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more arrests have been made this day ; but all, I believe, among workmen. The Government say that there are con. spirators in this city of rank. Why, then, not seize them ? Th e fact is, from what I see passing lodes my own eyes, the mob here place their chief strength upon the feebleness of the ministers. There is no man of vigour and firmness in the council, and honour and virtue are not the qualities which command and control the turbulent in times o f impending danger. lam just Informed that crowds have gone forth t o Vincennes. Those who want to cross the drawbridge of that fortress will, however, have no easy task. The Government say that 600 brig. ands are the right-arm of this civil commotion. 800 of the street mob see already in custody. I still see nothing alarming, if the throne is surrounded by a Government of decision and promptitude, and there alone appears to me the danger. For instance, last night the regiments of the line bivouacking in the court of the Palais Royal, and squatted like Canadian Indians around their watch-fires, were chanting the Parisian and Marselloise hymns, just under the windows of the King, while holding a council. If Mar shal Soult were in the Palace, one would ask hint, is this military dis cipline ? The people were of course outside the rails joining in full chorus with these military songsters. All the shops are now shut in the Unit' Royal. People are every where congregating, and so are the National Guards. At night fall again people apprehend a serious eordir.uance of this disorder. The King has shown himself at the balcony, and in the court of the Palais Royal. lie was well received, but the mob still continue vociferous. Various deputations of students and young sol thers have been with the King this day, to testify their allegiance. Y. The following is an extract of a letter from a distinguished member of the Chamber of Deputies : " PARIS, Dec. 20. '• We are at this moment in a state of flagrant revolution. Under pretext of the trial of the ex-Ministers, republicans and others threaten the Chamber of Peers, the Chamber of Deputies, the King perhaps, and oar institutions. All our National Guard is under arms, as well a+ the military garrison : and this night, perhaps, there will be a battle under my windows. The:populace is excited by agitators, who repre sent the former ministers u the murderers of their brothers and their children, and the Peers of France u the accomplices of the accused slum they are to judge. The enlightened part of the population ap par, determined to repulse every attempt at a revolution." 111 FLANDERS PAPERS. " BERLIN, Dec. 14. " The Gazette of Posen contains a circular from the Archbishop elect of Gnesen and Posen to the clergy and Catholic inhabitants of that diocese, calling upon them, with reference to the lamentable events in the kingdom of Poland. faithfully to fulfil their duty as subjects, and particularly enjoining the clergy to make the necessasy exhortation to their parishioners on this subject, and to inculcate peaceable behaviour and obedience to the magistrates. It is, indeed, not to be ap prehended,' says this circular, that the inhabitants of the Grand Duchy of Posen, considering the melancholy f ate o f the Polish nation, would be threatened with similar misfortunes; but as the love of innovation and the unhappy endeavours to overturn the (listing order of things have lately so much increased, and as similar at rinv have visited other countries of Europe, whose peaceable inhab. itant , have lost in a moment, their liberties, their property, and many of them even their lives, we cannot omit to warn you, beloved brethren, according to our duty, not to give ear to the insinuations of evil.disposed peons. " BERLIN, Dec. 14. —St. Schuld. Sch. 4 per Cent. 83 2-ad s; Prus sian English Loan, 1818, 5 per Cent. 97; Prussian English Loan, 1822, 5 pee Cent. 94 I ; Prussian English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent. N.—Prussian State Gazette, December 15. The Prussian State Gazette of the 15th and I6th December does rot contain a syllable of news from Poland or St. Petersburgh. BRUSSELS, Dec. 20.—" A French Cabinet Courier arrived here yesterday from Paris ; and, after having delivered his despatches to the French Chargé d'Affaires, continued his journey to carry despatches to London. A British Cabinet messenger wu despatched for London this morning. "Accounts from the Hague of the Bth instant, published by the Prussian Slate Gazette, say, that her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange and her children would soon embark for London. Letters re. ceived yesterday from the Hague announced that her Royal Highness has in fact departed. DYCEMIEII 21. " The Journal dee Flandret complains that for the last two days, in the public.houses and places of general resort, agitators loudly condemn the principles of our political regeneration. Some who appeared to have taken up arms to defend the sacred cause of liberty, have not been ashamed to throw into the fire the glorious colours of our revolution. " ."acts which we