Star.
London, England, 1820-05-20 00:00:00

PUBLICATION OF TRIALS.

Mr. HOBTIOUSE gave notice of a Motion for the 15th of
:Tune, with respect to the power exercised by Judges of im-
posing a fine on persons wno might publish proceedings in a
.'outt of Justice before they were brought to a conclusion. He
as sorry that this question should be taken up by a Member
lice htilself, but unleis some Member possessed of more legal
l.iarafledge than he could pretend to would undertake to bring
it before the llause, he should feel it to be his bounden duty, on
or :15uut tit day he had named, to submit to them a Resointim
on ads 5111).p:et.

MISCELLANIES':

A Petition was presented on the, part of Sir Walter Stirling,
prayit g that the time allowed for entering into recognizance.
Leon his Petition against the return of one of the sitting Mem-
niers tel. the Borough of St. Ive's, might be enlarged till Tues-
day,the 23d of INlay, in consequence of a severe domestic alilic-
tioo, which prevented him from conforming with the law within
the time prescribed.
Sir WA &Aim STIRLING verified the Petition at the bar, and the
prayer of it was granted.
On the motion of Lord C ISTLEREAGII, the Civil List
Bill was read a third time, and passed.
Sir W. DE CREST' GN Y complained of some partial As-
sessments in Kent, whire, in a certain Parish, some persons
were rated to the highest amount, while others paid nothing.
Mr. LUSH IN 'I'ON said, he should feel obliged for any
information respecting those who had not been assessed, as he
would very soon make them pay—(A laugh)—but in his opi-
nion, every individual in the Parish was rated according to his
liability.
Mr. ROBERTSON presented a Petition frcm the Mayor,
Burgesses, and Freeholders of Grampound, praying that they
might not be deprived of those corporate rights which had de-
scended to them from their ancestors, by the disfranchisement
of the Borough.-4.aid on the table.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT brought in a Bill to amend the 56th
and 58th of George 111. for recovering Penalties from Tenants
absconding ut lreland.—Read a first time, and ordered to be
read a second time on Thursday.
Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH brought in a Bill to repeal I
the 39th of Elizabeth, the 21st of James I. the 4th and 9th of
George I. and the sth, 6th, 7th, and Bth of George 11. relative
to capital felonies.—Read a first time, and ordered to be read a
second time on the sth of June.—lie then brought in another
Bill, in reference to the same subject, for repealing an Act passed
in the reign of Charles 11. and the 12th of George ll.—Read
a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the sth
of June next.
The Hon. and Learned Member next withdrew the notice he
had given of a motion for a Bill to consolidate all the laws re-
lating to forgery, and brought in a Bill, the object of which was
to mitigate the severity of punishment in cases of forgery and
other crimes, and also for more effectually detecting the forgery
of Notes and Bills.—Read a first time, and ordered to be read a
second time on the sth of June.
Mr. FREEM A NTL E presented a Petition from an indivi-
dual, named John Lowndes Mackay, stating, that the Petitioner
had, for the last twenty-five years, been employed in plans for
improving the roads, and praying for some remuneration for his
services.—The Petition was referred to the Committee of the
Roads and Highways.
The Clerk of the Peace Bill was read a third time, and passed.
Lord CASTLEIIEAGII gave notice, that after the holidays
be would move for leave to bring in Bills to renew the Alien
Bill, and also to renew the Act for preventing the Bank of Scot-
land from Naturalizing Foreigners.
The Committees of Supply and Ways and Means were post-
poned till Friday, on which day Mr. BANK ES gave notice
that he would move the Annual Grant to the British Museum.
The House went into a Committee on the Act relative to the
trade to the Cape of Good Hope, on the Free port Trade Acts,
a'td the American Colonies Drawback Acts; in which Resolu,
thins to condone the said Acts were agreed to. The Reports
of the Committee were ordered to be received on Thursday.
The Customs Drawback's Regulation Bill was read a second
time, and committed for Friday next.
111 r. 1). W. 11ARVEY, in making the motion of which he
bad given notice, would not detain the House futther than to
say. it was his intention, after the holidays, to move for leave to
bring in a Bill to remedy the evils, expenses, and delays, at pre-
s:..it experienced from Writs of irror. He moved for Returns
t:se Writs in Frror issued within the last three years, and
1.. r a variety of documents connected with them.—Ordered.
The ATTDENEY-GE NEE A L obtained leave to bring in
a Bill to give farther facilities to the Court of King's Bench,
by enabling the Judges to give certain powers to the Justices
of ..Assize. The Bill was afterwards brought in, read a first,
ordered to be read a second time on the 30th of June, and to
be printed.
Mr. R. WARD presented Accounts of the Ordnance for the
present year.—Ordered to lie on the table.
Accounts of the amount of Exchequer Bills and Irish Treasury
outstanding on the li;th of May, 1820, were ordered to be
laid before the !louse; as were Accounts of the Amount of all
Exchequer Bills from the sth July last to the ii;th of May.
Mr. LUSIII NGTON brought in a Bill to repeal certain Acts
Imposing Custom Duties on bonded merchatidize.—Read a first,
and ordered to be read a second time on Friday.
:dr. C. GRANT brought up a Report from the Commis-
Llor.ers appointed to inquire into the state of the House of In-
dustry in Dublin.—Ordered to lie on the table.
tin the motion of Lord CASTLEREAGH, the House adjourned
till Thursday.

