Star. — London, England, 1831-10-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THIS DAY'S JOURNALS. Tr at mistake of the Bishops is, that they fancy they are playing the part they did at the Revolution in 1688 ; but the difference is, that they then had the people at their back, and now they have them opposed to them. Now, with re pan' to the conduct of the Bishops at the Revolu tion, upon which Dr. Phillpotts laid so much stress the other night, undoubtedly they were of great use in forwarding that important event; but then they never did anything—they never put their shoulders to the wheel—till their temporalities were attacked. Burnet, himself a Bishop, complains that Sancroft, then Archbishop of Canterbury, "lay quiet at Lambeth" and would not stir; and the other bi shops followed his example, till king James appointed a Papist head of Magdalen College, at Oxford, Then the Bishops saw that their temporalities were going from them, and then they blew the trumpet of rebellion through the country, and the country answered the call. They have probably now the same notion as to their temporalities, but how erroneous are the measures they take for preserving them! If their temporal ies are looked at with a jealous eye, is it by setting themselves in opposi tion to the public wishes that they are likely to remove this feeling? If their endowments are thought by the many to be too large, is it by sepa rating themselves from the many that they are likely • to preserve them ? Surely the blindness of such conduct is only to be equalled by its injuriousness to the country as well as to themselves. For what must be the consequence of the alienation of the pra,ple from their spiritual rulers ? Anarchy, confusion, plunder—even blood. But we will not dwell upon this picture. The giving to the Bishops seats in the House of Lords, among many! ether evils and inconveniences has this one,—that Ministers will and must promote to the Bench partisans, instead of Christian pastors. Hulce the scandal that is sometimes offered to the Christian public by placing in important dioceses men whose whole life is one continua tion of secular objects, secular views, and secular intrigues. A history of Dr. Phillpotts would strikingly illustrate what is here asserted. His getting the great living of Stauhope from the late Bishop of Durham, as the price of his political and electioneering violence against sir. Lambton in the county cf Durham, his anti-Catholic pamphlets, which got him the Deanery of Chester,—his short crane-necked turn, which got him his bishopric, I when the Duke of Wellington had determined to carry that measure,—are matters of which none are ignorant. After such a course, and such causes for his elevation, can one be surprised at the bitter, abusive, intolerant, and factious spirit which he displays ? " Every tree is known by its fruit !" " Men do not expect to gather grapes from thorns, 01 figs from thistles." Clittox at:lA.—Parliament will be prorogued as soon as she Bankruptcy Courts' Bill is passed, and it is not intended that it shall assemble again till after Christmas. We need not say that we regret this delay. We see in it great cause for apprehen sion. The country will either remain in a state of agitation, or it will not. If agitated, who can tell what the consequence may be ? If the agitation subsides, the hostile lords, who are only reformers horn neeessity, who hate reform from the very bottom of their souls, and who will be con stantly on the look out for means to prevent it, will nail!' delude themselves into the belief that the people are ludifferent to reform, and become persuaded that they have been too easily led to con ceive that reform i 3 inevitable. The greater part of the 199, whatever teformers may think, have not the slightest idea that it i 3 not just and proper they should subsist on the tillage of the public. They Lave been brought up in the notion that the people are only of importance as pigs and sheep are of importance—as supplyin ,, to the at the weans of subsistence. Nu man in his tenses woald ever have thoitJt of con hieing the Algerines that it was wrong to subsist on the pillage of traders on the high seas, by aay other arguments tha. , those which v:are altimately urged with regard to them. All the Methodists in Europe and America would fail in their attempts to soften the heat t of one single Arab, brought up in the notion that it is more Rio rioos to rob caravans than to labour. The Jobbing Boroughmongers, like all other persons convinced against their will, will relapse the very first opportunity which appears to flatter their in e:inations. Nothing nn earth but the demonstra tion in a I.lat ner not to be misunderstood, that the people are to a man bent on Refonn, and that the danger will be greater to themselves from op posing it than agreeing to it, will command their suffrages. The processions of 120,000 respectable tradesmen and other householders in the Metropolis on Wednesday last were of more avail in the way of argument than all the pamphlets that ever were written, all the speeches that ever were d: livered. A Reform which would enable the Ministers of this country to throw themselves on the people, and to govern without distributing the plunder of tt.e people among tie possessors of Borough pro ' perty, must always be wormwood to the latter. j The people have had great reason to confide in the honourable intenth.ns of Ministers, who have shown themselves sincerely desirous of rendering lute representation of the people ade(,uate to its i object. HERA I.D.