here state are open and known to every body ; it is in the centre of the city of Ghent, in a public-house, that some persons endeavoured yesterday evening to disturb the public tranquillity by seditious language and acts of violence, but happily the brave Ge neral Duvivier was informed in time, and immediately repaired to the spot, accompanied by some officers and some companies of the muni cipal guard. Oa their arrival, cries of The Belgians for ever,' and Down with the Orangists,' were heard and the enemies of public tranquillity fied. The journal of Antwerp says—' According to a letter from Flush ing of the 17th, permission has at length been given by General Go.. btu, for the foreign vessels bound to Antwerp and Ghent to go to Ostend,' and several of them have taken advantage of this permission.' " The Journal els la Belyigne states, that by an error of the press it announced that the whole of the project of law relative to the Senate had been rejected, whereas it should have been adopted by a majority of 112 to GO. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNAL& Turps.—The public sympathy seems, in moat instances, to be readily excited in favour of working manufacturers who strike on the ground or pretext of insufficient wages. We have received a printed list of wages earned for some time past by the cotton-printers in one great establishment at Manchester, on perusing which it appears to us that niost people sill ask—" What is it that these men really want ?" Surely, if it be an advance of wages, they must have taken a somewhat sanguine view of the profits now derivable from the trade in MUM. fsetured cottons. It is stated in this document that the s. d. Machine-printers earn, on an average, per week . Apprentices in the same line Muck-printers (journeymen) . . • • • • 27 Ditto, ditto (apprentic es ) lb 8;1 Ditto, ditto (apprentices, unindentured' • • • • 12 7/ o (ht , • - - Ditto, ditto ( boys in first half-y ear o f .) their apprenticeship) 9 lot The above statement is given on oath before a Justice of Peace at Msne!tester, by Thomas Smith, bookkeeper to Messrs. Buttet wotth and I:tuoks, of that town. Yet the body of "operatives" earning such duly wages as those above-mentioned, have had the effrontery to turn out tur more ! lit this we plainly see a spirit of tyranny which must be overiwed. This is not the appeal of starving want, but of inso lent profligacy. The Jut accounts from Blanchester lead us to be lieve that every precaution has been taken to secure the maintenance of public order. Canowicur.—We rejoice to be able to record an example of &sin- I tcrestedness and patriotism, well worthy, not merely of rake, but of enteral imitation. Her Grace the Duchess of Newcastle has written a letter to Lord Grey, stating that, under the pressure now so severely Mt in every part of the country, she conceives It her duty to resign the Pen. mon of 6001. a year. enjoyed by her for a long period, from the funds of the country. This is an act which carries with it its own commendation, and needs no comment beyond its own record. We trust that the l'emion List will soon be submitted to the investigation and revision of a Committee of the House of Commons ; for which there is a valuable PA cedent in the case of the Duke of Marlborough, whose Pension was reduced by the interference of Parliament, from 50001. to 38001 and the existing List contains many that would admit of similar reduction. Posr.--Nothing can be mere amusing and characteristic than the mode in which the few salons partisans of reform, who happen to be Acotchmen, attempt to reconcile the apathetic silence of their country men upon that subject during all former Administrations, with the manifestations of earnestness and devotion in the cause, which. sin" e accession to power of Karl Grey and his colleagues, the Pro `ono, Baillies, Town Councils, and inhabitants of Scotch Burghs, h ave b een putting forth with such commendable and ei.interested emulation. Their former silence was not, wears told, the giience of indifference, but of despair; their present, we must not say Clamour, but ardent and numerous petitions, are the genuine expres %:ons of joyfulness and hope. An ill-natured COO l l l llllll4l6lff My tha t this explanation is very nearly equivalent to the eeeteades the ...ntiments of our northern fellow-subjects (or if net the seodeaete, at 'ant the outward and visible signs, from which the neetboate et ma It, generally to be collected) on the subject of reform, dyad his ups 'he intrinsic merits of the_ question than upon the eiremllMMlN of Ms that political party being in power. We are oavillei ea to •instrue the apologists of the Scottish petition's. toe team, awl mould be reluctant, even upon such high authority, to believe 9 , at the majority of then petitioners, in claiming polidella il teerso ..:(c a actuated by the spirit of political senility. . But the boa way suspicious look with it notwithstanding. Perhaps the fuse sepia aittion 1,, that our shrewd and calculating brethren of the broth—the A:imperatively small portion of than we mean who snow be the she. racier of petitioners—have a slight hankering after reform, are willing enough to accept it if it will come easily, but by no means think it of such value that they ought fur its sake to forego the advantages of being on the strongatt aide in a political struggle. We are persuaded that Scotland Is the only part of the empire to which the ministry can look with any hope of support to the half and half measure of nit:um which it professes to bare in view. No party either in England or irtlutid will support it. That is quite certain. lisaoLD.