Star. — London, England, 1826-04-11 00:00:00

r . . * ~. ~~ Mated a probability , that Oe sbonld be disposed to re sign, if the preseofdymaster of the Navy should by any _circumstances be rented from his situation. This he thought an extraorSinary intimation. A person at the -bead of a great Government Department, could not say with a very g. od grow,-that if his subaltern re. signed, he should resign too.- The subaltern, however, in such a departaient, ought — always to be a person qua. lifted to succeed the principal. Much had been said of the hardships upon his Majesty's Ministers, but he thought it very hard not upon his Majesty's Ministeis, but upon his Majesty's Opposition, that thee/ should. be placed in an embal-rassing siutation hy this proposition. Why should •Ministers tike a pleasuie, and particularly at this mo ment. in thus dragging them through the mire-. The plain object or 'Abutters was to get one more added to their number • In- that Hodge. The necessity which the discussion had imposed upon the Right Hos. Gentleman himself of speaking upon a subject ou which it would, no doubt. have been more agreeable to him to' remain silent, was in itself a proof of the impropriety of the mepure. And ealtbough he got it through as well, and with as much grace as possi ble, be certainly ougbt•not to have been placed in so painful a situa tion. He should oppose the bringing op of the Report. in order to afford an oppertonity to floss. Members to record their dissent from Orii very unconstitutional manner of doing a very unnecessary thing. Lord GLENOItCHY seconded-the amendment, an i observed upon thewbvious diference between the principles and the practice-of the Chancellor of she Exchequer. Ministerial Irian. mice in this House was already more than sufficient, since many benChes were fined with those who were placemen, and pensioners of the Crown. Air. Secretary CANNING....--On a question of so 'much personal feeling on this and the other side of the House, he was very aslious, before Hon. Gentlemen came to a vote, to state, as briefly and as plainly as possible. his view if the - question. He could not give a much better pro.,f °This disposition to treat the matter with all fair. tress, than to assure the Hon. Geryleman ,who spoke last but one, that he would not take advantage of toe oppor tunity the amendment afforded of stating, that the Hon. Gentleman meant to offer an obstruction to the whole pl4O, when, in fact, the opposition was only directed to one patticulatipart of that plan. It could not be on. derstood, after what had passed, that the amendment implied the slightest blame or disparagement of the President of the Board of Trade—(flear.)—The Hon. Member (Mr. Hobhouse) had asked why the present unfavourable time was taken for introducing such a proposi ion? The answer was plain: the question, in fact, originated with those whom the Hun. Gentleman had designates his Majesty's Opposition—(Hear, and langider.)—Government had not entertained the slight est intention of proposing the change until the sugges tion came from the other side of she House in a former Session. This suggestion had certainly been made under better auspices—when the pecuniary affairs of the coun try had a more flourishing aspect, but the time was the misfortune. not the fault of Ministers; k was their mis fortune to be obliged to bring forward this question at a moment less favourble than that at which the sugges tints had been made; that suggestion was received with aeohmation, although the motion was now met with critical objections. The hint having been given in the latat year, Ministers thought they could not shrink from ltheadoption of it in the present. He could further in ;kin} the Hon. Gentleman, that Ministers had received . Atn intimation, from what they conceived good authority, that if Government did not sir in this - famine*, some •Memliefof the opposition would ; so that, in point of 'time atleastohose who brought forward the vote were c'lllplM'' IX!' If!' from 1 4 ;:f.'1Sibilitys 4( A he were ..- II 4 ` r hi.l4 -f 1 • ig - . 1 - the ' ' I et;ltee ctn piats . one n t tpe 0 % c es, y sacra .., iicc...sf. she:othm, havahauld aortal* sacrifice the Pre :lamer of the Board ., of 'Trade, - sutdaetain that-of the . T, easutership of 'the: Navy.': This' he would do with a ,',llieit 4 ilia, general . advantage of the Government, rather ;bap come 01- the cornprpmise which was now claimed. Louk back to the history of the two offal'. 11 seemed td*be contended that they were so naturally United, ' that ifothiog but the most barbarous policy Coold.ever .separa . e them, .The Board of Trade had existed long before the time of Mr. Barite's speech on Etohomital Befouls.