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PAILLIARENT. ROUSE OF LORDS, WLDNESDAY, JUNE 22. The Royal Assent was givern by Commission to the Duke of L'utaberland's Annuity Bill ; the Duchess of Kent's Annuity ; the Exchequer Bills (10, 500,0001.) Bill; the Colombian — : ; restage Bill ; the Newspaper Conveyance Bill • the Excise . 1 1 :tties Bill; the Juries Regulation Bill ; the Scotc h Peers Oaths ; the Warehoused Corn Bill; the Convicts Transportation ; the Articled Clerks Bill ' • the Scotch Prisoners Aliment BIN; the Deceased Soldiers Effects Bill ; the Stealing in ftV.tes Bill ; the Canada ' Tenures Bill ; the Scotch Small Debts Recovery Bill; the Leasing Making Bill; the Irish ittand Jury Presentment Bill; the Irish Sealing of Writs •Bill; and several private Bills. The Lords Commissionets were, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Marquis of WINCHESTER, and the Earl of SHAFTES BRoorizar, and other Members of the House of Cons moms,-brought up several private Bills, which were read a t titae. The Earl of LIVERPOOL gave notice of his intention to =rive the second rentling.of fae Judges Salaries Augmentation to-morrow. Several petitions were presented in favour of the Western Ship , _Rill, by the Duke of BEAUFORT, Lord ROLLE, and the )I,.rquis of LANSDOWx, from Swansea, Exeter, Newport, Newry, and thelsle of Wight. O ,he motion of Viscount DUDLEY AND WARD, the Wes ter% Ship Canal Bill was read a second time. QU.. RANTINE LAWS A3IEND3IENT BILL. The Quarantine Laws Amendment Bill went through a Com rs and the report was received. Lord ELLEN BOROUGH moved for certain Returns re is.t:ve to the County Courts, from the Sheriff's of England and Wales. INTEREST IN INDIA. rine Marquis of HASTINGS rose to move the second read . ing of the Bill be had introduced to explain the clause of the Act of the 13th of Geo. 111., relating to interest payable in the Eat Indies. The Noble Marquis was not sufficiently audible to bidistinctly understood, and we could only collect sortie fragments of his speech. Ile observed, that as the Learned Judges were now present, as well as several Noble Lords who were not in their places when he introduced the Bill, he should • Ir:capitulate the arguments which he had addressed to the Howe on that occasion. His Bill was intended to define the true scope and meaning of the limitation of interest contained In the clause. The opinion which the law officers of the Crown had given was now before their Lordships, and they would find that that opinion was contrary to the understood meaning of the clause .in India, and to the practice which had always been followed theme. The Bill he introduced, therefore, declared in express terms, that the clause in the .13th of George 111. slid not extend to persons within the territories of an independent Sovereign. The law officers of the Crown, whose opinions were asked on this clause i had been under the necessity of extracting some meaning or other from- it, but they had fallen into an error in cenceiving that it extended beyond the British dominions in India. Had they looked into former statutes, they would have found that in the greater part of those !statutes the words " East Indies" were exclusively- applied to the . posaessions of the East India Coin. pany. The Noble Marquis then reiterated what•he had before stated respecting the practice of the „Indian Government, and repeated his argument that offences committed in an Indepen dent State could not be prosecuted in any of the three Presi dencies, since the Courts of those Presidencies did not even take cognizance of offences committed within the jurisdiction of each . other. In the paper on the table, their Lordships would find a reference to the Act of the 37th of the late King, but that A . ct threw no light on the clause in question, and it would in deed have been very extraordinary if 20 years had been suffered to elarle,without this clause being understood. The clause was framed to meet a substantive evil. It was supposed that public funtionaries lent money to native Princes at exorbitant interest. and the object was to prohibit such persons from en gaging in pecuniary transactions of that kind. After some further observations, the Noble Marquis said he would move the second reading. and then put a question to- the Learned Judges, whether the .bili he had introduced did truly set forth :he intent and meaning of the clause in the 13th Geo. 111. The Bill was read a second time. _ The Marquis of i4ANSDOWN, who had not observed (we suppose) that the bill was read, 'stated that the proper course would be to refer the question to the judges first, and receive their answer, before the House recognised the principle of the Lai by a second reading. The I,ORD CHANCELLOR acknowledged that the mode of proceeding which the Noble Marquis had pointed out would Lwre been the more regular course, but as the bill had been adopted, it could not now be followed. 'Lie Judges withdrew, and soon after the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Speaker entered the House to-day at half-past three - lock, and soon after Arma summoned by the Deputy Usher -of the Black Rod, to hear the Royal Assent given by Commis to several Public and Private Bills, the tides of which wdl be found in our. Lords' Report. APOTHECARIES COMPANY. A person from the• Apothecaries Company presented some papers, in pursuance to the orders of. the House. fin the motion of Mr. HUMS they were ordered to be printed, LINEN HAM. (DUBLIN.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER presented a pAition from certain Linen Factors and Drapers of Dublin, yang that the Linen Hall of that City may not be appro. ..