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• -.1 NUMBER 12,246.] ELECTION OF WILLIAM WARD, ESQ. APUBLIC MEETING . of the FRIENDS of Mr. WM. WARD will take place on Panay, the 12th Instant, to determine upon the measures best calculated to secure the keturn of that Gentleman to Parliament, u one of the Reprosen- Natives for the City of London, at the approaching Election. The thair will be taken at Two o'Clock precisely. C. PRICE, Chairman of the Committee. v.. -4 ,ummittee-room, City of London Tavern, May 4, 1226. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. mime of Gentlemen belonging to an agricultural society in Nor wich. He knew nothing of the parties, but presumed they had given him the Petition because they found his opinions on the subject of the intended measures introduced by Ministers coin cided wit► their own. He thought the measures for the in troduction of Foreign Corn for the distressed manufacturers ought to be confined to the manufacturers alone, and not go to the prejudice of the agricultural interests of the country. — He hoped that there would be no alteration of the Corn Laws until the taxation .f the country was reduced Fifty per Cent. He thought it would be necessary to appoint a Commission to in vestigate the cause of the present distress In the manufacturing districts, when it would be found not to arise from the Corn Laws, as kad been more than once said in that House. He believed that the high price .f labour arose not from the high price of corn, but from the high state of taxation. A remunerating price for labour would do more towards alleviating the present distress than the measures proposed by Ministers, which, if they were carried into effect, would reduce the value of labour, and thereby increase the distress rather than alleviate it. If he sat in Parliament next Ses Rion, and he saw the same intentions of paring down the agricul• tural interests pursued, be would vote for paring down those ex pensive establishments with which the country w..s huthentd. After a conversation between Mr. Hymn, Mr. Husiciss.n. , , and Mr. Palmier was read remained at the Cape by the express order of the Co- lonial Secretary here, until another Governor should arrive out, and in c Infirmation of this assertion, he would appeal to the Hon. Under Secret try now rresent. Was then his delay attributable to any di,inclination to come home? The Noble Lord had left the Cape rut the 3d February, and he was daily expectei. He had bees heard of after passing a few days at St.. Helen I. No one was more anxious than the Noble L rrd to meet the unfair, dishonourable, and unjust attacks which bad been made on him in his absence, than the N able Lord himself. The Hon. Member for Montrose, whilst talking of justice, seemed to think that justice lay only n one side—(Hear, hear); and his inference as to Col. Bird was unfair, as that Gentleman was going to the Cape on his own private business. If the Dutch law were defec tive, though all must give the preference to the British law, yet the Governor was bound by his instructions to administer justice accord ing to the law of the Colony. (Hear). In doing so he acted, no doubt. under the responsibility of his legal advisers. The House might be assured that kis Noble Relative was most anxious to come 'hone, to meet and repel the attacks niade on him ; and that the charges so unfairly made against bim need only to be examined to ; he disproved, and his conduct aryl character cleared in proportion to the quantity of light thrown upon them (Loud cheers). Sir FRANCIS BURDETT observed, it would be hardly fair for the I louse to form any opinion on the subject of the Noble Lord's Government at the Cape, from any vague charges made against him, but be did hope the Hon. Member the Under Secretary for the Co lonial Government, would see that no impediments were thrown in the way of the Petitioner towards establishing bin case. Mr. WILMOT-HORTON assured the Hon. Baronet, there was enough contained in the Report to serve all useful purposes In tbe,investigation of this subject; unless something more specific were alleged, the House could not with any propriety call on Col. Bird to remain in this country unless he thought fit to do so. Mr. BROUGHAM thought it very material that this officer, who was a very Important witness, should not leave this country on the eve of the promised important investigation into the mix. conduct of the Government. HOUSE OF LORDS, CIA• 8. Mr. Names, and others from the Commons, brought up the Yorkshire Election Amendment Bill, the_ Irish Prison Bill, the Aliens' Registration Bill, the linburgh Gas Light Bill, and several Private Bills, which were recd a first time. . _ . The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND presented a Petition ' ' from the Inhabitants of Charing-Cross, and its'vicin;ty, complaining of clause in the Charing-Cross Improvement Bill, which would compel them to Macadamise the road.