
ble alarm upon the existing state of things, and deprecated
the delay in the formation of a Ministry, and supported
the motion of the Right Hon. Gentleman.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER admitted
that the time had arrived when it was the duty of his
Majesty's advisers to state to his Majesty their opinion that
the public exigency required an arrangement to be made
with respect to the individual to be placed at the head of
the Government. It was necessary to call the attention
of Hon. Gentlemen to the fact, that when, on Monday
last, he had moved the Resolution, for a grant on account,
be distinctly stated, that it was simply a vote, to enable
whoeVer -Might- be Chancellor of the Exchequer, to carry
on the Goveminent up to a certain period, and that there
was no intention to call on the House to vote one shilling
beyond this, which he felt to be necessary for conducting
the pliblic service. He was prepared to admit, that if an
attempt were made to vote more money, it would be the
duty of Hon. Members to oppose it.
The Right lion. Member having sat down, amid loud
cries of " Question," strangers were ordered to withdraw,
and a division took place, when there appeared—
For the original motion
• For the amendment BO

Majority 73
The Report was brought up and agreed to,
The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the
WRIT OF RIGHT BILL.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL made some observations
with respect to the present mode of trying a Writ of Right,
and thought it should be altered. -
Mr. Secretary PEEL agreed with the Learned Gentle-
man, and said that he had been called on by Knights, with
their swords and spears, complaining of being summoned
under his Jury Bill, which had nothing to du with the
subject.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, that the Bill now
before the House proposed fixing the period of thirty years,
and as there was no provision to protect infants and mar-
ried women, he proposed a clause, making that peried ope-
rative only after they became capable in law of maintaining
an action. _ _ _

Th• ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that the Bill
wanted much to be licked into form, for it had none at
present, and that he was greatly averse to that spirit of in-
novation, which of late had got the name of reform.
Mr. FERGUSSON agreed with the Learned Gentleman

(the Attorney-General) and thought that 40 years would
be a proper limitation. He also opposed the clause re-
lating to conveyances. No reason had been, in his opinion,
yet assigned, why 60 years was too long a period,
Mr. BERNAL wished that some general system of re-
form in the monstrous system of our Property Law were
adopted. He saw no reason why the term of sixty years
shoeld not be reduced, and he thought that a period of
twenty years would be, with common diligence, quite suf-
ficient for any man to assert his right to property.
• Mr. BARING was favourable to a reform in the general
system of property law, and particularly to a reduction of
the time for pleading claim* to property. The expense of
making out remote titles was a most ruinous one. He had
himself bought a piece of ground from a poor woman, who
had paid 150/. to establish her title to it. He thought
that the term of 30 years, allowing for disabilities, would
be quite sufficient.

Mr. SHADWELL said, that by the Statute of Henry
VIII., an allowance on account of disabilities was given
for the future, but that it was prospectively and not retro-
spectively. The situation in which the country now stood
was very different from its state in those days, for now the
greatest facility was given for passing from one part of the
country to another, and the communication with all parts
timew a was sore
from t eaisxyt.y
toO One
irreasonthirty
years,
w hy
was, that the House of he wished to change the
Lords, as a Court of Equity, had recently decided, in the
Case of Lord Chuiuleigb, that relief should not he given
after a lapse of twenty years. A Court of Law, therefore,
ought not to. give relief after the expiration of 30 years ;
and it was (It-Arable that the Courts of Law and of Equity
should assimilate as nearly as possible? because, half the
property of the country was in that state, that titles to it
could hardly be procured, except in a Court of Equity.

Mr. H. TWISS wished that some such measure as that
proposed by his friend, the Solicitor-General, for the pro-
tection of Wants, and those Ivho ►ere not able to protect
themselves might he introduced into the Bill•

DAWSON thought it of the utmost importance
to the country, that disputes about property should be
settled. He wished that thirty years might be the period
agreed upon.
Mr. SHADWELL wished to have the Bill reprinted
pro forma.
The House then resumed, and the Report was ordered
to be received on Monday next.
SPRING GUNS BILL.

It was then moved that the Spring Guns Bill be read a
third time.

Lord BELFAST (we believe) said it was not his inten-
tion to enter into this suhjeet. He would merely content
himself with moving that the Bill be read a third time this
(lay six months.
Mr. AIONCK defended the Bill, which, he hoped,
would be followed up by others of a similar character.
The House then divided, when the numbers appeared—
For the Amendment, 18 I Against it, 84 I Majority, 46.
The Bill was then read a third time, and passed.
TREATIES WITH FOREIGN STATES.

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1 Mr. HUME said, it was his intention to bring before
the House the motion of which he had given notice, vie.
of all treaties at present in force between his
the King of Portugal, and every foreign state
volving offensive and defensive alliance, peen-
nia on either side ;" but at the time
he gave such notice, he was not aware that there would
have been any opposition to it. As, however, be now
found that it wee intended to oppose it, he Would not press
it forward. The Hon. Iklember was then about to enter
into the merits of the motion, but was interrupted by
Mr. Secretary CANNING, who observed, that if the

Hon. Gentleman did not intend to press his It 1060”, it WO
surely unnecessary for him to discuss its merit.
Mr. HUME said, he certainly did not intend to press it
,and would not, therefore, enter into the subject.
The House adjourned at Half-past Eight o'Clock.