* speech which still remained as a monument Of his genius: ,The salary of the President of the Boasd' of Wrede, Was front Bto 10,0001. This -.was Sharethed by Ma..:l3twkds means, and other officers '''of Gorto ** n undertook the . duties of the office. At * v tlitii'itte'COti.!rfr: But ke recommended some reforms ; 1 1,14,440.9,1,Vrea5uier of the Navy and Paymaster of the Army on the same principles, and, therefore, 'what' fre said as ns'the one applied to the other. What, - "'thin, 'sass Me. Barke'S proposal with respect to the Tseasurership of the Navy..which was then an office of .: great emolument? Did be propose to abolish it, or say they the. Treaserei aught not to have a seat in Paha ; Istent? . „Isto'gisichitring.;„l.He proposed that the public ,_ , mooey, ,tirlstelt tilesa prided .great emolument to the AlsAisse, should .be. :placed- in - she Beak,. but. at the i.' 'spites dom . he ,tall, "'Goo forbid that he should xish .; 01 tdisth the "tvgadar emoluments of an im portint Mee, usually held by men of the highest . rank," meaning., of course, rank in talents and emi nefiCe.inithe' House of Commons. The public money, ' ::tlicil‘itototding to Mr. Burke, ought co be kept at the „„Phipty; .!)10hg Ned ,oq ‘ idea of abolishing an o ffi ce verse : 'ruble - for its antiquity, and generally held , by men of dad most invistent cadence in -the House of Commons.. The B aid of Trade wet then' tit of Shed, and its duties throw t ouponadter pfficers oi GOierairsant ; and in' 1785 a Bill prised, piecing she office of Treasurer of the Navy upori the' loosing which it' stood till 1817, the public n,oney being kept in the , Bank, and the Treas. .Wilea,salaiy. being, 4.9001. . I%ut the office bad been .1).11.1 as.tt . Sten aloes as conjoined with another. It was trate. that Mr. Dundasilleld it while he was at the same time President of the Board of Controul. "In 1790 the Presidency of the Board of Coot:mil became a salaried office, the salary being '2OOO/. in contemplation of the 4.000.; which Mr. Dundas had. as Treasurer of the Navy, on the prinziple that the emolument might be • about equal to that of Secretary of State. Thus the matter good tiff 17.0, when Mr. Ryder succeeded or the office of 'Treasurer 'of the Navy, but not to the Board of Cootro.ol. In 1801. Nll.•Brthurst succeeded to the office.of Treasurer of the N say. and held it without any other office. In 180S i :the Lett lion. Gei.t. opposite INlr.Xierney) held the Treasurership withoutany other • -00ice. , ;In 1804, he himself (Ml. Canning) succeeded to , ths Treitstorfship, and held it without any other office. to 0 . 3'06: :Auagleiwiii ) , succeeded him, and held the' 's ' 6l2ll) %ePAelitch. , - 1e. , 1807, Mr. Rose succeeded Mr. SlietiJan in thisirofficaewitd held it along with the office ~'_. isiViCe PreiideA cif,V. , e' 'Board of Trade, and so the to ,I4ll4a,itond All 4slt, In.that year Mr. Ruse ceased, to be ,Thce , ..Presiderit of 1 she Bowl of Trade, • and , heisi ths. office of Treasurer of the Navy alone for six . .. !S l rs . iftee. 'alt the day ot.his death; so that it was a 11 4.1 **Oa to.iuppoietliat 014 c e Was alWa,t‘ held . .40fiafir .1441,itnother. othee. ~Itsbad beeisbeldValte as, often alone. The oak:: was certainly not a *immure . What the Might lion. Gentleman opposite (Mr. TietueV • ... had said on a former night, be (Mr. Cannine —that the Treasurer of the Navy, being an' in public trust, iusht to bold hictinalltaed his the disposal of erstein ment, in (lAA- toapc vantsasf Gower neeent :wise viitte.general 1 y over 'This was not 'newly his opiniisaws.he was statin, what had beret mid by a committee trf that r 1817, at the time Mr. Rose held the office alone, sive of anY:other office, with a salary of 4,00 a. Report of that Committee, dated the 2.5 d of June in that year, he found the following observations: "They esteem the salary paid to the Treasurer of the Navy as much too large, and recommend a reduction on any future ap pointment to that office, so as to place it on a level in respect of emoloment-with the Paymastentof the Forces, its present salary being the same as that Which woUld have been lately received by the Paymaster of the Forces, if the office had been held by one individual. Your Committee, however, think it but fair to observe, that in the oldest Naval Estimates extant, viz. from 1684 to 1695,' while the salaries of the Lords of the Admiralty were, as at present, 10001. per annum, the _salary of the Treasurer of the Navy was no less than 30001. per annum: and there is no doubt, that besides his official duties, the Treasurer of the Nivy has been frequently looked to as the person to whom important Parliamentary and political business connected with the Naval Department, and the general concerns of Go vernment, should be confided. Whether these latter considerations will induce the House to continue the salai y of 40001. or reduce it to 30001. or any other sum, it is not for your Committee to inquire. They have not in any case considered themselves called upon to enter into political considerations of this nature, and have recommended the reduction hereinbefore pro- posed, on a mere view Of the duties of the office itself, And on a principle of assimilation to the Piymaster of the Forces. This was not his language, but that of the Finance Committee of 1817, horn which it evidently appeared to be in the contemplation of that Commit. tee, that there might exist, properly, certain offices, the holders of which might have time to spare from the particular concerns of their own departments, for the general business of the Government, and they alluded to one case :— that et Parliamentary business, to which such persons had to attend.