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London, England, 1825-06-28 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCCEDINGS._

The Loan CSANCISAOII, the Marquis of Wtecassresa, and the
Earl of Snatrassuav, as his Majesty's Commissioners, brought the
Royal Assent to the following Bills :
The Buckingham House Bill, the Racist' Licenses, the Quaran-
tine laws, the Colonial Intercourse, the Mauritius Trade, the Dis-
tillery Regulation, the Canada Corn, the Irish Currency Assimila-
, don, the Lunacy Trustees, and a great number of Private Bills.
- Mt. 131tOODEN, and others, from the Commons, brought up sere-
vahrrivate Bills, which Were read a first time.

UNIVERSITY POLIM

On the Order of the Day for the third reading of the University
Polise Bill,
The Earl of LAUDERDALE objected to the ditty which
empowered constables to take into custody all loose persons found
wandering after night-talk The description was too indefinite, and
might be productive of great inconvenience ;• for what could•pros
sent a respectable Lady from bang taken for whatever a constable
might choose to imagine.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that when he was at the
University, young men wereseldum allowed to go out during night;
but yet, if the Noble Earl knew as much about English Universi-
ties as he did, he would not object to the clause.
' The Earl of 'L IVE POOL said that the clause could not be ap-
plicable to Ladies, but solely to prostitutes and night-walkers.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE thought that the best 'mode of
making the matter clear would be to add tke following words to
tOe description of the persons " acting disorderly." The Noble
Earl then moved an imendment to that effeit.
The House then divided, when the numbers IverM••
Contents . . . • 11
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Majority for the Amendment
JUDGES' SALARIn4.
• On re-entering the House the Earl GROSVZNOR was
oil his legs, speaking on the subject of the Bills for the
Regulation of the Courts of. Law, and increasing the
Salaries of the Judges, and comp.laining that certain
offices were
.not to be abolished. The Noble Lord par-
ticularly alluded to the office of Justice-General of
Scotland, wilier he said it had been agreed to abolish—
.(No !. no frost the Lan of Liverpool). The Noble
Earl said 4, No, no e. certainly a Noble Friend of his
understood it was' to be abolished. There was another
office, OM Clerk of the Pelle, which was to be regu-
lated.; but he had not yet beard in what manner this
had been done. He now thought it was their Lordships' business
not to trust the Government, and wished that some legislative en-
actment, compelling the Governmert to abolish and regulate these
offices, should be passed. He thought that the salary ache Lord
Chancellor should have been regulated by and included in these
measures, as well as the salaries of the Chief Justices • and he re-
gretted that these other objects had not been attends:4 to by his
Majesty's Ministers.
The Earl of -LIVERPOOL said, the Noble Earl
would do well to inquire into the nature of a sinecure,
before talking so much of sinecures. The Clerk of the
Pells, he could tell the Noble Earl, had been regulated,
and it was not a sinecure, but a most necessary and active
office. It had been a sinecure, but was so no longer; it
bad been regulated at the death of the last holder. It was
a mistake to suppose, that because the duties of an office
were performed by deputy, that the office was a sinecure.
—The Court of Exchequer was one of the most perfect
systems that had ever been devised. As a proof of this
he could state, that for almost six centuries, while there
bad been malversatians in every private department,
there had not been one in the department of the Ez•
chequer, and this arose from many of those checks which
the Noble Earl called sinecures. The other offices al-
laded to. by the Noble Esrl were filled by persons who
bad a vested interest in , them, and they were not to
be abolished till these persons died. He contended that the prin-
ciple of these Bills did not apply to the Chancellor, who had no
soilless to sell, and whose emoluments did not arise from this sale.
like those of the Chief Justices. Did the Noble Earl think that the
Puisne Judges were too well' paid with £5,500 a-year, when so
many of their Lordships had so much larger sums without having
any such laborious duties to perform?
May
TheeriatrSVENOß and the Earl of LIVERPOOL mu-
Thy LORD CHANCELLOR said be had experienced,
and was every day in the habit of experiencing, the most
virulent attacks of obloquy and slander. This was the
more esti aordinary, when it was known that an account
of his emoluments had been laid before the House of Com-
mons. He had himself taken pains to collect an account
of the emoluments for the last three years, and he could
eay, that in no year did his office produce him so much
ps he received from his professional labours, as Counsel
the filar. The emoluments of the office floated between
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