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THE- LONDON JOLTItNALS.

ENT 11 ACT S YROM TILE ,D 7tt.x -MORNING PArEiIS7
July 22, '1822•

[MORNING HERALD.]

PROROGATION OF. PARLIAMENT.-The period

of the • Prorogation is necessarily still further
pOstpone,r ~.u;consequence of the additional delay
that. wa:i occasioned by the House having- been,
wholly occupied on Friday without touching one
of the .retnaining Estimates. .There are twenty
or thirty of the Irish Miscellaneous Estimates
still't.O by proposed, and they are annotincecras
presenting debateable matter ; the like is 'the
case with the Estirnates for the Civil Contingen-
ck., the OutPerrsioners of Greenwith'llOSpital
(respecting whom some new plan is content-
' plated), Slave Trade Commissions, .American
LoYalists, &c. It is therefore doubtful whether.
the Ministers can get through their Parliamentary
business so as to prorogue on Tuesday the Gth
Or Thursday the Bth of August, as was calculated
at the Treasury on Friday
_morning last.
consequence of the further delay occasioned.
.by • the .additional postponement of the Esti-
mates and Money • Bills, Dorset Fellowes,
• Esq., the Secretary to the Lord Great Cham
berlain. (Lord Gwydyr), yesterday left -town
for a week or ten days. Ile will return to'
his apartments at the HouSe of Lords,. where
also - the Lord Great Chamberlain has his
about a week before the Prorogation of
Parliament, to superintend the requisite arrange-
ments .for his Majesty's reception, the issuing of
the,Ackets to admit the Peeresses,, their friends,
and other persons who may be desirous of gain-
ing seats in the body of the House, the Old
House of Lords, or-in the Painted Chamber`, &c. to
behold the ceremonies attendant on the Proroga-
tion of the first Session of
,Parliament after his
Majesty's Coronation. The proceeding excites
increased, interest, from the circumstance that
when the King delivers the Speech .to both
' Rouses of Parliament, proroguing.thern, he- ap-
pears on a splendid new Throne crowned. His
IthjeSty afterwards ,returns to the Royal Robing-
room, wearing the splendid , new Crown Which
his-Majesty wore at the Coronation, and which
was made purposely for, and-under the personal
inspection of, our present Sovereign. The-King
will proceed, to the Royal Entrance above the
House of Lords in the State CoaCh of his late
Majesty, drawn by cream-coloured horses.• His
'Majesty will tbus imitate the custom adopted by
Our late Sovereign. This will be the second
time that his Majesty has appeared in public
drawn by cream-coloured horses ;--the first time
was when the King went publicly to the Italian
Opera.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The present; Circuits do not hold out promise
of a plentiful harvest to the Gentlemen-of the
long robe. At Oxford there are only eight
prisoners for trial.-7 The. Commission will be
opened in -Worcester on Monday there are 19
prisoners for trial in the county gaol. There are
Ilene for trial in the city.—Wilts Assizes will
commence this day. The calendar is very light,
exhibiting the names butof twenty-three prisoners.
The accounts from most of the other Assize towns
are of a. similai character.' At a season of such
general distress in the agricultural districts, 'this
diminutron of crime exceeds our expectations.

