Star. — London, England, 1830-12-08 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION. STAR OFFICE, Frvz o'CLocK. The assassin mentioned in a previous article is James Fisk. He has been loitering about the town for the last eight or ten days ; in the course of which he purchased a large sharp-pointed knife, such as are used by pig-butchers. He bought a pistol likewise, both of which deadly weapons were for the purpose of assassinating some Member of the House of Lords. The knife was concealed up the sleeve of his right arm ; and• the pistol was wrested from him, when he attempted to fire it at one of the messengers of the House of Lords. He is a native of Cork ; but, from papers found in his possession, it appears he was lately employed as a mate in a vessel belonging to Liverpool. He is at present handcuffed, and in the custody, at the Home Office, of the Marshall of the House of Lords, and • posse of the police ; and as his offence was committed in the House of Lords, he is to be brought to the bar of their lord ships this evening ; from which he will be handed over to Sir Richard Birnie, who will be in attendance for the pur pose of receiving and transferring him to the Civil Power, having already sufficient evidence to justify his commitment. Fisk is a stout man, of mean appearance, about forty years of age; dressed in a Friesland kind of great coat, ' well calculated to conceal either daggers or pistols. It is said, that his object was to destroy the Duke of WE LLINGION, with whom he had almost come into contact yesterday. IMPORTANT EXPRESS THIS MORNING. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, Dec. S. At one o'clock 111. Casimir Perrier took the chair, when 31. Car. menin read a proposition, having for Its object to abolish the accumula tion of places. After showing the advantages resulting from this men. tore, he recapitulated several facts to exhibit the absurdity resulting from accumulation. For instance (says he) we have seen chiefs of Bureau filling the situation of attorney-general, the private secretary of a minister counsellor of state, a dramatic censor, an inspector in a sea. Fart ; professors of sciences occupying professorships in towns 150 leagues distant from each other; priests receiving 30,000 francs as ear. !finals, 25,000 as archbishops, 15,000 Prom the Departmental Fund, 13,000 from the state.l3,ooo as peers, besides palaces, indemnities, Ac; ambassadors receiving, independent of their own salary, that of peers, generals, marshals, 3e ; ministers accumulating 150,000 francs as ml. nista', the pay of marshals or lieutenant-generals, and even 'Me nai. ties of forage for their horses ; generals, governors of military divisions where they never set their foot, and intendants.general of thereat army, which has not existed for the last 15 years ; admirals, prefects in sea ports, members of the maritime council in Paris. I might (said M. Curmenin) quote a thousand instancss to prove that accumulation de. routs the budges, and to show the necessity of abolishing it. M. Vauxelles opposed the taking into consideration of the proposi. tion, inasmuch as it would be dangerous to suppress the pensions of the Peers at the moment when they were going to form Into a Justiciary loon. M. Cesar Bacot supported the proposition, which the Chamber use• nimously resolved to take into consideration. The discussion on the levying of 80,000 men then commenced. N. Media de Moot* said that he opposed the project, because, in• need of 80,000 men, he wished that number to be raised to 120,000. The minister (sold he) has given us to understand war was possible t we should be prepared for it. He made a long digression on late events, in which (said be) a stupid tyranny alone was conquered. France is united; we have nothing to dread from the reappearance on our soil of that flag which is no longer stainless; La Vendee has proved that she accepted the reconciliation offered to her by France. when. in 1819, she joined her efforts to those of our army on the Loire, to resist the common enemy. However, as several of the European Powers are arming, let us also run to arms. The only reproach I have to address to the Ministry is not to have called for more money and men. Marshal Soult, Minister of War, said that the proposed augments tion of 40,000 men was not wanted. That the Government had ever means to put the army in the most respectable and formidable agate ; and that it was persuaded no war would take place. Nevertheless (con. tinned the Minister) we are preparing, and taking every measure to en sure success, should war break out. But I repeat, we do not require any augmentation. The enthusiasm in the Departments is such, that that nsniber will be exceeded by the voluntary enlistments, and there is scarcely a single conscript that has not joined his regiment with the greatest alacrity. 11 Audry de Puiraveau read a speech on the necessity of placing the National Guards, the natural defenders of liberty. on a more respect aele tooting. He, however, approved of the project of Government. We cannot rely on the promises of foreign powers. England is late:- wed in the war.—(Loud disapprobation from all sides of the house.) 