Courier (Newspaper) - May 21, 1825, London, Middlesex THEATRE On 3enlnr will be ' To conclude a GRAND X On will AS YOU IlV LOVE AND To THE MAYOR or THE LAST WEEK BUT MATHEWS AT ThU 6tiiriUr, St with hit Part A to be called THE ( OF BRITISH THE EXHIBITION of SOCIETY of la WATER at UM 6aMry, ' 8k. of his they Trill be ready to M the iOr tar IROK BEDSTEADS tor or a sot Time are ty ISO Uk to be tnra ap in tbe the pacu to be made one and to be strictly conformable to be seen Military Each Tender most tlie of of the mid no Tender Till be for any be ilx maybe accepted vill be required to name two will become jointly witK the due performance of ' The Tenders to be marked on tbe for Iron By order of the MESSRS. of bep to of their Friends an Id Lav lately passed by the may lie to their i per Cent. Stock Into 3 Mr that 0. S. and Co. wUI tue laid than those of upon the of boinc to direct at of their Mr. No. 10, bf the tbe said of i ba and into 5nerGt The limited by tha said on tlie Mh for tha on the sad for the 4^ per SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OK AND Members are requested that 466. X of the will take place oa at Twelve at in the King's Candidates arc to not in on at the their personal and also three transferable ones for It necessary each of these latter shall contain the of the and of the 3Yembcr by whom such Visitor is for i JdENT and BUILDING of and ' Royal the of - ' ARCHBISHOP of ANNUAL MEETING of the abore Society will be held by on the Sith at the Great Lincoln's Brace the ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY will take the nt o'clock precisely. W. JOHNSON Sec. 14, iib isa. GAS John Esq. Thomas Esq. Carr John Esq. Esq. Charles Esq. Richard Esq. Thomas Esq. Jamas Esq. Henry Winian Esq. Nicholas Esq. Thomas Esq. The this Company all their will make the allotment on the 96th inst. Mr. Solicitor to the No. Lawrence will and receive applications far Shares that UNITARIAN ANNIVERSARY of the Subscribers and Friends of the for the promotion of Unitarian hv at Unitarian a SERMON will be by the Rev. CHARLES of Service to at Eleven At the conclusion ef Dinne the Business ofthe Society will he DINNER will be at the London same at Four o'clock precisely. price 8K'.aich,may be bad at the Bar of the and of Messrs. C. Fox Md Co. Royal of Grace of 6 The ANNIVERSARY at on and Major-General The Company ofthe several and of the other Friends of the U respectfully requested on this and Dinner on Table at Six o'clock precisely. By Order of the o. 10,461.] SATURDAY MAY 21. 125. 7d W. h. Sec. May 19, AT 8 MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS of the LONDON BRICK held at the London on the of Captain R.N. in the The Deed of Settlement to tlie unanimously was tlic same lie of the in for tbe of Statement of tiie Proceedings of the Company having been It the same was highly and auch aata entitle the Directors to the ofthe The left die It wni ' and ore hereby of the Company conduct in the Chair day jclt uie That the particular of this are y for his as also for his able and By JOSEPH CATHOLIC The following RESOLUTIONS were unanimously agreed at MEETING ofthe GLASGOW CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION CALLAGHAN In the we consider the for the Disfranchisement of the Forty Freeholders both and inasmuch aa its object is t/i disinherit a large portion of the community ol a right wlOch the common and the laws of declare they and inasmuch as one portion of the and a large portion is to be of others may be That we consider the for the Pensioning of the Irish Catholic with the greatest danger to the purity and independence of the Irish Catholic and unless the nature of the Irish Clergyman be different from that of other this if carried info a will that which the knife nor the could corruption and ef the Catholic Religion in That we consider Mr. Mr. Mr. and Mr. entitled to our wannest for their able ami timely exposure of those That the thanks of this Association be therefore given to those and the do transmit to each a copy of these L. WILLIAM TIMBER and FOREIGN WOOD Million in Shares of iot Peter and Knd aud Co. This Association is established for the Importation of Foreign valuable Woods of all and the Purchase of. British iu aid of tha supply required for Building in and and useful | The of the Association are under the of a Board The Urst Call on the Capital will not exceed per The subsequent Oils will not exceed per and due notice of each will be for the nnd aU Communications on the Affairs aud Business of the arc to be addressed t* the Directors ofthe British and Foreign Timber and Wood at Dawes and Solicitors to the The Shares will be distributed among the GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION X COMPANY'S PACKETS will sUrt from off the and the for every WEDNESDAY * SATURDAY nt YARMOUTH every and from BRIGHTON to every In superior Packets will ply between DUNKIRK and Two Vessels now fitting out will go four times a week to DIEPPE from NEWHAVEN or when the safety and of Passengers will with Tide ol the exact time of may be had of at Old Laws and at the Bull nnd Mouth Coach 40,ReECntClrcus,Piccadilly:MiddletQtt's,350, c Custom House and at the where all farther and Sense for it. is. may be - CHARLES Chief NOT A DRUM AVAS Poem written on the Death of Sir J. Set to Music hy