The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, .A.T7G-ITST 6, IS3S

LATEST NEWS FROM AMERICA.

(From New York Papers received to the 16th ult )
THE LATE SESSION OF CONGRESS.
(From the National Intelliyencer of Tuesday.)
The two Houses of Congress adjourned yesterday at twelve
o'clock, having completed all the business which it was pos-
sible for them to complete, but leaving unfinished and defunct
upon the tables at least one-half of all the business prepared
for their action.
RESUMPTION OF CASH PAYMENTS.
PHILADELPHIA BANKS.—It seems by the following article,
which we cut from the Philadelphia United States Gazette of
yesterday, that the banks of that city have yielded to Mr. Rid-
dle's delaying plan of a convention :
" At a meeting of the associated banks of the city and
county of Philadelphia, held on Wednesday evening, the 11th
inst., Mr. Dunlap, from the Committee appointed to recom-
mend proper measures for the early and general resumption
of specie payments, presented a report, which, with the fol-
lowing resolutions, was adopted by the board, v:z.
Resolved—That the banks of Boston, Providence, Bal-
timore, and Richmond, and such others as the time admits of,
be invited to meet the banks of Philadelphia in convention in
this city on Monday, the 23d instant, to consult upon the mea-
sures to be adopted for an early and simultaneous resumption
of spa cis payments.
" Resolved—That the Committee be instructed to com-
municate this resolution to the banks in question, and to make
the necessary arrangements for the meeting of the con-
vention.'
" It was also resolved, that it be recommended to the seve-
ral banks of the city and districts to appoint one or more dele-
gates to represent them in this convention.
" The Association then adjourned sine die."
MOBILE. MONEY MARKET, Jui.v 6.—Drawers have ad-
vanced the:r pretensions som,,th:ng this week, from their en-
tire command of the market, but have met few purchasers ;
these only who were obliged to remit have submit'ed to our
.rates. Business in this department may be said to have been
nominal.
We stated in our last that the banks of Alabama would be
able to resume specie payment on the Ist of January next.
We still believe in the ability to do this, though a small ma.
jority of the State banks hale suceeeded in fixing upon the
4th of July, 1839, as the day for this resumption. Our local
banks have had no action upon this subject, but are perfectly
ready to fulfil this duty at any time. The Bank of Mobile is
the principal drawer on New Orleans at 11 per cent.---Com.
niercial List.
A meeting was held on the 26th ult. at Columbus, Missis-
sippi, to take into consideration the state of the banks and
the currency of the State. The following resolutions were
adopted :
" 1. That the loaning of money on cotton bonds was in vio-
lation of the principles of banking.
"2. That the banks of Mississippi, in refusing to sell ex-
change at home, throw down the value of their paper.
" 3. That banks ought to sell exchange at borne at fair rates,
and to loan only on endorsed notes and bills of exchange.
" 4. That no bank director ought to sit in the Legislature.
"5. That the present banking system of Mississippi is inju-
rious to the State.
" 6. That this meeting approve the General Bank Law of
New York as the real estate of the south could be represented
under it, and that the Leg:slature be petitioned to l ass such
a law.
" 7. That the Legislature ougl.t ti fix an ear'y (1.. y for the
resumption of specie payments."
IMPORTANT FROM PHILADELPIIIA.—At the meeting of the
General Committee of Banks on Wednesday evening, the re-
solutions in favour of a convention reported by the Sub-Com.
mittee were carried, not unanimously, but by a small majority.
After this vote the Bank of the United States gave notice,
that after the Ist of August it should cease to pay or receive
interest on bank balances, and would on that day be ready to
adjust all such balances by payment The Bank has sent a
circular to institutions out of Philadelphia with which it has
balances announcing the same fact, and added that the officers
of the Bank do not mean that this should be understood as an
announcement of their intention to resume specie payments
generally on that day. Most of the letters from Philadelphia
consider all the movements as insuring a general resumption
of specie payments on the Ist of August. The dissolution of
the General Committee leaves each bank to act for itse:f.
Mr. Biddle's control over the banks around him, whether
exercised through this Committee or otherwise, is evidently
broken up, and he has been driven pell-mell to look rosumption
in the face, and under circumstances much more embarrassing
than would have existed had he but united with the New York
banks, and made a general resumption in May.
P.S.---We had written thus far, when the Philadelphia
United States Gazette of yesterday morning came to hand,
containing the annexed proclamation of Governor Ritner, who
has nroved himself a sound and sensible \% hig, by signifying
to those able-bodied lubbers within his jurisdiction who say
they can pay their debts, lint will not, that unless they alter
their minds before the 13th of next month, he will make them
ache for the omission :
" Pennsylvanii, Ss —ln the name and by the authority of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by Joseph Ritner, Go-
vernor of the said Commonwealth,
" A PROCLAMATION.
" The period hos arrived when the series of misfortunes
produced by the injurious interference of the National Govern-
ment with the currency of the country is about to terminate.
Congress having risen without sanctioning the attempt to rive
to the Federal Executive the entire control of the national
wealth, and of the whole amount of specie in the country,
and the consequent power to affect and wield to its own pur-
poses all the capital and credit of the Union ; and having
imposed certain salutary restrictions on so much of this power
as has been already arrogated, it is incumbent on the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania to put forth her strength, to
quicken her dormant energies, and to take that stand in the
trade and commerce of the Union which her unb iunded re-
sources, her vast natural and artificial facilities for their deve-
lopment, and the solid and energetic character of her citizens
demand ; to deprive her of which stand, all the measures of
the National Government have recently tendel.
brought
crnehft
" For tie production of this most desirable result the mea-
sure first requisite is, that an end be put to certain open in-
fractions of the spirit of the laws, which is At been forced
upon us by the overbearing necessities of the times; and to
restore credit and the currency to the firm basis on which
they stood before their late derangement was unnecessarily
ohrreee9l;uebiorype virtue
ther. t u e
Governorof t hat cot ifj
trit7unl
that thc laws be faithfully executed,°:iatrinedeSntfaiotreoftthoteiretpaukorenpncOastelres'
aforesaid,
on
or beforedo olireerielaythrquir
day
yo all banks
of
August
in this
nexten scuoimngmotnhweealtl,
datei
hereof, to resume ancr continue the l, >-f ;heir re"
spective notes, bills, and other obligations, in gold and sil-
ver coin, according to the true intent and meaning of their
charters. And, for the purpose of aiding these institutions
in Ow 4cPotopli4roont of this laudable object, I deem it
proper to state, reom
infolmittion 14y,c kbtailvd, that
their solvency and general condition are inch as to 'entitle
them to the confidence of all who hold their notes, their
amen it of specie on hand being largely increased, and of
notes in circulation much diminished, since the suspension of
,vecie, payments in May, 1837.
" While it is .}.l4is dieerfully announced that the means of
the banks are ample, and that' ceitctuei had tilroiabe
out the late trying crisis, generally such as to sustain our
already high character for punctuality, honesty, and solvency,

maintain and even in,=rease our trade, keep up the value of
property, and prevent the State from becoming the theatre of
panic or distress, yet I shall feel bound in duty to the public
to take all the means in my power to compel a return to that
agency and responsibility to their creditors for which they
were created. Accordingly, if a return to general and real
redemption in specie, and a withirawal of all illegal paper
money from circulation, do not now take' place, when all admit
that it may, with safety and public beEefi•, I shall !Add it my
duty, forthwith, take all the measures to compel it which
the constitution and laws have played in my power, and at the
opening of the next session of the Legislature to recommend
the passage of such laws as may more effxtually guard the
future from the evils of the past.
" And further f.Jr the purposes, and by virtue of the enjoin-
ment aforesaid, I do also hereby require all parsons or bodies
corporate, who may have violated the laws of this state, by the
emission and circulation of notes of any denomination under
that of five dollars, commonly called Shin plasters,' to take
instant measures for the full and honest redemption of the
same, in gold and silver coin, or such other ample equiyaknt
as shall be satisfactory to the holders thereof, under pain
of the penalties, if this notice be ❑ot complied with in a
reasonable time, it will be the duty of all good citizens to
enforce. _ _

" Should this requirement be fully and promptly complied
with, the Commonwealth will be restored to that sound cur-
rency which she possessed before the suspension—viz , one
composed of gold and silver for all sums under, and of notes
instantly convertible into specie for all sums of and over
five dollars. The result of the attempt to improve the cur-
rency will then obviously be, that the only paper issues in cir-
culation and not convertible into specie at the place whence
issued will be those of the National Government.

In communicating thus publicly with my fellow-citizens on
this most important and interesting matter, I would respectfully
and earnestly say to all, be firm and cool in the emergency.
Trust in the laws, have confidence in the institutions, and sus-
tain the high credit and character of your glorious
Commonwealth. You have borne yourselves through the
crisis nobly and honourably. You have come almost unin-
jured out of the trial. Make one more calm and steady ef-
fort and all will be well. The forbearance and determination
heretofore exhibited have beon such as to reflect credit upon
the State, while it has strengthened the hands and cheered
the hearts of your public agents in the performance of duties
of no ordinary difficulty.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State, at
Harrisburg, this 10th day of July, in the year of our Lord
1838, and of the Commonwealths the 63d.
" By the, Governor.

" THOMAS H. • BURROWES,
" Secretary of thQ Commonwealth."

