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TIIE LONDON JOURNA 7N.711.1.CTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, June RI, 1822. iMORNING POST.) The House of Lords again sat, in Committee rust night on the Marriage Act Amendment Bill. _Lord Redesdale, as he had intimated, - introduced his clauses in substitution of those negatived by their Lordships ; and they were ordered to - be printed as part of the Bill, in order,to their pro per consideration. Lords Ellenborough and Holland severally complimented Lord Redes dale upon the pains width he had taken to em body the sense of the Douse on the present occa sion, and on the ability with which he had ac complished the task. It is perhaps not generally known that Lord Redesdale devotes three days in the week gratuitously to the transaction of public business in the House of Lords. — The Bill mith its amendments was reported, and ordered to be recommitted on Monday next. — In the House of Commons, the Scotch Juries' Bill was discussed, on the question of its second reading, which was ultimately carried without division. —Sir N. Colthurst moved that the House do resolve itself into a Committee upon the. Butter Trade Acts, with a - view to increasing the duties on foreign Butter. After some debate the proposed measure 'was deemed inexpedient and the motion was negatived without a division, [NEW TIMES.] We are well aware of the difficulty of report ing with verbal exactness speeches delivered in a public assembly : and therefore we by no means ' pretend to charge Mr. Hume. with the words which he is reported to have uttered ; but it is very material to observe what these. Reports are ; and to us. it appears that they , are such as ought to be disavowed by the.Honourable Member. The Times attributeS to him these words : " The Government that could not stand Without a Church Establishment, ought not to stand at all." Thellorning - Chronicle states his words thus : " He said, that a State which could not exist without a Church ought not to exist." Mi e do most sincerely hope that the Honour able Member will explicitly and distinctly dis claim principles so hostile to the Constitution, and so stibc'ersive of the religion, the morals, and the liberties of - the country. Mr. Hume .is a Scotchman ; but these principles .are as incom patible with the existence of the Scottish as of the English 'Church. ; . A Church establishment both in Scotland and England is an essential part of the %Constitution ; and it is utterly in comprehensible,. that it Member of Parliament should avow so thorough a contempt for the British Constitution as is implied in either of the pas Sages above ,quoted.—We presume, that the inhabitants of Montrose are people who do not hold the Scottish Church in utter detestation and abhorrence ; and if they do not, 'we put it to them, as friends of that Church, bow they can possibly return, as their RepresentatiVe, to the Legislature, a man avowing sentiments such as those ascribed by The Morning Chronicle and , The Times to Mr. Hume. L BRITISH PRESS.] Mr. Kennedy moved the second reading of the Scotch Juries Bill last night in the House, of Commons. The principal object of the Bill is to give the right of challenge to the prisoner in cri minal trial, and to take away the dangerous method of determining cases of life and death by a majority. It was opposed by the Lord Ad vocate, chiefly nn the grounds of the antiquity of the present law, and the great advantages which the Scotch prisoner had over the English in the information as to the charge, the wit nesses, and the Jury, delivered to him fifteen days before trial. Sir James • Mackintosh re marked on the similarity of the arguments used by the Learned Lord to those brought in op position to the abolition of the heritable jurisdic tions. Changes of laws are to be aioided ; but there are cases in which the" Legislature may be 'too reluctant. This seems to be one of them. It is difficult to discover a good reason why the English trial by jury, the excellence of which in defence of popular right has never been called in question, should - be withheld from Scotland. A recent trial quoted by Mr.-. Kennedy, in which the Judge, standing too much in the, character of a party, was obliged to avoid 'the . exercise of his functions, is of itself a very grave argument against the mode of selecting Scotch juries.— Had the connexion of the Judge, with that trans action been kept a secret, and the case tried in any of the counties beyond Edinburgh, the Noble and Learned Personage might have had to select the Jury to try the offence, to instigate which he had been a party. It would have depended upon his conscience only to exercise his power not--a nota mode of security which the tenour of the English laws does not :set at a very high rate. Lord Binning opposed the motion, :but Mr. Peel conceiving that some, alteration was necessary in the mode of selection. 