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Catalogues may be had at lid. each, and Samples seen, et the Eotioe Warehouse-keeper's Office, Tower-hill, from Monday, the t a Wednesday, the filth days of July, 182,1, from Ten till Two (ock and on the Morning of Sale, from Ten till Twelve o'clock. es can also be seen at the Fine and Forfeiture Oilier, Old sersol-stn.`4. Tie Lots 'a be knocked down at the running out of a quarter tainete glass. LONDON DOCKS. THE Court of Directors of the London Dock Company ds the notjpe, that a YEAR GENERA L MEETING of PROPRIETORS will be held at the London House, Prince's-Meet. Bank, on FRIDAY, the Ist of July nest. at Twelve oC lock , for thc purpose of declaring a DIVIDEND *pow the Company's Stock fur the Half Year ending the 40:11 of Julie (instant} Aleo for t he Election by Ballot of Twenty - four Directors for the Year touting; and on other Affairs. LONDON UNIVERSITY.—On FRIDAY NEXT, July I, a MEETING of Noblemen, Bankers, Merchants and others, will be held at the City of London Tavern. at Orie o'Clock, to adopt Measures for the establishment of a London University. The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR in the Chair. F. A. COX, Sec. pro tem. a little hard that they should be subjected to such attacks. The Noble Lord seemed to expect that the Committee should go into an inquiry of the whole of our laws of Equity to be of any service: but he could tell the Noble Lord, that to do that would require not only tilej lives, but the lives claws. No roan's life, in fact, would be equal to the task ; and when such a task would be finished, if the charges which the Noble Lord swelled to hope for were to take place, the effect world be much the same as that which their Lordships had seen in the 'Government of a neighbouring country, where the system of a Govanment constructed on abstract principles had fallen to pieces of itself ; so it would be with any system of equity which might be adopted in the place of that one, which the wisdom of ages had sanetioned as the one beat adapted to the necessities of the country. Earl GROSVENOR explained,-and denied that he intended to use any disrespectful expressions to the Committee. The impres sion he wished to convey was, that from the very limited nature of the inquiry, it was not possible to appose that their labours could do any good. The Bill was then read • third time and passed. FRIVOLOUS WRITS OF ERROR. On the motion bf the Earl of LIVERPOOL the Bill for pre venting the use of Frivolous Writs of Error was read a second time. PARTNERSHIP SOCIETIES (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion of Viscount MELVILLE, the Scotch Partner ship Societies Bifl 'was read a second time. INTEREST ON LOANS IN INDIA. The Marquis of HASTINGS hiving moved the Order of the Day fee the third reading of the East India Loans Bill— Chief Justice Best delivered the opinion of the Judges upon the question submitted to them on a p. evious evening—dust question was, " whether the provisions stateu in the Bill before the do truly set forth the intent and uses-'not of the clause in the Act at present In operation ?" and Wt. toe opinion of all the Jades* that they do apply to the nielnintl.nd inteut .4' that Act. Their Lordships being also unanimous t at the words of the Statute do not apply to contracts upon an interest above 12 per cent., in coon. tries not under the immediate dominion of the British Government. It was a rule of law, and he thought a just and necessary one, that no penal Statute was to be construed in any way, but strictly ac. cording to the spirit in which it was framed; and it was the opinion of himself and his brother Judges, that the Statute would not bear the interpretation which had been attempted to be put upon it, namely, that it gave the power to punish usurioqs contracts entered into by British subjects, in countries not under the imme. diate control of the British Government. Such an interpretation could not be put upon it agreeable to its spirit or without a forced construction. Other countries, it was considered, had the power to extend a protection or punishment of their own, to persons engaged in usurious contracts. In looking to the spirit of the Act, they had also considered that the law of usury must be regulated ky the value of money; and it was not to be presumed that the Glivern client of this country knew the extent of the value or want of money in remote countries of India ; and that it should be able to make a law regulating an article which must be liable to infinite variations. The very idea of such a thing carried with it an absurdity. Every country had an usury law or its own. In the countries un. der the immediate government of Great Britaid, there were three or four different rates of interest ; one in Ireland, one in the West In. dies, one in America. and one in the East Indies. On what prin. ciple, therefore, could the Govanment of this country say to the states in the interior of India, that they should only borrow or lend at an arbitrary sum, to be fixed by the Parliament of this country? Interest in India had at one time been 30 per cent., then it was rem duced to 20, and now it was contended that this Bill limited it to 12, not only in the British territories, bat in those of the native independent Princes. Such a thing their Lordships considered absurd and impossible, and the very changes be had remarked showed how unjust it would be to attempt such a limitation. Besides, even admitting the Act would bear the interpretation sup. posed, in what Court was the criminal to be tried ? The Supreme Court of Calcutta had very limited powers, extending only over • part of those immense territories, and was it to be conceived that the Legislature would be guilty of such an absurdity as to enact a penalty without giving the means of recovering it ? The Learned Lord, after some other observations touching the law of the ques. tion, concluded by observing, that their Lordships (the Judges) had not considered the principle of the Act of the 67th of Geo. 111,. which made it penal to lend money out.of the country without the consent of the Governer-General and Court of Directors, as appli cable in construing the spirit of the Act ; because it wile the con stant practice to register all these by-laws, as they were called, in India, without which registration they could not be carried into. !effect; and as that had not been the case with that Act, they had the authority of the Supreme Council for the same opinion--a . 'eumstance of great importance in every thing relating to the law of "India. strong impression upon the House, and deserved tfie uniord eremite:. 