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FRIDAY EVgNING, JULY 18, 1828.

FRENCH PAPERS.

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FROM THE GAZETTE DE PRANCE, JULY 16.
BUCHAREST, Juan 23.
General Roth has surmounted all the local difficulties
at Oltenitza, and has passed the Danube with his army
of 40,000 men. Silistria and Giurgevo are already in•
vested. General Witt is going to enter the Principali-
ties with the army of reserve.
PARIS, JULY 15.
We have this moment received news by express, that
the Portuguese army entered Oporto on the 2d of July.
The Constitutional army is entirely dispersed, and there
I remains of it only some wandering bands, which will
be soon subdued. The people of Oporto received the
royal troops with cnnusiasm•
A letter from Bayonne, of July 8. says-4, The Mar-
quis de Chaves hes caused an application to be made,
by morns of the telegraph, to the -French Government,
for passports to go to Lisbon. He has not yet received
any answer."
The Meekest? contains a statement published by the
Minister or Finance, comparing the produce of the indi-
rect taxes fat the first six months of 1828 with their pro-
duce during the same period of 1825 and 1827. There
is an excess of 19,333 OA) francs above 1825, and of
15,871,000 francs above 1827.
FRENCH Fumas.—Five per Cents. 1051. 90c.—Three per Cents.
72f. 95c. Bank Actions, 1 8801.—Neapolitan, 76f. 50c.—Spanish
(1823), 72f.—Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 25c.—Three
months, 251. 15c.

GERMAN PAPERS.

ST. PETERSBURG U, JULY 1.

A Supplement to the Journal Of St. Peter:lures of
the 28th of June, gives the bulletin of the 17th, detail-
ing the attack on Brailow, which was repulsed, and the
subsequent surrender of that fortress and of Matchin.
The Journal of the lit of July contains no news but
what has already been given in the Hamburgh papers.
JULY 2.—On the 27th of June the Imperial Rwssian
squadron sailed from Cronstadt. It consists of the fol-
lowing ships: The St. Andrew, of 74 guns, Captain
Mutowkin ; the Emanuel, 61, Captain kuhtschkin ; the
Fire Champenoise, 84, Captain Plater ; the Wladimir,
74, Captain Green ; the Const Intine, 74, Capt. Ilutakoff;
the Maria, Olga, Alexandra, and Mercury frigates, of
44 'gun. each. Admiral Siniavin is on board the St.
Andrew, and Admiral Ricord on board the Const intine.
The St. Andrew, t.te St. Wladimir, and the Mercury,
ale t.l return from Copenhagen to Cron,t idt with
Admiral Siniavin; the remaining sit, under Admiral
Ricord, are to join Count Heyden in tire Mediterranean.
In the course of the month another squadron will
also sail from Cronstadt, consisting of the Grand Duke
Mkhael, of 74 guns, Captain Melnikow ; the Empress
Alexandra, of 84 guns. Captain Schismarow ; the Prin-
cess Lowicz f igase, of 41 guns ; and the Telemachus
and Ulysses brigs, of 24 guns. It is not known who is
the Admiral that will command this squadron.
FROM THE V I STVL A, ICLY t.
Several corps in the interior of Russia, now on their
march to the Dnieper, including a great proport on of
light cavalry (probably Cossack.), are said to have re-
ceived positive orders to regulate their march in such a
manner, as to reach their destin itiun by the beginning
of August. Among the infantry in the camp near War-
W are the regiments belonging to the Lithuanian corps.
The regiments of what i. properly the Polish army,
which 1 ft their stations, as we know, some m ,nths ago,
took up very concentrated positions near Lublin, where,
it appears, they are for the present to remain.
(The Prusaian State Gazette to the 12th of July in-
clusive has no further new: from the theatre of war).

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 17.

The Improvement of Justice (India) Bill, the Excise Duties
Bill, and the Bombay Marine Bill, were severally read a third time.
The New South Wales Bill, and the Cities and Towus in Ire.
land Bills, were reported, with Amendments.

