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l j i• jj •; I , 1 4 t 1 -. I P 1 4, i• ( • , V LI .4111ENT.4RTINTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, TRONSDAT, NAT' 19. IRISH BANKERS* BILL. Mr. Brogden brought up a Bill for the better regulating of Carartnerships and Banking Concerns in Ireland.—The Bill was r.al a Mat time. CANADA SORX BILL. I so the motion of the Earl of LIVERPOOL. the Canada Corn it,it was read a second time; and ordered to be committed on Thursday next. MISREPRESENTATION UPON A PETITION. The Earl of DARNLEY said. that as their Lortbillips time had been an much occupied on the former evenings, he hail not thought it worth while to trouble their Lordships upon the subject of a misrepresentation which had appeared in the public papers, with regard to a petition he had Arescnted upon the question of the Homan Catholic Bill. Ile did not mean to complain of this mis statement, because he thought it extraordinary that the reports were so correct, considering the circumstance!' tinder which they were taken ; but he thought it his duff. when he was entrusted with a petition, to set the public right with respect to it. He did certainly present a petition in favour of the Roman Catholics, but it was not tom Gravesend. but a parish in Kent. He would here sat, he was instructed to state that the petition presented by the Noble Lord opposite, from Sheerness, had been got up by placards, and that t.ie Chaplain of the Hulks and Methodize Parsons had joined in procuring signatures for it. His (Lord Darnley's) petition was from the parish of Gillingham. The Rates of 1 1 0:tage Bill, and the Irish Chancery Court Bill, were read a second time. Adjourned at hall-past five. HOUSE OF CO:IDIOM, THURSDAY, MAY 19. Mr. MONTEITH brought up the Report of the Clyde Navi rttion Rill. Mr. DUNDAS presented a petition from Roxburgh against any n'teration in the Corn I,awa. Mr. LINDSAY presented a petition from the Mayor and Cor poration of Cupar, against a reduction of the duty on the imports t.on of foreign linen. The Hon. Gentleman presented a petition also from Perth against the Salmon Fisheries Bill. Mr. ('l'R'rEiS presented a petition from Squires, Esq. pi-cying for eimmennation for alleged injuries which the petiti3ner 'attained under the Com Laws. _ _ Mr. S. RI r E presented a petition from twente-five families in the county of Limerick, complaining that the benefit of emigration had not extended to them, and praying that means of emigration to L'p p er Canada might be afforded to them. Sir R. SRA W presented a petition from dhe Chamber of Com merce, in Dublin. in favour of a revision of the Rutter Laws. Mr. DRUMMOND presented a petition front th • Proprietors of Fisheries in the Dee and Don a,, , minst the Salmon Fisheries 13111. Sir 1. COFHIN observed. that fisheries did not come up the river in the north of England at 1 , 1 the south. After a few 'orris from Mr. (ALBERT, the petition was laid on the table. Elte airtoo. THE BRITISH . PRESS. • The BIITIIII Pans commenced publishing yesterday morning nt five o'clock. LONDON. FRIDAY. M♦: 20, 1823. The Paris Papers of Tuesday are filled with the continued debates in the Chamber of Deputies on the Budget of /no. The subject of consideration on Monday was the expenses of the War Department, which are esti mated in the whole at 19.5 millions of francs. General For took advantage of the occasion, to make a strong appeal to the Chamber, on the Royal Order in December last, to place fifty of the old Generals on the retired list. He stig matised this measure as harsh, unjust, and impolitic, and even subversive of the honour of the army. On the anniversary of the battle of Auterlitz, lie exclaimed, fifty Generals of the Army that gained it were told that they no longer were worthy of forming part of it. De afterwards, at great length, objected to the prodigality with which the public money was expended. The increase of the military charge was altogether above two millions. M. DE Cr. remoxv TON NERR E, the Minister of War, replied in defence of his department. In conclusion, he vindicated the measure attacked by General For in the commence ment of his speech. The reduction of the General Officers was, he said, in fulfilment of a pledge given to the Chambers. The KING had interfered only to moderate its effect as much as possible. The measure was equally blameless in its principle and in the mode of its execution. At a subsequent period of the day, M. Beererem Cox 'Taxr complained of the conduct of the French Govern , mem with regard to the Slave Trade. No effort was made to suppress it; no notice taken of the petition respecting it signed by the principal merchants of Paris. M. Denote, the Minister of the Marine, replied, that the law of France prohibited the Slave Trade, and that the Government had adopted every measure calculated to carry the law into execution. He was of opinion that the severity of the law ought not to be increased, because the aggravation of the punishment would only tend to defeat its object, and secure impunity to the guilty. He denied that the traffic was contrary to humanity ; the ne,groes were more miserable since it had ceased; they were now massacred by the victors instead of being delivered into the hands of the Europeans, who were in terested in maintaining and preserving them. The petition to which M. B. CONSTANT had alluded, proceeded only, the Minister said, from a few grocers, who were incapable of forming a correct opinion on the subject under con sideration. The law for the definitive settlement of the budget of nes was carried in the Chamber of Peers on Monday by a majority of 135 against 17. The intelligence from Greece 'fully justifies the expecta tions we had