The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-05-31 00:00:00

. I ifesergni grown fattened minty. He felt the amendments it other amend. r of York (if it livided into tw o he views of th e for giving two the city of York, If the House e should have to 'enema. what had fallen Gentleman from felt it necessary leman he thought of the Measlier' e House that no I of Parliame o :, onimons, as it ap. alon e by sealing e. he Hower o f passed a Bill to infer the Elective Borough of Leed, d instead of givicg anted, tinsels., rill not give vo l e wo Knights of the t Movie was more rich it ought to he ly the right of the he thought they snsideration. The sill went to increase use of eotnomill; siel , l result to the e private business present, and that suitors for private r had hitherto been. s of all parties on s contriopiated the rehension. Speak !nt, he in his con- Thine could not fall sustain if this bill the division of the iourable lientleinan kin that it would to the West Riding. manufacturing and seen from the his.. That the returns had le :South and West that house to adopt ease such a measure did not think they would satisfy nohe ry to the politic, that should pass the Die : determined by an. franchise should be thrown out, another ichisement of thaw rdships stood pledg int session. He felt utention to take the tion that they sboild :nt. '.RItY observed, that rich his Honourable e could not do so on s had only exercised the shape which they ugh he allowed that it louse of Commons to cation, be contended on of a modification branch of the legi : to the constitution. further remarks, ex 'on the amendments If and to the House, ores as might be deem -41. though his object was it now stood, yet he lendn►en!s. as they did nciple of the Bill. It t.icacy in acquiring a ►mbers in that House. necesaary to discharge 'chequer in Scotland ; olmiralty, it was said, r the Honourable Mem maintained that the ) attend to the interests none nor less than t►ro. Mr. Wilberforce, and dments. ) said a few words ►s ) the Bill. ithdraw, but the Mem o read ar first tiros. Oa second time, me observotions, which be Gallery; after which second time, and were - •x t ..•....y.,,..~ of g„ g i l oal.—(Hear, hear.) —Here then was this Beide-tweet Committee, erecting itself into a great b o dy or the State, taking upon itself all the authority o f law, and issuing its mandste to the whole of the Magistracy of the kingdom.—(Bear.)--But what was the object of the important document so issued by this options and absolute Committee? It was first to instruct the Magistracy of England as to the nature of political libel; next it inclosed the copy of a pamphlet, written and published by the said Committee, con taining their opinions, or in other words a digest of die law of libel, for the guidance and instruction of the Magi ,trates.—(Hear, hear.)—This might in itself be csaisidered as a foolish and officious intermeddlitig w i t h public justice, but it was followed by a most ex traordinary circular. 'f his Society stated, and lie did not mean to deny the fact in certain cases, that it was lewbil fur one or more persons to prefer a Bill of in dictment, bet when Bills of indictment were preferred by large bodies, having considerable funds at com sod, the (location assumed a different shape. It was true that many societies instituted for different put rut, im posed and exercised the right of preferring of isonctioent in certain cases—but here was a Society, whose proceedings must excite considerable suspicion, who went to supersede altogether the office of the Attorney-General, by preferring Bills of in clirziuent ; and who, not satisfied with that, undertook instruct the whole of the Magistracy of England in their date, What was this Committee about? Was their conduct legal or was it not? He w .„.1,1 l ea ve the House to judge from the cit.- calar ; it commenced thus :—" J. B. Sharpe, Honorary Assistant Secretary to the Constitu tional Auociation, 6, Bridge-street, Blackfriars." This WAS the Circular Address to the Justices. Sir, lam directed by the Comaatttee"—by what Committee ? by whom was that Committee appointed? but it appeared that Ihe Nlagistrates were bound to know from what Comaiittee this instruction had emanated. In fact, the t'matnittee was talked of in the same manner as Mem lers in that Home talked of the King, or of the Privy Council, or of any other power or body who had a right to issue Proclamations to the public. The Circular went is to state, that " In pursuance of the 4th Resolution" (of which Resolution, it was of course presumes! that the Magistrates had received due notice), " we have insti tsted several prosecutions against persona who sell li bellous publications ; some of those prose.oitions have been abandoned upon the accused parties having ex pressed their contrition for the offence." In God's name to whom? Was it to J. B. Sharpe, the Assistant Honor. ary Secretary, or was it to the whole of this precious Committee, who, upon a proper expression of contrition, were graciously pleased to stay all further proceed in s by entering a uoli proseimi.