4 11r PE 7 jld he NTIF quite satisfied that Cosh:sissies was I panial and thir.,lendent in its composition, and antr,,i-ested tee pro. priet y of aapending their judgment until die Report of the Com . thissioners was laid Wi ors the liollif. ; The petition was then orderer: to lie upon the table. 3lr. 'l'. WILSON presented a petition tram Mr. Devon, praying for compensation for services during the vv. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Mr. LITTLETON postponed till to-morrow, in tssnaegoeoce o the expected discussion on the Combination Laws. the order of the day far taking into consideration the Resolutions he hod submitted relative to Coinmitteus on Private Bills. - - - , - - • and the note holder its left to seek redress by anion in the coarse (Ver. If there was no reason for this omission of the provision winded to. the pti bile interest called loudly for the emeodmemt of the act of 102.'. The omission certainly obstructed the Immediate and :natant convertibility, which was the mil, principle under which we could look fnr a good currency. He must say that this omission was the only part of the arrangement of I= which be disliked. if a banker iss.tet sums and refuses to pay is gold, he must mke the consequences, bet the pcblic mutt be protected- He saw no reason for withholding the smirks which the public for sneTly enjoyed on this point. He hoped Government would not conelude the Menton without tak:ng the subject into consideration. ifs appealed to the Hight Ifon. Gent. (Mr. Peel) who turned so much of his attention to the subject, whether, in hit abaci:ranee upon the state of the currency, he had not began to feel ail Was not tround. Mr. Eirtretary PEEL thought the House wait being gradually drawn into a discussion on a delicate sith'e - t, for whitb rt was not prepared by any regular notice. The inconvenience of such a pro ceeding was exemplified by the fact, that ahem some observations were made respecting the practice of the Eanir nt England, there was no person present lento the Bank to reply. 'I hrjeresent sate did net render it necessary to enter into any discus. hr. The hanker es,. that his conduct was dictated rather by the intemperance if the individual than be any desire to evade the responsibility white rested upon him. The linker's conduct, in this instance, was confessedly etronecus. At to the difficulties wnieh °overt:mem may meet in the event of e public commotion, it was eatisfactory to find that the Hon. Mem! cr (Mr. Elia) had postponed the evil day. If the Hon. Meniaer's prophecies had OMIT to pass, the evil which i.e tics: dreaded would hare fallen cm the country many years ego. The , esctit sine of the currency. alarming as it was in the Hun. Pointlemaii; antioAtinn.i:as reitv4ilt44llrlgisto Mitt.' Milt Vasil . t. -,•reue. . PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, Jowl 17• CURRENCY. Mr. ITUM F. was desirous of calling the attention of the PI ouse toe petition from Frederick Jones, to which he had adverted an a former evening. The petitioner complained of the conduct of a Banking Company in Bristol. for refusing to give rad for notes, one of 51. and other notes to the amount of 7L. He held in his band the notes for which gold bad been refused. Sinoe he had before addressed the House on the subject. he had been informed that the refusal was made in consequence of an opinion entettained at the banking-house t h at they could take up their notes either with notes of the Bank of England or by gold, as thee thought protivr. He had also heard that in two or three days after the reasalltn offer wits made to give gold for the notes. What, however.' he was desirous of calling the attention of the House to was, that since i.e brought the subject before the House, he had commitra.miona from 4.tfferent parts of the country, mentioning the great cr.ll7.li!y of pro-, eineml notes which termed the prMeipal circulation thrsughout the country. There was alsaagreat doubt as to whet e 4 ptosnncial W beakers were. obliged to Sire gold cer natter their rei most desira - ole. is -is opinion, t 3 do stray with tnia fur that purpose. be would auggest the re-enactment of a clause, which was in the nth of George 111, c. sd. which was generally known by the name of the Cash Suspension Bill. By that clause, bankers were obliged to give gold for their notes, or in default thereof, their property was liable to sale to melt the demand upon them. He would be glad to see that clause reenacted again, as it would be calculated to check the great quantity of one pound notes which now formed the principal circulating medium of the country. By this increase of the circulating medium, the price of provisions was increased, and this had beet already very sera. sibly felt throughout the country. He was lesirous of knowing the sentiments of Government, as to the re-enactment of such a clause as he had proposed. In proposing it, le only acted in con. formity to the spirit of Mr. Peel's Bill, who In his definition of currency did not include the description of wrrency to which be bad alluded. S. COCK, Secretary. Lostlces Dark Houses June lb, 11125. N.B. The Chair will be taken at One o'Clock precisely. The Beliot will commerice intruediately after the General Meeting, and cleat at Foal o'Clieek preciely. for the adjustment of the currency. As to the lew of the ease, it*/ net appen perfectly clear that the construction of the Non. Gent. (Abercromby) was just. The act of 1829 did not repent all former acts, as the Hon. Gent. had assumed. He (Mr. Peel) confessed himself not sufficiently instructed in the law of the case to speak decidedly ; he, therefore, considered it the better course to abstain from any observation. As to the propriety of an immediate inves tigation on this subject, be certainly felt some doubt. In the case before the House, the banker was distinctly wrong, and under aU the circumstances, there could be no reason for coming to an Mune. &au verdict. enurement —.Andy, having - room be a tew Tons of Goods only. FOR MADRAS and CALCUTTA, the fine teak Ship it: VICTORY, bnethen MO tor. a, CHARLES FA RQUH AR SON, Commander; lying in the City Canal. Is fitted expressly .for Pimerigers, and carries an experienced Surgeon. aloe Freight or Passage apply to Measmi:Aekerell, and Co. Austin Friars: Mr. J. L. Meatball, No. 40, Coleman-street, or to BUCKLES. BAOSTER 1111, and M BUCHANAN, ark-lane. TO 'fur' - 'ORTHY AND INDEPENDENT LIVERY OF THE CITY OF LONDON. OVITLEMEN, N consequence of the laxity evinced during the present I ELECTION for SHERIFFS of LONDON and MID DLESEX, I am induced on the present occasion to withdraw my name as a Candidata. I beg to tender my best thanks to those Friends who have been pleaud to give me their suffrages ; and at the same time to state I should not have offered myself as a Candidate, had it not been previously intimated to ate, that the Lord Mayor had inserted