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• • ,- -~, . consent to suffering the above Bill to be referred to , a Committee of the Hottse--aud moved the Order of the Day to that effect. Mr. Canxse wished to propose some amend• pietas, both to this Bill and to the one which had been before the House last night (Clitheroe's). In complience, however, with the wishes of the Hoe. Baronet, he should postpone them till the third reading. He gave notice that he would move Bowie tournaments on the third reeding of both Bills. The motion was then put and carried, and the Seeeitea I• ft the Chair. Counsel were heard at the bar, and witnesses ex• mined as to ilw serving of notice on Mrs. Halford, the fact of adultery, ate. The House then resumed, and the Report was received and agreed to. 0,1 the m time to.morrim,“ Admiral SOTHERON said a few words, which were mandible ni the gallery. trlr. OWE Ea considered the evidence in this case to be staost unsatisfactory. Nothing was proved, but Mai the sister of the Defendant had !lewd him in conversation with Mrs. Halford, in her bed. !onto—and that en impri—.ion was afterwards per. 'Tired nit the hest. Slighter evidence he could not well cooceive. It was true, a verdiet, f o unded on this evidence, hod been obteisted in a Court of Law, but with that the Honor had nothing to do. They were not to •be bound by what occurred elsewhere. If the contrary were the case. there would be no necessity for them to hear evidence at all. If the minutes of evidence were produced, the Hot. B. ronet would see, that, instead of this being the strimeest ca.e thst could he imagined, there was no k3oil of proof of the c 1111 l teal iotercuunie having taken p:oce. Sir E. 101 ATCHBULT. 'mid, the Hon. Gentleman certa i n l y „ t a i l inn b ase heard the evidence of the last or hr would not have mail. such an ossertioo. That witness, %%bell ii•le11111.4 at the door, 'lewd the whispering. depuual to the mark on the bed, and did nut hesitate so state that two persous were actually in bed torther. Alt. Lusotoorom said, a verdict had already been obtanwit on this evidence, and it was mane, 'vier the witnesses had withdrawn. that the ruffs.. tittle). of the evidence should have been objected to. Mr. GORDON said, he could not hear the evi. drove, and, therefore, he would move that the mi. mitts be printed,• in order that the Bill might be terominitted. If evidence were to be examined at th e l air , th e y were to deco'e ou that, sod not au the decision of the. Courts below. Sir E. K NITCHSULL repeated, that, in hit opi. Mote the evidence was conclusive. Admiral Sotasaux, as we understood, said, that the conversation which the Defendant's sister heard iwitteiti Dln. Halford and her brother, coutirmed es it was by other testimouy, appeared to hint to be stilicieut. Mr. CIROILEH 44 She heard some conversatioo, it is true, but it does not follow that it was crinsisal eviserrsaiicur."—(A Irrtsek.). Mr. lialiN4l. was et opinion, that, when a ver dict was given in a Court of Law, the House were nut called upon to look for such nice and decisive evidence us they might otherwise &ern it necessary to 1.:111 Mr. Connox said, if the minutes were to be piiiited, fur the information of Members, she Bill could out, consistently, be read the third time to. snorrow. J. Caosrlt said, as the flow. Gentleman (Mr. Corina) hod stated that he did not hear the evi dence, he would move " That ilw to notes be piloted," awl take the sense of the House on the mull An lion. Member, under the Gallery, said a few waidSia support Or the motion. The Sei: tlign—" There is one diffi , -iilty in the course which the Hmi. Member (Nlr. Gordon) has pointed out. This Bill has been reported from the C ttttt init , re, without amendment, and received by the I louse ; it is, therefore, too late to he re-com tnityrd. This, however, does not iiffrct the period when the Bill shall be read the third time. Wit nesses can only be heard by a recommittal of the Bill, which e t now take place." Lord CASILLREAGii buppurtrit the motion. In the conscientious evidence of a sister, in a Court of Law, and before the other House of Pathanteut. had t u rn deemed sufficient. No flues• lion bad been put to any of the witnesses