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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It would have been much to the credit of a reformed House of Commons had one of its first acts been the removal of all just' grounds of complaint against any of the machinery of its own proceedings. By this we need hardly say that we mainly allude to the enormous charges which meet whoever may happen to be suitors before it either for measures or for in quiry. Nor will it redound much to the credit of the house in the eyes of its constituents, if, while it is cutting down and diminishing other charges and salaries, those of its own officers are allowed to assume a sort of hallowed and in tactible complexion. As proof that such is still the case, we .published a few days since the charges on one Enclosure Bill, and which we here repeat, viz. : The Private Bill Office fees The House fees.. The Committee fees The Engrossing fees Housekeepers' and Messengers' fees 710 0 Making in all £274 19 0 exclusive of all the charges of counsel, soli citors, agents, King's printer, &c. And of such bills, varying more or less in length, both as to time and bulk, there is an average of up wards of 200 in every session. It may be said, and we hope truly, that as the very parti culars in question are taken from a Parliamen tary return, the house is in the very act of furnishing itself with the information necessary to enable it to remedy the abuse. We would suggest that it would be as well were there a joint Parliamentary inquiry upon the subject; that both houses would lay open not only the whole arcana of the fee trade permitted in each, but the whole of the several heads of ob noxious and enormous charges which the King's subjects are liable to, who resort to the one house as appellants or to either as peti tioners, either for private bills or for inquiry into any grounds of complaint calling for length ened investigation. What is there, for instance, in the atmosphere of a committee-room of the House of Commons, which entitles counsel to be paid fees double, nay, quadruple, the amount of those paid in the Courts of Westminster Hall ; and why should the charges on appeals in the House of Lords be of such an amount as to tempt professional cupidity when no other ground for the proceeding in some cases can be found to exist ? We repeat that these are ob jects of reform which both houses, but the re formed House of Commons especially, would do well not any longer to pause about. As jus tice is cheapened elsewhere, it seems preposte rous that Parliamentary justice should remain in its former state of high pressure. We know of few circumstances which would tend to pro duce more general confidence in the legislature, than that the country should perceive that it is determined not to permit within its walls abuses which it is its duty to remedy everywhere. The reform, like the charity which begins at home, is generally the most rare, but the most effec tual.—Morning Herald. Mr. Robert Grant will be the new Governor of Bombay ; and we may congratulate the country on another popular addition to the Mi nistry, in the intended appointment of Mr. Robert Cutlar Fergusson to the office of Judge Marshal and Advocate General, in the place of Mr. Grant.. This appointment, we believe, will vacate the seat of Mr. Fergusson for the stewardtry of Kirkcudbright ; and, on Mr. Grant's departure there will, of couse, be a new election for the metropolitan borough of Fins bury. If Lord Grey continues thus to recruit his strength from the ranks of the commoners and reformers, he will re-assure the public con fidence in the disposition of his re-formed admi nistration. Indeed he has no other choice ;he must now stand or fall by the advocacy of li beral opinions and popular measures. The coalition with Mr. Stanley, the Duke of Rich mond, Lord Ripon, and the backsliding radical Sir J. Graham, being dissolved, Lord Grey has no alternative. The seceders, it is clear, will throw their weight on the church questions into the scale of the Tory opposition, if they do not openly join it. Ministers, therefore, can now only rest on public opinion, and the justifica tion of their professions, by a decided course of policy. The Tories, falsely calculating on the cry of " Church in danger"—incensed by the progressive gain of the popular party—and flushed with their exclusive exhibitions at Ox ford—will commence active operations in Par liament, as was demonstrated in the House of Commons last night. But Lord Grey may defy the power and stratagems of the conserva tives, if he will trust in the strength of the re formers. We hope that the vacant offices of the Postmaster-General and the Lordship of the Treasury will be soon filled up by the no mination of public men in whom the country can place confidence. The Cabinet and Ad ministration yet stand in need of additional force.—Morning Chronicle. Due honour was done in the House of Com mons on Mr. Wallace's motion on Thursday to the conduct of the Duke of Richmond. His Grace has left the Post-office department from motives honourable to his character, without probably having accomplished all the reforms he could have wished, but with the reputation of being the only Postmaster-General who for :the last 20 or 30 years has accomplished any important reforms at all. Since the grand change of system effected on the plans of Mr. Palmer, this department of the public service has remained more stationary than any other. Indeed, its discriminating characteristic has been a decided resistance to nearly all sug gested ameliorations. It was only by loud and continued complaints from without that the attention of the general Government could be exacted to the abuses of which the public complained, and then an appeal to the subal tern direction of the establishment for the truth of charges affecting itself brought, as was na tural, only satisfactory evidence that these charges were groundless I Though we had no less than two joint noble Postmasters-General for England, a Postmaster-General for Scotland, and another for