J. Price Published by Where may be by the same WHAT IS PRAYER I Prica THOU TEMPT THE WAVE WITH ME I Is. 6d__ Written by Harry Stoe Tan Esq. MUSICAL PORTRAITS consisting of the most favorite from Weber's Opera of Dcr arranged for tbe by John Price 3s. Not a Drum was lias been set music by in a style which cannot fail of striking the roost it in a composition of the highest one of the best vocal pieces which has appeared iu this country fnr many aud * OF May ten le of tbe and the lord oi for and Anent to agreed by both tha Yeoman Rod wai directed to require Mr. who waa preceded by the ofthe ' followed by several ofthe to tbe when Royal tiai dated aad the with the Capital BUU the Metropolis Salaries Augmentation the Scotch Juries the Scotch Courts the Scotch Snail bts tbe Poole and the Chelsea the Gosport the Don and the Wye Shannon the Monmouth Railway Railway the East. London Docks the Aberdeen Court House Erection the Improvement the the Stockport the York the the Leith Newbury the the Improvement the the the Birmingham Gas Light puffa the Hanley and Estate in all to Lord presented * petition the Town Clerk of in that and re- for the of FROM and brought ap the the County and Private i THE COUNTY REDESDALE now moved tbe fint reading of the upon the motion of the same Noble and was ordered to be Earl SPENCER then presented a from the town of in in favour of the from tbe town of 8]gned,by SOO of the from the town of Rugby in Upon of the Earl of the Naval Asylum was read a third and ordered to the The Postage the Irish and the Chelsea passed through aud were without any to the Lord COLCHESTER laid upon Uie table of the House another Report from their Committee on to be The Marquis of DO a petition from the Belfast This ordered to be 10 ' the consideration of the Lords Committee on tlie State of Upon the of the Earl of the dissolving the marriage of Maurice Crosbie Esq. with Diana his was read a thini and ordered to the other William Franklin Peter's Divorce from dane Mary his passed through a Committee of tbe whole and the report was ordered to be received on SCOTCH Viscount MELVILLE moved the order of the day for the second reading of the for the Trials of Peers in by the Law of Scotland to that of judicial was immediately read a second and committed for Wednesday next The Noble presented two petitions from iu the first praying that no alteration might be made in the Com Laws; and the that ameliorations might be made in the Stamp A great number of witnesses were liOUSE OF May 20. The House House of to bear tlie Assent by Commission to several public and private ffor which Mii L. FOSTER that the Committees above stairs of tbe 1 presented a the of the Dock Dues at the port of Liverpool should be lowered to 20, or per Laid on LEITH CLERK that the amendments to the Leith be read a second Lord A. HAMILTON that a case had occurred which was more worthy of the serious attention of the The measure to tho interests of and it was of such that half a interests of tlie communities of Edinburgh and and the future trade of the country were all involved in its It first became known to him while be acted as Chairman of the on the Royal Burghs of when all the concerns ofthe were brought before and after had given out their first he received a in which the conduct of the parties with whom the was verely His objections were of a general he could not help his that the great interests of repaal of Acta of and violations of were involved in the The LORD ADVOCATE he would not go into the merits ofthe but he protested being held responsible for a private which did not originate with Lord A. HAMILTON held the Noble Lord responsible for nothing but for a very limited knowledge ofthe Mr. HUME the private now before tlie contrary to all been taken up by his Majesty's who had agreed to give it their support Had he seen any of the Right Hon. Gentlemen in their he would have asked this direct Lord Melville had not pledged himself to tha Magistrates of Edinburgh to carry them through with vile and shameful job I The Docks had not yst been although a debt of 26S,0OOI. had been and duties laid on which interfered with tlie trade of the port. By the present scheme the heavy scale of duties would be perpetual and continue for 6. CLERK was surprised to hear the two Hon. Members who had just made denounce the obloquy of the the provisions of which they knew very as they had not attended the Committee which sat upon it So far was it from meriting he could shew that it was one of great importance to the and iu the conducting of it the Magistrates had acted in the most and open Tha Corporation some years in order to tlie improvement of the Port of proposed raising the sum of 2C5,000{. to erect large however to the embarrassments of the Port of Leith that sum fell far short of the necessary in a great of debt was upon tbe City of so as to threaten it with bankruptcy in the event of a sudden and unexpected Taking advantage ofthe peculiar situation of market last the Corporation proposed in July last to transfer their interest in the docks to a joint stock and guarantee 4-pertent. to the They communicated that to the merchants and public bodies of but troni the nature of the or Ihe unfavourable aspect of the no person would come forward to adventure on tho In October last a second