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44. r REGISTRY BILL. • k - the clergy obeyed the oath m.,hia, they were bound to take on their induction,--- ; h ere would be no ne mssity for applying to that', House for grants ila.! aid of fell:cation. If that werel..he case, there would be ample flint's for the edueation, lot of one pirtieu-- ; Jar class, but of all who were in deed of instruction. The present system was, from the beginning to the end, a complete jobbing, se!fisb, and Pr°sePeeisin t e system, intended for the benefit of a few, and not k r t h e general welfare of the coentry. Immense sums he.d b een lavished 0 ,, t h e charter-schools, but that system i1 . 3:1 failed. 'File Kildare street schools were then tried. They ha I cost the country a vast deal of meney, and they produced mischief instead of benefit. The Government was „p e a u pon to r „, an end to such a system, and to setahlieh, as it had done, in its stead, one which, while, it afforded to every sect time means of moral and liter education, interfered with the religions principles et.f Dine, and sought not to pervert the. sacred ceilie of intellectual enlightment 'o the base put pot., of narrow-mintied proselytism.—(Hear.) Colonel CONOLLY sail the opinions of the Rev. Mr. Carlisle (one of the members of the new Irish Board of E‘liteabion), were not the opinions of the Presbyterian body, for that that individual had been di.countenanced by the whole Presbyterian body of Irehin•l ; and that the Board consisted of members of every kid of sect and per suasion but the Established Church, which was not at all represented there. If the system of education to he esta blished in Ireland was to be-conducted by such persons as that Board consisted of, it could only be by radically de terging every principle and particle of Christianity. The Irish people were so sunk in degradation that they did not know what the moral principle was : they were incapable of judging between right and wrong- ; and the only reeectly for their deplorable ignorance consisted in the circulation of the sacred Scriptures. The Proteetants and Presbyte rians of Ireland were so violently attached to the Word of God, that they would to it man spurn at and ree:st ti e . new system of education which it was now attempted to establish in Ire!eted,—a system, wilielk he had satisfied himself; and he was sure it would require but little to sa tisfy the House also, was at once both impious and absurd. Mr. CAREW said a few words, which were inaudible in the gallery. Mr. H. GRATTAN defended the system now proposed by the Government, and the very fact of the Kildare. place Society having decided that the Bible ought not to be made a school-book was proved by a resolution to that effect, signed by the Hon. Member for Donegal hinitte!f (Odonel Coneliv) in 1829. The opposition tc this new system proceeded not from religion, but front polities, and from parties annoyed at not being able to preserve their exclusive ascendancy. Colonel CONOLLY ,rid that the Hon. Member hed put into his mouth what had been said by ottrcrs, and charged him with being pleeent at meetings front which he was far distant, and tbat in doing eo the Hon. Member (Mr. H. Grattan) had equally dep ;rted from truth and canduta-r. .11r. H. GRATTAN r,peated that all he had said was true ; but called upon the Hon. and Gallant Colonel to ex- Olin what he meant by the charge of his having made a departure from truth and candour. Colonel CONOLLY said that the Hon. Memb.r had attributed to him bring in one place, at a time that he was actually in another. Mr. MORE OTERRALL returned his thanks to the Government for having put the system of national educa tion on a fair and equal footing. Ile also thought that the speech of the lion. Member for Donegal carried its own antidote with it. It was full of that violent feeling which unfortunately prevailed in Ireland, but it was not in ' , this country nee-scary to reply to it, as here it would have no weight.—(Hear, hear.) After a few words from Sir R. H. INGLis, Mr. KEARSLEY, we understood, said that if his Majesty called upon him to give his services—than which many things more unlikely had come to pass—(A laugh).— the first thing he would da would be to order the " Rogue's March" to be heat for both parties..—(Loud laughter.) Mr. RI7THYEN declared that • the whole opposition to this system was purely of a political character, and denied that theleeling of the Protestants of Belfast and its neigh bourhood was spoken by the parties who assumed to be the Protestant organs. Captain GORDON, in moving that the petition he printed, said, that though he was free to admit that the Ministerial plan of education in Ireland Was founded on the reports of Parliamentary Committees and Commissions, he must repeat-that it would be found impos.ible to carry it into practice. Mr.- SHELL said •that Government hod adopted the right rsittrse, in acting upon the report of a Committee. lie denied that the Scriptures were abstracted by the Go vernment -from the people of Ireland ; the reverse had been admitted by the Hon. Member for Dundalk. He was surprised at the opposition to Roman Catholics on the part of those who accepted the services of Socinians and Arians-. It was admitted that the Kildare-street Society bed failed. This was not a question of education, or of religion, but a question of public policy, and of public tranquillity. • - Mr. C. GRANT observed, that the Noble Lord, the Member for Huntingdon (Lord Mandeville), had said that there was this distinction between -him and those gentle men who agreed with him and the 'Government, that whereas the former thought that education was a matter of religious obligation, and that • his Majesty's Government ought to attend to the matter of education as such,—tt , e latter thought that it was not a matter of religious obliga tion, but of state policy. On the part of Government he (Mr. Grant) begged to repel that observation r ,ie was about to say aspersion, it it had not been accompanied by so :ouch kindness and courtesy on the part of the Noble Lord. He begged to say, that his Majest)'s Government did regard the education of the people as a mater of re ligious oYigation, inasmuch as he considered that the se curity and prosperity of the kingdom depended on the re ligious principles of the people of England.—(llear.) Unless the people of England were given a religious eiluca ti,n, grounded upon the sacred Scriptures, it was vain to talk cf the greatness and the prosperity of the empire. The motion for the printing of the petition was then agreed to. Colonel TORRENS . postponed his motion for a Bill re pealing such taxes as have the effect of lowering the profits of e-ipital and the wages of labour, till the sth of April. Mr. TREVOR moved to add the county Members of England to the committee of inquiry on the Registry Bill. Mr. PAGET thought the motion unnecessary, as 14 county Mernbe's wert:aliestly on the Committee. Mr. HODGSON supported the motion. Lord ALT HORP saisi that it Would be extremely incon venient to have all the county Members of England on this Committee, and it was not probable that they would all attend if they were appointed. Sir C. WETHERELL inquired whether the Noble Lord would consent to one Member for each county being appointed? Mr. LABOtJCHERE said it was impossible that any committee-room could hold such a number. It was better that the Hon. Member should move, in another form, that the Bill shall not pass, than to effect the object in this cir cuitous way. Sir E. SCGDEN recommended the Hon. Mover to post pone the motion, and make out a list of Members to be added, not with a view of destroying the Committee but of adding to its efficiency. After a few words from Mr. D. W. HARVEY, the gallery was cleared for a division ; but we understood that the motion was subsequently withdrawn. LORD CHANCELLOR OF IRELAND. Mr. DAWSON r,se to move fur a " copy of the ap pointment or appointments of W. M. M'Causland and Robert Long, as joint Secretaries of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; er, it appointed verbally, the date and tet ins of th e appointments; the ages of the respective parties at the time of their app Untments ; the total