CANAISIAN AFFAIRS.
(Prom the Toronto Palladium of July 4. )
The Publication of this number has been deferred to thelast
moment in order to‘give the lastest news from the west. It is
not certain how many of the rebels or Yankee marauders have
landed at or near Port Sarnia ; but it seems they crossed over
in force to Bear Creek, and proceeded up that stream towards
London. An engagement of our outposts has taken place, in
which 16 of the enemy were killed, and six taken prisoners ;
and the engagement terminated in the utter rout of the rebels.
Our loss is said to be two killed.
But this is the day in which the grand effort is to be made,
and it will be well if our Privy Councillors are not still found
to be in their night caps ! Important news may be expected
to-morrow; and if it be as we anticipate, we shall issue an
extra with the particulars.
(From the New Orleans Bee of July 4.)
INTERESTING FROM MEXICO. —We are indebted to one of
the officers of the United States ship Natchez for files of
Mexican Papers to the Bth of June.
The schooner Creole reports that a French ship and a brig
had been taken possession of by tl.e Mexicans on the 20th ult.
at Laguna. The French blockading squadron off Vera Cruz
consists of two frigates, three brigs, and two schooners.
We publish below a letter from our correspondent at Tam-
pico, received by the schooner Creole, arrived last night :

" Tampico, June 21.
" Sir,— Our intelligence from Vera Cruz is to the 17th
inst., at which time the French frigate Hermione, Commander
Bazoche, and three brigs, were at Sacrificios. Baron Def-
faudis, the French Minister, left on the 12th in a brig-of-war
for France.

Preparations were made to attack the place on the Bth, at
which time the squadron consisted of two frigates and five
brigs, a force one would think scarcely adequate for such a
purpose. A consultation, however, was held on that day, and
the enterprise abandoned. Great excitement was produce lin
the city by the rumour, so much so that Governor Rincon ad-
vised the French residents to leave, as he might not be able to
protect them in the event of an attack.
• This procedure on the part of the Minister and Com-
mander were undoubtedly a ruse de guerre, designed merely
to see what overtures might be elicited from the Mexicans
previous to the departure of the Minister. The French Con-
sul had so incurred the displeasure of the authorities as to in-
duce them to tender him his passport, and he is now on board
the frigate.

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tag been p
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oo
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the
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bl
ou
ct
ktahy have also been
dein
g squadron. s
" Little or no business is doing at Vera Cruz : foreign
merchandise very scarce, and in great demand. The blockade
is very rigidly enforced, though, it seems, with all possible
fairness and honesty.
" Some new regulations have been made in relation to the
seizure of vessels; they will be captured on their first ap-
pearance without any previous admonition of the blockade,
as heretofore. The particulars of this Dew order have been
despatched to the United Sti.tes, and of course will not be
enforced till made known to the public. Under other cir-
cumstances a capture could not be justified.. Vessels taken
will be sent to Sacrificios. 'I he Comniandant is further in-
vested With,the power, should he deem it necessary, to ex-
clude men of war from the places blockaded.
" A number of ve.isels, English, French, and United
States, had arrived at Sacrificios, and were refused admission.
" It is rumoured, and generally believed, that the media-
tion of her Majesty Queen Victoria has been solicited with a
view to a reconciliation with France.
" No particular news from the city of Mexico, other than
a report, engendered undoubtedly in some fright med imagina-
Deffaudis
on the 20th (yesterday?.
imagina-
tion, that the French would attack Vera Cruz and Tampico
" The La P. rouse is lying off this port ; she is recently
from Sacrificios.
From all that I can learn I infer that no.
1,011-have arrived. in France,. and such means directed
thing will be done until after October, by which time Baron
as will oblige the Mexicans to come into measures at once, or
in all probability share the fate of Algiers."

THE LONDON COFFEE AND EAT-
ING-HOUSE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION.

'Last week of the members of
the third half-ye. meeting
the above useful Institution was held at Anekrton's Hotel,
Fleet-street, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing
year. The meeting was very numerously attended. Mr.
Deacon, Vice- President of the Society, was unanimously called
to the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been
reed, the Sccretary proceeded .to lay before the meeting the
Report of the Committee, which afforded a most gratif)ing
detail of the rrogrers and SUCCCS3 of the Institution ; as did
also the financial statement and Auditors' report, by which it
app! ared that the funds and numerical strength of the Society
had increased much more rapidly than its warmest supporters
had anticipated. The officers for the past year, with the ex-
ception of those who went out by rotation, were all re-elected.
The vacancies so occasioned were principally filled up with
the names of Eating-house-keepers, with a view to connect
more closely those two branches of the trade. Mr. Forbes
notice that at the next general meeting he should
gave move,
" That so much of rule sixth, as prevented pensioners from
bei g elected for the first three years should be rescinded," as
the state of the funds would allow of an immediate appropria.
ti ,n of at least a part of their large and increasing income to
• for which the Society was instituted. • A
the purpos.•s vote of
thanks to the Chairman was then carrial, after which the
meeting separated.—ilforiting Advertiser. .

THE PORTUGUESE DEBT.

ROYAL DECREE

Having
Cortex
theit payment entof the
dmeeting,
upone 7th
i
fh thellwaiy ll d
be presented by the Go.
vernment, to provide measures upon this important object, which may
ee
lc resolved upon as most conducive to the welfare of the State ; and
vd
eidy reviewSino gn by
the
o fyn
the d
foreignecr
proposals lofelt)ht
taking into toy (loyal consideration that the measures referred to should
be based on solid principles of public convenience, satisfying what jus-
tice and equality demand, sustaining the good faith of contracts, and
consolidating the National credit, and it wi!l much conduce to obtain
this end by the appointment of a Commission composed of persons,
who, by their wel!.known ability, patriotism, and other circumstances,
merit public confidence, and satisfy, at the same time, the important
ends above-mentioned ; I have thought fit to decree as under :
I. There shall be crewed in Lisban a Commission, specially
charged to take account of the state of the Foreign Consolidated Debt,
and to propose to the Government the means best adapted for the pay.
ment of the interest and the Sinking Fund.
" 2. The Commission may reql- ire directly, from whatever persons,
authorities, and d‘partments, all necessary infirmation to proceed wilt
their labours.

" 3. The Commission shall be established in Lisbon, and may require
ne.guire
from the public Treasury whatever documents they may consider
cessary.

" 4. The members named in the Commission are, the ERMA dt4 Soli.
ray, the Minister and Snratary of litate, Honviano, Viscourt di Porto
Covo de 134ndoira, the Councillors Luis Jose Ribetro,
COESA de Macedo, Antonio Jose Dir. rte crd Josaquim Jose Falca°.
"The M f •I
C. inister ,rice for the_ Interior, L Finance '
oel Antonio de
.Cly.
14 11 a
valho, will e this e*ecutil.
"THE °VEEN. M
" 4N0E14 ANTONIO DE CA EVA LIIO.
f . ralcre of (1°64, July hi, 1838." Isaquim Jose da

York, was spoke n The Great Western steamer, from Bristol to Ne«•
p.m., wind at east, tine breeze • having nearly completed one-third of
expense Is estlinatect
her voyage in four days—sailed from Bristol op the 21st, in thee:v9"n.
with on the 25th July, in tat 49, long. 23 15, at seven
A suitable and temporary building, to protect the
merchants front the weather, in the Excise-office yard, for which a sub.
seription is now abort to be raised, has teen ageeed upon by the Sur.
have much pleasure in
!eyor of the Excise. The building is to he 100 feet by 40 feet. ThF
140 lek•TO bffkre Ihe Ow L-cll4n4e will b coMpleteA the re.
,leptiAll of the Tr,oiviiaf)t ' •-•
We . i,
at from 590/. to 7001. It is expected tilatitWiliO
to the following instance of honest C -1* 110 S. a native of Nairn.
y ; Co fin --• ,
shire, and o found, on his way home
one of the labourers at the harbour,
to dinner, on Saturday week, tour five-pound notes. On discovering
who,llle money belonged to, he went immediate), and returned it, and
giving publicity to the
hehis itqeSlY 19warileil by ~ preipot ed thrcv potindi• L• 1 L''ing aq4;
remarke4 that this sum %,i(MI,I do him more good than if he had kept
the whoti.-Scotlish Pilot.

