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SCOTCH M A lir DUTY

Captain WEMYSS presented a Petition from dm Waite-
men, Prerhuldeis,aud sobers of the enutity •f Fifer fietiyisig
fur a redaction of the Duty ou Malt iti Scothostit.
Mr. CUI(WEN said, if the House should come to say
reselutiii• of the swore of that prayed fur, for the wetter of
Agrieuralists of Seafood, if it were extenalsd to the ad-
joining counties of Cumberlaisil ati.l %Yraittatirlando which
wire tqutlly entitled to that relief, it might induce him and
wow other Gentlemen perhaps es) support sorb a measure,
otherwise he should fed biamelf bound to oppose it, as heist
partial and unjust.
Ordered to he ea dna tab!c.
CRIMINAL. LAWS.
Mr. LITTLETON presented a Petition from she lulu-
bitaula of Shipstou-upou-Stour, iu favour of a modidicatian
of the Criminal Laws.

Mr. WELLS permeated • Petition from the Inhabitants of
the King's Toou of Maidstone, iu the comity of Kent, prey
iug fur a revisiou mid modification of the Criminal Lame.
Mr. J. SMITH presented a similar Petition from the
Borough of Leominster, in the County of Hereford.
Mr. S. WORTLEY presented • Petition of • similar
description from the Inhabitauts of Settle, in the West Mt.
dingy of the Comity of York.
Sir T. D. ALLAN D presented a similar Petition from the
inhabitants of Ktngsbridge, in the County of Devon.
Sir W. DE CRESPIGNY presented a similar Petition
from tie Mayor, Corporation, and luhabitants of South-
ampton.

hr. H. F. C. CAVENDISH presented a similar Petition
from Derby.
Mr. H. G. BENNETT presented a similar Petition from
certain luhabitants of the City of Gloucester.
Sir T. B. LETHBRIDGE presented similar Petitions
from the Town of Wincautun, and the Town of Wellington,
iu the Cuiddy of Somerset.
Mr. BARING ',resealed a similar Petition from the
Town of Altos, is the County of Hauls.
Lord J. RUSSELL ',wielded a similar Petition from
Lewes, in Sussex.

Lord STAN LEY presented a similar Petition frum Kin-
ston

Mr. HARBORD presented a similar Petition, nume-
rously sod respectably ■tgued, hunt the inhabitants of
Shaftesbury, i• the County of Dorset.
Sir E. KNATCHBULI. presented • similar Petition
from Staines, i• the County of Jliddloa x.
The abore-mentioned Petitions were severally ordered to
be prim ed.
Mr. BARING presented a Petition from I poor
prisoners confined fur debt to the gaol of Itchester, cora-
platonic of the state of the gaol, and praying fur —Ordered to be printed.

EXTRA POST.
Sir W. CURTIS moved fur copies of the Correspouitruce
between the Lords funimissiuners of the I'i-emery and the
Postmaster General, or the Secretaries of those departments,
relating to establislimeut urea exile post.
Mr. WARNE hoped, tithe papers moved for by the Hon.
Baronet should be grauted, that the Hun. Gewlemou oppo-
site would not press the [hinging up of the Report uu the
Bill (the Postage Ace), which he saw was fixed for to-dal,
until they should he laid on the table. He would take that
opportunely of slating is //raise, that ■ceiust the Beth he
had the niust decided objection, as it would trod to encou-
rage and increase the spirit of hard delving and cruelty to
horses, by the competition it would excite.
Mr. LUSHINGTON said, the Honourable Member would
have the fullest uppuitunity of stating the grounds of his
opposition to the Bill on the bringing op of the Report.
Mr. CURVVEN thought the establishment of an extra
post would be a great convenience to trade, by facilitating
expeditious communication throughout the country, which
was much impeded by the present system, wider which, a
letter arriving in Lindien from one part of the country, ein its
way lo a more distant pin, arriving in town by nine in Om
morning, was delayed here until eight in the evening, a
stoppage which was urine productive of yellow' incouve•
sienee.

