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pipe agreed to that proposition, to recollect that it se s possib e that in the bosom of society itself great intereso might arise, as powerful as those which !night be calls , into existence at its remotest point. He begged to re mind the Right Rev. Prelate, who seemed to think alo, the joint action of Eine, Lords, and Commons, s• affecting a legislation, might amount to a revolution, a ai if he lo , Icsd to that part of the history of this country, with which most min is were familar, that legislature- Lad net only been partly affected by those acts, but tiara had been wholly seep. away. He referred to the Unions with Scotlaed and Ireland. And, as to the reference which tie Right Rev. Prelate hid made to the French Revolution of 179.2, he would tell hitn that that revolu• tion, which began in blood, and which ended in the dis appointment of all the hopes of the fri, n:?s of liberty, was attributable to a want of changes siruil •r to those which the Right Rev. Prelate had been endeavouring to induce their Lordships not to make.—(llear, hear.) Going hack to a speech with had often been alluded to in the course of the debate, with great and just cominend :tion of its merits he meant the speech of the Noble Baron who •bad :addressed their Lordships on the first night of the discussion—he must observe that the Noble Loid had made several admissions which showed the necessity of th e proposed measure. The Noble Baron's regr t that the colsnial interests would lose the means of representa tion which the nomination boroughs now afforded them, Ives one of those admissions. But why did the Noble Lord p: efer the indirect to the direct mode of consulting the interests of the colonies? Why not give the right of representation to places connected with the colonies— to those large outpurts which had a community of inte rests with the colonies? The Noble Baton proceeded to take a general view of the force arrayed in the country in support of the Bid ; and he (the Marquess of Lansdowne) was the more induced to mention this, because the Noble Duke opposite had thought it of so much importance that he had repeated it. 0; that force the Noble B .run had chalhneed the Catholics, the Radicals, and the Dissenter F. Having thus taken whet seemed to him to be the poisoned ingredients nut of the chalice of Reform. th e Noble Baron was compelled to acknowledge that there was still a large residuum— a large body in favour of Reform, for whom, and for whose opinions, he was bound to entertain great respect. If there was such a body of respectahls persons in the country at• tithed to Reform, how happened it that the Noble Baron and the Noble Duke had never, in or out of office, made soy proposition calculated to separate them from those ultra reformers with whom they were at present corn• bitted ? Was it nut an obvious course, if they thought that great danger resulted front the union of those two par ties—was it not a pre-sing matter of state policy, to pro vide by means which might in time have succeeded, a system of moderate and gradual Reform ? And was it necessary for him to remied the Noble Marquess, that all propositions of that nature had always been met by the opposition of the Noble Duke and the Noble Baron ? The opponents of Reform had indeed at the eleventh hour, when every other effort to stop the progress of that great spiestion had failed—when the BM had twice passed the other House of Parliament, and when at last there was a chance, he hoped lie might say a certainty, that it would receive their Lordships' approbation—at that eleventh hour a dawn of light seemed to have opened upon their minds, and they had offered to produce a Bill of their own. They all knew, or perhaps they did not know, the pains which this effort had cost. They did not know the labo rious attemptS which had been made to effect the least Possible change by the least possible means—the hopes that had been circulated one day, and suppressed on the oext. Eventually, the Noble Duke had been induced to declare his intention of bringing in a Bill and Dying it on the table, in the hope, no doubt, that the measure now under consideration would by that declaration be stripped of their Lordships' favour. On the table, however, he (the Marquess of Lansdowne) trusted and believed the Noble Duke's Bill would lie for ever. Alter the Commons House had deliberately considered the subject of Reform, and had twice sent their Lordships Proof s of their deliberate consideration, it would be a ,P r etty compliment to return to them' a plan of Reform in ° °r l c 9 i with the name of the Noble Duke. The declared intention of the Noble Duke, however, ought to induce their Lordships to reflect again and again how impossible it was to deal with the present measure, even when argu ing against it, without attempting to offer some other pro position founded on the same principles, although so framed as to prevent those principles from being carried into be neficial effect. It had been contended that the class of persons to whom it was proposed to communicate the right of voting, were not fit to select proper individuals to re present them. Those, however, by whom that statement had been made, had, in his opinion, pronounced a most harsh and severe judgment upon a great body of the people; against a great body of the householders, the income of none of whom could well be less than a hundred a year. They were wrong in imputing to those persons that it was likely they would be governed in their choice of represen tatives by undue motives, and above all by a desire to dis turb the public tranquillity. As tar as he (the Marquees of Lansdown,) bad had an opportunity of observing the class of persons in question, he had seen in them A great disposition to rely on the judgment of their superiors; especially when those superiors had shown no disposition to usurp an improper authority over them. So far from °PPosing, they seemed rather flattered by having an op portunity of coinciding with their euFferiors. But even were that not the case, was it to be believed that they would choose such persons as were likely to advocate measures destructive of the public tranquillity ? The in dividuals i n question, many or most of them, hail acquired their property by industry ; and was it prob a ble th a t th e y would wish to see that property endengered? It was true that the property was *titan, but " These little things aregreat to little men ;" and their small fortunes, acquired by labour, were as va luable to them as any splendid possessions could be to their proprietors. Nay, they were more valuable. The pos sessors of large domains could dispo.e of them, and re pair to other countries; not so the class to which he had been alluding. This led hits to what the Noble Duke had tisaid with resp ect to time destruction of rights by prescrip on. lie need not tell that Noble Duke that it was Raequieecence made p rescr i pt i on, i n much the same manner obedience hail been s a id t o ma k e l aws. O n general occasions ecaaions no man was ton ready toquarrel with, or to question prescriptive rights, because few could be much benefi ed by their destruction eid ; in bu t t r it was far f otherwise with rights which were m erelyonce discoveredo t he h e an, nefit of the community. When it u ve st as that the rights which should be exercised for the ad vantage of all had beers used for the be t nefi t tofthe few, then h e would contend, that accordingbest and . purest prin c i p l es of the Constitutiont: he eir Le fully j ust ifi ed in dealing with them as theyth i o sh ug l h p t s were fit, and either restorin g them according to the original intention, or remodelling and altering them their sense of wh at t h e exigency of thead, after time cautioning according to ordi The Right Rev. Prelate ( Exeter) ha~i, them not to increase the real independence of the House of Commons, called upon their Lordships in the very next sentence to beware how they introduced a system of cor ruption into the House of Lords.