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Pr !. - AIM • V 444 widdhliba registry was to oe keptby the Clergymen of Stand. The present Bill, went to enact, that "Ohould kept by the Ministers of the different -Jcageespliene to isilldt the party belonged. He did not consider thileilla.ell im=ant, beams he isocsidered a registry of mar klifff 1M ti! he Mill benefit or adrantage - of the parties b 4111 = for 1 1 1 1 a IMMO in any way associated with religion, but *LAlice devises& and advantage of the whole community, eapeelally fee abeam who might be eonoected with the penis. He conehlered it' therefore as a civil and not a reli. gloss regnietino, and therefore thought that the proposal for en alteeirtin in this is met might be advantageously omitted. 4 was, bower_ ~ er , that the Clergymen of tbe . Lamb halted Chereh ase pd mutat, against keeping the registry for , ft ...,..tbe test to benefit of their ordrearice. But H I le .44 .6 . the Bill had e ber u ti c re a L o a bj acco ectior ne l l . aline, ,spot *at k popped anything more than was neceasary wee die =se of i Z a in t g oi re4ef a t i o e a lays num o 7o t g t s claa n s t, o y f r i s i e n r a they won fitted to enter into and enjoy the rights Re knew there were those who were saws • . en matters, and who sought to settle it as thy 414 way ddag doe, with nefbeonoe only to their own timpani ad -map_ vend at-their oinw.' - iin to this Bill he did wt fits 'A Me •- ' ' ' who sought to obtain the beadier occasion the most importance( Ye or d'acountenanced by thooselso . under well circumstances every persons, to whatever religion they ray more fitting to the dignity at character of Christian men, than wherever they existal, If it • Stare—if it were consistent ~ community, to give relief to so and to eocahrsge all to take the On th...- grounds he would mom th e - hoped that any alterations would be made la the Com-. et d lila ...a to who iDURY said 6 hit it his duty to Bill mow befo:e their Lordships. `• sane as that brought into the &wing tte last sesviun of . ftboArchbishap of Center auhrtribe. Bo was so not only die{ to the Unitarian Dissenters, • Kite relief to the _ministers of is. is matters of faith would mks of the Unitarians were, Won:tier, and were therefor. be was anxious to remove from "this Bill the necessity for that place under the !listing laws,. principle of this Bill he fully the greatest satislanioo •ute toe its se to himsel: the right of discussing the Bill were permitted to, go ;LL9 rose :o oppose the second Ins own strong feelings, and in r Lordships were discussing, he their Lordships briefly, but he refused his assent to the second dons and the machinery of the pa with op observatiors, for his , and he could not sec how the He could not see on what va enabled to state that the marriage lurch was repugnant to his feelings; 'scribe? He was merely called to 7 Merely as one of the parties who ground in this respect fur his re st the Unitarias made a decides :, of the Father, Son, and Holy ,ate to their Lordships, that those itarians themselves. and were to be tier. The minister at their Yap tame of the name of the Father, name of the Holy Ghost." No that the Unitarians had no right Ives ,sere in the habit of using. lurch, also gave his benediction and Holy Ghost ;" but that better, certainly could not make. , or rather an unwilling hearer. sight have considerable weight, - England were guilty of a pre doing the marriage of an Unita- ' case, .r should, as much as any of their abhorrence and detestation. But be 1 for such a charge. When the Uni e married, he knew that the minister and the minister was as per , about to marry held doctrines . Where then could be the de prevarication amidst i Prevarication when a pence used weeds which 4 'tun mese by the pelage whO es one thing and mewing ao - perfectly understood one another; -eived. He would repel with a • had been brought against the There was no equivoeitioe, the Act to which allusion had sth of, and he believed in the I sincere in their belief. It there were any force used on (ben he would agree that the Bill ought to be obeyed rather than -• the case. He was not called t of the Church of England ; obliged to hear thesis. If the little of the spirit of Chris- I servants of the Established. England would be wanting in Its opportunity of declaring " the truth ._, of spreading those vital truths which and the essence of Christianity. How else convince the unbeliever of hi‘ errors, if it alien _ its first duty, and came under the denunciation, "forasmuch as ye denied before men, I will deny you before my Father which is in Heaven?" Marriage was not only a civil but a religious insti tution. The State had considered it wise end proper to add civil enactments to the religious ordinances. The church was the Esta blished Church of the Realm, and Av./id not think it was called u.pon to give up the right of solemnitation of marriage, a right siliich it bad retained fora lee g series of years, unless upon good apd valid grounds. lithe Hoeft were to peas this Bill, it would lie celled upon on every principle that was honourable and just to grant the same privilege to every sect of Dissenters, no matter what /plight be their name or what might be tbeirdoetrines. The Arians diight also say they differed in opinion from thechurch as it respected the sou and the sooship, and they might justly and rattly claim a similar privilege to that of the Unitarian. The Presbyterian also might use a similar argument, and claim the same advantage. If their Lordships granted it to the esitarians, they must in justice extend it equally to every other sect, no matter how erroneous and absurd their doctrines might be. He should he sorry to say any thing that was harsh or or that might appear illiberal; Um bat mast that she U nita rians r.gbt to be looked mow us a ' bear -it the belief Christ-- that -r Dissent*. was 'forted the fa of Chtistiooity. Ike eoold !doily conceive the proptioty the justice of refusing this privily, to dim will agreed in all t.oarwantat principles of the Ltsbissited Church, hut who N.' Iron it mums minor matters, such u the liCcace, or the boo' -.. • THE or the ring;_ of denying to biro this exemption, as our fathers bad heretofore done, and leaving it to time to reconcile him to those minor forma But to the obstinate rejecter of it, doctrines, and of the dorrints of Christianity. while he felt the deepest pity for his. errors, and offered up the most animus prayers for his del i verance.he reit assured that that delivrrance could not be effected by compelling him to submit to a service which he abhorred, and by exasperathl him to a kern and better resentment ; for in :hese dive men did oot believe that prejudices could be overcome by forcing the conecienee, Under these views of the measure before the House, be would gin • his cordial support to the second rending of the Bill ; and if it were perrni•ted to go before a Committee, he would propose some alteration its its subordinate details. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he. could not with pen_ piety give Ilia consent to the second rending of the Br a nd it be.. came hie duty to state to the Noble lintels upon whalikmande he , refused it. In the first place, he should be extre mely aid to hear soy Noble Lord say whet he meant in this pro Act by ter l NMI " Unitarian," because if he meant by Luitarian a wild dented the divinity of the Saviour, he would ask their= `Alp if It would not be first necessary to enact that it was lawful so fork? He would refer their Lordshipa to the Bth end eth of Wil liam II I.,which thus enact," 'Whereas certain perpoas have published ated.promulgated certain blasphemous and impious opinions, cog ently 'to the doctrines and the principles of the Established Church of this realm, and tending to destroy the religion of Als Mighty God, by supporting detestable tribes. be it declared and enacted, that any person Lund guilty, either by spewing .er writing. of denying any one of the Holy Trinity, oneb ponds I shall, for a Seat offence, be deemed incapable of having and ens }dying any oilier. place, or empleynsent whatsoever ; and that anr person art ainricted bselpg atry melee, place, or employmen, such otbee, place, or onploytnent, shall be declared void ; and that any such person being found guile/ a second time of each oK•nce, shall become incapable re, being he guardian so any child. and shall not be eapable of receiving any Oft legacy, or aee whatsoever, civil or. occlesintie.4. When It woo peepond to repeal that Act he was sure that then was no ana who did not wish it. The Act of Toleration lgnl: to that respect also been 'tented. The repeal he alluded nete mined persons from the penelties of the different Acts whiele isted before the Act commonly called the Toleration Act was pissed. As to having withheld anything, as had bon hinted he had done on one °mimeo, he Naos* beg leave to contradict it alto. gather, and indeed slush a circumstance would deserve the greatest censure. He pealed, nmembered that when this question was diseased lest year it was distinctly uoderstoed that the Bill was not to repeal the common law. It was another question wheaten that law should remain es it then eiood. Tbe question new was, ithwas not the laws It was the law, and it was Bret necenely• yepeel it before they pared anther. If they really meant td tepgl the common law let them doh, but let tbem not pass one In teeth of another now is operation. He would banter a that the common law was repealed, as would worse Nagai the nature of the measure now under discussion. It need tend to pat them on the same footing with the Jews and Quakers. He would, with regard to the latter, observe, that he wished the doubts which existed on the subject of their marriages were removed. To- return to the Unitarians. they not only denied the doctrine of Trinity, bet they had not one sentiment in common with themselves. Besides, if these prisYsgla yes granted to she Unitarians, how could they deny them annlin nee did in song degree prefers similar pi-lodides of -Chtietianif He w a s grieved tome the laxity of the Churc h) cane of their most vital doctrines. This he feared was wining a degree of mischief which would lead to considerable dienneign. (Hear.) The first thing that he considered as nonsmeppres a correct definition of what the Unitarians were, and vela Vete the doctrines they professed ; but he called upon them not *pan this Act. which would oblige the Judges in the Court of King s Boni to deny a doctrine which they would thus have sanctioned. Lee r them take care that the Church of England was not given u persona who asserted that its doctrines were as impious sod pis pbetnous as the Act of King William had declared their own to alt . It *as upon these grounds that he should oppose the passing dr this Bill. The Earl of LIVERPOOL rose and appeared to labour under a great degree of bodily weakness and languor. He said he was sorry to express a difference of opinion from his Learned and Noble Friend on the Woolsack. He was not, as they might judge from his voice, in a fit condition to trouble them lbng, and indeed he should not have risen at all, but that, entertaining a strong opinion on the present question, he thought he should not be doing his duty if he did rot endeavour to state the grounds of tint opinion. His Noble and Learned Friend had rested his argument, ' if he had rightly understood him, upon the present state of the I common law. And it was this that made an objection again. granting these privileges to the Unitarians, whilst at the same time the Statute laws against them had been repealed. BO Iris Learned and Noble ?Send had himself furnished ctrl answer to that part of his argument. He admitted in a elekl gree. by comparing the Unitarians to the Quakers, who drift brawl their marriago% according to their own roes, which dersinod to be valid, although theirs was only on a general standing. Could •••• man assert that there was any thing% the doctrine of which no - 'segue the marriage be if r broad must .. A prin. ciples that he should voielbr the plaid; rthe.flid. if e woad, now look to the expediency of the ineantre. The strongest aript. ment on the score of exiency was t 'hoW could they grant this to the Unitarians only antlxiot to other Dissenters ? This argument was cavil y answered, namely, on the score of Its utter impeacucabi'. My. It had, they might an remember, been once attempted. and when the fill was proposed to be read a second time, he voted for but expzeurly suited that he thought he should be obliged to op. pose it in the Committee, which be found was the ease, end the proposed measure was lost. There wait, moreover, a vast difference between this sect and others. He would .with pleasure, as he had before stated ; apply the same principle to other Dissenters, if suffi cient numbers of them existed. The Jew, the Quaker, and the Unitarian could not be married with our church ceremonies, or if they could, it win not without conducting themselves in such a manner as no throw a sin on the setvices and offices of out church. Was nor the protest, which he d.-red to say none of them had heard, but which they sometimes saw in the public paper, made at the altar, the most dieguating ant' rreosive that could be imagined to the mi. nivten of the Established Church. He perfectly agreed that the Church bad a right to compel its own members to be married ac cording to its own rites ; but that Church which did not consider itself infallible abould not be jealous where both parties were Dia. ,Aenters, if they should wish to be Married in their own forms. In no view, therefoye, could he see any objection to the passing of this - opfninn, r existing grievances, believed doctrines Ildr professors were were entitled to at- very few ob. at evening give thought that the dif- Established Church 'mental and vital . 1 of the vast ten doctrines of the -ttliought that • Maid not without win usayekinee. U they 'er be relieved. . to &tense _At not have ad. Welled tne de : had umbels:God that Noble Lord incerity by those which no man nine Articles. the Right I hist : .he understood . him It t thought of the pre o the present appli- Coristlans. s satisfat‘tion of to read ex , so. (Cees , periodical Quarterly Frematiters, iclioed to doubt , blicatlon was extract he Ceremony, .d disgrucNt it light Rey. 'Pre. ~ urging the Uni. This passage he ety recent to defer as it had a period. tits dectritie the maniage He 'himself It a defection submitted to disbelieved•' lied objections the mamage ' ceremony of the Church of England. ThisVll would relieve the letter, and be thought the, were entitled to relief. But this mea sure ovoid not only relieve Unitarians bat silo the Church Etta. blialmilat itself; for few things, he knew* by experience, could be - % :Sll . P 1 ,E=.4S• spore painful than to be required to administer ordinances to per who not only 'coded and derided at therm but tomlly disbe lieved them. He should therefore willingly place the linitasi ins on the same footing with the Quakers before the mossiog of the Marriage Act, ghich compulsory regulation he would Like that opportunity to state -as the Ohurch had nothing to do with it. It was not their desire to impose their doctrines on those who'rejeeted thorn ; but be thought that the present Bill was not sufficiently calculatedto provltle against clandestine marriages which the peculiar moron:flattop of the Quaker'a Society did. This way one of his objections fo the present measure, but he still thought that means might be deviled to relieve those comempleted in the Bill. It was to the present form ofthe Bill that be objected; in short to the whole - machinery of the Bill, and as drat could not be reme died in the Committee, he shOuid therefore voieagaumst it. By this Rill the Unitarian would heeounei i s i k were a kind of E pi scopalian Dissenter. and indeed it was Rrinci ypn the ground of the ha rdship iiii th e Bill imposed upon tle _clergy that he objected ro it. in him opinion, a Case of great hardship fur a Bishop to be .;equirt'd to license a Meeting House, built for the express purpose '1 of propagating doctriDel inimical to what he held moat sacred. 