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the evidence might—and if there was any rea sonable doubt, ought to—have induced the Jury to acquit the prisoner; but when ? on the whole view of the case, the jury deliver a solemn verdict of guilty, the Court is bound to take the guilt as proved. Circumstances of mitigation may then be urged by the jury as reasons for mercy ; but no such circumstances were stated. The only reason stated was one which, if ad mitted, would not only have stultified the jury, but would have implied that their verdict was false. It may be some consolation to the jury men in this case to know that the miserable wo man fully confessed her crime. We would a dd, as a general suggestion, that itis the sacred duty of a juryman never to consent to a verdict of guilty, unless he is thoroughly convinced of the guilt of the party tried. lie is not to calculate upon the chances of mercy, nor to compromise with his conscience from a vague hope that others may relieve him from the consequences of his own act. If guilt is proved, the juryman must unflinchingly convict : if there is a reason able doubt, the prisoner should have the benefit of that doubt. Such is the humane and equita ble principle of English law,—a principle which has been for ages, and is still, constantly laid down by every Judge conducting a criminal trial. —lbid. The interest which the Select Vestry system eicites just now is greater than any subject of a domestic nature has called forth for a long time. ,scarcely a parish in the metropolis, which la bours under this standing nuisance, but is crying out against, and pointing out its abuses. The evil and the remedy present. we admit, to a cer tain degree, a choice of evils. On the one hand we have the self•elective system, which is one of unquestionable mischief, both in theory and practice ; and, on the other, a recourse to popu lar election, which may lead to muc disturbance and abuse ; above all, in giving (clamorous demagogues that distinction wh' 1 real merit j will, under such circumstanct,N, oftener rather 4niii than aspire to. We canto* help thinking however, that the Legislature might take some middle course upon the subject, and get rid of the present evil without substituting that of the opposite description. We take it for granted, that parochial affairs can only be managed by a limited number of persons, and that, call them a Vestry, a Committee, or what you will, it is as vain to expect that the affairs of large pa rishes can be carried on by the parishioners en masse, as that those of the nation could be conducted without a Government or Parliament. It has often stri:f!k_us that, to avoid, on the one hand, the manifest evils of self-election, and, on the other, the clamorous overwhelming nature of public voting, a method for the election of those bodies might he resorted to similar to that used in ballotting for the militia, viz. that - the names of all those who are qualified, or willing to serve, should be put into a bag, and drawn out indiscriminately, and so replenished, either annually, or as vacancies may occur. Such a mode of selection, with proper guards against interest and jobbing of all kinds, would, we think, ~;iire the evil of the present system more effec ually than any which has been yet suggested ; and as such we press it with confidence upon the consideration of all those who are engaged in the wholesome and necessary task of correct ing the most corrupt and abominable means by which power was ever acquired or abused in a i;ee country.—Morning Herald. In a work recently published, which forms a valuable addition to our Constitutional literature, the " Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq., lllrem her in the' Parliament of Oliver and Richard Cronzwell,:trom 16.56 to 1659, now first pub lished," we find the Master of the Rolls, on the 19th December, 1656, urging against a Bill, brought in by Major-General Whalley, for tke dividing of commons, that it gave power to Jus tices of Peace. " Time was (said this Judge) when I durst hardly have trusted the Justice of Peace with determining of a cow's grass:— We have a counterpart to this character of our " glorious Great Unpaid," in a Report in the Dublin Freeman's Journal, of Tuesday, April gl., The first ease at the Clonmel Assizes, on the Thursday preceding, was that of Daniel Cleeson, for stealing a clock. The prisoner was acquitted by order of the Judge, the : case appearing solely one of common assault. On this occasion Judge Moore remarked, " that ibis was a case which ought not to have been "cut there at all. The case did not even amount to petty larceny; and yet, upon this trivial case, there was a long detention of the prisoner and a great waste of public money. It was greatly to be wished that the mag,istrates had some discrimination. If any sagacity were ex ercised, it must be immediately seen, that such a case as this should never have been sent to the }!...ssizes. But magistrates tumbled every thing into the Assizes ; they crammed the gaols full, and then they had the whole Empire talking of the magnitude of crime in Tipperary, when one ,/,ird of the prisoners were generally turned out without there being any causefor their pro .secution." Admirable economy, this gratuitous administration of justice ! One-third only of the prisoners committed without any reason, be ,eause the Justices are unable to exercise any dis crimination ; so to make sure of the matter, they throw all into prison ! A great waste of publi c money, sa y s the Judge, in the long detention of the prisoner ! 