6 the' jury,' supported it, in the hope that it might assume a less objectionable shape in the Committee. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday next. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Mr. Wilmot brought in a Bill last night for Consolidating the two' Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, which is to be read a second time this day. When Sir J. Mackintosh , stated his objection to passing such a Bill without affording time to the people of the Provinces to express their opinions,- . Mr. Wilmot observed, that " it could not be constitutionally necessary to con sult the opinion of the people of these Provinces before Parliament proceeded to legislate on this subject, since their present Constitution was de rived from an Act ofthe British Parliament, did was of course subject to any modification which - the Legislature in its wisdom might think fit to adopt." 'We say nothing of the merits of Mr. Wilmot's measure, nor of its adequacy or inade quacy as a corrective for the abusesin the Govern ment of Canada, which, like all our Colonies, has been a field for gross jobbing. But this power of setting aside Colonial Conititations The old Colonial Constitutions were charters from a power somewhat less than the Legislature, being only the King, one of the branches of it, and yet an interference with them would have been re sisted at any time. We question if Jamaica, or the other West India Colonies with Consti tutions derived from similar Charters,' would relish the summary process which Mr. Wilmot here advocates. The Ultras say that the French Constitutional Charter may be revoked when the King pleases. A British Minister may strip the inhabitants of all our Colonies of their franchises by means of Parliamentary majorities. This is not certainly calculated to enhance the value of a Colonial Constitution. When the Governor of a Colony hereafter finds the Legislature re fractory, he has only to threaten it with the wrath of the superior Legislature. [THE TIMES.] By the American ship Ann and Hope, which has arrived in the Channel from China, we have received accounts from that country to the 19th February. The letters which she brings, though numerous, add little to our former knowledge respecting the state of the negociations for ad justing the differences between the British Fac tory and the Chinese authorities, arising out of the late affray ; but, happily, they all concur in anticipating a favourable result. We must, therefore, still remain in suspense—though a sus pence less anxious than the former—till the arri val of the Kent, which was to sail from China on the 26th of February, and which, according to accounts that reached town yesterday, is supposed to have been seen off Penzance. It was natural ly to be supposed that the Hong merchants, who derive such advantages from their trade with us, would exert themselves to prevent their pro fits from being endangered by a final rupture ; and that the wealth of such a body must always be powerful enough to command some atten tion from the agents of their Government, who, though . absurdly proud and repulsive to fo reigners, have' no strong antipathy to presents, and are not inaccessible to corruption. It there fore alwayi appeared probable, that an arrange ment might be formed by some diplomatic fic tion, by which we might be enabled to obtain Hyson ,and Nankeens without, sacrificing our countrymen ; and the Viceroy of Canton might get broad cloth and Spanish dollars without a surrender of national honour. The great danger arose from the previous compliance of the Ame ricans with a demand which we thought it our duty to resist, and their disposition to foment the quarrel in order to take advantage of a trade which we might be called upon to forfeit. To this latter cause we may no, doubt ascribe a re port in some of the letters , to American houses, that the negociations were likely to terminate unfavourably, and that in consequence several English vessels had been ordered to ports in India. [MORNING HERALD.] The Bill for the Amendment of the Marriage Act underwent a third discussion yesterday even ing in the House of Lords, on which occasion some very important, and, in our opinion, most salutary clauses, were introduced by Lord Redesdale. The effect of these will be, to pre vent the possibility of any marriage, solemnized by the consent of the parties, being rendered null and void, even should the parties be married under false names ; but in the latter case an adequate punishment is to be in flicted on the party committing the fraud, while the marriage remains indissoluble. Who ever has been in the habit of witnessing the proceedings in our Ecclesiastical Courts, in suits instituted for nullity of marriages, and recollects the cruel decisions which the Judges were com pelled by law to give—decisions which broke asunder the tenderest ties of affection, which re duced many virtuous females to a state of want, and brought degradation and infamy on innocent children, the marriage of whose parents was de clared illegal ;—whoever recollects these things must rejoice at this correction of the law, by which all marriages hereafter are to be indissoluble. But the evil which arose from the frequent dissolution of marriages was not confined to individuals—its influence was felt throughout society in the cor ruption of morals and the insecurity of property. This leads us to make a remark or two on the dissolutions which have taken place by specific Acts of Parliament, in cases of adultery on the part of the husband or wife. We know that, through the facility of obtaining divorces in that way, there prevailed at one time in this coun try' a most 'disgraceful system of profligacy and collusion. Husbands who disliked their wives, and wanted to get new ones, threw them in the way of seduction ; and then, after going through all the regular processes of law against the adul terers, obtained their Bills of Divorce to enable them to marry again. And there have even been instances where husbands and wives, mutually disliking each other, and wishing for new partners, have contrived, by tacit agreement, and the intervention of proper agents, to manage matters so, that sufficient grounds wore laid before Parliament for the passing of the Bills that were to produce the wished-for separation and the new marriages. About twenty years ago this corruption of morals was openly com plained of in the House of Lords ; and new re gulations were adopted to check the facility of divorces. But, in our opinion, the only effectual regulation would have been, a determination to make Divorces extremely difficult to obtain. Had this been done, we should not have witnessed one-tenth of the shameful trials that have polluted our Courts of Justice ; and husbands and wives would feat it necessary to live on better terms with each other than they have done. , ' SUICIDE.—EarIy on Monday morning Mr. Cbox (of the firm of Mantle and Cook, brewers, of Castle street, Bloomsbury), made a desperate attempt to destroy him self, by blowing his brains out with a pistol. The ball remained in the head for some days, but, by the skill of the surgeons, it was extracted, and faint hopes were entertained of his life, until this morning, when he expired at half-past eight o'clock. Mr. Cook had, for some time previous to the sad catastrophe, shewn evident symptoms of a disordered state of mind. Oa Thursday last the doors of Hereford Prison were thrown open, there not being a single pri soner under confinement.-.-(Hereford Journal.) IRELAND. REVIEW OF ARMED ASSOCIATIONS. (Pram the Cork Constitution, June 18.) Saturday last presented a spectacle of uncom mon interest, in the Review-field near the bar racks—of more real interest, in our estimate of public concerns, than the exhibition of all the household troops of all the Monarchs of Europe ' if assembled together could raise.— It was simply the review and inspection of the different armed associations, to which the late sanguinary outrages in this country had given existence. We appreciate not those loyal and high spirited bands, composed, as they are, of the. first gentry in the districts to which they be long, for their military precision in the duties of the field ; and, without detracting in any degree from.that military merit, which the Reviewing General was pleased to commend so warmly, we value them altogether for the sentiment which associated them, and which brought them to be inspected, as soldiers, by the King's' Generals. Their force, moral and military—and the first is the more important—they may be as-. sured consists in that sentiment ; and while the Gentlemen of Ireland feel it ardently, and follow its dictates manfully and warmly, as the Gentlemen of this county have, no frantic rabble, however fierce or numerous, can ever be long ascendant, trampling the laws under foot, and lording it over the ruins of society. The Review which interested us so much, and upon which we could dwell with protracted pleasure, consisted of the Imokilly Armed Association, commanded by the Marquis of Thomond—the South Liberty Cavalry, commanded by Captain John Devonsher Newenham, and the Glanmire Association, commanded by Captain Horatio Townsend. - A little after those corps had taken up their position and formed, General Sir J. Lambert, the Reviewing Officer, and Major-Gen. Sir John Elley, the Inspecting Officer, entered the field, and were received with a general salute —the Generals proceeding. along the line in front and rear; after which, having taken up their stations in the reviewing point, the three corps broke into open column, passed in ordinary time, then in file, and, forming again, passed the Generals in quick time. After an advance in line, .a general salute concluded the business of the day.