The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-06 00:00:00

NEW WRIT.

On the motion of Mr. G. DAwsoN, a new writ
was directed to be issued for a member to serve for
the University of Cambridge, in the room of Sir N.
Tindal, who has accepted the office of Chief Justice
of the Common Pleas.
FRENCH CLAIMS.

Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition from Mr.
John Briant (we believe), setting forth some claim
on the sums appropriated to liquidating the British
claims on France, and praying that his case might be
taken into consideration.
Sir R. VYVIAN presented a petition from the
mayor and burgesses of a town in Cornwall, praying
for the abolition of suttees in India.
LORD CHIEFJUSTICE OF THE COMMON PLEAS.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY.—I rise to move that cer-
tain returns relating to the Court of Chancery, for
which I moved on a former day, be now printed. I
will take this opportunity of putting a question to
the Right Hon. Secretary, whom I see opposite. It
is well known that the Noble and Learned Judge
who is still flung the office of the Lord Chief Justice
of the Court of Common Pleas is about to retire,
and as he has only filled the office of Judge for ten or
eleven years, he is not, I conceive, entitled to the
retiring pension; I therefore ask the Right Hon.
Gent. opposite, whether the Lord Chief Justice of
the Common Pleas retires with a medical certificate
of ill health, to entitle him to receive the retiring
pension ? It is also stated that this noble personage
is, upon his retirement, to fill an important situation
in the other Howse of Parliament. However fit it
may be that that individual should be elevated to the
Peerage, I take it for granted that it cannot be true
that he who retires from ill health from the arduous
duties of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
can be in a competent state of health to take a situa-
tion in the House of Lords, of which the duties are
equally laborious. Every one will see that rumour
is calling this individual to a station quite alien from
all his former studies and pursuits.
Mr. PEEL—My answer is, that the Lord Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas is not retiring in any
manner that is not perfectly conformable to the pro-
visions of the Act of Parliament.---(Hear, hear.)—
The returns were ordered to be printed.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY presented a petition from
a Committee of the Weavers of Spitalfields, deny-
ing the allegations in Mr. Moore's petition as to the
rate of wages given to the different descriptions of
weavers, and praying for a Committee to inquire into
the state of their trade and of their remuneration.

After a few words from Mr. F. BUXTON, the
petition was brought up, and on its being read by
the Clerk, it was found that it referred to some ob-
servations made in one of the debates of the House.

The SPEAKER, in declaring that the petition
could not be received on account of its irregularity,
expressed his surprise that any Member should have
presented a petition which he had either not read,
Tor having read, must have known to be a violation
of the privileges of the House.

Mr. H UME said that this was one of the circum-
stances which convinced him of the propriety of the
House having reporters of its own, in order that the
public might have an authenticated version of their
debates to refer to.

The petition, after a few words from the SPEAKER
on the necessity of vindicating the privileges of the
House, till those privileges were altered by the
House, was rejected.