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T3O 1. - yerial Parliament continued from page 2 - .4. 'r. PH MI.010111: moved, that dcrvoise he brought to the Bar toonorrow, in order to his being dischargsd.— The P. , ta tonal. was in the service of Sir W. Manners. Mr. 8.1'.t. questimed whether the Petitioner had been long enough in it , i'4041 to entitle him to that 4:tins . ..l.:ration for N applied.—Motion nereed to. THE QuEEN.— Mr. IIitOUGH A M rose, and observed on the situstion or' these. alio lia,,pened to he Members of that House, as melt as Barristeis at the Bar. here were two shoaling Ordersof the House, accordino, to which Banisters, being timbers of that ;louse s were prohibited from ;Acad ia:, at the Bar .if the 1 louse of Lords iii cases of Appeal or . Writs of Lrror, or let Bills in pro Less through Parliament, without the permission of the (louse. Ilis proposit • on the present necasion, however, was, that au evemption In his pet ',liar case should be extra red to the II inise t that an exception should he mole in behalf of her Majesty the Queen, and her two law olio e;s, %,t hu were Members of the House of Cwiiimms, that they tright he peer:hurl! to :Oro cote the interests of Irr Majesty, as itlyected 1101' 'tending in the other And this teas the mole impoit• ant to her Majesty, as in the douse a here the Bill w:!s now pending the Queen had no saucer ; indeed, it was one of the questions of the Bill, whether she should ever have any there. In the house of Lord,: there was no p rsan who could tic: especially for the Qacen ; none who could take a mired character, similar to that of a nominee inn a ease of a contest ed election. His 'mallet' Hon to the I lou-e was,'. that the law officeis of her .M..jesly might b.: permitted 10 attend the Dar of the I longs, to advocate the rause of the Queen against the Bill ; and iu the event of Ciat Bill passing to the Lower House, an eveat that he could not anticipate, then Hasse law officers WOlllet have to apply to that House Ito be ex cused f.urr: acting as Meusheas, as far as their votes %vete concerned. Lord CMTI:EREAGII thou,tht the more natural course would be, instead or s itimitting the motion at once, to give notice of it for another dry. Mr. 111tOUti11ANI replied, that he was story to find it considered requisite that a notice should be given. Ile had considered it to be so minecessaiv , t hat he deemed the mot ion to be a matter of course; and he had been the in Ire espe cially led to this coacluiion from the fact that be and his Learned Friend (:Ir. Denman) hail already twice attended the Bar of the House on behalf - of Hu! Quern, without any notice being taken by that Ilona," of such proceeding. But he had only to add, if he and his Learned Fi iend were not allowed such' permission—that permission, the granting of which he deemed to be so much a matter of course—be should coasider it due to himself, and his ROVOI Client, hereafter to sees the Standing Orders agaiost all Members of that House who should practise as Wirristers at the Bar of the House of Lords, %%limiter they were attending on Appeals, Writs of Error, or otherwise, in their professional capacity. He should deem such proceeding t particalurly due to his chem. The conversation here ended, and the notice was entered for to-morrow. Lord J. RU.sSI:LL, after entatging on the extreme severity of the sentence passed on sir M. Lopez by the Coat: of King's Beach, for bribing voters, especially as compared with some other acme tees, moved nit Address to the King, praying Ids Majesty to be pleased to utittgate the same. Mr. CANNING and Lord CASTLERF.AGII could not approve of the Address, Motion withdrawn. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned. WEDNESDAY, JULY 12. - - AareDees ELECTION.—Mr. H. BLAIR presented the ?sport of the Aberdeen Election Committee, confirming the reeiru of Mr. Hume. CONTEMPT.—Dr. PHILLIMORE moved, that Richard Armstrong Jervoise be called to the Bar, and discharged, after Wry ing been reprinvoided, for his contempt of the orders of the Grantham Election Cominittce.—Agreed to. The Petitioner was brionglit to the Bar and reprimanded by Mr. Speaker, who said, that the prisoner ought to have paid prompt obedience to the warrant of the House. It was true he bad pleaded ignorance of the force of such do cument. Under all the circumstances, the House was of opinion that there was no intention to interrupt the cornow of justice; and therefore his petition was acquiesced in. lie was discharged WI payment of his fees. Gaanvuest ELECTION.