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HOUSE OF LORDS.

PRICE 7D.

However inconvenient it might be to have mercantile in-
tercourse interrupted, he trusted that Government would
not flinch in doing so, where it seemed necessary for th.
safety of the country. He trusted that publicity would he
give to every case that occurred, and of the characteristic.
that attended it, as it was highly important to all media 1
men to be made acquainted with every thing that relate•
to this dreadful scourge.
Mr. HUME trusted that his Majesty's Ministers would
not follow the course recommended by the Hon. Member
for Bridport, of putting a stop to commercial intercourse ;
that would be the very means, in his opinion, but adapted
to cause the spread of the disease. He believed Go.
vernment would do well not to create alarm upon this
subject, the very idea of restraining commercial com-
munication was preposterous, as a very large portion
of tha community of this country depended fn,
their daily bread on commerce—if that, therefore, was 9U.•
pended, it would be adding famine to the disease. H:
had no hesitation in saying the first paper printed by th•
Board of Health had spread terror throughout the count', ,
and bad been productive of the worst effects. He lamented
that in the collieries in the south of Scotland the disea•
arose chiefly from the desperate situation in which the
unfortunate men working in these collieries were placed.
He thought that his Majesty's Government would do far
more to prevent the spreading of tl.e disease by ad ling to
the comforts of the lower classes, than by any restrieeons
opal' commercial intercourse.

Mr. STRICKLAND consiirred that the dis ase woi Id
he :aggravated by any attempt to stop co,ximercial into r-
course.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of RICHMOND, and
the Earl of SHAFTZSBURY, sat on the Woolsack as his
Majesty's Commissioners, when the Royal Assent was
given to the Buckingham Palace Bill, Court of Session
(Scotland) Bill, the 'Woods and Forests, the Outstanding
Lottery Tickets, and the Embrzzlement Bills.

Sir Geoaca ROBINSON and other Members from the
Commons brought up several private Bills.
Lord CLONCURRY presented a petition from the
county of Dublin, in favour of Reform ; also one from
place in Ireland for a commutation of the punishment of
death in cases of forgery.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from
the licensed victuallers of Brighton, praying to be re-
lieved from the burdens they were exposed to by the corn
min law. The Sacramental Test Act went through 1.
Committee, and was repotted without amendments.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved for various re-
turns connected with the cholera morbus, and, in s.
doing, said this proceeding was intended to ground a mo
tion which he meant to introduce to enable parishes to tax
themselves, in order to meet the expenses to which they
might be put in order to meet this insidious disea,e.
The Earl of WICKLOW once more called the atten-
tion of the House to the present state of the Irish Magi-
stracy. The time was now come when the present Go-
vernment could no longer permit that country to be in the
state in which it now was. The local Magistracy must either
take up their commissions, or the Government must al-
point stipendiary Magistrates in every part of the country.
The Irish Magistracy had refused to pay the new com-
missions, and whether they were right or wrong it
was necessary that the subject should be inquired
into, for the purpose of clearing those Magistrates from
the odium which had been thrown upon them in another
place. The great body of the Magistracy refused to comply
with this demand, and those that had done so under a
strong protest as to the legality of those fees. He wishe t
to know from the Noble and Learned Lord (Plunkett)
whether from his recent experience that the magistrates
were likely to return to the exercise of their official du ties ?

Lord PLUNKETT was unaware that any aspersions had
been cast upon the Magistrates in any place. No doubt
many of them had coustd:•red it wrong that they should be
called upon to pay those fees for new Commissioners when
he Magistrates of this country were exempted from them.
But the 'law in this country was diff.rent from the law
upon this subject in Ireland. The Act of the Ist
of William IV. was passed by the late Administration, and
it was the Act which regulated their fees. Certainly
the present Administration could not be blamed, for he
had only administered the law as his predecessors had left
it to him. The legality gf these fees had never been ques-
tioned. It was only written last week, that their illegalit)
had been pointed out to his notice. The fees that were
paid were part to his secretary, part to his train-bearer.
and part to his hall-porter, and he had no idea that
they were illegal.—(Hear.) They appeared to have
existed in the Chancellor's office from time immemorial.
It was not denied that these fees were legal upon an or-
dinary issue for Commissions of the Peace. He was
not yet aware that they were illegal, but if they were
he was not to be blamed, because his attention had never
been called to the subject.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

SUN-OFFICE.-SIX O'CLOCK.

Upon inquiry at the Council Office we were informed
that, in addition to the ten cases stated' in our third page,
another case had been reported to the Board of
Health to have broken out in the Borough. Dr. Hen-
derson was immediately despatched to investigate the case,
and to make his report thereon, the result of which had
not reached ua when our Second Edition went to press.

ST. ALBANS.—Our readers will regret to
hear that time, which spares nothing, has at last taken
hold effectually of St. Alban's Abbey, and we much fear
that that ancient building will become a mass of ruins.—
Yesterday w. ek, about seven o'clock in the morning, a
large pottion of the wall of the upper battlement, on the
south-we t side, fell upon the roof below with each weight
that it drove in the leads and timber, and every thing in
its way, into the south aisle of the building. It fell in twit
masses, at an interval of five minutes, awl so great was th,
concussion that the inhabitants of the nearest houses de-
scribe it as resembling the loudest thunder. Mr. WysTr
was employed about ten years since to inspect the Abbey,
when he reported that a sum exceeding 30,000/. would be
necessary effectually to repair this building, rinse which it
has been getting worse, so that at the present tune a much
larger sum than that would he required. The south
transept has been for a considerable time considered in a
dangerous state, and is now scarcely safe to he allowed to
remain. The loss to lovers of architectural beauty, by the
destruction of this building, would be what the country
ought not, in our opinion, to permit; but there seems but
au appeal to the public purse of John Bull left to avert this
calamity, and, when we recollect the liberal subscriptions
fur Yolk Cathedral, we do not despair of seeing the resto-
ration completed.—Rucks Herald.

A REGULAR YANKEE STORY !--In the
year the ship -_, of , was on the coast
of Japan, after the sperm whales ;*she bad been unusually
successful, and was nearly full, when one day, two of her
boats being out, the headmost one struck a very large fe
male whale, which, having at the time a young one in
company, was unusually fierce ; upon being wounded, be-
fore they could " stern all," she raised her tail, and, with
a tremendous blow, stove the boat in pieces, killing and
wounding every one on board but one sailor, who, on
finding himself in the element, seized upon an oar for his
support, until he could be picked up by another boat. The
whale had no: dune all the injury she intended, fur, upon
looking round and spying J ick upon his frail support, she
made towards hint with open jaws, and—swallowed him,
oar and all ! For a few moments, Jack was utterly con-
founded, but, having recovered, began to think haw he
should extricate himself front his unpleasant situation.
The entrance to the abyss looked too well defended by a
row of teeth, for him to make his !exit that way, while
the monster was in her element ; and not having JONAH'S
journal, that lie might do as his predecessor had done be-
fore him, he well nigh gave up to despair; but " nil dt-
sperandunt" is Jack's motto. He, at last, bethogglit him-
self of the only remedy which was in his power, and taking
out his jack knife, he cut a hole near the tail of the mon-
ster, and putting his oar through, happily sculled her
ashore! After she was dead, he made his way through
the same aperture by which lie entered, was picked up by
another vessel homeward bound, and was on the whari to
meet his old shipmates on their return, and received his
share of the oil....iirnsricass Paper,