- There were various Com mittees, especially, in which they might be called upon to preside; and his Right Honourable Friend, at this moment, was Chairman of a most laborious Com mittee. There was nothing which contributed so much to break down the physical strength of a Nob!e Lord (Caseereagh), whom he was not worthy to have succeeded, as his laborious exertions in a select Committee of th t Howe. For that it was contem plated by their own Committee, 'that there ought to exist . offices of this description for the general business of Government. The statements of the Gentlemen opposite the other night were various: one said, that the two offices of President of the Board of Trade, and Treasurer of the Navy, ought to be inseparably joined. Another-thought that the War, of the Trea surer of the Navy ought to be diminished; add others objected to this measure, on the ground that the design was to get another vote in Parliament. The Gentlemen opposite had sonfessed that Government had done some good things; Isot, on this supposed object of Ministers `to catch another vote, they had bestowed every vitu perative epithet that could be applied to it. Now she 1 1 4144 cleat the present Government had shim) no d* . position to increase the patronage of the trowri, or to make offices for the sake of votes. The Hoe. aid ; t eamed Member !Or Caine (Mr. Abercrombie) had sd:_ . mooed to the of fi ce of V i ce-Treasurer for Ireland, mid sense others; but the office et Vice •Treasurer for Ireland Was tie new office: it existed before, under another deriOminatiou. ; Then, with respect to the Master of the Mint, he was at the head of au important commission, with a salary attached to it : but when Mr. Wallace was made Master of the Mint, his salary as Commissioner had been diminished, although it was a most popular commission, and one whose acts had been always highly praised. He claimed, therefore, fair credit for the assertion, that when the present Govern ment wished to retain an office, it was because they ho nestly thought such an office ought to exist, and not with a view to increase their influence in Parliament. What did it signify to them to gain a few single votes ? They did not want such single votes. Government must be supported by the confidence and tryst reposed in it by the great body of the House and the country, and was not reduced to the necessity of canvassing for a few single votes. If matters came to that pass that Minis ters must depend for their support on ten or twenty -votes, it would be time for them to think of resigning their offices. The present Government bad even been very lax on this point, and had not insisted upon many', Officers being in Parliament who really ought to be there; and Ise intended to bring that matter under consideration. He remembered when Mr. Pitt, Wu), was himself equal in debate to any tea - or twelve men of the present day', was supported by the Master of the Rolls (Sir William Grant), and the Master of the Rolls sat in Parliament until Sir Thomas Penner was appointed to the office. It was clear, then, that the presto Government had shewn no disposition to create offices, in order to catch single votes in Par liament. There was another instance, in the case of one who held an office which bore some relation, with respect to thy civil Lew, to the office of Attorney-Ge neral, who had formerly usually sat in Parliament, and had no seat there at present. In 1804 4 he remembered, when a very warm and long debate arose on a certain occasion, the %%hole brunt of it fill on the Master of the Rolls and the King's Advocate. In what period was there such * number of the profession of the law among his Majesty's Opposition as existed there at the paesent moment? What an advantage then would it have been to the Minis.ers, to have had the Master of the Rolls and the King's Advocate in the House on such occasions, fg r instance, as the occurrence of these Cnanc.ry Debates, and others of a . similar nature, which lawyers alone could best understand? Then Ministers had against them two eminent civilians (alluding, as we understood, to Sir J. Mackintosh and Dr. Lushington), and what an advantage would ithave been to the Ministers, even in that view, to have the assistance of the Master of the Rolls, the King's Advoc gte, and the Judge Advocate, another Officer who had generally a seat in that House? Never, till the tinge of the present Government, had these Officers been dispensed with in Parliament. Feum ,these instances it must be clearly seen that the Govern ment had shown no disposition to increase their in& eace in Parliament by means of the votes of a few men p ia office, since Ministers had not taken, advantage of opportunities of bringing such officers into Parliament. They bad neglected these opportunities, althoult,b . they might bate btoughs...these, officers into . Par.ll. went, without affording