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INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

Sir FL ttoutuAr row to present the Petition of Roger
Cole, to which he hail referred on ■ former might, but which
was then inf..' mal, not basin been signed by the Petitioner.
This omission was now rect died. The Petitioner complainer!
of the treatise( sit he received in his applicatioas for relief
from the lu►olveot Debtors' Court.

The Petition was read, and laid on the table.
Mr. LocIICRAST said, that as the Attorney-Cseberal had
given 'notice of his intention to bring early next Strohm the
Acts for the Relief of lusolyrist Debtors under the consi-
deration of the House, be would not 'pursue his own view
of this subj. ct further than to say, that he should certainly
subunit several amendments to the existing laws whirls go.
verned the proceedings of the lusolveut Debtors' Court.
He would certainly suggest the Necessity of not leaving to
a single Judge the power of finally deciding on the disposi-
Inn' of property to so large au amount, as that under the
jurisdiction of this Court. He should like also to restrict
the jurisdiction of the Court in cases where there was •
large amount of property at issue. He had beard of such
sours as 100;000/. being the debts (ruin which iudividuals
obtained a Meese by the present operation of the law. It
would be highly expedient, be thought, that instead of the
creditor tossing in the first iustaneeilie expense of opposing
the debtor, the latter shuidd Ise obliged to satisfy the Cowl
that his nobs rrrrr mends had fairly arises. (rout unfoieseen

misfortune. It would be right that as much as passible the
mode or proceeding in rears of insolvency should be made
to approximate to Om.: of bankruptcy. He threw out
these blots at this period, and would reserve himself until
the proper time fur • more general development of his
views.

After a few remarks front Sir S. ReaiLLT and General
THMINTOV,
Mr. Lo moved, that there he laid before the
Rouse a Return of the total number of Insolvent Debtors
dia•h:v(rd by his Slajesty's Comminioterr from the maid
Cowl, with the aggregate alleettut of the debts wit► which
they %fowl charred ;
All.O, ass ACI.111111( of the auras recovered by the Assiguees
Guru the Estates of smelt Debtors; •
Aotl a su of the eases whereto the Coeditors bed beep