formed as to the fate of the Egyptian expe tio:i. Letters from Trieste confirm the account of the total ddeat of the Turkish troops. From the Journd eh; Debuts we have given a narrative of the proceedings of this expedition. The Elate intimates that the French garrisons will not be withdrawn from the fortresses they now occupy in Spain on the Ist of July, as some journals have stated. The preparations for the coronation approach their com pletion. It is decided that the KING shall make hi s solemn entry into Paris after the ceremony on the Gth of June. The Moniteur contains, in Its official part, a Royal Or"- donnance, nominating Cardinal the Due de CLEastowr TONNEHRE, Peer of France, the Archbishop of Toulouse and Narbonne, and the Comte de LODI 1., Peer of France, Archbishop of Rheims, Commanders of the Orders of St. Esprit and St. Michel, and authorizing them to wear the decorations of those Orders. Professor COUSIN has arrived in Paris. FRENCH FuNDS.—PAttla, MAY 17.—Five per Cents. opened al 101 f. 50c. closed at 101 f. blk. Three per Cents. 741. Bk. Neopolitan live per Cents. Certif. Falconnct 91f. 10e. Royal Spanish Loan 1823,07 i. Exchange on London:—One month, 2,1 f. 93c, ; three months, 24f. 00z.—Conrs Authentique, May 17, 1825. Last night we received Amsterdam Papers of Wednes day : their contents relate principally to the means of executing the plan for making Brucsls a seaport. There are some accounts from Turkey in these Papers, but they are vague and contradictory. It is stated that the Alba nians, after receiving the money required from IREDBCHID PACHA, have raised unexpected difficulties, in order to give them with a pretence for not furnishing him with the troops they had engaged to provide him. Nothing decisive could take place until he was able to march towards Etolia. if/mut, MAY IC. The following particulsrs respecting the great hydraulic works now carrying on in the southern provinces will certainly be interest ing to our readers : M. Siemon, chief inspecter of the province of South Brabant, is zealously eng aged with various plans for digging the new canal, by which Brussels is become a tsea-port. The intention of his Ma. jesty is, that there shall be two canals besides those of Antwerp and Ostend ; one at Brussels and one at Ghent. At this time 4,000 men are engaged in digging the canal from Ghent to Serneuze, and it is hoped that of Brussels will be begun next year. Of the above. mentioned 4,000 men 800 are exclusively employed in making fascines, Etc. to stop up the stream called Axels che Got, which the canal is to traverse obliquely. The remainder are regu larly divided Into 12 or 13 detachments, along an extent of two leagues in length. The most admirable order prevails among the body of workmen, who are directed by M. Von Asperon. Three persons are charged with the police, an office which they perform in the best manner. Each division has a barrack to lodge in. Besides this, M. V. Asperon has built two vast magazines, con taining provisions to the amount of 1000.000 forms, for the workmen, each of whom gains at least 20 eels daily, and are supplied with provisions from the magazines on account. One sof per week is kept back out of their wages, for which they are attended in case of illness. At the end of the month the operation of tilling up the Axels che Got is to be performed. This is said to be an operation which no person before M. Van Asperon has ventured to undertake, and is certainly one of the boldest and most difficult in the art of by. draulics. On the day fixed, this operation is to be performed at once at low water, by 2,000 men on each side. This embank. ment will restore to agriculture some thousand acres of land, new covered with water. In short, this canal, when finished, will be reckoned a master-piece of the hydraulic art. AMSTIEDAM, MAY 17. Exchange on London, 39. 16.; two months, 39.4. In remarking on the progress of the different Societies, the mectings of which it has been of late so frequently our province to record, and of which those instituted for pur poses professedly religious are among the most prominent, we lament to perceive a spirit of fanaticism fast gaining ground ; a spirit at all times pregnant with evil. The columns of a public newspaper must necessarily be the depository of whatever is going on in the world; they are, from their very nature, a register of the proceedings and as such, a record of the character of the times. But it is painful to find the precepts of our pure and holy religion daily losing their influence, and superseded in their autho rity by the enthusias.n of an over-heated zeal, and the cant of a debasing hypocrisy. Happy would it be for mankind if every Sancho would not think himself capable of governing in the religious world, but would leave the direction of it to those who, by their natural ability and their public education, are fitted to the task ; to those, in a word, by whom such of in as have yet much to learn, need not be ashamed to be taught. We have no objection to a Society for Me Protection of Religious Liberty, al though we do not believe that liberty to be at all in danger. 11e have, in truth nothing but a kindly feel ing towards this vigilant Society. We wish most sin cerely that Heaven would grant to all its members common sense, and would inspire them with the same hatred that we ourselves have to long speeches. We should consider this as a great point gained. As for the Co STI NENTAL SOCIETY, whose proceedings figured in our pages of yes terday, if we were to offer any prayer on their behalf, it would be that they might be endued with such a share of understanding as might prevent them from making dupes of others, or fools of themselves. 