-- , Lsid on the table. The Earl of HA ROW ICKE presented a Petition from the Parish of St. James's, %Westminster, against the Charing-Crow Im provement on the table. Mr. Fs..acc, from the Board of Trade, presented Returns from the Bliti..ll Consuls abroad, of the average Prices of Wheat 611)Ce 1825.—Laid on the table. The Earl of 111 A LMPSBURY moved fora Return of the average price of Wheat at Mark-lane, since the present year,— Ordered. PRIVATE PUPIL AMARRIED CLERGYMAN, formerly Tutor to a Nobleman of the highest rank, and now remising a few Pupils into his House, a moderate distance from London, has now A• VACANCY. Letters directed for the Rev. J. C. blessrs. Gray and Fell's, Ste. duelers, 50, Piccadilly, London, will be duly forwarded. This day was published, In Bvo. with Twenty coloured Plates, price 16s. In bomb) Bari WILTON preowned a Petition from Lancaster, praying for some alteration in the Own Laws.—Laid en the table. SKETCHES OF POiifiieliaignaidiEhi NEM, COSTUSIE:, and CHARACTER By A. P. D. G. Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, Ave.:Maria-lane. and ordered to ye prim( u. A Message front the Lords announce) their assent to the Excise Laws Amendment and Bank. Charter Bill% with several Private Dills LORD eIIARERS SOMERSET. Mr. BEAUMONT roe to caii the attention of the House to a Pt tition of Mr. Bishop Burnet, complaining Town of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk—and from the Com mittee of the Norfolk Agricultural Society. The Noble Earl com plained of his having been deceived, as well as the agriculturists whe formed their opinion upon his, by the assurances of his Ma jesty's Ministers that they would not touch the Corn Laws during the present Session. He had trusted them, but they had violated This day was published, In Three Vols. post !Iv o. with Engrairings by George Cruikshank, price tts. in boards, SPECIMENS OF GERMAN ROMANCE. Se lected and Translated front various Authors. their pledge. After a few words from Lord Trrnnaw, the Petitions were laid on the table. • of the conduct of Lord Charles Somerset towards him As Governor of the Cape of Goad Hope. He had w'sherl Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, Ave•llaria lane. Earl DARNLEY rose only to observe, that the statement which he had made a few days ago, about a person belonging to the Coast Blockade Service having been shot by a smuggler, had become duly authenticated, as a reward for the appreheit.ton of the odetid- the task should have devolved upon ;person mole corn petent tt - ithe task of recommending this Petition to their notice, but he bad been encourared by the assur- Atte, s r f receiving the powerful summit from some Hon. Members near him. The object of the Petitioner was not to take this opportunity of publishing what ought to come out cn a graver occasion, when the Noble Lord should appear to answer these and other charges ready to be preferred against him. The principal object of the Petitioner was to intreat the House to order Prat THE LARGEST NEVIWAPER EVER PRINTED. On Suansay, the 21st of May, will be published, No. I. of log parties had been published in the Gazette. 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Prospectuses may be had, and Orders and Advertisements will be received, at. the Office of Messrs.. WHITING and Bataisron, Printers and Engravers to the King for the Prevention of Forgery, Beaufort House, fleanfort.buildings, Strand. TO THE PUBLIC. Mar 5, 1526. THE Contractors, YOR THE LAST TIME, respectfully address the Public ; for, at the conclusion of the present Lot tery they must close their Mice Doors, as from that hour all Lot tales are prohibited in this kingdom. To say that they lament, deeply lament, the determination of his Majesty's Government to suppress the Lotteries, is only to express that which it is most natural they should feel. 