—The unusual and mournful spectacle of the hallowed and festive season of Christmas being devoted to the tragic solemnities of Special Commissions, where the ministers of the stern laws are engaged in those duties which are likely to end in the sacrifice of human lives, must fill every Christian heart with feelings of pain and sorrow. It is, indeed, a melancholy necessity which sends our Judges forth to wield the naked sword of Justice against crowds of their *Wend ing fellow-creatures, at a time so peculiarly consecrated to the feelings of charity and peace as that winch reminds us of the coming upon earth of the GOD of life to bear glad tidings to those who sat In darkness and the shadow of death," and to found that religion whose essence is a Divine compassion for the infirmities of human nature, and whose holiest emanation is mercy ! Such a bitter necessity we lament, and we do not lament it the leas because we are convinced it would not have arisen if the advice given to the late minis ters of the crown, last session, to inquire into the distresses of the labour. ing classes, and to afford them some prospect of relief in their misery, had been attended to. Their first duty, however, was to put down actual disturbances, and vindicate the insulted authority of the Laws ; this, we hope, will be done with no more severity than, in the slot of reflecting and dispassionate Statesmen, the occasion requires. In punishing violence—in repressing crime—we trust, they will never forge• exciting cause to popular commotion, in the misery of the great mass of the labourin g classes of this country, and the withdrawal of all hope of peaceable and Constitutional redress, last Session, by closing the doors of Parliament against their complaints and supplica tions. The country must be tranquilised before its condition can he improved, but that can be more effectually done by a humane and ju. dicious firmness than by an uvenging severity. TI is painful to speak against men while on trial for their lives—and it is for that lives only that they are tried ; for previously to their impeachment they had by their conduct thrown away every pre tension to honour, humanity, and even common unto. But it is painful to speak against men, whatever may be their demerits, whilst their life or death hangs on the b a l ance . Now, however, when it Is beyond a doubt that their fate will be decided before this journal reaches Paris, we have no hesitation is saying, that the general opinion in Eng land is, that an example ought to be made of them, or some of .I,an ; or else • Minister of &ate cannot possibly commit any crime in that capacity, which should subject him to the severest award of the law. Nothing, certainly, in a civilised country, ever ex ceeded the criminality of these men. They violated the law, overthrew the constitution by despotic ordinances, deluged the capital with blood in support of their criminal measures, and, in the midst of carnage, were projecting civil proceedinge,which should ultimately deprive of life those who only opposed their abominable acts by civil means, by per sonal remonstrance and legal cupedients. This is the plain state of the case with respect to Polignac particularly, and his colleagues In their several degrees. Still, we confess, we fear and deprecate mobs, whose rage is undiscriminating. If the Peers have not had the integrity to pass a just sentence,—or rather, if from the fearful re collection of past events, they have been averse to shed blood for politi cal offences, of however atrocious a character, we had rather that the wretched men were allowed to escape, as they can do no more harm, than that they should be surrendered to the popular fury. But we confess we cannot now forger, simply because they are at lut in that situation in which their crimes have placed them, the indignation which we and all civilized Europe felt when they were in the ruthless com mission of those crimes. We cannot forget how we invoked the laws of GoD and man upon their heads when they abrogated the elec tions without suffering the members to mect,—when they rescinded the charter of Gallic liberties,—when they shut up the press,—when they directed a fresh Chamber of Deputies to be chosen, not according to law, but according to rules of their own prescribine,—and lastly, when they ordered the troops, or suffered them to be ordered by the most mi. serable miscreant of a King that ever disgraced humanity, to charge upon the people, who rose to resist these outrages, in masse. THE KING'S COURT. BRIGHTON, Dm NI Lord and Lady CLINTON, Viscount FALKLAND, were of the royal party at