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IJ~ imperial Parliament continued plan page 155. of the Petitioners, adding that the) did hot belong to auy partieular party in politics. Mr. pooN ER trusted that the Hottse would not re flhe that emptily which was sought. The dillienittea of trade were great ; but nS to 1 - clieVitig agriculture by rain. leg the ;nice of coin, lie misted that the means of pur chasing at prices would he first Mi . .), dril, before the prices were granted. Ht. slated that thr hailers and others of Maley and !omit-bridge were going idiom in ;ratio of hwtdrrd., and they were about to he joined by the collirt•. 11r hummed that Bier . were so misled, at they p•iMe time. II y were not instituted, and relief attoriled -mot, it w hr granted in vain, The \ Ncriimit of the EXCHEQUER moved the second te.t,tnte of the Civil List Bill. _ Sir It. HERON said, it was impossible for hint to ap. prove of th.s proceeding, when the Civil List was fixed at the highest rate, now that the country wa. in the se verest dist' ess— vi hen it WAS tioftill fit! whether then ermine would produce what Was P•lieftated. and w h e th er t h e in terest of the debt conid (moutone to be paid. Economy was mentioned in the King's Speech ; it was an ominous word, bin lie was afraid that the mention was made only that the practice might lie dispensed with. Bill read a second time, and on the motion that it be committed on Alotiday, Mr. HUME complained of the want of information. All that could peoples. had been !panted; what could infopnt had hero withheld. He should not go into the subject, as he understood it was desired to postpone the debate; but he had examined the items, and he found that 1511,1.001. would maintain the lionschold of his Pia , stv. 130 the title of the Bill was a misnomer, for no .1:0;i-ion was to be made by it for the t, peen, and surely he Queen, a man's wife, was part of the liettseholil every man's wile was an important part of his household. He complained that the Acts regarding the Civil List had never been iteoperly acted upon; and lie maintained that the acconats could be and ought to besimplified. The House was tieated most unworthily by the refusal of tie counts ; secrecy and seclusion would do a good deal of harm in the conittiy. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply, denied that there was any improper concealment, and added, that in the Civil List Accounts, et the Consoli dated Fallti Accounts, all the items were to be found sufficiently detailed.—Motion agreed to. Lord A. H AMU, FON postponed his motion respect -ing the tomtit Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland to the y. 5111 instant. The Marriage Act Amendment Bill was read a second • 'I lie Irish &Amite< ry Composition Resolutions Bill went thionith a Committee, Sir J. Newport observing, that dill a I ill Ore (fit) lie CAI! the attention of the House to the subject of the Compesitions.—Report on 311milay. The tem lining orders being gone through, the House adjourned to Mandan. FROM TUESDAY -'NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. D. Armitage, Huddersfield, innkeeper. BANKRUPTS. E. Baines, Leicester, tailor. Solicitor, Mr. James, Ely Place. Holborn. J. Milner, Cambridge, dealer. Sole. Messrs. Toone and Co., Lincoln's inn Fields. T. and J. Danvers, Cooper's Row, Tower Hill, merchants. Sol. Mr. Hodgson, Castle Street, Holborn. J., T., W. H., and J. 11. Hardy, Birmingham, merchants. Sole. Mews. Baxter aad Bowker, Gray's Inn Place. T. Price. Rodbotough, Gloucestershire, civil engineer. Sol. Mr. King. Sergeant:: Inn. It. Bartholomew, Basildon, Berks, farmer. Sol. Mr. Pittman. Symonds Inn, Chancery Lane. R. Holmes and 1. F. Crane Northampton, grocers. Sol. Mr. Gregory, Freeman's Court. Crane, DIVIDENDS. May 30, J. P. Graves, H. S harp, and F. Fisher, Coleman Street, merchants-30, T. Buchan, Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square. pianoforte maker-30. B. Parkes, Halliford, Mialdlesez, British wine merchant-16, W. Adam, Narrow Wall, Lambeth, timber merchant-27, G. Simpson, Copthall Court, merchant -27. J. Shaw, Bond Street, carpet manufacturer-31. W. Phil lips, Brighthehnstone, builder -31, T.. J., J., and R. Ratcliffe, Manchester, calico printers-27, R. Randall, Coleman Street, Blackwell-hall factor—June 6, I'. Taylor, Leadenhall Street, master mariner-7. S. Roberts, Sheffield, spirit merchant-2, J. S. Debenne, North Walaham, Norfolk, grocer—July 15, G. Whitehead and G. Clarke, Basinghall Street, Blackwell-hall factors. CERTIFICATES to be granted May 30. W. Reynolds, Bristol, soap maker—W. Ilindle, Leeds, draper—P. H. Delamare, Romford, auctioneer—T. Hubbard, jun., Coventry, silkman—T. Addis, Powick, Worcestershire, plumber—G. Forster, Berwick