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1 ' 'my 12, 1833, a mend the provisions of th ose l aws, and bring them within the Co mpass of a single statute. It was classed under four heads— oune relating to shipping and labour, which laws it proposed to nu PP/t entirely ; an o th er to houses of entertainment, which, ;tterut certain restrictions, were allowed to be kept open ; k r ,r!other t o Sunday travelling ; and the last to Sunday trading. Principl e o f the bill did very little more than modify and mi tigate the st a t utes as they now existed, to suit the times in which we lived. It relieved the statute book from no fewer than seventeen statutes, and for them substituted one. It w as !i eta measure which drew invidious distinctions, or was parti a l !t its o peration; it affect e d th e r i c h equa lly w ith th e poor, t h e betel -keeper with the pothouse-keeper. ft did not interfere with the innocent pastimes of individuals. It was not a bill for coercion or intolerance ; it was not to compel religion, but to ena ble persons to be religious if they thought proper. It was nut a perfect bill; but its imperfecti o ns c o uld be r e medi e d i n committee and he hoped the house would now permit the iecond_ rea ' ding.—( Hear.) „Mr. SLAN EY seconded the motion. He did not approve of all the details of the Bill, but relieving the statute-book of 17 e! . 1.8 statutes, many of which were partial, and in many respect s Objectionable and.reducing their useful enactments into one measure was, together with' many p rov i s i ons o f th e Bill, th a t th"mil did the hon. member cre dit. N o d ou bt, in Committee, e Bill could be materially improved. Mr. WARBURTON said there was one part of the Bill which p ar ticularly. . induced him to support th e secon d reading,' and it had Was the ex t ens i ve repeal of such a number of statutes. If nad no other object than that repeal, and the re-enactment of the least objectionable clauses in those Acts, he could not op- Pose its going into Committee, but he found a number o f novel ties introduced. He found that mackarel was not to be allowed to, be so ld on the Sunday, so that the fishermen must keep the : I .elvish . fa s t on the Saturday, or throw away the - fish caught on otat day. If the observance of the Sabbath were to be so strictly enforced, the law would soon be a dead letter, and so far from tending to enforce th e p ro p er o b servance o f t h e S a bb at h , i t would throw an air of ridicule over that sacred day. There mu st h e a degree of forbearance respecting the habits of the P e ople, and any l aw tying the people up more strictly th a n a t Present : a would be sure of being a dead letter. He c o nt en d e d. '4it would interfere materially with the pastimes of the peo sl;le.t, st i aT; e , however was incline, not to stop the Bill in its pre , although he had great doubts whether the Hou se Ind give it that attentive consideration which would justify Sir ANDREW A ,1 1 passing it this Session. , GNEW addressed the house, but was interrupted by the Speaker, who reminded the house that the hour of ad -Irnment having come, further proceedings at present woulde use less. The Speaker then quitted the chair. R yhe FIVE O'CLOCK SITTING. SPEAKER went to the llouse of Lords, to hear the u}s.l Assent iven by Commission to several public and pri vate Bills. g A mes sage f rom the Lords desired a conference upon the sub jectk of the East India res o l u ti ons , w hi c h was agree d t o ; an d shortly after war d s t h e Ch ancellor of the Exchequer appeared L the bar, and stated that their lordships had taken into.consi oeretion the reso l ut i ons o f t h e C ommons, an d h a d agree d to the sa • me without any alterations. PMr. CuitAa FERGUSSON moved, "That a humble address be ri,i.sented to his Majesty, praying that he would be graciously i r e ased not to recognise, or in any way give the sanction of his Government to the present political state and condition of Po- TM, the same having been brought about in violation of the l i f at3 7 of Vienna, to which Great Britain was a party." 5,. 11 % T. Arrwoon seconded the motion. • for a division the numbers were—For the original motion, 95 .) ; ' r ,„lhe previous question, 177 ; majority against the motion, 8— t tar. IL L. BULWER moved for papers connected with Lord IRIIIOII aS special mission to Russia, and which relate to the of Germany and the enslavement of Poland. • Lord PALMERSTON said that the papers moved for by the "„°n, • member related as much to Germany as to Poland, and the 'lelord was understood to say that he objected to their pro duction,th HUME thought the noble lord would be oblitsed to produce em before he obtained the money which was to p defray the ex- Pease of the embassy. tLord PALMERSTON. said he knew of no instance in which the o' 4 , use had requ i re d , b efore i t pa id t h e expenses o f an em b assy, ue Placed in po ssess i on o f th e whole of the negotiations. M. HUME said he had a e i ,o right to ask what the business was n which•th e pu b l i c money had been expended. nation RoßtrisoN hoped that the house would require an expla before it paid the money for the expenses. After a few words from Mr. TENNYSON, BULWER consented to withdraw his motion. LOCAL COURTS' BILL. Thl‘lr O'CONNELL gave notice that on Thursday next he should i''„ e ve a resolution to the effect that it was the duty of the house Oftake mea sures to establish local courts for the administration ,'" s' Justice throughout the country. Colonel PERCEVAL moved to reduce the rate of interest in Irel and from 6 to 5 per cent., but, After a few words from Mr. WARBURTON and other hon. reelnbers, he withdrew the motion. CALTHORPE-STREET INQUIRY. f The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER postponed his motion or the appointment of a Committee of Inquiry into the conduct Of the Police in Calthorpe-street, until Thursday next. STEUART obtained leave to bring in a bill " rocurators or Solicitors before the Inferior Courts' tinScot bad, or the partners of any such persons, who shall hereafter e chosen chief magistrates in any burgh or town in Scotland, to act as J ustices of the Peace in the counties in which such ellief magisates ma be ex (Sick) in th. Commission of Peace." Tho house tr then adjourned at three o' e clock. CONTEMPORARY PRESS. A new conservative paper has made its appearance at G loucester, under the title of .The Gloucestershire Chro nicle. From the first address of this new ally in the " good ca use," we feel great pleasure in extracting the following 84 intnary of its principles on that important subject, the established church. '" We regar d t h e Ch urc h o f E ng l an d an d Irelan d as the M e Church, and we,are convinced, that her supp or t i n u n i m - Paired energy is essential to the well being of the State. It lithe cause of the old British Constitution; we care not to cha nge f or chang i ng sake.- It is the cause 'of AgriCultuie, Commerce, Manufactures, of all interests, individual and corpo rkite, reasonably protected and fairly balanced ; we have no empathy with th e blind hard-hearted policy, which hurries forward to an imaginary good, regardless who may be involved iu ruin, what rights and laws may be trampled on. In a word, It is the cause of true Apostolical of sound, manly, C onsistent Morality ; of Religion and Morality, such as our f orefathers recommended, not merely to be talked of as good things for individuals, but to be practised also by the nation as 'ruck: never to be childishly disparaged for the expediency of the moment, far less to be basely sacrificed to a cool, inordinate, calculating selfishness, but to be venerated and cherished, at W hatever price as the only secret of our country's p eace an d Prosperity. This is our cause. Be appearances what they may, We will never believe that it can be too late to assert it, or that any l)sincere endeavour of the kind, however insignifitant, can . 