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tendered himself to be sworn, would perhaps be obliged to make his appearance again on another d a y, and be then placed in the same situation. He thought the House was able, at the present moment, to decide on what ought to be done. They ought to decide this question, not only on account of the Hon. Member for Clare, but for the sake of their own usages, of their own dignity, and of their own proceedings —( Hear, hear.) —Impressed as he was Ivith the importance of this case, and thinking that the discussion of the construction of the law could not he carried to too great an extent, still he could not bring ItimseW to believe that there was any ne cessity for delay in coming to a decision on the pro position of his Hon. and Learned Friend.—(Hear.) Mr. Secretary PEEL said, when any Honourable Member intended to make a motion on any subject, it was the regular rule to give notice of it, and he thought it was not unreasonable to ask for two days' notice on this motion, whether or not the Hon. Gent. returned for the county of Clare should be heard by himself or otherwise, to assign reasons for his refus ing to take the oaths. He thought it was too much to ask that he should at once be heard at the table, and that the House ought to adjourn the considera tion of this question till Monday. It was compe tent for any Gentleman to move whether or not the Hon. Member for Clare should be heard at the table, at the bar, or whether he should be heard at hear.)—He certainly was not aware o f any case where, upon a Member refusing to take the oaths, he had ever been heard, and he thought :his a sufficient reason why the question should be postponed till Monday. Mr. M. FITZGERALD had no objection to the question being postponed, but he did not see how the Hon. Member for Clare, after he had been declared duly elected, could be refused a hearing.—(Hear.) By the opinion of the Chair, Mr. O'Connell had been prevented from stating the reasons why he objected to take the oath 4 he ought certainly to be afforded an opportunity of so doing. It was of little consequence whether he was beard at the bar or at the table, but it would be depriving a Member of that House of his privileges, if it was refused to hear his objections to taking the oaths. Mr. PEEL—We must first determine whether those objections are to be made at the table or at bar of the House, and to enable us to come to a decision on that point, we ought to adjourn the question, when we may come better prepared. Sir F. BURDETT was of opidm, that it would be better to adjourn the question until the cases, which had been cited were looked into. He was anxious to postpone the discussion, because, con trary to the opinion of his Right Hon. Friend who had just sat down (Mr. Fitzgerald), and of his Right Honourable Friend below him (Mr. Tierney), he considered that it was a very important question, whether the Hon. Mem ber for Clare should he heard at the table or at the bar. Mr. PEEL begged it might be borne in mind that be had given no opinion on this subject. Lord MILTON was of opinion, that the House might, by its vote this evening, indicate what its in tention really was, and that he thought could not be done too speedily. There was no doubt on his mind but that they ought to hear the Hon. Member for Clare in some manner or other; and the whole question, as put by the Right Hon. Secretary, was, whether he should be hear at the bar, or at the table.—(Cries of "No, no.")—Did he understand the Right Hon. Secretary rightly, when he sup posed him, in the course of his last observations, to state to the House, that the question was, whether Mr. O'Connell should be heard at the table or at the bar ? He certainly did not hear the Right Hop. Secretary add the third alternative,—whether Mr. )'Connell should be heard at all. Mr. PEEL said, his idea was, that they could not here this gentleman until they had determined whether he should be heard at the table or at the bar. There were some gentlenfen who might think that he ought not to be heard at all; and to give Hon. Members an opportunity of considering what course was most proper to be pursued, ha had moved the adjournment of the question,—reserving to him self the right of hereafter stating his impression on the whole case, but abstaining from giving any opinion now. Sir J. YORKE said he believed that Fanshawe had been sent for by the Speaker. He was asked whether he would take the oaths, and having an swered no, he was asked his reasons. He gave them and withdrew, and his seat was vacated. - Mr. BROUGHAM would repeat what he had said at first—namely, that he was unwilling to make the motion which he had submitted to the House. The impression on his mind certainly was, that the Hon. Member for Clare ought to be heard at the table; but he was not so confident in his opinion as to wish to press the motion forward. He was not so confident