my name in the Nomination List of Gentlemen qualified to serve the Office of Sheriff'. I hsve the honour to be, Gentlemen, Kentish Town House, Your faithful Servant, June 27, 11128. PHILIP HUED. • Mr. H. DAVIS bore testimony to the respectability of the banking firm to which the lion. Member alluded. It was as re-' spectable as any banking-house in the kingdom. The transaction to which the lion. Member alluded had been the only instance of that firm declining to give gold for their noes. They had done so, although they understood that it was optimal for them o pay in gold or in Bank of England notes ; besides, the petitioner had no very strong ground of complaint, as he applied for gold for the notes on the 23d of June, and on the 24th as offer was made to let him have it. He had moreover brought an action against the bankers, and as the business was before a Court of Law it was not fitting he thought that the House should interfere in it. Lord FOLIaESTONE said the lion. Gentleman (Mr. Davis) had treated the transaction as it was merely between private indi viduals. It was, in bib o?lnion, a most important public question. He (Lord Folkestone) was not aware that the evil existed to the ex tent that the (louse had been informed by his Hon. Friend that it prevailed. As to the action which it had been stated was pending, that should not be, in his opinion, an obstacle to legislative inter. ference in the prevention of a growing erg. It had be said that the petitioner had a remedy at law, but what was that remedy ? It consisted in this, on the 231 of June he wanted sovereigns fur some notes, he is refused, and then Wings an action against the banker; the action is tried, perhaps nire months after ; it is per haps postponed, a writ of error follows, and about March 1827 the matter is adjusted which should have been arranged in June 1825. he submitted was no remedy, and yet there was not any other unless a person choose to come up to London and get gold at the Bank of England. The power of circulating one pound notes had formerly been prohibited, and it was only in con sequence of the severity of the Bank restrictions that that prohi bition had been removed. When the evil, however, had grown to such a magnitude as had been stated, so as to form nine•tsnths of the circulating medium of the country, a remedy was called for of resuming the rohibition which had been removed. Mr. GURNEY thought the subject one of great importance, although the particular transaction in which it originated was at tributable to nothing but the grossest absurdity in the persons who refused to give sovereigns for six or seven pounds which every banker knew he ought to do, and he (Mr. Gurney) believed inva riably did. The delay of several months, however, alluded to by the Noble Lord, was not likely to occur in the procurement of gold, as at all event it could be got in London at any distance in the country. The number of provincial notes that were at pre sent in circulation amounted to a great public inconvenience and injury. There was no period perhaps at which the circulation was in a less satisfactory state than at present. The number of notes exeeededln amount the amount of specie to meet them. For his part, if there were to be one pound notes at all he would prefer them to be of the Bank of England, because there would be a certainty at least of their payment on demand. This had been the effect he had anticipated from the Bill of the Right Hon. Gentle man (Mr. Peel) which had depressed the commercial and landed interests. The increase of the circulating medium had been ac companied by an increase in the price of provisions. and this had been also accompanied necessarily with an increased price of labour which it was desirable to keep at a moderated and regulated rate. The subject was one that that invited the tasked attention of the House. ][3RITISII STEAM and PATENT NAVIGATION (;OMPANY. Capital, 500,0001. in Sham of 1001. each. Apilieations for the remaining Shares must be made by lerrrs, (post-paid), addressed to " The Directors of the British steam and Patent Navigation Company," at Blesses. Drummond and Charing-cross •or Blesses. Vexes, Ward. and Co.'s. Lombard sweet ; on or before To-ssoaaow, the 29th June instant, tiller which no application can be received. ------- --- • • UNITED LONDON and lIIBERNIAN CORN and FLOUR COMPANY. The Committee of Management beg to announce that they have succeeded in their negotiations for the purchase of two of the most extensive and powerful Mills in or near London, urn highly ad vantageous terms, in addition to the valuable Mills o the Hibernian Company • and that, from Michaelmas Day next , the C om p an y will be able to send to market upwards of 1,500 sacks of Flour per week, without any additional premises. The Shares will be allotted forthwith, and a Meeting of Pro prietors will be convened for the purpose of Electing proper per sons to serve in the Offices of Directors and Auditors. AU communications to be addressed to the Committee, at the banking houses of Sir Wel.er Stirling, Bart., Stirling, and Hodsoll, Strand ; Sir John Lubbock, Bart., Foster, Clarke, and • Co., Mansion House-street; or at the Otffce, No. 8, Lancaster-place, Strand. • The Illarquis of HASTINGS laid, that after this opinion of the Judges, corresponding with the principle of the Bill, he should now more that it be read a third time. The Bill was then read accorlingly. SHOOTING AND STABBING IN SCOTLAND. THE LICENSEDNICTUALLERS RECTIFYING DISTILLERY CONIPAN Yr — ler supplying CN- A DULTERATED SPIRITS and CORDIALS to the Licensed Victuallers of Loudon. and of the United Kingdom. Capital 500,0601. in Shares of 1501. each. DIRECTORS. The Hon. A. Ellis, M.P. T. Edmund Jarvis, Esq. Sir T. Lethbridge, Bart. M.P. I Colonel Torrenn liiir F. Desanges, Kt. Lieut.-Colonel Fainnan AUDITORS—W. Dettmer, Esq. and T. Seaman, Esq. BAXIERS—Cir J. Petting. Bart., Shaw. Barber, and Co., 72, Cargill, and Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall. Socicuron—R. Kidington, Esq. Lyon's Inn. SCCRETART—WM. DOM, ESQ. Crown and Anchor Tavern. For Stares and Prospectus, apply to Robert Kidington, Esq. Solicitor to the Company, Lyon's Inn, Strand. The Directors will allot the Shares on Friday next, at two o'clock precisely. Persons having extensive Distillery Premises to dispose of, stating particulars, &c. to be addressed to the Secretary. ViicountligiVll.lE, -- rti;rifeVi 7 wOidsWpcs;WOryOf the Act of Lord Ellenborough being extended to Scotland, and of its application for a Limited period to the infamous practice of throw ing vitriol upon persons obnoxious to particular trades, moved that it be read a second time. The Bill was then read a second time accordingly. STAFFORD PEERAGE. The Earl of a petition from Richard Stafford Cooke, praying to be heard by Counsel on the subject of the Stafford Peerage.