examined this evening, by any lbw. Member. The Learned Person who conducted the Plaintiff's C4Se, of coorse, retired—and then, for the first tune, the evidence woe cavilled at. tice, to mote for leave " to empower Magistrates to settle disputes concrroing the wages of seamen in merchant vessels." He would state, as shortly as possible, the dttject of the measure. By various Acts of the Legiskture, it WIN provided, 111/11 jour neymen tradesmen stiffishl have au opportunity of recovering wars, to tlw amount of 10/. by appeal ing, if, a summary manlier, to the Magistrates of the district. The only individuals who were n ut ot posse ssed of tine solvantirge, were the seamen merchant vessels. The Bill he wished to introduce was calculated to extend to those persons t he power of applying to Magistratts an the same way as jour neymen did. The Bill would not interfere with any of the existing laws on this subject ; and, as he understood no objecti.fo would be given to bring ing it in, he would not trespass further un the time of the House. Has Lordship then moved for leave to Inisog in the Bill. Mr. I). GILBERT seconded the motion, which was agreed to. RESIDENCE OF THE IRISH CLERGY. Sir Jowl NEWPORT our to stove. iii conformity with his notice, for certain papers, which would phew to the [tow how far the clergy of the Eons blisheil Church in Ireland had resided on their livings during. the lest live years. By the Act of the 48th of the King. • retnro of the non-resident i•lergy to that country was made every year to the Privy Colloid—and hr meant to move fur those returns, for the years 1814, 1815. 11116, 1817, and 1818. H• had this ilsy received a letter from a Noble Lord (we could nut collect his title) enclosing a 111rsruriul, nearly c►tnnected with this , übject, an extract from which lie begged leave to read. The Meorori•tl was signed by 351 persons, ineruhers of the Established Church. in the diocese of Cloglier, and was addressed to the Bishop. The Momenta'. iota requested, that 3 resident re. tor should be ap pointed to their parish. Their claim, they olrserveit, ought to be particularly upended to, when their number was considered. They wished to have amongst them a pi , tit ratan, who would sedulously watch over their slow 0.11 concerns, and undertake the solemn duty of a pastor, with zeal and humility. Dissenters, they observed, of every sect, and their fellow-subjects of the Roman Catholic hail resident pastors, of moral worth, and proper ability—and they ateougly urged the necessity of their spiritual interests being attended to in the same 111111Iller. They protested, most distinctly, against the appoiutnient of a nun-resident rector. They 'declared their determination not to suffer L their spiritual welfare to be neglected in conse quence of a►► arraiigeinent made for temporal pur pose,. The rector was to receive from them a large income—and they heil a right to expect that he would hire amongst them, and perform his duty personally. This Memorial, he understood, was transmitted to the proper authority. but no answer was returned to it. Having dime his duty in bring. log it before the Howe. he should now move— " That an humble Address be pmented to his Royal Digliness the Prince Regent, praying that he will be gra ciuu►ly pleased to order list there shall be laid before the House Copies or Matra! . 4 of the Retmus annually made to the Privy Canoicil by the Archbishops a n d Bishops of Ire land, of the team., and descriptious of the s..veral persons, not residing within their respective benefices, in the pre (seine year—whether their absence was with or without legal cause—sad specifying the reason assivied fur abseuce, as directed by the Act of the 48th of the Kim cap. 66, fur the years 1814, 1815, 1818, 1817, and 1818."