the slightest pod ground of they had neglected many 'opportunities of bringing men high in office into that House. Then, with respect to the diminution of the salary, and the exclusion of the Trea surer of the Navy from Parliament, he objected. to this latter proposition more than to any, ether that had been suggested. He objected to the principle of excluding from Parliament Officers in high situations under the Crown. It was of the greatest importance to the country that the Crbwn should look to the Houses of Parliament for persons to fill high and responsible public situations. He knew no law that prevented the Crown from making any one who was not in Parliament its Prime Mi nister. But he had never heard it said, that it would be a good thing for the country that the Crown shoold choose for Ministers persons not in Parliament. What woup.hy.the effect of the Crown not looking to Parlia ment for its Officers ? Was this not a most useful check to the choosing of Ministers upon a system of mere favouritism ? Was it not beneficial to the country, that the Ministers of the Crown should be men well known in that House—men who had been long in the public eye, and had proved in Parliament their fitness for office ? Was not this a great security to the public for the efficiency of the officers of Government, that they should appear in Parliament and prove their capacity for their situations? There were certain offices whose possessors could not be excluded -from Parliament, without lowering the standard of the Government, and such an office was the Treasurership of the Navy. For the sake of a vote, 'it would not be worth while to the Government to take the trouble of debating this ques tion. He gave his opinion with perfect disinterestedness, because it did not signify a hair to the Government, with a view to a vote, whether the Treasurer of the Navy should be in Parliament or not? But the conse quence of excluding such officers from Parliament would be to make the high offices of State subjects for scramble among mere favourites. The Gentlemen op posite might, themselves, soon succeed to these offices, and he was, therefore, doing them a great favour in resisting their proposition (a laugh). If it were acted upon, then they would have for the great offices of State persons of no higher qualifications for them than those of bankers' clerk% The Parliamentary character ought never to be separated from high and honourable office, and never could be so separated, without great injui y to the public, and the loss of that high respectability which the Government of this country generally maintained. l i So much then, for the, notion of 'excluding the Trea surer of the Navy from Parliament; and now one word with respect to the salary. That salary was before 40001. per annum; and at the present time it was 3,0001. It was now proposed to reduce it to 20001. He knew no principle upon which any one of these sums should be preferred to the others; but where he could not find a reason, he must look for a rule, and a role might often servefor a reason. He found, in the Report of the Finance Committee a statement, that 'Olen this office was held alone it should be put on the footing of„ that of Paymaster of the Forces. Here, then, was a rule; end as the case mentioned by the Committee was now likely to arise, that rule might be applied to this office. The salary of the Paymaster of the Forces was 2.0001. and &house. It was now Intended to give the Treasurer of the Navy a salary 0f,2,11001.tbe additional 6001. being in lieu of a house. He tact stated the reasons, which to him ap peared conclusive, why the Treasurer of the Navy ought not to be 'moved from his seat in .Parliament. It was unnecessardt to , argue the third point, relative to the continued unity of the sakes of President of the Hoard of Trade and Treasurer of the Navy, as the propriety of that measure had not been attempted to be main tained by any body in the course of the debate. The, House then divided, when there appeared, For the Motion . Against it • . Majority . • $7 76 --Il Shortly after strangers were re-admitted to the gallery, Mr. Secretary CANNING stated. that although con vinced that the decision to which they, had just come was, technically speaking, the decision of the House of Commons, yet he could not help regretting the smallness of the majority by which the measure had been carried. 1 1 He was aware, also, that the expression of opinion, iu some quarters, had been very strong against it, and under the circumstances the Government would not think proper to persevere in the course they had undertaken. —He still considered that they should be perfectly justified in pressing it as a matter of principle, but viewing it as a matter of expediency. he thought they wore bound to yield to the feeling of the House. His Right Hon. Friend had expressed his content to receive a salary of 2,0001. ibr the Presidency of the Board of Trade having, annexed to it the ancient ace of Treasurer of the Navy with Its present salary—(Hear). Mr. TIERNEY trusted that the Right Hon. Gentleman would bear this in mind for the future, and be could assure hint that the conduct of his Majesty's Government had gained the approbation of his Majesty's Opposition. (A laugh). The CH A NCRLLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that in con sequence of the determination of the Government, as expressed by his Right Hon. Friend, it became his duty to propose the Amend ment to the Resolution. He still felt assured that the measure they had recommended was right in principle. and be took this course 'without shame..