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LONDON, FRIDAY,iUNE 7, 1844.

In the House of Lords, last night, the Royal
Assent was given by Commission to several important
Bills, the titles of which are recapitulated in our re-
port of the proceedings.

On the Earl of EGMONT'S moving the second
reading of (Sir TuoNtas) IViLsoN's Estate Bill, for
the inclosure of Hampstead-heath, an interesting de-
bate arose.

Lord DENMAN, in opposing it, contended that the
terms of the will under which Sir THOMAS 'WILSON
held this property were so explicit, that there could
be no necessity for the Bill. He cautioned their
Lordships not to be misled by the statement that this
was not an Inclosure Bill, in the ordinary under-
standing of the phrase; for at all events, it gave
power to certain parties to build over 400 acres of land,
now, and for years past, a constant and favourite
resort of thousands of our metropolitan population,
the power of contributing to whose happiness and
enjoyment, by keeping the heath open as at present,
the Noble and Learned Lord should have thought
might have abundantly outweighed the consideration
of any. trifling increase that it was proposed thus to
produce in the rental of the property. The will tit'
the ltee Sir THOMAS WILSON had been •
very unjustly
reflected on. - Ile thought it a most humane one, and
that the deceased as much intended to devise to the
public the enjoyment
of this heath, as he did to be-
queath any of his other
Lord CAMPBELL property to his son.
prayed their LordshiEat thrloef p3iiltl.rzsrlELD also .
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Lord COLCHESTER, the Earl of WicE.Low, and
Lord COTTENHAM supported it.
On a division, there appeared a majority of 11
against the second reading, and thus the obnoxious
Bill was " lost."
A letter from Lord ELLENBOROUGII, acknowledging
the thanks of the House for the services rendered by
our army in India, was ordered to be entered in the
journals, and the House adjourned.
In the Commons, a vast number of petitions were
presented against and in favour of the Dissenters'
Chapels Bill.. One of these was from a body of
Wesleyans, setting forth that, "having examined the
Bill," they now found reason to withdraw their former
opposition to it, and prayed to be allowed to retract
the petition which they had caused to be presented
against it.
Lord R. GROSVENOR was in a still more embar-
rassing position. He presented several petitions in
favour of, and as many against the Bill, and, having
inspected the signatures, found them, numerically, so
nearly balanced, that he was unable to inform the
House whether he was to consider himself as petition-
ing for the passing or for the rejection of the Bill!
In answer to a question from Mr. GRAN TLEY
BERKELEY, Lord STANLEY said that he had only that
morning received dispatches from Demerara, an-
nouncing the fact, that: an enactment had passed the
Legislature of British Guiana, sanctioning the rais-
ing of a loan, for that colony, in this country. The
Noble Lord added, he had not yet received cer-
tain papers adverted to by Dr. BOWRING, as contain-
ing declarations of the GovernMent of Hong-Kong
against slavery and the trade in slaves.
Mr. MUNTZ put a question to Sir ROBERT PEEL as
to the intentions of Government touching theliability
of the Bank of England to pay in gold the
14,000,0001. to be issued against securities, or any
part thereof, in the event of such a drain of gold as
should have the effect of withdrawing from circulation
all notes exceeding that amount of issues.
• Sir ROBERT PEEL, who treated the question as an
" untoward one," recapitulated, for answer, the heads
of the plan announced by him on the 7th and the 20th
ultimo, in that House.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, after the presentation
of further petitions, moved the second reading of the
Dissenters' Chapels Bill. It contained, he said, no
provisions that 'could affect the property of the
Wesleyan body, or property of members of the
Church of England, for its operation was confined to
Dissenters' chapels. The costs of a suit which had
now been carried on for fourteen years, had almost
absorbed the property in question—and, despite a de-
cision of the House of Lords, the dispute was no
nearer adjustment than it was at that distant period.
In reference to the progressive spirit of tolera-
tion in which the Legislature had relieved various
other classes of Dissenters from various dis-
abilities and penalties, he conceived that Parliament
was bound to act in the same tolerant feeling
towards Unitarians, to whom 'if this Bill would give
a confirmation of rights which the present state of
the law rendered uncertain, it was idle to fear that it
would give encouragement to their doctrine. Her
MAJESTY'S Government, in submitting to the House
of Commons a Bill which had come down from the
Peers, recommended to them by such authorities as
Lords BROUGHAM, CAMPBELL, DENMAN, and Cor-
TENHAM, and by the LORD CHANCELLOR, had no
other object. in view but to do justice, and to put an
end to a cruel, protracted, and vexatious litiga-
tion. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman
went into a lucid and perspicuous statement
of the several clauses •of the Bill, and the scope
and application of their enactments. The details
miiiht be discussed in Committee ; but he hoped the
House would unanimously affirm the second reading.
Sir R. INGLIS looked upon the subject-matter of
the Bill as a question of law and of property. If on
that ground alone, he should oppose the measure ;
and he moved " That it be read a second time that
day six months." _ _

Mr. PLUMPTEE seconded the amendment.