Mr. J. SMITH said, one of the objections to the rata
poet was, the advantage which would Ise *aired to the trade
of those locus in which it might be established over tithes.
where it did WI exist, from the more ►predy communica-
tion; but even at Frew lit letters sometimes arrived much
earlier than rise post.
After a few words from Mr. LUSHINGTON, which we
could out hear, the motiuu *as agreed to.
hie W. CUILTIS said, he had strong objections to the
establiihmeort of an extra post, un the grouudi both of
pulley and expedieecy, which Ire should stale in the dig-
cussion tel the bringing up of the Report. He then muted
for "Copies of curresrioudence with the Treasury and the
Post Office, relative to the supposed grieversete of the pro-
prietors of mail coaches, oppieliended by them from the
establishuseot of on extra-port; and also, for copies of the
contracts fur the co %%% y % ure of the extra maihr, if ■ny suck
base been entered iuto."—Or tiered.
CASE OF THOMAS FLANAGAN.
Mr. COOPER said, that he war sorry not to see the
Huts. Member for Coveutry in hie place, as Le wls the prin_
cipal cause for briuging forward his motion, as the degraded
individual, Thomas F:anagan, was 1101 dissolving of a atom-
useues euusitleration. This marl had been for a number of
yeats imposing 54055 mauy Mrsobere is. the Home, by pre
saline upuu them to present repress oollasg himself
as belonging to Sligo; when the fact was, as be was Memos.
ed, and believed, that Flanagan was not a entire of Wigs,
nor bad he any re►tehvirce there that lie knew of, ramps
when be was resident in the courtly put, under a aro-
tente for a higheay rubbery rand stissuli. fle
Cooper) looked upuu it that there could be no g►enter
abuse rut petttioning than this, our soothing mare Us lv
to bring the sight of petitioning iota disrepute J
contempt. It was sums years since he had list
nuanced this man to the [louse, in the vain Lope, as it oil_
peered, of be, piig him wit of ii. Too the Petitiou that ht loot
carted to the Hums. at that time relative lu the rosinierpal
governmeut of Sligo, there were a number of names attach.
col, not one of *lock he (Mr. C.) knew, Noe did he think it
worth while to inquire about them ; but he bad berm iiificani-
ed by a most respectable Gentleman from Sligo, that he Sal
made inquiry, and that he tumid that t•vrry one of
them denied having given any uuthurily for placiaig
their tomes to that Prtilioe. This Session he had come
forward singly, and on Ibis occasiun he (Mr. Cooper) had
thought it his duty to denounce Thomas Flanagan ambits,
as the Hunoriable Member fur Durham, and the oilier
Members who rime fur ward on that utegiron, declared that
they knew nothing of his character. 'lbis netatretiee •p•
ports only to hare increased the effruntely of Flanagan, for
he prentikd open the Hon. Mt usher for Coventry to bring
forward a Petition a few days since, reflecting upon him
(Mr. C.) by name, mid rastiug an asperssuu upon the Grand
and Petty Juries of the county of Sign. This Marti tttt
was so irregular and inotiairous th■t it was instairtly
quashed, and not a word allowed to be said abort
thereby allowing the putouts to be recorded without ass
antidute; this made it imperative 'you him (sir. Cooper)

TA, Petilioos were severally
ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS RILL

Mr. Serjeant ONSLOtV moved the Order of the Day for
receiving the Report, which was brought up The amend-
ments of thr Committee %vele agreed to, mad the Bill ordered
to he read a third lime tudnorrow if then engrossed.
Lord DUNCANNON presented* Petition from the Reed
:Merchants of New Nation, Veit icsbire, praying fir some
WillotUfell to prevent the adulteration of clover seed.—
Ordered to be printed.