*aeated to any other purpose.—. Laid on the table. COUNTRY BANKS. HUME presented a petition from Mr. Frederick Jones, oessaplaissiag that he had demanded payment in gold for certain sostes-of the Castle Bank of Bristol, and was told by the clerk, --thstioswas trot-convenient to get at the gold then, and must call -mother day, at the same time tendering Bank of England notes -Oa payment. . The petitioner complained of this refusal to pay se gal, and -said that, upon consulting his legal adviser, he found he bad no - remedy but an action at law, on which he ~.snight not obtain judgment for nine months, and then be put esestill further by a writ of error, or some such dilatory course. ',lle Hum 'Member observed, that the House must be aware of Ahe operation of the currency upon the price of every article in the market, and that political economists attributed the fluctua ,tion of general prices to same alteration which was effected by working -of the currency. He was aware that the late Mr. =Ricardo was of opinion that every thing which could be expect ed would be accomplished in the system of the currency, when the country banks were paying in Bank of England notes which wen convertible into gold upon demand. His (Mr. Hume's) ash was, however, that even before the close of the present Anion of Parliament, a Bill should be brought in to place country banks upon the smile fuoting as the Beek of England, :tamely, that they should pay in gold on demand. This would have a twofold effect ; it would tend to check the evil of an -over-currency,-and at the same time prevent the tedious delay of a law process for the recovery of a debt which ought to be paid on demand. - Mr. .10 H N SMITH never heard a more singular petition • than that just offered by his Hon. Friend ; for surely he ought to have known, that instead of there being a difference between the country banks anti the Bank of Fngland as to the payment of their notes, - the law was the same for both ; and the country htialca were not only liable to pay in gold on demand, but he never knew an instance in which they were not ready to do so. Indeed, it would ruin the credit of any country banker to re fine such cash payments, and he was at a loss to understand the object of the petitioter. bit. BROUGH A was equally astonished at the petitioner's -oanrplaint, for he knew that the country banks were liable to pir 2 .y in gold as well as . the Bank of England since the passing of the laat•Act. What necessity was there, therefore,for a new taw ? The petitioners complained that in default of payment - hotted no remedynow but an action at law. Why, what other remedy would-he have if .a new law were-passed? Indeed, a 'new taw would be an evil, for it would raise a doubt-upon that 'which was, he thought, perfectly clear at present ; for beyond nil doubt a country banker was bound to pay in specie on de mand without. moment's delay.—( Hear !) After a few words from Mr. HART DAVIS and Mr. Hiram, the petition was brought up. Mr. HUME replied. He was informed that the interpre tation of the new Act was such as to deprive the claimant of a right to that ,prompt arrest which existed at common law before. -Pafr. HUSICISSON said, that there was no doubt of the im mediate responsibility of every banker in issuing a 20s. note. filr J. WROTTESLEY hoped that the Hon. Member for Aberdeen had inquired well into the character of the petitioner • from whom he received the petition__otherwise, as the contents of the petition had a tendency to affect the credit of a mercan tile establishment in a very important point, by'a recent deci. akin in a court of law, the parties injured would have a claim .for damages upon all who assisted-in circulating the obnoxious matter. So'that the flon. Member might not be aware of the risk which he caused others to run, supposing, for the sake of this argument, that he-was not sufficiently warranted of the . facts and of the character of his-informant. 41r. T. WILSON said that there should be great caution . Ord in a case of this nature, which was likely to affect die' credit of a respectable house. Mr. HUME consented to withdraw the petition till he had . made strict inquiries concerning the facts and the parties con-' (louse the great decrease of 'hipping in this . country, and its cerned. increase in other countries, from which the Right Hon. Gen- Mr. BROUGHAM wished to ask the Right Hon. Secretary demon near him had lately removed the operation of our old for Foreign Affairs, if he had received any advices of the arrest navigation laws. Front papers which were printed and betbre of General Devereux by the Austrian Government, within their the House, it appeared that the increase of foreign shipping en dominions, through which he was travelling with an American gaged in the Baltic trade with us, since the removal of those passport ? restraints which formerly existed upon it, was no less than Mr. CANNING said, that he had received private informs- 150,000 tons ; and the.decre e se of British shipping trading to Lion of the arrest under the circumstances described by the the ports of those vessels was 20,000 tons.—(Hear !)