—Referred to the Committee of Privileges. TAXATION OF COSTS (LORDS). _ _ The Taxation of Costs Bill in the House of Lords was read -a second time. _ _ LINEN TRADE (IRELAND). The Linen Trade of Ireland Bill vu read a second time. Adjourned at a quarter past seven. Waterloo 7 ) OYAL NIt)N B 4 ge SSO , F F ita ltlTlONished a;,d Si Empowered by Act of YL p lace , For securing to its Members (male and female) Weekly Allow. anew in Sickness. Pecuniary A•sistance to Females at Lying-in, Sums of Money at 1) mai. Annuities in Old Age, Endowments for Childers', and other Benefits : For Encouraging the Establishment and Improvement of Friendly Societies throughout the Kingdom ; For Promoting the Oenem/ Employment of Clerks, Male and Female Servants, and the Working Classes ; and For the Pensioning of Aged Persons of Good Character, whose circumstances have bemme reduced. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Mown.y, Jewc 27. Mr. E. ELLICE concurred in many of the observations which had fallen from the Hon. Gents. who preceded him. He confessed he felt some apprehension, however, that in case of a bad harvest or an unsuccessful war, or any event which may lead to a general commotion, Government would find itself greatly embarrassed, and perhaps again ender the necessity of resorting to a suspension of cash payments. There was much difficulty arising out of the ex. tensive circulation of one pound and two pound country bankers' notes. Those were almost the only medium of circulation in Scotland, and in the North and West of England. The discs of difficulty which occurred in 17th may happen again. The country bankers must pay in gold. A large demand would, therefore, be made upon the Bank of England ; and how should this demand he answered ? The Bank of England could not carry its dead weight to the market. The Bills of Exchange, Exchequer Bills, and other *entities. could not be made to answer the demand, and except the coin in their coffers, he did not know in what way they could meet such a demand. . _ The House was summoned to the House of Lords, when the royal assent was given, by commission, to several public and private Bulls. Mr. CALVERT presented a petition from Walter Honeywood Yates, Esq. Justice of Peace of the county of thoucexter, oom. plaining of certain abuses in the borough of Hereford, of which he is a freeman. He prayed the House would take the facts of his petition under their consideration. The Hon. Member said he would not, at that period of the Session. propose any inquiry into them, but would move that the petition lie over till next bession. Mr. CAIXRAFT presented a petition from Mr. Lockhart against the Salmon Fishery Bill. PASCO-PERUVIAN MINES. PATRONS. ilk Royal flighntes the Duke of YORK, K.G. G.C.R. F.R.S., e. and nearly One Handred Noblemen and 3lembers of Par liament. PRESIDENT. The Right Honourable Lord MACDONALD. Male and Female Servants, Clerks, Mechanics, and Labourers, are admitted to secure the benefits of this Association, daily, from Teo till Three, and on Monday Evenings, from Si: till Nine. Books of Rules, Gd., and Prospectuses, gratis, may be had at the Office, and of all Booksellers. Persons desirous of forming Friendly Institutions in the Country, upon the unerring and permanent system adopted by this Institu tion, and thane dt airous of being appointed Agents in cc near Town, arstrequested to apply by letter, post-paid. Mr. HOBHOCSE had a petition intrusted to him to present against the Equitable Loan Bill, but it was of unimportance, as that Bill had been recently sent to " the tomb of the Capulets." He was desirous cf taking this oppOrtunity of adverting to a Bill relative to the establishment of mines, and in which he took a very active part in that Home. Ile had been censured for the part he had taken, and had been abused in prose and in verse ; and it had been even said, that the opposition to the Bill originated in aeon spiracy. For his own part, he telt that he had only done his duty. Pledges had been made that all that he had stated would be re futed in the Committee. He attended the Committee, and he met none of thaw who made those pledges. The -Hon. Member for Weymouth (Mr. F.Buxton) had been prominent In putting forward a promise to this effect to the House. The Bill had since been given up, which was some presumption that what he had said was not altogether without foundation. Persons giving pledges of this kind, should either not make them when they did not intend to fulfil them, or they should at lecst be more cautious in making them. AND J. SIVRWRIGHT.--The opportunity of OP • obtaining a Fortune by risking a small sum of money will soon cease for ever. J. and J. Sisewright can recommend the New Scheme with confidence; for Besides 4 Prizes of 20,000 Guineas. Besides the usual number of Capitals, Resides all the Numbers being Prizes. SIXTY-FOUR PIPES OF WINE will be presented gratis to the fortunate Holders of the Four Prises 41 One Thousand Guineas.. being 16 Pipes to each Prize, and in proportion for Shares. The Wine to be selected from the Stock of any Wine Merchant in the Kingdom, by the fortunate Holders FOUR Mr. T. WILSON Paid that the reason the Bill was given up was, that it was of no advantage to those engaged in the specula tion to obtain merely a power to sue and be, sued. The Bill was nut given up in consequence of any failure in the undertaking. Mr. 110BHOL; 4 explained.--Ile had taken up the subject originally from a conviction that the part he had taken was war. ranted by the information he had received. The speculations of the present day were so numerous that they ought to be closely at tended to, anc he hoped that in the Bill fur the repeal of the Bub ble Act, caution would be exercised by not giving a charter to any persons who did not thaw grounds for probable prospects of suc cess in the speculation in which they engaged. DELAYS IN CHANCERY. __ 521,000 - —Z21,000 £21,000 I £21,000 &c. amounting to .C 204,412! \FRI be decided AU in One Day, FRIDAY, ISth JULY. Tickets and Shares are now on sale at J. and J. Sivewrightr 011ees, No. 37, Comhill ; 11, Holborn; and 38, Ilsyro_arket ; .t.ere they sold in a late Contract, 12,478, a Prize ef 30,000 1., end ve ral other Capitals. n iSH, Contractor, having submitted the Scheme in full, now begs to solicit attention to its leading points, and from • !,c Resolution of Parliament to abolish Lotteries, Bish much re z.ri.ts to state, this probably is the last Scheme he shall ever have the Heesure to contract for. Besides tits Prins being all in Money, rl.l amounting to £204,e42 BISH ADDS TO THE SCIFIEME SIXTY-FOUR PIPES OF WINE, GRATIS! By this arrangement, Independently of the FOUR £21,000 I £21.000 21,000 21,000 With many other Capitals, and No flanks ! ALL IN ONE DAY ! FRID.IY, 15th of JULY. nth of the Holders of the Four Prizes of 1.000 Guineas, whether bought at WISH'', or any other Licensed Lottery Office, will be entitled to 101 Pipes of Wine, and for Shares in proportion ; so that • Sixteenth will have One Pipe cf Wine besides the Share of 1.000 Guineas. The Wine to be chosen from the Stock of any ! W ine Blerchant in the Kingdom, by the fortunate holders them selves. In the Lottery drawn Tuesd 31st ult. Bi? i shared and sold No. 1804 - - £ 30 , 000 - .m 8 Shares 44111 in 9 Shares And &even other Capitals, the Shares of which were distributed all over the United Kingdom. tiatiety of Numbers are now on sale by BISH. Contractor, 4 , Canbill, and 9, Charing-cross, London; and by has Agents. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Bucking ham House Bill t the Excise Licenses Bill ; the Quarantine Laws Bill; the Colonial Intercourse Bill; the Mauritius Trade Bill; the Distillery Bill; the Canadian Company Bill; the Lunatic Trustees Bill ' • and several private Bills. The Lords Commissioners were, the I.o4Chaneellor, the Mar. quis of Winchester, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. The Earl of 31A LMESBURY presented a petition from the owners and occupiers of land in the neighbourhood of Bunbury, in the county of Oxford, against the reduction of the duties on rum, and also against the bonded and Canadian Corn Bills.—Laid on she table. Mr. BROODEN, and other Members of the House of Commons, brought up several private Bills, which were rend a first time. The Irish Bank Tokens Bill, and the Flint Glass Bill, were read a third time and passed. UNIVERSITIES' POLICE BILL. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY molted the third reading of the Univeasities' Police Bill. The Earl of LAUDERDALE opposed the Bill. and con. tended that the powers vested in it ought not to be tolerated by their Lordships. There was one clause to which he especially ob jected, and that clause, he could not tell the reason why. referred to Oxford, and did not refer to Cambridge. By that clause, any woman seen wandering in the public walks after night-fall was liable to be taken up, and obliged to give a satisfactory account of herself. He did not know what was meant by the word "stns factory e' one person might understand Ig in one way and an other person is another way ; and a woman could scarcely expect to be called upon to give such acnnint without having a stain upon her character the Bill therefore might produce the most injurious diem. All he would say was, that if the state of the Universities did not strongly require such enactments, it would be unjust to make them, lie would certainly move that this clause be omitted. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, lhat as an Oxford man, he must be supposed to be inclined to act leniently towards that University. It might at first appear strange that the clause al luded to by the Noble Earl referred only to Oxford, but he could tell the Noble Earl why it was so. The charter of Cambridge gave the Via-Chancellor of that University a much greater poser than was possessed by the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford ; and therefore an extension of power pas not required by the former. The Earl of LAUDERDALE explained. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that the words of tile clause were, "any prostitute or night-walker found wandering." The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, it would be a difficult matter to determine to whom those words applied. The Noble Earl then cloyed, as an amendment, that the word " wandering" should be omitted from the clause, and the words " acting in a disorderly manner" substituted. The House divided on the amendment of the Noble Earl, and the numbers were— Contents, 131 Non-contents, 01 51ajority, 5. The Bill wax then read a third time. JUDGEs' SALARIES' AUGMENTATION BILL. On our readmission to the House, we fout.d the Earl GROS VENOR addressing their Lordships on the subject of the Bills for the regulation of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, and complaining that certain offices which the Noble and Learned Lord, at the bead of his Majesty's Government, bad given the country reason to expect would have been abolished, had not been abolished, particularly those of the Justice General of Scotland and the Clerk of the Pella. He thought also, that the salary of the Noble and Learned Lord ought to have been included in the ar rangements for a general regulation. To the proposals for increasing the salaries of the Puisne Judges he had some objection , although to those for abolishing the sale of o ffi ces lie had none. • The Earl of LIVERPOOL observed, that with respect to the office of Clerk of the Pelts, it was by no means a sinecure, but, on the contrary, was an office of very great trust and responsibility, and required considerable talent and attention. It was formerly held by an officer who did the duty by depots ; but Parliament having decided that the holder of an office should perform the business of that office himself, such was now in this particular case done. It was because, In the Court of Exchequer, the country had always had able and responsible officers that there bad been no de. Coulters is this Court. The Noble Earl (Grosvenor) must be aware that many officers had an intermit In their offices as good as the Noble Earl had in his estates. The Noble Earl ought to have borne in mind that the Lord Chancellor had no power to sell offices, but out of such sale the emolument of the Chief Justices was gained. This was in his (the Earl of Liverpool's) opinionsin unseemly thing. The Noble Earl (Grosvenor) could not rarely think that the Puisne Judges were too highly paid when so many of their Lordships bad so niu:h without labouring to obtain it. The Earl of LIVERPOOL and Earl GROSVENOR mutually explained. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the subject of the salary of the Lord Chancellor has been so often before the public, and has been commented upon . in the House of Commons over and over again, that I am astonished to find any ignorance existing as to what that salary really . is. Vet I can go no where without hearing it asserted to be four t imes its actual amount, and I believe that no man would be considered as adhering to truth who described it to be three-fourths less than what it is generally affirmed to be. I was, myself, in company a short time since, and I heard a gentleman amen that the salary of the Lord Chancellor was 40,0001. per an. num; another gentleman got up, and said, that this statement was not exactly correct, for he knew it to be 35,00 W. and no more—and that that war, in truth, the whole amount. Now this variation amounts to very little, as to the emolument of the situation I have too long held-1 say too long held, because if I had been done common justice to, I should not have been Lord Chancellorof Eng land this day. I say to those who have endeavoured to turn me out, that they have not hit upon the right method, and I add, treat me with common justice, and you will fini that you can dispose of me as you wish by fair means. I have an account—indeed I be lieve it is at this moment in my pocket, of the income of the Lord Chancellor for the last three years, and if that account be drawn up with accuracy—and I have every reason to believe it is, the income of the Lord Chief Justice at 10.0001. a year, has been more than that of the Lord Chancellor during the last three years. Ido not mean to say that the income of the last three years is a fair average of the receipts of the office during the twenty-three years (that period will have been completed in six months) that I have held it, but I say that no year during those twenty-three years, have I received the same amount of profits that 1 was in the habit of re ceiving while I practised at the bar. In this calculatiou Ido not include what I receive as Speaker of the House of Lords. The amount then that I have received during the 23 year' I have held the high office of Lord Chancellor has floated at between 14,500 and 15,0001. annually. Let it not be said, then, that the Lori Chancellor's receipts are 35,0001. I think that what I have said is sufficient to repel the charge, that my object has been to sceumu late wealth. Such an object I should much batter have attained, if I had kept my situation at the bar; not that I mean to say that I should have kept it ; the probability is, that I should not. For, as I grew older, I must have expected to have been shoved out by younger men ; but I think 1 could easily prove to your Lordships, that the individual who addresses you would not, if he had re mained at the bar, have been a poorer man than he is because it has happened to him to be Lord Chancellor of England. Whether this be, or be not the case. I hope I shall never forget—l hope no one connected with me will ever forget—the honour I have received from this country, and the kindness with which 1 have been treat ed. Feelings ofa nature very different to three that hare been im. puted to me, have enabled me, and will enable me, to bear up against all the alumnus and all the slander that may be heaped upon me. [The Noble and Learned Lord was here much affected.) The Noble and Learned Lord, after passing some remarks on the general topics of the Bill before the House, the propriety of aug menting the salaries of the Judges, and the necessity or having re sponsible principals in public offices, whether the duties of those offices were, or were not performed by deputy, proceeded to say.— the Lord Chancellor is placed under circumstances different to the Lord Chief Justices of the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas. He has no offices to sell ' • and. for my part I have no he. sitation in saying, that if I had had, I would not have sold them. There is new sitting a Commission to make inquiries relative to the Court of Chancery. I trust they will shortly bring the sub ject before the House, and before the public ; and no one is more anxious than I am, that that inquiry should be close and extensive into all that belongs to that Court. It would be a most pailful sacrifice, but I would niak .1 that sacrifice, if that Commission blamed me; and if I suffer wrong, my consolation shall be this—that I have done my duty to the best of my power, and I pray to God that those who succeed me in my office may execute the duties of that office better than I have done —more sedulously, or with more anxiety, I am sure they will cot attempt to do it. But it would be an important thing if any per son holding a high and responsible situation were sacrificed to that popular clamour which lam every day obliged to suffer. If it be attempted to pull down the character' of men in any judicial situa • tion—and if men, however high in Church or State, be not safe from calumny that directly attacks them, I will tell your Lord ships that the Peers of this country can no longer exist if such per sons be sacrificed to such calumnies. East GROSVENOR, in explanation, observed that he had not, on thgt or on any former occasion, made any remarks as to the so. lacy of the Note and Learned Lord. He was glad, however, that what he had said had drawn forth the Noble and Learned Lord's explanation. Lord REDESDALE thought the Noble Eszl (Grosvenor) used terms vary disrespectful tot the Members of the Committee upon the Court of Chancery, when he asserted expressly that no good was to be elpeeted from them. (Earl Grosvenor said " No.") He said. Yea ; sod be repeated that his expressions were very die respectful. The members of that Committee had no emolument for there labeima—nothing to gain but trouble ; and be thought it Mr. HERNALrose to present a petition from Frances Balling ham, complaining of delay and expense in the proceedings ,in her case in the Court of Chancery. The petitioner was at present a pauper, residing in the parish of Greenwich ; she was at present in the 78th year of her age; she was originally of humble circum stances ; she married a carpenter, and by their joint industry, they had realised some property. On the death of her husband, in lOW, she WM left executrix ; the principal part of what he had was be queathedrto her, subject to his debts. After his death, a suit was instituted, relative to the payment of his debts, in the Court of Chancery. That suit was protracted from time to time, and at the close of it, the costs amounted to 1,15.31.; the funds to meet these costs were 1,498 L, and the debts only amounted to 365 f. Besides this, she was summoned to attend at a time that she was unable to appear ; an attachment was issued against her, and she had to pay 361. additional expenses for the costs attendant on that attach ment. She had not herself money to pay it, but it was defrayed by contributions of some charitable persons. This, he thought, a case of great hardship, as funds were dissipated in extravagant expense which might well form the means of a comfortable support for the petitioner at her present advanced period of life, and prevent her from being. as she now was, a burden on the parish. Mr. PEEL said, that the substance of the petition should be communicated to the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the practice of the Court of Chancery, with a view of their applying an effectual remedy to the recurrence of such facts as had been stated in the petition, if such facts, of which he was not