in his opinion as others had a right to he who had studied subjects of this kind more atten tively; and he stated that as his reason for not acting hastily. With respect to the cases of Fanshawe and Monson, he thought they bore strongly on the present. There was this peculiarity connected with them—that the two individuals had bean members of the Convention Parliament ; but he dealt with them in connexion with that Parliament which con- verted the Convention Parliament into a lawful Par liament. Sir H. Monson refused to take the oaths, I and Sir Michael Fanshawe acted in the same way. They were heard at the table; and these cases, he • contended, had the precise bearing of the present. — He was not prepared to argue that Archdale's case wa s exactly similar. He was described as a Quaker, who, being required to attend Parlia ment, refuseJ to take the oaths, having first written to the Speaker, and being afterwards called upon by him. This might possibly make a difference in the case of Archdale; but there was no difference in those of Fanshawe and Monson, at least not such a difference as essentially to alter the bearing of those precedents. He had abstained from making any motion until the House pressed him to do so. He then stated, that to bring the question in a regular and formal manner under discussion, he would move " that the Hon. Member for Clare be heard at the table." But, as something of the same doubt which he at first felt was still prevailing in his mind, he had willingly acceded to the adjournment, that more ample time might be given for the consi deration of the subject. Now, however right it might be to proceed deliberately,—however proper it might be to discuss whether the hearing of - the Hon. Member for Clare should be at the bar or at the table, such a discussion might be very right, and he believed it was very right; but as to the possibility of the House coming to the conclusion not to allow the Hon. Member for Clare to be heard either way, such a decision—a decision that he should not be heard at all—he looked upon to be be utterly out of the question.—(Hear, hear.) Lord DUNCANNON—I am requested by the Member for Clare to apply to the House that he may be heard before the House in support of his claims. The motion for adjourning the debate till Monday wag then agreed to. Mr. PEEL—It is understood that it will take precedence of every thing else. SMITHFIELD MARKET BILL. Mr. Alderman WOOD brought up the Report on this Bill, and moved that it be received. Mr. R. GORDON looked upon this as an absurd and ridiculous Bill. He should therefore move, that the Report be received this day three months. Mr. BYNG said, that the Bill effected much benefit, in preventing carriages passing .through Smithfield on market-days, and in changing the market-day from Friday to Thursday. Lord ALTHORP said, the Bill was only to last two years, and he supported it as an experiment , Mr. WODEHOUSE objected to the Bill. Sir J. MACINTOSH opposed the Bill, as it would have the effect of prolonging and diverting public attention from the abominable and intolerable nuisance of driving beasts through the streets, to the danger of passengers. Mr. COKE suspected that the Corporation ex pected to gain something from the passing of the Bill, for he never could believe that they had put themselves to the expence of Parliamentary pro ceedings. He wished to see Smithfield-market re- moved from its present site. Mr. BENETT, Mr. HEATHCOTE, and Mr. WARD thought the Bill ought to be encouraged. Mr. PROTHEROE, Sir T. FREMANTLE, and Mr. LEGH KECK opposed the Bill. After a few words from Alderman WooD, Sir J. MACINTOSH, and Mr. J. BENETT, the House divided on the original motion, when the numbers appeared — For the Motion 3l Against it 54 Majority against the Bill —23. Mr. ASHUitSi presented a petition from a pa rish in the town of Oxford, against the Labourers' Wages Bill. Mr. MAXWELL presented a petition from the Nom-commissioned Officers and Drummers of the North Down Militia, against the measure for Dis banding Militia Corps. Sir A. CAMPBELL presented a petition from Members of Friendly Societies in Glasgow, against the Friendly Societies' Bill. Mr. PEEL presented a petition from the inhabit ants of the parish of Whitechurch, in the county of Cork, praying that a modified system of Poor Laws might be introduced into Ireland. Lord MILTON presented a petition from certain persons in Yorkshire, praying for the repeal of the Corn Laws. Mr. DAWSON brought in a Bill for raising 13,000,0001. of Exchequer-bills for the service of the present year. Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday. The Metropolis Police Bill passed through a Com mittee, and the report was brought up. On the question that the report be taken into further consideration on Monday, Mr. LENNARD asked whether the Right Hon. Secretary expected the Bill to pass this session ? Mr. PEEL hoped so, and should consider it a great misfortune if it did not. Mr. LENNARD wculd take another opportunity of stating his objection to the principle of the measure. The question was then carried in the affirmative. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER presented an estimate of the expense of erecting the King's Palace in St. James's-park. The Consolidated Fund Bill, the Exchequer-bills Funding Bill, and the Sinking Fund Bill, severally passed through a Committee, and the report on each was ordered to be received on Monday. SILVER COINAGE. On the question that the Committee of Supply be postponed to Monday, Mr. HUME wished to call the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the circumstance that some bills had been drawn on the public Trea sury of this country, at the almost incredible date of eight months. He had seen two bills, one for 3,0001. and the other for 4,0001., drawn on the public Trea sury by David Rothschild, of Paris, and trade pay able at the Bank of England eight months after date. It certainly appeared extraordinary that an indivi dual should be allowed to draw on the Treasury at such a date, unless there were specific reasons for it. Might he attribute it to the difficulty which he knew the Treasury had experienced of obtaining money during the last twelve months ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the Hon. Member was right in supposing that there were peculiar circumstances attending the transaction in question. About the autumn of last year it was thought probable that the gradual with drawal of the 1/. notes would render it necessary to increase the silver coinage of the larger pieces, namely, crowns and half-crowns. The silver for this purpose was procured abroad, and paid for in the manner mentioned by the Hon. Member for this reason,—that the bills would not become payable until the coinage was in such a state as to enable the Government to meet them. It happened, however, that the demand for the coinage was not so great as had been expected, and therefore the remainder of the silver was sold at the price which was given for it to meet the bills. Mr, HUME wished to know what interest was paid on the money borrowed ? The CHANCELLOK of the EXCHEQUER replied, Four per Cent.; but the profit arising from the coinage paid the interest, and all other charges connected with the transaction. Mr. BARING said, the profit arising from silver coinage was large. Therefore, he thought the transaction must have been attended with consider able loss, if it absorbed all the profit in this case. He wished this question of the coinage had been brought under the consideration of the House. The whole operation appeared to be an ill-judged one. The CKANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the amount of the coinage was 250,0001. Of this 150,0001. were cold without loss to the public. On the remaining 100,0001. issued as coin, sufficient profit was derived to pay the interest, and to heave something to be carried to the public credit. —The question was then carried in the affirmative. EAST INDIA OFFICERS BILL. Mr. BARING moved the second reading of the above Bill. Mr. HUME desired the enactments of the Bill to be more general. He thought that not only persons holding offices in the East Indies, but persons hold ing offices under the Crown, which prevented them from executing the duties of Members of that House, should be prevented from sitting. Colonel LUSHINGTON observed, that by the enactments of the Bill, officers in the Company's service, who proceeded to India, were declared to be no longer Members of the House, whilst no such regulation applied to officers in the King's service. He thought the two services should be put on an equal footing. The Bill was then read a second time. On the motion of Mr. PLANTA, the Speaker was ordered to issue a new writ for a Member to serve in Parliament for Aldeburgh, in the room of Mr. Joshua Walker, who had accepted the Stewardbhip of the Chiltern Hundreds. On the motion of Lord LEVESON GOWER, the Irish Fisheries Bill was committed, and some amend ments having been agreed to, the report was ordered to be received on Monday. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' BILL. Mr. PORTltilai moved that this Bill be recom mitted for further consideration; and the SPEAKER having left the chair, the House went into the Committee. After a few words from Mr. HOULDSWORTH, which were not heard in the gallery, Mr. T. P. COURTENAY, adverting to the Bill which he had introduced on this subject, observed, that his object had been greatly misunderstood, and much prejudice excited against him in consequence. It wi.s imagined that what he did went against the freedom of individuals to act in their own concerns as they pleased. Nothing could be more unfounded. Mr. PORTMAN admitted that there had existed a great dealof unfounded prejudice against the Right klon. Gentleman on this subject. After