—The Hon. and Learned Gentleman. • whole foreign commerce that was carried on by this country, Mr. BROUGHAM- said, that in the course of the last two and which formerly, during the prevalence of our old naviga- Sessions, he had, on .re variety of occasions, been prevented d on l a w, was confined almost exclusively to British bottoms, from making allusions to the conduct of the Austrian, p ro was no w transacted, t he • ma j or part o f it a t least, in fo sian, and Spanish Governments,, from the conviction , which he reign vessel's—Meer Ile-The proportion between the two hail, that he was very likely by so doing to bring down new descriptions of shipping might be very shortly stated thus : severities on many unfortunate persons who had fallen within The foreign trade of Great Britain employed, of British their power. shipping 060,000 tons ; of foreign ditto, 680,000.—(Hear, MrOBERNAL wished to know if any speedy distribution of hear!) —He did, therefore, earnesly exhort the [louse to Deccan prize-money was likely to be made ? consider well the inevitable consequences to which the The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the measures lately pursued by his Majesty's Ministers must Commissioners had nearly accomplished the task of making out tend. Twelve years ago only, what would have been thought the list of distributions. He could name no time for them. of a statement that such was the condition of our trade ? How - Mr. BERNA L said, that unless something were d one i n t h e wou ld ge ntlemen have been alarmed if it had been stated that mean time, he would early next Session move the House upon our foreign commerce was carried on by vessels of other nations the subject. than our own ?—(Hear !)—lt was true that our coasting trade Mr. H USKISSON postponed the third reading of the ships' was very flourishing, and, including that of Ireland, employed registry bill till to-morrow, for the purpose of bringing up and a tonnage of near 1,000,000 tons. The trade with the United adding a clause to empower the Government to grant leave for States, however, like our foreign commerse, exhibited die same ships in urgent want of repairs to seek them in foreign ports alarming appearances ; for it employed British shipping to the whenever inconvenience was- likely to arise on account of coin- amount of 42,000 tons only; but shipping a the United States binations of workmen.—(Hear, hear!) 'to the amount of 126,000 tons It was possible that he telt Mr. BARING complained of the practice of tacking impor- somewhat too warmly en this subject ; but he must call such a tant clauses to hills upon • the third reading, which were fre- condition of things most alarming. Let it be remembered that quently of more consequence than the whole bill, though sud- America possessed about an equal share with ourselves of the denly thrust in without a chance of discussion. Not that the trade with the Continent ; and that in the meanwhile a very Right Hon. Gentleman had done so in this case, because he had large coasting trade was being carried on in her own vessels given notice of the nature of the clause, and prepared the House - upon her own coasts. The natural tendency of that trade to in for discussion. But it was only the other night theaa clause crease presented to his mind the prospect of additional changes imposing the expellee of a church establishment upon the West to our own trade hereafter. If the Right lion. Gent. who had India Islands, many-of which were little able to bear it, was so warmly advocated the fatal alterations in oar commercial po carried in this sudden and irregular manner. Hey which he (Mr. it.) was now deprecating, had ever wished The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated the to devisea project the most hostile to the future welfare of our circumstances under which that douse had been introduced. It trade, he could not have hit upon one more entirely calculated was, in fact, at the.suggestion of the Hon. 'Member for Aber- to effect such a purpose than that which he had been pursuing. deep, who ought tobe responsible, and not - the Government. He (Mr. Robertson) had been forcibly impressed with the truth the other night, on hearing the speech made by the Right LORD CHARLES -SOMERSET. Hon. Gent. in relation to the Customs' Bounties Bill. For 311% BROUGHAM postponed his -motion ,for takin into what appeared front that speech ? Wiry, that we imported from consideration the petition of Bishop Burnett agidnst then over thwßaltic, - flax, hemp, and timber ; and the two first we ern nor of the Cape of Good Hope until the beginning of the next rwered our manufacturers to convert into canvass and cordage. session. Upon consideration,' he found it would be very unjust Ve allowed them a bounty on the exportation of that cordage to open charges which, from the probable duration of this sea- and canvass to foreign ports, where they would be used for the !don, could not be answered. - rigging and equipment of foreign ships. But upon the same ma- Mr. CANNING said that he had not been present on pre, nufactures, if employed for the use of our own shipping, we renting the petition ; hut he had made inquiries since. He actually levied a certain duty.—( II ear!)