dinner yesterday. This day the Princess AUGUSTA and the LAN DORA V IN E rode out in a carriage with four ponies ; after their return, the KING and Princess AUGUSTA rode out together : the QUEEN, accompanied by Lord and Lady CLINTON, Lady A. FITZCLARENCE, Colonel F. FITZCLARENCE, Prince GEORGE Of CAMBRIDGE, &C. on horseback ; also the Duke of SUSSEX and Madlle. D'Errs rode and walked out. The KING sat again to Sir W. BLECHEY. Sir AN DREW BARNARD arrived this evening at the Pa vilion; where the following persons of dis 4 .n. ' left their names for their MAJESTIES:- _ . Mr. Cripps, Lieut.. Col. and Mnp ti: i• ts, :ae, and Mrs. Wyndham, Capt. an:: 4 - 4 3 • e .101. r. and Mn. Nor ton, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Hooke), -I. and lion. Mrs: St. John, 11 1 r. and Mrs. Ingram, Sir W. Oglander, Lord Holland, Major ter, Mr. Broadhead, Mr. and Mrs. Csllender, Capt. and Mn. B. Lash. wood, and Major-Gen. Sir Charles Pratt. This morning a detachment of the Royal Artillery, arrived here from Woolwich, bringing with them 21 chamber.guns, to be used as a salute battery. The head-quarters of the sth Dragoon Guards, with the band, have arrived at the horse barracks. A detachment of the Grenadier Guards have also arrived, and arc performing the Palace duty. COURT IRCUL.III. Prince George of Cumberland, attended by Sir George Quentin, enjoyed the diversion of hunting on Wednesday, in the neighbourhood of Kew, East Sheen, and Barnes common. . M. Goroetiza, the Mexican Minister, had a long con ference with Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Foreign office. Viscount Goderich entertained the Cabinet Ministers to dinner on Wednesday, at his residence in Privy-gardens. Viscount Granville, the newly-appointed Ambassador to Paris, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PLruouen. Dec. 2t.--Arrived the Adelaide, Brantymon, from Prince Edward's Island. Lrramooe, Dic. St —Arrived ;be PriscUb, Mitchell, from Quebec; and the Jobs. Crowder, from Halite:. Languor, Dec. 21.-:-Arrieedtieearalt, Ronda, from Qeebee and the Addles)°, from Quebec. _ The Dasher *inns packet, between Dosioshadee and Port Patrick, was lost the 19th inst. off the latter port. The Unity, Schur, from Swansea to Jersey. was carried into St. Ives on Tuesday a complete wreck and full of water. Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Otway, Knight, Commander of the Bath, has been nominated, by the King, his Groom of the Bed Chamber, upon which distinguished appointment the gallant Admiral kissed hands. The East India Company's ship, Thomas Coutta, was at Penang on the 28th June last. Lord and Lady Granville are expected to depart for Paris on Monday next. The Duke of Devonshire takes the lead this year as the pat- .1 of the Derby Ball, which takes place on the last night of t year. His Grace will open the dance. E . II COMMUN ICATIOW WITH 1/IDIII.-Mr. Waghorn of tue Bengal pilot service,wbo went overland to rndiswith, despatches from the Government and the Rut India Com pany, arrived in London on the 12th December. He de scribes the whole journey as plain, easy, and simple, and feels convinced that a steam communication, if undertaken by either of the above public authorities, can reach Bom bay, via Egypt and the Red Sea, in 45 days, and ex presses his willingness to go again whenever called upon to do so. The Indian public appear to take great interest in this matter, and have voted Mr. Waghorn their thanks for his exertions. The present Governor-General, lord Wm. Bentinck, and Sir John Malcolm, the Governor of Bombay, have afforded him their kind protection : in fact, if steam boats are established, the power of communicating with India in the short period before-mentioned is indisputable. Mr. Wagbern is preparing to lay before hie Majesty's Go vernment, and the East India Company, the particulars of his late journey as soon as possible. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF C6RDS, Duo. 13. norm. ASIZIFT. The house met at half-past three o'clock, and the royal assent was Ricers by commission to the Consolidation Fund Bill, the Regency Bill, the Administration of Justice Bill, the Patents Continuation Bill, the Colonial Acts Validity BiU, and several private bills. The Commis sioners were the Lo t d Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Durham, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. Lord GRANVILLE presented a petition from a congregation of fe male Dissenters against negro slavery. MANILLA DUTIES AND RUSSIAN INDEMNITY. Lord WYNFOIID seeing a noble Earl in his place, wished to take the opportunity of putting two questions before their Lordships retired for the holidays. The noble and learned lord said it was generally be. lieved that the duty payable on bsrilla had been taken of by a certain order of council, and he was desirous of asking whether the noble Farl had any objection to lay before the house any order in council issued upon the subject since July ? He had another question to submit. By a stipulation in the treaty of November, 1815, between Russia on one part, and the King of the Netherlands and Great Britain on the other, Great