—Ordeicd. SALT DUTIES Dr. Plitt.t.tuoity. ;aid. he did not mean to press his motion for a gradual repeal of the Salt Duties, which stood for Thursday next—but merely to pro pose a resolution expressive of the impolicy of those duties, and reeogssi,ins4 the necessity for their im mediate reduction. I lia season for making tins alteration was, because the filisocial measures of the Chancellor of the Exchequer were not yet laid before the House. This resolution would form the grouud•work of a Bill un the sithjsct. after the Right Hon. Gentleman had made fis etate►aent. EDUCATION OF IRISH FACTORY CHILDREN. --- Mr. PARNELL rose to move for leave to bring in a Bill " for tile promotion of tl►e education and morale of children iu cotton and other factories In Ireland." The Honourable Member observed, that education was not so generally dissemi nated in Ireland as iu this country, which ►en dered the measure peculiarly necessary. The oppositi to it would be probably founded on the old principle, that legislative interference should not be employed in matters of a private 'ill'. tore. To ;his general rule, there were, he con cei►ed, three exceptions. The first exceptio:► was explained by the old swing. that what is every body's business is nobody's business. If th:s pfill ciple were suffered to predominate, the most itupor- Id be (tlected, F instance, 1y intr. as iierli- I, there it to be UII Was, *nary.— ono-Mier- tarnotine ihl have took the followed. the pro (r—of sna thildren. wished. nd, that be too clergy benevolent so .children, respective in cities •petit tom ' of facto• children, .the opera tocousidetable repaid by the iucation. Hon. Mem - the dd . - moved for hive con aew ob he (Sir at heard Joillil have limns had been presented In the House from any of those face toriea requestrog such a memos , ti. Ire put 'tterl to the lourre—.ireither had the Hon. Member called for s return of the number of those factories ill Ireland, nor of the children employed ill them. The Hors. Member called for a most extraordinary power, that of allowing a number of philantliropte societies. which he supposed to he in elistence, to enter fie tones, and to classify the workmen and the children. the women and the men, as they pleased. He also listroded to propose se clause. providing. that those manufacturing establishments should be exempted from the Assessed Taxes, where a certificate was procured front any of those philaiiihropte societies, specifying that the business was conducted with propriety. and the morals of the children were attended to. This was a proposition he could not agree to—and, though be would not oppose the bringing in of the Bill, he declared, for himself, and on the part of the Hon. Secretary for [relent!, that neither of them would consider himself bound to g!ve it any support. Sir Jon NEWPORT said, that, by allowing the Bill to be brought in, no Gentleman pledged him self to any particular line of conduct hereafter. When it was brought in, if it contained any thing exceptionable, it might perhaps be 'intended, and the Bill rendered onexceptionalsle. The [Um, Baronet spoke of philanthropic societies, as he knew of none in Ireland--but. he should recollect that every year tall or three of them received grunts f rom t h at H nose. A B i ll, for the useful pur poses which the Hon. Member had in stew, if prac ticable, would he extremely beneficial—if it were not practicable, the House had the power of rt. jeetioog it. Mr. CRORER said, he would always dissent from Irg ' olltlllVr Ilira!WWl which were intended to affect &!gland or Ireland alone. Perhaps the Hon. Member ranil.l state some particular circumstances, relatiog to Irelaud :runt not to Eloglanol, that created au exception to what he conceived to be the general Mho. A 4 there was au union, and they were an untied Psorboonent, they ought to assimilate the. INV.% ' of the two countries as much as possible.—( 1 Mar.) —They ought not to habituate themselves to tinak ing, much less to legislating, for two distinct coon toes.—/(/ear.)—lt wad, therefore, in the expel:ta ttoo that the lion. Nlrinher could state stone rya. sort, applying only to Ireland. as the grootttl-won k of the measure, that he coosented to the narcotise lion of the Bill. Mr. PHILLIPS expressed his hostility to the mea sure. Mr. PARNELL said a few words in reply—after which leave was elven to bring in the BRITISH CLAIMS ON FRANCE. 