Star. — London, England, 1830-06-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. CH RON IC L E.—We understand that much inconvenience haa been experienced during the last month, in consequence of the slow, or rather the uncertain progress of Scotch Judicial business in the House of Lords. The Lord Chancellor, in bringing forward his Equity Bill, some time ago, engaged to extinguish the arrear of appeals, before the close of the present Session of Parliament. That arrear, we believe, consisted of sixty.four Scotch appeals ; of which only twenty-seven cases have been yet completely beard ; and of these, only seventeen have received the final , judgment of the House. Whether their Lordships mean to pro ceed further this Session we know not. Recent circumstances, no doubt, have thrown an unexpected pressure of other business on the Chancellor ; and delay has also been occasioned by Lord Wynford's indisposition. But if. as generally supposed, the Session is to be a long one, we can see no reason why the Lord Chancellor should not redeem—we do not say the whole, but a moiety of the pledge which he has given. At all events the parties should not be kept in a 'este of uncertainty and suspense. Several Advocates and agents trom Scotland are, we hear, detained in London, not only with much , nconvenience to themselves, but at a grievous expense to the liti. gams who employ them. This evil may easily be remedied by the Lord Chancellor announcing his intentions distinctly to the public. HERALD. -111r. Sheridan's celebrated sarcasm upon the Whigs, that they " built a wall to run their own heads against," has been in some measure realised by Sir R. Peel, in the case of his Forgery Bill. What earthly occasion there could he to render that a party question, and issue pressing Treasury circulars, only as preludes to a defeat, .re have not the smallest conception. Besides, Sir Robert Peel must know, we should imagine, that the Go v e rnme nt i s no t so over-bur timed with strength as to make it advisable that it should be called forth upon doubtful occasions; and yet here is a defeat sus tained, after every effort has in vain been tried to secure a vie wry. These are mortifying matters, and arc felt, we have no doubt, by the head of the Administration more keenly than his Grace would have the world believe. Indeed, the Duke is well known to be un. usually sensitive on the subject of these untoward divisions. The other night, in the House of Lords, on a question whether the mast Retford, or a Divorce Bill, should take the precedence, a division ensued, in which the Duke and five other Cabinet Mi nisters were left in a minority. Though the affair was in no respect a Ministerial one, his Grace's mortification upon the occasion is represented to have been marked and extreme, and shows how feelingly alive those are who are used to give the word of command, when called upon in their turn to obey. But all these sources of mortification the Duke of Welling. ton has brought upon himself. No man was ever placed at the head of affairs with more decided means of commanding popularity than the Duke. No man ever brought to office so high a previous re. putation. lirhy is the Duke not the popular Minister he might have been ? Why, as a general election aporoaches do even the willing satellites of any Administration shrink front supporting hint ? Shall we tell his Grace ? It is because he has not shown that decision in the Cabinet which the world had witnessed front him in the field. Tirers.—The currency question is so settled, in point of fact Ind practice, as well as in reason, that Mr. Attwood's motion attracts no attention either in or out of the House. Ile preaches to the winds ; and it is certainly highly honourable to this country to find itself in the same situation, with respect to the circu lating medium, as before the war began, and before the Bank stopped payment. How m a ny prophecies were rung into our ears, that it was totally impossible either to resume payments in cash, or to recall the small notes ! Both have been ef. tected, and that without corn sinking to nothing in price, or any great misery inflicted on the various classes of society.— What any one can mean, except mischief, by asking for the re-issue of small notes, we cannot understand. It is asking for a state of danger to the country, and for fresh panics. Gold, discharging as It does now the office of small notes, supplies a fund which would be easily attainable in case there were a run upon the Bank. But were small notes to appear again, gold would vanish, and then, should a run take place, there would be nothing to meet it-- at least till after an importation from the continent—but the specie preserved in the Bank coffers, be that more or less. The public may not generally be aware that silver is a much more perishable article than gold, not only because it is more worn when coined Into specie, but also because its specific gravity is less. Surely, therefore, it is rational to assume the more fixed and unvarying substance as the standard. When the silver coinage is worn light, a fresh issue should take place, but gold should always be the criterion to which it should be referred. But the great objection to Mr. Attwood's proposition