5 wholly thrown away." 'he ministry shows by its organ of the Press how 11144 it is chagrined at the success of Lord Ashley, and Pretend s th a t b y it th e poor f ac t ory c hild ren w ill be de prived of the benefits of education which the " factory co mmission" would insure to them. How children who °III Y Work eight hours a day sh ou ld have less time to itn re°re thei r m i n d s by e d uca ti on th an th ose who work c 11, is a paradox which our sphinx of a minister alone 13 4 t 1 solve. It seems that the factory commission has had t P e eial instructions from the m i n i s t ers , and that their irerts will be in accordance w ith those instructions. ir rec e pti on i n var i ous t owns h as b een any thi ng b u t fla ttering. If th e m i n i s t r y' rea ll y b e s i ncere i n it s in terest for the factory children, why quarrel with Lord Ash leY, who gave efficiency to their good intentions, enlarged the s ph ere o f th e i r b enevo l ence ? A s th e y 4°ll.liect to thi s , th e i r s i ncer i ty may reasona bl y b e d ou bt e d, lie u the public may be assur e d th a t th e y w ill ex e r t e v ery I ' v e to get rid of Lord Ashley's bill. Let not their aaceuvres on the Malt Tax be forgotten—let not their con duct in the affair of the Coroner's Jury in the Cal iu°t!Pe-street affray slide from the mem or y. Th e Consti " is with them what Talleyrand said o f th e F renc h f o rfter—an umbrella which is hoisted when it rains and vi ",ed und er th e ar m in fair weather ; th ey act upon i t or t a ° `ate it as it suits their convenience : but it w ill b e t h e ult of the glorious majority if they do not exert as el , lll l zeal to strengthen its ranks as the ministry is ex a ti ng to recruit theirs; let them do this, and another and more signal defeat is certain. 0 times that we can remember a ministerial minority i i , as the certain signal of resignation, but a different feel g actuates our worthy Ministers, they seem to say— Tis not in Ministers to command majorities; „But w e 'll d o more, Sempron i us , we 'll d o w ith ou t th em . '"„ow long suc h a s y s t em w ill last depends on the zeal wTe supineness of t h e ir adversaries; their weakness is l 'ent, their vacillation betrays their daily fears, and it at only for th e l overs o f or d er an d goo d governm ent t o p! , " home, and the t o ttering fabric will fall to the 'l3.°llPd.---Guardian. - - Ti! drat Ie ministry really seem to be neither more nor less 1 ,,, 4 so many legislative tinkers, who mend one hole an "Bill for better defining the crime of Burglary." It ap l'e3ts a tnan ' s whole bo,gy must be in the house for it to i 'e a crime, If only his head and shoulders penetrated ifit s n o burgl ar y ; and a man might doubtless be indicted ..e tualtreated the intruding portion. If a thief breaks or tits o ut a pane o f g l ass , an d i n t ro d uces hi s r i g ht h an d t° a shop and extracts.a dozen gold watches and snuff 41es, during the hours of repose, he is not guilty of bur new')ar yak nd the most that can be done to him under the th e Will be to try his right hand and . arm as . far as evident] i 3 e elbow for the robbery. The other portion of his body Y not guilty, and can neither troy tr* d be incarcerated b . le for the offence of which the right arm alone has e e r ,r l t IL Il e hours of Si in the repose are to be fixed from ten at night morning —winter and summer of course, but to be limited to the hours o _ c. f repose by law ? he el l a r n r b e ev, or couvre feu, of William the ,onqueror, may expected speedily to follow ; why not add to such sa °lent rerr • f 0,., regulations the Italian siesta and Dr. Kitchener's 6emade wink s ' nap ? they are hours of repose ; let It then " made burglary to catch any one napping' Hudibras " Could divide but A hair twist south and south-west side, _ st his acum en was nothing compared w i t h t h at of _our h e tinkerswho propose to enact that no person shall e°bsidered guilty who shall enter previous to the after of repose, and not leave the dwelling house until 1 1 , ) Z r they have expired. Thus a thief who enters a 81,11 btx .00tv," L. s u . se one minute before ten, and stays all night to "bag has a right to carry it off at one minute after filarin the morning, for he has not been guilty of bur ; but woe betide him if he do not wait until the Parish clock strikes six, for then he would be guilty of th glary.' To thi s h umane c l ause we propose to add that for e Party r o bb e d b e b oun d to provide a comfortable bed h. the gentl eman v i s i tor. N o man is bound to commit ah la P elf, nor put hi mse lf i n th e way of being committed, i "± l should he be di scovere d b etween the hours of ten and .he certainly has a right to insist on staying until tit Clock 1 8 be ng sinsistedtrikes si on! !— x. Guilt Gua y rdian or not guilty d e p en d s on i. THEATRE- ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. MR. DOWTON'S FIFTH NIGHT. • FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. WALLACK, And the Last Night of his engagement. MHIS present FRIDAY, Ju!y 12, 1833, will be performed Shakspeare's Historical Play, (uot acted here for two years,) called HENRY IV. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Dowton; Prince of Wales, Mr. Wal lack; Hotspur, Mr. Vandenhoff; Poius, Mr. Browne; Lady Percy, Miss Iluddart. After which, (for the first time here,).a Petit Comedy in one act, written by Charles Mathews, Jun.. Esq., called THE WOLF AND THE L. Bob Honeycomb, Mr. Wallack; Col. B uze Mr. Browne; General Dragonfeli, Mr. Andrew's . - Mrs ellenden, Miss Eyre ; Henrietta, Mrs. Baker; Mary, s. ' rke. To conclude with' P it Drama of MY A T. Dick Dashall, Mr. Wallack, as originally performed by him in London. To-monuow, the.favourite Tragedy, written by the Rev. Dr. Young, called THE REVENGE. 'Zanga., Mr. Vandenhoff; Alonzo, Mr. Cooke; Leonora,. Miss Huddart. To conclude with the. favourite Drama of VICTORINE; or, I'll Sleep on It. Alexandre, Mr. Browne; Victorine, Miss Huddart. Mr. COOPER, of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, is engaged for a Fortnight, and will make his first appearance here these Seven Years, on Monday next. . , . TO CORRESPONDENTS. It is not our present intention even to allude to the subject of Curator's letter. We thank our friend Argus for his hints, but our eyes as well as his are upon the party and their iniquitous proceedings. Poor Mary Anne's elegiac stanzas have been consigned to "the devouring element." rbt itiberpool .fttanbarD. FRIDAY AIORNIIVG, JULY 12, 1833. The London journalists who have espoused the cause of Don PEDRO speak in very. confident terms of the re alization of their dreams, and the success of the expe dition under the command of PALMELLA and NAPIER. We suspect if t tlie whole truth were told, it would be made to appear that the Stock Exchange has more to do with these dreams and this•succoss than either of the above heroes. The Times '.some time ago put Oporto in possession of Don MIGUEL, on which occasion a pretty considerable sum of money changed hands. At present the same honest and honourable scribe is delivering up. Lisbon to PEDRO for a similar purpose. Gentlemen of the city of London, take care of your pockets ! - Since writing the above we have received the following from our Plymouth correspondent : " Plymouth, 10th July, 1833.