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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1830.

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PURSUANT to an Order of the Right
Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great
Britain, made in the matter of MARTHA PYE, the
widow of GEORGE PYE, late of Collet-place, Commer-
cial-road; in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, who died
in the month of June, 1828, and which said Martha
Pye is a lunatic, and now residing at Richmond, in the
county of Surrey, the creditors of the said George Pye,
and also the creditors of the said Martha Pye are, on or
before the 21st day of June next, to come in and prove
their debts before James Trowel-, Esq., one of the Masters
of the High Court of Chancery, at his Chambers, in
Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London, or in de-
fault thereof they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit
of this order.—May 6, MO. •

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(LAST NIGHT).

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in the absence
of his Right Rev. Friend the Bishop of London, ob-
tained leave to bring in a Bill to dissolve the mar-
riage of Thomas Buckstone and Elizabeth Hickson.
Soon after, the Bishop of LONDON entered the House,
and on his motion the Bill was read a first time, and
ordered to be read a second time on the 21st instant,
on which day the Lords were ordered to be summoned.
Lord SKELMERSDALE presented a petition
from Stockport against the East India Monopoly.

for the notes of the Learned Judge who presided.
He meant also to bring the particular case of
the Doneraile conspiracy, and the mode in
which the informations were taken re:pecting it,
before the House. That was one specific object.
A secand was to bring a:complant before the House
against the mode in which the prosecutions at Cork
were in one respect" conducted by the leading counsel.
lie would now proceed to bring before the House
the nature of the Doneraile conspiracy. About
1821 political agitation had ceased amongst the
Catholic body in the southern districts of Ireland,
in consequence of the King's visit. The hope of
constitutional relief being taken away, the country
became in a disturbed state. The lower classes of
the people broke out into acts of open rebellion;
which were put down by the proper application of
force. Several persons of the lowest class became
outlaws, ready to commit every species of crime.—
Amongt the parts of- Ireland thus situated was Do-
neraile. There resided there a gentleman named
Bond Lowe, an active- and courageous Magistrate,
who in consequence became peculiarly obnoxicius to
the laiv.kis"peOple Who'm he had described. Many
conspiracies had been formed against him, and his
life had been attempted more than once. Other
persons also became obnoxious to the same class of

individuals. He was afraid it would turn out on in-
vestigation, that those persons were involved in
danger by the instruments whom they employed.—
Shortly after the commencement of 1821 a man
named Patrick Daly was employed as a spy, by the
Magistrates in the neighbourhood of I),tieraile. He
must remind the House, that persons of this descrip-
tion cease to be paid the moment they ceased to
make discoveries. It was the deposition of this
man which he wished to be laid before the
House. On the 20th of January, 1829, a
gentleman named Norcot was riding in a car-
riage with his daughter, when he was fired at,
and the coachman was wounded in the shoulder.

It appeared that those who fired at Mr. Norcot did
not intend the shot for him, but for another person.
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then went into
a detail of the conspiracy which was entered into to
murder Mr. Bond Lowe, and observed that Patrick
Daly, the spy, though cognizant of the conspiracy,
and hired by the Magistrates, did not give informa-
tion to prevent the assassination contemplated. Un-
questionably a conspiracy to murder certain persons
existed, and it was no less true that spies were
hired by the Magistrates. Under these circum-
stances the informers took a higher ground. They
denounced Mr. Daniel Clancy, of the town of Char-
leville, a man of fortune and respectability; they
introduced his name as being one of those engaged
in these practices; and amongst the class of farmers
they pointed out, as concerned in this conspiracy,
Leary, who was convicted, Connors, who was ac-
quitted, Burke, who was acquitted, and Murphy,
who was not tried, but who was discharged from
the prosecution altogether. He implored the atten-
tion of the House to the situation of these innocent
persons, (for of Leary's innocence he had no doubt)
thus charged with these horrible offences, and in-
volved in the guilt of those with whom they had no
connexion. He could not conceive any men more
worthy of the compassion and commiseration of the
House. On the trial of three of these people, he
was Counsel for them, and he was deeply interested
in !heir fate, because he believed that they were
guiltless; and when he cross-examined the witnesses

their innocence flashed with certainty on his mind.
He was the more interested in their fate, because Leary
was found guilty on the first day when he was not
present, and his conviction added greatly to the danger
of the others. With respect to the Juries who tried
those cases, no imputation had been cast upon them.
The first Jury, he believed,was exclusively Protestant.
That Jury, readily and at once acting on the evi-
dence before them, rightly but perhaps too rapidly
considering the infamy of the witness, returned a
verdict of guilty with respect to Leary. On the
next Jury, there were five or six Catholics ; the
rest were Protestants. There was one Juryman
who stood out for the acquittal of all, and eleven

who called for the conviction of some. There were
minor divisions, which he did not care about, as to

the acquittal of certain of the parties. The one who
held out was a Catholic; but the remainder of the
Jury, Protestant and Catholic, were against him.
One of the Jury, however, became ill at the end of

two days, and the Judge discharged them without
coming to any verdict. On the trial of the third
case, the Jury was entirely composed of Protes-
tants, and they, almost without hesitation, returned
a verdict of acquittal. The consequence was that
Leary, who would have been otherwise executed,—
for the Judge warned him against entertaining any
hope of mercy—was rescued from an ignominious
death, but sentenced to transportation, a sentence
which would probably hereafter afford a subject of
consideration as to how far his case juqitied such a
punishment. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman
then proceeded to state
.how the acquittal on the
third trial was procured. Patrick Daly, who had
been a spy for six or seven years, was the principal
witness. He deposed, that the conspiracy was
concocted at a tent in the fair of Rat hclare, on the
27th of April, 1829; that Leary, Connors, and
Murphy were all present; that they were the com-
mittee-men ; and that no sent nce of death could be

carried into effect except by their warrant. He

swore that he went into the tent and found them
there, and they determined that Mr. Bond Lowe,

and two or three others, should be put to death
He also swore that these people prepared the war•