(Hear). He should propose to amend the Reso lution by substituting 2,0001. instead of 5,0001. • Sir M. W. RIDLItt, Mr. Alderman Tnosseson, and Mr. Hume, expressed their approbation of the coarse which the Ministers had jest adopted. The Resolution so amended was then read a second time, and leave was =ken to bring in a Bill founded thereon. U - pori the motion of the Carincectaa of the Excamovaa, the above BM, after two or three unimportant questions from *Mr. Basso and Mr. Baton; wens through a Committee pro forma, and was ordered to be.re committed on Friday. Mr. GOULBURN obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the Re gulation of Prisons in Ireland.— Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday next. The Irish Civil l'rocess Bill was read a second time in order to be committed. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL presented the Report of the Committee on the Insolvent Debtors' Bill was read a second time with the amendments, and ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. Mr. HUNK put a question to the Attorney-General as to the exorbitancy of the fees charged in the Insolvent Court.' The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that before the third reading of the Bill the amount of those fees should be inquired into, sad if band to be exorbitant proper amendment should be intro duced to remedy the evil. Mr. HUME wished the Crown Debtors should be placed on a similar footing with Common Debtors. He was aware of one instance in which an unfortunate man had been confined four years for a debt,of ten pounds. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL suspected that the case was not correctly stated. If, however, it had really occurred. and if the fact had been communicated to him, the man should have been liberated immediately. • Me. S. CODARRobtaired leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws relating to the relations impounding of cattle Ist Ireland. HBRItIES brotightin a BM to regulate the thus efwirell• menu for Articles of Clerkship. tte)4osl itow objection to the Gentlemen opposite. This was'a proof, Ofteithigh tititit y t_syrjetting to divide thesirtwo .ant; Ministers his talestaat Oat actualed r hy any *titre of Parliinterlity ire those ser., iffileepte; and they (*Ay wite4l. to retain 04.oeices, rer-labottred. `Wit* the power of elating in Parliament, bAcsete 'it stating only Wits their sincere conaittioes„ that the coarse they were tat House .fstrsaing was benefidal to the country. 'lt Was hardly atone, exclti= pots Qts really to think that their object was to increase Oa. In the their influence in Parliament, when it was known that tb . o flow. basitattiAv liseabtaineci leate to bring lit a Bill to amend several laws of Recite in Ireland. Mr. GOULBURN presented further papers relating to pro. endings in Demerara and Berbite.—Laid on the table. Mr. Heaves brought in a Bill to aihend the Laws of Customs. —Read a first time and ordered Id be printed, sad read a second time to-morrow. The Hen. 0.1a71.10“11 also brat& in a Bill to;centinue an Act of the first and second year of his preseit Majesty relating to Stamp Dutiese—Ordered to be printed. sod read a tociibd Mite tir:iztortoir. lite other Orders of the Day haying been disposed of, the (louse Adjourned at a Quarter to Nine &Clock, EAST INDIES. EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED ST. mzi.ssi, iris. 26. The Gam brat Castle has arrived here, after .an un commonly quick passage, having left Calcutta. on the Ist of January. She brings intelligeace of a severe engagement having taken place between Sir A. Camp- bell and the Burmese, which lasted three days. Our loss has been extremely heavy. Eleven King's officers killed and wounded, exclusive of those belonging to the Company's service; and though the Burmese retired from the field, it does not appear that our troops made any advance. The Minerva East Indianaan is supposed to wait for the official accounts. General Morrison, commander of the Arracsu% division, dieJ on board tke Carn-brea Gastk, on the passage to St. Helena. FROM THE CALCUTTA .konst BULL OF DECEMBER 26. A month has now elapsed since the Helen left Rangoon ; 'and the non-appearance of any other vessel, when several were just about to sail, would seen, to indicate that the ships had been dawned by S'r Archi. bild Campbell, until the result of the enemy's attack on him should be seen. Our troops, as, we have already mentioned, were anxiously expecting and inviting this attack, as they seemed to regard it as holding out the .best chance of