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London, England, 1813-07-07 00:00:00

PAIRLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS..

MOOSE OF LORDS, JULY 6.
The ,Royal Assent, by Commission, was given to the lAxis
Funding the Militia Pay and Clothing, the Irish Spirits Duty,
end two private Bills. The Commissioners were, the Arch-
Nebel; of CANTIRSORT, the LORD CIIALINCRLIIORi and Lore
WAI,SIIIOIR*III.
Mr. /AMID/I, Mr. LOCRIART and others from the Com-
mons, brought up the Approptiatila, the Dover Palms, the Mao
Duty, the Dublin Small Debts, the Irish embolic Officers, tin
Bankers' indemnity, and several private Bilis, Whit.% were real
the first time.

The Irish Catholic Mutes Bin Wu, on the motion of th.Dehe
of Noarott, ordered to be printed. The Bill, his Gire .b.
served, was nearly a transcript from that sent to the otbev Hous-
by their Lordships, or altered only in conformity with tint eat; -
stltutional jealousy which. on occasions whirs pains and penalties
occur, the respective Houses are apt to evince.
On the order for the wood reading of the Helstone Electi sr
Bill, the Loan qItASICILLOR objected to the want of evidt•%-r.
according to the established usage of the House. Ater sore
other observations, the further consadtratioo of the Bill
postponed.

" Accountant-General in Chancery and the Royal Irish CO-
nal Dissulutign Bills were read the third time and pa,sed.
1 he Annuities Rsgistration Bill went thrus,-g% a Comsat:tee.
and was ordered to be reported.
Mr. Cosa, from the Margpte Hoy Company, presented P:•
pees at the Bar, agreeably to their I.ord.hips' order.
*1 he Annuities Registration Bill, with some Amend:nen'. by
Lord Raw:snout In the Cnmmittee, colored to be rep 2r
to-morrnw.

The Bills on the table acre forwardA in their repec dee stirs,
and their Lordships adjourned till to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SrtAKFR procetcled to the House of Peers, and on Vs re.
turn informed the House that lie had heard tLe rutiai assent given
by commission to the Irish Distillery An endnu.ht l'utitletl Debt,
end several private Sil:s.
'I he Roman Carbolic, Lublin Smal I),:bts, Dover Pilo's. Con.
solidated Fund, Vote of cr. d:r, i•ti ltoyai Canal, Irish hi-
land Navigation, Silk Lo....city, and Spiri:-duty nills, wt re re.la
third time, and passed.
1 he third readii.g uf Lord 1.....tate 811 was post.
posed till to-morrow.

T he Irish Graad Canal, Earl Nel:r.i's Est.s.r, and Ship-awn•ra
Relief were I eport,d, and ~rdkitd to be read a third time
to-morrow.

The Westminstar Hustings Bill went through a Committee...-.
Report to-morrow.
Lord OSSULS ' ON was de4ous of Laming from some of
the Honouratge Ge Airmen opposite, whether any progress had
been made by the Commatee to whom the l'apers relate to the
Li.t had been referred, and whether any Report was to b.:
made before the prorogation of Parliament?
Mr. COURTENAY replied, that the Committee were to have
their final meeting to-morrow, for the purpose of making up
the Report; but that it hal not been in their carts mpla too to
make any proposition to the Huu:e during the short aLmailsdee
of the Session.

Mr. ROBERT SMITH wished to know from the Noble.
Lord (Castlereagh) whether it was intended to proceed with dad
Committee on the India BM that night ?
Lord CAS" LEREAGH said, that he had hoped that the Bill
would have been ready for delivery early that day, but As be un-
derstood that It was only just in th ha•:ds of Memb, re, he had
no objection that the Order of the Day slicu'd be po.tponed until
to-morrow, which was eccor•lingly dune.
On the motion of Mr. Vi MAR I ON, It was ordered that the
House should tomorrow resolve itvelf into a Committee for the
purpose of considering the sea vices of John l'almer, Esq. la the
department of the Post Office.

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MOCK AUCTION PREVENTION LILL.
Mr. LOCKHART said, teat in rising to pre•
pose a measure which was intended to afford relief
to the fair trader, and to suppress unfair and injuri-
ous competition, he begged to state, that in every
pint the merit of originating such a proposition was
owing to the Honourable Gentlemen who had lately
brought forward a measure of a more extended na-
ture. As far as that Bill went with regard to the
suppression of Mock Auctions, it was likely to 'have
afforded great relief, and so far all persons were un-
der considerable obligations to the Honourable Gen•
tleman, whose assistance he hoped he should have, in
endeavouring to destroy an evil which all acknow-
ledged to exist in a very dangerous degree. It had
been generally acknowledged as a prieciple that it
WAS not good policy is interfere with trade, or to at-
tempt to restrain it by any legislative enactments ;
but though he was ready to admit the principle ge-
nerally, he conceived that it w.!s always fair to in-
terfere when the proper channels by which trade
was conducted were full, fertile, and abundant, and
when particular modes of carrying on trade were
adopted, which injured those who were resident in
particular places, and paid all the taxes laid upon
the trade in which they were engaged to the last
farthing, while those frandulent competitors wholly
evaded them. With a view to the suppression of
this enormous evil; he proposed to introduce a Eill
to prevent itinerant Auctioneers from selling any
goods which had not been deposited with them for a
particular time. His next object was, to repeal the
existing duties on licenses, for the purpose of imposing
a higher license on Auctions within the Bills of Mor.
tality, and one still higher on Auctions out of those
limits. In order to protect the revenue, he also pro-
posed that goods should all be classed eigether, whe-
ther liable to duty or not, and same other regulations
relative to the printing of Catalogues, expesing Li-
censes, and not selling any property except in his
own place. With regard to the first point, it might
be proper, perhaps, to exempt country Auctioneers.-
-There were also some other regulations, such at
a clause to prevent an Auctioneer from giving a
fraudulent description of himself, or a fraudulent
description of the property—by the latter provisions
he did not mean that the Auctioneer should be
obliged to declare the name of the owner,.but it was
extremely fair chat be should say, that he was not
selling the property of an insolvent, or tif such as be.
longed to one on the point of bankruptcy, or cases
of that sort, when a name was often given for the
purpose of attaching a value, in the eyes of those un-
acquainted with it. He also proposed a limitatiore
in the time for taking out licenses, in order to pre-
vent the taking out of licenses for selling particular
gqods, and to oblige persons to be in possession of a
licence for a certain time, at least taro or three
morales. There was another clause relative to the
duty on goods—it was fair that all goods put up to
auction, the bidding on which did not exceed £lOO,
should pay a certain duty ; but on small goods nut
exceeding £6 in value; it would be a great preven-
tion of (rand that they should pay a high auction
duty. He had also two new clauses to submit rela-
tive to time and distance, which would not operate
oppressively on Auctioneers. Having vatted thus
much, he had only to add, chat he believed the ge-
neral trader was in favour of such a measure as that
now proposed, and he thought no class of traders
more entitled to the protection of the Legislatere,
for none paid the taxes laud upon them more reaelly
or cheerfully. Feeling, therefore, that he was taking
a step agreeable to that respectable class of tiaders,
and beneficial to the public at large, he should coa-

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