011 the moons of Lord CASTLEICEAGH, the House resolved itself into a Committee on the Claims on France 11111. Mr. C. litnrcoixsoe rose to draw the attention of the Committee to a class of Clllllllard% whose case be conceived to he peculiarly hard. tie allud ed to the British merchants, who were resident at Flourdeaux, a n d had reoular commercial establish ments there, when the French Revolution broke out. The Cos iiiii issioners, in their Report of the sth of Nlay, stated, that " the particular nature of their case was as yet in little understood, that they could not decide whether their losses were sustained by sruuestriotaii and confiscation, or not." In what he ass about to state, he meant not to Vitt ally re flection on the Commissiisiiers ; hut joined most soicerely, with the Noble Loot, in stating his con viction, that it was their anxious wish to discharge their duty to all parties with the most impartial jus tice. His wish was, to introduce a clause lido the Bill, to protect interests obis li had not been consi dered. This did not arise from any wilful neglect on she part of the Commissioners—not originated in a doubt which they eirtertaiiis ri ; and therefore it ail/ the duty of the House so to vr , rd the Bill, as to remove from the moots of those Gentlemen the doubt contained in the note he had read. The Commissioners felt, that, if they could 1.10 bring th e l o ba r % o f elaimassoss under the heed of " con fiscation" or " sequestration," they could not affarrl them relief—and therefore it was that they had furnished this note, in order to put the Le gislature in possession of the difficulty they had to encounter. The object of the Nnble Lord, its she Convetstosti aortrif to at Paris 111 1615, was to af ford relief to 'British sulijects who had claims on the French Govr meet fur !wows sustained siuririg the mat—either to the fall extent of their demands, or in due proportion's, with reference to the money re ceived from the Government of France fur that pm.- 104 w. The amount received exceeded, he believed, 3,000.000/. sterlim;. "I'he claimants might be di vided, generally, into three classes—fended, terri torial, and commercial. There was also :soother class, denoimisisted by the Commissioners boll. commercial. Tile whole amount of claims re ported by the Commissioners, did not exceed 6,000,000/. and Goveriinirtit were, at present, in piss oession of nearly 3,000,000/. rs ceived from France. Supposing, then, the whole of the cliiims stated in the paper to lie correct, there were sufficient Cued% in this colintry to pay SO per crud. on the total de wands. But; on itivestigistion, several or those claims him been found perGctly without fouistla nor,. suit the prollobility was, that not more than two-thirds of the claims stated in that pryer would Iw anat . :is-101y authenticated to josttfythe Commissioners to pay them. A number of British commercial r-sidents, tooter the Treaty uf 174 G, settled in France, but more particu larly w BittitileklUlt. Now the Noble Lord took the 2d article oldie Treaty (which had been viola,- ed) Hs the basis of his Convention. By the tir.t article of the Convention, it was declined that such stilajeuts of hits Britannic Majesty its, by the cootie veiition of the second article of the Treaty of I7hb. had since the year 1793 suffered by confiscation or sequestration, should be remunerated by the French Government. By the fifth clause of the Treaty of 1786. it s as provided, that no resident Buitisli merchant should be compelled to tiling his torrchandose to mart or fair. The 'Treaty of 1786 held out every Inducement to British rater chains to disk their persons and property to France. and tunny individuals were tempted to settle there. It was unnecessary to argue, that the Nibble Lord, mind those who, on the part of this country. eistered into ilis• Convention of 1815 with the FIefICII nttruded that restitution sl Id he made to all B iUsb subjects who could prove th.it they had suffered in their property, cusimirecial or ter- Mortal, during the period of the Revolution. The comraft to which he hal Aided, feted .t•verrl t, and he was anxious that thev ehotild be periol/frul to prove tl.wir 10114V4. The claims were 3.0“0,090/. t lie territorill, I ,000,001/. --tlw t•tnnmrrelal, generitliv, 1.309,000/.