—Sir John Lambert having called toge ther the Captains, he was pleased to express the highest approbation of the martial appearance of the corps, the minute attention paid to all the appointments, which were in the most perfect order, and the superioi quality of the horses. The fineness .of the day, and the no velty of the scene, as well, we hope, as mo tives of sentiment, similar to those we feel our selves, collected a vast concourse of spectators. No thinking person left the field, we are con vinced, without a sense of personal esteem for every individual of those of whom the corps were composed—without a pleased impre§sion on 'his mind, at the example before him of disinterest ed spirit—of generous disregard of personal ' toil or trouble—of loyal, liberal, and manly zeal ; and, if it were possible that any dissatisfied sensation could be felt by the spectators, it could be only on perceiving that a force of so invaluable a description had not attained to greater numbers. The merit of those who were pre sent, armed in support of their country's laws, if in anywise affected by extrinsic circumstances, would be rather enhanced by this consideration. That those Gentlemen, who, with others, have done so much for the maintenance of the public quiet, will persevere manfully, vigorously, and generously, cannot be doubted ; they want no counsel or exhortation,to cheer them in their ho nourable labours ; but to those whom their ex ample has not yet moved, if we were to give advice, we would say, " Go thou and do like- wise." On the night of Wednesday last, eight sheep, the property of George B. Lowe, Esq. were wantonly and maliciously killed on the lands of Lisnagourneen, near Castletownroche. Poverty or starvation cannot be alleged as an excuse in the present instance, (could such an excuse be at any time alleged,) as no efforts were made to re move the carcases, which clearly evinces, what ever may be the state of the country in other re spects, that that system of lawless barbarity which has for such a length of time disgraced it, has not entirely subsided. ( From the Sligo Journal of Saturday.) We have to inform our readers that• one hun dred pounds have been received by the Treasurer of the General County Relief Committee, from E. S. Cooper, Esq. M. P. It is impossible suffi ciently to appreciate the liberality of this Gen tleman. Our readers will recollect his previous donation of 1001. to the fund for the Town and Union.—lt is supposed between 26,000 and 30,000 individuals in this country, exclusive of this Town and Union, are in absolute want of the necessaries .of life ; but we hope to give our readers, next week, a general view of the state' of the county. ( Extract of a Letter from Abbefeak.) " The distress in this parish is very great, and although Mr. Besnard gave an order to the Reverend Mr. llewson, the Clergyman here, on Mr. W., for two hogsheads of flaxseed; the people have been refused, nor are they likely, for the want of a resident Gentry, to get any relief —God knows what the consequence may b, if the starving peasantry of this neighbourhood be not looked to in time. There are, to my own knowledge, 273 families, consisting of 1,594 persons, that are literally in want of as•much food as would keep life together for a week. It is rather strange that our County Membersi who are landowners in the parish, would not endea vour to get some share of the relief."