a few words from Mr. B. COOPER, the first clause was agreed to without amendment. Mr. T. P. COURTENAY proposed an amend ment to the second clause, to the effect that no rules for friendly or benefit societies should be allowed by Magistrates in Quarter Session, unless it should be made appear that the tables were founded on calculations which might be adopted with safety to all parties. Mr, ►, OR TMAN said that the two clauses which he bad introduced into this Bill would, he thought,be quite sufficient, withqot the amendment of his Right Hon. Friend. One was, that every society should present annuAy an account of the state of its funds to the Members, who would thus have an opportu nity of judging of the situation in which they stood. The next was, that quinquer►npally there should be presented from each society an account of the mor tality and sickness amongst its members. By this means we should in time arrive at that which even Mr. Finlayson and others admitted we had no correct data for at present—the state of mortality among the . working classes. Mr. T. P. COURTENAY said, that by thi s means they might, it was true, obtain in some 40 or 50 years hence some correct data to go upon in cal culation for such societies, but what would become of them in the interim if Magistrates b ad not the power to refuse (and that was all he contended for) tables which they had reason to know were erro neous ? After a few words from a MEMBER, whose name we did not learn, the clause was agreed to. The Bill then went through the Committee. The House resumed, when the Report was brought up, and ordered to be received on Monday. LABOURERS' WAGES BILL. On the motion that the Labourers' Wages Bill be committed, Mr. WODEHOUSE expressed a hope that the Bill should he withdrawn for the present Session. The Hon. Mover of the Bill might truly say he walked in the footstepi of Lord Bacon ; but if Lord Bacon lived now, he would find it a matter of diffi culty to walk backwards. Lord ALTHORP hoped that the Bill would be urged forward. Sir G. PHILLIPS was aware of the necessity of making the attempt to effect this improvement in the poor laws, but he thought the experiment ought to be tried with the agricultural poor before it was applied to the manufacturing population. Mr. CRIPPS hoped the Hon. Member would not withdraw his Bill, but endeavour to press it through the House, and he would give it every support in his power. Mr. BENETT opposed the Bill, upon the grounds that the labour of the pauper could not be profitably employed, or if it was, that it would lessen the value of general labour. Mr. F. PALMER objected to the Bill because it would throw all the married riven out of employ ment, unless a clause were introduced to prevent it. Colonel WOOD sincerely hoped the Hon. Mem ber would persevere with the Bill, and get it sent to the other branch of the Legislature, so that they should know what feeling was entertained there upon the subject. Mr. COURTENAY recommended that the op position to the Bill should be suspended until they had gone through the Committee. Colonel WODEHOUSE would not press his op position in the present stage, but should take the sense of the House against the third reading. After an explanation between Mr. BENETT and Col. WOOD, the House went into a Committee upon the Bill. After some discussion the Committee divided upon the first clause. For the Clause Against it ll Majority for retaining the Clause-28 The clause allowing Parisi; Overseers to advance money in part payment for work done by paupers, after some objection on the part of Mr. WOOD and COI. DAVIS, was withdrawn. The Bill then passed through the Committee, and the [louse having resumed, the report was or dered to be received on Friday next. The Butter Trade in Ireland Bill passed through a Committee, and the report was ordered to be fur ther considered on Monday. The Drainage of Bogs (Ireland) Bill went through a Committee, and the report was ordered to be received on Monday next. The Charitable Losn (Ireland) Bill went through a Committee, and the report was ordered to be re ceived on Monday next. The Rights of Executors' (Ireland) Bill went through a Committee, and the report was ordered to be received on Monday. The Order of the Day for the House resolving it self into a Committee on the Anatomy Bill having been read, and the question put that the Speaker do leave the chair, Sir R. INGLIS proposed that it be an instruc tion to the Committee that they be empowered to introduce a clause repealing so much of the 9th of Geo. IV. c. 31, as gave the Judges the discretionary power of giving up the bodies of murderers for dis section. His object in proposing that instruction was to prevent the body of the poor man who died i - n the workhouse or in the hospital from being looked on in the same light as that of the murderer. Mr. WARBURTON being satisfied that the in troduction of the clause would endanger