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~'" , r / -- . - _ ~i PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancury, made, causes SMITH against STONE, an d SMITH . againit BIRCHMORE, the Legatees of JAMES ,CLAER, late of Leatheihead, in the county of Surrey, yeoman, deceased, (who died in or about the month of January, 1914.) are forthwith to come in and prove their claims before James,Sftplien, Esquire, one of the Mastcs of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton-bnibline., Chancery-lane, London, or in de fault thereof they will ha excluded the hem-fit of the said Decree. ' - 4 le ' , ri , j ,„, .7rti' t ? ' ' ' l', tk ~, • -,,„ ~,t r ,v e- .. , 1a ,,,,, , : .., 4 1, • ' .„- ; s 1 , ' .. : - . A JO, 4 - . . .-1 4' , - Olgrolt . 1 ! '4N- 4 4 ' - -• 1 - ''" '" 4, , - • tt, , ).''' ' ''''' ' ~;,),..• I t ; , . ' 0110J1\''.4. L .....46,...t. Try . ili 3 " '' ' • 4. , 9 4 s ' Ainguntlikt 4i, i 1 , .7, 'kW i ' 0 / I .Ijaht• i _ ... • - „ •-.." C--... exporte themselves to a dangerous alternative. Ile lisd, Rom confirlenee in the present Government, chiefly on account of the dilosition to keep pace witkllre epirit of the age, wh►ch had been already evince►l upon more than one important occasion. His conviction of the liberality of Government in this particular induced him to hope that, be the fate of hie present motion what it might, the next No. 11,812. LANDED ESTATE WANTED. WANTED to PURCHASE, a GOOD LANDED ESTATE, with a MANSION or respectable HOUSE fit for the accommodation of a Gen tleman's family. The property must be Freehold, and of that description that the rental' Will be adequate to sup port the expences of the Mansion.. From Thirty to Fifty Thulium! Pounds is ready for the investment, which will be preferred at an easy distance limn London. Address, free of postage, to Mr. John Coward, Laos down-crescent, Bath. N.B. From principals only. SURREY. TO BE SOLD, . AModern and Complete FREEHOLD RESIDENCE foe a Moderate Establishment, with beautiful Grounds, Gardens, Stabling, and various Out buildings, surrounded by about Seventy-three Acres of good Tithe-free Land, richly Timbered, pleasan►ly situated within ten miles of London.--Immediate possession may be had. . • For particulars apply to Messrs. E. W. Ash&ld and Wrigl.t, solicitors, SO, Lawrence lane, Cheapside ; or to Daniel Smith and Son, land-agents and surveyors, Alder mares-walk,Newßroad -street, London, and Windsor, Berks. ROYAL ACADEMY. We understand that a letter has been for warded, by command of his Majesty, 'to the President of the Royal Academy, desiring him to state his opinion in what manner, the Fine Arts may be most effectually promoted, and Mr. Shee, it appears, has thought fit to lay this com munication before the Council of the Academy, and consequently it may be expected that the collective wisdom of the body will be exerted on this occasion. Let us hope, however, that if Government has really in contemplation any measure for the advancement of the arts, every suggestion emanating from the Royal Academy will be received with extreme caution, ar.d sub jected to the severest scrutiny. Whatever that body may profess, it is notorious that any scheme of change or reformation is most unpopular amongst its members,—a feeling natural enough, perhaps, to men who are revelling in a lucrative monopoly. But surely it is now high time that some authority should interpose, and that steps should be taken to put an end to a system, in which the interests of a whole profession, and the honour of national art, are laid at the mercy of a petty corporation, whose interest it is to resist and destroy all honourable competition, and who regard the institution over which they preside in no other light than as it supplies them with an exhibition-room, or bazaar, in which the public attention may be caught and concentrated, by every illiberal artifice, to their own stalls. We adverted, in a recent paper, to one of the fixed canons of the Royal Academy, which gives to its members the right of securing all the places within range of the eye to their own works, leaving the rest to be disposed of by the porters. This exposition, we have reason to know, excited no small degree of surprise in the public mind, which will not be diminished when it is stated that this practice, however monstrous, is but a negative part of the griev ance. The secret and despotic authority exer cised by the committee of arrangement enables them to gratify, without risk or responsibility, every suggestion of personal pique, professional jealousy, or insolent caprice ; and instances might be adduced in which individual artists have been persecuted with a systematic malig nity which stops at nothing short of the entire exclusion of their works from exhibition, and almost their expulsion from the profession. The next exclusive