—(Limerick News, Jlne 15.) John Ley, of the parish of Heavitree, was on Friday last summoned at the Castle of Exeter, to answer the complaint of Mr. REW, for leaving half afield of grass uncut, which he had been hired to mow. The Magistrate sentenced him to pay a fine of 10s., upon non-payment of which he was committed to BridewelL ON FLOGGING IN SCHOOLS. ( From the Newcastle Magazine for June, 1822. We have just read an excellent little 'book,by Mr. BAMFORD, on school-flogging;"` and we hope that the work will meet with the circulation it deserves ; for a more ela. borate, more learned, or more humane treatise, has seldom come into our hands. Indeed, the reader who is inclined to be fastidious may say with some truth that there is more research in the book than was actually called for by the subject. But hough the general reader may be wearied by the perpetual oc. currence of some authority, some passage from an ancient or a modern author less known than it ought to be, to the public and to curious individuals these authorities and passages will be valuable; they will be a manual of reference against scho lastic cruelty, and against all who argue in favour of that relic of a barbarous age. Mr. B. is the more worthy of attention when it is considered that he speaks from experience. He appears to have tried both modes of discipline—the severe and the mild—and his deci- sion has been made impartially for the latter. In speaking of the Jewish discipline, he has shown most completely, that Solomon, by his exhortation not to spare, the rod, never meant to advise unmerciful flagellation, but merely salutary correction ; that the instrument. or punishment is written metaphorically for the punishment itself ; and that it is ridiculous to expect that there is any charm in the rod, inde pendent of the cause for which it is used. In these conclusions, and more especially in the last, we agree with Mr. B. most en tirely. We have long endeavoured in vain to discover some inseparable connexion or relation between sense and a school master's cane—we have long vainly tried to guess how a peda gogue could, as is often said, lino& education into the heads of his scholars—and we have lately come to the ccnclusion, that the cane generally renders many boys incapable, and that even those who have the power of learning, under the despotism of its sway, rather retain their presence of mind and application in spite of blows, than in consequence of their being employed. —We find that flogging has not always a beneficial effect, even when applied to horses ; many of them become worse tin der the lash, as if they were conscious of the indignity. But if by flogging the body of a horse we cannot cause the animal to exert that body, how can we expect to produce exertion in the minds of youth by bodily infliction ? To cause the mind to exert itself, we should, metaphorically speaking, flog the mind ; not that we should so treat it that it would feel conscious of any thing like disgrace; but we should exciteit, spur it up, render it a pain to be dormant, and a happiness to be in exer tion. Emulation is the only lash which the intellect of youth will ever bear to its own advantage. In his Essays on the Grecian and Roman discipline; Mr. B. proves, even from the,.great excess to which those nations sometimes carried flagellation, that the practice ought not to be resorted to at all. That the Spartans had recourse to it for the purpose .of hardening theiP-youth, is a very strong argument against its being used with a contrary intention ; ; and when it is recollected that many of the best writers both of Greece and Rome opposed flogging, except in extreme cases, and sometimes altogether, we have reason to wonder that we, who are so much more universally civilized than any ancient nation, have not long ago banished corporal punishment from our seminaries. From the Essay or Chapter on the English writers on the subject of flogging, we shall extract an example of the evil effects of the practice, which is worth a thousand arguments. It is from the life of Archbishop Anselm, prefixed to his works:— " As a certain Abbot, who was accounted very religious, was, once talking with Anselm, about the affairs of monastic religion; and amongst other things, was consulting him about the boys who were brought up in the cloisters, he added, What, I pray you, can 'be done with them ? They are per verse and incorrigible :. day and night we cease not to beat them, and yet they' always become Worse and worse.' At which Anselm, surprised, Cease ye not,' says he, to beat them ? And how are they when they are grown up ?" They are dull,' he says, and-brutish.' But Anselm says, For what good purpose then do ye, who for men have brought up brutes, lay out all your money and care ?' But he answers, What can we do to prevent it ? We constrain them by every means to improve, but all to no purpose.' ' Constrain them, do you ? Tell me, father Abbot, I pray, if you were to set,a plant in your garden, and just after, were to shut it up on every side, so that it could in no way extend its branches ; and when, after a year, you should set it free, what sort of a tree would issue thence? Useless, certainly, with crooked and entangled branches. And who would be to blame for thin but you, who so unreasonably confined it? This is just what you do with your boys : they are planted, by