'd'e consider the pious harangue of Mr. VANDEUX, a native of Denmark, as a genuine sample of that spurious godliness with which the new reformers are so active in inoculating the uncon verted, and which has generated this spiritual company, who have avowedly established themselves with the lung nifictlrt intention of " dflpsing religious knowledge over Me Continent rf Europe ;" a most extraordinary project to be called for at this time of day ! One would really think that Christianity was a revelation of yesterday; that an Established Church was a thing unknown in the world; that Europe was overspread with a spiritual darkness, and that this Mr. VANDECX, together with Professor Tnort- LI-ex, of Berlin, and Dr. Boone and Mr. Burrora, not forgetting Lieut. GORDON, R.N., were deputed to pour upon it a flood of arm light, and to dazzle those benighted heathens of the Continent with the doctrines of a miracu lous mission. But the carrying on this work of continental regeneration is found tote an -expensive process ; the ex vend; est. ”strally happens in these generous under takings—outruns the receipts, and the subscription-purses require " a long pull," in order to supply " the absence of religious truth in Gusnanv, and in those countries where," according to Professor THORLUCE, " religion had just awakened, and the efforts of the CONTINENTAL SOCIETY would prove most useful." But Mr. VANDEUX, knowing that there was something still more " rotted in the state of Denmark"— " Suggested the utility of a mission to Norway, and appealed to the liberality of Britain to contribute to this lautlable object. He feared he should be considered bold, and was likely to be judged horehly, when he thus came forward to recommend pecuniary efforts. lie cared not for the judgment of men, but he trusted his humble example might have some effect, when he came forward and thus bestowed what he had bought with his blood. I Mr. Van. deux here took from his neck a gold medal.] lie said he had been a soldier—that be had fought for fourteen years under the banner of a temporal King, but he had determined from henceforth to serve under no other banner but that of Christ. The gold medal he now presented was given him by the King of Wit-ten:berg, in return for his military services, to be worn by him whilst he lived, and de scend to his family after his death; but he now gave it, not to the Treasurer, not to the Society--bat to Christ." To our ears this language is most revolting. We abstain from further quotations. We really deplore most sincerely the progress of this distempered state of religious feeling among) the lower classes ; and it is for this reason that we draw the public attention to the spread of that religious frenzy, which, delivering itself in a language peculiarly its own, unsettles the minds of the multitude, and leads even tually to the abandonment of all rational piety, and the oblivion of all moral duty. The Clergy of the Established Church have no agents more active, nor any enemies more dangerous, than the juggling confederacy that make up the mass of this fanatical priesthood. It may be truly said of the bigoted zeal which actuates them, that it entirely re verses all the principles which a benevolent nature has erected within us : all outward considerations are made to give way before it; it emanates, in fact, from that lust of spiritual dominion which is the fruitful source of all the worst of those evils which have infested the world from the beginning, and we fear will infest it to the end. Religious instruction is of infinite importance, because we all of us want, more or lees, to be perpetually reminded of our duty, and to have our hearts and minds bowed down to the yoke of moral obedience. But such instructors as have here set themselves apart to enlighten the Continent—we suspect the chief result of their labours will be fount in the increase of lunatic asylums. CITY, THUJSDAY EVENING. This being the Derby day at the F.psom Races, it wu nearly a dies non on the Stock Exchange. There wu scarcely any business doing in the Briti►h Funds, or in Foreign Securities, and the bargains that were completed were at about yesterday's quotations. The time and money prices of Consols were the same, viz.- 90 4 4. In the Foreign Market, Greek Scrip may be quoted at 61. 6, and the Bonds at 30i 1. The Old Spanish Bonds at '.0!!, and the New at 184 19. Colombian Bonds 138 . S 9. Mexican Scrip 2 dis count ; Danish ditto 3 24 discount ; and Brazilian ditto 1 premium. The Share 31arket was equally deserted. There were a very few bargains in the Pasco Peruvian Company, at 94 10 ; and in the New Potosi, at 4i i. The Colonists were enjoying the sports on Epsom Downs, as well as the Members of the Stock Exchange, for not a transaction either in Sugar or Coffee took place. Yesterday the Princess Augusta visited the Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Sophia. Prince Leopold, attended by Baron Stockmar, Sir Henry Seton, and Sir Robert Gardiner, left Marlborough House on Wednesday evening for his residence at Claremont. Sir Charlea - Long Lad an audience of the King yester day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday afternoon for East Coombe, the rent of Lady Buckingham• shire. It is said that the majority against the Catholic Relief Bill would have been fifty-three (instead of /arty-eight) but that the Duke of Northumberland and Lord Prudhoe would not leave proxies ; the new Bishop of Salisbury had not taken his seat ; and two Lords were recently dead, whose successors had not yet taken their seats. The habit and decorations of the Order of the Garter, which the Duke of Northumberland is charged to deliver to the King upon his coronation, are now in the hands of embroiderers at Lyons, who are charged to place the dia monds. They are said to be worth 1,800,000 francs.