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mittee, iie.thrtnght'a Mns—r Sloppoinitig• 14...r.at
to defeat the jttAt e* ectations of the landed iiitetett
it ya,.sed over the ittlijett oX uttatiod; .which hid beeti
pressed on the attent on ofethe Committee in almost
all the lietitionS; and; insteaa of
.mahiug A Report
likethis, he thought it wottld have been better to havi
couldbbeigdiannicered.
fairly
etold tAlrt
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ui sirt!orrcits tohaNt
meant to contend thou theremissints of taxes would
afford no relief. Ito only maintained that if it were
possible the country could exist :IS a country, all the
taxes being swept away, the present distress would
not he remover]. The absurdity r,f snppositig that it
!tould be ~o temoved had been forcibly, pointed out
by the-I.lon. Member for liortarlingttin, by calcitlating
the amount of the InOens thrown on the landed in-.
term. The Whole of the taxes did not come out et
the rental of the country, but were levied on every
'description of income. Were t herr the taites done away,
distress like the present, which, sprung from other
causes, might remain.
Mr. 11. GURNEY conresi led that thi distress or
pecuniary embtrrassment of the agricultural interest
had been created by the resumption of cash payments;
anti paid); by the large importationsfromireland•
The Petition was then ordered to be printed:
• MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. WYNN obtained leave to bring in a BM to regtdate the
Elections for the County of York: The Right HOnourable Gen-
tleman stated the object of the Bill to he, that there should be
two Members for the West, and one fur the Bast and North
Ridings respectively.—The Bill was afterwards brought in, read
a first, and ordered to he read a second time on the 17th:
On the motion of Dr. Pintrimocr, the Marriage Act Amend.:
ment Bill was read a second tune, and committed for the 19th.
The llouse then went into a Committee, pro, orma, on the
Royal Burghs Account Lill, when the Report was ordered to be
taken into further consideration on the t!Gth.

The Summary Proteedings .11111 went through a Committee;
and was ordered to he read a third time on the 22d.
The Malt Duties (Ireland) Repeal 11:11 was read a second
time, and committed fur the 17:h.
The other Orders were then disposel of, and at Nine o'Clock
the ',louse adjourned to Wednesday, the 17th of April.

OFFICX.OF COMMON SERJEANT.

Yesterday a very numerous Meeting of the Ment
bets of the Court of Common Council took place IR
the Exchequer-chamber, in Guildhall, for the pur
pose of receiving and acting upon a communication
made to Mr. OLDHAM upon the subject of Mr. Des-
MAN'S intention to stand candidate for the situation
of Common Sojeant, about to become vacant by the
appointment of Mr. K xow LYS to the office of Recorder.
It had been determined at a Meeting held preYi..
ously by several of the-most popular Members of the
Court assembled in the Exchequer-chamber, that, ES
Mr. DENNIA N had on a former.occasion expressed his
teadine,s, in the event of a vacancy, to accept the
office of Common Serjeant, an application should be
made to him to ascertain whether he was willing, now
that the emergency existed, that his ftiends should
exert their influet,ce to secure his appointment. The
application was drawn up with the consent of all
sembled, and transmitted to Mr. DENMAN, at War.
wick, who immediately wrote an an,wer to Mr. OLD.
HAM, requesting that that Gentleman would inform
the Meeting of his readiness to accept of their kind
exertions on the approaching canvas, and of his high
sense of the honour intended him by his friends.
Mr. SLADE was called to the Chair. He stated the
foregoing facts to the Meeting, and observed that the
object of electing Mr. Denman was, that the. Com-
mon Serjeant might be qualified to act in every re-.
spect for the general good of the City of London. Of
the talents and integrity of Mr. Denman the whole-
country was aware, and the City must derive great
advantages from the set vices of such a man, particu-
larly as he was not at all likely to mix up political
prepossessions and antipathies with his judgment upon
the rights and privileges of his Majesty's subjects. •
Mr. OLDHAM then read the communication made
to him by Mr. Denman, which stated what we have.
before mentioned, and enclosed -a circular, copies of
which were ordered to be sent to the Members of the

Court, in which the election lies. lie trusted to the
character of Mr. De.nman as a sound lawyer for the
success of the efforts of•his friends, and deprecated
all idea- of making the question a party one.
In the desultory conversation which then arose, it
was objected, that the Common S2rjeant should be
perfectly well acquainted whit-the municipal law, as
the opinion. of that officer was decisive upon many
points, which, on sessional occasions, mn,t nece?sarily
be submitted to him ; and that Mr. Denman, from
the nature of his professional practice, could not be.
supposed to be well versed in questions exclusively
confined to the city of London.
It was said, in reply. to. this objection, that as it'
happened to be the 'duty of the Recorder to sit upon
ail occasions on which the municipal jaw of the city
of London.was to be referred to, and the Common
Serjeant had duties of a different kind, and for the
most part performable by practitioners in the crimi-
aid Courts to perform, the difficulty 'at once vanished;
that at all events, ilcircumstanees should arise which
might render it necessary for.a Common Sitjeant to
act as a substitute tot the Recorder, in cases of the
description alluded to, neither much study nor much
experience would bertecessary to such a man as Mr.
Denman, to qualify him for a situation to which' the
late Recorder had attained. • •
The objection was not repeated,.and, the room was
unanimous in favour of a pi oposition by Mr, Hurt-
COMBE, that the Meeting should use all their inibence
to secure the return-of Mr. Deamix, whose Circular
was immediately ordered to be printed. •
It was understood, in the early part of yesterday,
that Mr.. BoLLarrir. was. ti ray°. no' other rival in his
canvass fOr the office of Common Ser jeAnt ; but the
notices distributed by tdr. Alta oiN, declaring that
Gentleman to be a candidate, is the advanced part
of the day, contradicted that succulent; and the
friends of the three candidates are actively employed.
It seems that immediately before the appointment

separated. The election is to he Jecided by ballot is
the Court of Common Council on the 21st inst.

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of Mr. AnABIN to the office of Deputy Cot;imon Ser.
jeAnt, an appointtnent made in consequence of the in-
firmities of the Recorder and Common Serjcant, ap-
plication was made to Mr. HOLLAND to accept t!:e
situation. A refusal was the consequence.; but Mr:
Flowiso advised Mr. 18.1131 N, it was said, to take
upon him the duties of the situation, as it was, oEcon.
sequence to him (Mr. AttAatN) to look f0mar44,40.
that of Common Setjeant.
After a vote of thanks to Mr. SLADE, the Meeting