Star.
London, England, 1830-04-20 00:00:00

PARMA MENTA BUSINESS.

According tothe Parlimentare hooka, ino:o
is left to be done than usually citaracterises the period a!'crr the
Easter Recess ; and certainly quite as much as can be gone through
Wit is all to be dole se as to allow the prorogation to take place My
the threatened day—the anniversary of the conflict of Waterloo,
June 18.—In the Lords, as to the judicial business, little kis
been done except hearing some Scotch appeals, and evidence
in four or five colt of the Divorce Bills brought in duripg
the present Session the Peerage claims, some of theist
partly heard last, end postponed till this Session, having not
yet been even commenced. The Berkeley (RaitcoNv by tenure).
Annandale, and various other Peerage claims, remain to be heard.
With respect to such public business as originates in the Upper
House, with the exception of the Divorce Bills—(they always taking
their rise there)—that part of the business temains to be done. The
" Suits in Chancery" Bill has been brought in—and that s all of
what was promised. About 30 Bills, chiefly sent from the other
House, are, and have been, " waiting" for the second reading,
&e. so that all the business on hand, with the additions that
must be forwarded front the Commons—saying nothing of several
important notices of motions already on the books from Lords
Goderich, Teyniuun, Napier, &c.—may afford tolerable enter.
tamment and occupation to their Lordships for May and June.—
If in the Lords " bad begins," in the Commons " worse remains
behind." Already arc the books full of notices and orders of the
day down to June 8, besides ten most important notices of motions
for which " no day could be fixed," as there was " no open day"
till the day just mentioned ! There ate notices for forty-five motions,
and almost all on popular and interesting, as well as important na-
tional, subjects, already fixed for days between April 26 and
June 8, besides the notices for ten motions, for which days have
not been fixed, making in all fifty.five motions on public sub-
jects ! Then there are orders of the day, on account of Bills
already before the House :—there arc thirty-six for the first
three or four days. In addition, there arc some hundred private
Bills, many private committees and some public ones which may he
said to have little more than commenced their inquiries, amongst
which may be named that most important one on Earl India at.
fairs ; and saying nothing of the threatened one on the Rank affairs,
preparatory to any renewal of the charter. Mr. Iluskisson (May 4)
moves " fin a Select Cmninittee to inquire into the banking system
of the country, with reference to the renewal of the Chatter of the
Bank of England." Thus it will be seen that, it' not one subject
arise after the recess, there is already tolerable work for both houses
before "June 18." Whether they will, once more, realise the:ob-
servation of the celebrated Mr. Dunning, on being asked how he got
through so much work, remains to be seen. He replied, " Some I
do, some does itself, and some goes undone."

Tae ASII 'mu RACES.—We have been informed
that Lord HOWTII has given the amount of the stakes
he won, in the second race on Monday, for the purpose
of completing the long-neglected Catholic Chapel at
Ashbourne, and that he induced the winner of the 101.
P.P. stakes to follow his example ; which, together with
the field money, which he, as one of the Stewards, ob-
tained the sanction of applying to the same purpose, it is
expected will be sufficient to finish the building.
laisit \Tao RANTS.—On Saturday afternoon, several
Irishmen applied at the Guildhall, in Bath, for relief,
stating that they were destitute of the means of pur-
chasing food, or of procuring a night's lodging: but on
being closely questioned by one of the officers, they some-
what prevaricated in their replies, which induced him to
search one of them, on whom he found two sovereigns
land sonic silver, &c. They were accordingly dismissed.
It appears that Irish poor come over to this country
in such numbers, merely to make a harvest for parish
relief, by obtaining which at every place they pass
through, they gradually accumulate a large sum of mo-
ney ; when one of the party is entrusted with the whole,
to convey to their friends in Ireland, and the remaider
then take another route towards Ireland, getting and
hoarding all they can ; so that, by the time they return
home, the adventurers can generally congratulate them-
selves on a profitable excursion.—lbid.
Count Cape distrias is said to have laid the last Lon-
don Protocols before the Legislative Assembly of Greece,
adding that he considered the choice of Prince Leopold,
as that best calculated to promote the welfare of Greece.
The Elders of a dissenting congregation, not 200 miles
from Birmingham, have recently determined to discon-
tinue the administration of the Sacrament, wine being
declared too expensive.
The explosion which took place on the 24th of Febra-
ary, on board the Helen MacGregor steam-boat, at
Memphis, on the Mississippi, in the State of Tennessee,
appears to have caused the death of from 60 to 80 pas-
sengers, instead of 16, if we are to credit the Philadel-
phia Gazette of the 16th of March. But, as a horrible
story never loses by being repeated, the New York
Morning Courier and Inquirer of the 18th of March
estimates the number of lives lost on that occasion at
120. The American papers likewise make mention of a
cumber of other fatal accidents on board of steamers,
such as persons being scalded to death, the burning of
steam-boats, &c. _ _

The sect called " the Quietests" professed an entire re-
nouncement of self, tie silence of the soul, the annihila-
tion of all its powers, interior worship, and that pure and
disinterested love of Go D which is neither degraded by the
fear of punishment, nor animated by the hope of reward.
In the course of Thursday night a fire broke out in the
servants' offices of the elegant mansion of Miles Stringer,
Esq. at Effingham Hill, surrey, which, before it could
be subdued, destroyed a great part of the house. The in-
mates all happily, though very narrowly, escaped.
The learned Orientalist Neumann, Professor at the
University of Munich, and author of the " Lives of the
Armenian Philosophers," is on the point of setting out
for London, to embark for Chinn, where he is going to
study the Chinese language and literature. It is re-
markable that this gentleman is the first European who
has gone to China with views exclusively literary. The
Munich Royal Academy has granted the learned Pro-
fessor 1500 dollars, for the purchase of Chinese books.—
French Paper.
On calling the cause of the soi-disant Baron de St.
Clair, which was resumed by the Correctional Court of
Paris on Saturday, the King's Advocate showed that the
pretended Baron was a Scotchman, who had dese...ted
from the armies of his Britannic Majesty. The deposi-
tions of Count de Not, and of several English officers,
together with the spuriousness of the documents which
the accused had produced in vindication of his name,
birth, and title, left no doubt on this head. The defama-
tion of which the prisoner stood accused was incontro-
vertible, and nothing could be urged in extenuation of
his guilt. After half an hour's deliberation, the Court
sentenced the pretended Baron to one year's imprison-
ment, to the payment of a fine of 500 francs, and a fur-
ther sum of 1,000 francs to each of the prosecutors, in-
asmuch as the facts contained in the pamphlet, entitled,
" Revelations respecting the Assassination of the Duke
de Berri," were false and defamatory towards the Duke
Decazes, the Duke d'Earcars, the Duke de Maile, Count
Clermont-Lodeve, and Count Lepaultre de Lamotte. The
charge against Barbier, the printer of the pamphlet, was
dismissed, it not having been proved that he had acted
with a full knowledge of the nature of the contents of
the publication.