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London, England, 1831-07-20 00:00:00

SLA DE PEERAGE.

On Counsel being called in, in this Peerage,
The ATTOItNEY-GENERAL observed, that he understood
that the petitioner did not intend to pursue the further
proof of his case to-day; no person was in attendance for
him, and he (the Attorney-General) was placed under
rather peculiar circumstances. Ia 1827, when Sir C.
Wetherell was Attorney-General, there was a petition on
the part of a Mr. J. Fleming, which was referred to him ;
he examined witnesses on the subject, but before he made
any report he went out of office. Sometime afterwards
the present petitioner, Mr. Bryant, presented a petition,
which was referred to the then Attorney-General, Sir
James Scarlett, who heard the case, no notice being given
to Mr. Fleming, who had left the country to procure
!urther evidence in favour of his claim. That gentleman
had applied to him (the Attorney-General) to proceed
with the inquiry which Sir Charles Wetherell had began,
and he had been infornud from the Home Office that it
was usual for one Attorney-General to take up the c•ise
which another had left. He (the Attorney-General) felt
,zreat difficulty as to what course he ought to pursue in
the adverse claims of these parties.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY did not see what the House
could do under such circumstances other than adjourn the
case without fixing a day on which to hear it again.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Then I am not to have
any directions from your Lordship as to whether it would
be fit for me to proceed with the claim ?

The Earl of S narrEsaunv would not like to give any
opinion upon the subject in the absence of the Lord Chan-
cellor. He should adjourn the further consideration of this
case to this day se'nnight.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Messaper des Chanthres, dated Monday.)
EXCHANGE OF PARIS, SATURDAY, JULY 16.—The
English Three per Cent. Consols were announced a little
lower; but, notwithstanding this circumstance, which
was caused by the decline kere, our funds kept up and
even closed with a decided improvement. The arrival of
Prince Leopold at Calais had some influence in producing
this rise ; but it was chiefly caused by the news which was
spread that Austria had sent orders to suspend the levy and
arming of the Landwehr.

(From the Journal du Commerce of Sunday.)
According to official accounts, the Prince of Saxe Co.
burg has left London to proceed to Belgium. It seems
that it was resolved not to give him time fur reflection, and
in.fact, the knowledge of what has passed at Ghent was
calculated to inspire painful thoughts. On 'Change,
where news is always turned to account, it was said, that
intelligence had been received of the arrival of Leo-
pold at Calais, where, however, he was not to arrive
till this evening, and yet the funds were dull ; for
it was known that the funds at London had fallen.
But it was afterwards announced that Austria, alarmed at
the progress of the cholera morbus, was resolved to join
with France and England in remonstrance to Russia, and
that the funds had, in consequence, risen considerably at
Vienna. We do not know whether these reports are well-
founded with respect to Austria; but the union of France
and England, with a view to put an end to the struggle
between the Poles and the Czar, cannot be doubted, and
the sympathy, which is more and more manifested by the
Hungarians for the Poles, may in the end influence Austria.
A letter from Prague, inserted in the Leipaic Journal,
says that the Hungarians continue to present to the Em •
peror, and to their young King, proposals in favour of
Poland. They have even offered 100,000 men. They
intend to lay the affair before the next Diet, and to demon-
strate that Poland and Hungary have always assisted each
other. May not the Emperor Francis have resolved to
listen to their representations?
To this news another piece of intelligence was added—
that of the death of the Emperor Nicholas. What may
account for this report is, the circumstance that the Em-
peror delivered to the Senate, at the latter end of June, a
sealed packet, which he declared contained his last will.

The disorder which, at so short an interval, carried off
Diebitsch and Constantine, the appearance of the cholera
in the capital, the exhausted state of the treasury, the suc-
cessive levies which reduce the population, so that mere
children are taken, and the sons of the priests, who are
usually exempt—all these calamities combined have struck
a religious awe into the Russians, from which the step
taken by the Emperor proves that he is not exempt.
'We may, therefore, be allowed to hope that new re-
monstrances in favour of Poland would be better received
now than they have hitherto been.

(From Le Temps of Sunday.)
PARIS, JULY 16.—1 n a late Council it was calculated
that there would be a pretty strong majority against the
Hereditary Peerage, and it was considered how this im-
portant discussion might be delayed. A temporary mea-
sure was proposed, by which all the present Peers, and
those who might be created, should be merely for life, and
the question of a Hereditary Peerage be deferred for se-
veral years, people's minds not being at present suffi-
ciently dispassionate to decide so important a point of our
Constitution.

A Correspondent has sent us the following
paragraph extracted from the Times of January, 1794, :
It is curious enough at this moment :—" Mr. GAM—
Should this young Hotspur really join Administration, be
will effect a noble Reform, and still have it in his power
to prove a real friend to the people." There are not many
men who can look back upon 37 years of their public
career and exhibit such a manly consistency as Lord GREY.
—Times.

A correspondent, who deprecates the appre-
hended abandonment of the project for a new street from
Waterloo-bridge to Bow-street, truly observes, that " at
present, between Charing-cross on the west, and Farring-
don-street on the east, there is no direct line of approach
from Holborn and Broad-street, St. Giles's, to the Strand
and Fleet-street, which, through its length, will admit two
carriages abreast." We agree with him that the proposed
street would be a great public benefit.—Times.