—(Hear, hear.) He would take leave, however, to remied that Rev. Prelate that the greatest statesman and the most profound po liticians in this countay bad always predicted the de struction of the Constitution, not from the corruption of their Lordships' House, but of the House of Commons, from the continued reverence of the Members of the Lower House for those shameful parts of the Constitution which the Right Rev. Prelate was so anxious to preserve, sub stance, repair i n such a manner as would preserve their if n ot t h e i r f orm. —( H ear, h ear. ) He was ashamed to have troubled their Lordships at so much length on this occasion ; but he could not conclude with out imploring them—if they made up their minds to re lee" the Bill—that they would at the sane time cast their eY OI steadily at t h e future. A Noble Baron (Grantham) who spoke lest night, h a d o b serve d, t h at o f a ll intimida tions th a t cou l d b e used, the very worst was the fear of con sequence s . H e cou ld tell that Noble Lord, however, that measureunlit a re had been proposed or assented to by Parliament under the fear of the consequences of refusing to assent to it-04er, hear, hear.) It was admitted at present, presentm o i n all hands, that a change in the system of re- S i nn s . on had become absolutely necessary.. A provi ,e _hefore their Lordships to remedy its defects, and soufor t,e.rld_ contend, not founded on democratic principles ; sLe° Lordships well knew that those who held the t v ii a . i r li ng_ e democratic opinions were disposed to go much 2.,,, t i nnin :h th Bill now before the House, so far from were generall these principles to the extent to which they by conf err i ng , ' carried, merely amended the representation the resident hothe tideaulo, el, ctive franchise on the one-third of a Bill grou (alders. The Commons have sent up disfranchi selo „ t, " the principls of enfranchisement, or the adoptio n oft. taat". extension of suffrage; and upon B ill, by consent i ng to i ts b e i ng rea d a second time, Will that House was he determined the question of whether ed to adopt any thing in the shape Of Reforin.—(ll,: r P .) Wit, Th e mine on that night question they had to deter , deliberation, they Wou.. whether, after so many months of loading, which would be zne to a vote against the second against Reform altogether tantamount to a declaration now give to the Bill sent up°sr, whether they would not that consideration which would them from the Commons enabl e them to come to a fair detition on its merits, and return • it in such e shape as to show that it had received the attention to which i is entitled.—(Hear, hear.) He could not permit hirrved to believe that in the face of the House of Commons an,' the country they would reject a measure, the mere intro duction of which had the effect of silencing a clamour fan It-form, at once alarming, unusual, and unsafe ; or tha• they would by such a rejection hazard a renewal of di climour which had been for a tine so happily suspended. —(Hear, hear.) The Noble Duke (Buckingham) hat' certainly held out a hope of some Reform, but he (Lord L.) appre' , eniled the people would see little comfort is the prospe t of some rein to and uncertain changes whir! the Parliament were not pledged to adept but merely t' , consider, and which were not even to he so considers . until after the consummation of some trifling events, sue as the unseating of one Administration, and the maw, xettlement of another.—(hear, hear.) From this clotohe . opening of Reform he trusted new the House would aver; their attention, and instead of listening to the suggestior of the Noble Baron, who spoke of the advantage •hey would derive from having an opportunity to consider the plan of the Noble Duke, they would at once read the pre sent Bill a second time, and send it back to the Commons after having shown they had maturely weighed and can didly considered its several provisions for improving the representation of tee people. After adverting. to an ob servation of the Noble Duke (Buckingham), that he (Lord L.) was favoured in the drawing of the boundary line in one of his boroughs, and stating, in answer to the Noble Duke's accusatiou, that the only benest ores to be found in the addition of a In lge, inhabited b: , a labourer who paid no rent, while 30 ten-pound houses of his, which stood a little fur; her on, were excluded, .he Noble Marquess concluded h) imelering their Lordahips to read the Bill t second time, and thereby exhibit their reoard for the Constitution, and their veneration for those insti. tutions which, he was confi lent, all who heard him would agree in wishing to he interminable.—(Hear, bear.) Lord KENYON, amidst great confusion, and cries of G o on," then moved that the debate be adjourned. Earl GREY (in a very low tone) intimated, as we un derstood, his wish that the alehate should he brought to a close that niot, as it was most important the public mind should be set at rest with respect to the measure before the House as coin as possible. If, however, the Noble Baron p•Tsioted in his motion, Inc would give tray to the adjournment, but with the und-ratanding, that the debate should be brew ht to a close on Thursday evening. The Duke of WLLLINGTON agreed with the No le Earl as to the propri e ty of en early derision on the ques tion ; but as his Majesty had cominamled the attendance of a number of their Lordship.; on that day (Thursday), he thought it would be scarcely decorous or c ons i stent with the respect due to his 11ajesty's exalted station if they called on their Lordships to he present on such an important discussion in that House, at the same moment that their attendaoce was required by his Maje•sty. He, therefore, hoped the Noble Earl would allow the debate to adjourned till Frid.ty.--(Helr.) Earl GREY was willing, for the reasons stated by the Noble Duke, to comply with his suggestion, but it would be on two conditions. First, That the debate should at all events he brought to a close on Frirdiy, even although they sat to a late hour on Saturday morning. Secondly, That the debate should he so ended with the understand ing, that if the second reading was carried, the House would be prepared to go into the Committee on Monday next. Ha hid, from the first, intimated a hope that they should he able to commence the labours of the Committee on that day, and he did nat wish the Bill to be prejudiced in its stages by the delay now proposed.