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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS-

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
•
Veneris, 130 die Mail, 1825.
MESSAGE from the Lot:Ds-That they have agreed t 0
aslingden, and Wiveliscombe Roads Bills without amend`
ment ; and to Debts Recovery (Scotland) Bill, with amend"
ments.
WATERWORKS-Stockport
CH U R CH YARD-Stratfolll.le-BOW
CHURCIi-Poole
WAREHOUSED CORN I Bills read a third tilßet
CHELSEA PENSIONERS • and passed.
IMPOUNDING DisTnEssEs(lrelantl) I
NAVAL ASYLUM
MARkET-Pernbroke • ,
RAILWAY s-Dyfrrin, Llynvi -Bill reported, Report to EA ON
the table. Llanllyfin and Carnarvon -Bill read a third Ogle•
and passed.
ROADS-Ardglass--Bill read a second time, and col-omitted;
Amesbury, Huddeislield and New Hey, and Denbigh and
Llanwrst-Bills read a third time, and passed. Old Strut"
ford and Long Compton-Bill reported, to be ingrussed.
IMPROVEMENTS-Brighton-Petition of Trustees of Roads'
against-referred to the Committee on the Bill, Counsel or'
tiered. York (No. 3. and Cirences! er-Bills reported, r°
be ingrossed. Ire-committed to forMS
Committee.
INcLostrnEs-Christ Church (Hants),)
W. Ilsley
L(l3erks), and Wlton ( Wilts) Bills.
rtugrossoedrt.ed
STATUTE ABOUR-thrbi
aIS Glasgow, ;-
to do
CANAL-Gloucester and Berkeley
LI G lITING-ftochdale • j •
COMPANIES-Bads!' Gas Light--Petition of the Mose
Gas Light Company, against-referred to the Committee 0.
the Bill, Counsel ordered. Western Ship-Petition fro'
Birmingham, in favour-to lie on the table.
llavtow'rlosr-Clyde-Petition of J. and IV. Dixon, agioWt
-referred to the Committee on the Bill, Counsel orliered.
BRITISHCONSULS-Bill read a first time, to be read a ac'_
cond time on Friday next, and to be printed. -
,LABOURERS'the
" to prohibit,in certain cases,
0,
payment of any part or portion of the wages of Labonre
out of the l'oor Rates," read a first time,. to be read a iv
;and time on May 26, and to.be printed.
NOTICES of MOTIONS, and ORDERS of the Dili
which now stand on the OR1:)ER-B0.0K of the HOLTO
of COMMONS for the ENSUING WEEK.
Monday, May 16.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Sewers Laws Amendment Bill-Second reading.
2, Judicature(Scotland)Bill-Further considerationofßelol.
3. Cotton Mills Regulation Bill-Second reading.
4. Pirates Head Money Bill-Committee. -
S. Townland Boundaries (Ireland) Bill-Second reading.
6. Customs Laws Repeal Bill-Further consideration °Melo"'
7. Customs Management Bill-Further consideration of Se'
port.
8. Navigation Laws Bill-Further consideration of Report.
9. Customs Regulation Bill-Further consideration of 13rPu`'.
-°"-
10. Smuggling Prevention Bill-Further consideration of „,-
- port.
11. Goode Warehousing Bill-Further consideration of ReP9r
12. Isle of Man Trade Bill-Further consideration of Report'
13. Registry of Ships Bill-Second reading.
14.. Exchequer Court (Ireland) Bill-Committee.
15. Columbia Postage Bill-Committee.
16. County Rates Mortgage Bill-Third reading.
17. County Courts:Bill-Committee.
18. New Street Act Amendment Bill-Committee.
19. West India Company Bill-Third reading.
20. Church Rates (Ireland) Bill-Second reading.
21. Supply-Report.
22. Supply-Committee.
'23. Bankers (Ireland) Bill-Report.
24. Quarantine Laws Bill-Report. •
25. Judges Salaries (England)-Committee thereupon.
26. Colonial Intercourse Bill-Further consideration of Beport'
27. Small Debts (Scotland) Bill-Report.
28. Canada Company Bill-Further consideration of Report.
29. Salaries to Judges, &c. (Scotland)-Committee therempolk
30 Leasing-making (Scotland) Bill-Committee.
31. Aliment of Prisoners (Scotland) Bill-Committee.
32. Duke of AtholPs Bill-Committee.
33. Linen Trade (Ireland)-Further consideration of Repo6
thereupon.
34. Lunatic Trustees Bill-Second reading.
35. Lunacy Traverse Bill.-Third reading.
36. Ways and gleans-Committee.
37. Special Juries (Ireland) Bill-Report.
38. Stealing in Mines Bill-Third 'reading. '
39. Sealing of Writs (Ireland) Bill-Third reading.
40. Disembodied Militia Bill-Report.
41. Levant. Company Bill-Report.
42. Liverpool and Ireland Postage Bill-Third reading.
43. Excise Duties on Licences Acts-Committee thereupon'
44. Weights and Measures Acts-Committee thereupon- -
Tuesday, May 17. .
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Mr. Hobhouse-Repeal of the Window Tax. ficOni4
2. The Lord Advocate of Scotland-Bill to extend W fti
part of the provisions of an Act (43 Geo. 3, c. 501
Ellenborough's Act).
s%lBll'.
3. Mr. Curteis-To present Petition from Rye, for tits
sion of the Elective Franchise.
4. Mr. Denman-Bill to prohibit Prosecutors from rer°oll3-
Trials from Quarter Sessions to Court of Kiilg's Oa" •
cases of Misdemeanor.
ORDERS OF TICE DAY.
1. Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill-Secorid reading.
2. Felonies Counsel Bill-Second reading.
3. County Transfer of Land Bill-Committee.
4. Bubble Act Amendment Bill-Second reading.
6. Spring Guns Bill-L-Second reading. •
6. Gardens Protection Bill-Second reading.
7. Van Dieman's Land Company Bill-Third reading-_,
8. Exchequer Bill ( Publ is Works, Ireland) Bill-Rep'
Wednesday, May 18.