13..ufry then the Justiceofthe Pea ce commits for nothing. And a man's health, hi s honour, the sufferings, pe rhaps ruin of his family, t 4 in consequence of his long d e ration in prison, way a dminater Justice are nothing ! Any man in England and Ireland, just as any 10=1 can make clothes in the Highlands of Scotland. It is true, in this part of the empire we do not emp l o y men to ma k e shoes and breeches who have not been taught to make them, :and it might be dangerous t• trust the decision of a cow's grass to nineteen orut of twenty of the Justices of Peace of either island ; Lilt we, can place the liberty and honour of the people with confidence in their hands. In the history of British India, we are told that Sir writin g , . as Ch a i rman o f Josiah Child , when the Court of Directors, to the Governor of Bombay, who had demurred to act in a certain manner, as it was contrary to the L aws of " that he expected Eng land, said angrily, hia orders orders were to be his rules, and not the Laws of .England, which were a h e ap of nonsense, com piled by a few ignorant country gentlemen, who :hardly knew how to make laws for the good of their own private families, much less for the regul ating Of Companies and Foreign Commerce." Now as, notwithstanding very bad laws, and a very odd description of Legislators, to say nothing of our gratuitous administrators of the laws, the country has, during the last two centuries, made rapid strides in im preve nient ; we have been sometimes tempted to wish the experiment were made, how far a Society could thrive without laws at all. As far as we are able to see, the common interest of a neigh- bourhood, in the defence of property and repel ling violence, would be a more efficacious re straint on evil-doers than unintelligible laws, ad ministered in one stage by Magistrates appointed at hap-hazard, without even the condition of previous study, and in another by men, who make it their study to afford to guilt all manner of facilities for escape. In the United States, where the laws of England are retained, variously mollified in the different States, we find that the people in the back settlements allow the Judges and Lawyers to officiate for form sake, but make it a point to try prisoners over again in their own way. In Mr. Faux's " Memorable Days in America," published in 1823, there are several curious instances of this confidence of the people in themselves, and want of confidence in the law. " Two years ago (1819)," he says, " a young Yankee, of the name of Williams, be came the object of a malicious prosecution here, on suspicion of robbing a store. Circumstantial evidence of the worst kind only could be ad duced, and he was, as is common in the country, acquitted. The people of the place, however, prejudiced against him as a Yankee, deputed four persons to inform him, that unless he quitted the town and State immediately, he should receive Lynch's law—that is, a whipping in the woods. He departed with his wife and child next day, on foot ; but in the woods four miles from Princeton, they were overtaken by two men armed with guns, dogs, and a whip, who said they came to whip him, unless he would confess, and discover to them the stolen money, so that they might have it. He vainly expostulated with them ; but in consideration of his wife's entreaties and cries, they remitted his sentence to thirteen lashes. One man then bound him to a tree, and lashed him with a cow-hide whip, while the other held and gagged him, the alarmed wife all the time shrieking murder.' He was then untied, and told to depart from the State imme diately, or he should receive another whipping on the morrow, &c."—" During the last conver• sation, I passed in the forest the lone grave of an unfortunate stranger and traveller. A ridge of logs, or trees, was laid over it, to mark the spot where he died and was buried. He was found dead, with a gold watch in his pocket, and his horse grazing at a short distance from him ; both horse and rider were of elegant appearance. He had been robbed of 3,000 dollars, and from some unknown hand had received a rifle ball, which entered the back of his head, and came through and out between his eyes ; he evidently never saw the hand which fired, nor felt the ball. A fellow living -near, who was seen to follow the traveller with a rifle, was suspected, appre hended, and tried for the murder ; but as nothing, save circumstantial evidence, could t,e produced against him, he was acquitted. Public opinion, however, condemned him, and unmer cifully pulled down his house about his ears, which we passed in ruins ; and he accordingly fled, blackened and blasted, to another distant refuge in the wilderness." Under this law of vicinage, which is more powerful than the law of the land, and tinder which, no doubt, suspi cion is too often proof, society makes rapid ad vances. In all the hooks illustrative of the do mestic state of England, from the earliest times to the present day, there is evidence of the people being, in a great measure, left to their own re sources, from the utter • worthlessness of the law, and the total absence of - the police. In a work on Agriculture, on folio, by Worledge, first pub- fished in 1681, we have a most instructive-chap ter on " Thieves and 11l Neighbours," -which exhibits in a striking point of view the superio rity of a plain uncorrupted mind in point of ability to form a sound judgment, over that of a • mind trained in the quibbles of English law. " The severe penalty of death (he says) being the punishment for theft, is the principal cause of the infinite increase of thieves: First, Because many there are, who (if they know or have taken a thief) will not indite nor prosecute him, because their con science will not admit of inflicting so severe a pu -- - nishment for so small an offence; but will rather hear the loss of their goods than seek another man's life for it. " Secondly, Some, if they take a thief, will ra. tiler accept of their goods again, and satisfaction, than prosecute him ; because in some cases they Lose their goods and are also at the charge of pro- secution. " Thirdly, some will not prosecute common or dinary thieves, that live by stealing sheep, corn, wood, poultry, swine, &c., and have families to main tain by this very trade, lest they (being part of the parish), be bound afterwards to maintain their fami lies. And these are the conditions of many places in England. " Fourthly, When thieves are taken and prose cuted and come to their trial ; they being for their lives, no evidence will, nor ought to be taken, but what is very clear : And where it is so against one, either through mistakes or wilful omissions, it is de ficient against five; by which means most of those few that came to trial are found not guilty. " Fifthly, When they are upon trial, and the evir dence clear against him, either the jury are tender of their neighbour's life, or