IMPRISONMENT VOR DEBT BILL.
Abstract of a Bill (as amended by the Howse of Commons)
entitled " An Act for Abolishing Arrest on niti3ne process in
Civil Actions, except in certain cases; for extendmg the re-
medies; of Creditors against the property of 'Debtors ; and
for amending the lanes fur the relief of Insolvent Deb:ors in
England and Wales."
The operation of this measure is limited to England and
Wales, and does not extend to either Ireland or Scotland, and
the period from which it is to take effect is the first of October
(next), IS3S.
The first 21 clauses of the Bill relate to the alterations which
are made in the law of debtor and creditor ; and the succeed-
iag 96 cl4tres simply re-enact the Insolvent Debtors' Act,
under the provisions of which the Cummissioteara will from the
1 t of Oetobar, be able to afford relief in (mica of contempt
and other instances as heretofore.
The following are the clauses, in point of substance, by
which the provisions of the new law are to he cartied into
effect.
The preamble reaites, that the present power of arrest upon
niesne process is unnecessarily extensive, and ought to be re-
laxed, and then the Bill goes on to enact :-
1. That after the commencement of the Act, no person shall
be arrested upon-mersne process in any civil action in any inferior
court whatsoever; or .(except as after-mentioned) in any supe-
rior court.
2. That all personal actions in the superior Courts of law at
Westminster shall be commenced only by writ of summons. •
3. That if a plaintiff shall by affidavit show to the satisfac-
tion of a judge of any of the superior courts that he hasa cause
of action against a defendant, to the amount of twenty pounds
or upwards, or has sustained damage to that amount, and that
there is probab'e reason fur believing that the defendant is
about to quit England unless he be forthwith apprehended, the
judge may by specie, order direct that such defendant shall
he held to bail for any sum not exceeding the amount of the debt
or damages ; and thereupon the plaintiff may, within the time
expressed in order, but not afterwards, sue out one or more
writ or writs of copies into one or more different counties for
holding the defendant to bail. This writ is to be accord-
ing to a prescribed form, and to bear date the day it is issued.
4. That the Sheriff or other officer to whom such writ shall
be directed shall, within one calendar month, but nut after-
wards, arrest the defendant thereon, and detain him in custody
until either a bail bond shall have been entered into or a de-
posit shall have been made of the sum indorsed on such writ
of capias, together with 10/. for costs. All subsequent pro-
ceedings in the action remain unchanged.
5. That an order to bold to bail may be made at any ti ne
even after the commencement of the action (i. e. the issuing
of the writ of summons), and before final judgment. When
in custody the defendant may be served with the copy of
the writ of summons if it have not been previously served
on him.
6. That any persons arrested upon such writ of copies may
apply to a Judge or the Court for -a -rule to show cause why
he should not be discharged out of custody, and power is
given to the Judge, or Court, to make absolute or discharge
such rule, and award costs to either party, In the case of an
order made by a, Judge, powea is reserved to the,Court to dis-
charge or vary it on application of either party.
7. That every pris mer who, at the commencement of the
Act shall be in custody upon mesne process for any debt or
demand, and shall not have filed a petition to be discharged as
an insolvent debtor, shall be entitled to his discharge upon
entering a common appearance to the action. Every prisoner,
however, is liable to be either detained or arrested again if a
Judge's order for the purpose be obtained, that is, if it can be
shown that he isabout to leave England.
8. That every warrant of Attorney to confess a judgment,
or cognovit aclioneni, shall be executed, in the presence of an
attorney specially named for the purpose, by the party signing
it, which Attorney is required to subscribe his name as a wit-
ness to the doe execution thereof.
9. That no such warrant of Attorney or cognovit actionem
shall be valid unless executed in the manner aforesai 1. The
object of this is to enable the party to know the nature and
effect of the instrument he signs.
10. That to remedy a defect in the existing law, which
does not provide adequate means for enabling judgment cre-
ditors to obtain satisfaction feom the property of their debtors,
and to give such creditors more effectual remedies against the
real and personal estate 'than they now possess, the sheriff or
other officer to whom any writ of eligit, or any precept in
pursuance thereof, shall be directed, at the suit of any person
upon a judgment which, at the time of the commencement of
this Act or afterwards, shall have been recovered in an action
in any of the superior Courts, is empowered to make and
deliver execution unto the party in that behalf suing, of all
such lands, tenements, rectories, tithes, rents, and heredita-
meats (including lands and bereditaments of copyhold or cus-
tomary tenure), as the person against whom execution is
so sued, or any person in trust for him, shall have been
seized or possessed of at the time of entering up the
raid judgment, or at any time afterwards, or over which such
person shall at the time of entering up such judgment or at
any time afterwards have any disposing power, which he
might, without the assent of any other person, exercise for his
own benefit, in like manner as the s tin a' eriff or other officer
may now make and deliver execution of one moiety of
the lands and tenements of any person against whom a
writ of elegit is sued out, which lands, &c., by force of
such execution, shall be held and enjoyed by the patty
to whom such execution shall he so made or delivered,
subject to account in the Court out of which such execu-
tion shall have been sued, as a tenant by digit now is in a
Court of Equity. In the case of copyholds, the party to
whom they are delivered is to be liable to all pas tents and
sertices to the Lord of the Manor in the same way as the
actual tenant would have been, bat then he will be entitled to
hold the premises until the amount not only of his judgm; nt,
but of such payments and the value of such services be paid
as against purchafers, mortgagees, or creditors, who shall
have become such before the commencement of this Act.
This writ of elegit is to have no greater effect than at present.
11. That by virtue of any writ ofjierifacias seed out of any
superior or iliferiar Court. or any precept in pursuance there.
of, the sheriff or other officer may " seize and take away money
or bank-notes ( whether (Stile Bank of England or ott.or hank),
and any cheques, bills of exchange, promissory r.otes, bonds,
specialties, or other securities for money," belonging to the
person against whose effects such writ offieri facias shall be
sued out, and ps4.:. and- deliver the same, or a sufficient part
thereof; to the party suing out such execution. The sheriff is
also empowered to hold any " cheques, bills of exchange, pro-
missory notes, bends, specialties, or other securities for
money," as security for the amount, which by every such
writ he directed to levy, and to sue for the recovery of the
same relatively as the time of payment arrives. The receipt
of the sheriff is made a legal discharge, and on receiving the
amount of the securities which he so holds, he is to pay the
sum marked on every such writ, and, after retaining his own
poundage and expenses, to baud over the surphas to the de-
fendant. The sheriff, however, is net bound to sue in such
cases unless properly indemnified.
12. That judgments entered, or to be entered upon, shall
, operate as a charge upon all " lands, tenements, rectories,
advowsons, tithes, rents, and hereditaments (including lands
and hcreditaments of copyhold or customary tenure), or to
which the party, against whom the judgment is recovered,
may be entitled, for any estate at law or in equity, " who.
(her in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, or
over which he shall have a disposing power for his own be-
nefit. All parties claiming under him and his issue, if
he have power of barring their interest, arc bound to this
charge.
13. That, however, this charge is not to be enforced " until
after the expiration of one year from the time of entering up
the judgment, ter in the case of a judgment already entered
up from the commencement of the Act." No preference is
given to a judgment creek in case of bankruptcy, unless the
judgment shall have been entered up one year at least before
the bankruptcy. As rsegaids pereaaisers, mortagees, or cre-
ditors, who shall be such prior to the Act, they are exempted
from its operation ; and it is also provided " That if any sin-
gle creditor, or any too or more creditors, being loathe's,
n hose debts shall amount to 100/ or upwards, or any ewe cre-
ditors tNhose debts shall amount to 1501. cr upwe.r&, or any
three or more creditors whose debts shall amount to 2001. or
upwards, of any trader within the bankrui t laws, shall file an
affidavit, or affidavits, in the liard,ruptcy Courts of the
debt or debts being jue,tly due, and of his bring a trader
withing the bankrupt inns, and shall serve him with a copy
of such affilavit or affi las its, and notice requiring immcdiate
payment ; and if such trader shall out within al days aft-. r
personal tervice of such affidavit, or rffidavits, and notice,
pay, securo, or 0011Voglid for the debt or debts with his cre-
ditor or creditors, or eater into a bond in such sum or sums,
and with two sufficietet sureties, as a Commissioner of Bank-
ruptcy sha'l approve of, to pay such su:n or sums as shall be
recovered in any action, or actions, brought, or to be brought,
for the recose-ry of the same, with costs, or to render into
custody within the time allowed by the practice of the Court
in which such action, or actions, shall he brought, every such
trader shall be deemed to have ceironitted an act of bank-
ruptcy on the sad (ley after sers ice of such affidavit, or affida-
vita and n iii a, provided a fiat in bankruptcy shall issue within
two calendar months from the filing of suit affidavit, but not
otherwise."
14. That if any person against whom any judgment shall
have been entered up in any of the superior courts shall have
any Government stock, funds, or annuities, or any stock or
shares of or in any public company in England (incoiparated
or not), standing in his name, in his own tight, or in the name
of any pet on ire taalal for him, a Judge, on application by a
ci judgment creditor," may order that stock, funds, annuities,
or share=, or such part thereof as he shall think fit, shall stand
charged with the amount of such judgment as if the sit -re hal
been made a charge tharcen by the " judgment debtor." No
p rty it to have the benefit of such charge until the lapse of
six months from the dote of the order.
15. That such order of a Judge shall he Trade in the first
instance ex parte, and, An ootica to the bank or company,
shall operate as a. distringqs, until the same shall have been
discharged.
16. That if any judgment creditor who, under the provi-
sions of the Act, shall have obteiraed, easy charge, er be entitled
to the benett of sae security whatever, shall, before the same
be cense teal into money or realised, cause his debtor to be
taken in execution, he shall be deemed to have ralincesished
such security.
17. The.iedgiaeot debts shall carry interest at 4 per cent.,
and the same maybe levied under a writ of execution, as well
as the principal.
18. That decrees and orders of Courts of Equity or Batik.
ruptey are to have the effect of judgments recoveted in the
common law Cows.
19. That no judgment, decree, or order, .sliall affect real
estate or otherwise than as before the Act until the came is
registered, and a heal: for tle. purpose is to he kept by the
Senior Master of the 'Court of Common Pleas, who for every
entry is to be entitled to a fee of 55., and for every s arch Is.
20. That the Courts of law, equity, and bankruptcy, may

fritne such ntsw writs as ma.y b deemei evedient for tt
purp)ses of the Act and earl y'ng its provisions into eff* et.
21. That all the remedies, anthzritic,, and provisions of
the Act applicable to the Courts and Julgee at Westminster
Hill, shall extend to the Courts of .I.Aii,:aster aad Durham,
except that no justice of the Coat of Durham, no: a JuJgo
or one of the superior CO! rt of common law, is empty, rel
to =le any order to hold to Inn •or discharge from csstody.
I. is then provided, that in all cases where final judgmeot
shall be obtained in au v in!( rior Court or
in which a barrister seven r awing at t; J • l,e,
and in all eases whe., any ru e r mirk. 13.), sir,o
Court for payment of costa, ,:barges. or eypensc-:;, the Jetlgc3
of the superior Courts are emptiwurcd, in er out of "Job to
order such judgment. rule, order, to b,..n removed into the
superior Court, to the Judges of which application is wad
and the same is then to have the same effect as if it had been
obtained in such superior Court. Provided that the sarn,:t shall
not affect any lands, rents, tenemmos, or hereditaments otLr-
wise than it it had not been removed from such inferior C net,
unless execution on same be plaved in th, hail& of the sheriff
or other officer.