. .
rant, drew it up in the tent, and all signed it . and
that it was to be acted on at the fair of Kildorrery,
or on Mr. Bond Lowe's return from it. Now,
during the time that he was cross-examining this
witness, Mr. Baron Pennefat her interrupted
bin), and handed to him a deposition, sworn
by Patrick Daly, on the 29th of April,
1829,—that was, on a day intervening between
that on which the conspiracy to murder was
entered into and that on which the crime was to be
carried into execution; and in that deposition not
one word was said about the death-warrant, or the
facts to which he had sworn on the trial, with re-
spect to the intended murder at Kildorrery. It was
clear, therefore, that he could not be speaking the
truth on the trial, when, in his deposition, sworn
only two days after this supposed meeting with
these persons in the tent, he said not one word
about it. An acquittal of course followed. He
knew not whether it wa, known that in Ireland co-
pies of depositions of this kind were not produced
to the accused. What he complained of was, that
in England the accused was put in possession of the
details of what he was charged with, but in Ireland
he was not specifically acquanited with the facts al-
leged against him. He complained that the leading
Counsel for the Crown
viction of other prisoners, had this deposition in his
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produce it. He repeneed
that his great ground of complaint was the suppres-
sion by the leading Counsel for the Crown of that
deposition which the Judge produced. At the same
time he must give the Hon. and Learned Gentleman
the benefit of the admission that he was assisted in
the course he had taken by three very able lawyers
—Mr. Serjeant Goold, Mr. George Bennett, arid
Mr. Green. But if the House allowed that this
s)stem of suppression was admissible by cu.ttom,no2
thing should prevent him froM bringing in a legi,la-
tive measure to prevent the concealment from the
accused of any thing that might be useful to his de-
fence. He next proceeded to statethat he would

call for the notes of the two Judges who tried these
cases, although those of Mr. Baron Pennefather were
alone mentioned in his notice. Why did he want
thee depositions ? Because, although he could
produce evidence at the bar to substantiate the facts,
yet he might be denied the opportunity of taking
that course. He therefore called for other eviderc,
—evidence major onmi exceptione. He then moved
" That there be laid before the House copies of any
depositions on informations sworn by Patrick Daly,

the witness at the special commission held in Cork
in October last, relative to certain conspiracies to
murder, wherewith Edmond Connors and others
were charged on that occasion ; and also copies of
the notes of the Judges who tried those cases."
Mr. HUME seconded the motion.

Mr. DOHERTY said, that in answering this
charge he should be as brief as the unexpectedly
wide range over which the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman had gone would admit. The Learned
Gentleman then proceeded to contend, that the
course which the Hon. and Learned Member wished
the House to adopt was strange and unprecedented.
It was a sort of appeal from the derision of a Jury
in Ireland, i►i a case which had been solemnly
tried and adjudged, after a laboriously minute exami-
nation of witnesses, to the House of Commons,
where the same mode of investigation could not be
examined on oath. The Learned Gentleman next
adverted to the circumstances of the special com-
mission, and to his having been sent down to con-
duct the case, to a county where he had never been
before, and with the magistrates of which he was
unacquainted. He was before ignorant of the nature
of the case, and he set himself to work to make
himself acquainted with it by a careful examination
of the witnesses ; and he would tell the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman, that out of the examination
arose many of the facts which he erroneously sup-
posed were contained in the depositions of Patrick
Daly. Any Member who had heard the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman's speech would have been led
to believe that the whole case rested upon the evi-
dence of Daly ; but the fact was, that some of the
most material parts were supported by the evidence
of accomplices, informers, and others ; and, let him
add, that the very depo'sition to which the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman alluded, was before the Judge
who tried the first case, on which a conviction
ensued, and he had not felt it his duty to call the at-
tion of the Jury to it. The Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man (Mr. O'Connell) took credit to himself for not
having brought this case on while a trial was pending,
but that feeling had not prevented him from giving
vent to his strong opinions on the subject at public
dinners, and other public occasions. Referring to
the trials of Borrisokane, which, he said, had been
dexterously separated by the Hon. Gentleman oppo-
s►te, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman observed,
that there he had been accused of calling witnesses
favourable to the prisoner. He repelled the insinua-
tion of having acted partially. He told the same of
the friends of the man who was killed, and amongst
them, the Rev. Father Spain, who objected to the
examination of a Dr. (we did not hear the name)
lest he should be too favourable to the prisoner; that
he would examine any persons they might think ne-
cessary, but he would not pledge himself riot to exa-
mine others. Accordingly, he examined the wit-
nesses, friends of the deceased, who all swore that
the police had killed the deceased without provoca-
tion ; but on examining the gentleman who had been
objected to, and who was an impartial observer of
the whole transaction from his own window, it ap-
peared that, if the police had not fired in their de-
fence, they would have all been destroyed. With
this evidence the jury acquitted the man, and he
should have been grossly negligent of his duty if he
had neglected to call all those who were present at
the transaction. Referring again to the withhold-
ing of the deposition at the trials at Cork, the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman observed that they had the
fact cf the writing in the tent proved by others
besides Patrick Daly. It was proved by Owen
Daly, who seemed unconscious of its import ; and it
was proved by a man ((avian) in his cross-examina-
tion, who stated that it wasan engagement that a cow
about to be sold should give so many quarts of milk,
but the fact of the writing was proved. The fact of
the conspiracy was not attempted to be denied.
To the mariner in which the Hon, and Learned

Member had now brought forward his motion he
had nothing to object. But he did complain of the
insiduous attacks which had been so frequently di-
rected against his character under different circum-
stances, and in other places, when he could not de-
fend himself from aspersion, however it might be
calculated to prejudice him for a season in public
estimation. Unhappily, the general administration
of justice, be it ever so good, had always something
to encounter from unpopularity in Ireland. These
charges were therefore peculiarly injurious in their
nature, and consequently deserved the more signal
reprobation. To prove the disinterested spirit which
had actuated himself, it was right he should mention
that he offered on the first day of the commission at
Cork, to fee Counsel for the prisoners, when he was
informed that the Learned Gentleman whose services

they had retained was precluded from attending. At
a dinner given to that Hon. Member at Carrick-on-
Suir, on the 21st Oct. he had thought proper to make
his conduct at the trials of fort isokane the subject
of marked animadversion, concluding with an an-
nouncement of his determination to call him to a
severe account in the House. On what principle,
he now asked, could the Hon. and Learned Gentle-

man justify this system of arraignment before a po-
pulace but too prone, as he well knew, to act on
the dictates of impulse, and gratify an imaginary re-
venge ? The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had