being able to proceed on their march to Umrapoora, if not also the only road to setreat upon Rangoon, should retreat become unfortunately necessary. either from the impossibility of getting supplies, or fr )m the enemy opposing a force and persevering spirit which Sir Archibald may not have the means to overcome. From the period at which the boats with the 87th King's left Rangoon, it is impossible that they could reach Prome before the attack of the Burmese, if, as ex pected, this attack took place about the 23d ulr.; nor could Mr. Robertson, the Comini.sioner, have reached head-quarters before the event. FROM TUE CALCUTTA GOI/ERNMUNT GAZETTE OF NOV. 24. When the terms of the treaty arrived, and were laid before the King (of Ava) he flew into a most violent passion, and instantly sent off orders for the war to be carried on with the most vigorous exertions, demanding why time was lost in talking with the English, and the reasons for it and the delay. The Kee Woonghee and General laid the blame on Menghee Ooeznah, whom the King ordered to be put to death ; but this was counter-ordered on the same day. It is also said, that when the Kee Woonghee and Attaw•ocns received the terms which the English proposed as a basis of treaty, they lost their hearts and were downcast, but were obliged to mad the information to Court, or their lives would be forfeited. The Burmese Generals daily receive orders to proceed-to fight. The general opinion now in the Burmese ranks is, that the English were making fools of them in proposing terms. The desertions from the Bur -1 mese positions are very great-50 to 100 per day. Upon the news of a treaty of peace first reaching the King, be ordered the Europeans out of confinement, and placed them in an open garden of his own ; but when the parti culus arrived, he ordered them again into confinement. FROU Till CALCUTTA GOVERNMENT GAZETTE OF NOV 28. The last arrival from Rangoon has brought very little news from our army in Ava. His Majesty's Royal Re. giment bad embarked on board tht boats of the flotilla, and proceeded to Yeoundoen about the 22J of October. —One of the guides went to Me.a-dy by water, in the boat of a trader, and remained at that place six days. While be was there he heard that at.Matoon, under Amaibaboe, there were only 4,000 men. At Pullo, on this side of Me-a-cly, 6,000, together with 30 guns of all sorts. He also keard, that 6,000 "men had been de tached at Patto. On the right bank dice were 3,000 men, and 4,000 have gone inland towards Maindoon. It was said that the concubine Queen's brotkter, Chulla Mainza-Mauno-Maindagie, who had been nomi. nated Generalissimo of the Burmese army, was liapro ceeding down horn Ava with 4,000 m and had reached Niihau. It also appears, that a ' truer had been sent up to the King from the Keetr righee and Chiefs, but the nature of the answer was not known. PROME, Ocsossa XO, sots. The Commander of the Forces has this morning re ceived information too circumstantial in its details to be neglected, though almost too atrocious in its. nature to be credited, being in substance that the Burmese army is now in full march towards us with a view to a general attack upon our position, and thatthey are ex cuting this movement under express orders from the ing of Ava, in open and shameful violation of an armistice concluded under the authority of the Cow= minding Generals of bb:h armies, on the basis of the plighted faith of their respective Governments. Lord KKKYon's eldest son attained his 21st year wi the lat inst. The tenants on his Lordship's Shropshire estates were sumptuously regaled, and sums of mono; distributed among the poor. The proceedings upcn the claims of Mr. GA fIDNER to the Gardner Peerage have been reported to the House bt the Committee of Privileges. Their decision in favour of Mr. Gaantrait, and against Mr. JADIILS, has been affirmed by the House. Mr. MACKSADY made his first appearance at Drury lane Theatre last night, in the character of Macbeth.— He received great applause throughout, and at the fall ing of the curtain was loudly called for by the audi ence, whom he addressed. _ • KEAN, the actorr, is on his return from America, where be has been reaping an abundant harvest. Tbs patrons of the Drama, both in Philadelphia and New York, after a little severe chastisement, forgave the repentant the errors he committed on bit former visit. A Singapore Chronicle of the 10th November, though not of so late a date as those received by a former arrival, fills up some chasms in the preceding informa tion. The accounts of the War its JAVA, represent k as more formidable and extensive than we had before learnt. The insurrection, it is said, lewd spread overjhe whole of the Eastern P rovinces from Pakalongan to Basuki, a distance of little less than 300 miles, eure)racing the finest parts of the Island. A native Prince, called Dam NAOORO, his proclaimed himseli Sultan ot Matararn; and his.sister, a Javanese heroine, heads the insurgent+, wisp ari numerous and well.al etJ, 'Pity stile Selma action, and ha:ass the Dutch troops by a sie• sultory warfare. I N