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ft was proposed in this instance, to appiy the sum of
5q0,000/. unejer certain regulations, to the further erec-
tion of Churches in popular districts ; and, at the same
time, it was provided that those inhabitants. who sub-
scribed of themselves two-thirds of the building money,
;Mould, in consequence, be allowed to appoint the offi-
ciating Minister of such Church or Chapel, but subject
to the discretion of the Diocesan. This clause he was.
satisfied could injure no one, could compromise no in-
terests, and its effect in such Dioceses as those of York
and Chester, would be found most beneficial. He
hoped that upon these grounds their Lordships would
agree to the second reading of the Bill.
Lord KING did not object to the building of more
Churches, for he believed that more were wanted.
What in principle he objected to was applying the re-
payment of the AuStrian Loan, though it had heed
called a a God-send," to such a purpose. He was dis-
posed to approve of the latter part of the Bill, however,
which permitted the people to choose their own Minis-
ters on subscribing for the erection of Churches. Let
Churches and Chapels be built, and let the people have
good preachers in them, there would plenty of persons
be found ready to resort to such laces of worship, and
the pew-rents would soon' reimbutise the builders. If,
hoWever, the choosing of the Ministers were left to the
controul of the Rector or Vicar, and that Reverend per-
son happened to be himself a very drone, he would
naturally take case to pitch' upon a worse performer
than himself, and thus defeat the people's choice.
The Bill was then read a second time, a:td ordered to be cotn-
mined to-morrow in a Committee of the whole House.
Upon the motion of the Earl of SHAFTEBNURT, the East India
Teade Bill and the Bankrupt Laws Amendment MI were respec-
tively read a third time, passed, and sent to the Commons.
The Earl of RUSSIAN presented a Petition from the Inhabi.
tants of Saffron-hill, Holborn, and its neighbourhood, in favour of
the Equitable Loan Bank BilL
Lord SUFFIELD presented a Petition from the Tailors of
London and Westminster, in favour of the Equitable Loan Bank
Bill. He observed that the Petition (which be unfolded) was tea
year& and a quarter long, and was signed by 600 persons.
Lord HOLLAND said that be had the honour to present to
their Lordships a Petition, not indeed numerously signed, but elo-
quently dictated, fraught with arguments to his mind of irresistible
weight, and in every tittle of which he concurred. The Petitioners
on this occasion were no other than the Protestant Dissenting
Ministers of the three denominations in assembly at Red Cross-
street Library, who prayed to be relieved from enactments so de-
!grading hods to themselves and the Legislature, and which rendered
the most sacred rite of Religion a mere bye-Word of reproach to
them. It would, his Lordship said, constitute the pride or his Par-
liamentary life if by any efforts of his he could even hope to further
the prayer of the Petitioners, who prayed to he relieved from the
thraldom of what commonly were called the Corporation and Test
Acts while rejecting the supposed security still proffered to them
tinder the guise of Annual Indemnity Mills. lie did nor, however,
now propose to found any motion upon the Petition, but he
wished 'it to be read, and he hoped that their Lordships would
attend to its contents. •

The aforesaid Petition was accordingly read, received, and or-
dered to lie upon the table of the House.
7 *Sir It. WILLIAMS. Mr. 'AIUNDAT, Sir J. GRAHAM, and others,
brought up the. SOuthWark Bridge Act Amendment Bill, the See
of Canterbury Estates. Bill, and some other Bills, wLicts were after-
wards read a first time.

Lpon the motion of the Eari:BAvn MOT, the [louse proceeded to
a Committee on the Slave Trade Luis Cousols.drtion Bill, which
was reported as amended, and the Report was ordered to be re-
ceived to-morrow.

CRUELTY TO ANIMAL%
Lord CA LTHORPE moved the House to go into a Committee
on the Cruelty to Animals Punishment Bill.
The E rl of ROSSLY N foie for the purpose of resisting the fur-
ther progress of the present Bill, by moving that it should be com-
mitted tor this day three months. The measure was, he observed,
mast vexatious in a legishaive point of view; and, indeed, he took
shame to himself for nut havhig opposed the very Act whence the
present Bill emanated, and upon which, under the pretence of an
amentlanrnt. it was grafted. If such a measure once passed the
House, which he still trusted would never be the case, their Lord-
ships might reckon, as he uk.derstuod the BM, on having no more
geldings in their stables; and so restrictively penal were the provi-
sions of the Bill, that he almost doubted if hereafter they might
ride any horse with spurs. fie was confident, however, that the
measure would put au cud to Races.
Lord SU VVI ELD would agree in the greater pert of what had '
fallen from the Noble'Lurd opposite, it the Bill left it entirely to
the discretion of Magistrates to bifiiet the peu.,:ties; but it was per-
fectly safe, as the penalty must be attached to the offender, in any
cafe, by the verdict of a Jury.
The Earl of ItOSSLY N said, that the intervention of Juries
might frecitlently, in such cases, I)..vr little or eo effect. If their
Lordstip:, once passed the present ihil, it renLjned for the pre.
siding Judge to explain the law upon the suhject to the Jury, and
in nine cases out of ten the latter were most likely to be guided by
the Judge.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought that the Bill was liable

to a tortuous kind of application ; some of its provisions inc:Loied
an incidental tort of inhumanity to animals, and upon the whole be
cunaidered the objections of the Noble Earl worthy of some atten-
tion.
If their Lordships had looked at the Newspapers, they might
have seen that a Society was formed for the express purpose of
punishing persons who might happen. to be alienable to penaltks
I under such Bills as the present.
The question was new put, that the word " now." should stand
part of the motion, which was negatived, and the Bill was ordered
to be committed for chi+ day three months.
The Masters and Workmen Bill passed through a Committee,
and was reported, as amended, to the House.
Petitions wire presented by the Earl of SHA ruseuar against the
Marine Company a insurance Bill, front the Insurance Brokers of
the City of London; also, trout the tlndervniters now engaged,
individually or otherwise, in insurances ; and also wont the Lon-
don Assurance Company, which were ordered to lie upon the table.
At a quarter to Eight o'Clock, their Lordships adjourned till to-
roarrow at four. _ _

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HOUSE or COMIdONS.
At a quarter before four o'c;ock, the Deputy Usher of the Black
Rod summoned the lion Flf to the Ronne of Lords, to bear the Hays!
Assent given by Commission to several pubhc and private Bills, for
the particulars of which see Lords' itepure.
Mr. EAMON front the king's Dunce, presented a Return mAde
by Mr Jones, Marshal oldie King's Beech, by order of the !louse.
The Southwark Bridge lids w.:s read a third time and paikd.
The LORI) A 1) VOCATI; pi emoted a Petition from the Faculty
of Advocates of Edinburgh, in favour of the Sci);clt Judicature
Mr. AI3E RC ROA 1: V sAJ,:ticee were Ilt) iCNS twenty-seven
of the Faculty, who,; names be re.ol, rg..inat this lAtitiou. •
The LORI) .tI)VOCATIf. sail, i.e 6:441 ninety naiwni, no less
respectable than those tw,sity-irv,.n rt:,,d over by the Honourable
Gentleman, to piece against them—The l'etiatio was ordered to
be printed.
I 31r. W. I)US OAS presented a similar Petition from the Writers
, to the Siguet at Fletiniiutgh.
Mr. LUN NAM.) presented a Petition from the Catholics of the