—(lrear hear.)— .‘ And upon their surrendering, upon with, an account of their remaining stock of the libels or caricatureein torstion, anti also upon their entering int.i an engage ment not to embark in the sale of such matters in fu ture."—(ilear, freer.) —Noce did any mortal ever hear of such an Association ai this before ;—did any body ever hear of earls a confederacy and conspiracy to pro /frills ell an.! sundry who sold such publications, and bring them to certain ruin (for it was certain ruin to grapple with persons so supported) unless they made doe submission to J. B. Sharpe and Co. of No. ti, Bridge street, Blackfriar., and iinless they gave up upon oath the whole of those public st;ons, of the criminality of which the said J. B. Sharpe and the Committee r ere to be the sole judges.—(fries of " Hear, hear.") — And now he should like to be informed, if their was any Members of that Association near him, upon what autho rity that oath was to be taken? In this country, where it molar Government still appeared to exist, we had the Attorney-General. who had not hitherto been found backward in instituting public prosecutions; —we had also the Secretary of State for the home Department, who had not been at all backward in enforcing the law, or in issuing circulars and instructions to the Magistrates of the Country ; and though the consequences of these tirculars might have been severely felt, still there was not any man who would not prefer them to the instruc tions of this self-constituted body. This being the case then, lie desired to know upon what authority this self constituted Association took upon itself to issue circulars to the Magistrate'? They first associated, they next subscribed—they then promulgated their opinions, and lastly, they became prosecutors of all persons who pub lished what they (the Committee) conceived to he a unless such persons expressed their contrition to he knew not whom, and made oath as to certain facts, before he knew not what authority.—(llear.)Their expo sition of the law of libel had been served upon every shop keeper, and those who relinquished any further sale were exempted from their vengeance; and the Circular fur ther stateil, that in no case was prosecution commenced Inv a few days after the notice, in order to give time to lit parties to express their contrition. Under these cir tenistances, it stated that should the party persevere, that fact might be urged in aggravation of punish ment. His contempt of Mr. J. B. Shortie and the Bridge street Centinittee might be pleaded in aggravation. — (Hear, hear.)—Now it might possibly happen, that Mr. J. B. Sharpe and the Committee were mistaken in their interpretation of the law of libel, and that the unfortu nate trader was more innocent than themselves of vio- Witt( .the laws and constitution. The circular proceeded to state, that, in furtherance of the ends of justice, a no torious °reader, as they now described him, was about to be tried at Manchester. It was, no doubt, in order to secure to him the benefit of a fair and impartial trial, that they hail thus denounced hiin to the Magistracy of the county. He was inilisceti to bring this subject once more before the House an seeing that 40 Peers of the Realm had anisseribed their names, and exposed them to be made *eh unworthy use of against those who were prosecuted by such Attorneys. The proceeding was, in every re *Peet, of the most objectionable character. It was cal (ll4M to poison justice in its very source and fountain, and to call up the angry passions in that very class from '*high Jorvinen were chosen.--s-(Hear.)—He should like to know what chance that poor man could hare who lived and was to be tried in a neighbourhood where a Noble Lord, whose tenantry were to be his Jurors, bad sobseribed to this Association? He was disposed to feel ibis the more, as he had heard a person of high rank sad Krrst influence in one of the counties observe, upon stein the name of a Nobleman of the same comity among the subscribers, " None of the tenants of that Nobleman can be fair Jurtirs upon such a trial." He bad no hesitation in stating where the remedy for all this evil lay. It lay in the power . of the Attorney-Ge neral to discountenance all such prosecutions, by enter ing a moll prosequi. That should be done without wait ing for an aggravated case, for by being followed up in all instances, it could appear invidious in none. He hoped that the House would pardon him for this intru sion, as he was induced to it by a proceeding which he considered more dangerous to the liberties and Consti tution of the country than any other that had come to his knowledge of late years.