11. Brigode, after some obsetvations on the necessity of being pre. par.Yl at all events, voted for the allowance. M. Jars refuted the opinion of those who thought that war was India. pohable to continue the revolution. War, said he. is a scourge, a legacy 10 barbarous times. You cannot wish for war, and in order to preserve peen. you are ready to make every sacrifice. Tbr Kings are alarmed by old recollections and by recent catastrophes. We must hasten to remove their fears, by showing them our revolution pure of every es te*, and confining itself within the bounds of a wise liberty. The nets in Paris have been held out to them as an object of terror ; they sere also told that a new propaganda, modelled on that of the revolu. %on of 1789, was about to be formed in Paris. This is an error or a caluniny, which we have sufficiently refuted by our moderation and re. ligiouß respect for the principle of non-intervention. Uenersl BICHEMONS read a long memoir, which the feebleness of bit voice prevented our hearing. The members of both extremities of th t Chamber repaired to the foot of the tribune, and listened to the water with the greatest attention. From whet we could collect be or curnrcended the instant occupation of Belgium by France. He suppli cated France not to trust too highly the friendly assurances of Eftland. Remember, said he, her conduct towards Denmark, when. in time of Pure, she destroyed the Danish fleet, on the simple dread of war. Lind is is always guided by private interests, and she invariably crossed hit the designs of France, which had for their result het aggrandisement and prosperity. She allows us to undertake generous expe ditiuns, and to reap distant laurels ; but there rests her benevolence to tad, us. Since the battle of Hastings until that of Waterloo her po- Itcy has ever been the same. Let us not be deceived by the sympathy sbewn for our Revolution by the anglish people,who admire and approve because they themselves want the reform of many abuses, which they tars struggled in vain to obtain for the last 40 years. Whatever may be I le party in power, Whig or Tary, it is guided by the same principles to %arils us. They will always maintain us within our present limits; "ivy will always oppose our aggrandisement. Remember the Revolts. !..n of 1789; the nation likewise applauded it ; but it nevertheless *Agtil against us a war of extermination. In 1800, when it wanted x, armistice it signed the pa of Amiens, and when our commercial Milian had recommenced, whoa *or expedition to St. Domingo bad Placed us in her power, she declared war against us. England will saver allow France to seise on Belgium. She would willingly give up Zealand to have the harbour of Antwerp fitted up. Fimuictal ember 'aliments slow prevent her going to war. She prevails on us to Deject 'lt offers of a nation of bro&irs, who want to join us. She will make tar when she can do it at her ease, and with perfect C4141•001/00t, 84. All this of Gen. Richemon t ' s discourse repeatedly inter- Nptal tE g vi ol ente was murmurs of both caws& Sebastian', 31inistani Foreign Affairs, refuted the asserdso of lion. Richernont. The armaments in the north are the consequence of I"W i and not indications of war. Tbo railer of Russia was told that wax lissernment was not free that it was under the influence if altection, b 't Base truth was made known to him, ho gave us **AIM assurance of peace. Oen. Sebastian! then 'declared that England was no longer actuated by any old hatred briny& France. She was the fret to admire our moderation and our increasing power. We have, I re peat, the moat positive hopes that peace should be preserved. The Chamber then voted the law. FARNCH FUNDS. Pain, Dtc. S.—Five per Cats. W Abe 91f 91f be 104 91f 91f 26.20 e Ibe 10e 91f 91f 10e Ibe 20c 26e 30c 25e 45c 50.30 e 10. be 9lf Three per Cents. 6lf 80c 90c 62f 62f 10c 624 elf 96c Of 61f Abe 62f 28c 20c 10c elf 96c. Bank Actions, I,Boof. 1695 f Rents de Naples, 68f fok 2k 50c 60e 30e 25c 20c Bente d'Espegue, 12 11g. Royal Spanish Loan, 686 !hate Perpetual, (Minns, 466 46.46! 46 466616 47 46 47 Haytian Loan, 3sOf. Exchange on London--Onehlonth, paper 25f 26c . ; money, 16f 20e. Three months, 26( ; paper 26( 10c. (From the !hamper des Cliambres, dated Dec. 5 ) MARSEILLES, Nov. 28.—(Correspondence of the Mesmer.) —The Captain of a brig which left Palermo on the 14th of Novem ber, and arrived here on the 26th, has brought the following news : The death of the King of Naples was known at Palermo on the 11th; at that time General Nunziante arrived on board a steam-boat. with orders from the new Sovereign to arrest the Viceroy, to seise his papers, and put them under seal. The General allowed the Viceroy only two hours to prepare for his voyage, and they both departed on board the same slams-boat. The Captain of the vessel had promised on his honour to bring back that personage. The Viceroy is the former Lieut.