--Dr. Pri [LEI MORE, having adverted to the Grantham Report, that a practice had grown 111) ill the Borough, of paying money to out-voters, under colour of terra) Mg ex mimes Anti 10.1 of rime, and it aas important that there should be a declaratory reaution on the subject; and although he admitted the practice to be evivocal, he moved as a Remlution—that others might not be misled—that the practice of paying money to out-voters, under colour of sit fray ing expences, was illegal. Mr. A BERCROIIIII h. thought it was not adviscahle thus a'sruptly to pass a resolution, declaring that to be illegal which was mowed to be illegal. Mr. W. SM Phil said. that the doubts of some Gentlemen made this Resolution necessary, if this practice acre allowed, Doctor PHILEIMORE il, that he had brought for ward the Resolution , as a Meinter and tile organ of the Grantham Election Committee; and its motive was to put an end to a practice which had lung prevailed. H believed tile practice to oe iilrget, but he fear, d the practice might prevail after a hat lie Wel l.eard to-night ; and if it did, the consequences would be must fatal. Strangers were ordered to withdraw. The numbers were Ayes 66—Noes 60. Mr. ABERCROMBIE gave notice, that early in the next Session, in consequence of the sni,ill majority by which the resolution had been carried, he should bring the subject before the House.—( It ear.) THE QUEEN'S Coo vset..—Mr. 11;t0tXli A M moved that permission be given to the queen's Attorney and Soli citor General, Members of this Houe, to attend the Bur of the House Of Lards to plc ad against the bill, hot that the same be not drawn into a precedent in time forthcoming. Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, that lie did um rise for the purpose of opposing tile motion, but he should apply for the game indulgence to he extended to his Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor General. Ito% Mr. C. W YNN and Mr. BANK ES made a few observa tions, after which the motion was agreed to. Lord CASTLEREAGH made a similar motion respecting his Majesty's Attorney and ..mhcitor-Gener..l. Mr. WYNN feared that this case was more likely to he drawn into a precedent, for his Majesty's law officers might he required to attend on Bills in the other House. Mr. 111:01.1611A M thought there was sonic force ill this r mark, lit sides tire ciise. acre not pre. isely Her THE NATIONAL 111:GISTER. Majesty bad no ofdeers or advisers in the other House. — agreed to. Dr. LUSII IN GTON said, as her Majesty had been pleased to comm a •/ his counsel and advise, he •lad to move for similar indulgence. After re narks, from Lord Castlereagh, Sir J. Mackintosh, and Nir. Wynn, ESA N 61'.S thought there• was considerable ditrerence bet tiertithe cases of the law ',theirs of her Majesty and tli. lion. Gentleman who had last applied for peratissioa. lie should tier. fore give a negative to (kid motion, as lie was feat NI the the ripplicatiou might he drawn into a precedent. The motion, however, was agreed to, ithout :toy divot nn brio;; required. Mr. C.ILI:tt:AF l called the attention of the House to the Net'. Barracks is Inch Government had begun to build in the Regent's Palk. No (Amu te had been; laid before the house on the subject ; no grams of money had been required ; iti deed the ,M misters hed taken the matter completely on themselves without ,ski .1 for the approbation of Parliament. tl mess some satisfactory w e re ;l iven the subject, tie should move to have the Comptroller of the Barrack De partment called to their liar to ascertain by whose mile, s be had began to build the bat racks in the Ite,;ent's Park. Toe Cil A NCL LIAM: of the EXCIiEQU ER explained the proceedings. but in an indistinct tone of voice. It ap pe.irkil that the barracks :now begun in the Regent's Park are in lieu of the Portman Bun racks, the kuse of winch had expired. The expense of those barracks was upwards of 5,0001. a year ;the estimateet expense of She intended bar racks was about 70,000:. so that for that amount, or ad vancing for ihe 5,0001. a year, otherwise saved, thec bar- racks would belong to the public after a series of years. Mr. Abercrombie, Lord Biawin,, &C. look part in the conversation founded on the explatiatian. The other Ordc rs of the Day, the Alien Bill, &c. were gone through, and the (louse adjourned. 'riltit,•u_xx, JUNE 13. _ _ The Extra Post Bill was %rad a third time and passed, after Mr. Lushington had declared that the arrangements of the Bill Mere not of a compulsory Character, that individu a ls might use or reject tue advantages of the extra post, accord ing to I heir own pleasure. Tete TEST ACT-.—Mr. W. SMITH presented a Petition, signed by himself, mill about 100 persons, being Disseoters, in and about tho met riewlis, pray iag the House to repeal the Corporation 11114 Test Acts. Had the Petitioners relied on numbers . , instead the sirvn.A!) of their rea,oning, this peti tbm might have keen si,,,tieri by upwards of one hundred thousand persons. T:ICSt Acts were a great hardship, nod the petitioners relied on thejustice of their case to gain a acaring. They were constantly loyal, and well effected to the Co wtitution. If he remained in Parliament. lie should bring for a motion on the subject. 