1 But indeed he objected to nearly the whole of the provisions of the Bill regarding the Clergy. He world not go into a detail of particular i , objections, but one very mpatient point with him was the vagueness of expression in the p We of the Bill. There the Unitarians were termed " Peet/atm commonly called Unitarians." Now many he thought who' were in a kind of doubtful state, would not mind taking adventage . of_thisßill as it at present stood. though they would hesitate to sign a declaration of distrelief in the Trinity. lie therefore thought that one provision of such a Bill ought to prevent , such imposition), by requiring ;very one desirous of being married under this Bill to sign a decldestion of hie disbelief in the Trinity. The Bill as it at preemie wood wnuld provide a mode of marriage for many whose relief was ewer intended. Another defect of the' Bill. which. he had before alluded to, wee. that it did not provide effectually against clandestine marriages... Besides, he put it to their j,ocirdships what a minister must feel when receiving a certificate from two persona whose bailie he bed published, saying that they wished to enter into the State of matrimony, that they denied the holiness of the ceremony, and disbelieved that doctrine which he thought so essential to t; istiatilty. These : tad similar pro visions rn the Bill luutlehips 04 the clergy. and if ; they were re,n t o il vA L. ahead be among the foremost to re blt:lg lease the Uni • " their diffieultiera l Hs had already stated that Unitarians difeled that th:re was anything sacred in the marriage ceremony. and considered it merely as a civil eon tract. He now held in his hood a protest, signed by two persona named Pea/on and Thomsen, in which they declared mar ' triage to be Merely a civil contract. They disclaimed the !WM ferer cie of the Church in this most important point, and contended that it ought to have no Concern with it whatever, and they ought to be married like the Quakers, but under the cognizance of the State, through the medium &ifs civil functionaries. The difficulty was to provide for the relief of. the Unitarians and the Church, Red 'at the same time guard against clandestine marriages. It was Upon these consideratienstuathe should be obliged to oppose the Bill in its present intim. .. Lord REDESDA LE made $ fel observqtions against the Bill, which were inaudible below the bin Lord CALI'IIOIIPE-4.A very . good distinction, he thought, had been drawn between the Unitarians and other Dissenters. No argument could be drawn from what had been said respecting the relief that must be grunted to one it' to all ; for what would be a relief to the Unitarians. who denied the Trinity, would not be a relief to others sho did nor. Hs, for his pan, should rote for the Bill. __ . __ ---------- . The Marquis of LANSDOWN begged, in answer to what had fallen from a Right Rev. Bishop, about the Unitarians noteonsi- Oerine marriage sacred, tastily, he did not deny that some enter tained the opinion of Its being merely a civil contract; but he was justified in saying that the greater number did regard it as a sacred ceremony. Another circumstance he mu.t mention, and that was that the Unitarians were tutaliy unconnected with the Freethinkers that had been alluded to. With regard to putting them on the tame footing with Jews and Quakers, he thought the Right Re verend Bishop could never intend that they should never be able to convey real property, which wet the case with them. The Bishop of CHESTER said he did not mean to say that the Unitarians, as a body, denied there was any thing sacred in the the marriage ceremony, but merely that there was a sect who did, and who would come under this Bill. The House then divided, when there appeared-- Against the second reading of the Hill 31, Pros-4'13 For the second reading 32, Proxies 12 - Majority against the Bill ' . It was consequently lost, The County Courts' Bill was postponed till Thursday next, after which the House adjourned at Bight &Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, JUNK 3. WESTERN SHIP CANAL. Sir T. LETfIBRIDGE brought up the Report of the Western Ship CasalCompany's Bill, when Lewd FOLKSTONE rose that on referring to the . _ that before any petition • a Private 11" - 19 44 - -6 .rte Standing Noble Lord had referred, and they appeared to be in eccordanct with the view which his Lordship had taken of them. He further °burred, that until the Hoene were in possession of the Report, they could come to no sorted judgment' on the question then liminght before them. The Committee must in the regular course' hats reported, that the Standing Orders of the House had bee. egmpillsii with, for to ascertain whether they had been or nett s ggetetalta matters necessarily referred to their consideration.. thmoillem mere the case, it must have happened that after lin 4( had been discovered to which the Noble Lord aipeelai He concluded by repeating that the House could do neshing,entil it waa poseesaed of the Report. After a few further observations from Lord Foucyroirs and ghee Sex/gis t Mr. A. BARING hoped that the undertaking would suffer no !prejudice from what had fallen from tire Noble Lord. He had trknown a private Committee less open to those who had ig v 7:cted to attend to the evidence and the arguments ; nor did he ever know a Committee more constantly attended by those wile, pee their votes. Afr. BROGDEN thought that on public grounds it was a ray good measure, antlstatedsuch as his opinion to one of his fricndb. He was in consequence asked to join to the subscription, but he thought proper to decline; at the same time, having no objection to attend the Committee, he was frequently present. Ills name, however, was put down without his desiring it.—without his con sent—in opposition to his distinct refusal; and accordingly be found it necessary to write to the Solicitor of the Company for the' purpose of correcting that misrepresentation. He wished to state se his opinion, that all those errors might have originated witholl fraudulent intention. In the Committee there certainly apposed nothing of that nature. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE felt that the opposition ought to bees been made at a different stage of the proceedings. Although dm Standing Orden of the /loose required that names should be ass iloson, and money subscribed to a terrain amount, yet they did not require that individuals who put dewi their naives should be ro.. bibited from afterwards changing their minds and taking names away. He trusted that when die Noble Lord coosidered the subject, he would not press his upposidas as bringingkp of the Repave Sir J. YORKE *43 clearly of 'aphis% ghat Wit dully Out a small SUM had been subscribed, the Compatly should r it t be allowed to proceed .with digging up the country, and destroying property ood , unless : thvy had real funds far produc i ng a substantial public g. Alr. 'DICKENSON protested against any Company's living al. lowed to uudenake the work of 1,400,000 L weh only 3t/0,001.1:. in . *dr possession. fait any thing might be Clone if a Company were allowe I so to proceed. %Sir THOMAS ACLAND denied that there was any fraud is.