amount of the eno,lutnents of the office of Secretary since their appoint ment; by whom the same has been beneficially received, and in what proportions; and the number of days in every meek i n w hi c h such Secretaries have been employed in the duties of t h e i r o ffi ce, distinguishing the attendance of each. He said that the object of the present motion was to ascertain whether the Lord Chancellor of Ireland had acted leg 'lly in appointin g two officers jointl • to fill the office of Secretary. I t b a d t een his intention to content himself with moving w making any the pr esent return, witho alt. any comments on te subject, u nt il h e learned, froin the reports in the newspapers, that the notice which he had given of the motion had drawn from the Lord Chancellor of Ireland some injudicious observations, which be could not help feeling as insulting to himself. Mr. STANLEY rose to order. He conceived that no Member had a right to fount. a justification for his rievi atin, from the course which he had originally chalked out upon a report of a speech delivered in another place, to which it was not regular even to allude, and more particu larly when the object of that deviation was to make a charg e against an individual, who was not present to de fend himself. If the lion. Gent. had any charge to make, there were an abundance of ways in which he might bring it forward, and at the same time afford an opportunity to the noble person whom it affected of meeting it ; but no opposition being intended to the present motion by the Government, he thought chat the lion. Member' would Le guilty of a breach orderif he should make my statement now, solely in consequence of certain observations havint: been uttet ed in another place. ( [lean) Mr. DAWSON thought the Speaker's interfei tote was totally unnecessary. He must ;ay, that he hail heard the Right Hon. Gentleman's criticism with a great deal of sur prise, and he eras not at all convinced that the course he was pursuing was disorderly. He had stated that he would have moved for the present return without making a sin gle observation, had it not been for a speech which he had seen reported in the newspapers, and attributed to the Lord Caaocellor of Ireland. He did not say where that speech was made. But in consequence of the notice which he bad given, of movin? fee e the present return, certain ti,servations hitti t)een called from the Lord Chancellor of Irelags! ) 'in the other House of Pal liament.—(Order.) The SPEAKER said that nothing was more clear than that any allusion to what occurred in the nthet• frib:‘oc Parliament was disordetle. • Mr. DAWSON woefd r!ten speak of the speech as he found it repsartesi iii the newspapers, and lie would leave the fefonse to judge where it was delivered. The Lord I Chancellor of Ireland was reported to have said " that misrepresentations h ,ii gone forth with respect to certain offices to which he had the appointment ; and that a no tice had been given in another plaice-, of moving a resolit i ties on the subject. He therefore intended to move for returns relating to Cie offices in question; in order to ena ble himself tet meet those calumnies, and; by the blessing of God, he would meet, refute, end expose them." The Noble and Learned Lord aria he would refute the charges, which he designated calumnies, "by the blessing of Got; t, - and if he succeeded in so doing, it neetainly must be ' hy the interposition of Providence, and by no human means of his owns fot in every endeavour which he had hitherto Ride to refute them, he had most signally failed. ----(Laueliter.) The object of his present motion was, as he. hail before stated, to ascertain the Irg-.114 - of the joint appointment of two Seaseefotrt.es, Early in the present Session be bed ".:owed for an account of fees paid by 3lnistrates in Ireland ; and a return was made signed by .M'Causland and Long. The name of Long did not appear to be attached to that docu ment as assistant or clerk to the former, but as joint Secretary. Within the last few days a letter had been issued from the Cliant-a y-office in Ireland, addressed to the Lords-Lieutenants of the different counties, and signed by Robert Long. This he took to be an additional proof that that gentleman acted in tlna capacity of secre tary, and not of clerk, 3''&4llse he did not suppose that communicetions would be addressed to Lords- Lieutenants of Counties by any other person than the Chancellor's secretary. The letter to which he alluded informed Lords-Lieutenants that the fees paid by Magistrates on taking up their commie-ion to the puree-hearer, the train hearer, and the hall-porter, amounting to 125., would he returned. It would be perhaps recollected that the subject of fees paid by the Magistrates had been brought before the House at an early period of the season ; and a distinct pledge given that they vesaild be returned. They amounted in the whole to 21 131. 6(/. ; of which sum only 12s. was promised, in the letter he had mentinned, to be returned; and it was not until after the House or Commons had marked its sense in the most decided manner, of the conduct of the Lord Chancellor of Ire-land with respect to the appointment of the secretary of the Master of the R .Ile, and the country from one end to the other had joined in reprobating it, that the Lord Chancellor thought fit to inform the Lords-Lieutenants of Ireland, that all the fees paid by the Magistrates would be returned. —( Hear, bear.) He contended that Mr. W. M. M'Causland anti Mr. Robert Long could not be con sidered in any other light than as joint secretaries, and the Lord Chancellor in making - the appointment had been guilty of an illegal act. By the schedule annexed to the 14th George IV., cap. 61, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland teal clearly limited to the appointment of only one secre tary. It might, perhaps, be said that Mr. Long was an assistant-secretary ; but he begged the House to recollect, that since 1770, no such officer had been known in Ire land. What, then, was the reason that there were now two joint secretaries to the Chancellor in Ireland? When Lord P:unket accepted his present situation, he appointed Mr. M'Causland, a young gentleman only 19 years, as his secretary ; but the bar of Ireland, feeling no confidence in that gentleman's experience, begged Lord Plunket to retain Mr. Long. Lord Plunket assented to the proposi tion. Mr. Long was retained, and performed the duties of the office, for which he received 5004, while the other , gentleman received 2,oool.—(Hear, hear.) This was an instance of the manner in which the Lord Chancellor had mismanaged his patronage, for it induced the public to believe that the duties of an office, the aalary of which was 2.500/., could be properly performed for 500/.—(A laugh.) He had always objected to the removal of Sir A. Hart from the Chancellorship. His was an able Judge, highly qualified for the situation, and by his conti nuance in office the country would have saved annually 4,500/., which was now paid to the late Chancellor as retiring pension. Lord Piunket was, however, made Lord Chancellor, because, as the House was told, he would he what the Ministers wanted, an excellent political judge. The consequence had been, that since the lit of Mitch last year, Lord Plunket had been absent from his official duties for no less a period than six months—during two Hilary Terms and - one Trinity Term, and the House • would perhaps be surprised to learn that the person whom the Noble Lord had delegated to discharge his duty, during his absence,- was no other than- the Master of the Rolls, whose claim to be allowed to establish his . right he had treated in so unconstitutional a manner.