prospectus was one-half per cent to tbe but so little interest did the proposal that for five days none could be found to embark in it. On the 9th of October the Royal Bank of Scotland quite unexpectedly lowered the rate of interest from three to two per cent It appeared that only twenty-two shares out of SOO were purchased by the members of the Town they were but annual and could be considered permanent as they had as good a right as any others to become additional rates can henceforward be imposed on the trade of The only question the bonus for the money lent was to be sub scribed by Leith or tbe Corporation of Edinburgh The Oi mentioned by the was the It was quite possible that in the fluctuations of the money six and a quarter may not be an exorbitant consi dering all the hazards of tlie His Govern ment to have taken up the and given to it the weight of their interest That statement was quite destitute of tlie only object which the Government hud in it was to obtain for the public a commodious station for a which was found much wanted at the period of his s visit to That station could not be established the appropriation of some local and such appropriation would have the effect of relieving tlie Corporation of Edinburgh from Mr. P. GRANT that he had attended the and did not hear evidence ou any of tlie facts slated by the last The contract was but a and would be declared null and void in any Court of few woids from Lord Mr. Mr. T. Mr. Alderman and Captain The House numbers were- The was of coune lost CLYDE NAVIGATION Lord A. HAMILTON presented petitions from 20,000 of Um we Town Royal from the Merchants and of or in favour of the Clyde ' Time petitions were severally ordered to be laid upon the Mr. MAXWELL presented a petition from certain individuals Ordered to be referred to tbe ' Mr. S. HICE a petition from the Right Hon. Lord the Hall Docks Referred to the On of Mr. S. the for promoting and m and for of Joint Stock Companies waii read a third time and from the Lords that their had Private and had a BiH dissolving the marriage of Crosbie Esq. The was read a third tim e and OF PETITION Mr. brought np tbe Report of the Select on the of certain Protestant of and of two districts in the 6f ofthe forgeries Committee had called before them Robert upon being sole author of tbe said end that ho names of the several persons that he forwarded the same to an Hon. Member that House J. for The reported that nothing advanced by the said to as the to excuse having been laid on the Mr. Secretary PEEL ax it be for the punishment of a taking into consideration the of the the - of the appeared to him a great violation of the privilege of tlie above its interference with the sacred right to he should move that Robert Poer Trench Pilkington had been guilty of a high breach of the privileges of tbe Mr. BROUGHAM that on such an occasion as the it was most desirable that the Hoase should proceed with and that it should take that which would insure the unanimous support of the The only doubt which he felt on the present occasion of committing this individual at once to earing whether he has anything to say ia mitigation of his He that before the House proceeded to commit him to he should first be called to the in order to ascertain whether he could urge any thing in excuse or mitigation of his Mr. Secretary PEEL had not the slightest objection to the couree suggested by the Honourable and Learned Member which upon the face of seemed to be most just towards the It was for the to consider in the present the individual so completely confessed his guilt as to render the course suggested by the Hon. and Learned Member The SPEAKER there was a precedent in point in the year The question arose in the case to which he alluded whether a who had confessed himself guilty of a breach of and who had been heard before a shoald be afterwards heard by tbe A had been brought in by Mr. Earl for laying a tax on spirituous bad been published while it was still by a person named William It had been printed by a servant of named Abraham and it was nemine the individual not being called Bar ofthe that William Rayner had been guilty of a breach of the privileges of that and that for tbe same he be taken into the custody of the Serjeant at the servant of was also declared to have been of a breach of and was committed to the custody ol the Serjeant at Mr. BR wished to w in the case which had Just been cited by the the individual had been heard by the Committee The SPEAKER that it was reported that being examined before the acknowledged that the said pamphlet was published in bis and by his but without his Mr. BROUGHAM it appeared from what the Speaker hart just that this was a very bad and one which ought not to be followed by that It was bad enough that the principle should prevail iu that a master was ia all cases responsible for the acts of his principle which in many cases led to the greatest would still worse if anomalous principle were extended to privilege of The precedent which had been cited from the in his very bad and would be better honoured in th breach than in the There this difference between the case mentioned by the and that now under the consideration ofthe that in tlie former the individual was ordered into tlie custody of the Serjeant at punishment resorted to