—th: c..m: menial liouveb, 1.000,090/. Al the funded clatio.iiits hid received 1,500,000/. h✓uug nue half of the funda as Fet provider! hy the French . Governmetit—iii•l one 8101111 g hurl hero' !mid err the territorial ClallalAtit•—end of the consmyrti.il el 411114 70. • 000 had !wen rejrct 11, and, altogether, elenit 3,000/, paid, 1-1 r, coo.iilered it onlast, ...it the funded r liftman!, wlin oirrely •itecol,iteti in thin country, who orver rrstileti ur Frani I‘ , l preferred to the conintercial, who, tinder the 11.1111 of thr Treaty of 17%14r, had dettlril In that country, During the reign of terror, in 17'13, thr property ref thr, Brite-h merchants in Bointleaux w oil ark. ell without merry, tioidlry wit:ir wag tientim. nutted flarrrr of " 111(1 rhr cord con fiscation or s,,pestratitni becti tp.ril, the Coin inc•notiers must at once have ctrl uittrd their those scolds ii:it appe;tritt , ,4, a arose, which it was the t wo/ince of that Rotor t o d o p e d. The. Ifooonrable Memlwr then *,out into a history of tlw trausectious wine') took place tot Iloiloleaux, in 1793, when a generel search was made, under a specie: Decree, fur British property. Those who attempted to coeceal it, weer tie-totem-if with 10 years imprisonment iii irouselpol serried Bri nell merchants were confined for six turd lime mouths. Some of them, who renamed for a longer period hi g uol, were served with a notice, alirectisig them, as the necessity of the country called bur the wines iootentled for exportation to England. fettlovith to give in u list of all wows purchased lay them. spe cifying their see, quality„ utill growth, sold pre mising payment for the article. The Commis sioncrs who were to roolorce this order had power to pmaish reristaiice to it. ‘Vitoes.svese in coniequeiace twuzerl on, mud. in many caves, that which was wt,i i h oogs. did slot fetch snore titan 10% to the ownte. That violence war used be would clearly prtive, biller Er had the ceitificate of Count Lynch, whose came war well known. stating the clicninstences of violeuce neuter which the wines were t a ken. What he wished to du was to insert a clause its the 8011, that would remove all doubts from the minds of the ('ommissimiers tie to the goods having been virletilly seized, shhotielo the wood " prehension" was used in the I)ecree. The Commissioners. he mid, might wit be disposed, considering themselves nut warranted, to re-crier evidence : w that case it would he but reasonahle that the particular creditors he alluded to should he allowed to enter into evidence before the Council am appeal. They certainly were entitled to every indulgence—for it could n..t be foreotten that they, tooter the faith of the Treaty of 17evi, risked their lives, their liberties, end their property ; that many of them suffered imprisonment, that o thers of them owed their safety to flight, and all of theta had been considerable sublerers. Lord C•STI.F.EtVAtiti said, the object oldie /louse was to do justice to toll the claimants. The House was not here, he staid, a judicial tiihnnel, but the Conintissiomers meted as a judicial authority, and acted wider rice solemnity of on mitt:—there could het he a doubt but diet they acted conscientiously. There were indeed hut few caves an which the Commissioners gave their opinion, and upon these cases they gave me re p r ovisimial apiuiou., leaving the pulley to collect information, so that they acted wuuli extreme ceutioe. With respect to the aimed. it wits the onnst desirable appeal the patties could have, and if the I louse *mild entanele the King. it would only revive questions of account, and world ot erw helm the Council with dirties that did not properly appertain to it. The proposition of the Don. Gentleman he thought would only go to enact a legislative measure mu its individual case. 11/r. IlosetssoN said, the Cointnissiontre, he had no doubt, were thsovseti to decide truly. In Corn.. moo with, the lion. Nlember (llr. Hutchitisoe) he felt the difficulty of forming a classification of the different elating of parties. He would shortly call the ettention of the House to the description of the claimants under the Convention. 'There were cre ditors who were in the habit of trading in France. oun commercial pursuits. 