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London, England, 1828-05-23 00:00:00

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He bad vainly endeavoured, a fesit4enings since, to
excite discussion upon it; but he was glad to find that
a speedy opportunity would be afforded of discussing
it fully and deliberately.
Sir *AMES GthirtlAM- seedy-that -he :ins. one of .
thrise Members who felt" a considerable degree of in-
terestin.the question. The tiabltpf inquiry in Scotland ,
and Ireland showed the necessity of applying it to Eng-
land also.
.Mr. WESTERN said, that as the Right Honourable '
the Chancellor of the Exchequer had postponed his mo-
tion sine die, the House was much indebted to his Hon.
Friend for bringing the subject before it.
Mr. BARING said, that the observations upon the
postponeMent of the subject seemed to be made as if
the Government contemplated an entirely new measure
—(Hear.) Now all that was intended was to prevent
the introduction of that species of currency from Scot.
land, which they had determined should not exist here.
His Hon. Friend and Colleague had,entirely over-rated
and exaggerated the case.' He was not insensible to the
local inconvenience which must be felt by withdrawing
the small remnant of small note circulation ; but if the
period should ever come when they should unadvisedly
return to the system from which they had depat ted, for
theptirpore of giving stability and security to the cur-
Miley of the comity, he should view it with the greatest
possible regret. •
Mr. HUME rose to protest against the regret of the
Hon. Member being supposed to be geneml at the con-
teMplation of ft return to a paper currency. On the
contrary, he for, one was convinced that at no distant
period the country would be compelled to return to a
sound system or paper and gold. and that the use of
small notes, convertible into gold upon demand; was the
very best system which could be adopted.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, be
would only.ezplain why he had postponed the motion
of which he bad given notice. He received an intima-
tion from an Hon. Baronet, that the Bill should be un-
detstood to be broight in without discussion, and that
the 4ebate upon it should be taken upon the second
reading. Upon the strength of that supposed under-
standing, he came down and gave his notice to the
House. But since that he had ascertained that there
were many who would not consent even to the bringing
in of the-Bill without going into a discussion of the
whole question; and as many who were parties to the
firstenderstanding had made other engagements, he
bad postponed the Bill for the present.
Mr. S. WORTLEY thought it better that the main
Itheitkid should.bi introduked upon its own merits, and
tiles tacked to suth a tneeture as that which the Right

Ho*. Gentleman meet to propose.
• Mr. DU NDAS supported the maiotensameof a paper
currency in Scotland. • - •
Mr. PAIONCIt said, thin' the centertibility of one
petted notes imo gold upon demand Wye thneiwistdan-
part of. the system.,--TlsoPetitiest was then or-
td be rioted.'
storsrlorted of *Otto's, - 0. • -
Lord Nllkir4hrt Mee for leave to bring in a Bill to
i'aeto all Cities, Boroughs, and Cinque Ports, a registry
of the names aad descriptionsof persons entitled to vote
• tar 'Members of Parliament. He contended that no
good tittlect could be obtained by secreiy as to the per;
soils sh entitled to vote. There were.only two objects
*Milt it cottldsetve, neither of which be apprehended
trible hie depended by any Member of that House. vnie
;tit *as; that Monopoly of with knowledge possessed
detain agents, and used for • purposes. of personal
eitelonient and defiantage ; the other was the fraudulent
crieatcan of *Votes and substitution of persons by Corpo-
Otte elEcers at the moment of eleCtion.. The outline of
the Ithit*ss, that a Registrar should be appointed in
*Mr City or Borough, and that he shiaildbe compelled
Oittida 'Court four tithes a 'yen, 'for the purpose of
entering voters PropetiOualified. That a severe fine
*Cold be itopOred 'for any' false entry, Or for frandu-
leetly erasing or &setting ingtianteu. That a-certilcate.
if registration slitaild 'bbiCiiits to each niter' Coon the
pail Of a neat fee, which .certificate should beheld
of equal vxlise -soltb %fie' registee as evidence of qualit '
otion lie
Mt:Mani its) prispose that no person should
be etttitlid to vote Itittille. had been registered twelve
Meisths, coleys thorigist was obtained by the purchase
of toping. 'Abe 41 would provide that eripers of the
g34o4be printed end circolated et a cheap
rate. ;His sits, to give effect to sine chive prin-
eiPte4 of dig Purbati Act, and to extend it to Cities and
Ikrvissoghs as stAkas Couetiei. He did oat intend to. in-
sedate with any i'S.:ht of appeal or of Scrsitiar alter the
eli, . fitai kis, with the undoubted privilege of that
• Mouse to examine into qualitit4tions in contested cases'
• Write thews; bathe did intend to put an end to the
"P'Acgice of examining qualifications at the moment of
taking the poll,, and the measure would bare the effect
Of,producing what,he believed they wereoll agreed in.
clesiting.n diminution of the time its,which polls were
takers. If the Bill were allowed to pass, he believed it
imolai operate as a check to the .perjury, the confusion,
ilisd.tbe excesses of erect kind which now prevailed at