22. That the powers now vested in the Court for the Relief
of Insolvent Debtors shall continue as the same are at present
exercised by the Commissioners. Provision is then made for
the continuance of the whole of the machinery of the Court,
both with regard to its sitting and the power of the Commis-
sioners to go circuit, as well as to regulate the practice arid
fees to be taken by their officers..
35. That the detaining creditor of a prisoner in execution
may ap?ly by petition to have his estate aqd dicets vested in
the provisional assignee, should such prison-Jr not make satin.
faction to the creditor within twenty-oi.e days from his com.
mittal to p: icon.

The 1 i3th clause enables the Court to invest unclaimed
moneys and apply interest towards the exi- eaces of the Court,
provided the same shall have in the h Inds of the Court
l'or twelve months at ; and clause 11:i is a virtual repeal
of the Lords' Act as it declares that frc m and :dirt- 'the pass.
ing of the Act no prisoner for debt 111811 petition any Court
for his or her discharge under the provisions of an Act passed
in the 32d of George IL, entitled, " An Act for the relief r.f
debtors with re pact to the impr:sonment of their persons, n 1
to oblige debtors who shall enitinue in execution beyond a cer-
tain time, for sums not exceeding what a:e mentioned in the
Act, to make discovery of, and deliver upon oath, their estates
for their creditors' b,nefit ; nor shall any creditor ot any pri-
soner petition any Court fur the exiTeise of the compulsory
powers given against the debt(r, under the provisions of the
Act above• mentioned.

Ott Friday an inquest was held' at -the George,
Great nor:mil-street, Marylebotre,onthebodyof Mt. William Martin,
a very respectable woollen-draper and tailor, of Great Titeldield-stret
who e:.intnitie,l suicide by sus/wilding himself to the rail of a hedge:Li
with a hand4erchic Several witnesses were examined, who spoke to
the deeea,e.,'s low dejected state or mind fitr soire months part, owing
to ti,custfary embarrassments: Verdict—" Tem;;sitary mental derange-
ment." 'lite deceased wits a married man, with a large family.
- On Tuesday last Mr. Wear, innkeeper of Whitby,
put two notes in a nest of drawers fixed to his ceiling. Ott the Monday
following, on going to get out the money, he, to his consternation found
the notes gone. No reason could be assigned for the mysterious disap-
pearance of the money. A person suggest al that Wear should take up
the floor above, which he did, and found his notes pia7.ed amongst a lit.
ter en which two rats had brought into the world two families, amount.
ing to sixteen in number, the whole of which were, without any mercy,
exe.atted, together with their parents, upon the spot.--York Herald.
ARTESIAN WELL—The bore, which has been
going on for so long a period near Paris has now reached the depth of
410 metres (or about 1,345 fee:), and the funds being exhausted, M.
Elie de Beaumont has been requested to examine the matters lately
brought up by the auger, and to say whether they afford any ind:catiou
by which the thickness of the bed to be pierced, before arriving at the
sand, may be gathe cd, M. de Beaumont Las accordingly given his
opin'en, that the bore has rOched the :user beds of the chalk tormation,
and that the marls and gualt whict s!i!I intervene between the bore and
the ttrattun where the water will be found will probably be. less Mau
100 metres th;ek (3:2s feet). If M. de Bemmoat's atiticipation should
prose correkt, the well should have a depth of 1,600 feet, at which
(teeth, according to recent calculxions, the water should have a tem-
perature sufr.ciently high to furni.,h Paris with an abundant supply of
hot wa•er for baths, and for many other purooses.
Mr. Styler haring let a portion of land to cottagers
on his estate, they obtained permission to empty a pi: for the purpose of
usiog the sedimeat as manure, when they found upwards of forty sheep
slabs, into which the entrails had la,:en put, in various stages of decom-
position. 'f he a hole of these arc the remains of sheep stolen within a
short time in the neighbsurhood of this city.—Worcester Parr.
On Friday the police magistrates ordered a man
named James nulson to find sureties to the amount of 101. to keep the
peace for the serious crime of " blowing his 110 S.: " at S trait
Times.

A fm days ago one of the coaches on the Oldham
and Manchester road was overturned, and Mr. Stunt.), on, of the pas-
sengers, who was much hurt, die.l on Thn.-•dac wee':. An inquest was
held to inquire into the circumstances, an 1 t'.e driver, James Niwtt.ii,,
was committed fnr trial at the tit-xi. Llvzrpo Assizes on a charge of Mall.
slaughter.—Liverpool Slandaed.

BON ES.—lt appears by a return ordered by the
House of Commons that the declare:l value of bones of cattle and other
animals, and of fish (except whale fins), whether burnt or rot, or as atii-
m,l chart 051, imported into the United Kingdant in the year 183:),
»mounted to 155,t27i7, 9g. I Id. ; and in 1 S 3( 171,506/. 7.. I Od.

• -- •
Ou Saturday, hi the police committee, Guildhall,
on the occasion of discharging from the force a policeman convicted of
Lein; drunk, s:veral Aldermen expresse.l Weir determ' iix.ion to vote
;or the expulsion of any policeman found t loin even once in this nay.

•-
13:tween twelve and one o'clock on Saturday MOM.
mg, plic; c dAble S 9 E found a poor woman, about fifty years'of age,
lying in Harper.strect, Ittoomsbury, apparently in the agonies of death,
He itnin.sdiately prottred assistance a. d carried her to St. Giles's work.
!louse, where she eho.tly breathed he.• last. She had money about
her, and from er wretched appearance :hare seems no doubt but that
eke had did fun want.

George 111. and his famous Chancellor, Lora u.
dr n, hal troth the same anniversary, the 4th o.' Ju; e. \Vt.eu the tat cr
.cot to come to congraulate the )[:mat eh, his Royal Master was the first
to tender his congratulations. This anecdote I4)ld Eldon used to tell
with much satisfaction, and cvidently with the utmost sincerity.
WEWIIT OF THE fiIiNIAN 130 DY—M. Chnussie
oiled a human body in au oven, the original weight of which was 1201).
when dry it aas reduced to 121 h. Hence the solid matter of the body
wan water as one to nil]; or onc.tenth. From this it will be seen host
great a prorort ion the fluids of the body bear to the solids.
LOVE.—Scarec one person out of twenty
m..rri.s his first love, and scarce one out of twenty of the remainder has
cause to ruj vice at having done so. What we love in 'those early days is.
wmerally r..ther a lancind creation of our own than a reality. We buiii
slatues of 8110 W, and weep when they Waiter Scott.
ASSOCIATION OF
.I,IN-riser NINNIES.
at Edi ',bh of Friday gravely infmins the world th on Monon urg
s,
hold a meeting of the Edinburgh Op. ratives Conservative A.sooia;
S teen
The Scotsman of Sa!urday conjectured that tr. 4 mech,„g „„thtedi
me-t ly ofa few Lopeful clerks and :hopmen. If an, labouring men at-
ter-vied they must laboettrM under 4V.ision.
On Saturday nn ;quest was held in the New-rortl
on the body of Pichird Elliot, a baiter, who coinnf tted suicide by
throwing li:msCf the Reg,lrt`a-canal. Lossis in trade arc sumiot.e.l
to have intlual him to tho art. Vitilict—" Temporary Derangement "
On Tuostlav as .Itobe.t,. the ion of Mr,
of this c:ty (Exeter), was carrying the barrel ofa gun whit h
was loaded, and had on a percussion cap, in his pocket, it is supposed,
that by a blow It exploded, and the contents passing through his wrap%
struck his head, knocking off his cap. The poor young reaa w,.. Weis
to the hospital, where be died in the course cf the day --E.r.fter
Post,

We hear that Mr. William Charles, of Siloates
Gardena, near Wakefield, has raised a most splendid seedling, which
for regularity of form and finenesss "pencillina" cannot at present
bacxeelled. It has been 'valued a not less than, from fifty to a hundred
guineas by some competent judges.— IVaioykld Journal.
A journal in the south of France gives the follow-
ing arent.nt of printed vtluaroa existing In the public libraries of the
ptiucipd towns in tho tenth cf Trance:—Bourtleaux, 120,000;
Libourne, -1,100; ',Von ue-Mersan, 12,000 ; Pau, 15,000 ; Tarbes,
10,000; A::4), 7,700; Tmi louse, 66,000; Foix. et Parniers, 11,500;
Cal-pawn:, 10,400; Perpignan, 14,000; Mortl)elier, 7,000; Healers,
4,500; Nimes, 30,000; Alais, 3,300 ; Villeneuve les-Avignon, 7,250;
Privas, 2,000 ; Alby, 12,000; Montattlian, 10,000 ; Agcn, 55,000.
'flic hay is uc w moatly m rick ; it will be completely
so by the end of the week. Ir. quality it trill be superior to any crop
w, have had for a number of year:: pa,t. As for the quantity we have
se...n no occasion to alter the views we formerly expressed—namely, that
there a heavy crod on ''veal wrought land. We can as yrt say HUI, it
favour of the turf-Ape; but they may improve, tilt!) goo:l weather. The
r rain crop,: look beautilla—Glasgow Chronielr.
A man,. named Lsfosse, sentenced to death f r
murder, was executed at Brussels on Tuesday last. The chaplain of
the prime Lira in vain to confess his crime; he persisted toihe
very lest to &e lm mest carmstiy that ire was innocent. There had not
hoen a capital ex"cutton at Biuswls, as the journals ofthat capitahtate,
since the ye .u• 1825.