--Thesame inconsistency found that the circumstances had been referred to the commis- was observable in respect of the timber trade. The Government sioners of inquiry sent out to the Cape of Good Hope. Leave had imposed a heavy duty upon the importation of the timber of absence had also been forwarded to Lord C. Somerset. that of which our ships were built; while in our own ports, to he might, if he so thought fit, return to meet the charges made foreign vessels built with timber that had paid no such duties, against him, which were so various and frequent as to call •for they gave equal advantages and an equal footing with our own inquiry. But whether his Lordship came home or not, the thereby putting. British vessels in a worse situation than the Commissioners would prosecute their inquiry at the Cape ; and others. lie would ask whether there was any moral possibility until some return were made from them, he himself could not of our being able to compete with them under these circum form an opinion upon the case. Certain it was that the office stances ? The fatal effects of tire new order of things which had had no sufficient means of information to warrant the House to been introduced might not, perhaps, be much felt for some undertake the investigation at present. Neither would it be pears to come ; but supposing this increase in foreign shipping consistent with fairness and justice, since the Government had and decrease in our own sheuld continue, and the trade of the sent out a leave of absence, to proceed until it were seen whe- United States, with France for example, go on enlarging itself, :ther or not Lord Charles Somerset would choose to avail him- what was to become of us in the event of a war? Our great. self or rot. In any case, whether he quitted his government net's depended on the greatness of our navy ; and in the de to meet the charge here, or whether he might feel that he had coy of its strength was involVed the failure of our own.—' sufficient means to refute the charges without coming home, the (Hear, hear l) In the same evening, the right Honourable labours ofthe Commissioners would proceed withoutintermission. Gentleman had-said on a former evening, that if our seamen Mr. BROUGHAM said that Lord C. Somerset was se- chose to enter into such combinations as some of them had riously charged by the petition. Inquiry there must be. But engaged in recently, we must employ foreigners; and that if certainly it would he worse than useless, it would he - pernicious the stiipwxights persevered in similar connexions, it would be and unjust, to agitate this subject now, when there was no necessary for our merchants to take up foreign shipping. chance for his Lordship to be heard in his justification—cape- From propositions like these, fraught with so much mischief cially as an order had gone out for his return, and he might he and danger; he _ earnestly entreated the House to withhold here at the next meeting of Parliament; at which time, too, its sanction in any case. Ile did not now so much address Government might have important communications from the himself to those who were members of the hoard of Trade, Commissioners. as to the Honourable Gentlemen opposite, who had supported . i • Mr. CANNING begged the Hon. and Learned Gentleman them up to this time, n the new measures which they had, in not to mistake him. No orders had gone out for Lord C. So- his opinion so unfortynately introduced. As an opportunity merset's return, hut only leave of absence, of which his Lord.• would soon occur, in another stage of the Customs' Consolida ship might avail himself or not. • But whether or not, until it don Bill (as we understood), of delivering his sentiments on were known what his Lordship would do, the House ought to these matters mote at large, he would not press any further ob refrain from the investigation. nervation on the llouse at present ; hut would sit' down, se- Mr. BROUGHAM assented to the proposition oldie Right riously requesting every Hon. Gentleman to reflect on the pre- Hon. Gentleman, with this condition—that after ample time sent actual state of our naval resources.—([sear!) should have been given to Lord C. Somerset to make up his The Biil was then read a third time and passed. mind and to come home, he (Mr. Brougham) was not to be PARTNO:HSH IP SOCIETIES (SCOTLAND.) prevented from bringing on the subject on account of his The LORD ADVOCATE moved the third reading of the. Lordship's absence..—("Hear !" from the Ministerial Bench.) Partnership Societies (Scotland) Bill. Mr. W. HOTtTON rose to answer a question formerly put Mr. J. P. GRANT, alluding to the very thin state of the House, wished the third reading to be postponed. by the Hon. Member for Aberdeen respecting the notorious The LORD ADVOCATE was very sorry to press the men. Oliver. Ile found that Oliver was now an escaped felon from sure, but he was obliged to go down -to Scotland on the mot- New South Wales; that he had made his way to the Cape of row.— (A l aug h . ) Good Hope, and was not a little active in the affairs which had Mr..l. P. GRANT proposed, then, that the third reading latterly troubled that settlement. ' should stand for to-morrow.—(A laugh.) .: Lord EDWARD ' SON/ ERSET seized the first opportunity .11r. liIiSiiISSON thought the Bill had better be now pro which presented itself of assuring the House, that his noble cee d e d w i t h. I t i nvo l ve d a grea t question o f public interest and relative was most anxious that Isis whole conduct, and the melt- commercial law in Scotland. sures of his government, should be submitted to the investiga- 111 r. J. P. GRANT agreed that it did so : but the bill bad tion of Parliament. The Right lion. Secretary for Foreign been brougi-t in, as be should contend, without any thing like Affairs had said that there were commissioners sent out to in- due consideration : its preamble recited that to he true, which, quire. Undoubtedly it would be the first object of his Noble in fact, was manifestly false; and declared that to be law which Relative to give the utmost facilities to the views of the Com - the decision of-die House of Lords in a recent case had de missioners. The sooner the investigation commenced, the• el:wed not to be law.