—(Hear, hear.) Ho thought it was discreditable to Government to bring th e Lord Chancellor over to this country for the purpose of performing political parts; and he believed th tt the Noble Lord had not enhanced his own character by the course he had pursued. When a charge was made against ina of having conferred numerous profitable situations ,In his family connexions, instead of meeting the charge fairly, the Noble Lord indulged in language which he (Mr. Dawson) should have scarcely thought it possible to be used out of Billingsgate. Such conduct was calcu lated to raise the disgust of every man connecttd with the administration of justice in this country; and in proof of tnis observation he could state, that a gent. of the highest .uthority had taken the trouble to make out a list of the number of offices held by the family of Lord Plunket, anti with a copy of which he had favours d him (Mr. Dawson). The following was the account of the offices and emoluments enjoyed by this family: —Lord Plunket, Chancellor, 8,0001.; The Hon. P. Plunket, Purse Bearer, 800/., Secretary of Bankrupts, 900/., and Counsel to the Chiet Remembrancer of the Exchequer, 350/. ; the Hon. D. Plunket, Pro thonotary of the Common Pie's, 1,5001., and Examiner of the Common Pleas, 1001. There were, besides, under these gentlemen three general clerks with a salary of 500/ each ; principal Assistant of Common Pleas relating to juhgtnents, 500/.; second assistant, 2001.; third assistant, 300/. ; and clerk of the pleading in the Affidavit-office, 400/. ; with other clerks whose united salaries amounted to 1,0001. ; the Hon. J. Plunket, Assistant Barrister in the county of Nleath, 700/. ; late Commissioner to inquire with respect to fees received in Courts of Justice, 1,2001. (that office being now abolished, the salary had ceased since last year) ; Crown Counsel on the Munster circuit, 1,200/. ; and Counsel to the Police, 8001. ; the Hon. and Rev. F. Plunket, Dcan of Down, 2 500/. ; the Lion. and Rev. Wm. Plunket, Vicar of Bray—(Loud laughter) —BOOl. ; Mr. M'Causland, jun., 2,000/. ; Mr. Long, 300/. ; Mr. Wan. 31'Causland, brother-in-law of Lord Plunket, and father of the young mart, 1,500/. ; besides various other lucrative situations, making the total amount of the public money received by Lord Plunket, his fa- Roily, and connexions, not lees than 27,8501. a year. —(Hear, hear, hear.) The present political Chancellor was Attorney-General to Lord Grenville, and retired from office in consequence of being foiled in an attempt to remove some of the distbilities under which the Catholics then laboured. He then became Attorney-General under Lord Liverpool, who was the bit terest enemy of the Catholics. He was then offered the office of Master of the Rolls by Mr. Canning, who was the deadliest en ony of Reform, and whose last words were " No Reform;" and the Noble and Learned Person concluded by becoming Lord Chancellor under the Noble Lord opposite, whose motto was " Reform, and nothing but Reform.".(Hear.) There was an advantage in being a political Chancellor. When Lord Plunket was asked why he did not decline acting as Judge in his own cause, his answer was, "I am a political Chancellor." When this Noble and Learned individual should read a report of what lie had that night said of him, he might perhaps be stow upon him some of the abuse arid sarcasms for which he was so remarkable ; but be regarded that not. He had stuck to the truth, and, strong in the honesty and justice of his cause. he might exclaim— .. . There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not." Mr. CRAMPTON said it had never been his lot to hear so much misstatement as ha i fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman. He would not ask the House to take that assertion fur granted until he had contradicted some of the most materi a l f acts i n the Right Hon. Gentleman's speech. The Right lion. Gentleman stated that Ireland was dis satisfied and disgusted with the manner in which the Lord Chancellor of Ireland discharged, or rather abandoned, the duties of his office. lie mentioned particularly that the Lord Chancellor came over to England in Hilary Term, and that in his a' sense the duties of his office devolved upon the Master of the Rolls. The Right lion. Gentle. man was misinformed with respect to the whole of this statement. He hail been a practitioner iu the Court of Chancery during the greater part of his life, and he would .without hesitation declare, without disparagement to any of the Noble Lord's predecessor., that never, within his eserany, had the duties of the business of the Court been discharged with so much diligence, deep itch, and setisfice tion to the suitors as during the period Lord Plunket had presided there. He knew that his Lordship was disliked in a particular quarter. The cry raised against him was that cf party, of politite, ant! e biLeett?e. nol of the country. Now to refe_re the Right non. Gentleman's cherge as to the absence or the Noble and Learned Lord during Hilary Term. He (Mr. Crampton) was present during a few days of Hilary Tertn, and he knew that the Lord Chancellor di l not leave his Court till long after Hilary Term was eve:.--( Hear, hear.)—Furtheethan keiew that the Lied Chan (*ha': did not leave his Court until the sittings were closed, and there was not a single cense remaining unheard. —(Hear, Lear. )—The Right Hon. Gentleman stated that the Lord Chancellor abandoned his Court in tic preceine yeti - , and came to England to meddle with polities. T;iis statement was as unfounded as the ether. His Lordship did not leave his Court until ev'ny rase h i d been diyosed of.- - -(Hear.)—He could also state that the absence of the Lord Chancellor had never occasioned the Master of the Rolls to hear a single cense. li e could not help wishing from his heart that the Right lion. Gentleman hail a se:t in another place, where he would have an opportunity of making his cbarges against Lord Plunket face to face, and of receiving from the Noble and Learned Lord an answer more satisfactory and explicit then he (Mr. Crampton) could give.—(Hear.)—The Right lion. Gen tleman had stated that Lord Plunket's nephew, whom he had appointed his Secretary, was only nineteen years of age. He was, in fact, twenty-three years 615 had been edu cated for the Isar, end was in every respect perfectly qua for the office which he hell. A few words would suffice to repel the charge against Lord Plunket, with respect to Mr. Long. This gentleman was greatly in• dehted to the kindness of his Lordship. Mr. Long having filled the office of secretary la-gate, did not wish to appear to have lost his rank, and applied to Lord Plunket to be allowed the title of joint secretary inste.ad of assistant se cretary. Sir A. Hart supported Mr. Long's re quest, and Lord Plunket, in kindness, acceded to it. There was a charge I-4 Heir.) Did not the Right Hon. Gentleman now regret that lie had brought it forward ? If not, he must have a mind clouded by prejudice and blinded by party- feeling.—(Hear, beer.) Mr. H. GRATTAN defended the conduct of Lord Chancellor Plunket, and maintained that the statement brought forward by the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Dawson), respecting the large sums alleged to have been rec iced by his Lordship's family out of the public purs-, had been greatly exaggerated. The Hon. Member moved, as an amendment to the motion before the House, for similar returns with respect to Richard Lockwood, Esq., as secretary to Lord Chancellor Manners, and Robert Long, Esq., as secretary to Lord Chancellor Hart. Sir E. SUGDEN said, that from what had been ad vanced by his Hun. and Learned Friend oppesit , (Mr. Crampton), he (Sir E. Sugden) was bound to believe that there was a mistake on some side, and until there had been further inquiry he would suspend his judgment. He begged to ask his Hon. and Learned Friend wheti:er he meant to say that the Lord Chancellor had heard all the causes in his Court, without imposing any louden on the Master of the Rolls? CrlAMPTON—Certainly, except one cause, in which the Lord Chancellor was hilllS. If a party. Sir E SUGDEN—Then, as there were two confEct ing statement., both originating in respectable sources, he would repeat that it was requisite that the circumstances should be inquired into. Ile would say for his Right Hon. Friend that he had th e b es t groun d f or advancing his statement, and, in a similar situation, he (Sir E. Sugden) should have felt it his duty to have adopted a similar course. His Hon. and Lamed Friend had declared that the Lord Chancellor of Ireland load not been ab,ent from his Court or neglected his duty. Air. CRA3IPTON—I said that the Lord Chancellor was present in his Court, and