na
thursTiay the foundAtion for thz statue of Dr.
Juithson, it;temed to be crecte.l in the ni_rket.p'ac.!, Lichfield, was laid
With appropriate ceremonies by the Rev. Chalice for Law. The statue,
which is completed, is reanned an excellmt likeness, and will star d in
a pcsition to he seen from the furthest extremity of Maiket.strea.-
11 olverlumipton Chronicle.
The police are almost daily receiving information
of roi:b.?rlei committed by a middle aged man, apparently a foreigner,
who, under pretence of taking apartments, has contrived to secrete ant
carry oft' valuable articles of plate, jewellery, &c., from the bruises he has
visited. His depredations at the West-end within the last few we( ks
hz.ve been somewhat extensive, but it is expected that he will speodily bo
amsted in his career by the police, who ate constantly on the icok-out
for him

The Hastings is receiving at Portsmouth a stern-
gal!ery, for the accommodation of the Dowager queen, who is likely t.
leave England about the :180) of September.
Some res.:arches lately made in the cathedral of
Rouen have led to the di,-covery, under the pavement of the sanctuary.
of the statue of Richa-d Cour-de-Lion, which used to ornament his
tomb, and a box eneosing his heat t. 'I his statue, which is in pet fect
preservation, Is six feet and a-half in length, and represents the King in
a recumbent position, with his feet resting on a lion couchant. The
tomb was once enclo,ed by a railing rf silver, which was so'd in the
middle of the 1:3111 century, In order to pay the ransom of Sr. Louis.
This tomb is to be restored awl placed in the chapel of the Holy Virgitt.
DREADFUL EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.—:i
woman named ;Mary Reacts, living in Bell yard, Temple.bar, who front
at early hour in the morning hail Veen thinking, while sitting asleep on
a Clair opposite the file, fell with hoe fac:oil the bars of the grate. The
wretched woman was at) IMO) burned that her fewures could scarceix
ice distinguished. A medical gentltamal give it as his opinion that the,
sight of both eyes would be tota:ly lost, is d gave orders for her imme...
diate removal to the hospital.
ARGUMENT ON THE DEATH OF CHARIitS THE
Twawra.—l have been to the Arsenal, which emtains the sword and
armour of Gustavus Vasa, the :kin or the noise whicb carried Gustavus.
AtiolAus at the battle of Lutz m, and the clothes in which Charles the
Twelfth w.,s shot. It has been mentioned as a circumstance ptoving
hi assassination that his hand wvs found oil the hilt (Ibis
sworn,
He
is supposed, from Gil:, to have seen a person standing t
iai:iag aim at big with a pistol, and to have put ItAnse
of defenc,. But I observed that the glove of the light
with blood, and the marks of the Lle,,,ay lingers art
sword-hilt: he must, then for: Lave fiisi put his ;tai„
t!te rctit n of gra ping
Lis sword ut, consent!,
merelyWleclvan.cal.— cal.--Remains of f,or ..
d n„ysta,.

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SPIRIT OF Tan PUBLIC JOURNALS'.

What will the Lords do with the amendments of the
Coe.mons to the amendments of the Lords in the Irish
Municipal Corporetioa Bill ? Let us just look at the course
of proceeding hitherto, and then let us consider whet is
likely to be the course of proceeding hereafter. First,
the Commons determine to reform the abuses of the Irish
Corporations, and, moreover, to place, them on a footing
which will render them less exclusively Protestant ; and
here let us remark, that in Dublin, and some other Cor-
porations, although Roman Catholics have been so long
eligible as members of the Corporation, not one has yet
been admitted to its freedom. Next, the Lords declared
themselves ready, two years ago, to co operate in the re-
medy of abuses ; and, in the third.place, a Bill for that
purpose was sent up from the Commons. What was the
step taken by the Lords upon it ? They thre-x out the
Bill, and instead of cc-eperating in the remedy of abuses, •
they told the people of Ireland, that they, the people of
Ireland, were untit for Corporate institutions; and that the
only alternative was, not to reform, but to abolish. This
insult was not to be endured, and the people of Ireland
resented it in such a manner that every the Lords,
" Strong in corruption, obstinate in ill,"
were obliged to give way. They found not only that Ire-
land must have Corporations, but that the people all of a
sudden were fit for them, and they, in a manner, invited the
Commons to send them another Bill, under the pretext
that they were at last convinced of the necessity of reme-
dying the evils of the present system, Another Bill was
accordingly prepared, and the utmost care was taken so to
qualify the main provisions of it as to adapt it as much as
possible to the known views and wishes of the House of
Lords. It was thus hoped that asperities on both sides
would be softened down, and that a measure might receive
the sanction of the whole Leg elature which would accom-
Vish some good, and would remote a ftw of the barriers hi-
therto raised to the admission of Roman Catholics into Irish
Corporations: The Bid was p,,s,,ed by the Commons after
much di!cussion and sundry parings down at the instance
of the Tories of the Lower-Horse, who strove hard to pre-
serve many of the abuses they were unable to defend.
The Lords seemed to consider the corruptions of Corpo-
rations as a sort of gout in the body politic of Ireland, a
healthful disorder : they would not cure the gout of
Ireland if they could. Therefore, though externally
they thought it expedient to evince a disposition to
second the intentions of the Commons, they secretly
determined to exert their utmost ineenuity to defeat those
intentions. The Bill .-a:ssed by the Gammons was sent up to
theta, and they saw at a glance that, short as was the distance
to which it went, it was carried much too far, and really
afforded a chance that some gross and deeply-rooted evils
would be eradicated—that the misappropriation of Corpo-
rate funds would be corrected—that charitable trusts
would be honesly administered—that Orangeism would be
attacked in its strongholds—and, above all, that a few Ro-
man Catholics might by possibility find their tray into the
municipal bodies of Ireland. All this was surely enough
in the eyes of Tory Peers to doom the Bill to mutilation,
if not to destruc!ion ; and with all imaginable " craft"
(a word not very palatcable, according to Sir Robert
Peel, but very app!icahle, according to Lord John Russell)
they set to work to deprive the measure of some of its
most effectual clauses, to insert others which would coun-
teract such as were allowed to remain, and to make
amendments, trifling in appearance but important in
their consequences, the general effect of which would be to
deprive the Bill of its vigour, and to render it wholly in-
adequate to the purpose for which it was intended. In
this state it was returned to the Commons, with upwards of
ninety new clauses, ,ts if the Commons ought to be ashamed
of having sent it up in so imperfect a shape, and as if they
were bound to submit to the dictation of the Lords upon
the subject. The Ministerial leader in the Lower House
of Parliament, indignantly refused " to bend his neck to
the yoke the Peers would impose," and was prepared, not
to " insult the majesty of the House of Lords," but to
prove that. the Commons of the United Empire, having
deliberately determined upon a certain line of policy, were
resolved to adhere to it, rot for the sake of any party tri-
umph after a party struggle, but because it was best calculated
to promote the welfare and happiness of one-third of the
subjects of the British Crown. At the same time, on points
comparatively indifferent, and on some even of considerable
moment, the Commons were still ready to make concession
for the purpose, if possible, of securing unani-
mity and of finally settling a question, the non-settlement•of
of which might Le attend:A with the most injurious conse-
quences, On the all-important point of the francise, Lord
John Russell showed a roost conciliatory spirit from the first,
and at last his consented to an arrangement which half-
way meets the wishes of the Lords. Still we have no hope
that the Tori-s of the Uppke. Heu;e will see the error of
their ways, and co.-,sent to the all in the shape in
which it was returned to there at the confer, r.ce on Satur-
day. The quesCon is to lyt discussed to-morrow ; but the
Lords have taken up s 3 pe7v(tse a notion that thy
they art, ect. fled to every :-pecks of concesi•n, and that
the Commoas ought to aciespt te:tii th Inkfabiuss what-
ever they in tl.eir wis lom may please t r bestow
64 God gye them wi,(!,:m th et hate it ; aed
are fool., iet

Jey thi.t
ss .iliretvt.l

h( ir taicnt,"

j, titer in tl.e it' in r&-'cri nee to th Fete I:ary wis-
dom of the Li-rd-, \\lie ti e Lo-d, ar it:he itaucc
they n_•ed that should gi.,e-tln.m a fresh
supply helote they can be Ir. wght to consettt even to that
moderate portian of Corporation 'forty which thebarn fools
of the Commons " used their talent" to prepare.
We would indule a r to txinen_vien of a dfferent
result, but so e.,nnot, and al.r, %se exclaim, " God dice
them wisdom that have it." God mahe tlicFe re
mho are on v/s-, by lal era e. If tio! Lerls w;sh the
in 0,11, I. •c this country to lie i.. pressc'd wit!: the de_
lived from the existence of their body es at pre:ent corsti-
toted, they will carefully at (rid all unto cessr.ry
To be abT.e to stem pubne op.nio;!, tt [en that option lcax
been led astra..., tlt.cv oug[t Get to ire t!te:r power watt-
tonly, but reserve it for grct,t ocelsi:rus. 'Fite Lords
themselves, wafer the w;ui 'once of m r I,:te Lord
burst, arc the gr,aest enemies of the Lord.—Moraing
Ur: wiirie.