—(Hear.) The Duke of WELLINGTON admitt-d the propriety of considering tine Bill in Committee as soon as possible, if the second reading was c irried ; but he was sorry he could not assent to that hasty course proposed by the Noble Earl. He had already stated that some time would hr required by Noble Lords for the consideration of the provisions of the Bill before they calve to consider it in Committee ; and if the second reading was agreed to, he thought that the Committee should not be called nn to cohorience its labours before the E tater holyd lys.—(Hear, hear.) Sure he was that the House would not be prepared to go into Committee on Monday next.—(Hear, hear.) The Duke of BUCKINGHAM took occasion to remind the Nol.le Earl .hat there was business already- fixed for Monday of importance enough to occupy the whole of that day. Earl GREY was always disposed to give the best atten tion to the suggestions of the Noble Duke (Wellington) ; but when he considered how long the Bill had been More their Lordships—how long it had been made known to the Members of both Reuses, and that there Was not a clause in it with which every Noble Lord in the House was not fully acquainted, lie really could not concur in the opinion of the Noble Duke, that their Lordship. would not on Monday tie fully prep trod to discuss its provisions in Com mittee. As a proof of this, if any proof were wanting, there was scarcely a Noble Lord who had not, in addressing the House against the Bill, applied himself to all those de tails which should more properly have been considered in Committee rather than in the debate on the principle of the Bill.—( Hear, bear.) As it was, therefore, of the utmost importance that they should not trifle with the question, but, on the contrary, proceed with all expedition in considering the provisions of the Bill, he hoped, if he consented to postpone the debate till Friday, that the Committee will be taken on Monday. With respect to the business alluded to by the Noble Duke (Buckingham), he thought it was not of so much importance that it could not be postponed without inconvenience, and without de triment to the public service. The Earl of HARROWBY agreed also with the Noble Earl in the propriety of settling the question as soon as possible, for the purpose of tranquildzing the publie mind; but he apprehended it would be most unusual to call on the House to agree to go into a Committee on a particular day on a Bill, the second reading of which was as yet un certain. He thought, too, that even supposing their Lordships were assured the second reading would be carried, they could not be expected to make up their minds with respet to the amendments they intended to propose in the very short time the Noble Earl was disposed to allow them.—(Hear, hear.) The case was very different froth that of a common Bill, the second reading of which was nearly a matter of certainty. The discussion would pro bably be determined at a late hour on Saturday morning, and they were on the Sunday to make up their minds what amendments they would propose on Monday. The first clause was one of the most important of the Bill, and, in his opinion, they should be prepared to take all the clauses, riot on their separate merits, but in connexion with each other as a whole. There were other Bills, too, almost. equally important; and he thought that haste in going into the Committee was the less necessary, because it was most desirable that they should have all the Re form measures before them at the time they were called on to agree to the provisions of the present Bill. He was de cideiity of opinion that they would not consent to the third reading of thli Bill.without those other measures, and by post poning the Committee till after Easter they gave the other House an opportunity of occupying itself with the remaining Bills—that when they came to decide definitively on the present Bill they might have the whole of the measure of Reform at once fully under their consideration. He did not mean to say they should proceed purl passe with the other measures, but that they should be in possession of the whole of the details. He put it to the Noble Earl and the House, whether they s'.ould not best discharge their duty to Parliament and the country by requiring all the measures to be under their view before they came to a final decision on any one of them. For these reasons he sup. ported the proposition for fixing the Committee after Easter.—(Hear, bear.) Lord TEYN HAM moved that their Lordships meet on Friday at one o'clock.—(Cries of " No, no," and laughter.) Earl GREY hoped the Noble Btrnn would ❑ut perse vere in that motion, as it would be inconvenient to many of their Lordships, and there would be ample time to come to a satisfactory conclusion of the (14 bate without meeting at so early an Lour. With respect to the time of going into Committee, he had mentioned ninday, because lie thought it would be convenient to N...ble Lords to under stand the wishes of the Government on that subject. The best time for considering the period of going into Com mittee was, undoubtedly, however, after the Bill had been read a second time; and he, therefore, should offer no further objection to the adjournment. The further consideration of second reading the Bill was, therefore, postponed until Friday ? and t:;eir Lord ships, after some conversation, adj,,urned till the same day. HOUSE OF COMMONS, .Antz.z. 11. Lord CASTLEREAGH presented a petitio n from a parish in the county of Down against the system of Na tional Education in Ireland. Lord COLE presented a similar petition from the town of Ratlikele, in Ireland. Lord EBRINGTON presented a petition from the p a _ rich of Stoke Darnerel, in Devonshire, respecting the appropriation of charitable funds. _ Mr. WYSE pros_ nted a petition from Mr. Man ning, all inspector of stamps, praying for a further superannuation allowance, open the ground that other person• similarly situated had recrivei much larger superannuation allowances. The petitioner stated that oaring his servitude he had saved the Government large sums of money, and which services had been recognised by the late Mr. Dawson. This was one of the numerous in stances of the partiality displayed by the late Government ; he hoped that that system would no lott;„er prevail. Mr. HUNT presented a petition from William Tiaaiter, a debtor confined in the gaol of Durham, complaining u misconduct ou the part of the gaoler, and of neglect on tli, hart of the visiting magistrates. One part of the petition ac. 7used the gaoler of committing murder; but to all thole cir. ,:ornstances, he (Mr. Hunt) could not pledge himself; h. could only say that the petitioner stated that he coui; subitantiate all his charges by affidavit. Having been it; orison himself, he knew that gaolers were but too prop, to act in an improper manner. Mr. TREVOR declared that the governor of Dur ham gaol was most anxious to meet every charge against him. The petitioner had been a long time in gaol, and ha' , been all that time engaged in making complaints, all of which had been duly investigated by the magistrates. The present Governor had been