Mr. MACAULAY supported the Bill, after a power-
ful appeal, in which he passed a high encomium on
the very able and eloquent speech of the'ATTORNEY-
GENERAL. The noble and constitutional doctrine
avowed by the Right Hon. Gentleman himself, in
vindicating the rights of private judgment, and the
claims of religious opinion, cannot be studied, in the
perusal of his speech, without deep admiration.
Mr. BERNAL and Mr. M. MILNES severally stated
the grounds of their support to the Bill ; and, after the
house had been addressed by Mr. Fox MAULS, Mr.
GLADSTONE, Mr. SHEIL, Sir R. PEEL, and Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, in speeches for which we must refer the
reader to our Parliamentary report, the House
divided; and no less a majority than 190 affirmed
the second reading of the Bill; a majority involving
the most signal homage to really sound and liberal
principles, in dealing with questions deeply interest-
ing to the friends of civil and religious liberty,
which we have yet had to record of the session
of 1844.

The Sugar Duties Bill was read a second time :
and other business having been dispatched, the House
adjourned.

Those who have seen—as we have often seen, and
experienced the greatest delight from the spectacle—
scores of operatives, with their wives and children,
flushed with the unaccustomed glow of health, stroll-
ing, on serene summer or autumn evenings, over the
breezy uplands of Hampstead Heath, or bivouacking
in groups in in its more shady and sequestered nooks,
indulging in a homely pie-nie—a rare enjoyment,
snatched with difficulty from amidst toil, anxiety, and
privations of all sorts, looked forward to with pleasure,
and remembered with equal delight ;—those, we say,
who have ever chanced to witness this grati-
fying spectacle, will participate with us in
rejoicing that the Bill for inclosing this healthy
and picturesque heath, from which the poor
London artisan derives almost his only notions of the
country, has been thrown out by the House of Lords,
by a majority which must convince Sir Tuom
WiLsow, pertinacious as he is, that his favourite
scheme of inclosure is not very likely to be speedily
carried into execution.. For one year at least—and
most probably for many years to come—Hampstead
is safe from the visitation of the architect, with his
dandy designs of new cockney villas, and his atten-
dant posse of masons and hodmen, whose arrival in
any particular suburban locality never fails to be a
legitimate source of jealousy and annoyance to the
inhabitants, associated, as it is, in their minds,
with ideas of smoke, confinement, and the deprivation
of that fresh air to which they have been habituated.
The continuous and systematic spread of brick-and-
' mortar is one of the greatest nuisances of the metro-
polis. There seems positively to be no end to the in-
vasions of the builder. He is here, there, and every-
where, just as though he were endowed with übi-
quity. Not a year passes but London stretches
itself in every direction at least half a mile further
into the country. Where, but a few months since,
you saw a green field bordered with hedges, alive
with the merry music of birds, played over, as if in
very fondness, by the cool winds of lleaven, and
affording pasturage for a few sheep or cows—
those picturesque additions to the living beauty
of landscape scenery—you now see nothing but long,
dirty rows of new-made, straw-covered bricks, or
skeletons of buildings run up in haste, and in reck-
less violation of all the rules of architecture. To
the rich man these sudden, tasteless conversions of
country into town are matters of the most perfect in-
difference, for he can at any time mount his horse or
drive off in his carriage a dozen miles or so, away
from the stir and crowd and close atmosphere of the
metropolis ; but the poor man—much as he needs it
—has no such resource ; he is necessarily confined
within a limited distance ; he can hurry off to sniff a
mouthful of fresh air, just as far as his legs can carry
him, and no further ; consequently the more this
vast over-grown capital df ours extends itself,
the fewer are his chances of enjoying, when his day's
toil is at an end, the enviable luxury of a quiet
evening stroll into the country. In fact, the
London artizan has now no country left him, with
the exception, perhaps, of Hampstead, and one or
two meagre sylvan symptoms which still continue to
exist in the neighbourhood of Holloway. To be
sure, he is going to be compensated for this loss of a
rural walk by a park, which is to be manufactured
for his express accommodation at the East end of the
metropolis ; but Heaven only knows when this
long-talked-of park will be completed. If we
may judge from present indications, we should be
strongly tempted to say that it would not be ready