It h s Lapp; ned, onircquentiy, in these (I,:ys if
iv, i:at Of CXtt rn,..1
puzzEn!: itt first sizlst, awl sth.niingt.y irreton-
cilable with one an•itlier, hat e all hen a- r 1 lar
rrori7eo. I-- a

ss,tre i u.

pl

principle. Ferli,ps in like manner even the irr giihrit'es
and variations ero, ruey be 11.u.7(1, upon
matere nb4ercation, !cse inrxpli.'alde than a cande.is spec-
tator would be .ipt it:l:y.44le. We ahi Ilust7..te our moan-
ing by an exAmgo, sty:;.; s•e.l to us by la4r Friday's debate
in the House ('1 Lord. A Wh'g Ministry introduces in
1834 a measure for the setticnn.nt of Irish tithe, by
conversion of it. into ret.4-cliarge, at a great sacrifice of
eecles'astical revr nue ; which measuremeasure the trt per House
of Parliament, not. then r.p:t ter :o exterlsive a ohnnge, ond
;tat willing to itanose On the pi:Wn certain bur-
dens connected viii the tl,,!ziils of that particular proposal,
decline to enact. That M'nistry l avinr• been cx;o-ll d ffoin
office, the same measure, (lusted of its fiscal objections. is
proposed by a Couservatile Goverrimenmen•, upon whiA
the s lave persons who limlintroduc.ed the oritzi, proprs'tion
get: up a tierce and .soecossful rrssfance, I.lyriz down the
broad prine:ple, that any such adjustment will be worse
then useless, unless accomp.lnied by a provision fur apply-
ing a part, at leap`, of the Church property to secular
t ; And tipsu this principle, as upon a stepping-stone,
n mount into office, Ifciag thus reinstated. they pro-
pose a with two sets of clauses—one coirici!jieg in sub-
stance with the two former plans fur converting tithe lilt°
rent-charge ; the ether proposing to segues!, r, for secular
uses, a per7im of the property of the Church. The first
of these two sots of clauses being acceptable to all per-
ties, but the second altogether inadmissible by the friends
of the Church, it is pra;-.osed, on the part. of the Conzerva-
the3, in order to save the first set of ,Eases from being sa-
crificed n the r, jection of the whole. that the two sets,
instead of being included in one B 11, be male the
subject of two
.distinct Bills, so as to pass the tithe,
arrang,-mcnt unanimously, and leave the other ques-
tion, (of oppropriotion), to Le di:cussed on its own
grounds ; arid the rather, because )ert the two subjects are
wholly distinct m their natures the one relating
only to the mode of collecting the Church income, the other
to the applicatton of that income when collected. Upon
this die Whig., who for many years had been declaiming
again •t the s}-,tern of tithe collection as the source of Ire-
p, .hen rncril and insist that what the majority
1, nil f f
e rom the
oi t.,,e money levied : that
cut snch a p the conversion of tithe into nnt-
aril justly, the maltreated multi-
charge will but irku nee,
tildes of irk.nt'. ; that tithe-conversion, therefore, ani
vopriation, shall be one and indivisible. Unable, how-
ever, in 1835 en. in 1836, to force upon the House of
Lords or upon the opi,,ion of conscientious England the
ilishor,est nt to which this gentle name of " appro-
priation" is given, and finding-, in 1837, the public indigna-
tion rising tvury day higher agAnst it, they postpone the
luiz_irLus question, on which defeat would have been di s-
missa% till tle tri I of the Session, and .then the demise of
the Crown comes to their T.-chi. A general election
having token place, it becomes obvious that the appropria-
t'n 'itt''" Ptel bv 111'nisfcrs, will be re;ected by
t:o., new of Commons. A Bill therefore is pre-
part!J, tr)ose clausos altogether—just such a Bill,
in short, as would have p in 1835, if the Ministry
had not than misted that the measure was absolutely
- That separation which they then rejected as
fatalto Ireland,. they eow adopt and make their own, pro-
testing that the aptrorniation principle is still indeed a very
fine thing in the abstract ; but that, practically, the only
way to settle Ireland is to do what they turned out a Con-
servative Government for attempting that ;s, to pass a