MatAarmors Accmeter—Yesterday evening, about six o'clock,
as two yaang lads, nam..d WILKINS and STENIF.NS, whose parents
reside in Peter-street, Westminster, were sailing in a small boat,
near the Red-House, Eattersea, not being competenent to manage
the sail, tkeb-Jat was epset. STLPTIENS could swim, but his com-
panion grasped him round the middle, and was seen struggling
With him two or three time above water; they both, however,
sunk, and were not seen more. A waterman who witnessed the
accident, immediately rowed to the spot, but he was too late to
render the unfortunate youths any assistance.
Accuever AT run lhatintsnam i'maaras.—Tuesday evening,
seven persons employed in the re-building of the Theatre, were
dreadfully injured by the breaking of a beam at the back of the
stage ; one of them died almost immediately after be was taken
to tl.e Hospital. The building received 110 other injury, and the
work wiil not be retarded.
Maness.—Saturday morning last, Master C. Mills, 16 years
o- age, son of Mr. Mills, Magistrate, of Cradioxtown, county of
Ki:.dare, was killed on the lands of Punchrstown. The deceased
risen at an early hour on the day of his death, to detect
poachers on the rabbit burrows of his father's estate, and having
d,scovered a poacher, he chased him for upwards of two miles,
when the fellow at length turned round, and discharged his gun
at the young gentlemai:, who never spoke afterwards —A wan
ttf the name of Mills, has been committed to Naas Gaol, on sus-
riciesi of being the murderer. •

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, MAY 20, ISM
THE FUNDS
PRICE or STOCKS THIS DAY At OAR O'CLOCK
Bank Stock 225% 2261/2 226
3 per Cent. Reduced 69 68 691/4 69
3 per Cent. Consols 69%
5 per Cent. losyt 105% %
Long Ann. 17 15-16 18
India Bonds 20s. 21s. pr.
Exchequer Bills Is. 3s. pre,
Consols for Acct. 6978.

The Grampound Disfranchisement Bill was read
a second time, last night, in the House of Commons,
and ordered to be committed on Friday week. The
discussion was interesting. The House is perfectly
agreed that Grampound should be disfranchised, but
different opinions are entertained as to the transfer.
The Bill proposes the transfer to be to Leeds ; Lord
CAsmenEoGn, to the Hundred; Mr.WYNN, and some
other Members, to the West Riding of Yorkshire.—
Lord CASTLEIMAGII'S precedent for transferring it to
the Hundred, is quite modern, and, in our opinion,
ought not to be followed. The County of Cornwall
returns alone nearly as many Members to Parliament
as all Scotland; and, therefore, it would be wise
when any of the Boroughs in that County forfeit their
franchise, to transfer the right to other Counties or
Towns, not adequately represented. This, we say, is
what would be proper; but judging by the usual pro-
cedure, u•e think Ministers will carry their measure,
and only extend the right to the Hundred, thereby
giving additional votes to men who are already repre-
sented, and who actually vote personally for other
Representatives.