privilege appropriated to them selves by these disinterested legislators, is the right of painting on their pictures during three days pre vious to the opening of the exhibition, so as to adapt the effect to the light and situation in which they are placed—an enormous advantage, the obvious injustice of which, unless participated by all the exhibitors, it is needless to point out. Then comes the important day assigned to what is called the " private view," on which occasion Ministers, Ambassadors, and noblemen—all those whose rank and opulence make them the natural patrons of art—are invited to inspect the exhibition ; and wilt it be believed, that until this day is over, no artist, unless a member, is allowed to varnish his picture's, or even to cleanse the dust from them, nor indeed at any time afterwards, except by a special permission from the President ? Can deliberate injustice, can gratuitous insolence go farther than this? And the artists thus treated are invited by public ad vertisement to assist in furnishing art for this exhibition, the annual receipts of which amount to between 5,000/. and 6,000/. ; the disposal of which, by the by, is wholly unaccounted for. The It. A.'s perhaps will assert,' that they bare fought their way to those glorious pi prerogatives ; and that they bold them In li LONDON, WEDNESDAYtitIyENINp4ULY 21, 1839 ROARKE, Furnival's Tun. PURSUANT to a Decree of the:l-ligli Court of Chancery, made in the causes SMITH against STONE,and SMITH against BIRCIIMORE, the Creditors of JAMES CLAER, Woof Lestherhead o in the county of Surrey, yeoman, deceased (who died in or about the month of January, 1814), are forthwith' to come in and prove their debt* before James Stephen, Esquire, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers in South,. amptnn buildings Chancery lane, London, or in default thereof they will be excluded 'the benefit of the said Decree. . ROARKE, Furnival's Ina. 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There is a comfortably Furnished Cottage, of three rooms, kitchen, and servants' apartment. for the accommodation of :;ports men. Attendants and Ponies are to be had at a moderate expence. The Cottage is about nine miles from Dingwall, where there are excellent Markets, and the mail passes daily. Also, TO BE LET, for the Season, or on Leave, The SHOOTING, &0., of the ESTATE of ARI)ROSS, in the eastern district of Ross-shire• This Estate comprehends about 8,000 Acres of Muir, and 1,000 of Arable Land and Plantations. The Ardross Muir. are well known to be about the best stocked with grouse in the north, and the most easily travelled. There is a good show of Hack game, and the fields abound with hare and partridge. The Aloes*, which bounds the Estate for about four miles, and the Lock of Aelanacloich afford excellent Angling. A Furnished Cottage, of three rooms, kitchen, and ser vants' room, conveniently situated fur the accommodation of the sportsman, and within a mile of the village of tines*, where the mail passes daily, will be Let with the shooting. N.B.—Not more than three guns allowed. For information as to rent and other particulars apply to Thomas Mansfield, accountant, Thistle-street ; or to Gordon and Stuart, H, Bellevue-crescent, Edinburgh. P.S. Both of these Shooting Quarters have peculiar advantages' in point of access, and for the despatch of Game, as a Steam-boat sails for Invergordon each week, by which Sportsmen, their servants, dogs, and baggage, can be conveyed at: a trifling expense from Leith in 24 hours, and Game sent South by the Steam-boat, may be delivered with certainty in London on the fourth day, without any risk of detention in coach-offices or otherwise. Invergordon is only five miles from Ardross, and about twenty miles from Strathconon. The snail coach also passes daily within a few miles of each place. of their turperlative abilities. Here again a little explanation is necessary: the public is to be informed that the talent of an artist has little or nothing to do with his election into the Academy. The pride and self-respect which are the natural concomitants of genius, will be more likely to keep a man out of the Aca demy than bring him into it ; and if among that body there are some individuals of incon testable abilities, they have got there, not in con sequence of their talents, but in spite of them. Whoever determines to become a member of the Academy must bid adieu, without remorse, to the 'spirit and feelings of a gentleman. He who cannot squeeze himself into every avenue, whether dirty or clean, and who is inexpert at the games of intrigue and manoeuvring in all their contemptible intricacies,—who shrinks from the tortuous processes of sycophancy, flattering, canting, wheedling, begging, coaxing, and crying (for even this last expedient has been known to have been employed with the happieit