showed to proceed easiest the property of Insolvent
Debtors acquired gismo their discluirge.—•Ordered•
SLAVE TRADE ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
Mr. T. COUIlligiAT acquainted the House *bat their
Lordships had agreed to a conference in the Painted Chant.
bur oe the subject of the amendments introduced by their
Lordships into the Stare Trade Art Amendment Rill.
Tim Members appointed to manage the conference baring
bees ranted by the Newton, .proceetted to the Paiute('
Chamber, and after • short intervid,
Mr. T. COVlTeltalf returord, and informed the House
that their Lordships did not hoist on their auteudiurats.
ROYAL MARRIAGE.
Lord H. Somcaser iiironneri the House that the Address
of Congratulation, voted by the House iu the Doke and
Duchess of Cambridge on their Nhrriscc, had been pre-
sented, and most graciously received.
EDUCATION OF THE POOR.
Mr. Bitounicist brought sip a Report of the
Committee on the Education of the Poor, which
was laid on the table.
Mr. BROUGUAIi then said he would take that
opportunity to state tilled" the circuutatances of an
'abuse in a charitable institntism, that had very
lately come to his knowledge. The 4'llat in quea.
tiun was one of the strongest, to skew the necessity
of reform, that Is:.d yet come out. The abuse in a
charitable fund lie wished to make the House
acquainted with, occurred in a borough in the
county of Ilutitiogdon. ,The misspplicatiou of the
fund coostituted the whole of the borough interest
iu the place. It was the &bawling the poor of
their rights that gave its patrons the right of sending
two Members to Parliament. This case of gross and
wilful perrri stun of the purposes of he (Isolation had
come within the provisions of his Bill, as it origin-
ally stood, because the charity had been rounded in
the reign of Edward 11. send had been estimated at
the animist value of 35/. The property of this in-
stitution consisted of une hundred aiiil forty-five
acres of land in the neighbourhood of a populous
town ; it had been leaped at the annual rate of 1601.
whereas its annual value, at the lowest calenlation,
was 900/. The lessors of the property were the
Mayor and twelve Aldermen of the Borough.—
The trustees, the Mayor and twelve Alder itten—the
lessees, the Mayor, and twelve Aldermen--the
lessees, the trustees, and lemon, essire all the same
persons. They leased out the lands of the poor to
themselves, sod robbed die poor. The Mayor and
Aldermen elected the Burgesses, end the rule in that
Borough was, once a Burgess, end always a Burgess.
The Mayor and Aldermen gave each and every one of
the burgesses a portion of land for kite or bottling,
which bound the latter so firmly to their interest,
that such a thing as opposition iii the borough had
never been known. It presented an example of
4what was caller' a maiden borough—rood the reason
I was very obvious—if the burgesses should have
dared to oppose the Candidates set up by the
i Mayor and Aldermen, they. would have been turned
lout of the lands.—(Hear.)—He begged now to say
one word as to the control that the Commissioners
under his Bill, as mended, could exercise over this
charity. It was noise—the charity was exempted
from their examination by one of the clauses added
in another place. It had special visitors : and he
could not refrain from remarking, that the case seem-
ed to have been sent by the special interposition of
Providence to fill up airy vacuity us his former sr-
gumeot against the policy of such an exemption.
The special visitor* were the Mayor and twelve Al.
dermen ; the very iudividuals who turned the
foods to their own selfish ends, who to sup.
port their views of self-interest and corruption
had pillaged the poor. Could any one doubt after
this that the amendments in smother place had
weakened and crippled the Bill in its operation ?
Could any one hesitate at concluding that it be-
hoved the House to resume its inquisition ratty
next Session, without sluinbtring or sleeping ? If
any our slid still entertain doubts on the subject, it
could only be from the abstract love of doubting.
He had, before he sat down, to state that the
Committee had received a communication from the
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, offer-
ing to furnish every further iiiforntation in their
power, on the subject of the management of the
poor in that kingdom.
ALIENS.
Lord CASTLEIMOIII said, it became necessary
for him to draw the attention of the House to the
inotiou of which lie had given notice on Saturday
night. He wee perfectly convinced the House
would agree, that the law permitting the rights of
naturalisation to be acquired by the purchase of
stock iu the national Batik of Scotland should not
be suffered to continne—he was persuaded that their
rejection of the clause added for that purpose in
the other How, had not proceeded from any opi-
nion of the abstract propriety arid fitness of the
law, bet from a laudable desire to guard their pri-
vileges...and from their dislike of the retrospective
effect that the clause, if agreed to, would
have had. He could not believe, that any differ-
filet of opinion would exist., on the question
that the proposed Bill might involve—he could
not think there would •be two opinions on the
question, whether it was proper that the Act of na-
turalization should be effected by purchasing the
stock of any trading company. He thought the
House would agree in the proisusition, that however
anxious the Legislature or &igloos' might have
been to receive and give shelter to foreigners, it
never could have entered into their contemplation
that the rights of a natural-horn einem 'tumid be
gained iu the manner he had described. So strict,
On the contrary, bail the Legislatiiie been in ad-
mitting allelli to these rights, that Parliament had
thought proper to impure, 11l this re• r t, restric-
tiour on itself, and to provide, by au express low,
that no one should have leave to bring in a Bill into
Parliament for the naturalisation of au alien, with.
out a clause or prohibiting the right of sitting in
Parliament ; and of ever it had Iwo deemed urces-
sary to permit such a person to attain such a right,
a previous step always was, to piss a Bill to dis-
pense pro lase rice with the law he had referred to.
It could out be intended to Kite soy trading body
what had been denied to Parliament. The Legs*.
lature had further ibl:Ned their jealousy iu enacting