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answerable by law in the same manner as individuals.
With respect to their general tends, they had the same
liberty as individuals. This was the law. He spoke
in the presence of lawyers, who would correct him if
he were wrong. The Noble Lord supported thii Bill
on the ground of something which he said had taken
place at Leicester. The same had been formerly said
with respect to the Corporation of Northampton ; but
when an inquiry was instituted, the conduct of that
Corporation appeared to be perfectly justifiable. The
same, he believed, would be found to be the case_ at
Leicester if as inquiry took place. The facts were, that
the two candidates (Mr. 0. Cave and Sir C. Hastings)
had agreed to pay each a certain sum towards the ex-
penses of their election, the Corporation undertaking to
guarantee them against any further charge. Mr. 0
Cave had since denied having entered into any such
agreement, and refused to pay. Sir C. Hastings had
.peid his proportion. In consequence of the default of
one of the candidates, the.Cor puration were involeediss
.en espouse not orieinally contemplated. But for this
certain members of the Corporation were individually
liable; and it he Corporation relieved them by an ille-
gal application of any funds, he knew enough of
the borough of Leicester to be quite certain that they
would have to answer for their conduct before a Court
of Law. Is was said that Corporations had no right to
apply their funds to election purposes. He must con-
tend that they had this right, and that in our mixed
•Constitutioo the influence of Corporations was most
beneficial. The money might have been laid out for
legal purposes—the conveyance of .ont-voters, f is- in-
stance. Mr. Evans, a candidate for the representation
of Leicester, had spent 20,0001. for this purpose alone.
The boroughs where the influence was in. the hands of
,the Corporations were generally much purer and better
conducted than those which were called independent
boroughs. It was in the latter almost exclusively that
gross ptofligacy- and corruption were prevalent. If they
took away from Corporations the poa er ot mailitaining
their influence by means of their own funds, the .effect
must inevitably be to throw them into the hands of
some indiyidual Peer or Commoner of the neighbour-
hood, possessed of great wealth. He opposed the Bill
upon the grounds both of justice and expediency, and
he could not refrain from again expressing his astonish-
ment that it should have fallen to the lot of his Noble
Friend, who had given at least his silent acquiescence
to the opposition he had offered to a similar measure
upon a previous occasion, to be now the mover of the
second reading of this Bill. He should propose that the
Bill be read a second time this .day twee eneniths.
Lord GODERICH explained. He had no recollec-
tion of having assist .d his Noble Friend in his opposi-
tion to the former Bill. _
The Elul of ROSSLYN supported the Bill. The
legitimate influence of Corporations were salutary ;but
that influence which required the expenditure of 27,000 i.
was not legitimate. The Corporations ought not to have
the unlimited power of applying the funds entrusted t i
them for public purposes to any object they pleased.' '
The Earl of ELDON had opposed the former Bill
upon Constitut onal principles, which equally applied
•o the present Bill, and be would thereforestrenuously
oppose it Upon the state of the law there could be no
doubt whatever. All Corporations had the cont,oul
ose. their tunds in the same manner as individuals. It
would be all estreinely harsh proceeding to deprive all
the Corpor..t ons of the kingdom of their rigl is because
the Corpus 4tion i f Leicester had acted improperly, even
. if the fast were well established; but it did not appear
-t i him, from all he had heard or read, that t tore was
lany thing improper in what the Corporation of Lei-
cester had done.

Lord Catainiara and the Rarl of Callum:on severally made a
few observation.' in support or the Hill.
'Lord GODERICH and the Loan tuancrht.oa mutually explained.
The Hou*e then divided on the original motiuti—
Contents
Nut coutent! .

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Majority against the Bill . —32
Adjourned.:
HODS) OF COMMONS.
A new writ was ,issued for tie Borough of Bletchingly, in the
place of the Right Hon. Wm. Lamb, who has accepted the office
of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

The Walcot Limibeth.Charity EU/fel Bill Was read a third time
and passed,

Air. BRIG HT presented a Petition from a person of the name
of Bruce, relative to the Claims on the French Government.—Or-
dered to be printed.
Mr. MANNING moved for an Account Of the Expenditure
incurred by the attendance of Witnesses on the Penryn and East
ltetford Disfranchisement Bills.—Ordered.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL brought up the Report of the Com-
mittee on Criminal Commitments,which was ordered to he printed.
The Lun .tics Estate BiU was read a third time and passed.
Mr. W. SMITH presented a Petition from Newport Pagnel,
praying the total Abolition of Negro Slavery.
Mr. MANNING took this opportunity of remarking upon a
Petition on this subject, which was last night presented from Do.
ver, the Petitioners there praying, that as Runs was the produce
of slave labour, it should net be used in his Majesty's Navy. He
contended that our West India Colonies was a valuable nursery.
for British seamen; and AS to Christianity, he was satisfied that it
was cultivated with great care and attention in every part of the
West Indies.

Mr. W. SMITH said. that the objections stated by the Hon.
Member could in no degree apply to the Petition which he bad
presented.
Mr. BERNAL thought it was generally understood that this
question was to be dropped at so late a period of the Session. He
thought silence would, on the present occasion, be the best policy.—
The Petition was ordered to be printed.
Mt. FY LEI gave notice, that early in the next Session he would
moue for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the state
of the Silk Trade.

Alf. G. 0. MOORE presentecla Petition from Dublin, praying
that inquiry might be continued into the autuier in winch the Post
Office Steam Packet Establishment is conducted.—(2ldered to be
printed.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY presented a Petition from a Gentleman
of the name of W. H. Yaw, complaining of the state of the Law,
which allowed persons to place out a fund for the purpose of pro.
tecting wrongous purchases. It was highly penal so to put up any
such tund, and it was his intention in the next Session to bring in a
Bill upon the subject. In fact such was the expense of obtaining
justice either in a Cour; of Equity or Law, that it might be ailed
a denial of justice.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL would not object to the
Peti-
tion being laid upon the table, bat he did not think it ought to be
printed.—Ordered to be laid on the table.

SZNIFICIES REGULATION.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved the third reading of
the Benefices Regulation &IL
Dr. LUSHINGTON opposed this Bill, as it for the
first time gave the owner of benefices a power of nar-1
rowing the period during which the Clergyman should
hold his benefice ; and when once a benefice was given
to any Clergyman, he should have it for the term of his
natural life. Such had been the wholesome practice of
the Protestant Church, and such he hoped it would ever
continue to be.
The ATTORNEY GENERAIE. supported the
on the ground that where a benefice was conditionally