oblation, iri the garden of the church, that they may increase and bring forth fruit to God. — But ye, on all sides; so restrain them'with all kinds of terrors, menaces, and blows, that they are not allowed to enjoy the smallest liberty. Therefore, indiscreetly oppressed, they breed, foment, and nourish within themselves, depraved and (like thorns) perplexed thotights: And they so continue to cherish them, that they obstinately evade all the means which can be administered to correct'them. Whence it comes to pass, that because they perceive in you no love, no affection, no kindness, no sweetness towards them, they have no confidence afterwards of any good in you, but believe that all you do proceeds from hatred and malice against them. By this wretched means it happens, that as-they afterwards increase in age, so hatred, and the suspicion of every evil, increase in them, always prone and bent to vice. And since they have not been lazed in true cha rity to any one, they are able to look upon no one but with de pressed brows and oblique eyes. But, for God's sake, I wish you would tell me, what is the reason that you thus torture them ? Are they not men ? Are they not of the same nature as yourselires ? Would you wish that to be done to you which you do to them, if, indeed, you had been what they are ? But enough. Do you wish to form them to good manners solely by blows and whips ? * ' * * So if you wish yiaur boys to pos sess ornate manners, it is necessary that, instead of the depres sion of bloivs, you bestow upon them the soothing and comfort of paternal affection and gentleness.' To these things the Abbot said, What soothing ? 'What comfort ? We labour to con strain them to a grave and steady behaviour.' * * * But while the mind is yet fragile in the service of God, it stands in need of tender milk, to wit, the' gentleness of others, benignity, pity, cheerful encouragement, charitable support, and much of this kind.' * * * The abbot, having - heard these words, groaning said, Truly we have erred from the truth, anti the light of discretion has not shone upon us.' And then falling upon the earth before his feet, he confessed lie had done wrong, that he was guilty, and requested pardon for the past, and again and again promised amendment for the future.' The whole tendency of Mr. Bramford's book' is, if possible, to bring back schools to what, from their original name, (rXokri, leisure, or ,amusement, one would imagine was their first intention. Indeed, there is nothing, so pernicious as the too common feelir4 amongst youth, that, in going to school, they are -proceeding to a place they ought naturally to dis like. And yet such a feeling must evidently 'be inseparable from a system of terror on the part of teachers. Boys can never go to that place as a place of pleasure, of which flog ging is an attribute. There can never be a feeling of de light under any government of which -the chief is a tyrant. But ,why is a schoolmaster such a tyrant? It must be rathar an improper disposition, than any apparent interest, that causes him to become so ; for the best and the happiest governor is one that can rule without domineering, and the ef fect of such a ruler will be more' effectually seen in a school than even in a kingdoni. The feeling with boys that a school is a disagreeable place where they are forced to learn, is of greater influence than is generally imagined. We have traced it from the boy to the man, and we believe, when once rooted; it will often accom pany hini to the grave. That which at school caused the les son to be a task' in after life causes pleasure to become a busi ness, and business a pain—makes dissipation a duty, and duty itself a torment—and has too frequently placed religion in the light of an unpleasant discipline, and made God himself seem more a tyrant to be feared than a father to be loved. • Essays on the Discipline of Children, particularly as re- Lards their education. By the Rev. R. W. Bamford, Chaplain of Sherburn Hospital, in the county of Durham. ,e, TIIE MAIDEN'S LEAP.