It has been now ascertained that on the day
of the conflict before the Castle Inn, at Merthyr, sixteen
were killed on the spot, and about seventy wounded.—
Several of the wounded have since died. Twenty-six persons
concerned in the riots have been sent to Cardiff gaol, to take
their trials at the next Assizes.—Bristol Journal.

We have seen a gentleman who has just re-
turned from a tour through France. He states that the
crops are exceedingly luxuriant, and that the harvest •will
be more abundant than it has been for many years. We
have a similar prospect of abundant crops in this country,
but we are exceedingly sorry to hear that great apprehen-
sions exist that attempts will be made to burn the grain in
the fields before it is cut. These apprehensions, c sin-
cerely hope, are groundless ; but we know that they exist,
and that too in many parts of the country. Surely the
labouring classes of England, who, a few years ago, were
the most moral and industrious in the world, have not
been reduced to such a state of unheard-of depravity as
to contemplate an act of such pre-eminent wickedness.
We forbear to give the " reasons" with which they are
said to attempt to justify the deed, lest we should be
thought to be acting the part of apologists.—Morn. Her,
The total number of emigrants arrived at
Quebec down to the 21st inst. was 6,178—nearly two-i
thrds of theni Irish.

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IMPERIAL' PARLORNTA
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The Earl of ELDON preWeiiteetv6 peiltilidattlotiit'
riches in Galway, praying
franchise to the Catholics. •
Lord Monerrat brought up the Alsochester,44l4sbef:
field Railway Bill, and several private Bills. f1,,,,.
MR. WELLESLEY.
The LORD CHANCELLOR— My Lords. iii,'Autz
ter touching the privileges of this House, in is yriiil44
important functions, which from the beat 01: rnotnes
I have refrained stating to your Lordships until .n.trv, but
which motives I have found not duly appreciated, I take the
first opportunity of calling on your Lordships to uphold
the dignity and vindicate the orders of this House. My
Lords, you had a case before you the Session before last, in
which you made an order, affirming a decree solemnly
pronounced by the Noble Earl nowin this House, who
then filled the high. station which I have now the
honour, to hold. The purport of that judgment
was to this effect :—lt was a question respecting
the custody of the children of a suitor of this .Court. It
wss expressly ordered that William Pole Tilney Long Wel-
lesley, and all other persons, he restrained from removing
or attempting to remove the said infants from the custody
of the Misses Long without the permission of this Court.
That decision, my Lords, was affirmed unanimously by this
House. My Lords, notwithstanding that order of the
Court of Chancery was made an order of this House, the
party, in breach of that order, by force and fraud com-
bined, in the absence of the Misses Long, . with the
forcible; interposition of four persons, armed with 'l,a-
-twig-, pretending to be those of tte police, using ihein
before the servants of the Misses Long, and the party
himself committing an assault in law by menacingly
holding up his fist, obtained possession of the infant and
carried her away. Instantly on my hearing this, I
sent my officer to the house of Mr. Long Wel-
leafy, desiring him to bring. the child back with him.
On the return of the officer he informed me the child was
gone. The gentleman himself attended me, confessed the
fraud, the force, and the assault, and that he had carried off
the infant, in disobedience of the order of Chancery and
this House. Hs said, besides, that he,should keep pos-

session of the infant, and refused to deliver her,
adding what, my Lords, I consider the grossest of
contempts, that he had taken steps to remove the infant
beyond the jurisdiction of the Court. My Lords, for this I
committed him to the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms.
I hesitated not one moment in doing so, feeling confident
that if I did, I should be unworthy of a seat in
your Lordships' House, and should have subjected
myself to impeachment. My Lords, an attempt is
being made on the part of this individual to plead the pri-
vileges of a Member of Parliament. if it is to be said that
all the Members of both Houses are exempt from the law of
the land, and may become the breakers of that very law
of which they are the makers, it would be much better
that the whole law, common and statute, should b' repealed,
than such a state of things should exist. My Lords, I
admit that there is an exemption from process, but
this is not process but punishment ; and I con-
sidered myself bound to commit this unfortunate gen-
tleman, who acted wrongly, probably from amiable
feelings, but who did that wrong in a wrong manner.
I committed him to prison, not to compel him to
give up the child, but to punish him for what lie had
done. The offence, my Lords, is indictable as a breach
of the peace. No man is indictable for a contempt of Court,
but he is punishable. And I have yet to learn, my
Lords—snd perhaps I may be told by those Noble
Lords who have their heads full of the forms of
Parliament, but have forgotten law and equity—that
the Court of Chancery can be set at defiance, and
the orders of this House disobeyed by any man
pleading the privileges of Parliament. If such
were to be the ca.e, every Court of Justicc would
be open to every man sitting in Parliament, who
chooses to come and interrupt the Court by a long, abu-
sive, and inflammatory speech. My Lords, I never in my
life heard such a pretence set up; and lam sure I am
fighting a shadow when I express a doubt of your Lord-
ships' supporting the dignity of your own House, and the
vindication of your own orders.—(Hear.)