Ireland, the duties of inquiry and of improvement were rather retarded than pro moted by these high functionaries. They took their large salaries, exercised their immense patronage, and franked to any extent the corre spondence of their friends,without ever thinking of the public interests which they were appoint ed to superintend, and without knowing any more of the machinery of their department, than a general officer at home knows of the move ment of the regiment of which he is colonel,wh en on foreign service. The real director of the machinery, the real commanding officer of the post-office troops, was the active secretary, who held all the moving springs of the establishment in his own hands, and who by his superior knowledge of detail could evade or resist at pleasure the most determined purposes of reform or change in his superiors. We ourselves have had many struggles with this department re specting the postage demanded for foreign jour nals—the monopoly of these journals in the hands of the Post-office clerks—the undue in fluence exercised by the English Post-office over that of our neighbours in France, in interrupting our supply of Paris papers, commissioned and transmitted by our own agents—the necessity of being satisfied with the Post-office translation of documents of which we ought to have received the originals ; the time of delivery of our papers .'orrespondence—and other circumstances to us of great importance. In these struggles we had sometimes powerful assistance both from the Governments of England and France ; but for a time the Secretary's influence and dexterity defeated us all. Such a conflict is now happily at an end. We have ultimately succeeded in compelling attention to necessary reforms, and we merely record the allusion to our former po litical allies and defeats, in order to show the strength of that resistance to change which the subaltern direction of the office could, at all times, call into exercise, and which the late Postmaster-General had to overcome. Though we are grateful to the Duke of Richmond for his late improvement, and are disposed to be stow every praise on his zealous exertions as a Post-office reformer, we are still convinced that more might have been done, if so intelligent a Secretary as Sir F. Freeling had been zealous to forward the views of his Chief. With regard to the promotion of intercourse be tween France and England, not one-half of the French propositions, which always appeared to us just and reasonable, have yet been agreed to. The propositions discussed between the chiefs of the Post-office of London and of Paris last year related to five points,—lst, a daily post ; 2d, the free transmission of journals on equal terms ; 3d, the optional franking of letters ; 4th, the transmission of pamphlets, literary manuscripts, proof-sheets of books, &c. ; and, sth, a security for money transmitted in post letters on a declaration made, and an insurance given, by the parties sending them. Of all these propositions, the first is the only one yet unconditionally adopted. On the other four points negotiations are still going on, and to the three last the subaltern direction of the English Post-office is said to be averse as ever. The French, we have heard, are resolved to agree to all the four or to none. It seems, therefore, that as regards our intercourse with the Continent, our intercourse with America, our intercourse with our own colonies, reform has not been carried to any satisfactory extent. It will like wise appear, upon examination—a circumstance for which the Post-office is not solely answer able—that our postage both for home and fo reign correspondence is too high, and that the revenue would improve, as much as public con venience would be promoted, by a considerable reduction. Nor are we insensible to the extent of the saving of expenditure promised on the plan of Mr. Wallace, or prepared to doubt the correctness of his estimates. The idea of having a great State officer at the head of this depart ment, if his salary could be saved by a com mission, is quite preposterous, though the ex ample of the last noble Postmaster-General makes us almost forget the anomaly. In France only one director and a sub-director, with mo dest salaries, which we should almost be ashamed to name, manage the whole business of the Post-office department for 32,000,000 of inhabitants.—Times. A SCOTTISH JUDGE. The late Lord Hermand was of an excellent constitution, and, when upwards of seventy years of age, had the appearance of a hale, hearty old man. Few could compete with him at the bottle, and many younger, and in their prime, were obliged to own that the old lord was too much for them. The members of the bar who were most intimate with his lordship, and companions of his convivial mo ments, finding it was in vain to contend with him single-handed, formed a plan whereby they con ceived he must be overcome by numbers, and do away with the reproach that attached to them of being beaten by a man twice their age. One even ing, as the venerable judge was sitting over his bottle of sherry after dinner, and nobody but his lady with him, in drops one of the party, then a celebrated advocate, and now holding a distin guished office under his Majesty's government,— " Come awa, Francie," says the judge, and orders in another bottle, and the two fell briskly on the wine. In half an hour in drops another, " Harry, I'm glad to see you," was the salutation, and a fresh supply ordered in ; and at intervals the different parties appeared and took their places at the convivial board, and plied their host with the juice of the Tuscan grape, who, nothing loth, took " measure for measure." The whole party soon attained that state of elevation which, among refined minds, produces the " feast of reason and the flow of soul." The scintillations of wit and genius sparkled with unusual brilliancy, and many a time the table was set in a roar with the broad humoui of their host. At length the potency of the deep draughts began to be manifest upon seve ral of the guests, and one by one