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• PARIS. Jung 4.
TIME Tag NOICITICUS 07 TtIVIDAT..-111C

PA IT.

For some days pait the conduct of the Dey of Al-
giers, with respect to the trade anduavrgation of.Fratice,
had eras the King's Government serious causes of die.
content. French ships had been awatehrel by corsairs;
one had even been pillaged ; other violations of the
treaties showed his ill-will and bad faith. Lastly, letters
from Algiers of the date of the 90th of April announce
that in an audience granted to the Consul General and
Charge d'Affaires of France, the Dey, losing all respect
for the character of that agent, and for the Power which
he represented, forgot himself so far as to insult him
grossly.—As this violation of the law of nations must
not go unpunished, a naval division has by this time
sailed from Toulon, to obtain satisfaction for it, as well
as for the other causes of complaint of France.
nom sus mou.s..savas wirsasmay, 4101/1 6.
MENTZ, Mae Cs.
His Majesty the Sing of Bavaria, haying constantly
atileart the prosperity of commerce, will shortly cause
a plan to be officially presented to the Governments of
the States on the banks of the Maine, for regulating the
navigation of that river according to the acts of Con-
tress at Vienna. From the disp tsition manifested by
the several states, it seems that all of them, except the
city of Frankfort, assented to the views of Bavaria, when

confidential communications were made to them on the
subject. It is supposed, however, that a state which is
entirely commercial, as Frankfort is, will give way at
the end, that the regulations for the navigation of the
Maine will be determined without suffering a period of
11 years to elApse, as has already been done, during
which the parties concerned did not agree even on the
first article.

ST. SEBASTIAN, MAT 24.
The Count de Pena F.otida, Deputy-General of the
province of Guipuscoa, set out on Sunday last for M 4.
drill, His departure is ascribld to the state of effer-
vescence in which the country is.

TOI.OSA, .Iklwr 47.
The Commandant-General of the province arrived
here last week. He has assembled all the Spanish troops
that were stationed on the toad as far as bun. He has
also collected on the place all the Royalist volunteers
who had been formed in 1823, and who were disarmed
by the provincial authorities, to be replaced by the
Savior, a kind'of men armed ex weans.
He sent for the Alcalde, And ordered him to return
to•the Royalist iolunteers the arms of the *voles. The
Alcalde requested the necessary time to inform the pro-
vincial authorities; but the General would not grant it
him, and thieate.ed to have him conducted te the Fort
of Pancorbo, if he did not execute his order in the
shortest time possible. The Alcalde immediately as•
sembled the municipality. It WAs resolved that the
arms should be delivered to the General. who has left
here 150 Royalist volunteers armed. He then proceeded
on his journey, to perform the same operation in the
whole province. He distributes proclamations where-
ever he goes, and threatens those who do not obey the
King's orders that they shall be treated as rebels.
PARIS. Jima S. _ _

We are authorised to announce, that the two six
months' instalment of the bond of Hayti, of the 30th of
this month, will be paid at that time, at the office of
M. Jacques Lafitte and Co. bankers, Hue Artois, N 0.19.
That Government daily shews more expressly its inten- I
tion faithfully to fulfil all its engagements. Of three
ships lately dispatched, two have already arrived at
Hawse, and there are several others on their way or lad-
ing. The President himself writes, that the consignment
will be made without inteirui tile. There is no doubt
that the 2 25ths of the capital will be punctually paid
the 31st of December next.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMILNT.

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HOUSE OP LORDS, hint t.

Sir ALRE. GRANT and others from the CoMdioni, brought
tap the MIA for the further Improvement of the Administration of
Criminal Justice in England, the Larceny LaVe Amendment Bill.
the Bill fur taking sway the Benefit of the Clergy in certain cases,
the Bill for conaolidating the Laws respecting remedies against
Hundreds, and the Malicinul Injuries to Property BM.