BANKRUPTCY LAWS AMENDMENT BILL
The House resolved itself into a Committee out this Bill.
Mr. J. SM ITH, iu offering the various clauses to tbe de-
liberation of the Committee, remarked cm the necessity that
bed at t.en, from the great mass of frauds and perjuries coun-
rnir..ed its the affairs of trit,krupts and insolvent', for .Dine
seriatim of the (Nolo upt Code. Ills own übject was ciorfin.
ea at pr. sent chiefly to the filling rip of the blanks of the
Jf:II. The delay which had taken place as to the progress of
lite Hill was nut owing to him; but soy further delay
would have the t fft ct of keeping she Bill from passing this
Session, and every man of integrity and lioneety must be
anxious to see some mean. adopted fur purging away that
art. in of fraud and err seri,. which had gathered from the
isadtsitraoy of the Bankrupt Code, and which ;was greater in
its extent than those of asy other branch of thin laws.
Mr. &Otani ONSLOW thanked the Hon. Member, whose
puhlie apitit and indefatigable anal in the discharge of Isis
merlianieutary duties could not lie sufficiently admired for
the deep and sasenslalleilion which he had given to this sub.
jeci. No pirt of she code wanted revision more than the
Bankrupt Law..
The Bill was then tommitted paragraph by paragraph ;
%anuses verbal and literal alterations were proposed and
sdopied, in the discussion of which, as sell as on she pee,.„
'al chose*, NI r. J. smith, lite Attorney and Suliessue-Geh,"l.
c. Cosi, t e Hey, Mr. Sc.a..lett, Mr. Abererumby, awl Mr.
N'initrrlry tui k a psi 1
I.ll' House lbem reosinarri.

!Ir. ItI:4)61)EN r.pv.lrd progress, and g* leave to sit
C(.+154 r n Tuesday hex..
LustliNGTON p.esented a Pe ' ' from Minim
InE4laitanla in Stroud, G.oncestersbirn, sigved by sescral
13, rgymois a the Chottl. Kaglaud, praying sin* neve-
-I,o.,stion is. the Criviinal LAO..

Idiovi J. RUSSELL privented 8 Prot
.(I,)m. a p.•rcuu

111 r. JAMES observed, that they must be a bad
pair of horses that could not trot 14 miles an hour
with light weight, and with greater ease, than four
miles and carry haifa ton, they are obliged in
the mails at present.
Lord NUGENT paid, he came to the considera-
tion of the question quite unprepared ; but front
what he had heard he was induced to vote with
the &light lion. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the
Exchequer), as he thought ull objections on the
ground of ►nhumanity could be obviated its the
Committee.

Mr. Hums objected to the principle of the
because whatever advoliteges could be de-
ivr(l from a rneasete of that devcription rhould be
grtieral ; whereas iu the preient iu►taece it would
be confined to a pauticular road.

Mr. IlilltallT objected to it es being a partial
measure, by which the great towns would be bene-
fited to the exclusion of the tenet.. If it were made
genet-al, lie should have tio objection to give it Ins
support.
Mr. R. MARTIN opposed the measure, on the
wound of inhumanity to horses.
The gollery was then cleared fur a division.
The numbers were--
For beiugitag up the Report 24
Against it

Majority
The Report was then brought up.
The other Orders of the Day were disposed a,
and the House adjourned at Half-past Eight
o'Clock.

Motion rohmittod to ihe. House of Lords, by Lord LAU-
nvnnALE, before going into the Committee on the 818,
Wooled, " An Act to exclude Bit Borough of Gram-
pus' is the County of Cornwall, from *roiling Burgesses
iv sort, is Parliament, sod to enable the Borough of

