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. , preterit moment, 'trespass atponYour Lordships with twit cif the reagens ., which itiduen'ter Prefer''the'esta- Mirth 'octet of those Courts die a nertomadel to a• retu It' to e ba exert form of the . &violet, ristliationee By the Doter plan an interference might 'Odic place With the Ote neat rights and duties of the-Sheriffloi , There might' be a' elifficulty in settling the matter' witheut giving Offence to respectable persons and respectable broth% It appears to me to be evident, from alt attempts of a similar nature, some more and some less efficient, and none More creditable than those great, wise, and enlightened measures foe the perpose of ameliorating our Criminal Code whirls were brought forward a few years ago by a Right Ittin. Gentle man then holding a high situation in his Majesty's Coon appears to nut to be evident that exactly to re establish the ancient County Courts in all respect's, wetild' be to sacrifice a eubstanee to a' vision, to maintain an out. ward form and semblance, without deeming the internal advantage and reality'; and would he to hamper ourselves with innumerable inconveniences. Fee these reason*, 'my Lords, into the details of which, as I have eretaly ob served, I will not now enter, I consider that it would be far the better plan, that it would be far more expedient, if, availing ourselves of the experienceof our neighigeirs; we revive our Courts of local and oetlioary juris- diction. I have now, my Lords, tleacribed at some length the nature of-the. plan which, after long del ibe: ration on my part, after consulting my profession& friends to an extent which justjfiee toe' in saying that the proposition is the result net. of: 'myoten reiletatiobs aleee, but of the reflections of thou who areiwttei' able to foreea lodgment upon the suirje,et than meets% I ant new ahem to lay before your Lortiahipe Bill which contains n o t, only the general principle tithe plam-but the details which appear to me to be necessary for the . putircrae of carrying that general principle into execution. I ground myself on ooe or two points which I consider as cardinal, and net to be deputed from. The Bill will comprehend no change in the fundamental laws of the land. 'lt Will 'comprehend no change in the practice of thoselatvio, no curse that is not' strictly in oonsnnance with the established practice. Above all, my Lords, the operation of this 13111 will be so feeced and guarded, as to afford 'ample Security, by the controlling' power of his Majesty's Courts of Mooed at Westminster, against the possibility of the law being at all changed in any of these local Jurisdiction% and against the possibility of the administration of the law becoming Vezina in vaidotte parts of the kingdom. To what extent this security Is to yo, to what exact controul these loco! Cowie are to be subject, what ie to be the limit of the power of thesuperior Courts, all these, my Lords, are 'questions into which it is trot necessary that I should at present enter . at length; because all that I now propose to do is to ask your Lordships' leave to introduce the measure, which, wheel it is on your Lord ships' table, wilt speak fur itself. Suffice it to say, that if when the Bill is before your Lordeliips, you should find in it any discrepancy, any departure from the principles on which I have brought it forward, it will be fur your Lordships to remove that objectienable part. I will *hortly, however, state the powers which I propose to give to the Courts created under thie Bill. My proposi tion is only to try the experiment in two counties--and the result will determine whether or not it he expedient to extend it. I propose that the Judge shall be called a Judge in ordinary. I propose that, after the metier of. the ancient County Courts, be shall be hound to sit, not twice a year, as the Judges of Ateitte Hit, but every 'mouth, with the exception of one month in autumn.— The ancient County Courts eat every lunar month 0 I propose that these new Courta shall sit (Wary retailer. month. I propose that before the Judges of those Courts may he tried the following action", that is, if the parties cheese not to bring those actions in the superior King's Courts. If the poke prefer cheap. justice to dear justice, if they prefer near justice to dista n t awok e , it they prefer quick justice to delayed lustier, they will have an opportunity under certain regulations (anti in framing them I have availed myself of the pro found knowledge and ettest ingenuity of my ;Veldt' and Learned Friend who lately presided in thu se. rand Law Court of this country) to bring actiereo in those Local Courts of the following description : All actions of debt, trespass, and tower, where the sum sought to be recovered dote not exceed 1004 ; all actions of tort, as for assault, libel, seduction, and the. like, where the damages to be recovered do not exceed 501, ;—and sill actions for breaches of agreement,. where the damages to be recovered do not exceed 1001. subject, however, to an appeal from this court whenever any title to free hold, leasehold, or copyhold property came in question in course of the issue. I would propose, moreover, that the joke* who should preside in three courts should be men of character and weight in the prafernion, anti not, as has been too often the case, with whet were erroneously supposed to he inferior legal appointinents-ornen of little or no experience in the courts of Westroinsterelfale It Was a rain and a most pernicious mistake to suppose that what were called moderate or trifling (In a pecuniary point of view) cause*, could he satiefertorilydimpoeed °Eby Judges of moderate ability and experience. There was nothing either in the theory or the practice of the inferior judicial establishments of the country to warrant such a mis chievously absurd proposition. There .were, in this part of the United Kingdom, some / 1 0—peelleloi I should be more correct in saying some 280--a Courts of Con science and Courts of Regoeate and other, inferior local tribunal* for the adjudication of cases involving Motivate of ontnparatively minor importance; ovidch courts, am free to admit, are felt by the country, mail justly too when we take into eon-ideretion the evils consequent upon whit I might, for the sahe of brevity, term the higher litigations, to be comparatively great blueing*. But still, whosoever was acquainted with the machinery asst proceedings, of these courts would, I am sure, admit —in fact, could not doubt—that compering their terrlts 'with the wants of the sinters seeking h brunt redress for their grievances, they were imperfect anti inefficient, and, what was more, by no means, all things considered, no coetly,—were, in truth, in a great national legislative point of view, of little benefit, anti might, with great ad ventage to the public, be absorbed,--I mean ultimatelt sibarabed e —in the more efficient, better adapted, because better constituted, anti not more expensive in courts which toy Bill proposes to establish. Two cases of action were Ritually tried in the courts of conscience and of requests, --one for debts or claims liar mime under 21. ; the other for sums not exceeding W. Now it te as Leant to Isere both in a great Measure to the tiolinery ,jurisdictions until Mich time as the function, of both Court' were absorbed, as I have stated, into those of my propelled local tribunals.. It would be left to the suitors to choose between the new County Courts awl the ordinatylerietlictions ep to Or, es at would lie left to the /miter* to choose between the County Curate in causes falling within their titijudicatory powers, but involving, a, it might happen, complicated and iino pertant interests ; but it would he compulsory (so we sin • elerstood the Noble and Learned Lord) on all litigants in cams for 100/. by way of debt, or 501. by way of tort, to seek redrew, in the proposed County Courts, anti not to go elsewhere to the higher tribunals', unless, as I have stated, the use involved questions of freehold, or tenure, or other complicated