The Sun. — 1848-06-16 (London, England)

SOLICITOR-GENERAL—The Lord Chief SLlcesswould nominate.—(Hear, hear.) Aouhlhi)ANKES feared that under any circumstances it mind be impossible to remove suspicion from the public Gould Admitting that the Chief Justice (lid appo.int, the,' not draw on the front ranks of the profession for Icinlasission, and the consequence would be that the srh!,Sters chosen must be of inferior status even to those per ° Presided over the county courts, the latter being PoihrtitaTient, while the forme were only transitory ass-. Wore r„ --ent'• Then the duties of these co rnmissionersi repes,not clearly defined. They were to inquire a,n( coder their Opinions; that was to say, his opinion, sor taun tho Bill one commissioner might constitute a Was h It was said that the opinion of the commissioner Itoehlsit to influence the House. If not, why all this k di 7: and the expense to the country of five guineas tsos` And here he had another objection. The toe I,arrister . remuneration would make it the interest of n employed to delay the inquiry for as /log: time as possible.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The lion t~ would then be in this dilemma—either the deciehissa-atild be final, and a borough might be disfranlog: en the dictum of a barrister of little or no standand"Lit was a nullity and all the expense, trouble, °he 543. Would go for' nothing. By the third clause gite-r-I°anaissioner might hold a court, and he had powers ton ."im greater than had ever been tolerated in this elsittlst2' since the days of the Star Chamber. The tenth Points plYe the commissioner indemnity on all legal tour there were also such things as. points of hoqspo'.rom Which he could not be indemnified. He might eotehs"iered to summon parties before him, and he 4orntherci to expose and denounce other parties. with.. ous he had been connected. This was a most invidi-I,lhtsionr`)wer• He (Mr. Bankes) had once had occasion to hashl-°4 a banker before a Committee of that House, but titles& received a private intimation that the party in mate 10 Would commit suicide if the summons were. perhie h he gave up the notion. It might be said. that hett„4l, shrunk from his duty, but there were points of Lesdlor w h. ich could not be got over. H.e entreated the Noble hoes withdraw his support from this Bill,and to adopt the. oaths° he had himself originally suggested. Let him in sss Fue appoint a Committee of five, with powers to tisenpe witnesses on oath, and a decision would be arNrS calculated to satisfy both the other House of s•itarnent and the country. thisi), • HANMER said that the course suggested in hers' bad already been adopted in the case of SadLae; and had received general approbation. The Hon. reiB7eareed Member for Dorsetshire objected to corn hut Inners as likely to be influenced by political bias; 113DilY7re Committees of that House entirely free from etts'e-.,°,4?—(0h, oh.) He remembered one notorioas orie the borough of Nottingham.—(llear, hear, and theet;°` " Hull," and laughter.) Very well; he merely aseh-°ned the cases to allow that Committees had been itigsed of political bias. He had watched the proceedeoitti et the various public meetings. throuehout the h trY in support of Mr. Hume's motion, and though qad b sou,. served many opinions put forward as to the of laClltiioO on which the franchise should. rest, the mode h vs ng votes and the duration of Parliaments, he ha which ten that the constituencies of any borough in gLs had been held had declared that sttlif :wouldmeceolmmence the work of reform by Oa Yule,' themselves of corrupt practices.. There was the reason to suppose that the just pride of u, electors could be offended by a strict in°try in every case in which a constituency was now. ia,isrepresented, not because of the death or resignation Is"' the late Member, but because bribery and treating su,kl prevailed at the last election. It had been complained that the commissioners would decide in accordance with any bias that might obtain in their own minds, cilt that was impossible; all the commissioners had to tar was to collect evidence and embody that evidence its ePort and on that report it would be for Parliament , si,tleet• He denied that the inquiry would be as expeneas some Hon. Gentlemen seemed to suppose. r•