spoken of abstaining from bringing the Doneraile
conspiracy before the House at an early stage of the
Session; but he could have wished that the same
forbearance had regulated his conduct out of doors
at an antecedent period. This, however, was not
the course which he had pursued; for but three
days after these trials the Hon. and Learned Mem-
ber, at a dinner given to him in Youghal, on the Ist
of November, had said that ' the first speech of the
Solicitor-General was but the mere hallooing of the
country gentlemen against the wretched peasantry."
—(Hear, hear.)—Was this the style in which a
member
.of a liberal profession should have spoken
of a public officer, who had to appear daily amongst
these very peasantry in the discharge of a painful,
arduous, and important duty.—(Hear, hear.)—That
gentleman had the experience of thirty years, which
must have taught him how prompt in obedience his
humble countrymen would be found, when their
fiery passions were excited and directed against a
particular object, by one whose authority unfortu-
nately they respected so much. In justification of
his own conduct, he should only state what had
passed between him and a gentleman who stood by
his party so long as there was any necessity for dis-
tinguishing Protestants and Catholics by such ap-
pellations, but who had forgotten political aniTo;
sides when all distinctions were merged in partici-
pation of common privileges. lie alluded to Mr.
expressed ht~
n Intet Gentlemans
ooin•det rhheat OSI
that they would bt
rSehgerielt. that 'Thatth
herill's panel
and recommended that those
were Protestants,
names should be struck off until the Catholics at the
certain of having a fair measure of justice. To this
create an ire-
he ihad replied, that the stt ctest shot&
bottomprc,tm wae,rnecni.irglasete placed fie.
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be exercised, and that no party should have cause ti
complain of an exclusive selection to the prejudice of
any. The Hon. and Learned Gent. had also toasted,

at a puldic dinner, the name of Eil kvarfl Morrogli, the
'Essenting juror, whom lie described as the honoured
instrument of saving many live., and by implication
omitted ont the remainder as marks for obloquy and
odium Whether this was calculated to promote
the fair and impartial administration •f the law, he
left it to the House to judge. In conclusion the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman protested against the
principle of converting that house into a Court of
Judicature, on cases which had been decided upon
by the• proper tribunals. He (Mr. Doherty) had
been censured by, among others, the Noble Mem-
ber for Northamptonshire, for taunting the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman for his backwardness in fulfilling

he pledges he had made elsewhere,—namely, that

he should bring him to the bar of that House for
IniQconduct in his office of Solicitor-General in Ire-

land. It was true that he had so taunted him; but
it was also-true that he could not avoid doing so,
for otherwise he should be labouring under imputc-
tions without an opportunity afforded him of rehu.-
ting them. But he only scratched him sufficiently
to bring him out and afford him that opportunity,
arid no more. The Noble Lord to whom he had

just alluded was not perhaps aware, when he threw
tie shield of his interference over the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman of the extent of the provocation
which he (Mr. Doherty) had received from that
Hon. and Learned Gentleman out of doors, or the
violence of the languag►e imputed to the Hon. and
Learned Gentlemen with respect to a large majority
of that House. It was thought that the great
measure of relief of last session would have led—
as indeed, in spite of all, it would lead—to a total
oblivion of all party animosities, and to a total dis-
use of all acerbities of language consequent upon
those animosities; but what was the course pursued
by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman ? Why, at a
Josephian Society charity dinner, given in November
last—an occasion which one would have supposed
least of all invited violent political tirades—the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman was reported to have desig-
nated the sub-letting act as the measure of a
" scoundrel aristocracy," passed with a view to ex-
terminate the people no longer useful to them, and
therefore was one which would justify the
" people's becoming exterminators themselves." He
asked the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, did he
mike use of this language?—(Hear, hear.)—lNot
he ought to feel obliged to him for giving him that
opportunity of declaring that the press had calura-

Mated him. But there-were minds which could not
rest content unless in making the sincere delusions
of their warm-hearted countrymen a screen under•
which they might advance their own selfish per-
poses.—(Cheers.)—He begged leave to add, chat
he had no objection to the production of Patrick
Daly's deposition,—that on which the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman had grounded his charge.
Mr. JEPHSON maintained, that the Hon. an I
Learned Gentleman bad entirely avoided the trlati
charge of his Hon. and Learned Friend,—narnely,
whether he had avoided producing the deposition of
Daly, though he was receiving evidence from that
person which the deposition would upset.—(Hear.)
—By the production of that deposition, three men
were acquitted. Owing to its absence, one man
was found guilty. The production was the art of
the Judge, the withholding it the act of the Hon.
and Learned Solicitor-General.
Lord ALTHORP had listened with his best at•

tention to the statements of both Hon. and Leitrtird
Gentlemen ; and the conclusion he arrived at was,
that taking all the circumstances of the case, as
stated by the Hon. and Learned Solicitor-General
for Ireland into cor.sideration, there did not exist
sufficient ground for censuring him for withholding
the deposition of Daly. lie thought the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman was not liable to censure, be-
cause he did not rest his case solely on the evidence
of Daly, which the depositions might invalidate ;
were the fact otherwise, his conclusion would be
very different.