[MORNING rosT.]
We received last night, by, express, Paris
Papers to the 20th inst. They contain some in-
telligence from Spain of the 12th ; but it is evi-
dent, from its paucity and insignificance, that the
prohibitory systerri still prevails, and that the
French Government only aflows those particulars
to appear, which it thinks will neither gratify the
feelings of one party nor excite the anger of an-
other. All that can be gathered from the brief
paragraphs given on the subject in these Journals,
is that when the last courier quitted Mad rid,on the
12th inst. all was tranquil in that capital, and
the reported change in the Ministry had not
taken place, tliough it was hourly anticipated ;
M. Martinez de la Rosa, Minister for Foreign
Affairs, was the only Member of Administration
who was expected to retain his seat. A private
communication from Bayonne, inserted in the
Quotidienne, reveals in part the course adopted
on the French frontier, by stating that all the
letters which had reached that city from Madrid
had been previously opened, and were uniformly
found to contain nothing but insignificant parti-
culars.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Courier exults very much at the turn
which he thinks the affair of the Turkish frigate
has taken. We 'were prepared for the distinct
account which' haS at length been. given by Sir
Byam Martin. Indeed, any one who observed
the countenance Of the Noble Lord at the head
of the Admiralty when the subject was alluded to
by Earl Grosvenor, must have seen that it indi-
cated the most perfect consciousness of security.—
A ll we can say is, that the account given by Sir B.
Martin of his having gone on board the vessel, and
that she literally had-not a single gun mounted,
and-the, accounts given in The Morning Chronicle
at various times, are by no means irreconcileable
with each other. The history of the proceedings
on board this frigate,. and the accompanying ves-
sel, would be extremely curious, and a series of
suitable questions put to Mr. Samuel Briggs,
America-square,, the Agent of the Paella of
Egypt, by , any authority having power to put
them,' might, we suspect, elicit materials for
that history. Sir Byam Martin's account proves
a little too much. We are satisfied of the
truth of the main part of the allegations—
that preparations were making in the river
for conveying .arms, ammunition, and pikes to
the Pacha 'of Egypt. We cannot help . wishing
that Colonel Davies had put some questions to
Sir Byam Martin, with a view of eliciting from
him a 'number of essential particulars, respecting
which his account was obviously deficient. In
-what manner We designs entertained will be
carried into execution,. we cannot, of courses
knoW.. No little industry has, no doubt, been
employed. since the time the public attention was
so particularly called to the subject, to give a

less objectionable
.appearance to the transaction.
Perhaps, howeve'i, even with the assistance of
official persons, a view of the various phases of
this vessel,. at different times, may be given.

[THE TIMES.]
The announcement of the proposed reform in
the mode of collecting the Revenues of Ireland
and Scotland, which appeared in our Paper of
last Saturday, has, we are assured, given much
satisfaction to the heads of the commercial world.
When we consider the importance of simplicity
and uniformity in the rules by which the affairs
of commerce are to be governed, it need not sur-
prise us that the public should hail with joy
the prospect of an abolition of that complex
and heterogeneous 'apparatus, which, under the
shade of three separate boards in each local ca-
pital of the United Kingdom, might rather be
said to confound than to regulate the speculations
and transactions of the merchant. It is well
known that in many minute but essential details
of official business, the Scotch and Irish Revenue
Boardg; proceeded in a way which disappointed
the hopes of mercantile men, 'who sought at their
hands redress for injuries, relief from vexations,
or any other mode of protection to their interests,
according to the forms and usages prescribed by
the revenue departments here. The embarrass-
ments arising to individnals. from this uncertainty
of practice-were -endless, and the expence in-
curred by the nation, on account of these cum-
bersome and inefficient Boards, and still more
because of the vicious multiplication of subor-
dinate places for the sake of mere patronage
which they established, had made severe en-
.7croachments on the gross produce of taxes; in
Ireland more especially. The effects were visible
in the rate at which the Irish and Scotch (but
the Irish above all) revenues were collected, as
compared with those of England,
,being, if our
memory does not mislead us, in the proportion of
at least 16 to 6. But the moral influence of
such a reform—a consequence to which' we
adverted on Saturday—cannot be too highly
estimated. If it were only that the promo-
tion of revenue officers by seniority cuts at one
main root of Parliamentary corruption, we should
applaud such a change, though it added not di-
rectly a single shilling to 'the revenue. The be-
nefit, however, does not end there; a more respect-
able class of claimants will be found for the
lowest offices of the Custom-house throughout
the kingdom,. when one fixed rule of promotion
shall be laid down, and favouritism or interest
excluded.

[NEW TIMES.]