NOTICE OF MOTION.
Mr. Fiume—Copy of Proclamations issued by the Go
of Ceylon. '

ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Small Tithes Bill—Committee.
2. Dunleary Harbour Bill—Further consideration of iteP°ll.

Thursday, May 19.
• NOTICE OF MOTION.
Mr. John Williams—To present Petition, comp
la'n--
delays in the Court of Chancery.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Salmon Fishery Bill—Further consideration of ilei'°“"
2. Cruel Treatment of Cattle Bill—Second reading. 114.
3. Land Tax Assessments Bill-Further consideration °'
port.

Friday, May 20.
ORDERS OF THE. DAY.
1. Juries BilL—Further consideration of Report.
2. Transports in the Colonies Bill—Committee.
3. East India Judges Bill—Committee.
4. Distillery Bill—Further consideration of Report.
5. Supply—Report 25th April) Postponed Resolution 2
G. Canada Tenures Bill—Further consideration of RAP"
7. British Consuli Bill—Second reading.
NOTICE OF -MOTION. „ ,:I,o3teS,
Mr. Goulburn.,—ltemaining Irish' Miscellaneous I,"'
(In Committee of Supply.)
PRIVATE BILL

Second Reading for Monday.
Salford Hundred Sessions.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAT 13.
CHALLENGING THE: EARL OF HARBOILOVEIn.
THE KING V. LIEUT. GRAHAM. COt on
raham, found guilty of challenging
Mr. BROUGHAM moved for the judgment of the f
1;04 0
Lieutenant G • the
Ilarborough to fight a duel. read
Mr. Justice LITTLEHALE who tried the information' ade
his notes of the trial. The dispute arose out of a searciLni_ei,
by Lieutenant Graham in the Noble Lord's.vcssel at 7/neva,.
the whole of the circumstances attending which were el:I.:oral
given in THE. SUN', in the report of the trial. de-
ffidavits were now delivered into- Court in behalf of the
fendant. , „art to
Mr. Justice Barr..F.l-said it was a painful duty on 1"9,. rank
have to paSs the sentence of the Court upon an officer 01„: bad
a Gentleman who, on the testimony of many individual.; ~;cb
conducted himself, with the exception of the transaction
exTbe
brough t him before the Court, in the most exemPlarYraatord .11'
Jury upon an indictmentcharging that he had challenged
c,
with intention to provoke:him to fight a duel, had fonnti.:74.
of the Customhouse after the dispute,
Guilty, and on the evidence )f•persons who saw him. in di°
room
say the Jury could have come to any other conclusion.
of great importance that the public service should n_e Joul
tected ; but, on the other hand, Officers should keep a CuA. tit .-
over themselves, which would not lead to a breac,lrder
law. The Court, all the circumstances, did ustody °' •
adjudge, that the defendant be imprisoned in the c orab;113"
the Marshal of the Al arshalaea four. months. Lieut.
then bowed and retired. it was ditNrtl,tvta:

