The Statesman.
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regulating !ketch Burghs. lie regretted very muck
that lie was obliged to pre.ent this petition in the ab•
setae of the Lord Advocate; but he had kept it for as,
week in hopes of finding an opportunity when he was ilk
Cm house, without success. There was no chance of
finding the Learned Lord in his place, except at four
o'clock or at midnight, and lie thought there was treat
reason to cosupiais of the manner in which Scotch busi-
ness was transacted in that house. He could not longer I
delay presenting the petition, as he had a motion on the
subject for the nest day; but he should refrain from ex-
pressing his sentiments oa the question, in consequence I
of the aon-attendance of the Learned Lord.
The Marquess of LONDONDERRY said, that he cer-
tainly had been more. fortunate than the Noble Lord op-
petite in seeing the Lord Advocate in his place in that
holm ; and he was sure, that had the Noble Lord used
half the diligence in preparing a note for the Noble
Lord, that he had in snaking his lamentation, he would
have had die satisfaction of finding him at his post that
evening. Nothing, however, could be more fair than
the conduct of the Noble Ler,l in refraining Irons
.1w snaking the observations lie otherwise would ha►e made;
hut he must observe, that it was no wonder there was no
opportunity to address the Learned Lord, except at four
o'clock ana at midnight, considering the business the
House went through in the intermediate space. The pe-
tition was ordered to be laid on the table.

MARRIAGE ACT.

Dr. PHILLIMORii;;;I;tTerias motion on the Mar-
riage Amendment Bill from to-morrow, to Wednesday,
the tith of May.
The Marquess of LONDONDERRY laid nn the
talkie varioes Returns, sheering the expense of the Di.
phrenetic Service of the country, from the year 1791 to
1321.
Mr. CREEVEY gave notice, that he would move en
Thursday. the CM inst , for thi repeal of the Hill
;rasped in the year 1817, denominated the Ministerial
Pension Hill.

fill Al.

Lord NORHANBY said, that if he rose with less eat.
ba rrrrr wont this time than he bad felt when he before
brought forward the same question, it was not bezause
he presumed aim the full measure of indulgence he
then received from the house. Nor was it because he
Lad only to repeat the same dry and somewhat tedious
matter of economical detail. If be had only to retrace j
his footsteps, he would not trespass further upon the
time of the house than to make his motion. But he felt !
that he bad new a greater claim upon the attention of
the house, and he felt that be derived it not from the sop-
port he before received, but from the conduct of those
who had opposed him. it was the arguments they bad
used in opposing him, and not those employed by him-
seif
that had rendered the subject a theme of animal- 1
version from one end of the country to the other, and j
caused the people to look with scrutinizing regard into
the comity!' of their representatives. It was to them
therefore that he owed gratitude for any increased ex.
relation of success. 'lt was to the course they had pr-
owl in not condescending to notice the details upon
which he had argued the uselessness of the office. He
considered that his chief gratitnile was due to them
for having opposed his motion only on the ground of its
heiag uecessary to keep up melees offices. He called
upon the house to weigh well the detrimental cense-
earners of such a doctrine as this being acted upon.
Let them look hock at the long line of spectral
*Lento's's, which like the progeny of Bangui, were
then conjured up, "to abew the eye, and grieve
the heart." Let the Secretaries to the Treasury
1..r.k on this till their eyes cracked, and let these
sel.o supported his Majesty's Ministers stop with their
r: garde fell upon this. Amongst the arguments used,
antivity of the office was brought forward as one
of the reasons for respecting it. Ile confessed that
whets he looked at the Act of Queen Anise which re-
Lord to this subject, the antiquity of the office appeared
to him problematic. Another argument pit forward
was, the increase of business in the Postaiffice. .This
might be a reason far increasing the number of clerks,
but surely none for keeping op two noblemen, who took,
r.o part in the increasing business. Fern, if they were
provoked to take a part In it, notlitng would be more
d •trintental in the tiezails of an .office which, of all
others, required singleness of purpose, and uniformity
ui
Governomait. These were the the argninetits used
against him. As for the declamation of the Noble
blarquess, whose warmth on that occasion was, as was
11,911, directed more to the closeness of the division,
than the merits of the question. His being called a
rash innovator—an abettor of revolution—had, no
doubt, its effect at the time. But it was rather extraor-
dinary that he had the Noble Marquess himself among
the number of the innovators. Ile hail sent Lord Clan•
arty abroad at the time he held his situation of Post-
master-tieneral. He (Lord Normanhy), however, did
not charge this upon the Noble Lord as a rash innova-
tion ; for he believed lie did not know at the time what
lie was doing. Ile dill not know at this time that lie
ever had been Postmaster4eneral in England, sisal he
contradicted it across the table. How those Gentlemen
who supported the Bill of ISM for the abolition of
useless offices, could oppose his motion he knew not.—
At that time advocates had been found for almost all
the other situations which had been attacked, but no one
was found to defend joint Postmaaters•tieneral. If his
motion met with the sanction of the House, one of the
Postmasters-General of Ireland most certainly go. Be-
fore he attacked the strong bold of his opponents on the
Treasury Bench, lie would address a few words to those
who had shewn a disposition to waver in their bigutted
attachment to his Majesty's Ministers, on the occasion
of the motion of his Hon. Friend, relative to the Lords
of the Admiralty. He entreated them not to be led
away by the attempt which bad been made to place him
im the light of a dangerous revolutionist. It spite of
the mighty State Paper which had endeavoured to effect
this metamorphosis, he defied them to magnify so hum-
ble an individual WS himself, sa as to deserve to he ranked
in the imaginary trio whose terrible renown was to
work such wonders. Ile entreated them to let this ques-
tion stand apart from all such considerations, on its own
merits Let them regard his motion as an innovation
only in the light in which the motion relative to the
'Aids of the Admiralty had been considered. Let it
meet the same fate and he should be satisfied. It had
beets discovered that the system which defied innova-
tion, could just spare two Lords of the Admiralty.—
Might not a similar discovery be made by the same par-
ties in the case of the Postmasters•lieneral ? The yule
lie opinion had been so strongly expressed on the sub.
jest, that he had no doubt of the ultimate success of
his motion. The country, it must be allowed by all,
was in a state to reqnire all the retrenchment that could
possibly be effected in the public expenditure, and cer-
tainly after the shifts and expedients proposed by the
Noble Marquess, the other night, they must see that the
only salvation was to be derived from that source.—
They were the simile and the expedients of an exhausted
spendthrift. All that lie asked was, if among their
luxuries, they had any duplicates, to give up one to the
distresses of those who were dependent on them. It
had been urged that the improvement of the people
ought to operate as a check on the improvement of the
tiovernment. This had come from a quarter, which hi'
was, however, disposed to view in -a favourable light,
from the affection he bore the isdividnel who had pro-
mulgated it. this Right Honourable Friend had made
an explanation, but in his opinion it was a repetition 01
what be had before said. Ile knew that be bad put foe-
-ward the opinion of Government. Nobody ever ac-
cused him of entertaining such an opinion bitnself.—
Mad be not remarked the disposition which the conduct