'floe Decree of October 1793, confiscated the property of the English, Scotch, and Irish; that Decree goes nu awarding pt: ielornent of ten years imprisonment on those who would be found guilty Of concu.oling such pro p• ri V , sod awards half the amount to the ihformer. Under this Decree, it was, he mild, upperent that the polarity of British subjects was couliscated—it was completely forfeited—and all right and autho rity its such property were trsusferred in new pto prietors, namely, to (he French Government. lie would put a similar case to exempiify the 'Hippo eition. Had Newland and Company become bank rupts, there could be uo doubt but.that the agents of the French Gower 1111 l ent would come in as creditors. The law haviug passed, remained so in force from 1793 in 1795: in that year the Fraucio assignats were of no value. The Netianal Convention thee issues a D c. It says, that the different Power* acting against the Fiend* Republic hall cooniiscitol the property of' Freorlinseis against the how of nations—that the Republic, :ay the laws, of war, would he justified in us/foil retirusals, but they had only ordered the sequestratium of property HA an act of necessity— that the successes of the Lich Republic rendered such a measure no hritg.-r orcessary. It then goes oil to order that the property seized under the 1)e. cree of 1793. s'inuld he repaid out of the public chest ; unit it was under thia Decree, which affect. ed to restore the property his micerly seized, that it was now contended that the property was not confiscated ; but that Moots was a gross delusion; it acted ter false poccioles it affected to restore property, because then it was of no value whatever. De contended that the clainiunte were entitled to redress ; and as to the appeal, as far as the parties with *limo he was eioucerued went, they were satis fied pith the present omit-al, and they were grateful to the Ho u se and to the Noble Lord for having got it. The Treesv of the 30ilt May, to fo„ declares, that British clniursotr Silt/111d be intl. uoullied for the tortes they *olio ed by coufiscation. Commis. wooers repaired to Paris for the purpose of armee nig those chat us. The British claimants -he rmi t ill e il interest, to which they were entitled; toe Frenth Oil the utle•r hotel, contended that, under the ettoilic opel law of Footles!, no claims of upwards of five years .tatidlog ire.t.! , entitled to in terest. Here the thwg retnitned Bottupsite re. turned f. . It Elba. After the war IL succeette,l, second Treaty was entered into. and then, the prise of making a snore specific regulation, iu,rl 1.. r rrnilrrtng more efficacious th► 4th art. or the Tie:iti of 1814, o second Convention ws+ agreed nil ; amt Illl^ll comes the Convention, No. 7, the 1•t a elm of which regulated the mode of dealing with whlit ore called creditors, :Ind the oneambletit•rwtertdrd by re'•ittog the 4th adthbottal :trtu•le of the i'te.ey of IR14; that article. Noll the 901 ar o t•ls. of Treat, o f N o y e mlwr, 1815, he would ouloottute-a4 must advantageoun. but he would exclude th e I•t ar ticle. which iltd toot 10. tr nioun the tiowytt oo . kle *aid that a mistake a* to the suet cia-itio.tl been made. The Urtii*lt claims had he•n *lai r d tot amount to vile million aht hendied li►res, whereas thoy only ansoo•bd to Moe hun dred thousand lovre.„ about half the . sum .I. h .d. li w.ua unfortunate that such • mistake could have been Mettle. Sir C. liont%sno .coke in favour of the Rill. Sir Jon's NEWPORT usid, ill he understirid t h e Bill rightly it was to ululate the manlier of the rags entioli of Treatte.„ On this point all doubts should be removed, and the matter should be put mi clearly before the Commisatoarrs as to prevent the rissibility of sniveler. Yet donbm now exita ta i, and even the tristolatioo of the Frenrb and Englioh treaties varied in some essential points.