else some good friend or other appears, that it is found but petty larceny, or else the thief has his clergy, or by some such shift or means, or evasion he gets off ; so that it may be, , as it often happens, a thief comes five or six times to his trial, or at least to gaol, before he is hanged ; during which time he grows more subtle, and edu cates many others in the same profession, and teach eth them all manner of ttick3 and devices, not only to effect their intentions, but to avoid the punish ment. " To remedy which were to make the penalty more moderate, and without respect or favour to be assuredly exeryted ; it would much lessen their number." The acute writer then enumerates the various shifts to which persons are reduced for the de fence of their properties in the impotency of the law. And truly we were not aware that so many ingenious modes of setting guns and snares for thieves"( were known ,at that period. The thief had an easy time of it with the law, but not so easy when he " walks an d t hi n k s not o f i t, by stumbling at the wire, he falls on the spikes, which give him such marks," &c. We believe the murderous engines set in woods for the pre servation of game are all the invention of indivi duals to protect their property against thieves, in consequence of the impotency of law, and the want of police. The 'Squirarchy would not, a hundred years ago, have dared to set murderous engines in woods. —Morning Chronicle. SHOCKING EFFECTS OF DRINKING. -0, Swwlay night a young child, about fifteen weeks o ld, whose parents reside in M'Alpine-street, and have b een long well known as dissipated characters, met with its death through the shameful and highly culpable conduct of its own mother, by whom it appeared literally to have bees smothered while the wretched woman was in a state of in toxication. About teu o'clock that evening the neighbours were greatly alarmed by the screaming of the infant, and, on entering to ascertain the cause, the mother was found to be the worse of liquor, and it was with considerable diffi culty she was persuaded to give the child some food to prevent it ,from crying. From the situation in which the little creature was afterwards found, it would appear that, after placing it at her breast, upon the floor where she was lying, that the mother leant upon it for some time with the whole weight of her body, by which means it may be :aid to have been cntshed to death...-. Glasgow Paper. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock, THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Master of the Horse's Office, Pimlico, April 12. The King has been pleased to constitute and appoint E. H. Delme Radcliffe, Esq., to be his Majesty's Gentle man of the Horse. War-Office, April 14, 1828. Ist Regimeut of Dragoon Guards—Lientenant John Spencer Manning to be Captain, by purchase, vice Quicke, who retires. Dated April 3, 1828. Cornet Charles Sergison Smith to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Manning. April S. Wadham Locke, Gent. to he Cornet, by purchase, vice Smith, April 3. 19th Regiment of Foot—Ensign William Bernard to be Lieut., without purchase, vice Atkins, deceased. Jan. 25. George Landman, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Bernard. April 3. 31st Ditto—Ensign George Francis White to be Lieu• tenant, without purchase, vice Douglas deceased. April 3 To be Ensigns, without purchase. Archibald Dickson, Gent. vice Primrose, promoted.— April 2. Thomas Conyngham Kelly, Gent. vice White. April 3. 63d Ditto—Adolphus Frederick Bond, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Prettijohn, deceased. April 3. 54th Ditto—Ensign John Millis, from the 6Gth Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kennedy, prompted. April 3. 66th Ditto—Captain Clopton Lewis Wingfield, from the 95th Foot, to be Captain, vice Calcraft, who exchanges. April 3. Nicholas Dunscombe Lane, Gent, to be Ensign, by pur. chase, vice Mellis, promoted in the 54th Regiment. April 3. 731 Ditto—William Henry Kenny, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Bamford, promoted. April 3. 95th Ditto—Captain Granby Hales Calcraft, from the 66th Foot, to be Captain, vice Wingfield, who exchanges. April 3. 98th Ditto—Lieutenant Henry Eyre to be Captain, by purchase, vice Baron, who retires. April 3. Ensigh Thomas Maitland Edwards tw be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Eyre. April 3. George Davies Blakistun, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Edwards. April 3. 2d West India Regiment--Ensign John Russell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dickenson, appointed • Ad jutant. April 3. James Finlay, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Russell. April 3. STAFF.--Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Charles Fitzroy, from the half-pay, to be Inspecting Field •Otscer of Militia in the lonian Islands, vice Sir Charles Sutton, deceased. April 3. MEMORANDUM. The Christian and surnames of the Lieutenant of the 15th Light Dragoons, are Henry Griffiths, and not Joseph Griffith, as heretofore stated. Commisssons signed by the bird Lieutenant of the County of Nottingham. Thomas Moore, Bsq. to be Deputy Lieutenant. March 17. Newark Troop of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry. John Handley, Esq. to be Captain, vice Chaplin, re signed. April 5. Crown-Office, April 15. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. County of Radnor—The Right Hon. Thos. Frankland Lewis, in the room of Walter Wilkins, decased. Whitehall, Feb. 27. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Hayward, of the City of Lincoln, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High CAnirt of Chancery. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Henry William Warrington, Johnson-street; Back-road, Shad well, brewer. William Fisk, Gate-street, Lincoln's-inn .fields, dealer. John Morphew, East-street, Walworth, master-mariner. George Delianson Clark, Tokenhouse-yard, London, wine-merchant. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. Thomas Hussey, Great Gnildford-street, Surrey, hat manufacturer, from April 8, to April 22, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. William Whitehead, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, dealer and Chapman, from Feb. 14 to May 8, at eleven, at the York Hotel, Cheltenham. BANKRUPTS. John and Charles Francis Hayes, and Charles M'Callum, Albury Mills, Surrey, paper-manufacturers, to surrender, April IS, at eleven, 29, and May 27, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Lock, Arundle-street, Strand. George Stevenson, John-street, Tottenham-court-road, coach-maker, April 22, 29, and May 27, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Young, Poland-street, Oxford street. John Evans and John Worrall, Liverpool, drapers, May 1,2, and 27, at twelve, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liver pool. Blackstock and Bunce, Bing's Bench .walk, Temple, London ; or Booth, Liverpool. Joseph Iles and Thomas Iles, Chalford, Gloucester, clothiers, April 22, at ten, 25, and May 27, at eleven, at the Coui tof Commissioners. Thomas, 4, New Basinghall street. Richard Carruthers, Graceehurch-street, dealer, April 22, 25, and May 27, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Wright, Little Alie-street, Goodman's•fields. James Whittaker, Loughborough, flour-dealer, April 24, 25, and May 27, at eleven, at the King's Head inn, Loughborough. Cheslyn and Brock, Loughborough; Beverley, Temple, London. Samuel Sparke Porter, Exeter, cabinet-maker, April 30, May I, and 27, at twelve, at the Old London Inn, Exeter. Brutton and Clipperton, New Broad-street, Lon don ; Ford, Exeter. Alexander Gletinie, Sine-lane, wine merchant, April 22, at eleven, 29, and May 27, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Crosse, Surrey-street, Strand. Francis Downing, jun., Huddersfield, wine merchant, April 23, at six, 24, and May 27, at eleven, at the White Horse, Huddersfield. Walker; Lincoln's-inn; Clough and Co., Huddersfield. Henry Fletcher Shaw, Liverpool, plasterer, May 14, 15, and 27, at one, at • the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London; Houghton, Liverpool. John Revill, Newark-upon-Trent, whitesmith, April 22, 30, and May 27, at eleven, at the Queen's Head, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Long, Austen, and Hobson, Gray's-inn ; Woodcock, Mansfield. Thomas Curties, Hunworth, Norfolk, tanner, May 12, at six, 13, at ten, and 27, at one, at the Angel-inn, Nor wich. Bridger, Finsbury-circus, London; er Witheas, Holt. Henry William Wilton, Union-court, Broad-street, merchant, April IS, 29, and May 27, at eleven, at the Cetus of Commissioners. Nind and Cotterill, Throgmor ton-street. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS. Mr. Leveck presented Returns of the quantity of each sort of British Corn sold in Mark-lane, during the last four years. Dr. PHILLIMORE and others from the Commons, brought up the Penryn witnesses Indemnity Bill. Mr. TENNISON and others brought up the Bill for the Naturalization of Frederick William Jacob. Mr. FOSTER presented return's from the Liverpool Dock Company. The Earl of ELDON presented a petition from the Ma gistrates and other inhabitants of Kilmarnock, in the county of Ayr, against any further concessions to the Ra• man Catholics. UNITARIAN MARRIAGE BILL. The Earl of ELDON, in presenting a petition from 153 Clergymen of Staffordshire againt the Unitarian Marriage Bill was anxions to take some notice of a statement made in a certain newspaper, respecting his conduct as con nected with the Bill which was before their\ Lord ships in the last Session of Parliament. It was not his practice to offer any observation to the House upon the occasion of presenting petitions, being ge nerally of opinion that the petitions should he left to speak for themselves, but in the present instance he felt that he ought to correct the erroneous statement which{ appeared in the publication alluded to. It was there stated that be undertook to propose the introduction'of such clauses into the Bill as would remove all objection to it on the part of the Clergy of the Established Church. whilst at the same time it would afford relief to the Uni tarians. It would be in the recollection of their Lord ships that he had entered into no such undertaking, and that he never held out, either to the House or to the public, any such promise. He had merely declared that if the House should persist in forwarding the Bill to the second, he would then be prepared to offer such amendments at would make the Bill less objectionable than it was in its original form. The Bill was brought in at a very late period of .the last Session, and • the business of another office, which the Noble and Learned Lord then held necessarily occupied so very great a portion of his time, as to leave him little opportunity of attending •to any other matters, however interesting they might happen to be. It was now, however, said by the publication in question, that he undertook to bring in an• Unitarian Marriage Bill in the present Session of Parliament, whilst, in fact, he never even dreamt of such an undertaking. There could be no question, but that if he or any other Noble Lord should pledge himself in a former Session, to bring forward a particular measure in a subsequent one, it would be still open to him to withdraw from that promise, if, upon further consideration, lie had any reason to alter his former judgment.— The Noble Lord's opinion always was with respect to the Unitarian Marriage Bill that a relief was asked which was not at all necessary, regard being had to what the marriage ceremonies of this country were. But if Parliament granted any such relief, then it appeared to him that a Bill much less objectionable than the one presented to the House last Session might be brought in. It, however, having been the Noble Lord's opinion that no such Bill should be passed, he ventured to affirm that he could not have entered into such undertaking. He was sure he spoke in the hearing of Noble Friends, who could corroborate his assertion. One of those in particular (Lord Tenterden), he well remembered, proposed a very considerable number of useful amendments; buts until the publication, the Noble Lord alluded to, appeared, he knew not what had become of those amendments. He would not have thus troubled the House, except to hope that if any Noble Lord intended to bring in a Bill respecting Unitarian marriages, no such