—lf we are to have a reform in the Church, it cannot be a judicious arid temperate reform unless it be one considered and adopted on its own merits, and without any reference to the votes of the Bishops on the Reform Bill, or on any other question. If the Church wants reform--and we are of opinion that, to a certain extent—it does—it would be the inversion of all sound rea soning to say that, because the guardians of the Church voted for the Reform Bill (supposing they had done so), it would be right that the Church itself should go unreformed ; or, in other ' words, because the guardians of the Church acknowledged that the best way to renovate the State was to remove its abuses ; therefore the best acknowledgment that could be made to them would be to allow the abuses of the church to be perpetual. Though we have said that the abstract question as to the propriety of the Prelates of the Established Church having seats in the House of Lords is not a question for times of ex citement, yet we have no hesitation in saying that our Bishops, in their places in Parliament, have, somehow or other, almost invariably resisted all iniprov meet. We do not forget the heroic conduct of the " seven Bishops" in blowing the trumpet of the glorious Revolution, and we venerate their memories fur the stand which they made against a tyrant; when their own rights and privileges had been arbitrarily assailed; yet, when the restoration of the rights and privileges of their fellow-subjects is the question which the Go vernment supports, we find the great body of the Bishops, for the first time in living memory, arrayed in opposition to the King and his Ministers. But on other occasions, when harsh and cruel laws were to be passed against the people—when an unconstitutional stretch of power was to be sanc tioned by the Legislature—when the passing of the " Six Acts"—the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act—the enactment of new capital Sta tutes, inticting death under circumstances for which Christians ought to blush—the passing of a Spring gun Bill to legalise a system of cowardly assassi nation, more dangerous to the innocent than the guilty,—when these and other matters equally op posed to sound and humane legislation were the Work cut out by the Minister for Parliament, we have always found the bishops on the side of power. In short, the minister of the day has ge !korai!) calculated on their votes with great cer tainty, but never with a more justified confidence than when the corrupt or arbitrary acts of the Government am to he absolved from all respon sibility, or the errors of the law, or the vene rable " abuses of the State, were to be protected against the reforming Maud of salutary innovation. During the successive years that Sir Samuel Bo milly .mbly struggled to purify our criminal code from inhumanity and barbarism, by judicious and enlightened ameliorations, the prelates of our church—the teachers of a religion of mercy, were among the most steady opponents to any arid every alteration of our sanguinary code. Conserr's REGISTER.—It is probable, and I most anxiously hope it, that the apparent resolution of the King to cause the bill to be carried through, will quiet the people in the country, not only in the great towns, but in the villages, where the danger is still greater than in the towns; but it is very fool ish for men to flatter themselves with the hope that there will ever be tranquillity is England again or in Scotland either, until this bill, tn. rather ano ther 6;11, shall have passed into a law. To exhort the people not to commit violences ; to exhort diem to submit to the laws ; to exhort them to with hold their violent hands from the property and per sons of their neighbours ; this is the duty of every mau who has any influence over the minds of the people, but to expect that his exhortations will have 'any effect, unless accompanied with a statement of reasonable grounds for believing that the bill will speedily pass, is foolishness of the higher order; is foolishness sublime and supreme ; except that it may, possibly, not surpass the foolishness of telling the people that their violence will prevent the bill from passing. To see the rejection of the reform bill, and to expect no violence in consequence, is to belie all that the people have been told by the ministers, and