-- Galignants Paper, By the last intelligence from Gibraltar, we learn that the Governor, Lori Chatham, whose health. has suffered materially since his last residence in the garrison, is coining to England, and expected to arrive in this country by the end of June. THE EARL OF CLANRICADE.--The munificence of the Noble Earl has called forth an expression of gratitude and thanks from the respectable parish Clergyman and pa rishioners of Portumna, which reflects credit on his Lord ah ip and family, and justifies the expectations of his friends. Ills Lordship (as we before stated) has contributed to. wards the building of a Chapel the sum of 100/., and also an acre of ground. The Countess Dowager and her amiable daughter, Lady Emily, have also subscribed the sum of 1101. towards the work. We feel particular plea sure in noticing these facts ; they are strong evidence of liberality and patriot/sm.—Connaught Journal. We are informed that a very extensive coinage has taken place for export to the English colonies, to aupersetle the dollars and other circulating medium in all the English possessions. This measure will facilitate the exchange of all articles, and greatly promote commerce. • . The monthly return of the port of La Gusyra presents receipts, under various denominations, of 1,63%496 dol lars. and an expenditure of 1,411,755 dollars for the month of February last. The Honourable and Reverend George Neville, Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, under whose imme diate patronage the curious Papysiatt Diary has been de ciphered, for it is written in short-hand, is, we understand, the younger brother of Lord Braybrooke, the Editor of the Memoirs. An Evening Paper says that Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Lawless have been recotuiled. VAGRANT ACT. Sir T. ACLAND nnovetl f n leave to I ring in a Bill to em ptier Magistrate,. of Quarter Sessions to regnlate expenses for the apprehension of nlfenders order the Vagrant Act. Mr. ESTCOURT considered the measure was unnecessary, as the statute of the 14th of the late King had regulated the expenses for eor.veying vagrants. After a few words front Mr. S. BOURNE and Mr. STIRS, the incion was withdrawn. COUNTY COURTS BILL. Lord ALTIIORP moved the third reading of the County Courts fill. . _ ...... Culotte] TREN('}I complained of the measure being carried too hastily through the llourc. It was his intention to move for the iorroduction of a clause to prevent attorneys from practising in the county courts. In Cambridge much evil arose from the mai-prat. of attorneys, who encouraged litigation, and multiplied sum lie was d es i rous o r protecting the poorcr part of the comma n:ty from the depredations of inferior practitioners. Lord A LTHOK P was of opinion that the exclusion of attorneys from the county courts would be of great public inconvenience. If they were excluded a more ohjectinnable class of practitioners would Le introduced, to represent clients who could not attend personally. The Bill was then read a third time. Air. Alderman WOOD moved for the introduction of a clause to except the Courts in the City of London and the Borough of South wink from the operation of the Bill. Lord A LTIIORP said that the City of London was not in. tended to be included in the Bill. The &assess% then added to the Bill, by way of rider. Mr. BRIGHT moved a similar clause with respect to Bristol. The clause ass agreed to. Colonrl TRENCH declined moving the clause for the exclusion of attorneys. although he continued to be convinced of the expedi ency of introducing I: into the Bill. The Bill was then passed. Thu LORD ADVOCATE moved the Order of the Day for tete...rine the Report on Scotch Judges Salaries Bill. The Report was then brought up, and ordered to be printed. Mr. J. P. GRANT thought the manner in which the Scotch Judges were now paid was most obiectionable. He suggested that ter Judges' salaries should be equalised, and was desirous that they be placed on the same footing as the English Judges. After a short conversation between the LoaD ADVOCATE, Mr. A lISHCROII sr, Mr. R. MARTIN', and Mr. li. Dat:113101ID, the Itzport was agreed to. LEASING-MAKING. The House went into a Committee upon the Scotch Leasing Itaztk:ng Bill.—The Report was brought up, and ordered to be re ed to.rnorrow. ALIMENT OF PRISONERS. The House resolved itself into a Committee on the Scotch Aliment of Prisoners fill, and the Report was ordered to be re ceived to-morrow. QUARANTINE LAWS. Loan the motion that the Report of the Quarantine Bill be brought up, Sir I. COFFIN said, since he had the Lonsur of • seat In that House, he had acquired some information on the subject of the plague, which he thought it his duty to mention. It would be re collected that the plsgue raged at Malta some time ago with great violence. Every exertion was made by Sir T. Maitland and the Local Government to arrest Its progress. A eorduis solsirsire was drawn around the tillages, and every precaution was taken; but it was rot got under for a considerable time, and until 3,000 Maltese died from its ravages. All this time the little island of Goza re mained untouched, and not one of its inhabitants died of plague. Sane time afterwards, when plague was no longer known at Malta, the clothes of a person of distinction (a Maltese) were taken up and brought to Coza, and by this means the plague was intro duced into that island, and no less than 600 persons died of it. An ' instance was known, atti well attested, where, by means of a skein of thread, which hal been about the person of an infected indivi. dna!, a fonng lady took home the plague, and she