---(Hear, hear.) Mr. SCARLETT begged leave to say a few words with respect to the illegality of this Association. The motives of the Gentlemen were probably such that one would not wish to treat them harshly, hut their proceedings were contrary to the law of the land. In individual cases, the party aggrieved war allowed to be the prosecutor by the law of England, but where the public was the party, the prosecutor was the Go vernment itself, and the Attorney-General was the recognised agent of that Government. It wa■ pro bable that these Gentlemen did not mean to stigmatise the Attorney-General, but the effect of their institution was to do so by implication. The cases which called for prosecution, could be better judged of by the Go vernment than by any set of men; and he was certain that there was no person who considered the subject in a legal or constitutional point of view, but would agree in what his Hon. and Learned Friend had stated respecting it.—(llear, hear.) Mr. WAILRE agreed in the condemnation of the Association as illegal and unconstitutional. The Marqness of LONDONDERRY questioned the propriety of any discussion as to what the Attorney-Ge ' neral ought or ought not to do, in the absence of the At tornev-General.—Without entering into the legality or constitutionality of the Association himself, he could not but expects his regret, that if it was of such a cha racter, the mischief of the principle did not flash upon their minds before, when Missionaries were sent down to prosecute :mu, not for libel, but to death ; and great names appared to the subscriptions, which were as like. ly to warp the minds of the Jury as in the present is stance.--(Hear, hear ! from the . Nlinisterial Ilenclies.)— But all their s( iisibility was reserved for the crime of libel, and Cite name of Constitutional Society was an ag gravation of the libel which had called forth such a dis play of constitutional ami legal learning, as they had never favoured the House with upon any former OCCA. sines. _ _ Sir J. SEBRIGHT entered his protest as a Magis trate against the presumptuous, illegal, and unconstitu tional proceedings adopted b y that self-ronstititted So ciety in their Address to the Magistracy of the country. Mr. BM/I:WU )1 rose amidst loud cries of spoke! spoke'. and Chair! ('hair! At length lie was:permitted to proceed. The inconsistency, he observed, with which the Noble Lord had charged them, was only unfounded in fact, there being no resemblance or analogy between the case which he hail accused them of passing by, and the one of which they now complained. He thought he had guarded himself against that in the first instance, for be had stated at the outset that he did not deny the legality of one or more persons joining to prosecute in a particular instance, bet here was an institution esta blished on a systematic plan of prosecution fatal to the liberty of the - °tier, that he would ig in a Bill for regetat- Poll at Elections in tint trould perhaps have no i a first time to-morrow. be postponed to a Inure )N DERRY moved fa* ing the Repurt of the he qnestion being pla--* ASSOCIATION. felt it his duty to call second time to the re calling itself •% Cunstits ny law, and acting 4olell burin.—(Near, bear.)-- urprise at tke nature and at that surprise was mach .otne to his knowledge lle held in leis hand the rb,igis had been not only sabers id• the Association. . hown to the Constitutive,. Of the Laild,ll;ill daNd tholv of theIRO THE STAi'ESliiikli II $l.ll WATIR AT Lemlow-i Morales 111 mitt. after 2.-1 .*o-tieaeow. IS min:after L .... illoLT Tut; asaime--Hoaldiy at the Public Olives. .6 LTIIII WITII " 111111 • . —.aeration, and an attempt was made to di I'll feelieg of the House on . the propriety of having a separate Bill to appoint the place to which the Rlective Franchise should be transferred. Some difference of opinion having been asec' rtalned, with some danger of losing the chief object of the measure in referring the matter again to the Lords, the amendments were then read a second time and agreed to. Among . other matters that were brought forward in the course of the evening was a Resolution by Mr. M. A. Tavton, that the House would, next Session, take into its consideration the state of the Conn of Chancery, and the Appellant Jurisdiction of the Lords, with a • view to the introduction of arrangernents for facili tating the general dispatch of business. Its former times, when the country was very different from what it is at present with regard to population, property and pursuits, that Court might have been fully competent for its intended purposes; but new, notwithstanding the distinguished industry of the Noble Lord who pre- • sides it, an accumulation of causes