by all the supporters of the bill for six months past. I like the pretty song of the Lord Chancellor of Wednesday night very much : he ex horts the people to be quiet as lambs, lest they should defeat the Reform Bill, of which he, four days before, expressed his readiness to enter into a reconsideration. Why, the people see that the Reform Bill is defeated, and they see no revival of it, and no positive pledge that there shall be a revival of it; and under these circumstances do the Ministers expect the people to be quiet ? I hope' that they will be quiet, and that they will wait pa tiently to see what is to be done ; but the question , is, can the Ministers, consistent with their own daclaratiens a thousand times made, expect the people to be quiet in this state of things ? Let us see how this matter stands : let us cee what reason they have for such expectation. Nobody will dis pute the truth of any ono of the following facts ; namely, that the Duke could neither walk nor ride the streets in safety, on account of his declared hostility to Parliamentary Reform ; that ho quit ted his office became he could not carry on the Government without Reform ; that Lord Groy came into orrice upon the express ground of making a parliamentary reform; that the bill, when brow ht in, was grounded upon the naces:,ity of it to restore peace and harmony to the coun try; that etc ministers have all along insisted that, to pass the bill was absolutely necessary to preserve the peace of the country, and to prevent the peo ple from taking the work into their own hands ; that during the Into debates in the House of Lords, a great ar , ument with those who urged the passing of the bill was, that the country would be con vulsed, that uproar and violence would imme diately succeed if the bill were rejected ; that the opponents of the bill called this intimidation and menace, but that the ministers answered that it was merely fore/tiling the natural consequences of the rejection. No ono can deny any one of these facts. The ministers were accused of in citing to violence by these foretelling's, as their Attorney-General accused me; but ' they answered, that they were only giving a salutary warning of the dant , ter, while, at the ' same time, they pointed out the remedy. The remedy as not adopted, and, therefore, if they were siheere in tie it forebodiugs, as I was in mine, ought they to have expected that the violences would not take pine: ? Mr. fledges, one of the faithful members of the coenty of Kent, told the House of Commons : " The county which I have the 'romper to represent is now tranquil, after being so terribly convulsed. I believe that it owes this tranquillity entirely to the hope that this bill will pass ; and I firmly believe that, if this bill be re jected, the disturbances will break out again."— Therefore what a waste of words is it; what an abuse of reason is it, to argue now as if no violence was to be expected ? Mr. H, for instance, must most anxiously wish that the county of Kent should not again be convulsed ; but, is he not too just a man to sigh to deal harshly with the people. even if they wore again to proceed to acts of vio lence ? And have not the people been told, and by the Ministers themselves that they were not represented in Parliament; that their rights had been usurped; that the bill was necessary to restore those rights to them, and to give them security for person and property ? This is what the Ministers themselves have told them a thou sand times over; and were they then to expect that the people would be quiet when they saw this bill rejected, and themselves thereby brought back to their former state, taxed, as Lord Jonw Rus- SELL himself expressed it, by men who had usurped their rights? And, as to the way in which the people are to express their discontent: but, first of all, do the Ministers wish that the people should be quiet under the rejection of the bill ? Do they wish this ? Well, in what way do they wish that the people should show their discontent with the rejection of the bill ? By petitioning and addressing? By cheering the Ministers and groaning their opponents ? One recommends the people by no means to with hold the taxes, and the LORD CHAN CELLOR prays them not to proceed to breaches of the peace. They must then mean that the people should confine themselves to petitioning and ad dressing, to the huzning of them and the groan ing of their opponents. Now I beg leave, as the Lord Chancellor is' ready to reconsider' the matter relative to the 101. voters ; as he is so ready to re consider this matter, let me ask him to reconsider his speech of last night, and to give me an answer, yea or nay, to this question : Do you believe, my Lord Droullhamaliat if the boroughmongers could be made QUITE CERTAIN that the people would NEVER DO AN YT RING but petition, address, huzza you, and hiss and groan your opponents, that this bill, or that any reform at all, would