aware, really existed. Mr. CA (.CRAFT said there was a general feeling of dissatisfac tion, both in that House and throughout the country, as to the appointment of the Chancery Commission. Hr would be glad to hear from the Right Honourable Bendeman, that in the event of the Report of the Commissioners not proving satisfactory, he would ailment to nominate a Commission of more impartial composition, and more independent of the favour of the Lord Chancellor than the present. The petition which had just been read had made a Mr. J. S3IITH differed materially with almost all that had fallen from the Noble Lord (Folkestone) and the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hume.) It had been asserted that 99 parts out of WO, of the cir culation of the country consisted of one pound country notes. This was by no means the case : a large part of the notes circulating in tie country were payable in London and also in the country ; and it should be remembered that a considerable part of the country notes consisted of• tire pound notes. As to the petition from which this discussion originated, it only detailed the particulars of a quarrel between an individual and a country banker. There could be no doubt that the banker was unjustib. ably and imprudently wrorg ; but what was this ? What could be deduced from this isolated case ? If it was stated that rues was the common practice of country bankers, he (Mr. Smith) would positively deny it. As a banker he knew something of the pray, rice, and he could assure the House that it was the every-day practice to send large quantities of gold to all parts of the country. In the largest county of the kingdom, the county of Lancaster, there arc :to one pound notes in circulation. All payments of small sums are made in specie. He had heard with great surprise the observation which fell from the Hon. Member for Coventry, that in case of public commotion we must expect a deficiency of specie. Ile (Mr. Smith) was at a loos to know how the greatest commeteal nation in the world should want spece. He thought we should hare specie enough, and felt no alarm at the apprehension which existed in the mind of his Hon. Friend. (Hear !,) As to the case detailed in the petition, he repeated, it was a singular ease, and one in which the banker was clearly wrong, and in which the Injured individual as clearly had a remedy. If he is a banker and refuses to pay his notes in gold, he may ; but his credit, on which his ex istence depends, is utterly lost. If the Hon. Member for Aberdeen had brought forward 20 or 30 cases like the present, something may be inferred ; but a singular cue like the present was no exem plihcation of the existence of the alleged practice. He sincerely believed that there were not three country bankers in the kingdom who would refuse gold for their notes. The extent of the circula. tion of country banker's notes was complained of; but it was a question whether we could divest ourselves of all the paper cur. rency in country towns. Of all the modes of banking that could be adopted none was less profitable and more dangerous than the cir culation of one pound notes. every country banker of any emi nence endeavoured to contract this kind of circulation. As to the law relating to country bankers, and the payments of their notes in gold, it now stands exactly oa the same footing as it had done to 1797. Mr. ELLICE and Lord FOLIZSTONE severally explained. Mr. A BERCROM BY did not think this question involved any of the difficulties adverted to. If the simple statement made was cor rect, it required the serious consideration of (government. The whole case rested upon the difficulties which an individual found in ob taining gold for country banker's notes. If this difficulty habitually occurred, it was true the banker's credit must be ultimately injured ; but if redress. was only to be obtained by a tedious and expensive process, the public, under the sanction of the law, was exposed to a very great inconvenience. A very great part of the holders of one pound notes would sooner retain them than resort to an action. No doubt, such a state of the law was a diminution of the cheek upon the tooemended circulation of country notes, it was also an obstruc tion to the converitbility or paper money. The law on this subject was the same from 1797 to 1816. But Mr. Peel's act in 1022 al tered the then existing law. By the law of 1797. if a banker re fused to pay gold for a note he had issued, after three day*, a vna... giatrate may order the seizure of the banker's goods. The time was afterwards altered to seven days, and so the law remained for mode mwne y o e f a o n ttaini T n h g en redre cam s e s, the to wacthicohfhelB.had2.2" vwert4hichthweass= Mr. A BERCROMBY only wished the Right Hon. Gentleman distinctly to state whether he thought the provision giving the note holder summary redress was repealed, and if it was, whether there wes any reason for its omission in the Act of 1822. Mr. Secretary PEEL was not prepared to answer the Hon. Gen tleman's question, which was entirely a question of law. There could be no doubt, however, that the banter was bound to pay hie notes in gold. Mr. :IA SEELY thought it was idle that every one who holds ' a note should come before the House of Commons with a complaint if the banker refuses to pay in gc'J. If the summary law proposed by the Hon. Gentleman was introduced, it would change the whole existing law between debtor and creditor, the most delicate and complex part of the law of the land. lie thought this the most monstrous proposition he had ever heard, and especially coming from a legal gentleman. In his opinion the petition should be rc jected altogether. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Smretary CANNING thought there could not be a shadow of doubt, that by the law, as It at present stands, a banker is liable. to pay the one pound notes he may issue. in gold. Any attempt to legislate on that which was already eufficiently clear, could only tend to create doubts where none at present esisted. If he was asked by what law a banker was obliged to pay his issues in gold, he should answer, by no particular law. 137 the law of the land gold was the only legal tender, and therefore the note-holder need accept no other. Any additLinal regulation which obliged the banker to pay in gold would put the creditor in a worse situation. To get back to the state we were in before 1787 was the object of every rational man by the Act of 1822. When for public conve nience a small circulation was permitted, the Bank Suspension Act was in force, and the new circulation was necessarily guarded by new laws to meet the existing state of things under the Bank Sus pension Act But the machinery of the Bank Suspension Act was now