effect),—he who is unable to do these things, has little chance of obtaining a seat in the Royal Academy. But, whatever be the means, how glorious is the end ! The successful can didate is no sooner installed in his sacred office than he is enabled to make.a full atonement to his humiliated feelings by wreaking on others the same tyranny which had been exercised upon himself, and several of them have been heard, with laudable candour, to avow their resolution of doing so. It may be asked, the Academy being of such questionable character, why should any man of talent think it eli g ibl e to belong to it ? Truly, if this institution were stripped of its prescriptive rank, and tacit' by the standard of its actual strength, the members might be left to play off their airs of ludicrous dignity, and adjust their puny 'politics, with a horse-laugh of derision ; but so long as the Royal Academy is invested with the character of a national establishment, insti tuted and sustained by the sanction of Royal authority, so long will every artist be desirous, an.i has a right to expect, that his works should find in it the opportunity of being fairly pre sented to the public. The only plausible excuse which has been offered by the Academy, in exte nuation for any part of those abuses, is the variety and inadequate size of their apartments appropriated to exhibitions. This instrument, placed in their hands, is certainly a bad one, and it must be admitted that they have made the worst possible use of it. The remedy for these evils is simple and ob vious. A gallery should be constructed for the purpose of the National Exhibition, of such ex tent and of such a plan as should give sufficient space to every qualified contributor, and preclude the possibility of invidious and partial arrange ments. Without going into detail, as we pur pose to return to the subject, it will be sufficient at present to hint, that this gallery should, in shape, resemble that of the Louvre, lighted, however, not laterally, but by a continuous sky. light'; and the first law of the establishment should enact, that no picture should be hung so far either above or below the eye of the spectator as to prevent its being commodiously seen. A grand and animating stimulus would thus be given to the whole body of practitioners, for the road to distinction would be open to all ; nor could that eminence be disputed, or impugned, which had been obtained by th e or d ea l of full and fair comparison. The establishment of an institution, such as we now suggest, or something analogous to it, has been already discussed in the Times, and among the higher authorities; but the execution of the plan, it is said, was procrastinated by con siderations of finance. These considerations will be found to be obviated by the following suggestions :—The annual receipts of the Royal Academy, as above stated, amount to 5,000/. or 6,000/. An exhibition, conducted on the enlarged and liberal principles which we now recommend, would, no doubt, be much more productive ; and surely , the appropriation of a part of its revenue during a given number of years would be sufficient to defray the expense of its construction.— Times. IMPERIAL. PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(LAST NIGHT.) The. LORD CHANCELLOR entered the House at Twenty Minutes past Five o'clock. Lords Hoot) and VERNON took the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from Bedford, complaining of the oppressive nature of the poor rates in that county, and praying an inquiry into the state of the poor laws. The Earl of 'WESTMORELAND presented a petition from Sir Jonah Barrington, praying that lie may be at liberty to strike out part of the evi dence taken in his ease, and be at liberty to examine another witness. _ The LORD CHANCELLOR concurred in the propriety of acceding to the prayer of the petition. The Duke of WELLINGTON considered that enough witnesses bad been examined already, and that the case ought to proceed in its regular course. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. The LORD CHANCELLOR then said, that their Lordships would have to consider whether they would deem it proper to concur in the Address to his most gracious Majesty which had been voted by the House of Commons, and communicated to their Lordships at the conference which had lately taken place. The Address related to the conduct of Sir Jonah Barrington, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Ireland : it declared Sir Jonah Bar ! rington to have been guilty of malversation in his office, and proposed an application to the Crown for his removal. He was accused of applying to his own use certain sums of money paid into the Court of Admiralty on account of certain causes pending in that Court. In the course of the inquiry a Mr. Pineau was examined as a witness,and