EVER BE ADOPTED ? If you be a true man, an swer me that question, yea or nay • but before you do it, remember that the bloody Jefferies, who once sat on the very bench on which you now sit, when he had just condemned one of his scores of victims, and when the victim exclaimed, " My blood be upon your head," answered, laughing at the same time, " Let it ! Let it ! I am CLAMOUR !moor." Hardened and bloody as he was, he was not more completely clamour-proof than the borough mongers are. It is therefore perfectly useless to send forth exhortations to peace and patience with out sending forth at the same time assurances as positive as can be given, that the Bill will finally pa's. The Prime Minister and the King are, I sincerely believe, resolved upon the carrying the measure ; hut people in general have not the same means of judging that I have. They are full of suspicions ; with them all is uncertainty and alarm ; and, in order to prevent them from proceeding to those acts of violence which the ministers them selves not only anticipated, but expressly foretold, as the inevitable consequence of a rejection of the bill, those ministers should now not lose a single moment in giving them an assurance that the bill will be carried ; and of giving them an assurance, too, that no change will be made in the bill to narrow the extent of the suffrage in the great towns, and also, that no delay will take place. The Pembrokeshire election commence,s this day. The late member, Sir John Owen, was declared unduly elected in consequence of the negligence,pertiality, and ineffi ciency of the High Sheriff and his officers. Sir John Owen is a reluctant reformer; for in his addresses to his constituents in the spring, he repeatedly stigmatised the bill as destructive of the constitution, and also imputed unworthy motives to the ministers who originated it. But at the late election he found the sense of the county of Pembroke to be so strong in favour of the bill, that, to use his own language, he was prepared to sacrifice a part of his honest opinion to favour of that of his constituents. By such a walk, sacrifice, and by the assistance of the High Sheriff and his officers, he succeeded in obtaining a return, which a committee of the House of Commons set aside. His opponent, the Hon. Mr. Oreville, is the consistent advocate of Reform; and now, after the severe expense of a contest, prolonged by the declared negligence of the Sheriff to 16 days, and after the additional expense OA petition to the House of Commons, be boldly proceeds to a second trial of saingdi and prin. ciples. A subscription has been raised in the country to assist his election, but it is incumbent upon all reformers to come forward and secure, at a crisis like the resent, the return of an uncompromising friend to the bW. Such is I Mr. Oreville; and each, we are jusdled la saying, is not his opponent. Fat be who abused the bill on Its first thus. duedon, and who, together with his sow, just voted fee the second reading, and th is left it to its tasi la the ought to be emmideed so lukewarm a amine, LT= unlit or unwilling to enforce its ultimate semesm—dforahsg Paper. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 15. ON 6 O'CLOCK. THIS DAY.—.TheTiromrter, 64. BA. rometcr, 2840. Weather, cloudy, and fa'•. Wind W. We yesterday called the solemn attention of the public to the reported circumstance, that Ministers entertain a serious intention to prorogue the Par liament, for the portentous period of THREE MONTHS. We deprecated so uncalled-for and un expected a determination; and our sentiments are echoed through all London, while we have no doubt, they will be reverberated from one end of the kingdom to the other. For our parts, we con sider such a prorogation to be highly dangerous to the public peace, and in many respects as a compromise of public feeling and of the Bill. If the prorogation, as is announced, take place on Tuesday, there is scarcely time for any general expression of public opinion ; but it appears to us , that public bodies on the spot, and in the nearest counties, ought with all celerity to convey an ex pression of their opinions to Ministers before it is too late. The patriotic majority of the House of Commons, who so nobly displayed their energy on Lord EBRIN GTO N'S motion, ought not to be backward on this occasion. We are aware that paragraphs are going the round of cer tain Papers, pleading for a holiday or rest to the Legislature ; but as we consider the labours of the Members at this crisis to be of pri mary importance, not only to their characters, but to the vital interests of the public—so we consider an abatement of the easy labour of sitting at plea sure, to hear the intervals of a debate, to be of very secondary consequence. We have visited their subjects and slaves in the manufacturing districts— we have seen cotton and weaving factories, sub servient in every hour of the year to the never wearied steam-engine, wherein, except