has taken place which no single Judge, however gifted with activity and talent, can in doe time overtslte. In the House of Loeb, too, as a Court of Appeal, asituilar accumula tion mite occur ; and in 1411, when the Hon. and Learned Member bronelit the state of it before the House, there were pending such a number of suits as could not be heard for ten years to come In Vie year 1819, when the same persevering gentleman lirought under consideration the business of the Court of Chancery, it was found that the effects of suitors in that Court, amounted in the preceding year to more than thirty-three trillion+ of money. This amottet had been gradually swelEng from the year 1;56. when it did not reach three millions. W hence comes this striking difference? From the augmented slumber and activity of tl.e people, we are ZW.itr, in Fat, conjoined with a corresponding increase and intricacy of property; lint at the saute time, anti in no smlll degree, from the tedious and complicated operation of a system which was intended for the protection and ecru table distribution of that very property which it thus absorbs. la the very frame of society, as at present constituted, and by the construction s.f the laws under which we live, there are circumstances that arise and compel men, without the concurrence of (Ilea will, or the consultat' of their judgment, to resort to the tribunals of their country fur the defence ur asser tion of their violated rights. The law itself by its statutes and decisions entangles no small portion of those par ties involuntarily, and unconsciously, into its mazes. Its forms are calculated, in many of its branches, toelude the views awl protract the disappointment of its suitors; and that which ought to he the shield of the weak atil solace of the injured, often proves the instrument of t,r tore to the mind, and exhaustion to the property of its innocent and reluctant applicants. Whatever tends to ex pedite or simplify the operations of law, is a benefit of great and extensive magnitude to society ;and the efforts of Mr. M. A.TAY Lon in these respects, are deserving of the highest praise. Though unsuccessful is his mo tion last night, the numbers that supported it wero such as to encourage perseverance in the attermt. On a division, there were fur the motion, fit, fur the -evious question, 5.1. It is siid that Mr. Gooch and his party, who seek to remove the distress of the farmers. sot by the repeal of ta‘es and the natural reduction of rent, tithe, ists4 poors'-rate, but by the exclossion of foreign competition, are in a minority in the Committee. On Monday last, a party of felons from Hereford. wader sentence of transportation, passed through Glou cester with colours in their hats, shouting and button ing, with all the spirit of voters returninot from a con tested election. So much for the personal improvement produced by prison discipline, fur the amelioration of the Criminal Code, and for the terror of one of our principal punishments'. These convicts were verily trawl:porta. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. YORE %IMMO MEETING, MAT SO, 1821. Sweepstakes of 30r. PI% oh. lOgs IL for 9.yr-old colts, Sat. 3115. fillies, bit.—T. Y.C. Mr. Watt's b. f. Sister to Tramper. (J. Jackson.) Mr. W. Peirse's b. r. Boron Bowes Mr. litimphrie's b. 1. by Woful Mr. Lambton's eh. e. by L eo p old Lord This b. c. Tristram Shandy Sir 11. Nelthorpe's b. c. by 4 paid. Cerventes Eren on and 3 to 4 art Mr. Watt's b. f.-3 to I agst Baron Bowes- -2 to 1 east Neltborpo—Won oily. The Shorts. -.1 Sweepstakes of AUgs each, b. ft. for 3-yr olil colts. est. 31b. fillies, est.—Last mile. Mr. T. 0. Posh-it's eh. f. Marigold. by Co mas - • - I Mr. Riddell's h. f. by XY Z. out of Swistoo's dam • Mr. C. Marson's ch. e.by Ardrossen, out of Remembrance Two paid. Even anJ 6 to 4 on Mr. Riddell's b. f. art the geld —7 toll agst Ardrossan.-2 to I agst Marirold.—A good race. Match for 200 guineas each, h. ft.—Two miles. Mr. Lawson's b. as. Jenny Horner , aged. 10st. -- I Mr. J. Ferguson's cb. b. Joker, by Octavian, 6 years old, lest. 7 to 4 on Jenny ilornor.—Won easy. The Gold Cup, value 100 guineas, by a subscription of 20gs. each. (the surplus to be paid in speck.) for horses, Sc. of all ages ; three years old to carry Est. 41b.; fear. ist. 191 b.; Sae, est. 71b.; six and aged, est. 121 b. —Two miles. Sir E. Smith's ch. c. St. Patrick, by Walton, 4 yrs. old - I Mr. P. Watt's br. c. Berganii, by Cerberus, 4 yrs. old - Mr. Lambton's gr. h. Coeval. 6 yrs. old - - - - - Sir J. 11. Mazwell's Fair Helen. Mr. Brandling's ch. f . Woodbine, 0 Sir W. Maxwell's b. b. Archibald, - - - . Mr. Otscoigne's b. h. Cardinal Wolsey, - - - Mortimer, the Juggler, the Laird, and Air Walter paid. 6to 4st Patrick.-2 to I apt Cardinal.