The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-17 00:00:00

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

The Report in the Committee on the Combin-
ation Laws was brought up last night, and at the
'same time, Mr. Hume, a Member of the Com-
mittee; certainly not the least active, or least ac-
quainted with its proceedings, distinctly stated
in his place that the investigation had been
conducted in a most partial manner, that the
evidence on one side only had been received,
that something even like trick had been resort-
ed to, in order to get rid of inconvenient wit-
nesses, and that the Report was premature, and
as such he protested against it. On a matter of
fact it is not likely that Mr. Hume could be
.mistaken, and the solemn and impressive man-
ner in which he addressed the House, lead us to
apprehend that the only interest which is not
represented there, and to which so many other
interests are opposed, is about to be sacrificed.
In a matter of so much importance as the re-
litions between the Masters and Workmen,
the most deliberate and comprehensive inquiry
was certainly called for. The well-being of
the working classes, constituting the greatest
part' of the population of a country, is, as was
long ago observed by Dr. Smith, an object
of all others the most to be desired. A stupid
Alderman the other day lamented that the work-
.tnen should think of injuring the commerce of the
country by.geeking a rise of wages. This man,
we suppose; would think, -if the workmen could
he 'reduced to the wages of IliadooS, the
country 'Would be in a most .flourishing state. -
The avarice which clings to the Corn Laws may
deem .the degradation of the labourer Iteces-`
sa:rj to 'the perfection of their system. We have
oOrfears. We are unwilling to think so ill of
nrsttr's at that they would enter into a conspiracy of
Fhis Sort against the. working classes—but there
wits Something' ominous in the language of Mr,.
'auskisson-when he first opened the subject. to the
"'lrotrs'e.'• Cannot'
.they,' aS 'Mr, Ponch said, let
weft alone3—ihe mechanics are. rising every day

in respectability,—they are becoming as it were
A new race, and because excesses • hove taken
place iu Glasgow and Dublin, two places never
free from them, thii career` of improvement is to
tie arrested, 'and the condition' of tiUndreds of
thousands of heads.of fanailtes is to be deteri-
orateath

[NEW TIM IS.]
In the House of Lords, last night, the Mer-
chants' and Factors' Bill was taken into con-
sideration in Committee, on the motion of
Lord 'Liverpool, When it was determined that
the operation of the Bill should commence on the
Ist October, 1826. No' ckianges, indeed none but
technical alterations, were made in the Bill. Thus
this important measure, about which cornmer-

cial men felt so much interest, is brought to a
successful issue. Lord King, iii presenting a
petition from the quixotic, but, we believe,
well-meaning advocate of non-contagion, in-
dulged, as usual, in one of his discursive at-
tacks, which called down upon him a short
and pithy retort from the Lord Chancellor. In
the House of Commons a conversation of some
length arose on Mr. Brougham's presenting a
petition containing many weighty charges against
Lord Charles Somerset. The chief discussion
of the evening followed, upon the motion of Dr.
Lushington, respecting the deportation of two
persons of colour from the Island of Jamaica.
The motion was, in the end, withdrawn, on the
suggestion of Mr. Canning.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Courier Franlais.)
GIIITIALTAR, MAY 28.

(PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.)-A Spanish refugee here
bas just received from Madrid the following tariff, sent him by
one of his friends, who tells him that all the refugees, stained
as they are, may become white as snow by arranging on the
following terms with the Purificators :
" Purification of a Lieutenant-General, 200 pistoles ; of a
Major-General, 160; Brigadier, 150; Colonel, 100; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, 75 ; Major, 60 ; Captain, 50 ; Lieutenant, 30."
A similar tariff is fixed for the purification of civil officers.
(Front the Etoile, dated Widnesd4, June 15.)

The Gazette of the lonian Islands contains the Act of the
lonian Parliament, establishing the power and the jurisdiction
of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy of the orthodox Greek Church.
It is in 73 articles, of which the following are the principal :
" This hierarchy consists of four metropolitans, one arch-
bishop, and two suffragans. Each of the metropolitans shall
be invested in rotation with the dignity of Exarch of the Greek
Church during one session of the Legislature.
" The prelates can in no case correspond with a Foreign
Power, except through a Governor-General.
" No prelate can, without permission of the Government,
introduce into his diocess new regulations in ecclesiastical

matters.
" No lonian ecclesiastic can be consecrated out of the lonian
States.
" The Government will fix the bounds of the parishes.
" Every prelate is bound to ♦isit the churches of his diocess
at least once every three years.
" No prelate shall interfere in matters belonging to the civil
authorities.
" The prelates receive a fixed salary from the State.
" Whenever it is intended to build a new church, the plan is
to be laid before the Government."
The other articles relate to the ecclesiastical tribunals, the
vicars and curates, and means of carrying the act into exe-

cution.

The Lord High Commissioner has assigned 10,000 talaris,
(70,009 francs) to be paid to the poor of Corfu from the public
treasury.

FRENCH FUNDS—PARIS, JUNE 14.—Five per Cents.,
101.50. ; three per Cents., 74. 35.; Royal Spanish Loan, 574
—(Ettrile, June 16. No Cours Authentiqur received.)

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY—(Taus DAY.)

DR. ABERNETHY V. THE PROPRIETORS OF THE LANCET.
JUDGMENT.—TiIe LORD CHANCELLOR; on
taking his seat this day, gave judgment in this cause. After
the most careful consideration he could give a case possessing
so much importance as the present, he was of opinion that there
was a breach of the implied contract on the part of a student ;
and as the defendants had not stated how they became possessed
of the copy of the Lectures, Isis opinion was, that an Injunction
ought to issue. An Injunction to restrain the further publica-
tion of the Lectures in the Lancet was directed to be drawn up
accordingly.
In the course of the morning his Lordship stated that he
should not be able to sit in that Court to-morrow, as he had to
attend the Privy Counsel on a case of the utmost importance,
and of most pressing nature, in which it was thought necessary
to have his. assistance together with that of the two Chief
Justices and of the Chief Baron.