cross-examined at very great length by Counsel for Sir Jonah Bar rington, and certainly he should recommend, in con firmation of the opinion expressed by the House of Commons, that if the question depended mainly upon his evidence, that Parliament would not be justified .in condemning Sir Jonah Barrington; for the con. duct of Mr. Pineal*, from his own admission, ap peared to have been altogether unjustifiable, end there was, beside, a sufficiency of contradiction in his evidence to shake it Materially ; but unfortu nately the evidence against that Learned Judge did not depend seared" at all upon the testimony of Mr. Pineau. It was founded almost entirely upon written documents in the handwriting of Sir Jonah himself; or else upon written documents authenti cated by interlineutions and corrections in the bawl writing of Sir Jonah. The charges were of a very simple description, and he would despatch them if/ a few words. The Noble and Learned Lord then recapitulated all the charms established against Sir Jonah Barrington by . evidence Oven at the bar, tin.:l submitted the case to their Lordships,- declaring it was his.opinion that they ought to concur in the Address voted by the House of Com Mons. The Address voted by the House of Conimmis was then, adopted with the necessary formal /atm* tOns, and it was ordered to be presented to his Majesty by the Lord High Steward and the Lord Chamberlain. diry LIBEL LAIN AMENDMENT BILL. az the question that their Lordships re.olve themselves into a Committee on this Bill, The LORD CHANCELLOR said he rose to state the nature and pipet of the -13i11 before their Lordships ; in doing so, his duty Would be of is simple descrisienrrAttActtlie,6oth of Geo. --was passed , for the purpose of altering the law of libel, as far as It related to' libels of a particular character. It ; provided that those who were coil ! vieted of a blasphemous or seditious libel a second time should be subject, at the discretion of the Court, to the ordinary punishment for a high mi:s. demeanour, or should be banished for any term of ,ears that he Court thought proper. It was a ma terial alffation in the law, at least alit existed 811 , 11 T the time of Elizabeth (for in that reign there weir a particular Act p r e s c r ibi ng banishment for a certain offence); but, except under the provisions of that .Act no such punishment had ever been inflicted on a subject of this part of the realm for any offence prescribed by the Common Law. It was true that in reality this repeal of the punishment of banish ment was not a very great boon to the people, be cause, during the lust ten years, there had been no punishment of this description under the Statute, nor, indeed, had there been any prosecution. It would have required that a man should have been first convicted for a blasphemous and seditious libel, and then that he should have been a second time convicted of the same offence. It wits accordingly, he repeated, no great boon; btu as there were many persons there, and still wet., in the ether House' who desired the alteration, was happy in being instrumental in the commission. On this part of the Bill he believed there could be no difference of opinion. But there was another part of it to which he was bound to call the attention of the Ministers. By an Act of the same Session, and next in order to the Act he had already men tioned, it was provided that any person who should publish a newspaper, or other species of publication therein named, should previously be bound in re cognizances of three hundred pounds for himself, and should provide two sufficient securities. This was, if he published in the metropolis; but if in the country, he was to be bound in two hundred pounds for himself, mind to find two securities. Now the object of this was to guard ageinst blasphemous and seditious libels, by establishing a forthcoming fund from which fines on the convicted might be levied. There was a subsequent proposition, that when the sum was reduced by the payment of any fine, it should be raised to its original amount before. there could be any further publication. The object of the Bill now before their Lordships was to extend the amount of recognizances by -100/. in each case, thus making it 400/, in the metropolis, and 3001. in the country; and further, this fund so es tablished, was to be made available for the liquida tion of damages in civil cases, as well as for the pay ment of fines in criminal convictions. In a word, the grounds upon which that provision was intro duced were these not Infrequently happened, especially in the case of registered and Stamp-office Newspapers, that the real name of the party con cerned was concealed, while some person of no sub. stance was put forward in his stead. In cases of. private slander accordingly, when an whan was brought, and damages recovered, the