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This was a test to which the members of the legal pro fession in England had not yet been put; but he hoped that, when they were put to it, they would follow the example of their brethren in Scotland. After a few words from Sir Ronitax Pi= and Mr. Fnanussonr, the petition was ordered to lie on the table. Sir J. NEWPORT, after observing upon the ill effects of the drawback system ity , the soap and candle trade, moved for an account of the amount of the revenue col lected as the produce of the duties on soap and candles, dnring each of the five years ending the Ist of Januar y last, specifying the amount received for each article; also the drawback paid on exportation to Ireland and foreign countties, and stating the time which was allowed for pay ment of the duties and repayment of the drawback. The Right Hon. Baronet expressed a hope that the Govern ment would keep the duty on soap low, and not admit of drawbacks, which not only diminished the public re venue, bat destroyed that fair competition which ought to take place among trader a. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER expressed Iris concurrence in the principle laid down by the Right Hon. Baronet ; but there were other articles in which the same inconveniences were felt as in those in question. The only way in which the evil could be remedied was, to form a scale of duties for all three articles to which the prin. triple of drawback applied. His object was to produce uni formity of system. He had carried the principle into effect with respect to glass, and he hoped that ultimately it would be in his power to accomplish the object sug gested by the Right Hon. Baronet. Mr. HUME said that if the Right Hon. Gentleman wonld reduce the duty on soap to the lowest possible scale, lye would confer a very great benefit on the public. To " 16 an ex.tent was smuggling carried on in the articles of awr e and candles, that the revenue lost one-half of its due. The returns were then ordered. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. A Message from the Lords brought down " A Bill for enabling his Majesty to appoint certain persons to affix the Royal Signature to instruments requiring such sig. nature." SIGN MANUAL. Sir ROBERT PEEL said, in rising to move the first Leading of a Bill to make a temporary provision to enable his Majesty to affix the Royal Signature to such public instruments as were laid before his M tjesty, he could not avoid expressing his deep reset at the circumstances which rendered the application to Parliament necessary. His Majesty had informed the House, in his gracious riles sage, that on account of the indisposition under which his Majesty was labouring, it was painful and inconvenient to the King to attach his signature by the Sign Manual to the multitude of public instruments requiring that signa ture, and to which it was essential. He must, at the same tithe, state that, under these painful circumstances, all applications made to his Majesty to affix his signature to arty instilment; to complete which that signature was necessary for the public service, more particularly such instruments as concerned the administration of justice and the granting of pardon, his Majesty ha I been at all times, at whatever pain or inconvenience to his Majesty, ready to take the subject into consideration, and give his signa ture to all measures that were connected with the adminis tration of justice, and extending that mercy which was the peculiar prerogative of the Crown. The House would, however, he hoped, be unanimous in desiring to spare his Majesty the pain and inconvenience of affixing the Sign Manual to such instruments, if it could be done without injury to the public service. He hoped it would he found, that consistently with that object—that is, without any injury to the public service—the measure then before the House might merit its unanimous support. The present Bill provided that his Majesty might, by a warrant or Commission, signed in tile first instance by the Sign Ma nual, authorise certain Commissioners, or one or more of them, to attach a stamp instead of the Sign Manual, to public instruments. The stamp was to be prepared under the direction of the Lord President of the Council. '[here were to be two stamps, one of them was to be en graved with George Rex, the ordinary signature of his Majesty, the other was to have only G. Rex, there being certain instruments to which attaching the King's initials gave validity. The Bill provided that the person em ployed and authorised to sign for his Majesty, by affixing the engraved stamp, should not be authorised to affix it to any document which had not a memorandum engrossed on it, specifying the nature of the instrument, and bearing the signatures of three of seven of the Great Officers of State who were responsible as Ministers of the Crown. These seven Officers, the signatures of three of whom were necessary to give authenticity to any instrument, are the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Fit at Lord of the Treasury, and the two Secretaries of State. The Bill provided, more over, that any one of the seven Officers empowered to affix the stamp in the presence of his Majesty, shall certify by own signature that it was done in his presence, and by his command, which was a double security provided against fraud. An oath was also provided by the Bill, to be taken by each of the seven persons mentioned, that he will not affix the stamp, but in the presence and by the command of his Majesty. The person, therefore, who made the of the stamp, could not affix it but by the command of his Majesty, and in his presence. These remarks would show the House the precautions which had been used to draw up the Bill. As a farther precaution, it was made of temporary duration, being limited in i•s operation to the present Session of Parliament ; and God grant that it may not be necessary to apply to the House to make any farther provision on the subject. But in case it should be necessary to bring the measure again before Parlia ment, the House would, he hoped, be of opinion that the Bill ehould.be extended. There was one other provision he would ment'on. The Bill provided, that nothing con tained in it should prevent his Majesty from attaching his signature it the ordinary way, so as he was accustomed to sign; and nothing in that Bill was to prevent the sign manual from having its ordinary operation, notwithstand ing the provision made for affixing the Royal signature in another manner. His Majesty, therefore, would be under no constraint in exercising the Royal authority, or any of the prerogatives of the Crown. In our history there were many examples of the Royal signature being at tached in the way now proposed. In the reign of Henry the Eighth, a commission, issued by the Sovereign, em powered certain persons to apply a stamp bearing the Royal initials to instruments, and giving to instru ments so stamped the authority of the Royal signature. In the reign also of Queen Mary the same power was exercised, and the stamp was frequently applied. It was also stated by Bishop Burnett, that a stamp had been used in the latter part of the reign of King William 111. Notwithstanding these precedents, showing that, by his own power and authority, the King could issue a Cam missio■ for this purpose, Ministers thought it would be safer fdr them to apply to Parliament. It was unnecessary for him to ewer further into the details of the measure. As it was of a temporary