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London, England, 1829-06-16 00:00:00

THORNDYKIeS DIVORCE BILL.

Lord BERESFORD moved the committal of Thorn •
dyke's Divorce Bill. He hoped, since the witnesses had
been re-examined, for whom the Noble Earl (Lauder-
dale) had moved, that he would not have any objection
to the Bill being now committed.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE conceived that the
pirly had not made out a case which could entitle him
to a divorce. It was quite evident that he had been
guilty of culpable neglect of his wife's conduct.
After s few words in explanation front Lord lizasseoan teeir
Lordships divided on the question of going into Committee—
Contents . . 8
Non-Contents . T

Majority for going into Committee • . 1
Tito 11W then passed through Committee, and the Report was
ordered to ►e received to-morrow.

ACCOUNTS OF THU CITY OF LONDON.
The MArgois of LONDONDERRY said, that a
motion already stood on their Lordships Gooks con.
nected with this subject. He was desirous now of stat-
ing that, in his opinion, the accounts which had been
laid before their Lordships, after so much delay, were
most imperfect, and by no means satisfactory. in ena-
bling their Lordships to judge whether the funds of the
Corporation were properly administered or not? The

PRICE SEVENPENCE.

rental of the Bridge House Estate was JI.OOOI. a year,
but it clearly appeared on them face of the accounts that,
with a little management, 3 0001. a year more might
be obtained. From this particular instance be thought
it would not be too much to conclude that the elates
of the city of London generally might be rendered
more productive. He had sufigested ►ome particnlar
accounts to the Chamberlain of the City which he
thought it desirable should be produced, and he trusted
that the whole of those accounts would be before their
Lordships nn Monday next. If the account, specifitd
and aquded to in their Lordships' Order weie not pro-
duced. however, by Monday next, he should move that
the Lord Mayor should be summoned t' the bar cf the
House to state why the accounts were not pioauced.—
, He thought that the dabbling manner in which those
accounts had been produced was unworthy of the City
of London.

The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, that as Chair.
Man of the Committee on the London Bridge Ap-
proaches Bill, he felt himself called upon to state, that
there appeased to be no indisposition on the part of the
City Authorities to produce all the accounts required.
(Hear, from the Duke of Wellington.) Any Noble
Lord who attended the Committee would perceive that
it was absolutely impossible the accounts referred to by
the Noble Maiquis could be produced before Monday
nest, and it would be quite as well that the Noble Mar.
quis should make his minion now as on the day Le had
given notice lar.
The Margins of LONDONDERRY could not per.
ceive that readiness on the part el tie Civic Authori-
ties to produce their accounts far which the NoLle
Chairman of the Committee had so much rulogited
them. As long a period ac had .lapsed since the order
was made for their production, it was only on the day
after his motion that the Corporation had iieterrilined to
produce the accounts.

The Duke of WELLINGTON did cot think that his
Noble Friend (the Marquis of Londonderry) had stared
the facts of this case with his usual fairness and candour.
The Noble Marquis stated that there was no opportu-
nity of examining the accounts until after he made a
motion ON the subject ; but the fact was, that all parties
interested had an opportunity of examining the accounts
from the commencement. but the corporate officers did
not feel themselves justified in allowing abstracts to be
made, or copies taken, without the consent of other
parties who were proprietots of the estates referred to.
In fact the accounts now alluded to by the Nohle Mar.
quit had never been called for by the House, but, though
not called tor, they were prodoced before the Com-
mittee by the city of London. The very moment the
accounts nom• befoie their Lordships were ordered the
Lord Mayor gave orders for copying them, and, al-
though they were not produced until the assent of the
proper authorities could be obtained, the intention of
producing them existed from the moment they were
first ordered. The Noble Marquis, theta re, was not
justified in coming forward with threatening motions
complaining of the non-production of accounts which
were, in fact, never ordered.

