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London, England, 1822-06-28 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

' HOtSE bF I:OROS, JUNE 47.
Their Lordships met at ten o'clock, to hear Appeals.
Retr,, Appellant; BMA, Respondent—This was an appeal
from the Court of Session, Scotland. Mr. •W•aese and Mr.
Titomesns were heard for the respondent, and the Arroaerr-
KNLRAL in reply.—Judgment postponed.
BRI:CZ, Al:Tenant ; M'CLouD and filiCi.oen, Respondents.—
'his was an appeal from the Court of Session, Scotland.—Fur-
thee hearing postponed.
,Ir. Be Reset. and others brought up from the Commons the
'Westminster Improvement Bill and several Private Dills, Which
vs ere read a first time. The.same Hon. Members also brought
a Message announcing that the Commons had agreed to the
Doyle Divorce Bill.
Mr. TM:MM.!, from the Office of the Chief Secretary of Ire-
land, presented certain Retians from the Board ot Records pur-
suant to the Order of the House.—Laid on the table.
CORN LAWS.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL had intended, whilst moving the
se:opd reading of the Corn Importation Act Amendment Bill,
to have explained the pounds on which the measure was
founded. He understood, however, that it would be matter of
personal convenience to several Noble Lords, that the debate
should he taken in the Committee instead of the second reading,
end would have no objection to such a course if he knew what
day: would be most convenient. Considering the late period of
the Session, he trusted, on the other hand, that no opposition
would be made to the second reading taking place this day.
Lord EItSK IN K said, that he should propose an amendment
on the third reading of the Bill, against which he had already
presented twenty-five Petitions.—The Bill having been read a
second time,
The Earl of LIVERPOOL proposed that it be committed
on Monday. and that the third reading should take place on
Thursday next. •
The Marquis of BUTE suggested Friday instead of Thurs-
day for the third reading.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL assented.
Earl G REV had no objection to the proposed arrangement.
He held a Petition from Owners and Occupiers of Land in the
County of Northumberland, who had affixed the number of
acres which they occupied to their signatures, and from their re-
spectability and influence were entitled to the attention of the
'louse. They did not prefer any particular prayer, but they
said that they saw no relief in the present Bill, but a probable
cause of aggravation of that distress which was increasing every
hour, and threatened to involve the country in total ruin. He
then moved that the Petition be read and laid oa the table,
which was done accordingly.
Lord ILEDF.SD ALE also presented a Petition against the
same Bill Irons the Owners and Occupiers of Land of certain
Parishes in the County of Surrey.—Laid on the table.
WELSH JUDICATURE.
Lord CAW DOR, after pointing out the defects of the present
system of Judicature in Wales, presented a Petition front several
Acting Magistrates of the County of Pembroke, praying for such
a reform of the system of Welsh Judicature as would place them
under the jurisdiction of the English Courts.
After a few observations from the Loan CHANCELLOR, Lord
Rxertsvatz, the Ma. quisses of LAKSDOWN and Burr, and the
Earl of Warmer, as to the propriety, importance, and difficulty
of an inquiry into the subject, the Petition was read and laid
on the table.
KING'S SILVER.
Lord CAWDOR then stated, that fines were levied in Wales
on the conveyance of or succession to estates, and that the 'money
thus collected went to the Crown, under the name of the King's
Silver. He thought that it would be more beneficial that those
fines should be collected as in England, and moved, that an hum-
ble Address be presented to his Majesty, requesting that his
Majesty w:uld pleased to give directions to the proper Offi-
cers to collect the fines levied in Wales under the denomination
of King's Silver;in the same manner as those paid in the Com-
mon Pleas in England.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL thought that the first question to
be decided must be, whether the levying of those fines was le-
gelly or illegally done on the part of the Crown? If it was le-
gally done, they were as much the right and property of the
Crown as any other right or property which it enjoyed, and no
alteration could be effected except through the means of a legis-
lative enactment. He should have no objection to adjourn the
debate, in order to have the opinion of his Noble and Learned
Friend on the Woolsack on the question whether those fines
were legally vested in the Crown?
The LOUD CHANCELLOR hoped that the Noble Lord
who had made the motion would give him a reasonable time to
look into the subject.
After a few words from Lord Items:sate and Lord Cawsos,
the debate was adjourned to Monday sennight.
THE ARMY AND NAVY PENSIONS.
On the motion of the Earlof Livearoot, the Army and Navy
Pensions Bill went through a Committee.
The Report being brought up,
Lord KING rose to fulfil his pledge, and to propose a Pre-
amble worthy of such a Bill. The first words of it, he believed
would be found to be English, though they were those of the
Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The Noble. Lord then
read to the following effect Whereas an impatience of taxa-
tion not less ignorant than irresistible pervades all classes of his
Dlajesty's subjects, and it is highly expedient to give them re-
bel; and whereas the minimum ot relief that can give satisfaction,
and the least intelligible plan that can be stated, is that the
burthen of Military and Naval Pensions should be extended over
a number of years : whereas by the 57th of George 111. a large
provision is made for the maintenance and half-pay of persons
holding high offices, and it is desirable to secure the continuance
of the same persons in office ; whereas there is or will be a Sink-
ing Fund of five millions, in order to relieve future generations
at the expense of the present, and whereas it is expedient to re-
lieve the present impatience of taxation at the expense of future
generations, which object might be most effectually attained by
applying part of the Sinking Fund to that purpose, had not his
Majesty's servants declared that the Sinking Fund should be
maintained inviolate ; therefore be it enacted, that a series of
leans shall be raised in a circuitous manner; that the Lords of
the Treasury shall have power to lend to themselves, and to
borrow from themselves, and to conceal the whole transaction
from themselves, and from all other ignorant and well-disposed
persons, and that the Commissioners for the Redemption of the
National Debt shall be appointed Trustees, and be authorised to
create Stock as Trustees, and to purchase it as Commissioners,
until the amount of confusion shall be equal to that of the charge
from which it is expedient to relieve the present generation !"
The Earl of HARROW BY said, that the Noble Lord oppo-
site had frequently charged his side of the House with want of
sense, he now wished that the proposed preamble and clause
could be recorded as a proof of the sense of the other side.
Lord K ING maintained that the present Bill deserved such a
preamble.—The question that this be the preamble to the Bill
was then put, and negatived without a division.
The Report was then received, and the different Bills before
the House were respectively forwarded one stage.— Adjourned.