the success of the Bill, felt obliged to oppose it. Lord F.OSBORNE objected strongly to the Bill. Mr. HUME supported the Bill. Mr. PROTHEROE said, when he became a member of the Committee he was greatly opposed to any such a measure as that before the House, but inquiry had converted him, and he now approved of the Bill. Mr. FYLER said that if the instruction was adopted he should support the Bill, but if it were not, be should vote against it. Colonel WOOD wished the Bill to be postponed. An Hon. MEMBER, whose name we were unable to learn, supported the instruction. Lord ALTHORP opposed it; on the ground that it would endanger the Bill. Sir T. ACLAND supported the instruction, without pledging himself to uphold it in the future stages of the Bill, if it should be found likely to en danger the measures. Sir J. GRAHAM regretted the absence of the Secretary for the Home Department, for the whole labour and responsibility of the Bill was now thrown upon an individual Member of the House. Mr. P. COURTENAY opposed the instruction, on the ground that, if adopted, it would endanger the Bill. Mr. B. COOPER had intended to propose a clause, the substance of which he had shewn to the Secretary for the Home Department, who would have been present had he not been severely indis posed. Sir C. FORBES thought the Bill objectionable in many points. After a few remarks from Lord SANDON, the House divided, when there appeared For the instruction Against it ...... 40 Majority against the instruction ...-32 The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill. The different clauses were gone through, and several amendments made, when the House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received on Monday next. The House adjourned at Three o'clock. There is said to be the most abundant show of fruit of almost all kinds throughout the country that has been seen for many years. A cowslip was yesterday gathered in a field at Chalcot-bill farm, on the stalk of which were the extra ordinary number of 170 flowers !—Devizes Gazette. When the Stourbridge mail-coach arrived at Kidderminster on Monday, its contents rather startled the book-keeper; four gentlemen descended from it, the lightest of whom weighed 20 stone! How they got into the ve hicle is quite a. mystery ; but it is conjectured that they must have previously passed through Ila.a3tmes hydraulic press. On Monday last an inquest was held at Nails worth, on the body of NANCY SnlewAr, who died under the following singular circumstances ;—The deceased had separated from her husband, about a month since, and lived by herself in a cottage at Harlywood, in the parish of Horsley, having no other companions than two cats, of whom she was particularly fond. She endeavoured to procure a "livelihood by mending shoes ; but having little work, it was suspected that she was half starved. Friday was the last time she was seen by the neighbours ; and upon observing that her door continued closed, they con cluded something alarming must have happened. Ou Sunday morning they endeavoured to ascertain the fact, and a young man named JAMES OSBORNE effected an en trance into her chamber through the window, on opening which one of the cats sprang at him. He then proceeded 4, -- ,vvp stairs, and admitted the people assembled without, Who found unfortunate woman lying dead. 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'When he entered the House last night, in the expectation that he would have been enabled to take his seat, or at any rate to be heard at the bar of the House, should obstacles be thrown in his way, he was informed by the SPEAKER that he must with draw, and this, upon the subtle and quibbling point that he had been elected previously to the passing of the late Act in favour of the Catho lics. On this—we repeat the phrase—quibbling point he was desired to take the former oaths— those very oaths, the injustice of which have caused their repeal, and which for any active purposes are therefore no longer in existence. Of course Mr. O'CONNELL refused to comply with such terms, and was in consequence ordered to withdraw. Now, without entering into the small technicalities of the case, without nicely balancing the forms and ceremonies of the House, on a question, which from the peculiar circumstances connected with it, it is next to impossible can ever form a precedent, we shall look at it in a more enlarged point of view, as a matter of com mon sense and good feeling. When Mr. PEEL first brought forward his Bill for the Emancipation of the Catholics, he laid particular stress on the generous and manly spirit that dictated it. This part of his argument, for which, in com mon with the majority, we gave him great credit at the time, he laboured with considerable effect. The Catholics, he said, demanded justice, they deserved it, and should be paid twenty shil liugs in the pound. Such, though not, perhaps, in the same words, was the