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PARLIAMENT, ROUSE OF LORDS, TrIURSDAT, MAY 19. nistmoming the LoaD CJIANCELLOR came down at an :arkg hour. Their Lordships first proceeded to a Committee of Prisi tees on the Henniker eerage, whereupon the claim was I.rade out. Afterwards the Committee went into the claim to the An hatuiale Peerage, in which witnesses were examined, when the further proceeding was-adjourned to Monday se 'unight. The next claimant was to the Gardiner Peerage, in which case witnesses were heard, when proceedings were adjourned ; dir. Prayers were read by the Bishop of Gloucester at 12 o'clock, when. the House proceeded with Appeahr. The Appeal of " Aubrey v. Meade," from the Court of -Chancery in Ireland, was heard out, and dismissed with costs. " Scully v.. Scully," from the same Court, was now called far, when the Solicitor-General and Mr. O'Connell were heard the appellant; after which this appeal was adjourned to a fut4re day. -- .A4l:;43arned at four o'clock, during pleasure, and in twenty nintites 'the ri ouse rearmed. Upon the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY the Strat fc.rd.le-Bow Burial-ground Bill was nail a third time, passed, and wessaged to the Commons. ESSAGES FROM THE COMMONS. • kir. Brogden and others brought up the Irish Bankers' Partnership Bill, and some other Bills, which were afterwards rend a first time. The Earl of ABERDEEN presented a petition from the kir4;istrates of Paisley, against the Equitable Loan Company t"ipou the motion of the Earl of LIVERPOOL, the Ware 'reused Corn. Bill was read a second time, and committed Thursday, when their Lordships were ordered to be sum scir..ed. • SHEERNESS PETITION. rite flrl of DARNLEY took this opportunity, when their kc;:ciships were not engaged in important business, to correct a uris-statement in the Newspapers, with regard to a petition he presented the other day. He must confess, at the same time, shat it was wonderful the reports in the Journals were so cor rect as they generally were, when he considered the difficulties which . those persons who took their proceedings had to contend with. After the Papers took notice of the improper manner in which the petition from Sheerness was got up, they mentioned that he presented a petition _from some parish in Kent, but emitted the name, that of Gillingham. This petition was nu merously signed, and it was proper that the subscribers should have the benefit of it. SCOTCH PEERS. Viscount MELVILLE gave notice that he should, to-mor row, move the second reading of the Scotch Peere Trials' Bill, for which, also, their Lordships were directed to be summoned. The College of PhysiCiane Bill, the Scotch Poor Relief Bill, and. the Irish Chancery Court Bill, were read a second time. Ekosbie's Divorce Bill passed through a Committee, and was reported with some amendments. The new Thrown Silk Bill, the Naval Asylum and Green wich Hospital Consolidation Bill, the Pembroke Market Bill, and some other Bills, passed through Committees of the Rouse. Adjourned, at half-past five o'clock, to to-morrow, when the Lord Deputy sits for the furtherance of Appeals. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. DICKENSON presented a petition from certain land owners in the county of Somerset, against the Western Ship Mr. MONTEITH brought up the Report of the Clyde Na vigation Bill. Mr. CURTEIS brought up the Report of the London and Idanchester , Equitable Loan Bill, which was laid on the table. Mr- C.•DUNDAS presented a similar petition from Telford _and Boreferd, Somersetshire, against any alteration in the Corn Laws.— Laid on the table. CURTEIS presented a similar petition from Samuel Square, corn merchant in London. SALMON FISHERY BILL. Mr. LINDSAY presented a petition from the county of Perth against this Bill. A similar petition was presented from the county of Devon. Mr. H. - DRUMMOND presented similar petitions from Pratteit Lord Gray, and from the proprietors of Salmon Fisheries on the rivers Dee and Don, in the county of Aberdeen.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. TR E MAINE presented a petition with a similar prayer, from an individual in the county of Cornwall. Sir I. COFFIN said Hon. Members were mistaken about the seiPnon. The fact was, that they came earlier to the South than the North. A large shoal came into Cardigan Bay from the sea id the month of January, and they could not arrive at the coast of Scotland till the month of July. After a few words from Mr. D. Gilbert and Mr. H. Drum mond the petition was ordered to be printed. A petition against the Salmon Fishery Bill, from certain in habitants residing on the River Shannon was also presented, and laid on the table. Mr. LINDSAY presented a petition from the Prevost and Burgesses of Cupar, against the reduction of die Duty on Foreign Linen.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. S. RICE presented a petition from a parish in the county of Limerick, in favour of the scheme of Irish Emigration to Ganada. Sir J. IiERESFORD presented a petition from Berwick upon-Tweed, against the Duty on Sea-borne Coal. stir R.SHAW presented a petition from the Chamber of Corn merce in Dublin, praying for a revision of the Butter Trade •Laws.