-4 to I eget Consul. -to I agst Arcbibalery easy. Sweepstakes of lOgs. eta. for horses. itc. not tbormgb bred—Two miles. Mr. Pelbsm's b. g. Smallhopos. 6 yrs old. Mr. Rowley's b. g. Burr.by, by Ploughboy. 4 yrs old • . Mr. Worsley's b. g. ltkipjaek. by Kite. aged . X Mr. Brown's ch. 1. by Yellow-Haird-Laddie, 4 yrs old.. 4 Two paid.-7 to 4 against the Wiener. Sweepstakes of 20 gs. each, for three years old Silkiest. Sri—Last mile and half. 11r. Bradling's eh. by Comes, dam by Patriot Mr. Otimston's black, by Sir Malagigi Lord Milton's ch. Civet, by Cervantes • • 3 Lord Scarbrough's be. by Casson. colt of Ilantiviittt 6 Mr. Watt's bay, Lunatic, by Prime Minister -• • - Mr Duaeombe's br. by Smolcs ako, out of Cello • • - 0 Three paid. Even on Mr. Brandling's cb.—Wor Mfr. t. p II I etc btatclitmn. of .- press. The Marqness of LONDONDERRY instanced the Society for the Suppression of Vice, to show that the system was not unknown to the country. Mr. SCA KLETT explained. The soucrroa.m,:s ERA!. said be would take it on himself boldly to affirm, that there was nothing io the Institution contrary to law, ur to the spirit of the Consti tution.—(Lond Cheers from the Opposition.) Were the (louse of Commons or the established Tribunals of the country to determine what was the law The Hon. Member then alluded to a prosecution a few discs ago in the Court of King's Bench, in which the legality of the Institution was determined.—(Cries of—No, so.) The Judges had not declared it unconstitutional or ille gal, as they would have done if that was their decision. Lord MILTON protested against the interpretation that the opinion of the Judges was in its favour, be cause they had expressed no opinion whatever. It was not their duty to give an opinion upon a matter brought only incidentally before them. Mr. W. WY NS objected to the existence of irre sponsible prosecutors ; and cautioned the House against giving encouragement to such societies, by alluding to the consequences of the Orange Lodges established in Ireland. After some further observations from Mr. Scarlett, which our limits do not permit us to notice, Mr. Hume moved the postponement of the Report then before the House till this day. Marquess Londonderry having ac quiesced, the consideration of the Report was post poned accordingly. The Report on the Bankruptcy Laws Amendment Bill was brought up, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. The House was proceeding with the further Orders of the Day, when Mr. JAMES rose and moved that the House should be counted. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw. There not being 40 Members present, the House adjourned at one o'clock. I.tact..—The indictment fonnd at the late Quarter Sessions against Dorid Ridgway,of Swarsbrick•street, for publishing a seditious libel, has been removed, at the instance of the prosecutors, into the Court of King's Bench. The warrant of the Chief Justice was immediately issued, upon which Ridgway was appre hended, and brought before James Norris, Rtg. at the New Bailey Court-House. on Saturday (26th inst.) Bail was then given for him to appear at the Court of King's Bench. The sureties were Mr. Peter Tur ner Cantlelet and Mr. James Walker, in 501. each. Ridgway's proper business is that of a fustian-cutter, but he has been for some time a noted seller of politi cal pamphlets. The indictment against him has been preferred by the Constitution Society, and will proba bly be tried at the nest Lancaster Assists.—(iVan eheeter Herald.) James Mornington, the man who about three weeks since was figuring about the town, first as a clergy matt, then a captain, changing his name as often u was necessary, is in custody on a charge of frauds at Bath. He was overtaken in his flight from thence. His alleged wife, his partner in swindling jewellers, inilliners, &t. left Bath the day before him for Ox ford. •' TSB BIIIITISII STATISSISAII " IS INCAS STATeSIII/1." LONDON: IMMRSDAT MINING, MAT 31, 1821. The Prided Ernest Packet is arrived with the mail from the Leward Islands ; left Barbadoes the sth of April, and St. Thomas's the 20th of April. Passen gers on board, Sir Ralph Woodford, Mr. and Master Gomez. The mail is detained for Quarantine, and will be in town to-morrow. We understand that a sickness prevailed on board the vessel. Paris papers to the 29th inst. arrived this morning. In some letters from Bayonne of the 22d inst. it is intimated that the Empecinader not being able to reduce under his power the Guerillas of Merino, has given dissatisfaction to the Government ; that he is suspected of treason, and has been recalled to Madrid. His successor is lot yet known. Most of the ins pected persons who bad been arrested in Uallicia, have been embarked and sent to the Canary Islands. Many prisoners made at Salratierra, among whom were several Ecclesiastics, have escaped from prison and ar rived at Bayonne. V IENNA . M AT Ili.