tenor of his famous conciliation speech—such too was the spirit of his reply. But how has this been followed up ? Why, by—we must say it—an ungenerous attempt to strangle in the petty meshes of the law a question which should be decided only by common sense. To emanci pate the Catholics, yet still seek to protract the slavery of the very man to whom, in a great measure, such Emancipation has been owing, seems to us almost to neutralize the courteous and lofty spirit of the boon. In our view o f the case it carries an air of personality along with it. The leaven of a vindictive spirit seems mixed up with it—the cloven foot is manifest. Mr. O'CONNELL has forced us to emancipate the Catholics ; he has brought us to that dread ful pass, that we have all but lost our places,— ' nay, more, he has compelled us to separate from 6 old fifties, the Ultra Tories, and we will therefore avenge our own embarrassments, and the tears of JOHN Lord ELDON, on his obnoxious person. Such are the sentiments which, should he; Mr. O'CONNELL, be sent back to be re-elected for Clare, will, we fear, be said by the more reflective portion of the public to have influeinced the conduct of Government. On a technical point of law, they may, perhaps—though even this is doubtful—be defensible ; but such technicality should not be suffered for an instant to interfere with, or cloud the glory of an Act like that of Catholic Emancipation, by which, in after ages, it will be the chief boast of the nineteenth century to have been distinguished. While Mr. O'CoNNEL L stood at the table of the House, he required the Property Qua lification Oath to be administered to him, which was refused ; and as that oath must be taken before any man speaks as a Member, Mr. O'Corr- NELL withdrew at the SPEAKER'S command, which he otherwise would have replied to as a matter of right. If any of our readers wish to see the legal point of the question regarding Mr. O'CoN NELL'S eligibility, or otherwise, to sit in Parlia ment, discussed, we refer them to an article in the Morning Chronicle, inserted in our columns of to-day. The French Journals contain no news of mo ment. The Journal du Commerce states that a Congress at Rome is seriously thought of, and speculates on the probable subject of dis cussion there. The Smithfield Bill is, we are glad to find, thrown out. The situation of this Market is such an insufferable nuisance, there is so much inconvenience, not to say hazard, attending a passage through the neighbourhood, by timid and respectable females or children that we are delighted with the defeat of every Bill that has for its object merely to improve or enlarge the site. If there be any alteration, it should be to remove the Market altogether to some more convenient and less objectionable situation. Surely the heart of an active and densely peopled city, is not exactly the spot where beasts should be allowed to roam in an all but savage state THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CLOCK. The leading topic of conversation this morning in the City is Mr. O'Connell's en!, ee into the House of Commons last night, and his reception by the Speaker. The general opinion seems to be, if the House will not allow him to take his seat, that he will be immediately returned for Clare, or some other place in Ireland. The Consol Market this morning has been un usually dull ; speculation there is none, and scarce a bargain has been done. Consols opened at the same price they left off at yesterday, 871 for the account, and 87i 8 for next time ; Scrip, 21 f pm.; Exchequer Bills, 68 70 pm. The Foreign market is as dull as the English— prices being nearly nominal. Three per Cent. Consols, 871 i; Ditto for May 26, S7l ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 861 7 ; Three and a half per Cent. Reduced, 951 1 ; Four per Cent., 103 1; Ditto, 1826, 1031 ; India Stock, 224 5 ; Bank Stock, 208 9 ; India Bonds, 59 4; Exchequer Bills, 68 70 pm. FORElGN.—Brazilian, 521 ; Buenos Ayres, 24 5 ; Chilian, 17 19; Colombian, 151 I; Danish, 65/ i; Greek, 14i 15i ; Mexican, 201 I; Peruvian, 10 12; Portuguese, 444 5; Russian, 96 -i-; Spanish, 91 1. Tit 0 O'CLOCK. The Consol market has improved since the early part of the morning, when they were stationary at 87-ii for the account, since which a purchase of 100,000/. Consols was effected; when they were done at 87H, and for next time at 88k, at which price they remain at present, with little or nothing doing. Every thing appears very (lull in the City, and to the present hour we have neither reports nor news. No express has arrived from Paris, as the Baron N. M. de Rothschild left town last night for Brighton, but is expected to return on Monday. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols, 871 i. The Princess AUGUSTA and the Duke of CUMBERLAND visited his MAJESTY yesterday, at his Pa lace, in St. James's. The Duke of CUMBERLAND honoured the Rev. Dr. BLOMBERO, with his company to dinner on Wednesday, at his residence, near St. Paul's Church-yard. Among the company present to meet his Royal highness, were the Bishop of LLANDAFF, the Bishop of CHICHES TER, Lord MACDONALD, &C. A portion of the household of the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE removed yesterday from the tem porary residence of their Royal Highnesses, in St. James's Palace, to their new residence in St. James's Palace, which has been built on the site of their former mansion. The Earl of ABERDEEN and the CHANCEL LOR of the EXCHEQUER visited the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday, at the Treasury. We have been requested to contradict a para graph which we copied on Thursday from a Morning Pa per of that day, respecting the ill treatment of a little girl by her father, a master chimney-sweeper. The whole story, we learn, is a fabrication. DEVON.—TiIe woollen trade is almost at a stand in the south of the county of Devon : several of the manufacturers have ceased working.— Shrewsbury Citron. A shocking accident occurred on the Hard wick Road on Monday night, between eleven and twelve o'clock. Mr. CHRISTOPMER HAWES, baker, was found at the corner of the road, at the entrance of the town, (near the gas works,) bleeding profusely, and in a state of in sensibility, by three gentlemen who were returning from a fishing excursion. Mr. IlAwrts had passed them not two minutes before, near a place called Horsley's Chase, in a small square cart, and driving very fast. He had, no doubt, by turning the corner too suddenly, and perhaps by the wheel coming in contact with a stone, been jolted out of the vehicle. The gentlemen above alluded to, with the humanity and promptitude which the occasion demanded, conveyed the unfortunate man to the nearest public-house, the Crown, where every attention was paid him in order to his recovery, but he died in a very few minutes, and before medical aid could be procured. The medical gentleman who was on the spot in the shortest possible time, declared that no human a.ssistance could have saved the deceased. He had, by tke violence of the fall, fractured his skull and broke a blood vessel. An Inquest was held on the body on the following day, before EDMUND ELSDEN, Coroner, when the Jury returned a verdict of Accidents) Death.—Nor svich Mercury. LAW INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.) COURT OF, CHANCERY• IiARRIS V. =MEL& eat t 0441 This case stood on th e p a p e r for judgn t OF Upon his Lordship taking his seat he c43se"e to he had already devoted a largeportien of tiale siol i reading of the papers , but had not yet b een get through them. t was of great imports ll o — should be read most carefully, and as ,,T o bi his Lordship was enabled to complete the ta°' ear; begun, he would give his judgment in thitior case. WELLESLEY V. DUKE OF BEAUFORT. the There were two petitions and a motion be ff r e re Court in this case, with resp b ect to the furfltige 0 Draycote Hous e , th e taxation of costs, anu ' tainiag of an i n j unct i on . U pon t he matte r ' be called on, '6OO Mr. HORNE observed that one of the Pe t ' s , had been ordered to stand over for the pu i rt e - o - ii i‘ enabling the parties to file an a ffi davit, and ue ,,j o yei not see how the Court could be pro fitablY,,,,e m r s , - '0 in hearing the other matters till the Poni es Jeady ix that petition. Mr. BEAME3 and M r . P EPYS concorred)ll the pit priety of this. ,h e so! His LORDSIIIP was anxious to know Whe r thing had been done with respect to the aPr" ment of a guardian for the children. Mr. HORNE had been informed there lia‘• po His LORDSHIP was not aware how such 11 . 0 ' 01 1 could have taken place; it certainly w as time 74pf thing should be done , with respect to such APP" ment. bed Mr. HORNE observed, the matter was n0w2 ..40 the Master, and the Court must at once that a matter, of this importance could not be trea t lightly, or hurried on before the Master. His LORDSHIP expressed himself satisfied the explanation. a tis t. After some further discussion it was arrange,„o the whole matter should be brought before th e tl" - on Tuesday next. IN THE MATTER OF FRANKS, A LUNATI C' t be i The order was made upon the petition I s no Committee in this matter, subject to the sPr a , t hi of Mr. King, the only person who could oPP °11 " petition. BURNELL V. THE LORDS OF THE AO. TREASURY THE MARQUIS OF STAFFORD. .Mr. SPENCE opened this case, which was an ar e. plication to take a demurrer off t h e fi le, an d t° r it demur, in consequence of irregularity. Th e casW i l ii , will be recollected, was some time since be re 60 Honour the Vice-Chancellor, and arose Out Yin rk , agreement with referen ce t o th e building ° f house. The plaintiff, Mr. Burnell, filed a bil l *Di be the Lords of the Treasury, for the specification: agreement, to which their Lordships seemed. The case appears likely to occupy dal VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. IN THE MATTER OF HICKSON, AN 1 141 ; t5'r ; Mr. SUGDEN applied for a n order of the 110.0 to compel a gentleman named Boast to deliverted the person of an infant, to the guardian aPPturtly by the Master. The facts of the case are 9 ". 