upon Tweed, merchant—G. Pa gett, York Stre t, Westminster, plumber—J. Atkinson, Dal ston, Yorkshire, merchant—.l. Wild, Liverpool, merchant—G. Austin. Long Acre, coach plater—J. T. Clarke, Tuthill Street, Westminster, v.:turner-11. Sheward, Belgrave Place, Pimlico, boarding lions: Dann, Linton, Kent, butcher—T. Ncestriti,C,lteat,,,t ":•eet, warehouseman—J. Macmaster, Nor folk Street, New Road, toaster mariner—W. Thomas, Cheap side, tailor. Lord Sidmouth bus intimated to the Lord Lieu tenants of the different Counties, the Militia of which ate to be called out tin training and exercise, that it does not appear to his Majesty's Government to he advisable that any of those men whose period of service will expire in the present year tilluuld be called out for that purpose. There is at the present time, in the summer 'house .uf W. l'adwick, Esq. at Cosham, Hants, a robin's nest, with five young birds; the nest being built in a paper bag, which carelessly stood on the stable ; and more singular to say, the door bong "bolted and the windows closed, the bird has to de scend the chimney, and make .egress therefrom, to carry on her instinctive economy in rearing her callow On Saturday se'nnight some villains entered a ground, near the road le ding from Ashfurd to Abingdon, and committed a most atrocious i.ixt of cruelty on a ewe sheep, the property of Jr. Alden. butcher, of Oxford, by sta•.bin it under the root of its tr n;ue, while yet alive, cutting off one of the shoulders with Its fleece on. The poor sheep shortly afterwards bled to death. THE NATIONAL REGIST'ER. LIW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S MACH, Moen*, MAX S. THE KING V. HUNT. BAMFORD. 3.)IINSTON, AND HEALY. Mr. Iltint's motion for a new trial has occupied the Court of King's Bench several dabs. He concluded all be had to urge hi favour of his motion on Saturday last, and then solicited that the Judges would take till the Monday 1011 owing to consi•'er the subject ; they acceded to lus request, and their Lordships this morning deli vered their judaments se, mint. The Lord Chief Jostice.—Although this matter has occupied a considerable portion of that time and atten tion which is dedicated to the geueral administration of justice, it has not presented to my mind any doubt whatever; and I will deliver my opinion upon the everal points with as much brevity as possible. The first objection taken by the defendants was to the rejection of es idence as to the supposed misconduct of the military in the dispersion of the meeting; and, in my opinion, that evidence was perfectly irrelevant to the matter in issue. The matter in issue was the object or purpme of the assembly, and the conduct of the peo ple prior to the dispersion. i f, however, any doubt upon that point could exist, the verdict of the Jury, narrowing the charge to the 4th count, would remove that doubt altogether, because ;he count does not charge the defen dants with any a ioLlice at the time of the meeting. The second point of objection is the admission of the resolutions of the Smithfield meeting; and the objec tions to this point of evidence are two-fold ; first, that the best evidence was not produced which the circum stances might have afforded ; and, second, that no evi dence ought to have been admitted upon the subject.— With respect to the first of these objections, the papers which were produced were proved to have beets ieceived i'rom the hands of one of the dependants at the time of the meeting, as the resolutions which were to be passed at the meeting; and therefore, as against that defendant, no better evidence could exist. With regard to the latter objection, it was in proof that these resolutions had been recently proposed by that defendant at a very numerous meeting held for the alleged purpose of parlia mentary reform—the avowed purpose of the meetitig in question—at which the sante defendant, a stranger m Manchester, was invited to take the chair; and as re. garded the question of intention, I have no doubt that it was competent to show, as against that defendant, that, at a similar meeting, held for an object professedly similar, such matter had been proposed under his im meditite inspection. Having now disposed of these ob jections to the law laid down in the case, I shall take no notice of what has been called misdirection as to this or that particular point ; I shall only say, generally, that the whole effect of the evidence appears to me to have been left most properly to the Jury : that the jury were not directed to presume against the defetidants any thing which was not well warranted hy the evidence; and that they have not come to any conclusion which the nature of that evidence did not fully justify. I therefore think that this is not a case in which a rule to show cause shoulddte granted. MI. Justice Bayley said, that as he had tried the cause he would rather postpone his observations until his learned brothers had delivered their opinion. Mr. Justice Haroyd fully concurred in the opinion delivered by the Lord Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Best.