The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-04-18 00:00:00

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Landholders is' Ideuheaff it ffiseltalsire, wad•ies vici-
nity. complaining of Agrieultend Distress. • Thiecthey
traced in their pettiest:, reset. the Ammo a a free
trade in Beer. • The • Petitioners wen (fade! Growers,
sod lied formerly as adequate demand for Mew prisdeee.
This had sew iiifesk thew la consequence of all the
public houses in their neighbourhood having been
bought up by eremite great brewers. The Petitioners.
ascribing the falling off in the demand foe barley to this
came he had neretioaed. seemed to have taken up the
Idea that malt had but little to do with the making of
the beer fornishedity the brewers of who they cow-,
piained. The beer, they contend's'. was very boa in
quality, hot the publicans could not help themselves, as
from the license being granted not to the teller of the
beer, hut to the house lu which it was soh!, they could
not go to brewers whe were cot their landlords. The
Petitioners were of opinion that much good whole result
from granting the liceuse to the publican instead of
giving it to the house he inhabited, so that, if furnished
with a had commodity, Ise 'night shift his blame. nod
carry his license with him. The subject, the MIMI Res.
hest. said, appeared to him well entitle ek to Meanest-
tibn of the Rosen. • •
' Mr. C. W—WYNN said wine inestayealetwe wool.
be occasioned by malting licenises merely personal, as it
• was the duty of the Magistrate* to regulate the number
lof public houses according to the wants of the neigh-
Ippoilbsiki. If a public house were wasted in one place.
It IQ. means followed that one was wanted in another
pet of the same district, bnt making the license per-
Metal, the publican if he pleased could remove it from
time place where be was wanted, and establish himself
where there was one public-house already, and where
toe were not necessary.
.11r. GRENPELL remarked. the Petitioners did not
Wish to interfere with the authority of the Magistrates.
'What they desired was, that the license sh.uld he grant-
ed in the name of the publican. rather than to the House
in which he lived. They wished for this, that if the
brewer seat him bad beer, he might right himself by
carrying his license to moldier house.
Mr. C. W. WYNN explained, repeated in substance
what he bad before stated, but added. that perhaps the
II difficulty might be met by enabling the Magistrates to
grant a license to an individual, restricting the use oY it
to certain limits.
Mr. D. GILBERT offered a few remarks which sees,
inaudible in the gallery.
Sir R. WILSON suggested that it might be wett Ip
grant no license to Louses that were in the occupation
of brewers.
Mr. BENNET earnestly begged that Gestlemen
would not run away with an idea that this subjecLerm
one which could easily he disposed oL There wasplike
I difficulty in it. He propo4•9l shortly to bring in. with
smile alterations, a bill which had formerly been before'
:Nutmeat, but which hail been lost in another place, to
rotcast the whole of the existing laws with respect to
le seese• and public-houses.
I Mr. BIItWOHAM solid be would rejoice if his Bon:-
hired, the Member for Shrewsbary (Mr. Ilempte.
would introduce a Bill of that nature, which, that Roo
Member said was heretofore lost is another places Per
his own part, be did not recollect the rovisiens nirthat
Bill ; but he was firmly of opinion that the ).ieneing
Laws should be re-conablered. He kw* that there
were.maey gentlemen connected with the bur trader
who wished for such a measure. Be did sot mean to
say that the Magistrates generally diode bed Ilse of
the power given them. The power of the Niglio
testes, however, was liable to abuse, and was in mese
places, to the knowledge of all Gentlemen, really abased.,
—(Hear, hear.)-11c slid not complain so ls of abase
of power by the Magistrates. as of their mistakes of"
jodpnient. The Magistrates were too prone to the se-
curing of a monopoly. and to the allowing of ton many
houses to some brewers. That was attess•led with the
effect of having a very had species of beer sold. Ile
would not have said so much on the subject, if the sys-
tem had not been tun much acted upon.
The petition was then read and ordered to be printed.