The Earl of MALMESIjURY bore testimony to the
readiness with which all the accounts cf the City of
London were pro, uced before the Committee. He
thought. however, that the delay in the ptoductinu of
the accounts was not satisfactorily accouided Int, as
tli it Lordships had not demanded to see those accounts
merely for curiosity, but because it was absolutely ne-
cessar y to the passing of a Bill now before them.
T;ie Bishue of CH ES I'ER said, that, with regard to
the Finsbury e.t.tes, a consent hod been given on behalf
of the Pre. endary to produce Al the accounts requited.
Lord DURHAM was not at all surproei that the
Prebendary should consent to the 'lnduction of the ac-
counts connected with the Fin-bury Es atrs,as the pro-
duction of those accounts most be advantageous to the
interest of the Prebendary. With regard to the produc-
tion of the accounts before the Committee, it was to to
observed, that it was a very differe t thing to produce
accounts before the Committee and belorc the Ils•use.
Accounts produced before the Committee teturned into
the possession el the Corporation, arid were no mote
heard of, but accounts laid on the table of thel louse were
printed, and became matter of record. He thought his
Noble Friend (the Marquis of Londonderry) was quite
right in keeping his li.end over the head 01 the City until
the accounts were produced, and he trusted that the
Noble Marquis w, uld persevere in his (notion.
Viscount MELVILLE cot tended that tf:ete was n 3
unnecessary delay in the production of the accouats.—
Any one who observed the cart-loads of hooks produced
before the Committee must be satisfied that it was im-
possible they could be copied by Monday next.
Lord CALTHORPE said he had hot ob erred the
slightest desire on the part of the Corporation to sup-
press inquiry, and that if they bad evinced any such airs.
position tie would be as little disposed to encourage it
as the Noble Marquis himself.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, what he
desired to have produced sere those accounts which
would show b ergains had hero made by the Corpora-
tion relative to the estates in their hands. He was not
desirous that all the Corporation books she old t e pro.
duced. He merely wanted an abstract of the rental
produced by the different estat.s, and the terms on
which they had been let. In conclusion, he begged to
observe, that he had givers notice that he would this
evening call the attention of the House to the Report cf
the Committee of the House of Commons on the stare
of the Orphan Fund. That Report was not yet furnished
to their Lordshipt, from some accidental oversight pro-
bably. and certainly not from want of the usual courtesy
which the House of Commons practised in presenting
the reports of Committees of that House to their Lord-
ships. As the Houle of Commons, however, was to
meet again on Friday next, he thought it probable that
the report to which he referred would be presented be.
fore Monday nest, and he would, therefore, withdraw
his motion for the present, and give notice of his inten-
tion of calling their Lordships attention to the subject
on Monday next.
Viscount MELVILLE submitted that the motion of
which the Noble Marquis gave notice was not regular ;
and a conversation took place on the subject across the
table, in which several Noble Lords participated.
Lord DURHAM suggested that the notice of his
Noble Friend relative to the report of the Committee
on the Orphan Fund should be withdrawn, as he under-
stood the Chairman of the Committee intended to move
on Friday that a copy of the report of the Committee
should be laid before their Lordships. •
The notice was then withdrawn, and their Lordships
adjourned a few minutes before seven o'clock.

THE EVENING STAR.

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A very keen discussion took place last night in the
House of Lords on the subject of the City accounts;
and from the turn which this affair has taken, it is
not improbable that the prorogation of Parliament may
be still further delayed, to afford time for the pre-
paration and production of certain additional accounts
which the Marquis of LONDONDERRY and Lnrd Dun
HAM insist upon seeing. We think it a pity that the
Corporation at first showed any disposition to evade
compliance with the order of the Lords; this has led
to constructions upon their conduct highly injurious
to themselves ; and the City authorities now find that
they have personally to explain their affairs at the Bar
of the House—an honour which, we presume, none of
them anticipated nor desired.

Our readers will observe a singular report, in our
preceding extracts from the French Pipers, of the arrest
of a General MILANS, who, it is affirmed, is connected
with a scheme calculated to re-establish the Constitu-
tional system in Spain, in which the names of the brave
MINA and ROLTERN are revived. In the meanwhile.
General MILANS being strictly guarded in Perpignan,
as well as from his age and suffering, does not seem to
be in a condition to prosecute such a bold enterplize,
admitting that there exists a disposition to substitute
the present by a more liberal order of things. We,
therefore, la k upon this rumour as one of a day's
wonder, and that we shall hear little more about it.

By a Bulletin Estraursimary, which appears in the
, Jamaica Papers received last night at the North and
South American C3ffee-house, we finckthat the Colour-
/Wan force., under General SUCRE, have triumphed gver
the Peruvians commanded by Luse; and the conse-
- (pence is the termination of the war in that quarter—
. relimitiaries of peace having been signed on the 27th
of February last. This, it was hoped, would give new
life to commercial operations, of which there was
great need.

