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,rimes having been brought home to them, they have already received the merited punishment. " The greater part belonged to the lower classes, and im mediately after the confession of their defence received cor poral punishment upon the very spot where their crimes had been committed. It is, however, to be regretted that among 'hem were noblemen attached to the public service, namely, l'rince Peter Yolizyn, Actuary in the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Romanou, a clerk in the Deputies of Ecclesiastical Affairs for foreign confessions. A crime of this kind demands exemplary punishment. In consideration of their youth, however, and to afford them' an opportunity of amendment, his Majesty has been pleased to direct that the former, as the most guilty, shall be con fined in a fortress for one month, and then be sent to Gru sieu ; and that the latter shall be sent to Archangel. " The discovery of these violations of public duty may serve as a proof to all the inhabitants of the capital how .:areful the Government is to preserve order, and with in defatigable watchfulness to maintain every where the public tranquillity." SECOND EDITION. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Tins DAT. Mr. JOHNSON, from the office of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, presented papers relative to the contract prices of flour and butter sup plied toKilmainham Hospital. BOROUGH OF RYE. Mr. CR A DDOCR presented a petition from the inhabitants of Rye complaining of the conduct of the returning officer. That officer had not attended to the orders of the house, and therefore had been guilty of a breach of privilege. A recent committee had reversed the decision of a previous committee, but that wee no justification of the conduct of the returning officer. The SPEAKER reminded the house that this was an election com mittee—and if it were such, it was presented too late.—Withdrawn. Mr. H UME presented several petitions for the abolition of negro lavery from Perth, and also a petition Bristol, praying for the adop slam of uniform principles in the Courts of Requests.—Ordered to lie tto able. arroax. )Ir. HUME said he had several petitions, praying for Parliamentary Reform, which he presented with very great 'pleasure. The first was from Montrose, which he was highly gratified to present, as it was the tint borough in Scotland. (Hear.) He then presented one from the Kirkland Works, in the county of Fife. The petitioners rejoiced :n the dismission of the late.tninistry, exultation in which he most nor. diolly joined ; and they prayed for reform with the ballot, and in that prayer he most cordially concurred. He next presented one from intr. chants of the city of Glasgow—the most enlightened population, in his otimation, in Scotland. The Town Council, a self elected body, had tome to the resolution highly to their honour, of reforming themselves, a% far as the law would allow them; also to promote Parliamentary Reform to the extent of their power. He afterwards presented one from Auchtermuthy, for Reform and praying the vote by ballot.—Severally ordered to be printed. MIDDLESEX REFORM PETITION. Mr. HUME then presented the Middlesex petition for Parliamen tary Reform, also praying for the vote by ballot. He felt quite assured that this Reform must soon take place, whosoever might be the Minis try. For years he had urged its necessity. The Middlesex Meeting voted that the increase of the army, and the continuation of the corn lava, were uncalled for, unjust, and unwise; in which opinion he con. curred ; he only lamented that the peasantry had thought that they could, by force, controul public opinion, and check discontent. In all the language and sentiments of the petition be cordially con curred. Sir G. WARRENDER said that as far as be had beard the send. meets of the petition, he concurred in them, but he was not against the increase of the army. Disorderamust be, and ought to be put down. He was sorry none of the ministers were present, because be would caution them against lending too easy an ear to the recommendations from members now opposite.--(Hear.) Indeed, within the last few days, he had observed symptoms opposite, that convinced him that the ministers had little chance of security,except by an appeal to the people. —(Loud cheers.) As to the question of reform, he could not, however, dew the extension of the franchise without some anxiety, when he saw what bad taken place recently at Liverpool and Preston. Mr. WARBURTON was not surprised that the hon. baronet was in (moue of the increase of the army, because if complete reform were not given now, there would be little chance of ruling otherwise than by the bayonet. The olocdon at Liverpool ought not to surprise, because when the numbers were so nearly equal, the remaining numbers were reduced to the condition of rotten borough voters. With respect to the election at Preston, he was sorry for the position in which Mr. Stanley stood, but that gentleman had :declined to give pledges to vote for reform.