Star. — London, England, 1830-05-06 00:00:00

- 4 AMICABLE SOCIETY, for INSURANCE of LIVES. SERAKILIWS INN. F. r. LONDON, i n corporated by QU,gEN ANNE, 1706 s—sod its powers further eitended by his present Majesty's Cbarter, granted the lltk February, 1825. HE DIRECTORS have to offer to the attention of T the Pubic, TABLES of RATES for the INSURANCE of LIVES. at the various ages from 8 to 72 ; either for the whole Lif e ; any specific number of Years ; the contingency of one per son surviving another ; or for the joint continuance of the Lives of two or more persons, the Insurance payable on the death of either. Insurances in this Office are effected in certain cues at a reduc tioo of nearly is per cent. and, on the whole, on terms greatly fa. rourable to the insured ; and insurances may be effected from cool. to 5,0001. and every kind of Insurance, however short the period of continuance, is entitled to a participation in the pecu.l nisry advantage accruing to the Corporation. These advantages are wholly appropriated to the benefit of the insured, in proportion to the amount of each Insurance. In the last year, Insurances on 255 Shares became Claims, at iSti. 18s. per Share, being on 59 Shares admitted under a gua rantee of 1501. per Share, 671. 18e. per Cent; on 10 Shares admit. tcd under a guarantee of 160/. per Share, 571. 81. per Ceot; on 2 Shares admitted under a guarantee of 170/. per Share, 471.51.6 d. per Cent ; on 6 Shares admitted under a guarantee of too/. per Share, 591. 18e. per Cent ; and on 178 Shares admitted under the present guaranteed sum of 200/. per Share, 251.195. per Cent. in addition to the amount originally insured. Abstracts of the Charters and By-Laws, with Tables of the Premiums, may be bad at the Mice, where attendance is stork daily from Nine HU Three o'Cloa. By order of the Conic of Directors. J. PENSAM, Registrar. PUBLIC MEETING ON THR INDIA QUESTION. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, Bart. M.P. in the Chair. APUBLIC MEETING of the Inhabitants of LON DON AND WESTMINSTER will be held at the CROWN and ANCHOR, in the Strand. on SATURDAY next. the Eh instant, at Twelve for One, to take into consideration the several topics of public importance connected with the EAST INDIA MONOPOLY, and to propose certain Resolutions thereon. The Meeting is intended to embrace the interest of all Classes*/ the Metropolis, and will therefore be attended by representatives from each. The Chair wiU be taken exactly at One o'clock. MR. BUCKINGHAM'S ORIENTAL REVIEW embraces the whole of the India Question. Nos. I. and 11. of this new Work, w►ich are just published, will be found to include every topic connected with the EAST INDIA MONOPOLY, from the first formation of the Chartered Com pany, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, up to thelividence delivered by the Witnesses now under examination by the Parliamentary Committee of 1830. Published by Hurst and Chance, London, price Ga. and to be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country. PUBLIC NOTICE. IN consequence of the vory increasing demand for DAT and MARTIN'S BLACKING, the Proprietors have erected a Manufactory on so extended a scale, that they will be enabled to execute all orders for Foreign or Home Consumption at a day's notice,:and to secure the Public from imposition an Engra ving of the New Building will appear on the Label. Ist May, 1830. 97, High Holborn. HOUSE AND ESTATE AGENCY OFFICES, No. 57, CONDUIT-STREET, REG ENT-STE EE r, AND No 93, BISHOPSGATE-STREET WITHIN. - TIENRY L. COOPER, grateful to his Friends and the Public for the very distinguished patronar conferred on his House in Bialsopsgate-street for a period of nearly WU a century, feels himself called on by the increasing interests entrusted to him in his Agency Department, to meet the views of his Friends, by affording those facilities hitherto unattetnpted by any, and embracing at once the whole of the Western as well as the stern parts of the Metropolis, he has consequently established an Agency Office at No. 57, CONDUIT-STREET, REGENT-STREET, In connection with the original Cabinet and Upholstery Manufactory in BISHOPSG ATE-STREET, presenting to the Fashionable and Commercial World the imposing advantage of registering their Properties in Two situations, the most eligible in their respective localities, and commanding the attention of Capitalists. • Saks effected by Auction, Appraisements, Ste. A STOCK of Splendid LOOKING-GLASSES, of superb climen.lons, and in frames of corresponding magnificence, are con tinually no sale at both the Establishments. So. 57, Conduit-street, Regent-street, and No. 93, Bishopsgate-street Within. CIAZETTE-OFFICE, LANCASTER, JAN. 29, 1828. 