Britain agreed to pay the Emperor of Russia the sum of 50,000,000 of florins, Great Britain taking one moiety of that sum, arid Holland the other; but there mu a proviso, that in the event of the Netherlands separating from the United Provinces, that part of the debt which remained unpaid at the time of such separation, was not to be paid by Great Britain or Holland. The question be would ask was, whether the noble earl had any objection to laying on the table of that house, an account of the payments made by Great Britain in pursuance of that treaty with the date of the last payment ? Earl GRE7 had no hesitation in saying there wu not the least ob jection to the production of the documents for which the noble lord in. tended to move. It was unnecessary to make any remarks on that occa. sion respecting the Order in Council, u the proper time for explanation ould be when the document appe ared on the table. The noble lord had mentioned the treaty of 181 b, in the supposition no doubt, that this country was relieved from payment of part of the debt contracted with Russia. He could only say, on that subject, that it remained to be ascertained whether there had been such a separation of the Nether. lands front Holland as would constitute a bona fide' release of this country from the engagement. The accounts would be laid on the table, and when Parliament met again, more positive information might be communicated. Lord WYNFORD then moved for the documents to which ly: lud alluded, and the same were ordered. Li. biAT cs. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he was desirous of obtaining in. formation for their lordships previous to the discussion of his bill for the better care of Lunatics under the protection of the Court ot Chancery, and therefore moved, there be laid before the House an account of the fees received by Commissioners of Lunatics for the last five years.—Ordered. Mr. CaArt a, from the Treasury, presented at the Bar a copy of the Treasury minutes, relating to the registry of deeds in Ireland. Earl GREY then said, as there was uo other business, he should move the house do adjourn to Thursday the ati of February next. The motion was agreed to, and the house adjourned to the 3d of February. HOUSE OF COMMONS, TIICESDAY, DEC. 23. Mr. C. W. WYNNE took the oaths, and his seat. Mr. BLACKETT moved fir • new writ for Beeralaton, in the room of Lord Loraine ' now Earl of Beverley. Mr. ELLICE moved for a new writ for the Borough of Bletchingly, in the room of Mr. Tennyson, who had accepted the office of Clerk of the Ordnance. Mr. MAXWELL moved for a new wilt for Bandon-bridge, in the room of Lord Barnard, now Earl of Bandon. Sir R. INGLIS moved fur a return of excise licenses for the sale of beer granted under the act of last session.—Ordered. A message front the liou,.e of Lords brought up the Consolidated Fund Bill, agreed to by their Lordships. Sir J. NEWPORT moved for a copy of the patent under which the judge of the Admiralty Court in Ireland was appointed, and a copy of the regulations he had made in his court since his appointment.— Ordered. Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN presented a petition from the Ward of Aldgate, for the repeal of the assessed taxes, particularly of the house and window tax. These taxes were an very oppressive, that he thought they should have a preference in the repeal contemplated by Ministers. They were also rendered move oppressive by surcharges, which in eight years amounted in the city of London to 800,0001. Mr. WILES supported the prayer of the petition ; the burthen of the taxes and the oppression of the surcharges were complained of all over the country. The House was summoned to the' Home of Peers to hear the Royal assent given by commission to several bills. The SPEAKER, on his return, acquainted the Douse that the Royal assent had been given to several bills, which he enumerated. Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN moved for a return of the account of corn. meal, and flour imported each year since 1815, distinguishing the quantity imported from Ireland and Canada. Gen. PALMER presented a petition from Beth fu► the repeal of the house and window •. v. N. IlUlt • •• • .•.xl the petition. ii.r.yrd •• I •,,ROUGH presented a petition from Kirkeltly for ParliamenLary Reform. Sir R. FERGUSSON, In supporting this petition, observed that it was now tolerably evident that Scotland was alive to the necessity of Emancipation. He called Parliamentary Reform, Emancipation to ,tze , .!