--[Left sitting.] SPIRIT OP THE JOURNIILS. Truss.—lt adds in no small degree to the concern with which every body must regard the situation of the southern agricultural districts, to find that some bodies of journeymen manufacturers in the north have recommenced the practice of turning out, on account, or pretence, of insufficient sages. There is, doubtless, of necessity, no connection between a refus a l to wor k and any criminal or illegal proceeding. Any journeyman, or number of journeymen, may, with as perfect propriety, tell a master that if he wishes to employ them he must raise the price of their labour, as he, the master, may give them to understand, that unless they consent to a reduction of wages, he will dispense with their flume services. To this point all is clear and fair, because it is an equal ex ercise, on both sides, of an acknowledged right. But, unfortunately, en the part of the journeymen, the turn-out for wages very seldom con fines Itself within such lawful limits. There is but rarely an instance of any number of the " operatives" determining to suspend their lions, without at the same time enforcing their measures and fortiogirritig their demands by acts of violence, or at least by fearful menaces against all journeymen in the same line of manufacture with them selves, who will not leave their employers also, and incur the consequent risks and privations of idleness, however well satisfied' they may have been with the treatment they have experienced, , 1 and with the remuneration obtained by them for their proper I work. Thus are thousands of steady, industrious, and Inoffensive men, forced, together with their wives and families, at the peril frequently of their very existence, to forego 'the enjoyment of daily bread, and the timberless comforts of a regular and assured subsistence, because am. sin other thousands, of whom the law, as well as reason and justice, hare made them altogether independent, will not suffer them to act en their own views of their own most essential interests, but insist on make in them the tool' of a project with which they have no sympathy nor rum. We see by the loc a l newspapers, that at Ashton-under-Line,• rest of journeymen spinners, amounting to 18,000 or 20,000, marched in a tumultuous manner through that town, and proceeded with a design to intimid at e t h e spinners of Hyde and Oldham to follow their sample; that they uttered savage threats against their several masters, And, above all, that they had procured for themselves a considera ble number and variety of arms. Are these the measures of well disposed citizens, anxious only to procure themselves justice, or to promote their own interests, by legal means and with a corres ponding respect f or t h e rights of others ? Is it to be endured, that on pretence of obtaining increased wages, they shall venture to wrest such i ncrease f rom die master-numufactaners by out. rage, or to frighten great bodies of journeymen working peaceably at 4 distance of some miles from Ashton, into the starvation of their families, that those of Ashton may have more shillings In the week for drink ? That there is trick and knavery, as well as illegality, in these movements, may be gathered from the fact, that the leaders of them sic am appear to be of the same else or calling as their followers. One fellow is said to be a dyer, and others are strangers, not unknown to chat sort of fame which is won by an intercourse with police-ollows. ......----. Cnacontaz—Earl Stanhope has the reputation of being a sincere and worthy man, and one is, therefore, sorry to find that the rub be re ceived some time ago from the [acted Chancellor, when be attempted " invite Minerva," to be witty at the =pram oldie Noble and Liaised Jrad, barn nailed him more than those who pommel wueldly wisdom allow the world, in such cases, to Oa pammileg, krat night, goals petitions against Col on i a l be Aeons, dist, " ditrach tbe ?it* of the Hewes wee lad ed ' peeltime, rant Lillglia. newtons of negroes, they had no reptemmwelsea ild 0 initiates inflicted upon their own sounisiume at biome s" and thins alluding to what had missed on a focuser sonwareatiess in the WOO r espeetiag Wen Indian Slavery, he added, " that be regarded with, indifference, and even with contempt, the censures that had been pro nounced upon his conduct, from what quarter %aver they might pro ceed. even though they might come from the Noble Lord who oat upon the Woolsack." The Noble and Learned Lord, with praiseworthy forbearance, allowed Lord Stanhope to give vent to his feelings without retorting on