'limy did not con sider that they ought to he so stigmatized as to be deemed inelligible to hold civil offices. Lord N COEN 1' seconded the motion, deeming it to he an anomaly in these enlightened times to cotitieue the ex emption of eligibility to fill civil alters. He took this opportunity to state that he had in his possession a Petition from the Ebglids Roman Catholics, which, however, in the present state of the ;while •dhe id id nut present till next Session, when he would submit some motion on the subject. Petition brought up, read, and ordered to be printed, after Mr. W. SMITH had observed, that she should have pre sented it before, but for the state of the public business; however. the Dissenters were anxious to put in their claim in the first Session of the first Parliament of a new reign.—lt was row thirty years since any similar attempt had been made; he should bring forward n motion 011 the subject. Twig New BARR ACKS.—The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the secoud reading of the New Barracks' Agreement Dill. Mr. CALCRAFT rose to oppose this Bill. The Bar racks were to accommodate the 2il Regiment of Guards, but he complained of the expence. The business ought to he postponed till emit year. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER defended the measure. He brought down the agreement within two or three days of its having been concluded. Lord NUGENT expressed his regret that barracks were every where appearing, and that soldiers were covering country. A military system might be adopted, but its • result was always fatal. Every Government that had relied on the military had eventually been deceived those countries were in the worst slate which relied most on the military, of which Turkey was a tin iking proof. When our finances were 00 the verge of bankruptcy Ike number of our soldiers had been nearly doubled. He did not ine.in to charge the Government with a deliberate design to set tip a military system; he only spoke of the tendency of the measures which were now in progress of itdUlolllo. The gallery was then cleared fur a division. The tiers were—Ayes, US—Noes, 40.—The Bill was then read a second time. The orders of the day were then gone through, and ;he House adjourned. FRIDAY, .Ivl.l. 14. Mr. P. moortli presetittd a Petition from Olivia, a descendant of the Isle Dake of Cumbcriand, by his mai i iage with Miss Wilmot, the daughter of a clergyman, claiming property, &c. !itch bat come into the possession of the Duke's destruct:sots by a ...coed mar ,i; i4 e. The p e t . , Honer had documetits to cstablis!l that her claim was recog nized by his late Majesty. She prayed tiiikt the House would insti,ute an citilwry ioto the justice of her claims. — Petition ordered to lie on the table. Ti. n J nws.—Mr. 11011HOUSI: gave notice, that early , in the nest Session lie shoula luring torw aid the case o: another cless of his Nlaj , sty's sulijects (besides the Dissen ters mentioned by 111 i. W. Smith) hi niemit the Jews (—at could has dl) be believed that in tin. vidighlttied arc the Jews w ere Mill Lchuw iug under certain legal disabilities, in the CO , of Loudon i as %sell as elsew brie. The Boost: H elli into a Committee on the Regent's Park Barrio ks Agreement bill. Mr. CA LCRAFT asked w hat were the number of Acres to be enclosed, and hit was the estimated expellee of the wall to michow (lie burial ks. The Cil AN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, we believe, eighty ac res. Mr. CALCRA FT declared the whole scheme was most extravagant, and he should oppose it, if lie stood alone. Mr. CALVERT observed, that lie must oppose the great grant now required ; beside, there were al ricri s mar the Ophthalmic hospital trhich might he appropriated to such purpose. Ali'. T. WILSON $ lid he n.us( al. o oppose the present measure, especially after the imperfect explanation given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir 11. PARNELL was likewise against conferring the grant required by this 111e4SUIV, n 6 extravagant and uncalled for. After w•uat had passed in that House •n the subject of the finances, it would he unbecoming in them to agree to thew 'Die CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER regardim , the expellees, was understood to say, that as the whole esti mated expence was 70,0001. (the barracks bein:, 55,0001) the stall would cost 15,0001. If there were to be nay bar racks, there must be a wall. St raugets were oi de ed to withdraw, when a division tuuk place. The numbers were— Ayes ......................50 Noes S3 Majority for the The Report was ordered to he received to.morrow. I RINI SPIRIT TRADE.