step would be delayed by any thing to be expected on his part. He now declared that he had never made such an undertaking, and further, that should a Bill of the nature of the one which had been brought into the House last Sessions, be again brought forward, be should certainly feel it his duty, on the introduction of that Bill, to say " Not Content." Nevertheless, should his judgment, with respect to the measure, he overruled, and if it appeared that such a bill should be read a second time, be should do his utmost to make that bill as good as it could be with his assistance, reserving to himself the right of forming a judgment, as to whether, on the third read of it, he ought to say Aye, or No. Lord ELDON then presented a petition of a similar na ture to one presented during a former Sessions from the Electors of the Borough of Penryn, praying their Lordships not to pass the Bill that had been brought in for disfoan chising that borough, and that the petitioners might he heard by Counsel against it. His Lordship then moved that Captain Wm. H. Robinson, R.N. ; John Stene,,Thomas Pierce, Richard James, James Piper, and several others, might be ordered to attend this House with respect to that Bill. In presenting this petition and making this 'notion, the Noble Lord meant no snore thou at present merely to lay them before the House. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that be corrobo rate the Noble Lord's statement who had just sat down with respect to the Unitarian Marrrage Bill. That Noble Lord had certainly made no such undertaking as it was now asserted he had. The Noble Marquis had a perfect recol lection of what pissed, not only from the circumstance of his having been the individual who brought that Bill into the House, but because about a fortnight ago he had re ceived a letter from a person calling himself Secretary of the Unitarian Association, and requesting him to call upon the Noble and Venerable Lord (Eldon) to fulfil The Noble Marquis wrote an answer stating that the Noble Lord had made no surh pledge. He knew not whether that answer had been received but he had now received another letter abusing him for the neglect of his duty. That iiidis Huai had, it seems, now resorted to the public newspapers for the purpose of bringing the Noble Lord to account.—(Loud laughter)—The Noble Marquis added for the character of the Unitarian Association, that he had applied to that body for the purpose of ascer taining whether such an individual represented them or not, and the reply was, no such person was known to them. Lord ELDON observed, that lie had also received a letter from the individual alluded to, and which began by saying that he would publish in the Morning Herald, in Carlisle's Lion, and other publications, which at the mo ment he could not recollect.__( Hear, and laughter.)— He further noticed that he had often had the fate to see his name appearin g in ,no very respectable colours in the news papers. - Several petitions were. presented for the repeal of the Test Acts, and also against further concessions to the Ca tholics. The Alarquis of LANSDOWNE presented petitions from the surgeons of Liverpool and Leeds, awl neighbourhood, praying for measures to be adopted for the facilities of dis section. A petition to the same effect was presented from the medical students of Glasgow. Lord MALSMBURY gave notice that he should' move on the 23d instant, the second reading of the County Lunatic, and Pauper Lunatic Asylum Bills. Lord GODERICH moved for returns of the gold and silver imported into this country, as far as regarded the re - ceipt of it by the Mint during the last year; also, for an account of the Rank Notes circulated through England, Scotland, and Ireland. Lord 111ALMSBURY for certain Returns witk respect to Moors' Rates, Way Rates, and Church Bates. He hoped that some Bill would be brought in by some Mem ber for the purpose of having such Returns regularly laid before the House. On the motion of the Marquis of LANSDOWVE that the Pill for consolidating the laws for Offences against the Person be read a third time. Earl GREY objected to the omission of that clause which provided that the bodies of murderers should not be' given up to the surgeons for dissection. After some discussion, in which the Noble Earl, Lord TErrEaDEN, and the Marquis of LaNsoowx took part, the Bill was read a third time and passed, with the clause referred to by Earl GREY restored. The Marquis of LANSI3OWNE moved the third read ing of the Bill for amending the law of evidence in certain cases. After some verbal amendments the Bill was read a third 'me and passed. Their Lordships adjourned at six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A person from the Liverpool Dock Trustees brought up an account of the dock and light duties. Mr. PLANTA moved for a new writ for the borough of Ennis, in the room of Mr. Frankland Lewis, who has accepted the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition from the inhabitants of St. Paul's, Shadwell, praying that they may be heard by counsel against certain douses in the London Docks Bill. 1111., Alderman THOMPSON presented another petition from the truetees for watching and lighting Wapping, -against certain clauses in the Whitechapel Roads Bill. Mr. BELL presented a petition from the Mining Districts of St. Catherine, Durham, praying that the im portation of foreign lead ore might not be allowed. Mr. FERGUSON . presented a petition from the Magis trates and Ministers of Paisley, praying for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Act•. --- Mr. ALEXANDER DAWSON presented six peti tions from various parishes in the county of Louth, in fa vour of the Catholic Claims. Col. DAVIS moved that Dr. Phillimore he added to the Committee on the Cities and Boroughs Poll A gree d to.. Sir JOHN NEWPORT mcved for returns of the ex ports and imports of %eland in the years 1720, 1760. 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1820. distinguishing the nature, o f the goods and the county from whence imported, the va l u e, and the gross amount of revenue collectep during these periods. ou Mr. HO/MOUSE present e d a p e ti t i on f rom th e F r i en dly S oc iety of Botley, praying th a t th e F r i en dly S oc i e ties' Bill might not pass into a hw, until they shogid have an opportunity of being h ear d aga i nst i t .