'LA GINTLIMMI;It is with pleasure I can add my testimony to the elficcey of your Antiscorbutic Drops, in many inveterate cues which I have witnessed during a period of nearly twenty years; and shall at all times feel happy to refer any enquirers to several parties who have received benefit from them, when other methods Dave failed, that will gladly recommend your excellent medicine, Which has overcome the most obstinate cases by a persevering use {A it. Another proof of the estimation in which they are held in [Sit neighbourhood, is the increasing sale experienced by, Gentle rnt‘n, )'ours most truly, . W. NIINSHULL. To Messrs. J. Lignum and Son, Surgeons, Manchester. these Drops are sold in moulded square bottles at 2s. 9d. 4s. 6d. :n.lll>. each, by John Lignum and Son, Surgeons, Sec. 63, Bridge turet, Manchester; Butlers, Chemists, Cheapside, corner of St. P.tul's, London ; 73, Prince's -street, Edinburgh ; and 54, Sackville- Dublin ; Evans, 42, Long-lane, West Smithfield; Sutton and owChurch- yard ; Barclay and Sons 95,Fleet.market ; 6 7, St. Paul's Church-yard ;F. Sons, and Sons, 45, St. • 61 • Church-yard; F. Newbery and Sons, Agents to the Sun Fir- Office, 29, Dame -street, Dublin; Scott and Orr, 100, South Bridge,and 67, Prince's.street, Edinburgh; K. Nelson, Glasgow; and all respectable Medicine Venders. Of whom also may be had, Mr. Lignum 's Improved VEGE TABLE LOTION, for all Scorbwic Eruptions, price 21. 9d. duty L:luded. Lignum's SCURVY OINTMENT may now be had of th • above Agents, price is. 9d. each Pot, duty included. ASSIMILATION TAXES. From the Pilot. We have seen a letter from Mr. O'Connell to-day, 'toting his confident expectation, that if Ireland acts vi gorously, she will force the Chancellor of the Exchequer CO ;ice up his stupid plan of additional t axa ti on . M r . U Collura, in that letter, states his opinion under three first_ Rum, in competition with home made spirits. the English and Scotch distillers, being in the same uiteteq with the Irish, and possessing determination and •wtwity, will certainly force the Chancellor of the Ex ,hque. into an abandonment of his heretofore positive resolution to give hum a preference in the home market, they %Nil! thus force him, although he is himself a est India proprietor. Such is the effect of proper Secondly—tivA II PS. The Chancellor of the Exchequer must also give this napost up, if he be properly assailed. But all Ireland 1124 5 t Lc canvassed against him. Every county should call ou its members. Every city, town, and village should iihtnitly petition. ly—To BA cco. Air. O'Connell's advice is the same with respect to 1 44 article. Any apathy now will allow that article to c:ushed. for ever. It is only by getting every county t') petition that we can succeed. In short, if Ireland !Allies she will succeed; if she reposes, she is undone. uetj No. 13,467. THURSDAY EVENING, 11 AY 6, 1830. THE FOUR PER CENT. QUESTION. From the Circular to Bankers. It. is extremely difficult to exhibit, by any series of figures, all the involved and complicated considerations connected with the Public Funds. It is this difficulty which gave to Mr. Musket (an officer in the King's Mint,) a great advantage, in constructing his Tables, and making his calculations; because he had access to materials and evidence to which men not in office cannot have habitual re morse. Fortunately, however, the activity of Mr. flume, and the spirit of inquiry awakened amongst other members, have caused re. turns to be made to Parliament, which arc exceedingly useful and instructive. FrUtri'auek documents, we fresent to our Subeatees the following calculations, which will render manifest the partiality and injustice of the measure of reducing the dividend paid on the New Four per Cents. and, we think, will exhibit, altogether, a view of the operations respecting the Public Funds, which, we humbly believe, can never have been deliberately taken by his Majesty's Ministers : According to the resolutions relating to the National Debt and the operations of the Sinking Fund, which we adverted to in our " Circular" of the 19th of March last, as having been drawn up by Mr. Marshall, the statistician, and submitted to the consideration of Parliament by Mr. Hume, on the 25th of July, 1822, it appears, that, in the twenty-nine years, 1793-1821, £579,791,388 net money, were raised by loans and funding Navy and Exchequer Bills. And that, for this amount of money, the following amounts of .nominal capitals were created : viz .0708,750,353 of 3 per Cents. 