on Sun days, there is seldom more than a single holiday in the year—and we have been in coal mines, in iron works, in glass works, &c. &c. &c. wherein the labour in a week exceeds that of seven years' sittings on the hilarious benches of either House of Parliament. At the same time, we admit that these parliamentary duties have some irksomeness, especially to fox-hunters ; but they are not to be quoted as sufficient reasons for abandoning a public duty at a moment, when the occasion and the country call for additional exertious in men, who ambition power and distinction, and v. ho stand pledged to their copstituents and to the world, to carry this measure. We are assured this morning—but we quote that opinion with becoming deference—that his MA JESTY has urged that the prorogation should be only for FIFTEEN DAYS, an arrangement which exactly accords with public feeling, and with com mon sense. If a longer period is proposed for the purpose of truckling to,and intriguing with the noble and Right Reverend majority, we consider such an object as compromising a cause of unquestionable truth and merit, and as beneath the power of the c ROWN, and the omnipotent voice of the people. If it be intended to take advantage of the long chapter of accidents, which may grow out of the THREE MONTHS session, we take the liberty to remark that such accidents may perchance be as unfavour able to the hopes of the people as favourable to them. Two vulgar adages, and therefore truths, apply exactly—" strike the iron while it is hot"—' l " never defer that till to-morrow which can be done to day." We have bad the pleasure during the week to see our patriotic Monarch two or three times; and we sincerely congratulate the public on the external appearances of his good health and sound constitution. All his people hope that be may be long preserved to them; and his ha bitual temperance and buoyant spirits justify that expectation. Nevertheless, it is not to be dis sembled, that an accident, while Lord High Ad miral, has continued to cause much discomfort to his MAJESTY, and diminished that personal activity which was his peculiar characteristic. Never was the life of a SOVEREIGN more precious to his PEOPLE ; for it is reason ably apprehended, that on his patriotism and good intelligence depend the accomplishment of any Reform which can be useful or satisfactory. We urge this topic, however, as no substantive reason for a short prorogation ; for we are more influenced by our apprehensions of the effects of winter on a disappointed people, and on the db.' estrous consequences to all the vital interests of the country, from lingering discussions on the subject. The state of the Poll at Guildhall, reduces that question to one of secondary importance—seeing that the numbers through the day have been ten to one, nine to one, and eight to one, in favour of the Reformers. We are sorry tosee Alderman WAITII MAI dragged in against his will, as a mere nu merator or cat's-paw of a poll ; but the usage of these civic contests frequently puts a respected character in the wrong. On the subject of the Dorset Election, we feel it proper to remark, that Mr. PONSON ac's friends continue sanguine, though appear ances are against him. He is said to have an undue proportion of votes before the Ammar—why, we do not learn ; but we so often hear of partiality and undue procrastination in Assessors, that some amendment of our Election practices seems in this respect to be necessary. Anothet Election—that of Pembrokeshire—now claims public attention, Grt EVILLE against Ov EN • a decided Reformer against an equivocal one. The Ministry appear to be intent uf on passing the new Bankruptcy Bill before the prorogation. We hail it as an improvement, simply because it gets rid of the corrupt influence of Seventy Com missioners, who for years are known to have op. posed themselves to every improvement in this branch of Jurisprudence. If a bad system is not supported by such a phalanx, many of whom were Members of the Legislature, we may calculate on great improvements and ameliorations in our Debtor and Creditor law ; and in this sense chiefly, we approve o: Lord BROUGHAM'S Bill. It breaks up a bad system, and cleanses an Augean stable. We do not object to t' e legal assignee, because the foul. of lawyers, who generally fill that office, either hl passion or ignorance, ruin both debtors and cre ditors ; but we apprehend some wrong from th, formalities of a Court which requires more equity and bon amie in its practice than is compatibh with the severity of plain law. In fine. nothing can adjust the mischievous anc ruinous consequences of Bankruptcy, both to in solvents and creditors, but to enable a competent majority of creditors to receive and act upon the bast proposition, which a debtor is enabled to make. For what has been done, the public are neverthe less under much obligation to the energetic admi nistration of Lord BROUGHAM, the only Chancel lor who would perhaps have dared to take this bull by the horns. A Cabinet Council is summoned fur to-morrow. (Sund;y) at two o'clock, at the Foreign Office. DORSETSHIRE ELECTION. CLOSE OF THE POLL-THIRTEENTH DAT, OCT. 14. Gross Poll .. 