interest* incapable of it quick de cision. This would be the more easily ell'eetcd, it strikes me, on account of the condition which I have laid down for the appointment ef the Judges of the County Com tte—munely, entablithed ebility and experi ence as a lawyer. And here I trust your Lordeliipe will permit true to remind yea of a principle or fact which should never be lotgettert when attempting to legislate with a view to. fecititatiog and rendering more. cheap the means of jeatice—that the arnotint of the au t o at issue between litigarits, o othat is to say, that what is tolled a moderate action, ,involving .tiempariatively but bide pecuniary interests, is no standard of the ability and knowledge required in the presiding Judge, is no measure of the importance, the intrinsic paramount importance, to the parties engaged In the suit, mad therefore is not to be got rid of hastily by some member of the profession of but little skill or experience. It may, with your Lordships, be a matter of but little or secondary moment, ,whether justice is brought home to the very doors of suitors,— whether, fur example, a suitor shall have to' get from a distance in the county to Lancaster, or from Iluddersfield to York ; but still if the sum at issue were but 20/.—risy but 101.—it is as much to a poor num, and its loss is as great a loss to hint, and the sense of injustice rankling in his bosom from its being withheld from him, and front the difficulties placed in the way of hie (draining redress, whether those difficulties are of distance, or expense, or delay, with all the consequent anxieties and sulTerings of mind-weirs as great, I say, to the poor mate as 'natty thousands to most of your Lordships, arid art, therefore, as well worthy of contitleration to Parliament, acting in in its great national legislative capacity, end on the great notional legislative principle of petrol laws and equal protec tion foam those laws—that is, of equal juatice. It is then, I will asy, the bounden duty of riot Government, be its mem hers who they relay, to Nee the. law administered so that the poor roan easy obtain redress for his grievances us ex- Peditiottelat and to him as cheaply, as the richer suitor, and ant, as is too much the 4%40 At present owing to the detest** of our, bpi institutions, that causes involving smaller interests were to be regarded of little moment, b e i n g, as it were, of little putilie importance. But I con trod they are of great public importance, its it signified much to t h e poor man Ow lieshould have his just grieve auto promptly and cheaply rerfrottesi. It was no objet:. tion that those rumor CAuses-Hninur NO far as money is conetrottd—would take tip at touch of a Judge'e time as one in which twenty or a hundred times the metro might involved. My objection to the present system is, nut hat the cause in which the 10/. or 201. is the . Mount 3 dispute would occupy as meek time and s kill on tare port f the Judge as one thr 100/. or 1000!. ; btit—and this, my deep regret, mkgrief.:-that - die small eke& is at nded with great anal Most Vtipreportioned and Most tin.: accessary expense and delay. It is not to the litigation, tiut to the expense and deity that . I object, for I feel 4iat the line between cases cif comparatively little and al ireat pecuniary moment with which ove Ae hound to Observe, is that of expenal ankelehyi and not the quali fication of the Judge* an tar as inferiority and stiPeriority ! in either Cate fir; etnceroed. It should be borne in mind, tim, tba% the great hulk of tliii suit? s Much come for' denisina before the ordinary tranunals, originated with; the 'middling, and pisitreV classes of society, to whom I' again and tgaitt repeat, the interest, itS.Vo.ved—be they great or be they small—he thaAy for pounds or shil lings—ere as dear and as it4ortent as matters of greater moment to persont In higher and wealthier stations in sneiety, . re...del-log' it still more necessary that the law altautdhe generally accessible, and expeditious, and Oran. Nnrare we to take the measure of lititAtto'n as a guide to ihe measure of the wants of tie litigants; from the number of causes antihally Maimed of—say, at the As sizes, or lit Weilininster-hall. When I say that Many cases otigtnate with the middling and r um. clatses, I -'arts not to he met by a referete'e to the number disposed of; tor example, it tint* nut be supposed that because but fifty': eaeris were set down for trial at tan cosier it 'I6, or but seventy-six in York in 1.829, thai therefOre there did nut exist more tenaints Mlle dressed in those districts—that these were the Measure% elf the demands of jUstite, and that at a consequenCe any greater facitides than those existing • i!!dttlel only tend to stimulate the 'reposition of the public to vexatiotes and rmedleva litigation. I no means, what the people want is, that the law sheltie! be, I repeat for the hundredth title, easy, accessible, and clomp‘ Make it 040 ) Vivl you will have the ettititra titore numerous .....in other words, yen wilt have the law effecting its : legitimate tqeet of redressing the grievances of every than tVho hintself obeyed it. And here i lal leelVe to combat a very general illusion, fh whii!i, wet only many respectable person!! oUt of doors par take, but I fear, also, many of yont Lordehips,—namely, that litigation should he more discouraged than otherwise. This is an idle tomtnen-place assertion, which will not hear the test of a clime examination. This complaint was not that we heel, under our existing system of law, too 'natty anitare, but that we had too few; and for this ree aon:—so long as wrongs were commiffeal and rights with held, so long there svaa necessity for litigation and as it was vain to 'insert that inferior twee required. Judges of inferior knowledge and shinty for their decision, so it was vain and prevosternua to take any standard for the necee sity of providing for the wants of the less wealthy suitors in mote of justice than that I then named—the amount of wrongs committed—the amount of rights withheld -that is to say, so lung as justice was denied to any per- Moe of the public, So long, therefore, as justice was denied was litigation necessary, and so long have the people a right to demand a more accessible and cheap administra tion of justice than the present means afford ; and be that, justice denied by force or by fraud, or by the oppres om' of the rich,. or by unnecessary and vexatious expense, so far and so long were the auhjects of the King of Eng land denied what they were entitled to under the great charter to which the King had sworn—namely, that he ' 110 4 1 4 " neither sell nor delay justice.'.'--(Hear, hear.) 31y Lorda, justice is sold, if it coats 'three times what it ought to cost 1 , it is delayed if it must be waited for, not one ureic, but six weeks; it is denied, if the price at which it is sold, and the delay with which it is attended, combined to insure the suitor not to seek it. Such, my Lords, are the grounds on which I hope that your Lord ships may be inclined fovourahly to receive this Bill. Allow me to add that it contains provisions for securing an equitable jurisdiction respecting legacies. Many of your 1 1.01.414 s know, and no one knows it better than the Noble anal Learned Lord near me, that nothing is more common than, when a man or a woman has bad seventy, or eighty, or a hundred pounds, bequeathed to him or her, for the legatee to be held at aratolength, by a dishonest or time-serving executor; and that, as all that remains to a legatee in such a case is an application to a Court of Equity, and as the very sound of the name of at Court of Equity is enough to deter any rationel person who is aware of the expense which attends its proceedings, nothing is more common than for an exe cutor suck as I have described to keep the money of the legatee in his pocket ; admitting perhaps the right, but . refusing, on some idle pretext or other, to do his duty. What I propose is, that where the legacy does not exceed 1001., the legatee may avail hinted! of the local ju