Star.
London, England, 1817-03-28 00:00:00

TITHES.

Mr. NEWMAN moved for leave to enable the
Clergy and others to grant leases of Tithes, which
should be binding on their successors.
Alter a few words from the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER. the Motion was agreed to.

SAVING HANKS.
General THORNTON was of opinion that the
establishment of Saving Banks would prove of great
advantage to the country ; but he doubted if a Bill
like that now in the House for encouraging them
would answer the end in view ; and indeed he feared
it would do harm rather than good. Two petitions
had been presented against this Bill, wh.ch were
signed by persons of great knowledge and experience.
One of them was signed by Mr. Barber Beaumont,
and the other had the name of Mr. Parker, (late
Member for Hertford) attached to it; and he should
now move that these Petitions, that from the Parish
Officers and inhabitants of St. Paul, Covent Gorden,
and that from the Members of the Hertford Bank, be
printed.
The Motion, after some brief remarks from the
CMAIICALLOR of the Exciwauta, was put, and nega.
tived.

TUB 115 W STRUT.
On the motion of Mr. Hususson, the Land Reve-
nue Bill was read a third time.
The question being put, that the Bill should pass,
Mr. FREEMAN FLE wished to know what sums
bad already been expended on the new improvements,
and to what extent they were to be carried ?
Mr. HUSKISSON could n•t at that moment an-
swer the question, as he had not about him the pa-
per: which be had brought down to the House yes-
terday. The expense was, he believed. somewhat
above £500,000. The further expense, so far as the
Crown was concerned, would nit exceed a1f500,000.
From the best information he could obtain, he expec-
ted the sum he bid tuentiimed would cover she whole'
expenw ; anti 11 s y the exces► above the estimate
would not be so „ri.at As might have been expected.
In point of tact, tm. buildings purehased had cast

about the sum set down in the estimate, but there
had been an exceeding on the charges lot compensa-
tion for removal and good-will.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT had understood that some
of the persons compelled to remove, who had made
choice of other situations more than a year ago, cal-
-1 culating on receiving the compensation to which they
were entitled, to complete their arrangements, re-
mained unpaid. He thought these persons ought to
have'what was due to them, before the works were
proceeded with.
Mr. HUSKISSON knew of no just ground for
complaint. If, however, persons who would be com-
pelled to remove before the improvements were com-
pleted, chose for their own convenience to remove
unnecessarily soon, it did not follow that they ought
forthwith to be paid.
Lord COCHRANE thought those who were com-
pelled to remove front a situation in which they had
rattled on business for ',cars w•rre entitled to some
consideration, even though they were but tenants
at will.—Mr. FRRPSIANTLP explained.
The Bill was then passed.
The Irish Arms Regibtry Bill, and the Irish Peace
Preservation Bill, were severally read a third time,
and passed.
Mr. NEW MAN brought in a Bill for enabling the
Clergy and others to grant leases on Tithes, which
should be binding on their successors.

The Bill was read a first, and, after a few words
from Mr. LOCKHART, ordered to be read a second
time, on the 24. th of Apiil.

SEDITIOUS ASSEMBLIES BILL.

The SO LIC ITOlt-GENERAL moved, that the
Order of the Day for taking it to consideration ilie
Lords Amendments to the Sediti, us Assemblies Bill
h .0 I d he read.
Lord FULKSTONE supposing it to he the inten-
tion of the Learned Geittleiban to move that the
Amendments of the Lords should now be taken into
coo-ideraiion, thought it right to state his objections
to this being tone ; after which he thought the House
would leel it was impossible for them to proceed to
the consideration of them that night. The Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer had yesterday promised that
the Amendments of the Louis thottid -be Mutinied
early this day to the Members, that they might have
time to consider the alterations made in the Bill. He
had accordingly received a paper in goud time that
morning, and had endeavoured to make himself mas-
ter of the subject, but without success. He found in
the Lords the Bill had received two new clauses and
fifty-five amendments, and the paper supplied but 14
references to them; and of these fourteen only one
was correct. In several instances he bad found the
amendment within a line or two of that indicated,
but in Isom! he had not been able to discover it at all.
Under these circumstances, the House could not with
any skew of decency proceed to take the amendments
into consideration that night.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL remarked, that
the amendments were for the most part merely ver-
bal, and might, he thought, have been found out with
a little pains and trouble. •
Lord FOLKSTONE had taken pains and trouble
to discover them, but had not succeeded. Some of
the amendments, from the reference made to them, it
' was impossible to discover, sad consequently it was
not easy to determine whether they were important
-or not. The only way by which the House could
really beinado acquainted with the Bill was by re-
printing it.
The SPEAKER stated that the Amendments had
been brought to him early in the morning. They
were not correctly printed. He corrected them, and
ordered the paper to be reprinted, which, he-was in-
formed, had been done.

Lord FOLKSTONE said, he bad certainly re.
ceived another paper, which might be correct, and if
an opportunity were afforded him, he might read be-
fore the passing of the Bill, but of which be had not
been able to make himself master at present.