that no military commission should be conferred by
the Crown on an alien without a permission by Par.
Bement ; hut now, by the latest law telaiive
stock its the Scotch Bank, aliens might .receive
commissions in the army, even without the security
exacted from a natural-born cubjecti an oath of
allegiance. The right, too, was not nt the disci?.
lion of the Bank of :3cutland to confer or withhold,
as the law stood, the right was gained by the pur-
chase of stock to the smallest amount ; so th it this.
Crown might indirectly, through the medium us
this law, increase the number of foreigners in its
service to any extent. Frotrs this statement, he was
persuaded the douse would see that the law of the
Scottish Parliament of 105, should not be longer
suffered to exist. He would have deemed it his
duty to propose a permament measure to regolire
it, were it not for the near approach of the coil of
the Session, and the importance of Patleinelit
previously entering into the question in all iii
bearings ; because, since the question :rad b.eil
started, it appeared that some corporations possts,,ell
the right of conferring denix thou without ally init.,-
realm' on the part of the frown. It was, therefore,
necessary that Parliament should at sonic tune,
and with more leisure, take up the whole of the
question. With respect to the form of the tem-
porary measure he was about to propose, he trusted
no solid objection would lie against it. The objec-
tion of the Right Him. Gentleman opposite, that
the Bill did nut contain a specification of the several
Acts bearing on the case might be well founded. if
it was at present intended to pass a dr%ieive mea-
sure, and to settle the matter finally, it might he
futiuded—but as it was meant only to keep the
question open till the next Session, it might irivi.lve
Parliament in difficulties if it was attempted
specify all the laws connected with the Act under
consideration; it would be more natural and prti.
dent to postpone the examination of the Acts till
then, and to reserve, till the next St-slam', all
the Acts on the subject, and the examination of
the different Acts of Parliament and of the pit-
vilegee enjoyed by corporate bodies. A difficulty
had been mentioned on the ground that Pas-
liament ought not to interfere with the rights of
such bodies without notice—he was of opiaina
that the pull% a short Bill would be the last
mean of giving notice of au intended altera-
tion in their rights—it seemed to manifest a greater
degree of consideration even for them. They could
not perhaps at the spur of the moment so well de-
termine the course they should pursue. when Bete
rights came under discussion as now, when so ninth
time was to be granted them for that purpose. But
certainly the principle of giving notice to parties
interested should not be pushed to such ass extent.
From what he had stated, Parliament would
acknowledge the wisdom of suspending for a
short and limited time, the acts conterrilig nature-
lisitiou or denization on foreigners, otherwise then
by Act of Parliament. On the expiration of the
Act, hr mesitt to propose that the corporate rights
of the Bank of Scotland, and all other bodies, might
be taken into consideration more effectually than

they could now, and a regulation come to more
consistent with the general law than could now be
obtained. On these grounds, he hoped the House
would consent to passing the Bill through all its
stages to-night. He believed that the Directors of
the Bank of Scotland had felt it their duty to in-
form the Government by letter of the great num-
ber of aliens who bud purchased their stuck from
the time the Act was introduced, and that they had
no objections to submit to any regulations that
might be deemed necessary for the public good.
But the public interests were so involved in the
question. that even if they were adverse, their opi-
nions should not he allowed to have much weight.
He should accordingly move for leave to bring in
a Bill to prevent aliens, for a limited tiine,.frons
becoming naturalized, or being made or becoming
denizens, except in certain cases.
Sir J. MACKINTOSH looked upon the chinse re.
jected in that House as one of the most cruel and
abominable provisions ever attempted to be carried
through a British Legislature ; but •s the retro.
spective part of it was in the proposed Bill to he
withdrawn, he viewed that Bill in quite a different
light. He did not pretend to say the Act objected
to ought to be continued ; on the contrary, he was
of opinion that it was unreasonable—and he felt no
objection to a well-considered Act for taking it
awry. But he had very strong objections to such a
hasty, indefinite measure as the one proposed.
What a series of discoveries had been made in the
space of fourteen days First, after the Bill was sent
up to the other House, the discovery of the privilege
of the Scotch Bank—secondly, of the clause intro-
duced being a money clause—sand thirdly, the di,.
covering that there were certain other corporate
bodies that the Noble Lord was unable to name,
a share in whose stock conferred a part, or the
whole of naturalization. That was an admonition
to the House not to trust to the information of Mi.
tinders in the too hasty adoption of any measure.
To pass the Bill in its present vague, undefined
form, would be a disgrace to our statute-book, and
the greatest blot ou it. if ever there was au instance
of discreditable neglect of information, this was
one. It had been argued in another place, it was
repeatedly asserted here, that the Bank of Seminude
by the sale of stock, might defeat the provisions
a the Act of Settlement, as to the right of
sitting in Parliament. The highest law authori.
tied had held out that doctrine—the Noble Loud
had
i insisted on h.—yet, strange to say, this wee
all in the teeth of an Act of Parliament pass-
ed n the 6th of Anne—whet, Loud Somers was
Chancellor, for the purpose of completing the
measures connected with the Union—twirling that
every person disabled from sitting in the English
Parhaineut, should also be disabled from sitting
in the British Parliament—which drolly ,hewed
that the disabilities created by the Act of Settle.
ment in England. extended to aliens in every part
of the empire. It was the duty of the Noble Lord
to have been apprised of this; and not to have held
out to the House that toe rxisteuce of its Si:utcr.

