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PdRLI4IMENTART PItqCEENNGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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HOUSE OF LORIN, JUNE IS.
Counsel were finally beard OR the ease of " Wight v. Ritchie,"
when the judgment of the Court below was affirmed.
In that of " Mitchell v. Jamieson," Counsel were fully heard.,
The judgment of the Court of Session was affirmed.
On the Appeal of " Jamieson v. Ritchie," Counsel were
beard. The judgment pf their Lordships In this case was also
one of aibrmatien.
The case of " Lord F,eafarth v. Hume" was, on the motion of
Lord RELIe SDA LP., ordered to be referred back to'the Court of
Session for farther coosideration.
A Message was brought Ur from The Commons by Sit JAMts
GRAHAM, and other Members; impoiting that the House lad
given leave to one of its Members, smut., scot:, Esq. to be
examined before their Lordships' Cott Committee, should he
ri think fit.
1 he Westminster and 13ritisli Insurance Company's Bills were
also brought up by the same Menthol-, together with a great
number of private or local Bills, which were severally read a
first #.1.4 ; as was tbe Itiih Exchequer sills Bill, priesented by
BxOGDEN.
DUNDAS'S DIVORCE BILL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, adverting to the
circumstance that an appeal from the sentence of
the Ecclesiastical Court had been presepted pending
the progresi of the Divorceßill in that House, stated
the difficulty under which the House was placed.—
If they proceeded, the ultimate decision in the Eccle-
siastical Courts might be different from that-Which
they now had on their table; and yet it would be
mischievous to suffer their proceedinip to be stopped
. in cases of frivolons appeals. Thtir Lordships might,
however, thernselyel jtidge of the grounds of the ap-
peal as far as their proceedings were concerned. It
would pot be proper to ask what were the facts to be
proyeci on the appeal, but they 'might ask what were
the generlti grounds of it; and therefore he proposed
that they shoold call the agents on Monday, and re-
/attire them to state the grounds.
' 'Lord LAUDERDALE stated, that he under-
atoOd the ground to he such facility attel negligence
on the part of Mr. IQitodas, as'to afford encourage-
inent to the offence. In the appeal she could proceed
tat the expense of the husband; in that House, if the
cause were to be'heard there, she Must provide an
agent and counsel for heiself, 'and she had no funds.
' Lord STANHOPE highly approved of the course
proposed hy the Noble and Learned Lord on the
woolsack.
Lord LAUDERDALE again stated the hard-
ship of proceeding in that House, where she could
not defcad herself.
Lord 2;TANHOPE said, she could never want
defenders %there she had cite so able and willing as
the Noble d.--Proposition agreed to.
ca.:twit:ion CANAL PILL.
On the third reading Of this Bill, which was mov-
ed by the Earl of Hannwic4E, a d:scussioa took
Place, in consequence of the Earl of BatnoewaTea's
moving a Clause to 'be added to tha Pill, by way of
rider.
Lord REDESDALE spoke in disapprobation of
certain parts and provisions of the Bill, and support-
ed the clause.
The Earl of HA RDWICKE shortly oppb:ed it.
Th: LORD CHANCELLOR expressed his opi-
nion, that the clause contained such a provision, as
that no one who regarded the lives of his fellow sub-
jects could object to, as it tended to provide for the
erection of sufficient hawks and foot-ways at each
side of the canal. The time was come, he observed,
when some degree of understanding was necessary
on the subject of such Bills, A due and deliberate
attention was necessary to be paid to several of their
provision: ; and he referred to various considerations
in which they were highly detrimental or injurious
to the interests and properties of individuals. He
Was placed there to take some care of the interests of
his Majesty's subjects in general ; but he never knew
GE any instance in which he had succeeded in his op.
position to a Canal Bill. The difficulty of the times,
with respect to the raising of money, as adierted to
by a NOble Earl in the discusiion, was, iss his opi-
pion, not a sufficient excuse ; it was the duty of Par-
liament not to pass sucl Bills, unles's funds were pro.
vided capable of being applied to the purpose within
a given time ; and he hoped the House would not
be so benumbed Its not to attend to that important
consideration; Much of what bad transpired in the
oiscussicn would be more applicable to the qu;stion
of the third reading of ;be Bill, than on that Of an
additional clause, to which, in justice to a general
principle, *ad with a view to the operation of the Bill
without it, he mt;st.giye his assent.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE concurred in
sentiment with respeit to much •of what had fallen
frein'the and Noble Learned Lord, and approved a
. 64 which %via calculated for the convenience and
iifety of individgals.
On the question, the clause was adopted by heir
Loidslifts withoot a division.
'A setond clause was proposed by the Earl of
BtuoczwATE,l, which seemed More to apply to the
principie of the 1341; but alter a short discussion on
;,le point between his Lordship and the Earls of
LAUDERDALE and HannwrEice, it was negatived hi a
division of 16 to IG.
The Bill was then passed.

The iersaining Bills before the I-Zonse bein; dis.
posed of, their Lordships adjourned till to-morrow.

Mr. WALL r-R, from the Colirt of Chanccry, presented a re-
turn from the D.Tuty Registrar of the Court, pursuant to an
order of tar li:,u3e.—The paper was ordered to lie on the table.
• Mr. IRW:N (the Inspector-Ger.:rat of Exports and Imports)
preseifiecl accounts of grain imported from foreign countries and
from Ireland; and also a Town of the quantity exported to this
cmlotr f i.r the last year.—Ordtred to lie on the table.
'le a Committee of Supply, Mr. LOSIIINC; lON moved a
grant of 41,500,000 to discharge certain Outvanditiv, Exchequer
134:15. The motion was agreed to, and the report Of the Cnra-
r..itter syaa ordered tt, be received to-mormw.
Iu a Committee orkVays and Means, a Cunt of Efl,"oo,ceo
to be raised by fachocrtr bills, was agreed to, for the arrli.rt•
of the present year. "tee Report was ordered to be received to-
rrwr row.

General G.kSCOYNE presented a Petition from the Clittrch-
wardens and Overseen of Liverpool, against the Pcor's
The reiitio'n Was read, and ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. RD,E gave notice that he would move on Friday that the
Report of ale Committee on Captain Manby's invention, should
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betaken into consideration.
41;. Fl I ZOERAL.D obtained leave to brim! in Bills for better
rea;ulating the Irish Spirits Duties, and for securing the Collec-
t:on o: the stamp limit".
The report firth* Clergy Residence Bill was ordered to be taken
imp further consideratton ore jriday.
Re urns of the Annual Exports and Imports, to and from New-
foundland, were ordered twbe laid before the House.
The bid, Exchequer Regulation Bill was read a second time,
and committed for Friday.
Put Irish Customs Duties' BUZ was read a second time, and