The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-06-28 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

111 r. KEIINSDY wished the Right Hon. Gentleman
weeld give precedence to the third reading of the Scotch
Juries' Bill.
Mr. GOULBURN said he could not comply with the re-
quest of the Ito',. Member.
Mr. KENNEDY then moved an amendment upon the
point, sod the gAlery was cleared for a division. How-
Sever, no division took place, and on our admission, we
found tae 'House in a Committee on the Bill.
On the clause for enabling the Commissioners to increase
the tithe one-third,
Mr. CALCRAFT moved, that the power of the Commis-
sion• rs be restricted to increase the tithe one-fifth.
Mr. GOULBURN said, he was not disposed to resit the
Amendment, if the sense of the House should appear to be
in favour of it.
After a few words from Mr. Secretary PEEL. Colonel
BARRY, Sir JOHN NFWPORT, Mr. CALCRAFT, Mr.
RICE. Mr. RIG RI)O, Mr. R. SMITH, Mr. DALY, Mr.
V. FITZGERALD, and Mr. WETHERELL, the Amend-
ment was tweed to, and " a fifth "-was substituted for
" a third."
Mr. R. SMITH moved a proviso, that the sum agreed to
be received by the Clergyman, .to be taken on the average
of seven years, should be the basis of a composition in
any case wherein the sum could not be ascertained by other
means.
Mr. WETHERELL objected to the proviso.
A conversation followed between Mr. GOULBURN, Mr.
ft. SMITH, Mr. MONCK, Mr. V. FITZGERALD, and Dr.
PH ILLIMORE, and the proviso was agreed to.
The other clauses of the Bill were then separately dis-
cussed and agreed to, and the House having resumed,
the Report was
CHIEF ordered to be ri
O'ceGRADY ived on Tuesday next.
BARON .
Mr. WYNN having moved the Order of the Day for
going into a Committee on the Half-pay East India Bill,
Mr. DALY fitid that a question affecting so high an in-
dividual as the Chief Baron of the Court of FAchequer,
ought not to be allowed to remain longer undecided.
Mr. S. RICE said he acknowledged the hardship nn.
der which the Chief Baron must labour in consequence
of a question so deeply affecting him remaining so long
undecided, but whatever might be the hardship which
this delay threw upon that high individual, he (Mr. It.)
was not the cause of it, for so far from wishing to throw
any impediment in the way of hastening it to a decision,
the House was aware that lie was on every occasion most
anxious to bring it on. lie was completely under the
guidance of the House, and he was most desirous that
the investigation should take place whenever it suited
their convenience.
Mr. DALY asked if it were decorous that a question
involtio; the conduct of so high an individual should re-
main in its present state of indecision. Such a charge
should be determined one way or the other without de-
lay or suspense.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that as the motions which stood for Wednesday were not
likely to occupy much delay, he suggested that as a con-
venient day to resume this subject.
Mr. S. BICE said he was perfectly willing to bring it
on on that day, and therefore considered Wednesday as
definitively fixed.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQI.ER said that,
on consideration, Thursday might be a snore convenient
day, the moion on Foreign Policy, which was to have
come on oa that day, being postponed.
Mr. S. RICE, as we understood, acquiesced.
EAST INDIA lIALF-PAY BILL.
The East India Half-pay Bill went through a Corn-

mittee.
The House having resumed, the Bill was reported.
The Report to he further considered on Monday next.
Mr. J. SMITH moved the second reading of the Fac-
tor and Agents Bill. The object of the Bill was to en-
able commercial factors to raise money in this country on
goods consigned to them from abroad. The lion. Metta•
ber enumerated several instances in which great injustice
would arise to factors, unless a lien on all such goods
was given to them by the Legislature.
Mr. HUSK ISSON said be should not oppose the pre-
sent reading of the Bill, yet he regretted that all the
necessary evidence on the subject had not been laid be-
fore the House. He admitted tbat souse alteration of the
law as expedient ; but at the same time care was to be
takenw that the contingent rights of parties should not be
injured.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL thought that a sub-
ject of so much importance ought not to he gone into in
the absence of the proper evidence, and at so late a
period of the Session.
The LORD MAYOR supported the Bill, and it was
then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on
Tuesday next.
USURY %W S.
Mr- Sergeant ONSLOW moved the Order of the
Day for bringing up the Report on the Repeal of the
Usury Laws.
An Hon. Member, whose name we could not hear,
opposed the ;notion, and moved as an Amendment that
the Repo; t be brought up that day three months.
The LORI) MAYOR seconded the Amendment.
Mr. GOOCH was, of opinion that this was too late
a perimlto bring forward a Bill of so much importance.
111 r. F. PA IMER said a few words to the same effect.
Mr. J. SMITH supported the Bill.
Mr. CALCRA FT opposed it.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
he did not see, in the evidence before the Committee on
the Usury Laws, any proof of any practical griev-
ances arising from the present laws; nor did he, on the
other hand, see that they did any good. At this late pe-
riod of the Session, lie thought he should best discharge
his duty by supporting the -Amendment.
Mr. KleA IWO supported the Bill.
After a few words from Sir J. SEBIUGHT, in support
of the Bill,
Mr. Sergeant ONSLOW said he would persevere in
taking the sense of the House on the motion.
Mr. F. PALMER said a few words in support of the
Amendm nt.
Time House then divided.—The numbers were—
For the Bill, V.—Against it, 26—Majority against
the 8i11,5.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at half-past Two o'clock this
tnornirg.