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• awe turn comma", o,aatt.ts. 1
1. 'MACINTOSM row to brews forward Ms atotion for a
Ulf* rAiisitriktee. 'to kilo* ihto lre case err* is a Veikka4
ifttiatlifod sib be Ma*, from Mr. O'Reilly,* to.
1140111Wsha. • .
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laholber it .*movbe Maser 'foe No to ewe for the does-;
OM* ithfitdAhle'esas;oll..klei #e irides we af..ter diey
VireteohetarirtieW • -
;Or 4. 111ACEINTOSIVasoesermi.‘..41i!A oaf Mir a New of
egtirtlLP Uril'esPefort
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liasiftditer aodWoff. • rtlie a heirOrtrnli lapM
'Madam *lb lbred4l4
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it J. lit Atillkir
iteel6l Ntit,
%Ain lOtetafiakkisi
4titta, ehitirainekleoT tekte
**Willed, in cmhietotitite'
Yid vetettifettt df
b;. Mr. PiOis movee
Ittertaneefehfilidd few debtla
felruteitea. 'Poet St.
tt.its 116 and
Qtr itfg witiitceadi person
ihtt fit the tuit of itte'
erloddatithie ftleinhey
*We adfdstutatte pet kips
'or* 'they 'ortre dohlroOd
Fadt thWelawite •
wet in/mute&
tias jdry df Cite!
*Mk A rdithit.oodidted

tifontx-ass patties,
••tortifeh, "yelirs, INA* .
/110141101i041. Some
ttiVitallbtattiseitted .
He uuged that

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city of making a law **prevent sisals cruel sufferings,'
when the information *as before them.
Mr. WYNN said. he had about half an hour before
given notice of his intetttiutt to bring in a Bill to mend
an Insolvent Act to India.
Lord. ASHLEY asked if the Honourable Gentleman
had not better wait for the measure, as the returns must
be sent for to India. • They were certainly not in Eng-
land.
Mr. HUME said, that the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman had promised the papers, and there must have
been some great want of negligence somewhere.
Mr. WYNN said, that, as far as his memory served,
directions had been given to have the information sent
home.
Mr. FERGUSON hoped the motion would be with-
drawn, as the inforni.ttion was not wanting to impress
the House with the necessity of cOnsidering the subject.
Mr. FORBES trusted that the motion would not be
withdrawn, as he was sure the information would afford
such a proof of suffering and misery as would induce
the House to apply a remedy.
Sir J. MACINTOSH said, that he had seen enough
of the evils of imprisonment in Bombay to make him
regret that he had not the power to lessen or correct
them. He was also deeply impressed with the 'trees•
sity of applying some remedy to the, evil which arose
out of the defective state of the law respecting the goods
of insolvents.
' After an observation from Mr.WINX, the motion was agreed is.