—(flear ! i—Without meaning to employ sooner would his Noble Relative be relieved from the abuse unnecessarily strong language, he would venture to say that if end the attacks which were poured fourth upon him. The this 14i11 should pass, it would hold up this House to absolute - libels which were uttered both here and at the Cape were nu merous and atrocious ; some of them were so inconsistent with ridicule. Now the bill set forth, that by the law of Scotland, partnerships or commercial associations of individuals might themselves that they destroyed their own credibility. He im plored the House to suspend their judgment—Wear , hear !) sue and be sued in respect of debts, bonds, &c. ; but when he last addressed the House, he had showed that so far tram this until the Report of the Commissioners had arrived. If his being the case, decisions of the Courts of Session in Scotland Noble Relative thought that his justification should need it, he had repeatedly held that such partnerships could neither sue would, without hesitation avail himself of the leave of absence, nor b e sired.—(Hear!)—lndeed, the following part of the pre • and return home.—(Cheers.) amble stated " that doubts had arisen," &c. and the ground Mr. BROUGHAM, to quiet the feelings of the Noble Lord of those doubts was described to b e th a t tine House of Lords who had-just spoken, declared that he had never read a line of would not entertain any question on a ppeal in cases wherin the the libels except so much as was contained in the petition ; and parties had sued in the names of the partnership. except that petition and a case in which he was engaged before , The LORD ADVOCATE begged the lion. Gentleman the Privy Council, he h a d n ever heard of any charge being would understand that he was called to Scotland by public made against Lord C. Somerset. duty, not by private convenience. He must contend that by The East India Judges' Bill and the Writs of Error Bill t h e well-known law of Scotland, as it had existed for upwards were read a third time and passed. of 100 years, partnerships might sue and be stied ; and by an - -The report of the Newspapers Bill was brought-up and read. Act of the Scottish Parliament in (Oita, that was expressly . Mr. HUME entreated the Chancellor of the Exchequer to stated anti provided. Authority, too, was given by the same listen to his proposal for reducing the duties on Newspapers, law to record bills of exchange, in further extension of the which he might do without injury to the revenue. The doing principle thet partnerships might sue and be sued. The re away the restriction as to the size of the paper was good, so was cords of Parliament would shnw innumerable instances of ap the reduction of the stamp on supplements to two-pence, pro- peals carried on in the name s of suc h joint partnerships.. He vided that they contained nothing but advertisements. What would further observe to his llo nouru ble Friend, that this was he proposed was, to reduce the stamp to two-pence on all not a declaratory but a prospective Bill. As to the case before Newspapers. The reduction as it stood would do no good to tine House of Lords which h a d b ee n a lluded to, no decision those establishments which most needed it. The ditty was in- h a d yet been conic to in respect of it, and therefore it could crewed Id. in 1814, but the increase in the revenue did not prove nothing for his Learned Friend's argument. The mea correspond. The increase from 1805 to 11314 in Newspaper re- sure was one of the utmost importance to the commercial in venue was 300,0001. In the n i ne years f o ll ow in g , with the terest of Scotland : and he would take upon .himself to say they addition of ld. on the stamp, the increase was only 4,000/4 would be excessively alarmed if they heard that the question whereas it ought, if it had followed the propel-firm to have pro- I had been made any matter of doubt. duced 100.0081. An additional shilling, was laid upon the two_ Mr. 'l'. WI LSON, though not connected with the country lend-threepenny advertisements. which had produced no cor- ie question, readily supported th e bill ; a nd be was so convinc responding increase. Philadelphia was t e n times less than Li- ed of its beneficial tendency, that he should he glad to see a verpool in size and commercial consequence; yet six times as similar measure introduced into our own commercial law. many papers circulated at Philadelphia as at Liverp-01, and illreSCA R LEW would be sorry to see any such thing in there were seventy times as mane advertisements published, the trad uce d into tine law of E ng l an d ; tor it would lead in its open. price for insertion being about fide the price of the newspaper anion to a great deal of fraud.—( Hear , )—For if all partners in -itself, I id. Reduce the dirty on advertisements to Is.. sad the a partnership were aide to sue or to be sued, what would be stamp so that the paper might sell at 3d., and more newspapers the condition of a defendant, who having been proceeded against would be circulated and more revenue collected. He would by all of them, should h a v e judgment in his favour ? What guarantee the Right Hon. Gentleman against loss._(Laugh_ would he db, in very many cases, for his costs ? How would tern—So anxious was he, that lie would almost become per- he be able to recover th em ? I t s was to be hoped, therefore, no sonally responsible, if. at the end of a year, any loss should such measure would he engrafted upon the law of England._ accrue. He entreated the Right lion. Gentleman to make trial As to the bill itself, he must be allowed to say that it was of it for one year, and concluded by moving . to leave out the clearly a declaratory bill. word " supplement," for the purpose of reducing the stamp on - Mr. BARING w as sorry t h at th e matter did not appear to all newspapers to 2d. have been more digested before its introduction in this shape. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQL TER would have i The Noble and Learned Lord had intimated that in Scotland taken the guarantee of the Hon. Gentleman for the purchase of it was absolutely necessary, and could not be done without ; an estate, but cotilcl not in a matter of half a million of revenue. an Hon. and Learned Friend of his (Mr. Baring) had just de- He would say that this Bill conveyed a -treat benefit to News. dared, that he should be sorry to have it introduced into the papers, and he had reason to believe that the owners were ge- law of England, because it would be productive of fraud; and nerally satisfied. What might be done hereafter, he could not . that observation was cheered by the Hon. and Learned Attorney say ; but really so muddied been done with so many kinds of General. Now if, as he himself believed , this would be a bene taxes, in-reducing them, that there was no opportoni t y left for ficial measure f or one part of the empire, why should it not be more experiments at present. There was no hardship in re- also for another? He concurred with his lion. Friend (Mr. deicing the tax on supplements, and preserving it on News° Wilson) in wishing to a s imilar provision introduced into our papers. Government in the first case made a reduction to Per° law. This w as anot h er i nstance in which lawyers had shewn dust sons who published instruments upon which a considerable they were not the best judges of what laws would be most bene portion of duties was charge a ble ; a nd s urely that was no reit - licial for merchants. I n Ireland an old law existed, authorizing son for giving something t o o those who could not make any smil I individuals to f orm partners hips with a limited responsibility; publications. As to e read of any dearth of Newspapers, but in England the 'natter remained in a state of doubt and that did not strike hint as very probable. Scarcely a week difficulty, which he had no doubt the lawyers considered elapsed in which he did not receive specimens of new Papers to be the perfection of all law, becatise Hon. and Learned which came out with a brilliant prospectus, promised the high- Gentlemen had never taken any objection.—(A laughn— est advantages in the way of information, and solicited hie pa- Against the present -Bill, however, he was disposed to vote, for tronage. He had not yet given it.: but this would seem to one of the reasons that seemed to have induced his Hon. Friend show that the appetite for that species of amusement —or no r- t (Mr. Wilson) t o support i t , n amely, that it did not apply to telligence, if the Hon. Gentleman would have it so — wa s . all parts of the un i te d ki ng d o m.—(Hear likely to be stinted by the senitliness of the provision : there 'The : AT' fORNEY-GENERAL said, it had been consi were alnindant means for gratifying it at hand at all times. After a • few words from •M Hr. E M nega- E, .the clause w as _. dered by thos e w h o i ntro d uc ed this Bill, that they were pro ceeding upon -what was law, anti had been considered to be law tived e and the Bill was read a third timeind paased. Upon the question of the third reading of the Customs'' in Scotland for 100 years and upwards. At the suggestion of Laws Repeal Bill (we believe), Nome commercial men , h e himself had lately entertained some Mr. ROBERTSON begged to call t h e attention of th e houghts ofproposing a similar measure in respect to England; . , hrt when he came to look more carefully at its necessary ope ration in this country, and to consider how wide a difference the very existence of such a Court as the Court of Chancery made between the two kingdoms in respect of the expediency of such a law (which Court Scotland did not possess), he was convinced that it was not advisable to introduce any such measure into the law of England. The present Bill was not declaratory ; it did not establish any new principle • but was brought in for the purpose only of removing any doubts about that which was already law in Scotland. Mr. KEITH DOUGLAS supported the Bill. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw ; but no division took place, and the Bill was read a third time and passed. PUBLIC ROADS (IRELAND) BILL. On the bringing up the Report on the Public Roads (Ire land Bill. Mr. SPRING It ICE proposed a clause to the effect that the Act should insure for a limited period—two years from August next, as we understood. This clause was agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Friday next. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned. PA RIAAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mercurii, 9.2`" rlic Junii, 1525. n. SPE A Elt reported the Royal Assent —to Exchequer Bills (1:10,500,000) Bill ; Duke of Cumberland's Annuity Bill ; Duchess of Kent's Annuity Bill ; Columbia Postage Bill ; Conveyance of Newspapers to the Colonies Bill; Excise Mea sures Regulation Biii ; Juries Bill; Trial of Peers (Scot land) Bill ; Oaths on Naturalization Bill ; Transports in the Colonies Bill ; Pirates Head Money Bill; Warehoused Corn Bill; Annual Certificates Bill ; Articles of Clerkship Bill; Settlement of the Poor Bill ; Deceased Officers Effects Bill ; Lunacy Traverse Bill ; Stealing in Mines Bill; Canada Corn Bill ; Canada Tenures Bill ; Cotton Mills Regulation Bill ; Aliment of Prisoners (Scotland) Bill; Leasing-making (Scot land) Bill; Small Debts (Scotland) Bill; Special Juries (Ireland) Bill; County Treasurers (Ireland) Bill; Exche quer Court (Ireland) Bill ; Limatie