had disposed of all the causes during the Hilary Term in which he has been charged with being absent, but I did not say that be had never been absent. Sir E. SUGDEN declared that he had been labouring under the greatest delusion on this point, for be had un derstood his Hon. and Learned Friend to say that the Chancellor had never keen absent from his Court. He had not •asked concerning attendance in Trinity Term this year. Mr. CRAMPTON had not spoken as to Trinity Term last year, indeed he rather thought that the Chancellor had not been in attendance during the whole of that Term; but he could say that his hairless had not been discharged by the Master of the Rolls, or any other Judge. Sir E. SUDDEN continued of the opinion he had al ready expressed, that the matter must lie over for further investigation,' when he should be extremely astonished if he found the authority on which his Right Hon. Friend Thad proceeded altogether incorrect. To proceed to an , other point, he must say that the longer he lived he saw. the noire cause fin• regrettin; for mixing up political with judicial functions. He did not advance this invidiously as to any particular Chancellor. Respecting the office of Secretary, he would maintain that no inexperienced person could be deemed capable of filling it, and he submitted to the House whether so young a man as Mr. M'Causland should have received the appointment, with a salary of 1,7001 a-year, while it was deemed necessary to associate with bins a person of experience, at a salary of 500/. a-year. If the latter sum were an adequate allowance for a competent officer, he could not perceive any propriety in mulcting the public for the payment of a supernumerary. Mr. S. RICE was surprised at the new light that had suddenly broken in upon the Hon. Gentlemen opposite, and he should like to learn how long it was since tl.ey hail begun to distinguish the evil resulting from the appoint- merit of a political Chancellor.—(Hear, and a laugh.) He should he glad to be informed why, if they sanctioned this appointment in others, they should make such a run against one who had been formerly their colleague, and of whose talents they had received the benefit, though he was now so systematically attacked both in that House and elsewhere? He must com plain of the mode of attack that had been resorted to on the present occasion. It was certainly rather unfair to introduce the question of the Lord Chancellor's absence and the neglect of his duty in a minor motion, and with out due notice. New light htd also dawned upon Hon. Gen!lemen as to the holding of a number of offices by a single family. He could meter to an instance of the kind which it was singul tr had escaped the research of Hon. Members, hut to which he would direct their attention, as being fully as deserving of remark as the one that had been submitted to the House to-night. Die example to which he was about to advert was not based upon news paper reports, but upon a report of a committee of the House of Commons. This committee had been appointed in 1802, for the purpose of inquiring into what offices were filled by Members of the House. It appeared from the return that no less than six profitable legal offices were filled by the Hon. William Henry John Stott.—(A laugh.) Here, then, was the only son of a Chancellor holding no less than six offices, while the case brought forw int by the Hon. Gentleman showed merely that some provision had been made during di&rent administrations for the numerous family of the Chancellor of Ireland. No doubt, has; there in the instance which he cited been six sons, 36 offices would have been distributed among thein. With such a record open to his inspection, he could nor help feeling astonished that his Right Hon. Friend bad thought proper to reserve his virtuous indignation for the devoted head of the present Chancellor of Ireland. Mr. G. BANKES said, that the statement of tie Right Hon. Gentleman opposite had no reference to the presrnt question, and the Right Hon. Gentleman ought to have blushed when he enumerated the offices to Mr. S co tt, two of which he was well aware were in reversion, and never hid been enjoyed by that gentleman. lie regretted the allusion made, as it was calculated to give pain, and was on the present occasion both uncalled for and un- necessary. Sir C. WETHERELL said that the triumph had been claimed by the Hon. Gentlemen on the other aide of the Housc for the speech of the lion. and Learned Gen tleman, the Solicitor-General for Ireland, but he (Sir C. Wetherell) thought no triumph could be claimed fur the sp ee ch of the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Secretary of the Treasury, unless it was a triumph to fail into great inconsistescies. He complained that the Earl of Eldon should have been thus attacked in his absence, for nobody could deny it aVif4 that Noble Lord who had been alluded to. He complained of this the more, because the att ac k had been made by those who had aecti.ed his Right Hon. Friend of attacking Lord Plunket in his absence. He should follow the opinion upon th e elf .j e , t till the example of the Hon. and Learned M em b er for St. ftatiHawes,er information t @tin wasa e ng ° before ' the Hous e . H e, how ever, could not omit this opportunity of expressing hi s hope that the friends of the Master of th e R o ll s i n Ireland would again bi ing the question as to his right to apprent a secretary before the H ouse—a question out of which Lord Plunket had e scaped only by th e support of four persons who were his political adherents. Sir F. TRENCH thought that the conduct i n t h at affa i r was not calculated to add to the dignity of his hi g h stat i on. Mr. DAWSON replied, arid observ e d th at the state (l3rlerl. naD4 and whose c h aracter was and to use th e informa tion swhich he had made were on the authority of a gen etlueifirncainenotftohiginhduncaemheitinn which had been given him. He was prepared to show that out of the last twelve months, during which Lord Plunket had held the seals of Ireland, lie had been 'six months of that period absent from hie Court in Ireland, Ind in this country leaving a weight anti pre sure of busi ness upon a high functionary to no great an extent as to lead to remonstrance, sehich had been met by the Noble Lord in no vci-y con;teotts Matiner. He should prove this fact fully before Parliament at a future and more fitting opportunity. He differed on the law of the ease, as laid daw n by the Hon. and Learned Solicitor-General fur Ireland, with respect to the right , of appointing two secretaries, and he denied that there had ever been an instance of joist-secretaries to the Chaneeror. With respect to the recrimination with which he had been met, it was not the system to be adopted on meeing an iin p,rt.int question, and be would tell the Hon. Gentlemen sitting behind the Treasury Bench, who had been sent into the House to attempt to cleanse what they were pleased to designate the Auge in stable, and were RO loud in their cries of refirm, and in the cheers with which they had received the remarks from their side of the House, that They had their constituents to answer to for their vote on this question, and he doubted touch whether they would be able to justify their votes on the present occasion, even the lion. nonber for Sussex, who was fast asleep.-(Laughter. ) Lord G. LENNOX rose to order. He dulled hiving been asleep, but had listened to the debate—even the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down, and who had no right to attack him of want of attention in the discharge of his duties to his constituents, whom he should be aide to meet without any aid from theßight Hon. Gentleman. Mr. DAWSON explained. Mr. CRAMPTON maintained the statement he had be fore made, which he said hadremained tintounebed by any thing that had yet been said. The motion, with the amendment, was then put by the SPEAKER, and agreed to. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and th e House adjourned at Half past Three o'clock. ROUSE OF LORDS, MARC!! (1. The Lord CIIANCELLOR toek hio ecat on the Woohlack at Five o'clock. Mr. Woon and others from the Commons brought op several private Bills, which were severally read a first time on the motion of Earl SHAFTESBURY. The I ish Baking Bib, and the Sub-h , tting Act Amend ment Bill, went through a Conunittie. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in the absenco of the Noble Secretary for the Colonies, moved for copies of the circulars lent to the Governors of the West India Island, by Lnrd Gnderich, on the 3.1 of June ; also a copy of the proclamation that accomp iniud the de spatch ; and of the correspondenLe that passed between that Noble Lord and Lord Behrore. Lord GOSFORD presented a petition from the coach masters on the road between London and Hnlyhead, coat plaining of the low fares charged between Liver pool and Dublin in the Post-office packets. The Noble Lotd stated that he understood the distance between Liverpool and Dublin was upward.. of 180 miles, and the fare charged was only 1/. 7:. 6d. ; while betwe:.n H tlyhead and Dublin, 1/ ls. 6d. was charged, thouOt the distance was only 76 miles. The Duke of RICHMOND said the ca , e had lately been before the Lords of the Treasury. These fares were not the cause of keeping people from going that road.— The fare to Holy h.ad be believed was 6/. 6s. The pro prietors ought to reduce the fares before th , y comphtined. When tiny did so, he would give it his best consideration. LAW PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that his Majesty would be graciously pleased to order to be laid on their Lordships' table, it copy of the last report made by the Common Law Commisioners of Inquiry. It was not his intention at present to enter into any detailed exposi tion of the contents of that report, or into any discussion of the merits of the iilterations and improvements in law proceedings which it recommended. But he might state that a more important document had seldom been printed, or laid before Parliament. The Commissioners laid con docted the inquiries with the most exemplary industry and impartiality, and with the most consummate intelligence, and had collected a mass of evidence of the highest im portance in recard to the topics to which their attention had been directed, and moreover, had given opinions upon these topics, and the r feet of the evidence, which were worthy of the most serious consideration of both Houses of Parliament. He might mention one important topic to which they fad paid particular attention, and as to which they had collected a great deal of most valuable evidence— he meant the process of law as between debtor and creditor.* On this point, also, they hail given their opinions, founded, as tli-ir opinions generally were, upon true and solid principles of improvement, and the majority were of opinion, that imprison ment for debt, both on meson process and in execution, might be entirely abolished, except under very particular • circumstances. That creditors should have every means of getting payment of their debts from debtors who could pay if they chose—that all means should be taken from debtors of fraudulently defeating the just claims of their creditors—that all those anomalies should he expunged from the law by which unfair debtors were enabled to set their creditors at defiance—that those rules of practice should be abolished by which creditors were hampered in their attempts to recover their debts, and by which fraudu lent and unfair debtors were enabled to escape from the payment of their just debts—were principles founded on the seendest and most solid reason ; and there was hope that those inconsistencies in law proceedings which stood in the way of these desirable results, might be gradually and temperately, but eff ctually removed, if this report should receive the sanction of this and the other House of Parlia ment. When he spoke of the ago ition of imprisonment for debt on mesne process and after judgment, that must of course he understood as coupled with the putting of means into the hands of creditors for the recovery of their deters, of which, by the law as it at present stood, they were deprived, and of which th e y had for a very long time, if not for nearly time out of mind, been deprived by the al teration of circumstances, with reference to common law proceedings. The principle of the law, no doubt, originally was, and must have been, that the whole of the property of a debtor should be liable to the claims of the just and bona fide creditor. It in ver could have been meant, that while what was technically called the goods of a debtor should be liable to the claims of the creditor, that more important part of his property, which did not come under that technical denomination, should be exempted. In the earliest state of the (-amnion law, these goods and chattels were gene raely all the property that a man possessed, and to these the common law process was confined. But in progress of time circumstances were altered, and a most important and large mass of property arose, founded on credit, and this property the creditor found it impossible to attach by the common law process. The great bulk of the property of a debtor might consist of credits. He might have pro perty in the public funds, for instance, to a hundred times a greater amount than the goods and chattels or personal property in his possession, and yet there was no provision in the common law by which the creditor could directly attach that species of property. A man might have the great bulk of his property in the funds, and there it was exempt from the common law process. The great bulk of a man ' s property might consist of debts due to him ; but this property the creditor could not reach by the common law process. Nay, the debtor might have gold and silver on his table—the very gold and silver bor rowed from the creditor himself, and yet the creditor could not touch the money, not even his own gold anti silver, by the common law process; and the oracular rca -on of the law was that money did nut come under the technical denomination of goods, and that it would be re. moving landmarks and es-ential distinctions if money could be taken even in a process in execu tion against goods. He mentioned this merely as en instance of defect in the law which called loudly for amendment, without at all meaning to go at length into a discussion of the subject of the report. He mentioned it to show that the adoption of the improvements in this particular recommended in the report were not, properly speaking, innovations or alterations in the prin ciple and foundation of the law, but only applications of the original principle and reason of the law to the chan ge of circumstances—which had taken piece since the common l a w process was first framed and e-tahlished. What was proposed was to give its full effect t o th e principle of the eo mmon law, by adapting its process to the new state rl circumstances, by bringing within the reach of that pm eras the property founded on credit, which, whe n t h e process was originally formed, had scarc,ly any existence. The Commissioners had also investigated with great pains, calmness, judiciousness, and ability, the subiTt of impri sonment for debt on mesne process, and the majority of them were of opinion that imprisonment of the person on mesne process might, under certain circumstances, be dis pensed with, as well as imprisonment in execution. But this, of course, must be accompanied by putting increased powers into the hands of the c re dit ors to get at t h e e ff ects of the debtors ; and even imprisonment might still be also in a l ega l or mora l sense —f or his s r e tained, as a means of compelli ng a d e b tor to g i ve up as a puni s h men t f or f rau d o r criminal acts which should dsthicaotnu,:,l eithere either l ega ll y cr i m i na l, or quas i criminal, as being crimes in a moral point of view. It e debtor fraudulently refuse to surrender his pro perty, he would have no just reason to complain that he was imprisoned until he did surrender for the pay ment of his just debts, nor would he have any just reason to complain if he should be imprisoned as a punishment for having endeavoured to defeat his just creditor by fraud, or any other act legally or morally criminal. People 'night, by an extravagant expenditure, ;• compared with their incames, contract debts which they must