risdictions to call on the executor, either to deny that he is an executor, or, Admitting that, to deny that any be quest has been made, or admitting that he is an executor, and that a bequest has been made, to deny that lie has any funds, or, having funds, to show that he cannot safely dis charge the demand of the suitor, lest he should appropri ate to that purpose a sum for which a stronger claim might afterwards he made upon hint. All this I propose to come before the Courts to be constituted under the new Bill ; and if the executor states that he has a sum in his hands sufficient to satisfy the demand of the •le;atee, but that he cannot so apply it because he may be subsequently called upon for the money in another quarter, I propose that he shall be compelled to pay the ;mount of the legacy into the Court, not to be withdrawn thence by him, ex cept on exhibiting such receipt* ai , d vouchers as may satisfactorily account for its disposal elsewhere. My Lords, this is my proposition with respect to legacies,. I have, however, , had much - conversation on the subject with many Learned , Friends of mine, who are very con versant with Courts of Equity, and 1 should nut deal fairly by our Lordships if I were not to say that some of them expressed great repugnance to my plan, and saw numerous difficulties in the way of its execution. At the same time others, and those persona of high authority too in such matters, expressed no such repugnance, and CM , no such difficulties, For these reasons I humbly re quest your Lordships' particular attention, and especially the attention of Noble and Learned Lords, to this part of my measure. The last point to which 1 beg to call your Lordships' notice is one respecting which a special joris• diction might, in my opinion, be most advantageously given to those local Courts. Your Lordship, have all beard that in some countries there are Court; which are called Courts of Reconcilement. There can be no doubt that, in many cases, if the suitor were, without the pre. senior of any law agents, to consult the learned and impar tial Judge of a Court on the subject of his claims, and were convinced by him of their futility, two-thirds of the cusses which now crowd the cause paper would speedily he struck out of it• At present a man goer on blindfold ; he is assure►! that he must win the day ; and it is only when he has incurred all the expellee, and subjected him to all the vexation of a proceeding, that on .the eve of the day on which his action is to he tried, he finds from his Counsel that he has thrown away his money, ■nd that his patience has ban tried in Vain. My Lords, when. I state that Courts of Reconcilement have been re 4otteti to for a considerable time with the greatest success in one of the Gintinentill States— , 4 me a n D a nmark—l think I state that which is entitled to your Lordships' at tention. Those Courts were instituted in Denmark in thin ,year`l.79b• In the year 1797 the number of law sutts carrying on in that country was reduced to one third. In the year 1823 the following official P.epart was made on the subject ;--About 31,000 actions were brought in all the Courts of Denmark. The parties in 20;000 of these were reconciled by the Comte of 'Recon cilement; 600 were discharged ; and of 9,426 referred to the ordinary Courts of Justice, only 11,3b5 were tried. It apPearell,. therefore, - that the Court of Reconcilement, by putting the litigating parties in possession of the real feet; and' merits of their respective cases, at once terminated a very great portion of the Ent* that had been commenced. And now, my Lords, :as far as regards my preliminary itiitcment of the nature of my measures, I have done all that I proposed to myself to do. Allow me once more to,express my deep sense of the importance of the subject, and allow me once more to express my regret, that acci dental circumstances have compelled me thus early, after Wing honoured with event in this floosie, to rise and tro pes* so long upon your Lordships' attention. My Lords, deem it a dtity of the utmost magnitude and importance, that the Government and the Legislature of every country should do everything in their power to render the laws of that country respected. These are times' when no person of ordinary prudence would recommend the slightest change in the system of our laws. Periods of external attack, or of internal danger and distress', are nit periods for such- proceeding*. But when a country ; is in a state of peace and ttanquillity, as, God be praised! this country is at the present moment; when we are. not menaced with any foreign peril, and when at home there is nothing but a passing cloud to Ohs tort' us ; moreover, when men's minds are attracted to the' state Of the law,' and the public voice, justly terming that state a grievance, calls for its redress, that, my Lords, steins to me to be the appointed tithe, the very appointed season, for your Lordships and the other House of Patio-, scoot, to take this important subject into your moat serious: co ot id et4t i on , My Lords, this , very-week ' - -- this very day...* Wing to one t o be peculiarly fitted for enteritig upon such an undertaking. Unhappily, my Lords, its consequence of the crccurrencr•a which, although: I feel them to be temporary Rad passing, hare still left a diegraceful stigma en those parts or the enuntry in which the public peace has been disturbed, his Majesty's Government have found it necessary to resort to extraordinary measures to Make the laws respected. Yet a few days from the present pet sod, anti the sternal of justice will be unsheathed, and will most alintredly strike the guilty. This. Is the first and thity of his Majesty's boy c fphi e n't. Their Arat farad most sacred ditty iii to n'ihkit the latV obeyed—their next • duty Will be it) make the law beloved. While its the first initiate: they Ilion , a determinatiort not to allow any threat or any other consideration to induce diets to swerve from the duty of renderingi(the 107 rispected ; when they have perfthined. their !Vlnciatins in that respect with fidelity to the Kt tYi and the King's subjects; when they have exe cuted justice upon the guilty, and shewn mercy to the de luded, what can be a better moment, what can afford a more graceful opportunity than will imtnedlaiely pietient itself to us, of improvity the It'.w Which have cated,.and of lAi.ttle . rilikat still Mnre EfeserVing of the 'tit ' tachtlabt bf the peop!e? My birds, r conOsel. YoU to measure unbefitting your character or dignity. there have undoubtedly One abr'oad teeli'dgs with • respect to both llniaea of ParNti*ta, Which nothing but the conduct of both Moines of Parliament can allay. The connexion of the people and the - Parliament may be compared to the nearest domestic ties. If unhappily there have been any jarring occurrences—if unhappily one party has • been in some degree alienated from the otherl do not counsel you, my Lords, to have t'etdurse to any unworthy artifice for thepurpOse of regaining the suspended attachment; I do not Counsel you to condescend to any unworthy cacti flee for that purpose. I counsel you to do that which is perfectly compatible with—which, indeed, is essential to the preservation of your real dignity. I counsel you, while you maintain your own riglits to respect those of other. I counsel you to improve that administration of jaatice so important to the people who have a deep inte rest in it. I trust that that will be the only way in which we shall answer any imputations that may be thrown out against us. How shall we secure the love of the people? By giving them the aneans of olvaining cheep, easy, and expeditious justice. Whatever hate may be exhibited, whatever abuse may he cot on our venerable institutions, we shall best do our duty to those institu.;- tions by first firmly resisting any violence by which' they may be attacked, and by then applying ourselves to their improvement. By amending the state of the law, by satisfying the people that you have done all in your power to make the law beloved, your Lordships will do more than all the commissions which lawyers can frame or Go vernment adopt, to preserve unimpaired to the latest pos terity that mighty fabric, th firm union of church and State, which bas descended to you from your ancestors, which is founded on the rock of ages, and the hest security for which is the coexistent security of the rights, the . liberties, and the property of the people.