49,982,119 of 4 " 120,567,471 of 5 " Total Capita1c...J:879,289,9435t an annual charge of M9,289,668 To this add, annuities for 25 years from 1797 230,000 And others terminable in 1880 654,095 Makings total annual charge of.. £30,174,363 Reducing the terminable into a perpetual annuity, at the average rate at which the perpetual sums were created, it gives an annual charge in perpetuity, of 30,040,4451 or an average rate of interest of 51.35. 74d. per annum, on the whole 579,791,3881. net money I raised. Of the 120,557,4711. of 5 per Ct. capital created, 20,124,8441. were created in 1797, at the exorbitant rate of 51. 17s. 4d. per cent. This was denominated the Loyalty Loan. But that stock was wholly paid off, prior to the termination of the war; except that, in 1806, 1,525,46131 of money were received from the holders, for converting a portion of it into 3 per Cents. and for which amount of money 5,143,1261. of 3 pet Cent. Stock were created. Of the re. mainder of the 5 per Cent. Stock, 89,613,0001 were created, exclu aively, in that stock, at an average rate of 51. 9s. 3d. per cent ; the bills funded, and money received, for that amount of capital, having been 82,001,0711. and the balance was funded, jointly with 3 and 4 per Cents. at rates collectively below 5 per cent. Against this, there appears to have been upwards of 224,000,0001. of money funded, exclusively, in 3 per Cents. at an average rate of about SL 7e. Od. per cent. per annum ; but, to take an extreme case,—for 117,832,0451. net money received, 3 per Cent. Annuities were ere. sta, to the amount of 6,668,7061. and Long Annuities, terminable in 1860, of 166,5401. making the annual rate of interest, en this portion of the sum, not less than 51. 15a. 84d. per cent. Exorbi tant as this appears, is favour of the 3 per Cent. Stockholder it by no means exhibits the extent of his advan tag e : for we notice, by the 26th resolution in the paper before refer to, that, during the 29 years in which the 679,791,388 were raised, 270,638,7961. were re expended in the purchase of 3 per Cent. Stock; and that the pro portion of 3 per Cent. Stock, which 270,838,7961. of money created, was 466,0410,2621 whilst the amount re-purchased was only 416,903,0001. the difference being equal to a bonus of no less than 38,146,2621. of 3 per Cent. Stock, or an annuity, in perpetuity, of 1,444,3871. Nor Is this all : for we find that, in 1818, 27,272,0001. of 3 per Cents. were converted into 34 per Cents. on terms equal to a further bonus of 700,0001. of 3 per Cents. or 21,0001. per annum; and that, In the seven years, 1822.8, the following amounts have been paid for 3 and 3i per Cent. Stocks, viz -3 per Cent. 31 per Cent. In 1822 P 3,953,076 for £4,041,907 £802,121 1823 :1,252,619 3,432,6511 540,393 1824 3,598,473 3,627,225 180,226 1825 2,450,770 2,368,510 328,295 1826 1,712,397 1,700,653 417,253 1827 4.727,346 5,163,696 392,085 1828 4,017,566 4,016,164 610,899 £ 2 3,712,279 money for £24,350,813 £3,271,275 Total 3 per Cents. £24,350,813 Total Capitals purchased £27,822.088 The equivalent of money received for the above 27,622,0881. of nominal capital, was 16,116,5831. ; being a difference of no less than 7,595,6981. paid for the re-purchase, over and above the sum received ; and, consequently, a further bonus to that amount, to the holders of 3 per Cent. Stock, since the first reduction flan the holden of 5 per Cents took place. It should also be remembered, that, as far as this 7,593,6961. is concerned, a great portion of the 16,116,5831. of money received by the Government for the creation of the Stock, was so depreciated that it could be exchanged for gold only by giving 51. 1 Is. Od. per oz. for it ; whilst the whole of the 23,712,2791. has been paid by the Government, in money which would purchase gold at 31. 