—1 have little to acquaint you of, except that there is now an organized system in operation for the purpose of supplying from this country officers and menfor Miguel's fleet. Amongst other places, a rendezvous is establish ed here, and more than one officer has joined from this vicinity. It is by no means improbable that an expedition will be de spatched from this place, ere long, for the Tagus, consisting of steamers, transports, &c., &c., with seamen and materiel for the ships of war which are said to be in preparation. We have no later news from Portugal than that contained in your journal of the sth instant. It is, however, reported that the Euphemia, one of the ships of the Pedroite expedition from Oporto, had been lost on the coast, and that her crew .and passengers, con sisting of 93 English, were made prisoners of war by the troops of Don Miguel. The " poor man's cheap law bill," as it was hypocriti cally called, but which was nothing more than a bill to encourage litigation, increase the number of low attor neys, and confer enormous patronage upon Chancellor BROUGHAM, was thrown out of the House of Lords on Wednesday morning, by a majority of twelve. Ministers have consequently sustained another signal defeat. They have been beaten in both houses within the short space of a week, and yet we hear of no well-authenticated rumours of resignation. Come foul' weather or fair—come hail storm or sunshine—they stick to their places and stand unmoved. The broadest hint is lost upon the incapables. When detected in one blunder they quietly allow them selves to be drubbed, and then commence another blunder, careless of being laughed at, and callous to reproach and public scorn. The speech of Lord LYNDIIURST on the above occasion is as masterly a display of eloquence and truth, of sound• reasoning and convincing argument, as ever was listened to within the walls of Parliament. The noble Baron proved to demonstration that the very sources of justice would be pulluted by Lord BROUGHAM'S cheap courts, and that the expense of this cheapness would be £50,000 per annum more than is paid to all the judges and , courts in Westminster Hall. Speaking of the .mode pro posed for summoning a jury' tinder the cheap bill, Lord LYNDHURST observes : " In ordinary cases the law had shown the most extreme jea lousy lest the judge should have any thing to do with the array of the jury. The sheriff, as a'ministerial officer, was made the functionary on the occasion—he summoned the jury. The judge, unknown to any party but for his legal attainments and high moral character, went down to decide calmly, and without partiality, between party and party. But who was the minis terial, the summoning officer by this bill? Who? Why the Registrar of the Court (hear) the travelling compassion of the Judge himself (Loud cheering.) The whole of this part of the bill was so monstrous, that .he could not conceive for a moment that it was penned by his . noble and learned friend." We exceedingly regret that our limits prevent us from laying before our readers the whole of this admirable speech. It ought to be printed 'in a cheap form, and placed in the hands of every poor man in England, in order that he might see the mass of absurdities which it was intended to force upon him in the shape of law. Lord BROUGHAM'S reply was not an argument; it was merely a tissue ,of personalities, delivered with much soreness, and characterised by the noble schoolmaster's bad taste. The truth is, he was overwhelthed by the unanswerable objections of the Chief Baron. Whatever may be the professions of Ministers, their proceedings are little calculated to give satisfaction to the West India body ; and we need not travel far for evi dence of that fact. On Friday last a meeting of West India Proprietors, Merchants, and others, interested in the West Indies, was held in London, " for the purpose of ascertaining the re sult of the application made to Mr. STANLEY for a copy of the bill to be brought into Parliament by that gentleman respecting slave emancipation;". that excellent specimen of an honourable and right-Minded English nobleman, Lord HAREWOOD, in the Chair. The noble CHAIRMAN stated to the assembled body that he had made application to Mr. STANLEY, in accord ance with their unanimous feeling, expressed at a pre vious meeting, for a copy of the bill, Which had been re fused; and Mr. STANLEY'S letter to his lordship was read, as follows "My Lore,—l have the honour to acknowledge this day the receipt of your lordship's letter of yesterday's date, containing a resolution passed by the - West India proprietors, requesting to be furnished with a copy . of the draft of the bill for the abolition of slavery. It is • with ranch regret teat I• feel myself compelled to decline complying with any request coming from so respect able a body, and transmitted through your lordship, and the meeting will be aware of the extreme inconvenience that might result from.the practice of submitting to the public discussion of numerous bodies of persons interested the details of a bilrnot let before the legislature; With' regard to the present measure I have felt it my duty to communicate the intentions of the Government in strict confidence to the agents of the different West India colonies, and to them alone, to invite their remarks upon the provisions of the bill with reference to the effect which they may have upon the interests of their constituents, and your lordship on the part of the West India body has been made acquainted with the principle upon which we propose to legislate. It does appear to me that a further publicity given to the details of the bill before it is submitted to the legislature might be productive of much inconvenience, and I trust that your lordship and the,meeting will be disposed to admit the va lidity of this objection, in which, indeed, I understood your lordship to concur when I had the honour of seeing you at this office. " I have the honour to be, &c., " E. G. STANLEY." " July 3." The resolution of Mr. - STANLEY, with its singular rea soning, was communicated to the meeting on Friday, and published in the papers of Saturday. Yet, on the very next publication of the daily press, to wit, on Monday, was the community—not the parties interested, whose all is at stake, but this entire " beast of a nation"—en lighteno by the Times, "upon authority which they deem perfectly trustworthy," with a draft of the bill. Thus it is that Ministers and their tools of scribes re• spectively truckle to each other. The united body of the .West Indians, with property involved to the amount of a hundred and forty millions, are to be denied a knowledge of the laws which bid fair to deprive them of everything, and within a few hours, the same Minister, or some of his underlings, sends that, which is thus denied to those who have a right to demand it, to their own hirelings, to be distorted and commented upon at the dictation of their masters. This was on Monday morning—the bill having been read a first time, and ordered for a second reading on Wednesday. Where, we would ask, was then "the extreme incon venience that might result from the practice of submitting to the public discussion of numerous bodies of persons in-, terested, the details of a • bill not yet before the legisla- lature ?" Away with such insulting trifling ! If this be the paltry, tricking policy which has Mr. STANLEY'S approbation, let him at once avow that lie has descended to a course of practice which is little in accord ance.with his high-minded mouthings ; let him tell the world at once, what. the world pretty well understands by this timei that, as the whole policy of the ministry with which he is connected, is one of trickery and shuffling, he must go down the stream with his colleagues. This would be honest ; however little in accordance with what we had hoped from our countryman. But what follows On Monday night Mr. STANLEY rises in his place, and moves to postpone the second reading from Wednesday last to Monday next; with a condition tacked to it, hang ing upon an imaginary contingency, that it might then be further postponed. In other words, and we again wish Mr. STANLEY had been honest enough to confess motives, the bill is drawn cap in such gross and manifest ignorance of all the fair bearings of the case, so much at variance with their own recorded sentiments, and so utterly desti tute of justice or reason in many of its details, the result entirely of that self-willed but lamentable determination to legislate .on their own defective knowledge of the ques tion, rather than seek the opinion of experienced practical men, that they find it can never pass even the present House of Commons in its existing shape , and that it must share the fate of every other measure brought forward during the session ; it must present the appearance of a piece of patchwork —or, like the mass of stone separated by the quarryman, who, in his vanity imagines he is an artist, it is only an incumbrance upon the earth, until the master hands have chiselled it into shape and order. We had written thus far, when we received a coPy of the resolutions passed at a. meeting of the. West India body, at the Thatched House Tavern, in London, on Wednes. day; Lord, HA REWOOD in the chair. At this meeting Mr. M A RRYATT (agent for Grenada) moved the resolu tions, which were seconded by Mr. STEWART (agent for Tobago.) Both these gentlemen took the opportunity of stating that the ground on which they had objected to the resolutions proposed by Mr. BURGS, at a former meeting, was a mere question as to the fitness of the pe riod for doing so ; the bill proposed by Government not being then before them. Now that document was before the world, they came promptly forward to express their sentiments, which, as will be seen by the resolutions, were 'strongly disappfobatory of many of its enactments. This feeling pervaded the meeting generally, and the re solutions passed unanimously. Here, then, we have a clue to Mr. STANLEY'S abandonment of the second read ing for the present week ; and we will venture to pre dict, that he will •be too glad to avail himself of the con tingency to which we alluded before we received these resolutions, further to postpone its consideration. If we are to take the abstract of the proceedings of the meet ing as any clUe to what is to follow, we imagine the West India bill, before it has got many steps farther in Parlia ment, will have as many patches as harlequin's coat. — But we will leave our readers to judge of what is likely to befal it, if the opinions of practical men are to avail anything in the decision, by the perusal of the resolu tions; reserving our further observations to another oc casion. Ministers, if they be not as insensible as the nether millstone, must now see the folly; and feel heartily ashamed of those measures of reform which give satis-, faction to no party whatsoever. The church spoliation bill for Ireland 'has passed the Commons on its way, to oblivion in the Lords, and the sooner their Lordships pronounce its doom the better. This bill was avowedly a measure of conciliation. The Roman Catholic priests and kletnagogues of Ireland have for. a long series; Df year's been waging war upon the Protestant institutions of that country, in which they were aided and abetted by the Whigs, as the opposition party. When the Whigs came into power they could not well abandon their former professions, or disavoW their former friend ships. They, nevertheless, found it, impossible to legis late to the full-proof strength of their early principles, although. the necessity of keeping their allies in favour was as indispensable as ever. They . were willing to en courage robbery as hitherto, but they shrunk back from the consequences of committing it. It is one thing to praise the courage of the highwayman, but quite ano • ther thing to take his place on the heath and follow his vocation. It was easy to talk about pulling down churches, burning palaces, defrauding the public cre ditor, stopping the supplies, refusing to pay the taxes, and. all 'such stuff, suited to the mental capacity, and consistent with the empty swagger of Lord MILTON, THOMAS DUNCOMBE, Or WILLIAM BROUGHAM—it was easy, we say, to talk in this Bombastes vein, but as to doing the mischief, or executing the threat, they would as soon have thought of eating London bridge, or drink ing up the waters of Fleet-ditch at a cabinet dinner. But something had to be done. The beggars of O'CONNELL'S tail demanded a repeal of the union, and• all the hedge priests, the masters of these .beggars, cried amen ! The cry was only intended to be a menace. It was like " deliver your money, or your life." Life to be sure they rate at a low value ; but it was not life they wanted, but money. They longed to feed upon the Protestant pastures of Ireland. They sighed for the restoration of those fair lands which the heretics, de spite the anathemas of the Romish church, have the au dacity to call their own. They aspired to sovereign and undivided dominion ; and having succeeded in obtaining admission for their delegates into the British parliament, they imagined that they could dragoon England into any concession which their ambition should dictate, or their grasping extortion should claim. These facts embrace the whole mystery of the eman cipation bill. That measure, we were told by all the demagogues and by all the priests, would restore peace, happiness, and contentment to Ireland. We foresaw that it would prove a curse to both countries. We knew . that it would lead to endless, thankless, and mischiev ous concessions. We foresaw that it would inundate the House of Commons with the vulgar, ignorant, insolent, and slavish tools of the- priesthood—men without the slight-, est pretension to talent—destitute alike of the means and morale of independence—factious, dogmatic, and arrogant—united only for revolutionary purposes, and recognising no motive of action except the narrow one of passive obedience to the tyrant priesthood of the most degraded and demoralized country in the whole world. Kook at them, reader, in the aggregate, and say, upon your honour, if you ever saw or read of such a contempt ible set of political plasterers or hodmen—fellows so much out at the elbows in bodily as well as mental apparel —as are those who form the majority of the Irish representa tives ? It is impossible to conceive anything more re pulsive than the appearance of these men in the House of Commons. O'CONNELL and his sons, his nephews and his cousins, his more distant kinsmen and his equally obedient journeymen, is a sight so humiliating and dis gusting as to tempt even the casual observer to wish there were no such place as the House of Commons at all. A member of