for his 'reception till Sir JAMES GRAHAM obtains the
Lord-Lieutenancy of Cumberland, and Dr. Pm's.-
roTTs the rich rectory of Stanhope. But to return
to the subject with which we set out—the at-
tempted inclosure of Hampstead Heath. Most
sincerely do we rejoice that this ungenerous
scheme has been defeated ; and net less
delighted are we with the prompt and decided manner
in which it was opposed in the House of Lords. The
spirit which dictated this opposition was of the
kindliest and most thoroughly English character ;
their Lordships saw at a glance the cruelty of the
case—that it was a matter of deep interest to vast
masses of the poorer classes of the community,
who, if shut out from their favourite heath—
as they most certainly would have been, had
Sir THOMAS WILSON'S Bill passed—would, almost
as a matter of necessity, have been compelled to spend
their evenings in the beer-shop or the gin-palace;—
their Lordships, we repeat, saw at once the hardship
and injustice of the case, and met it accordingly in
such a manner as will, we trust, effectually discou-
rage all further attempts at encroachment, on the
part of the lord of the manor.

The intelligence from Madrid is to the 30th ult.
The reports of the unsatisfactory state of the health
of the young QUEEN are on the increase. It is stated
that the indisposition, on account of which she has
gone to the baths of Caldes, is of a serious, not to say
of an alarming, character.
The Madrid Gazette contains a dispatch of General
NARVAEZ, dated the 27th ult., mentioning that their•
MAJESTIES and the INFANTA continued to enjoy ex-
cellent health. They were to embark at four o'clock
in the morning of the 29th for Tarragona, in • the
Isabel steamer, and the persons attached to the house"-
hold were to follow in the Ville de Madrid. The
Eco del .Comercio states that General NARVAEZ,
who took off with him 12,000,000 reals, advanced by
the bank of San Fernando, to defray the expenses of
the journey of the Royal Family, had written to the
Minister of Finance for 20,000,000 more, and com-
plains of the manner in which such large sums are
drawn from the Treasury for this purpose.
The Three per Cents. were done at 27i for cash,
and 281 at 60 days; the Five per Cents., at 20k at
60 days ; the Floating Debt, at 46k at 60 days ; the
Coupons at 24 9-16 at 60 days; and the Debt with-
out interest at 6 for cash.

The Paris journals of Wednesday have been re-
ceived, but-they are rather bare of political intelli-
gence of interest. Both Chambers met on Tuesday.
In the Deputies, the Supplementary Credits Bill was
adopted by 163 votes to 67. The sitting was entirely
taken up with the question of voting; 'a
grant of money
to the proprietors of posting-houses to enable them
to keep up their establishments by the side of the
railroad lines. The Chamber decided against grant-
ing any sum of money whatever, thinking that such a
course would only be a temporary expedient, which
ought to be discountenanced, when it was the duty of
the Government to bring in a large and definitive
measure on the subject. It would seem by this, that
the system which has so long existed in France of
bolstering up decaying trades, and uniemunerative
speculations by Government grants, is on the decline.
Had the House of Commons been asked to vote com-
pensation money to the inns and posting honses that
have lost their business here by the extension of rail-
way lines, the item would not have been the smallest
figure in the miscellaneous estimates.
In the opinion of a great many persons in Paris,
the last intelligence from Algeria is of a serious na-
ture. An engagement is daily expected between the
French in the neighbourhood of Tlemcen and the
Arabs, supported by a large body of Moors. It is
probable that the debate now expected in the Cham-
ber of Deputies, on an extraordinary credit for the
service of Algeria, will elicit some information on
this subject.
The following letter from Algiers in a Toulon
paper, is the last intelligence received:—

" The arrival of a courier from the west gave rise to extra-
ordinary reports here. It was said that the Emperor of Mo-
rocco had just sent considerable reinforcements to Abd-el-
Kader, who•was thus placed in a condition to renew the war.
these reports soon assumed a certain consistency, when it
was understood that all the disposable troops of Oran, Mosta-
ganem, and Mascara, had received orders to join General La-
moriciere at his camp at Lamargnia, near the frontiers of
Morocco ; and that, in addition, the 6th regiment of Light
Infantry, in garrison at Orleanville and Tones, had also set
out in the direction of Tlemcen."

Spanish politics occupy quite as much space in the
Paris papers as topics of home interest. The Sit':cle
asserts that negotiations are going on with the sanc-
tion of England and France for the marriage of the
QUEEN of SPAIN to the son of Don CARLOS. Many
of those who are best informed as to the state of
Spanish parties state, that, though the union may be
effected, it would not have the effect of healing the
wounds, and reconciling the deadly enmities created
by so many years of civil war. The Christinos and
Carlists would never amalgamate for any course of
political action, and the Carlists, deserted by their
chief, would probably form a party in the State,
active and unscrupulous enough to disturb, if not
strong enough to acquire, the preponderance.

The Univers announces that an address to Mr.
O'CONNELL is lying for signature at its office, and
calls upon the Catholics of France to affix their
names to it.