they fell into a state of quiescence ; at last his Lordship had the satisfaction of seeing the last, feeling himself un comfortable in his chair, choose to prefer measuring his length on the carpet. Then rising from his seat " like a prophet in drink," and maintaining perfectly his equilibrium, the venerable judge, lock ing the door of the chamber, betook himself to re pose, leaving his guests lying heads and thraws. Next morning, at nine o'clock, Lord Hermand drove up to the Court of Session, as was his wont, and took his seat on the bench at the right hand of the Lord President. Several important cases were to come on that day, but on being called, none of the senior counsel were present. The President, not a little surprised at this, wondered how the learned gentlemen absent could trifle with the time of the court in that manner. His brother judge whispered in his ear, " My Lord, if you send the Macer with this key he will find the learned gen tlemen in my dining-room. I am sure I left them there this morning."—Seotch Paper. We believe we may confidently assert, that, in case Mr. More O'Ferrall had been prevailed upon to accept office under the present government, Mr. Barrett would receive the reward of his repeal mar tyrdom, by being elected to the vacancy that would be created in the presentation of Kildare.—Dublin Register. Mr. STANLEY'S REASONS FOR THE PRE SERVATION OF THE CHURCH PROPERTY.-The follow ing paragraph is copied from the Liverpool Albion, but we know nothing of the authority upon which the statement rests:—" It is known that two of the richest livings in the English Church, Bury and Win wick, are in the gift of the Earl of Derby, grand father of the right hon. gentleman, and are held by members of the Derby family. The Rev. Mr. Hornby, brother-in-law of Lord Stanley, is understood to have had the promise, through the Cabinet influence of his nephew, of the next Irish bishopric which may be come vacant. The reverend gentlemen being trans lated, not to heaven, but to Ireland, the Rev. Mr. Hopwood, who is on the point of being married to the Hon. Miss Stanley, was, it is added, to succeed his uncle, by marriage, in the fat living of Winwick. If thi* on dit be true, Mr. Stanley has, or rather had, the most substantial reasons for resisting the proposed appropriation of the revenues of the Irish Church ; and his conduct, instead of deserving the praise of being actuated by religious, may more properly be supposed to have been actuated by selfish motives." HAMBURG PAPERS. ------- FRONTIERS OF POLAND, MAY 23.—Notwithstanding the number of persons who have lately received their pardons, it is said that there are still above 300 per sons in confinement accused of having taken part in the late revolutionary enterprises in different parts of the kingdom of Poland. Most of them are in the State Prison at Warsaw, but the decision of their fate will probably depend on the clemency of the Emperor, as almost all of them are deeply implicated. It is not to be denied that much sympathy with those persons is felt by the Polish population, who ascribe to motives of patriotism their criminal designs, how absurd soever they might be when the means are compared with the object aimed at. But if we consider the matter im partially we cannot but condemn the authors of the project, because they induced a number of wholly in experienced young men to join in it by holding out prospects of foreign assistance as already prepared to support them, and these young men have now to pay dearly for their credulity. It is believed, however, that the evil will be completely eradicated, as the go vernment has everywhere adopted such measures as are best calculated to suppress every idea of revolu tion, should such be anywhere formed, before it can be carried into effect. PESTH, MAY 29.—The Diet of Transylvania is now certainly opened, and the proceedings are looked for with much curiosity, especially in Hungary, where levery speech will be echoed. Public opinion in Tran sylvania is not favourable to the local Government ; but, on the contrary, highly favourable to the supreme authority. Though more than three-fourths of the electors are on the side of the opposition it is not to be inferred that misunderstanding will arise with the highest authority, and that the hope of a happy result is to be given up. The elections only indicate o ur opposition to the supposed illegal proceedings of the local authority, and it remains to be seen what will b e the opinion of the Government on this point. BERLIN, JUNE 4.—M. Von Scachtmeyer, formerly Captain of Cavalry, who has been confined here for above a year as a prisoner of State for political trigues and culpable correspondence, has lately been set at liberty. Accompanied by an officer of this garrison, he is gone to Stargard, in Pomerania, which place is assigned him for his place of abode. He is not to leave that place without the permission of the General in command, and is never again to enter the capital of the kingdom. By the clemency of the King he is to continue to receive his pension. HAMBURG, JUNE 10.—BORSEN HALLE.—In Aus trian and Prussian securities little is doing. The new Austrian Lottery Loan has fallen to 114. Spanish Bonds are in favour. Portuguese are offered. Discount, :y4 per cent. End of June. Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent 71% Anglo-Russian lO2 Rii;'sian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1820 95% Ditto, ditto, 1831 9s}i Ditto, ditto, 1832. Certificates 97 Polish Bonds 130% Prussian Bonds, 183 0 Austrian Bank Shares 1292 Ditto Metalliques 99% Ditto 4 per Cent. (1834) ll4 Spanish 3 per Cent!. Spanish Cortes (A. F. Haldimand and 'ons) 4114 Ditto 4 per Cent 55 Dutch *, per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents 95 Portuguese Regency 7514 —Hamburg Reporter. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, JUNE 10.-13 lo ; two months, 13 8%. ST. PETEESBURGH, MAY 30.—Three months, 10%. STOCKHOLM. JUNE a—Two months, 1130. BREMEN, JUNE 6.—Two months, 608. BERLIN, JUNE 7.—Three months, 6 24%. STOCKHOLM, JUNE 3.