Asylums (Ireland) Bill ; Sealing of Writs (Ireland) Bill; Liskeard and Looe Canal Bill; Baybridge, Stour and Sandwich Harbour, and Atlan tic Steam Navigation Bills ; Ancholme Drainage Bill ; - Stratford & Moreton, and Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railways Bills ; Littlehampton Harbour Bill ; Oldham Waterworks and Gas Bill ; Limerick Waterworks Bill ; Leith Reservoir Bill ; Henley-upon-Thathes Pc or Rates Bill ; St. Andrew's (Holborn) Poor Bill ; St. Botolph ( Bishopsgate) Tithes Bill; Godahning, Dundee, Cirencester, Brighton, and London derry Improvement Bills; Devizes Paving and Gas Light Bill ; Canterbury and Ramsgate, and Doncaster and Thorne .Roads Bills; Felhrigg (Norfolk), and Nether Whitacre (Warwick) Inclosures Bills; Arigna Iron & Coal, and Hiber nian Mining Companies Bills ; Earl of Radnor's, Lauder's, Palk's, Caldcleugh's, Davidson's, Earl of Harcourt's, Mar quis of Queensberry's, and Clare Hall (Cambridge) Estates Bills; St. Martin (Birmingham) Rectory Bill; Wiseman's, and Peter's Divorce Bills ; and Brandt's, and Van Wart's Naturalization Bills. MEssAGE from the Loans—That they have agreed to— Assimilation of the Currency Bill; and Illauritius Trade Bill, without amendment ; and to Canada Company Bill ; Wain_ fleet Drainage Bill ; and Kilpatrick (Scotland) load Bill, with amendments. ESTATES—Bethlem Hospital—Bill read a second time, and committed. Sclater's—Bill read a third time, and passed. Banks' (Sagg's)—Bill read a first time. NAvlGaTioti : ::—Lough Neagh Irelani ingross( d. INcLosunE—Northall (Middlesex) WARE RWORKS—PaiSIey PI ER—SitinlOUth EAST INDIA JUDGES WRITS OF ERROR NAVIGATION LAWS CUSTOMS REGULATION Bills read a third time, and passed. CUSTOINIS MANAGEMENT PAltTxEnstur SOCIETIES (Scot land) EDINBURGH BONDS PLATE DUTIES TRANSFER DIVORCE—Moores ROLLS Cot!u'r DECREES—BiII read a first time, to be read a second time on Friday next, and to be printed. NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY. Mr, Powell Buxton—Motion on the Papers relating to Mr Shrewsbury, the late Missionary at Barbadoes, 2. Mr. Martin (of Galway)—Select Committee, to inquire whe ther the practice of Bear-baiting, and other cruel sports, has a mischievous effect on the morals of the people. 3. Mr. Littleton—To move Resolutions, founded on Report front Select Committee on Private Business. 4. Mr. Huskisson—To move a Clause on Third reading of Re gistry of Ships Bill, allowing Ships that are prevented by combination of workmen from being repaired in British Ports to proCeed to any Foreign State for that purpose. 5. Mr. Charles Grant—Education (Scotland). 6. Mr. Hume—Account of Half-pay of the Army 1822, 1823, and 1324 :—Also, List of Promotions in the Army for the same period. ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY. 1. Indictments Removal Bill—Committee. 2. Combination of Workmen Bill—Second reading. 3. Smuggling Prevention Bill-LThird reading. 4. Surplus of Grants Bill—Report. 5. Customs Bounties Bill—Third reading. 6. Passage Vessels Regulation Bill—Third reading. 7. Horses Slaughtering Bill—Third reading. 8. Law of Merchants Bill—Second reading. 9. Colonies Trade Bill—Further consideration of Report. 10. Customs Consolidation Bill—Committee. 11. Goods Warehousing Bili—Third reading. 12. Isle of Man Trade Bill—Third reading. 13. Registry of Ships Bill—Third reading. 14. Newspapers Bill—Third reading. 15. House of Commons Taxation of Costs Bill—Third reading. 16. Foundlings (Ireland) Bill—Third reading. 17. Wide Streets (Dublin) Bill—Third reading. 18. Linen Trade (Ireland) Bill—Furthei - consideration of Re. port. 19. Pilots and Floating Light Bill—Committee. 20. Spring Guns Bill—Committee. 21. Gardens Protection Bill—Committee. SUDDEN DEATH OF CAPTAIN J. WEBSTER OF THE FIRST DRAGOON GUABOs.—It is our painful task to announce the sudden dissolution of this old and meritorious Officer, which took place at his residence at Fulham, where the regiment only arrived from Carlisle a few days since. Captain WEBSTER had been nearly 50 years in the regi ment, and was beloved by his Colonel and his brother Officers. His death was quite unex pected. On Tuesday he ate a hearty dinner, and seemed extremely cheerful, and at night re tired to bed in apparent good health ; next mornig, however, he arose in bed, and desired his valet to procure for him his shaving tackle, and the next minute he laid his head on the pil low, and that instant he ceased to live. Intelli gence of tire unexpected event was COMMUIIi- 1 Ca ted to Colonel Teasdale and to his Royal High- 1 ness the Duke of York, with whom the Captain had frequently distinguished himself in the field, and was a great favourite of the Duke's. His Royal Highness, on hearing the intelligence, was much affected. The body has been interred in Fulham church-yard, and was followed to the grave by the Colonel, Officers, and the whole of the regiment, eight Serjeants bearing the pall, and the Band playing the Dead March in Saul. It is supposed the Captain was, at the time of his death, possessed of considerable property. BLUE BEARD'S CASTLE..