who would have been astute in evading the general
law, to which the Scotch law was au exception, hed
not till very lately found oat the existence of it.
By other laws aliens might go to certain corpora-
tions, and by the payment of a small sum of money
obtain their freedom, and the moment after deuixo-
lion. The question therefore woe, was it not wise
twpass a law to suspend the operation of the laws
be had referred to for a limited time
Mr. W. SMITH Said, he saw no valid objection to
the present measure, and he felt as much pleasure
in stating, that he would have experienced uneitei-
ma% had the rejected clause made part of the law.
Ile was of opinion that the suspension of UM anoma-
lous right fur nine months was no very great injury
to any one.
Mr. ‘VYNN thought that the principle of confis-
c.iting the property of aliens, which the rejected
douse went to sanction, wee inconsistent with every
principle of law sod justice. Fle was not so much
surprised, as other Gentlemen seemed to be. at the
discoverr of the law alluded to, because he dad not
see that feeling of jealousy in England sod Scotland
agoinst foreigners settling in these countries, which
other Gentlemen believed to have actuated their re-
spective Legislatures. The jealousy that operated in
the time of King William arose from the partiality
of that Monarch for foreigners. So far had the prin-
ciple of encoursging aliens to settle in Ireland been
curried, that by two Acts pasted by the Irish Legisla-
ture in 1780 and 1786, any foreigu Protestant what-
ever, on taking the oath of allegiance, which any
natural-born subject might be compelled to do,
was at once naturalized. In 1796 a license from
the Lord Lieritenant was rendered necessary, and
that was still the law of Ireland.-

Sir W. BVIIROUGHe thought that the clause, the
rejection of which led to the discussion of to-night,
was one of the moat objectionable ever brought into
a Bill. He looked upon the Bill under discussion
as materially different from it. He trusted that
hie Hue. Fneud (Sir J. Mackintosh). who had an-
nounced his intention of proposing, as an amend-
Meets in the Committee, the addition of words
specifying the corporations to which the Bill was to
emend, would not persevere. Hr fe.red it might
render the proposed useesure useless, and should
feel it his duty to oppose it if persisted in.
Mr. Bnoutinait understood from the Noble
Lord that all the retrospective effect of the former
dowse was to be taken away, end that this cousti-
toted the difference between it and the Bill. But
in order to make the measure completely prospec-
tive one alteration was necessary, that the Act should
be made tocommence its operation from seine certain

day hereafter, instead of from and after the passing,
in older to give notice of the change in the law to
persons, for instance 400 miles off. To make clear
what he meant—suppose a foreigner had purchased

stock iu Edinborgitg• hours before he could have
beard of the pawing of the Act, in order to secure
lauded poverty previously porchwed, the words
" free sad Ater the paean of the Act," would
seesaw • feeleitere. sod operate as an ex peel
.misty lea spies* bin ; with such an alteration,
and ettdev ell the circumstances, he should have no
objection to esepeed the standing orders, and car.
eying the Bill through all its stages to-night, though
be wlshed entirely to protest against it as a pre-
ceded.