only in of a lighter whereas in the present it was proposed to inflict the ivier punishment of a to It would in point of be more just and satisfactory to hear individual at their before committing him to if ill ftr incorporating declared bis of moving that that the House should adjourn over to as it had done last He hoped the Hon. and Learned Member would therefore fix another day than for his intended Mr BROUGHAM had no objection to postpone itto the first the 1st of if he got an gentlemen that he would then have time asked whether the aai was a private Mr. BROUGHAM said it was EXCHEQUER give its time to the public the the not ' JURIES Before going into the ah address foe certain which Information on the He then moved that address be presented to House a statement of the local regulation for of jaries in towns in and other towns and boroughs in England and concurred in the as he was anxious information be given on this important words from the the address was that before the House into lib wished briefly to restate the principal the sixty the jury repeal about His next object was to extend the as Jurors to a greater of persons than entitled to that privilege by the existing to make all who held a in lands or eligible to serve The third object he had in view was the law on this subject of many of its For in some it was usual the unless a were on the This be it necessary persons of tbe Jury summoned should be of the where the cause of action in there would be a much greater probability of the obtaining to try the in any But the main of this for consolidating tbe Jury Laws was had been tlie too fertile theme of every to our system of Trial by that in all where a Special Jury was the Master of tbe Crown selected from the list in those whom he thou jht proper persons to try the Now he proposed this should be forever done away Loud wherever the Crown was a or in criminal the Jurors should in be actually by ballot in cases of civil of nominating was to unless both parties should formally to waive that and signify not lu but in His object in: alJ was subject to no possible It to him wise to relinquish all possible in of persons that might men offices certainly to over an or him to political partiality or But convinced be a great of a Minister's strength a great bond of alliance between tlie governed and Ihe Government of a country would lie found to consist in attempts which as an humble had he the best so to arrange the if such it might be of that hereafter no imputation of partiality could be made of their mode of uppermost in all bis wishes on this subject vna to and degrees men to the laws and every man should find that be best consulted his own and that of his the strict of that of law afforded hioi no opportunity at- or be dissatisfied it. He moved tbe Mr. SCARLETT he should not do justice to his if he did not offer the tribute of sincere applause te tiie Kight Hon. for the most useful It the utmost importance tlie Trial by Jury should be made as perfect as One of tbe greatest blessings resulting from the free Constitution of this country as the administration of the and were thus in a great the of the with which the infraction of these laws were It would be very for a private individual to carry ot this importance through the and therefore it became a liberal Government to take it For manner in which the arduous task liad been undertaken by the and the great labour and assiduity which ha evinced to he had nothing to say in extenuation before the would probably have nothing to say before that but j tice required that he should be Mr. V. FITZGERALD said the individual had stated nothing whatever before tho in extenuation uf his The SOLICITOR GENERAL that a person reported guilty of a breach of privilege might be called to the and permitted to say in of his Mr. BROUGHAM said that Ihe course which he thought the House should was should call upon the individual either to confess or deny tlie offence and if he confessed they should proceed to ask him whether he had any thing to urge in extenuation of his offence The SPEAKER said there were two questions for tlie consideration of the House as to the whether tbe offender be committed to or to the custody of the Serjeant at and before his be heard at the Bar of tbe iu order to whether he had any to say in of his Mr. Secretary PEEL repealed that he had no objection to the course suggested by Hon. and Learned His only doubt whether the offence was not of such a nature that it could not be extenuated by any apology at the bar of the and whether the House would not be putting itself in an situation by appearing to call upon the offender for an He thought the offence was of so grave a individual ought at once to be committed to and at the expiration of three or four it might be a subject for the consideration of the whether they would hear any apology at their Mr. BRO UGHAM that part he was not prepared to say before he had heard the ought to be committed to or to the milder the Serjeant at ( After a few words from Bankes and Mr. Mr. Secretary PEEL he thought it so tbat in cases of breach of the proceedings ofthe House should bo that he should not oppose tbe course suggested by the Hon. and Learned Member The SPEAKER then put the that Robt Pilkington be committed to tbe custody of the Serjeant at