nature, and every means had been employed to provide adequate security, he hoped that the Bill would receive the unanimous support of the House. As it was desirable to pass it with as little delay as possible, particularly as instruments concerning pardon and other public instruments ought in t to be delayed, he proposed—as the House would, he hoped, have an oppor tunity of seeing all the provisions of the Bill in a short time—that it should be read a first and second time then, and to-morrow carried through the other stages, so that the measure on Saturday might receive the Royal Assent. In this preposition he hoped het hould have the concur rence of the House. Lord ALTHORP thought that some evidence ought to be produced at the bar to justify the House in passing the Bill. He hoped and trusted that the House would be able to provide sufficient checks, so that the power of the Royal signature should not be improperly used. Whether it were desirable or not to pass the Bill, he thought it ought not to be done without some evidence of his Majesty'. situation. He did net mean to object to the motion for reading the Bill a first and a second time, but he thought it would be desirable, before going into a Committee, as the House was about establishing an important precedent, that evidence should be given at the bar of the necessity of passing the Bill. Sir ROBERT PEEL thought, when the Noble Lord considered the circumstances of the case, he would not press his suggestion. His Majesty had communicated by a Message to both Houses, that it was painful and inconve nient to him to affix the sign manual to public documents. The Message was, he thought, sufficient to justify the House in agreeing to the Bill. Lord ALTHORP was understood to say that he did not meat to persist in his suggestion, he only threw it out as worthy of the ennsid.- the Rouse. Sir CHARLES v L said there was some distinction I►etweer. stamp and writing with his own hand. ?: Secretary had re ferred to cases in w oissioners had signed for the King by u' tis name; but it war necessary to adv an between the King using a stamp su a with his own hand. The physical ac More time was required to write the IV affix hi tstamp. The Hon. Member enter .ef account of the process of sign ing papers fly .g, observing that the Sign Manual was not the es .cosof an Act, but the origin of set ting in moticiethe'Officers of the Crown, the Lord Privy Seal, and the Keeper of the Great Seal. The Hon. Mem ber quoted an opinion of Sir Edward Coke's, to show that to OUt old institutions, the written signature of the King was alone held to constitute the Sign Manual. This. said Lord Coke, was the means which the wisdom and pru dence of antiquity had invented when the Great Seal was put in motion, to preserve it in high esteem. He did not say . . •hat the King might not, proprius manibus, employ a .t imp to signify the Royal will, but in Lord Coke's ♦iew ~ f the matter, the Sign Manual was not a stamp, but the hand-writing of the King. The Hon. and Learned Gentle man admitted, that by the Bill, proper precautions were taken to guard against the King's signature being surrepti tiously obtained ; but there was no clause to provide against the stamp being forged. At present it was treason to forge the Sign Manual, but there was no law, he believed, to make it treason to forge this Stamp. He should not op pose the second reading of the Bill, but when it went into a Committee, he should propose a clause in order to pro .ect the stamp against forgery. The lion. and Learned Member read a clause, which he said had been copied from a statute passed in the reign of Queen Mary, making the forgery of her stamp treason, and this clause he said he should propose in the Committee. Mr. BERNAL had attended to the provisions of the Rill, and he thought that there was no necessity to adopt the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's suggestion. From the precautions taken, he saw no danger whatever, not even the scintilla of danger, that the stamp would he forged.— Conceiving the clause to be unnecessary, he, for one, should oppose its intromission when the Bill was in a Committee. Sir ROBERT PEEL had not, perhaps, entered suffi ciently into tke precedents according to which the King had at former times issued a Commission to affix a stamp for him. He must say that the provision authorising three of the principal Officers of the State to affix the stamp was a sufficient guard against the stamp being forged. Since yesterday another precedent had been discovered in the reign of Philip and Mary, which he would read to the House, as a curious illustration of the means taken, under similar circumstances, by different persons to accomplish the same object. When the present Bill was drawn up, that precedent was not known of, and it was curious to *ee how much the two measures resembled each other. The Hon. Gentleman then read a Commission, issued, we understood, in the 3d and 4th of Philip and Mary, au thorizing certain persons to affix his stamp to public in struments its the presence of certain petsons, such as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and several other distinguished persons, or any seven, six, five, four, three, or two of them. In the Bill provided on the present occasion, however, they go beyond these provisions for they required the seal to be affixed by his Majesty in the presence of a confidential servant at the same time that his Majesty gives the assent required, and also in the pre sence of three out of the seven Great Officers of State named in the Bill—the signatures of all these persons to he placed its a memorandum at the back of the deed, and the person who affixes the stamp being moreover required to declare by his signature, that it was done in the pre sence of, and by the command of his Majesty. Having thus briefly stated the provisions of the Bill, he felt it ne cessary to say, that as its duration would be short, they not thought it necessary to introduce any clause re specting the forgery of the stamp; but he found that in the Regency Act a similar omission had taken place. Sir C. WETHERELL interrupted the Right Hon. Gentleman, by observing that it was not necessary to do so, because the affixing of the Sign Manual in this form being once recognised by the Legislature, the forgery of it became treasonable by the laws already existing. Sir R. PEEL expressed himself satisfied with this ex planation, and therefore felt it unnecessary to say more respecting that part of the subject, unless it became requi site to extend the provisions of the Bill beyond the present Session. Mr. LENNARD begged merely to observe on the sub ject of the punishment of the forgery of this stamp as an act of treason, that he hoped the number of treasonable offences would not be extended. The Bill was then read a first time. On the motion, " That the Bill be now read a second ime," Sir R. VYVYAN expressed a hope, that a measure of so much importance would not be hurried through the [louse without a knowledge of its provisions. Many clauses had been added, and it was necessary the Bill should be printed before they were called on to go further. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that could be easi'y done by to-morrow morning. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow (Friday). ACCOMMODATION FOR STRANGERS. Colonel SIBTHORPE postponed his motion respecting the accommodation of strangers in the grdlery until the 22d June. He begged, however, to be understood as not abandoning that motion. IRISH MALT DUTIES. Mr. DAWSON brought in a Bill for the regulation of the Malt and Beer Duties in Ireland. It was read a first time and ordered to be printed. ISLE OF CEYLON. Mr. JOHN STEWART, in moving for a Select Committee to enquire into the Revenue and Expenditure of the Isle of Ceylon, wished to put the House in pos session, by that means, of some information in addition to that which had been already afforded it through the Fi nance Committee. By a return on the table of the House made up to the Ist of December, 1824, it appeared that the debt of the Isle of Ceylon of every description, amounted at that period to the sum of 463,2011. ; while the Sinking Fund appropriated to its extinction, and which at one time amounted to 176,0001., had been wholly devoted to other purposes. In December of 1826, this debt bad increased to the SIAM of 491,0001 , without a single shilling bring provided for its extinction, and it was still accumulating. At the time the island was in the hands of the Dutch, the whole Civil Establishments were a mere trifle, compared (we believe the Hon. !lim ber said 16,0001. a year) with that which they now cost under the present extravagant government, notwithstand ing the pressure of this continually increasing "debt. In 1825, the salary of the Governor was 10,0001. a year ; and the civil expenses, including this salary, were 111,3401. ay ear. This enormous expenditure was coupled with, and supported by, a monopoly of trade, injurious to the in terests of the island, and more close and more annoying than the very worst monopoly ever practised by the East India Company. The trade in cinnamon, one of the ex clusive products of the island, was a monopoly of the worst description. All cinnamon grown in Ceylon was sent home by the Government, and sold on their ac count ; and every tree which produces it, whether it grows on the side of the highway or in the hedge of a pri vate garden, is claimed as their property. It was to this injurious system of carrying on trade that he wished to direct the attention of the House; and he therefore pro posed to move for copies of the correspondence carried on between Sir Edward Baines and Lord Bathurst,. on the subject of the cinnamon trade. It was not, however, in the monopoly of a particular trade that Ceylon formed an exception to the territories of the Company. All imports of the colonists were taxed to an extent unknown in Ma dras or Calcutta. All woollen goods paid a duty of nine per cent ; cotton goods live per cent., and iron nine per cent., while on the Continent they paid little or nothing. On these and other points of commercial interest be thought a Select Committee could obtain much useful in formation. The island was much more salubrious than any part of the continent of India. All who were ac quainted with it pronounced it one of the finest climates in the world. Coffee grew wild in the fields ; every ar ticle of necessity and luxury was to be had in abundance ; and yet all these advantages were lust by a bad admini stration of its resources. Alluding to another branch of the subject—the Administration of Justice—it was a re markable exception to the ordinary independence of Judges, that the Government of Ceylon had the power to suspend the execution of an order of the highest court of justice. There was a remarkable instance of this in the time of General Campbell. A vessel had arrived at Columbo, in which a person named Rosier was found, and apprehended as a deserter from the East India Com pany. He applied for a writ of Habeas Corpus, which was granted him ; but the Governor, through the Attor ney-General, denied the right of the Court to issue such a writ in opposition to the order of the Governor, and on the Court persisting, the Governor resorted to his arbitrary legislative power, and declared that no such writ should in future be issued in opposition to his order. As a fur ther proof of the defective administration of justice, the Judge, who levied exactions, afterwards sat in judgment as to the right of levying them. It was impossible but that such a system ;nest be fraught with corruption ; at least, if it did not produce corruption, it was calculated to produce it. The Government of Ceylon had, in 1810, issued a proclamation, encouraging settlers to come to the island. But, notwithstanding that encouragement, notwithstanding the fertility of the soil, notwithstanding the salubrity of the climate, the monopoly to which he had already al luded had deterred persons from availing themselves of the advantage as hich settlers would unquestionably enjoy. The inquiry which he recommended would therefore con duce to the attainment of two desirable objects ;—a re form in the administration of justice in the island, and the establishment of the best means of further coloniza tion. That the inhabitants of Ceylon were perfectly pre pared to give efficiency to any measures calculated to im prove the condition of the , ettlement, was evident from various occurrences, and from none more unequivocally than from the resolution to which, on the recommends !:l:_ of Si r Al exander J o h nston, t h e propr i etors o f s l aves he Wand of Ce)lon tannin 1815 ; namely, thaz, all the children of slaves born after the 12th of August, 1816, should be horn free; a resolution, the value of whici would be more correctly appreciated when it was known that the number of slave proprietors in the island was 751, and that the number of male and female slaves to whost affspring the resolution was applicable, exceeded 10,000 The Hen. Gentleman concluded by moving that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the revenue and expenditure of the island of Ceylon. Sir GEORGE MURRAY had not expected that so many observations, not strictly referring to the question itself, would have grown out of the Hon. Gentleman's motion: To many of tho , e observations he should feel it unnecessary to advert. He was very willing to admit that the finances of the island of Ceylon had been labouring under considerable difficulties—difficulties arising from the expences which had attended the Kanditn war—and from other circumstances. The Hon. Gentleman had, by im plication at least, recommended the introduction of the principles of free trade into Ceylon. Those principles had been tried there with respect to cinnamon ; and the result was, that, in the course of a single year, the revenue had fillen off 50,0001. He (Sir George Murray) was no friend to the monopoly system ; but these were sub jects which must be looked at practically. He aloa rd mitted that the expences of the colony were considerable. A commission was, however, appointed to inquire into these matters. With respect to the patronage of the island, he (Sir G. Murray) had no desire to exercise it, except for the interest of the colony ; and he believedthe only patronage which he hal with reference to that colony, since his accession to office, was a single writership. Mr. O'CONNELL thought that the Right Hon. Gentle man had not given sufficient reason for refusing the motion. Mr. HUME said, thousands of pounds were wasted both in and upon these colonies in paying salaries propor tioned to the rank of the officers, and not to the nature of the duties they performed ; and yet they had heard the Right Hon. Secretary of State for the Home De partment, with all that gravity which so well became him, and all that imposing manner which he so well knew how to employ, getting up in that House, as he did the other night, and affecting to read them a lecture of economy upon the expenditure of 61. in printing a petition.