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home and abroad, :qateze ruinous price,l, heavy stockS; 'and 1 sure of great benefit to the navy.
stagnation and• depression, such as we are now suffering The committee then proceeded with the ether votes, and
under.• While these exist, the manufacturer, in his efforts the house adjourned. . .
- 1 to save himelf, endeavours to reduce the cost of production,
e-Ic planation-of the and if he pays more for flour he must pay less for labour.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY.
a. laid upon the table his projected mea-
..:oendrnent of the law relating to proceedingS in
. The noble lord stated that one part of his bill was
purpose of establishing two commissioners, with sala-
ries, instead of appointing commissioners in each case, pay-
able with fees ;• and lie then' entered' into the details of'bis

Bill WhS read a second time,

Lord DENNI.AN moved the second reading of the Law of
Evidence Bill, which-, he said, made a great change in the
law, but a change that all persons in Westminster Hall were
long convinced was absolutely requisite. The chief thing
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whien he wished to obviate Was the objection to witnesses
on the ground of interest, an objection which led to the
grossest absurdities and inconsistencies, and which he pro-
posed to remedy by allowing all persons to give evidence,
except those who were substantially parties to the suit.
Lord LYNDHURST said he was disposed to support .this
bill, which was calculated to remedy a serious evil; but he
hoped that his *noble-and learned friend would give ample
time for consideration, and not move to go into committee
until after the circuit, in order that they might have the
benefit of the beit consideration of Westminster Hall. The
noble lord then contended at some length, and cited cases
in proof of his po'sition, that the law of evidence was full of
absurdity and inconsistency in every part of it—absurdities
such as in an assembly of reasonable individuals could not
be for an instant defended.

' Lord BROUGHAM took the same view of the case, and was
glad that a measure which he had proposed in the other
House of Parliament, about a•dozen years ago, was at last
likely to be carried out.. _ _

Lord WYNFORD thought some such measure absolutely
requisite, b-ut that it should be earried further, for he. Could
not see why plaintiffs and defendants should not be examined
as well as other interested parties. If they came before the
.court on affidavit they were listened to, and he could'not,see
why they should not be allowed to give viva voce evidence on
oath, and let the jury be the judges of the value of the evi-
dence.

Lord CAMPBLi. approved of the bill; but could not ap-
prove of the suggestion of examining plaintiffs and defendants.
After some further conversation the bill was read a second
;time and ordered to be committed on the re-assembling of
'the house after the Easter holidays.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tutsonv.
Mr. D'lsuAum called the attention of the house to the
consular establishment of -the empire, with a view to its Ke-
construction. In a speech of upwards of two hours' duration
'he dwelt upon the great inconvenience and injury to the pub-
lic welfare arising from the circumstance that the civil affairs
'of her Majesty in foreign countries were carried on -by two
distinci services; and concluded by moving that,, with a view
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