—His Majesty and the Crown Prince went on the 31st ult to Ypsala, and our jour nal is full of accounts of the festivities which took place in consequence of their visit. The Crown Prince returned yesterday. BERLIN, JUNE 7.—ln the two nights of 7th April and 17th May, fifty-one houses and thirty out-build ings were burnt down in the little town of Preme, on the great Berlin road, between Mescritz and Posen. On the 12th May the whole of the village of Schat tendorf, near Oedenberg, in Hungary, belonging to Prince Esterhazy, was burnt to the ground; and on the following day eighty-four dwelling-houses and fifty nine stables were destroyed by fire on the frontier vil lage of Neudorff, belonging to Count Palfy. COURT OF CHANCERY, JUNE 13. IN RE BRYANT. His LORDSHIP said that this was an appeal mo tion to discharge the present applicant out of the custody of the Marshal of the King's Bench. The defendant to a suit, the present applicant, had been taken upon attachment for the nonpayment of costs, and he having compromised the matter, the plain tiff was willing that he should be discharged, but the plaintiff's solicitor objected to the discharge, on the ground that he had a lien on the body of the defendant for the payment of his costs. In courts of law some little difference as to the practice ex isted, but no court had ever lrld that an attorney had a lien for costs on the person of a defendant after a judgment recovered. It was clear that, unless there had been fraud or collusion between the parties to defraud the attorney, the present ap plicant was entitled to be discharged out of custody. He should, consequently, make the order for the discharge ; but upon a condition which he would now state. He should require the present appli cant to file an affidavit to show that there had been some consideration given for the compromise, and that such compromise had not been effected for the purpose of defrauding the attorney of his costs. Upon the filing of such an affidavit he would dis miss the present appeal, and direct the order for the present applicant's discharge to be drawn up. BUTTEMONT V. TAYLOR. _. _._ . _...... , His LORDSHIP dismissed the motion in this case without costs. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 13. (Sittings after Trinity Term before Lord DENMAN.) " THE OLD COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. " MURRAY V. PURDY. This was an action brought in the name of Mr. Murray, of the Edinburgh Theatre, against the defendant, a composer of music, for invasion of copyright, in pirating and publishing a song called " The Old English Gentleman," alleged to be written by the plaintiff, composed by Dewar, and sung by Murray and Stanley. It was also sung and published by Phillips in London after the pub lication by the defendant. The plaintiff's song was published in 1830, and this action, though nominally brought by Murray, was the action of Robertson the publisher. The fact was made out by the fol lowing letter from Mr. Murray to the defendant : " To my great surprise I have learned that an action has been brought in my name against you for pirating a song called ' The Old Country Gentleman,' and I beg to say the question is wholly unauthorised by me." The history of the question appeared from the evidence to be this :—A humorous old song, called " The Old Courtier," written two hundred years ago, and set to music at least one hundred years since by a composer whose name has been lost, con tains the sense and substance of the words in Mr. Murray's song. The defendant was furnished with the air by Mr. Crewe, a bookseller, and having taken some of the words in Murray's song, the question was whether Murray, as a plagiary, had acquired that sort of copyright which entitled him to support an action for piracy. The ATTORNEY -GENERAL opened the case for the plaintiff. Sir JAMES SCARLETT for the defendant, de scribed the song to be an old composition to which Mr. Murray or Mr. Robertson could have no ex clusive claim. The jury without hesitation found a verdict for :he defendant. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE 13. LILLYNVIIITE V. BOULTER, This was an action brought by the plaintiff to re cover a sum of 291., the amount of a bill given to the defendant to get discounted. The plaintiff gave the bill in question, the ac ceptance of Mr. Dicas, the attorney, to the de fendant, to get discounted, which he never did or returned it, but alleged that it had been stolen from him when a robbery was committed in the bar of his public-house. For the defendant it was contended that he placed the bill in question in a box where he kept 300 sovereigns, and by some means or other it was abstracted from it.-- 7 Verdict,for the plaintiff-291. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JUNE 13. David Apted, late of Crown-row, Walworth, grocer, and one of the collectors for the land and assessed taxes of the pari s h o f St. Mary, Newing ton, was opposed by Mr. COOKE on the part of W. Miller and Warwick Weston, Esqrs., commissioners of the land and assessed taxes for the east division of Brixton. He was supported by Mr. WOOD ROFFE. The insolvent was questioned as to his debts, and discharged as to all except that due to the opposing creditor. The court adjourned till Monday. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE A man named Wiliam Clark, a parishioner of Bishopsgate, charged Mr. Booker, one of the parish officers, with having stopped his half-pay as an artilleryman in the service of the East India Company. Mr. Clark was allowed Is. a-day for past services, and, determined to do good, he had, about a year and a half ago, departed from the vices of the town, and betaken himself to the country, where he was prevent'd from continuing the work of benevolence he had undertaken by the sudden stop of his means of living. Mr. Booker said that Mr. Clark's half-pay had been stopped because that gentleman had thought proper, upon the pretence of a call from above, to desert his family, the consequence of which was that his wife, although she inhabited a large house in the parish, was not only unable to pay the rates and taxes, but the parish would be obliged actually to relieve her necessities. The LORD MAYOR—Why did you leave your wife to starvation, Mr. Clark? Mr. Clark—l can't say, my lord, as I deserted her or any body else what you call deserted, but I left town to preach the gospel to sinners. The LORD MAYOR—Are you not aware that you commit a very great sin in abandoning your wife ? Mr. Clark—Show me the body, man, woman, or child, as arn't a sinner, and I'll go back. Don't you tell me of sin ; we are all on us sinners. The LORD MAYOR—But you are an extra sinner, Mr. Clark, and must be punished if you per severe in the crime of leaving your wife without the means of existence. Mr. Clark—The Lord will assist her ; I'm sure I always remember her in my prayers. The LORD MAYOR—But you must help her with your halfpay. How could you think of running away from her for a year and a half without settling half the money upon her ? Mr. Clark—l divided with her as long as I could ; but I found I was obliged to preach to mankind, to show them the way they was to go to glory ; so away I goes. But I was deceived by a person as goed along wi' me. The LORD MAYOR—What was that person ? Mr. Clark—He was in my line. I preached and he preached, but he received the money and he gived me nothing whatsomever. The LORD MAYOR—Then you consulted your own good in a worldly sense in taking up this new calling? Mr. Clark—l never got nothing. Don't say I looked for the goods of this world ; but any man as preaches wants a summit of wittles arter it, and so I was obliged for to stop a little with my wife's allowance. I used to fetch her every farden I yarned some time ago, so she oughtn't for to say anything. Mrs. Clark declared that though her husband had chosen to give religious instruction he was by no means particular in telling the truth, and she did not think that his congregation, after hearing him cracking his throat for an hour, would be so hard hearted as to leave him as he left her. Mr. Clark—You are all wrong. I wants to save sinners, and I'll do it without axing for the va lue of a halfpenny. Mr. Booker—He had better, my Lord, take his wife along with him, as he is not willing to make her an allowance. Mrs. Clark objected to such an arrangement, as she knew he could insist upon living upon her earnings, so that she would run the risk of what she called a " double mess of starvation," hard work and no wittles. The LORD MAYOR—But you have not told us, Mr. Clark, where you have been all this time. Mr. Clark—Where have I been ! Pooh, that's all past and gone into eternity, my Lord. You see, my Lord, we can't call back the time as goes, though we can call back that as is coming. Mr. Booker—He boasted to his congregation wherever he went that he left his wife and home for their sakes, and if we do not stop his pay she must become a burden to the parish. It is a trick now amongst idle fellows to go about talking non sense, which they pass off for religious inspiration by introducing scriptural phrases. The Loan MAYOR—He must give half of his half-pay to his wife, and he may as well consent as be compelled. Mr. Clark—l must, must I? The LORD MAYOR —No doubt of it ; and you had better give it with a good grace. Mr. Clark—What ! the half on it ? Well, let her have it in the name of the Lord, and the Lord prosper her with it, for he tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. MA RYLEBONE. Yesterday a dissipated ferocious-looking fellow, the driver of a cab, named Joseph &redly, was charged with the following gross outrage :—Lord George Paulet was riding on horseback on the pre vious afternoon down Holles-street, and was in the act of turning into Cavendish-square, when the prisoner drove sharp round the corner in a contrary direction, and would have come in violent contact with his lordship had he not rode on the pavement to avoid the danger. In order to arouse the fel low, who was lying in his cab in a beastly state of intoxication, with the reins thrown loosely over the horse's back, his lordship struck him with his riding cane, which was no sooner done than the prisoner commenced a furious attack on his lordship with his horsewhip, which was eventually broken in pieces, and the prisoner handed over to a police man. Lord Paulet added, that had he been driving in either a gig or a cab, from the furious manner in which the prisoner was driving, it would have been utterly impossible to avoid serious mis chief. The Marquis of Winchester, residing at No. 27, Cavendish-square, happened to be looking out of his drawing-room window at the time the outrage was committed, and saw the prisoner belabouring his son (Lord Paulet) with a horsewhip. The Marquis sent his servants to the noble complainant's a ssistance, but Lord Paulet had conquered the ruffian before their interference, and caused him to be apprehended. Lord Harewood and several of the nobility likewise witnessed the assault, and were ready to come forward and give evidence if necessary. Winchester's police c e o v n i s d t e ab nc l e evconstaidence, an o n rrob d ad o d r e a d t d t h t a he t the Marquis of prisoner violently assaulted him when he attempted to take him into custody. Witness conducted the horse and cab to the greenyard. Th e prisoner, in defence, said that a gentleman who had kept him driving about all day had treated him with some drink, which had a very sudden effect on him. The complainant struck him with such force across the neck th a t it near l y strangled him, and after receiving the fir s t bl ow h e considered he was justified in doing what he did. Mr. HOSKINS fined the prisoner 40s. or in default to be committed to the House of Correction. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday George Langrish, the proprietor and driver of a cabriolet, was char ge d w i t h d r i v i ng over Mrs. Alice Cunley, an eld er l y woman, on the 15th April last, by which she received injuries of so se rious a nature that her life was for several weeks despaired of. The complainant, a very infirm woman, upwards of eighty years of age, and quite deaf, was led into the office by her niece, but she was unable to give evidence. Mr. BRODERIF adjudged the defendant to pay 5/. as compensation to the woman, and 7s. costs, or to be committed for two months. The money was instantly paid. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF LORDS, June 13. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY sat as Speaker. The Staines Bridge Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Perth Harbour Bill was read a second time. An account was presented from the Admiralty of the payments to Greenwich from the wages of mer chant seamen. Lord KEN YON presented several petitions against the admission of Dissenters to the Universities, and for protection generally to the Church, from Den bigh and other . places. The Earl of HAREWOOD presented a similar petition from the parish of Walton, in Yorkshire. Lord ROLLE presented a petition from Exeter, signed by 4,000 persons, praying for protection to the established church, and nine others to the same effect, from parishes in the county of Devon. The LORD CHANCELLOR had great pleasure in presenting a petition from the most respectable in habitants of Liverpool in favour of the bill for prevent ing the use of climbing boys in cleaning chimneys—it was most numerously signed. Ho also presented one to the same effect from Frome, in Somersetshire. Lord SUFFIELD presented petitions for the better observance of the Sabbath, from several Wes leyan Methodist congregations in London and the country; also, one from Hull, praying for the abolition of turnpikes. JEWISH DISABILITIES' REMOVAL BILL. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER, understanding that it would be more convenient to many of their lordships, postponed the' second reading of this bill till Tuesday week. The Bishop of LONDON presented petitions against the claims of the Dissenters and for protection to the church from St. Giles's, and a number of places in the counties of Norfolk and Herts. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from Gloucester against the use of boys in cleaning chimneys. Similar petitions were presented by the LORD CHANCELLOR, from Nottingham, and the Duke of SUTHERLAND, from Evesham. On the motion of the Earl of SHA FTE SBUR Y, the house went into committee on the Roman Catholic Marriages (Scotland) Bill, which was reported, with a verbal amendment. CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS' REGULATION BILL. The Duke of SUTHERLAND moved the second reading of this bill. The Earl of H ADDINGTON would not offer any opposition to the bill, but begged to remind the house that a noble friend of his, now at Oxford, had pre sented a petition: from the master chimney-sweepers, praying to be heard by counsel against the bill. He therefore thought the second reading of the bill should be delayed fora few days. The Marquis of WE ST MINS TE R considered any delay in the progress of the bill totally unnecessary, the principles of the bill having been already discussed. Lord KENYON wished to know whether the noble duke, who had moved the second reading of the bill, would consent to the proposition of his noble friend (Earl of Haddington)? He thought the bill ought to be referred to a select committee. ..., ._ „........._ __ _ The Duke of SUTHERLAND thought the delay unnecessary, but if it were the wish of the house, he would accede to the proposition. After some further observations from Lord Kenyon, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Haddington, the Duke of Hamilton, Viscount Melville, Lord Suffield, and Earl Grey, who stated that he was anxious the bill should be referred to a select committee, the bill was read a second time. The Bishop of WINCHESTER presented peti tions against the Beer Bill, from parishes in South ampton and Winchester. MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. Mr. Tooke and other Members of the House of Commons brought up the Justice of Peace ( Ireland) Bill, the Monmouth Market Bill, and several other private bills. The bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and the house adjourned at ten minutes before six till to morrow morning. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 13. The SPEAKIER took the chair at twenty-five minutes past five o'clock. Mr. HUTT moved for a return of the gross re ceipts of the Custom-house of Hull, for the year end ing the sth of January, 1834, distinguishing the amount and nature of the drawbacks.—Ordered. Mr. GILL ON moved for a copy of the resolutions entered into by the justices of the peace and commis sioners of supply for the county of Linlithgow, rela tive to the granting of licenses. Mr. ROBARTS presented a petition from Maid stone against certain clauses in the Poor Laws' Amend ment Bill. Mr. PINNE Y presented a petition from a place in Somersetshire against drunkenness. Mr. R. SHA WE presented a petition from Deben ham, praying for an alteration in the Church Rates Bill. Mr. TOWER moved for a return of all grants of any portion of forest or waste lands made for the use and benefit of any parish to the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury under the Ist and 2d William IV. —Ordered. Mr. ROBINSON presented a petition from the Parish of All Saints, City of Worcester, in support of the Established Church, and complaining of the extent of demands made by the Dissenters. Mr. COBBETT gave notice that, before going into Committee on the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill on Monday next, he should move a resolution to the effect that, before any relief be granted in any parish, an assessment be made equal to one-fourth the annual amount of the revenues of the abbey lands and im propriate tithes of such parish. Lord ALTHO RP wished to suggest some arrange ments respecting the business of the house. The morning sittings of Tuesdays and Thursdays had been appropriated to the committee on the Poor Laws Bill, but he regretted to say little progress had been made at those during the present week. He