That of disqualifying the Instateat as well as the golly Gyp
z poet facto law. To ate it hi. always appeared drat the
great object of puaishment is to secure, by example, agablot
the future committals* of erase ; but Ibis Bill,' if passed to.
to • law, must infallibly trod to encourage and 1111CNISPO
torruplinu amongst the elect'''s of all the smaller boroughs
in the kingdom, for it proclaims to them, that the rutty dif-
TeretteebeTwbit giving their votes feiAl, peee ova Treat ear-
. leapt motive* is, that the corrupt will be "mishitl swam llat
eaisting laws, soli the innocent Lyon ex post facto law, with.
out any regard to the comparative Number of those wheaarre
pure and those who are guilty.
3. liershise after the doctrines recently held in (big Ilona,
en the danger with which the Coestilution of the *Dente,
was threatened by an ez post facto law, 'in the shape of a
-Bill of Pettis stud Penalties, it is with the deepest regret 1
love seen this Bill receive the support with which it has
been courtenaseed. It is true, it is said that the right of
voting is not private property, list a privilege vested for she
Iwnefit of the community, aid that this Bill cannot, therefore,
be called a Bill of Pains sod Penalties. To me, however, it
appears equally true that privileges, vested even in the
highest rank and station, cannot be considered as private
property—these two involving concomitant duties to the
eitanonnity. The attempt to make such a distinction leads
sat, therefore, to dread the people at large sill conceive,
that contrary to all principles of British justice, a proceed-
ing in this House is deemed to be wise and conetitutinual,
harsh directed against the innocent poor, which is held to be
illaigsprotis and uncosistitutional be tbf ease of those whose
station to high life is high and elevated.

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Of * mistiest takes by the Emperees Astir 6 til lead%
with respect to the distorbaeces which have broke* oust is
the two Principalities, have recital the !irritant se,esatiee
there. They were hardly hewn at Jury Ara this
10th, when the Boyards, Arvin the Metropolitan. at
their head, went to the reigulug Hoepodar to determine
him to depart wilt% all.pismiWcissma. Prince Blisisalfeemy
with tears, abaudourd the miss of goreremeel, sod left
Jassy on the night of the 11th with his family and ail his
suite, carryine wish hiss she waliltery chest of the Gretk ia-
Stsreeethsa. Ile kook the mete of Bessarabia.

The sestenee of esconteseniestion declared*Lihr Greek
Patriarch, which lusadately bees received from ustantiutss
plc primoosces an anathema against Michel Sumo and all
those who took part iu the euuspiracy again* Ike detail
Seignior, their legitimate Sovereign. The Divas or Cesheil
met after the departure of Niece Suzso ; it was engaged iM
sending a deputation to the Porte, to represent that the in-
habitants of !Holder/is had out at all taken up arms Nosiest
their legitimate Sovereign, and that Michel SOWS a abut to
blame for what has passed, and also to pray the Porte to
prod a sew flospoder to Moldavia.
The Divan has besides ingsgril the ialiabitantsof the roue.
try, is the different districts of Moldavia, in which the sol-
dier, of Prince Ypsilanti arc, to fall upon them, should they
remain there seven days after the departure of Prince Michel
Suzzo. The Treks at thrall, Galata, and upon the Lorwer
Danube, reamiard in a state of tranquillity.
By intelligence from Bucharest of the 12th April we
learn, that us the Sill the sentence of ex.communicatiou pro-
nounced by the Greek Patriarch in Coustruitinuple was read
in the metropolitan church, and also MI those of St. George
and St. John. The same day they commenced staking dis-
positions fur the fortificatiou of the city; but Ike want of
mosey has obliged them to be given up. The Boyards were
engaged in collecting, by a forced loan, a sum of two without
of piastres, destined for the subsistence of troops,
y bad alieady commenced levying this impost on the
clergy and the Jew.; the former had been taxed to the
amount of 100,000 piastre., and the latter 20,000.
Prince Ypsilanti arrived um the 91h of April in the es-
'irons of Bucharest. with about 1,000 Greek troops, sad
three guns badly mounted; bat Duke, who commands
under him, entered Bucharest with two thonsisoH wsen.
Ypsilanti's whole force, formerly so much exaggerated,
hardly amount. to 5,000 men, who have with ahem seven
ship guns. The /lay after tits arrival of the corps Ypsilanti,
lb. troops of Theodore Wlaitunerskue retired to the meccas-
' eery of Cotretseani ; lie remained at Bucharest with 50 *env
but on the 12th br left the city, and went also Its Cotret-
siani.