and her whole family perished. In all the towns in the Mediterranean, the Franks or Christians shut themselves up in their houses. receiVing their food through vinegar, and by this precaution they preserve them. selves from the plegue. Ile knew it was the opinion of some Hon. Members that the plague was not contagious, and could not be catornunieated by apparel. (I leer, hear.) He believed it may not infect some Illyperhoreans, with hides like a rhinoceros, but he had little doubt that it would infect ordinary men. Our indifference upon the subject had already reached the Continent. He (Sir I. Collin) when be weht in a man-of-war to Leghorn, was put under quarantine for twenty days. If the cotton grown in Delta should be introduced in this country, he thought it very likely It wouhl bring the plague alor.g with it. He mentioned those facts, not for his owe sake ; it mattered little whether his head should be blown sway by a cannon ball, or whether he should die of the plague; but the the sake of posterity, and the well-being of the country, he thought it his duty to state his opinions. Lord BELGRAVE thought the circumstance mentioned by the lion. Member (Sir I. Coffin) of the security of the Frank, was suf ficient to overturn the doctrine of non.contagion. The Franks take the proper precautions to avoid the contagion, and they escape; on the contrary, the Mahometazis consider the plague a sacred disease; tl'y take no pains to resist its progress, and conceive that when they die from it they are taken to the arms of Mahomet, nr, what is better, that they enjoy constant fruition in the seine of the Hon ries. This fact should induce the House to consider before the system of precaution was given up. Our opinions on this subject had already reached Marseilles, Leghorn, and other ports, and the consequences were likely to prove most prejudicial to our trade. At several ports the period of quarantine for English ships was extended, end some species of goods perished before they were brought ashore. These considerations ought not to be overlooked. Indeed, he (lard lielgrave) found it impossible to imagine why the lion. Gentleman ( Mr. C.firatt) should have introduced such a Bill. He knew it was improper to impute motives to Hon. Members, but he must say, that he believed the lion. Gentleman had it in view to establish a joint stork company for the extension of burial grounds. There was no other reason why he should have introduced such a Bill. In toceJusion, he thought it the serious duty of the House to pause before they run the hazard of introducing a dreadful disease, upon the interested recommendation of some Manchester manufacturers. lie called upon them, like the ancient prophet. " to stand between the dead and the living, and to stay the plague." Mr. BERNAL said it was the opinion of many medical men that apparel taken from the living conveys contagion, but that clothes taken frorn a dead subject are not an likely to communicate i:. Medical men were much divided, and therefore the House should proceed with caution. The subject was one which deserved synch consideration. . . . . . . . Mr. C. GRANT said, that the Noble Lord who bad indulged in rattier jocular reniarks on the subject, had impaired what motives influenced him in bringing in the present Bill. These he would shortly state. In the last year the Committee of Foreign Trade sat the Quarantine Laws. They had received many representations on the subject of the injuries sustained by the dunes and delays to which they gave rise; but in their deliberations they did not Mad tme any inquiries as to whether or not the plague was cantagious; t!IIV at once :.seamed that it was so, sunissainined no physicians, except those who maintained the doctrine of contagion, and their examination sena confined, not to the abstract question so much discussed ; but on the assumption that contagion did exist, they were examined as to the best means of giving relief from the incon. `nitersit complained of, it being taken for granted that plague was " 4 " 3 Rattlts end in the present Lill no reli..f was proposed that had 1. , /t the sanethin of medical men who were decided contagioniats. 12 his of!trial situation on the Committee, it became his duty to ,traduce the gilt. The considerations which had been stated weer be dm:lglu necessary sue tit: , purpose of preventivg misrepre. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Tills Evening, FRIDAY, Mar 10. win Do performed WILLIAM TELL. The Principal Characters by Messrs. 11;ereidy, Wallsek, Archer, and Knight; Mesdames Bunn, Yates, Pmrey, and Clara Fisher. After which. ABON HASSAN. The Caliph, Mr. Bedford; Abon Hassan, Mr. Horn; Z►boue, Mr Harley. Zulima, Miss Graddon. To-morrow, A Grand Selection of Music. DRURY-LANE THEATR E. WHITSUN.EVE. To-morrow. MATURDAV, May • under the dire.ltion of Mr. H. R. Hislop, who will preside at the Onr an and Piano Forte, a GRAND and Pt/PULA It SELF.CTION of MUSIC, from the Works of Handel, Haydn, klorart, Rossini. Weber, &c.: Handers Grand Com nation Anthem—a Selection from The Messish—the March In Judas Macenbeus-•-a Grand gene 'tern Israel in Egypt—the Overture to Der Freischutz—Mourt's Mottetto—a Selection from Weber's Precloas —Winter's Grand battle :Milton's—a Concerto on the Trumpet, by Mr. Norton—the Emperor Alexander's favourite March, with Variations, on the Grind Piano FOrtt, by Mr. Mosehetes, &c. &e. &e. Principal Vocal Performers :—Madame Pasta; Misses Stephens, Grioldon. Cooke, and Love; a young Lady (her grit appearance lo public): and Wlldanie Caradori Messrs. Graham, hiunto liedtord. Robinson. T 'Duey, and Bellamy t and Master Edmunds. Dentition. Caution was, he thought, of the utmost importance. It was a subiect on which