themselves he well assured they could not possibly pay, and this might he considered as a fraud, anti might properly be punished as such. Where a debtor refused td surrenderhis pro perty, or when he had fraudulently contracted debts, in either case imp.isonment might still be retained—in the One ease to compel payment, and in the other as a punish ment. This ,Ippeared to be a very sound doctrine, and one which well deserved to be sanctioned by the Legislattire. There wiis another instance in which imprisonment on mesne process might be properly retained, and that was, when there were reasonable grounds to apprehend an es c!pc, and in one or two other cases with which he world not then trouble the House. He had thus stared very generally the nature and amount of this report on the subject of law process as between debtor and creditor. The Commissioners had collected a great m iss of most va loade evidence, on which a considerable difference of opi nions would be found, and it was his duty to state that, as to the total abolition of imprisonment for debt under the modifications which he had mentioned, there was some difference of opinion among the Commissioners themselves. But this only proved the complete fairness and Unbiassed ititpartiali!y with which the Commissioners had performed the taste which they haul undertaken. The fact, however, AV AS as he had stated it, and be considered the report, therefore, es to the particulars in which the difference had existed, only as the report of the nt ,jority. There was another topic to which the Commissioners had also turned !heir attention—a topic to which the attention of Parliament had been called by himself and others at a firmer period—and that was, the providing of a more cheap and expeditious process for the recovery of debts under 501. or 601. In the improvements recommended in this report, the majority of the Com missioners had already the concurrence of many in this and the other house, and it was probable that its perusal would gain over some who before differed with them, while those who had before entertained similar opinions would have these opinions confirmed. II 's Lordship concluded by put ting, his motion, which was agreed to oem. dins. Adjourned till Ti ursday. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NEGEIT. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 5, 1532, BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY. Notice is hereby given, that all persons having Petitions or Ad dresses to present to his Majtoty at the Levee are to write on two cards, with their names, a statement of the ohject of such Petitions or Addresses, and of the persons from whom they come; one card to be delivered to the Page in the Ante-room, and the other to the Lord in Waiting, who will read its contents, at the time of presentation, to his Majesty ; and that, on these occa sions, no other statement is to be addressed to his Majesty. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, FEB. 2S. Notice is hereby given, that his Majesty will hold a levee at St. James's Palace, on Thursday the Bth of March, instead of the 7th, it being Ash Wednesday. At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 2d day of March, 1832. Present, the Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. . . . . _ It is this day ordered by their Lordships, that the order, bear ing date the Blth day of October last, for placing all vessels ar riving in the United Kingdom, or at the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, from any port or place situate between the Skaw and Rotterdam, inclusive, or from the Dana, h territories outside the Baltic, or from ports or places on the River Weser, be, together with their crews, pilots, and all per sons, vessels, and boats having had communication therewith, exc. subjecting the said vessels to the restraint of quarantine, ac cording to the provisions of the Act -if the sixth of George the Fourth, chap. should be revoked, and the same is hereby re voked and annulled accordingly. C. C. GREVILLE. WHITEHALL, MARCH 5. The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Gre it Seal, granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto George Campbell, of Eden-wood, in the county of Fife, Esq. \VAR-OFFICE, MARcii G. 32d Regiment of Foot—Lieut..-General Sir. S. V. Hinde, K.C.B. from the 98th Foot, to be Colonel, vice General Camp bell, deceased, Feb. 28. 98th Foot—Major-General Hon. Sir C. J. Greville, K.C.B. to be Colonel, vice Sir S. V. Hinde, appointed to the command of the 33d Foot, Feb. 2S. . . _ GARRISONS.—Tower of London—Rev. R. Richton Baily to be Chaplain, vice Irvine, resigned. MEMORANDA.—His Majesty has been pleased to permit the 15th or King's Regiment of Light Dragoons to bear on its stati c arils and appointments the words " Sahagun"and " Vittoria," in commemoration of the gallant conduct of the Regiment at the action of Sahagtin on the 21st Dec. 1808; and at the battle of Vit_ toria, on the 21st of June, 1813. The half-pay of the under-mentioned Officers has been can celled from the 6th instant, inclusive, upon their receiving a commuted allowance for their commiss.ous : Assistant-Surgeon James Kane, M.D., halt:pay t2d Dragoon Guards. Ensign Charles Gordon, half.pay 03d Foot. Ensign Daniel Chambers INPCreight, half-pay 14th Foot. Lieutenant Patrick Grant, half-pay Lid Garrison Battalion. Ensign William Thomas Daunt, half-pay unattached. Ensign Edward Back, half-pay 53d Foot. Lieutenant Christian Fedden, half-pay 6th Line Battalion King's German Legion. Lieutenant Frederick Somers, half-pay 34th Foot. Ensign William Robertson, half-pay 60th Foot. The under-mentioned Officers, upon full-pay, have been per mitted to retire from the service, receiving commuted allowances for their commissions • Assistant-Surgeon Hugh Caldwell, of the kith Foot. Lieutenant Tempest William Stroud, of the 89th Foot. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of South- ampton. • South Avon Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry. T. Penruddocke, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice G. Duff, re. signed. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSCEDED. WILLIAM ItlClSlitiT'ETtten;TruiCiTu 1 7.- t:ic, ad , hum clra; er. JOSEPH OSBORN, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, dealer. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. GEORGE BROOKE KERR, sen., Framlingham, common-brewer, from March 27 to 3larch 30, at ten, at the Crown Inn, Framlingham. ELLIS, EDWARD, and HENRY HUGHES, Manchester, cotton-spinners, March 21, at ten, at the York Hotel, Manchester. JOHN W A GST A FF, Denton, Lancashire, hat-manufacturer, April 3, at nine, at the Star Hotel, Manchester. BANKRUPTS. EDWARD NICHOLAS FOWLER, New-road, St. George's in-the-East, victualler, March 12 and April 10, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Dyer, Took' _court, Chancery.lane. (311. ES WALL, Hillingdon End, Middlesex, nurseryman, March 20, at eleven, and April 17, at ten, at the Court of Bank ruptcv. Stormy, St. Saviour's Church-yard, Southwark. JOHN DRESSER, Kensington, linen-draper, March 16 and April 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Carter, High. street, Southwark. SOLLAY JOSEPH MANNING, Old Kent-road, dealer in k,Ar3ul Allen, 13, at White, a m n e d . s 141 y a . t twelve, at P t:r f i e t Courtnt Bankruptcy.nie SAMUEL COOKE, CHARLES BARHAM, Devereux-court, Strand, hotel keeper, March 20, at one, and April 17, at twelve, at the Court I% ( l , a y i l , b c y h , e . s i t n e d r, t Allen, be Cr-dealer, arlisle-street, Soho. and April 17, at two, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Clarke, Richards, and Medcalfe, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London; White. SA , MUEL GORDO head and Grundy, Bury. 20, and April 20, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham. E y :LB:SHOP, Birmingham, factor, March 19, Ge j rn As C lE ha S n S c l er . am. April 17, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Bristol. Taylor, Ros- I N ,o , nd i o A n , ; , rDpoaoni merchant,i i gh cue, and Turner London ; Lowndes and Robinson, Liverpool. rch 23 and WILLIAM J'EFFREYS, Shrewsbury, scrivener, March 20 and April 17, at ten, at the Talbot