House Of Lords, Tuesday, ...
FARLJALMENTARY IN7V LLP.p nlezarloan lADN(OR ~resentid at pt' Esq., claiming the tifeoenryofRscmmnDillo,, Lotd FALIV,OuTH preezsted petitions from Fa]nyoth and PenzAnce, in favour ot the small debts recovery bill. On the zqotion of Lord R,DESDALE, a ressage was ordered :0 be sent to the Commons to request a copy of the report of tbeselect :ommittee of that bouse, on the recoyerY bf small debts. The Earl of SHAFTESBUJRY pr-eneted a petition From the Re.. ,istrar-of thecounty court of Durbam, praying for ompensatione i nae the county courts bill slhoul.d Pass into a law. Mfr. COURT.EN4Y,. Mr. STUART WVO5tTLEY, Sir 'IV'. Cox- ;tEv9, and oiiers,'bronght up the bankrupt laws' amen,ment bill On the reading of the bankrupt law amendmnent bill, The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that he thought the )ill of so much imtportance, that wo ias desirous their lordships thould havetbe opportunity of fully examining it before it was read tsecond time. He therefore moved that it be printed. The Earl of HARROWBY brought up the report of the com- xiittee appointed to inquire into the state of certain tistricts in Ire- ,and, which was read by the clerl,, and laid on the table. After a preasnble which was not heard so as to enable us to state it aven in substance, the report statea that the committee felt themselves under the necessity of recomimending the continuance of' the insurrection act for one year more. . We unutestood the conm- aimttee further to s;:y, that fro.n the state of the evidence,they could not expect at present to come to a msoxc satisfactory result, but would tontinue their inquiries next session. The Earl of HARRO WRY, in a verylow tone of voice, alluded to a bill to be brought in for the tcnewal of the Irish insurrection act, which he signified wvould be pro osei to be read a second time on Thursdav, and a third time on t'riday. Lord HO'LIAND signified, that perhaps he should not be present at the second reading, and did not think it necessary that there should be any debate or discussion on the second reading, hut hc trusted that it would not on that account be supposed that he ap- proved of the bill.. He would oppose it on the third reading. 'lThe Earl of ABERDEEN rose to mQvQ the srcond reading of the Scots eatailed estates bill. The inoble lord went into a histo,, of the law on. the subject, and in describing the present state of entailed pro ertv in ScotlaRd said, that of a rental aniounting to be- tween 5 andN mallions, one-half wias locked up by entails. The rental of the same property, when these entails were established, did not amount to more than 300,0001. or 400,000L, and this was a cir- cumstance which rendered the hardship of the law the greater. Hie alluded to. the practice of proprietors letting entailed property on long leases, at a nominal rent, which had properly been done awav by a late decisien; though, according to Sir' Hay Camp- bell, who had the experience of half a century as a lawyer, no tian in Scotland doubted the le*alitv of such a proceeding. Whatever alteration their lordships might think it advisable hereafter to make in the system of entails, he was conAdent that the present measure weuid in the mean tinie be foutnd eidvantageous. Th.e LORD CHANC:ELLOR was satisficd of the necessity ana tlhe justice of the mreasure. He adverted to tde judgment he had recently given, in setting aside leases of the kind described by the noble lord. Tbat judgment was formed on the oainions carefully collectet of Scots Jadges, both of the present and former times; atiL those who had at first regarded it as oversetting the law of Soct- land now acknowledged it to be consistenit with tbe ancient and real law of that country. Tie present bill, and others which a groa.'t lawIer had it in contemplation to propose, would afford gieat Wlief to that hogse in the decisions in cases of appeal. The Earl of ROSSLi'N supportedl the bill, The-Earl of LAUDERDALE also cxpressed his approbation of the bIll, but hoped that, if on conslderation their Lordships should be convinced that a still greater relaxation of the law of entail was necessary, they would not consider thenselves precluded by the pre. sent measure from going farther.P The *vool-mpertation bill was read a third. time. The law duties' regulation billand theasses3ed taxes' composition bill were committed and reported.-Adjourned. _ _ HOUSE OF LORD.9 T3rcs A T-.-- ,