General Nitwit% said, he had been in the city
this day, rod that he had heard orders even within
the last two hours by aliens at the Bank of Eng-
land, fur the purchase of stock in the Bank of
Sentlaud, no douht with a premeditated view of
defeating the Bill, which the Noble Lord was now
•Lout to introduce. _

Leave was then given to introduce the Bill,
which L.2rd CASTLEREAGH then brought in, and
moved it should be read a first time, which was
agreed to. The Bill being read, he moved it should
be then read a second time. His Lordship observed,
that in moving fur the second reading of this Bill
in this expeditious way, neither he nor the House
could be considered as attempting to take these
persons to whom the present Bill referred by sur-
prise, or as attempting to affect their interests
without giving them that previous notice of the inten-
tion of the Legislature, which even they were in
some degree entitled to expect at the hands of his
Slajesty's Government. The Bill which had passed
this Session, and was now admitted to be incom-
plete, had in its very principle contained a sufficient
intim►atirwi of the intention of the Legislature.—
The failure of the clause, particularly applicable
to the owes of these individuals, the principle of
which was then by no means abandoned, was suffi-
cient to apprise then► of the disposition of the
House, but, by the notice of Saturday night, all
these partied must have been aware, that Muhammad
was then taking steps to defeat the projects of
such as were anxiously endeavouring to avail them-
selves of the incompetency of the Alien Act of
this Session, to procure for themselves the privi-
leges of naturalisation. Would the House willingly
open a door to this species of imposition upon the
Legislature? He hoped the House would see the
plopriety of iaterposing in this case, and not allow
thr parties to take advantage of the interval be-
tween the propovition of this law u an additional
clause, and the passing of the present Bill. The
gallant General had informed the House. that pur.
chases of this nature were at this moment going on
expressly with a view to defeat the object of 'the
Bill. The House should be the more cautious as
to this point, in as mach as it was very obvious,
tluit those who were now so desirous of evading the
law, and obtaining naturalization at all haxasels,
were the parties to whom the House and the country
ought to feel the strongest objection. The Bill he
hail introduced, as it now was framed, had obvia-
ted all the objections which bad been urged against
the clause in the former Bill, ou the ground of the
ex post facto operation of that clause. Under those
care Lances he should be induced to expect the
co.uperation of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman,

greater . ,the
other fileuther in thai House P—lHeer.' Ater, rest
Lard c.streledrgh )—or did he then mean that the
parties uuw interested in tht decision of the House,
as to their case, should, because of the notification
la of the No, Lord, be perfectly satisfied with the
manner in which the House might treat their interests
or dispose of their property l It was as much is
saying, although that particular clatise'd the Alien
Bill was the other night rejected, because it bade
retrospective effect for • couple of mouths back,
the notification of a Secretary of State, that be is
about to bring in a Bill, which may possibly bear
this way or the other upon the merits of this ques-
tion, should have all the effect of an es post facto
enactment, at least so far back as twenty-four hours
since Saturday's notice. Was it now to be laid
down as an axiom in politics, that as the sub-
jects of this realm were apprised on that
night, that the attention of the Legislature would
be probably directed to such • subject of legisla-
tion, that let the result as to their individual pri-
vate interests be what it might, they must of coo-
sequence submit without a murmur to that deter-
initiation. He saw the more reason to regret the
course pursued by the Noble Lord ; because all
this short-hand mode of legislation was employed
to effect that which in itself was directly in contra-
diction to the Act of Union between England and
Scotland. The 18th section of an Act confirming
the Act of Union, provided for the preservation of
all private rights with peculiar jealousy, and pro-
vided that none such should be affected by any ge-
neral Acts of the Legislature, except it most antis-
factorily appeared that such Act, or clause of •n
Act, was decidedly in favour of the interests of
Scotland. He supposed • case of a person dis-
patched to Scotland on Saturday, for the purpose
of purchasing stock (with a view perhaps of ob.
trilling naturalization), this party arriving next
Wednesday. might conclude the purchase of this
stock, on the faith of the particular clause of the
Alien Act having been rejected ; or even supposing
he had heard the notice of the Noble Lord on Sa-
turday evening, which announced, instead of the
clause, • Bill having no retrospective effect, and
hence considered that lie or his priucipal were per-
fectly safe in entering into the contract for the
purchase of this Batik stock, upon the comple-
tion of this purchase, and his return to London
it is discovered that the Bill, by having effect from
and after the passing of the Act, must unavoid-
ably have reference to his case, and render null
the object of this mission undertaken expressly
upon the faith of the notice on one hand, or the
rejection of the clause en the other, upon the
grounds of its having a retrospective effect which
the House considered unjust, and not to be sanc-
tioned by its approbation. In such a case the
stock would not only be rendered less valuable, but
what was of much more importance, lied the party
concluded a purchase of land, under such circum-
stances the property so purchased would have
been liable to confiscation to the Crown. Upon
these very few reasons, amongst others, he could
not give his assent to the principles laid down in
the speech of the Noble Lord.
Mr. CAIIIIIIIO felt disposed to make any con-
cession to insure the unanimity of the House upon
this subject, provided it did not compromise the
question itself. But he begged the Hon. and
Learned Member to recollect that the clause was
not rejected because it had a retrospective effect,
but because it violated the privileges of that House.
There had been on that occasion no doubt on the
general principle of the Alien Bill; no Gentleman
had argued against the general measure as impro-
per or inconsistent with the public interests, and
_ .