hint; and if his Lordship be prudent, lie will allow matters to rest where they are, as he may go further and fare worse. With re spect to the cruelties exercised on their own countrymen at home, if we are not much mistaken, the persons who now petitition against slavery very generally exerted themselves to introduce humanity into our laws. Who raised their voices against our sanguinary code ? Who exerted themselves to reform the discipline of our prisons? Who have always been the patrons of education P Tory Lord ? High Church Parsons ? No! the men who now raise their voices in behalf of the New. The cruelties exercised on Englishmen will in time, too, be succeeded by kind treatment. The causes of the sufferings of the English labourers are not apparent to every one ; for they are many and compliatted ; and the very prejudices, derived from erroneous conceptions of religion, of the petitioners against slavery, unfit them, in some measure, for grap pling with the remedies for the distresses of the poor. What is waisted is not so much good intentions, as enlightened views, The measure of Lord Brougham for placing justice within the reach of the poor, cannot fail in time to be of great benefit to them. The poor in England may be said to be outlawed ; they are even worse off in many respects than feudal serfs, for though the chief has power, its exercise is mitigated by the at. tachment which grows up between the lord and serf. The unpaid territorial Magistracy of England have the power of the feudal Chief*, without their natural attachment to the lower orders. But this power will, in time, yield to the progress of knowledge ; fa men who are sensible of the evils of their situation, are seldom long in seeking to remedy them. When the noble lord and his friends have exerted themselves as much as the petitioners against slavery, in seeking to enlighten the lower orders, and to improve our Institutions, they may with better grace complain of indifference to the cruelties to which the lower orders are subject. We never heard, for instance, of a Quaker extolling the Game Laws, or recommending the demoralization of the agri cultural population through the enforcement of these laws, as neces- 1 vary to give the country Inc benefit of a resident gentry, though this doctrine has been year after year advocated by majorities of the House of Peers. The Sectaries, who are the chief of the opponents of slavery, may " be not backward to impute the existing distresses of this country to a visitation of Providence, occasioned by a continuance of West Indian slavery ;" and they may entertain erroneous views as to the possibility of cultivating sugar with profit by mans of free labourers ; but erroneous views of religion, or imperfect acquaintance with tropical countries do not detract from the merit of their intentions. To their incessant applications to the legislature, 800,000 of Degrees in our cob- I nies are chiefly indebted for the great improvement which, of late years has been effected in their condition. HANTS SPECIAL CO3fIIII.SSION. WINCHESTIII, MONDAY. This city presented an unusual appearance of bustle at a very early hour this morning. Persons were flocking in from all quarters. The gaol was surrounded by the wives and families of the unfortunate men who are now confined there. Most of them appeared in the greatest distress. It was a painful sightto see so many apparently respectable persons in such a situation. An immense number of county Magi strata arrived during yesterday and in the night ; and are now nearly filling the Court, which has been fitted up with great care and attention to the convenience of those who are here on business. We (the reporters) have received every assistance from Messrs. Hopkins and Dunn. the Under Sheriffs for the county, who have had seats put up for us in one of the best situations in the Court, so that we can obtain ingress through the door by which the Magistrates enter, without being subjected to the inconvenience of pressing through the crowd. We have never met with any accommodation at Salisbury, but we trust I that, on the present occasion, the great importance of the business will impress the Under Sheriff with the necessity of affording those through whom the public are made acquainted with what transpires in Courts of Justice, that accommodation which will enable them to perform their duties correctly, and without inconvenience. The Attorney-General and Mr. Sergeant Wilde arrived here yesterday afternoon, and had a oonsultadon in the evening with the other gentle man who are retained on this occasion. Precisely at WO o'clock, the three Judges entered the Court, attended by bis Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Right Hon. William Sturges Bourne, and Richard Pollen, Req. as Commissioners, and Omer Pure foy 'moist, Esq. the High