'The abolition of the Lottery is the total destruction of their business, and it is a measure which casts upOn the world hundreds of poor dependents, who have been employed by them for a long series of years, many of whom, from age and aillictions, are incapable of taking other em ployments, and will be reduced to a state of utter destitution. The Contractors abstain from settini forth any lists of the com pulsory Taxes or Duties which might have been remitted by Go vernment, instead of discentinttiog the voluntary Tax of a Lot tery ; bet they are quite certain, that if the sense of the country had been taken as to whether the Lottery, or the least objectionable of the Taxes they could point out, should be retained, the majority would have been a hundred to one in favour of continuing the Lot tery, which has existed as a branch of the Public Revenue for more than line Hundred and Fifty Years, and during that period has received the sanction and support of many honorable men, distin guished as well for their morality, as for the wisdom and integrity of their public conduct. It is a gratification to the Contractors, that, by uniting their interests in this Lottery, they are enabled to present a Scheme (the last that will be seen in this country), which will afford the Public, in their farewell adventure, the chance of Six Prizes of Thirty Thousand Pounds—a greater number than was ever given in any former Scheme. The fact of this being the very Last Lottery in England, com bined with the unexampled number of Thirty Thousands in the Scheme, renders the Sale of the Tickets certain, and ensures a rapid Advance of Price as the Day of Drawing approaches; but the Contractors are anxious that all should have the power of embrace ing the present opportunity, and have, therefore, commenced dos Sale of the Tickets at only Eight Shillings advance upon the peke of the last Lottery; and they now pledge themselves that ail who apply on or before Saturday, the 27th May, shall be supplied at that price, but on the Monday following (25th MAT), the price must be increased One Pound Four Shillings each Ticket, and they cannot undertake that the price shall he limited to that advance for more than ten days. 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' 4 : o f ..; t The Hill for improving the was read a second time. the Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Bird, who had been Secretary to the Noble Lord, should be es- mined, touching the subjects of complaint against, the Noble Lord previously to his going out to the Cape again. He should not enter into a recapitulation of the detached subjects of complaint enumerated in the former Petition of Mr. Burnet, presented on the 16th June, 1825. This Petition did not restate them, but merely referred to them, more particularly to his having been banished from the Colony for five years,. for havii*, it was said, written a libel on the Govern ment. ibis libel was nothing more than a Petition to the Governor himself, seeking redress of a previous injury which the Petitioner had received. These were facts which would authorise the impeachment of that Noble Lord. He concluded by expressing a hope that the Secrttary fc,r Colonial Affairs would not any longer refrain from giving the Petitioner leave to return to the Cape Colony, despite of his sentence not yet having expired, for the pur pose of obtaining, during his stay there, documentary and other evidence to substantiate the charge he wished to prefer against the Noble Lord, of having unjustly and arbitrarily exercised his autho rity with respect to himself personally. Oa the Hon. Gentleman's motion, the Petition was read- Mr. W. HORTON had not till now seen the Petition. Nor was lie surprised the Petitioner should object to leave his case to the Commissionets sent out by Go. vernment to examine into these causes of complaint, because he knew from the report those Commissioners had sent home, which was very voluminous, that they did nut feel favourably disposed towards him. This Report and its Appendix was very voluminous, and contained abundant information on the subjects com mitted to the Commissioners investigation. If the House were in possession of it, then the Members would be enable J to see whether those allegations and charges by Bishop Burnet were not as the Commissioners stated The SPEAKER here intimated to the House that he had dis covered in the Petition a phrase which it would be for them to decide whether it did not reflect on the privilege of that House, and hence render the Petition inadmissible in point of form. The Petitioner stated, that in consequence of a pledge given by the Hon. Under-Colonial Secretary that the Petitioner should be permitted to return to the Colony. to effect his purpose and collect evidence, the House had declined to give any reply to the request of the Peti tioner. Now in his vkw of it, this was an infereece the House could not sulfur to be drawn u to the influence stated to be exercised . Mr. Secretary CANNING, admitting the force of the Speaker's decision on the point of form, said he, however, should not be disposed to resist its being received mereiy on that account. After a few words from Mr. Masson Guaitar, Mr. Baatosoar, Mr. Hums, and Mr. W. Hamm, Mr. Ba.tuatostr withdrew