Mr. NORTH said, that his Hon. and Learned
Friend was compelled by the conduct of the Hon.
Member for Clare to allude to circumstances which
had taken place. If the Hon. Member for Clare
thought proper to attack individuals under the shel-
ter of tavern meetings, the objects of his attacks
were compelled to follow him thither. The Hon.
Member for Clare had two modes of treating the
subject. He had one tone for Ireland, and another
for the House. His vehemence was all on one
side of the Channel—his moderation all on the
other. The Hon. Member for Clare had complained
of being taunted by his Hon. and Learned Friend.
He believed that the Hon. and Learned Member
wished to escape from his pledge to bring the sub-
ject before the House, and but for being taunted he
would not have made the motion that night.—
( Har
madees.)o—r:lal and Le e
ny eff its to escape,
Member
untilthe iad
veryl
moment he rose he doubted whether he would bring
the question forward. The lion. Member tugged
at his sword so long, that he thought he never
would have drawn it from the scabbard. At length
it was unsheathed by the assistance of his Hon. and
Learned Friend, and its edge had fallen on the
Hon. Member himself. The Hon. and Learned
Gentleman proceeded to review the circumstances
of the trials, and contended that the Solicitor-Ge-
neral for Ireland had throughout exercised a sound
discretion. The charge against him was intended
for another tribunal—the excited and inflamed pas-
sions of the credulous people, whose lot it had been
for so many centuries to be misled by ambitious dr.
magogues, who had sought for their own purposes
to urge them on to those courses of discontent
which proceeded to turbulence, and terminated in
blood.—(Hear, hear.)—That was the tribunal for
which the charge was intended, and that accounted
for the Hon. Member's reluctance to press it in that
House. The Hon. and Learned Member felt that
he was not practising in his proper Court,—that
was, riot at the bar of that tribunal where he had
held his brief so long with success.—(Hear.)—That
it was which had induced the Hon. Member to
evade the question so long, by fixing it on one oc,lt-,
sion before Easter, on another after, and sometimes
on a Wednesday, in the hope that there would be
no House.—( Hear, and a laugh.)—The Hon. Mem,
tier's appearance on the different sidaa of the Chan-
nel was singularly different. In Ireland, his swell-
ing chest and powerful voice might induce one to
suppose him a full-grown Irish giant. That night
he appeared like the little tender babe, who he him-
self had described as lisping the praise of a juryman.
—(Cheers and laughter.)—ln Ireland he was at the
top of his voice, and played the part of the lion to
admiration. In the House of Commons he assumed
the part of Bottom, and, adopting the suggestion of
his predecessor in the character, " aggravated his
voice,ltand roared as gently as a sucking dove."—
(Laughter.)—He could tell the Hon. and Learned
Member that such a course of conduct could ets
longer be permitted. He must adopt one of two
ways. He must either be itt both countries the
violent disturber and agitator—the same in his Par..
liamentary-afficc in Stephen's-street, as in Sr. Ste-
phen's Chapel at Westminster, or he must be the
moderate mall in both eountries.—(Hear.)—He
'oust no longer talk as he had that night, of paw-
ing oil into the wounds which he had taken every
means to inflame in Ireland.—(Cheers.)—The Hon.
Member would soon find throughout the empire,
but more particularly in that part with which he
was connected, such a body of resistance to his
double course of conduct as he would be unable to
contend against. There was a manly, kind, and
generous feeling springing up in Ireland, in spite of
the exertions of the Hon. Member for Clore. It
was the natural and necessary result of the wise
legislative measure adopted last year. It would
soon be out of the power of any man to heat up the
national feeling to the temperature of a furnace,
merely in order that a political selatnander might
find his proper element.

Mr. HUME rose with considerable earnestness
of manner, and complained of the pompous and
almrst insoleil manner of the pentleman who had
iust it ten down. He was surprised that his speerlt
should have been recei red wall cheers by the
Ministers. The. Hon. and Learned Meinbtr had
Applied strong (pith( is to the lion. Member rue

Clare. What mattered it whether the Hon. Mem-
ber was a big lion, a puny dog, or any other four.
footed animal.—(Great laughter.)—He hoped the
Member for Clare .would not shape his conduct by
the advice of the Hon. and Learned Member, al-
though he swelled like the bull and the frog bursting
with self-importance.—(Continued laughter.)—lt
was quite an Irish scene, which he had never ex-
rected to behold in that House. What a man to
read a lecture! It was like the mewing of a kitten
(Laughter.)—The Hon. Member for Clare had not
yet lost his teeth. He could still bite, and whet,
tl?e erne should come he would halloo him on.—
(A laugh.)—Under all the circumstances of th,
case, he thought that his Hon. and Learned Friend
had done perfectly right in bringing this subject
distinctly before the House. He had been told that
he was not a Learned Gentleman.—(A laugh.)—He
thanked God that he was not; for sure he was, that
if he had had in his power a deposition which would
have cleared an individual accused of a capital charge
he must have laid it before the Court, in spite of al!
the etiquette to which Learned Gentlemen thought
it their duty to conform.—(Cries of " Hear," in
which Mr. Doherty joined.)—Had that been done
in this case? Would the Hon. and Learned Gen-
tleman on the opposite bench get up and say that it
had ?—(Hear, hear.)—But his Hon. and Learned
Friend (the Member for Clare) had had the au-
dacity, it appeared, to speak of these transactions
out of doors in such language as his feelings dictated,
and had not repeated his observations in that House.
" Is it to be supposed," continued the Hon. Mem-
ber, " that because I am a Member of Parliament,
and chose to go to the Crown and Anchor Tavern,
and make observations there upon the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, or it may be upon his Majesty's At-
torrey-General, is it to be supposed, I say, that
am t be compelled to repeat the same observations
here ? Isay that if I make use of observations out of
!loop: which give offence to Hon. Members out of
doots-, let them call me to account for them. I ad-
mit that I say many things in this House which I
should be afraid to say out of this House—(Hear,
and a laugh)—knowing that there is such a being
in existence as an Attorney-General, and that it is
possible for him to find pliant Juries. I may be
tanned with cowardice, as I have been already, for
this declaration. But my doctrine is, that in these
cases discretion is the better part of valour—
(Laughter)—and then how foolish should I look if
I weg to find myself luid by the heels in Newgate,
owing to the interposition of an Attorney-General."
(Hear, hear, and laughter.)—He then proceeded to
observe, that the Hen. and Learned Gentleman op-
posite had not shown either that good sense for
which he (Mr. Hume) gave him credit, or that
disposition to let all things go on smoothly in Ire-
land on which he prided himself so highly, in read-
inn. such voluminous extracts from speeches made
at eomvivial boards, when a man was inclined,
from the excitement of the scene, to speak more
freely than prudence warranted, or than he m'ght
otherwise be prompted to do. He would, however,
confess that in all the extracts which the Hon. and