formerly connected with the Home Office, and it was his good character which obtained him the favour of Bishop Barrington, and his appointment to the present situation. if. had lately visited the gaol, and he ascertained that the prisoners were well provided for, and upon inquiry, he found that the petitioner was afflicted with a martin. He (Mr. Trevor) had testimonials in favour of the go vernor's conduct, including one from Mr. Baron Bayiey, Sir H. WILL! 4.11150 N also defended the conduct and character of the present Governor of Durham gaol. Mr. HUNT sail, after what had just been stated, he could on]) say that, as the petition and affidavits had been sent to him, he had but one duty to perform. He would not, however, move that the petition be printed. Mr. HUNT then presented petitions from the weavers and cotton-spinners of Bury, and other places in Lattea shire, in favour of the Factories Regulation Bill. Also, a petition from certain newsvenders, against the interfe rence of the clerks el the past-office in the sale of news papers. • Lord W. LENNOX said, that the Hon. Mernncr had been imposed on, for the petition stated the practice to be illegal, whereas an Act of Greorge 111. recognised the practice. He dill not •peak of the propriety of that prac tice or not, but he was of opinio❑ that it would save the several counties thousands a yeir. Mr. HUME said, if the practice was sancti,:ned by Act of Parliament, it was undoubtedly wrong to say that it was illegal. But he thought that very great incon venience a.-ose to the public, that individuals employed and pa;tl by the public should he allowed to use their privilege to the injury of the regular trader in newspapers. The petiti , n was ord.red to lie on the table. Mr. A. JOHNSTON presented a petition from Aber deen, against the grant to the College at Maynooth. Captain GORDON supported the prayer of tne peti tion, and objectee to the grant no religimie and moral principles, as n ell as upon the ground—a lower one—that of expediency. Colonel TORRENS was astonished at the oZ,liquity of Hon. Members, who could present and support such pre posterous petitions. The population of Ireland was a Catholic one paying taxes. and there ore they were en titled to the grant as well as Protestants—especially since the repeal of the Test Act, the thing was more pre posterous. Mr. TREVOR said the Hon. Member who last spoke had characterized three petitions as preposterous ; but could he have so soon forgotten an act of the present Go vernment which better deserved that name, viz. that they had withdrawn the usual grant to the Kildare-street Society, yet had granted the full usual sum to Alaynoolli College ? It surely was preposterous to support a religion which was not only contrary to that of the State, but was one which would tolerate no other. Mr. HUME supported the grant to the College of May nooth. It had been said that the Catholic Religion tole rated no other ; but what was the fact with regard to Ca tholic France? There the Protestant clergymen of all de nominations were supported by the State, which presented a very different picture from that which England presented, in regard to the Roman Catholics of Ireland who paid taxes; and yet this grant to Maynooth was all which they received front this country. -Not one of their p , ietsts was so much as in the receipt of a single farthing from the State. Mr. LEFROY supported the petition, and hoped the prayer of it would he granted, for it was a great anomaly that the Government should support a religion which they consider, d idolatrous. Mr. JAMES GRATTAN said that the cry against this grant to Msynooth had only arisen within these few days, and in his conscience be believed it was only brought for ward from disappointed motives. So long as the grant was continued to the Kildare-street Society, nothing was said against the grant to Maynoo,h. Sir F. TRENCH was not for withdrawing the grant from the Catholics, though he thought it would be bet ter spent by paying the Catholic clergy. He was of opinion that the Catholic clergy of the present day were not so enlightene,l as they were in former days, when they were educated abroad. After a few words from Sir CHARLES BURRELL and Mr. LAMBERT, Mr. JOHNSON said, that in answer to the ohNerva tions made en the sulsject, he would only say, time if he was in a catholic country, and professed the Presbyterian faith, which lie new did, he would net look for, or expect clergymen of his sect should be educated by the Catholic governmeut. Mr. M. O'CONNELL defended the 9ystem of educa tion pursued at Maynooth, and he was de , ideslly of opi nion that the character of the Catholic priests was not in the least below that of their predecessors. He would defy the H , n. Members to contradict him when he stated, that no set of men had done more fir the preservation of the public peace than these priests had done. The petition was thin ordered to be printed. A message from the Lords brought up a private Bill. _ . . Mr. WARBURTON moved that the Anatomy should be recommitted. ANATOMY BILL. On the question for the re-commitment of the Anatomy Bill,— Mr. HUNT objected to the Bill. The House th.n went into Committee. Mr. WARBURTON proposed an amendment, to ex tend the provision., of the Bill to Ireland. Sir R. INGLIS snored an amendment, the object of which was to place greater restrictions upon licenies granted to professors of anatomy, and for the establishment of schools in the country. After a few words from Mr. Warburton, Mr. S. Rice, Mr. Crampton, Mr. Sheil, Sir C. Wetherell, Mr. Alder man Wood, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Shaw, and Mr. O'Connell, the Committee divided— For the Clause extending the Bill to Ireland 47 Again,t it 3 Majority —44 On out re-admission into the gallery we found the House still in Committee, and—. Sir ROBERT INGLIS moving an amendment on the ciao e giving the power of license and inspection of anoto- Inical schools to the Secretary of State for the Home De partment, to the effect that all such licenses sh ou ld b e granted only to licentiates and graduates in surgery and medicine, and other persona legally qualified to practise in medicine and surgery. Mr. WARBURTON objected to the amendment. Lord ALTHORN disapproved of the amendment. Air. WASON said the amendment tended to afford pro tection to the public. Lord W. LENNOX said, if the only object of the Bill was to benefit the practitioner, then he wou'd not make the objection he did to students being allowed to have part of subjects to dissect at their own homes. But the pub lic ieeliwg ought to be consulted. Mr. WARBURTON would consent to the amendment proposed, on the condition of adding a provision by which students should not he excluded from the benefits of private dissection, and also that a certificate would be required from two Magistrates before any license should be granted. Mr. HUNT, notwithstanding what had now been said, wou'd divide the House on the amendment of the Hon. Member for Oxford. The Howe then divided, and the numbers appeared— . • For the Amendment 6 Against it 5O Majority against the Amendment —44. On our re-admission into the gallery we found Mr. MASON moving An amendment on, as we under stood, the same clause, that no entire human body should be taken to any private house for the purpose of dissection. Mr. WARBURTON opposed the amendment. Mr. JOHN CAMPBELL considered the amendment was perfectly unnecessary, fur no one would have an en tire body when he only wanted a part.