the Pedtia2 as informaL In answer to a question from Mr. Pascoe GRIIMILL, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be could state from authority that the Bank of England had resolved on the establishment of Brunch Banks, and that the Directors bad k now in their contemplation what would be the best mode of their effecting this impottant arrangement for the convenience and secutitsof the public. Mr. Secretary CANNING moved that the Report of the Can Laws should be brunght up. Mr. HEATHCOTE opposed the bringing up of the Report, because he thought that the expedient of trying to protect the English &rester by a duty of 12s. per quarter. or even less, would only go into the pocket of the speculator, and not into that of the consumer. Mr. CALCRAFT said, that he had not all those ob. jections to the present measure which he had to the original Resolution, because prici and duty were left out of the question, and that was a great point ; but he still differed horn those who supposed that this was nn prejudgment of the general question of the Corn Laws; and he still objected to the principle which pervaded the measure (unintentionally perhaps), that was, that it held.up the Landed Interest to the eyes of the manu. facturers as the bar between them and abundance. By many accounts from the country, he had learned that the Landed Proprietors already looked upon the gene ral quebticn as decided by this measure, and there was an end altogether to all cert.tinty in bargaining for the value of farms. He was not the advocate of the exist ing Corn Laws, but he thought a protecting duty neces. sary—a full and fair duty, such as would be a real, and not a no minal, protection. From the day this Bill passed, Ministers would have it in their power to regulate the price of corn to any standard they pleased. As far as he was concerned, however. be should not wish to oppose the measure in its first stage, as the Bill would be more pet fectly understood on the second reading, when be should feel himself as free to oppose it as if he had not acceded to it in Its present stage. exaggerated, and the Petitioner himself unworthy of the special protection of the House. Part of the chaise against the Noble Governor was, that the Colonists had suffered much from the administration of justice too closely after the Dutch law ; whatever charge this might be against the law as it stood, it was none against the Governor, and the Commissioners at the Cape st ere endeavouring as fast as possible to assimilate the Co lonial law to our own code. The Commissioners' Report would be found to contain, in his opinion, all the infor mation necessary for this case. It the House were of opinion there was not information enough in the ♦olu minous Report of th• Commissioners, then, and not till then, would it be expedient to require Lieut.. Colonel Bird to delay his departure from this country for the Cape. In tact, this Petitioner had been informed, that if he could skew that his business At the Cape could not be accomplished as well by the Colonial Office as by his own presence there, the Col::nial Office would consent to his return. This he could n)t do, but still continued, through the daily Papers, to agitate the public mind by gross exaggeration. After all, it' the House consented to wait for the Report, it would not be bound in the least by that step to ac quiesce in the opinions of the Commissioners, but might then take such measures respecting this person's case as it might think proper, even before they came to enter into the grave and solemn cnnsidera , tion of that Noble Lord's general administration of the Cape. Mr. HUME asked why it was the Noble Lord had remained so lung abroad after his formal recall?—was it not to avoid and evade the charges impending over him ? He had heard that one or two ships had be, n named in which he was to return, but there was no chance of his appearing until after the breaking up of Parliament. Whilst this delay took place, the Petitioner was unable to proceed in the business. He complained much of the Commissioners who had been so applauded by the Hon. Under Secretary for their voluminous report. -Three years had already been spent on that enquiry, and he very much doubted their activity or zeal. To refuse this man permission to return was a groat hardship on him, and was also an act of unfairness to the Noble Lord concerned, for which conduct he considered the Co lonial once highly censurable—(Hear). In justice to the individual and the country, Col. Bird ought to be ordered to remain in this country till after the trial. Coionel DAVIES was of the same opinion. lir. WILMOT-HORTON observed, that it had been an um Mr. BANKES objected