MISS TOlthltß s DlenßClt BILL.
Sir ALEX. G aAwr and others in the Commons, brought up
a Alessage requesting that their Lordships would furnish them with
copies of the minute/ of the evidence taken in support of the Bill for
declaring void, and annulling the Marriage between Ellen Turner
and Edward Gibbon Wakefield.—On the motion that the Message

from the Commons be acceded to.
Toe Maiquis of LANSDOWN said, that upon a mo-
tion so much of cou, be, it would be hardly pardonable in
. .

him to request th- attention of their Lor.d,hins. It was
known to many of them, that the third reading of that
passed inadvertently yesterday. The Noble Lord
who superintended its progress. not hating intended to
move for the third tending until this evening. He did
.not now rise to express any opposition to thememmer,-
which, on *contrary, met with his most cordial sup.
poor; .till Jrss did h -paean to oppose a motion which
would enable the other House to proceed satisfactorily,
iid at.once with a Bill which had met all t. eir Lord-
ship.' concurrence. Bu: having.expres,ed on a former
occasion his wilt that the B II should not be read, a
third time, until all the evidence had been. printed, he
felt it hut due to himself to *take this opportunity of
saying, that his wish so expre,sed did not proceed from
any int ntion of apposing the Bill. The measure would
h.ve met with his most hearty concurrence, errs al,
though he were unassisted and unsauctioned by all the
legal knowledge applied to the case. Still he could
no. conceal from himself that the proceeding was one
of a very extraordinary nature, and one which nothing'
but the peculiar nature of the facts disclosed at their
Lordship.' Bar could, in the slightest degree, justify.
—He lelt that unless their Lordships guarded them-
, selves with' all possible caution, they would lay a
very dingerens precedent ; they were running, as it
were, before the law, and providing redress for what

the law was unable to ',calmy before—they knew that
the law was inefficutut. It would be dangerous, their
Lordships must admit. if individuals were allowed to
come before them. and in the anticipatidn of an evil,
ask for security, without.first seeing whether the law
of the country would not afford them the security.—
The defect of the law shouldle ascertained belote their
Lordships travelled out of their road to give redress.—
The Noble Lord felt nothing but satisfaction will% the
whole course of their Lordships proceedings; and he
thought that they ought now to euable the other House
to proceed with all possible dispatch with a Bill, which
the justice of the case loudly called for; but which,
as it established a dangerous precedent. be sincerely
hoped would not be followed as an example. Ile
thought that their Lordships must now see she abso-
lute netevsity of teeisisik the las . usarciaga_in
Scotland; not with the view of altering it to tar as t►e'
inhabitants of that country were concerned, bat to pro-
tect the subjects of this, w►o 0u414,t0 know whir kind
of domicile brought parties under a state of law so dif•
ferent from their own.

Lord LAUDERDALE expressed his pleasure that
Parliament had interfered to give relief in the recent
instance of Miss Turner ; but he was surprised that the
ground on which the Bill had been brought forward,
was an alleged doubt on the meaning of the law of
England on the subject, particularly after the legal opi-
nion. declsred by Lord Stowell, in the case of Dab ymple
against Dalrymple, that the House was bound to act on
the law of Scotland. As to the-hope expressed by the
Noble Marquis, that a suggestion for the alteration of
the marriage law of Scotland would proceed from the
aatives of that country, he (Lord Lauderdale) was sure
no such thing would occur. The natives of Scotland
felt no inconvenience from the present state of their
marriage law—they were quite satisfied with it—in fact,
it was actor dant with the general condition of marriage
laws through Europe,and even with the laws pf England
before they had been altered by the present Act. And,
even as to a modification of the Scotch law of marriage,
Noble Lords would find great difficulty in effecting it
without counteracting many great IN inciples. And as
to the inconveniences arising from them to natives of
England, they arose from the nature of the English
Wattage Act, which compelled many to resort, reluc-
tantly, to the Scotch mode of marriage. Define the
passing of the Marriage Acts the custom of going to
Scotland to be married had no existence.
Lord MELVILLE stated, that the Civil and Eccle-
siastical Courts of Scotland possessed power for regu-
lating marriages in that country by certain Esc3 ordi-
nances—it would be better to enforce the observance of
those local regulations, than to alter the national law.
He, however, should not object to a reasonable swodi•
6cation of the Marriage Law of Scotland.
The Messengers from the Commons were then called to the Bar,
and—The Loan Caiimczu.os said-0 The Lords have commanded
the evidence to be delivered as desired."
no Commons then withdrew.
PZTITIO?ii.

