Star.
London, England, 1827-06-30 00:00:00

MISSAiIi nom Tilt 4011168.

A Message from the Lords acquainted the Hogue that their
Lordships had passed the Manor Courts (Ireland) Bill, the Ca-
nadian Clergy, and other Bills (for which see LorAs' Report),
without any amendment; and a number of other Bills (among
which were the Corn Averages Bill and the Warehoused COlll Bill),
with amendments; and requesting that the House would supply
their Lordships with a copy of the evidence as which the House
bad paned a Bill for more effectually preserving the peace and
securing the freedom of elections in the city of Coventry. To which
The SPEAKER replied, that the House would send an answer
by Messengers of its own.

SINICOSIS IN SCOTLAND.
Mr. JOHN WOOD said, that in consequence of the death of a
Noble Dake (Gordon) a sinecure place of considerable value had
lately become vacant in Scotland. He need hardly remind the
House, that a Commission had been appointed in the year 1817, to
examine into and to report respecting Sinecure Places—and that
that Commission bad recommended that certain places should be
abolished, and others regulated after the demise of the then
ka.u.AlPClltio rle mussel', untrerws au, assc,e, use asigncre=
Gentleman opposite, whether it was, or was not, the intention of
his Majesty's Ministers to take that opportunity to abolish the place
in question?
Mr. CANNING said, it was exactly as stated by the HoDourable
Member, that the Cenunission of 1517, and the report respecting
the course which they thought ought to be pursued upon the occur-
rence of vacancies in certain places—that some sitsuld be abo-
lished, and others continued. And, in reply to the Hon. Gentle-
man's question, begged leave to state, that it was the Intention of
his Majesty's Government to follow the recommendation of the
Commission respecting the regulation of the office alluded to by the
Hon. Member. SISSIDIONAIS SZPSZSENTATION.
Mr. LA W LEY presented a Petition from 3,000 inhabitants of
the town of Birmingham, praying to be admitted to the blective

Franchise. -
Mr. LITTLETON supported the Petition, and stated that a
very, great number of people in the neighbourhood of Birmingham
were employed in the same trades and manufactures as the people
of that town, and that it was highly proper that they should have
nepresentnives for their interests.
Mr. TENNYSON observed, that this Petition was a proof that
the people of Birmingham were not indifferent about the elective
franChne. Besides that the Petition was signed by the greater part
of the respectable people of the town, it was to be observed that.
it was signed by thirty out of the thirty.nine composing the Chain
bet of Commerce. He wished that the Petition should be read at
length—(Cries of No, no). lie gave notice, that early neat Session
he would move lot the renewal of the Bill for transferring the Batt.
Bedard franchise to the Town of Birmingham.

WATER 1d01101.01.t.
Sir R. w I ISON presented a Petition front upwards of 5,000
Inhabitants of the l'srisit of St. George, Southwark, against the

water Coaipinieernabopoly. TS* littitioi iii IsiJ on de faMs.
—Tb. same Hon. Monza then save notice, that in 'valid omeai
Softies submit to the House A Motion on the subject:

tauten ?MILL
Mr. BERNAL presented a Petition from certain Pitherthen
the County of Kent, praying to be allowed to employ a greater
member of men in their fishing-boats. The number allotted them
by law wee a great deal too limited to enable theth to carry on thew
beefiness to tie best advantage. It was impolitic to discourage the
employment of men in t►is service, as it was a nursery of maiden
for the Navy. The French fishing•boats were allowed Ruin twenty
to shiny men.
Mr. HERRIRS said, that the great danger wis, that If MO
may men were allowed, they would be employed in umeggiing.
lie believed that the erect of the Act of the Bth of the preheat
King, which consolidated the other Acts on the subject, had been
somettitat misunderstood. The Treasury was always ready to

gnat a relazazioo ia ease of pressore.-1
*DA. :AA alt.

UM oithi table.

Sir C. BURRELL presentedaPCtititio Ikons certain land °warn
and wool growets in the neighbourhood of West Grintetead, pray.
ins for a protecting ditty on foreign StootimpotteJ, and wished dust
an account would be e'en of thi quauddes of each of the several
sorts of wool which were exported.
Mr. H ERR IRS expressed a doubt Mader it *euld be possible
to present an account of the several aorta, and the Several trundate
of each sort..—The Petition was lald so the table.

reverts. •
Mr. MINNA IRD pee nodes that he weak!, nett Session, bring
befere the Hoene a motion, concerning the laws and regulations re.
Wye to Patents, Led the ripsaw &needle( the prdeuring them.
dowagers* wo► staid,.
Mr. LITTLETON. snored. that then be NH on the Table an
Amount of the Compeeltiss paid is lieu of Stamps, for their casb
Dotes, post bills, Ste. by the Bask of England, for the year ending
1827, with a statement whether the Branch Banks of the Bank of
England drew without any stamps. The Bank of England. he
understood. enjoyed in this respett a great advantage over the other

Mr. BERRIES said, that thee had been no intention to give
the Bank of England any undoes advantage in this respect, and the
Bank did not desire it.
Mr. MASERLY observed, that the Bank of England bad no
occasion to draw this species of mum They ought to draw on
stamps as well as the Co-partnership Banks, and then them Would
be no undue advantage on either side.
Mr. NURSE said, that the Bank of England certainly desired
no superior advantage in this respect.—The motion was agreed to.
imam noncom*.