01 - these :—About seven years ago a gentlema n 11 ",,,gr" Hickson, who w'ss possessed of a co nsider perty, was in a dangerous state of health, &T o o attended during his illness by a medical get e d named Boast. During that illness, he req u— a t l° Mr. Boast, in case he died, that he (Boast) take charge of his only child, a ttend to her ech le t t he; and as she was subject to epileptic fits, he f r t hat requested she might reside in the family o'd ant gentleman, Mr. Hickson saying that if she 13 1,h tn. relations living he did not know where to fi n ": - e tbs Mr. Boast agreed to these proposals, and s hortly death of Mr. Hickson, (which happene d u se ! after) took the young lady into her awn h ouse, where she has ever since resided. After she to u ndo and 0, 4 been there for three or four years, an of the infant applied to this Court to be appoinn., guardians, appointing who, after hearing the evidence, made his r e r r a th n e d r t e h l e at c io as e e s gewatisrdreiafeirlsr,ewdhtiochthwe fobl:ftwrier: wards confirmed. The present application L b resod was to compel Mr. Boast to give up the id ° the care of her guardians. ta d Mr. HORNE opposed this application, arta several affidavits of the most eminent phY eic ' s he who stated that the infant was treated greatest kindness by Mr. Boast, who was a resP„ r able surgeon, and that it would be 'ouch to..P` subject to evil, injury to be removed, as she was greatly to tic fits, and any change would tend also 0". crease their frequency. The infant had pressed to them that it was her wish to contoole with Mr. Boast, and as the relatives never rell_ th this application until several years after the de ll o , of Mr. Hickson, their motives were open to picion. 5 stopP Mr. SUGDEN was about to by the VICE-CHANCELLOR, who said he did not thin or what . the infant had been bred with kindness 01"1 the ptention by Mr. Boast, but after hearing the Ma ster Of dence, and seeing the young lady, reported that it would be for her advantage that. should be under the guardianship of her re at llo with tt, He should therefore make the order, calling 0 ° Boast immediately to give her up to her friend be t The COURT afterwards disposed of a great 1 0 of motions, principally matters of course. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. EX-PARTE THE EXECUTORS OF HARNOTT• pt Mr. BROUGHAM applied for an attachment BO 0 1 Eliza Harnott, for not bringing up the bodi ar t Mary Harnott, for the production of whom the C° two days ago granted a writ of Habeas Coipits c : o t; Lord TENTERDEN—But perhaps she is in Lit/- M has she been called ? r. BROUGHAM—I believe not, my Lon- , bo t there is little chance of her being here. a of The defendant was then called by the P a r i pot Eliza Birch, as well as Eliza Harnott, but d'" appear. Mr. BRouG e of' HAm then put in the affidavit of t ' torney who had served the writ, and had ai s° of formed the defendant that he should expect noticio, the time when she intended producing the el' No notice, however, had been received. itr Mr. WHITE stated that he was aut h o rised [ i o o d;. form the Court that she would appear by one o : c ' 0 0' The Court granted the attachment, upon oil 0 01 derstanding with Mr. BROUGLIAM that it s hal t " t he be taken out if she appeared in the course f ee day, unless it should appear that she had an 1°- tion of going away. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. tb i/ Mr. Baron VAUGHAN sat for a short till' pic' morning to hear justifications of bail, after v i their Lordships sat in banco. 10° The only business before the Court was a n', t e e o by Mr. DENMAN to discharge a rule which had to obtained on a former day by Mr. ThonlP s°ll ;br' show cause why the venue in an action (the P e e' shire Canal Company v. Gill) should not be eb a ' i-g from Derby to London, which only occupied a minutes, and the Court adjourned. The Duke of CUMBERLAND dined vvi , Princess AUGUSTA on Thursday, at her residenve it King's Palace, St. James's, GLOUCESTER.—The general stagnali° ll o ,iy trade is severely felt in the clothing district of this where there is little or nothing doing ; but we are h. to say that the unemployed weavers have not ma": Leg any disposition to proceed to acts of violence.---S 1 " - bury Chronicle. 0 1 SOMERSET.—The crape factory at ci 0, Mallet is again at work, which has had some effect ill, lieving the parish rates ; but they re still heavy, i lll sequence of the stoppage of the and lace wo rl‘o;, 0 0 1 machinery of the latter, which a fmir e oars. 6;la P i erected at a cost of upwards of 30,00( - • J " little more than 14004... SI; rew sbur —v,gronick.