—( Hear, hear, and a laugh. his opinion the Government of the colony had done every thing in their power to cramp the energy and destroy the resources of the colony. As an instance of this he would refer to the expences of the establishments there. He objected to the high rate of salaries given in the colonies, and among the rest of the enormously paid individuals he could not avoid mentioning the Colonial Chaplain, who received a salary of 4,9201. a year, and the Superintendent of the Poor with his 2,1801. a year. Then there was the Superintendent of the Vaccine Establishment 1,6001., and Superintendent of the Botanical Garden 1,4001. All the other expences of the colony were on the same footing. The Judicial Establishment cost 43,0001., and the Revenue Establishment 65,0001. The consequences of all this extravagance were that the expenditure exceeded the receipt. And it might well be so when the military establishment cost 170,000/. a year, of which 20,0001. a year were paid for the military staff alone. The expenses of that colony were so great that the Right Hon. Gentle man's predecessor in office had acknowledged they might be reduced, and ought to be reduced. When Lord Bathurst, one of the most illiberal Ministers that ever governed a colony, and one who was ready to maintain abuses in a Government for the longest possible time; when such a Minister recommended Reform, it was indeed the duty, the imperative duty of his successor to act on the recommenda tion.—(Hear.)--He cordially supported the motion. Sir C. FORBES said a few words, which were inaudible in the gallery. Lord ALTHORP thought that the state of the colony required examination before a Committee, and suggested that the word " commerce" ought to stand first in the motion, in order that if it were carried, the Committee to be appointed might first investigate that part of the sub ject, so as not to anticipate the Report of the Commis sioners which might be expected in July. Mr. TRANT observed that it would be inconvenient, while the General Committee was sitting upon Indian affairs, to have another distinct Committee on the state of Ceylon. Mr. STEWART adopted the recommendation of the Noble Lord (Althorp), and altered his motion accordingly. The House then divided— For the Motion SS Against it B2 Majority 44 COURT OF CHANCERY The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, referring to the Bill this day brought before the House of Peers for the regu lation of the Court of Chancery, intended to propose that it should be read a first time to-night, and that the second reading should be fixed for the 10th of June, when the discussion might be taken. He hoped this arrangement would be satisfactory to the House, and that it would allow him to name the same day for the second reading of the two other Bills, connected in subject, for the regula tion of the Master's Office and for the regulation of the Registrar's Office. He hoped, if this suggestion were ap proved, that Members would not fix motions for the 10th of June, which would precede the Orders of the Day for the second reading of the three Bills he had named. Mr. BROUGHAM was of opinion that this important subject wed merited a separate day's discussion. The sub ject of the Court of Chancery had been postponed in this House for two Sessions, in consequence of the expect itlon of the Bill which had just made its appearance from the House of Lords. Why it had been so long delayed he knew not, but, per tot discrimina rerum, it had at last been sent down to the Commons. He must freely state that he felt the strongest repugnance to the plan proposed, and on the day named, for which he hoped no other bust. ness would be set down, he would not scruple to detail his objections. Mr. FERGUSSON took this opportunity of urging the Lord Advocate to fix some early day, prior to the 10th of June, for the debate on his measure, which had excited great attention in Scotland, and was, in fact, of the highest importance to that country. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the further con sideration of the Report on the Bill for the better Ad ministration of Justice in England and Wales. Mr. E. DAVENPORT said, that for any good it was likely to do by its adaptation to this country, the measure might as well have been drawn by the Grand Vizier as by his Majesty's Attorney-General. He complained espe cially of that small part of it which took away the local jurisdiction of Cheshire as a County Palatine, and con tended, that if such a proceediu g were just and proper, the Bill ought to have been extended to the Counties Palatine of Durham and Lancaster. Ile called the attention of the House to the petitions against a change, not only from Cheshire, but from the great towns of Liverpool, Man chester, and Warrington ; and required the Attorney- General to state some grounds for the change, as stat pro ratione voluntas was not enough to satisfy the inhabitants. The Hon. Member then entered into a detail of those parts of the Bill which affected the ancient system of administering justice in Wales and in the County Palatine of Chester, describing them as open to many objections, and concluded by moving that the Bill be read that day six months. Mr. WILBRAHAAI concurred in the injustice of abolishing the Welsh Courts, and especially objected to the destruction of those institutions under which justice had hitherto been administered in the county of Chester. The inhabitants of those places had, he conceived, a right to retain all the peculiar advantages which, up to the present time, they had enjoyed. If in those amendment, legis lators sought to make the language of the law more intel ligible, they would be conferring a greater benefit upon the public, than by introducing regulations which would go to deprive particular districts of advantages which they had possessed from time immemorial. Hoping that some of the old and peculiar advantages of the Welsh system might be retained, he should not, in the present stage, op • pose the Bill ; but if he found that in the Committee those were not preserved, he should certainly feel it his duty to give it all the opposition in his power. The ATTORNEY -GENERAL, said, that his object was to accomplish what he was persuaded would prove a great national benefit, with as little opposition as possible, and therefore his aim had been to remove from the Bill as much as possible everythi ng to which objection might be taker. In doing that, however, it was scarcely to be ex pected that he could conciliate every person, and at the same time be governed by those principles which he con sidered essential to the value of the measure and calculated to promote its success. He cert a i n l y did not imagine, that by the unaided and native force of genius, he could accom plish all that the Honourable Gentleman opposite seemed to suppose himself capable of effectin g , an d t h ere f ore h e had endeavoured to avail himself of the suggestions of others as far as he possibly could, f or h e candidly confessed he did not entertain so exalted an op i n i on of his own ge nius as some appeare d to indulg e . As the Bill had been printed, and was in the hands of Honourable Members, it would not be neces-ary for him to enter into minute ex planations of its several clauses; but, once and for all, he begged the House to understand that th e Bill was one combined measure; that the addition of the Welsh Circuit made the appointment of new J udges necessary i n West