—A daughter of the first Earl of GowitiE was courted by a young gentleman, much her inferior in rank and fortune. Her family, though they gave no encouragement to the match, permitted him to visit them at their castle of Ruthven, in Perthshire ; and on such occasions, the chamber assigned him was in a tower, near ano ther, in which the young lady slept. On one of his visits, the young lady, before the door was shut, got into her lover's apartment ; but some one of the family having discovered it, told her mother, who, cutting off, I s she thought, all possibility of retreat, hastened to surprise them ; the young lady, however, hear ink; thewell=knownsteps of her motherhobbling up stairs,ran to the leads, and took a desperate leap of nine feet four inches over a chasm of sixty feet from the ground, alighted on the bat tlenients of the other tower, whence descending . into her own chamber, she crept into bed. Her mother having in vain soug ht her in -her lover's chamber; came into her room, where find ing her seemingly asleep, she apologised for her unjust suspi cion. The young lady eloped the following, night, and was married. The chasm between the towers is still shown under the appellation of the Maiden's Leap... 4 Edinburgh courant, June 17.) THE BANKKUPT LAWS. The following Bill has just passed the House of Lords : " A BILL, ENTITLED AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAWS Et- LATING TO BANKRUPTS UNDER JOINT CONDIISSIONS. " Whereas by the Laws now in force relating to Bankrupts, where a Joint Commission has issued against two or more per sons, being partners, under which Commission one or more, and not all the Bankrupts, may be entitled to have such Com mission superseded,but may be unable to obtain such superseaeas without the consent of some or one of the bankrupts not entitled to or not consenting to such supersedeas, which may be attended with great inconvenience : May it please your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's Most Excel lent Maj esty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lo rds Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia ment assembled, and by the authority o f same, That where a Joint Commission of Bankruptcy has issued, or shall hereafter issue, against two or more persons, it shall be lawful for the Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, to supersede such Joint Commission as to one or more of the bankrupts, without prejudice to the validity of the Commission as to such one or more of the bankrupts as . to whom such-Commission is not,ordered to be superseded, or as to his, her, or their certificate or certificates ; but such. Commis sion and Certificate, as to him, tier, or them, shall continue in full force and operation." The other Bill introduced by the Lord Chancellor contain* clauses-- Empowering Commissioners to summon witnesses to give' evidence, and produce books and papers, under pain of com mitment for refusal. Enabling Assignees to execute powers previously vested • bankrupts, except appointing to an Ecclesiastical benefice. - Giving power to the Lord Chancellor to order, the bankrupl to join in conveyances at the time of the allowance of, or after he shall have obtained his certificate. • __ Declaring that by sth Geo. 11. cap. 30, the Lord Chancellot has power to vacate bargains and sales. Removing all doubts whether the penalties of the law can be inflicted for perjury before a Master in Chancery. Making office copies' evidence in certain cases. Authorizing the issuing of Commissions against two or more partners of a firm. Enacting " That in case a joint creditor or joint creditors of three or mote persons being partners shall be the petitioning creditor or creditors in a Commission of Bankruptcy issued• against two or more persons being partners, as well such joint creditor as any other joint creditor shall be permitted to vote in the choice of assignees, and to assent to or dissent from the signature of the said banlaupt's certificate in respect ofhis, her, or their joint debt or debts ; but neither the petitioning nor anY other joint creditor shall be permitted to receive any other-di vidend out of the separate estate of the said bankrupt or bank rupts until all the separate creditors of the said bankrupt or bankrupts shall have received twenty shillings in the pound on. their respective debts." Allowing assignees to use the names of partners in suits, and indemnifying such partners against costs, and authorising them to petition the Lord Chancellor for such part of the proceeds of such action as they may be entitled to. And enacting that one partner entitled may receive allowance before others not entitled. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JUNE 211 MURRAY V. ELLISTON. Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for the dissolution er this injunction. He stated, that some time ago a Bill had beer i filed by the plaintiff, contending that the • defendant ought n ot to be permitted to perform a certain tragedy, written by Lord Byron, and when it came on for hearing, a case was made ou t _ for it to be tried at law, and an injunction granted to restra in him in the mean time from performing it at Drury-Lan e ' Theatre. It had been tried at the King's Bench, and tiw Learned Judges there decided that he was at liberty to do s° if he thought proper; the present application was therefore t° have the injunction dissolved, and that the plaintiff should be ordered to pay all costs. Mr. SHAIIWELL rose on behalf of the plaintiff, and said, though he could not now opposelthe injunction being dissolveut yet he submitted that his client had not filed the Bill contrary to law , _ nor contrary to the practice of the Court; and as 0 1 point had been considered a matter of great doubt, and caulu" so much discussion, and though the Judges of the Iciag i ; 4 Bench had ultimately decided against his client, yet he 611 mitted he ought not to be called upon to pay the costs. Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, he considered he h° every reason to call for costs, as . Mr. Elliston _ had been re vented from enjoying the profits which might have arisen roll' the performance of that tragedy during the whole time thist suit has been pending. had Mr. SHADWELL said he did not think so, for the play been pretty well d—d before the Bill was filed. His Loßnsxxr —That was what I wanted to know ther Mr. Elliston had all this time been deprived of the prat' that might have arisen from this tragedy : and as that has beet the case and as Mr. Murrayhas taken Mr. Elliston's box,die think he must „pay for his adrhission. I therefore dismiss 0 bill, dissolve the injunction, and order that the plaintiff shy pay the costs. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 20. THE KING V. COLLINS AND OTHERS. Mr. GURNEY was heard this_day on behalf of one of thet.f: fendants, Mr. Mills, in support of the Rule for a new ulr,,e and their Lordships severally delivered their opinions, that t i case made out by the defendants' entitled them to a new lII' upon payment of Costs.—Rule made absolute. THE KING V. KNATCH/3ULL AND OTHERS. d o Mr. COMMON SERJEANT and Mr. PLATT were this heard in support of the Rule for a new trial. Their'Lordships having consulted together for a few Olin ute ro the LORD CIISEF JUSTICE said, the Court must take tie consider the case. SUMMER ASSIZES, 1822.—HOME CIRCUIT• Before the CHIEF BARON, Sir RICHARD RICHARDS/ Mr. Justice PARK. • Hertfordshire—Thursday, July 18, at Hertford. Essex—Essex, Monday, July 22 at Chelmsford. Stirrey—Monday, July 29, at Guildford. Sussex—Saturday, August 3, at LeFes. Kent—Wednesday, August 7, at Maidstone. - - rot/ f IRON STEAM BOAT. - -The Aaron Manb,g, -- 110 Steam Boat, arrived at Paris, from London, on the Iltli gr o, with a cargo of clover seed and cast iron. The VOYaq left London to Rouen was performed in fifty-five hours. Sea the latter place on Thursday morning and would have rm Paris on Saturday evening, if she had not taken the r o l l ia l, near St. Audely's, in consequence of a rope breaking , an " hindered from proceeding by the crowds which cam e on, ever at different places to view her—This voyage will be Plr t at memorable in the history of navigation; it being the hot 10 s' tempt to traverse the ocean in a vessel composed of any ~tivb ut wood. The enterprise has proved decidedly succes tio Thus we have a direct communication open between d' e a tet great capitals of Europe, and which is performed in a ,"oven time than is taken by the stoutest merchantman to sail to ~ge only. Not the slightest accident occurred during the v1,711e nor could the people on bard discover any difference movement of the vessel from. that of the strongest ship ths vigates the seas.----(Journal des Debuts of Sunday 1.,,ay of BIRTHS. On'Wednesday list, -in Upper Brook-street, the Lleut.-Colonel Sir T. Noel Hill, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., the wife of the Rev. Charles Shipley' Rector of Mappowder, in the Counti , of Dorset, of a MARRIED. „ „ o ver' On Thursday morning, at St. George's Church, PAWeut square, by his Grace the Archbishop ot York, Go t wort il ,,,, worth, Esq., eldest son of Godfrey Wentworth `fie pun' Esq. of Woolley Park, in the County of York, to ArinS, e s ole daughter of Walter Fawkes, Esq. or Faruley Hall, in _...... County. ___---------".--- DIED. noef On the 19th instant, at Waddon, William Clark 0 f Ups hl Esq. youngest son of the late James Johnstone, Es+ Wimpole-street. , te e. On Tuesday morning, Mrs. Steers, of Hammersinit''of r" On Monday, the 17th instant, at the advanced ag e -- Mrs. Elizabeth Booker, of New Bond-street. Leicesteri On Monday se'nnight, at his house at Overseal, sev il- ~ shire, aged 64, Jonathan Woodhouse , Esq. ne wam du ring; t ot t years Captain of the Ashby-de - la - Zou ch Volunte able c°llers (ids• late French war, and was also Engin eer and the ,i of the Marquis of Hastings's Coal W orks at Ashby 181.° - the $ l/11 , Printed and Published for the. PROPRIETORS, at Office, No. 112, Strand, bl J. 11. CAUST/JO'