—(A laugh.) He thought it would materially injure the Bill. Colonel SIBTHORP deprecated the Bill i❑ toto. Mr. HUME hoped the Hon. Gentleman (the Member for Ipswich) would nut persevere in his amendment. Mr. HUNT should move, before the Bill passed the Committee, that the bodies of all Members of the House who att,ported the Bill, as well a. those of all sinecurists, should be given up for dissection.—.(A laugh.) Mr. HOWARD would willingly consign his body for the purposes of dissection, if he thought that science would be benefited. He had an example in th is respect in the declaration of a Noble Prince of the Blood in ano ther place." Mr. HUNT, in reference to the last remark of the Hon. Member for Carlisle, always understood the bodies of the Royal Faintly were embalmed, and therefore the Royal Duke had really done nothing. The Committee then divided ou Me. Watonie sand nikut, which WAS negatived ; but we were tillable to asec. tam the numbers. Sir R. INGLIS moved a clause imposing a fee of 20/. a stamp on the licenses of 51., and an annual ►ax of 11 on tie admission of persons to practise anatomy in th schools, which would raise a fund for defraying the expens: of carrying the Act into execution.—Negatived. Mr. HUNT moved that three inspectors should be ap pointed for the metropolis. Mr. WARBURTON believed one inspector would hi Sufficient. Mr. BRISCOE supported Mr. Hunt's amendment. Ttie amendment wax withdrawn. Mr. HUNT then moved, " that ens inspector should be appointed, by election, fir each county in England." On this amendment, the Committee divided, when their aline ired, For the Amendment Against it Majority against the amendment —42 Another amendment, proposed by Mr. HUNT, thai the inspectors shout' make monthly returns of subject• dissected to the Secretary of State," was agreed to. On the question being put that the next clause enabling his Majesty to grant to the inspectors a salary of 1001. each, over and above their reasonable expenses, to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund, stand part of the Bill. Mr. HUNT moved as an amendment, that the inspec tors should be paid out the county rates, and the amount of sal try to be fixe i by the :11 igiltrates of the district. He thought 1001. much too small a remuneration. Clause agreed to without alt .-ration. On the next clause, which empowers any person having tlat legal custody of a dead body to dispose of it for dis section, if it be not proved that the deceased bad objected to such disposal of his or her body, being moved, Sir R. INGLIS proposed to add a clause making it a misdemeanour, punishable with a fine of 5001. if any person nut duly licensed should practise di-section; and also a misdemeanour for any governor of an hospital, or gaoler, to sell or dispose of subjevs. It W 33 his object to supply bodies parishss, and he would also propor••• that. all persons found dead, and unclaimed for the space of three days, should he given up to the parish authorities; and after en inqu-•st duly heid, might be disposed of by them for the purposes of dissection. He should not ii , •w move, but reserve the amendments to a latter stag!, of the Bill Mr. HUNT moved an amPridinent to the eff-ct that no body should b • disposed of for dissec•ion unless the consent of the decrused, in writiog, duly autli-nticted by two re spectab'e witnesses, sbouhl produced. Mr. G. ROBINSON thouoht there was st , metiiing :lust unseemly and revolting in ;.he Commons !Luse o: Parliament legislating on such a clause, by which the sab ot' the deal, of tha vvie by the husband, of the son by the father, and relatives tiafficing in the remains of relatives, was legalised. lie never would be a consenting party to a proposition so monstroua. If the clans, passed the c,,ro mittee, which he sincerely hoped it would not, an addition ought to be inserted, making it imperative that proof should be first given that the deceased party bad hiniseli consented before death that his remains should be given for dissection. Mr. WARBURTON could not consent to this pro- Mr. WASON should with much plelsure support the proposition of the Hon. Member for Oxford. Mr. BRISCOE thought this so important a clause, that be should move that the Chairman do report pro gress, and ask leave to sit again. Mr. WASON seconded the motion. Mr. DAWSON was entirely opposed to the Bill, which was calculated to expose the poor, and to protect the rich. He thought, also, it was hi ! it time that the Chairman should report progress, and ask leave to sit again. Sir J. SEHRIGHT denied the statement of the Right Hon. Gentl..man. Sir R. PEEL thought the clause now before the House involved the whole pricciple of the Bill. He :.egged to ask the House what had been the consequence of the sanction of the law for the sale of subjects having been so long withheld. It was manifest and notorious that sa'es took place, anti the supply was kept up by continued rob beries committed by persons of the most desperate and de. graded characters. To add to the supply, it had been clearly proved beyond the possibility of a doubt, that systematic murders had been perpetrated, and though in Scotland and in this matropolis only three cri minals had suffered the evreme pena:ty of the law, it was impossible to say how numerous the crimes of murder Lad been. He was informed some years apo, by two highly-respectable medical practitioners, that when they paid twelve guineas for a subject, they did so with re morse, feeling that so large a sum was but an incentive to the cosnmis4on of murder. Now, as the imposing penal ties for disst.cting science was annihilated, and therehre the only means of remedying the dreadful evils at present existiog was by legalising the supply, he dissented entirely from the proposition of the Honourable 141em her for Oxord, that the supply should he made. not from the hospitale, not from the gaols, but from the poor-houses. He contended it was not fair to cast such an odium on the poor, and to subject them to a law from the provisions of which the rich were relieved, and he thought the law should be made to operate gene rally on all classes. This, he considered, was effected by the clause at present before the house, and should therefore support it. Lord ALTHORP concurred in the opinion that the clause before tb. House involved the principle of the Bill, and he was dacidly of opinion that without this clause, the effect of the meioure would be entirely destroyed. After a few words from Sir T. DENMAN, Mr. DAW. sori and Mr. HUNT, Mr. BRISCOE pressed his motion, and the House divided, when the numbers appeared— For the Motion Against it Majority —4B The gallery was not re-opened after this division, but we understand a lengthy di'cussion arose. Several di visions sook place in our absence, on repeated renewals of the motion for adjournment. After an absence of nearly half an hour the gallery was re-opened, and we found Air. DAWSON on his legs repeating his objections to the Bill, and insisting en the propriety of an adjournment of the debate. Mr. WARBURTON was perfectly willing to place himself in the hands of the Noble Lord and those having official duties to discharge. Sir T. DENMAN did not support the measure in his official character, but on the conviction that the measure was eitsential, and he would remain to the last to support it. Lord ALTHORP recommended his Hon. Friend, tht. Menibi-r for Bridport, to persevere with the clause before the House, which had already been so fully discussed. After a few words from Mr. Batscos in favour of, and from Mr. C. CALVERT against, the adjournment, Mr. WARBURTON said, that valuing as he did the time of his Noble and Right Hon. Friends near him, he should not, at this late hour, further oppose the adjourn ment of the &bate. Lord EIMINGTON complained of Mr. Warburton', yielding to gentl.