Inn, Shrewsbury. Butt, Great Russell.street, fitiomsbury Panting, Shrewsbury. WILLIAM BOWER, Levenshuhne, Manchester, cotton spinner, March 19, 20, and April 17 at two, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Edge, Manchester; Millie, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London. JOHN JACKSON and SAMUEL JONES, Chester, linen_ drapers, April 5 and 17, at ten, a t th e o ffi ce o f M essrs . Finchett, Maddock, and Son, Chester. Philpot, Stone, and Philpot, South ;11111,ton-street, Bloomsbury ; Finchett and Cm, Chester. JOHN BEEBBY BROCBANK, Manchester, slate-dealer, March 22, and April 17, at two, at the Golden Lion Inn, Liver pool. Vincent, King's Bench-walk, Temple; Tindal and Varey, Manchester; Bartley and Roberts, Liverpool. SAMUEL LONGSHAW and THOMAS LONGSHAW, Grappenhall, Cheshire, tanners, March 24 and April 17 , at ono, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool. Hinde, Liverpool. GEORGE I)EANE, Manchester, innkeeper, /Starch 24, 26, and April 17, at two, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Makinson and Saunders, Temple ' London ; Atkinson and Bich, Manchester. JOHN GARFIT, G a insburgh, Lincolnshire, wine-merchant, March 30, 31, and April 17, at twelVe, at the Woolpack Inn, Gainsburgh. Capes, ((ray's Inn, London ; Codd and Heaton, Gainsburgh. JOHN CASEMENT, Toxteth-park, Lancashire, painter, March 17 and April 17, at two, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liver pool. Robinson, Liverpool; Blackstock and Bunce, King's Bench-walk, Temple, London. I , : e , nna ß a t c t k h b e t tor Faulkner,nt h ,. e L e a o l if r 3 c eiN a , ii s fr l i r r \d e \: „ rao m l l r e ,L r p ,l l l l ds a to r on e n h ; 2' A 2 d ( a ; li r E i n d: tARO Gregory,lGE C 7 17, at t e 1 1 e Walker, Preston. RICHARD FAWCETT, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted_ spinner, March 16, at three, 17, at ten, and April i 7, at eleven, at the Sun Inn, Bradford. Hawkins, Bloxham, and Stocker, New Boswell-court, London; Moulder!, Bradford. WILLIAM STEPHENSON, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ship owner, March 20 and April 17, at eleven, at the Crown and Thistle Inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Shaw, Ely-place, Holborn, London; Crozier, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. JOHN MAY, Yarmouth, victualler, March 30, at seven, 31, at nine, and April 17, at eleven, at the Angel Inn, Yarmouth. Swain, Stevens, Maples, Pearse, and Hunt, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, London; Steward, Yarmouth. DIVIDENDS. T. Pierson and W. Sammon, Russ m - ro w, Milk.street, City, Irish factors, March 27 at two, at the Court of Ba nk. u p tc y .— I. Shirley, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, wine-merchant, March 26, at ten at the Court of B an k r uptcy.—J. Milliard, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, p a inter and glazier, March :10, at eleven, at the Court of Ban k ru ptcy.—T. Darnall and J. Frank, clarke's.place, Islington, linen-drapers, March 27, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.—T. and B. Capper, Beau fort-buildings, Strand, coal-merchants, March 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.—J. Dickson , Liver p ool, merchant, March 28, at twelve at the Clarend on -buildings, Liverpool.— J. M. Crossley, Manchester, upholsterer, April 14, at two, at tile Commercial Rooms, Bristol. —J. Poarch, Cheltenham, grocer, April 18, at two, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol.—W. Whthe its, Manchester, livery-stable -keeper, March 26, at three, at Albion Hotel Manchester.—J.,W. , and It. Wakeford, Andover, bankers, March 20, at ten, at the Star and Garter Inn, Andover -T. Scott, Manchester, com mission -agent, March 30, at ten at the York Hotel, Manchester. —P. Howard, Liverpool, cabinet. ma. ker, April 2, at Mr. Hodgson's Offices, Clarendon-buildings, Li verpool.—W. Butler, Hampton, Nottinghamshire, fishmonger, April 16, at eleven, at the White Hart Inn, East Retford. CERTIFICATES, Matfett 27. Vaux, c r idling Park, Yorkshire, farmer—J. Braithwaite, Liverpool, fruiterer—W. Hawkins, Lambeth.rnad, carpenter- r. and J. Johnson, Lant-street, Southwark, earpenters—D. Holt, Chorlton New Mills, Lancashire, cotton-spinner—F. Ken sett, Norbiton Common, Surrey, farmer--.IL Brown, Norwich, lacemati—A. P. Bromwich, Tottenham-court-road, baker—'l. Winterton, Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, spirit-Merchant—W. r.,‘ in, Upper Mary Icbone-street, rortl anct.place, upholsterer—r. knights, Debenham, Suffolk, currier. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. and J. Robinson, Liverpool, timber -merchants—F. Harding and M. Underwood, Brighthelmstone, Sussex, upholsterers-44. and J. H. Edwards, Colchester, plumbers--T. P. and G. W. Rey nolds, London-canal, coal-merchants--J. Grayson and Co., Huth waite, Yorkshire, horticulturists (so far as regards J. Humphrey) Y. and R Strialpage, Leeds, wotllen-drapers—J. and D. Baily, Caine, Wiltshire, woolstaplers--J. and J. Warburton, Man chester, confectioners—A. Allicitt and Co., ,:rnsley, Yorkshire, linen-drapers--A. Alliott and J. P 13 epper, Nottingham, mercers— J. Heivitt and J. kirks, Doncaster, tea-dealers—J. H. Wa , igh and J. Flint, Old Jewry, warehousemen—J. Robinson and Co., Manchester, tea-dealers (so far as regards E. Turner)—W. Ifold and I. C. Curtiss, M.siithester-street, Manchester-square, sur vevors—J. B. Shuttleworth and, T. Bennett, Bread-street—W. anit W. H. Iveson, Wakefield, Yorkshire, woolstaplcrs—J. and R. Nicol, Fenchurch-street, grocers—J, Davenport and Co., Hamburg!) and Lubeck, chinamen (so far as regards J. Da ens tiort)--T. Crossley and T. Mansergh, Manchester, tanners - -T, Haines and T. Maggs, Cheltenham, hotel-keepers--G. Firmin and Co , Colchester, chemical-manufacturers—ll. North and Co., Hunsleet, Yorkshire, maltsters—J. and J. Threlfall, Leeds, stuff merchants. A Supplement to the Gazette of last night contains an Order by the Privy Council to the following effiTt e—All Vestries' in the parishes and hamlets of Great Britain are empowered to in vest their respective Boards of Health with sufficient powers to provide temporary hospitals, provided with necessary articles, for the reception And use of persons afflicted with the cholera morbus ; and also howes of observation for the reception of persons whom it may be necessary to remove from communi. Cation With infected persons: Every Board of Health, consti tuted by the PriVy Council, may request the parish officers in their district to ConVene a meeting of the Vestry, whether open or select, to which the Board may submit proposals for their authority to contract for the places to he used as hospitals, and for articles necessary in such hospitals, &c. If the Vestry give their authority, the Board of Health may at once proceed in their (111604 ; and they are empowered to remove to their hos, pital any person infected with the said disease and consenting to be removed. If the majority in the Vestry do not give autho rity, the Board of Health must not contract for hospitals, &c. unless specially authorised by the Council. The expenses for the hospitals and necessary articles are to be fixed at a certain sum by the Vestries, and the Board must only incur such ex penses as are reasonable. The Board must obtain the money to pay these expenses from the parish officers, to whom they shall first give an order for the same, signed by a Magistrate in the district. The secretary to every Board of Health must keep a book, in which the expenses, &c. are to be fully and truly entered ; and which is to be open to the inspection of any inhabitant paying the rates in his district. The accounts in the book must be verified on oath at the Quarter Sessions, and, if exorbitant, the Magistrates may object to them. For any ;ling properly done by the Vestry, the Board of Heath, and the Magistrates, in furtherance of the Orders in Council rela live to the Prevention of Cholera, the present Order shall be considered their full and sufficient warrant. CORONER'S INQUEST IN THE KING'S BENCH PRISON. Considerable excitement and alarm were created in the King's Bench Prison during Monday, in consequence of a re. port that a person