is, that it is, in fact, a direct attempt t o c h ange the common standard of pro perty throughout the realm, which would have been equivalent to a disturbance of every contract made by the possessors of property since paper ceased to be the circulating medium of Great Britain. The best possible way of describing the hopeless attitude of the paper schemers, was taken by Mr. Herries in his reply; when, alluding to the thin attendance of the House of Com mons, he assured the honourable mover that if ever so remote an idea had gone abroad that his motion stood the least chance of being carried, members would have flocked in from every quarter to op. pose it. " The two honourable members" (the mover and seconder,) said Mr. Herries, " might depend upon it, that if the majority of the House thought there was the slightest probability of this motion ending in an alteration of the currency, the House would be crowded by the fullest possible attendance of members, who would be drawn down for the express purpose of preventing such alteration." The plan of the two standards, viz. gold and silver, being compelled by act of Parliament to circulate at fixed proportions to each other, viz. as in the year 1798, such proportions being essentially different from those which they now actually bear to each other, from the extraor. dinary changes which have occurred in the supply and management of the respective metals--that plan, we say, resembles no other in history but the immortal one of poor Mr. Vansittart, for vote ing "truth to be a liar," and a paper guinea and a golden one of precisely the same value! Enough, and more than enough, an this wearisome theme, which is worth about as much as a fiddlestick by way of a text for dissertation. DUBLIN MORNING REortrna.....Every time we look into the compilation that purports to give an accurate and detailed state ment of the " finances of the United Kingdom, we make a new discovery as to the delusions, no doubt interuionatfy, practiced re garding the amount of the Irish revenue. We have over and over rgain alluded to the omission of the tea tax in making up the totals of the year's income. We know not what this tax now produces, but we have guessed it at half a million, and we have ascer. 'aincd that in 1819, it produced 610,3911 and in 1822, 511,3741. a ',MI which forms so considerable a portion as the onc-ninik of what they put down as the entire amount of our annual income. Now, to this important item we find there is to be added the leather duty ; the •:eal tax; a sum of 81,7481. arising annually from monies funded out of the proceeds of sales of quit and crown rents, between 1822 and 1827 ; and smaller sums, including about 8,0001. a-year, pay. able to the Crown by our \Vide-street Board. Tire leather tax (which is to be repealed) was, of course, like all the other taxes, lower in the last year than in the year preceding, but it produced 4 6, 0 001---- We know not what the produce of the coal tax might have been, but seven years ago it yielded 01,8261. Say it i s n ow 56,0001. an d adding it to the other gains spoken of, there is a total of nearly ;00.0001. for which we get no credit in the public accounts, credit s.se of the huge load of taxes payable in England on articles of British and foreign produce exported to Ireland, and which :nerefore ultimately fall on the Irish consumer. No doubt there have been many other material omissions, and yet it is upon the figures set forth in th e s e p r eci ous accounts that the goodly minister of finance chiefly founds his project of loading us Leith additional taxes! ,See, he says, the revenue yielded by a country inhabited by eight millions of people. It amounts to little more than four millions, or ten shillings head for each individ ua l. A country so li tt l e i n etton ahead by fiscal burdens can well afford to pay mote. This is the strain of the argumentation both in and out of the honourable house. This is the commentary, the text being the noes in the " finance accounts." Now when we come to more closely examine the figures, we And that they are much greater than their assumed amount, and that they do not at all include a sixth or seventh part of the ascer tained taxation. We find, in fact, that instead of jam millions, they arc nearly five millions and a half, to which, be it always re nklebered, there is to be added the amount of the taxes on articles onsuined in Ireland, but on which the Exchequer has its dues be. ore they leave the British ports. Surely the upright and liberal lit. Goulburn ought to ass u me new g ro u nd s for his notable project. Surely he ought not, without a better justification than the ocnia s•ons and falsifications of the " (Odor accounts, go, at all events, th e length of utterly destroying valuable and indispensable chari ties, which lit never did any thing, either as a man or a minister, to •Tcuurage or assist. The king of Naples was seriously indisposed at Paris, and a consultation of his physicians has been held. His complaint one hr Jim been suffering more or less under for twenty years. Fur some months back a person of genteel appear 411CA has appeared in the public streets, in various parts of this city, preaching to the people, and, according to his notions, following the example of the first preachers of the GospeL He has y held a small edition of the Bible in his hand, read a :erne front it and commented on his reading. In th inof fensive pursuit he has been frequently attacked by mobs; but the most dreadful we yet have heard of took place on Saturday evening, near the Four Courts. The mob not only attacked him with stones and dust, but attempted to throw him over the Liffey wall. Some humane persons, at the risk of their lives, brought the ' , lamellate man to the Head Office for protection, where be re mained for some time until the mob was dispersed. Of what reli gious denomination can those persons be who thus behaved to a really unoffending being ? Is it possible with reference to the coon h7, that they were Irishmen ?