Parliament is supposed to be a gentleman. An Irish gentleman, however, is now seldom seen. Old SHERIDAN was ancient enough to be enabled to sketch one among the few of the last survivors. But if there were a chance of finding some scion of the old stock, lacy and rare, honourable and punctilious, surely the House of Commons would be the place to meet with him. But alas, he is not there ! In O'CoNNELL's tail there is nothing sparkling. There are no gems, no pearls; nothing bright or fair; all is dull, hard, ugly, spurious, and of Brumma gem metal. Nine-tenths of them are beggars rigged out for a holiday—tawdry and offensive—lacking not merely brains but good breeding—not so ornamental, but quite as useless as the sham cotton weed which grows in the . bog of Allen. Who sent them to the House of Commons? The priests. For whom do they work ? The priests. THE LIVERPOOL STANDAIM. Who maintains them ? The priests. In what manner ? By means of the begging box. These are the persons whom Lord ALTIIORP is most anxious to conciliate. His brother is a Popish priest, converted to Popery from Protestantism, and the beggars of O'CONNELL'S tail know it. They think that the noble lord is as true a Catholic as his brother ; but they do him great injustice. He is devoid of the necessary talent.— He warps penetration; he has not the required modicum of courage to make him an accomplished impostor ; when ever he assumes the character of the hypocrite, he inva riably converts the serious parts of it into farce. If the noble lord, following his brother's bent, should ever be permitted to enact the part of an inferior missionary, he would be sure to bring discredit upon the order. But we beg pardon for this digression. What we should have said earlier was this, namely, that Lord AL THORP, by means of the church plunder bill, imagined that he would gain the support of O'CONNELL and the countenance of the priests. In this the noble Lord has been miserably disappointed. The member for all Ire land treats his bill with ineffable contempt. He refuses to sanction its enactments. He declares that it is not the bill sought for, nor the measure expected by his masters of the priesthood. He complains that it does not carry the robbery principle far enough. He hate; petty lar- ceny—he despises pocket picking—any thing short of unrestricted pillage and wholesale robbery is beneath his notice. Mr. O'CONNELL, for these cogent reasons, is op posed to the Irish church bill. He says " He could not reconcile himself to support the bill after the abandonment of its leading principle. The reduction of the bishops was a gratuitous insult to the church, and did not benefit the Roman Catholic population. What the Catholics wanted was, relief from the burdens that oppressed them, but without da mage, insult, or injury to the Protestant church. Thinking that the bill would not afford the necessary relief, he should votesgainst it." What, then, may we ask, have ministers gained by this Inroad upon the established church ? The protestants hold them and their measure in abhorrence, and the Ro man Catholics are just as far from being conciliated as ever. They have established the principle that the re• formed House of Commons, despite the King's oath, and despite the acts of union, may make or unmake bishops at its will and pleasure, and upon this principle have they passed the present bill ; but they have not made a friend, they have not gained over an enemy—in short they have pleased nobody. They have thrown a slur upon the church, they have dishonoured its prelates, they have questioned its rights, they have doubted its usefulness, they have insulted its members, but they have done no thing to render Ireland more happy or more contented. On these grounds alone the lords would be justified in throwing it overboard, even though the administration should sink with it. The tranquillity of Ireland is not to be purchased by concessions. We had hoped, after the advice and warning which have been given by men of all parties to the deluded operatives connected with - the trades' union, that they would, before this, have perceived the utter hopelessness of their proceedings, and have returned to their occu pations. Convinced as we are, that the great bulk of the work men have been lured into these unions by specious hopes or false promises, we are truly sorry to see that they are vet undeceived, and our attention has again been drawn to the subject by a placard entitled " An address to the Public," full of insinuations!against those masters who have had the manliness to oppose their absurd combina tion, and lauding to the skies those few who have suc cumbed to them, and crouched to the mandates of these invisible agents. We need not say that the former de serve the best thanks of the public at large for their spirit and firmness—opinion is broadly expressed on that head; nor do we need to say much concerning those who have deserted the public by surrendering their own rights, and compromised the interests of their employers by meanly, and, for a time, advancing their own. We, leave them to their own feelings for consolation; none need envy them the praises of these trades' clubs, which they seem to have purchased at the expense of public estimation. If ever. there was a time when it was requisite for men to be firm and decided, and to endea vour to inculcate principles of loyalty and obedience to the laws,—which are the foundation of national, as well as of individual happiness,—it is the present; and it would be with extreme reluctance that we should occupy so much of our readers' time with these trades' unions, if we were not deeply convinced of their danger in a na tional as well as local point of view.. We, therefore, so licit attention to the subject once more, as we are assured that political agents are at work, charging the mine which is intended to scatter society in fragments, and in volve the country in ruin. It may be asked, " What have political agents to do with trade clubs ?" We ask, what was the use made of them in Ireland ? No political agents could organise the great body of the workmen in this country who arepeacefully and re gularly employed in labour, for which they receive a fair and just compensation ; they would see that they had every thing to loose and nothing to gain by a national convulsion, and the man who ventured to suggest open insubordination would be instantly scouted ; but by touching their self interest, by rendering them uneasy and dissatisfied with their lot in life, by representing the master tradesmen as their oppressors and enemies, and by telling them that if they enter their unions they will have liberty, emancipation from slavery, and HIGHER WAGES, they thus succeed in administering poison, and' workmen are then induced to enrol themselves members of a society, avowedly a trades', but actually a political union: They are then sworn in by a liorri4' oath, accom panied by awful and mystic ceremonies. Their imagina tion is excited ; they are induced to attend taverns and club rooms. They are demoralised by associating with the common herd; they spend their earnings in gin, and in contributing to the funds of the society; their wives and children are thps robbed of their rights; what was formerly an industrious mechanic is now a dissatisfied politician ; and thus, when they are members of the trades' union, they are ripe for the uses of the political agitator. • Could the inhabitants of Liverpool, Leeds, Chester, and other places, have been found as