—Laid on the table. EXPENCES OF APPREHENDING VAGRANTS. Sir T. ACLA ND rose to bring forward the motion, of which he bad given notice, to enable Magistrates at Quarter Sessions to regulate the expences for apprehending persons charged un der the Vagrant Act. From the discussion which had taken lace in the last Session of Parliament on the Vagrant Laws, it wouldbe unnessary for him to recur to the objections then made to the fine which fell to the informer on the conviction of a vagrant. It was right and proper that the individual who apprehended another, obnoxious to the laws, should receive fell payment of all the expences to which he was subjected, and, accordingly, by a former statute, any Justice was em powered to order payment of these at his own discretion. Another Act, passed two or three years ago, authorised the Bench of Magistrates to regulate the amount of such expences by a table or scale, as they in their judgment should think fit. Thus, the power previously granted to the individual Justice was taken out of his hands and given to the Quarter Sessions. It hail a most salutary operation in the county of Devon, where he had access to know the facts ; and as he did not doubt that it would be a useful addition to the law as it now stood, lie moved that the power conveyed by the Act above alluded to, should be revived in the terms he had mentioned. Mr. ESTCOURT opposed the measure. He felt jealous of soy enactment which tended to restore the informer's reward thr the apprehension of vagrants. This Bill was, in his opi :lion, wholly unnecessary, •for the law at present directed .Jus tices to order payment of such expences by the treasurer of the county; and to them it was matter of choice whether the allow ance should be great. or small. But there was another statute, lit Geo. 111., which enabled Magistrates at Quarter Sessions to regulate the extent of these allowances ; and when the regu lations were framed and approved of by the Judges at the Assizes, the JuStices were obliged to act under them. Mr. • S. BOURNE said. it was unnecessary to load the itatute-botik with superfluous Acts. lie wished to know how the law at'Present stood before assenting to any alteration of it. M. SYKES contended, that the evil was of that amount as to call for legiilatiie remedy. Sir T. ACLi AND said, lie would withdraw the Bill for the' present, to affordan - opportunity for inquiry. COUNTY COURTS' BILL • Lord. AIe,THORP moved the third reading of the County Courts Bill. . : Colonel TRENCH regretted that the Bill gave power to low attornies to practise in the County Courts. Several cases had occurred at Cambridge, which shewed the impropriety of permitting such persons to appear on behalf of the poor suitors. In the Cpunty Court there, the amount of cases, ten years ago, was 82 ; but for the eight subsequent years, when low Actor nies began to practise there, they had grown to 480 annually. Courts of that description ought, in his view, to be a sort of . domestic reconciling judicature, in order to prevent litigation ; bat that charactir could not be given to them, as long as low attornies were allowed to prevent an amicable arrangement of :the disputes; As ,a .strikiogillustration of what lie hid said, he would allude to the town of Wells, in the county of Nor.. folk, where, two. attornies settled about forty years ago. A gentleman of great weight in the county discouraged their re sidence_by all the means in his power; and in order to prevent litigittiOo„ he instituted a Court of Reference, and solicited the poor man to bring his . cause before him. The consequence was, that the attorrties left the place, and no such being hay been seen there for upwards of thirty years, although m a town, not many miles from Wells, there were not less than eight nttornies t , who fattened and throve on the litigation w hich they excitett. Fqr these reasons he would tiove, that a clause be introduced into the 13i11,.perrnitting the parties brought be ibto the 4 my Corrti to sand a friend these'ttirepresehtthesta, provided that such friend be not a procurator, solicitor, Or any afrorded in the interval, betweed . ehe present and the next Ses legal person whatever. slots of Parliament, for the: investiitation of its provisions, by Lord ALTHORP did not think that it would be of :Oven- dime whose interests were likely to be so. materially effected tage to the public generally to allow the clause proposed by the by it. Hon. Member to be introduced into his Bill. The poor man Mr. C. ll• HUTCHINSON cordially concurred in the sug would thereby be deprived of all legal assistance, and a gliat geetion of ids lion. Friend. delay and inconvenience would be felt, by the parties not being Mr. KENNEDY would acquiesce, although with great re able to state their ease clearly to the Judge. i Inctance, in the request of his two -Hon. Fiiends, particularly Mr. Ald. WOOD proposed a clause in the Bill, that nothing as he saw, from the advanced stage of the Session, that there contained in it should affect the Mayor's Court, the Sheriff's was little probability of the measure passing into a law this Court, or the Borough Court of Southwark, or the Courts of E year. Ile reminded the House, that he had not hitherto had Requests in Lcndon, Southwark, or the Hundred of Britton. •en opportunity- t o explain even t h e pr i nc ipl e o f th e Bill. - There The clause was read a third time, and added to the Bill by were several witnesses from Ireland in town, whose evidence way of rider. lie proposed should be taken on the subject, and he should then Mr. BRIGHT then proposed a clause that nothing in the co nt e nt hi mse lf, with moving that the Bill be committed pro Act should affect the Small Debts Court in the city of Bristol, forma, in Order to its being ordered to be printed and then post established by the 56 of Geo. 111. pored to next Session. . _ • - • - - The clause wasread