The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-05 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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this sultject, epee ow emderstamihrg that it should come
on first on some motion night, es the committal of the
Bill.
Mr. GOMM:RN readily accepted the propene! of
the Hoooorahle Menther, and insured him that be woold
bring on the Order of the Day for the House going
into a Committee otsthie Bill the first thing on Monday.
The Bill was thee read a second time, and ordered to
be committed on Monday.
near Fauna (inat.two.)
On the motion of Sir JOHN NEWPORT, returns
were ordered to be raid before the lionse of all the sums
of money received be the Commissioners of First Friths
in Ireland since 1801, together with details of all the
particulars connected with the appropriation and caw-
tion of the same.
The Prison Laws Amendment Bill was read a third"
time, and passed.
In a Committee of the Small Notes Bill, the Cos:vamp
LOR of the &complicit consented to give up the clause
which gave Country Beakers the option of paying fa
cash or Bank notes.
After some observations from Dr. Luantworno, Mr.
S. Rice, Mr. Horn, Mr. H. Gusset', and Mr. Cove-
TRNAT.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHBQUER ex-
pressed his hopes that the Bank of England would be
prepared with motes more difficult to be imitated than
the preAnt, in ease the issue of It. notes became again
necessary. •
The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, Kra the
House adjourned at half-past twelve o'clock.

LORDS' PROTESTS AO-AINST THE MARRIAGE
AbIENDSI ENT ACT.

(No. I.)
EXTRACTS ROM TEE JOURNALS or THE MOUSE Of LORDS.
JULY 2. 1822, AGAINST LOUSING TO TES V.IST ENACT•
ING CLAUSE OP THE ItAIIIIIAGS ACT.
DISSENTIENT I—BACIRISS it appears to me, that the
withdrawiog the effect of nullity from the marriages of
minors, had without the consent of parents, is likely to
produce more and greater mischiefs than such as can
fairly be considered as resulting from the tenetsl ope-
ration of the subsisting Marriage Act. STOIVIILL.

(Iqo. II.)
AGAINST PASSING Tfft YARRIAGL

I/MINTIEST Because the Bill proposes to re-
peal retrospectively a law which has endured and been
acted upon nearly seventy years, governing the rights
of persons and of property ; and such repeal is, there.
fore. a dangerous precedent, destroying all confidence
in rights founded on existiag law, gad threatening, by
its consequences, the destruction of all law.
2d. Because the injustice and impoHey of repesling
the law, retrospectively, is acknowledged by the several
qualifications introduced into the Bill to limit the effects
of such retrospective repeal; and yet clauses offered
further to limit ends effects were rejected, and many in-
conveniences foreseen therefore remain unprovided for,
and there may probably be many unforeseen, and to
which human foresight cannot extend.
3. Because, whatever evils may bare arisen from the
effects, in some instances, of the law proposed to be re-
pealed, the evil of a retrospective repeal of a law which
has so long endured, is much greater, considered as a
precedent, which may he used to justify the grossest is-
justice. ELDON, C. Rs DE AAAAA .
SHAFTESBURY. COLELISTES.

(No. 111.)
DISSLNTIENT 3—lst. For the above•reasons, and also
Decease the Bill is not, either with respect to marriages
heretofore bad without the oone.u.t of putative fathom.
or heretofore had without the consent of natural and
lawful fathers, founded upon misapprehension of the law
creating any each general practice, as in my judgment
can authorize the boom to legislate. as in this Bill, re-
trospectively with respect to such marriages.
211. Because the house having refused to insert clauses
in the Bill saving vested rights and rights acgaired by
purchasers of estates, for good or valnable considers.
lions, from persons by the law of the land entitled to
sell or settle such estates, appears to me, by this mea-
sure, to have acted contrary to the princti.les which
have 1 • .herto secured to the subjects of this country
their property; and to have rendered the Bill, if other-
wise fit to pass into a law, such as no reasoning can
sanction, and no precedents can;justify.
ELDON, G. SHArrassußy.

For the second reason :

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ON Mt. ROIIIIIIDVOI MOTION POI 11ZPEAll. OP TML WINDOW

Tilt.

Hon. G. Anson, J. F. Barham, Hon. G. Bennet, R.
Bernal, H. Bright. Sir F. Burdett, O. Bynq, J. Benett.
J. Calcraft, C. Calvert, Campbell, J. Carter, H.
Cavendish, Sir W. Crespigny, T. H. Davies, T. Denman,
Hon. T. Dundee, Viscount Dracannon, W. J. Denison,
D. Davenport, Sir R. Ferguson, Viscount Folkestone,
S. Graham. J. Grattan, B. Onkel!. Lord A. Hamilton,
W. P. Honywood, C. H. Hutchinson, T. Houldsworth,
T. B. Lennard, J. J. Lockhart. John Maberly, IV. L
Moberly. J. W. Maxwell, M. Milbank, J. B. Monck, P.
Moore, S. Marjoribanks, Sir J. Newport, C. F. Primer,
Sir G. Rgbioson, J. C. Ranutden, T. S. Rice, D. Ricardo,
A. W. Roberts, C. E. Rumbold. J. Scarlett, J. Scott,
Earl Sefton, W. Stewart, C. Tennyson. Marquess Teri.
stock. J. A. Warre, C. C. Western, S. C. Whitbread,
W. H. Whitbread, W. Williams, J. Williams, Sir R.
Wilson. and Alderman Wood.
Tellers—J. C. Hobbouse and J. Hume.

