LORD BROUGHAMpresented petitions from Warrington, the Society for the Protection of Trade at Leicester, and other places, in favour of the concurrent jurisdiction of the Superior Courts with the County Courts on actions between 20l. and 50l. The noble and learned Lord said, that he would take that opportunity, in consequence of the petitions which he had presented, and of several letters which he had received from town and country 283 from various parties respecting this important Act, of rectifying a very great delusion which some persons, who he believed knew better, had set forth in charging him with gross inconsistency as an amender of the law, and as President of the Law Amendment Society, of which many noble Lords and Judges of the land were members, in his inducing that House to make certain alterations in the measure he had alluded to. The inconsistency complained of was the very reverse of the fact; for it was his refusal to be inconsistent which induced him to propose that the Bill should be in the same form and words as that which he had brought forward in 1833, that was seventeen years ago. That measure was, unfortunately, lost by a majority of one in that House; and his (Lord Brougham's) Amendment only restored the Bill sent up recently from the other House to the form of his Bill of 1833.