a third time, and also added to the Bill Mr. C. GRANT thought that there was no possibility of by way of rider. legislating effectively on the subject this Session ; full and fair After a few v er b a l a mendments, the Bill was read a third examinauon was necessary before a safe conclusion could be time anti passed. • o . conic at. A message from the Lords announced their Lordships' assent Sir J. NEWPOR'r was of opinion also that the magnitude to several private Bills. ' of the question, and the local distance of many interested in it, On the motion of Mr. ESTCOURT, the County Rates imperatively required postponement 'and ulterior inquiry. Mortgage Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. B. COOPF_:It concurred in the postponement. SCOTCH JUDGES' SALARIES. • Mr. TREMAINE expressed his thanks to the Hon. Mover The LORD ADVOCATE brought up the Report of the of the Bill, and suggested that different periods for fishing Judges' Salaries (Scotland) Bill. should he fixed for different rivers. Lord A. HAMILTON said, lie intended on a future day to Mr. H. DRUM. Al ON I) approved of the postponement, but move that it he read that day six months. thought any alteration as to the periods of closing the fisheries Mr. P. MOORE (as was understood) spoke against the prin- impracticable. ciple of the Bill. After a few words from Lord CLIVE, the Bill was com- Sir J. NEWPORT thought that Government ought to take mitred pro forma —several amendments were agreed to, the into their consideration the case of the Irish Judges, with a view report brought up, and the further consideration of it fixed for to an increase of their salaries, and pot them upon the same that day three months. footing, in thatrespect, with the Judges of England. . . -ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. - Mr. R. MARTIN trusted the suggestion of the Right lion. Mr. II ER BITS gave notice that he should move•to.morrow Bart. would be attended to. The Irish Judges were deserving that the House should then adjourn to 'Wednesday next. of every consideration. He hoped his Right Hon. Friend would The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the make a specific motion on the subject _ House adjourned at a quarter past seven o'clock. 111 r. H. DRUMMOND wished to say a few words in favour of Scotch -Judges, whose salaries lie thought ought also to be increased. After a few words from Mr. J. Grant, the Lord Advocate, and Mr. Abercromby, the report was agreed to. LEASING MAKING (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion of the Lord Advocate, and after a few words from Mr. Kennedy, the House went into a Committee on the Bill. The several clauses were agreed to, and the Report or dered to be - received to-morrow. QUARANTINE BILL. Mr. C. GRANT moved that the House should go into a Committee on the Quarantine Bill. Sir I. COFFIN said, that he had devoted a considerable por tion of his attention to a consideration of the rise, progress, and effects of . the plague. It had been originally introduced into Valetta by a shoemaker, who , with his whole 'family, and about 1200 of the inhabitante, to whom he had communicated it, died of it, while the physicians were considering whether it was 'contagious or riot.—(A laugh.)— Its consequences would, in all probability, have been most lamentable, had it not been for the exertions of the late Sir Thomas Maitland, who, with the British officer in command at Malta, had undertaken measures for its prevention, by drawing a cordon sanitaire round the island. Indeed, so strict had those regulations been, that he (Sir I. Coffio,) had been obliged by the Board of Health at Malta to submit to a quarantine of 20 days, although in a man of war. The Gallant Admiral concluded, by expressing . his conviction, that great caution was necessary to prevent the spread of so frightful a disease, and referred to the conduct pursued in various parts of the Continent where the disorder was prevalent, to guard against its introduction. While he apptoved of some parts of the Bill, he did not, with reference to this partictiler ob ject, think that it went far enough. - - Lord BELURAVE was astonished that at this time of•day ' Gentlemen should be still deliberating as to whether the plague was contagious or not. If proofs had been wanting upon this sub ject he might refer to the instances-brought forward by the Gal lant Admiral below him, of the conduct pursued by the natives, for the purpose of warding off tins calamity. In Constantinople, for example, the Franks, or Christian inhabitants, took every precaution, by shutting their doors, closing. the'windows, and shooting the cats,—(a laugh),—to prevent the communication of the contagion, while the.Mahornetans, on the other hand, (who looked upon the plague as a sort of sacred disease, and thought if they died of it they would be entitled to an home diate admission -into Mahomet's bosom, or what the Matto metan devotee would perhaps consider Much - more desirable— to the enjoyment of everlasting felicity in the arms of the Houris,)—(a laugh),—took no precautions to avoid it. Al though he had not risen for the purpose of offering any opposi tion to the bill, he still thought that it would tend to obstruct the commercial operations of this country, and for so saying he had the authority of an eminent Levant merchant, who, though he had declared that he would make a sum of between four and five thousand pounds by the passing of the bill, had yet too much public spirit to conceal hie opmios. Under the ope ration of the present quarantine laws, although the merchant might be subject to some inconvenience and loss of time, it was nothing to the trouble which a lax system would subject him to from foreign power's. He could hardly imagine what object the Right lion. Gentleman could have in pressing this measure, unless he had some favourite scheme of a Joint Stock Companydn burial-grounds in contemplation.