—Sounders's News Letters. .-=.~. , a INTELLIGENCE on SCIENCE. ARTS, and GENERAL LITERATURE. As we Intend to supply our readers with notices from time to time, in something like regular series of what appears to us to be generally interesting in the transactions of Scientific and Literary Societies, we are inclined to begin this part of our labours with some notices from the late transactions of the Royal Society. In directing our steps to this society, which certainly has a fair claim to precedence, we are met on the threshold by Mr. Babbage, and his late attack, not only on the credit of the society, but on the pre. sent scientific credit of the country. We shall therefore to.day merely confine ourselves to some preliminary remarks on the Royal Society, and on Mr. Babbage's pamphlet, which has lately attracted so much attention in the world of British Science. On a perusal of the tract in question, we think we perceive in this, as in most dia. putes, a farther proof of the sagacious maxim of Sancho Pansa, that much may be said on both sides of a question ; and we feel desirous, as far as ruom will admit, with a hurried pen to sketch some of the pros and coots which suggest themselves. In the first place, we think Mr. Babbage has nut made out asy logical connection or sequence between the character of the Royal Society, and the general scientific character of the country, or ptoved that they must necessarily sink together. All who know anything of the history of the society, know well, that it has been frequently made the object of attack ; and for some of the very causes now brought forward by Mr. Babbage. It is more than fifty years ago since the celebrated Dr. Hill, afterwards Sir John Hill, wrote his " Review of the Works of the Royal Society," which although he denied it, was generally believed at the time, to be written in revenge for not being admitted as an F.R.S. We think as far as native strength of intellect or acquirements qualified for that honour, it might have been properly conferred upon him; for although he wrote too much, and, like most volu minous writers, wrote his own credit down, yet some of his works are yet considered to have merit, and his Theophrastus might, we think, have obtained him, not improperly some notice even from Sir M. Folkes. In the introductory matter of that work, if we forget not, there is an anticipation of what has been thought by many a modern discovery of chemical science. We are, however, inclined to think that other points of his character might have been thought justly, a little to disqualify him for being received as an associate. We believe that Dr. James Ferguson obtained the honour of al. mission with considerable difficulty, because he was a publiclecturer, and we have heard that a much greater, although more neglected name in science of that time, Mr. Benjamin Martin, a first-rate mathematician--a man of varied acquirement—and the first who ever attempted to communicate knowledge in an agreeable manner to the people, bad aspired to this honour, and met with discou ragement because he kept& shop in Fleet-street. Here then, we have an Instance to mark favourably the liberality and management of the Royal Society of this age: for it has, we believe, enrolled:with some pride a Troughton among its associates, although domiciled as a shopkeeper not far distant from the residence of Martin. Had we time now, other instances might be adduced to prove that the Society of former times has sometimes, like the Society of the present, past over the really meritorious man of science, and accepted of others possessing no merit whatever; but what Society has not occasionally committed the same errors? And most certainly our contemporary Society Is not alone to be justly reprehended. There is, however, a fault of a contrary character with which we think the Society is justly chargeable, and with which it has always been chargeable s that is, a ready admission to every booby with a title, seeming entirely to forget that lilted boobies are not scarce in the land. This is a point on which they deserve to be satirised , and proceeding from a most vulgar and disreputable feeling. In short, if the Royal Society wishes to support that dignity to which it has a just claim, let it, in its elections, attend more to the intellec- I teal character of the aspirant associate, and less to his adventitious influence in society. With respect to the objection of the conduct of the Council, in admitting