prosecutor, in stead of recovering anything, was compelled to pay his own costs, and he had no means of obtaining any redress. To this provision of the Bill he ac cordingly gave his most cordial support ; for he thoUght that it Was more important. to the well being of the State to repress private slander, then their political or religious libels of any denomination whatsoever. He bud now stated the facts, and would move that the Bill be committed. Lord HOLLAND thanked the Noble Lord on the Woolsack for the candour and courtesy with which he had brought the measure forward. Ile thought that the repeal of the punishment of ba nishment would be received as a boon by the people, for its enactment was contrary to the spirit of the English law. He agreed with the. Noble and Learned Lord that there could be no difference of opinion upon the first provision of the Bill. He did not think, however, that some of the Supporters of the measure in the other House would be satis fied with the way in which be bud. recommended it to their Lordships; for he remembered well that at the commencement of the Session the measure had been introduced into the other 11ou►;e with a flourish of trumpets, us a great boon to the liberty of the Press; but after a gestation of many months the cat was at length let out of the bag, and they found there was a st►ng in the tail which rendered the whole thing of very questionable advantage to the people. lie decidedly objected to the increase in the recognizances, without some better evidence being advanced in support of it than the simple assertion upon the face of the Bill that it was expedient. As to private libels, he would be the last man in the h % w v i o i r e l t d i t ie o e w o i m sl p t i t at i l i e t d tley should o i fwasthe go oni t u u s tp t u a n ;l is ti hed; but unphilo sophical confounding of two offences so distinct as private and public libels. They were different in their nature, the motives which led to them were different, and they ought to be separated, and con sidered in a very different point of view. It was his intention to propose to omit all the words in the latter part of the second clause; and to repeal all securities and recognixances whatever, with the in tention of compelling the revision,_ in another Ses sion, of th e w h o l e l aw o f libel. The objects of that revision ought, in his opinion, to be, firat, to give in creased facility to the punishment of private libels; secondly, to define more exactly the nature of .public libels, if public lib e l s must st ill b e t h e su bj ects o f prosecution ; and, thirdly, to correct the proceed ings by information, especially by ex-officio informau Lions, and above all, that anomaly in law, that sole cism in language, by which it was supposed that any one could be guilty of punishing a libeller who had no guilty intention—that one ,person could be rendered responsible for the uct of another; and by which Juries were called upon, on their °p i ths, to say that a man ought to be iustly convicted and punished for publishing word; which he had never previously seen or heard of. He was aware that this was owing to an erroneous construction of the Act upon the subject, which bad originated with one whom he must always revere, but somehow or other it appeared to him that the astuteness of the Bar had a perpetual retainer on the part of power against totebfriedtreiernicvityll.ett in ge A o lt f ho tl t i l e gh :tibjeet ; and that the meaning question was wrested fro m it s rea l he allowed, that the first part of the measure under their Lordships consideration wasaboo f n o ,yet, when he c o ns id ere d t h at on t h e in troductionflint measure it was accompanied by one for imposing heavy stamps upon Newspapers, he could not but believe that there bad beeil an in tention, which however he vis rejoiced had proved AbortiTe 4 to call on Parliament in the present Session for the adoption of a course of unprecedented se verity against the Press. Lord WYNFORU rose but his Lord hilt not uttered two sentences, when he was interupted by A Message from the House of Commons, an nouncing that that House had agreed to their Lord ships' Amendments in the Forgery Bill, the Beer and Cider Bill, the Scotch Judie4ture Bill, &c. Lord WYNFORD then proceeded. He allowed with the Noble Lord who had just spoken that the law of libel was by no means in that state in which it ought to be. No man was more capable than the Noble Lord of bringing the whole subject under the cotifOetation Of Parliament ; and he trusted that in another;Session the •Noble Lord might be induced to do so. He must, however, defend the profession to which he had had the honour to belong, from the imputation of having frittered away the•meaning of the Bill which had been brought into the other Rouse of Parliament by that Noble Lord's illustrious relation. lie had never known an instance of a pro secution for libel, in which the Judge had not dis rincily stated to , the Jury the province which, as cording to that Dill, belonged to them. He per fectly agreed .with his Noble and Learned Friend that it was good to put an end to the first part of the libel. His approbation did not, however, rest exactly on the same grounds, but on the fact that the nature of libel wits, by the existing law, so un certain, that no man ought.to be subject, on account of it, to a ruinous punishment. He could not eon elude without expressing his utter abhorrence of the libels which had recently appeared in the public prints on the first Aingistrate in the land.