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FEES IN COUNTY COURTS.

ANONYM

TO THE EDITOR, OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR'

SIR,—I observe that Lord Brougham has brought
before the notice of the House of Lords the subject of the
extravagant fees payable in the County Courts, and parti-
cularly refers to the large fees payable on " Consents"
given by defendants who are sued in these courts. A few
weeks ago, I gave a consent to judgment where the debt
was under £3, for which I had to pay near nine shillings
costs ; so that what with the debt—which was little better
than a robbery, being a payment to a Scotch draper—and
the costs, I was made to pay dearly

I observe that peti-
s on the

tions are in course of signaure at several place
subject of the costs in County Courts
Yours, Mr. Editor,

A READER

IMPERIAL PARLIA.MEIVE

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TIIESDA.Y, AUGUST 16.

THE COMMONS' AMENDMENTS in the Chancery Suitors
Further Relief Bill, the Lunatic Asylums Bill, and the
Lunatics' Care and Treatment Bill, were agreed to.
Several bills were read a third time and passed, others
were read a second time, and several more were passed
through committee, including the Smoke Nuisance Abate-
ment Bill. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18.
The Hackney Carriages Duties Bill was broun
from the Commons and read a first tim
CONSOLIDATION OF STATUTE LIU
CELLOR laid on the table the report of the

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—The LORD CRA.N-

progress made by the commissioners in their labi

inquiry

He said that the result of a review of tl

of the statutes was rather curious. It appeared that from
Magna Charta to the present time, 15 and 16 of the Queen,
there had been passed 16,442 public statutes, omitting all
mention of local and personal acts, and other acts of that
class. But of these 16,000 acts, 2,700 had been repealed
in words, 2,600 others virtually repealed, while there were
3,900 which the commissioners had not determined upon,
and a number of acts relating exclusively to Scotland, to
Ireland, and to the colonies—so that there would appear to
remain only 2,498, say 2,500 acts, to which the labour of
consolidation for general purposes would apply.
DOG CARTS.—On the motion that the Commons'
reasons for disagreeing with the amendments made by the
Lords to the Turnpike Acts Continuance, &c., Bill be con-
sidered being made, some conversation arose with respect
to the dog-cart clause, which had been struck out by the
Lords, but which the Commons, on the motion of Mr.
Frewen, reinstated, in consequence, as Lord REDESDALE
observed, of a peculiar use of the " whip." Ultimately it
was moved and agreed to that the Lords should persist in
their rejection of the clause. _ _ _ _ _

Seve;al bills were advanced a stage, and their Lordships
adjourned at twenty minutes past six o'clock.

FRIDAY, AtausT 19,

COUNTY COURTE4.—Lora BROUGHAM presented peti-
tions from towns in North Wales, praying for the exten-
sion of the County Courts Jurisdiction.
LA.W REFORM.—The LORD CruNcma.on moved the
first reading of a bill for effecting certain reforms in the
practice of the Courts of Common Law at Westminster.
His lordship mentioned that the bill had been prepared
by the Common Law Commissioners.—Lord BROUGHAM
expressed his dissatisfaction at the commissioners not
giving the courts power to call witnesses whom they had
reason to think had been purposely withheld.

The bill was then read a first time.
SLAVE TRADE IN CUBA.—The Earl of CLARENDON,
in reply to Lord Brougham, said about three weeks ago
the consul-general of Cuba had reported that, in conse-
quence of certain very stringent instructions being sent
out by the Spanish government for the suppression of the
slave-trade, a very great amendment had taken place in
the practices of Cuba. A notorious slave-dealer had been
arrested and imprisoned ; and, though it was reported he
had since been released, he had received no official infor-
mation of the fact.
LONDON CADMEN.—Thp Hackney Carriage Duties Bill
was read a second time, and the standing orders having
been suspended for the purpose, was subsequently read a
third time and passed.
.

A number of other bills were read a third time and
passed, and the house adjourned soon after six o'clock.:

SATURDAY, AUG. 20.