17s. 100. per oz. Regarded by the test of the power to purchase gold, the operation, if measured by that metal, would shew that 600,000 ounces of gold were paid by the Government, for less than 300,000 ounces received by the Govern ment. The extraordinary—indeed, the appalling cue of bad e ment, which this calculation appears to exhibit for the contempla tion of his Majesty's ministers, might be left with this simple state ment of figures ; but it would not be complete, unless we chewed, that, if the Bank of England be not a State Bank, as we are in the habit of considering it to be, that Corporation, nevertheless, parti cipates in some of the advantages which the friends of the Govern ment look for, from a confidential intercourse, in business, with the Chancellors of the Exchequer. Since the first reduction of the 6 per Cents. took place, the Government have borrowed 13,0191,4191. from the Bank of England, on terms more than equivalent to bor rowing money at an interest of 5 per cent. per annum. The trans actions are so exceedingly complicated, that it is difficult to state the terms intelligibly, to persons not familiar with such involved concerns ; but this is the issue, and this is the extravagant rate of interest at which the Government have borrowed that sum from the Bank of England. Although a large portion of the b per Cents. was created an rats of 51. 9a. 3d. per Cent, it is probable, that, at the time the fiat re duction took place, the then holders were not receiving so much, on an average, as 3 per Cent. per annum, for the money actually in vested ; bemuse the Stock was purchased, in the first instance, by the Loan Contractors and Jobbers, who retailed it out to persons of small property with narrow incomes. Such persons compose the great body of the holders of the present Four per Cent. Stock : and it does appear to us, that no just and equitable Minister could select these, and these alone, for the operation of his pruning-knife. At the least, such a proceeding should not have been undertaken with out the most mature consideration, and the most grave and anxious investigation into the merits of the cue. The Government take advantage of a low rate of interest of money, to reduce the dividend of the 4 per Cents. If the market rate of interest should, at no distant day, rise to five per cent. the Government must give the holders of the present 4 per Cents. a dl. vidend corresponding with that rise ; or what becomes of that im mutable principle of justice, which Honourable Members are so loud in professing to take for their guide ? These unfortunate holders of stock have not the power to increase their dividends, bow. ever high the rate of interest may rise. And,aeeosdhg to our view of the case, this consideration renders the measure such as WA Mi. nister, if be maturely reflected on his COMO of policy, esoli re. commend, unless he were forced to It by semi sash uellimt mei overwhelming necessity. as would compel him is take a pardons sit the dividends of all fundholders, upon a just and equal Kale are duction. ri. .4t f eh „)„....._ A ,, :sTIT uT joA. Tz olv. I 1 op NO Tsars sow 7414%. THE ESTIMATES. The spirited debate which took place on Monday night in the House of Commons, on the estimates being brought forward, redounds greatly to the credit of the members who had patriotism enough to speak out, and firmness enough to proclaim their resolution manfully to resist encroachments on the public purse. Such men as Mr. GoRDON and Lord A urn oltr deserve well of their comfit:rents and the country at large. But what must the nation think of its representatives, when not even 40 members were to be found in the house at the Giese .of it, proyeediege, when hundreds of thousands were voted ttOmyT ftt unconnected with this subject are the following letters from JAMES I. to the Lords, touching the abatement of His MAJESTY'S household charge. They were read at the Board of Green Cloth on the 12th of November, 1617 : " My Lords,—No worldly thing is so precious as time. Ye know what task I gave you to work upon during my absence, and what time was limited to you for the performance thereof. This same Chancellor of Scotland was wont to tell me twenty.four years ago, that my house could not be kept upon