Learned Gentleman had read, there %vas not one

word which he would not have been proud to utter
—(Cries of " No, no,")—with the exception of the
last extract, which related to the Sub-letting Act.—
(Hear.)—He was surprised the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman should have read the extract after the
en:reit mhnner in which the Hon. Member for Clare
bad disavowed it. He could not help considering
that circumstance as a proof how strongly the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman felt the justice of the ob-
sercations of his Hon. and Learned Friend the
Member for Clare.—(Hear.)—lie thought that it
was the bounden duty of every honest man, who
thought that a public officer had misconducted him-
self, to state that opinion publicly, whenever occa-
cion called for such expression of public opinion.
He contended that the way in which his Hon. and
Learned Friend had been treated by the gentlemen
opposite for daring to express his opinions was most
illiberal. They had accused his Hon. and Learned
Friend of shrinking from his charges, as if he was
afraid of their vituperation. Why, his Hon. and
Learned Friend bad no occasion to be afraid of those
two lion. and Learned Gentlemen, no, nor ten like
them.—(A laugh.)—Supported by the cheers of the
Treasury bench, they might have exceeded the discre-
tion which they e oui,l have felt bound to exercise else-
where. But what had really been the conduct and
language of his Hon. and Learned Friend the Mem-
ber for Clare ? He had stated in his place in Par-
limneffis that when he first became acquainted with
the facts which had that sight been the subject of
discussion, he was led by the impression of the mo-
ment to declare his determination to bring the whole
conduct of the leading Counsel for the prosecution
before the House of Commons; but that :n the time
which had intervened between his making that de-
claration and the meeting of Parliament, he had
Lad some reason to doubt the accuracy of the facts
which had led to the formation of his original irn-
-I,rossion. He therefore said, in the hearing of the
House, that he bad sent to Ireland for further infor-
rmoon—tbat if that information were defective, lie
.could disavow the opinion which he had formerly
expeessed ; but if that information should support
t!:e opinion which he had originally entertained, he
would bring the matter forward in the House openly
.and rnanUly. After such a declaration, what right
had the Noble and Learned Gentleman opposite to
t aunt his Hon. and Learned Friend with shrinking
from his pledge ? He hoped that the production of
the information for which his Hon. and Learned
Friend now moved, would free the Honourable and
Learned Gentleman opposite even from the sus-
iriciim of misconduct, and with that view he should
certainly support the present motion. He had
hitherto always entertained a favourable opinion of
the lion. and Learned Gentleman ; at present that
opinion was weakened; he should be glad to restore
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to that favourable
opinion again, but he must withhold it until he
gained this information.—(Hear.)
A conversation, between Mr. JEMISON and Mr.
.DottenTY, here took place across the table, re-
specting the time when the deposition of Patrick
Daly, of the 29th April, was first in Courts but
Jephson's remarks were quite inaudible in the
gallery, and Mr. Doherty's nearly so. We under-
stood the latter gentleman to state, that he held in
his . hand a certificate of the Clerk of the Crown in
Ireland, that the depositions of Patrick Daly, and
particularly his deposition of the 29th of April,
were returned to the proper quarter three months
before, that is, early in August. On the second
trial Mr. Baron Pernefather, observing on the va-
riance between the witness's deposition and his
oral evidence, called him (Mr. Doherty) aside to
the bench, end asked whether that variance had at-
tracted his notice. He told the Learned Judge im-
mediately that it had. He could not - have noticed
it to the Jury for the reasons assigned by his Hon.
and Learned Friend behind him. He certainly had
en impression, and a strong impression on his mind :
it might be a wrong impression, or it might be a
right one ; but lie felt that if he had mentioned it to
the Court, it must have been in a point of view un- •
favourable to the prisoner.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL conceived that
the d.arge so calmly and moderately brought by the
lion. and Learned Member for Clare was founded in ,
a mistake, end that therefore his Hon. and Learned
Friend, the Solicitor-General for Ireland, had no
occasion to have come forward in his own vindica- • I
tion. How could iais Hon. and Learned Friend be
accused of any want of humanity in not withdraw- I
ing this prosecution, when on the same evidence other
persons had been subsequently convicted ? Though t
the Hon. and Learned Member for Clare was in-
dined to distrust the justice of his first impressions,
owl to retract from the charges which he had made
against his lion. and Learned Friend when under ' I
their influence, he was not at all surprised that his
and,Learned Friend, in his anxiety to main-
lain his professional honour free from imputation,
Should have been desirous to bring his accuser to
the test in that House, and to compel him either
to retract or prove his accusation in the face of the
country. He was sure that there was not a single

man of sense and honour in that House, who was
not of opinion that his Hon. and Learned Fric.nd
the Solicitor-General for Ireland stood ac-
quitted of all blame in these transactions.—
(Hear, hear.)—He did not think that the pro-
duction of the papers for which the Honourable
and Learned Member for Clare had moved was
at all necessary ; but NS his Hon. and Learned
Friend the Solicitor-General for Ireland was willing
to let the Hon. and Learned Member for Clare have
these depositions;he should not object to their pro-
duction. The Hon. and Learned Member, however,
asked for all the depositions which Patrick Daly
had ever made- Now that motion was so large that
he must resist it, though he had no objection, as he
had before said, to grant the deposition of the 29th
of April. He could not consent, however, to the
other part of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's
motion, which was for the production of the Judge's
notes. That motion was quite ❑nprecedented, and
the only foundation which was now laid for it was,
that such notes were public property. With that
doctrine he could not agree ; they were merely taken
to refresh the Judge's memory. Some Judges took
them very long, others very short—the latter course
he thought the best ; certainly it was the most ex-
peditious. He never knew such notes used as the

foundation of any ulterior proceedings. They were
not evidence in a Court of Law, nor could they be
exhibited at the bar of the House of Peers, in case
the Hon. and Learned Member for Clare should
prevail on the House to bring an impeachment
against his Hon. and Learned Friend the Solicitor-
General for Ireland. Why, then, should the House
agree to a motion whicl► was in its nature unprece-
dented, and which, if granted, would not answer
the object of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman with
whom it had originated ? It would be treating the
Learned Judge with disrespect to commit his meagre
notes to print ; and for that reason, as well as for
the other reasons which he had mentioned, he should
refuse his assent to this part of the motion of the
Hon. and Learned Member for Clare.