Sheriff. The Judges were in their full robes. The following Genthaten were then sworn in u the Grand Jury : The Rt. Hon. Sir G. W. Rose, Sir H. W. Wilson, Ent. Ban. M.P. Sir J. T. Lee. Sir H. J. Tiehborrse, Bart. John Fleming, Esq, Sir C. Hulse, Bart. Peter Ranter, Esq. Sir W. Hute, Bart. M.P. J. H. Beaufoy, Esq. 1 Sir G. E. Hamond, Ban. Th o m a s Thistlethwayte, Esq. Sir T. Baring, Ban. bI.P. John Honthy, Esq. Sir L. Curtis, Ban. John Mount, Esq. Sir J. W. Pollen, Bart. Henry Coombe Compton, Esq. Sir T. B. Lethbridge, Bart. R. Sheddon, Req. Sir J. 13. Yorke, Bart. Walter Long, Req. Sir J. &Howes, Ent. George Collins Poore, Esq. The oath having been administered, Mr. Baron VAUOII4I, addressed the Grand Jury in a solemn and impressive !MUM. While the Grand Jury were examining witnesses upon the first in dictment, Mr. Baron Vaughan said it had been intimated to him that the Jurymen had been refused admission to the Court, and even that, in 'some instances, money had been taken. This was extremeiy improper, and be desired it might be inquired into. Jurymen had a right to be in Court, and the doors should be thrown open. The Grand Jury, after a lapse of some time, brought in a bill upon which James Thomas Cooper, aged 33; George Clarke, aged 20 t Jo seph Amt.'', aged 26; Henry Eldridge, aged 23; John Fulton', aged 60; George Moody, aged 29; Wm. Webb, aged 21 ; Samud Quintie aged 98; William Newman, aged 22; Charles Read, aged 36; John Kimber, aged 36 ; Win, Atnee, aged 27 Charles aqui., aged 59 ; and Joseph Goulding, aged 23, were capitally indicted, on • charge of having, on the 23d of November last, at the parish of Ford ingbridge, with divers other persons, violently and tumultuously assent. bled together, and then and there unlawfully, with force, demolished and destroyed certain machinery used in carrying on a manufacture, In a factory there, and unlawfully end maliciously destroying certain threshing machines, and committing divers other outrages. There were five other counts, in which the charge was varied. In one of these J. T. Cooper was further charged with having demanded and extorted money.—The prisoners severally pleaded Not Guilty. The eiTTOIIIIZY.OZNICIAL then rose, every eye le the Conn being rivetted on him, and addressed their Lordships and the Jury at coo -1 siderable length, on the legal construction of the crimes set forth in the indictments : after which, Mr. Baron VAIMINAN proceeded to sum up the case to the Jury. The case for the prosecution, and for the phi. sons, being now closed, it become his duty to call their attention to the nature of this very serious charge, and then to examine the evidence, for the purpose of showing bow far the prisoners, or any of them, were implicated in this very grave charge. Two of the prisoners be bad laid out of the ease, there not being sulkiest 'Odom to go to a jury. The question, therefore, was with respect to the 12 :retaining prisoners. Be. fore he adverted to the particular circumstances of the ease, he would call their attention to the nature of the charge, and the law. as it ap plied to it. This was a prosecution founded upon an Act of Par liament which enlarged the provisions of a former Act, for the pro. tection of buildings and machinery. The particular clause in question was the St section of 7th and Bth Oar. IV. c. 30, which enacted that if any persons assembling together should unlawfully demolish, or pull down, or destroy any house, mill, te. or any machinery, such pa wns, upon being convicted, should suffer death. Is the two last counts of the present indictment the prisoners were charged with a capital arena, in pulling down machinery. Now it appeared the pressaster was a man who had a mill, or factory in the parish of Fordingbridge. The machinery appears to be Axed to theism of the factory; but the dance spinet the law is the saute, whether is is fixed or moveable.— The complaint was, that on the 23d of November there was a very &t -ern ameintlage of persons. No men could doubt hot it hod the ap peanut= of a meet riotous assembly, and, beyond all question pane doing it, would fall within the Act, sod be subject to the strict pesky of the law, and she properties to the sedateness elf the realty, so is would they give the Osman the benefit of say doubt they might so. tertain of their ; sad in applying hob minds es hie subject they woad consider whether the case was net mode out, as to sew of than at the keit, iu the change essease. The question would be, whether any, sad which, of the photons me se circumstanced as M make It clear to their m*is that they had of hided spinet the law, sod he that purpose is would he trotesway minutely to tall their ottestfoo M the evidence. They had heard it said that these riots had arisen from dia. tress ; but destroying machinery was not the way to make the distress less. He