—The House went into a Corn mitiee on the Irish Distillery Acts. The CII.k NC E LLOR outfit. EXCHEQUER said he did not intend to press the Bills during the present Session. He proposed to briny them in, to have then' printed, and then to suffer them to stand over till next Setbion, in order that they might experience the umplest examination on the part of individuals in Irelund. The Resolutions were then put and agreed to, and the Chairman was instructed to apply fur have to bring in Bills accordingly. Leave was afterwards given to bring in such Rile. Tri C QUL'EN.—Sir J. NEW PORT asked, in the event of the Bill which was now before the other House. coining down to this House, whether it wits the intention to move It call of the Meintwrs. We beiieve he also asked, whether the same forms he follon ed in the Commons which were to be pursued in the Lord Tin! CHANCELLOR of the EXCH EQU ER replied, that lie was nut aware of any intention existing to move the call of tla House ; hut he upprehended, on so solemn and import ant an occasion, that every Member would deem it his duly :o attend.—(Hear, hear.) Sir J. NEW PORT added, thnt he did not make the enquiry for himself; but ►ie put it in order to prevent any misunderstanding on the subject, and as the Bill, if it passed the other House, might come on them rather suddenly. ASSASSINS OF lIIRCH.—Lord J. RUSSELL alluded to this case, and observed, that Bruce had been ordered for trans portation, while Mageunis had been executed ; if Bruce were guilty, such punishment was too leuieut—if innocent, too sesere. Mr. CLIVE observed, that all he knew was, that Bruce was orrered for transportation ; that such order was given on the Judge'► now,; and that there was nothing in such notes to authorise the case going under any peculiar coo sideration. The C:IA NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice, that on Monday lie should move that the House adjourn till Friday. The Orders of the Day being disposed cf, the House adjoin ned. BARON BERGAML •••••••==l [from " The Times.l " We have before expressed our astonishment at that part of the preamble of the Bill against the Queen which reflects upon Bergami's humble situ ation on his first entering her Majesty's service. It is not, surely, of a crime in her Nlajesty to elevate or promote an active, faithful, honest servant ; nei ther is it an offence in Bergami to have been ori ginally in a menial situation. But if i► was meant. to be inferred that a man could not be the object of so extensive a promotion except on account of im proper familiarities, the history of that very person who is supposed to have advised the Milan commis sion, and who stood so high in the confidence of the King, would of itself falsify the suggestion. His birth and situation in life were originally more humble than those of Bergami, and yet his rise throws no imputation upon those who advanced him. The person of whom we speak originally swept the door before the house of Sir Rob.:rt Taylor, the father of the present Mr. Michael A. Taylor: his behaviour was such as to induce his master to promote him, and he made him a Poll clerk at an election about this time he attracted the notice of Mr. Graham, the future Judge, who assisted him, and recommended him to apply to legal study : his activity and intelligence, in this and similar situations, still pressed him up into higher stations, till he became what we now see him. The preamble of the Bill, if it meant to affix Bergami's advancement to the Queen, or even to himself, as a crime, should have stated not only the advancement, but the unworthiness of the person advanced; and from such an allegation secret or suspicious services might have been inferred : but the mere facts that he was once a menial servant, and is now the Queen's Chamberlain, decorated by foreign Courts with certain of their Orders, proves nothing; and it was an invidious course of proceeding to mention them. 'I he disgrace, therefore, which was meant to result, has justly fallen upon the heads of this"o who brought the story tbrward. Bergami's talents would have entitled him to the same promotion in the service of any discerning Prince in Europe." We presume the above article has allusion to Sir John Leach, the present Vice-Clialiedlor of Englantl.—Eu. Thursday se'nnight the Rev. William Palgrave . Manclarke, of Jesus college, was admitted Master of Arts; and M. Prendergast, Pembroke hall, Bache lor in Civil Law. The new bet of bells at Bishop's Stortford are to be opened on Thursday next, the Slickly of to:- lege Youths ft - out London. 4 1 A