•,nd, because at present it had no Representation at all. Alt . NIN presented a return of officers on half-pay, and two petitio••; ti nt- ,, nieryshire, for the extinction of negro slavery. Mr. WILK:, • • a petition from Boston for the repeal of the pilgrim tax in Indu• lie abolition of idolatrous practices in that' , country. ;1lr• HUME said the East India Company gave perfect freedom to all Missionaries to instruct the Hindoos, and they had abolished Sot tees, and he did not see how they could interfere farther. Mr. WICKS presented a petition from the Dissenters of Stepney, and six other places, for the abolition of slavery ; and gave notice, that, after the rece s s, he would make a n:otion relative to the pilgrim tax and idolatrous ceremonies in India. Mr. KEITH DOUGLAS presented petiiicns from Kircudbright and Aswan fur a reform in Parliament. Air FERGUSSON supported the petition, and though a reform might greatly affect those who at present represented Scotland, he should do his duly uninfluenced by any private considerations. (Hess.) Air. KE:TH DOUGLAS praented a petition from the ioha.. bitants of Belgrave-squarc, complaining a additional postage on their letter.. He thought the Post-office should not make any additional charge. Lord ALTHORP said, the greatest economy should be observed in the Post-of fi ce, but certainly the duty should be performed in the manner most advantageous to the public. The subject was now under consideration, and he hoped, before they next met, it would be decided. Mr. TINNANT presented a petition (torn St. Alban's, for Pulls. mentary Reform. Sir A. CHICHESTER presented a petition from Belfast, for a re. peal of the duty on sea.bome coal. Mr. RUTHVEN asked whether a Master in Chancery (Mr. Eden, now Lord Henley), now that he was a Peer, would be continued a Mas. ter in Chancery ? Lord ALTHORP replied, that he was not aware of there being any thing illegal in the prevent occupant continuing the appointment : if it vim a question of privilege, the question was not for that House. Colonel SIBTHORP asked, whether the offices of Treasurer of the Ordnance and Clerk of the Seisenea were to be continued ? Lord ALTHORP replied, that the subject was under the considera- tion of Government. Alt. FERGUSON protested against asking Government questions respecting their intentions of abolishing ofilces before it was possible they could be prepared to answer.—(Hear.) Mr. RUTHVEN said he should, after the Holidays, bring forward the subject of the Muter in Chancery, now a Peer. Sir k. SUGDEN said there could be no possible objection to the Noble Lord's continuing to discharge the dut i es of his °Mee. Lord R. SOMERSLT presented a petition from Cheltenham for the repeal of the house and window tax. Lord ALTHORP said he rose to propose a motion for the adjourn. ment of the house. It was intended that the house should adjourn to the Bth of February ; but on consideration, it was thought better to ad oten to Thursday, the 3d of February, to which he thought there could be no objection ; and as they would be able to proceed to business at once, he had no doubt they should get through the business of the ses sion in good time ; and though some might think the house should be kept sitting in consequence of the state of the country, lie thought that was also a reason why hon. gentlemen should be allowed to return to their counties. The noble bid moved that the house, at its rising, do adjourn to Thursday, the 3d of February. General OASCOYNE said, in the present state of this country and of the Continent, he thought the adjournment should be shorter. He would have no objection to a short adjournment, suppose a fortnight or three weeks, with an understanding that if nothing occurred to require the attention of parliament in the interim the house should not meet. If they adjourned foe the longer period there was no means of their meeting should circumstances require it. Colonel SIBTHORP moeurred in the opinion of the Gallant Gene ' eel. They were called together because R was necessary, and it was equally necessary that they eirsuM centime sitting. They had many petitions to hear, and siseds• WWI 10 betide, which would occupy much of their time, sod be drought dreg Astrid continue at their post, though be had peat esolidenes in his Jile's Ministers. Mr. LONG WELLIGILIT mid Ms Majesty's Government seemed to be in 'be rem of the here and rimy Needs; en one aide there Well , premises el m Eds t ab , bat none Isms& based to take them up. If the hinds* was really la t hs ibenght, fer sirs , they shoal sive fee ea sheet time ilk silent emedienes, due, till is war, seen how they wield fulfil the isms they had made. He thought ministers were sodded to and *ma bins they should re ceive it. Lord 1.. GOWER could not place unlimited confiden ce i n hi s h ould not Majesty's miniesme, bet be (Hear. thought their mimed of adjournment s be oppeneL ) Mr. BRISCOS wished is learn at what time ministers meant to bring forward the implen of parliamentary reform, in which the hopes and besets of the VINSI were universally em barked. He thought a day should be Ad Were the House would adjourn. He asked the question with se unfriendly feeling towards ministers, in whom he had great confidence. Lord ALTHORP said be could not at presets same the day ; but he could assure the hon. genfianan minister* were most anxious to bring the question before the house, and that it would be submitted at an early day after the meeting of parliam e nt. Sir R. VIVIAN suggested that parliament adjouim for a fortnight, and then, if necessary to meet, that the government metsiben. form. lug a house should adjourn again. Mr. SLANEY wished to ask the noble lord wln.ther Government had any plan under coosidevation