feared it was true that there was great distress among the agricultural classes ; but yet this was not to be a reason for committing breaches of the peace. His Lordship then went through the evidence with great minuteness. As the learned judge proceeded in this noun, the jury were directed to confiner of the case of each prisoner, and to record their verdicts amongst themselves before the case of the neat prisoner in rotation was explained to them. When the evidence, as it affected the whole of the prisoners, had been gone through, the jury handed in their verdicts—they found, J. T. Cooper, George Clarke, John Fulford, Samuel Quinths, H. F. Eldridge, Charles Bead, Charles Hayter, and Joseph Arney, Guilty. Joseph Goulding, William Webb, William Arney, John Kimber, George Moody, and William Newman, Not Guilty. The court then adjourned to nine o'clock tomorrow. The priaoner Cooper is a man of morose and sullen appearance. He paid the utmost attention throughout the trial. The trial was not over till nine o'clock at sight. The names of upwards of 300 prisoners now appear in the Wender, who may be placed in the following classes :-101 for riotously meem- 1 biirg together and breaking machines; 106 for riotously assembling and extorting money ; one for stopping Lady Lethbridge's carriage, and committing a highway robbery ; one for robbing a clergyman; several for pulling down poor-houses; one for threatening to set fire to a dye!. ling-house ; one for compelling a clergyman to sign a paper, agreeing to take a certain sum annually for tithes, being much below the value; and the remainder for riot and divers acts of assault and violence. NAVAL INTELLICIIIVCR. DZA L, Die. 20.—Wind N. W. blowing strong, in squalls.—A ship, reported from London for New South Wales. supposed the VibuUa, passed this morning, with lose of anchor and cable. Poaessiouvn. Dec. 40.—Wind N. W. strong breeze.—Arrived the 1 Diligence and Industry transports from Plymouth. FA UIOUTN, Doc. 19.—Wind W. Hgbt airs.--Salled the Duke of Marlborough packet for Lisbon. I PM/JIM Dec. 19.—Arrived off.pert the Jove. Hendruka; from Alexandria. Basstor., Dan. Hr.—Arrived the Concord. Johns, from Quebec; the Wanderer, from Lisbon ; and the Raman y. from St. Petersburg. Hermosa', Dec. S.—Arrived the Sulgrave. Fleming, from Brasil; and the Mary Todd. Barton, from St. Andrew's. Smears.. Doc. lg.—Arrived the Joseph, Hume, from Virginia ; and Ann, Berks, from Dalhousie. The Hawk, from Leeds to London, sunk no t h e Barnard Sand yesterday. The Sr. Jean Giroux, from New York, arrived at Brest with da mage and lots of rudder, bound to Havre. The Betsey snd Janet, front St. Clair, is stranded at Castle Danart Sound, of bluIL IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Dec. 20. PITITIOXII. Lord ROSEBERRV prMinteaapetition front the Town Council and Magistrates of Linlithgow, for Reform in Parliament. The noble lord said no mistake c ould be greater than that which stated that the people of Scotland bad no desire for improvement in their representation. Since the question of reform had been agitated, the whole population had been animated by a desire to accomplish that end. Lord DUNCAN expressed the satisfaction be felt on finding the statement he made on a fbrmer debate confirmed by the noble lord. The people of Scotland were not supine upon the question uf Reform. Earl STANHOPE presented petitions (tom Woburn. Marlborough, and Chipping Wycomb, ago t Negro Slavery. The noble earl took the opportunity of expressing the opinion he entertained upon the sub- Jed of the said petitions. He entertained the strongest abhorrence of Negro Slavery, but be ht the total abolition should be approached with caution. The petit wbo complained of distress, occa sioned by the measures adopted by the Legislature, were entitled to have their interest considered. He had frequently expressed his sen. thnents on the question in that House, and he could not avoid saying he thought it wrong fair any Noble Lord, even the Noble and Learned Lord on the woolsack, to dictate how a Peer in that assembly was to speak, or when be was to speak. If the Noble and Learned Lord In tended on a former occasion to convey admonition to him (Lord Stan hope), he should only say, that the lecture the Noble and Learned Lord bad given him was unnecessary, and therefore unpleasant. He considered it %%holly uncommon in that House. With the indulgence of their Lordships, he should deliver his opinion In his own way, whenever public duty required it, without asking permission of the Noble and Learned I.ord. The petitions were then laid on the table. The Duke of CU3IBEHLAND presented a petition against slavery. &COTO' BOROUGHS. Lord NAPIEK moved for returns relating to the constitution of Scotch Borougliv, but after a few words from Lotd Rosebtrry and Lord Rosalyn, was induced to