rife as those of Birming ham, there would have been no need to have worked upon them in a secondary way; but there is a great moral as well as physical force in these places among certain classes of persons, whose lot in life can never by possi bility be generally improved. They stand as it were between the ennobled and the lower classes ; they are men of moral and intellectual worth, and they form that link in the scale of society which is the giant strength of this nation, and which with its constitution is its greatest glory. These middle classes must be first subdued before the higher can be attacked. They form a rampart which, by reason of their moral strength, is yet impenetrable ; and it is the design of the workers of mischief to bring the lower orders into collision with these—to scare them by an imposing array of physical force, and afterwards to mount over them to the attack and destruction of the higher orders. • . Men generally do not look at ulterior-objects, and the effects which eventually spring from insubordination : they merely look for present gratification. Agitators know this well; they use it for their own nefarious pur poses; and it is one prolific source of those evils which affect society. With these few preliminary remarks, we will recur to the trades unions. Their primary object was stated to be the "destruction of wholesale contracts, and the ad vancement and equalization of labour in all its branches." Whatever may be the merits or demerits of wholesale contracts, they must yield to the necessities and wishesof society, and where it has been felt to be a convenience it must and will be adopted. " If I build a ship," a merchant may . juAly argue, "am I to be prohibited from agreeing with my master shipwright because a number of persons, who furnish the various small items necessary besides timber, start up and say—Sir, you shall contract with us, or else you shall not be supplied in these kingdoms ?" The thing is preposterous, and yet this i§ the principle tipqn which the trades unions have resolved to act. Public bodies and private individuals have alike found it a convenience and advantage, because tradesmen's bills Lane been found to fructify amazingly, and, like Aaron's rol, to bud most mysteriously. - Now in the placard be fore alluded to they assert that " they do not contemplate anything in reference to private contracts being submit ted to their inspection. This is false. We have ourselves seen written orders from the Unions of Liverpool, Man chester, and other places, for the produrtion of contracts; and it any persons are sceptical upon this point, we have no doubt they may see them also on application to any of the respectable master tradesmen. It is a melancholy fact that in Manchester (which seems to be the nucleus of mischief), the various contracts for a large building were actually submitted to the inspection of the operatives' committee, and were returned with the opinion of that committee that they were not genuine! and that the building should not proceed unless the gentleman to whom that building belonged would re-let his work to other tradesmen than those he had chosen. 'Why it will scarcely be credited, that delegates have called upon some of the most respectable men in Liver pool, to inquire whether they have let their work to such and such individuals or not. We do hope, for the sake of public decency, that the next gentleman of whom such an impudent inquiry is made, will kick the inquirer out of his office. We have lying before us a Manchester letter, from which we extract the following. " Whereas it has been stated to our society, that you have five men working at Pendleton by the piece, the prices of which are entirely unknown to us, and as we are formed for the purpose of regulating prices between man and master, you cannot but allow that we ought to know at what prices all work is done for," &c. &c. We ask whether human insolence can go much farther than this ? And yet this is said to be a non-interference with the private concerns of the employer ! Now let us ask, what is the avowed object of these Unions—for they have many objects which their com mittees dare not get avow. We will give it in their own peculiar and characteristic phraseology :—" It is to tear down the standard of monopoly, to exterminate ty ranny, and break the sword of injustice in. pieces, like unto a potter's vessel." This is all very fine and very bombastic; of course they have taken a leaf out of the book of " the heroes of the glo rious three days." But,.if they are soblind as not to see, the public are not quite so blind but they can see, that in their heroic zeal "to tear down the standard of monopoly," they Are trying to establish a snug monopoly of their own. The element of monopoly isan exclusive privilege —it is one or a few shutting out all competition, closing the door against industry and talent, and precluding such from mounting the ladder of society, by establishing re strictions in favour of themselves alone, and preserving to themselves and their families those rights which belong to every man, rich or poor, who has the ability to avail himself of them. As these Unions invite us, with all ap parent sincerity to judge between them and their masters, and yet do not seem disposed to believe anybody but themselves, let us judge them out of their own mouth.— " We are all for each, and each for all ;" so saith the masons of Manchester. Now let us take the published declarations of the 0. S. M.'s, which we suppoSe means Overhearing, Stupid Masons.— "The object of this society shall be to ADVANCE and EQUAL IA the price of labour in all its branches. " To prevent employers being too inquisitive concerning those things which du nut eject them, we deem it proper to in sert the following : "If any member of this society do disclose any of its tran sactions, be shall be expelled, never more to enter. • Should any member be thrown out of employ for opposing a reduction in the price of labour, he shall be supported accord ing to rule • * * * * ! ! ! "And should any other member take his place, and should it be proved that he was aware of the fact, there shall be levied a SEVERE FINE, which if he refuse to pay, he shall be expelled. Before we proceed, let us ask what being expelled means ? It is that the individuals who fall under the displeasure of these Grandes Monarques are never more to exercise their calling in England, Ireland, Wales, or Scotland. " Should any shop be oppressed or imposed upon, they shall immediately apply to the Grand Lodge! who will take their case into consideration and decide according to the circumstances. No strike to receive support without their sanction. "In case a strike take place, the whole of the Lodges in the kingdom shall immediately contribute a proportionate share toward their support. Here is a pretty battery opened against any man who ventures to think for himself. "That no first-rate master be allowed more than three appren tices! second-rate ditto no more than two "That no member of this society be allowed to work for a contractor!" Legislative enactments upon labour have always been scouted—it must be free—the attempt would be just as successful to confine the winds—how much more ought such presumptuous restrictions as these to be discarded, whose object is not to benefit society at large, but only the short-sighted individuals who have formed them— they attempt to establish a MONOPOLY for their own ex elusive benefit, regardless of the tens of thousands