22 1799 .._ 10 1769 The Right Hon. Lord Ashley The Hon. W. F. S. Pousoaby ... ELECTION OF LOiCrItIAYOIC-TH IS DAY. STATE OF THE POI -1 .. 11 r4T1' TWO O'CLOCK. Lord Mayor . llO2 Alderman Thompson Sir Peicr Laurie Alderman Waithman ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, which left off yesterday at 81/ for the Account, opened at the saute price, went up to 81i, and at present they are 81a a, and 81a a for money. TWO O'CLOCK. The funds contim!e rather steady during the whole of the morning. They have been done at 81i, and at present they are 81; ; for money 8 with little doing. _ THREE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock, 191 190/ ex dir. Three per Cent. Reduced, 801 ex div. Three per Cent. Consols, 811 a 1 I. Three and a Half per Cent. 1818, 88 cx div. Three and a Hall per Cent. Red. 871 ex dlr. Three and a Half per Cent. New, 891. Four per Cent. 1826, 97j 7 1 ex div. Long Annuities, Jan.lB6o, 161 jex div. Ann. Oct. 1839, 161 ex dlr ; do. Jan. 1860, 16a. India Stock, —; do. Bonds, 1 2 dis. New Annuities, 791. £lOOO Exchequer Bills, 8 9; 000 do. 8 9; .ClOO and 4200 do. 8 10. India for Account, 196/. Consols for Account, 81/ I. The express from Paris has brought the Three per Cent. Rentes at 59f. 30c. about three quarters per cent. higher than the last prices. Their Majesties gave a grand dinner last even ing, at St. James's, in honour of the Grand Duchess Helene of Russia. The King and Queen, accompanied by the Princess Augusta, left town soon after eleven o'clock yester day morning, went to pay a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, as their taking possession of their new house at Kew. Both Houses met to-day, and proceeded a stage with those Bills which the Government is desirous should pass, so as net unnecesarily to delay the progress of the Parliament. The Hanseatic Minister transacted business at the-Office of the Secretary of State for Foreigu Affairs, and also at the Council Office on Thursday. The Duke of Hamilton, the Marquess of Doug las, the Earl of Rossiya, Viscount Melville, and Sir W. Rae, had an interview with Viscount Althorp yesterday, respecting the Scotch Reform BM. In consequence of Lord Arundel's recent vote on the Reform Bill, upwards of 30 of the Salisbury troop of Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry (of which his Lordship is twain) have sent in their resignation. His Lordship must quit the troop, or the troop to a man will quit him. Colonel Sibtborp, conscious of his unpopularity with the inhabitants of Lincoln, has let his seat at Canwick to Sir Mark Wood! The Marquis of Exeter has caused several pieces of cannon to be placed on the parapets and in other parts of Burghley-house, and a large force of armed watchmen are constantly on the premises. The more val ua bl e o f t h e col lection of pictures have been packed up and removed. Their Majesties entertained Prince Frederick of Wurtemburg at dinner on Thursday evening. The Duke of Sussex, the Princess Augusta, and a select party Were present to meet his Serene Highness. Mr. Meyers, Colonial Agent for Barbadoes; and Mr. Colquhoun, Colonial Agent for St. Vincent, had audiences of his Majesty on Thursday. by command of the Ring, to submit such detailed information and explanation as they might possess as to the effects of the late destructive hurricane. The Marquis of Queensberry has been appointed Chamberlain to the Queen, in the room of Earl Howe. Letters patent have passed the greal seal of Ire land for appointing Dr. Richard Whattley to the Archbi shopric of Dublin and Bishopric of Glandelegh, vacant by the death of Dr. William Magee. BIIITH.-At Kew, on the 13th instant, Mrs. George Arbuthnot, of a daughter. The Archbishop of Canterbury bad, it is under stood, the prosy of the Archbishop of York, who during the debate was at York. That proxy was intended to sup port the bill. What right had hew withhold it Tiara Doc RR, OCT. 13. —Lord Granville mired here this morning from London, and shortly afterwards embarked on board his Majesty's packet Fire Fly. under a salute from the guns at the Heights, for France. I he Westminster Sessions on Thursday decided that no appeal lay in the case of Locke, for furiously dd. ring a stage coach, under 3. G oa IV. c. 98. We are authorized by a right reverend friend of the Blabssp of Lincoln to contradict the charge of his hav ing promised to vote for the second reading of the Reform Bill- We are informed that the Bishop of Lincoln "voted against the Bill only because there was no hope of altering it in the Committee." The cholera has r e - ap peared in St. Petersburg. At Berlin it had min resumed activity ; but the physicians reckoned w ith on being able to con trol it. Money