* list at deposited at the Bill Office. The deposits on the'! 1,01001. had been all regularly paid. The list that :mid bias ,erased to was for quite • different purpose front what was seep. polled: For his . .part he was quite at a loss to conceive what ausge could have bailer derived to the parties had they been guilty of the deceit of which the Noble Lord accused them. Hie thought further, that that Noble Lord should have stated before the Coe► mutter his Intention of br.ogtng the subject before the IfoUst. Lord FOLKS/41SE again rose, and inquired if the. House thought that it was necessary for every Member who had a motion to bring forward shottld feel himself under the necessity of submit ting thernoti , :n to' thOse whom he conjectured would be opposed to it, and lay t before them for their anticipation of the several Argo ;bents which he might deem it expedient to use. Mr. W. W ILL JAMS wondered how there could be a difference of opraios nos such a subject. The docomeut lodged at the Bill Office rl`Jld not be considered a list at all. It wus not such as the. Standing Orders Of the House required. If it were to go forth to one Browb public that the House of Commons had sanctioned such a Hill, she connivent' would hare been moat ruinous. They held. in their decision the wealth of thousands; every petty little shop- . keeper on the tine through which the canal was to ton would boi induced to vest his money in the speculation, on the faith of a saesw; Lion by the House of. Commons. . • The SPEAKER. wished the Holse to be aware of what (headrest did really require. He then read the Order, to show that those whit subecnhel must re..lly pay the whole sum. Such as thought thee they would be only.bouod to pay the sum they had subscribed for It the rate per cont. specified, would find themselves much "Mei 'teen—would Shd themselves liable to the full cent. per cent. After some flintier conversation, the Report was btought opi gad mod. !HOORN'S D I VOR The Corwmittee.en Moore's Divorce Bill was posspossed to Mons day nut. • --T-----..~-~t -R~.,,~ w'r- - ~ • • HANTS AND BERKS CANAL. On the question for extending the time for a further considera tion of the Report on the Hants and Berke Canal to Monday the 13th instant, Ale. F. PALMER rose to say that on the line of the proposed Canal the proprietors of 2,845 feet were neuter, those of 2.247 were assent:ng, and those of 59.393 dissentients. He had their signatures to prove this. In addition he would say that he entirely despaired of getting the Bill forward during the present Session. After a few weeds from Mr. EITCOURT ' Mr. C. Downas, Mr. AIRRERLY, Mr. Jowas , dir. Onanow,Mr. BRIGHT. and Mr. T. WILSON. the time was extended to the day abovementioned. ST. BOTOLPH'S PARISH (TITHES.) The nil for giving compensation to the Rector of SL Botolph's, pis read a third time and paned. EDINBURGH WATER-WORKS. • 'Mr. HOME DRU3I3IOND moved the further consideration Odle Report of the Edinburgh Water Works Bill. Mr. J. P. GRANT moved that it be read that day six months. •'Sin J. YORKE opposed the measure; when the period arrived , die** increase of population should render the establishment of a Company necessary, he would support a proposition to that not till then. Mr. SYKES wished to uphold competition, but in the present instance he thought competition could produce no good end, but, on the contrary, would raise the price of water in Edinburgh. Sir G. WAR RENDER supported the Bill. Mr. 11. DRUMMOND supported the Bill. Many petitions had been presented in favour of the Bill, and only one against it, and that emanated from the existing Joint-Stock Company, which stood alone against and at variance with the public interest& Mr. SYKES explained. 'Mr. CALCRAFT said, the inhabitants of London had encou-4 raged the establishment of two water companies, for the sake of competition, and instead of competition they had created a'eon junction. He was satisfied the very same thing would occur if dig Bill now before the House were permitted to pass, and that the second Company would be no sooner constituted than it would conleree with the one already established, and the consequence would be an increase in the Finite at which water could be supplied. After an observation from Lord litatitswe,, strangers were or dered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the Amendment 54 Against it 49 Majority against the Bill . —.5 Which was consequently lost. BRIGHTON IMPROVEMEkT BILL. Mr. CURTEIS presented several petitions from the inhabitants of Brighton aid its vicinity, against the Brighton Improvement Bill, and one from Brighthampstead, in favour of the Bill.—Lald en the table. 31r. CURTEIS moved the Order of the Day for the further consideration of the Brighton Improvement Bill, for the purpose of postponing it till Monda_y next. monday A . RIGNA IRON AND COAT, COMPANY. Mr. P. MOORE moved time third reading of the Arigtta Iron ar.d Coal Mine Company Bill. . It was read a third time and passed. CALEDONIAN CANAL. Lord BINNING brought up the 22d Report of the Commis sioners on the Caledonian Canal. Ordered to be printed. LUNATIC 'ASYLUMS. Lord BINNING moved that an bumble Address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to direct Returns to be laid before the House of the number of licensed and unlicensed Lunatic Asyluras in Grog Bsitain, and the number of patients confined therein, distinguishing the males and females, froln the year 1815 to 1824.—Ordered. SALMON FISHERIES. Mr. KENNEDY brought up the Report of the Committee on the Salmon FiaberieL—Onlered to be printed. BARLEY DISTILLERS. Sir J. WROTTESLEY presented a petition from the distillers of Wolverhempton, against permitting theeectifyingnf rum. The Hon. Baronet stated that the petition was signed by 91 individuals of great respectability. After a few words from Mr. BERNAL and Mr. CUREZIII, the petition was ordered to be pruned. COMBINATION LAWS. Mr. HU3IE presented petitions against the re-enactment of the' Combination Laws, from the Wootstaplers of London ; from the Tin-plate. workers of the same place ; and from the Operative Cot ton-spinners of Glasgow. The Honourable Member took that op. portnnity of stating, that there existed no intention on the part of the Committee to recommend the re-enactment of the old Combi nation Lows. (Hear, hear.) The Intention at present was, to re _ • model the provisions of last year, so as to give them the effect ori ginally intended. Mr. HUSKISSON corroborated the statement of the Honour. able Member. In movingfor the appointment of the Committee, he (Mr. Huskisson) stated most unequivocally his opinion that the old Combination Laws ought not to be re-enacted, and that the object merely was to give complete effect to the Resolutions of last year--(hear, hear)--and he then repeated, that the only result to be expected from the labours of the Committee was. that they should devise some means for attaining that most desirable object. Wear, hear.) te be. Pria LONDON COLLEGE. Mr. BROUGHAM said, he rose to give notice, that on Monday next'. he would move the Order of the Day for thesecond reading of the London College Bill, teat it might beshen discharged. He did so on the ground that it properly came in the nature of a private local Act, and not a public one. As a private Ac', then, it was meet to introduce it, and With that view he would present, on Monday next, the necessary petition for leave to bring it in. He wrs must anxious then to state the nature and objects of the in tended institution, as nothing could be more gross than the misre presentations which had gone abroad respecting it. No exclusive privileges were asked ; the Bill would merely go to incorporate cer. min persons in the usual way e to empower them to sue and be sued; they would be a Joint-Stock Company so far, to have the shares transferable; and certainly they were not to come within the provi sions of the (eh George 1. chap. 18, which his Hon. and Learned Friend was then about repealing . . ( A laugh.) The Bill enables] the Company to purchase land ; it gave no power to the partners to avoid personal liability, nor to any particular individual to with. draw himself -from such responsibility--failing the funds of the Company. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the Institution, he wished it to be particularly understood that-there existed no (limn don to apply to Parliament for permission to found fellowships; indeed none of these privileges or powers, at present exclusively ettloyld by the two Universities, -would in any wise be de , mantled. (Hear, hear, hear.) • The object was simply this— , that whereas there were then In the Cite of London and its vi cinity many respectable persons, who had no means of getting education for their children at either of the Universities, where it could without doubt be so well got ; and whereat they were likewise prevented from sending their children, by the great distance, not wishing to have them so far removed oat of their sight. Then there was a still further objection—namely, the great expense. If he said that 2001. a-year we the lowest expense at which a gentle man's son could be educated at Oxford ar Cambridge, he thought he would be stating a low average—indeed, too low, (Hear, hear, from several Members), which expensiveness he was sorry to fi nd accompanied with all the collateral evils of idleness, extrevaganee, and dissipation, and which were moat- unquestionably increasing; daily, not decreasing. He spoke not oa his own mere authority be was borne out in his assertion by the highest officers in beth Universities, by persons holding the highest official situation. When he said that the experses were increasing to a great degree, be tholight it but justice to add that it was the only thing which continued to be injurious to the boys; in other respects great pains were taken to reeve them, and indeed improvements to a great ex tent had talon place in the coarse of studies at Oxford and Cant. bridge. At Oxford more attention was paid to classical acquire ments ; and at Cambridge, where the classics only used to be cul tivated, a greater degree of attention was devoted to the severer sciences; indeed, at both a more scientific course of studies was established, from the progress of knowledge throughout the cone, try. (Hear, hear.) The object of the-new College Was to bring home to the means and wishes of numerous persons the power al giving to their children a necessary educrion. When he stated the. number of individuals too distant and too poor to send their sone to a Universite t even were theelheiphile mute cot:satyr to their feel. he ceffid apprehene to epposieen to The anneal at sem hteg.aeleige was to be teseguintas a-year ; there were to be annually three courses of lectures--fur each mine three guineas were to be charged, which,. with a guinea entrance, would make up the ten; this expense,. of coarse, was exclusive of the charges made elsewhere for clothe and maintenance. Such was the principle and ground of theelnatitution • the intention was to instruct the pupils in the %ciente a, letters, Ind arts, and the best , Professors 'would be selected for she purpose. To avoid the possi bility of their having sinecure situations, they were teeny' as houses at the College; they ware not to take boarders,andii weal** even intended that they should have private scholars; their rake lies ;would be small iodeed. something in the nature of a retain , fee; they wereeo receive from the College not more than from ow to 1001. a-year; for further .emeluments they must depend on the number of pupils who snail attend their lectures. This was to be the rule, except in some particular cases—such as with regard to the Professor of Oriental languages. -There was one other ground for eatablishiek the new College, which was to provide a good medical sehooL (Hear hear.) These was no such thing at Oxford or Cambridge, and it could only be where large hospital were. London, after all, was the place where a medical school should be formed ; Liverpool might be a fit pleat, .from the met number of its inhabitants--so might Sheffield ; it was certale, however, that there was only one natural place for a iv ediele school. Is was intended to have the new College situate about half an bear's walk from some large hospital, so that the pupih might enjny tbe 'advantage of excreter whilst they were attending tisk studies. The piesent was the time, he thought, peculiarly apple. , priate for establishing the new College, when such great extrusion I were everywhere being made to provide schools for the poor; in. deed scarcely a day passed on which he haul not from 19 to 21 ennimunicatioes, from parts of the reentry in which Mechaitis'l Institutinns were set OS foot...if not Mechanics' Instihetleat SRI least Libraries, were established. and lectures given to the operative classes. It was quite impossible, he conceived, that the bet* classes in the metropolis could be satisfied to have their children' more ignorant ehan the carpenters and labourers who worked ler them. Lewes intended that the new College should be open to all persons ; there sere to be no tees to exclude nay primal:a seer. indeed there we, e to be no thesalogiatl lectures of any sort . • it Mg admitted that the Clergy of the Estate/lag Church meld be bole educated at Oxford and Cambridge, and the Dissenting Clergymi their own respective seminaries. It was proposed to vest the se vernment ref the Offilte ss in a Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, eat nileteen Professera e obeerrations be deemed it natality .. s • sasiag'and at•theit igmbeisitin to 111 . Itynn Ma i & OM who nue hi2s l iF alai omit *it O. ko - the& mug* iiiirt,;;::, wibs i t. 11l tuner i le non to*, char leiway breast am temples . ' eleweistont wilt the safety of the Otliegiltddse whole eastimuni poodle imierounity, and to ens ofthil IMO Institution. On these g alOW•dotilling of the Bill, and he hee, l iZ bidep t be considered expedient 1 of CANTER BUR . g:I this i Bill c44B' was a the Bill as ils b 74 nowt Marquis opposite, void is this principle be I )IMpeepfed himself ready to cubit lepeeses It Wes calculated to give relief het because itWas also calculated to 0, sly listabbehed Church. Thilferaien be always entertained. The scruple be fiend y . believed, entertained in 1101 entitled tograve consideration. But he Illorilliblislyrd.Chorch by means of th unhallowed oreivecatioe which took pi s 1.111• !my kot eV the altar. To the p sunailitid, and would with the groan sold reading, reserving, however, to MI the vatioue clauses aontained in it, if ti through a Committee. The Bishop of BATH and WELL rending of the Bill. In justice to his jitstfee to the important subject their 1.., felt himself called upon to state to the hoped clearly, the reeves why he mint needing. With respect to the provisioc Bill, he would triable their Lordships objtcdon lay stalest the principle, el prtramble of the Bill could be good. S - ands the Unitarian wee enabled ebony of the Established Church we, • Y 0 whet was he called to subscribe a itecribe his name, and to what? Men wai married. There was then no grout pigeon But it was argued that th nob thaw at the altar, " in the name o Mom." It was unnecessary to state tc "We words were used by the Unitarian[ fiennd in their printed form of prayer. usni stid, " I baptise thee in the name in tbet:ame of the Son, and in the nam rlb then could be clearer than that ject to the words they themselves • * minister of the Established Churn • the name of the Father, Son, ant