a heavy expense for the plates illustrative of Sir Everard Home's Physiological Papers, and their allowing Sir Everard to use them in his own publications, it does not strike us to be one of much importance. Several of the papers of Sir Everard Home are, we believe, considered as valuable contributions to the truly important branch of science to which they belong. His papers on the muscularity of the Iris and someothers, are explanatory of real discoveries—and if the Society are to enjoy the credit of such paper", it would be derogating far from its high tank did it not afford the adequate expense for the best illustration which the present state of the ins could afford. If a lavish, unnecessary expense, or any thing job-like has occurred, we admit, however, it is perfectly just to expose such extravagance ; but as the public improvement is the great and only rational object of the Society, we cannot perceive any wrong was committed to the Society in even allowing Sir Everard Home to avail himself of its plates for republication in his own works.—lt was a kind of liberal accommodation which did nothing we think, but credit to the Soeiety. How far the present President may be considered as qualified for the situation he holds, is a species of inquiry which, we think, had better been avoided. All know the contest which formerly took place in the society between two classes of scientific literati, who, we fear, will never be united in very close friendship : we mean, the mathematician and the natural historian. The present slight skirmish, we are rather inclined to consider a scion from the same stem, or front a stem of the same genus. The two peat classes among lherary men—those designated wits, and those termed philosophers—have always, it is well known been on the offensive and defensive ; and the soci e ty h as often been subjected to the attacks of the former. It is r at h er s i ngu l ar that the acute BUTLER was an early enemy of the society, and employed his inimitable talents for humour in rendering it, as far as he could, ridiculous. Indeed, what is more remarkable, he not only attacked the society, but what was then called the " fashionable or new mode of philosophy" ' .....that very mode by which B o yl e was , at that time, immortalizing himself in the laboratory of th e society, and laying the foundation for all the discoveries which have since been made. The society did not even escape the sarcasm of Addi. son ; for, in a paper in the Toiler, written by that elegant and intelligent author, we find the following passage : " There is no study more becoming a rational creature than that of natural philosophy ; but, as several of our modern virtuosi manage it, these speculations do not so much tend to open and enlarge the mind, as to contract and fix it upon trifles. This, in Eng. land, is in a great measure owing to the worthy elections that are fee. quently made in our Royal Society. They seem to be in n confederacy against men of polite genius, noble thought, and diffusive learning ; and choose into their assemblies such as have no pretence to wisdom, but want of wit ; or to natural knowledge, but ignorance of every thing else. I have made observations on this matter so long. that when I meet with a young fellow that is an humble ad mirer of the sciences, but more dull than the rest of the com. parry, I conclude him to be a Fellow of the Royal Society." Many passages might be quoted from celebrated writers, showing no great kindness towards the Society ; and the amusing volume of Dr. H ILL, before mentioned, was certainly successful in obtaining the laugh of the public in his favour. But we are not inclined to admit ridicule as a test of truth, whatever argument a powerful metaphysician may have adduced in su pp or t o f that doctrine ; and we therefore pass over, as amusing lent d'esprils, such prod u cti o n s; ' and have only alluded to them here as, in some degree. supporting an opinion we mean to advance—which is, that we think the qualification requisite in the individual who fills the Chair ;of the Royal Society, should include a general attach. went to all branches of science and learning, and a mind rich in general and varied acquirements Now, this character it is well known, is inconsistent with that devotion towards one particular study—that concentration of the human faculties, towards one point of inquiry which is indispensable for becoming distinguished in any one science or art—and we are of opinion, that the mere ma thematician however great in th a t tru l y important science, is, front the restricted nature of his pursuits, just as unfit to 611 impartially the chair, as the mere collector of butterflies and moths--however great in that line. The human mind is subject to habit a, well as the body:; and the mind of the President (or the/beau ideal of one which we would imagine desirable) should, as much as possible, be divested of seienhfie habit. Another requisite is wealth, and strict purity of morals, and amenity of disposition. Sir HUMPHREY D AVY wou ld not h ave filled the chair, had it not been for the wealthy connection be formed by marriage, and his other unexceptionable qualities. How far th k e etc c d esent President posisesses the recommendations we have a , we know not--except from the information of others. We have read his writings, occasionally in our studies with much pleasure—as a man of useful literary research, and inclined to employ his time and messy in preserving the , interesting remains of former times. We are told be is wealthy, and kind, and liberal. We therefore do not consider the choice made of him discreditable to the Society. We have written these remarks, we confess, hastily; and must apologise foe their imperfective; but we cannot conclude what we have said without expressing our fall conviction that the pamphlet of Mr. Babbage-4 gentleman whose worth and great acquirements are universally acknowledged.