postpone It. LUNATICS IX CHANCERY. The LORD CHANCELLOR rose to move for a return of con. sidersble importance, and as the Noble and Learned Lord who had so long presided in the Court of Chancery was pre. sent, he should call the attention of their Lordships to a mat ter in which that Noble and Learned Lord might render great assistance. It was in the knowledge of their Lordships that a number of persons labouring under mental derange ment were subject to the jurisdiction of the Keeper of the Oreat Seal. The number averaged about 400 annually. They were all supported out of their property lodged in the Court of Chancery. A sum of about 13,0001. a-year was paid for the protection of lunatics out o• Chancery. That court took care of the estates and property d those unhappy persons ; but their lordships would see the didiculty under which the court was placed. On the determination of its own custody of individuah it had no power to promote the recovery of those ladies. duals. It had occurred to those who had preceded the noble and learned lord, that some arrangement should be made on that subject. The lunatic asylums contained about 25,000 patients, and upon the average two out of six were cured annually. Of the 400 patients anus. ally under the care of the great seal, one-twentieth part generally re mained uncured, and there was no reasonwhy that portion should not have the advantage of the best treatment with a view to their early re covery. It had been suggested that it would be expedient to establish a medical board of persons competent to judge d the cure of insane persons, but that board was not to be compelled of what was called mad doctors, but men taken from the general branch of the medical profession. A Board of two individuals was to be formed, re. ...Airing moderate salaries, and having authority to inquire into the state of Chancery lunatics. They were to examine them from time to time, and enable the Court to know whether they were well treated, and re port the earliest return to sanity. This arrangement was the result of a discussion which had taken place between himself and a noble friend, and he considered it a subject worthy the consideration of their lordship. whenever it should be debated. He should be prepared, when certain returns for which he intended to move were laid upon the table, to state the plan of a general establishment, to prevent abuses on the port of medical persons entrusted with the ears of lunatics. The noble and learned lord concluded by moving, " That there be laid before the House an account of the mamba of lunatics under the care of the Lord Chancellor, with dates, showing the longest and shortest times they had been under his are; also an account of the total amount of sums allowed for the maintenance and eared such persons." The Rad of ELDON said the Court of Chancery had not the entire we of lunatics. The jurisdiction was not with the Lord Chan cellor, but with the King, as guardian of lunatics. The noble lord might be assured that any ausstance he could give for the improve. some of the audition of those unfortunate should be afforded. He had, during his profs life, date all he rc = for those unhappy paean. He felt the 'bandage by humanity, but he begged the noble and learned lord would cooahlor whether medical men were not the most proper payees es jaded inosaley The LORD CHANCELLOR said, the proper cause might be to have two general practitioners and one medical slob The return was then ordered. On the motion of Had OBEY, the Patents Bin was read the second Noe. MAN RIVER. Lord TEY NHAM , pumetat to Dodos, alibi the Mendes of Majesty's joyerursent in the thite of the Scan liver Sedhthent, which hadbeenfribni in • piper te be b a met thipieseble ream A umber of his if , son ectr bed been Woad to teemed to that sadism& under had est by the tmersonent t rod rev. May it see a of awful inspemdad. n is I** and WPM at the.. rimed depended upon correct infimerden to be derived Rant He bed no doubt the noble violent meld eve Ids ad reet i =don all. in his pm.. The elelpase required pommies, and the demade, is his opinion, thesid be Mined by the sickbed) et waits keele. There were set has dies ISAMOth emu of mite WM In di esentry, which he emetheied vadada » *Ad 1 . 61 . 