Werth', if it did not make a person bette bleb worse, while he was a passive, or It *as argued, and the argument migh t thin the clergymen of the thatch of 1:I varication when engaged in solemnisini rise. If such were the case, he shone Lordship , bold the act in abhorrence thought there was no ground for such tartan entered the church to be marriel 'entertained opinions contrary to his, a Maly aware that the person he was at that were in direct opposition to his. I ceptlon ? In what did the prevaricati appoind to lien simply me mean, when be wished to benndimmed in a Nord bint ; it was, in lion, eirj e e l er. But in this case the parties perk( a neither was deceiving or deceives' of indignation th e charge that ho ergy of the &Maid* - Church. time wait no mental ' in th been made. He the vet assertion, that the U a were : 4ould be unfair to doubt it. If the p conscience of the Unitarians, then I ought to pass, for then " God ought man," but he knew that such was cot t upbh to abandon his doctrines for those if he did not like them he was not of were otherwise, there would be li sty either in the service or the s Church. But the Church of Engin 141ty if it did not take ever opportun which is in Christ Jesus, of spread Tote the foundation and the essence could that church convince the unbcliev, dotted its feet duty, and came under the tsbee - rve, that the Unitarians' halms fgbt to be looked uppity.. 3 ;no view, therefoye, could he gee any objection to the pass !veined sect. 'Their Lordships would bear in mind that the belief ' Bill, which would, in his (minim, remove glean existing e ult the Unitarian sea merely a belief in the humanity of Chrie— it would relieve those who, in their conscience, believed belief that was the Yew " axe to the root of the tree." that went which, however erroneous they might be, If their pinta • . yto undermine the ptiogapito of the Christian religion. For sincerely attached to them, Men those professors were end reasons—because be sew no just geounds for giving this pri. tenths. (Heat) to the Unitarians--beeause the clergy of the Letablished • The Bishop of CHESTER *aid he should make vet were guilty of 116 prevarication or equivocation--because be servations, And those only that the vote he should that en I. Tad reason wisp die ttlitirch should relinquish an angler t might not be liable to misconstruction. He thought tha ..,_ use he thengbt oil kinds of Dissenters had an equal if l fereece of **flier. which existed between the F4tablishe rt.' • - elainklithle the I; 011044-,and because be thought and the Unitarians, WAS at to and of the most fundament& i " .• •., In as a favoured sect. For adder of their belief. There could be no.question of rh ' he of his May. he wou/d Elortence of thetr merles lethge thought that the doctri et V .s- .•, a s iet to o sow. of I t b e ra d a acoota d Tricky had no fain/Astir is the Scriptural, if theyithi .. . • • . elm Jews divine hneount - rcrenot usdr paid to it, and tare ..' • : t'^ '. or L l V A egrri tfralt g edielllfa answorr kti L . woofloiroolotouv ° eicesalbaell Orolluellwak "it • the opitark ' .by the • lit Rev.' o wit• bad Airbag the Trish?. din efeitilingftfetr tatentleneo Glee addressed their Isor:dripe. He would consider the subject he suell scruples , he sincerely thought they might to be etoe heads; first, With respect to the erfobt of the Bill on the ludic On so impnititit al atiee of feith 'it would tee unjust iiluals who were more in.:nedletely cooceined in it ; next, as to then of insiticerit , and hypoo*l. Indeed he should . re its effect on the Church of Logland i and next, with regard to the veiled to it atoll. i , ul net flue Noble klatquit who opera Dissenters generally. It was hardly necessary foe him to declare, bate thought fit to =at an unfair impuuttibn, as be had t, ebet he was dreideoly hostile to the doctrines and the errors of the l'., on the Estagisied Clergy. He had underetond that N Unitarians, whom, with all respect for their talents, their a cquire. to say that the flnitstnine might he accuited of insinceritt *Ws, and the sk,a,i virtues which he knew many of them who had no difficnles la ilrearing to certain things whit possess in nit anitient degree, he considered as totally without could holiest'. Alluding, be understood, to the Thirty riot that religion .Mini " coined) of (iod." The pervasions of &nip. ' The Blaquielef I,A risco Wtti begged to say that t tore, however, to which they were obliged to have recoune, wgreno ' Reastend and Noble (~sed had titslly misapprehended roof of their skill and judgment. To alter the text for any bail not - once mtani to make the leaSt Allusion. it thOr. witltont authority, or merely on the authority of a common. The Bishop of CHESTER said he had so understood oe of 200 years ago, was surely not Worthy of mew distinguished wee only at a recent date that the Unttarien - ' hid thought 4 for li terary attainments, and.for power* Of mtnd. But a IOC! as lie sant matter. They had been goaded and lashelithto the ores p' t their doctrines. still he would say, '• by their own master cation by certain perebna calling themselves Freethinking C . . Mend or fall." He knew that it mug he gelling in the This fact he hapvl he shooed be able to prove to the soli: to wound their feelings, and 'arouse their prejtoneee at a the House. lie knew not whether it was customary t, 0 which formed the moat Interesting and important poruon of • tracts from books, !hit if he was permitted he should do a la t their here, and in this principle he would vote fur the remord of , or " Read.") The paragraph be should read was from a the oldigatiossi against which they raised their voice, and of which work, published by those Freethinkers, and called the " tion so earnestly complained. With respect to the Lstabli , bed Reshoer." He pee them tberltlenf Freethinkers. or Ft iireti oftthis realm, the Church to which he was so nearly spied, but as Tor being Christians, there might be some incline( Iheeoesidered that ita intevste would be best advanced by deliver. their right IA the title, as the very first article in their pnblii asigrit from tbe scandal which was brought upon it by those wh o directed spinet the public worship of the country. The tropes' With little abort cat ' contempt that which was the object ee its should read was from a very clever article on the Marriage e • neohetion. To his view of the ease, that Church could not be better which made him the m ore regret t h a t th e a uthor had di stated than by the removal or at abuse which put , as it were, the with sume most illiberal abuse of the clergy. (The Right .oefeseillato unhallowed hands. If the Bill passed the seeend read. late here read a long extract from the kbove work, urging ijtionie alterations would neassarily be made in the Chmmitte:. nutria to make the present ao.slieation* This pi I* 1141 was anxious that there should be a complete separation of quoted to show that . the present claims were of et the Uplotrions and the Misobers of the Cht.reli of r,ngland, be. date, 'and that if it aheuld he deemed expedient sure diem could never be any union between Musa who Accnted the question. no great grievance would be imposed, free another,the one of idolatry, and the other of malerolentr. The been borne with so much illtietlCa for so long Not Rev. Prelate who last addreatted the House, had stated, among He thought that sontelpersthis might not acknowledge lit me.