any ill-considered step might be produc tive of terrific results, and nothing should be hazarded that would incur the most remote possibility of danger. It was a subject he thought on which even inquiry would be inexpedient. It was a question which roust be left to work its own way, and no attempt should be made to lead the public mind. The Legislature should wait for that unanimity of opinion which could only be hoped for from the general prevalence of just views. Mr. BERNAL, explained. Lord BELGRAVE wished merely to protest against the doc trine of non-contagion. - Mr. JOHN SMITH was on the Committee, and unless the change which the Right honourable Gentleman recommended were carried into effect, trade would moat materially suffer. It was a subject attended with considerable difficulties, and not the least was the variety of conflicting testimony given from various quar tets. He thought It worthy of observation that no expurgator had ever taken the plague, and that Holland, with all its trade and its companative freedom from quarantine, had never suffered. I Sir I. COFFIN explained. Mr. TRANT denied that that there was any foundation for the sweeping assertions made on this subject ; at the same time he thought that Parliament should proceed with every possible caution. After a few observations from a Men.ber, whose name we could not learn, the Report was brought up, and the third reading of the Bill was fixed for tomorrow `this-duy.) LUNATIC 1 RUSI EES' BILL. On the motion of air. C. GRANT, the Lunatic Trustees' Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be eommitted to-morrow' tthis-day.) Mr. KENNEDY moved the second reading of the Salmon Fisheries' Bill. Mr. A BERCROMBY suggested the postponettent of the further stage -of this Bill to next Session. Mr. C. H. HUTCHINSON concurred in recommending the poatnonement. Mr. KENNEDY was aware of the interest and alarm which had been excited throughout the country, and he wished for an oppor tunity of making a statement to remove this tilarm, and he then regrehted that he had not been able to do so, but he was willing to acquiesce in the views of lion. Members whom he found friendly to the principles of this measure, as they only differed front him regarding time. Mr. C. GRANT agreed that they could not legislate this Ses sion on the matter. and regretted that such was the case. Sir J. N EWPORT observed. that where a Bill of this nature af fected the interests of several individuals remote from the seat of Go vernment, it was the more necessary to proceed with delibevetion, in order that the parties interested should have time to make nay suggestions they might deem necessary. It was more easy to con ciliate in the first instance, than after a measure deemed objection. able had produced alienation. On these grounds he thought the measure should be put off till next Session. After 'a few observations from Mr. B. Coovest, Mr. Tau- MAYNE, Mr. H. Dat.isemouu,LordChtmand Mr. KENNEDY, the Bill was re-committed, the Report was subsequently brought up, and ordered to:be taken into consideration that day three months. The Bill waa ordered to he printed. - • ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Mr. lIERRIES gave notice, on the part of an Hon. Friend of his, that he would, un to-morrow, mote that the House do. at its rising, adjourn to Wednesday next. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a quarter past Seven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, THIS DAY. NOVICES OF MOTIONS. 11/r.Goulburn—Remaining Irish Miscellaneous Estimates (Com mittee of Supply). Mr. Brougham—Motion for the better securing the practical In dependence of the Judges. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Juries Bill—Further consideration of Report. Transports in the Colonip Bill—Committee. Distillery Bill—Further consideration of Report. Supply—Report (postponed Resolution). Canada Tenures Bill—Further consideration of Report. British Consuls Bill--Second Reading. Cotton Mills Regulation Bill—Committee. Custom Laws Repeal Bill—Further consideration of Report. Customs Management Bill—Further consideration of Report. Navigation Laws 1111 I—Further consideration Of Report. Smuggling Prevention Bill—Further consideration of Report. Hoods Warehousing Bill—Further consideration of Report. Isle of Man Trade Bill—Further consideration of Report. Registry of Ships Bill—Committee. Townland Boundaries (Ireland) Bill--Committee. Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading. Felonies Counsel Bill—Second Reading. Exchequer Bills ( Public Il'orks—lreland) Bill—Third Reading. Judges Salaries (England)—Report. Small Tithes Bill—Committee. Exchequer Court (Ireland) Bill—Committee. Supply—Committee and Report. New Streets Acts Amendment Bill—Third Reading. Canada Company Bill—Third Reading. PRICES OF BRITISH Bank Stock 229 211 i 22 3 per Ceat. Red. 89i a per lent. Conn. 201 $ 890 Ditto Acct.9o $ $ $ 90 $ 34 per Cent. Ited. 117$ Neer 4 per Cent. 105 it 'TOCKS YESTERDAY. India Bonds 54 pm Long Ann. 211 13-14 Ex.Billa,lid.l,ooo/.35 40 pm Ditto. 5001. 35 40 Inn Ditto, Small 35 42 pm Lottery Tickets, PRICES OF Ft►lts:l(4N Austrian Il t onds (10 per St.) 97 Brazilian Nods 81 Ditto Acct. 044 Ditto Scrip (1825)1 pm Ditto Acct. I pm Buenos Ayres Bonds 914 2 lt Ditto Acct. 