of youths springing up on every side ; and if the absurd rule could be enforced, that no first-rate master should have more than three apprentices, in another generation there would be an end of masonry altogether. if these clubs are allowed much longer as " an order "—a sort of popu lar aristocracy—they will ultimately form an immensely opposing force amongst the lower classes, whom by their exclusive rules they are attempting to press down, the poor will be unable to procure situations for their chil dren, as the "sons of club .members are, of course, to be first provided for," and by restricting the number of ap prentices, a population of no ostensible sort will be cre ated, who may, for aught the unions care, wander as vagabonds over the face of the earth. Now there are Only about thirty stone and marble masons in Liver pool, (we have taken the trouble of looking them out in the Directory,) and supposing them all to be "first-rate masters," here are sixty apprentices to be "allowed," when it is a well known fact, that two or three of these masters employ nearly six hundred masons themselves, exclusive of their coadjutors. Is it therefore difficult to perceive that these wiseacres are attempting to establish a monopoly, whilst on the other hand they avow their in tention to destroy all. Now we argue that if restrictions upon human labour imposed by the wisdom of legislatures have been inva riably found wanting, much more will these, imposed by a self-interested body, condemned as they are by the great bulk of the community. It is a misfortune that, in all mob assemblages, the majority suffer themselves to be led by the Minority ; and it is now to be regretted, and we are sure by none more sincerely than the master tradesmen themselves, that no argument will prevail unless it be the painful, but certain argument of want. The summer is wearing away. Every public body and almost every private individual in the country refuse to proceed with their work whilst this union exists. There never was a stronger public feeling against any measure, within our recollection, than there is against these trades unions. They are arbitrary to the master —dictatorial to the employer—tyrannous and cruel to the poor members themselves; and feeling assured that the mischief has been done by numbers of idle and dissolute fellows, who are living in fatness upon the earnings of the industrious, the only and the best advice we can give to the majority of those who have unfortunately (and pro bably with the best intentions) joined them is, to flee from them as they would from the plague, fur if they remain any longer members of such a dangerous body, they will be succeeded by workmen from other places, and them selves and families will be reduced to beggary. Let a body of them, say fifty or sixty, quit the unions by com mon consent, and, like a flock of sheep, the rest will speedily follow. The oath, as published in the STANDARD of last Tues day, is the oath of one branch of the Union taken in Manchester. We have taken the trouble to inquire into its authenticity, and on the best authority we assert that it is substantially correct. What need is there for secrecy and an oath at all for honest and praiseworthy purposes ? The mystic nature of the proceedings at once declare that something is hatching which ought to be put down, and we must not wait until the eggs become a cro. codile, but destiloy them immediately. Nine out of every ten persons in Ireland are utterly indiffer ent what becomes of their long-expected " Chinch flofurrn" Bill. England is exactly of the same opinion., House of Commons have accordingly passed Cie measure by a la rg-,e ma jority.— True Sun, 4. • S i l i T l Y t ej l l 4 I r r lON Standard Vice, Three o'clock. CORN EXCHANGE. FIUDAY, Two O'CLOCK. We have had a more animated Market ttiduy than for some time past, and a considerable business has been done with spe culators, as well as with country and town dealers, in Wheats, ' at an a lyance of Id: • 2d. on Tuesday's rates, chiefly in the better descriptions of lied Irish, at 75.6d..q) 75.9 d., and 7s. tod. for very prime samples. There was a brisk demand for Oats, which are fully Id. dearer since Tuesday, 2s. Bd. and 2s. t'd. having been paid for the best kinds. Fresh Oatmeal had a free sale at 235. 6d, for parcels, and 21s. was got in retail. Irish Flour brought 6d. Is. more than on Tuesday. There are in. quiries for Flour in bond, bat none now offering under 2",)5., and bonded Wheats are also held for higher prices. COTTON MARKET FRIDAY, TWO O'CLOCK. There are a great number of dealers and a few spinners in our Cotton Market to-day, but so far the business will be small, being confined to the Cotton buyers, for their immediate wants ; probably 2003 bags will be sold, atlfully tb reduction from the highest sales of the week. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. A very numerous and high Proprietors took place on the it Room, Exchange-buildings, to visional Committee of their Directors and Officers of the proprietors were duly elected : John Moss, Esq., Charles Lawrence, Esq., Joseph Hornby, Esq., Hardman Earle, Esq., Daniel Ledsom, Esq., James Bourne, Esq., John Turner, Esq., John Cropper, jun., Esq., I A more respectab:e list of active and intelligent gentlemen could not have been formed, and we congratulate the public on the fair prospects of this great undertaking being soon com pleted. ily respectable Meeting of the Dth instant, in the Cotton Sales receive the Report of the Pro- proceedings, and to elect the Company, when the following Charles Tayleur, Esq., Robert Gladstone, Esq., James Hevworth, Esq., Joseph Walker, Esq., Joseph Saunders, Esq., Richard Harrison, Esq., William Rotheram, Esq. An active market for Grand Junction Railway, London and Birmingham's ditto; and the quoted prices of this day fully supported. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. FRIDAY, 12th July.—Noon, Wind N. N. E.—Rain, ARRIVED. Lancaster, Cummings. from Africa. Off the port—John Walker, from Sierra Leone, Ann, Pennil, from Kingston, sailed 18th May. The Jac, Thomas, hence, at Valparaiso. Thomas Leech, Jams, hence, at do. William 4th, Bottomley, sailed from Valparaiso for Arica, 20t21 March. Sarah, Cheney, from Demerara, at St. Andrew's, N.B. Flora, -, hence, at Calabar. Imogep, -, hence for Calcutta, was spoken 4th May, in lat. 25 30, S, long. 25 50, W. Calcutta, --, hence for Calcutta, was spoken 31st May, in lat. 7 30, N, long. 21, W. SAILED. • Gloucester, Lane, for Havannah. Isabella, Tate, for Boston. Lilbum, Laing, for St. Petersburgh. Highland Lad, - Betts, for Genoa. Black Eyed Susan, Watkins, for Smyrna. SAILED YESTERDAY, Kent, Jamieson, for St. John's, IQ. B. Exquisite, Perrian, for Ak , ssina. Princess Charlotte, M'Kean, fur Bombay. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, 12TH JULY. Wind at Holyhead, N. N. E.-Nothing to report. LOCAL NEWS. It was Mr. Chapman, the member for Whitby, and not Mr. Houldsworth, who spoke and voted against the appointment of the Liverpool election committee. WONDERFUL DESPATCH.—The St. George Steam-Packet Company's vessel, Lee, Capt. E. Goff, sailed From the Clarence Dock, Liverpool, on Saturday, the 6th instant, at a quarter past one o'clock, and arrived at Passage, Cork, on Sunday, the 7th iust., at a little before four, p.m., which is the quickest pas sage on record, being less than 27 hours.—Southern Reporter. MELANCHOLY Loss OF LlFE.