LON DON,
FRIDAY, M•Y 18, NM

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The result of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT'S motion
fur on inquiry into the circumstances attending
the meeting at Manchester, on the fatal 16th of
August, 1819, is such as every one who knows any
thing about the constitution •1• the tionse of Corn-
moos must have expected ; but it is not on this ac-
count less to be lamented. It is • stain upon
the fair fame of our national system •f justice.
that an event in which upwards of five hundred
persons were severely wounded and some were
killed by the unnecessary employment of troops,
should be permitted to pass away, notwithstanding
repeated efforts made by independent Members of
the Legislature, by the friends of the deceased,
and by the surviving sufferers, without any satis-
factory inquiry having been made into the causes
that led to this sanguinary occurrence. The inves-
tigation that was commenced tit Oldham, in the
inquest holden upon the body of JOHN LEES,
one of the victims of military violence, was suffi-
cient, though incomplete, to spew the true chit.
meter and complexion of that dreadful scene. and
the country can now very easily understand why
the Coroner, in violation of his duty, suspended
the inquest just at the moment when the evidence
was on the point of particularising some of the
chief actors iu the attack that was made upon the
people. Of this we think there can be little doubt,
that if the Ministers of the Crown thought that the
inquiry proposed by Sir FRANCIS BURDIITT would
terminate creditably or to the advantage of the
Manchester Magistrates and yeomanry, they would
not refuse so pertinaciously to accede to the prayers'
of the numerous sufferers who crowded the table
of the House of Commons with their petitions.—
All means recognised by law have now been at-
tempted for the purpose of bringing to justice, or
even to fair investigation, the individuals who, on
the 16th of August, violated the first principles of
the Constitution, and inflicted wounds and death
upon so large a number of the KING'S subjects.
The inflection, thererore, of the Constitution, and
the violence offered to the individuals concerned,
can never be made the subject of any proceedings
in a Court of law, or of an inquiry in Parlia-
ment. Tue Ministers, and the other advocates
of the Manchester Magistrates, say, " The Courts
of civil process are open to the sufferers, there
they may try the merits of their cases, se-
verally, and by suing for damages, collect the
opinions of Judges and Jurymen upon the oc-
currences of the 16th of August." We never be-
fore understood that an English subject could
bring an action far the killing of a father, hus-
band, wife, brother, sister, daughter, or son, or
could hope to have the loss sustained by tile death
of such near relatives estimated in the way of
damages by pounds, shillings, and pence. By
the old law of appeal for murder, it is certain that
the judgment of death for having killed a fellow.
remitted by the appellor, upon
money by lay of compensation
ire sl:ru ; and iii uncietit
sum fixed in this, u► well
'rtes, as the price of blood,
or heir, or other relatives
not legally urge their
connexion with the barbs-
Pas repealed a short time be-
• Manchester, es being um-
of our• Government, and
lanced state of society; but it