for commercial purposes is become very seam and no smonti.eass cc merely respectable 13i114 CM be discounted. In a word, every thing Is at a dead Mend, aod will so continue till the bill is carrieJ• 4 per mot. is obtained on Int-rate bills, and they were De g ,_ 1 oohed without considerable diffi cu l t y. Th e payment of tow divideods, which ought to make a large addition to the cir culation, is hi part counteracted by the repayments to the Book otthe advances made in the early part of last month. or; I, I . Lord ( Itanctllur ; but he ( Mr. Wood) teas satisfied, had his lordship he. rd them, they would only base contributed to his amusement, as they had camel' amusement io that house. sir J. NEWPORT thought It was irrelevant to thus debate individual clauses when they would come ender the retries of the committee ; but he approved of the bill gene rally, and in p articular of ►hat clause which made the Lp puititment of official assignees. He was now old and spoke from es p:rience ; he knew that at present it was too often the practice, instead of appointing asidgnecs, who would hus band the property of a bankrupt, that the rppointment was conferred on one who would occasion the most wasteful ex prhditure. Mr. Alderrowt WAITHMAN expressed hill full con currence la o.te provisions of the Hill ; admitted :nine cl teration taightbe required :.t afuturc time; but 1•e cumitlered it a most desirable change of a Court in n !deli so muei• pro put}• Ise.n squsndered. Mr. PRAL•'I) vi.pated the Bill in a I. ng speech, anti in particular laid rr.at •tuss en Hou e being pressed to pass it into ti law with much ntech, honey. (11,:r.) He agreed that the app•.ir•tment of oideial assignees might have a bond cffict. 1:c cool I t.ot ul scribe to the epi. Mons that had been express.d in the House regarding the motives of the Noble Lord Chancellor. He consi, cr. cal the allegations to be a gross misinterpretation of his lord. ship's intentions. Those v:ho cool'. attribute motives co un worthy to 1.0r.1 Brougham knew little of his tragnattin.ous mind, or they wehel•ed with a very tineven hart 1 11. irrc. pro;:chaltl, character as substantiates! by every act of his public lire. When he (Mr. Praia) contectil.ted his un wearied exertions in ft.: public service, end particularly in another court, of so much importance to sockty iu this country, be was sari. fi.d that he snared bey-tol the react• of such imputations. He, who had devot:d 1,6 .lays and asights-with e.' unrentittin.;iy, cold only have for his objet': the public be ,cat, and s'•cwed 'bat his thief . pression was his country's good. The mean nio:iv.a f the paltry patro :age it might threw into his bat.ds, ..r the p•twer of adding lor 'ADO to a salary, could form nu portion of his consideration. He had no ti •ee to think of such minor matters, and he aas equally above the grovellin; desire of empty pvpularity. The house then revived into a committee of the wiatic house. Sir C. WETHERELL said, he repelled with indigna. tion the charge brought agairet him by the Member for Preston, that he bad accused the Lard Chancellor of crest. ing patronage for the rake of putting money into his pocket; he repelled the dirty itAnuation with contempt. He com plained of having been made en object of attuk on a former evening Ity half-a•dozen Members, when his friend.; tare absent, and he was precluded by the rules of the Howe from making a reply. He protested against the pensions established by the 2d clause. The 2d clause was then agreed to. Clause .1, enacting that the mole of proceeding before the Court Of Review shall be by petition, motion, or special case, and that the decisions of the Court shall be subj_ct to an appeal to the Lord Chancellor on points of law and equity, having been put, Sir C. WETHERELL complained that the course of proceeding before the Court was not detailed. Sir J. NEWPORT and Mr. HORNE considered details of the course of proceeding should be left to be regulated by the Judges of the Court. Mr. WARBURTON sail the appeal to the Lord Chan cellor would occasion delay and expense, and was super. &tons, If uien of eminence alone were appointed to preside over the Court. Sergeant WILDE considered the appeal desirable, for the sake of uniformity it legislation, when the Court was at va riance in its decisions on points of law with other Courts. The appeals would occur much less often than under the I resent system. Sevcral other clause: , wcre agretd to. Co the clause relative to the arpointmmt of official as s'gnees being• read. Mr. WAR BURTON moved that the Chairman do report progress, and ask let‘e to sit again. The Chairman reported progress accordingly, with leave to sit again this day. The orders of the day being disposed of, the House ad journed at Three &Clock. THE EVENING STAR. mongct lof Erg not to rights. and we amount to that Hampt tion. against against tion ? -It then a: the boned purse liable t vote. Cal lid ai au , 11 Is thi • t be igh