-.4tien of high legal authority, the first indeed, at the bar, differrd with the eanstrwetion of the Crown. Lawyer*. He did not, by any memo, doubt but that the Com. riliiiliters were mast willing to do justice ; and all lie asked was, that the Parliament may enable them to do M. Mr. fluTcuttssou said, that when he called the attention of the House to the cases of great grievance and hardship, it was not, as the Noble Viscount stared. for the porpoise of introducing a partial legislative measure for them, hut it was for the purpose of inducing the Committee to enable the Commissioners to do ample justice to all pat h ... As to the Commissioner themselves, it ass, he hoped, 'unnecessary for him to remind the Committer that he had spoken of them in teross as kind us he could espress ; had he spoken of them in any other IllatiPer, his would not do justice to his own feelings. The creditors themselves, be was authorised to say, felt satisfied sod grateful for tine attention they hart received from the Commissioners. In swishing to hove en appeal to the King in Coen. cil. it was not (as had been also represented by the Noble Lord) to entangle the King with matter. of detail. but it was that every opportunity might be given to the creditors, so that justice 'night be. fully eriteelled. _ Dr. Put,Lussoße folinwed on the sanae side. The SOLICITOR-GF.StEttAI. t•itti the Privy Coun cil had no new power to eVitTiltltt fresh whom...es upon oath, and it would be it ry iintiwitie to opi-ti the caves of claitritit. alies, though it may be rig;it to give, as is now peoposeit, s ittlwief of appeal from the Commissioners. He thought the appellant', evidence of claim obuald he limited to that given tdready before the Committee, and that he sltnultl tint be permitted to open it awry sod adduce addi tional testimony. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, it never could have been the iiitrotion to throw upon the King aid Council the labour of this species of inquiry, as the Hon. and Le.irned Getit (1)r. Plotlnhofe) suggested. It ,nul.t he harsh for the Council to shut nut doc.inients when presented to them. if the matter were left open ; bestiles, it would be hold nig out a temptation to eln4nants before the Com missioners allow, to refrain flow pressing evidence before the C..ltatni3llollerst below, which they might rather wish to res tee for an appeal to the Knig Council. lie humped it would be a situple appesl only that should lie open to the Comm!, soil not the exercise of any new functions which they had nut hitherto possessed. Mr. Wit.sux concurred in the opinion just &i:- weird Lay the Noble Lord. Mr. FREDERICK DOUGLAS concurred in opinion with his lion. and Learned Friend (Dr. Phillimnre,. that if the revision were consigned to the King aid Council, the necessary means of adducing evidence to give the appeal full effect should nut be with held. . ----- Mr. flusuissoN sow no necessity of opening the merits of cases in appeals of this kind. The Lords of Appeal were not, in fact, precluded Isom hear ing further evidence. Mr. FREDERICK DOUGLAS, on the Contrary, saai the clause precluded the Privy Council from re ceiving any other evidence than that which I,:td been already given before the Commissionem words of the Act weer, " and no other." The ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR-GENERAL se. verally contended, that to open the admission of new evidence before the Pii.y Council would be to establish ti new sissies of ii bun tl altogether. Tee Appeal woo col) meant to he from the construction which the Comintssitiners may put on specific fact• which may come before them. nut fur the put• pose of admitting, perhaps, o totally different c.se front that already tried before a competent to buttol. Lord CAsit.LnEscui still hoped Ib4 no attempt would he persevered in to create a new jurisdiction its the King and Clothed. • Mr. HUTCIIINSOM did not widi for a new tribu nal in the Council. hot that in the possibie rout of the Commissioinis rjusin; puriiculor it might be competent f.ar the appellants to produce it before the Privy Cuin.cil. He idionlit thereicia wish that the words of tl.e clause should roil " deuce given or produced." Sir C. ROBINSON saw oo o!.jection to the intire duction of the Ovoid "produced." After u few obeervaiwns from Sir J. Ncsrror•T and Mr. C. 14....uTcttio,us. tie other t•-• Rill were agreed to. ihr Iterort brought up. 71 11 ordered to he received tii-tnoilow. Several Returns were ordered of the 'mount of :it. Fres levied in leelatel. A Petition was prcsented from the Inhabitants of mei in favour of the Catholic Ciento.. On th , motoin of Sir intim NtivronT, the Cle Pence Bill wit• lead a find tone, end ordered to be, second t Our on Thnrailay neat. Mr. PV. PARsvu, howled in the bite Educative Factory Bill, who read a Brit lime', arid or dered read a •ecoul Line an Weduipitay neunight. Mr. lIUME postponed the vetund reading of the E , Olth Bill (vital the Tali of May. On the motion PovVrtt I the Scotch Due r Cvaleiscr wn, •.: el •u IC • • •.