—R e f erre d to t h e C°mitte the said Bill. Colonel m BAILEY presented a petition from the mer chants and traders of Headon, in Yorkshire, against the Air and Calder Navigation Bill.—Referred to the Com mittee. Mr. CAPEL presented a petition from the inhabitants of the South of Durham, praying to be heard by Counsel against certain clauses in the Tees Navigation Bill. Lord DUNCANNON presented petitions from the Ca tholics of various parishes in the county of Kilkenny, praying for " free and unshackled Emancipation.—Laid on the table. Mr. PONSONBY presented a similar petition from 31r. HUME presented a petition from a person named Thomas Poynter, of Fulham, apinst the Hammersmith Bridge Road Bill. —Referred to the Committee on the Bill. Mr. LYTTLETON presented alsetition from the Ti us tees of a road in Staffordshire, complaing of the costs on Turnpike Bills. The Hon. Member presented a similar Petition fret the Trwteei of the Birmingham toad. Mr. BERNAL postponed a motion for which he had given notice for Thursday next, to Thursday, May 3. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the Weavers o Kilmahon, in the Queen's County, complaining of distress arising fro-n tithes, taxes, and the want of employment, and praying for the introduction of the Poor Laws into Ireland. On the motion of Mr. TENNYSON the order for com mitting the East Retford Disfranchisement Bill was dis charged, and it was ordered that' the Bill should be re committed on the 2d May. The Hon. Member's object iu moving for this postponement was to wait and see how the other House would dispose of the Bill. FEES ON TURNPIKE BILLS. Mr. LYTTLETON rose to move the resolutions of which be had given notice, for exempting Turnpike Bills from fees on renewals. The subject bad already been before two Committees, both of which recommented the aboli tion of those fees ; but notwithstanding those recommen . dations the fees existed, and were much larger than the fees which were paid on what were called Naturalization Bills He had some documents which would prove that the subject of fees on the renewal of Turnpike Bills was one of great im portance. The floating debt due by urnpike Trusts, for which in fact those Trusts were mortgaged, was enor mous. In England the amount of the debt was 4,474,5301. and the annual interest was 500,581/. The debt of the trusts in Wales was 231,1681., and the inteierest 34,078 ; and in Scotland the Trust were mortgaged for 1,357,8461. and the interest paid was 263,975/. The total sum for which the whole Trusts of England, of Wales, and of Scotland were mortgaged was 6,839,278/. independent of the great an nual charge for maintaining and repairing the roads. Having brought this subject before the House last session; he (Mr. Littleton) was in possession of communications on the subject, and all those communications led him to the conclusion that the Turnpike Trusts throughout the country were breaking down with the weight of the debts with which they were incumbered. The receipt of some trusts were actually in sufficient to pay the fees on their renewal, which happened on an average once in 17 years. The ordinary expense of , a Turnpike Trust Bill in both Houses was about 1481. The fees in the House of Commons amounted to 83/, and the fees in the Lords to 65/. ; but this was a single Bill, the least expensive description of Bill. He had received let ters from Devonshire, which 'stated that 278/. had been had been paid for fees on one bill, 2801. on another, and 273 on a third. In poor countries the expense of renew ing those bills was very great. In Glamorganshire last year the expense was 1,000/., and that was a very poor country. He should propose first that from and after the end of the present Session of Parliament all Bills containing among other matters a provision for the renewal or repeal of any Acts of Parliament now in force for turnpike-roads be free from the payment of the fees now chargeable by the Resolutions of the House; secondly, that the Com mittees upon Petitions to bring in Bills of this de scription should be dispensed with ; and thirdly, that in cases where the parties applying for a renewal of those Bills had complied with the standing orders, such Bills should be engrossed and printed al the public expense: He was aware that under those resolutions, a party having in view other objects than the renewal of a Turnpike Bill, might avoid the payment of fees ; but in order to meet that, he should propose that no Bill which, under the pre- tence of avoiding hills or, bad ground. should extend the old line of road by more than one fourth, should be con sidered a renewal Bill, and therefore discharged from the payment of fees, but that such Bills should be chargeable with single fres and no more. The last resolutiuu which he intended to submit to the House was one of very great importance, and one which deserved the serious considera tion of the House. As the object of that resolution was to extend the renawal period from 21 to 31 years. By the three first resolutions, a saving of 234/, in passing each Bill would he effected, and if the last resolution were agreed to, the saving would be greater than he could state with any degree of accuracy. It was well known that although the re newal period was at present 21 years, that those Bills were upon an average renewed once in every 17 years, and that the average expence of each renewal amounted to two years revenue of the trust. The Hon. Member con cluded by moving hii final resolution. Mr. SPEAKER having put the question, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—As he was not at present aware of the extent of the resolutions to Le submitted by the Hon. Member for Stafford, he did not feel himself called upon to enter into a de tail of his opinions upon the subjeCt; and he was' • the less inclined to do so, because' he understood . it to be the intention of his Hon. Friend to :postpone to a fu ture occasion the discussion upon those resolutions. He trusted, however, that he should be excused for offering one or two observations to the notice of the House upon the resolution which had been submitted. The