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he Ins fate:ll3l66d, seee- after the 464 w
leave to bring in a Bill to that effect.
The Bill was then read a :stood time, and or
to be committed tomorrow.
COMMITTER O SUPPLY.
On the order of the day being read for the Hai
going into a Committee of Supply,
• The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
-Moved, that the Estimates on the table be refereed to
othe said Committee. Ordered.
' The House then went into the Committee.
, Lord PALMERSTON said, that as he meant
only to move for sbms on account, he should post-
pone troubling the House with any detail till after
the recess. -
He thin moved the several items which snake up
the 16,000000 already agreed to by the Committee,
on account, for the ordinary service for the year 1814,
which were severally read and agreed to.
He then moved, that a sum not exceeding
43,000,000 be granted to his Majesty, on account,
for the extraordinary service for the same .year, which
was agreed to. •
LAC: FRAME BILL.
On the order of the day being read for the House
to go into a Conunittee on the Lace Frame Bill,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL rose to state to
the House, previous to the Speaker's leaving the
chair, the outline of what was proposed by the alte-
rations intended to be made in the Committee. He
then recapitulated the reasons which weighed with
the Legislature to pass the original Bill, and the good
effects it had produced, viz. the entire quelling of the
disturbances. If, by the terror of the law, men could
be made to keep the peace, it might be desirable to
continue so harmless an experiment for a short time.
Great objections, however, having been made to
continue the penalty of death, by an honourable and
learned friend of • his (Sir S. Romilly) and several
others, whose opinions were deserving of every atten-
don, he meant, when the House was in the Com.l
mittee, to propose that the punishment of death I
should cease, and that it should be transportation for
life, instead of 14 years at the most, or 7 years at site
least, as in the 28th of the King ; and further, the
a power should be given. to the Judge to lessen the
punishment according to his discretion. He would
also propose a clause to put prosecutors in the same
state as in all other cases for felony. He concluded
by moving, that it be an instruction to the said Com-
mittee to alter and amend the said Act.—Ordered.

Sir S. ROMILLY said, he thought it would be
better to drop the present Bill entirely, and bring in
another Bill with the proposed enactments.
The House then went into the Committee.
Mr. HORNER, in the Committee, said, that the
alterations in the Bill were so material, that he did
not wish to give his opinion on it until it bad gone
through the Committee.
Mr. HEYDEN agreed with Sir S. Romilly as to
the effect of the different terms of transportation.—
He was glad-that the report of the Committee had
been somewhat attended to, as to the reform that
was so necessary in the civil and criminal courts of
New South Wales. He alluded to the report signed
by Mr. Ellis Bond, the Judge Advocate.
The ATTORNEY-GENERA L assured him that
those reforms had been long under the most anxious
consideration of the Government. As to the pre-
sent Bill, lie wished that it should be now reported,
and ordered to be printed.
Alter some further conversation, this suggestion
was agreed to : and the further consideration of the
report fixed for Monday next.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. LOCKHART postponed his no:ice of a motion, relpeet-,
ing insolvent debtors, till Friday neat.
A message from the Lords informed the House of their Lord-
ships' concurrence to the Heir South Vales Debtors' Bill; and
that their Lordships had passed a Bill fur the speedy discharge of
the Insolvent Debtors of England, to which they debited the
concurrence of tha►. House.
The Bill was then read a first time, and ordered to be read a
second time to.morrow.—Adjourned.