We shortly adverted to the presentation of the
second Report of the Commissioners appointed
under an Act of the last Session of Parliament
to- inquire into the Irish Revenue. The pro-
posal which that Report contains, of a Reform in
the Revenue system, has been received with uni-
versal satisfaction 14- the commercial part of the
community. Indeed we hardly remember any mea-
sure of the kind which was hailed with such un-
mixed approbation. That there may be focal•inte-
rests to be consulted ; that there may be individual
partialities to be encountered; that there,rnay be
petty conflicts to be sustained, is only what must be
expected in carrying into effect every measure of
great public utility. Lord Liverpool has dis-
tinctly foreseen this ; and he has, in a manly and
ingenuous manner, ferewarned the Legislature
against the operation of such causes to prevent
carrying into full effect the recommendations of;
the Commissioners.—The abolition of the Boards
of Customs and Excise in Ireland and Scotland
is a measure, no doubt, of great and serious mng-
nitude. For our own part we should consider it
presumptuous to deliver an opinion on its effloct,
were it not that we find it recommended by
Gentlemen of great talent and experience, after a
minute, patient, land laborious investigation
of the subject in all its details and bearings;
and that this recommendation is decidedly
sanctioned by a Minister who has so long
conducted the affairs of this great Empire with
marked cautio❑ and prudence. This is the sort
of Reform to which we are and ever have been
favourable—a Reform preceded by just and scru-
pulous inquiry, and planned with clear and de-
liberate foresight—

Choosing each stone, and poising ev'ry weight,
Trying the Measures of the breadth and height ;
Here pulling down,' and there erecting new,
Founding a firm state by proportions true.
This is indeed the only true Reform ; the idol of
interested love of change, which we daily hear
called Reform, has no pretensions to that name.
" There is a manifest distinction," says Burke,
" which ill men with ill designs, or weak men incap-
able of any design,will constantly be confounding;
that is the distinction between change and refor-
mation. Change alter-s the substance of the objects
themselves, and gets rid of all their essential good,
as well as of all the accidental evil annexed
to them : Reform is not a change in the sub-
stance, or in the primary -modification of the
object, but a direct application of a remedy
to the grievance 'complained of. So far as that
is removed, all is sure. It stops there; and if
it fails, the substance that underwent the opera-
tion, at the very worst, is but where it was."
One great cause of the imperfection of most of
the miscalled Reforms in the present day, is a
laziness and inertness of mind on the part of their
projectors, a want of disposition to proceed•'
laboriously according to the cases, and according
to the rule,s adapted to each case.

The amount of subscriptions in this country for
the relief of the distress in Ireland now exceeds 180,0001., td
which the success of the parochial collection now in active pro-
gress through the country promises to make a large addition.

On Friday the 13th inst. as I'. flalder, servant
to Thos. Butler, Esq. Bury Lodge, Hambledon, was removing
some dung, he discovered a snake's .nest, containing 65 eggs,
which were all opened, and 59 live snakes were taken out, mea-
suring from six to eight Inches, and in perfect colour.--.(Hatnp-
Aire Teleg) aph.):
In defiance ,of a prohibition issued by the
Magistrates of Glasgow, an Orange procession
was attempted in that city on the 12th instant.
It was accompanied by some acts of violence, in
consequence of which 127 of the Orangemen and
their assailants were taken into custody, but af-
terwards dischaßged, on entering into bail for
their good behaviour for twelve months.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 20.

Mr. HoRNE said, that in the case of Dunton and Street, it
was his duty to move his Lordship, that certain persons ordered
to be in attendance this morning, namely, Mrs. Street, Horatio
Reeves, and George Reeves, be committed for contemt of
Court, in running away with ward thereof. The Learned
Gentleman added, that he did not know whether they were
then in attendance. _

Mr. HART appeared for the defendants. The case which
had been mentioned, he said, as far at least as he understood it,
appeared to him to be a proper one for the private room, if his
Lordship thought fit so to order.
Mr. HORNE signified his assent.
The LORD CHANcELLou.—If both parties consent, I can
have no objection. ,
Mr. HART—WiII your Lordship take it on Tuesday morn-
ing, if no other business presses ?
Mr. HORNE—Why not now ?
The LORD CHANCELLOR--I will either take it now or on
Tuesday morning: If you wish it to be decided now, I have
no objection at all.
After some words between Messrs. HART and HORNE, it
was decided that it should be heard on Tuesday morning ; that
in the mean time the affidavits, were to be handed in, without
observation. The parties were accordingly ordered to be in at-
tendance.

The parties were all in Court, and were of highly respectable
appearance.
Horatio Reeves, the enamoured youth, does not seem to
be more than 18 or 19 years of age.
In the course of the morning the LORD CHANCELLOR in-
formed the bar that the House of Lords intended to hear no
more cases this Session, except that which was before them, and
he therefore hoped to be able to give them an additional day
next week, and more afterwards.