Mr. D. W. HARVEY did not think the great
anxiety which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman,
(the Solicitor-General for Ireland) exhibited to
meet the charges which were brought forward in
this instance, at all consistent with the line of con-
' duct which he pursued; for he was ready to grant
to the Hon. and Learned Member for Clare a docu-
ment which was already before the public—namely,
the deposition of Daly,—while he refused those
documents which were absolutely necessary to main-
tain the charges in question ; to wit,• the Judge's
notes at the trial. The Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man had, with great tact, diverted the attention of the
louse from the real question before it, to imputa-
tions which, he asserted, had been cast upon himby
the Hon. and Learned Member for Clare, but with
which the House had nothing to do; and he had
further contrived to shift the charge, with regard
to the deposition, ft om his own shoulders
to those of the Learned Judge who presided
at the trials. According to the statements of
the Hon. Gentleman, the deposition was in the pos-
session of that Learned Judge during the first and
second trials, which, when produced upon the third
trial, at once procured the acquittal of the prisoners.
Under such circumstances, the House was called
upon to vindicate the judgment-seat, and they could
only do so by calling for the production of the notes
of the Learned Judge at those trials, in order to
sec how the facts really stood. It was absolutely
necessary that the Judge's notes should be produced
to elucidate this transaction. The Honourable and

Learned Gentleman (Mr. Doherty) had said that
the points of difference between the viva voce tes-
timony and the deposition were of littie importance;
but that was mere assertion, and the Judge's notes
would alone supply the proof to enable the House
to decide as to that. He should support the motion.
Mr. D. CALLAGHAN said, that having acted
as one of the jurors on the second of the trials which
had been referred to, he felt bound to bear his tes-
timony to the propriety of the course which had been
followed on that occasion by the Hon and Learned
Gentleman (Mr. Doherty.)
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was quite op-
posed to the motion of the Hon. and Learned Mem-
ber for Clare. It was his solemn and sincere convic-
tion that he had never seen a case which had broken
(loam so completely as this case had, and he should,
upon these grounds, vote against the motion.
Lord F. L. GOWER did not think it at all ne-
cessary, for the ends of justice, that the papers called
for should be produced; he should resist their pro-
duction.

Mr. O'CONNELL replied, that he wished, in
the first instance, to state, that the Learned Gentle-
man (Mr. Doherty) laboured under a mistake as to
the definition which he (Mr. O'Connell) gave at
the trial of the crime of perjury. He then stated
that, according to the doctrines of the church to
which he belonged, the breaking of a lawful oath,
or the taking of an unlawful one, was perjury, and
!o that statement he still adhered. The Sub-letting
Act had been introduced into this discussion, with
which it had nothing to do. In reference to one
particular speech which he (Mr. O'Connell) was
represented to have made on that subject, arid to
which the Learned Gentleman had referred, he (Mr.
O'Connell) wished to state that the words attributed
to him at the end of that speech in a Dublin paper
had not been used by him. He ri collected meeting
the reporter of that paper in the ball of the Four
Courts the day that speech was published, and he
told him the paper would be prosecuted for it. The
reporter, like reporters generally, was sturdy, and
adhered to his version of the speech ; but he (Mr.
O'Connell) having upplied to the reporter of an-
other morning paper in Dublin, who had taken a
more accurate note of the speech, at his request that
gentleman wrote out his notes, from which it ap-
peared that he (Mr. O'Connell) never employed the
language attributed to him in the newspaper referred
to by the lion. and Learned Gentleman. He only
asked for evidence, not for a vote of censure. If

he had the depositions, he would prove all he had
undertaken to prove : but the Noble Lord ,was too
dignified, and the H)n. and Learned Solicitor-Ge-
neral (Mr. Doherty) too sagacious to grant them.—
He contended that lie had proved his case, and that
the depositions of the informer, as well as the notes
of She Judge, ought to be produced before the House.
Mr. PERCEVAL defended, in strong terms, the
conduct of the Chief Secretary for Ireland. Long
after party feelings had ceased, his solicitude for the
weifare of that country would be recollected with
sentiments of gratitude. His character would stand
high in the favour of the people of Ireland, when the
attacks of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman were

forgotten.
The cry- of " Question" now became general.
The galleiy was cleared for a division. The numbers
were—

For the motion..
Against it 7O

Majority
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed
of, and the House adjourned at One o'clock.

IVe have just heard of a melancholy case of
suicide, committed by a gentleman in the county Limerick,
who has for for some time past been labouring under mental
aberration. As the case will come under the surveillance
of the Coroner, we refrain from making any further ob-
servation for the present. By the death of this gentleman
a pension of 1,0001. a year from the Civil List reverts to
tlke Crown. This annuity he enjoyed in right of his late
father, who was for many years an illustrious Dignitary of
the Irish Rencli.,--Publin Morning Register.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.—,The following in-
teresting Works have been just published by Messrs.
CoLnu tor and BBNTLEY, Newßurlington,street, and may be
had at all respectable Libraries :-1. The Life of Major-
General Sir THOMAS Minim), late Governor of Madras,
by M. GLEIG. 2. BoualtiENNE's Memoirs of NAPO-
LEON, t 1,0,!?, third and concluding volume. 3. BURCK-
RAMAT'S Pc...oupt of the Bedouins and Wahabys. 4.
CAII.LIE'S Travels to Timhuctoo. 5. Sir EDMOND
TEMPLE'S Thvels in Peru. 6. C.sp.'s Poetical Works.
7. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY'S Narrative of the late
War in Germany and France. S. LLOYD'S Field Spotis
glish Army of te ort oh Europe ; an 9. The En in
Franhce,N h
or Personal Narratived, of an Officer.

Quantities entered for Home Con. Rates of Duty pay-
able (Customs &
sumption. Excise).
,--
`,. United In Eng. In
1. England. Scotland. Ireland. United land and
Kingdom! ~ ti , Ireland.
I be° ana.
mperial 'lmperial Imperial Imperial Per Per
Proof Proof Proof Proof Imperial Imperial
Gallons. Gallons. Gallons. Gallons. Gallon. Gallon.
• 1800 1,945,266 239,913 864,411 3,049,590 9s. o%d. 6s. B%d.
1801 1,687,839 349,237 1,057,316 3,094,392 8 104 -
1802 2,204,89*/ 468,163 637,005 3,310,065 9 0% 6 114
1803 2,573.602 379,043 259,966 3,212,611 13 44 8 6
1804 1,508,899 124,548 18'1,289 1,813,736 13 5% 9 2%
1805 1,696,384 153,635 123,049 1,973,068 13 5% -
1806 1,857,321 188,811 160,148 2,206,280 13 6% -
1807 1,099,783 226,296 210,922 2,436,901 - -
1808 2,174,751 239,263 313,333 2,757,347
1809 2,260,625 0-29,325 1,063,661 3,613,611 13 731 -
1810 2,703,718 330,560 336,658 3,370,936 -- -
1911 2,711,915 300,306 150,290 3,162,541 - ' -
1312 3,205,465 286,569 283,135 3,775,169 - -
1813 3,041,683 241,686 403,068 3,749,374 13 10% 12 104
1814 3,332,188 280.193 91,154 3,703,835
1815 3,019,204 281,748 ,61,833 3,365,785 - -
1816 2,221,533 185,874 21,543 2,428,050 _ -
1817 2,179,213 192,412 30,686 2,408,311 - -
1818 2,406,266 203,951 21,866 2,631,583 - . -
1819 2,390,183 148,953 25,735 2,504,583 13 11% -
1820 2,325,733 142,997 20,390 2,499,120 _ -
1821 2,166,441 138,189 19,685 2,324,315 - -
1822 2,100,9-25 130,879 15,0:35 2,216,1539 - -
1823 2,222,923 108,562 18,173 2,349,660 ' 13 11%
1824 2,107,907 134,986 9,453 2,551,646 12 7% 12
1825 1,980,807 104,752 10,128 2,1195,687 - -
1826 3,982,1.53 295,505 27,758 4,305,316 8 6 8 6
1827 3,080,152 185,214 23,210 3,288,6.06 - -
1828 3,061,856 188,089 24,708 3,277,653 - -
1829 3,202,143 152,461 21,262 3,375,865 - -