would not make a motion, but he asked the house to add Wednesdays to the order days, and to allow Government ordcr3 to take precedence on Wednesday mornings. Sir R. PE EL said that he had no objection to such an arrangement as far as he was concerned ; but he would take that opportunity of impressing upon his Majesty's ministers the necessity of fixing days on which those important questions, the University Bill, and the Irish Tithe Commuta tion Bill should be discussed. The anxiety of the public respecting these measures could not be exaggerated. The University Bill stood for a second reading. on Monday next, and he should wish to onthat day ? oask the noble a lord if he intended to bring it forward Lord AL THORP certainly understood that it was with the active concurrence of the house that the course now pursued should be adopted. He under stood it was considered that the best mode of con ducting the business during the present session would be to take one measure at a time. It was with this view he had persevered in inducing the house to take into i I consideration the Poor Laws Bill as often as he could. It would certainly be the most convenient mode that the committee should be allowed to finish the Poor Laws Bill before the house entered into any other measure. There necessarily . would be an interval between the breaking up of the committee and the re-consideration of the measure by the house, and he had intended to take that interval in which to bring forward the Irish Tithe Commutation Bill. ( Hear, hear.) At present, it was impossible for him to pledge himself to any specific day on which he might be able to bring forward the measure. Sir R. PEEL said that if the noble lord's intima tion amounted to this, that it would not be expedient that one measure should be laid on the table until another was disposed of, and that (as in the present instance) applied to measures of a very multifareous nature, it would be impossible to form an idea when the Irish Tithe Commutation Bill might be brought forward. For his own part, he saw no reason why the discussion should not be introduced upon the prin ciples of this most important bill. Lord ALTHO R P said a few words, which were not heard. Sir R. PEEL said that lie believed the proposal in the committee would be, whether certain clauses in the measure brought forward by the g overn m en t for effecting certain alterations in the church of Ireland should be omitted or not. Sir E. KNACTHBULL said that if the noble lord's intention, or if the understanding of the house was, that one single measure such as the Poor Lawt; Bill, should be finished before any other was entered upon, he was afraid that those measures alone VoMoir were in the hands of his Majesty's government-would receive any attention. However that might be, he really thought the house ought to know what was to be'dcme • next week. If Government business was to have .M 011". day, Wednesday, and Friday, there would only b e vivo days remaining for other business ; and he should be glad then to be informed what the course intended.to be pursued during the next week was. What vias4o become of the whole of the business that stood - for Wednesday for instance ? He himself had something for that day. Was it to be postponed till the following Tuesday, or was he to have no opportunity whatever - for bringing forward his discussion ? Lord AL THORP was understood to say that those orders of the day which stood for Wednesday next, would be taken at the morning sitting on Thursday. Mr. G OUL BURN objected to have such important measures discussed in the morning. Private busi ness occupied the house every morning till one o'clock, and there could not be a more inconvenient mode of conducting the public business than taking up the time of the house in discussing them for two days a week, and for two hours each day. Such a mode would render the debates interminable. Sir J. SCARL ETT said that if it was the wish of the house to banish all men of business, they would do the public business in the morning. (Hear, hear.) It would be utterly impossible for him to at tend at the morning sittings, and he did not think the alteration would be any improvement. ( Hear.) After a few words from Lord AL THORP, which were wholly unintelligible, Mr. O'CONNELL said that the house was already sufficiently infested with lawyers (Loud cries of " Hear") to make it undesirable that any proceeding should take place which should not be for the accommodation of the public but the lawyers. It was very extraordinary that any gentleman in that house should think the attendance of lawyers, however respectable, of more importance than the interests of the people. He was of opinion that the house ought to sit by day, and never would the public business be well done till it was con fi ne d w h o lly to day-time. There was great incon ven i ence i n n ight business, and a great quantity of public business of great importance was hurried through that house without sufficient consider ation, in consequence of the discussions taking place in the night time ( Hear, hear) ; for both clients and the house could not have the attendance of the members who were lawyers. He was for preferring the public, and leaving the clients to them selves. Let gentlemen consider that there were in that house members from the remotest parts of Ireland and Scotland, and who were there at a distance from 100 to 1,000 miles from their own residences, and there fore he did not think it was paying sufficient defe rence to those who came from distant parts to say they were to sit up debating all night for the convenience of those who lived near. He and all the other Irish members who were lawyers, were obliged to come here, there being no other place at present to which they could be sent. ( Hear, hear, and laughter.) He hoped that before they were a year older, a resolution would be passed to the effect that they should do no business at all by night. All other public bodies did their business by day, and there was no public assembly in the world that did business over