the preservation of public faith. All had agreed upon
these points. The notice, therefore, of the Noble
Lord, only went to affect all inchoate purchases—
purchases not then completed. All such purchasers
must be considered to hive had ample notice of
the intention of the Legislature, and that such in-
choate iourchases would of course, if completed, be
vitiated by the Act then notified to the House and
the country generally. A person about to purchase
might, after the debate of Friday night, have con-
cluded the design of further restrictions as to aliens
might possibly be abandoned, and conclude the
purchase without any perverse intention being ma-
nifested of a design to defeat the intentions of the
Legislature ; but after the notice of the Noble
Lord on Saturday, no purchases subsequently
concluded could be looked upon in this light,
because no person could imagine for a mo-
ment that the design of the Legislature had been
abandoned. It was undoubtedly tune that it was
the duty of that House scrupulously to protect pri-
vate rights horn being infringed on by public acts',
except there Were • paramount necessity, or more
than equivalent public advantage to result from
the adoption of the proposed regulation; yet this
general rule lead yielded to the necessity of the cue
in va►ious instances, and in none more remarkably
than in the case of the Abolition of the Slave 'Fred,.
where the great difficulty was to effect the general
object, without touching the interests of individuals
engaged in speculations of this nature. Yet on that
occasion it had been said over and over again, in re-
ply to such arguments, " Let not the danger of en-
cruaehing on private property deter us from doing.
general good ; let the Legislature abolish altoge-
ther this stain which deforms the fair character of
this land of liberality end justice, at all events, and
let the parties who may be injured by the general
measure came to this House, and chew how they
hive been i•ju►ed, and apply fur redress or compels.
sation." Nuw if this argument were held good in
that instance, hr would say in the present case, let
the House but secure the safety of the State from
the impending public inconvenience, ■nd let the
parties aggrieved by the general measure rouse
in like manner before the House to demand that
remedy they would no doubt receive if they
should he able to make nut a case of a satisfactory
nature to the House. He for one should not be
averse to granting • patient and attentive ear to

with unprecedented expedition through the House.
Lord Ft:out-tons objected to the conduct pur-
sued by Administration oo this occasion, in hurry-
ing the Bill through the House. Ou other occa-
sions, when something not very palatehle to the
House had been demanded by his Majesty's Minis-
ters, Committees had been appointed to investig ice
the grounds on which the House was told it should
proceed to legislate. In the memorable case of last
Session,the result of the Report of such a Committee
had been, that the House agreed to suspend the
Habeas Corpus Act. But in this case, it was re-
quired that the House should act only on the assur-
ance of Ministers that a particular danger was to be
apprehended unless the House should agree to the
measure now proposed. It was too much to expect
the House to act on en occasion of such importance,
entirely on the credit of a Government which hid so
completely forfeited its character with the public,
that nut above three days ago this same Administra-
tion, and particularly the Right Hon. Gent. (Mr.
Canning). had argued that the measure would be
altogether incomplete, except it embraced the re-
trospective clause referring to purchases made
since the 28th of last April, whilst at this moment
these very Ministers were conteut to take the Bill
in its present shape, admitting by so doing that
they had made to the House a false representation
of the mate of the country, which had on that Oc-
casion been stated to be in so alarming a state that
the clause then introduced was rendered indispeu-
sably requisite. What confidence could be placed
in the representations of such men P They hid
cajoled by fabricated and highly-coloured state-
ments, the Parliament out of the great privileges
of British subjects, and the House consented to
repeal the Habeas Corpus Act; an Act of Indem-
nity followed, to our eternal disgrace. The next
great object of the Session had been, after some
time spent in its consideration, abandoned. The
projected improvements in the Poors Laws had,
after occupying for two years the attention of
a Committee, been moved to be read that
day six months, and the country were happy
in even getting the Bill for select vestries. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer's grand plan of titmice
respecting the Bank of England and the Country
Banks had also been lost, and now the country
would see with • just appreciation of the character
of the Hotter, this iniquitous clause, carried in the
shape of a separate Bill, with unparelleled precipi-
tation at the very close of the Session. To such
conduct he would only say, that he rejoiced his
voice had been, in almost every instance, opposed;
and he now, in the fullest manner, entered hie protest
against the proceeding of this evening.
After a few words from General Tanaweistr,
amidst cries of "Question! question P' The Bill
was reed a second time.

