Star.
London, England, 1822-06-11 00:00:00

MARRIAGE OE DISSENTERS.

Mr. W. SMITH, in moving the Order of the Dari
for the second reading of the Bill for altering the
Marriage Service, so tar as the same related to the
Marriage of Dissenters, stated, that be had hoped the
alteration he proposed was perfectly unobjectionable;
but he understood that many persons of respectabi-
lity, panic tilarly Clergy men ofthe Established Church,
objected to it. Now nothing -could be further from
his object than to offend, in the slightest degree, the
sci uples of one class, while he proposed to relieve
those of another. He at first entertained a belief that
considerable alterations might be made in a Commit.
tee ; but he thought it better to withdraw the present
Bill entirely, and move for leave to bring in another,
which he trusted he should be able to shape so as. to
avoid giving offence to any religious feelings. The
new Bill could be presented and stand over for the
present year, so as to give every opportunity for its
deliberate consideration. He would therefore move
that the Bill be read a second time that day six months.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, nothing
could be more fair or discreet than the course proposed
by the Honourable Member. He would, however, give
no opinion on the general question to be raised by
the measure.

Dr. PHILLIIVIORE said, be was decidedly ad-
verse to the object of the Bill, which he thought
tended to degrade the marriage ceremony. He would
not oppose any measure which went merely to put
the marriages of Dissenters on the same footing with
those of Jews and Quakers.
Dr. LUSHINGTON thought the marriages of Dis-
senters should be legalized to all purposes. At pre-
sent those of Jews and Quakers were not valid for the
purposes of transmitting real property. He objected,
however, to any alteration in the Church Service.
Mr. H. GURNEY said, it had been expressly de-
cided that the marriages of Quakers were good for
the purpose mentionuct by the Learned Member.
Dr. DODSON thought the Bill highly objection-
able. He had no doubt it would lead to the proposal
of other alterations.
The motion was then agreed to, and Mr.W.SNITII
obtained leave to bring in another Bill.
The Report on the Passage Regulation Bill was brought up,
read, and ordered to betaken into consideration on Monday.
The Insolvent Debtor' Act Amendment Bill went through
a Committee, and the Report was ordered to be received to-
morrow.

iie Other Orders of the Dar were then disposed of ; and at
Half-put Eleven the House adjourned.

By a return made to the House of Commons it appears, that
is &sex there are 10 banks, the firms consisting of 31 names;
in Cambridgeshire, 7 beaks, 21 names ; Hertfordshire, 14 battles;
3% names; Kent, 51 banks 74 names; Norfolk, 16 banks, ST
names ; 17 banks, 73 names; Yorkshire, is banks,
1911 names.
An official paper, printed by order of the House of Commons,
states the estimate of the sum requisite to be granted in the pre-
sent Session of Parliament, in order to enable the Commissioners
for the Caledonian Canal to proceed in opening the navigation
between the eastern and western seas, at £25,000, clear of all
deductions.

Among the Parliamentary Papers, lately published,
are " Returns of the names of the Agents of the
New Colonies," &c. The Right Hon. W. litmus-
sou is Agent for Ceylon, with £l2OO a-year. He is
also Surveyor of Woods and Forests, with £2OOO
' a-year. The Agent for the Cape .of Good Hope is
THOMAS PERRORINI COMM/NAY, Secretary to the
Board of Controul ; his salary, as Agent, is £6OO
a-year ; his salary, as Secretary, £2,200. There is
an Agent of Malta, SEYMOUR BATHURST, who has
£6OO a-year. The Agent for Mauritius is RICHARD
PENS, with a salary of 400 a,year; he is Clerk in
the Secretary of State's Office, with £1,125 a-yeal.
At the Circuit Court, Philadelphia, came on re-,
cently the trial of Sally Sleight v. Stephen Barnes,
bath of Clinton, for breach of promise of marriage.
It appeared on trial, that the defendant had courted
the plaintiff for nine years, the fruits of which were
an illegitimate offspring—otherwise she sustained a
fair reputation. Verdict for plaintiff, 1,500 dolluts.