minster-hall, seeing that the business of the Principality was transferred to the Metropolis, and that new regula tions were required by those alteration s in the Courts. It was evident, however, that the whole • was essentially on. combined measure. The House, too, would see that no elatues were intreduced except such as were necessary for carrying those objects into Effect, or Puch as seemed natu rally to grow out of it. He presumed, that were the prin. ciple of those alterations once conceded, there would be no doubt that the additional Judges were necessary ; for not only would they be required for going Circuit, but it would he necessary that one of them should always be in London also ; those Judges would he necessary for the increased facility and despatch which it was one of the objects of the measure to afford, and which, with the additional labotta and increased impediments, would have been defeated hut for that precaution. He should now advert to the clauses respecting arrest upon mesne process; he had fixed it at a sum of one hundred pounds, and he felt bound to de clare thus early, that in principle he could not abandon those clauses. He was free to acknowledge that he should have had no objection to go further, but he had some re spect for the opinions of others—he did not think his own powers all-sufficient—he attached soma value to the la bours and information Of other men; but though he did so, he found it impossible to accommodate the clause to the views of every one. Some thought it went too far, snd some thought it did not go farenough—and be became therefore the more induced to adhere to his former views, finding that he could not reconcile all the difficulties which presented themselves. He was the more anxious to afford this explanation, as a deputation from the trades of Lon don and Westminster had done him the honour to wait on him, and make representations upon the subject, to which lie felt bound to pay attention, and in consequence of which he introduced the clause allowing of a distringas, and ' had also induced him to adopt a course respecting another pin of the Bill, which he hoped would meet with the approbation of the House. There were some of the clauses which he proposed to withdraw from the Committee, in tending to give them more mature consideration, and in troduce them in the form of a separate Bill, or else lay them before the House on the bringing up of the report, so as in any event to make them the subject of a separate discussion, and not mix them up with the other clauses of the Bill. There were none of those clauses which he so intended to withdraw, respecting which he slid not intend to reserve to himself the right of bringing forward again, either in the manner he had mentioned, or next Session, in the firm of a separate Bill. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then entered into the statement of the existing regulations and practice of the Welsh Courts, and contrasting their past state with what he anticipated their future condition would be. He pressed that consideration upon the attention of the House, and then proceeded to answer the objection made relative to defendants rendering in discharge of bail. To meet that objec tion he had alrered one of the clauses, by which a de- fendant might be rendered at the gaol of the county in which he resided as resdily as at any of the Courts at Westminster—thus the advantages enjoyed by Chester and by Wales would be continued to those districts, and ex tended to the rest of the country. He then entered into a statement of the increased facilities given in the Bill in obtaining judgment, and issuing execution on application to a Judge, and on procuring his certificate, showing that landlords, from the protection which it af forded against spoliation and waste, and other creditors, from the advantages it gave them, would find themselves in a better situation than before. He then noticed the extreme horror which some of the Welsh counties seemed to entertain of being combined with others, pointing out at the same time the advantage which that combination would secure to them of enjoying the services of a more enlightened Jury and a more numerous and better qualified bar. It it would he the means of preventing opposition (though he had no great hopes of that), he would have no objection to introduce a clause to make it incumbent on the Judges to go to the different counties where the assizes were appointed to be held, and subsequently to meet at Chester. The Honourable and Learned Gentle man concluded by moving that the Speaker leave the Chair. Sir C WETHERELL—The Bill, when he fist saw it, was but the skeleton of a bill. It was now con siderably altered ; that was to say, limbs had been am putated, and features bad been added, so as completely to change its appearance; and what with what had been tagged on, and what with what had been detruncated, it was quite something else from what it had originally been. It seemed to him to be chiefly divided into three parts— the appointment of new Judges in Westminster Hall; the raising the liabi . ity of arrest to 1001. ; and the abolition of the Welch judicature. In a great measure he thought the Bill objectionable ; and he should therefore vote against it, till this great boon, which, he supposed, was what had been so pompously held out in the Speech from the Throne, at the commencement of the Session, was put into a somewhat more palatable shape, as far as the public was concerned. He thought that the proposed rise in the standard of arrest was so large, that instead of its being hurried on in this way, at the close of the Session, it ought to Lave been an nounced long previously, so as to afford an opportunity of collecting the sentiments of those the most interested in the alteration. With respect to the appointment of new Judges, as the Judges themselves were of opinion that it ought to take pl ice, and as the Welch Judicature was to be done away with, that measure, perhaps, was the least oljectionable of the three. He, however, could not un derstand the principle upon which Parliament was called upon to legisl tte upon this subject. One Hon. Gentle man, who wanted to have the law of England altered, pro posed to do it by consolidation, while the Attorney- General, in altering the law of Wales, wanted to do it on the plan of division and subdivision. He would not take upon himself to pronounce which of the two was right ; but this he would soy, that one must he wrong. He objected to the arrangement of the counties being left to the King in Council; that arrangement ought to be definitively settled by the provisions of the Bill itself. As proposed at present, there was to be a power in the Crown to consolidate the counties, and a power in the Crown, pro hac vice, to appoint the Sheriff. If it was proposed to join Carmarthen to the nearest English county, and so on, he should be able to understand it; but, as now ma naged, a man was never to know to what country he be longed, for one day he was to he a Welshman, and the next an Englishman. The whole of this arrangement appeared to him to he so anomalous, that he did not hesitate to say that it was directly unconstitutional. It was not even fixed when-the change should take place ; but the whole appeared to be left to the hand of chance, or to the good providence of God knows who. He had often heard the Welsh Judges abused in that House; but he might observe that the Welsh Courts of Equity had never been found fault with ; and in all his experience as a lawyer, he had never known but two cases brought from that Court to an Appeal in the House of Lords. He should be glad to hear the sentiments of others upon the subject; but, fur himself, he ntu•t say that unless the Bill wax greatly altered, he should certainly oppose it. Mr. DAVENPORT opposed the Bill. Mr. SADLER wished to say a Few words, as he had missed an opportunity that evening of presenting a peti tion from Macclesfield against the Bill ; nor was it to be wondered at that the inhabitants of Chester should be averse to having their privileges taken away from them before they knew what it was proposed to give them in exchange. The Grand Jury, the Magistracy, and all the towns of Chester had petitioned against the measure, and he there fore thought that the House was bound to regard its pro visions with suspicion. 