The regulation of Committ...
The regulation of Uomimttees onpxriv.e Dus seems uKciy tospring from the investigating spirit -and zeal of Mlr. Hsusr. That gentleman, in a speech on.Thuriday night, described the manifold vices to which- those Committees are, subject by their present co.nstrtiction.arid,mode of proceed- ing. The local grievances arisiog from these causes over the country e%ceed all belief, to say. nothing, of .the scandil which. attaches to a system of conducting business in the Committee-room, according. to which merbers are ' previ. ously_capvasse& or hastily pressed in ta decide questions, of- which they are eitlier 1otal1y i noraiattt. : btban all their knowledge from one of the parsies interested. W'.e agrea wvith the Right Hon.. the Foreign Secretary, that the bare description of the practice will serve-a -little to restrain -it, and for a twhilc,, tillamoreeffiecttllbarrieris imposed;- Jr. CANINo, however,allowedthe truth of-A?r. Husirs state. ment, and-thesoundnessofhis principles. Theagitadtonsf the question will therefarchavedonemuchgoodanidaSperiaI Committee is to be formed,this session to p,rovide a:legal re medy for the evil. It was suggested that the practice of voting on a question without hearing the argtlments on either side prevailed in other places as well as in committee-rooms; yea, even in the honourable,House itself. The'evil;, where. ever it e3ists, requires reform: we may however observe, that the cases are different. Gentlemen. may bave so studied public questions, that thev have nothing tnore to learn re- specdni thexm from a debate; whereas, the merits of a pri. vate bil can never be known' by general teading.