—(Hear. hear.) Lord LYNDHURST—The ordinary course, my Lords, when measures of such vast consequence are first pre 'lntel for your Lordships' consideration, is to lay the Bill containing the details of these measures on the table, and then to order it to be printed ; and to allow your Lord. ships a competent time to examine them thoroughly, be fore the Bill is read a second time. Such is the course which, as I understand him, my Noble and Learned Friend proposes to follow on this occasion : so that your Lordships may have the opportunity of coming fully pre pared, at the second reading, to discuss the principles anti details of this new and extensive alteration in the ayatem of administrative justice. At present I content myself with saying, that the plan is one of the highest impor tance; and I fully concur with my Noble Friend in the opinion, that your Lordships are bound to give it your most serious attention. For we must consider that the effect of it, if it should be adopted by the Legislature, will be to create fifty now Courts of Justice, to be presided over by fifty new Judges, anti each of there Courts to be attended with the establishment which is necessarily connected with a Court of Justice. These may be con sidered as minor circumstances ; but certainly the conse quence of adopting the measure will he to make a wide and expensive alteration in our judicial establishments. When the Bill shall have been printed, I will direct the most anxious and careful attention to its principles and the whole of its details, that I may come to the discus sion on the second reading, as fully prepared as the most unremitting inquiry will enable me to be. And if, after the most anxious attention, and the most careful inquiry, I should feel myself compelled to differ from my Noble and Learned Friend, I will freely and candidly state to your Lordships the grounds and reasons of my dissent. But if, upon the most candid, careful, and anxious inquiry, I should he convinced that this is a wise and salutary mea sure—a real improvement—then I will give it my met cordial and zealous support. The bill wan then Lilt( on the table and ordered to be printed.—Adjourned. , HOUSE OF COMMONS, De c . 2. FORFAR ELECTION. The following Members were sworn to try the merits of the petition relating to the election for the Forfar District of Burghs t—. Sir J. Owen, F. Mundy," J. Walsh, C. Coote, George Tudor, R. Price, Air L. Palk, J. tietupe, J. 11. O'Neal, F. H. Gordon, W. Craddock. GLASGOW ELECTION. The following Members were sworn to try the met its of the petition relating to the election for the Glasgow I)is• trict of Burghs 11. Foley, S. Thorns, It. Rambold, F. It. Wilson. C. Brownlow, G. Sehonswar, A. Arch &aeon, J. Marryat, Sir W. W. Wynn, Lord Fordwich, R. Bethel!. ST. AIAWES ELECTION. The following Members were sworn to try the merits of the petition relating to the election for the Borough of St. Mitres :—J. Wayland, B. Howard, T. Whitmore, W- O. Gower, J. Forties, C. Tyrell, Lord 0. Bentinek, J. L. Lumley, H. White, R. Watson, M. Fitzgerald. EVESIIAM ELECTION. The following Members were sworn to try the merits of the petition relating to the election for the Borough of Evesham :--Hun. W. Russell, J. W. Buller, A. Don canle, lion. If. Token, h. Varden, Sir G. IL Stanton, E. B. Clive, J. M. Clements, R. W. Mills, M. Bell, Lord J. G. Lennox. BOROUGIIBRIDGE ELECTION. The following Ateinhorswere sworn to try the merits of the petition relating to tie election for Dorouglibridge C. Corbett, G. Penryn, Hon. 11. King, 1100. J. W. J. F. Paulett, N. Ewin, J. Ilihbothatn, J. Brotkliaw, W. E. Powell, Sir C. I.eitom, J. Brown. TIIEGONir ELECTION. The SPEAKER informed the House that Mr. C. har per, who, ou the 16th of Nove►nl►er, had petitioned against the return for the borough of Tregony, had not entered into the necessary recognizance's. Mr. D. W. HARVEY presented a petition from Mr. C. Harper, stating, as his reason for not having entered into the securities, that he had temi , red one of 500/. and two of 2501. rich, instead of two of NU and four of '2601. each. The petition having been brought up, a short discussion arose on the propriety of caning in the petitioner, in which the following Members took part E. B. Sugden, Mr. O'Connel, Mr. Littleton, Mr. C. Roes, Mr. Ilume, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. S. Rice, Mr. Twins, and Mr. Tennyson. The question was then put, and it was decided that the petitioner should be called in. Mr. C. Harper appeared at the bar accordingly. The petition having been read at the table, Mr. 1). W. HARVEY moved that its prayer should be granted, and that accordingly the time for the petitioner's Cotnpleting his reiognizance should be extended to Thurs. day next. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that if the House thought proper to extend the time, as required by. the pe— titioner, they certainly had the power to do so. 110 any attention been paid to the words of the Act of Parliament the mistake respecting those recogniztnces could not have been committed. Yet, if the party petitioning the House should appear to have acted with good faith, he (the Attorney-General) thought that, notwith stan di ng the negligence of the petitioner, his prayer might he granted. Sir ROBERT PEEL thought, that as the H ouse b e d made a rule, which was pet frilly intelligible, th e y oug h t not to depart from it. The Act of PerliaMent distinctly says that the recognizance for 1,000!. should be given either by two persona for 5001. each, or four persona for 250!. each. Now if the House listened to such allege tions as those contained in the petition then htfore them, they would give a positive advantage to the negligent man over all, persons who attend to the law and comply faith fully with the, rules of the House. Mr. O'CONNELL insisted that the petitioner had complied with the law. The Act contained no limitation respecting the number of the 'statues which should be sub milled to the examiners; and be considered that peti tioners used a prudent prec tution in using one or two names more than the required number, lest they should disapproved of. Besides the petitioner, in the present case, had placed his petition in the }lends of an Hon. Member sufficiently early to be presented to the House within the time specified by the Act, if the House-had been sitting. It was the adjournment that caused the pe tition to be presented too late. The spirit of the law hav ing been strictly complied with, the petition ought not to be set aside by epeeist pleading. Sir It. PEEL said, that if .ever special pleading had been resorted to, for the purpose of getting rid of the pro. visions of an Act of Parliament, it had been resorted to by the Hon. Member for Waterford. The Act of Parliament directly prescribed the form in which the recognitanees should be entered, and excluded any number of names but two or four. Mr. OtOPINP,LL replied, that the Act empowered the ekaminers w alter the names first submitted to than, and, if kenessiry, Jo sittuttitOe (Ahem." li!r. NORTH *as of opini i iln that the intention of the Ant in specifyieo two ith4 four names, was to provide for c)tti•emit Cases, and not to preclude the insertion of three names. He supported the petition. Sir E. SUGDEN opposed the petition. The express injunctions of the law had been neglected. If the House once departed from their rules, they would nee, r know where to stop. In the present case there was nothing to ustify inch , a devatiolv. Tht petitioner had iiot acted With I good faith: le kid itiserfati in lira re 'eogniiatiees as surety for st3of. the name of a man who had,tidtharised Mtn Only to make him surety for 230/. tAMPI3ELL slid that the Act allowed peti . tioners only the alternative of two or four names. If the House could in any case see fit to deviate from that law, it ought not to do so in a case which, like the present, was marked by bad faith and negligence. The SPEAKER explained the circumstances of the case. Lord PALMERSTON thought it import tot that the rules laid down to regulate the proceedings of persons ktving business before the House, should be in alt cases observed.