epigrams : long ills. courses and fair tales will never repair m estate. Omuis eirture in octione cossistit. Remember that I to ld you the shoe must be made for the foot ; and let that be the square of all your proceedings in the business. Abate superfluities in all things, and multitudes of unnecessary officers, wherever they may be placed : but for the household, wardrobe, and pensions, cut and carve as many as may agree with the possibility of my means. Exceed not your own rule of fifty thousand pounds for the household : if you can make it less, I will account it for good service: and that you may ace I will not spare mine own person, I have sent with this bearer a note of the superfluous charges concerning my mouth. having had the happy opportunities of this messenger in an errand so nearly con. cerning his place. In this I expect no answer in word or writing, but only tbe real performance, for a beginning to relieve me out of my miseries. For now the ball is at your feet, and the world shall bear me witness that I hays put you fairly to it ; and so, praying Goy to bless your labours, I bid you heartily farewell " Your own, JAMES R." . . "My Lords,—l received from you yeaternight the bluntest letter that 1 think ever King received from his Council. Ye write that the Green Cloth will do nothing, and ye offer me no advice. Why are ye councillors, if ye offer no council? An ordinary messenger might have brought me such an answer. It is my pleasure that my charges be equal with my revenue; and it is just and necessary so to be ; for this is a project must be made, and one of the main branches thereof is my house. This project is but to be offered unto you ; and how it may be better laid than to agree with my honour and eon. tentment, ye are to advise upon, and then have my consent. If this cannot be performed without diminishing the number of tables, diminished they must be; and if that cannot serve, two or three must be thrust In one. If the Green Cloth will not make a project for this, some other must do It. If ye cannot find them out, I must only remember two things: the time must no more be lost, and that there are twenty ways of abatement, besides the house, if they be well looked into. And so farewelL JA 31 ES FRENCH PAPERS. From the Messager des Chambres. TOULON, APRIL 37. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Lieut Colonel 011ivier, of the marine artillery, has been chosen by the Minister to take part in the expedition to Algiers, and is appointed Commander- in. Chief of the companies of artillery that are to be landed. On receiving the dispatch of the Minister, M. I lllvier addressed some observations to be excusedfrons this voyage, founding them on the bad state of his health, which was greatly M. paired by the campaign in Hussia. The Minister of Marine, justly disregarding the motives alleged by M. 011ivier, has judged them them to be inadmissible ; that an officer who refuses to present him. self before the enemy ought to be erased from the lie: of officers on active service, and has placed the Lieut. Colonel on the retired list. His Highness the Dauphin, High Admiral of France, being to arrive at Toulon on the 4th klay, Admiral Duperre has ordered that a deputation, with the Major-General of the 'Woe at its head, should go to Marseilles on the 9d, to receive his Royal Highness, and accompany him to Toulon. The 100 gendarmes who were announced (30 of whom are mounted) arrived yesterday and to-day. Bills have been posted up, announcing that a register is opened at the office of the Commissariat of the Army, for the workmen, butchers, smiths, coopers, &c. who wish to be engaged in the Army to Africa. A great number of signatures are dready affixed to this bi t r Vigogne and Robuste gabarres, (tato Brest, arrived this morning, The Rhinoceros, Lieut. Leger, from the Levant, has alas o ft anchor ill our ro ad. A steam-boat has this morning towed the Provence, of the line, into the great road. A guard of honour, composed of a company of grenadiers of the 3d Regiment of the line, with colours and music, is ready to receive General Bounnont, who is expected to-day. The Hussar brig, Captain Thoulon, has just cast anchor. The despatches brought by it are already at the Hotel of the Maritime Prefect, and are going to be sent, by express, to Paris. The