question of fees involved not only the interests of those who ap plied to pass those Bills, but it also involved in a great degree the principle upon which fees were demandable by this House, and he thought it would be well if the House, before it acquiesced in the resolutions proposed, considered what effect such acquiescence may have upon other branches of fees likely to come under the considera 'tion of the House The House must recollect that the fees payable upon those bills were applied to public ob jects, and that if those were cut off the House must vote the means for defraying those public charges, which were heretofore defrayed out of those fees. By the pre sent practice bills, which were strictly renewal bills, were chargeable with the lowest scale of fees, but if the resolution no proposed were agreed to, he thought the House may as well give up the fees altogether upon private Bills, as there could be no difficulty in intro ducing into a private Bill of any description a clause for the renewal of a Turnpike Bill. He did not, however, mean to oppose the resolution at present, but should re serve his objections to a future occasion. After some observations from Sir Charles Burrell, Sir T. Lethbridge, Sir R. Gordon, Mr. Home Druminond, and Mr. Burrell in support of the Resolutions, Mr. BARING said he did not see how the pawing of those resolutions could affect the fees chargeable upon those Bills in the House of Lords, and he therefore suggested that after the expiration of the first twenty-one years the Bill should be considered to he in force until some notice of a proposed alteration by the Turnpike Trust were given. Mr. LYTTLETON having replied, and entered into a detail of the advantages to be derived from his resolutions. Mr. MUNDAY suggested to the propriety of post poning the further consideration of the Resolutions to Monday next.—Postponed accordingly. ROMAN CATHOLIC LAND TAX. Mr. G. BANKES moved the postponement of the further consideration of the Report upon the Bill to Monday next.—Agreed to. NEW POST-OFFICE. Sir R. GORDON moved for a return of the sums ex pended in providing a site for the New Post Office, and building the same—distinguishing the proportion defrayed or to be defrayed in the city of London. Sir J. NEWPORT and Air. HUME expressed their approbation of the object of the Mover, and they thought it desirable that the expences of this building should be laid before that House instead of being as hitherto defrayed out of the Post-Office Revenue, without the intervention of that House. The Hon. Member then concluded I*' asking if the ex pensive range of building which was now going forward at Liverpool, for the purposes of a Custom House, was to he at the expense of the Revenue, or at the expense of the Corporation. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that with respect to the Post Office, whatever objection there might be upon that subject, he could assure the Hon. .Member that It had not been adopted without a great deal of discussion up stairs ; and with respect to the builing at Liverpool, he could inform the Hon. Member that the Corporation of Liverpool entered into an agreement, by which they, bound themselves to find the scitc, and also to contribute all the expenses which might be incurred above a stipulated sum. After a few words from Col. DAVIS, Mr. BARING, and Mr. GORDON, the retOrns moved for were agreed to. Sir ROBERT WILSON presented a petition from the Glive Branch Friendly Society assembling at the Two Brewers in Red Cross-street, against the Friendly So ciety's Bill. Mr. S. RICE moved the second reading of the Execu tor's Bill, which was agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be committed on Friday. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS• COUNTRY MA RY.—Tntatsovr, Aron. r. .. ....,---- Ashwin, W. Redditch—Swan Alcester lO Body, W., Sewhaven—Star,Lewes I I Bullock, E. Bath—White Hart, Bath ll •Pe:codd, G.,,Southover—Star, Lewes Robinson, J., Tenbury—Crown, Ludlow lO INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, retitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lilac()ln's-inn-fields, ApFit 19, at Nine. Ilenou, Sarah, Bedford-row, authoress Brien, William, Croydon-common, plasterer Browne, N., Chigwell, Essex, gentleman Colbeck, David, Pimlico, stonemason Ellison, Charles, Blackheath, innkeeper Gillman, James, Walworth, victualler Harper, William, Halesworth, printer !Jill, JaMVsi lloonplcinovick, Luke'. SPARRING, THIS DAY. ,fl ROYAL TENNIS COURT. Bitton took his benefit to-day, and we fear it must hae.,; proved a loss. H ar dl y any o f t h e top-sawyers attended, and the sport was so so. Jack Lyons, Col. Lennox, Ned; Murphy and Sam Foote, Scroggins and H. Jones, Alec Reid and Paddy O'Rafferty, Jem burn and Adam Dale, all passed off w4hout anything worth notice. Harry Jones" then had a turn with " a citizen of the. east," and cer- , tainly proved himself anything but a bad one, although he caught nearly as much as he could carry. When Harry had nearly "finished," he said many persona wished' that he should fight Dick Curtis. The Pet, however, would not fight for less than 1001., and Harry said he could only muster 50/. He then made a most eloquent request foli some friend to back him for 501., as he would sooner fight Dick 'Curtis than any man in the world.-- (Cheers.) After some minor bouts, Bitton set-to with Jem Ward, made a speech, and the fancy departed. LAW NOTICES. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Sittings appointed to be held in Middlesex and London, be fore the Right Hon. CHARLES Lord TENTIRDIEN, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, in and a fter Easter Term, 1828 : TN TERM. MIDDLESEX. - LONDON. . Monday May 5 Wednesday May 1 ,Monday May 12 Wednesday May 14 Friday May 16' Saturday May I'7 AFTER. Tuesday . . .May 20 To ait at half-past twelve o 14th of May, and at half-past TERM. i 1 Wednesday May 21 ma the sth, 7th, and 12th, sad nine on the other days. Sill PPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. SUNDAY, APRIL 13.—High water 24 min. past ten, a.m.—Wind S. to S.S.W.