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mind. The salary of that officer silts 4061. a year. and I
the House of Keys *anted to have an able Eng-
lish lawyer, who should be contented with that sum in
lieu of professional practice, and he -ss Wing besides to
take up his censtant residence in thu Isle of Man.
Mr. AI3ERCROMI3Y thought the House of Keys
ought to have been heard, before the opinion of the At-
torney and Solicitor-General were given.. He wished
that r roceedings, indeed, now might he suspended, and
the -House of Keys heard before the Privy Council. •
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that he believed
that every document which could be collected upon the
question had been laid before him and his.colltague,
to their giving their opinions; and,from the inspection
of all those documents, it was clear, 'that at ro period
of the history (as far as they went) of the Isle ef -Man,
had the House of Keys ever formed a part of the Court
of Jail-delivery. The House of Keys, not in ancient
times, but about a hundred years back, had certainly
usurped a right of summoning Juries bef.ire them, and
fining them for what they had considered improper ver-
dicts ; but it appeared, that during the last forty or fifty ,
years, even this power had not been exercised. He (ihe
Attorney-General) apprehended that the Right Hon.
Secretary had given no instructions upon the subject.
He- had merely transmitted to the Governor the opinion
of the law officers of the Crown; confirmatory of the
opinion which had been deliveted by the local Attorney-
General. Since the delivery of that opinion (which was
now full twelve months) there had been more than sut-
ficient time for an appeal to the Pi ivy Councii.
Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH professed himself not
satisfied with:the explanations which had been given on
the other side. , The objection was less to the alteration
of the law, than to the manner of the alteration. Nor
had care been taken, on removing the jurisdiction of the
House of Keys, to provide mcans for the securing sub-
stantial, justice•without its assistance.
Mr. COURTENAY said, that the present question
was not the rights of parties, but a question whether the.
Secretaty of State had acted wrong—(Cries of " Nos
mo").—Gentlemen cried " no," but he said " yes ;" tor,
upon the right of the House of Keys to what it claimed
the House of Commons, was not competent to give a de-
cision. As it seemed to him, in taking the opinions of
the Attorney and Solicitor•Generai, the Right Hon.
Gentleman (Mr. Peel) had done all that he was bound
to do: it was impossible to say that the whole jurisdic-
tion of the Court of jail delivery ought to-have stopped
until there had been time for the Privy Council to in-
quire into the subject.—The House then divided, when
the numbers were—
For the Motion - its Against k '-
Majority for producing the Papa* I.
The Report of the Committee of Supply nrisbroaght up. The
House agreed to the Resolutions of the Confusitese.
The Reciprocity of Duties Bill was read a second time.
The Irish Clergy Residence Bill was read a first time; to be read
a second time on the Ist of March.—Adjourned at a Quarter before
Seven o'Clock.

26

MEETING AT LLOYD'S.
Yesterday, a General Meeting of the Subscribers to
the above Establishment was held, pursuant to notice
by the COmmittee for managing its affairs, for the pur-
pose of filling up the vacancy in the Committee, caused
by the lamented death of Mr. MARRYAT ; and also for
the purpose of submitting to the general sense of the
Meeting, the Resolutions pasied at the General Meeting
of Merchants, Ship Owners, and Underwriters, respect-
ing the injurious operation of the present system ,of
classing Shipping by the Committees of the two Re-
gistry Books used at Lloyd's
The Chairman (BENJAMIN SHAW, Esq.) in addressing
the Subscribers for the first time since the much-la-
mented death of their late Chairman, paid a just and
feeling tribute of applause to the character and eminent
services rendered by that Gentlemen to the interests of
Lloyd's, and concluded by reading a Resolution ex-
pressive of the high estimation in which his memory
and services are held by that House, which passed with
the most cordial marks of approbation.
The Meeting then proceeded to elect an individual in
lieu of Mr. MA RRYA T, when his eldest son, Jones'
MA RRYAT, Esq. was chosen without any opposition.
The CHA I RN:AN then stated, that he lied to call their
attention to a subject of very great importance to the
Subscribers at large ; they were all aware that he al-
luded to an application from the Ship Owners, in conse-
quence of certain resolutions passed by them in January
last, at the City of London Tavel n, in which they de..
scribed the present system of classing ships to be unfair
in its principle, and very injurious in its operation on
their interests. Now, although the present mode might
not be free from objection, Set he thought that it had
been found to answer very sell for the Underwriters,
and therefore he should look -to any alteration of the
system as calling for their vigilant attention. The
Committee, in the exercise of that discretion, on
matters affecting the interests of that House, which he
considered was vested in them, had given this im-
portant subject their most serious attention and con-
sideration, since the resolutions above referred to hal
been officially communicated to them, and t'rey had
come to the conclusion, that the proposal that that
House should concur in the proposed investiture, by
appointing eight of its Members to form part of the
Committee of Enquiry, was a measure strongly to be
deprecated, and they had therefore, prepared a written
Report of their views on the subject, which he wished
might be read.
The Report was then read by the Secretary, it oe
cupied nearly a sheet of large paper, and recommended
to the Subscribers to abstain from acceding to the in-
vitation of the before-mentioned meeting, on the groundi
chiefly (as far as we could collect its bearing) that the
interest of Lloyd's did not call for such a proceeding on
their part.—At the termination of reading the Report,
11Ir. BUCKLE addressed the Meeting, and expre.sed
his astonishment that such a Report should have been
presented by the Committee of that House to their Con-
stituents. The Chairman and the Report assumed that
the Resolutions which they were met t r consider had
emanated from a Meeting of Ship-mars only, whereas
it was well known thar they were passed at a General
Meeting of Merchants, Ship-owners, and Underwriters,
very numerously attended, and of the highest respedability,
and the application to that House to join in the proposed
inquiry, was equally the act of all. He could not but
-feel very great surprise at the course pursued by the
Committee who had got up this proceeding, evidently,
as he viewed it, with the intention of inducing the sub-
Eribers to reject the invitation addressed to them from a
source PO respectable, and so entitled to their attention.
!.—Mr. Buckle shewed, by a correspondence he had for-
merly had, when he was Chairman of tl,e Ship Owners'
Society, how inconsistent the present conduct of the
existing Committee of Lloyd's was, with the views en-
tertained on former occasions by their predecessors in
office. We regret that ire could not catch the s hole of