—( Hear, hear.)--,Libels, the impurity of which appeared to him to be utterly incompatible with the preservation and wellbeing of our present form of Government. The House then resolved itself into the Committee. Lord HOLLAND moved the amendment, of which he had given notice, for doing away with all lecognizances and securities. The amendment was negatiVed witkont a division. Lord HOLLAND wished to know whether, when any person who bud entered into recognizinces, ren dered himself liable to. pay any fine, he must entei into a new recognizance ? The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that when any part of the money for which a publisher had given security was exhausted, the party would, be precluded fiom continuing the publication of his paper, until he made good the deficiency by a new security. _ Thiclauses of thell were then gone through, and agreed to. On the bringing up the Report, Lord HOLLAND repeated his amendment, which was vain negatived. The Bill was ordered to be read a third time to morrow. PRICE 7D. EAST RETFORD. • The Marquis of SALISBURY, having moved j the order of the day for the House to go into u I Committee on the East Rertsrd Disfanchiaement Bill, • Lord WHARNCLIFFE stated, that he could by r no meant, concur in the principle of the proposed measure. In the case of Grampound, they had re• f moved the franehiselrom that borough altogether, and transferred it to the county of York, although I he at the time, being then in the House of Corn ' moray, had recommended that it should rather be . given to the borough of Leeds, which was hitherto . unrepresented. What he should now suggest would be that they should abide by the principle its , that instance acted on, but lint take that precise . mode of removing the franchise. He had not him self taken the trouble to read the evidence adduced to establish the charge of corruption against East Retford, but it appeared to hove been of a nature abundantly sufficient to satisfy their Lordship's minds that that borough had been habitually guilty of corrupt practices for a long period, and that there fore it deserved to be constitutionally punished by an immediate change of franchise. His opinion on these premises:wae, that:they oiled not to deal by the delinquent borough as was now intended, but that they should convey the franchise entirely away front this borough, and give it to some of those great towns which bud not at present the advantage of representation. One of the resolutions, therefore, which it was his-intention to move on the bringing up of the report was, in favour of the transfer of the franchise to the town of Birmingham : not that he did not think a transfer toLceds or Manchester equally eligible in point of principle, but he particularized Bir mingham solely because its claims to representation had been already submitted, during the present session, to the attention of Parliament. He was quite at a loss to perceive what useful object was sought to be obtained by a conveyance of the franchise to Basset law, which was apparently sufficiently represented in Parliament already. What could have been dis covered in its loctrlity or intrinsic pretensions to en title it to this distinction he confessed himself unable to conjecture, es it seemed to him that the share ie county representation which it had hitherto enjoyed, was all to which the hundred could possess any reasonable claim. Birmingham, ou the other hand, a place of immense population, of enormous wealth, enjoying all the other important advantuges contin gent on commercial prosperity, and having a deep interest in every question which could tome before Parliament, whether relating to general policy, of appertaining exclusively to mercantile affairs,--this great town, he repeated, with such numerous claims on their consideration, was constrained to intrust its multifarious concerns to the Members for War wick. It was well understood, however, thut as the House of Commons worked at present, all interests were virtually represented, although it would appear that theoretically they were not. He might be told that the transfer he recommended went to