A

The Paris Papers of Wednesday with the
Etaile dated Thursday have arrived, they con-
tain no intelligence whatever. By an extract
from the Etoile given below, it appears that a
commercial intercourse is about to be opened be-
tween France and Egypt, especially in the im-
Purtation of Cotton-wool. In order to give due
"`frees to this new branch of trade, the establish-
ment of a Joint Stock Company to be called
the Egyptain Company is proposed, and no
doubt the Subscriptions will be speedily filled
EgYptain Cotton is in the article altud-
to `" reprehented as being already nearly equal
the finest American Cottons. A few
years practice in the cultivation of the plant
will, perhaps, render it quite equal, and as its
growth cannot be more expensive in Egypt than
hi America, it creates a rival of a most formida-
ble nature in one of the most lucrative branches
"f the trade of the United States, owing to the
propinquity of Egypt to the seat of the greatest
consumption of Cotton-wool. Great quantities
of this Cotton were imported into England last
Year, and it is understood, that almost the total
produce of this year has been contracted for by
British merchants, but, as the contracts are made
with the Agents of His highness the Pacha of
itIGYPT, it is not to be supposed that he will ob.
serve their conditions any longer than it shall an-
ther his purpose so to do. The packing of the
Cotton forms at present its chief objection, as from
its not being compressed a vessel cannot take so
tuuch as she otherwise might, and thus the price
is increased by the unnecessary freightage its
bulky nature naturally superinduces. The in-
duction of pressing machines would remove
this

(Prom the 3foniteur of ITTednesday.—Non
_official Part.)
PARIS, MAY 10.
T. CLoun, MAY 10.—This evening there was a grand din-
ner in the King's apartments. Their Royal Highnesses Prince
klaiimilian of Saxony the Princess Amelia his daughter, and
the Prince Royal of Saxony dined with his Majesty.
~ On Thursday the King will come to Paris to preside in the
I:ettuneil of Ministers, to receive the Foreign Ministers, and the
!) ke of Northumberland, as Ambassador Extraordinary from
Iris Britannic Majesty.
(Prom ilte Etoile, dated Thursday.)
PARIS, MAY 11.
The President of the Board of Trade said last Saturday, in
the Sitting f opened to us to New roads are
the Chamber of Deputies, " .
tioti xenange to
Come to e to countries which are destined for a long time c
Producti which we want for the produ _ 1 "our arts. successful °nB been made by
our merchant , trials have already
, and to the g theta forth' s let us leave to their activity the care of carryi
enincott in rurage their, „wit.
These wort' . erprizes. • -dom of the King to protect and
by a
ve ( were hardly uttered, when they were confirmed
houses D' remarkable ti.rt. One of the principal commercial
in Paris explai
Fommunicated ned in a Prospectus,
France must
tri future d • to us, the great advantages which
wllich has just been
importance
of
which . enve from its intercourse with Egypt, the
the
inal,t 18 Considerably increr.sed since that province of
.ha
villo n empire.is placed under the authority of the 1
especially
but ", governs it, This increased importance is
but •g to the cultivation of cotton (long wool), which, thought a A Just introduced into that country, already prospers to such
_,7ree that the finest American cottons can scarcely competer,
.._!`‘ 11 that with which we are now supplied by Egypt. These
we
have
seem to us to be fully proved by the writing which
_ellitve before us ; the object of it is to propose the formation
4e,, Paris of a Joint-Stock Socicty, to be called the Egyptian
le"VanY., specially destined to carry on the commerce of
ranee with that country
Our monied n 1:". ft • , will doubtless be eager
to take . len am manu actaras
by . . part in an enterprise which must extend our commerce,
giving greater • - • nuf•,c•-ures •an f the.
se
reasons prosperity we consider it as one of those attempts which 'merit
enpragerrient.
iolf!ttlicit PUNDS.—PATirs, MAY 11. —Five per Cents
the Me—Neapolitan, 91f. 10c.--Spanish Bonds 18f. (For
ce end of the month.)—Five per Cents. 101 f. 85c.—Three per
q nt3.
75E I°' 75n (The latest price of this Stock is not
-4°ted.)—(Etoik.)
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tt'iy Papers to the 6th May arrive()
tnorning.—The Oriental Spectator confirms
17 accounts of the desertion of the Greek cause
1.1 OpYssEus, and singularly enough assigns as a
sl'altitiohat he' is now convinced the is more
eel/my and happiness with the re
Turks than