—Arrived the Joha Taylor, Atkinson, from Calcutta (sailed Nov. 1827); Venus, Gill, from Drogheda ; City of Dublin, (steamer), --, from Dublin ; Britannia (steamer), --; from ditto ; Thetis, Townley, from ditto, with the mail; the Nelly and Jane, Moss, from Ballina ; William and Agnes, Sedden, from Cork; Alpha, Jones, from Poole; Lady Florence, Bishop, from Drogheda ; John and Robert, M'Kepzie, from West port. _ _ _ Vessels off—The Montezuma, West, from Philadelphia; M ars , —, from New Orleans ; Columbine, Fenton, from the Mediterranean ; Mary Ann, —, from ditto ; Tbomag Parsons, --, from New Orleans. Three ships, four brigs, and one snow, off at seven O'clock. The Annandale, Steel, from Liverpool, for Bombay, was spoken 24th Feb., in let. 0 22 8., long. 19 10 W. The Hope, Harlgreaves, from Liverpool, for Mobile, put into Kinsale 7th inst., with loss of main top-mast, and two of the crew washed overboard. The Christian, Christian, from Liverpool for Antigua, . was spoken Ist April, in lat. 44 30, long. 18 36. SAILEn- . —The Rodney, Mears, for Savannah ; Samuel Wright, Sise, for New Orleans ; Royal Eagle, Bishop, for Hamburgh ; Horatio, Sparki, for Quebec ; Mars, Gosely, for ditto; Thornton, Brown, for Cape Breton; Lady Goderich, Wilson, for New Brunswick ; Maria, Hewitt, for Nova Scotia; Ewin, Hamilton, for Rio de Janeiro; Atlantic, Johnson, for ditto; Robert Batley, Bully, for St. Petersburgh ; Planter, Nesbitt, for New Orleans ; Ivanhoe, M'Leod, for ditto ; London, APNeill; for Nova Scotia; Tamerlane, Johnson, for Savannah ; Deveron, M'Auley, for ditto; Briton, Burnett, for. Cape Breton ; Mary. M`Minn, for Antigua. . . HOLYHEAD, APRIL 12.—Throughout the night, the wind from W.S.W. to S.S.W., strong breeze. 0 30 p.m.—Smack No. 648 (Arrow) Ott outward hound. A pilot boat from this place spoke the Arrow, Jones, from Liverpool to Bristol, in the chops of the Bay, at noon the day. _ Y _ Telegraph-affice, Liverpool, April 13. Passed Holyhead yesterday at six o'clock, No. 329, Thomas Parsons, 8.. brig, inward bound ; and No. 16, Barton, also inward bound, passed Holyhead at six p.m., supposed to be the Higginson, outward-bound. A ship, Si est of the floating light, with a black cross in her fore topsail, supposed to be the Philadelphia packet-ship Mon tezuma. No. 318—Hardware, payed Holyhead, inwards, at sis a. m., not quite certain. No. 803—Pioneer, American ship, inwards, at nine a. m. No. 41—Dorothy, B. ship, inwards, at twelve. The Barton, that passed Holyhead yesterday at six, is off the Floating Light, with loss of main-top-gallant mast ; will come in this tide. Liverpool, Sunday. The Aleioped, Pierce, from Liverpool, at Charleston, March 11. Lord Byron, Robertson, from Port Glasgow, at Charles ton, in 70 days. Elizabeth, Parker, from Bremen, at Charleston, in 97 days, and 73 days from Margate-roads. Retrench, Cooper, from Greenock, at Charleston, in 66 days. Meteor, Hukleston, from Belfast, at New York, 18th of March. Aurora, Harlow, from Antwerp, at New York, in thirty-five days. Mary Catherine, Hookson, from Liverpool, at Boston, 16th March. Edward Bonaire, Hathaway, from Havre, at New York, 17th March. Cour;:r, Bretton, from Belfast, at New York, March 17th ; passed several islands of ice on her passage. Robert Edwards, Hepburn, from London, at New York. Cosmo, Gillespie, from Liverpool, at New York, in 27 days. Lord Gambier, Taylor, from Newcastle, at New Yoik, in 60 days. Hudson, Champlain, from London, at New York. Mary Howland, Tomkins, from Liverpool, at New York. Wade, Coleburn, from Liverpool, at Philadelphia, in 70 days. EAST INDIA. • • The Katherine Stewart Forbes, Chapman, from Bom bay,T off Deal, she go t entangled on the South Sand Heed, an I was extricat e d b y cutt i ng away her cable; two anchors and cables h ave b een supplied from Deal, and she has ar rived saf e i n M argate Roads, having sailed from Bombay, Dev. 7, and St. H e l ena , F e b. 12. The Guilford, J o h nson , f rom Chi na , i n t h e D owns, sailed D ec . 1, an d S t . H e l ena, F e b . 19. The Samuel Browne, Reid, from the Mauritius, off Margate, sailed from thence January 10, and St. Helena, February 17. In the county of Hants there are 55 brewers, 34 retail brewers, 683 publicans, 33 only of whom brew their own eer..-bHa ntsAdvertiser. The Ist Battalion 60th (or the Duke of York's own Rifle) Regiment of Infantry, embarked at Be lem, on the 29th ult. on board the Briton:art, Nestor, and Active transports. BIRTHS. On the 16th of March, at Vincent-square, Westminster, the widow of the late George Scott, Esq., of a son. On the 13th instant, in Berkeley-square, Mrs. Henry Baring, of a son. On the 27th ult., at Naples, the lady of John Mitchell, of a daughter. On the Sd instant, at Devonport, the lady of Captain Lye, R.N., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 12th instant, at St. Ca - wrence, in the isle of Thanet, by the Rev. J. P. Sai ns b ury , William Northage, jn of U pper Gower -str ee t, to A nn Pi tt , d aug h ter of h the Daniel Hoop er , E sq., and d'aughter-in-law to u a n e iE t, :qt;' 14th i nstant , at St. G eorge ' s , Bl ooms b ury, b y S am uel Winter, Bsq., of S out h wood -house, near Ramsgate. O John Lonsd a l e , A.M. the Rector, Joseph, only s th on e no n feE th yid e Edward Vere, of Croydon, Esq., to Ellen Sarah, second daughter of James Hansard, of Southampton -street, Bloomsbury-square, Esq. At St. John's, Devonport, Capt. H. Jane, RN. of West Looe, to Mrs. Ross, of Antony. At St. Martin's, Devonport, Lieut. Jane, R.N. of West Lone, to Miss Lamb, of East Looe. DIED. On the 12th instant, in Berkeley-square, William Finch Palmer, Esq., in his 80th year. On the 10th instant, Mrs. Jane Phillips, aged 42, wife of Evan Phillips, Esq., of St. Alban's-terrace, Vaux hall-bridge-road, Westminster. On the 11th instant, at her house at Tottenham, Alice Chorley, aged 82. At Southferry, near Dundas, Devonport, Mr. A. Black, master, R.N., aged 68 years. At South Brent, Devonport, Catherine Grace, relict of,. Rear-Admiral Cuming, C.B. aged 71. On the 11th instant, Auu, the beloved wife of Mr. Thomas Hutton. PRINTED and PUBLISHED by m. YOUNG, at the SUN OFFIU, NIP. 112 Stanza. ~~ b THE Ore to DISPO tender for I °RBNAIi arnototi ng hi Lots of i - IngY be ri keeper at "Pted) pre Tenders. A Cital Persons the Sacrel for the pat Lob, at oorauAl A RR . 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