INDIAN JUltirr.
Mr. HUME then rose to move for a copy of the re-
gulations that have been adopted at the several Presi-
dencies as to natives serving an Juties.• By a clause in
the Act of Palliament, all persons who were not of the
Christian faith were. incapacitated from serving on
Grand Juries, which by the superior classes .of the. na-
tives was felt tohe a great grievance, and his object in
moving for the papers he had mentioned was to see
bow fax the.eaperiment. as far as it had gone, had suc-
ceeded. By the existing law, the lowest person .of
Portuguese extraction, if he happened to proles the
Christian faith, was eligible for, the office of Grand
'Juryman; -while the most respeciablerserson who was
a free native, and therefore most likely of a different
religion, was totally excluded. He, took that opportu
nity of expressing his hope that the grievance would
be removed, and also that trial by jury would soon
be
extended to India in civil causes., He . moved al, for a
cup, of the regulations that have lbeen adopted at the
several Presidencies in • India as .td natives serving on
Juries,"
Lotd,ASHLEY said, he hOPed the .Ilettie; Consider-
ing the short time he had-been in office,. would exctise
' him from entering largely into the subject. With re-
spect to the result of natives serving ;or) Petit /furies,
•no.Repott had yet been received from ladia. He was
happy, however, to say,
.that the letters which had
been received spoke in yery high ternie 01,..the cpnduot
Of the half-castes. Copies.- of the Regulations whikli.l
' had been adopted at Calentta, had.hiten veceived, :and
Hat Course forwarded to the Privy. Council, in ordeil
to he laid • before his ,Majesty:
however, on the subject* had arrived bean Sontlatyl
or Madras. Why copies -oflthe Regolutinewadopeedla
those PresidenCiektiad not been racer }.b ethild hot.
pretend to iay ;* bat' rhea Ace ihoolcrtOtive, 'did
net apprehend there would be any objection tit)tail
being laid before the-Houser: and with-respect .tab .dMft
reguationi adopted at' CalcAttais they, sheutd be- laid'
upon the table with. as little delay at,
_Atter a ise. geoids firm hfr.:_,Cootfiromi'.s 7 ;
Mr. WY-NN recommentled„to. 44; Ileali..oo4t
effect of -the experiment thew makingrshisaid '
ascertained before the principle was49llt, extbitairdik
practice. It would be. Min* .eiriber to MrtendOistrin.
tetract...
After ate* wir4i. from Mr.:Feariesonsawl Mr.,Jr Fuse% leo!:
medal was agreed to.
• LAW FRILS lii
Mt. 'HUME said, he was Induced ,tp stiike the Ino-;
tipn.with which be should concltide; by he numerous
complaints which had been made Upon :the subject,—
The Judges in.lndia had been reqeested to interfere in
behalf of the suitors and-to lower the 'feelj butithey had
refused. The Hon. Member, in supporrulSis motion,
referred to a Petition from Bombay upon the subject,
and said that that document Ives in *Salt sufficient to
cull foranitiquiry. He moved for* copy of the table,
of lees wractioned 'by the Supreme Cant in Indite, mid
charged by the Officers of the Supreme Courts at Fdrt
William, Fort George, . Bombay, andPiloceraf Wales
Island,; alto for a Return of the salaries and emote.
Mien% of veal kind 'received by the Officers, on an
reeerage taken upon the last two or three years tin the
gepseine Ounts of Judicature at Fort 'Wuhan', Fort
St. George. Bombay, and 'Prince of Wales Island.
Lord ASHLEY . aid, 'that the Courts of India, in-
slead of sending. home regular accounts of the tables of
fees, only announced from time to time 'stich variation
lin fees as were agreed upon ; and, conliquently, that
there would be Freat difficulty in meeting the Howes.
abbe Gentleman s motion from the.documents that were
in this country. He therefore suggested that-it would
be better to seed out to India for fresh tables altoglither,',
rawhich he thought the Honourable Gentleman'S taw
would-bee more satisfactorily met—(Hear). .
Mr. FERGUSON could not agree with the statement
it the liononrable Gentleman, [Namur,. so far from
being any increase in the rate of -fees during the
last 27 years, they bad, in rnanyinstances, diminished—
(Bear, bear). He, therefore, thought that the Grand
Jury had not hod so much right to complain as the
Member.for Aberdeen seemed to -have supposed. It
might, perhaps. be the ease that• Officers received snore
from an increase
.:and.Doit hour any addi-
in Abet ibe4iness—,(Hear).
the Non. Gentleman, he
he Would send one of
would furniSh Site wil-
y/kb which 'he seemed