—(A Under these circumstances, he (Lord Belgrave) had thought it his duty to offer a few remarks, and if they were productive of no good effect, he should at least have the satisfaction of think ing that he had, like - the prophet of old in the wilderness, lifted up his voice between the living and the dead.—( Hear !) Mr. BERNA I, did not think that the regulation of the Right Hon. Gentleman would be found to have the effect which he had anticipated. Although, he believed, there was little probability of contagion being communicated through the medium of dead wens' clothes, he thought the case was differ ent with respect to cotton goods, which were delivered by living men. The fact of the plague being contagious had not . been by any means decided, as was proved by the opinions entertained upon that subject by Dr. Armstrong and several other able physicians. Mr. C. GRANT was astonished at the objections which had been brought forward against this Bill by Hon. Members — objections which, he could safely say, did not apply to it. The Noble Lord had asked, what were the motives of the framers of the Bill ? Ile (Mr. C. Grant) would tell him.— Last year the Committee of Tradedof which he was one, had been much occupied on the subject of the Quarantine Laws. Many complaints had been made to them respecting the severity with which those laws had been adminietered. In consequence of the representations• which had been made - by mercantile men of the injurious effects of these.letwen arising . from the expence, inconvenience, and delays, which were at tendant upon them, he (Mr. G.)' in conjunction with other Honourable Members of the Committee, had thought it his duty to take the subject into his consideration. The result was the present Bill, and so far from assuming, as the Noble Lord (Belgrave) seemed to suppose they had done, that the plague was not contagious, they had, uponehe,contrary, in all they had done, been actuated by a contrary supposition. They had consulted those physicians who were known to hold the opi nion that it was contagious-e-(Sir G. Mane for example)—and they had excluded from examination all those physicians who were known to maintain a contrary theory. The Committee, in pursuance of this line of conduct, had asked, not whether the plague was contagious or not ;• but assuming it to be con tagious, whether means might nut he taken to alleviate the severity of the Quarantine Laws ? With this feeling they had acted ; and in ail their. views, they had been directed by no other metitre than a desire to promote the conimercial interests of the country. Mr. BERNA L explained. He was more anxious to re commend caution, than to express opposition to the measure. Lord BELURAVE also explained, and concurred with the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last. Mr. J. SMITH was favourable to the principle of the Bill, believing that many of the precaetione •at present in force were unnecessary, and useless restrictions on commerce; but the whole subject was surrounded with difficulties, the greatest of which arose out of the differences of opinion between medical men upon it. The physicians examined lest year before the Coro- mince agreed only on one point, that the plague, was contagious. The French physicians w ere , if possible, still more divided than their English brethren, With this difference, that the most eminent among them held that the plague was not contagious. The Hon. Met-abet concluded by payisig a high compliment to Dr. Maclean, for his devotion, intrepidity, and - perseverance in his researches. • . Sir I. COFFIN explained. • Mr. TRANT, having resided long in the East Indies, beg ged leave to express his opinion (founded on experience) diet ' the plague was highly contagious, and, moreover, that it was not confined to certain limits or districts. Ile was likewise fully convinced that, the cholera morbus, which made such havoc in the East Indies, was also contagious; it had already worked its way into Persia, and, he faared, might yet reach England. The Report was'then brought up and read, the amendments were agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to morrow (this day). On . the motion of Mr. C. GRANT, the Church Rates (Ire land) Bill was ordered to be committed to-morrow. SALMON FISHERY BILL. Mr. ABE RCROMBY hoped his Hon. Friend. (Mr. Ken nedy) would not press the - Salmon Fisheries Bill during the present Session. It was a measure of great importance, deeply affecting Ireland, and not understood there. He trusted his Hon. Friend would, therefore, content himself with going into 'Committee on the Bill, in order to render itas complete-as pos sible, after which it might be printed, and an opportunity PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Joris, 19 0 (lie Maii, 1 89-5- MESSAGE from the LoHns—That they have agreed Ashton-under-Lyne Gas Light, &.c. Bill ; Carnarvon Rail way Bill ;• Chelsea Church Bill ;' Greenhill Moor, • Hudders field and New Hey, and Meltham and Wessenden Head Roads Bills ; Stockport Waterworks Bill ; and Stratford-le- Bow ChUrch-vard Bill, without amendment. • RoAps—Crewli:erne—Bill reported, to be ingrossed. Doncas ter and Thorne—Petition from Hatfield, Yorkshire, against —referred to . the Committee on the Bill, Counsel ordered. Co at PAN I Es—Western Ship Canal—Petitions of Occupiers of Land in Devonshire and Somersetshire, and Rev. D. Davies, against—referred to the Committee on le Bill, Counsel or dered. Equitable Loan Bank—Bill reported, to be in grossed. PAY oL—Leamington Priors. Petition of the Warwick Gas Light Company, against—referred to the Committee on the Bill, Counsel orde red. NA viGAT N- - -Clyde—Bill reported, Report to lie on the table. lscr.osunE—OrsettlEssex) 1 Bills reported, to be Br-MOE—Chester ingrossed. RAILWAY—West Lothian—Bill read a second time, and com mitted. Po LICE AND IlAanotm—GreenOck—Petitioni, against, (pre sented May 11)—referred to the Committee on the Bill, Counsel ordered. NAT u n ALIZ - ATlON—Brandt's C'IIEIAEA Gl-I nE LANI Bills read a first time. • EVTAT —3laeGregor's Co AN Laws—Petition from NV elford and Boxford, against _ . any alteration therein—to lie on the table. FOREIGN LlNEN—Petition from Cupar of Fife, &c. for a protecting Duty on the importation of—to lie on the table, SALMON Fisnlacy Bit. r.-Seven Petitions, against—to lie on the table; further consideration of Report put off for three months; Bill, as amendei. to be printed. COAL MTH:a—Petition from Berwick-upon-Tweed, against —to lie on the table. BIJTT TRADE (Ireland)—Petition from Dublin,- in favour of an alteration in the Laws relating to—to lie on the table. AlAREET—Tiverton • Cot; Y COU RTS Bills read a third time and passed. • 7 COUNTY RAT ES MORTGAGE SA Lam ES TO Juncp:s, etc. (Scotland)—The following Reso lotions reported, and instruction given to Committee.on Scot tish Judicature Bill, to make provision accordingly :- 1. That in case his Majesty shall appoint two Judges of the Court of Session to be additional Judges of the - Jury Court, such Judges shall he paid the sum of (IOOt. per annum, in the same manner, and out of the same funds as the salaries of the other Judges of the Jury Court are now payable. 2. That if any Depute or Assistant Clerk and Closet-keeper, or any other Clerk or Odicer in the Court of Session, or any Clerk or other Officer in the Court of Teinds, or in the Court of Admiralty in Scotland, shall make it appear to the satisfac tion of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, that he has sustained any pecuniary loss in consequence of any Act of this Session of Parliament, the said Barons be authorized to award compensation to such Clerk or other person aforesaid. ORDEIIS OF THE DAY FOR 'MIS DAY. 1. Juries Bill-Further consideration of Report. 2. Transports in the Colonies Bill-Committee. 3 . E ast I n di a Judges Bill-Committee. 4. Distillery Bill-Further consideration of Report. 5. Supply-Report(2sth April) Postponed Resolution.l 6. Canada Tenures Bill-Farther consideration of Report. 7. British Consuls Bill-Second reading. • 11. Cotton Mills Regulation Bill -Committee. 9. Customs Laws Repeal Bill- Further consideration of Report. 10. Customs Management Bill-Further consideration of Re port. 11. Navigation Laws Bill-Further consideration of Report. 12. Customs Regulation Bill-Further consideration of Report. 13. Smuggling Prevention Bill-Further consideration of Re port. 14. Goods Warehousing Bill-Further consideration of Report. 15. Isle of Man Trade Bill-Further consideration of Report. 16. Registry of Ships Bill-Committee. 17. Colonial Intercourse Bill -Further consideration of Report. 13. Townland Boundaries (Ireland) Bill-Committee. 19. Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill-Second reading. 20. Felonies Counsel Bill-Second reading. 21. Exchequer Bills (PUblic Works, Ireland) Bill-Third reading. 22. Judges Salaries (England) -Report thereupon. 23. Small Debts (Scotland) Bill-Third reading. 24. Wrongous Imprisonment Bill-Second reading. 25. Small Tithes Bill-Committee. • 26. Exchequer Court (Ireland) Bill-Committee. 27. Supply-Committee. 20. Ways and Means-Committee. 29. New Streets Act Amendment Bill-Third reading. 30. Supply-Report. 31. Canada company Bill-Third reading. 32. Judicature (Scotland ) Bill-Further consideration of Report. 33 Leasing-making (Scotland) Bill-Report. 34. Aliment of Prisoners (Scotland) Bill-Report. 35. Quarantine Laws Bill-Third reading. 36. Lunatic Trustees Bill-Committee. 37. Churches in the Lowlands (Scotland) -Committee time upon. 33. Courts of Justice Building (Scotland)-Committee there- upon. 30. Customs Consolidation Act--Committee thereupon. 40. Glass Acts—Committee thereupon. 41. Cruel Treatment of Cattle Bill— Second • reading. 42. Land Tax Assessments Bill—Third reading. 43. Excisc on Sweets Bill—Committee. 44. Customs and Excise Bonds Bill—Committee. NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY. 1. l‘lr. Goulhurn—Remaining Irish Miscellaneous Eitimates. ( In Committee of Supply.) 2. Mr. Brougham—=Motion for the better securing the practi. cal independence of the Judges. 3. Mr. Charles Grant—Bill to regulate Rates of Pilotage. 4. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer—To move the adjourn - inent of the House till Wednesday next. NOTICE GIVEN YESTERDAY. • Thursday, May 26. Mr. Spring Rice—Copy of Dispatches - received from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. - SUDDEN DEATII.