—Wednesday, as a lady with her three sons, one daughter, and a Young man, were sailing on a pleasure excursion near Douglas harbour, Isle of Man, the boat was upset, and the whole party, with the exception of the young lady and the young man, were drowned. The gentleman who informed us of this melancholy event saw the boat after the occurrence of the accident, but could not furnish us with the names of the parties, or the cause of a catastrophe so truly dis tressing. THE CHURCH.—The Lord Bishop of Chester has been pleased to nominate the Rev. John Lecky Russell, A.M., late curate of Cappoquin, in the county of Waterford, Ireland, to the curacy of Corkerham, in this county. An eclipse of the sun will take place on the lithinstant. It commences about an hour after the - rising of the sun, and when it has attained the altitude E3' in the E.N.E. the visibility of the eclipse will be confined to Europe, the northern regions of Asia, and a few of the islands of the North Pacific Ocean. To Spain. Portugal, and Italy, but a small portion of the sun wilt be eclipsed ; on the contrary, to the northern boundai y of Europe, Nova Zembla, and Northern Asia, the eclipse will be great, and some places central and total; the excess of the lunar above the soiar diameter being at the tune of the eclipse, lm. 295. APPREHENSION OF ROEBERS.—We are glad to state that through the active exertions of the captains and men of the nightly watch a great number of housebreakers have beon lately apprehended, and property to a considerable amount recovered. On many of the pi isoners instruments employed in housebreak in,ow were found. PRESENTMENT OF THE GRAND JURY.—On Tuesday, about three o'clock, the gentlemen of the grand jury having com pleted their business, came into court and madi; a rather long presentment. In the first place, they congratulated the court on a recent act of Parliament, which empowers the Crown to remove assizes from an inconvenient to a convenient place, and they expressed a hope that steps would be forthwith taken to have the assizes, usually held at Lancaster, transferred to Li verpool. In the second place, they expressed their regret at the number of fires which had recently. occurred in the town, I.nd trusted that some plan would be speedily adopted to obviate the very inefficient means now available in cases of fire. In the third place, they expressed their entire concurrence with the observations which had fallen fforn the leariied Recorder, regretting the differences between the workmen and their mas ters, being well Convinced that the unreasonable demands of the former, which no waste' of proper and independent feeling can consistently comply with, must in the end recoil upon the work men themselves, and entail upon their families misery and want. Any system Of dictation by the workmen, with regard to the mode iu which their twister; are to undertake contracts or exe cute work for their employers, is much to be deprecates, and they strongly recommend this matter to the serious consideration of the magistrates. The gentlemen of the grand jury next alluded to the obstruction of the footwalks, by persons being allowed to crowd on them, and hoped that the nuisance would be removed. The state of the hackney coaches also demanded the attention of the magistrates; they were in a state not tit to carry passen gers, too often without glass, and always filthy. It was desirable that the police should have instructions to enforce the law, and that more convenient stations should be chosen. CHESHIRE SESSIONS. ERECTION OF A POWDER MILL AND MAGAZINE. A short time since a notice was posted on Wallasey Church door to the effect that an application would be made to the Magistrates at these Sessions, on behalf of Sir John 'Collin and others, for leave to erect a powder mill and a magazine near the vil:age of Wallasey, on the shore opposite to the port of Liverpool. As might 6c expected considerable excitement Wa4 produced among the owners of property in that neighbourhood and the inhabitants generally; the former being apprehensive that their property would be deteriorated by the proposed erec tions, and the latter naturally considering their lives would be in danger , in the event of any explosions taking place. A meet ing of the parishioners and of the owners a i)roperty, was ac cording.y held, when it was unanimously resolved to offer to the application the most determined opposition, on the grounds to which we have adverted, and Philip Iduzuberston, Esq. solicitor, of this city, was appointed to conduct the opposition on the part of the inhabitants. Pursuant to the notice the application was. made on Tuesday se'nnight, on the opening of the Court, and tupported by Dr. Brown and 11.1 r. Whitcombe, who contended that tnere was no danger to be apprehended from such works if erected with proper skill and caution; and evidence was given that from the distance of the intended mills to any public build ings no injury was iikely to accrue in ease of an explosion. Mr. Cottingham and Mr. Trafford opposed the application, and proved Litt a great potion of the neighbouring land, being already purchased and laid out for the building of marine vitas, the value of the land would be much deteriorated by the erection in the neighbourhood of a powder mill and magazine. In fact the project had already impeded the progress of building specu lations. _ _ After hearing the evidence, and the arguments of counsel on both sides, the court retired into the private room to consider their decision, and returned in about twenty minutes. The chairman was about to deliver the determination of the magis trates, when he was interrupted by Sir John Stanley, who said that he had declined to retire into the private room, and ho wished it to be understood that whatever aught be the judg ment cf the court, he was not a party to it. For his part ho would state that, in his opinion, the feeling of each magistrate on the subject ought to be publicly given, so that their peculiar opinions might be generally known. To this interruption Sir Harry Maiuwaring protested, observing, so far from being afraid to express himself publicly, he had no objection to do it there or elsewhere; but if the magistrates thought proper to retire, as was frequently the case with the judges and Juries, they had an equal right to do so. The Chairman observed that the practice of the court "as as near that of the Court of King's Bench as possible. The judges there deliberated in private, but gave their decisions in public, and he thought that the magis trates could'not fohow a better guide. At uny rate it had always been the custom here to retire to deliberate upon their opinion. After a few other observations the colloquy terminated. The Chairman then stated that the magistrates were of opi nion that the.application should be refused. To this decision Sir John agreed. A case for the opinion of the Court of King's Bench was then applied for on the part of Sir John Tobin, and immediately granted. By the recent mercantile failures in India, several families, living hitherto in the highest opulence, have been reduced to comparative destitution. THE SCOTCH LAW CONISIISSIoN.—AII parties seemed discon tented with the nomination of the members for the Law Com mission. One complained that there were no Mackintoshes or Jeremy Benthams among them; another suggested certa oj uris consulis of more learning and experience who ought to I, re been appointed; while some of the members themselves were not a little surprised at finding their names promulgated as Refl trs-elect of Scottish law.