—l have never entertained the least doubt upon the subject; and I also agree entirely in what has been stated by the Lord Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Bayley, if he entertained ally doubt upon the matter would certainly state that doubt in the strongest language to she Court; but, after giving the closest attention to the arguments which had been used by the defendant, it did appear to him that there was no foundation for granting the present application With respect to the conduct of the soldiers, it appeared to him, the Learned Judae said, that he should have forgotten his ditty if he had permitted ally evidence upoo that head to be admitted at the trial. He conceived, upon that occasion, that the jury were trying, not the demeanour of the soldiers, but the misdemeanour of the crowd. If the soldiers had misconducted themselves, they were liable liar that misconduct to be put upon their trial ; and it would have beta' most (diktat to prejudice the question against them, unless such a course had been absolutely recess try for the purposes of the defence. That description of evidence did not apply to the charge upon the face of the indictment ; and, as far as it could ap apply to any evidence ali en by Mr. Holton, or by Mr. Eutwistle, the evidence of those gentlemen had been combated by the most complete admission of evidence, to show non-resistance upon the part of the people.— With respect to the second point of oltjection—the atitnission of the Snit:Wield resolutions-alas Lordship had no donut that tho‘e resolutions had been regularly :old properly proved. Not only hail those resolutions tweil really dt-livered, but a copy of thCl44 had 60.'11 giVell to a certain individual by one of the dektulatits as a transcript of those which were to hr proposed at the Smithfield meeting Tnutiodividual Ma compared that primed copy with the reaulutions actually propounded to the meeting, and had found it correspond with them. With respect to die other point of objection, he had not been able to bring his mind to &iotat that these resat,- dolls were most powerful evidence in the case. 'la mall was :ken similarly encuinstanced at two places within a short period tut tunic, was it not to be presumed iliat his conduct at ohe of those places would he consist ent with its conduct at the other? If he had at mie meeting, for the alleged purpose of retain, proposed certain resiolutious, wasp not probable that, at a SCCOMI meeting, for the same purpose, and tame barely subse quent, be woad propose simllar resolutions? It been said by rite defendants that Kink ought not to be presumed. Ile (Mr Justice Bayley) entirely concurred at that sentiment; but If ht Were slreatll in sly that a Jury were not entitled to draw front evidence, that pre sumption which would be the natural result of suet' evidence, then he entirety differed from that doctrtue, „- - because at every ordinary Session, Courts were in the habit of acting upon presumption—upon presumption drawn either front the presence of evidence on the one side, or from the absence of evidence on the other.— The evidence as to the training and drilling (Ms Lordship continued) appeared to him to be evidence perfectly ad. missible. lie had thought so at the time of the trial, and he thought so now. %% ith respect to the inscriptions on the flags, he was of opinion that parole evidence Was fit to be received. The production of writings was not in all criminal cases necessary. He had entered into the subject, the Learned Judge added, at greater length than he lird originally intended; but he had thought it ne cesary to show that he still maintained the opinions %vide!' he had expressed at the trial; and, for the rest, he concurred entirely in what had been said by the Lord Chief Justice: . The Attorney-General now alluded to the length of time which the case had occupied, and proposed that judgment should be immediately pronounced, unless that measure would be inconvenient to the court, or unless the defendants had any thing to say against the adoption of that course. Mr. Hunt submitted that the pronouncing sentence would occupy as much time now as at any future pe riod. He therefore requested that the defendants might be allotted time to prepare. The Lord Chief,Justice thought the request reason able, and said it should be complied with. Johnson merely wished for time to send into the country. _ _ ...... Mr. Hunt.