midnight, except the British House of Commons, and sometimes a short snatch of the Lords. ( Hear, hear, and laughter.) Sir J. SC A RL ETT never meant to view the ques tion as one personally to himself, and if the house were to agree to sit during th e d a y, th e h o use would not be merely filled with lawyers, but exclusively Irish law yers. (Laughter.) Mr. ROBINSON said that no member knew.ofrto. ll me one day to the other what would be brought on ~_ house, or what would not. ( Cries of " Hear, hear. ) It would be only a matter of courtesy that the utmost o r indulgence should be given to every hon. ,F m a rfl o b ve e r consistent with duty. If any one were to ? ° the notice-book, he would fi n d 20 orders of t he day, f and 20 notices of motions f o r every night' w hich was a disgrace to any d e lib era ti v e assembly. ( Hear, hear, hear.) He w ou ld no t mention any on e in particular, but as far as government wer e concerned , they should bring for war d th e ir measures at a n e arlier to period of the session, b ecaus e every member liked have an opportunity o f deliberating upon them. It was only last night that the Attorney-General brought in new bills ; he did not object to them, but be and did object to the time at which they were brought in, , he felt satisfied that not a tenth of the business cola°. be got through during the present session. He thought it uncourteous to hon. members—although he did not mean to apply that term to the noble lord himself, for he thought, if any thing, the noble lord was rather too courteous ( Hear, hear, hear), but it was uncourteous on the part of government towards hon. members—to bring forward questions at such a late period of the session. Lord 110 RPE TH complained that the noble lord was charged by one party with bringing forward too much business, and by another party with not doing enough. ( Hear, hear.) He thought both charge* were equally unfounded, because every measure must go through certain stages before it could be passed into a law. He was satisfied they never would be able to get through the business of the house, unless some hon. members would observe a little more abstinence , (Loud cries of " Hear, hear,") in the number o f ad dresses they felt it their duty to make to that house. (Cheers.) Lord AL THORP said a few words in explanation. He believed the Poor Laws Bill could not have been. brought in sooner, and that little time had been lost since the bill had been brought in. After a few words from Mr. G. W. WOOD and Sir E. KNATCHBULL against the proposition, Colonel I)AVIE S rose to bring forward the resolu tions of which he had given notice, that during the rest of the session the house will on Tuesdays and Thursdays proceed to orders of the day at the sittings be tween twelve and three, in addition to the business already appointed to be done at this meeting; and, s econdly, that orders of th e h ouse have precedence of petitions pro L p e o l s . on Tuesdays and Thursdays. of The mittee on the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill be read ' had SPEAKER ay or th th e e h n o p u t s l e t trheseoqlvuiensgtioitns,eitfhii:ltt)hae ocrodieif last the same as those that had been adopted in the session. He should not press upon the house any i t p n h ee drh shouldi tt s ihme denetovhbo three teeee resolutions. tldwoaroyd d edte ALT th H e O ho ß os P e, s o a n id athfaotrmtheer dreasyo,luwteiorieislihteeraliy, opinion of his own as to the suggestions of the hon. :o a t reor n ead d mi ndseoegrerncsai decide d i ca a enfi n odolie t member, kpßealoneßhnoo.E T T but sa i leavesaid tha thethat the m win a noo t tubtelhlrdeef lord week.r a t d h ll e e wash, roel.:siee. noble lord gave no reasons for th s o d s aO e y posed that they now and yet done. the report e t pe was r t w well o Inkflnysiwpmtoehwp forthteahehrrataati Inthsohganteeth, turned about from one thing to another without all s n e e hina t n i t m ghee e stig h b e eue t t : : tell them when he intended that the discussion on th e Poor Laws Bill would come on. Mr. GO ULBURN perfectly agreed with the noble lord (Lord Morpeth) that it would be extremely an, H ear, as visable if hon. members would curtail as ( Hear, as possible their addresses to the house. hear.) With respect to the committees t!nt. were sitting up stairs, lie thought it jn impossible e decisions they could give any satisfactiur! .1 according to the m as ann t e o r g i o n left in the hands of a few of those committees w as t never attending at all, members, the great major' Y the m ew e h n r o t e l isep business nw o b r ee u t i nr s e i b o nw l iefe was s t s w s w o 'h as . o had important matters to bring As to the Poor Laws Bill, committee of that house. have three days to proceed with Government would h time should be a ccommodation they would never have i t enar i egs t e 0 m mfa a off n ar d owdr e h ad reefdodtrhftootorhuoegdti doing might as well abandon those measures altorther. There was a most important subject, the Univt Admission Bill. When was that to be broui'ht Baer n, the notice of the house? He hoped an ea r l %i ° o r n a q ue tunity would be afforded for fully discussing an opportunity of bringing of such deep interest. throughout Sir R. PEEL was rea ll y surprised that n, m embers this long and d esu l tory conversation no h me of enough had been found generous to withdraw so d Thursdays. their motion s w hi c h stoo d f or Tuesdays an : on the There were a t l eas t t we lve or thirteen notices . ' ostponed books which could be most advantageously p Indeed ( Hear) usefully so for the public interest. he did not know tha t a more generous contri bu tion could be made to th e p rosperity of the state or the es.. .. igencies of the p ublic service than their withdrawal (Lau g ht er and cheers .) Colonel DAVIES consented to withdraw his resolik bo tions, and Lord ALTIIORI' did not pres s an y on t . suggestion he had m a de respecting the early sit tin g ! ; on Wednesday. POOR LAWS' AMENDMENT BILL.. d i ' On the order of the day being again read from - • read front