The House went into a Committee upon the
Bill. Mr. GooLevan brought up the Re.
port. The Bill was then read the third time and
M.
Mr. P. Morten then presented a Petition from
Wm. Aria, stating. that the Lords of the Trea-
sury had refused to make him any compensation
fur tasking many discoveries of extreme fraud in
the revenue, and praying fur remuneration.—Read
and laid on the table.

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The House, ou the maim of Mr. B. BATHURST,
then adjourned.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
TUESDAY, Jinn 9, tem.

The promised Bill for suspending, until the
tsth of March neat, the clause in the Scottish Act
of Parliament for enabling aliens to acquire natu-
ralization by investing money in the Bank of Scot-
land, was last night introduced into the House of
Commons by Lord CASTLZELICAGH, and pushed
through all the stages almost without (apposition.
It will probably run the same course this evening in
the House of Lords. for Lord SIDMOUTH gave
notice of his intention to move the suspension of
the Standing Orders of the House, that nothing
might interpose to prevent the passing of the Bill.
The debates in the House of Commons were wit-
nessed by her Royal Highness the Duchess of
CADIDIUDGE, who, attended by her Royal Consort,
and his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke
MICHAEL, graced one of the side galleries with her
presence.

The Proclamations for dissolving the present
Parliament. and calling another, were signed at
Carlton House on the 6th instant. Their publica-
tion has been only delayed, as our readers are
aware, by the difficulty which has arisen out of the
Alien Bill.

Copies of the official dispatches recently re-
ceived, containing the details of the latest military
operations in India, are given in our subsequent
columns. We are thus rumbled to anticipate The
Ezeraordimey Gazette. which will be published
this day.

The Paris Papers of Friday last contain the
decision of the Assize Court of Colmar, sentencing
to death ■ woman and her son, for the premeditated
and savage murder in the month of January last, of
a man named Jucques Ilenrick, the Inuband of

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,sea trenched en the Ad of Settlement. lo the whose strongest ebjection to the • welt applications, although be certainly would not
Committee he should moviros as amendment, that carded open the grenade stated,,, 7 I hR Inlaid give a similarly &equable
the corporations whom rights the Bill was intended Mr. Sponemas void mil ti gialei • &petitioner who migfit apply br re-
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to interfere with should be Dashed, or at least finch • eiples laid down by the Nellie Lard. - • 1 dime to t Skew *hen it should appear he had
general description given of them as to take away to the Bill now before the Muse, as he - , nalempted within the last twenty-four house a
the diegrseefel reflection that the omission hod they would trench on some of the most vital Bend upon the well-known intentions of the !Agit-
ation% front ignominy& trims of the constitution of this county/. W kture.
The AtTORMIR-GRWRIAL argued, that the tbs. House to be told by the Noble Lord, that, became Mr. BROUGHAM explained, that he rather in-
, eovery of the Scotch Act was very recent. Five he had on &tardily, funooth, given notice by his tended to enter his protest against the sum-
. different Acts had bees passed by the British Le- intention to introduce a Bill upon this subject, many wey in which the House had proceeded in this
giblet ore that Mewed they must have been in igno- that his notice would prodsee a different effect, or case. by suspending the Standing Orders of the
mime of the existence of such e law. Ewen those be of greater consequence than the notice of any House for the purpose of passing the present Bill