—We have again to relate another of those melancholy instances of sudden mortality which appear to have been so prevalent recently. On Tues day morning last, -lIAPMAN BARBER, Esq. of Chancery lane an eminent Solicitor, well known and highly respe cted, both , in the profession and by a numerous circle Of friends, complained, Whilst breakfasting with his family, of indisposi tion, and retired to his drawing-room, hoping that a little exercise by walking about 'might relieve it, but he had not been there many minutes before his family were alarmed by hearing a fall ; his daughter immediately ran into the room, where she found her father ektended on the ground insensible. Medical assistance was immediately called in, but the vital spark was extinct, thus sheaving how precarious is life, and how little we know what a day may bring forth. CO.OPERA'FJVE SYSTEM POLITICAL ECONOMY. We have received from Washington two small pamphlets, published in that rising city and ca pital of the United States of North America, containing the two Orations or Discourses of Mr. OwEN, delivered in the Hall of the Representa tives of the North American Union, and attended by the greater part of.the executive Officers and Legi'slators thereof about two months ago. ..Mr. Or2:lr's object in - going .to America was .two-fold. First—to difilise through the other hemisphere, as he had al ready done in Europe, the knowledge of the great principle of " co-operation," and its advantages in the production of wealth, and of all other means of human enjoyment, over the rival principle of " Individual Competition," even in its freest and best form ; and, secondly—to ascertain, from personal in spection, if the United States afforded a site, all moral and phy. sical circumstances considered, better adapted. for a practical experiment of the new scheme of social co-operative arrange. nients than Europe could afford; and, if so, to purchase that spot, and try the grand social experiment in America. By public meetings at Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Washington, and other places in the United States, anti by publishing the proceedings of those meetings, Mr. EN has accomplished the tint object ; and, by the purchase of a magnificent estate of more than 20,000 acres of the hest land, called Harmony, in the new State of Indiana, north of the great inland river Ohio, the basis is laid for the accomplishment of the second ob ject—the grand practical experiment of the principles of co operation in the production of human happiness. Mr. Other le's first discourse to the leading men of the United States of North America, consists of an expos 6 of some of his leading general principles. The second, and most important of the discourses, details the .practical means' and regulations by which lie proposes to carry these general principles into effect. The ultimate object and necessary effects of the system of mutual Co-operation would seem to be, to raise all the co operators (peculiarities of organization, temperament, and acci dent excepted) to an equality of moral and intellectual attain ments, and of course to an equality of the means of enjoyment to be derived from wealth. Community of possession and equality of distribution according to the wants of each, would appear to be a necessary branch, an inevitable consequence, of the system of Co-operative Industry, unshackled by fanaticism or any other species of delusion or similar interests, on the part of its propagators and High Priests. For this community of property, and ultimate equality of enjoyments, for the securing, even ultimately, to the whole community, and of course to every individual in it, the use of the entire products of their united labour, we see no provision made in the arrangements before us. The co-operators, with out any' other capital than their industry, are invited by Mr. Owzsr to flock to the Settlement at Harmony, where already a village for about 1300 inhabitants (founded and kept together by a Mr. RAPP, a German, on certain fanatical principles, and his personal character, joined to the substantial comforts which their easy and healthful labour produces them), already exists. As Mr. Rao r's people-retreat to a new Settlement near Pitts. burg,. at the source of the Ohio, Mr. Owrix's co-operators are taking possession. Mr. 0 wEs: is to charge the co-operators rent for the land,. and interest merely for the capital, employed in the settlement. The profits are to be placed to. the account of the co-operators individally, according to their skill, and the ordinary estimate of their talents. With the amount of these prqfiti, when sufficiently- ample, the co-Operators may, after a certain number of years, •purchase land for themselves, and, enter on a new and enlarged scheme of Co-operation, Commu nity of Property, and Equal Distribution, should they then think fit to do so. Mean while they will have erected a magnificent palace and work-offices, to replace the present imperfect ar rangements, at Harmony. But no provision, that we can per ceive, is made in the articles, as stated in the second discourse, for enabling the primary co-operators to purchase out fur them selves the palaces, 'And gardens, and pleasure-grounds which their hands will have raised. Every other part of the plan ap pears to us excellent; and, compared with the present state of an equal number of industrious producers under individual coropaition, Mr..owEet's co-operators will be in morals, man ners, and enjoyments, a new race of beings. But our notions of the .principle of co-operation demand more than even these adieu tages. We expect community of possession and equality of enjoyment as the - necessary consequences of the principle of mutual co-operation, either immediately or ultimately to be produced, according to circumstances as to property of the ori ginal co-operators. Mr. Owax will doubtless be able to