The LORD CRANCELLOR took his seat at 2 o'clock.
ROYAL ASSENT.—The Royal assent was given by com-
mission to the following bills :—Consolidated Fund (Ap-
propriation) ; Evidence Amendment ; Passengers' Act
Amendment ; Registrar of Privy Council ; Liberated
Africans (Sierra Leone) ; Government of India ; Vaccina-
tion Extension ; Transportation ; Burgh Harbours (Scot-
land ; Thames Embankment ; Duties on Horses Let for
Hire; Assessed Taxes; Insurance on Lives; Sheriffs
(Scotland) ; Entails (Scotland) ; Chancery Suitors Further
Relief ; Lunatic Asylums ; Lunatics Care and Treatment ;
Public Libraries (Ireland and Scotland) ' • Universities
(Scotland) ; Employment of Children in Factories ; Courts
of Common Law (Ireland) ; Dublin Carriages ; Belfast
Municipal Boundaries ; Charitable Trusts ; Copies of
Specifications Repeal ; Land Tax Commissioners' Names ;
Defacing of Coin ; Linen, &c., Manufactures (Ireland) ;
Stock in Trade Exemption ; Customs Tariff Act ; General
Board of Health (No. 3) ; Militia Ballots Suspension and
Militia Law Amendment; Burial beyond the Metropolis ;
Pilotage ; Merchant Shipping; Drainage of Lands (Ireland)
Act Amendment ; Public Works Act Amendment
(Ireland) ; Smoke Nuisance Abatement (Metropolis) ;
Hackney Carriage Duties (No. .3) ; Militia Pay ; Land
Tax Redemption Act Amendment; South Sea and
other Annuities, Provision for Payment, &c.; Apprehen-
sion of Offenders Act Amendment ; Betting-houses ; Com-
mons Enclosure (No. 3) ; Female Convicts ; Loan Societies ;
Marriages, Holy Trinity Church, Hulme, Validity ;
Friendly Societies, Copyhold, &c., Commission Continu-
ance ; Metropolitan Sewers Acts Continuance ; Customs
Consolidation ; Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction • Turnpike Acts
Continuance, &c., and several other bills, among which
were Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway ; London
and North-Western Railway (Crewe to Shrewsbury) ;
Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway (Carring-
ton, &c.) ; Rochdale Improvement (No. 2) Bill.

The 14-ords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Duke of
Newcastle, and the Duke of Argyll.

THE PROROGATION.

The LORD CHANCELLOR then read the following
speech :
" My LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

"We are commanded by her Mijesty to release you
from your attendance in Parliament, and at the same
time to express her Majesty's cordial approbation of the
zeal and assiduity with which, during a protracted and
laborious session, you have applied yourselves to the con-
sideration of many subjects of great importance to the
public welfare. _ _

" Her Majesty has seen with much satisfaction that, by
the remission and reduction of taxes which tended to
cramp the operations of trade and industry, you have
given fresh extension to a system of beneficent legislation,
and have largely increased the means of obtaining the
necessaries of life. _

" The provision which you have made for meeting the
demands of the public service,"not only in the present but
also in future years, is of a nature to give permanent sta-
bility to our finances, and thereby to aid in consolidating
the strength and resources of the empire.
" The buoyant state of the revenue, and the steady pro-
gress of our foreign trade, are proofs of the wisdom of the
commercial policy now firmly established ; while the
prosperity which pervades the great trading and producing
classes, happily without even a partial exception, affords
continued and increasing evidence of the enlarged com-
forts of the people.

The measure which you have passed for the future
government of India has been readily sanctioned by her
Majesty, in the persuasion that it will prove to have been
wisely framed, and that it is well calculated to promote
the improvement and welfare of her Majesty's Eastern
dominions.

" Her Majesty regards with peculiar satisfaction the
provision you have made for the better administration of
charitable tTusts. The obstacles which existed to the just
and beneficial use of property set apart for the purposes of
charity and of education, have been a serious public evil,
to which her Majesty is persuaded that in your wisdom
you have now applied an efficient remedy.
GENTLEMEN OP THE HOUSE OP COMMONS,

"We are commanded by her Majesty to thank you for
the supplies which you have granted for. the service of the
present year, and for the provision which you have made
for the defence of the country, both by sea and land. Her
Majesty will apply them with a due regard to economy,
and consistently with that spirit which has at all times
made our national security the chief object of her care.

"MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
" Her Majesty commands us to inform you that she
continues to receive from her allies the assurance of their
unabated desire to cultivate the most friendly relations
with this country.
"It is with deep interest and concern that her Majesty
has viewed the serious misunderstanding which has re-
cently arisen between Russia and the Ottoman Porte,
" The Emperor of the French has united with her Ma-
jesty in earnest endeavours to reconcile differences, the
continuance of which might involve Europe, in war.
"Acting in concert with her allies, and relying on the
exertions of the Conference now assembled at Vienna, her
Majesty has good reason to hope that an honourable ar-
rangement will speedily be accomplished.
" Her Majestyirejoices in being able to announce to you
the termination of the war on the frontiers of the settle-
ment of the Cape of Good Hope, and she trusts that the
establishment of representative government in that colony
may lead to the development of its resources, and enable it
to make efficient provision for its future defence.
"We are also commanded to congratulate you, that by
the united exertions of the naval and military forces of her
Majesty, and of the East India Company, the war in Bur-
mah has been brought to an honourable and successful
issue. The objects of the war having been fully attained,
and due submission made •by the Burmese Government,
peace has been proclaimed.
" Her Majesty contemplates with grateful satisfaction
and thankfulness to Almighty God, the tranquillity which
prevails throughout her dominions ; together with that
peaceable industry and obedience to the laws, which en-
sure the welfare of all classes of her subjects. It is the
first desire of her Majesty to promote the advance of every
social improvement, and, with the aid of your wisdom, still
further to extend the prosperity and happiness of her
people."
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