— , has emanated solely from a regard for sciense. -- '-._ NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Britannia, Frith. from Dantaic, has arrived at the Isle of Man, after being on shore. The Upton Castle, Thacker, from Bombay, &c. has arrived off Portland. The following arrivals are posted this morning :—The Elizabeth, Holman, from Gottenburgh, a t P or t smout h ; Pl ac idi a , f rom .Me mel, at Southampton; Chariot, Wood, from New Orleans, off Penzance ; Aid, Simmons, from Riga, at Dublin ' • Cuba, Clarke, from St. Lucia, in the Clyd e ; L or d Castlereagh, Bell, from Do minica, at Leith; William, Wetherell, and Sykes, Braithwaite, from Stockholm, at Hull ; William, Hopper, from Danrsia, at Yarmouth ; Nautilus, Redhead, from ditto, off ditto ; Betsey, Mason, from Memel, at Shoreham; John Renwick, Turner, and London, Turner, from Jamaica, in the Channel. Dial., June 9.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Governor Har court, Wilson, horn Jamaica ; Benjamin Ruggles, Hallam, from Philadelphia ; and Thames, Rigmaiden, from Jamaica. Arrived from London, the Jane Lo ckhart, Colford, for Dominica; Hope, Matthews, from Trinidad ; and Adams, Franklin, from Demerara. Porramouvu, JUN/ 9.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Elisabeth, liohlman, from Gottenburgh. LIVIIRPOOI., June at.—Arrived the Rodney, Hayes, from Charles ton ; Hopewell, White, horn St. Petersburgh ; and Scotia, Mal colm, from Dantzic. Cow's, Jima 9.—Arrived the Raikes. Coster, from Jamaica. Ilaimmarox, Jove B.—The Fort Augustus, Remington, from London to Shields, which was driven on shore near Barmutrt•., was got off this morning with much damage, and brought in here. GENERAL CEMETERY COMPANY. Yesterday a public meeting was held, at the Fteemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of forming a Company for the establishment of a Public Cemetery in the neighbourhood of London, with a view to provide places of interment, secure from violation, inoffensive to public health and decency, and ornamental to the metropolis. Shortly after one o'clock, Lord Mictow took the Chair. The noble CIIAINDIAN proceeded then to explain briefly the objects of the meeting. lie believed that it had been lung a matter of complaint, amongst all persons who had turned the subject in their mind, that the interment of the dead of this vast metropolis was not conducted in a mantlet satisfactory in any point of view. By a reference to the prosptetus of this Company, which had been circulated, an account would be found of the vast number that die annually in this metro polis, and he believed that he did not go beyond the fact, when he stated that the number interred within the limits of the metropolis did not fall short of 40,000 a year. By the returns in 1824. it ap peared that the number of intetments in the year amounted to 27,000; and, considering the increase of population since, it was but fair to assume that the number now amounted to 40,000. It was quite plain that the present burial grounds within the metro polis were not at all adequate for the interment of such a vast num ber of bodies. The objectof the proposed company was to remedy that evil, and to provide a better means for the interment of the dead, on the plan of the cemeteries established in many of the towns of Europe, i where much better provision was made for the burial of the dead than lin this city. After the experience of what had taken place during the last few years, great care had been taken to secure this company against the malpractices which had disgraced other companies. It was proposed that the shares should be 261. each; and it was pro. posed by the gentleman with whom this scheme had originated that the shares should not be transferable until 34ths of the amount had been actually paid up. That precaution was taken with a view to secure this company from becoming what was vulgarly called a " bubble company,' and to establish it upon a solid foundation. He conceived that the regulation and adoption of the plan ought to be left to the decision of a committee emanating from this meeting, should the principle of the proposed company, in the first instance, meet with the approbation of the present meeting. He trusted that In that case a great number of the individuals present would sub scribe to the undertaking. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in proposing the first resolution, " that the interment within this metropolis is highly objectionable, leading to consequences injurious to health and offensive to de cency,^ said that he conceived that the object of this meeting was not of a speculative character, but that it had a great public object In view—namely, that of contributing largely to the police and to the health of this metropolis, with regard to which we had been hitherto so lamentably deficient. In support of an undertaking of this kind he would refer the meeting to Liverpool, which was in many commercial respects the rival of London, and which was so much distinguished for its zeal with regard to every species of public improvement. Within the last three years a most excellent and ornamental public cemetery, which could vie with any one established in any city of Europe, had been erected in the neighbourhood of that place. Mas it fitting that this, the great metropolis of the empire, where every possible accomm od ation could be found for the living, should be found backward in adopting mea sures for the decent interment of the dead, in a way that would be citifying to the feelings of those who remained behind them ? He led that this plan would meet with the public support, partite. laxly as it was freed from the least taint of i m p r op er s p ecu l a ti on , against which, as their noble chairman had mentioned, the most effectual measures had been taken to secure it. The noble marquis said he should give his cordial support to the undertaking, and con. eluded by proposing the resolution. It was seconded by the Rev. Mr. Helton, who observed that as the public cemetery established in Liverpool bad been expressly sanctioned by the present Bishop of London, who was then Bishop of Chester, it was but reasonable to conclude that his lordship would give his sanction also to this undertaking. Lord RADII roc= suggested that it would be well to have some detailed explanation as to the plan upon which the company would proceed, and the objects which it had in view. Mr. SNOT T ISWOODE accordingly proceeded to notice in detail the objects of the proposed company. The unanimity of the meet. ing, he said, as to the necessity of the measure in question, saved him the trouble of dwelling upon that point. The committee, with whom the meeting had originated, had been for some time occupied with measures for remedying the evils arising from the existing mode of interment in this metropolis, and the result of their labours was the plan which was now proposed to the meeting for the forma tion of a general cemetery company. After noticing and refuting the various objections which had been raised to the plan in question, and after expressing a hope that they would be finally enabled to accomplish something in this way worthy of the first city in the world, the hon. gentleman concluded by moving the second reso lution, which was to this effect :—" That the only effectual say for remedying this evil is, to establish a public cemetery without the limits of the town, which, while it conduces to the public health, will be ornamental to the metropolis." Sir H. Parce, in seconding the resolution, observed that the ob ject of this meeting was to avert a great public calamity, and to remove a great public nuisance, and he conceived that, under such circumstances, it would meet the public support. Lord RADSTOCK expressed himself favourable to the principle of the plan, and hoped that its accomplishment would be secured by a well-selected and respectable committee. Sir J. D. PAUL proposed the next resolution, which was to the effect--" That in the establishment of such a cemetery it was ad visable to avoid every expense tending to increase the cost of inter ment." A great nuisance, he said, existed, and their object was, with the assistance of the meeting, to remove it. The possibility of , the occurrence of a plague, from the existing mode of interment I within the walls, had been alluded to. The plan of this company, if carried into effect, would completely prevent the possible occur. Fence of such a calm nil y. Another object of the proposed company was to remove, or greatly lessen the heavy expenses at present at tendant upon funerals. the most discreditable thing amongst the institutions of this country was the prevailing mode of conducting funerals.—(hear.) The resolution was seconded by Mr. B. Beau nosy T, and catried. A gentleman expressed a hope that the plan would not be clogged with anything like a compensation for the c!vrgy. Mr. brovrtswoone said that it was nut at present embraced in the plan, and that all these matters of detail would be the subject ' , of futare discussion and arrangement. Mr. DOUGLAS suggested that the cemetery, which it was pro posed to establish, should be disconnected from the national church, and calculated to combine all sects and parties within it. Lord MILTON remarktd, that the ground which would be se lected for the cemetery should, at all events, be consecrated, and that ceremony, he apprehended, must be petfornied according to the rites of the national church. Mr. O. CARDEN moved the next resolution to this effect, —" That this meeting approves of the principles upon which the General Cemetery Company is fouaded, and recommends to all who feel an interest an the public welfare, and in the provemcnt of the public taste, to forw4rd the objects of it."