Lords Sitting of 7 April 1830

MINUTES.
Petitions for opening the East-India and China Trade were presented from North Shields, by the Duke of SOMERSET; and from Carlisle, by the Earl of WESTMORLAND. The Earl of VERULAM presented a Petition from Hertfordshire, for a Repeal of the Malt and Beer Taxes.
On the Motion of the same noble Lord, at the request, he said, of his noble friend, the Marquis of SALISBURY, a message was sent to the House of Commons, requesting the attendance of Messrs. DUNDAS and COMPTON, Members of that House, to give evidence before their Lordships relative to the East Retford Disfranchisement Bill; and all Papers, Documents, &c elucidatory of that Bill were ordered to be printed.
Sir A. GRANT, Sir G. CLERK, Mr. CALCRAFT, and other Members, brought up the Grand Jury Extension Bill (Ireland), the Smugglers' Families' Maintenance Bill; the Ellenborough Divorce Bill, and several private Bills, to which the House of Commons had agreed.

CHANCERY COMMISSION.
The Earl of Eldonsaid, he had a document which he was anxious to lay before their Lordships relative to Bankruptcy Commissions, but he was obliged to defer doing so till a day or two after the holidays. He would take advantage, however, of that occasion to repeat what he had before stated and what had also been stated by the Lord Chancellor, that the Chancery Commissioners had discharged their duties as commissioners gratuitously, and many of them, too, at a personal sacrifice of professional emolument. He was the more anxious to repeat this fact, as it had been confidently asserted, in a recent pamphlet, that the Chancery Commission was a most costly one, though its members, as he again repeated, had received no pecuniary reward for their labours whatever.