Mr. Aidertnan THOf/PSVNpresent----ed a Petition from Messrs.
Fish and C.ollhav, respectable tobacconists, complaining of an op-
pressive prosecution instituted against theta by the Solicitor of the
Board of Excise, for a trifling irregularity in the transfer of a pound
of cigars, for which the duty had been paid. The Petitioners wale
highly respectable tradesmen, who paid sot less than 50,00ut. a year
to the Revenue,
Mr. HERMES regretted that he was unable to afford any
satisfactory explanation on this subject, as the Ham Alderman bad
given him no intimation of his intention to presto, this Petition.
Mr. HUME wished to know why the Report of the Cuourdo.
elopers of Revenue Inquiry had not bees laid on the Table?
Mr. WALLACE said, that they bad inquired late the state of
the Revenue in Scotland and Ireland, hot that they had not coal.
pitted their inquiries in England.
Mr. Alderman WOOD bate testimony to the great respeatabilirt
and honourable character of the Petitioner..
The Petideo was ordered to lie on the Table, and to be vilely&

OAIVOIX DIAIICIPASJON.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL preseut•l a Petition, Signed
by Two Hundred and Thirty-nine Gentlemen of the Bar, expreeeing
their regret that any portion of their fellow-subjects should labia.,
ruder civil &Behind's, and praying the House to devise some mum.
sure for the removal of all disabilities (tom his Majesty's Roman
Catholic subjects. He believed a Petition bad never been presented
to that House by a body comprehending a greater degree of learning
and intelligence. The Petitioners were an attaebed to the Cher&
of England, and would never concur in any measure the crest of
which might be to affect the ascendancy of that Church. For hie
own part, be was anxious to diminieh the number of the &netlike of
the Church of England, by diminishing the number of those who
were excluded from a participation In equal civil rights.
M. H. GRATTAN supported the prayer of the lietitionere.
OLIMICAL DOM

Mr. DUMB said he bad, In the coarse of the discharge of MS
public duty. presented some Peddens of a dngular character, hot the
Petition be held in his band was the most tatteerdinaty he
presented. It was from an bollvidnal named Peter Watson,
bad been embed seventy two days la Durham Gad, In mesh-
woos as salt instituted by the *tear of Cheater-le-wrete, foe the
oms.paysnent of Easter Afferinp, taws:din to 411wourd Of temente
halfpenny, the law expldis me the Proceedinp having Migrated
die suss of one thousand pounds. The Petitioner dwelt upemeao•
truisms madams to which he bad been subjected by the proteedibte
la the Ecclesiastical Court, sod ptayrd the Home to take the earliest
opponwaity of making an alteratioss in the laws relating to these
caleringt. In ebb prayer the Hew. Member cordially concerted.—
' The Petition was then laid upon the Table,and ordered to be pnotesia

/Si SST IDOORIAT.

Mr. HUMBresented a Petition from Robert G .urlay, now a
prisoner in Coldbath.fields, praying that a Committee or Commis-
sion might be appointed to enquire into his ease. The unfortunate
man bad been sent to ptisoo, and detained thete he ►new not osi
whose suggestion, or on what amount.
Mr. BROUGHAM said his Hon. 'friend stetted to have some
doubt as to the person at whose suggestion this poor man was sent
to plasm He would tell him t►at it was at the suggestion of Go.
'eminent.
Mr. HUME.—* I believe it was by order of the Polive.a
Mr. BROUGHAM.—WeII, suppose it to be the poe
lice, his Hon. Friend's doubts were answered. It was
as utterly and entirely false as any thing that ever was
uttered or appeared in print, that he Mr. B. was instrus
mental in having him sent to prison. So far was it
from be:ng true, that he even refused to attend at the
Police office. Subsequently he ( Mr. B.) did, upon va..
various occasions, speak to the Secretary to the 'Frew•
wry, and prayed him to Ict that poor man out. The
answer was, that he might come, out when he pleased,
if he found sureties. By law he could not otherwise be
di-charged. It was never intimated to him that derange•
meat was the cause of his detention. But he could tell
his Hon. Friend that he was reported as insane by Sir
G. Tuthill,and another medical Gentleman of great expe-
rience in such matter.. The unfortunAte man had used
no threats against him, but he had used threats, and
very bloody threats, against a Learned Judge, and pur-
chased a pistol toa, to carry them, as he s id, into effect.
Whatever might be hie state now, he mast doubt very
much whether at one time he was so perfectly sane as
his Hon. Friend would lead them to believe. Perhaps
his Hon. Friend was confirmed in his opinion by the
very weakness of the arguments in support of it, as he
observed, that upon many occasions in that Hoene he

to the strength of the reasoning agatnt it. Upon the no•
casion when this unfortunate person made the assault
upon him in the lobby of the House, he heard him ex-
claim, " Let the dead bury their dead ; is not a living
man better than a dead missionary r and, upon inquir•
ing what the cause of this uproar was, he saw him with a
stick or a cane raised over his head, which he did not
attempt to make use of. This was something very like
madness. His Honourable Friend might not think him
mad now, and he might appear to him or any other
person rational enough. It was only by such means
Sir G. Tuthill, who knew how to touch the proper string,
that cases like this could be ascertained. He knew no
cause of enmity he could have had against him, and he
(Gourley) told an Hon. and Gallant Friend b his that
he had no antipathy against him (Mr. B.), that he was
treated with attention, and that he (Mr.B.) shook hands
with him at his departure from his holt,' when he came
there with a Petition on the subject of education. His
case was stated anxiously and solemnly. The truth was
that he had been abominably ill•treated, having beta
tiled while under the influence of a cale.ttuse; He did
not certainly go at great length into the Petition, be•
cause haring spoken so frequently on the subject of
education, he did not think it necessary. What *hewed
something extraordinary in his state of mind was, that