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would seem that we boasted ton soon of our social
impiovement, and that the repeal of that part 01'
the old law, which gave to the widow or heir of t'r-•
deceased the appeal of murder, unconnected with
the imriosiatett Adjunct of wager of kali, ws to
be attributed to the desire ofihe Government, and
to certa:u motions of political expcdiency,rtulter
'Wien to the corrective sense*, society,: and to the
neceesery inflaeoce of -civilisatioa. if that part
of the law had not been. repealed,. no nems.:
wity had now existed of applying to Parliament for
inquiry, nor would it have been in the power
of Magistrates, of Grand Juries, or of Courts of
Law, to screen the reputed u►t►rd of. the per-
sons slain at Manchester from autionittits* to 'he
judgment of a Ju►y. The law has been ►rprule.t.
but the friends of the deceased ere remittsilso the
principle of that law, and are told, tau 11l i l
cruse of its absurdity, that they 'nay bring dolt-
actions of damages, and try the. *steal :of their
losses by the help of twelve sworn appraisers.—
But allowing the infraction of the liberty of the
subject to be of no importance, and the deaths of
some of his Majesty's subjects to be undeserving
of inquiry, it is very well known that even the
surviving sufferers have now no power of bring-
ing this great question before a Court of Justice
in an action for damages. The Marquis of
LONDONDERRY, and the other advocates for the
Manchester Magistrates, must be aware that the
time has now gone by for bringing an action.
against Mr. HAY or Mr. Hutson, or one of
the corps of yeomanry. The statute 24 Geo. 11.
c. 44, provides, that " no action shall be brought
against any Justice of the Peace for any thing done
in the execution of his office, or against any consta-
ble, headborough, or other officer or person acting
by his order or in his rid, utiless commenced within
sir calendar months after the act committed."
This protection has been construed to extend to
cases where the party acting virtute officii exercises
authority improperly, and abuses the discretion
placed in him. The Manchester Magistrates, con-
stables, headborough, and yeomanry, acting under
the orders of the Magistrates, cou►e clearly within
this provision in the statute, and therefore it is no.,
vain for their advocates to say that Parliameist ought
not to undertake an inquiry into their conduct, upon
the ground that a Court of Law is the proper place
fur pursuing the investigation. The Ministers close
the doors of Parliament against u consideration of
the injury inflicted upon the Constitution—the
Grand Jury of Lancaster stand in the way of ob.
tinning inquiry by means of a criminal procedure—
the Coroner at Oldham, in violation of his duty;
dissolved the inquest at the moment of deepest in-
terest—the Court of King's Bench refused a
crimi-
nal information against the parties—end while all•
these meardi were fruitlessly pursued, the limita-
tion to civil actions prescribed by the Act of Par-
liament expired ; so that as the matter now stands
there remains ❑o way whatsoever of ha►ing the
occurrences at Manchester on the 16th of August.
Mg, investigated legally or constitutionally, with
any prospect of satisfying the motion, or of relieving
the character of the country, of our judicial sr-
tem, mud of Parliament, from the stain that now
unhappily rests upon them.

We have received Paris Papers to the 15th instant.
They acknowledge that it is difficult to come at the truth
in the various accounts from Turkey. These unfavourable
to the insurrection appear most deserving of credit. The
declared neutrality of Austria and Russia has made a great
sensation in the provinces of Moldavia aad Wallachia. The
Greek Patriarch. at Constantinople, has pronounced an ana-
thema against all the Insurgent., which leas had also a greet
effect. The Five per Cent. Consols Were on Saturday 83 fr.
60 c.; Bank Adios', 1,5621 fr.

The Paris Papers state, under the head of Vienna, tbst
Prince EirrsoulAzir, of Galante, IS.. been appointed Am-
bassador Extraordinary to assist at the Coronation of the
Kiut of GREAT BRITAIN, and to congratulate his Illaigtcnr
un the occasion.

The private letters recently received from Rio Janeiro,
contradicting the accoum previously received of the deter-
mination of the King of PeittUSAL, to :rluru immediately
to Europe with his family, are not entitled to credit. This
determination was officially announced at Rio Janeiro, about
the middk of March last.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY staled in the
debate on Wednesday night, that the voice of Par-
liament would be magical in the decision of the
question. Mr. ScAat.grv, in auswer, observed, it
must therefore be presumed, that it was not the
voice of reason, but something beyond it, and that
the Noble Lord might he, for aught that he knew,
the greatest Conjwror in the world.
It has been signified to us from respectable au-
thority, that Mr. BROUGHAM will withdraw the
Education Bill winch he lately introduced Into the
House of Commons, for the purpose of bringing
forward a new one, wore suitable to the feelings
and disputations of the people iii general ; a lesit-
tog feature of which will be to deprive the Cle•-‘:.
of that power which it wits the object of th- ti r
Bill to limit in their !lauds, and give it to a Com-
mittee.—(Nottiaghara Review.)

Five troops of the 6th dragoon guards, latrlr
landed at Bristol from ViratertOrd, have proceedr.d
to Birmingham, and the other three troops io
Coventry.
Sir W. W. IVynn, in 114 ardent pursuit for the
benefit of farollog, liii Ibis vrur made the expiqi-
ment of a hop plantation at IVymictiry.
The rot lit sheep was not kro,wil io England till
1295. A Frenchman having brunt it over a large
Sranith roe, so infected, to Northumberland, the
tont:Igloo eventually spread among the flocks
throughout the country, the murrain delving a:1
efforts to subdue it fur i 3 years—and, mote ur
we may add, it his continued to visit our slier' -
folds ever slime, though its treatment now lit mu' Ii
better understood than formerly, yet it easamol Ic
proves fatal.

