Lords Sitting of 25 July 1849

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILLS—1a Clergy Relief; Defects in Leases Suspension; New Forest and Waltham Forest.
2a Bankruptcy (Ireland); Chapels of Ease (Ireland); New Zealand Land Conveyances; Royal Pavilion (Brighton); Poor Law Union Charges Act Amendment; Judgments (Ireland).
Reported.—Regimental Benefit Societies; House of Commons Offices; Enlistment (Artillery and Ordnance); Trustees Relief; Militia Pay; London Coporations.
3a County Rates, &c.; Poor Relief (Cities and Boroughs); Small Debts Act Amendment; Boroughs Relief; Stock in Trade; Advance of Money (Athlone to Galway Railway); Relief of Distress (Ireland) (No. 2); Inland Posts (Colonies); Land Improvement Amendment (Ireland); Labouring Poor Act Amendment (Ireland).
PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Lord Brougham, from the Inhabitants of Tobago, complaining of Distress, and praying for Relief.—By Lord Redesdale, from the City of London, against the London Corporation Bill.

COUNTY COURTS.
LORD BROUGHAMsaid, he had been desired by one of the County Court Judges to state the highly satisfactory result of county courts. Since the establishment of these courts 1,191,000 l. had been paid, or compounded for, or paid into court, and an amount exceeding 1,500,000 l. had altogether been disposed of, whilst more than a sufficient sum had been produced by fees to pay the whole expenses of the salaries of the judges and other officers of those courts. It was a most satisfactory result of this great experiment, which he had suggested in the year 1833.
House adjourned till To-morrow.