Nothing is spoken of in Dublin, and indeed throughout
all Ireland, but the new Registry; and, with the ex-
ception of Clare, the proceedings ate conducted in a
spirit of temperance and peace highly creditable to the
persons employed. u well as to the bulk ref the people
We repeat eur belief that the new order of things
cause I by this registry will ultimately prove of the
greatest benefit to the country. It will have the effect
of devolving on the int:lligent classes those important
duties of electioneering, which an unlearned and over-
heated populace are very ill qualified to discharge. It
will have the effect of putting the poor and needy man,
who understands not the views of an electioneering
agent, out of the reach of tempt ttion and the reprehen•
sible means invariably resorted to for the maintenance
of a privilege which was utterly worthless to him in all
his relations of life.

In Clare only are the registries conducted with the
stir and bustle of a contested election. In that county
it appears there are upwards of 690 twenty and /fly
pound freeholders. Of sea pound electors—chiefly Mr.
O'Connat.L'a friends—only 190 are qualified under the
new law, so far as the registry has taken place; and as
little now remains to be done in this ptocedure, it is
piobahle there will not be in the entire county more
than $5O or 400 of this clas4. This presents a fair op.
portunny either to Mr. Vcsei FITZOIRALD or to Sir
JAMES OTRIRN of coming into the representation of
the county with little difficulty.
From other parts of Ireland there is little of conse-
quence to notice—excepting that Mr.Vinuarta STUART
has resigned his seat in Parliament for the County of
Waterford. In a letter which that Gentleman has just
published, the mason he assigns for this unexpected
step is the disfranchisement of the
.forty shilling free-
holders. Mr. STUART voted for their disfranchisement:
having, however, been elected chiefly through their in
finance, he hont'urably •acates his seat, because he no
longer represents the Electors by whom he was re.
turned to Parliament. And as he does not intend again
to offer himself to his old constituents. the representation
of Waterford will, consequently, fall into the family of
Beansionn—one of the m. st powerful in Ireland.

The German Papers received this day do not contain
a syllable of news from the seat of war. Besides the sub.
joined account from Rome, dated May 30, private
letters received this day relate that the most intense
fears were spread abroad on account of the repeated
shocks of earthquake and that the symptoms of a
great approaching eruption were becoming every day
more manifest—such as the smoking and falling of the
waters in the lakes, and the withering of the trees in the
forests. The following are extracts :
FROM THE DANUBE, May 117.
Reports, for the authenticity of which we cannot however vouch,
state, that it bag been resolved that the Italian regiments now in
garrlson hi Hungary, shall return to the kingdom of Lombardy
pod Menke 1 and on the other hand the Hungarian regiments now
Italy return to Hungary, or at least a part of them, and that the
(hinge will take place in the coma of the samanwt. 'his measure

is, however, inertly for the sake of ceremony, because the stain-
sonnet of the Hungarian regiments in theft two country, is far
less expensive than in Italy.
NUREMBURO, Jon 7.
We ►a.s already mentioned that the Dutch smack Johanna
Cornelia. Captain &men, had sailed no its return front Calms.
to Leaden, with a cargo of 1,100 cwt. of mineral water, after the
differences between the Captain and the consignees had been de-
cided by the Tribunals at Cologne. The Tribunal of the Firs
Instance had rejected the Captain's claims to a special indemnity
for the charges= the Lock and the Rhine, and sentenced him to
make good the injury sustained by the delay ; but the Coon of
Appeal reversed this sentence, and declared that not only the transit
duty, but t►e tolls and charges paid by the Captain on the Dutch
rivers and the Rhine, were to be charged to the consignees. This
Ant attempt to make a voyage direct from the sea to the Rhine has
had an =favourable result with respect to the expense, and it is
not likely that in future much lower freights will be obtained upon
the Leek; but with respect to time, the experiment has proved
highly favourable, for, another cargo, which left London at the
mine time as the Johanna Cornelia, did not reach Cologne. by the
ordinary channel, till a fortnight later. This shows what immense
advantages all the countries on the Rhine would gain in their inter.
course with Ragland if the navigation of the Waal were free, which
is navigable for ships of 5.000 or 6,000 cwt. so that the conveyance
would be quicker and cheaper.—Nstreteberg Correspondent, June