deprive the landed interest of two Members out of the eight which were sent to Parliament by Nottingham, but he thought that the state of th e c orn Laws was sufficient of itself to show that that interest was tot, powerful in Parliament to dread so small an app.. rent curtailment of its strength. Besides, it wa, rather the monied interest which the Members fut East itetford might rather be supposed IQ Tire sent, as it was notorious, generally speaking, that those 'persons who were eeturned by that borough had no connexion whatever with the counts of Nottinghem. It ought, moreover, to be recol. !mid that the House of Lords was all in ab, or at least, for the most part, compesed pt` those who Were chiell, connected wffle peoperty of th at description. NI ith reeptee to Birmingham, and those other tewee eintilarlz eircum,tanced, he might observe that many of the important questions to be agitated in the next Pat liAnent—that relating to the Bank of England, for example»---were of a molar. which rendered it particularly deeleztolo to collect the practical informatiep, wbieh was only to be de rived from sash Beams. With a recent strung illuetret4rn of 'the fact so fresh in th e ir recollection, it was unnecessary for him to remind their Lord ships that individuals were frequent i ty ten time, more dangerous unrepresented eV home than the) woulsl be found whoa kgli s ametely, returned as u component part Of ilia Legislature from , which they ken' 'been excluded. The proposal %Odell - he sub mitted to their consideration they 41 doubtless t a N l s te o ' b i C t le ro h tt ( t i lt ra ‘ b v e h e e t t h i l l e i l i t i : tp kf ) : o l-1 6 r j em so l v u e ii v t a d aas Z1,37, 1 :: ° t 4 4 1 O i o h li c all another to rt alluded to the fate of Lord John 4tir oe m ~ , s rnotiott relati , siemingliam iti the 11,eskse.of 00111111 Obs, observing that the :4 1 Stieet the times was Stich tt to teach Parliament the wisd om of givin g ‘ra public opinion to a certain e N t ent )rather rhea t 4, franchisement Bill which should ho introduced would be disposed of in n different manner.— (Hear, hear, hear.)--iie should then trove t the Bill be committed on Friday, intending tee pose two resolutions to the effect he had dimly stated, on the bringing up of the report with 3 View to their being communicat e d to th e econnion at a conference. The Noble Lord added, tlair Iu should wish to empower thos,, who had not let convicted of corruption, to vote at the (Imam) a representatives for liirrningism. The Earl of JERSEY then moved the adjourn. . merit of the debate, for th e purpose of moving that the House should send a message to the Commons, expressive of the concurrence of the House in en address to the Crown respecting Sir Jonah Bar rington.' On this it was sought to be contended that the Bill was lost according to the forms of the Hous, , , inasmuch as the terms of the motion wero 11A " an adjournment of the debate during pleasure?' After a abort conversation on the print of Pin liamentary form so involved, Lord HOLLAND observed that it was certainly competent for any Peer in the House to move 'tle resumption of the debate immediately, if he thought proper, although the terms of the Noble Emil* motion were not in Parliamentary acceptation Ilk rally correct. The motion relative to Sir Jonah Barrington having been acceded to, The Marquis of SALISBURY accordingly moved the resumption of the debate r and proveeded to say that it was unnecessa r y now to go further than the case required, the object being to purity the representation, which would be sufficiently lit rained by the BM as it at present stood. Tito only question was, whether they should transfer the franchiee at once to a great town, or merely extend it to Bassetlaw, and he thought it would,' be an act of great injustice to East Retford to deprive it of its franchise altogether. The Earl of DUDLEY, however, felt strongly in favour of the measure proposed by the Noble Lord near him, and thought that to forego the prs sent opportunity of carrying sucha principle into effect, Uould be to throw away a great advantege which slid not often present itself, lje,had no doubt but those great towns sustained considerable Mem.- venience in consequence of not being represented, and wished to see a remedy applied us soon as pos. , ible to what he could not help considering u een stitutionul evil. Lord DACRE said, that as a reformer he was glad of the admission made by his Noble Riot (Earl Dudley) that some reform was necessary. With such an ally he would gladly act ; and though he did not think the measure a remedy for the evil.