—We learn that Victor Emma nuel will arrive here in the course of next week, accom panied by the Emperor, who quits Laybach on the 21st or 2211. A Supreme Ordinance has been publish ed, prohibiting expressly the exportation of arms and materials of war for Wallachia and Moldavia. Let ters from Semlin of the 7th of May, inform 114 that the Serviaits have raised the standard of revolt. Two Bostangis-bachis were recently sent from Constanti nople to Belgrade, with orders to summon befo..e the Paella the principal chiefs of the districts of Servia. These, however, having been apprised of their danger, (viz. that they might expect decapitation) con trived to effect their escape. They then took up arms against the Pacha of Bosnia. The Serviettes were for the most part fully disposed to unite in the cause. A Deputation was afterwards sent to Prince Ypsilanti. — On the 28th or 311th ult the Pacha of Wieldin was to commence operations against Theodore Wladimiresco. He had palessed the Danube near Widdin, at the head of 8,000 men. It is said that he was defeated near Krajowa on the Ist jolt, by Wladimiresco, and com pelled to re-pass the river. The Greeks speak highly of the affair. AVGARCRO, MAT 20.—Letters direct from Herm stadt, in Transylvania, announce that a hotly of o.to man troops entered Bucharest, on the 30th of April. By letters from Cronstadt, it appears that Theodore Wladimiresco had attacked and completely beaten the Packs. of %Vidalia. 1t is also asserted, with the greatest confidence, that the Servians have revolted from the Porte. It is reported that very important dispatches have bon received at Laybach, from Constantinople. They weer transmitted through the Ambassadors of Russia and Austria, resident at the Porte. The atrocities committed at Constantinople by the Turks, and also the attack upon Iles Patriarch, which gore rise to those declarations on the part of the above Ministers, appear to be the subject of the c ommunications ad dressed to the powers at Laybscla. The cruelties of the Turks were the means of exasperating the Greeks, and making many of them participate in the revolt, though otherwise they would not leave done so. LISIION, MAT 12.—The Cortes have been occupied in their last sittings with projects of laws relating to franchises and the liberty of the Press. Many articles of the latter projet have already been adopted. It has been decided that Librarians shall be held responsible for the publication of works against the Roman Catho lie religion, and those of an immoral or defamatory ten dency ; that authors and translators shall possess the copyright of their work during life ; their descendants for ten years after their decease. The punishment of offences shall vary from six months to two years. It shall be considered an abuse of Ile_ liberty of the Press to excite revolt; to attack the Conqitutional system ; to bring into discredit or insult the national fiongress or the Chief of the executive power. — The debate on the law was to be resumed at the next sitting. MADRID, MAT 19.—The King has sanctioned the decree of the Cortes prolaileiting the sending of money tee Rome to obtain marriage licenses. In the sitting of the 16th inst. the Committee presected a project of law relative to the Dutch loan ; by this project it was enacted that the interest shall commence (ruin the period at which the King accepted the Constitution, vii. 9th March, 1820. The payment of interest, for the time previous, was to be provided for in the same way as other interests in arrears. This project was rejected by a majority of two voices. A discussion on the general system of finance was commenced un the 19th. .Ibe MoNffewr coatis. a Royal Ordinance, stating. that on the solicitation of the Marquess Bartheleuav to be succeeded in his office of Vice- President of the French Chamber of Peers, on the grounds of ill-health, the King has accepted his resigosslion, and, in consi deration of his eminent services, has appointed him an Honorary Vice-President. The same Ordinance appoints the Marquess de Pastoret to succeed him. FRENCH FUNDS, MAY 26..--5 per Cents., 84 f. 35 c. : Bank Actions, 1,562 f. 50 c. The business in the House of Commons last night was various and interesting. On a motion for re ceiving the Report of the Committee of Supply. Mr. Haovon►M took °cession a second time to call the attention of the House to the proceedings of the Constitutional Association, which led to a short but animated discussion. The Lords' Amendment to the Orampound Disfranchisement Sill were taken into :ged s, he l e fe f , t h ß i a s t r t rtner d i a n y s b w e i f o or d e lin h gi al je f w or ell o ers x : t ' u animated discussion. The Lords' Amendment to the IMr 1155"15155 FP . cry Three paid. he Orampoond Disfranchisement Eill were ta'sen into Even on Mr. Srandling's ch.—Won 61*. ._.