firs.

that he rase,for•the pur-
'two Bills, bearing oo
counts 7, bat soarer wag,
. would be Unnecessary'
any length to the Houle.
which he purposed its-,
carrying into effect the
.means of church briefs--
Asian adopted for the pur..
cases of•calamitous firer

ibuildingof chapels. With:
!vases, be thought that
the great facilities the
country towards th
snows of 'lnsurance Offic
illn, that in punning
'they were doing her
►sat)-mmnd he certainly

sootalarnsettets of
Awes
.adapted
light to plied on suOt
the retains, likewitie, thai

1010110,4 Ids tr din it val ow 4040,8„ mighl, perhaps. wetly cote snot'
kit chte,,li„„ the c,,,,,50v,: than .they did.fo ; .bin ibis
teat ti 'do /kluges kid Mao ia.the business of 'the COUrt, :an
k • ittolltitiolott seerunifir Owing ohmage 'that was. made .on 1
' Idsdpi. seer* et -whisk
' • stappipes4. 21t, *AO Ilk InOtion, heviesier,,os:rh,
'titf,„ and Mr. Fiascoes, &it 40 VID ctjhetion to tt:s 'and If I
4.., - ki, i his tecretaries col* house, he a
Itiattlitlias s *DID. . 4legly ivith a copy ot rtisaifees„ n
. . • ; airistitice, that On Friday,: tivaillses to 'be made-acquainted.
' 'ist eZPetitinaltrutt'cer., Ctittlialt Ma
Ind'otheritiliabitants of Cal-: )4t4 fecterAty.PEEL, said, th
sLne 4
'of grievances tinder %Nett they) pose of askiag leave lolvring in
ledie,of measettes addintd by the the subordinate economyof.theci
. witick:he apprehended, that it
aloe it :rduils iif the tilimber, ' ' . ilia to address himself at any
tlitirtis etfe girtA of ere/Wilde - ! Thetas& cif these yoga measure
amide& jail .abnibat, ill tad, .1 orodueirl for. the :purpose 'of es
iiii7,7o-I—the logo& of yea*, isbolitidO of raising 'Mosey ,by 'Ube
serson his been 'confilitill, tad whe ; (Hear 4)--a practice that thad bee
e'Governintin or of hutividegis. , vow of affeoding assistance ,iu c
tuber stated chit the tear eondedidedi lend -likewise flit aiding in the tbui
tenni to be conflised for life, an .I,resOct.to *the fulmar of ,theses
nod to horrible sufferings from the. ihen the blouse considered th
kttthe circumstances under which' were uffotdoll throughout the
ft appeared from a charge to Os Aver* of
COM, in D cember lest, that 4 , 'ntatosalsille avithihim,
kited in that prison one huntire 'prilseht lytill.` Witii by *deli
ions, some of whom had'been trier ;rads*" than twiewleibliv. hal
int for nine, inure 'fur tight, ess' ittsnegist *NO Aeeethietiolvot
*me of the ridfortimate 'sort ialkolltidit of Vitilltraore
lat the suite of tuft One singlet,* ,"tios aitiestiletkipasioasas 'Which Iniff
hat the House would WC the neces• occasions—(Hens beat).--Bgth