Malouinse schooner brig, Capt. Jacobson, has just arrived from Corfu, with passengers. PARIS, MAY 2. On the 19th of April a Tunisian man-of.war cast anchor in the Road of Genoa. The Commander, lids-Mohammed, states, that every body was in arms in the whole State of Algiers, where, how. ever, great apprehension was felt respecting the issue of the approach. ing contest. TOULON, Aran. 27. From the Avisu. M. de Bourmont arrived this evening. He was received outside i the gates by the civil and military authorities. The Mayor, in the name of the Municipality, addressed some words to M. de Boor wont, after which several members of the deputation cried " Vive le Roi ! ' On entering the city the Minister was saluted by the troops stationed at the places where his Excellency was to pass. The in habitants of Toulon constantly observed profound silence as 31. de Bourmont passed. He alighted at the Town-hall, where apartments were prepared for him A great number of officers are daily arriving in this city. The influx of strangers is such that it is excessively difficult to procure lodgings. Exorbitant sums have been offered for the hire of rooms looking to the port for a fortnight. All the country-houses on the coast are eagerly sought after. The whale number of cannon fbr the expedition is about 128, of which 89 are heavy battering cannon. It Is supposed they cannot be all embarked before the 15th of May. A of persons fee tbe service of the telegraphs is forming for the ties, and instructions are given to some of the military on tho of vssomoing tbe signals. Loners bon Massillis say that fout aesonauts have anived there to Itto rin niedideo it being expected that they will be very useful in all die movements of the enemy. Flues Me Gazette de France. PARIS, Mar 3. All the amount, that arrive from Toulon confirm what we have said of the ardour of the troops, both of the army and navy ; and there is such an eagerness in the army to join the expedition, that captains have offiTitl to serve as private soldiers. It is thought that the young men of the navy cannot be prevented from joining the army in the operations of t he siege. The King of Naples arrived at Bayonne on the nth. He was not expected till the 29th. The Duke de Blum had been for some day. in that city, where the Prince de Casaro preceded their Sicilian majesties. - (From the Journal du Cousiweros.) ALICANT, APRIL 14. The packet has arrived with letters from Algiers. The consuls had I mbed into the country, and seat their families to Mahe". The Dey strongly urges the completion of the works of defence. The batte ries are augmented, and new ones are erected on all aides. The gar.. aims is computed at from 10,000 to 12,000 men, who are 0111811111 Vt• ins every day. The Day preddes, and distributes the prises to the ininhatent, who exercise le the arena. The French expedition is expiated lawn& the &del It is the opiuiao that the Dey will Mod it digit:tilt to resist, yon t laid side; bet a stout resistance is expected if the Bedaub Arabs from the in. hiLig_y_ e \ k . . - ...- t • ~::,...c?. : - .;:-,-_. ...,t, 4 , ti. 4 .. r , :i .-‘) . •;.:,..... . f --: . ) v ie f i 4, ."- , a : ' , ..55 r l '',„,.• . f . . tenor approach to heiress the landing of them s. TherisAlitatlek-y contains the musses le undermined. Letters from Tangiers, of the Bth of April, mention that the ton of an European diplomatist has arrived at that place from Gibraltar. This traveller intends to proceed to Per. the resedeuce al* the Aft). 11111 b Emperor. Re pretends to have tio other object is ei oi• but to visit these countries ; but It is suspected that his journey is fo a political purpose. The widow Wytteubach, whose maiden name was Gallic, a lady Of celebrity an account of her philosophical wracks, as well ae i f hoe teal in fa‘our of the independence of .Greeee. died on the litt. of April, at her country house, near Leyden. In Ulf the 1:. i• 'lenity of Blarburg transmitted to her a diploma of Doctoral Phi lesophy. Letters from adrid. of the rid of last moods, State that the Goodie of that day publlahes, in Its official part, II bulletin respec , - Mg the King's health, whose hand continues to be-considerably swelled from the effects of his late attack of the gout, but that th : pain has abated a great deal. All the roads are Infested by robbers. This