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London, England, 1825-06-04 00:00:00

Mr. M.A. TAYLOR rose to vindicate the Universities front
the imputations cast on them by the Hon. 31ember, who stated obey
had not node any attides in seiznev and discipline.
Mr. BROUGHAM—The very contrary ; 1 mid they MMe
great intprovetnents in both. (lean)
Mr. M. A. TA YIOR resumed. The greatest reform had lately
taken place ; it was now usual tor all young men to go through the
regular ezaminatione instead of taking mere honorary degrees; such
was the practice with persons of the highest respectability ; ha
thought the institution of ins Hon. Friend must fail, for without
proper discipline no seminary could be conducted properey ; ;1„,
boys must become idle • they might, perhaps, attend at the coin_
wand of their fathers, b'ut would come home as ignorant as ever.
After a few words from Mr. OOULBURN,
' Mr. BROUGHAM asked had he said any thing derogatory to the
character of the Universities ? Certainly not ; he stated tliat tire.
made great exertions to remove all the to deneies to extravagance.:
much improvement had taken place in Oxford and Cambridge in
the different classes ; and he was sure tbat when learning bean)*
epidemic, a greater number of students would be sent to both ; for
if a father could educate some of hls eons at the new College, the
probability was, that he would entertain a wish to send one to
either of die Universities, there to mix with the Nobles of the land.
So fat from ant jealousy being felt by either of the Universities to..
wards the new College, he assured the House that four out of dye
of its promoters were fellows and scholars of either Oxford or
Cambridge.
SKIPWRECK.
Mr. TREMAYNE ,NWIII a petition from Mr. Trenghouse,
IL respecting his invention of nous for roving lien from 'hip_
wreck, and moved fore** eorrespoodeoce which took place
between him and the auk*, the Admiralty an the subject.
Mr. T. 'WILSON** thli of the =dm of the
Trinity House, of the Conanaittwa * ' Wed diejleljbtrta t Society
of Arta, was, that Mr. Treettommii lye . 411111tvine of re.
oompense for his excellent inventiele.
Sir J. YORKE thought that dim As poisott his much should
reward him for it.
Sir ISAAC COFFIN did sot think It of the host use. He
would advise the peer mast to trundle up hit Mamma, and burn
iLer. WM4 preferred rewarding a man for inventing an apps..
rams to save human life to giving grants for repairing roads.
Sir I. COFFIN explained.
Stria. CLERK said the apparatus then talked of differed but
flute 'from the invention of Captain 3lanby. When Mr. Trent.
bootie applied to the Admiralty. he was told that If his apparatus
had any merit it must soon get into use. He (Sir G. Clerk) bad
no wish to withhold the papers moved for, but thought Mr Treng.
house should print them himself, and not put the country to the
expense of adveitiaing his apparatus for him.
Ordered.

EAST AND WEST INDIES—SLAVE TRADE•
Mr. F. BUXTON moved for various Returns connected with
the trade to China, Sierra Leone, the Isle of France, the Mauritius,
and the West Indies. The Hon. Member also moved for several
Returns connected with the Slave Trade.
Mr. Secretary CANNING said, it was impossible for any
human being to give an opinion as to the time when these re.
turns could possibly be made, and he would rea'J, put it to the
Honourable Gentleman, whether it was possible, from the reason of
the thing to expect that returns so numerous and complicated
could be complied with in any reasonable time, if indeed, they
could be complied with at all. To hum it seemed utterly impel'_
imposaible, that the orders for any such returns
could be complied with.
111 r. CUR Tf;lS said, that as the Right Honiurable Gentleman
the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad lately expressed his inten.
tion of making some alteration in the dunes on rum, he was of
opinion that there might be something mischievous in these re-
solutions, and that they were intended as the foundation of other
measures.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped that as
these resolutions invol►ed such a variety of topics, and were likely
to give grounds of alarm upon other subjects, as the Honourable
Member for Sussex cif r. Curteis) had just now deelared—(a
laugh)—the Honourable Gentleman, (51r. Buxton), would with-
draw his motion.