to the nseasure on the same prin ciple that he had done to the original Resolution. Mr. LEYCESTER woed not feel unwilling to grant such a power as that proposed to his Majesty's Minis ters, provided that a sufficient latitude might be al lowed in the exercise of it. H.! thought the opposition to it was founded on a very erroneous distrust in the Government. He beggid to observe, however, he had put a question to the President of the Board of Trade, to which he had answered—" that his Majesty's Minis ters had stated that no alteration of the Corn Laws would take place this Seuion." Certainly, this answer was perfectly true; hut as certainly it disclosta nothing; and he thought the pro found silence of Ministers on that subject was very unjustifiable, considering the anxiety of the public to obtain some satisfactory in. formation respecting it. Lord BELGRAVE said he had tried every mode, and ultimately found it impossible to assent to the pro posed rneasurei in any way. As to the liberation of the bonded corn, lie thought it would be a perfect nul lity, so far as it was intended to afford relief to the manufacturing classes of the community. To look at it in the most favourable point of view, the entire quan tity would not furnish more than four or five days' con sumption, but it would not cause a reduction of the price, for he was not of opinion that the price of the article depended on its value. The one might amount to 40s. of which Ws. frequently would be swallowed up by the intermediate process of ssle between the wooer and the consumer. As to the other branch of the pro position, he conceived it only a modification of the measure proposed by the Hon. Member for Bridgnorth (Mr. Whitmore.) A great fault which attached to the measure was, that a remedy cf the kind recommended encouraged au idea that the Corn Laws were the cause of the misery which was endured. He did not like to promote such a delusion. Besides, he had been informed that the &shades of the question bad caused on the bonded corn an askant' In price of cent. per cent. Hr was strongly opposed to a proposal for investing Ministers with a power, for the exercise a which nut the Government, but the Parliament, was to be responsible. Sir JOHN BRYDGES was of opinion that it was a fallacy to expect the distressed minufacturers would be relieved by chtap bread, when they h a d no t the money tis buy it with. He would not oppose the bringing up - derstandiag on both sides of the Home when this subject was agitated last Session, that nothing would House, done in it until after the return of the Noble Lord to this country from Ida Government. Mr. F. PALMER said that as this Officer was a very important witness in this caw, he ought not to be allowed to leave, or rather be sent out of the country, lest the public should form their own inference. Lerd E. SOMERSET' said he had heard with surprise the observations of the Hon. Members for N .Ith amber land and Reading, with respect to his Noble Relative. Those statements were unfounded. The Governor had of Justice in Dublin Lord KING said that he had seen a printed Report, of which a second edition was preparing. which seemed to him to interfere with the privileges of their Lordships, and to contain what he consi• dered to be a scandalous and malicious libel on the House. He would not say a false one, because it might perhaps be true; but their Lordships would recollect that some Judges had decided that truth added to the atrocity of the libel. The Noble Lord then read the following passage from Mr. Jacob's Report :—" The policy of England with respect to commerce will not be extended to the Corn Laws, as there is no doubt that the influence of the Members of the House of Lords, whose interest is at variance with that of the com- munity at large, will prevail." He did not know whether their Lordships would call the printer of this libel to state at their liar from whom he had received it; but he could refer them to the votes of the House of Commons, where they would find an order, dated the 14th of March, for priming that libel, and laying it on the table of that House. Perhaps, the best way to remedy the evil would be to ask a free conference with the Commons No such conference, he was told, however, had taken place for a century, and when it had last occurred, the Commons and the Lords had come to high words—some even said to blows. He did not know bur this might again be the case. The seal of tl.e Noble and Learned Lord, and of those who supported the agricultural interests, might bring them into contact with its opposers. The Right Hoe. Gentle• man, at the head of the Board of Trade, might lay violent hands of the Noble and Learned