with tl7e Greeks. His wife and mother
have been lift at Negropont as hostages
for his fidelity, and he is gone to
Zeitung to concert measures with the Pacha
of Tit Ess.s LY relative to the operations of
the Campaign, which overy thing indicates will
he decisive. 1-4tters from Switzerland and Lein-
sig are amougst these Papers, but we must refer
to the extracts given below for their contents
FRANKFORT, MAY 6. •
( From (lie Orientl Spectator of April I.)
SYnA, 111.Anctt
The following is the mode which the Government adopted to
remove the revolted Chiefs from the Peninsula and from Na-.
poll, where credit was supposed to be given to their repentance,
at least for several of their adherents. Admiral Miaulls, who
was at Napoli, and with whom the measures were concerted,
invited them to dinner on board his ship. As soon as they
were en board, Aliaulis told them they were his prisoners, and
sailed for Hydra.
Odysseus, who has embraced the side of the Turks, and has
thus shewn the extent of his confidence in the affairs of Greece,
has repaired with a hundred soldiers to Negropont, where he
has left his mother and his wife as hostages, as an unexcep-
tionable pledge of hit fidelity to the cause in which he has
engaged.

De was inexpugnable in his entrenchments on Mount Par..
nassus, and nothing could have compelled him to the extraor-
dinary step which he has taken. But he has become convinced
that there is more security and happiness with the Turks than
with the Greeks, and he has preferred living and combatting
with the former. After having entrusted his family to Oincr
Pacha at Negropont, he has repaired to Zeitung to concert
measures with the Pacha of Thessaly relatively to the operations
of the carupign which is going to open, and which, as every
thing indicates, will be decisive.—(Journal de Franyori,
May 7.)

SWITZERLAND, MAY 2.
The Directorial Government will certainly send an extraor-
dinary deputation to I‘lilan, to compliment their Majesties the
Emperor and Empress of Austria, in the name of the Swiss
Confederation. It is said that M. Ituttiman of Lucerne is at
the head of this deputation. It is believed that this deputation
will receive instructions to confer with -Prince Metternich on
many matters concerning several single Cantons; but that it
will not be charged with any negociation relative to the general
interests of the Confederation.

It is understood that. the Cantons of the Grisons and Tessin°
will send Deputies of their own to Milan. Many persons hope
that the commercial relations with Italy in general, and with
the Austrian States in particular, will be discussed tt,..ze. The
negociations with the Court of Turin are still suspended, and
there is no appearance that they will be soon renewed.
With respect to the affair of the Biehoprick nothing is done,
as the Papal Nuncio at Lucerne is still without the new instruc-
tions that are necessary, and there appears to be no disposition
at Borne to accelerate the buNiness.
The Ordinance of his Holiness, relative to the reading of the
Bible, was puhiicly•read on Easter. Monday in the Cathedral of
St. Gallen. The Catholic Administration of the Canton has
taken all imaginable pains for the reinstatement of the venerable
clergyman, Mayer, of St. John, in Toggenburg, without being
able to succeed with the Bishop of Core •and St. Gallen. His
only fault was, that he lived in Christian amity with his Pro-
testant neighbours, and encouraged hie parishioners 'to do the
same.

•.
The Rev. M. Mudry, of Versoix. in the canton of Geneva,
has gained his cause against the efficacious Pastor Vuxrin, of
Geneva. Ile has returned to his parish, and been received in
triumph.—(Nuremberg Correspondent, May K.)
LEIPSIG, APRIL 29.
Our fair is not absolutely bad, but it is not good ; there is
too great a want of purchasers from Russia and Poland, as well
as from Moldavia and Wallachia. Several articles have expe-
rienced a considerable advance in price, woollens, leather,
linens, Fcc. The purchasers, therefore, hold hack as much as
they can. Middling and coarse woollens sold rapidly, and
many manufacturers have soon returned home. Several have
taken large orders with them. IVool is not to be had
here, and has risen from twenty to twenty-live per cent.
within these few months. The retail trade is indifferent,
which is chiefly owing to the vexatious system of import du-
ties adopted by the neighbouring Governments ; yet the number
of merchants annually increases, and those, who twenty years
ago brought SO or 79 cwt. of manufactured goods, now bring
two or three hundred cwt. The booksellers have a vast quan-
tity of books returned ; some, it is said, for 50 or CO cwt.—
(Frankfort Papers, 7th May.
The Algemeine Zeitung of the 7th, and the
Austrian Observe,' of 2(.1 May, have no article
whatever relative to Greece or Turkey.