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' 41": '. %1L... - ~imp`Edlalllasaidpidowdde e Th: SOLICITOR-GRNERAL said, that the Bill,'
4 - ' • - .- ' • owed* to the view of the Hon. and Learned
' •.• Is • 1.1-14".,. -,' ' WAIN, illsounibts Gentleman (Sir James Mackintosh), would have
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~ air oastis MACKINTOSH said that was his view,
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ide- halo ,st ari wadrsrati theia i"e8b.:::: certainly, and-that at a future stage there should
Allleutierlissi di vidbmailli At alt, and be one discussion and one division on the principle.
• shoelherogiter Os saavraitsisese bodes MOB so efri This Melequis of LONDONDERRY observed it
~. " "1"14•11"1""4" it was 611" ", wile. was impossible to there should be b di soy -
I,leasireiMea was wog his Weenies to
...r .eggegaehawsear yew gs sago citation. u such alterotions might be made in the
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't4- - art-sbe;papet. IWO wen aasai gars ents..sg, Committee u would resider much more necessary.
nlivalesom lopholial the 11411. 1111MRIMI:= Sir JANUS MACKINTOSH said, that whatever
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pt.' eimmeter of Ws MM* I alterations might be made in the Committee, they
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. At, Ilse Ilaseitio of which essidirfandr• Me OW
dlevee steered theseby. .. were more likely to obvi4te than provoke discussion.
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maim . After a few observations from the Marquis of
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.I.l*lted' Me character of the 'Pt thinner, by the pro-11‘
of a doeselisent which would have ethic
effect of slew- ft reed 41 jtoAllagiConenitte Committee
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the ,:boovieedutohutit iota hlevrde: •
I tug t his statement concerniag that individual was not • mode, next.—Agreed to.
tilirlf bat a narrative of a fact, which was contradicted by Thy Dwelling-house Robbery Bill, sift! Naviga- •
i time.
from. -River Robbery Bill, were both read a second
C iliellY.
r. ELLICF. said he had as intestine is what had folks.
1 from. hint to countesance the conduct or arsertions of the POSTAGE ACT.
Petitioner, but merely to save the persons sago woad have I: On the Order of the Day for receiving the Re-
l.: drew Out the docuineut moved Cur, by *hewing that tt was port of the Postage Act li•ttrig read—
wiii-sity useless sod unuecessary, with reference to the subject
of the Sisk Petition. Mr. ‘VARaIt rose to oppose it. He maid it was
Mr. C. GRANT said he did not think the production of • measure calculated to increale the inhuman treat-
the document was at ell necessary; for certainly the chem. meat to which horses were at present too conch sub-
.
' ter of the Hots. Member aid of the Grand Jory were above ject. Ile was not AMernber of the Committee for
• the aspersions of the individual alluded W.
Mr. COOPER said a few words, which we amid sot col- circulating Bibles, but he was sufficiently acquaint-
leo; and the motion was afterwards agreed to.
ed with the contents of that book to find that it
Mr. LUsHINGTON prgoosseas certain papers relating to contained there words, "The righteous man oareth
tise*-.shippieg built sod svgissered in Great Britaio, which fur the life of his beast ;" end he was surprised
wggirleved to be peise4l4; .. . . that Gentlemen in the habit of attending meetings
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'' CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. of that description in the morning, should come
l'eigi • ..
r. MARTIN, of Galway, said, as he did ant aritielhate down at night to that I louse, and propose a measure
• so!' opposition to the measure he war about to introduce' he fraught with such inhumanity. INlio the projector
!boon, only observe in this stage, that it would be found to
of ..
this new system was he knew not, but he thought
steer clear or the objections which were made to a Bill
brongbt in some yeses ago by Lord Erskiue on the 'safe it 'bi most unfortunate moment when Ministers