By a Royal Ordonnance of the 2d inst., Rear-
Admiral LASUSSE has been promoted to the rank of
Vice-Admiral, vice LALANDE, deceased; and Captain
CECILLE, commanding the Indo-Chinese station, has
been promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, vice
LASUSSE, promoted.
Accounts from Algiers state that Marshal BUGEAUD
had arrived at Algiers on the 30th ult., and was to
start for Oran on the 31st, to take the command of
the troops to be employed against Morocco.
The 3lessager of Tuesday has the following :

" Th e King, wishing to give to the manufacturers of France
a testimony of the gratification which he has felt on viewing
the magnificent exhibition of the various products of their
genius and industry, and of his high appreciation of the sen-
timents evinced towards him during his visits to the Champs
Elysees, has resolved to give a representation at the theatre
of the Palace" at Versailles to the central jury, and as many of
the exhibitors as the theatre will hold. The day is fixed for
Saturday next. The Intendant-General of the Civil List has
received orders to send out the invitations, which must neces-
sarily be limited, and particularly as his Majesty, to make
the assemblage the more complete and dignified, includes the
members of the two Chambers. On that day no person will'
be admitted into the galleries of Versailles, except those who
have had tickets sent expressly to them."

The Three per Cents. closed on Wednesday at 84f.
50c. ; the Five per Cents. at 122 f. 40c.; Spanish
Actives, 311; Spanish Three per Cents., 35k.
TIEE BOURSE—WioNEsDAY, JUNE 5.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per CentS ••• • • • 122 122 05 121 95 .. 121 95
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.• ••• 84 45 • . 84 50 .. 84 46 .. 84 45
Bank of France ••••.•.3090 • • 3090 • • 3090 —3090
Laffitte Bank, I,ooof Sharesll3s • • 1135 • • 1135 ..1135
5,000 f Sharessl22 50 •.5122 50 • • 5122 50 ..5122 50
Belgian Bank.. • • • • • • • • • • • . 662 50 .. 662 50 .. 662 50 • • 662 :50
Belgian Fives,lß3l.
1840 •••• • • • • 106 .. 106 • • 1051 .. 1051
1842 •• • • •• 109 . • • 109 • • 109 109
Dutch Two-and-a-Half .• •• • 62 • • 62 ••• 62 . 62:
Spanish Threes 351 •• 351 •• 351 351
Active ..... • 311 .. 311 .. 3lf .. 31f
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 461 .. 46} .. 461 • • 461
Neapolitan •••••-•• • • • • • • • 100_ • • 100 30 .. 100 .. 100 30

Ronian • ....... •• ••.•• •• .. 1041

!f
.1041

.. 1044 .. ioif

RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain •• • • • • • • • • • • • • 915

•• 915

•• 912 50 .• 912 50

Versailles,R.B.
L. 13.•••••••••• •• 260 .. 260 .."257 50 .. 253 75
Rouen

Rouen to Ilavre.• • .
Orleans t........, —lOO5 • •1010 • •1005 "1010
Strasburg to Bale .• ••• • .. 257 50 .. 257 50 .. 252 50 .. 253 75
Avignon to Marseilles .. 785 .. 785 • 785 .. 785

RAILWAY SHARES FOR 15TH JUNE.

St. flermaln
Versailles, 400 .• 402 50 .. 400 •• 400
258 75 .• 2e,0 .. 258 75 .. 258 75
Rouen' 997 50 .. 997 50 . 997 50 .. 997 50

11ouen:to llavTo 777 50 .. 777 50 776 25 777 50
Orleans .

Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 257 50 .. 257 50 250 50 .. 25a 75
Avignon to Marseilles-- 785 785 • • 785 .. 785

FAILURE OF TilE ROMFORD BANK.—We regret to
announce the failure of the bank of Messrs. Johnson
and Co., of Romford, which yesterday suspended its
payments. It was an establishment of many years
standing, and had a considerable amount of circula-
tion in its own notes. We do not apprehend that any
very great sum was issued beyond the county of
Essex, but to the farmers and graziers of the district,
for which Romford market forms the chief place of
sale and purchase, great loss and annoyance will be
the result. The market day at Romford is Wednes-
day, and the day before its stoppage the bank was
open, receiving and issuing as usual. Many cases of great
hardship upon drovers and others, who on Wednesday
last sold cattle and farm produce, for which they took the
notes of the Romford Bank, have reached us.
Deposits made by farmers for rent, and amounts left
by auctioneers and land-agents in the bank merely
for a short time, are among the causes of loss. This
is the first failure since the new Bank Bill of Sir
Robert Peel, but it is only the first. We fear that
many others will follow. Mr. Thomas Johnson, the
Lheoand of
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