Mr. BROUGHAM, when last night he asked for
one day's time, that they might understand the im-
portant Amendments made by the Lords, with which
that House was expected to concur, bad grounded
the request on this argument, that if the amendments
were not prioted and delivered in good time, it was
but a jest to say they were submitted to their sonsi•
deratiun, though it might be said their eyes saw them
on the table, and their ears heard them when the
question was put. The answer of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer had been this : the objection urged
was easily obviated, for he would take care that the I
amendments should be printed and delivered early in
the morning. In consequence of this pledge, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had harried the print- I
ing of them, and at length delivered 'them in such a
state, that, instead of informing, they were calculated
to mislead, the Members who perused them ; and at
last, at six o'clock, correct copies had been circulated,
though doubtless many Gentlemen as yet had only
seen those first delivered. For this he blamed not
the Officers of the House, but the Chancellor of
the Exchequer and his colleagues,. who had refused
to give proper time fur the consideration of the mea-
sure, though the time called for was so immaterial.
He would put it to the House, if they ought thus to
proceed to legislate in the dark? It had been said
the amendments were merely verbal. This, however,
he must say, was no: the character of some of them.
One of them, for instance, went to leave out line
seven, and to insert the words a on pain of death."—
He contended this might prove to be an important
alteration, and others which he pointed out might he
equally so. He blamed Ministers for the course they
had rashly adopted, and pertinaciously persevered in.
He was incapable at present of taking these Amend-
ments into consideration ; others were in the same
situation, and under these circumstances he would
again put it to the House, if they did not owe it to i
the ordinary decorum of Weir proceedings, not to
carry this measure with such circumstances of inde-
centhurry._

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
reminded the Honourable and Learned Gentleman,
that it was for one day he had asked, on the preceding
night, but he had desired that the Bill might not be
proceeded with till alter the Easter Recess. He,
however, would not be provoked by any thing that
' had been said to recommend a course which would be
unbecoming the dignity of that House. He admitted
they had not had proper time to consider of the
amendments. Even the circumstance of two Papers
having been delivered, in the course of the day, like

those which had been mentioned, was surticient to *,
duce him not to press the amendments on the Howt.
Those who sat on that side of the flois • were
desirous that the measure should be ful.y c,t;std-rek
as the Gentlemen opposite could be. lt wiss t nir
wish that it should be made as complete as possible,
and he would therefore propose tAltssig the dene„d.
ments into consideration to-morrow.

Mr. PONSONBY was glad the Right Honnural..l-
- had consented to postpone the coosider -
lion of the Amendments till tn-morrow. tie r
he would take efficient measures tor correcting the
paper which had been sent round that day. He, for
one, had not been able to understand that hich ft,
had received, And alter a short trial had given it up.
Mr. CAI-VERT had a paper, which he had re-
ceived but half an hour ago at the Vote Office, wlarch
he tour.d was inct,rrect.

Mr. PONSONBYa..kei what steps the Cli,rcellnr
of the Exclicquer would take to give then.' correct'.
copies in time ?
The CHANCELLOR of the E.XCHEQUEK
said, the tabk of providing correct cupics w,.uld be
Itlt in better hands than his.

Mr. PONSONBY bore testimony to the correcti,,,,ss
and care of the Ofilcers o: the 1-lou.-.e, but ch.,: '„
the Chancellor of the Exchequer Lt.! ye,•zersfay takru
the business upon himself.
Mr. BATHURST noticed t':e in:feet:fades rhich
had been cmoplair.ed of, and did no: consider the'
SO leilw,rtAitt as sower Geralemet: bad seemed fis sop-
pose them to br, th,,ugh there w::s c‘rt.ssilly
clause which it WAS dAcult to undeist:in,i.

Lord COCHRANE protested rror.;:ly against
the clause prohibiting public meetings it:V.'s:btu:in:ter,
hut in Coveitt Garden, ►%!dcft they all kae►v
private market—
Lord BINNING spoke to order. Tlte qu !ie:t
now before the House was, that the considerau•m tel
the amendments should be postponed 61 to-moults ?
The SPEAKER said, the Noble Lord might
apply what he had advanced to the question, but at
the same time his titi2ert must be seen.

Lord COCHRANE thought it right to seize a;.y
opportunity of protesting against the clause in cpie-
Lion. He considered it an insult to the people of
IVestminster to fotbial them to meet is the place
where their ancestors had been accustomed assem-
ble, and an oltrage on the nation at large. It was
saying that the people of Westminster must be dis-
tinguished from their fellow sulii:cts, AS, for thcm,gag-
ging-bills, gaols, and the penalties which kept othais
in awe, were not sufficient. To act thus. he emclif
not say was what the House dared not Jo, for they
dared do any thing. No one had ever heard of any
impediment being thrown in the way of Members
coming to that House by the M-etinge in Palace-
yard, nor had the proceedings there ever interrupled
the Courts of Justice, for the shouts or the clarniints
(as it was called) of the trinltituele could not be heard
in them. On every occasion be would enter his pr-
test against the clause.
The Amendments were ordered to be taken intn
consideration to-morrow.

Lord CASTLEREAGH p►esented Ertnes
Letters from Mr. Sydenhanr to Lord C.ivlere:l7!-.
relative to the Lisbon Embisssy.—Ordered to he La
the table.

The Report of the Committee on the SAlt Duty
Act, was brought up, and agreed to, and a 13ill
demi accordingly.
The Window Light Regulation Bill went through
a Committee, the report of which was received,
ordered to be taken into further con►ideraticn on
Monday fortnight.

Sir J. NEWPORT said, it would be in the recol-
lection of the House that a Bill had been brought in
last year, which went to put in Ireland the law be-
tween Landlord and Tenant on a footing different
from that on which it had stood before. Some de•
feels might naturally be expected to chew themselve-,
and he might have considered it his duty to have
moved to bring in a Bill to amend it in the course of
the present Session, had he not thought it desirable to
allow another year to pass, that they might be bettur
enabled to judge of its practical operation.

Mr. LESLIE FORSTER took precisely the same
♦iew of the Bill referred to, as had been tact, by t!.c
Right Honourable Gentleman. He approved of his
motive for declining to bring in a Bill to amend it, 4nd
in the mean time thought it right to say, the Fractic4l
operation of the Bill was satisfactory.—Adjourned.