— The object of this company, he said, had engaged his attention since 1825, and he trustei that it now stood a fair chance of being finally carried into effect. He had had several interviews with the Bishop of London on the tiubject, and he could state that his lordship was decidedly favourable to the plan. The resolution having been seconded by Lord RADSTOCR, was carried. On the suggestion of Mr. Foss the following resolution was she proposed and agreed to s.—" That this meeting approves of the resolation of the committee, that no shares of the company shall be transferable until S.Oths of the amount shaU be paid up." Thanks were then voted to the noble chairman, and the meeting separated. Sir Thomas B. Lethbridge, bart. is at present, and has for some time past, been labouring under severe indisposi tion. The worthy baronet has not been able to attend his duty in Parliament for the last three weeks. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF & D S, JUNE 9. The Earl FITZWILLIAIII presented !Wilt against Slavery, and in fasor of the emancipation of 'h e J... 5. Lord TEENHAM preened a petition from :sad-iary, inry fora reform in Parliament. The Earl of SHREWSBURY took the oaths and t. at. blildmay's Divorce Bill and Boydelrs Divorce EX, wt.te second time. Mr. Cobb, from the Margate Pier Company, presnted the account for this' year. The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF (7'7OI I I7tINS, JUNE 3 At four o'clock the SPEAKER counted the atunthet r-. present, when there being only 18, an adjournment of c..31r,: took place. MILD:IIA DIV‘ /RC E. Council having been called in thiscase befaret; le Lords on Tuesday, —Mr. F. POLLOCK said, My Lords, I hate the honour to upper at your Lordships bar, on behalf of C-ept. 31thinsaj. who is is.. petitioner for the relief which it is the object of *lsis hill to obtain. It will not be necessary for me to detain your Loreist.ips with st:y lengthy statement. AU the circumstances which usually concur to induce the House to pass such a bill as the present are p e ereetly clear in this instance, and free irons objections. Capt. 31ildmity , ' my Lord., was married in the East Indies, on the I Ws Jose, to Mies Mary Ann Catherine Sherson, who was about the ic,ot age. The marriage had been deferred some time, on accoun: •• • the early age of the parties, and until he attained tweisty.une For some years, Captain Mildnsay and his wife lived happily te. gether, indeed, down to a late period, no other intetrop ! Lions to their happiness; arising, except the occasional aO. since of Captain Illildmay, when the professional service so which he was engaged required his attendance. There are f. ut children the issue of the marriage. As 1 laic just stated, my Lards, Capt. Mildmay and his wife were in the enjoyment of much felicity, until a very recent period. I allude to the latter part ut the last year, when it appears that the claims of' his professional life rendered it necessary for bins to be absent in Ireland. Probsbly, before that period nothing of a criminal nature had transpired be• tween his wife and the gentleman named in the BilL He was in. troduced into the family, being a connection, in some way, of set friends. On one occasion he was observed to quit her bed.wout. It will hardly be necessary for me to state more or the criminal rn,. ceedings than this transaction. Some suspicion attaching to lota, his conduct was watched, and he was seen leaving Mrs. Blileinsay's bed-room. The servant who witnessed this improper conduct thought it right to acquaint Captain 31ildmay with the fact. Mea sures were subsequently taken to apprise the friends of the hely en her misconduct, and she subsequently left her husband's root. At. action was brought in the Court of Common Pleas, when dammtes to the amount of 400 L were awarded by the Jury. Proceedings were likewise taken in the Arches Court o± Canterbury, and the usual divorce was obtained. lam nut able to state to your Lord ships that the damages have been actually received ; fur as soon as the gentleman was served with the proceedings of the action, he ktl the country, and has not, us I ant informed, yet returned. These are the circumstances of the ease relating to the marriage, to the si. tuation in life in which the parties move, and the adultery, which 1 believe will be most completely established. I trust that when your Lordships shall have heard the evidence, you will consider Captain Mildmay entitled to the relief he seeks by the Bill. Mr. Samuel Skinner was th e fi rst witness called. He was in the Bast Indies in the year 1818, and was acquainted with Captain Midway, who at that time held a Lieutenant's Commission In the 22d Dragoons. He knew that Captain Mildmay was married to a Miss M. C. Sherson. He was not acquainted with her before the marriage. He had not seen het since she was in England. He had seen Captain Mildmay that day. Mr. T. Hardy produced a copy from the book which contains the entries of the marriages of parties that take place in India. H had examined the book at the India House, and the paper he pro duced was an accurate copy of .Captain 111ildusay's marriage wills Miss Sherson. The LORD CHANCELLOR.—That will not do. You must have the original book. An officer from the India House always attends here with the book when evidence of that description is wanted. Mr. POLLOCK.