'With respect to the raising the standard of arrest to 1001., he thought that was objec . . tionahle, because it still left the rich creditor, whose deal ings were large, the power of proceeding against his debtor as before, while the poor creditor, who seldom had a debt amounting to 100/., was to be exclude,' from that pri ♦ilege. Lord BELGRAVE was happy to hear that some of the points recommended to the elnsideration of the At torney-General were likely to meet his favourable consi deration. Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS was surprised to hear the ob jections made by the Hon. Member for Newark, more particularly as the Bill went to take from Ministers a greater quantity of patronage, which, greatly to their credit, they gave up, than had been resigned by any Mi nisters of the Crown since the Revolution. They aban doned that source of patronage—the Welsh Judges. As he understood also there was a measure in progress which went to abolish eighteen or twenty places in Scotland, causing a great saving (though in this he was net so san guine) to the public. He could not agree with those gentlemen who had attacked the Bill, towards which he telt himself attracted. With regard to introducing addi tional Judges into the English system, he thought the state of the country, when twelve Judges were first appointed, justified that. Six hundred years ago, there were twelve Judges, and now there were 100 times as much business as at that time. At present it was impossible, with all the skill of the Judges, to keep down business in the Court of King's Bench. To force parties into another Court, as was so metimes proposed, would be as unfair and unjust, as to make them toss up for a decision. No Legislative Act could remedy this, but it might be remedied with out an Act of Parliament. If his Hon. ,tnd Learned Friend would only go into another Court, he would carry the business with him, but a law could not carry it. The public would go to those barristers in whom they had c onfidence. The Courts of Equity might be curtailed of their business by taking some of it to the Courts of Com mon Law. There were conflicting systems of law and within ten minutes' walk of each other in Westminster A motitgage which wasliot paid would, eilbm mon Law, he foreclosed, and the estate would be for feited ; when, in Chancery, the party might have the estate reconveyed to him, and the foreclosure set aside. A Court of Common Law might, in this case, perform the function of a Court of Equity. He recommended giving to the Common Law Courts an equitable jurisdic tion in such cases, instead of sending them, when they had been already heard in a Court of Common Law, to remain undecided in a Court of Equity. With reference to local alterations he recommended that Liverpool, Man chester, and Warrington, should have their Courts at Chester, within a few miles, instead of going sixty miles ; but the Court at Chester ought to have the advantage of the Lancaster Court of Common Pleas. On the whole he supported the measure, expecting from it great int provement and great advantage to the country. Mr. BERNAL was of opinion that the Bill could not well be passed this Session, and he hoped the Ministers would reconsider the measure. Sir ROBERT PEEL said that this Bill was intended to carry into effect some of the most important recom mendations of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the administration of justice. It was in tended to put an end to arbitrary and irregular terms—to equalize the business of the Courts—to improve the ad ministration of justice in Wales, and to expedite justice in England. If there were objections to the details of the Bill, they could be stated more regularly in the Com mittee, for he believed that every Member of the House was in some degree or other agreed with respect to its principles. Mr. BROUGHAM also thought that they should at once go into a Committee, for he believed there was not a Member of the House so opposed to the principle of the Bill as to stand up in that House and say, the present number of Judges was fit for the extent of public business, or the present state of the Welsh judicature calculated to increase the independence of the judicial office. Mr. FYSCHE PALMER was opposed to the measure from the moment of it+ introduction, because he was satisfied it would produce no satisfaction in the naiads of the people of Wale+. On the question that the Bill be now re-committed— Sir Charles Wetherell, Mr. Cutlar Ferguson, Mr. W. Harvey, Mr. Jones, and others begged the Attorney- General to allow the Bill to be re-committed, in order that time might be given fur the consideration of the additional clauses. - The ATTORNEY-GENERAL consented, under the hope that there would not be any lengthened discussion on the principle, when they came to consider the clauses in detail. The Bill was then re-committed ; and the further con sideration was fixed for Thursday next. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of ; and the House adjourned at a Quarter-past Two o'clock. LI S' OF ONE HUNDRED AN] TEEN WHO PAIRED THE INTRODUCTION Alcock, T. A ttwood, M. Blandford, Marquis Blake, Sir F. Buller, C. Barclay, C. Barclay, David Byng, George Buxton, T. F. Bernal, R. Burdett, Sir F. Brownlow, C. Baring, Sir T. Baring, W. B. Baring, F. Baillie, John Beaumont. T.iW. Canning, Sir S. Capel, John Colborne, N. R. Calvert, C. Carter, J. B. Cavendish, W. Cave, It. 0. Calthorpe, Hon. F. Ducane, P. Dawson, A. Dundas, Hon. G. Dundas, Hon. T. Davies, Col. Denison, W. J. Euston, Earl of Ewart, J. Easthope, J. Fortescue, Hoe. G. Fergusson, Sir R. C. Fazakerley, J. N. Fitzgibbon, Hon. R. Grant, Rt. Hon. C. Harvey, D.I'W. Hobhouse, J. C. Huskisson, Rt Hon. W. Hume, Joseph Howard, R. iT OF THE MAJOR ro FIFTEEN WHO YOTEI OFF, ON THE STH OF r OF THE BILL 10 EBIANC Hay, Lord J. Howard, Henry Jephson, C. D. Knight, R. Killeen, Lord Labouchere, H. Lambert, J. S. Lumley, J. S. Loch, James Loch, John Lester, B. Lennard, T. B. Macdonald, Sir J. Maberly, J.° Maberly, Col. Macintosh, Rt. Hon. Sir J. Monck, J. B. Macaulay, T. B. Morpeth, Viscount Marshall, J. Marjoribanks, S. Marryatt, J. Mandeville, Visc. Maitland, Viscount Maitland, E. F. Nugent, Lord Ord, W. O'Grady, Col. Phißimer°, Dr. Palmerston, Visc. Pon , onby, Hon. W. l'rotheroe, E. Petit, L. H. Rice, T. S. . Rumbold, C. E. Russell, Lord John Ridley, Sir M. W. Robinson, sir G. Robinson, G. R. Ramsden, J. C. Robarts, A. W Smith, W. Smith, G. Smith, J. MINORITY STY-SEVEN AGAINST THE ~ E ncombe, Lord • E F E s a s t t n c e :o , u u j r r t . t TT.. H. B • Fane, Sir H. Forester, Hon. G. C. Fyler, T. B. Grant, Sir A. Garles, Viscount Gilbert, D. G. Gonlburn, Rt. Hon. H. ITY D FOR, AND OF FOUR_ APRIL, IN FAVOUR OF 2IPATIG THE JEWS. Smith, Vernon Stanley, Hon. E. G. Stewart, Sir M. S. Spence. George. Sebright, Sir Joh n Somerville, Sir M Sandon, Viscount Thompson, Ald. Thomson, C. P. :f.rylor, M. A. Talbot, U. N. Walrond, B. Wodehouse,E. Whitmore, W. W. 