recon cile theultimate effect of his particular arrangements with his general principles. • Meantime, while Mr. OWEN is carrying into effect.the prin ciple of co-operation at Harmony in America, and while Mr. HAMILTON is proceeding rapidly in the erection of the build ings at Orbiston, near New Lanark in Scotland, for another establishment on any they modification of the co-operative prin. ciple, the London Co-operative Society we understand have in stituted a plan for the purchase of land, and the erection of buildings, &c., for a Community on the perfect principles of Mutual Co-operation, community of property and enjoyments, within 50 miles of London. Which of those three interest ing experiments, on the Co-operative principle, will the most speedily and perfectly succeed, we cannot conjecture. We wish them all success, -as we doubt not the object of them all is to increase the sum of human happiness. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Max 19. GAMBLING lIGUSF.S. WING V. HOLLINBERT, &C. Mr. 13nonicnics opened the pleadings, which stated that this was an action brought by Mr. Josiah Taylor; against per sons of the name of Ilollinbery, I3owley, and Smith, for a con spiracy to extort money from him, under the threat of prosecu tion for keeping a gambling-house. Mr. SCARI.ETT premised his opening, by stating that no one would feel a stronger abhorrence of the practices of gam bling-houses than himself; but that there was, for this very reason, no class of persons who were so much exposed to be come the subjects of private peculation and corrupt gain. The very severe penalties of the law in case of their conviction, combined with the general hatred of gambling-houses, tended to induce these keepers to come to any compromise with per sons who might threaten to prosecute them. The persons whose names appeared in the present conspiracy had carted on their nefarious traffic to a great extent, before they had directed their attacks to Mr. Taylor, and at the period when they began their operations on him, Mr. Taylor had actually converted his gambling-house in Albemarle-street into a picture-shop. Charles Molloy Westmacott—ln the year 1022, was Editor of the Gazette (?f Fathion ; about this period saw Mr. Hollin bery ; in the beginning of March 1823, dined with Mr. Hollin bery at his chambers; went by invitation of Hollinbery and Bowley ; knew Howley before ; just previous to that period understood from Bowley . that lie had preferred an indictment against a gaming-house in King-street, St. James's, and had settled it ; Bowley, Hollinbery, and Smith, were present at this dinner, but no other person ; while at dinner, witness dis covered that he was invited for the purpose of getting informa tion from }inn relative to Taylor; Mr. Hollinbery stated his in tention to prosecute Mr. Taylor ; one of the party inquired of witness how they might gain admittance to Fielder's and Tay lor's houses; they stated their object to be to extort money, and their words were, that "both of them were rich, and would bleed well." Mr. IlitooxEs proved the handwriting of Hollinbery in se veral documents which were put in and read. It appeared from other evidence that a person named Scan nally had acted as the friend of Taylor. In the course of some negociation which took place at a coffee-house in St. Martin's lane, it was proposed that Taylor might stop the prosecutions by the payment of 3,000/. Hollinbery was asked what security would he given that I3owley and Smith would not go on. Hol linbery said, that Taylor should take his trial, and no wit nesses would appear against him ; -the consequence of the wit nesses not being present would be his acquittal. The draft of a deed of release was executed by one of Hollinbery's sup posed clients, which Scannally undertook to show to Taylor.— Scannally did not return with the draft ; Hollinbery was told Taylor would see him. He accordingly went to see Taylor, but the latter did not see him. He refused to pay the 3,000/., or give lip the draft of a release. Hollinbery having ex pressed a determination not to go without the draft, Taylor sent for a constable who took him out of the house. The COMMON-SERGEANT addressed the Jury on behalf of Hollinbery. He called their attention to the serious consequences of conviction upon a charge of conspiracy, and contended that the offence stated in the indictment had not been made out by the evidence. If the Jury could believe Smith and Bowley had conspired, it did not follow that Hollinbery, who acted as their attorney, had also conspired. The Jury ought to look with jealousy at all the matter stated in support of the prose cution. Taylor had been found guilty of keeping a gambling house, and so far as the charge went against him on that sub ject, no injury could have been done. Mr. JESSOI' and Mr. CHITTY were heard for the other de fendants.