The Duke bf RUTLAND presented a Petition from the Our.
poratlun of Leicester against the Rill for preventing the application
of Corporate Funds to the Election of !!embers to set to in Parka.
meet.—Tho Petition was laid on the table.
The Archbishop of YORK presented a Petition from the Land-
owners of a Parish in the County of York against any alteration of
the Corn Laws.
The Earl of WINCIIELSEA presented a Petition from Litch-
deld and its neighbourhood spinet further concessions to the Ca.
tholics.—Laid on the table.
DIPORTATION OW POREION WOOL.

The Earl of WINCHELSILA presented a Petition from the
Owners and Occupiers of Land in the eastern part of Kent against
the Importation of Foreign VlooL—Laid on the table.
Lord MALMESISURY said he had two Petitions to
present on the same subject, and in doing so be wished
to ask a question or two on the subject of the Noble
Lord (Goderich) opposite. The wool trade was the
staple growth of this country, which till Edward 111.
was an exporter of that article. Under that monarch a
body of workmea had been brought over from Flan-
ders, and manufactures having been established in York-
shire, exportation had been prohibited; since that time
England had been an importer instead of an exporter
of wool. In the. first ten-years of the present century
the average of its importaion of wool was 7,200,000
tbs. whilst in the t tree last Yeats it was 27,476,000

lb••, having increased 20,000,000. Tbtrch ef importatiln
wits ft nss Germany. In 1814 the importation from thAt
quarter was 3,430001b5. in ISIS, it was 15,412,0001b5.
in 1825, 28,000,0001bs.and in 1828,nearly 11,000,00016
Over the greater part of England there was nearly two
years' growth of wool on hand, and when it was known
that the pr:ce had fallen 60 and 100 per Cent. it would
be seen that it was impossible that they should go on
growing wool. Even our long wool* he conceived,
would at no distant day.have mote that one competi•
tor, for a brood of 1-ng sheep had been established id
France and the Netherlands, to which the growers of
long wool, who, be admitted, were not Sec affected,
ought to look w ith apprehension. He did not wish td
importation from our own Colonies, but to
.hew holy quickly wool increased, he would state that
in 1822, the importation from New South Wales was