Ei 1 renvening Tile ;nate rent-el: :erg:nand leave appropr a-
tion to take its chance with some mote enlielattned genera- i
tion. All this they do against tile protest, real or affected, 1
of that section of th 6 Irish representatives by whose lights i
they peefess to be guided in their Iri-h policy,attd who now I
assure them that this cot tsculated Bill is a mockery ; and
one of their own body, their Secretary at War, proclaims
his opinion pretty much in the same strain, and, to the con-,
sternetion of his cam:ties in the Cabinet, serves the Irish
Church with pub is notice to quit. These are the circum-
stances which, eitiong superficial observers,haee brought down
upon herMajesty'sMinisters the imputation of inconsistency
with each other,. and with their own former opinions and
pledges ; and prima facie they do seem obnoxious to
some such censure. But there were two or three sentences
drepped'by Lord Wicklow in the House of Lords during
the debate on Friday, which may lead to a more enlarged
and accurate view of the Ministerial policy. A Govern-
ment is consistent or inconsistent as it adheres to or de-
parts from its OW LI main principle, and we henestly believe
that Lord Wicklow did no more than justice to the Whig
Ministry, when he gave them credit for having adhered to
their main principle with the utmost fidelity. If, as is
groudlessly assumed by those who charge inconsistency
against them, the main object of the Whigs had been
to tranquillize Ireland—in that view we admit that the
measures pursued by them would have been a glaring
and criminal series of inconsistencies. But if, as Lord
Wicklow more accurately puts it, their main object from
the first has been to get and keep possession of office, their
retention whereof is in their consciences_ the one thing need-
ful to the well-being of their country—why, then, com-
mon candour compels us to say that their consistency has
been admirable and exemplary—nay, that they hake pre-
served it at the sacrifice of almost everything in which men
of humbler vique are wont to place their pride. They
may have proelaimed fundamental doctrines, and upset
them—they may have professed immutable principles, and
changed them—there may have been startling departures,
and revolutions wild and wide, but. the one paramount and
simple principle of gravitation to the grrat centre of office,
solves all the phenomena, and vindicates the order of the
system and the unity of the design. Those readers who
take with them this clue to the important debate of the
Lords on Friday, the 3d of this month, will peruse it with
much instruction. They will know bow to appreciate the
men who have introduced the present settlement for Ire-
land, after treating her alternately as their client and their
dupe, their stalking-horse and their victim. If any detailed
analysis of their policy be required, it will be found
In the speech of that remarkably inconvenient critic,
the Lord Brougham and Vaux, who, having once
been their colleague, is especially cognizant of their
characters and courses. On these points he is, by
aoiition, an undeniable authority. So, too, when he pro-
tests, on behalf of the Dissenters, against the gift of money
provided by this Bill in relief of the recusant tithepayers—
a compulsory largess, which he describes as being, to as:
ser.ters, " a heavy blow and great discouragement." And
this, adds he, very pithily, "from a Government who could
not exist half an hour without the Dissenters ." Why,
then, do Dissenters allow that precarious existence to con-
tinue? Because they know that the Ministers who have
made a savage war, and now a hollow truce, with the
Church in Ireland, are the likeliest adventurers to attack
the Church in England ; that a Cabinet which cherishes
the present Secretary at War bids the fairest to pro-
duce a statesman who shall work the plough and the
steam-engine through the aisles of the Establishment.
But the speech of the Learned Lord, we must con-
fess, is a little unequal. When it descends to the Irish
howl of " six millions to one," when it echoes the common
O'Connell cry, then all that rational men can find to ad-
mire is, how it has happened that while Mr. O'Connell
and Lord Brougham are of the same opinions upon Irish
questions, the one is found supporting the Adminis-
tration, and the other assailing it ? There is no occasion
that we should point out to the attention of intelligent men
the masterly speech of Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey, a speech
combining a force of argument and a forbearance of tem-
per, well calculated to make the same impresion on the
country which it produced on the House of Lords. As
that speech was remarkable for the important matter it con-
tained, so the speeches of Lord Melbourne and of the
only colleague who supported him, Lord Lansdowne, were
remarkable for the important matter they omitted. That
is to say, in the first place they omitted to afford one
syllable by way of answer to the very material and formi-
dable interrogatory of Lord Mansfield, whether the head of
the Government participated in the opinions of the
Secretary at War ? And, in the second place,
they omitted to furnish any reason for the double
course pursued on the subject of the appropria-
tion, except that Lord Melbourne in his reply,
after stoting that he thought advantageous results might
have arisen from that principle, was pleased to add, that-
" still he did net mean to deny the influence of present
circumstances, end he thought he might fairly give way to
• that influence without any dereliction of opinion." That is
the succinct defence of the first Miei,ter of the Clown for
. the most incredible abandonment of recorded prieciple that
or r was dared by an Administration, first to get office, and
then to I,;ep it' We were for a momertt tempted to re-
Wise Lord AL,lb:Atrie's rcniuks in tl'precia ion of Burke ;
hitt stontenipt restreies ue. That a nom with the puny ue-
d. rstatelieg atid desultory liabt-reading of Lord Melbourne
sheald presume to speak, except in terms of profound ve-
-I;,ra:i ,n, of the ri ienty intellect and ;•onipreht n,ive.. views -
ef alinund Burke, -does, we confess, stifle our power of
ut tcrance, by a sensat ion of us erwhelining disgust.—Times
The preseet week wilt, We suppose, bring us to the con-
elusion of the Irish Corporations end the Irish T.the mei-
,,,ur.?.s for th,.• present se: situ. The Irish Poor-ia-v Bill,
nonsitltsteirdieg the factious opposition of Mr. O'Connell,
is fortunately safe, and, whatever may be the fate of the
two farm. r, the e;la,trnent of the latter will be suflieieut
to stamp the-general eh sactar of the legislation of the ses-
sior, so far es Ireland la concerned, with a character de-
cidedly Con ert atit e. Of t.l e sntlement of the Corpora-
tion questing during the p:esent year little hope can no
be en te teined. It is unite certain that the House of Lor.'.s.
is ill steadOtst:y atilere to the well•comidered amendments
tat wliiel, tie y It et lit,pc.d to to ton: ile the estctli:ishmet.t ol
• noiallar Cor:Arateas in Ircl old with the pe,:..ce, the we:fare,
the safety. teed the h.,1 piness t f that couetry. It is alinnit
cqua:ly ct vein that Lord John Russell wnl not dare a se-
core! time to elthet ••.d! ilr fl^r- e•-. :' r.! 1,- ice thz. resert-
went of the rap::t ail(' Radical is: tons, and that, there-
fore, he will ajot the Bill alt lealier rather than accept it
eith the sa'toary and Cons:Tva•ive tunendmen,s of the
1-14,use of Lords. That Lrrd Melbourne, the head of the
Administration, nt.ose d the third reading of the Bill in
the lictoe of which lie is a Mr lather, aft, r it had received
cv, ry one of the amt n Iment s which Mr. O'Connell and his
p•-rt y are determinsd to annul, is-true. It is true also that
every Mender of the Administration who has a seat in the
Ilcuse of Lonis concurred eith the Noble Premier in r -
eamding the amendments, ho °toy- r objectionah:e ;In y might
deem them or not, el: necessity fatal to ties B:11. But in the
preseet day foes like these avail little. What signifies the
of inion of Lord Melbourt.e. end Lord Lensrlovrne, and
Lord Gle,;e!g. and Lord Cottenhem, and Lord :Tinto, and
Lord Duee :men, when expressed in ianorance of what
wruld he the final and irrcsiA.,ble di -torn of Mr. °Tot:-
nell ? It is tree, morcovr r, that Lerch John Russell, the
, 1 Ministerial leader of the House of Commons, and all the
. I otl er Ministers who sit in that Assembly, ma:Vested
• their unanimous concurrence in the opini .n indicated
, so plainly by their Noble Culleitgues in the Upper
House, bf imp!o; ing in a conclat e of Weigo Ra-
deal and Papist Members of' Parii'mo nt (the sc crets of
which conclave have not been well kept), the gra-
cious permission of the Agitator to submit to the Lords'
amendments rather than threw out the Bill. But whet sits-
rifies the opinion of sus i men as Lord John Russell, and
Lord Palmerston, and Lord Hoeick, and Mr. Spri:-g
Wee, and Mr. Pouktt ThomAm, ;Ind Sir John Cam IN:-
lomee, when the Agitator is determined to stand out stoutly'
for the interests of agitation ? The voice potential of Mr.
O'Connell has pronounced that the existing Corporations
of Irelai.d are better than those which would have b. en
created by the Ministerial Bill, with the amendthents of
the Lords. And, to speak the outh, we are very mu- h of
Mr. O'Connell's opinion, although upon somewhat different
grounds. The upshot of the matter, however, is, that the
Corporation Bill will be prevented by Mr. O'Connell and
his party, and wholly by them, from becoming law ; and
had they never done any greater mischief than this, we
really cannot sett that their offences wo-ald have been
almost ther unparloeable. If these gentlemen will -per-
,;st
.n a tFI e• th- p-,..50!,t l>,rpor ti,,t-i. ,41 I eI,,A
to any tither th::t they c.in t- t, v,e •ay, let them
be indulged by all metns. We anal the Con-
servatives of England consent with all our hearts to the
prsservation of the existing Corporations of Ireland. They
are bo:',ies to tali, h we think we owe much gratitude.
We know of mu,li good that they havc done, and of little
evil. Itistitutel for the support of the Protest int ceuse
th•en,ellnigeroeft i:iimeiensg
osro
end for the protection of the persons and property•of Pro-
,Trucculml
ttrants, they have been true to the purposes of their crea-
' arc still true to those sott:mtel%irreogr iugiirnea
01
r a l characterio,,,th
ea;
se not yet needless purposes. We do
not pant, therefore, so very carnesq for the d • '
destruction of
_ _
the present Ceroorations of lrelardY as to b, grudge to Mr.
O'Connell aed hie steer nts the
privilege of keeping them long as they like. But they must tot henceforth-'
prt-
: cid at th::,e Cordorato,is are so conupt, wicked, and
,:-rn:c:ous i-,s they bare heretofore described them. They
,-)r.L tjeally renounce all such extreme opinions, when the
let, none to prefer the press nt Corporations to such as the
Ministry they k ep ie °Mee would Mate recommended to
their Adoption. The measure forthe settler's( nt ofth elrish tithe
question promises to be more successful, . for some of the
leading Papist egita.ors happen to be the proptietorz of a
1 Port:on, although it be but a small one, of the soil of Ire-