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SITTING OF ThE CORTES, Kati SI. ;
The Report of a majority of the Finikee Coping.
sion on the Loan contacted on the 2r2d of Deiensber
last, by the z-Minister of Finance, Don AttoacVate
coo, was read, and containedebefollowing Articles:
Ist. This the Cortes neither can nor &sold recognise as the
result of their outhotity conferred epee the Goverment-61,th,
Decree of the 27th of June, Mel, and the Resolution of the
28th of the same mouth, the contract for the Loan formed ea
the 22d of December with the houses of A rdouln and Hubbard
by the Ex-Minister of Finance, Don Angel Vallejo, on, aceovnt
Of his having exceeded the limits of the said authorination.
2dly. That the Cove:meet suspending the mention of the
contract, should arrange with the house et Ardoubs and Huh.
bard the means of avoiding the prejudice to third parties, and
repairing the immense tomes already occasioned to the nation,
affording thus a new proof of the desire of the Congress to leave
untouched good faith and national honour.
idly. If the .Govenunent cannot reverse this transaction, it
wiU communicate to the Conte for their final disposition. as
fikevri.e for their approbation, the contract which it may be
enabled to form.
To leave the Government an absolute independence
for this operation, and to enable it to waft for peremptory con-
ditions, fix Willie authorised to negociate with national or foreign
houses, the sum requisite to complete the 200,000,000 of reale.
Sthly. In both cases the Gqvernment will submit to the Corres,',
for their approbation of Utopian or project of the loan. •
6thly. The Government will proceed in the whole matter
with the greatest expedition, because the public expense of the
present economical year must be settled, and the Cones must
soon' close their Sittings.
7thly. That the present measure be submitted to the Cot-o-
mission for cases of re billy, that it may propose what is'
proper to be repaired of pubile functionaries who have, directly
or indirectly, taken part in them Infractitms of the Constitution
and of the laws which may have been committed in the articles
of the contract entered into by Don Angel Vallejo.
Several Deputies begged to speak, both for and
arsittsf rabble of:tale-Report ; and
Senor Rimers DirARILLLANO read a discourse, of
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which the following s, an abridgment:—A subject
i3f this importance, he'iaid, required the most de-
tailed elimination. The point under consideration
l!fas, whether they were to reverse an operation ruin-
,oiis in itself, Sccording to all the calculations pre-
•sented by thrFinance Commission, disgraceful to
Spaniards by the conditions on which it was con-
tracted; and, lastly, invalid, both on account of the
want-of power in the Minister of Finance who con-
cluded it, and the term! on which it was formed.—
Considering the enormous mischiefs which this con-
tract was calculated to/create, it appeared impossible
that any Spaniard could be found who could sanc-
tion it by his signature; but, leaving out of-view the
losses which it would occasion to the State if it was
ca;ried into effect, andlikewise the disgraceful terms
on which it was concluded, the first question which
presented itself was, whether the Minister of Finance,
Vallejo, had powers to make the contract: and, se-,
condly, even if he had, whether the Cortes ought
to approve of it, some of the articles of it being
breaches of a fundamental law. The authority
which the Cortes conferred upon Vallejo was, in'
substance, that he should enter into a contract
which should be most advantageous to the nation.—
It was a well known maxim that no officer empowered
to execute a particular commission, ought to trans-
gress the limits within which his commission is re-
strained ; and if this is a good general rule, how much
more ought it to be regarded when a matter of so
great importance as the happiness or ruin of a nation
is concerned. To say that Senor Vallejo exceeded the
authority of the Cortes, and the powers conferred
upon him by the King, to contract for a loan, is to
say that those terms ought only to be fulfilled which
they proposed, and nothing more; but in place of
doing this, the Minister of -Finance, straining the in-
terpretation of the power of the commission of the
Cones, carried the matter much further than the
Congress either wished or was able to authorise. He
would not examine the different parts of the contract ;
it was sufficient to state one article to give an idea of
the whole. The 6th Article, for instance, could not,
be examined without horror. In this Article it was
stipulated that if the present system of Government
should cease to exist by any unexpected event, the
contractors would not be bound to continue their in-
stalments. Such i condition as this is offensive to
the Monarch, offensive to the nation, and in every
view disgraceful. In another Article it appeared that
a Siliking Fund was established—an establishment
that could only be formed by the National Congress.
The Hon. Member stated several other objections to
the existing contract.
Senor CANOA expressed his opinion, that the sub-
ject before Congress was one of the greatest interest,
and begged leave, in the name of the majority of the
Commission, to explain the meaning of the Report
h w ich they had presented. In the Decree of the 27th
of June, 1821, it was said that the Cones authorized
the Government to contract for a loan of 200,000,000
of reals; but the Minister submitted on the same day
to the Congress the following exposition:
" Most Excellent senors—The desire of Government, in an