Lord, and a Right lion. Secretary of State might come and give him a back-handed blow. It was, however, proper to step in, and to relieve their Lordships as a body front the serious imputations cast upon them. Should they be of that opinion, be should have no objection to move—That a Message be sent to the Commons, to ask for a free Conference. After a few words from the Earl of Limeetcx, who thought that to take any notice of the passage In question might place both Houses in an inconvenient situation, the subject was dripped. Viscount DUDLEY and WARD, in presenting a Petition from the Roman Cuing:es of the County of Roscommon, praying for total Emancipation, said that if he had any influence with the Ca tholics, he would advise them to defer to the opinion of that autho rity to which they had entrusted the defence of their cause, as to time and tone. Their affairs were in good hands—in the hands of men, many of whom had made great sacrifices for them, and how ever unfounded might be the opinion that it would be dangerous to admit them to aU the privileges of the Constitution, a continuance of loyal conduct and patient spirit under provoking circumstances, was the best answer which they could give to tbcse who thought them unfit to be trusted with those privileges. As to the question of Emancipation, be adhered to the vote which he had given for the last twenty years. His opinion had been strengthened by reflection and experience. Every year increased the inconvenience of the present system. The nation had struggled through great difficulties, and, he trusted, would outstand them all; but until it were properly settled, the Catholic question would always remain the weak point of this great, victorious, and otherwise invincible country. The Petition was then laid on the table.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. HUME presented a Petition from an individual named Wringslaw, complaining of the misappropriation of the Panda of Rugby Sch ool. On the second reading of the Bill to empower the disposal of the suns of 41000 to elect Fellowships for the Masters of the School, Mr. ELLICE said, that although they thought this honour held out to the Masters was likely to procure better ones for the school, yet he was of opinion that the sum of 10001. would be better laid out in educating at poor, which he believed was the original in tention of the donor. He would narrowly watch the progress of the Bill in the Committee, and would vote against the measures which the Bill intended to authorises—The Petition was referred to the Committee on the Bill. Mr. CURTEIS presented a Petition from the Hop Planters of a parish in Kent, praying that the duty on Hops might be taken off. On the modes of Captain Gumbos, the Colonial Steam Naviga tion Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Irish Benefices' Bill went through a Committee of the whole House.—Ordered for a third reading to-morrow, and then to be engrossed. Mr. HUME presented a Petition from several Seamen and Ship owners, complaining of the system of impressing men for the Royal Navy, which was fraught with injustice and cruelty. The Hon. Member entirely coincided in the prayer of the Petition, and hoped it would meet with the mama attention of the House.—Ordered to, be printed. On the negation of Sir T. Acetone, the Parish Apprentice Bill was find for a third reading to-morrow. Lord A. HILL presented three Petitions against Slavery—from Bandon Bridge, from Guildford, and from Mayo, in Ireland.— Ordered to be printed. Mr. PT M presented two similar Petitions, which were laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. H. DAVIS presented a Petition from the Licensed Vic tuallers of Bristol, against the Alehouse Licensing Bill.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. RSTCOURT moved the Order of the day far a Committee on the Alehouse Licensing Bill. After a short conversation between Mr. Hums, Mr. F. Poloist, Captain Moariudiv, and Mr. liarcouat, the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. Mr. HUME presented a Petition from an individual named Charles Gloves, complaining of the present system of granting Licenses.—Laid on the table. Mr. DA VENT ORT presented a Petition from the Mayor, Aldermen, and others of the town of Congleton in Cheshire, pray ing that a part of the Corn now in Bond in this country sh ould be issued withput any Duty, for the benefit of the Poor Distressed Manufacturers.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. FELLOWES presented a Petition from Huntingdon, against any alteration In the Corn Laws.—Ordered to be printed. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE presented a Petition from a Com.