[ Extract of a Letter, dated Zante, 30th March, via Otranto.]
'''The Egyptian fleet has made two landings
of 19,000 men at Al ()don, commanded by Ibrahim Pacha, and
have returned a third time to Suda, in Candia, to embark 8,000
Albanians, disciplined in Egypt. The Egyptian Commodore
dispatched ten vessels front Illodon,, off the port of Zante, and
has convoyed eight Austrian transports, laden with provisions
of every kind, into the Gulf of Patras, which arrived vary sea-
sonably, as the Turkish garrisons were hard pressed for flour,
although they were well supplied with cattle. No Greek ves-
sels arc in those seas, and no Greek naval force is yet our. The
Egyptians are mostly disciplined troops, and besides the in-
fantry have 2,000 cavalry ; they are now bombarding Nava-
rino, under the immediate command of Ihrahini Pacha. Its
surrender I expect very shortly. If they take it, I think the
fate of the Morea decided: if they do not, I imagine affairs
11111;y be much protracted, The Turks are coming down from
Albania towards Missolonghi about 70,000 strong, and most
probably they will do something this campaign.—The reason
assigned for the inactivity of the Greek naval force, in a letter
I have seen from Hydra, dated the 21st instant, is, the Go-
vernment refused to make the usual advances to the crews, the
last instalments of the Greek loan having been publicly ap-
propriated by the Government to the payment of old. debts due
among themselves, instead of applying the proceeds to the pro-
secution of the present campaign.—The agents of Mehemet
Ali (the Pacha of Egypt) have been raising large sums of
money at Constantinople and Smyrna, by bills on London, for
the service of their expedition to the Morea."

In our Paper of Thursday night, May 12, we
promise • d to revert to the subject of th“ Gamy.
LAW,3. We then endeavoured to justify the
principle on which they were enacted, and now
return to the subject, in order to conclude
our observations on their policy and intent.—
The leading features of the Bill lately rejected
by the House of Lords, were the making of game
the private property of the person on whose
land it was found for so long time only as it
continued there, and the legalizing its sale.—
The ohject of these provisions Was to prevent
poaching ; but to us it appears wholly inade-
quate to that purpose, because it would facilitate
the traffic between the poacher and the dealer,
and thus a legal sale would cover an illegal acqui-
sition of game. The most effectual way to pre-
vent poaching is to take away the temptation to
commit the offence ; but we confess we cannot
see how legalizing the sale would reduce the
temptation, unless Gentlemen would become
breeders and dealers, and in that case sporting
would be very little better than shooting of cocks
and hens in a farm-yard. The most effectual way
to prevent Poaching would he to take away the
protection that the Game Laws have hitherto
thrown around game, because in that event the
game would soon be entirely destroyed, and there
would be nothing to poach for. But by so doing
one of the chief charms of a country life is taken
away, and country gentlemen, instead of spend-
ing- their time amongst their tenants, and their
money amongst their poor neighbours, in im-
proving their houses, their lands, and estates,
would be found " capering nimbly in a lady's
in
:1 the
o tc
the, ,cc promenade:
u p
chamber," sauntering into coffee-houses, reposing
their weary‘ml:lant
and nobly
tion of the greatest number of chairs; a spectacle
that the city of Paris daily exhibits, both hi the
precints of the Palais Royale and the more re-
fined neighbourhood of the Boulevard des Da-
liennes. (low detrimental this would be to the
national character it is hardly necessary to say,