188,000 lbs. and fast year 1,106,0001b1. Great eiertions
were uow making all over Germany tn grow wool. T e
Petitions represented as strong a weight of property as
had ever come to Parliament an that questiob. They
wag
.sigasid by four it five knocked Flockmasters of
those extensive sheepwalks, known untief the name of
Salisbury Plains The first was from those resident
nearest Devizes, the other from those nearest Salisbury..
'trod they all agreed with him in calling for additional
,protection. He did not ask for a duty of sixpence in
_the pound on Foreign Woal, but when that duty was
reduced from sixpence to one penny, a cause was at
once discovered for die immense importation which had
taken place. He should now ask his Noble Friend-
whether his Majesty's G-vernment had taken the sub-
jest into consideration, end whether they were prepared
to suggest to Parliament some measure for the relief of
that class of agrisulturists?
Viscount GODERICH could not undertake to say
that it was in the contemplation of his Majesty's Go-
vernment to propose a specific remedy for the distress
pressing on the wool growers. If, indeed, he could be
brought to believe that their distress arose from want
of protection, he should look more favourably on the
course recommended by the Noble Earl; but he was
convinced that the is tin of encouraging them by a
duty on foreign wool would hot have the intended
effect, but directly the reverse. The reason of the pre.
sent stagnation in the sale of wool, was the stagnation
in its manufacture ; and how could manufacture be
rendered more active by rendering the raw material
usore scarce and dear by subjecting it to a duty ? The
greater portion of wool was used by the people of this
country ; but the quantity exported am un ed in value
to about five or six millions a year. Much of this went
to our colonial.; but a great proportion went to counts ies
where it had to compete in the mai ket with the produce
of other lands, and where, if our price were raised, our
goods would have ao sale, and the price even of the
native raw material must fall gill lower at home. He
wished to explain; once for all, that it was a complete
miscooceptioa to think that the redection.of the duty in
&Mums an innovation on the ancient system of this
country. The fact was, that since 1719 there had been
no duty on foreign wool; but the exportation of British
wo .1 was prevented by an Act which would have dis-
graced the code of any country on earth, f.r some of its
provisions inflicted capital punishment on contraveners.
Since that time the attention of Parliament had been
called to the subject by number less Petitions from the
growers of wool after the termination of the la e war,
to ioducy both Horses to inspo.e a high duty or fo-
reign wool.. A Committee had been appointed, and
the result of the inquiry wah an expressed opinion
that no part of the distress could be possibly as-
cribed to the price or importation of foreign wool,
which, under a duty .a fraction lower than the pre-
sent, had been much greater than it was now: The
Committee, therefore, decided that there was no neces-
sity to raise the duty. In 1819, however, it had been
augmented to 6d. per lb. but the object then was to
raise a revenue, and not to give protection; for it was
at that period, that an additiosal taxation of three mil-
lions was proposed to equalize the expenditure with the
Revenue. And so far from a high duty reducing the
importation of foreign wool in 1821, 1822. and 182,
it bad equalled the total amount of the year just past,
though the difference in the duty was from less than one
penny to sixpence. His Noble Friend was, therefore,
mistaken, if he a tributed the excessive importation of
1825 to the lowering of the duty. It proceeded from
the rage for sin-collation which broke out that year, and
which was too wild to be checked by any duly short of
prohibition. The true relief tot the Wool Growers must
be found in the extension of our markets abroad, by
making out articles cheap enough to comp: to with
other nations ; and in the augmeoted demand of this
country in consequence of its ineressing population and
reviving prosperity. When the Noble Earl compared
1801 and 1826, he ought to recollect that a quarter of
a century had elapsed between those two periods, and.
that the country had made great progress in arts, poi.
pulation, and produce. 0 u those grounds he thought
that his Noble Friend world be disappointed even if a
high duty should be imposed. It might answer as a
matter of revenue, and put a considerable sum in the
pockets of the Treasury, but it would do more barns
than good to the Wool Growers; for it would deprive
us of the markets which we possetsed, without 'sweating
any compensating advantage.
After a few words from the Malquis of Saussonv,
the Earl of MALMZSBURT, and Lord REDE3DALI4 the
Petitions were read and laid on the table.
Karl MANSFIELD presented a Petition from the Provbcial
Syuud of Scotland against any further concession to the Catholics.
—laid en the table.

ROYAL misuse.

Viscount DUDLEY andiYAßDresented a Message f o ■
his Majray, to the tollowing effect;
Glow: lley

" His idaty demising it expedient to provide tar -y addi-
tional expen&ttre which may arise en at of the service alga
Majesty's Forces in Portugal, relies on the affection of the Hoene et
Lards for their eeocerreeee in making provides atsordingiy*
The Message having been read from the Woolsack,
and by the Clerk at the table
Viscount DUDLEY and WARD moved tb.t it be
taken into consideration to-morrow, and that their
Lordships be summoned,-01 de•ed.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH cashed to know whether
the difficulty which the Noble Viscount felt some time
race to give information respecting the state 01 our