'3le. F. BUXTON had no objection to withdraw his motion for
the present; but he begged to say, in justification of his own con.
duct, that he had mentioned his intention of moving for these
papers some weeks ago to the Hon. Gentleman opposite; and
that he had been told then there would be no objection to comply
with his request.
Mr. W. HORTON said the Hon. Gentlemen, the Member for
Montrose, fool made 38 motions upon the subject of Sierra Leone
last week, and he would venture to say that it would require at
present (nor men, perfectly competent to the duties of his office,
and thoroughly well acquainted with the subjects, to labour foe
do months incessantly before they could ptepare all the Returns
which had been already ordered in the Colonial Department
He would declare at once. and be was glad of the opportunity, that
it was perfectly impossible for a single Secretary and his ate .
blishMent to do the public business effectively, if the present
totten continued. Since he entered office, is 1822, every pus of
business bad Increased upwards of 130 per cent. He was aware the
practice had oogrant papers almost without end, sad that If
be Jested, Hon. Gentlemen were ready to point oat
oho a papers which had been already produced. All he whored
to say at 11l Sent was, that he trusted the practice, which bad boot
useful, might. not be turned into an abase.
Mr. HUME said he could not sit silent under the imputation
that he was moving for papers which were not wanted. He had
asked for an account of proceedings at Sierra Leone during thirty
years, in which the nation had been spending one million and a
half of money. Wu it fit that he shouli be reproached with do-
nsoding papers without reason,when he wished to put an end to an
cxpenSiture at the present moment of 110.0001. a year, and which
he hoped he wool he able to demonstrate, was altogether un-
necessary. For 11. *pent in printing he could assert there had been
1001. saved le fie coon try.
Mr. Secretary CANNING again expressed his wish that the
:lon. Gentleman would withdraw his motions.
They were withdrawn accordingly.
QUARANTINE LAWS.
Mr. C. GRANT,. in moving the third reading of the Qua-
rantine Laws Regulation Bill, said he thought it necessary to
make a few observations. in consequence of the misstatements and
misrepresentation which hail gone abroad on the subject of con-
tagion, as connected with the enactments of the'present measure.
The Bill was founded upon the Report of a Committee on Foreign
Trade which sat last Session, and which examined medical men of
great eminence, all of whom were decided upon the question of the
contagious nature of the plague. A Bill, therefore, tormed uOrel
a Report which contained the evidence of tin Gilbert Blanc, Dr.
Granville, and others, all unanimous upon the necessity of or--
caution being taken against the contagion of the plague, could
not surely he liable to those objections which had been urged
against it elsewhere, or give any ground for that alarm which
seemed to prevail upon the subject of its enactments. The Bill,
in fact, did not repeal a single precautionary measure which had
been adopted at any other period. It preserved all the spirit of the
ancient system, aethig upon the principle of contagion, and only
modified the practice of quarantine, so as to render it as little ex-
pensive and tedious as possibly could be done, with a proper re-
gard for the public safety. The Bight Hon. Gentleman then ex-
plained, at some length, the principle upon which the Bill proceeded,
and the difference between the law now proposed and that which
it proposed to repeal, demonstrating that the principle still re-
mained the same, and that the modifications were only as to time.
One alteration, however, was proposed. relative in the punishment
of death for the violation of the law wh•ch at present was inflicted
in all cases; and he proposed to repeal that clause, except as to
the single Offence of forging a certibeate. Goods received front
certain ports were row only to be placed under quarantine for 21
days,_ as it was cinsideral by all the medical men, that an absence
of 60 days from the place supposed's', be infected was sufficient fur
the purposes of wise presaisases Cleans bills of health might be
sent to the Privy Core* tend returned by post, leaning it still
in all cases in the diserdio isf cis Council, as to the application
of the particular case ta ei lit moon of the inspectors, who were
to go round to t''`- di ' to examine into the state of all
the departimots c eumeat of the Quarantine
Reguladiaisosothe* 411easlonsan concluded by
spying; drat pas hoes framed to exceed
tat pre" . Hein eminent medical prac-
titioners, and that he had thon t h necessa7 to make these state.
(dents, to explain the rail nature std obj of cf the Bill.
iSly I. COFFIN said, lie rose to contradict the statement, that
e phroto e never appeared northward of Cape Finisterre. The
ague tad appeared here four times, ark carried off 169;000 persona.
he lionouroble Gentleman then reef a letter from a Gentlemen.
rmerly connected with the army in O.:soot to prove the contagious
Mouse of the plague; and reminded the Ilmise, that although Dr.
IPLeao escaped death at Constantinopk himself, all his assistants,
who were to have two dollars for their attendance, perished. He
hoped that all precautions would still be takeu against the introduc-
tion of that terrible disease.
Mr. Secretary CANNING was glad to take that opportunity of
expressing his satisfaction, that none of the wild visionary opinions
lately at:ranted upon the subject of contagion had been adopted by
the Honse, and that therommercid world would now he enabloi
to fbrm an opinion of their sentiments.. Honourable Gentleutes
were prob .lily not aware how much mischief had been done by the
late asitation of that question. Already at Marseilles and at
Genoa, England was looked upon almost as an infected country.
and at Naples, so great was the alarm created by ths promulgates&
of die nun-contagion declarations, they had actually made an ad-
dition of twenty one days to the usual term of quarantine
upon all vessels from England. It was his wish that those specu-
lative men, who maintained the non.mintagious nature of the
plague, should rather try their experiments is crispers lON, (hear,
hoar, and laughter), than upon the health and safety of a whole
neloc. He lead no inclination to adopt their suggestions in this
'roomy, and he again expressed his gratification diet the questios
was now set at rill.
Dlr. TRANT said a few words, which were not audible in the
gallery.
An Hooottrable MEMBER, whose name we could not learn.
cede some observations respecting the provisions of the Bill; bat
they were wholly inaudible in the gallery.
Mr. HIJME wislied to notice what had fallen from the Right
Honourable Secretary of State for Fereign Arai's. sespeostog the
mischievous tendency of the Reports which had been circulated as
to the intention of his Majesty's Ministers to repeal the Quarantine
Laws. He fully agreed with the Right Honourable Gentleman,
that the mischief which had resulted from that report was very corns
siderabl his Majesty's Mlnisten must instantly contradioi.
at the ports of Xusope. He was glad to beer the dal. s's
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