its natural effect in paralyting the mind, and in
producing sickli bodies, need only to be con-
sulted, to assure us of the fact. 'fire fine,
noble, open countenance of the Britoil, the manly
energies of his mind and frame would vanish,
and leave only traces serving as an index to point
out what he was and what lie is. Its effect too
(although remote) on the political situation of
the Kingdom ought not to be overlooked, for who
can coutemplate a degradation of the national
character, and not see that it must be accompa-
nied with a proportionate prostratiou of our liber-
ties at home, and our independence and rank in
the scale of nations ? If the national character
of the British islands is lost, their superiority in
the world is lost also. For these reasons we are
far from stigmatizing these laws as barbarous and
unjust, and as the remains of feudal tyranny to
which, indeed, they hear no sort of resemblance,
but we could wish the duty of a Justice Of the
Peace, so far as regards these laws, was inioiste-
rial not judicial, and thus the judgment of guilt
or innocence for breaches of them would be re-
stored to its proper place, viz, a jury of the coun-
try. We are not very well satisfied with those
who conceive that there is no difference between
robbing a hen roost and poaching in a pre-
serve, and their consistency in argument is
strangely evidenced when they protiounze the
Game Laws as cruel, and yet at the same
time, advocate the plan of making game private
property. • This simple alteration would c"-
stitute poaching (which is now a misdemea-
nour only) a felony, and subject the offender to
seven years transportation at the least, for an
offence they deem already too severely punished
by a fine of P 5, or by imprisonment and hard
labour for three months. The hope to put down
poaching entirely is vain ; it cannot be done by
any thing short of the utter extinguishment of
game, and that is a consummation not to he de-
sired. Perhaps, the most effectual way of re-
straining it, would be to extend the qualification,
and that, coupled with a little more liberality on
the part of lords of manors and owners of land,
iu granting to their friends, and especially to
their respectable tenants and their friends, per-
mission to shoot, would, by increasing the supply
of game.iu a legal way, • proportionably diminish
the supply by poaching, because the demand
could not in such case be so great as it now is,
so many being furnished by the kindness of their
sporting friends. When we desire to extend the
qualification to kill game, we do not mean to alter
the present standard further than by making it
more consistent with common sense, for certain-
ly such a qualification can be only derived from
the possession of land. The privilege, however,
might, with propriety, be extended to the per-
son next in succession to the present owner.—
Property in the funds could not with justice con-
stitute a qualification because there is no pre-
tence to vest tire property in game in a food-
holder, but it might be permitted to all persons,
not having it by right, to purchase a qualification
for a year, by paying a specific sum for the same
at the time he would take out his certificate.
No question can exist as to .the fact that certi-
ficates are granted to many persons not qualified
by law to kill game, and thus the Game Laws
might be made more subservient to the pur-
poses of Revenue than they now are. With the
principle of the Game Laws we have before
shewn ourselves satisfied. A revision of them,
accompanied with some little alterittion in their
detail and administration, together with some
lenity and consideration towards the unlucky of.
fenders against them is all that is required to
insure them the approbation of the public, and
an adequate effect in restraining the practices
against which they are chiefly directed.

LORD WHITWORTIE--ThPre was a report this
day that this respectable Nobleman died last
night. We sincerely hope that the report is un-
founded.

A meeting of the Lords of the Council was
held on Thursday morning at the Council-office,
Whitehall.
The Baron KOSTER attended at the Foreign
Office immediately upon his arrival. His dis-
patches are understood to he of great importance.
The Duke of York and the Duchess of Gloucester visited his
Majesty yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester gave a grand dinner
yesterday to a select party, at their residence in Park-lane.—
The Princess Augusta and the Duke of Brunswick were of the
party.
Thursday the Princess Augusta and the Princess Sophia
Matilda dined and spent the evening with the Duchess of
Gloucester.
Yesterday morning the Duke of York presided at a meeting
holden at Almack's Rooms, for the purpose of raising a fund
for the rebuilding of St. Geor.ze's Hospital. •
Wednesday the Cabinet Ministers dined with the Duke of
Wellington.
Mr. Secretary Canning is expected to return to Cloucester
Lodge in a short time.

.ANAuitAms.—Lawyers, Sly "Ware—Astrono-
mers, Moon-starers. Intrigue, I get ruin—Or-
gans, Groans.

ROBBERY IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—
Yesterday afternoon, between three and four
o'clock,a genteel dressed man, named John Ford,
was charged with stealing an umbrella, from
No. 13, Committee-room, in the House of Corn-
mons, the property of Mr.Coxltead, a gentleman
residit, at Bristol, who was in attendance on the
said Committee. The prisoner was instantly
secured and taken into custody. In the evening
he was brought before Edward Markland, [„y.,
the sitting Magistrate, who fully committed him
for trial. The prisoner in his defence said, that
the day preceding he had lost his own umbrella,
and had taken the present one in its stead.
At the ADMIRALTY SESSIONS which were held
at the Old Bailey in February last, two seamen,
Hugh Hastings arid Alexander Moharg, were ca-
pitally convicted of piracy ; but their Counsel,
Mr. BaonarcK, having on their trial suggested a
legal objection as to the form of the indictment,
was reserved for the opinion of the
Judges.
edgpe(int
s).
Those Learned Persons having come to
a decision unfavourable to the prisoners, an ad_
journed Sessions was yesterday held at the Old
Bailey, solely for the purpose of affording nn
portunity for the Court to give judgment in this
case, When Lord Stowell, the Judge of the Ad-
miralty, passed the awful sentence of death in a
very dignified and solemn manner.