very day (the 2.2 d,) the French mall, which was due at daylight in the morn mg. a id taut arrive till one o'clock in the afternoon, having been attacked tau the heights of St. Antonio de is Cabrera b,y a band of robbers, who, after detaining It several hours , carried off all the money without . touching any of the papers Notwithstanding the conditions of the treaty of M. /Ceti for the contract of the °anis duty, the officers employed in its collection were, at a fired hour yesterday, disarmed at all the banters of the capital; and, It Is said. that similar orders were given fur the same operation in all parts of the king dom. It is asserted that this operation was determined upon because M. Rica's new officers had rot submitted to a puri fication. It was, therefore, deetned dangerous to allow suspected persons to remain under arms. :11. Itiera addresrod an energetic re presentation on the subject to the King, stating the impossibility of continuing the contract which was rescinded by these measures of Government. " Whet guarantee." says he, " should I have, after beingdoprived °fag influence is thee* corps that oan oppose smug gling.. .1f your Majesty's Government, with a numerous body of men, could scarce collect • much smaller suns than what I pay Into the Treasury, bow could I, as a private individual, do so without that imposing influence which ever surrounds the supreme power and authority ?" The public watches the result of this affair with impatience.° The Spanish Government has established a school of tauro.mach (bull-fighting) at Seville. The Conde de la Estradelle, a Member of the Supreme Council of ll'ar, and one of the greatest amateurs uf bullfights, has proposed the plan of this useful institution, and has been appointed Director of the 1.4111 e. The first professor of this new-rangiest and fashionable Lyceum is the celebrated bull-fighter and matador-killer, Candide, the disciple and pupil of the famous Pepe Yllo, who perished between the horns of a bull.— Journal du Commerce. • Considering the large sum, upwards of 100 millions of rentes, thus likely to be diverted from the public treasury, this cccurrence must have the most fatal influence on the credit and regeneration of the finances of Spain. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—WEDNEsvAy. Witnesses were examined at the bar in support of Shakerley's Divorce Bill (the particulars of which will be found in another part of our Paper.) The Earl of SIAL3IESBURY moved for a series of returns of the duties paid on malt and beer, specifying the amount of each year, front the earliest period to the present time; also for the amount of land-tax levied in 1828 in England and IVales, and the amount redeemed.—Agreed to. A petition was presented by a PEER whose tide we could not ascertain, from Roxburgh, praying an additional duty of a shilling a gallon on rum. The Marquis ANGLESEY presented two petitions lion' An glesey against any alteration In Welch Judicature ; also three pe titions from parishes in Dublin, praying the abolition of the duties on coals imported into Ireland. Earl STANHOPE moved that In account of the expenditure incurred by the preventive service, which, on the 25th of 31axe1i, had been acceded to by the house, be funisheti 'forthwith. After some observations from Viscount MELVILLE (who said no objection whatever existed to producing the return,) suggesting that the motion should undergo an amendment in the woraing of it, as it was found difficult, not to say impowdbk, to comply with the terms— Earl STANHOPE said that, before submitting the motion to the house, he showed the noble duke at the head of his majesty's go vernment the contents, who observed that there wu no objection to the return. If, however, any ambiguity exiskd, the noble rail .aid he should willingl amend the return. Viscount MEL VILLE reiterated what he bad previously .aid, that there was no objection whatever to produce a return. After some observations frees the Earl of MALBIESBURY, alto bore his testimony to the efficiency of the preventive service in stop ping the traffic of smuggling in that part of the country with which he was more particularly acquainted, Earl STANHOPE again shortly addressed their lordships, con tending that the expenses of the preventive service had arisen out of the adoption