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Bristol Ship Canal 1 A t dis British Rock and Salt COM 5O it 1 Brazilian Agricultural & Jewel 100 3 a '2 2a Egyptian Equitable Loan Bank 5O 1 i Honduran Provincial Bank of Ireland lOO it 4, 3 Patent Bricks ---- 50 9 a COVENT-G. 4 R DEN TII EATI? This Evening, FRIDAY. Na! 10. will be performed EVERY MAN IN lIIS HUMOUR. Eitel', Mr. Young t Young Knowell. Mr. Groper; Waster Stephen, Mr. Meadows; Capt►in ilubsdil, Mr. Fawcett; bralnworm, Mr. W. Farren. Dame Kitely, Mrs. Chattel - 1:y. After u Inch, CLA It I. The Duke Vivaldi, Mr. T. P. Cooke; Rolm°, Mr. Fawcett. Ckal, Mist M. Tree; Vespina, Mims Love. H,4I74fARKET a iHEATRE. This Evening. FRll3.lf,MaY2i,Vlilheperionned TIIE MERRI' WIVE:4 or WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Dowton ; Master Slender, Mr. J. Russell; lu.btie“ Shallow. ►tr. Younger; Ford, Mr. Vining; Sir Hugh Erma. Mr. Fenton. Mr. Melrose; Dr. Cala., Mr. W. West. Mrs. Ford, SI rs.Waylett ; Mrs. Page, Kra T. Hill; Anne Page, Miss George; MN. Quickly. Mrs. C. Jones.. _ After which, TII6 LADY AND THE DEVIL WHillore, Mr. P. Farrow; Zephyrins, !Ors. Waylett. To eunelude with YOUTH, LOVE, AND FOLLY. . _ . Peron de Ilrfeneourt, 11r. . me: Loub d e Ltanal. Mr. Melrose: Fl..rlmond, Mr. Vinlngs Antoine, Mr.lll.lktneon. Annette, Mrs. unit* ; lion& Mrs. IN Hl= FRENCH I-A PERS. [From the Millie, dated Wednesday.] PAWS, AIA? 17. The coronation carriage will set off on N{'ednesday for }m e i n) , Nothing so superb has ever before issued from the French work. shops. The paintings in the panels are by .M. I)elornte, p u pil w the ornaments designed by M. Persille, and tile scuip. Lure by 31. Rogues. are In the hest taste, and are trail; admirable. All the iron-work of this beautiful carriage is covered, and not rcrew nor a nail is to be seen. The door opens witliout asy risiltle hinge, and the most practised eye would seek in vain to discover by what means it is made to move. The entire ve hi c l e, g i lt by M. Lauder, is of dazzling richness. l'he portraits of fourteen Kings which we have mentioned, and which positively set off to-clay for It helms, real the features of the most celebrated Motarchs crowned in that city, whose names fol. low ;_Clovis. Hugh Covet, Phiilppe•Auguste, Louis IX., Phi. ('harks V.. Charles VII., Louis XII.. Francis I. Louis XIII., Louis XIV., Louis XV., L ou i s XV I., a a Charles X. _ _ ..... __- The coat and decorations of the Order of the Garter, which the Duke of Northumberland will wear at the coronation, are at pre. sent in the hands of an embroiderer at Lyons, who is employed to tis the diamonds 'on it. Ills costume altogether is estimated at 1,H410.000 francs. Letters from Trieste of the s:h May, inserted in the Angrbxrg Gazelle, confirms the defeat of the troops under Ibrahim Pact' ' , an the Mores. It was on March 27th that the Greeks attacked the Egyptian corps, which was entrenched near Motion, and entirely ,destroyed it. This victory decides the fate of Ibrahim's espedi. Lino. Many European officers, who commanded these troops, hare fallen into the power of the Greeks, who have sent them to-Napoli di ltomania. [From the Quotidienac.] France. and MAMID, MAY 5. VessAs of all nations, laden with Colonial good s , cont i nually arrive at Gibraltar. It is impossible for th e man t h e most accom. p le, lis s h i ed t be in in b t u er si , n ie e:is t t o o a s c toc cou k n o t f e or ma thi r s ketl ex o tra f a i r t t a li l n y a rY of overflow, un. , Spain, in the Illediterrancan, in case of a war betw een t h e C oat:. lama, Powers and. England. The Engh%ll are provident: this is what our merchants say. [From the Journal de Paris.] M. Lama/tine's beautiful composition, .• The Last Canto of Chide Harold's Pilgrimage," was published the day before yes. a single man or susta i n i ng any g The corvette IA Coquille, commanded by M. Do perry, which sailed for Toulon the 11th August, 1822, arrived at Marseilles on the 24th April, 1&25, after a voyage of 32 months, 13 day s; h av i ng ti The very remarkable success of this ex p e di t i on d oes the greatest damn; e. leagues, without losing honeur to the _young cfficer who was intrusted with the command of it . Rich wilmtions of natural history, and abundant materials for the physical sciences, especially Geography, have been the fruit of it, and the publication of this precious harvest will soon place the name of M. Duperry by the side of those able navigators whose example he has so successfully followed. The Marquis de a relative of Voltaire, and one of the Conservators of the library of let. Genevieve, died on ‘Vednes. day st a very advanced age. [From Galignanra il fcuenfe..l On Wednesday the Dauphines wan upon her way to Ville. neuve l'Etang, when she beheld a proceq%inn of the pariNh of (Nordic. upon the same road. Her Royal ❑ighness immediately descended from her carriage, and followed the Holy Sacramert on foot till it reached Villeneuve l'Etang, which wu one of its Wt. Lions. ----- According to the latest intelligence from Madrid. the King of Spain had recovered from Ida indisposition, but still remained at Aranjuez. We learn from Fulde, in Franconia, that the rich Jesish banker, Meyer Epstein, has just been imprisoned there for pt r. jury. This event is said to have produced a strong sensation in Germany. Letters from Frankfort announce that Professor Cousin, upon his arrival in that town, received the most marked attentions from the scientific and diplomatic personages resident there. lle alighted at an inn ; but the French Ambassador immediately sent him an invitation to take his lodging at the hotel of the Embassy. GERMAN PAPERS. MILAN, MAY 6. The nazette of this city contains very long details of the journey of the Emperor through his Italian dominions, which resembles a triumphal procession, from the immense crowds that every whet., flock to greet him, and the enthusiastic acelamatiens with which he is received. At Mantua their Imperial Majesties were joined, on the Ist May, by the Duchess of Parma. At Mantua, the Municipal Authorities, to perpetuate the me mory of the visit of their Majesties, purchased and pulled