Frac —Yesterday morning, a fire broke out ja the
workshop of Mr. Kidwell, cabiuet-maker, Of Falcon-
berg-court, Soho-square. The engines soon arrived,
and succeeded in preventing the fire ezecutiog more
damage than destroying the workshops.
Wednesday evening, a respectable youth, who was
an apprentice to a silversmith In the Screed, and
whose parents reside in Bedfordbury, went to Mil-
bank to bathe, but was unfortunately drowned.—
The body lies at the Spread Eagle for a Cur 'a
1 nquest.
A fatal accident, occasioned by the fire•damp, took
place early yesterday morning (Monday, Ist instant)
at the colliery of M . Nroboulds, near this town.
Ten of the workmen had just descended the pit where
this dreadful gap was accumulated. which coming in
contact with the lighted candle, the vapour ignited,
and we lament to add that fi►e of them were unfortu-
nately killed by the explosion. Two out of the num-
ber escaped with little injury. Three of them were
shortly after extricated, though so much burnt as to
be considered in great danger ; while three of the re•
maining five bodies bad not been drawn out when our
information reached us.—(Sheffield Iris.)
An miscount appeared last week in the public prints,
of a Liverpool Bair -d abasing 82 wen in an hour,
Joseph Pinney, of Bursitis. ou Tuesday morning last,
undertook 100 in the same time, which he completed
in a superior manner within a second of the hour, and
was afterwards chaired through Me
.town in Litimph !
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LONDON:
tateaT EttNING, JULT 5,182 T. If
• &TOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The aseket remains steady this morning, with
eweerisy business doing. The Jews have been bay-
'lig largely for the August Account, and settling for
tbis. Money still remains scarce. To-morrow is the
first wester for Consols, and New Four's. Consols
at present are 91 to j ; Reduced in to 80.
The Foreign Market is rather slack. The letters
from Reiland why bring all Foreign Securities
blew. Spanish bare risen in Holland li per Cent.

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT.
IN tun LORDS.—Lord LANSDOWNE. gave notice of
squestion that he meant to ask either to-morrow, or
on another day' This is a curious way of doing bu-
siness in the Parliament. We have had notices of
motions for about ten Of fifteen years ; now we have
got to notices of questions. What the Collective Wis-
dom of the Nation will bring it to by and by, if there
should be time for it, no man can say. This question,
or rather Ibis intended question is, it seems, to relate
to oar commercial relationships with the States of
South America; which his Lordship thinks an im-
portant matter. So thought Mr. COIDETT when be
wrote his petition to the ParNce RSGENT in 1818 ;
whet be prayed that our Governmeat might take part
with the South American States, and form close al-
dhows 'Rh them ; and when he foretold the cense-
sequences of neglecting so to do. It is a day after the
fair, my Lord LANSDOWNS. We have lost the oppor-
tunity. An innate hatred of liberty in the Ministers;
the dread in the Boroughmougers, of encouraging the
principles of Reform: these prevented those easy mea-
sures which woipld have knit the South American
States to se for ever. We even now seem to be linger-
ing atoag In the hope that the Dot:anon despotism
will regain its power in that country. What we get
at last we must get by negociatiun ; and wegociation
carried on against rivals, too; and if Prase* and
America only paten at at. we must desist. We are
fast becoming that very secoad•rate power that BONA-
PASTS said we should become. We have bartered a
good part °four Navigation Laws, this very Session. in
the hope of getting a little ready money, to help
pay the expences of the debt, contracted in the Holy
work of restoring the BOURBONS, the POPS and the

1N THE HOUSE or COMMONS.—Mr. BROUGHAM
moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws
affecting the retail trade in beer, which motion was
agreed to. We should be tetanus to see what this
Bill will contain ; and ready to make our acknow-
ledgements, and to proclaim the wondrous fact to the
world, if one good law should, at last, be proposed by
a lawyer. It would appear that the object of the Bill
is to enable people to retail beer as they retail bread ;
that is to say, to sell it by the pot to be taken away
without license. This would certainly be a measure
of justice ; and ae do not see bow the hare and par-
tridge f-llows could find fault of it. The slily fools !
The great stupid jolter-headed asses! Just as if it
was of more importance to them to prevent poaching
by putting down public-bouses (even if that did it)
than to increase the consumption of barley and hops
to the diminution of the consumption of tea, sugar and
coffee, brought from those foreign countries, which are
the same time, at sources of that very patronage, which
is now working these hare and partridge fellows to the
bone.

SiNICURNI tN IRELAND.—There is a Bill before
Parliament, called the Irish Grand Jury Bill, the ob-
ject of which is to leseen the expenses of the adminis-
tration or justice in that uultappy country. Mr
SKEFVINGTON presented, last night, petitions from
the Clerks of the Crown. alleging that they p d
vested sights that would be affected by the Bill. Sir
Joust NEWPOReiI eraser will be found in the report
of the debate, but we cannot refrain from inserting it
again here.
" Sir J. NEWPORT observed that there existed no
" foundation whatsoever for the claims the persons

" holding these offices thought proper to set up. I n
" place ofeonspensation, they ought to be extrenedy
well
" satisfied that they were not 'objected to the
of the Act on the Statute Book, which did not allow of
" that office being executed by deputy, whereas all those
" offices were now so filled. With respect to fees, these
tlentlemen were not satisfied unless they received
" double tla amount of the fees actually paid in Foe
land.—(Hear.) He had received numerous intimations
on the subject, and amongst other strange objections
0 thrown out against the Bill one was. that if it passed.
6 6 into a law, no Gcatlernous would contione to discharge
'" Me duties of these officer. His answer was, that that
" was no objection with him, as all that was wanted was
" to have the duties performed by competent persons.—
" (Hear, hear.) The House he trtv.ted would set its
" face against any such claim for lets, when it recut•