• • • . Mr. CHOKER wished to explain the motive which taut matters would be neglected. For isioti induced him to suffer the witnesses to go away, with- the inhabitants of a country were all equally i out cross-a )(annotation. It was not any difficulty rested in its defence—they however would, as i miring from a 'suspicion of the credit of the wit- vidualr, neglect this parantottnt duty; and, tli tier -pi—it arose from no point that could be cleared fore, Government interfered, and caused it u up by them ; lie considered their evidence to be s propel ly attended to. The second exception completely above doubt or suspicion ; but the i where all epidemic disease ravaged a cannot] evident—, he felt, wag not, or a whole, sufficient to Ireland roll-led prodigiously from the nor-it bring coi.riciiim home to his mind. Hearing two I ference of the Legislature. Had a landequarin voices in a brll-room was nut sufficient to authorise been established, he was convinced at would a cunelts,••,,il that the pantie. were guilty of err- done much gaud. Government at length took Ilil.lal couvartosusou—and lie khea, that lie could matter up, and the most beneficial results folio , tint get stronger evidence from t h e !milk.. hi the 3,1 place, Parliament legislated for the 1)r. Fur timings: wished the House and the tection ist particular classes of rcople—of Hon. Gentleman to recollect the guards which i mace, for imitative, and, he thought, of chili were interposed to prevent them from coming to a Now, as Parliament might interttire, lie *is .i rash conclusion • in the fi rst place, there was the as factories were starting up in Ireland, the children em sentence of the Court of King's Beach, awarding, ployed in them should be 1 damages, to the amount of a thousand pounds, rally educated. Ilia view was, that soy cl ' against the 1/-fenalant—ilext, there war the sea- man, Protestant or Catholic, or any benevolen teaser of the Ecclesiastical Court, dissolving the ciety, ought enter those factories, class the chit( marriage—anti lastly, the opinion of the House of and place them under monitor* of their respe Lords. Alter this, it was a little too much for sexes. Ile should also propose, that, in I Hun. Melnik r-, when the witnesses had withdrawn, *here the heads of any of those benevolent a tat stilt inventing of the description which he lied 1 ties granted a certificate that the owners of ti rheard. Ile thought the evidence full and coin- tier were careful of the morals of the chili pier, though rather proving a proximate set, than I such factories should be exempted from the 0 1 f u ll y ~,,ii , tht o i m in g th e f ac t ' N e ff. H e certainly ti 6 it of the Assessed Taxes. 'the incotsich, al 1111 l Id vole organist ally delay. .., thus given up would be amply repaid b: Strangers were twice ordered to withdraw; but improvement of youth in morals said education the root for the third reading. to-morrow, was Sir G. fltta. said, lie war sure if the lion. N ultimately carried, without a &vision. her had stated to the secretary for Ireland the IRISH FISHERIES AND MANUFACTURES. I tenant objects he had ni view, before he move Alderoom Wool) put otf his motion for ti Bill leave to bring in this Bill, he would not hive to promote tile fisheries and manufactures of Ire- wilted even to its introduction. Solite of thosi rit laud, by regulator's' of partnership., which stood jests were of such a nature, Our, had he fur this day, until the ;Ph tut Nlay. George) [seem apprised of thew, when lie first I , WAGES OF SEAMEN. of the Hon. Gentleman's intention. lie would f Lord EBRINtiII'OX rose, so pursuance of no- a opposed the proposition altogether. No pentroil 111111 6.6 . 14immersimigiiiiiiminmowi g ia illigigilliala iiiiiii i iisi '' *'' . . . 7 .4. ..' - • . . . . ' ' ... - .- - • of 3d 4 Ant ar✓ feel t rr- -1 1,3 d T:1- Li rt be , ch tcftou fact. ptir- c ,se t Ira R 4 1 90 lCilos l • tribu- eVrtli alltce If eb ,. Intl r• vror•T c:s. ];. J r Cr. or ll' . treaa Cot'" "I E:ectivn D'..