land ; and in this character they have long
we iii o been
senFible of the embarrassment of that alternative to which
the law in its present state, administered by upright, incor-
ruptible, and fearless judge:, bad reduced them, of losing in
w
purse by resistit.g the payments due to the Protestant
c'ergy, or of losing iii rabble popularity by yielding them.
The anti-tithe war had become a king gone to all the
paternity of the O'Connell's and the Sheila—thanks to the
stern integrity and the dauntless resolution of the Irish
Court of Exchequer, with its efficacious writs of rebellion.
It was very well to stimulate the peasantry to withstand
the payment 'of legal claims at the hazard of bloodshed,
and the payment sacrifice of life ; it was very well for per-
sons calling themselves gentlemen to resort fer a time,
even at the risk of some pecuniary loss, and by all
the means which legal chicanery could • supply, the pay-
ment of debts as just as any other that they could owe ; it
seas very well to harangue upon the principle of appropria-
tion so long as any hope could be entertained of their get-
t:ng the thin side of the wedge inserted in the solid struc-
ture of the Established Church, and especially .when this
pinciple was capable of being employed as a bond of union
with a set of English politicians as profligate as they are
feeble, from whom after their accession to office a large
share of the patronage and the whole executive power of
the Irish Government might be extorted by the demagogues
of Popery and sedition. All this was well enough so long
as it could be made to last ; but when it was found that
the deluded peasantry would only shed blood in resistance
to tithes so loug as the dema;ogue gentry would disburse
pence in the same desperateand raciou 3 cause ; when it was
found that the Judges of Ireland were inaccessible alike to ca-
jolery and intimidation, and that the laws of Ireland in their
hands were capable of sustaining the rights of pro-
perty ; when, above all, it was found that the Noble Peer-
age of England, in unison with the general determination
of the Britisa people, would for ever spurn the atrocious
principle of Church property ; from that moment the com-
position of tithe became an object of anxious desire to
the Papist enemies of the Church of Ireland, and ceased
to be an object of peculier solicitude to her friends. We
believe, on these grounds, that the amendments made
by the House of Lords in the Irish Tithe Bill now before
their Lordships will not experience any very determined
resistance on the part of her Majesty's - Ministers, or of
the Papist demagogues whom they serve and obey. But
let the latter do their worst. The anti-tithe war hav-
ing been effectually put down by the vigorous though
tardy assertion of the 1 ins, the Protestant clergy of
Ireland have little to fear from the present state of the
law, and little to hope from any alteration it can at present
undergo. Should the ques-ion not be settled now, the
friends of the Church of Ireland may wait without impa-
tience, and without dismay, for a more advantageous oppor-
tunity of settling it. In reference to both the great Irish
questions now before Parliament, and, indeed, to every
other political question, it should always be recollected that
the Irish Poor-law already passed, by establishing a definite
test of the value of occupations, guarantees a rapid im-
provement in the Parliamentary constituency and represen-
tation of Ireland.—Morning Post.
We were not far mistaken when we some time ago
described the temporising and surrendering policy of the
Parliamentary Conservatives as "compromise that would
bring no peace, and concession that would excite no grati-
tude." Sir Robert Peel having set the example of a com-
promise of principle in the House of Commons, and being
followed in the Lords by the Duke of Wellington, Lord
Lyndhurst, and other leaders of the Conservative party,
who, during the reign of the late lamented William IV.,
had, as a matter of vital policy, resisted the establishment
of the normal schools of political agitation on any terms,
what is now their reward ? The taunts, and sneers, and j
revilings of Lord John Russell, for having come down from
the high ground of principle, and, contrary to their repeated
declarations of no surrender, offered timid terms of capitula-
tion to the O'Connellitc faction, and that, too, at a moment
when that faction, along with the Whin- Ministers, who pur-
chased their support by the betrayal of Protestant interests,
were rapidly sinking to their proper level in the estimation of
the wholecountry. The "compromise" has served to puffsotne
fresh gas into the fast collapsing balloon of Whig power,
and set it afloat again. How long, even- with such aid, it
will remain buoyant is another question. That it will live j
through the Session now appears to be certain. The next.
half year's salaries, therei.Ore, of our Ministerial showmen
are secure, and the consciousness of this security for so
long a period is probably what gave Lord John Russell I
spirit and confidence enough to vent a weak dilution of the
O'Connell venom upon the heads of the Coaservetite and
coneessiono/ Lords who, to propritiate the smallest of all
possible statesmen and their burley master, had shown more
willingness to accommodate, by a sacrifice of national inte-
rests, the Popish party, than was consistent with their
former profess'ons as Conservative politicians, and their
duty as guardians of our Protestant Constitution. We
denounced this ill-advised and ill-fated compromise
from the begioning. It has lowered the moral strength
—it bits in sortie degree weakened the polhieal unity
—of the Conservative body, and, instead of smooth-
ing down the intolerant hostility of political Romaeism
towards the Protestant Churc:l, it has crreb rlden, d the
factiea that f eds and th:ives upon the distraction and
misery of the Irish pc oaleeto make m insolent dente:els
end back them by feeccr agitation that ever. The rase-.
:utions lately pissed -at some of the " great anti-tithe
meetings," a; they are called, avow the total abolition of
to i.e ton!y pursued as a step towards the grand work
which now, with the help or Conservative concession, the
egitators hope to see accomplished—the utter subversion
of tire Protestant Edeblislonent. It is true that when
Lord John Russell taunts the Conservative Lords for the ir
change of opinion, and th ir concevsiotis consequent upon
Ow. change, .Sir Robert Peel is able to cast in the teeth
of the pendent ll,ttne Secretary still more strikieg and
discreditable cu takes of onini in on his own pa: t, and those
of other leaders of the WhinoPopish faction. Besides the
" eternal), indispensab e" asal new-. disearded " :P"-
pri.tioa prineple," attesting as it dues by its presence on
the Journals, and its absence frem the Ministeriel Tithe
tl e fncility with tvltich Lord John cart put on and put
off an " eter. a 1 pr:ne'p!e," he might have reminded the
pu y of, his former deft nee and subsequent de-
ntracireian of ti.e rotten bo:oughs. Ile might have, IT-
Lord Jahn ethe time 1011'n he ridiculed the Enn-.
l'sh p fe- like the si:epleton in the Arebian
4.)erxe, t e the " old lamps for nets," though he him-
1,
, v assis:ed to tl eye: ailthe old lames eta of
the window, and indignantly denounced every body who did
not say the " new were better." But what avails this la
plaque. argument when the question is respecting the pre-
servation or betrayal of great principles? What avails it
to throw in the face of O'Connell his grossly inconsistent
conduct iu rrgard to a Poor Law for Ireland; or any other
of his inconsster.c:es? If Sir Robert Peel had reminded
the bhistering " postponer of truth to the purposes of
the moment," that he once courted, cringed to, and flat-
tered the Orangemen of Ireland, and even drank in Boyne
water the " glorious, pious, and immortal memory,' to
induce loyel Protestants to join with him in demanding a
repeal of the Ueion, and when they spurred his seditious
advances, turned upon them and became their tirulent and
indefAtigable persecutor—if, we say, Sir Robert Peel had
told O'Connell ell this, and a great deal more it hied, he
might have told him, showing his utter contempt for any
opinion or principle which interferes with the immediate
object of his selfish ambition, what then ? Can the exam-
ples of inconsistency, treachery, and tergiversation by
O'Connell or the Whig Ministers be pleaded in excuse of
indefens:ble changes of opinion rand violations, of otio•
civic by the Co: servative party ? Surely such a de-
fence of Conservatism is worse than none. Batter to
let judgment go by default than to make a defence which
is grounded upon the criminality of others, and which
is, in itself, the severest condemnation of those who use
it. Tire practice of" dry nursing" the Queen's Mini-
st,,rs, which his been carried to such an inordinate extent
by the Conservative leaders in both [leases of Parlia-
ment during the present session, must be given up, or
thes nr stsNooft tineonly caertem ruyr tittisyti.tnsh domestic
a e leftnes trsl in
e
the
ender b
Conservatives,
the grossest violations of duty by our incapable
Ministers
oru,
character,
in-
stitutions
r n
o isnoi satieertsi tric sag t
oa
tonual ly d rfi
r'e. fgenn dered' ab.
io
consequence of this miserable system .cf " dry nurs'ing"
and " comprom, se," wh ieho
ft htohse on
e o g hht tre a,c h
teer, h
ae n
andunyi
of unyielding protectorthe country have chosen to .pursue. This
weak, this deprees.ng, this fatal policy Must be anarkned,
or every institution of the country will ba surrendered one
after another, until it will live nothing worth preserving.
Torn o pieces by thy encouraged and rewarded artificers
of sedition at flame, and preyed on by the invited aegres-
sions of foreign powers, this great, this 'once mighty em-
pire will become a wreck upon the waters, and the na-
tions that used to tremble at its power w:11 be laden with
its spoilsan- Morning Herald.

LORD-LIEUTENANT OF BENFREWSIIIIIF.,--It
is now undo-stood that Mr. Speirs, of EWersiie, ALP., will receive the
Appointment, and that his cflicial announcement;, as Lord-Lieutenant
of Renfrewshire, may be daily exp. cled.—Glasgoze Courier.
A VF.TERAN LAROURER.--All old labourer,
nmnecl George Rigg, aged 82, with his son and some other labourers,
most of whom were young men, undar,ook the cutting of five acres of
grass b long.ng to Mr. Henry Moreton; the crop proved so very heavy
and difficult to cut, that some of the men gave up the first hour; With
the rear, the. old man Lok and kept the teal, and serm:d the least
wearied of the party. Towards the t lose of their labours, some of the
juniors complained of the hard job they 11,:,d undertaken aid accom,
,fislied, when tne veteran exclaimer,'` Gee ban;, you are soft oncs ;
Pee seen t'day when I mid ',/:? mown this thropel like winkin."—yerk
Courant.
Last Thursday night, some of the prowlers that
.1().v infc..t tfie ne.glibowhood of Nottingham, being driver out of the
town by the activity of the p,lico, paid a visit to Carlton, whence the}
stole a fine large goose. If intended for their partic utar eating, the
knaves would doubtless be disappointed, as their b)oty was a very vener-
able old gandcr.—Nottinghant Review.

IMPERIAL PA RLIAMEN T

HOUSE OF LVRDS, Aucusr 4.

The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Tithts
and Land Illt.•rer Bill, the Prisons (West Irniies) Bill, the
Conveyances-of Estates Bill, the Local Commissioners Re-
ref Biil, the Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill, the Gibraltar
Lighthouse Bill, the Arms and Gunpowder (Ireland) Bill, the
Turnpike Acts Continuance (Ireland) Bill, the Dublin Police
Bill, and the Entails (Scotland) Bill.
The Commissioners were the Loan CHANCELLOR, the Earl
Of SHAFTESBURY, and Lord GLENELG.
The Custody of Insane Persons Biil was read a third time
and passed.

The Liverpool Clergy Endowment Bill was also real a
third time and passed.
A Message from the Commons was brought up by Lord
MORPETH and Others, desiring a Conference on the subject of
the Amendments made by their Lordships to the Municipal
Corporation (Ireland) Bill.
A conference was appointed to take place immediately in
the Committee.roo.n, No. 5. The Peers named were the
Earl of Shaftesbury, Lnrd Eldon, Lor I Huldington, tho
Bishop of
Hereford, Lord Foley, Lord Gardner', and Lord
Lismore. On their return the Earl of Shaftesbury brou:,ht
up the reasons of the Commons for disagreeing to their Lord-
ships' amendments—which were ordered to be taken into
consideration on Tuesday.

TITHES'(IrIELAND) BILL.
The Report on the Irish Tithe Bill was brought up by the
Earl of Shaftesbury, and the Bill ordered to be read a third
time on Monday.
On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM the Copyright Bill
went through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third
time on Monday.
On the motion of Lord PLUNKET.the County Clare
Treasurers'• Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Monday.
Lord FITZGERALD presented a petition from an indi-
vidual, suggesting an improvement in the mode of collecting
the Grand Jury Cess in Ireland.
The Earl of CHICHESTER presented a petition from
Greenock, against the Parliamentary Burghs (Scotland) Bill :
and a petition from the Glasgow, Greenock, and Paisley Rail-
way Company, against the Mails by Railway Bill.
Their Lordships then adjourned until Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. Auausr 4.
The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes before Four
o'Clock.

HACKNEY CARRIAGES.

Sir M. WOOD moved the third reading of the Lords'
amendments to the Hackney Carriages' Bill.
Mr. HAWES objected to the motion, as he was desirous
that the amendments should be printed.
The SPEAKER thought that Honourable Members should
take the trouble of reading amendments before they moved
their printing.
Mr. HAWES said he had not had an opportunity of doing so,
inasmuch as he had not seen the amendments.
Sir M. WOOD wished to know whether it was the Bill, or
the Lords' amendments, that the constituents of the Hon.
Member objected to.
Mr. HAWE S said, the amendments.
The consideration of the amendments were then postponed.
Lord MORPETH brought up the Report of the Com-
mittee on the valuation of Lands (Ireland) Bill.
On the motion of Mr. POULETT THOMSON the
Affirmations Bill was read a third time and passed.
Mr. BERNAL brought up the Report of the Committee
on the Bank of Ireland Repayment Bill.