84 . happy. The Nile emanded by WM, the Noble viscount at die beid of the OdeMl Determent, if tin. &did en the pm of W Majesty's Omemeent es intention es aheedes the seedemest of she dim KM, Viscount GODERICH said it did not appear necesaary then to discuss the question of emigration and the cultivation or waste lands, but in answer to the querrion put by the noble lord, I will nay (observed the noble Viscount) it is not, as far as I have b-en able to make inquiry, the intention of his Majesty's Governme-t t 4 propose the abandonment of the settlement of the Swan River. On the contrary, having reason to believe the last account., 1 should say so for from being in the state mentioned by the noble lo:.1, it promises to become a useful settlement Every body knows there must be great difficulties to encounter in the first ctiorts to es tablish a colony. Those difficulties can only be overcome by qua lities which do not belong to all settlers. Many must have (wiled in their speculations. (Hear.) The last account, dated the 20th I.f January, 1830, from Captain Stirling, who commanded at the colony, gave no reason to be dissatisfied." He had no objection to produce any paper the noble lord might move for, reserving to himself the right of moving for other papers. Lord TEYNHAM said it was extraordinary his Majesty's govern. meat had receivedlisodispatches from the Swan river since January last. He had a letter dated 4th M ay in the present year, by which it ap parel that the settlers found no land to cultivate beyond the mountains Ibo leagues distant from the settlement. The noble lord then moved for a return of the number of vessels and passengers which have sailed from London for the Swan river. Viscount CiODERICH said the Governor of the Colony had, no doubt, sent his dispatches by a direct conveyance. He concluded by moving that there be laid before the House the letter to which he had alluded, as an amendment in the Nl;Apc of an addition to the Noble Lord's (Teynham).— Both were ago d to. SUITS IN COMMON LAM 1141011111 . •ILL, After a short conversation between Lord Wirstroati, Earl of Bums, and the LORD CHANCELLOR, this Bill was read a second time. Adjourned at Twenty Minutes to Seven &Clock. HOUSE OF COM NIONS —Di c. 20. The London Bridge Approaches Amendment bill wu read a 6:4t time. and ordered to best:id a second time. Mr. SADLER presented a petition against negro slavery. Lord IIORPETH presented asitnilar petition. Mr. JAMES BROUGH Asl presented a similar petition from Liao. Mr. Alderman WOOD moved fur returns of all peraons engaged in public (Aces in 11128 and 18•211, accounts of salaries, *.c.—Oroered. Mr. k kNNEDY presented petitions fur an extension of the elective franchise from Glasgow, Dundee, Jedburough, and Dumfries. Sir J. NEWPORT expreomi the hope that in the extension of the elective franchise Ireland would not be forgotten. When reform was at work, it ought not to be overlooked. Belfast, a large and opulent town, had its representatives retuned by a sovereign and twelve burgetses, one half of whom were not resident, and the other half disqualified by being revenue officers. Sir R. PEROUSSON presented a similar petition from Dunbar, and Crail, and against slavery. Mr. LENNA It D presented a petition from Montague Burgoyne, one of the Verderers of Waltham Forest, praying that the forest might be enclosed. Mr. LENNARD presented a petition front Malden, for the abolition of slavery. Mr. ROBINSON presented a petition from Mr. R. Mason, of Liver pool, complaining of the election. He said there was nothing personal in the petition ; because whoever had been returned, he should have petitioned on the subject in consequence of the disgraceful transactions that had characterised the election. There were 4,500 voters, and the petitioners asserted that four.siztha of the voters had been bribed. The petitioner was fearful, from a rumour, that the sitting member (Mr. Ewart) was about to vacate his seat, and thereby evade the penalties of his proceedings. He prayed that the House would in stitute Inquiries. General OASCOYNE said that there was already a petition before the House, and that this petition and the address were ptejudging the we. Mr. !MART said he gloried in the return; he had been returned by the middle classes, and his conscience did not accuse him of having done any thing wrong. The SPEAKER remarked, that If this were an election petition It was too late. Mr. ROBINSON denied that it was an election to lie the table. Mr. TENNANT gave notice that, before the Easter recess, he should move a Commission to inquire into the best means of relieving the poor, by an appropriation of the waste lands of the Condos, South Africa, the Asiatic Islands, &c. Mr. H. DAVIES presented a petition from Bristol, for the repeal of the assessed taxes ; also a petition for the extinction of negro slavery. Mr. BAILEY said the principle of compensation being admitted, be should, both as a West India proprietor and member for Bristol, give his hearty concurrence to the final extinction of slavery. Mr. EVANS thought there was no evil to be apprehended from ire. mediate emancipation. In Mexico all the slaves were emancipated in one day, and no evil consequences followed. Mr. O'GORMAN Al ARON presented • petition from the county of Clare, praying that parishes in which there were no protestant inba. bitants might be exempted from the payment of Tithes and Chutch Rates. Sir