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London, England, 1831-08-24 00:00:00

to the very corruptions by which they have thriven.
On this subject of Dublin, the house was exhausted
last night by a three o'clock sitting, and sundry
clauses in the bill were necessarily postponed, till
a future evening. If this had been the act of the
anti-reformers, it would have been consistent ; but
it was the indiscretion of Mr. R. Gordon, one of
the most zealous friends of the Bill, and, therefore,
the more to be lamented. The root of the evil is
the toleration of Corporations, and while such a
body, constituted as the Cotporation of Dublin,
exists and interferes, we think the offence is
venial in others, in endeavouring to circumvent
it ; for we can see no difference between the in-
gluence of a corporation chartered solely for mu-
nicipal purposes, and any other state interference.
In our opinion, a corporate body, as such, inter-
fering with elections of members, ought unspar-
ingly to be deprived of its charter ; but, by a
perversion of principle, corporations consider the
controul of elections as one of their primary
duties.

Our able Correspondent, who by articles in this
Paper drew the attention of the Peers to the
false principles of Lord Wynford's defeated Bill,
has this day entered the field of controversy on
some new-fangled schemes, for drawing the legal
web more tightly about the already LA W- RI DDEN
people of England. It will be seen that he con-
curs in the opinion which we expressed yesterday,
about the new Rules of Court, and of the op-
pressive inflictions which they appear to threaten.
In printing the new Rules yesterday, by an inad-
vertency, the duty exacted from bail was omitted ;
but that the subject may be fully understood, we
now give, in our first page, that article of the new
Rules, for the information, and, we anticipate, the
astonishment of the public.

Lord Brougham's Bankruptcy Court Bill is also
postponed for three weeks, and it would hence ap-
pear that it hitches in some quarters, and perhaps
that lay Lords are beginning to think for themselves
on subjects of law, and will not continue, as here-
tofore, to defer in law reforms to the suspi-
cions policy of lawyers. The whole law
of debtor and creditor defeats its professed
object by its illiberality; and whatever tends
to confirm that illiberality is as adverse to
the better feelings of the age, as the inte-
rests of creditors. The public begin to understand
that the whole system works for the benefit of
Lawyers only; and creditors are opening their eyes
to their own interests, and think they also ought to
coma in for a fair share of the debtor's pro-
party. In truth, no law is wanted, but a,
short one, to enable a majority of creditors',
to accede to fair proposals of the debtor ; and
hereafter it will be a memorable fact in the history '
of Jurisprudence, that the laws of England en-
abled any small majority of creditors to overrule ,
and ruin the majority, and demanded the impracti-
cable condition of unanimity in a body of avaricious
and disappointed creditors ! If the Lords Brougham,
Wynford, and Tenterden legislate on the
principle of giving fuU power to a ma-
jority, they will be entitled to the gra-
titude of creditors—NOT OTHERWISE. This
is the sole cause why so many persons reside
abroad, and live in goal rather than settle with
their creditors—the law concedes power to some
one two or three to prevent a settlement !
In the Lords last night Lord Teynham's Poor
Bill was opposed by the Duke of Richmond and
withdrawn.

On Lord Wynford moving that his Bill be read
a third time, Lord Plunkett moved that it should
be read that day six months. Lord W. defended
his Bill, and called for a division, but finally with-
drew the Bill.

The Bankrupt Court's bill was postponed for
three weeks.

In the Commons, Colonel Evans gave notice
of a motion for papers in regard to negociations
in favour of Poland.

A petition w•as presented by Alderman Thomp-
son against the payment of £5 14s. 6d. by ships
on release from quarantine.

Mr. O'Connell presented a petition from Not-
tingham, praying for the release of the Rev. R.
Taylor, whose prosecution was regarded as an im-
putation on the Christian Religion and the Tole-
ration Laws.

He also presented an important petition from 25
catholic bishops, against money being advanced
for avowed purposes of education, but really fur
proselytism and misrepresentation.
Mr. Campbell brought in some bills to correct
laws about property.

The Mayor and Town-clerk of Great Grimsby,
proved at the bar that the late delay in the return
of the writ was a mere inadvertency.
Mr. Gordon then rose to bring on his motion
about the bribery and undue influence in the last
Dublin Election; but Mr. Denison conjured him
to forbear, from respect to the Reform Bill. Mr.
Gordon however persevered, and gave a full
narration of various acts of bribery by system, and
of various interferences by Captain Hart, Comp-
troller of the Lord Liestenant's Household, and
Baron Tnyll, his Lordship's Private Secretary.-
IHe moved that such transactions were contrary
to the resolution of the House in 1779.
Mr. Stanley replied with ingenuity, and the
Attorney-General moved an amendment, that
ictitionts freeholds in Dublin should be done away,

-Why he afterwards amended, to direct that the
Irish law Gibers should :prosecute all who had
bribed rotors.