of what was called free trade. The conversation then dropped. Bari BROWNLOW presented a petition from Louth, in Litt. colnshire, in favour of the Leeds and Selby Rail R oa d. On the third reading of the Leather Tax Reduction Bill being pre I; l : ed iarl of MALMESBURY hoped the consumer would de rive that advantage from the removal of the duty which was imagined ; but he was apprehensive that such an expecta tion would not be realised; for he understood that shoe makers and harness-maker* contended that the abolition of the duty would make very little or no difference in the price of the ankle of leather. It ought to act as a caution to the Legis lature how they imposed a tax, for , when it was afterwards taken off, the public did not dative that relief which they ought in justice to receive. It was not unlike the loss of an arm ; for, although the hand was gone, a tini:ling pain was felt in the naval connected with the fingers. The Bill was then read a third time, as well u others on the table. The Eol of SHAFTESBURY baying moved the second reading of Sir Tl*ias Wilson's Estate Bill, Lord MANSFIELD ruse, and moved as an amendment, " That the bill be read a second that day six months." After speaking at considerable length on the principle of the bill, and detailing a va riety of facts connected with the subject, the noble lord said that object of the bill was to grant building leases of 91) years on the Hampstead estate, which would prove highly injurious to many of the copyholders residing in that pariah. The bill was a similar one to what had passed the House of Lords the preceding session, but which had been thrown out in the Commons._. If the present bill should pus, the effect would be that Hemp stead heath would be covered with buildi ng s, and prove highly in. jurious to property in that neighbourhood. He trusted that their , lordships would concur with him, and reject the bill. It w as very , desirable he conceived , that the heath at Hampstead should rema i n free from buildings. It had been observed by the late Mr. Wind ham, that the Parks should not be built upon, for they constituted the lungs of the metropolis. Since his time however, scone tuber des had arisen. In legislating, their l or dships, he was persuaded, would be anxious to do justice; and he felt enured that they would agree with him in rejecting the present measure. Lord ARDEN supported the bill, observing that, within the last 20 years, not less than 100 similar applications to the Legislature I had been made and complied with. The petitivner had already the power of granting building leases for 21 years, and he only sought to exteral the period. Lord TENTERDEN collected the intention of the testator, from the words of the will, to be that the present possessor of the estate should not have the power now sought, of extending the period fur granting building leases ; and on this ground the noble and learned I lad said he should oppose the second reading of the bill. The house then divided; when there appeared, for the second reading Contents.. Non-contents 3lajority —lG The bill is, consequently, lost. On entering the house, we found Lord NAPIER on his legs, moving the second rtad t i e i t n c of the Parochial Registration (Scotland) Bill. Tb. no bl e ear l a of the inconvenience which had been long felt in Scotland for want of such a measure as that whisk he had now the honour of recorn. mending to their lordships, sad looped it would meet with their approbation. egViscount MELVILLE concurred its what the noble lord had stated, of the necessity of having same *muse to obviate the in. convenience which had been long felt respecting the want of pa. rochial registration in Scotland. Thh was not the propel singe tu discuss the propriety of some Amadei' which the bill would re quire ; awl , therefore, he would not trouble the beam with any re. mark =Abet head. The Earl of ROSEBERY malaise hie seedial stestratt to die principle of the bill; and added int, lellies it was berme * CO.en mitten. what was paw deft:air** I n The bin was throned rt • ihst, lte..._ to be committed on Aloaday.--Adjouraed at . Oka • HOUSE OF CO *IDRUD AT. The BPRAILER. toot the IluOieeleek, lisiggft being Daly 3 members preeent, the dilimosied SU le.eworrow (lbh , dsl). _ _ PiticE 71). r r i i 4 . I i U' 1 Al i I • It 1