R. INGLIS said Tithes were taken frees the land, and if Dot taken, the tenant would not be benefited, but the landlord. Mr. HUME said Tithes were injurious to the Tenants and the pub. lie, and he hoped no time would be lost in commuting such a tax for another mode of payment. Mi.O'CIOR MAN MAHON presented a petition complaining of the tithes, from a parish in the coanty of Clam, that had no Protestants, no Protestant Parson, and no Protestant Church. He then presented a petition from persons confined in Newgate, Dublin, complaining that though not found guilty of any offence, they were kept in prison. They could not be tried, because their Recorder was a member of that house, and said he was obliged to attend the house. A person engaged in the silk trade of Dublin wished the sad member to be in his place in the House of Coalitions on a particular day, but the member said he could not, as be had to attend the duty of Recorder. The of fi ces were incompatible—the gen t l ema n oug h t to be compelled to make his choice to be the Recorder or the Member. That house Tined 8001. or 8001. • year to the Recorder of Dublin, in oddities to what was obtained from the corporation. Mr. LEFROY saidolle Recorder had discharged the pel beim he he came to attend his duty in that house. Sir R. PEEL said, he supposed there were Seed times for bolding the Se•sions in Dublin, and the absence of the Recorder between these times was no injury to the prisoners. Mr. HUME thought the Akre of Rocorder of Dublin and member of that house were incompatible, and he thought the right bon. baronet the late Minister of Justice, should have inquired into it. Sir ft. PERI. said, the his. member strewed great ignorance of the law in supposing that ministers bad any thing to do with the of ice of Recorder of Dublin. Mr. HUME said he thought the right hoe baronet's observation was not very courteous. He still thought the questioo deserved to be considered by the hou.e. 3lr. ELLICE moved the third reading of the Consolidated Fund Bill. Sir OEOROR CLERK said, be took that opportunity of asking a question in which the mapufacturen of kelp were greatly interested.— He had heard that an order was sent to the custom-houses to admit baulk at a reduced duty. The duty was laid on that article not Gtr the purpose of revenue, but foe a protection to the manufacture of kelp. Mr. P. THOMPSON said, it was the intention of Government to bring in a bill to reduce the duty on barilla toll . 10s. and in the mean time orders had been leaned by the Treasury to admit it to entry at that duty, taking bond for the payment of the present duty in the event of Parliament not agreeing to the bill ; in this way the public were se cured against loss. The nianufacturers of kelp admitted that the pre. sent duty was not of any material service to thew : the eapediestey of the reduction be should justify when the proper time came. Mr. BERRIES said it was the intention of the late government is-. , propose a reduction of the duty on barilla, but the alteration would not have been made without the consent of parliament. --1 Hear, bear.) He knew the WM thing had been dune by Mr. Husklesou with respect to silk. but parliament was not then sitting. Mr. ROBINSON agreed in the retitle:ion of the duty, Dui tht.ught parliament should have been applied to before any reduction was per mitted by government. Mr. P. THOMPSON said the President of the Baud of Trade lat session stated In that house his intention of bringing in a bill for the re duction of the duty is that sesaion, is easeequenen of which the dealera were placed in a most difficult situation, and government thought it wan due to them to allow the impartation at the nduesel duty, taking bond for the payment of the higher, if pultament should not agree in the reduction, by which no loss could be .ustained.— (Hear, hear.) Sir N. W. RIDLEY said, if the measure was persevered in, the manufacture of British barilla must be annihilated. Mr. HAS/MLR said the aseaufacture of basil s b tbis country could mew amuse with the foreign. The eMet of the high duly MISS be to domes ell the manufactures la which Willa was used. Mr. COURTRNAY thought he might agree In the reduction of the duty= but really regretted that it had bees wade without the seam of Pediment. Mr. ATTWOOD thought it wee much to be lemma dm sae of the Est acts of as Admicisuatiem scarcely fastened is eMee should be to apneas the Roulette of Partialness. (Hear. been) He night agree is the reducties of duty, but certalay Petaluma( elistlel au be puma ewer ia the reducties of a duty. Hmr, teerl Ile. G. RANKER said, It was rassured this the Ratko respary 4 Inked had bees Mosul, he wished to ash whales thee wan she lla fir J. GRAHAM end the Ueda Secretary A belts wee as. a~wedi ea she Gammas had nude the nose* bemiala it was a Mldel%y politica . •