--41leer.)—Parties ought not to he encouraged to expect that those rules would be diliensed with, and that the House might be occupied with the discussion of every case in.which petitioners neglect their own business. As to the petition then under discussion, the House would have an opportunity of going into the subject to which it relates, upon the consideration of another petition com plaining of the same election. Mr. HARVEY denied that the petitioner had acted with bad faith. However, as the Noble Lord (Palmer ston) informed him that the sut►ject of the Treg•►ny elee- tion, would come before the House on another occasion, he would withdraw the petition. Lord J. RUSSEU explained, that the petition al lutle,l to by the Noble Lord near him (Lord Pahnereton) complained of the election o■ very different grounds from those on which the present petitioner founded his com plaint. The other petition set forth that the Return was illegal, because' the election had been held by a Mayor who had not been legally installed. Mr. HARVEY said, that being the case he would press the petition. Strangers were then, ordered to withdraw, and the House div Wed.—The numbers announced were, In favour of the petition Against it On our re-admission to the Gallery, we found - - - The SPEAKER explaining to the House, that the orders respecting petitions complaining of undue Returns from Bristol, Reading, Seaforth, Queenborough, and Ber wick-upon Tweed, should he discharged, the several pe titioners having failed to make good their recognizances. CIVIL LIST.—SUPPLY. In reply to a question from Mr. G. 11. DAWSON as to what day the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed to move for a Committee of Supply for the Navy Estimates of the year, which were not provided for in the last Ses sion.—also on what day it was intended to bring the Civil List before the House, Lord PALMERSTON said, that the Committee of Supply should be moved for on Monday. It was indis. pensable that vangements affecting the Consolidated Fund should be Frinplete4 before the 9th of this month, as great public inconvenience would be occasioned by any de lay beyond that time. SCOTCH INFEFTMENTS. Sir W. RAE (late Lord Advocate) moved for leave to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the laws regarding the taking of Infeftments in the heritable . property in Scot land. He explained that the present mode of conducting such transactions occasioned an expense of more than 80,0001. yearly, whereby the value of the hereditary pro perty of that country was deteriorated to the amount of two millions ateiling. It was the purpose of hi. Rill to abolish all that expense. He intended to leave the printed Bill for two or three months in the hands of Hon. Mem bers who might he desirous of examining its details. He would take that opportunity of inquiring from the Right Hon. Gentlem•n opposite, whether the office which he had litely hail the honour of holding was yet filled? It was now fourteen days since his resignation had been accepted, and he considered it of great public importance that no delay should take place in filling that office. Mr. KENNEDY rejoiced that the suspension of his ►neasure of list year had enaloled his Hon. and Learned Friend to introduce the Bill which had jest been brought under the consideration of the House. If any odium were to attach to the measure, he was quite ready to take his share of that. Sir M. STEWART quite concurred in what had fallen from his lion. Friend the Member for Ayr, and he merely rose to say, that he had heard the statement of the Hon. and Learned Baronet with much **Refection, for he felt aentired that the Bill that he maw proposed to bring in would, as far as it went, be productive of great advantage to the people of Scotland. He must say that his Learned Friend had, with much praiseworthy alacrity, redeemed his pledge of last Session, and bad, sooner than he (Sir M. Stewart) expected. prepared and brought forward this important Bill, the useful object of which was, as he un derstood it, to supersede and remove a considerable portion of Rea cumbersome and expensive machinery that at pre sent perplexes the law of transmission of heritable property. Nothing, he felt sure, could be more requisite or bene ticid than thus safely to simplify the antiquated feudal sys tem of Seotland.—(llear hear. )—Nothing could be more practically beneficed, unless it be a great curtailment of the present tedious and costly system of written pleadings. —(Hear, hear. ).-.This Bill would, lie was persuaded, effect mue , i good, and he trusted the Learned Wironet would persevere, and that his successor in office would cordially co-operate with him in carrying it through the future stages in that [louse. fie could not omit taking this op portunity of returning his thanks, as a proprietor and Rinesentative of Scotland, to the late Lord Advocate for his ready and liberal attention on all occasions, since he (Sir M. Stewart) had been in Parliament, to the public business and interests of Scotland---(hear, hear)—end, notwithstanding the doubts that bad been, as be under stood, expressed in a high quarter, he could not help thinking, that the truly important measure introduced and carried through during last Session by the Lord Advocate, would, upon a full and fair experiment, be found to be as beneficial in its ultimate operation, as it WO in the first instance calenlated to produce a large official reduction and saving to the country.—(llear, hear.)—And he could not on this °cession resist expressing his personal regret that after the unusually long occupancy of the arduous and responsible situation of Lord Advocate of Scotland, the lion. and Learned Baronet should be about to retire al - into private life without any remuneration for his protracted and anxious public servicis ; and he must take leave to say that, under whatever Administration it might occur, be united that the first judicial vacancy would be as a matter of justice, he had almost sail as a matter of right, conferred upon the law Hon. and Learned Lord Advocate.—( liter, bear.) Mr. 0. LAMB said, in reference to the last observation, of the Hon. and Learned Biroaet, he had to inform him, that the office in question had been filled up. hlr. CAMPBELL (as we understood) observed, that the Bill thus ploposed to he brought in would have the effect of obviating a practice which had prevailed in Eng. laud for upwards of one hundred and fifty years, arising not of the law as it applied to livery of seism. By the Jew as it stood, a cabbage garden could not he conveyed without a deed of km, end a deed of release. O'CONNELL observed, that upwards of one hu y e ars ago they had done away with that practice in Ireland lit i tut ; and only, perhaps, from unwillingness to imi tate the Irish, did it remain so long to disgrace the law of England. Mr. CAMPBELL said that they got rid, of the practiee after a very Irish fashion, by introducing an Act to infer the existence of a non-existent deed.