'Whitbread, S. C. Whitbread, W. H. Wall C. B Warliurion, H. Wood, Alderman Waithman, Ald. Wynn, Sir W. W. Wynn, Right Hon.C. Wilson, Sir R. Wilbraham, G Ward, J. White, S. TELLERS. Grant, R. Lushington, Dr. PAIRED OFF. Benett, John Birch, J. Clifton, Viscount Denison, J. E. Ellis, Hon. A. Forbes, Sir C. Mackinnon, C. Newport, Sir J Parnell, Sir H. Penciarves, E. W. Price, Sir R. Syket, D. Ward,. OF NINE' Arbuthnot, Hn. Col. Arbuthnot, Rt. Hon. C. Ashurst, W. Astell, W. Atkins, Alderman Bastard, E. P. Batley. C. H. Bankes, H. Bankes, W. Bell, M. Beresford, Bingham, Lord Bradshaw, J. Burton, J. J. Calvert, John Calcraft, Rt. Hn. J. Carrington, Sir E. Campbell, Archibald Cecil, Lord T. Cocks, James ('ourtenay, Rt. Hon. T. I'. Cooper, R. B. Cole, Hon. Arthur Clerk, Sir G. Croker, Right Hon. Gower, Lord F. L. Graham, Marquis of [Grosvenor, General Greville, Hon. Sir C. Hart, G. V. Herries, Rt. Hon. C. Hill, Rt. Hon. Sir G. Hulse, Sir C. Inglis, Sir It H. King, Hon. R. King, Sir J. D. Kilderbee, S. H. Knox, Hon. It. Lascelles, Hon. H. Legge, Hon. A. Lewis, Right Hon. F. J. W. Darlington, Earl of Davis, R. H. Dick, Quintin Downes, Lord Duncornbe, Hon. W. Dundas Hon. H. Eliot, i,ord Ellison, C. 'Lindsay, Colonel Lowther, Viscount M.Leod, J. N. Moore, G. Mundy, F. Murray, Right Hon.' Sir G. OP FORTY-BIGHT, " For the appointme, Commerce, RI Althorp, Viscount Bernal, It. Brougham, Henry Bet ett, John Bir,h, J. Bankes, 11. Bright, H. Crompton, S. Give, E. B. Carter, J. Ducane, Peter Davenport, D. Davenport, K Ferguson, K. C. Forbes, Sir Charles Grant, R. Graham, Sir J. The name of Sir C ,he Minority on Mr. ABOTB. Manners, Lord Osborne, Lord F. Palmer, R. Peachy, General Pearse, John Peach, N. N Perceal,S. Phipps, lion. E. Planta, J. Itickford, W. Ross C. Sadler, 111. T. Sefton, Earl of Shelley, Sir J. Sibthorpe, C. D. Somerset, Lord E. Somerset, Lord G. Sotheron, Admiral Sugden, Sir E. B. Stopford, Viscount Spottiswoode, A. Thynne, Lord Talmash, Hon. D. I'ownshend, Lord C. Trant, W. H. Trevor, Hon. R. Ure, M. Vyvyan, Sir R. Whitmore, Thomas Williams, 0. Wilson, Colonel Wood, Colonel TELLERS. Mr.Solicitor-General I Mr. Perceval iT OF THE MINORITY WHO VOTED FOR MR. STEWART'S MOTION, nt of a Select Committee to inquire into the . evenue, and Expenditure of Ceylon." Grattan, James Palmer, C. F. Harvey, D. W. Rickford, W. Jephson, C. D. Robinson, Sir G. Knatchbull, Sir E. Robinson, G. It. Kennedy, 'l'. F. Sykes, D. Leonard, T. B. Tram, W. H. Lester, B. Tufton, Hon. H. Lloyd, Sir E. P. Townshend, Lord C. Lbouchere, H. Thomson, C. P. Monck, J. B. Vyvyan, Sir R. Morpeth, 'Viscount Whitbread, W. H. Milton, Viscount • Wynn, Right Hon.C. O'Connell, D. Wilbraham, C. Pendarves, E. W. Waithman, Ald. Protheroe, Ed. TELLERS. Phillips, G. R. Hume, Joseph Phillimore, Dr. Stewart, J. ;eorge Robinson was o Labouchere's Motion mitted in the list of on Canada. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. The llioniteur of Tuesday morning, contains two ordi nances, dated May 23, and connt,rsigned by M. Chante lauze, Minister of Justice. By the one, Count Ferdinand de Bertier, Minister of State and Director-General of Waters and Forests, is authorized to participate in the de liberations of the Council of State. By the other, M. Raineville, Councillor of State in extraordinary service, is appointed a Councillor of State in ordinary service, in th reom of the Baron de Ballainvilliers, called to other functions (Minister of State.) The National of this morning has the following : " After their conference with the Prince de Polignac, the Ministers of the Great Powers sent a note to his Excel lency, in which they express, in the names of their re spective Courts, acquiescence in the principle of the ex• pedition against Algiers, without, however, admitting the idea of a settlement upon the African coast. Russia, in deed, does not appear so favourable to such a project as was at first imagined; so that no basis has yet been re solved on, supposing that the expedition should be suc cessful." " The Gazette states that the news of the establish ment of conferences at Paris, relative to the affair of Al gier•, is premature. _ _ " CONSTANTINOPLE, Aram 26.—You have learnt by the extraordinary courier the acceptance of the last proto cols of London by the Porte. The following are some details respecting the circumstances which accompanied this event. " The Porte had at first a great desire of fol lowing its old method, and of putting off the answer, al though the Powers had required it to be prompt and de cisive. All the declarations made to the dragomans gave it to be understood that the Porte would think it its duty to reflect maturely on the acts of the alliance, and that it would confer with the Divan, composed of men of expe rience and intelligence, in order to devise the means of terminating happily the affairs of Greece. This language was sufficiently clear to convince the diplomatis•s that the Ottoman Ministry only sought to gain time. The) would in consequence have thought it useless to make ant further attempt, had net Count Orloff learnt in a conversation with the Reis Effendi, that the Sultan waN desirous of seeing the affairs of Greece terminated, which had appeared to him serious from the beginning. Th e Count took occasion in consequence to treat of tin affair more seriously with the Reis Effendi, and represent' ed to bins all the inconvenience which world result to the Porte from a long delay, since the Allied Powers might think it neceasary 4 to grant to Greece a treater extension of frontiers, in order to secure it against its old masters. These representations at first made little impression upon the Turkish Minister, but when he heard of the conces sions that the Porte might expect from the generosity of Russia, if it hastened to accede to the resolutions of the Alliance, he listened more readily to the reasons of Count Orloff, and promiskd to 4 ,btain the consent t f the Sultan. A note addr,ssed to the Ambassadors on the 2lth, in formed them that the Sultan acceded to the Protocols of London. It is said that the Porte is to receive from Russia, as the price of its compli ince, a deduction from the war contribution of several millions of ducats.— Ga zette d' A ugabourg. " TOULON, MAY 9.—lf a breeze gets up, it is hoped the fleet will go out this evening, but at present there is a (leas! c.ilm. It is doubtful whether the mistral would be sufficient to favour the departure of the squadron and convoy, as all is to go out together. Yesterday the breeze only lasted from ten in the morning till four in the after noon. Meat probably the fleet will not hazard going out until the wind is a little settled. It would be risking too much for so many vessels to set sail, in case they should meet with a calm before the y are out at sea. It would be ton great a risk for the transport., sad in such an enter prise nothing should be risked that could compromise the vessels laden with men and materiel. " The General in-Chief and Admiral Dopert4 went on hoard yesterday at half-past five. Their cutter, accord ing to custom, had a standard both at the bow and stern. Each vessel, as they passed, fired a salute. Admiral Mal let, Alajor-Geueral of the squadron, went on board in the morning. The ox-boats and ballast-lighters went out during the morning, under escort of several vessels of war, amongst which was the brig ['Etc iale, Captain Perseval. " Some of the vessels of the expedition have a lready weighed one of their anchors; they will be under sail at the first signal. " An Aide-de-Camp of General Guilleminot, he.irer of &spears said to be impo r t an t, h as arr i ve d to-day at FRENCH Fume.