* objections to the Bill, hikottsction to it on the grounds that of the Trinity, who yet would have no objeetien to the eive.t Lordships would be actually bound and compelled in justice ceremony as performed by the Ls•ablisned Church. H to etant this ptivllege to every other class of Dissenters. This ob. knew several Unitarians, who. had they thought it a t, d tebr, did not a ppear to have any fore*, for the distinction hetweeu from their prineiples, would not. he was sure, have submi "t , t : Unitarians and all other Dissenters was obvious, and the more He elso thought that there might be 'some men who d I...:•letay" that distinction w as 'narked the better it would be fat the the Triat , y. and had objections on that ' account to the . . __,. .-. . . . .. is - ~ ....-- a.. .......sss. renamed. of the Church of &whim& This UM would e tieiodiol;vell7,elthough"auTtsveasonlyon i general under. Ship Canal Computes Bill, whist -r --r- object mere standing. Could eiriy . man assert that there was any thing in the Lord FOLKSTONE rose to observe, that on referring to the year— (hear doctrine of the Unita:line, which no man could condemn as erro.. Standing Orders of the House, be perceived that before any petition be expecte neous more thin be could, more at variance with Christianity than could be presented for the_ptupose of introducing a Private Bill, should devi the Jews ? nebul a e 6 „ia t ..,.... i „, & ,, 'ebbs view to esuatiutte c e Imes-Stock Company, it wee neramary (Hear„hear pimMed brat Able " ..: lbattriti' shwa Try d'erififfee trbeinuarambenewsmeabi., third I ants of those who 1 1 11 =71701741 . eYfilred freely Irv. and OM sto any proceeding being taken, those. among us, aria their right to matey in their Oro wan OM diss. liars should Waged In the Privite Bill Office. With regard to Mr. BR( puled. He, for his part, lb d contend Fee. . pass privileges the cast of the Repot* then before the House, he had to state, that next he wok fcr Mohoinetans, were they ciently ludeed them thisestiended expense if the undertaking would be 'nothing short the London could be no mama whY me of 40 Irdeliblvelornerry in of 1.700,0001., anti whoa 41/1 expenses were taken into summit, so on the m a their own manner sboaW 1 1:1 11, icidsent a einier t od "mild probably asesur.t to 20/8,0001. The list lodged at the Bill local Act,. of' the laws of the-county. ; ' Of theCharert of Offim, purported let be for 1,400,0004. than which nothing could meet to i t England wonoteven sr o Me ehepl phetesturyender beams iiipte from the fact. One Member of that House was set Monday n 3 4,4 al•ctrcumsuinces. wfren e p r e c e v e d ryied In I ' l ante with all dein ?KW. shames, when in truth he had only taken 20 ; another wrs must al ' the Catholic forms, it was SO 'legit mar. fOr Sid, idle bad only taken the same number, another for 344 tended insti tune in this c ou n t r y. it p as die u m I rvi di r rid e s b i rmien e e ne. shams, who had likewise not exceeded2o. What then could such presentatim tinges in Scotland. He thempere_ must ousteng that the doctriee a proceeding be designated, but a most fraudulent attempt to irn- privileges s which hid been already laid down MIS parsed? Mercer, thit whore Prim upon the public? Ile would not give an opinion upon the tain person' the marriage cm - vita:ly could not be performed by a prim, It would peeped merits of the undertaking, but he thought th e attempt to they would be lmtl if gone through by it civil person. That was good on the impose upon the public ought to be exposed, and the Standing transferable broad principle laid down In the Bible, that every encWragetnent Orders of the House applicable to such cases strictly enforced. slona of ti must be given to marriage Itself. It was ;moo these general prin. The SPEAKER then stated. the Standing Orders to which the Friend was ciples that he should vote for the passing of the Bill. Re would Noble Lord had refined and they appeared to be in accordance the Compel 1 • - , is (. tiag - es rbich ~~ Mr. M.A. TAYLOR rose to vindicate the Universities front the imputations cast on them by the Hon. 31ember, who stated obey had not node any attides in seiznev and discipline. Mr. BROUGHAM—The very contrary ; 1 mid they MMe great intprovetnents in both. (lean) Mr. M. A. TA YIOR resumed. The greatest reform had lately taken place ; it was now usual tor all young men to go through the regular ezaminatione instead of taking mere honorary degrees; such was the practice with persons of the highest respectability ; h a thought the institution of ins Hon. Friend m ust f a il , for without proper discipline no seminary could be conducted prop er ey ; ; 1„, boys must become idle • they might, perhaps, attend at the coin_ wand of their fathers, b'ut would come home as ignorant as ever. After a few words from Mr. OOULBURN, ' Mr. BROUGHAM asked had he said any thing derogatory to the character of the Universities ? Certainly not ; he stated tliat tire. made great exertions to remove all the to deneies to extravagance.: much improvement had taken place in Oxford and Cambridge i n the different classes ; and he was sure tbat when learning bean )* epidemic, a greater number of students would be sent to both ; for if a father could educate some of hls eons at the new College, the probability was, that he would entertain a wish to sen d one to either of die Universities, there to mix with the Nobles of the land. So fat from ant jealousy being felt by either of the Universities to.. wards the new College, he assured the House that four out of dye of its promoters were fellows and scholars of either Oxford or Cambridge. SKIPWRECK. Mr. TREMAYNE , NWIII a petition from Mr. Trenghouse, IL respecting his invention of nous for roving lien from 'hip _ wreck, and moved fore** eorrespoodeoce which took pl ace between him and the auk*, the Admiralty an the subject. Mr. T. 'WILSON** thli of the =dm of the Trinity House, of the Conanaittwa * ' Wed die jlel j b trt a t Society of Arta, was, that Mr. Treettommii lye . 411111tvine of re. oompense for his excellent inventiele. Sir J. YORKE thought that dim As poisott his much should reward him for it. Sir ISAAC COFFIN did sot think It of the host use. He would advise the peer mast to trundle up hit Mamma, and bu r n iL er. WM4 preferred rewarding a man for inventing an apps.. rams to save human life to giving grants for repairing roads. Sir I. COFFIN explained. Stria. CLERK said the apparatus then talked of differed but flute 'from the invention of Captain 3lanby. When Mr. Trent. bootie applied to the Admiralty. he was told that If his apparatus had any merit it must soon get into use. He (Sir G. Clerk) bad no wish to withhold the papers moved for, but thought Mr Treng. house should print them himself, and not put the country to the expense of adveitiaing his apparatus for him. Ordered. EAST AND WEST INDIES—SLAVE TRADE• Mr. F. BUXTON moved for various Returns connected with the trade to China, Sierra Leone, the Isle of France, the Mauritius, and the West Indies. The Hon. Member also moved for several Returns connected with the Slave Trade. Mr. Secretary CANNING said, it was impossible for any human being to give an opinion as to the time when these re. turns could possibly be made, and he would rea'J, put it to the Honourable Gentleman, whether it was possible, from the reason of the thing to expect that returns so numerous and complicated could be complied with in any reasonable time, if indeed, they could be complied with at all. To hum it seemed utterly impel'_ imposaible, that the orders for any such returns could be complied with. 111 r. CUR Tf;lS said, that as the Right Honiurable Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad lately expressed his inten. tion of making some alteration in the dunes on rum, he was of opinion that there might be something mischievous in these re solutions, and that they were intended as the foundation of other measures. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped that as these resolutions invol►ed such a variety of topics, and were likely to give grounds of alarm upon other subjects, as the Honourable Member for Sussex cif r. Curteis) had just now deelared—(a laugh)—the Honourable Gentleman, (51r. Buxton), would with draw his motion. '3le. F. BUXTON had no objection to withdraw his motion for the present; but he begged to say, in justification of his own con. duct, that he had mentioned his intention of moving for these papers some weeks ago to the Hon. Gentleman opposite; and that he had been told then there would be no objection to comply with his request. Mr. W. HORTON said the Hon. Gentlemen, the Member for Montrose, fool made 38 motions upon the subject of Sierra Leone last week, and he would venture to say that it would require at present (nor men, perfectly competent to the duties of his office, and thoroughly well acquainted with the subjects, to labour foe do months incessantly before they could ptepare all the Returns which had been already ordered in the Colonial Department He would declare at once. and be was glad of the opportunity, that it was perfectly impossible for a single Secretary and his ate . blishMent to do the public business effectively, if the present totten continued. Since he entered office, is 1822, every pus of business bad Increased upwards of 130 per cent. He was aware the practice had oogrant papers almost without end, sad that If be Jested, Hon. Gentlemen were ready to point oat oho a papers which had been already produced. All he whored to say at 11l Sent was, that he trusted the practice, which bad boot useful, might. not be turned into an abase. Mr. HUME said he could not s i t silent under the imputation that he was moving for papers which were not wanted. He had asked for an account of proceedings at Sierra Leone during thirty years, in which the nation had been spending one million and a half of money. Wu it fit that he shouli be reproached with do nsoding papers without reason,when he wished to put an end to an cxpenSiture at the present moment of 110.0001. a year, and which he hoped he wool he able to demonstrate, was altogether un necessary. For 11. *pent in printing he could assert there had been 1001. saved le fie coon try. Mr. Secretary CANNING again expressed his wish that the :lon. Gentleman would withdraw his motions. They were withdrawn accordingly. QUARANTINE LAWS. Mr. C. GRANT,. in moving the third reading of the Qua rantine Laws Regulation Bill, said he thought it necessary to make a few observations. in consequence of the misstatements and misrepresentation which hail gone abroad on the subject of con tagion, as connected with the enactments of the'present measure. The Bill was founded upon the Report of a Committee on Foreign Trade which sat last Session, and which examined medical men of great eminence, all of whom were decided upon the question of the contagious nature of the plague. A Bill, therefore, tormed uOrel a Report which contained the evidence of tin Gilbert Blanc, Dr. Granville, and others, all unanimous upon the necessity of or-- caution being taken against the contagion of the plague, could not surely he liable to those objections which had been urged against it elsewhere, or give any ground for that alarm which seemed to prevail upon the subject of its enactments. The Bill, in fact, did not repeal a single precautionary measure which had been adopted at any other period. It preserved all the spirit of the ancient system, aethig upon the principle of contagion, and only modified the practice of quarantine, so as to render it as little ex pensive and tedious as possibly could be done, with a proper re gard for the public safety. The Bight Hon. Gentleman then ex plained, at some length, the principle upon which the Bill proceeded, and the difference between the law now proposed and that which it proposed to repeal, demonstrating that the principle still re mained the same, and that the modifications were only as to time. One alteration, however, was proposed. relative in the punishment of death for the violation of the law wh•ch at present was inflicted in all cases; and he proposed to repeal that clause, except as to the single Offence of forging a certibeate. Goods received front certain ports were row only to be placed under quarantine for 21 days,_ as it was cinsideral by all the medical men, that an absence of 60 days from the place supposed's', be infected was sufficient fur the purposes of wise presaisases Cleans bills of health might be sent to the Privy Core* tend returned by post, leaning it still in all cases in the diserdio isf cis Council, as to the application of the particular case ta ei lit moon of the inspectors, who were to go round to t''` - di ' to examine into the state of all the departimots c eumeat of the Quarantine Reguladiaisosothe* 411easlonsan concluded by spying; drat pas hoes framed to exceed tat p re " . Hein eminent medical prac titioners, and that he had thon t h necessa7 to make these state. (dents, to explain the rail nature std obj of cf the Bill. iSly I. COFFIN said, lie rose to contradict the statement, that e phrot o e never appeared northward of Cape Finisterre. The ague tad appeared here four times, ark carried off 169 ; 000 persona. he lionouroble Gentleman then reef a letter from a Gentlemen. rmerly connected with the army in O . :soot to prove the contagious Mouse of the plague; and reminded the Ilmise, that although Dr. IPLeao escaped death at Constantinopk himself, all his assistants, who were to have two dollars for their attendance, perished. He hoped that all precautions would still be takeu against the introduc tion of that terrible disease. Mr. Secretary CANNING was glad to take that opportunity of expressing his satisfaction, that none of the wild visionary opinions lately at:ranted upon the subject of contagion had been adopted by the Honse, and that therommercid world would now he enabloi to fbrm an opinion of their sentiments.. Honourable Gentleutes were prob .lily not aware how much mischief had been done by the late asitation of that question. Already at Marseilles and at Genoa, England was looked upon almost as an infected country. and at Naples, so great was the alarm created by ths promulgates& of die nun-contagion declarations, they had actually made an ad dition of twenty one days to the usual term of quarantine upon all vessels from England. It was his wish that those specu lative men, who maintained the non.mintagious nature of the plague, should rather try their experiments is crispers lON, (hear, hoar, and laughter), than upon the health and safety of a whole neloc. He lead no inclination to adopt their suggestions in this 'roomy, and he again expressed his gratification diet the questios was now set at rill. Dlr. TRANT said a few words, which were not audible in the gallery. An Hooottrable MEMBER, whose name we could not learn. cede some observations respecting the provisions of the Bill; bat they were wholly inaudible in the gallery. Mr. HIJME wislied to notice what had fallen from the Right Honourable Secretary of State for Fereign Arai's. ses p eo stog the mischievous tendency of the Reports which had been circulated as to the intention of his Majesty's Ministers to repeal the Quarantine Laws. He fully agreed with the Right Honourable Gentleman, that the mischief which had resulted from that report was very corns siderabl his Majesty's Mlnisten must instantly contradioi. at the ports of Xusope. He was glad to beer the dal. s 's d lgp ti climates des .Raolat Honourable Gentleman, bet the corslimut wb his to •ef eye the dee be ( 4'e prF (*it was the Of C of tt *Cc his were mad ' • , • .14141 to make, in order to obviate the miarepresentationt , which had gee. abroad. do the I Rick war ports with. Men know rhoul what he a; him a lie a iMe m which Mr. r ler °porta sod tb reillOc to cot the re, tine le quer th to prey by rot being ehanOi (Dlr. 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