—(A laugh.) Mr. O'CONNELL said, it at least had the effect of di• minishing the feet of counsel and agents, as in Ireland there were no conveyancers forming a separate branch of the profession. Leave to bring in the Bill granted. Mr. NORTH ro s e to move f o r leave to bring in a Bill and 20th 2th i o ,r f ot O es e t i a a nti lll o . f (Irish Statute), I S ta t b at li u s t h e e ) d , Church to b o ld office without taking the sacramental test. Ile observed , that the sacra m e n tal test was introduced so lely against Dissenters , sad never, of course, was in. fort o extend purpose enabling tended to lee used as a means of excluding the members of t h e Established Church. As both Catholics and Dis• setters bad been freed from disabilities, he saw no reas o n why an odious and disagreeable obligation should be im posed upon any doss of his Alejetety's subjects, and least of all upon members of the Established Church. r INOLIS diet e gi to explain . e in the Hill, cenpott which see o tahi t el n y a o n bg , j erwecatot objection i f n b it , j eac o pt r iP I do l to e ntertained. Mr. NORTH said that certainly doubts were removed by t h e asd of Gee. 111., but in the opposite direction from that suppotted by the lion. Baronet.— , Leave granted. mr, WY) moved for a return of the several 601, Iw,, and WI., Irish Freeholders who voted at the last. General Election, distinguishing each class, and also die tinguishing those who voted from ecclesiastical benefices. He observed that at the present moment the return for which he moved was a matter of extreme importance, and related to a subject upon which the House ought to have all possible information. He should seek, after he had obtained that tetutp, Iu dtrett the attention of the House to the number of electors who voted from ecclesiastical benefices, as compared with those who voted from quali fications of a different description. He thought it would be found, upon investigation, that a more than ordinary pro portion of the Clergy had voted ; and he believed it would also be found that the votes they gave were for the moat part opposed to the general feelings of the people. In one case, where there were only 191 laymen opposed to the popular sentiment, there,volre nn lees thee 31 clergp- Olen haptiortirig that gpllositian to the feeling ' s of the people. lie wished especially to call the attention of the House to the fact, that the ecclesiastical class of voters were possessed of this advantage—that, whereas other freeholders were bound to register their freeholds, they were exempt front the necessity of complying with any such formality. Without further insisting upon those topics, he should move for the returns, and when they were made be should then move in detail anti submit to the House the views which he took of this important subject. Mr. LEADER wished also for a return of the forty shilling freeholders still remillifing in Ireland; without ' those the return would be incomplete, and it would be impossible for them, without that degree of completeness, to arrive at a just conclusion respecting the franchise of Ireland. Motion for the returns agreed to. The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the Consolidated Fund Bill ; the several clause' were agreed to without amendment, and the report ordered to be brought up on Monday. On the postponement of the Order of the Day for a Committee on the Colonial Acts' Validity Bill, Mr. CAMPBELL said, it ought to be made Jo extend, to all demises of the Crown. Mr. O'CONNELL suggested that the proposition of the lion. Member for Middlesex would effect that Object. Mr. RICE observed, that when they went into a Grim mittec on it on Monday, they might make what arrange ments they might think proper. Order of the Day postponed till Monday. On the motion of Mr. RICE, a new writ was ordered lot the borough of Caine, in the room of Sir James Mac donald, who, since his election, had accepted the office of one of the Commissioners of the Board of Controul. Mr. RICE, in reply to a question put by Mr. Hume, on the presentation, by the former Hon. Member, of cer tain Accounts which had been ordered by the House, respecting the National Debt, said, that a Treasury- Minute bad been made respecting the office of Vice-Trea surer of Ireland ; and when that came beans the House they would be aware of the extent of reduction which the abolition of that office involved, and of the patronage which the Government relinquished in making up their mind to its abolition. While on his legs, he wished to set himself right with the House respecting a question which had been put to him the last night the House sat, respecting the office of Postmaster• General in Ireland; and he was sure that the statement he had then to make would render it apparent to the House that the merit of abolishing the office belonged to the present, and not to the late Government.—lmmediately'after the late election, Lord O'Neill, who was Joint Prestmaster-General of Ire land, ceased to hold that office. Lord Ross, who was associated with Lord O'Neill, received no salary till after the retirement of his Noble Colleague, when he entered upon the receipt of a salary. Lord Ross sent in his re signation upon the appointment of the present Govern ment, and the present Government came to the determi nation of not filling up the office. The accounts which he then laid upon the table of the House did not bring down the Pension List to a later period than the filet of last Jane, though there would, of course, be nu difficulty in continuing it to a later period, if required. Mr. HUME was glad that the present Government were to have the credit and advantage of the abolition of that most unnecess..ry office—Postmaster General of Ire land. He then moved that the list of pensions be con tinued down to the latest period possible. Colonel SIBTHORPE inquired if it was the intention of the new Government to make considerable reductions in the salaries of the various civil officers in the employment of the Crown ? Mr. RICE said, that every possible reduction would be made in the several department., but suggested that more particular replies could notbe expected until the confidential advisers of the Crown were in the House. It was not to he expected that a person holding the office which he did should be prepared to answer such questions. • Air: HUAIE said that, in his opinion, all salaries over 5001 a year ought to be reduced one-half. Not including the officers of the House of Lords, or of the Courts of Law, 993 persons received an income of 2,066 ; 574/. which gave an average of 2,080/. to each. The officers of the House of Commons received 19,642/. ; Judicial officers, not including those of the Common Plea., 466 83131. ; Civil officers under the Crown, 655,434/. ; Diplomatic and Consular officers, 251,624/. ; Naval and Military Pensions to officers, 334,3271. ; Colonial officers, 338,7111. Of these 161 enjoyed an income of between 2,5001. and 5,000/. a year. The incomes of 44 of them ranged between 5,000/. and 10,000!. ; and there were 1l above 10,000/. Two hundred and sixteen of them received a gross income of 916,8071, If the information he possessed included salaries below 1,000!. a-year, and over 500/. they would be found to amount to upwards of . 2,000,000/. It should be remembered how great was the expellee of collection. The fact was, they could sever come to a complete knowledge of the sums paid in that way until they should hove a Committee such as bad been appointed in the year 1810, on the motion of the lion. Member for Dorsetshire, which led to a most valuable and important report. Before the late Government went out of office he had intended to move fora similar Com mittee, but he hoped that the present Government would do it themselves. lie then moved for a continuation of the Pension List to the latest period to which it could be made up, which was agreed to. Mr. OWEN presented a petition from Pembrokeshire, praying for the abolition of West India slevery.—To lie on the tattle. Mr. HUME moved for a return of the prisoners con fined in Glasgow gaol for debt during the years 1827, 1828 and 1829. In hie opinion it would be kgreat im provement to abolish imprisonment for debt in all cases of small debts.