— PARIS, Mar 25.—Five per Cents., 101 f. Mc. 55c. 50c. 40c. ; Four per Cents. 1011. ; Three per Cents., 141 f. SOf. 95c. 90c. Mc. 70c. ; Bsnk Stock, 1,907 f. 50c. ; Rentes de NR plea, PIE SOc. 75c. 6.5 c. 70c. fsc.. ; Rentes d'Espagne, IS; Royal Spanish Loan, 87 1 4 87 86 3 4; Rentes Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 79 77.74 3y ; Haytian Loan, 515 f. 520 f. 525 f. Exchange on London— One month, (paper), 25f.5 0 c. • Three nsenths (paper), 25f. 35c. ; money, 251. 3 , :c.—Cours Andentique. PRICES OP STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rant stock 3 ,er Cent. Bed. O2 1% Old Annuities -- 3 ler Cent. Cons 921i% % New Ditto — 3 ~i per Cent Ex. 8i115..£1,000 21. 78 79 pm. Ditto ficAl. 9914 1(,% Ditto lid. 78 79 pm. 1 per Cent. Ann. Ditto 1823 - Ditto"... 19 - 78 79 pm. Rank I . Ann. Ditto 30 :tears Ditto 50 years — Bank for Account -- India stock — India for Account ...... ... Ditto Bmds 85 84 pm. Cons. for July 21 '3% 3 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK,. Austrian Bonds — Neapolitan Brazilian . Bonds — Peruvian Bondi Buenos Ayres Bonds — Portuguese Bonds — Chilian Bonds — Prussian, Old i'olornbian Bonds — Ditto, New — Ditto, 1824 ___. _. . Oanish 73% Spanish, :821 18% 1 4 Greek Bonds — 1823 — Ditto, 1825. Guatnnala '— Exchange ...... —f. —c. Ilex:can Bonds . !---- 3 per cent. —f. —c. Att., 1825 PRICYS OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. British Iron Mining Co. Real del Monte Mining Co £4OO Ditto Subscription (Thirds) 5 United Alex. Min. Co. pas. at 21. pm.) £39K JO' PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 25 Bank Stock M‘l'St. Patrick Insur. (per sh.) Consols, 3 per cent. ...... 91% !Royal Irish Ditto - Gov. Stock, 3% per cent. 994 ; National Ditto — ! No, New o 9'i !Patriotic Ditto . -- 4 per Cent lOO% Hibernian Bank — • .ov. Deb. 3% percent.... 92% Provincial Ditto — Royal Canal StocK — Royal Irish Mine -- Grand Canal Stock 2")% Imperial Mine -- City Dcb. 4 per cent — Mining Co. of Ireland ...... Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c — Commercial Buildings — Arnved. Due. ,Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 _. 0 Hamburg 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 O Carthagema 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 I Dublin 0 0 Lisbon ........ .......... 0 (1 Flanders 1 0 Mexico 0 O France 1 0 Sweden 2 Guernsey&Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford .... ..... HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ... 16 minutes after 7. I Evening... 42 minutes after 7• e f f, 4 l r L 1114. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1830. HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH. The following is the Bulletin issued this day— " Windsor Castle, May 28. " The KING has passed an unquiet night. The symp oms of his MAJESTY'S complaint continue the same. (Signed) " HENRY lIALFORD. " MATTHEW J. TIERNEY." A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign• office, this day, at half•past two o'clock. The Council was attended by all the Ministers. We have received Port-au-Prince Papers to the 27th April. The French Commissioners, Baron PICTON and M. MOLIERE, had a public audience of the President of HAYTI, upon which occasion the Baron PICTON delivered the following address : .6 moNsnwa THE PEEETDENT, " The commission with which 1 am charged to your Excel. lency, conjointly with a colleague who has long since acquired a right to your esteem and confidence, is a new proof of the be. nevolent dispositions with which the Kingof France is animated towards Hayti. " Those dispositions, which the King has manifested in so striking a manner, by being the first to recognise the indepen dence of Hayti, result undoubtedly from a just apprehension of the reciprocal advantages which the two countries may enjoy in their relations. They have their source, in part, in the desire of effacing the recollections of the baleful divisions of which they have equally and most severely felt the miseries, and of giving to the peaceful understanding between nations united by the ties of common origin, language, and religion, all the activity and usefulness possible. " But, further, Monsieur the President (and I feel great pleasure in declaring it to your Excellency), these dispositions have been particularly inspired by the wisdom with which the acts of your administration have been constantly characterized. Your Excellency has demonstrated your desire that justice and security should prevail in your country; and that in its relations external, and with adjacent countries, your wish has been to make the basis of your conduct a faithful compliance with en gagements, and an observation of the sacred rules of the law of natier.s. Consequences the most fruitful must flow from such principles, and most favourable to the progressive re-establish ment of the country, which has confided its destinies to you, and to the amelioration of its relations with other States. . . We are persuaded that we shall constantly experience the influence of these salutary principles, and of the internal and external tranquillity of nations in the negotiation with which we are entrusted, which is, to settle the relation of the two countries on the basis of the strictest reciprocity. With this reliance. we cannot doubt but that this negotiation must have an issue most favourable, and, therefore, most in conformity with the wishes of the two Governments." To this address the President made an ex temporaneous reply, and the Secretary of State, the Grand Judge, and the Secretary-General, were appointed by him to carry on the negotia tions on the basis established last year. The conference opened on the 23d. Madras Papers have been received this morn ig to the 10th January. It appears disputes have for some time past existed between the Khassees and the English troops at Nemelow, and that three or four gentlemen had been killed in the affray. Mr. D. SCOTT, the agent for the Governor-General, had subdued these Khassees, and they were flying in every direc tion. The Burman troops, or rather the Manus, had succeeded in securing some of them, but ow i n g to the intricacies of the forests the King of K lIASSEES and TIRUT SINGH escaped ; his grandmother the old QUEEN, his younger bro ther, and 70 of the chief delinquents, had, how ever, been captured. The Chiefs had been en couraged to re-settle in their villages, and it was publicl did not Would piratioi families had by By 1 th e sea pearan i April, toils. teCOME formati at Moi Leo state t thr oug i ntrae; were a retreat. tettled eonseq The to in st Was la the H, time i CHILS allusi o Which pass tl Royal It is , rapers with tl Treaty the thr 10 the of the arisen, t he go, exhibit the Gi have bi Pukus tnising ference trust, l thark i desire attemp down co esti( is Gre ence s answer It i that (I concul Arriba to b 1( squad ' operati tcqvard With and 1.'21 e t] mein wally icus which so ha] gave t ries w Power to th Admi bl ame enced Gr ee t Ntor Franc re nce disc o; Sept e btr uct th e p them V entir Turk sion, recti o th e b, Itist ea recei N TI li m i t , AR, leavii poses Prim 10th for t limit jacei pliec 28a Emil Frai plan