etdttoi asst ether pleas is Uarbalr. was brought up,
rearl.and Pilfered to Mated.
Mr. SMITH then rose. he pnreniase of Ids motion.—
lie said be would Ira state to the house the •
bf which the annerrons paitiosers tempi ord. and
imield then propose the measure of relief which he natant
I. ask for them. The petitioners complaised that. ley
**Act of the 26th of Heart, theSeconl,which was call-
ad the Marriage Art, they were put in *worse situation
than they were before that Act. Marriage I. Itself was
essentially *civil mattock and it was a emsiddered by
the anon law. By the 26th of Barge the Second,
laseng certain ether provisions. it was enacted that
'every marriage should be solemaised in the church, by
a Waist*, of the Chords, sad nessirdiog to the Ritual of
theeCliurch. He (Mr. Smith) was oar Olken who peti-
tioned for the alteration of thatpniviiioa, anal he thmight
it was Incumbent on him to slier that the Ileitanans
1•1141 reed in eyrie before he called for say situation in
their favour. They were free from say charge of crime
or guilt is their religions tenets, sail hada right to bead-
ratted to the exercise of their religion without imposing
ea them-the observance of cereinuotes and rites of which
they could sot approve. It was needless to say that mar-
tifige was a sutural right of the wholithhmat species. Sot
-the law said • Yea most comply with cereals prescribed
rites and cereammies, or forego that right." He thought
that each restrictions were inespedient. and rambled
those enforced in France by Louis the Fourteenth.—
Those restrietioss wore uonecemary is this country. and
were yet less mild than them imposed by Louis the
Fourteenth. There was soiseeasisteacy is imposing
au Catholics the observance of thee' forms which the
Roma. Catholic Church prescribed. At the time of
passing the 26th Geo. IL the Unitarian Diameters were
few in this country. There were two other classes of
(Resisters, the Jews and Quakers, who then petitioned.
sod were consequently exempted from the forms pre-
scribed. The Jews could set be properly called Dies...
I tees from the Protestaats. for the former were mote an-
! dent, soil the latter might be said to be dissenters from
them. But the Quakers were disasters, sail were ex-
empted. The mode of relief be intended to propose
would not bring the Unitarian Dissenters isle collision
with the Protestant Established Church. The Jews
aid Quakers had followed the same course is their mar-
riages. They bad given a public notice at their meet•
ings, sod came at a stated time after to conclude the
marriage contract in the face of the coogregatlon.
bad the highest authority for saying that marriage was,
a mere civil contract. la 1813, a case of marriage per-
formed iet Scotland came for discussion before the re-
seed Lord Chancellor, who said that the law of Sentient
was founded on the basis of the eases law which pre-
valid throughout all Enrepe. On that cation law the
laws of Scotland were founded, and according to this,
the Level Chancellor sail. that a man taking a women to
wife before witnessiesedbs as valid a inernage as is per
formed before a. Minister in the church. The 26th of
are. 11. gaffe no peculiar sanctity to the contract, but
went to do what was on the face of the Act, namely—
the better to prevent clandestine marriages." He did
not wish to trench ea that security, nor did he meaa to
propose any thing but the religious part of the eientrom
ny. He did not thirk any religious ceremony necen
sae, to the validity of marriages. It was presumption
le him, indeed, to say en, but the canoe law said 'ie..—
Pope.lonocest the third said, that the validity of the
marriage depended on the consent of the parties. He
did mot say that some portion of religion should sot be
added to the ceremony. bat that should go basil-in-lemed
and be in unison with the religious feelings of the par-
ties. Who could think of imposing Catholic ceremonies
on Protestant parties. or of adding Malsomedan rites to
Christian ceremonies? The annexing of an obligation
of a religions ceremony which the party disclaimed. as
far nit could endemismd it, was not adding to the via-
eases of the contract. He wished to propose demonist-
sion of such passages in the Liturgy as were not le aid:
son with the creed of the Unitarian disinters.
The Marquess of LONDONDERR V here Intl
that it was not his imention to oppose the bringing tw
of the Bill.
Mr. W. SMITH paid, that ander such circumstaneee
he should add very little more. There was cue only cir-
cumstance which he should add as a subject marl/ of
cariosity. When the Marriage Act passed in the time
of Geo. (1.„ there was an exception made in favour of
the omits. However the time was in these countries.
when the wisdom of our ancestors condemned to the
lames the Christian who married a Jew. tie then moved
far leave to brief in a Bill to amend certain parts of the
Act of the :filth George ii., commonly called the Mar-
riage Act.
The Marquess of LONDONDERRY wished to be
understood as not pledging himself to the support of
the measure, in not opposing the bringing in of the
Bill.
Mr. H. BURNEY snpporte.l the Bill, and wished that
provision might be made fur dispensing with the obli-
gation of having the ceremony of marriage, in the case
of dissenters, performed by any elergyinau other Bow
one of the parties own persuasion.
Leave was given to bring in the Bill.
IRISH COMMILACIAL CRIDIT DILL.
The Home resolved itself into a Committee of the
whole House on the Irish Commercial Credit Bill
Mr. W. SMITH begged that some explanation might
be *Worded open certain parts of this Rill, particularly
why so long an interval for repayment was granted to
certain persons to whom loans were made.
tw‘The CHANCELIAM of the RXCIIEQZ:ER said.
ißist before going into the Committee, it was his inten-
tion to explain the objects of the Bill before the House.
the Right lion. Bentlenun then alluded to the distress
which called forth the interposition and the litierality of
Parliament, and stateit that when the original Bill pass-
ed, he understood it to include Bankers in the general
description of traders, considering them to be traders
in money. It had since been found necessary to take
some high law opinions in Ireland upon the 'peados,
and they held that although the description et " traders"
would include Bankers in England, yet that it would
I sot 110 so in Ireland. One object of the Bill was, there.
I fore, to remove this difficulty. It had another object,
which lie would state to the House. The money was
originally advanced for a period not to exceed two or
three years; it was now intended that the time should
be lengthened to right years. He explained that the
comparative rate of interest piid by the persons to
whom this money was advanced. and that paid upon
the loan by which it was raised would prevent any ail.
ditional expense being incurred by the tinvernineut by
an extension of the time of payment. They had only
to see that the securities were good, which they lied
now done. For although is form they were the common
commercial securities, yet the landed property of the
parties had hems made responsible, and upon that con-
dition the time had been extended to eight years.
—He thought that no objection could he brought
against the Bill after the explanations lie hail thus Liven.
After a few words frees Mr. W. SMITH, the Bill went
through a Committee, and the Report seas ordered to
be received to-morrow.
The Report of the Irish flank Charter Acts Has real,
in.'. the Resolutions agreed to.

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