had died there on that morning of confirmed cholera. A Coroner's inquest was summoned on Monday afternoon, before -- LEPIPRE, Esq., the Deputy Coroner, to inquire into the cause of the death of John Shaw, aged 96 years, a prisoner within the walls, who died at one o'clock that morning. Henry Johnson, living at No. 17 in 16, deposed as follows : The deceased had been removed from Whitecross-street about a month, and had since lived in the same room with witness. He had been ill since Thursday last of a slight bowel complaint. At that time no medical man attended him. He complained of a cold, and took remedies accordingly. A medical man was called in on Sunday afternoon, when he appeared in no danger. The deceased had drank hard of late, and had frequently been cautioned by witness to abstain from such a course. He had plenty of money to purchase every requisite necessary, and lived well. He had not been seen drunk more than once during the last month. lie had been doctored by:a blacksmith (a prisoner), from whom he had taken two pills on Friday, and two on Saturday. Witness had frequently taken similar pills, and derived benefit from them. • Robert Brown (a prisoner) sworn—Had known the deceased seven years, who had a good constitution, though • a free liver. On Thursday night he was much the "worse for liquor." On the following day he became very poorly, and requested witness to go to a Mr. Lappage, and get a couple of pills he had ordered to be made up for him. Mr. Lappage is a black smith, and a sort of quack. The pills he gave him appeared to be made of iron filings. He likewise cent a draught to the deceased, which, with the two pills, was taken that day. • Upon going to him on the following morning he complained, of being terribly griped. He then, on that evening, took a couple more of the same pills, and repeated the draught. Wit ness advised him not to take any more of 'Lappage's physic, for fear it might kill him. The deceased was obstinate, and repeated the dose. At half-past one on Sunday afternoon he became alarmingly ill, and retched violently. At six o'clock the effects of his medicine were more violent; and at nine his speech had nearly wholly left him, the retching still continu. ing. Cramps seized him at eleven in his arms, legs, and fingers. He complained of violent cramps and spasms in his stomach, and requested Lappage to be sent for to relieve him. Charles Lappage, a prisoner, was cautioned by the Coro. nor that he was not compelled to say any thing to crimi. nate himself. He was then sworn—Was applied to by. the deceased on Friday for medicine. 'Witness said he would give him the same stuff as he took himself, and he poured out a tumbler-full and drank it off, when the deceased did the same. The cook at the coffee-house had drank four half-pints of it in one day, and it did her no harm.—(The mixture was here pro. duced, and a box of pills. The witness swallowed half-a-dozen of the pills and two tumblers of the " stuff;" to convince the Jury of its simple and harmless nature. A medical man pre. sent tasted it, and declared it to be perfectly innoxious. The Jury expressed themselves satisfied of its harmlessness.) Robert Little Hooper, surgeon, attended the deceased at five o'clock on Sunday afternoon, whom he found much exhausted, - his extremities cold as ice, no pulse to be felt at the wrist ; his hands, feet, and face, exhibited a livid appearance, attended with a peculiar state of the voice—a sort of hard whisper. He was complaining of dreadful cramps in his hands, legs, feet, arid stomach. He was lying upon his bed undressed. His bed was very hot, bottles of hot water were applied to his extremi ties, and a constant friction kept up all over his body, and me dicine, composed of brandy, ammonia, and laudanum, freely administered every quarter of an hour. After giving the ne cessary instructions to the nurse, witness left him, and returned again at half-past nine, when he found that a slight re-action had taken place. In addition to other means, a pint of brandy, water, and laudanum, was injected into the bowels, which gave some relief. The purging, vomiting, and cramp, partially left him. He then sunk gradually from exhaustion, and died at one o'clock on Monday morning. By a Juror—The deceased died of confirmed spasmodic cholera. It was the most decided case he had ever seen. By the CORONER--This case had been reported to the Central Board of Health, as one of decided cholera, yesterday morning. Juror—Did Lappage's medicine cause any purgative effect is Witness—The medicine was a tonic, and would not accelerate the disease. Juror--If steel filings had been taken by the deceased, would they have caused a discolouration after death ? Witness—No. The case was quite distinct from that which is called English cholera. Was of opinion that the disease is epidemic, and not contagious. G. W. Cunningham (a p r i soner ) state d t h a t scarcely a day passed but that the de cease d h a d s i x or e i g ht f r i ends to see him, when they drank f ree l y o f por t er an d g i n . O n Thursday night he told witness th a t h e h a d h a d "ten fire s of gin, " (ten glasses) that afternoon, and that he had taken the pills in the evening to cool him. Witness remarked it was enough to poison him. . Samuel Cooper (surgeon of the prison) was next sworn.—He had seen the body since death had taken place, and from the evidence he had heard, and the appearance of the body, he had no doubt but that the deceased had died of spasmodic cholera. a h t a t d ended the suf ferer,at No. 10 in 3. [At this stage of the proceedings it was announced justce t u o r t r l:i i n liquor to excess. He had v..i Coroner thi lait ihd a e n o d i: B r: r. , e t t h u a l‘ri t i sHtanotheraot:rdectrhaaset immediatelyoi t f , c , l a io s l a er l a a d y , but had never who was then in the second stage of the disease, but, by timely aid, he expected she might recover. He pronounced it to be a case of decided cholera.] Sarah Shaw, the wife of the deceased, stated that her hus band was in the habit of indulging frequently cramps in his limbs till Sunday morning. complained of pains in his . stomach tahschaosueldof beetwsieenrat,fhoer fteoawredit: It was here suggested by several of the Jury that a surgeon mortem examination of e . body. wit ness a post sider himself justified in order- The CORONER did not con . opened. yensehdould refuse to return a ver dict ing the body to be he should be flying in the face of an Act of Par by doing so, liament. from the Central Board of The CORONER then adjourned the inquest until eight o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of communicating the determination of the Jury to the Central Board. f It be Healthn being It being now nine o'clock, the messenger who took the Co roner's letter to the Board of Health was called in. He stated that he had left the letter with a gent. at the Central Board, who sent back a verbal message that a person from the Board would attend the inquest at eight o'clock. The Jury becoming until Several the °f t h h o e d body Jury yd saidbe e been extremely impatient in consequence of the delay thus occa- i sioned, it was at length decided that the body should be opened; and Dr. Watson, Mr. Hooper, Mr. Douchez, Mr. Hore, and Mr. Staiworthy, proceeded to the dead-house for that purpose. On their return, Mr. Hooper stated that there was no organic disease to account for the death of the deceased. The whole of the appearances, upon the post-mortem examination,coupled with the symptoms during his life, warranted him in coming to the conclusion that the man died of decided Asiatic cholera. Mr. George I)ouchez, Mr. Davis Stalworthy, and Mr. Richard lore, fully corroborated the evidence of Mr. Hooper. The Jury, after being in private for half an hour, sent for the Coroner, " if the dece ase d di e d o f for the purpose of inqui r i ng, spasmodic cholera, would they b e j ustified in returning a ver dict of ' Natural Death ?' " Th e Coroner answered in the af. firmative ;. and they thereupon recorded a verdict of" Natural Death." --- Somerset held a levee a' ti,Vee=l;:uyailf,radtteFa(iit:drob); Major-General Sir C. Bruce, Major-Gen. Waters, and about forty other distinguiobstiotaccrc