-men who had opposed the measure. For himself he would sit here till to.morrow morning to sup port the measure. Mr. WARBURTON could not, under the circum stances to whin he had alluded, refuse the adjournment. Mr. HUNT said, that the doors of the gallery were closed f,,r the last three-quarters of 11.11 boor, and the re porters had been excluded. When he mentioned this just now, the Attorney -General had unequivocally denied that the gallery was closed, but that the reporter. had got tire; of the det , ate and gone away. Now, what was the fart? The moment the doors were opened the reporters were again at their posts. The House then resumed, and the CHAIRMAN reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again this day. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Four o'clock. A new edition of Dolby's Cook's Dictionary is, we understand, on the eve of appearance. This popular work, it seems, will be rendered more worthy than ever of the public favour, as it is to contain a considerable body of new re. ceipts, a series of modern bills of fare, and designs exhibiting the most fashionable plans for laying out the table. SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S MANUSCRIPTS.-- The manuscript letters, and other papers of Newton have been preserved in different collections. His correspondence with Coates relative to the second edition of the Principia, and amounting to between sixty and a hundred letters, a conside rable portion of the manuscript of that work, and two or three letters to Dr. Keill on the Leibnitzian controversy, arepreserved in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. Newton's letters to Flamstead, about thirty-four in number, are deposited in the library of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Several letters of Newton, and, we believe, the original specimen which lie drew up of the Principio, exist among the papers of Mr. William Jones (the father of Sir William Jones), which arc preserved at Shirhurn Castle, in the library of Lord Maeclesffeld.. But the great mass of Newton's papers came into the possession of the Portsmouth family through his niece, Lady Lyenington, and have been g saf e l y preserve d b y t h at noble fam il y. Th e re is reason to believe that they contain nothing which could be peculiarly interesting to science ; but as the correspondence of Newton with contemporary philosophers must throw consider. able light on his be given to th e pu b lic.—Farm* Lairary, No. .Dr. personal history, we trust that it will ere long Strata's Lvi "f :BRUSSELS. (From the Ifoniteur Brlge of Wednesday.) PROTOCOLS WHICH THE MINISTER OF FOREIG AFFAIRS COMMUNICATED TO THECHAMBER 0 REPRESENTATIVES IN THE SECRET COMMITTE OF MONDAY. IMOTOCOL OF THE CONFERENCE HELD AT TEE pORRIG OFFICE EN TEE 318 t MARCH, It33L Present : the Plenipoteutiariem I,f Auxtriv, Great Britai: and Ras-,ia. The Plenipotentiaries of the Four Courts, is conftr• rence united, have taken into cor:sideration the exchan:: of the arts of ratification of the Convention of the 14ti December, 1831, fixed for the 31st of the present montl •f March. Upon the eve of the definitive result of the negotiation of the Conference of London, the Plenipotentiaries of t... four Powers have been of opinion that the eachanre of th, acts of ratification of the Convention of the 14th Decem ber, 1531, should take place sitnultaneou•ly with that 01 the ratifications of the Treaty of the 15th November, o' which the Convention herein after mentioned bas been tlir consequence. In consequence, therefore, h Las been agreed upon tha; a new delay for the exchange of the acts of ratification o , that same Convention should be proposed to the B-Igian Plenipotentiary, with the assurance that the four Court• approve completely all the stipulations of the Convention of the 14th Ilfcern;ier, 1831, and that they regard it as a definitive arrangement agreed upon, and binding and upon them. The Belgian Plenipateatiary has declared that he is not authorised to consent w any turiher delay. In consequence, and not being able to disregard the positive o:tiers which he his received, he requires that the present protocol remain open till he shall have communi cated with his Court. (Signed) WESSENBERO LIEVEN NEUMANN MATUSCIIEWITZ PALMERSTON SYLVAIN VAN DE WEYER. BULOW FROTOCOL NO. 56 Or SHE CONFERENCE HELD A THE ruaßiGsr OFFICE ON THE STH ARIL. 1832. Prevent : the nti4riti of Ali,trix, Fraore, G!ex Britain, Pruasix, aLa _ _ Th , t Pienipeentiaries of the 17; ve Courts being assembled in confcreiice at the Foreio.offi c e, The Eenipoter,tiarit* i,f France and Great Britain have opened the Couft•renc,y, in obmcreing ibat more than twn worithis bore clai,red siLce the Slst of Jowary, the day ni.on which they exchanged with the 13c1glan Plenipoten tiary the Ac's: cf ratification of the Treaty of the 15t1; November, 1831. That the protocol of the Conference held upon that oc casion had been left oven for the rea.ons stared in the same protocol, in order to reserve to the Courts of Austri Prussi and Russia, the faculty of exchanging equally the kets of their ratification., without prejudicing the h troiony which so happily existed at that time ariongat the Five Powers and upon the preservation of w ich de.pended es sentially the maintenance of the peace of Europe. That in deciding upon awaiting until t:iis moment some communication on the part of their allies upon the sub ject of the ratification of the treaty of the 15th of Nov., the Courts of France and Great Britain have given the strongest proof of the value which they sat upon that union, and of their ardent desire to preserve a general peace, but that communications which the two Courts have recently received inclinu them to believe that the Plenipotentiaries of their allies have been furnished with the necessary powers for exchanging the ratifications of the treaty of the 15th of November, and that, as it is urgent, for the maintenance of the tranquillity of Europe, that the affairs of Belgium should be settled promptly, th. Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain and France invite those of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, to declare if they are ready to proceed to the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty of the 15th November, and in case they are nut, to explain the circumstances which prevent thew. The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, hasten to answer to the Pler:ipotentiaries of France and Great „Britain. They declare that they appreciate at its just value the assurances which the Plenipotentiaries of France and Great Britain have reiterated to them, awl that they esteem them selves happy in having been, since the opening of the Con ference of London, the interpreters of the intentions not less pacific of the three Powers whom they represent—in tentions which have influenced these Powers, and which will influence them, to lose no means of maintaining the general peace and unien of the five Courts, of which it is the very best guarantee. The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, add that they are not yet authorised to exchange the acts of ratification of the treaty of the 15th of November 1831 ; that the motives of the three Powers, in del tyini, the exchange of these ritificAtions, had been to nee all their influence at the Hague to engage his Majesty, the King of the Netherlands, to accede to the 21, articles of the 15th of October last, and that in labouring with a sincere seal to obtain this accession, the three Powers had given the meet convincing proof of their desire to co-ope rate for the accomplishment of the views of their allies, and the preservation of the tranquillity of Earope ; that the result of the last remonstran.•es made in that re spect to his Afajesty, the King of the Netherlands, and attested by the declarations which had been just remitted on the part of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, to the Go vernment of the Netherlands, is still too recent to have permitted the three Powers to send definitive orders to their Plenipotentiaries at London ; but that the Plenipr tentiaries hope to receive these orders directly, and wi, not fail to communicate them to the Conference. (Signed) WESSENBERG. NEUMANN. TALLEYRAND. PALMERSTON. BULOW. LIEVEN. MATIJSCHEWITZ. (From the Morning Herald private correspondent.) , BRUSSELS April 10. . .. .. . _ . The mask is partially withdrawn, and Protocols 56 have been received in Belgium. " The Plenipotentiaries of the three Northern Powers will hasten to make known to the Conference any communications they tsar receive from their respective Governments." Thus the ratifies eon of the treaty of the 15th of November is adjourned sine die. This important, though not unexpected, commu ilication was made known to the Chambers yesterday in a Secret Committee. The Minister for Foreign Affairs at the same time laid before House copies of seveaal letters received from M. Van . tle Weyer. In one of the.e letters the lgian Minister sup :--" Baron Bulow, the Prussian Ambassador, declared to the Conference, at the last meet ing, that he had not as yet either received the ratification from his Court, or any instructions to make known the future intentions of the Prussian Cabinet." The Russian and Austrian Plenipotentiaries, in consequence of orders to regul ite their actions after those of Prussia, deelimi making any communication o e fficiessse. The official com munication will be found in the Protocol. The Belgians are determined on calling on the five Powers to fulfil their engagements, without modification or compromise, as agreed to by the treaty of London. I have been informed that the Belgian Government sent off last evening an express to Paris, requesting Marshal Souk to engage for the Belgian service a General to act a+ second in command, aid two Genercs of Division. At the same time an order was sent to recruit as snail Pules as would be sufficient to form a regiment. There are reports, of various descriptions, dont to-day, the greater part warlike; yet I have nu ides of any immediate The Dutch continue their systetn of inundating the country. The whole of the Dutch Polders in the neigh bourhood of St. Nicholas are under the water. Their fl..et is continually shifting its quarters ; and I believe the following to be an accurate description of their pre .ent naval force in the Scheldt :—At Terneusen, th, Dolphin, 30 guns; At Baths, the Zeento, 90 guns; at Lillo, the Eurydice, 50 guns ; at Kruysschans. the Pan terre, 22 guns; at Fort Ste. Marie, tfo. Proserpina 22 tuns; at the Pipe de Tabac, the Comte, 22 guns; be sides several cannonniers. It is said a conspiracy has been discovered in the citadel of Antwerp. The plot was to bre4k the chains of the locks, and thus allow the waters in the ditches to run eff. The principal conspirators were 13rIgiAns, who had bees Allowed to remain in the citadel. The Betgian American Minister, Mr. Behr, learee Brussels to-morrow for o,e United States. A private letter from Vienna says, one of the principal secretaries in the office of the Alinister of War had been put into prison, it having been discovered that he had fur oished the French Ambassador with the different plans and intentions of the Austrian Ambassador, SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S RELIGIOUS AND MOR•L CH/RACTER.--In the religious and moral character of Sir Isaac Newton there is much to admire and to imitate. While he exhibited in his life and writings an ardent regard for the general interests of religion, he se..s at the same time a firm believer in Revelation. He was too deeply versed in the Scriptures, and toe much imbued with their spirit, to Judge harshly of other men who took different views of them from himself. He cherished the great principles of religious tolera. ;ion, and never scrupled to express his abhorrence of persecu tion, even in its mildest forte. Immorality and impiety he never permitted to pass unreproved ; and when Dr. Halley yen ured to say any thing disrespectful to religion, be Invariably eheeked him, and said, " I hare studied these things—you have not."—/Feesi4 .I,4lrever, X*. XXIV., Dr. Ilrrestwee 1.41* 0 Pewter& , I*~~ '; f OFFENCES REL&TING TO nig COD,. The following are the outlines of the Bill which Lord Aaekland has prepared, entitled " An act for eonsolidating and amending the laws against offences relating to the coin." • The preamble states, that whereas the offence of counterfeiting the coin, as well as certain other offences relating to the coin, are now by virtue of several statutes punishable with death; and whereas it is expedient to abolish the punishment of death in all such cases, and to repeal the several statutes :against offences relating to the coin, in order that the provisions thereof may be amended end consolidated ieto nee Act : be it therefore enacted, See., that the following statutes and parts of statutes made in the Parliament of England, that is to 'ay :—iThe Bill , hen enumerates 44 acts, begimeitig with the repeal of the star. ale moneta, temp. incerti; vulgo 2. - r Ed. 1. at. 4, .5, 6; 27 Edw. 1., et. /, acid ending with he S 6 Geo. 111. c. 39, being an act " to prevent the practice of fraudulently buying and selling of light coin in this kingdom," and the 7 Goo. IV.: 10 of those acts are Scotch, and 6 are Irish)---con 'inning, that those acts the!! be and continue in force until and throughout the last (1:17 of April, 1832, and shall from and after that day be " re pealed," except so far as any of the