— Perhaps your lordship will allow inc to proceed with another part of my cue ? The LORD Ctrawczwia...—Certainly. Mr. Hardy was again called. He produced an examined copy of the judgment against Edmund Knapp, in the action brought in the Court of Common Pleas. This was put in evidence. Mr. Warren said that he had ICTVtd the order of the House, with • copy of the Bill, upon Mrs. Mildmay. By the LORD CHANCELLOIL—i raw her at a house in ft street leading out of High-street, itlary-la-bonne. Knew that it was Mrs. Mildmay whom I saw, because Mr. IVileatley intro. duced me to her. 1 do not know Mrs. Mildmay from any other circumstance. The LORD CHANCELLOR then inquired whether Mr. Wheatley was in attendance ? and being answer.d in the negative, observed, that he must be called, or better evidence produced, to identity Mrs. Mildmay with respect to the proceedings. Mr. Warren, to some further question s p ut by t h e L oan C HAN . CEEEoa, nowsaid.—l was the solicitor in the action. I Dave not yet entered up execution. I expect the amount of damages very shortly. 1 have seen Mr. Knapp's solicitor on the subject. It was now near five o'clock, when the LOUD CHANCELLOR said—The evidence respecting the adultery will not be long, I ap. prebend, Mr. Pollock ? Mr. Pos.Locx—No, my laird. The LORD CHANCELLOR—As your CAW is d.feetive in other parts, let it be again brought before the House, when you can sup. ply those deficiencies. Mr. POLLOCE said, he had understood the first witness would have spoken more as to the marriage. But if their Lorchhips leased, lie would have th e w it ness f rom t h e I n di a House, and Mr. heatley, when the case came before the house the next time. The Lotto CHANCELLOR inquired when that evidence could he supplied, and was told to.morrow (this day.) The further consideration was then postponed to that period. WEDNESDAY, Jodi& 9.--The examination of witnesses was re sumed in this bill to-day. Mr. Wheatly was called to prove that Mrs. Mildmay was the per. son whom Mr. Warren had served with a copy of the bill. Mr. Henslow, the solicitor of Mr. Knelt, deposed that Mr. Kamp had not been in this kingdom since the verdict had been got against him by Captain Mildmay. The Rev. Mr. Ricked, fellow of Merton College, Oxford, was in the habit of visiting Captain and Airs. Mildmay. They lived on the most affectionate tams. Henry Light had been in the service of Capt. Mildmay. Last year recollected his muter having been absent from home 1h the month of October. His mistress remained at home, at Southamp. ton. After having gone to bed one night, he heard a noise at the hall-door, and having got up he saw his mistress standing outside her bed-room, as if listening: shortly after his mistress went down stairs, and witness went to procure a light, while he was doing so he heard some person going into his mistress's room. Witness waited for nearly two hours on the staircase, when his mistress came out of her bed-roam, went down stairs, and opened the hall-door. Sbe did not see witness. Mr. Knap immediately after came out of the bed-room, and, having seen witness, he ran. Witness pursued him and cried out .• You need not run, for I know you perfectly well." Mr. Knap said nothing, but ran off. Witness knew Mr. Lisp before Mary Ann Tegg bad been Mrs. Mildmay's maid for eight years; saw Mr. Knap, from her bedroom window about three o'clock in the morning, running away from the hall door. CTONs examined by the LORD Cita)* chit. Lone—She knew Mr. Knap before, from having often seen him waking with her mistress in the town of Southampton. He was about 23 years of sge. and rather handsome. She had got out of bed in consequence of the noise which she had heard in the house. She never mlw Mr. Khap at Ceptain Alildmay's but emu. Captain and Mrs. 3i itumay had, up to that period, lived very happily together. The Loan Cuancthson observed that the evidence of the adultery wu very satisfactory, and, in his opinion, Captain AI thlmay had made out a sufficient use to entitle him to the indulgence which he sought for. He therefore u:oved that the bill he DA a second time, which was agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be committed to-morrow. It appears from a Parliamentary paper that the net revenue from the duty on candles in England and Scot land last year was 489,059/ Is. 9d. In 1800 it Alas only 269,593/. 10s. 4d. From another Parliamentary • paper we learn that the quantity of corn spirit consumed in England, Ireland, and Scotland, in 1829, was 22,690,270 imperial gallons. The subscriptions for Mr. Hone are going on favour ably. In the list now published is the name of the Duke 'of Bedford, who has sent 201. His cause has been warmly espoused by the provincial journals, more than ,20 of which have inserted his appeal gratuitously, with offers to receive and remit subscriptions. The aphorism, "he gives twice wPogivee quickly," could not receive a more cogent application than the nt instance, for the funds are required to enable Mr. Ho ne to commence busi ness in his new undertaking, where he is already placed with his family, liable to rent and lazes, and other claims, but gaining nothing until his outfit is completed.