down, a few clays since, some houses, and o p ene d a new street to the Vir- Kilian Forum, and erected the model, in wood, of a magnificent anti, which is to be the entrance to it: on the two sides is the fol lowing inscription:— Alla Maeata de Francesco I. Questo nuovo adito al Foro l'irgiliano, La patria del Cantore di Augusto, Dedica et consacra. Onorificata dolls presenza de Cesare, La Regis citta di Alantoya, Rivirente fettiggia. Alle calende di Maggio, moCccxxle. Their Majesties, accompanied by the Duchess of Patina, and their Imperial Highnesses, were the first who passed through this new road, in the afternoon, to the Virgilian Amphitheatre, where a new opera was performed. Their Majesties viewed with great attention all the public esta blishments, and particularly the schmtla and charitable institutions. They everywhere leave ample prouli of their liberality and anon tiol to the claims of the indigent. On the 4th their .Majesties arrived at Cremona. FRANKFORT, MAY 10. The High Court of Justice of Frankfurt on the Oder has passed sentence in the affair of Professor Jahn. It has annulled the sen tence pronounced by the Tribunal of Breslaw, which condemned the Professor to two years imprisonment in &fortress, for having, at various times, held improper and insolent language respecting the form of tgovernment. and the institutions existing in the Prus sian Monarchy ; and for having, by this means, excited discontent. The Tribunal has declared him not guilty of holding such lan guage, and has only sentenced hint to pay the expenses of the se. mind trial, which, in case of his not having sufficient means, are to be reduced to the disbursements actually made during the proceed ings. By the same sentence the Professor is exempted from the payment of the expenses of the first trial, which are at all events to be limited to the actual disbursements made by the Royal Trea sury. GREECE. _ ZAKTE, APRIL IS. The following is a summary of the military events ahith have taken place in the Pelopennesus, from the opening of the campaign down to the present day. Toward' the end of February, the Egyptian fleet, under the command of Ibrahim, son of Mekemet Alt, landed 4,300 men at Coron and Modon, and a few days afterwards a second division of equal strength. After this operation, three frigates, two ca rets, and six brigs of war, sailed on the 27th March into our road, where they were informed by a man, named Cokkinis, agent to the Vizier of Egypt, that there were only four Greek ships en:- ployed in the blockade of Patras. This information determined the squadron to steer for that coast. They therefore took under their escort a convoy, composed of one itussian and nine Austriaa vessels, loaded with provisions front Constantinople and Alex. andria: these they conveyed as far as Lepanto. On the 211th, et became known here, that the Egyptians had ravaged the villages lying in the neighbourhood of Caron and Motion, and that the inhabitants had in consequence been obliged to abandon their houses and Ily to Calarnata. 11'e besides learn: that the army of Ibrahim was commanded by man named Sere. a ci.devant French Colonel, at present cane Soliman Bey, and also that the infantry were under the orders of one Ramey, a Frenchman by birth. Or, the Ist April the squadron of Admiral Miami* composed of forty sail, wu in the neighbourhood of Samoa, In order to watch the movements of the Capitan Pacha. April 3.—Three vessels coming from Syria, Alexandria, and C:rign, affirmed that they had fallen in with, off Males, a Greek squadron of thirty-tive sail, comm a nd e d by Admiral Saktares, who visited them. Ile informed them of an advantage gained by el e Greeks over the Egypt tam, between Navarino and 3lotlon. Strew. surnamed Tereophagos (the Turk-ea mr). haul been undeceived it lative to Qjaimis, who had taken him in. mid that he had a ithelrawn to the Stratarch Zengus, at Dragontestra. in Acaroania. On the Ilth April the President Coaduriotlit, i vested with dicta torial powers, accompanied by Cowan:M. itotraris, and 31aurm. coedato, with 8,000 men, was only two leagues front Navanno. There was in that town 1,500 men in garrison ; the artillery was served by liydriot cannoneer*. A b u tt er y o f e i g ht heavy pieces of cannon had been raised on the isle of Sphacteria, which defends the entrance of the port, with a garrison of 500 nice. April 15.—This morning there arrived in the road of Zarde a Speztot brig of war, sent by Admiral Saktaris to buy provision and munitions of war: they were supplied. April 111.—Navarino, which has been attacked this three days. defends itself heroically, and I dare assure you that not a single Turk will escape from the Pelopennesus : our army is full of ardour, whilst the Egyptians are put to great straits in their corn tined position. On Laster day (10th April) we slew 100 of tbor men. Unfortunately, we have to regret the loss of the third son of Peter alavonlichalia, who, since 1321, has lost a brother, ten sons, a brother-in-law, and two nephews. This brave young man , whilst dying, exhorted his lather, his relations, and all the Greeks present not to weep, but to revenge his death by the extermination of the barbarians. April 17.—Provisiona and munitions of war are now setting out from Zante, for Nitration, by Greek and 'chitin vessels. The (;reek Government has at this moment 35,000 men in pay. and the number augments daily. Count Aletaxos„ of Cephalonia, appointed as Cornmissur General to the army, has re ce i ve d 30,000 p i astres , in order to e different purchases at Zante, which is publicly done, an d without say obstacle on the part of t h e G overnment of his B r itannic Ma jesty, which openly allows thc embarkation,--Jostrwal la Dealt.