—The defendants wished to send for affi davits. For his own part, if the Attorney-General would not put in any affidavit in aggravation, he did not wish to put in any in mitigation. The Lord Chief-Justice said, that the Court was not the place i❑ which that gin:mini) could be answered. The Atiorney-General thought that it was impottant that judgment should pass iu the present Term Mr. Hunt would take until this day week. The Lord Chief-Justice said, that Monday next would be the last day of Term, and that the Court would be very fully occupied on that day. The defend ants might take until Saturday; and if they then stated upon affidavit that they had been unable to accomplish their object, the Court would consider whether it could postpone the matter until Monday. THE KING V. SIR FRANCIS UURDETT. Mr. Denman stated to the Court, that in this case be hail certain new matter which he wished to introduce and requested that the Court would hear that matter before they pronounced upon the application which he had already made. Mr. Justice Best observed, that Mr. Denman bad stated, at the time when he made his first application, that he was unprepared, except as to the point of the publication in Leicestershire. ' THI KING V. PAGI. The defendant in this case was convicted at the last assizes for the county of Hereford of an assault upon a young lads , of the name of Edwards. The circum stances of this case have already been before the public, they were shortly these:—Miss Edwards is a young lady of beauty and fortune residin ,, at Tewkesbury, and the defendant is an attorney resident at the same place.— Attracted by the charms of the lady's purse, or of her person, Mr. Pace made addresses to Miss Edwards; hut, after a short time his proposals were declined. Mr. Pace, upon this, thought proper to become furious; he loaded his pistols, swore many oaths, pursued Miss Edwards to Aberystwith ; and meeting het there, oat the Marine Parade, presented a pistol, and struck her with it. A gentleman, Mr. Givens, who was escorting the lady, interfered; Mr. Pace fired at him, was dis armed and taken into custody. Mr. Pace was tried at Cardigan, under Lord Ellenborough's Act, for shooting at Mr. Givens, and acquitted. lie was subsequently convicted at H ereford for the assault upon Miss Ed wards; and Mr. Jervis now prayed the judgment of the Court. _ _ _ Tne sentence of the Conn was, that the defendant should be imprisone.l eighteen months in Gloucester gaol ; and that he should at the expiration of that tithe find security, himself in 2,0001. and four other persons in 5901. each, for his good behaviour during a period of three years. THE KING V. THE MAYOR OF CHESTER. Mr. Williams moved for a rule to show cause why a a criminal information should not be filed against the \Livor of Chester, for improper conduct in the exercise of the duties of their offices. The affidavits upon which the motion was grounded stated, that the Mayor, being attached to the Grosvenor party, had, during the poll at the late election, refused the freedom of the city to certain individuals who were entitled to such ad mission ; and it further stated mat, in cousegnence of that refusal on the part of the Mayor, Sir J. Egerton, one of the candidates, had loot his election, The Court reined the mi.,. for the ',resent, upon the ground that the affidavit did not charge a corrupt mo il% e. TUESDAY, MAY 9. Christopher Harris, Robert Shutter, %Vol, ‘Vatlin,Thoinas WhitellDlMP, Jullll CallllllC, James Sain•leue y, and Phillip Francis were brouf i lit up to re, cive the jii4inent of the Court, after having been convicted of the publication of certain seditious Itterls in Carl de's " Mr. Justice Rer Its senicemed Hair:, to seven necks im prisonment; Slim ler, o eels* ; Weetlin, sin weeks; Wilkeloooo, 1011 oi.e moot le ; and cam hat the es lei' o f that lean Ili And seem itv for good hehas lour for three cars, theinsel% es in .501, and t tin misers in 'ad. ache. Robert Wedderburo, a in n of colour, appeared to it eeive the sentence of the Cutlet, afire iiring cons Mimi of blasphe mous %%ord.., tending to revile he (Anise ROll,lOll. RV Selll l. ll O C nos, T.,. years my' i wine Desichestcr gaol, alai t hod seem ity for three eats, ltianself u, MN and too other- in Y:St. .1 oil Osborne and lei toree,e Ragg, printers and publishers 811100101.101, 011 . 1 e -t iitruced to he imprisoned tan mon? les in the house 01 4'lll ru.ellien, Coldhaill-fields, for pule , Letting a Wasplmmuus attack on the Liturgy of the Church Nam—