= which he believed to exist in the represcututioni y t it would be an important point gained. The Noble Lard' then proceeded to contend that the question of vested rights of electors was one which could not be entertained for a moment by their Lordships. Ir was one which had never been ndmitted its any kg '• %Wive measure respecting the franchise, and bed never beets thought of ut those periods when the crown used to issue writs to place* aceording to th e numbers and circumstances of the inhabitants. A case of gross corruption, he maintained, had 1,V(91 made out with respect to this borough, and the evil would not be met by a measure which would stilt Mow to the same ,voters a corrupt influence, mate!; diluted, no .doubt, by the admission of so ruany new voters„,but still au influence which they ought not to have !After what their Lordships had heord from the evidence at the bar. The most efft crush remedy for this sort of corruption would be, to tisk , away the franchise altogether, and give it to one at those large and populous towns now unrepresented, but which none of their Lordships could , doubt would, if they had existed in ancient times', have had a writ issued to them to return Members to Par liament. Lord ELLENBOROUOH contended that it would be un act of great injustice to those voters id East Retfurd who were not guilty of corruption t,t deprive them of their franchise. flu admitted it ,vas an inconvenience that such a town as 1.1 h.. minghatn should not he represented, and whenever a ease of general and hopeless corruption occurred in n borough, and that the franchise wee declared forfeited, he would not object to its transfer to such it large town; but the present case he did not con sider as one calling for a total forfeiture of the franchise. Viscount GODERICU said, he should be tli , posed to deal with each case of this kind us it arose recording to circumstances, but he could net roncur that this was not a case deserving the total loss of the franchise. Ile denied th at the''doctrine of vested rights had ever been admitted by Parliament. It could not, therefore, he said to be an act of injustie to transfer the franchise from a small town to one of great wealth and extent. Ile was not a friend to speculative reform, but whenever a COO like the present was made out, he should he disposed to aet upon it by transferring the franoWe altogether. The Marquis of BUTU had great doubts as tt, the guilt of this borough being satisfactorily pro ve ,!, Aul if not so, it would be injustice to 1; 4 1 0 from i t the franchise altogether. lie thought% under all the circumstances, it would be better tta deal with it us vas proposed by the Bill. • Lord CALTHORPE contended that when their Lordships had, as in the present case, the franchise at their dispose!, they would not be acting in the ; ?kit of the Constitution if they refused to grant it to a t own of such wealth and population as Birmingham. Their Lordships could do nathin g whieh would tend more to promote the spirit of visionary reform than the rejection t 4 the proposition for giving this franchise to llitin4ightun or some other great town. The Duke of WeLLINGTON Intid be had listened to the argument as to the inconvenience or not hnving snob towns as Blrtninghtua represented * but he differed from the Noblt; Lord as to the ex_ tent of that inconvenience, Ite admitted there wag qoam, but be eueteudt4 that Other and much .areater Inconvenience wok result from adopting the pro. posed nuicrtimout. Opinions were lay Ho means nuttlihtotti us to the inconvenience front the want cf representatives for several greet. towns, but trimly held opinions that elections in such towns would be still more inconvenient, and that the fart of ''ePresentutiVoa would not mid to their weight ei“t imPortAnw, Complaint* of the %Vara of represetan. tires had 'often been math, but it did not appen, that the towns in any degree suffered by it. Tory had gone on incten4g in Ivoulth and itupurtsne,.. lie admitted, with the Noble Lail opposite, thin , tr i ct i v sl , o o, : j og 'h e ro were no such thinglali vv•ted rights la the elective franchise; b Le defied any acre to show that the franchise had evvr been tILL, ti , East Itetford were nut dc.orived of their rights, bite their impot•teneo • ar.4 value were redueed, a t , +nil which had been found tiro t salutary itr its c;w i i ii . t t io i n ociial U id p t o b r: t th if u ti % i v e l y witi wen k t retulrlot short of it they :ghttliat wto, he wort of measure hest adapted to the e ase; t h at oultl ttu less than Its t hey woul Ido njtptiee. Tt;a o i r r 111 1.. u o 4 rd iu t ei ll i i ti o in 4 Lord WiIARNCLIVM replied. V 3 IA 1:11 11,1: ~, - peered.-.. Against it ....,... f,li :11ajority itgairon the anieitinivnt ,—",: , -Z,.: en t it tleil Ilividej .h. ~, The reaolosions of Lot 1! WIIMINCI.III , II v..-vsitl,c moved, and negutived tvAtotit n divki" , '. On our rotoro to the I lon4eove lonort jrO4- 1,1 , 4,`- ,!iiint in Committee on the Bid. Tin' v i """' I '''''' seVerany agreed to witlioq, dik.oition.- , Aiiii ft.