—.IIP ruins of the Chateau de la V e rriere, in the D e p artment o f t h e L o i re , a re, ac cording to the tradition of the neighbourhood, those of the castle of the celebrated Blue Beard, the hero of the well-known nursery tale. This formidable personage, who it appears is not altogether a mere creation of the fancy, was Giles de Retz, who lived in the reign of Charles Vll., and was vassal of John Duke of Bretagne. Ile was tried at Nantz, on suspicion et having destroyed a number of children, who had been seen to enter the castle, and was never heard of afterwards. The bodies of several were found, he having caused them to be put to death to make use of their blood in writing charms and forming incantations to raise infernal spirits, by whose means he believed, according to the superstitions of the times, that buried treasures would be revealed to him. On his trial he confessed the most horrible acts of atrocity, and was sentenced to be burnt alive, b u t t h e D u k e cause d hi m to b e s trangled be fore he was tied t o th e sta k e. T he execut i on too k place on the 25th of December, 1440. Bald( Stock 2321 233 3 per ('eut. Red 9&P i i 3 per Cent. Cons. 3 4 per Cent. ni3 ditto Red. 934 4 per Cent., New Bank Long Anu. Ditto Bonds Ld)-13i1l reported, to be I India Stock South Sea Stock - t'iticus OF FOREIGN FL Austrian lids, 5 per et. 93a 9 Brazilian Ms 1825 Buenos Ayres lids Chilian, lids, 6 per ct. Colombian Bds,6 per ct. 851 Do. do. 1824 Danish, 5 per cent. Do. Scrip Greek Bds Do. Scrip, 1825...98 ti 101 dis. exican lids Do. Scrip 1825 ... 2 t dis. Neapolitan, 5 per cent FO 1:1 N 111 114 S. Lisbon lianaburgh - France THE BRITISH and FOREIGN TIMBER and WOOD AS CIATION. Capital £1,000,000 Sterling-, in Shares of £5O each. ISANKEtts.—Sir Peter Pole, Bart. Thornton, Tree, Dowtit and Scott ; and Messrs. Rogers, Towgood, and Co. SOLICITOHA.—Nit'SSI'S. Dawes and Chatfield. The Directors will nt:llie a distribution of the Shares on the 24th of June instant, after which day no further Appli cations can he received. All Communicativis are to be ad dressed to the Directors, at Messrs. Dawes and Chatfield's. 9, Angel- couri,Throgutorton-st ret t, London. .* For VERITAS, on the I .l 7 EszEnN SHIP UANAL 7 see OUS Fourth Page. PRICE OF STOCKS Tots o s Y AT ONE O'CLOCK. Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills 10001. lid. 33 35 , Ditto 500/.lld 33 35 Ditto Small ... I Ad. 33 35' Ditto Commercial.. • Bank for Act. India for Acct. Cons. for Opening 91i 1- NOR, AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan Scrip Peruvian Bonds ....... Do. Scrip Portuguese Bonds Prussian, 5 per ct. Ditto New lO l 4l Russian, New, 5 per ct. ••• Spanish 1821 ' 5 per cent.23:il 1823 French per c 5 Rentes. t • ••• Exchange 3 per cent. Exchange PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Per. Share' A nglo-Mexican Mining Company 11° - 1 4 4 Arigna Iron an d Coal Mining Company Bolivar Mining Comp a ny • . , .. Chilian Mining Company . lo . _'. ls , Cobalt and C o pp er Mi n i ng C om p a ny Famatina Mi n i ng Comp a ny . . London United Mining Company Manganese Mining Company Pasco Peruvian Mi n i ng Company... 18 Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Mining Association i British Iron Company 9i British R oc k a nd Patent Sdlt Company Bognor and Aldwick Company Canada Company Equitable Loan Bank Company General Steam Navigation Company Great Westminster Dairy Company Honduras Company Mediterranean Steam Company .., ~ National Stone . Way Company Sy*" .• 2/ .1-.1 ...................... ".ii 4 ARRIVED. 1 1 0 H Hill WATER ATIOS DON BRIDGE To-mortrio ° B. 31nrning, 53 ininutes After 7. j Evening, 26 minutes after THE SUN. SOLEIIf QUIS DICERE FALSUAI .4UDE_IT LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 189-5' The Paris Papers of Monday and the _VA of Tuesday have arrived. A report of the state of the kingdom of Poland, 'presented to the Diet, contained in the illoniteur of Mondai,f complains of the depression in the prices °f agricultural produce. " With us," says th e Minister, " as well as in nearly all the rest- °I " Europe, the efforts of the landed proprieto rs cc have remained without result and withou t " compensation. This basis of our social edifi ce " experiences every year a frightful depreciatio"' A private letter from Madrid, dated the. 9th just', states that the Ministers had determined on rats' lug a forced loan, and that the Council, aft er throwing obstacles in Cie way of it for a time, 118 at last consented to the execution of the projec t ' The Diplomatic Conferences of Milan, whi ch the Journal du Commerce endeavours to repres e " , as aiming at the establishment of a quadruPle( alliance against the power and interests ° Great Britain, by confirming the Protector' ship exercised at present by Austria o ve r Germany and Italy, has no other object? for it appears, than to make arrangement the gradual evacuation of the Kingdom o f Naples by the Austlitn troops. According to the Constitutionnel and the Debats, this conf er ' ence is a Congress, at which the affairs of Ame ric a and Greece a re t o b e di scusse d. A ccou nts frog , . 0 1 / 1 %,,, _.. ,-:- . ,P A . ~_ ? , ' ,- -1- ___ -- = , •l - s- , f--\. -- --- 4 - 1/1, ~;),;'_;,:-:- * s ;, , ,I, ,\!,./_ N. V 4,4,4 % 4‘,.i. i - : , /• / \ MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK. ENG LAN D. Monday, June 27, LoNnoN. Nos. 4, 46, 71, 305, 407, 45/3. Couxmv. Nos. 97, 227, 238, 246, 320, 425, 437, 455, 49 0 , 524, 541, 546, 552, 553 558, 578, 613, 642, 680, 707, 710. - 28, LoNrmx. Nos. 86, 235, 316, 349. Co U N 'l* It Y . Nos. 38, 67, 68, 145, 285, 291, 427, 471, 477, 497, 523, 579, 591, 592, 669- I VednestlaY, - 29, Lox DON. Lodge of Benevolence. 1;'OU NT It Y. Nos. 54, 112, 121, 126, 129, 164, 400, 468, 472. 537, 549, 563, 577, 696, 690, 705. - 30, LONDON. Nos. 7, 39, 327. nen'. Coro. Fern. Sch. at 11. Co uNTit v. Nos. 45, 48, 51, 57, 79, 110, 176, 334, 420, 40. 461, 4/33, 506, 518, 545, 551, 560, 586, 587, 67 0 * 679. 717. Ju!) , 1, 141Nno.N. No. : - .3:). Co II NTIt Y. Nos. 53, 236, 533. -2, LoNDoK. • • • Coll NTRY. Nos. 358, 412, 492. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,