for ameliorating the eloodition of the labouring poor. Lord ALTHORP said the i sulea was ocimpjing the serious atten tion of Government, and h e they would be able to propose some measure to the house. ( Hear , VAIILLA. Mr. CA LCRAFT mid an adjournment fora fortnight, as had been proposed, would excite alarm In this country sod in Europe. (Hear ) He should judge of Ministers by that acts, but be must object to their. dispensing with the l aw o f t h e l an d b y a Treasury minute.while Parlia ment was sitting t he meant the reduction of the duty on Moine, wit jet should have been brought before the house. Mr. SPRING RICE said, the adjournment was made en ths ground that members could twofer a greater benefit on die country by visiting their counties, than by attending in that house. With regard to the treasury minute for the reduction of the duty on barilla, there were various precedents for such proceeding. In 1825, a reduction of duty on sulphate of quinal took place in precisely the same manner, while Parliament was bitting. The minute left the whole question to b: decided by Parliament, taken„ bond for the payment of the present duty, if the house would not agree to the reduction. Sir GEOlt GE CLERK said, the precedent adduced was no justi fication of the reduction of the duty on barna , to the prejudice of tor important home manufoctute. When ministers had dispensed with the law to admit corn witheut the payment of the legal duties to pre. vent a scarcity, they thought it necessary to call Parliament together to pass a bill of indemnity ; and he thought minister, should now ask for a hill of indemnity. Mr. ROBINSON thought the measure most objectionable, and was confident it gave an unfair advantage to Individuals, and if government did not disavow the intention of repealing such an Act, he should give notice of a motion to restrain them. He hoped the Chancellor of the Exchequer would bring on the Budget at an early day, and that he would lay a large portion of the taxation of the country on property. Lord A LTHORP said, what was called the budget could ro: be brought on before the estimates were voted; but he would take a very early day, after the recess, of laying before the house the financial mea sures of the present government. With tespict to the Hernia question he had no objection to say that it could only be justified by the peculiar circumstances of th e case, and should not be bro u ght i n to preent. The motion of adjournment was then agreed to. COBBETT's et:OISTES. Mr. TREVOR said, he was sorry the question of which he had given notice was not brought before the house by sonic more able otember. Whether the writer of the publication he was now about to read to th • house had kept within the bounds of the law, he had not the I, : • I knowledge to determine ; but he was confident his object was to ext. t • agitation and confusion throughout the country. The writer in the sage he should first read to the house said, " The parsons were their tithes, but it came from them like drops of blood from their 11..‘-.•. The people were told their acts did no good ; but they knew better, found after they had destroyed corn they got more food. They also Li t w that tithes took food from the people, and were spent in a ira;.i.t r generally injurious to the labourers." He would ask for w:tat purpose could such publications be circulated, but to excite discontent and tumult. The writer seeded to say, " After the fires the N.a gistrates met and took care of the labourers into consideration, which they never thought of before the fires blued." He said " The acts of the labourer, were unlawful in themselves ' • but the law or England, of God and m a n, a ll owe d man to take food, rather than perish for want of it." He then says, " The people are actually in that state. The pariah allowanc e i s slow starvation. The allowance to a labourer is less than half that to a felon in gaol." He would ask the House whether it war possible that • person only capable of reedit g such pages would not be driven by them to acts of lawless The entice then said, " The rioters had in no instance been cruel ; they had in no case taken blood, or inflicted personal violence ; they only took the food they had a right to, and for want of which they were perishing." He could not express his astonishment at the socia -1 city of the man who could address such language to a d summon ti people. (Hear, bear.) At a time when special commissions were st:.t to the country to try offenders, and the Government were inquiring into the best metals of alleviating such distress. If such publications were allowed to circulate, all the efforts of the Legislature would be iniffce tual to produce content. He religiously believed that it was to snot publications that all the evils of the country were owing. It was the opinion of Mr. Banks and Lord Grenville that it was to such publica. tions the French revolution was to be attributed. To the misled in dividuals who had forfeited their lives by violating the laws, he could extend compassion, but not to the writer by whom they were instigated. ( Hear, hear.) It was difficult to know how to act with such a writer. A noble and learned lord had said he considered the present state of the country but a passing cloud. He feared it was a cloud that would burst with horror on their beads. He knew it might be said that by bringing such publications before the House their circulation was increased.