WILLIAM IRVING,
Inspector General of Imports and Exports.
r,spector Gexeral's Office, Custom House,
London, May 6, 18.30.

LIST OF THE MINOR

OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN MEMBERS WI
VOTED FOR MR. HUME'S MO'
" That an Address be presented to his Majt
graciously pleased to take into consideral
vernment of Ireland by a Viceroy is any
whether that Mae may not be withdraw]
Ireland and to the United Kingdom."
Althorp, Viscount Foley, J. H.
Anson, Hon. G. French, Arthur
Attwood, Eyler, 'l'. B.
Astley, Sir J. D, Gordon, R.
Baring, F. Guest, J. J.
Belgrave, Viscount Harvey, 1). W.
Bernal, K. Heron, Sir R.
Benett, John Heathcote, E.
Birch, J. Howick, Lord
Bentinck, Lord G. Hoye, .1. B.
Blake, Sir F. Honywood, W. P.
B!andford, Marquis Howard, Henry
Brougham, Henry Howard, R.
Brougham, James Hobhouse, J. C.
Brownlow, C. Knight, R.
Butler, C. Kennedy, T. F.
Buxton, T. F. Kemp, T. R.
Colborne, N. R. Labouchere, H.
Coke, T. W. Lambert, J. S.
Calvert, C. Langston, J. H.
Crompton, S. Latouche, R.
Cavendish, H. Lawley, F.
Cavendish, C. Lennard, B.
Cavendish, W. Macdonald, Sir J.
Chohneley, M. Marshall, W.
Clements, Viscount Marshall, J.
Cave, R. 0. Ntarjoribanks, S.
Davies, Col. Maberly, J.
poring, Sir E. Macauley, C.
Dick, Quintin Milton, Viscount
Denison, NV. J. Morpeth, Viscount
Ducane, Peter Monck, J. E.
Duncombe, Hon. W. Ord, W.
Dundas, Hon. 0. Palmer, C. F.
Dundas, Hon. Sir R. Parnell, Sir H.
Encombe, Lord Pendarves, E. W.
Ebrington, Viscount Philips, Sir G.
Ellison, C. Phillips, G R.
Swart, W. Ponsonby, Hon. W.
Fazakerley, J. N. Ponsonby, Hon. T.
Fergusson, Sir R. Protheroe, E.

[TO, ON THE 11TH MAT,

!sty, that he will be
.ion whether the Go-
longer necessary, and
a with advantage to

Phillimore, Dr.
Poyntz, W. S
Pryse, Pryse
Rancliftb, Lord
Rowley, Sir W
Robarts, A. W_
Rot,inson, Sir G.
Ramsden, J. C.
Rickford, W.
Stanley, Hon. E. G.
Smith, W.
Stuart, Lord J.
Tennyson, C.
Townshend, Lord C.
Thomson, C. P.
Tufton, Hon.:W.
Tynte, C. K.
Vyvyan, Sir R.
Warburton, H.
Warrender, Sir G.
Waithman, Ald.
Webb, E.
Western, C. C.
Wemyss, James
West, J. R.
Wilson, Sir R.
Wilbraham, r.
Wood, Alderman
Wood, C.
Wood, John
Wrottesley,
Wyvill, M.
Yorke, Sir J.

TELLERS.
Hume, Joseph
Rice, T. S.

PAIRED OFF.
Portman, E. B.
Whitmore, W. W.

LIST OF THE MINORITY

OF ONE HUNDRED AND SIX MEMBERS WHO, ON THE !OTH OF MAY,
VOTED FOR MR. C. WOOD'S MOTION IN THE COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY
FOR REDUCING THE SALARY OF THE ASSISTANT-SECRETARY
OF THE TREASURY FROM 2,5001. TO 2,000/. PER ANNUM, IN CON,
FORMITY TO THE TREASURY MINUTE OF IS2I.
Althorp, Viscount 'Gordon, R. Rice, T. S.
Baring, F. Grattan. James Ridley, Sir M. W.
Baring, Sir T. Graham, Sir J. Itanclitre, Lord
Baring, W. B. Guest, J. J. Robarts, A. W.
Be!grave, Viscount Howick, Lord Robinson, Sir 0.
Beaumont, T. W. Honywood, W. P. Rickford, W.
Benett, John Hobhouse, J. C Sibthorpe, C. D.
Bernal, R. Heathcote, Sir W. Stanley, Lord
Birch, J. Jephson, C. D. Stewart, J.
Blandford, Marquis Kennedy, T. F. Stuart, Lord'J.
Bright, H. Killeen, Lord Slaney, R. A.
Brougham, Henry Knight, R. Sadler, M. T.
Brougham, James Langston, J. H. Saunderson, R.
Brownlow, C. Lambert, J. S. Thomson, C. P.
Buck, L. W. Lester, B. Trant, W. H.
Carter, J. Lennard, T. B. Tomes, J.
Crompton, S. Labouchere, H. Wilson, Sir R.
Clive, E. B. Lawley, F. Wyvill, M.
Calvert, C.• Lamb, Hon. G. White, Col.
Cavendish, W. Milton, Viscount Wilbraham, G
Colborne, N. R. Morpeth, Viscount Wrottesley, Sir J.
Clements,-Viscount Monck, J. B. Warburton, H.
Davenport, E. Maberly, J. Whitbread, S C
Davies, Col. Macaulay, C. Whitmore, W. W.
Duncombe, T. Macdonald, Sir J. Western, C. C.
Dundas, Hon. T. Marshall, W. Webb, E.
l)awson, A. Nugent, Lord Wood, Alderman
Dickinson, W. O'Connell, D. Wood, John
Denison, J. E. Pon•onby, Hon. W.
Ebrington, Viscount Portman, E. B.
Encombe, Lord Philips, 0. R.
Ewart, W. Parnell, Sir H.
Euston, Earl of Phillimore, Dr.
Fazakerley, J. N. I'ower, R.
French, A. Poyntz, W. S.
Fane, J. Pendarvek E. W.
Eyler, T. B. Palmer, C. F.
Guise, Sir W. Price, Sir R.
Gascoyne, Gen. Rumbold, C. E.