gone. There was no species of paper currency requiring a particular sanction, and any attempt to discriminate could only produce doubt and uncertainty. Honourable Gentlemen opposite. he was sure, agreed with him on the subject. but they thought it a good opportunity to harp back on those opinions which they were so fond of promulgating some years ago. An Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Ellice) seemed to think that difficulties might arise which would require the renewal of the Bank Suspension Act, but on this subject he should only say, that he (Mr. Canning) could not allow his imagination to conceive any difficulty which he would not rather submit to than depart from the present system. Mr. BARING said, the objection was not that the holders of noteanere not entitled to gold, but that if the gold was refused, they had not the same summary process as before. if the circulation et' one pound notes was allowed, the public should be protected. In his opinion, it would be expedient to renew the provision affording a summary remedy. Bankers were not like common creditors ; they were pritileged persons, and it was the duty of Parliament to grant them privileges, under such restrictions as would make the public safe. One pound notes were the current money of all small dealers in the interior. lie thought the sooner the circulation of one pound notes was withdrawn from the country the better. There was no expectation of any immediate difficulty, but the currency was liable to convulsions, if the country was not wore saturated with gold than at present. Though great convenience may have resulted, and there was no immediate danger, yet great dan ger may . arise under the present system. Great injustice had been done to individuals by tampering with the currency ; masses ot . people were ruined by it. It should be looked upon in any light, therefore, rather than a triumph, by Right lion. Gentlemen op. posite. Mr. HUSKISSON agreed with the Honourable Gentleman, that the currency could not be altered without inktry to individuals. The question of one pound notes was one that admitted of con sideration, but it was not a question of such urgency. in the present state of the Session, as to render an immediate provision necessary. A special remedy had neverexisted in Scotland for the holders of one pound notes, and it only existed in England whilst the Bank Suspension Act was in force—such a security WWI then highly accessary ; Lie no such necessity now existed. There was then a suspension of cash payments, and country bankers were compulsorily obliged to•pay on demand ; but when we returned t.) cash payments, we also returned to the old law. If such a sum. mary method was necessary in the case of one pound notes, the same arguments may be applied to five pound notes ' • holders of these had a right to equal security. sneer, hear.) One pound notes did not circulate in Lancaster, yet bills of exchange were issued for five pounds and less, and the holders had no other sem i city but the law of the land. No banker in town or country could issue s security that he was not prepared to pay in gold. This is as perfect a state of security as any country could have with regard to its currency. (Hear,. hear.) As to the limitation of the cireo. 'mien, that question had nothing to do with the summary mode of obtaining redress. Every banker would pay his notes in gold, be. cause his whole character was at stake if he refused to do so. il e wished it to be generally understood, that no banker issues rots who is not liable to be made pay as sight In the coin of the realm. The banker had no alter mode of discharging hie obligation. When the danger of the attempt to return to cash payments was in. sisted upon, a clause empowering Lountry bankers to pay in Bark of England notes was proposed. lie (Mr. Huskisson) had resist ed this clause, and bankers, lie WAS happy to say, could now only discharge their obligations by payments in gold. Mr. Sergeant ONSLOW thought, that if the summary mode of redress adverted to was again resorted to, it would inrreate the Lir. rotation of bankers' notes; whereas, the object of all parties seemed to be, to restrict the circulation. The petition was then brought up ; upon the motion that it be read— Mr. E. ELLICE rose to explain. The Right Hon. Secretary for the Home Department had attributed to him the proposal for an adjustment of the currency. He had never made such a proposal, though he believed he had voted for it. In reply to some observations of Mr.Jouw SMITH. the tenor of which we could not distinctly collect, Mr. Secretary CANNING observed, that notes of 11. if payable in Itov form, could only be payable in cash. It might be supposed that the obligation to pay a five pound note would be legally dia. charged by exchanging it for five notes of one pound ; but as there were no notes in circulation smaller in amount than one pound. the only way of paying it could be by cash. Refusing to pay that cotes in gold is substantially refusing to pay at aIL A short conversation then ensued between Mr. Pont. and Mr. liu IKE, in the course of which the latter observed, that under pre sent circumstances the possessor of paper was subjected to great in conveniences, and be thought it would he much advantage to the country if a bill were passed, creating a more summary triode of recovery than at nutmeat existed. If such a bill were not introduced, he should feel it his duty in the course of the next session submit to Parliament a measure of that nature. Mr. Secretary CANNING agreed entirely with his Right Hon. Friend, and though some doubts might exist on the suhject. would rather the currency remained in its present state thin agree baa " an t Y he m n eas eon u l re e h o e f fi a o P e ecu them ilii ! • 'on which Mr. nIABERLV noticed some passages in the •petits...a and spoke of the object of its complaint as if it had bee n ht un der citric con character, applying to a case such a : siderarangmhadtwednoingtitbohyne:ttghhea.etisstaeSevtubeeenuhnitnfigaathlf,e,:,.7ziney:eney:doh:lsantibronepdintic:_onetin:seeta:;:ati'stkoha:ll.t w thitatierri owed much of their prosperity. Ile co . inCßido;uetitlird.Geheft,h:eu:bmwuccouidt;sul:dwirceedvefbefileconh.ti:no:nybeFej:laectreltt:tnoionel7h::hhettaryohanheaseectantinalliAzuhutootine.;;ehwnri:dilafortsh:daf roa t te l :a s : co :sec u li brac.ned il e t t cng: atil ymessti:sit, T part! ! pet PaPer icion " w rre ati nc th y en brought up, and ordered to be printed. COMBINATION LAWS. vi M Tthh r ae . F. PALMER presented a petition from certain coma-• spinners in the town and beighbouthond of Stockport. against a renewal of the Combination Laws.—Ordered to lie on the table. NAVIGATION LAWS. 31t: DENISON cabbed to knot ;I;e : tie; obipi belocticts to