—No witnesses were called for the defendants. The LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE stated the law applicable to conspiracy. The offence could not be committed unless the Jury believed two persons had conspired against the prosecutor. , The Jury found all the defendants Guilty. WELSH IRON AND COAL MINING COMPANY. THE DIRECTORS of t►tis COMPANY, observing that Mr. LIVI2LETON, the Member for Staffbrdshire, (which County is deeply interested in Iron Works and Collieries, naturally not very friendly to Establishments of a similar nature in Wales), moved the House yesterday even ing to discharge the Committee on a Bill introduced this Session, to enable the Company (already established by Deed et' Settle ment, and signed by all the Shareholders), to sue and be sued, in the name of its Chairman or Secretary, they beg to apprize the Shareholders in this Company, that such Motion might have been spared, since the Directors had determined not further to prosecute the Bill this Session ; which tact the opponents of the Bill must have had ample opportunities of ascertaining. As a long, expensive, and vexatious opposition was anticipated ,in the progress of the Bill, and as a Bill was already pending for the regulation of Joint Stock Companies, and information ob tained of the proposed introduction of another Bill for the same purpose ; in one or the other of which probably sonic general Clauses, enabling Companies to sue or be sued, may be intro duced. The Directors, acting under these impressions, have thought it inexpedient further to prosecute the Bill. By Order of the Directors, JOHN LAWFORD, Secretary. 40, Broad-street-buildings, May 19, 1825. PRICE oF STOCKS littxlc Stock 22N 71 3 per Cent. Iced.... 89; 9 g 3 per Cent. Cons. 914 89190 3A per Cent 4 16 i Ditto lied per Cent. Dissd — New 105 i 43 5 Bank Long Ann. '2l 11-16 § lop. 3 per Cents. India stock 278 Ditto Bonds 5l 47 pm. South Sea Stock DAY AT ONE 0-CLOCK. Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills 10001. 2d. Ditto 1 d. ... 56 41 33 Ditto 5001. 2(.1. Ditto I !A. Ditto Small 2d. Ditto V,d. 3.5 42 Ditto Commerci'al Bank for Act. India for Acct. Cons. tbr Acct.... 9O 89t 90i PRICES OF rottrios FUNDS, AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian lids, 5 per ct. —1 firazilimi lids -- Scrip 11125 Oi 1 pm. Buenos Ayres lids Ciiilian, lids, 6 per ct. Colombian lids, 6 per ct. 86 Do. do. 1824 Danish, 5 per cent. ... 101 i 2 Do. Scrip dis. Greek lids SOA 1 Do. Scrip, 1825 ... 6 7 aig. Mexican lids Do. Scrip 1825 Neapolitan, 5 per cent. Neapolitan Scrip Peruvian Bonds ....... 78i Do. Scrip... a pm. 21 Portuguese Bonus Prus , ian, 5 per et. Ditto New Russian, New, 5 per ct. Spanish 1111, 5 per 231tg 11;23 French Itentes Exchange - Scrip PRICES OF SIiARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Per ghare. SO 61i 13 15 144 30 10i 64 5i 6' . 6 , 1t 31 A nglo-Mexican Mining Company Anglo-Chilian Mining Company General Mining Association Pasco Peruvian Mining Company. Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Mining Association New United Mexican Mining Company Welch Iron and Coal Mining Company Continental Gas Company British Iron Company British Rock and Patent Salt Company Brazilian Agricultural and Jewel Company Canada Company General Steam Navigation Company Honduras Company London Brick Company Provincial Bank of Ireland West India Company 2t TOMEIGN ARRIVED. Guernsey and Jersey France Dug. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-1110111WW. liorning, 11 minutes after 4: 1 Evening, 31 minute% after 4. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DIG.ERE FA LSUM AUDE_Ir LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY2O, 1825. French Papers to the 17th May, haiie arrived. Extracts from them will be found in another part of our Paper. In a discussion in the Chamber of Deputies on the Budget, M. B. CPriSTANT made an appeal to the Chamber on the subject of the Slave Trade, and stated that it was well known that ships were then fitting out in the ports of France for carrying on this • trade. The Minister of the Marine replied, • that every exertion was made by the Executive Go vernment to execute the law on this point.--- A. M. Duoom remarked, that , the English, who had pretended to abolish the Slave Trade from humanity, do not restore the negroes to - liberty who may be seized on board vessels engaged in. the Slave Trade—they take them to themselves, and send them to the- English Colonies, where they are subjected to a rigorous system of sla very for 25 or 30 years. It is impossible to con ceive a greater falsehood than this—a more gra tuitous piece of slander never fell from the mouth of man, and shews M. DUDON to be either grossly ignorant: or a very bad man. The falseness of the charge is too apparent to need any further comment. German Papers to the 13th of May have also arrived. They contain some further accoAntti'of the affairs of Greece, but which seem only con firmatory of our previous information. We give the following extracts : The Gonfalionere of this city has published a notice, relative to the fair usually held here, tinder the name of St. Magdalen. This fair will begin on the 20th of July next, and will continue twenty days, ineltuliug the time of packing up, without any prorogation. The Government, always desirous of promoting commerce, besides the preservation of the ancient privileges rind the special protection which it used to afford to foreigners this year, likewise removed some impediments, from which it is to be hoped that there will be a greater concourse of merchants, and more extensive business transacted.—( Gaze: la Piemontese, May 10.) FRANKFORT, MAT 12: The Augsburg Gazette of the 10th contains an article from Trieste, of Ist Nay, which has news from Corfu of Bth April, stating, that the Egyptian expedition in the Morea may be considered as ruined ; that 9000 men still held an entrenched position, but the Greeks expected soon to force them to render. But it must be remembered, that at the end of last year news from the same quarter announced, that -Ibrahim Pacha would be very fortunate if he could get back to Alexan. dria. In its number, of . 18th December, the Augsbtirg' Gazette (Aligemeinc Zeitung), quotes a letter frog the Greek