said acts may repeal the whole or any part of tier other acts, as may be in force in any part of his il.l...jesty's domi nions out of the United Kingdom, and except as to efferters and other matters rommitted or done before or upon the said last day of April, which shall be dealt with and punished as if this Let tied not beer: pa , sed. There are then clauses, providing that off..ncea nommitted previous to the repeal may be tried under lie old acts after the repeal; bat it the punish ineni be not capital. Teat this Act , hall comment.? and take effect on the let day of Mety, 1832. That if any person shall tAlrely tra l / 4 .1 rr counter fuiit :AI coin resembling, tic e/peeruiry inteedi-d to resemhle or pios for, any of :he K ; Pe.4 C;srr .n• g old or silver tern, every mech. effemier ands, in England end Ireland, be guiey of feturry, kid eeiend of a high crime and (*Teller, wni, convicted thereof, shall be liable, et the discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the i;eae for life, or any term not less than se . , , el years, r t., be len prisened for any term not execialeig four years; ind every 61101 offence skill be die meal :o be corn pleie although the coin so toe4e or coneterfeited shall not he in a fir state to be ertei•el, er the coun terfeiting thereof shall riot be fieished or p , rfected. That colouring counterfeit coin, or say pieces of metal, with intent to mak- them lass far geld or silver coin; arid colouring or elteriog enutne coin, with intent to make it pee, for i 4 higler coin; be punishable veise transportation for life, Ser., aec.sr,i. tog to 8 and 9 W. 111. exp. 23. a. 4, 1.5 G. 11. c. 28, s. 1, now capital. That impairing the gold or silver coin, with in tent, &c., be penisbed with traterportution for 14 years, &e. . - That buying or selling, Scc.counterfeit gold or silver coin for lower value than its timsmination; import• ing counterfeit coin from biand seas, be punished —ith transportation for life , &e. (acc9rding to L.'dward 111., st. 5, c. 2.; 8 and 9 William 111., 96, s. 6.—lmporting now capitgl.) That uttering counterfeit, gold or silver coin, imprisonment for a term not exceeding one ye a r;-- That uttering, accompanied by possession of orh2c counterfeit coin, or followed by a second uttering, imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years if firot offence, or transportation if second offence, That having three or more pieces of counterfeit gold or silver coin in posses,ion, &c., with intent, &c., imprisonment not exceeding three years; second offence, felony and transportoticn. There are then clauses setting forth what shall be sufficient evidence of a conviction for a previous offence against this AV. That making, mending, or having plasesion of any coining tools be felony, and punishable with transportation for life. That conveying tools or monies out of the Mint without authotity, be feleny ; punishable with trans portation for life, &c. Various offences relating to the copper coin, eoun terfeiting or passing the same, to be punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year. The next clause regards " coin suspected to be diminished or counterfeit," enacting that it " may be cut by any person to whom it is tendered," and is thus worded :—" That, where any gold ur silver coin shall be tendered to any person, who shall sus pect any piece or pieces thereof CO be diminished other wise than by reasonable wearing, or to be counter feit, it shall be lawful for such per..on to cut, break, or deface such piece or pieces; and if any piece so cut, broken, or defaced, shall appear to be diminished otherwise than by reasonable wearing, or to be counterfeit, the person tendering the same shall bear the loss thereof; but if the time shall be of due weight, and appear to be lawful coin, the person cutting, breaking, or defacing the same, is hereby required to receive the same at the rate it was coined for; and if any dispute shall arise, whether the piece so cut, broken, or defact.d, be diminished in manner aforesaid, or cousterfeir, it shall be heard and finally determined in a summary manner by any justice of the peace, who is hereby empowered to examine, upon oath, as well the parties as any other person, in order to the decision of such dispute : and the Tellers at the Receipt of his Majesty's Ex chequer, and their deputies, and clerks, and the Receivers. General of every branch of his Majesty's revenue, are hereby required to cut, break, or deface, or cause to be cut, broken, or defaced, every piece of counterfeit or unlawfully-diminished gold r silver coin which shall be tende:ed to them in payment of any part of his Majesty's revenue." Then there is provision for the discovery and seizure of counterfeit coin and coining tools, for se curing them as evidence, and for ultimately disposing of them. After clauses regarding the revenue, and providing that indictments be not traversed without Cause shown, the Bill regulates what shall be suf f icient proof of coin being counterfeit. As to " accessories," it provides thr, in the case of every felony punisl!abk under the Act, every principal in the second delfee, and every ac cessory before the fact, shall be puiiiiihghle is tke shine manner as the principal in the br,t degree is by leis act punishable ; and every y after the fact to any felony punishahle und. r ttit Act shall, on conviction, be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years; aiid in so tar %a relates to Newland, every person who shell become accessory :after the fact to any of the offences ro w hie) the punishment of tran , portation is by this Act a•tached, hall, on conviction, be liable to be trnptironed for a 7. 3, term not exceedingtwo years; the general law of Scotland as to accesslon, or . i.rt or pelt, bei ng i n ail other respects to regulate the punishments to be awarded under this Art. The COURT may order hard labour or solitary cei,fioement. There are then rules of Interpretation es to cur ent coin, counterfeit coin, and criminal penes• 'ion, &c. &e. On Friday night, about eleven o'clock, as Mr. Serjeant Wilde was returning through Wincanten, hone Somerset Assists, alter changing horses at the Greyhound, t; • servant in the dickey behind, in preparing his pistols for the night, to protect the heavy fees accumulated in the Western Circuit, and having loaded them, one unfortunately went off, and passed through the carriage (almost gr: sing the head c f the Learned Serjeant) and entered the back of the postboy. ti • bull lodging in his chest. Medical assistance was immediate y given, but the ball was not extracted till the following usory. int.—Western Lernineary. , 'Fuit GENERAL FAST.—Richar d Anotcles, r carpenter ; Zdtoarl Websier, a masen; Edward Jarrett, an oppentice to a jeweller; John 14 - ilson, a confectioner; °write Manning, a baker; Peter Notes, a labourer; George Hey tk ei., a plasterer; and Henry I,4“Vien, a labourer, were indicted to ,uroultunusly assembling and assaulting the new police, in Finsbury-square & on the General Ftst.day. Wilson, and returned a verdicl, of riullty The Court Knowluz and Lain.den ageintt the other riprisened tilt menthe ; V.atoa, a , d . ing,f - ur raelmila i sad ea* gimmAh. &PM )abode krtlikis 7 ;; •r