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operation so grave and so delicate as the loan of 200,000,000,
which the Cortes have authorized it to make, cannot be any
other than to attract, by means of public opinion, the confidence,
of speculators, so that no doubt of the execution of the compact
must influence in the smallest or greatest degree the conditions
which may be proposed. Attending to these reasons, and con-
sidering that perhaps the realization of the loan will render it
necessary to establish a Great //oak, to create a sinking fund, to
apply several branches of the public revenue to this establishment,
and to reduce the whole or a part of the foreign debt to a new
loan, for the purpose of being included in the Great Book, the
King commands me to petition the Cones, with the greatest
urgency, that the authority granted to the Government to con-
tract the loan, may extend to the four points which have been
mentioned, since. wit out this circumstance, propositions founded
on any loan operations cannot be admitted, however advan-
tegeous ; public opinion being prejudiced by the idea, that the
Govenunent acted only on limited and insufficient authority. I
communicate this to your Excellencies, by the Royal order, that
it may be communicated to the Cones with all the expedition
which the subject requires."
The Resolution of the Cortes, in reply to this com-
munication, was couched in the following terms:
“ Most Excellent Sir—The Cortes, taking into consideration
the proposition which your Excellency has submitted to them in
the Message of the inch inst. and especially that the realization
of the loan will render necessary the establishment of a Great
Book, the creation of a Sinking Fund, the application of several
branches of the revenue to these establishments, and the reduc-
tion of the whole or part of the foreign debt to a new loan, to be
included in the Great Book, have resolved, that the Iklinister of
Finance be authorized by the permission of the same Cortes to
take the necessary measures that the loan agreed upon be realized
in the mode the must convenient and advantageous to the natiop."
In this manner the Cortes, in their second ordir,
sanctioned the proposition which the Government
submitted to them, to have a Great Book, a Sinking
Fund; and to reduce a part of the foreign debt, etc.—
lln virtue of this,.theretore, the Government deemed
itself authorized to make the contract. He could
wish that the blinister of Finauce should rectify

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Atil yawl did not arise ham the subject
bun eassikodicial information. He had heard
it thl Resolution of the Cartes did sot appear in
sir Jostresis at the time, but that it was afterwards
Aslivesod to the Minister Vallejo. -
• The plena hlasssxse of Ftssece,repliedi that
be irnevr nothing of this.
Senor ,FXRRER begged that the Opeaker would
tend the Act in which the permission of th. Cones
was stated.
Benor-Cmsoa totitittbect—Thd Han. Memtier tlh
sires to say, that this permission does not, appear
from the Act : it does not, bot it appears from the
Report which proceeded from the Committee of the
Cones; and he held that resolution to be good, be.
cause it was signed by the Secretaries of the Corte%
and because it was not of a nature to be contained in
a decree of that body. Out of regard to this dec!a-
ration, the Government thought .that it was authc.
rized to execute a loan in the te, ms which it bad pm-
posed. He concluded by beseeching the Cortes to re-
collect that the honour of the nation was at stake.

Senor FALCO said, his opinion would always be
Against loans, especially as this kind of negociation
had become a species of art so compli.:sted and so
difficult, that it was confined to a few mercantile
houses of Europe who engaged in it., He feared
much that the nation had become victims of the su-
periority which was obtained over them in this kind
of knowledge.
Senor ADAN observed, that those who opposed the
Repos t Of the Commission, had, in his opinion, availed
themselves of reasons that went to support. rather
than destroy it.
The MINISTEE Of FINANCE said, the Gocernmtfit
felt, in taking part in this r iscussion, it was the wo, k
of none of the individuals who at present con.po,zd it.
This circumstance animated him in undertaking the
defence of the negociation to a certain extent. The
Government concurred in the opinion of the Com-
mission in every respect, except in the clause of the
first article, by which it in effect prop unced the
contract null.—The time of ending debate was then
drawing near. Several Members wished to speak;
the Sitting was theretore adjourired.
1. SITTING, OF JUNE 1.

Previous to the resumption of the discussion en the
Loan, Senor ADA N .topri ed the Cortes that the Coin.
mission did not present the first Article for delibera-
tion, and that its opinibit was that it should he ie.
fined to the'tovernment to act in the best possible
manner for the public interest iti this business, as the
contract could not be annulled.
The debate afterwards was continued with much
warmth, but was notconcladed. M. FERRER and the
Mourrei of FINANCS, the former against the con-
tract, and thelatter in 'support of it, spoke at great
length, and the debate was adjourned.

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1 HE EVEN ISG STAR,.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1522.
St. I imuchami.--11•1klay at th. Bank.
• THB :FUNDS.
ROYAL EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

This'being a holiday bOth at the Bank and Stock Exchange,
a great number Si BrOkers haw assembled on 'Change, and a
good deal is doing in the foreign market, particularly in the
Catilian Steck ; there is also a demand for Old Spanish Bonds,
as yesterday, towards the close of the market, purchases were
rnstieiktAbe abosre Stock by some eminent Houses, which it is
titiouglit-was owing to the express from Madrid, that the Spanish

Government would ratify the Contract for their Loan. In
Russian Stock there has been a little doing, but not of• that im-
portance to cause a rise. Colombian Stock Is also on the ad-
vance. Prussian. Danish, and Neapolitan Stocks maintain their
prices. Spanish Old 61a I; New 61* ; Cbiliaa 78 ; Russian 82} ;
Prussian 851 1 ; Danish 851; Neapolitan 721 ; Colombian
loll; New 84.