subject. inasmuch as it world not at all interfere with the gave their sanction to such an utisurd and danger-
.
• owners of animals, but only with persons who were intrusted Otis invent.on. fie should therefore move as an
'i by the owners with the care or management of horses and
odor animals. He now mowed tor leave to bring in a Bill amendment, " That the 'Report be received this
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la prfvene the ill treatment of horses and other mantels. day three
t *months.
Leave riven. Mt. H. GURNEY fully concurred in the senti-
;
Culaarl BARRY moved for leave to bring is a Bill to tnents of the Hun. Gentleman who had just sat
amend the Art 14th Geo. 111. respecting Mortgages and i dos n.
securities executed in Great Britain affecting Lists and Colo-
Mr. J. Mamie opposed the Bill, and in doing
; I wird Property.
k After a lbw words from Mr. Bright, Mr.Serjelst Ousts+,
matter of some importt
find a Member whose name we could not learn, leave was so he wished to call the att
it was, that in many
ention of Ministers to a '
usee.
. r . given, aud.tbe Hill was ordered to be brought in. instances the postmarks of letters were almost
r ' , REVISION OF CRIMINAL LAWS.
his opi-
illegible. This i
Mr. F. BUXION presented a Petition from Weynunilk iiconvenienee should, iii
nion b , e remedied. He also then lit it could be '
praying for the revision or the Criminal Code ; and a eimi_ ; a great acconaitiotiatiosi if letters mould be delivered
Est Petition from Keynaham, Somerset,
Mr. WA RR E presented similar Petitions from CU:lsm, obi:
,Siv,utiii,days, end any abuses likely to arise might
11 obtiatol.l by imposing additional postage. 4
Rochester, Stroud, and the vicinity, in Kent.
Mr. F. PALMER did nut think there would be
• Mr. WESTERN presented a similar Pititios from the
Magistracy and loliiihilaois of Chelinsfved, which he sup- imy greater cruelty on horses in making them go
eleven miles with a light loud in the hoar, than
purled with his own °plosion. Ile was coavloced that the
sanguinary ezteatious to which the present suite of the laws cight with a heavier Iturden,
cave rise was unaccompanied with any beneficial influence The CHANCELLOR of the Excaltqata said, the
i on public morals. After the lass Chelmsford Assizes there whole expense of the machinery would he defrayed
Were five crimiusle lett under setitewce of death. Their
e•iroes were of such a nature as to render lire Petition of by the projector ; there could therefore he no ob-
the inhabitauts for the 'paring of their lives totally unaysil. jection on that grouiid. With respect to cruelty toft
15g. They were executed, sod on that day the populace the horses, he did not think their labour would be
were sees' athritt the I UFOs. is Pell numbers, in a state of increased by additional speed when their burden was
lb
t idlecesa and dieottlerly druokrattesa, which fully proved that
proportionably diminished. He was not, however,
the ferocious spectacle they had been engaged with had nut
left auy impression us their minds useful to their moral N) Pledged to the projector, or so influenced by his
habits. He presented a shinier Petitiou from Witham, own feelings on the subject, as not to yield his opi-
Fool. nions if any reasonable grounds could 'be assigned.
Mr. E. WOIW.IIOUSF. presented a similar Petition from Sir H. PARNELL made a few observations against
the Inhabitants of Russ, Hereford. the Bill.
The Petitious were severally laid on the table.
hlr. JAMES observed, that they must be a bud
' ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS RILL.
pair of horses that could not trot 14 miles nu hour
Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW moved the Order of the Day for
• receiving the Report, which was brought up The amend- with light weight, and with greater ease, thsu four
1 wadi: or Ihy commi it re wee agreed to mad the Bill ordered miles and carry half a ton, lib they are obliged in
ti to he read a third time to-morrow if then engrossed. the mails at present.
`Li, Lord DUNCANNON presented a Petition from the Seed Lord NUGENT maid, he came to the considera-
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