—The motion war agreed to. Mr. EVANS presented several petitions from places in Yorkshire, l b al l ot, V A p VANS also n o l nt I. a p Alt r r c e i t s e4 h pt e e esnrynet a bolition ae l di ni o in a t e i s i : ld p? ern t n iac ti stamps' ; o f :. eentda duty. Sir from r o favour m o King ston-on-Hull, elec tioning t ° A n t: o . ll B -I C , u n i , )N Sl V againstA Sir M. S. STFAVART presented a petition from Newark, against slavery. Ceoriel SIBTHORPE moved for returns, showing the number of convictions for adulteration of beer since the Ist of January, 1827. lie was induced to move for these from hearing of such bad cases lately, that he really be lieved the public might just as well drink so many bottles of Day and Martin's blacking. Mr. RICE requested thache might be allowed to look over the paper first, as to the tirrm: there was no objec. Lion to the return. Colonel SIBTHORPE accordingly postponed the mo tion till Monday. Mr. HUME said, that when the tax on beer was taken off, they were told that there would be a great reduction of Excise-officer* but he could not hem of any as yet. Mr. A. LEFROY presented petitions from places in Cork, Antrim, Armagh, against slavery. Mr. WYNN presented a similar petition from some place in Caernarvon. Sir W. GUISE presented six similar petitions from the county of Gloucester. Air. KENNEDY presented a petition from Ayr, pray ing for compensation to the slave-owners. Lord MORPETH presented a petition from Hull, pray ing for a more speedy, and less expensive Mode of recover ing email debts. Lord MOIIPETII presented a great number of petitions from places in Yorkshire, against slavery. Mr. HUDSON presented a petition from Newcastle-on- Tyne, to the saute effect. Mr. BRISCOE presented four petitions from places in Surrey to the same effect. Sir IL lIATESON presented two petitions from the . county o f intim to the same effect. Mr. JAMES JOHNSON presented a petition front Linlithgow to the same effect. Mr. S. LUMLEY presented a petition from Mansfield to the same effect. After a few words from Mr. Hume, Mr. Curteis, Mr. htuthven, and other Hon. Members, the petition was ordered to be printed. Air. CURTEIS presented a retition from a parish in Sussex, for Reform in Parliament, and the vote by ballot. 'The lion. Me l ange pr e sented a petition from another parish in the same county, against slavery. Mr. HODSON presented a petition, praying f or t h e abolition of the duty on coals from Newcastle-on-Tyne. Sir W. W. WYNN presented a petition against the truck system, front a town in unlatch. Sir W. INGLEBY presented u petition front a parish . . in Norfolk, complaining of di,ireis , and pra;;;4 ' I l e ' s ila duction of tithes and taxes. . .-, 1 ,45, ~ Mr. WRIGIITSON presenhsi it petiti o nfrolat ... ~,i- praying for the total repeal of the house and wit ‘ fitt..i . . • duties. Mr. I APNAIIARA presented a petition from 001747::, relative to the elective franchise of that town.. ~_ . , N o:. 14' Mr. RICE pteseiiieti petitions from Chive), relative 0 :-.-P, the Elective Franchise of Galway. ADJOURNIIEN I' OF THE HOUSE. ,if On the motion of 311.. RICE, this House, milts 440(4. 4 , .., . adjourned to Monday next. _ . ..,.. .. Mr. CAMPBELL presented two petitions from thorns,* , • and female inhabitants of Copt. against Slavery. M r. A DE ANE presented a petition ham Everadalerloa r ,',. ' annther.plact in CarThridgeshite, to the sameeffect:': -, Mr. DOSIINICk BROATN preterite:Ll a petitionfrets some place in Camay, relative to the Elec tive Fratichiseet's that place; also a petition front Kilvine, in Mayo, egal Ml the Grant to 01'1'1(11,1*re-street Society. The House then adjourned at a Quarter past-Nint,.::: ... ~. FRENCH PAPERS• • i PROP A PRIVATE. CORRESPO NDENT Op A moteiN a eieeij i,..,_• , A RIS, Dec. I.—The trial of the ex-Ministers Is St nett officially fixed for Wednesday, the 15 th instant, and Will tbenl r „" s positively come on, unless, at the particular,instance or I s s. cosec!cosec!themselves, it shall be postponed to January.. i i not be removal from their present e sse, prison to the ~.• s. ,••• . tete !I:snit-41 the kith instant. ~..,•-; s' ilinethri lo sts o Up to this moment we ire (mailed to t riCeolill_s ..-• v i e vales of Stock made and alluded to iti His : ettirt,frosii,r„L - is ~,i yesterday ; the general belief on 'Change was, 0.1 ... e l: . , made for M. Aguado ; but whether to etrectsOwli aeon' . ';', the market to meet some engagements, or from Iliese_, on the subject of war, the very curious publiiiluertw i ' 'boweVer and Wmalay:,:wrrt.i4rithvina.tteh.cre:neexe.'pep:corndteceitenwiceMlii:nrcissootnemirelealo°:ett4l4lljaounirrntionva...-st,..:Pd4b. imbine, much edict. .. . 1 seetiktitii - ' duce the belief that - the campaign against France, se_f li t glum, was about to commence. One private lett er . het :* ,P, the arrival of General Diebitsch in Prue& !t Rosi e s_ E , with the object that, after haying become ixspular with th . .Kfr Jean army, which his being himself a PrUtsllll would fliril he might be the more acceptable as the Commander.inste ".: the combined armies of Russia and Prussia lei the which was expected to open in March next. ' .; 4 10,;,-, , There is some plausibility in this speculation ; but the, ...e o • , caned Foreign Private Correspondence, which .aPP II l it' i' ll of the Parisian news n, is of such a strange nature aii .„,,,,, ! or so much distorts truth, as to induce the suspin . 76i . ~,4 the produce of home manufacture Of this) ou have aMt ,:r ,. .. , specimen in the Courrier Francais of this day, WIMS°.'-00' correspondent announces that " the locks and lia , Y__onese.,,,, uw i . been removed from the muskets of the militia.' illesZ•iii does not state what new discovery in military, sc4it_nce Tr i llf this measure ; nor does he state the number of do u r, i P..- ts.P militiamen now in all England. • Ilis next announcement is that ii the yeeMas-rerho.,,,,bninotig called upon to enter into thecavn/ry ;but thatsa . car i !l i fiTtilid , with seven Millings per day, they have not caniP" hi ,o( lam' ' item of information is the order given by th4"°PtherersMg • werst, near Bartel (county of Suuex), to t he f t Lila ~ ,'hues, . to take money out of the parish; and the ,M„ i / 50' residence of the Duke of Wellington (Strathnees"•l r my pp4oo °°"ed by 2 00 men." Here was a mare's nest ,fo contemporary I enroe°•mast dr Our domestic news Is, however, that whieh .... s weatier , • •-, our thoughts. This day is excessively Midi the Throned or,r crowds are assembled in the neightemrhood 'in `•-.., h eeisterhe ~ Deputies, to learn the nature of the "forthaendli_io Mem , • communications. Every laxly i 3 interested its tbes°,f,iieueest. than the pemle of England would imagine: _tPri,;Thoter e t Guards (mobiles) shall be ;decal at the dispomj,,W ~,,ier te tilagh War, and that Minister of War being Settilie° '" t herisine -• to the frontiers may, within 43 hours after t05.,„, 4 1 1:, and count" it shall hare passed, carry from their shot*, sm l 7. r ij, 1-10P 0 , °11 ing.housee, one.third of the young Men in i "." oo t gtolatbm— entertained nevertheless, by many. that war ..,,,..,,,,,men t i: .. .- species of flatteriug unction which the silence ocri t ;;te r)„ 4 tn thia moment does not warrant the parties in 11 1 1 ,1, t h e 000 ,/,.t souls—for, as was well observed 'by a speculator „.. hgerieet,°_ , yeeterday i the new practice of the Munster or tel, ei lwalre Pe calm public agitation by communications to the e,. we t ati la Bourse has not been followed up during en”.. -. despondency and alarm. ArDl O . and c° ll pa': Government has at length ventured to m a ke ,__„„,„ hio re appointments in the Church -- a step which estlet.•, o 0 ,01. neas than you can easily be brought to be11eve.,,21:„.:14h, whow ~ a doubt that it will have opened the mouths or pea. ;;: aeon of the journalists, who will unite in an ehnost gen •••,-""- ~. prlesteraft and Jesuitism. L en u i I s i n n t e s s k A gii‘ considerablei t i n nj O a t ° bi u t : C C O u n C a l' t . ri o t n s d . Th e t i i i :U u r t i theiiin i r i 1 i tends'ti i h r e l4 U I da c g i fr ° r i f!. 1 1,! 14 :,,.... 1 ; 0 : 11 1 11 :0 6 4: 1-: . ; ther a fall. This may, in some degree, be s rtn' t 7 te ir malts reported incapability of some speculator t .renees, ~,w w sr a th re is n n o ' w om a en t 90 t 6 (. 