—(Hear, bear.)--He could not consent to that reasoning—the evil if neglected might become Incurable. He was aware he had undertaken a moat difficult task, but if such publicatit as were not cheked Ire was confident they would reduce the country to a chaos. He would ask any man whether there could be any doubt that theas sages he had read were intend e d to exc i te t h e peop l e to violations of t he law. He had the best feelings towards his Majesty's libikarts. It was not for him to devise a remedy ; but he felt that be was ing an important du t y by b r i ng i ng t h e su bj ect b efore the (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving that *pith. lication called Cabbage. Re:aster, dated 11th December, is a mants and scandalous libel, inconsistent with the principles under width the country is governed, an audacious insult on the members of the Clisseit establishment, and subversive of the fundamental laws of the kblilem, and tending to anarchy and sedition. Mr. BULLER said that the hon. gentleman could not mere con demn the conduct of the Attorney-General in not prosecuting, thowire applauded it; besides the impropriety of running the risk of an empties tal, the libel law was unpopular, and should be dispensed with as mush as possible. He was for putting down ignorance by knowledge, and not for bringing foolish expressions under public notice by means of a pro. secution. Lord ALTHOMP regretted that the subject should have been brought before the house. A libel was better disposed of when left to the discretion of ministers, than by being made the subject of a discus sion in that house. The better course was ever to wait, and afterwards censure a government for not having prosecuted. If ministers the confidence of the house, the ho use wou ld not interfere, butt u 2 se tll subject to their discretion. He hoped they deserved that esirlidenee— the apprehension of government having a reluctance for a just tion should be allayed by the fact that one prosecution bed b ea n =ined on by the Attorney.GeneraL (Ha; hear.) With r to the paper which was the subject of the discussim, he should abelda from ' adverting to it, and from saying whether government thought it a libel or not—whether they intended to prosecute or sot. Foe the last twenty i l year we had not known the house to call a goverment to proseente, unless its own privileges were concerned. He did not dewy the right of the house to adhere to the present motion, b u t if th e subject should at any time be left to the discretion of government, in a crisis like the present it was most essential that it should be se in, There were many considerations involved in the subject which could not be dies. cussed in a popular assembly without the most mischievous cootie. quences, on which it was better to avoid making the house give an opinion. He did not wish to move a direct negative to the motion, because the house would then be made to give an opinion on the subket —he should move the previous question. Mr CROKER said that after the exposition mode by the noble lord, I after the declaration, that there existed on the pan of government tau unwillingness to prosecute, when there existed a just cause for proseeti. tion ; that a just Cause of prosecution had shady Mee Manned. and since it would be to impede his object fee his boo. (rime to Wog the question under present eireontstsiteee es a division in that boast-, he would propose to his bon. friend es withdraw his inetion, at tier than oblige those who agreed in his principles to him. Mr. PRICE, (who h a d seconded the motion) said that state in Iwhich the public press at present was. was most essiencisoly. if by it prosecution a libel was brought under public notice, at least the law was not impunity, and by one just and severe example, tea thousand libels might be stopped. If they wished for a salutary freedom of the press, It was absolutely Osessosry t ItentrOul its been tiousness. Lord NOR REFS said, that the distress tithe mantel was the great engine by which the prow was enabled to set en the minds of the He hoped that during the was goverment would take that into consideration ; when the people amp that they were the MOM of the government's solicitude, sash publieations as the present was li peso unheeded. • Mr. TREVOR then withdrew Grounds& Mr. PERCEVAL rise to give nodes that as the NAM opposite. nitnewely, fest y, ohm the rases, be shoal/ mom that a da i LbLe m priteistethe gc. thmhighout the ingdom. (A Mr. FITZGERAL k D, is ho b y saints relating to the oilleo of if lee-Treasasee is leslaad, mid diet he sweeklaphi the clamour raised against that office as founded in ipwmse, and im lines as improper. The unarms which Ito raked Ae dealt prom that the ollise which he had bdd was eel, se had bees edlllag *WIMP 1 bet T I I ;~ ~y t t I l