which was agreed to The Serjeant at Arms shortly after entered the and received the Speaker's warrant to arrest the in order to bring him to the bar of Lord STANLEY presented a petition from certain proprietors of cotton against the tor regulating the hours of manufacturers' on the Mr. L. FOSTER presented a from of in the county of against the Salmon also a petition from Attorneys and Solicitors in against the License and a petition from Attorneys practising in the Courts of Quarter Sessions in praying for an alteration in the Law affecting their Ordered to lie on the The Hon. Member presented another petition from the solicitors and of practising at Quarter praying to be released from the obligation of taking an oath that would not accept more than certain fees specified by Ordered to be Mr. a petition from tbe masters and mariners of the Corporation of Merchant praying to be relieved from the obligation to pay a month out of their wages for the support of Greenwich from Establishment they received no relief in supported the prayer of the and considered the compulsive contribution of that snm a most unjust said that he would confer on the subject his Noble Friends of the but should give no 1' House to that much of tbb public money was expended in relieving merchant seamen on foreign ordered to be L. FOSTER presented a petition from - the Fisheries ' seeing the Chancellor of the Exchequer in from his Right Hon. Friend the amount rectified rum in answer to the duty on rum r British with the Md on rim 7a." id spirit was to be 5. Mr rose to give notice that he would port toil in every way in his Mr. Secretary that he felt great the manner in which this measure had been received by the He had to acknowledge the cordiality with which it was met by Members both without reference to party The alterations he felt be productive effects to the There besides those to tlie connected with the administration of which he thought would bear being calmly looked at and inquired and the encouragement he bad already he hoped at no distant period to bring them under the consideration of Mr. after the objects ofthe that that part went to alter the mode of special more particularly in crown was most and would produce the best results lor let the selection be made witli tiie most scrupulous it would still leave a not favourable to the due of Nn matter who was the officer who might it would be looked upon in some dugree as a under some Of the present excellent individual who so worthily filled the situation nf Master of tlie no man who knew ever a suspicion of the slightest improper bias in the discharge of his hut still the selection by any public would not give such satisfac lion as that proposed by when subject first about three years the Master of the had that whatever benefit the proposed alteration might give to the there was no to whom it would afford more sincere satisfaction than to hoped that the passing of this would be a useful lesson to were so wedded to the system of things as they .as to be alarmed at even the mention of any He remembered in the well-known case a few years in which the present mode of selecting Special Juries was objected and in which it was urged that the of the returning to run over the and mark off a name here and a name skipping over several names in each to sdv the least of a power liable to it was gravely held by to whom he that such a mode was the best of all possible modes of returning Special br hoped their eyes be opened by this act of the and that they would at length admit that things as they are might possibly He should give his entire concurrence to the The was then Mr. WESTERN introduced a persons who were and being m personal be to sit on Peel he had no objection to the but iie thought there might be in such a property to be that required by Mr. BERNAL and Dr. LUSHINGTON there could be no difficulty which could not be easily got Mr. Secretary tbat aU mention of the 400'. should be and that the clause state the qualification as to being and being rated in the county of Middlesex on a house a and in any of other counties in England at 20/. a or inhabiting a house with fifteen That he thought would meet every and ba perfectly The clause was then agreed The several oilier were agreed the House and the report was to be received on Thursday On the motion of the CHANCELLOR ofthe the House went into a Committee on the Sa The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER that be fore tlie Committee went into a consideration of the ot the he wished to state one or two to thr which had pressed themselves upon and out of the discussion that had taken place on the second ing of the question on that been as to the retiring allowances which be allotted - That question had then come upon him ashe had not then taken the subject not thinking it necessarily Puisne J ofthe but he had since bestowed some The object he had in view when he proposed a J Puisne without any to on the as an to the performance ol At the same time it would be too much to it as a fixed thai they were never to be On ofthe he there would be iu raising higher the retired and a proportionate in the The retired was at present 2,300/. a To this he proposed to add making and this additional he would deduct from the thus making it 5*500/. iu of tot If reW wli