TELLERS.
Hume, Joseph
Wood, C.

PAIRED OFF.
Drnison, W. J.
Ferguatson, Sir R. C.
I,orieseue, HUM. G.
Harvey, 1). W.
Rowley, Sir W.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Gazette de France.)

PARIS, MAY 10.—The King of Sardinia has not
thought fit to protest against the decree, issued by
Spain, for the abolition of tile law of Philip V.,
though the house of Savoy has never renounced the
contingent rights given to it by the will of
Charles H. But M. de Latour has not concealed
the pain which his Sovereign had felt at this deter-
mination of the King of Spain. It will be recol-
lected, that in 1789 Louis XVI. had succeeded in
preventing Charles 111. from carrying this same pro-
ject into effect.

According to Cle latest arrivals from Constanti-
nople, the protocols had been presented by the three
Ambassadors, and the answer of the Sultan was ex.
petted soon to be known.

Thus there is no foundation for what the Consti-
tutionnel says to-day, that the Sultan has given a
negative answer to the proposal which had been
made to him, to cause the fortresses and districts to
be evacuated which are to form part of the new
Greek state.

The general depot of our expedition against Al-
giers will be at Mahon.
The Duke of Brunswick has not written to the
King of England the letter of apology that was re-
quired of him. His Majesty himself has dispensed
with this, but the Duke will be brought to trial, and
the Constitution, which he had revoked, will be re-
established. Thus this affair has terminated, which
has excited such lively interest throughout all Ger.

many.
Prince Lieven, the Russian Ambassador at Lon-
don, is c4pected at Paris this week. He is going
to Petersburgh, or, rather, to Warsaw, to meet the

MELANCHOLY CASE OF DEATH FROISI

HYDROPHOBIA.

In the early part of last week, a surgeon named
Griffith came to London on business, and having
been acquainted with inspector Rogers, of letter F
division, be waited upon him, with a request that
he would recommend him to a lodging during his
stay in town, intimating that it was his intention to
return to Sussex in a week or two. Mr. Rogers
accordingly, procured him a lodging near his own
residence, and left him on Wednesday evening last,
apparently in the enjoyment of excellent health and
spirits. On the following day (Thursday) he was
sent for, and found the unfortunate gentleman appa-
rently labouring under the effects of insanity. He
spoke incoherently, and at intervals was so excited
that it became necessary to place him under some
restraint, fur which purpose Mr. Rogers had him
conveyed to the police station in Covent-garden,
where his symptoms became so alarming that Mr.
Thomas, the superintendent, considered it necessary
to call in medical advice, and accordingly the attend-
ance of Mr.l3eames, a surgeon, having been procured,
that gentleman immediately pronounced that the pa-
tient was labouring under the effects of hydrophobia.
The dreadful malady from that time became more
strongly developed, and the cries which at times es-
' taped from the unfortunate sufferer were described as
most agonizing. At the sight of water or any liquid
that was offered to him, he broke out into the most
frightful paroxysms, in the intervals of which he
begged of those around him not to fail writing to his
friends to tell them how lie had died, and then be
would exclaim, "My God, my God, is it not a
dreadful death to die !" During a tranquil interval
Mr. Thomas asked him when he had been bitten, to
which he replied with difficulty, " About two
months ago, here, here," pointing to the lower part
of his leg. The unfortunate gentleman desired that
he might be sent to the Middlesex-hospital, ob-
serving that he had walked it when a pupil. His
request was complied with, and in a few hours after
his arrival at the station he was conveyed from
thence in a coach, and placed in the hospital above-
mentioned, where, notwithstanding the very best
care and advice, the effects of the fatal disorder be-
came hourly more strong, and on the night of Sa-
turday terminated, in the death of the unfortunate
patient, whose sufferings were most dreadful to the
last. Inspector Rogers fulfilled his wishes by writ-
ing to his friends to acquaint them of his melan-
choly fate., arid some of them arrived in town on
Monday last. The appearance of Mr. Griffith only
the day before the breaking out of the dreadful
disorder was that of robust health, his countenance
being florid, and his spirits high. He was about
32 years of age when attacked by the horrible ma-
lady of which lie died.

The valuable diamond ring which was stolen
from Madame Vzsznis, and which her servant, when
apprehended, said be had thrown away, has been found.
After considerable search it was discovered in the dust-
bole, at the Police station, by Avis, an officer of Marl-
borough-street, who immediately forwarded it to its proper
owner.

SIR S. ROMILLY.—How noble and pure was
the ambition of Sir Samorr. RosxrLLY we "may learn
from the following beautiful passages, where he has ex-
plained
the motives by which he was actuated in his pro-
posed reforms of the criminal law. "It was not," said
he, " from light motives—it was from no fanciful, notions
of benevolence, that I have ventured to suggest any:altera-
tion in the criminal law of England. It has originated in
many years' reflection, and in the long-established belief
that a mitigation of the severe penalties of our law will be
one of the most effectual modes to preserve and advance
the humanity and justice for which this country is so emi-
nently distinguished. Since the last session of Parliament,
I have repeatedly reconsidered the subject : I am more
and more firmly convinced of the strength of the founda-
tion upon which I stand ; and even if I had doubted my
own conclusions, I cannot forget the ability with which
I was supported within these walls; nor can be insensible
to the humane and enlightened philosophy by which in
contemplative life, this advancement of kindness has been
recommended. I cannot, therefore, hastily abandon a duty
which, from my success in life, I owe to my profession ;
wLich, as a member of this House, I owe to you and to
my country ; and which, as a man blessed with name
than common prosperity, I owe to the misguided and
unfortunate."—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopcedia,
Vol. VI.