We learn by advices from Ceylon, of the 20th Ja-
nuary, that there have been recently some symptoms
of another insurrectionary movement in the interior
of that Island. A Native Priest, who advances some
pretensions to the Throne of Kandy, and who was
very active in the late Rebellion, but had contris d
to escape apprehension, has been renewing his ma-
chinations. He has, however, been foitunately laid
hold of, and, if he does not meet with a severer fate,
will accompany the other Native Chiefs, all of whom
are thus now in our possession, to the Isle of France,
to which it has been resolved to exile them.
Lieutenant-General BROWNRIGG was to sail for
England, in the Eclipse, about the end of January.
Lieutenant-Colonel WATSON bad arrived from
England, to take the command of the Artillery.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived at a late
hour this forenoon.—The second debate in the Cham-
ber of Deputies, on the Project of Election Law,
occupies nearly the whole of their columns. The
Chamber of Peers have had another day's sitting in
the case of Louvel, which ended in a second adjourn-
ment of the reading of the Committee's Report, and
relative documents. The Spanish Infanta, DONA-
LOU( SE..CII A RLOTTE, spouse of the Infant Don FRAN-
crs PAUL, was on the 6th instant safely delivered of,
a son, who has received the name of FRANcors
D'Assizes LOUIS-TERDINA ND, and is to take the
title of Duke of Cadiz.—French Five per Cents. Tues-
day, 73 fr. soc.

The report in all the Papers of yesterday of the
concluding sentence of Mr. BROUGHAM'S speech in
the Court of Chancery, was, we understand, incor-
rectly given. He did not say. that the cause of the
delay there alluded to would be removed by the im-
, mediate return of her MAJESTY; his observation was,
that the cause of complaint, viz. the want of her
MAJESTY'S answer in the suit, would be removed im-
mediately on her return.—The article in•the Monitcur
that arrived yesterday, stating that her MAJESTY had
arrived at Auxerre on the 11th, and had left it on
the 14th for Paris, must be incorrect. The QUEEN
could not have been at Auxerre (which is two-thirds
of the way from Geneva to Paris) on the 11th.—
Colonel VASALI lefeher at Geneva on the 12th. It is
hardly possible that she could have been at Auxerre
even .on the 13th.

The venerable PRESIDENT of the Royal Society is
about to retire from the high office which he has so
long filled with so much honour to himself, and such
extensive good to the scientific and literary charac-
ter of his country. Possessing hereditary distinction,
an independent fortune, and universal respect, Sir
JOSEPH BANKS rendered all these advantages the pa-
trimony of the learned of all nations. His house was
a common centre where every individual, whether
native or foreigner, of the slightest philosophical pre-
tensions, was sure to meet with countenance, advice,
and protection. " So simple," says the illustrious
foreigner DioT, gg so easy in his kindness, it almost
seemed as if he felt the obligation were on his part;
and, at the same time, so good that he left us all the
pleasure of gratitude. What a noble example of a
protection whose sole authority is founded in esteem,
respect, free and voluntary confidence ; whose titles
consist only in an inexhaustible good will, and in the
recollection of services rendered ; and the long and
uncontested possession of whick necessarily sup-
poses rare virtues, and exquisite delicacy, more es.
pecially when we recollect that all this power is
formed, maintained, and exercised among equals."
—The nomination of a proper sucpessor to such a
President as Sir JOSEPH BANKS, is a matter of no
ordinary difficulty ; and the best proof of it is, the
number of individuals who have been already pro-
posed for the high situation. Among others we have
heard of, are his Royal Highness the Duke of Sus-
SEX, his Royal Highness Prince LEOPOLD, the Duke
of SOMERSET, Earl SPENCER, Earl MORTON, Sir
HUMPLRY DAVY, and Mr. DAVIES GILBERT, M.P.
—The last Gentleman, Mr: DAVIES GILBERT, is at
present one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society,
and will be the locum tcnens of the Presidency till the
vacancy is filled up.