1( 80c. • 6°. of a war, for which all agree that France is at this mow"' A 4,"., the u n b i e ei nr country e d t a . by y 1 t s; i so ins .understood narlet ntofwille h tt e e r b l v t i elbltsai,cutatitchaeinednnse dswoetipcif.,setcees!,n7o!,,,,_rig, eee.; titi a g' S .' unprepared. ed this day at 621 " -i) 16:( ", The l'bree per Cents. opee —..—..-- I. , tato ~ of Si • ''..- At one o'clock, after N. CASlmitt r.,,, „roposition ....., the chair, the discussion commenced 0_ iii ,t se rest' to meet at one o'clock precisely. wide , He cons...o___l ~ Ilu rn blot C:milp:e,MhanvEi: ° t'o F r I I ta ) E. r ob ! : ec:ILtin:i:lb:1:11:1'nE ittn eh:IIVI • N. ETIENNE ridiculed the re ad out of the naMes Otte! code of the kW:sot-house. The r. i s of t ime ; and erenter_ 'Rfehieiteksivic,oprpeerscu:v 0,,,,,,enedut,,,,,,,,,,,, , , ~. discussion (said he) will delay, fors t he country ealort c _l °fl oe. nicatiou of the important ht the oath req uired or it , last two days. lie thouent th;h" p OnetUatitYY ..., litl. puu wpastriazuuttiscumsientssedasoicathlenj„.l,„_,.....) item, which:WU oPPosv'i ••,, , i De nol p e u lo ti rt es un w e o , u p l u d eri be le, a in:: u id e c h n a l ies it. t P r r i e l : i t n a d n ed hoi bi l M r, M. 11 51111,0 T COM' ich ag" a f'W 3nlin suties, jag the Chaos i's, led , A I,its.te,Bleirnmihriisi,coonnctihweiciynndsi,afehrencie In? . _tne:i byb the excited 'violent murmurs, was r f e k7 e Council, collunu i %`l,.,„a 1. • M. Is A FITT'« President of 5,,.. 0f the euegranen_ As. . , come," says he," to rep • b A Government that has mage occasioned to the country y s. , _ To come to p .Otte r ao rii . , res M• o i l 'ul iitio e i r re • relative to thretiniothsel:ll:3ue:hYdlt,hethe itoln ,f :e ruled it for upwards of fifteen year s e on eind oaf, e:;;;; restoring to the State of the co,l2e•t fund, Which WO 0 , granted by it by the etnigranta 'lr. e d ainnunte ee l W Laillte . s the Inuit inadequately indemnitni - a tell to that cti. jo afP g francs out of the 1,000,000,030 ft ir " cif binations on th i ,,.t t 0 10 4 then proceeded to give sonic exP -., ~,,eid by : •,, . primed for the purposie of distributing country. Ile said that the warlike re sn eOeL l T s prommilove : 03 days, in consequence of the great ar imvi Powers, were without foundation. a to ebstdhoseslbowbo:ooooo,er/' e the French Government repeate Il e aueeeii dAI P . h o of their desire to ereserve it. __,..., wbieb _ ah oy he: more intimate connect with us a coups.? arresitilet,_,oo • ceded us in the path to liberty, who has eer vi,e l ,Vease , roism in the late contest, and our modettefLaiustiate'Le" tee with which we are now In community ot inif:i - eletyltFr . peace wank! be maintained, inasmuch, atnathitiii, due I nd same lively sympathy. The even ' c risis pa s pow% ing country had led 113 CO Deilere that . e . ._ _ le o hence the cause of the armaments Inani . „l,7 r 0 A 10 . 0 ,1 1 ,0 en I must own, however, that we hsaav:mo,tiontprobednajoutse id,,,,buel we can assure you that they ar w it d se,i,,,`e bolt re T.. 7; precaution than in hostile dislon. ~..,. e , o isnat!.7 o 0 that subject the most satisfactory at d poes . i . r.; erodes/fa..., the,, are cleterinined ou acting with the nu e sst gi , :1 1 ,;;; . ' We 1 , 1 4 S T. tion. - li et • which is incalculable; but FrilliCC, at . 1107,,,rren 0...00 tfoririesinaginshreofitierly. elli a i r lot has re, ituelrrenbalwa;te_.:l°l.l),lls dMuaill°4l7; sutibr the violation of the priticiple of e n ! . 1 . 2.N7 t hat c ,Z t er be unavoidable, it must be preyed to th ss r te '•; re pisete: IVs sought for it, and that it was untY whiten that vreacelnefiie. oil. oPiVnefatitrihebleiettou. Paver. war and the dereliction of our prineiP -- — a t t hesisret" o balpP O , ~ shall continue to negociate, but we iv i Il_rzsiii,okoefi, w ell , or d. I .., negotiations shall Ise supperted by 5041°111ton or 1441",v7a1d P 0 well officered ,and by is reserve of one re,, h imself , „ eile,.. , and if circumstances ne it, the i'.. 5 1 1 , 1 ; 0 ,, criee oi t 014'4 himself at the head of the itatirme4 t , g ather A h ill iii t Role' ii Vive la liberte!") If new tetur i these w hO don o , of the three colours, so much the Worse fo r • r the 0n4 . 0 2 d I ,ll ° l ile them low; we shall not be respells. l-',7 th eEecapitit or. ..„, , meree of the e re M. Latitte teen carr y on _ th r o w.. firiancial soureet of France to ot . ro omy ,. 1 *till persistal in sayin# that peace was_ln he ) with ns e Olen, When France used England (contin it .,,ttaw %0 pa 5.74 1 when other great Powers are anxious for_ istio ,, girto. T e ask, be anticipated. 'I repeat it, , our l 2l 4 7ieguit an all ported by 50,ti00 w i thd a liveliestr ,„ uy iasise,_ g art o eat speech was received this s s ini: l s t c og IV: i o rDi s o, Mardi il StIU LT, Minister of War t b t hoilie,O th ees er rs for the putting Into active orrice of esebtr. n me ,ite.,,. is ~,o e ream of conscript* of, 1830. He weat ovej yd, IsXe . roof „cop tion of the state of the ;country elven "i e w MO dersni e "saw ceive," said he, " the mo.t pacific assuran . o gni, W ine , the Continent, yet grave events ar N i 9 1 3 r ealve i ;eosre?oe mentaiire in progress. in the greetpart , f Ike g ive , ,,,,,,ii not remain peaceable spectators of these i" ..„ : 4 " betel', last e; eo , she unanimous cry of France Is for ;wan r ieubtel' o Pet°,taiel many pledges of her pacific intentions to n o o r s . o e w;i re firmly determined on supporting the P°l . T e r„oeses t l i s i i(shg_„, arc tion. France has atundonal 'the idea i; ttlio ut, a , eiialw for liberty at home and independe n ce . % wens. . „.,, n , obliged to draw the sword, three millions,ol_4.ll .. 00 01 r ready to take the field ." ( !abed aecianuTlesntea' ..0.1 M. DUPONT, Minister of Justice, the P a, 0 0 r- • jtets connected with his department. ( oho gi n° .... The young !lire de Nemours, second son 5 0 °' rff iel sent at this Sitting. Oir 5 ' sop... ....... Cent' , FRI.:NeII FUNDS.I.+FIVC 1 , •• • ~,, p‘, , C. ~,,,,, ,;„ 0 90f. :Mc. 75c. 50c. 30e. 40e. poi: toe. Ekr.alhe. 1 0 2"; 11 0 410 ` inc. 'la 59e. • 'three per Cents. Oh "—: low 'W .'. j 'Oro inc. f i ll fa. 10e ' . Mr 75e. 60e. ; Bank A' ea ,2 1 . .. te t r ., CAL Naples, 661. 25e. 64if. fete li.c tlef. , 51 1%; T•, 1 • - ;;„ ,010 d'espagne, 12%; Royal Spentsb 1 . - ,•? n , n° ll aytteli'; Tn diEspagne, 45% 4 45 et,ta ea 45 ON se , i „ n et, Tm Exchange on London ; One month, In months, paper, 45f. 15e. Five men have been this morning C r , f u d r : ( l l ,l 2 % --i—,--r"""""0.............rt" hrottbt to this town, and 4.oo,alltted to poi , -- -, oti concerned_ in the riotous aisemblage,. at fad Stnwer—c. ite o ro nt i l e a d y a ; t r h e, e i y u , catliionuprefocrtdtithodas.to tTheheryesttleuee 01 the 1, ,, mgar. Toatattars, of Stowei,provott and with Outfit! _ as a ino waus assembling tordity afternnon, by a poly of artnweder;ecoaloPteuorte'llerfro; fer SW PurP°l"iseceo i p ti aimptitude alone prevented an attempt' at relc_ut Oas of t e ' ' prisoners is a fanner in decent circorrill id Shaftesbury 4, and the whole of the neighboorhond $ lll 4 il the ut of extreme alarm. At Sturminster Newton, 5p..10, adjoining parishes, a great 'loather of special toy Kr,. rd. have been sworn in. Yesterday afternoon a Mob ° I t hcf i I hundred persons assembled at llenstridge, whe re „, so il le.stroyed threshing machines belonging to Air. Go"f rc e Sic Vac . hient.vcorr ; bathe loge constabulary %to being t sent from Sherborne, rioters disperser.../I cf _i? their appearance. The constables an tiplPypt oneSherborne and its vicinity were alio called out 11 , 6 0.. ..._ o'clock this morning to quell a disturbance #t i L! 11 . !. five milts from the town. Our sortspoodelso,4 Sal ty isbory writes.—." We are happy to say aPr ti , r I r ot nue', mole favourable aspect thiut last week----m. il d t o tuber of the rioters have been take* and coillolit:1 tot prisou, ami we hope the city and nrighboubo°:. tot lie again thrown Into curb a state of onoteroo°-; two presen t every thing app ears quiet." Threatening I. t he tom present been to warty Comers in &Nerei d ' , AO" ° o ,le icogorstnyi;chainneds inhseaceerablropkltteLtits ithherume tiroipioaleisvets.r.....o 1)0(0.01 a'ustY Chronicle.