-General of the Police at Palermo, and is accused of having had an understanding with the Austrian Court, contrary to the interest of the hereditary Priam. King Francis I. lately gave him the title of Viceroy. Ferdinand 11. has disgraced him, and seems.to be very ill. disposed towards this old favourite of his father. General Nunalante was so eager to execute his master's orders, that be violated all the Rohm regulations, and landed as soon as be arrived, without showing himself, as be ought to have done, at the Board of Health. His Sicilian Ma jesty has just given the title of Viceroy to Ms brother, Prince Leopold, It was repotted at Palermo, that when the King's death was an- pounced so Ferdinand 11. he seised the will signed by his late father and by the Queen, and tore it in the presence of his courtiers. By one of the clauses of this testament, the Regency was conferred, upon the King's death, upon his brother, the Prince of Salerno, who was at that moment in Austria, and Ferdinand was not to reign till he bad com pleted his twenty-fourth year. The promise which the n ew Ki ng h as made to give a Constitution to his people, has gained him all hearts, and it is hoped that he will be much more beloved than his father. On the day of General Nunziante's arrival, there was a general review of fire regiments, two companies of artillery, and a battalion of the Royal Guards, being the whole garrison of Palermo. All these troops were made to take the oath of allegiance to Ferdinand 11. Pts iron, Nov. 30.—Terror reigns in Turin. The cannon of the citadel are pointed towards the city ; the carmoniers are at their guns, with their matches lighted. The police keep a multitude of spies, who go into the coffee-bouses, and even private dwellings, The inhabitants dare not utter a word which has any reference to political affairs. People avoid their friends, and are silent even in the bosom of their families.— The Prince of Carignan, the presumptive heir to the crown, who acted so distinguished a part in the revolution of 1821, and who is neverthe less disgraced because he for a moment showed himself liberal, and also because he Interferes with the pretensions of the Duke of (*la den'', bad lmtg inhabited Turin, but without being allowed to appear at Court. The King, who fears his Whence with the army, has just sent for him to Genoa, In order to watch him more narrowly. The Prince will be little better than a prisoner. Letters from Genoa inform us that between the 13th and 15th of November eight of the most respectable inhabitants in the city had been arrested, namely, Messrs. ilriseio, Marini, Tovre, Servaroni, and Morelli, all Advocates and fathers of families, M. Doris, bookseller, and Sig. Baaaano. The name of the eighth has not reached us. They were taken from their homes at night, and conveyed to prison ; and, as strict secrecy is enjoined, there are, perhaps, many other victims who are not known. At Nice there are numerous arrests, and general terror prevails. On the 20th Nov., a Ser. dinian officer set out from the Place Victor, surrounded by childr en, crying, and making other' cry, " Liberty for over !" He went round the ramparts, and passed before the hotel of the Governor. The officers of the guard ordered him to be arrested and conveyed to prison. A re. port was circulated that be was mad. Austria is accused of having de. trounced to the King of Bardinhta pretended conspiracy, to alarm - him, and to induce him to give up his fortresses to the Austrians. Den. 4.—The " Bentinelle Genevoise," of Dec. 1, says, " It is posi tively announced that at Aran, Zurich, Lucerne, Soleure, and St. all, the government has been changed. The canton of Tesin, in Switzerland, has formally refused to give up the Pledmontese refugees demanded by Austria and Piedmont. Baru, Dan. I.—(Private letter.)—There is not a weal of Mill in the statement lately made from Rotterdam, that 7,000 Swiss were on their way to Bois.le-Due, to be employed by the King of Holland against the Belgians. The day for se lli ng Swiss troops to foreign Go vernments has, we Wm gone by for ever, and the bravery and services of its soldiers will be -..nforward devoted to the protection of Swit zerland itself. (Front the Carrier Francais.) The depositions of the witnesses throw much more light upon :the bets connected with the trial of the OX. Ministers than do their own ex. amination‘ They are themselves so many Non mi Ricardo& in every thing except the putting their names to the ordinances—all else appears to have been done by a power independent of them. From what is yet published, we think that the whole weight of the guilt rests upon the head of Charles X. Nobody approved of the ordinances ; and yet they were signed published. What power was this which could oontroul all wills, triumph over all repugnance, and silence all scruples The answer is In every one's mouth. Till lately, France thought it had known ail Charles's tides to its hatred and contempt, but it was mistaken ; his Ministers have made an important addition to his fame ; and them is not now in all its history a monster more deserving of the bitterest maledictions. It was left for these details to prove to Europe that even unmeasured ferocity may have its grotesque side; for while the laws were being trampled under foot, the streets of Paris bathed in blood, and the throne itself tottering to its fall, a gentleman of the Bedchamber declines going into the King's closet till 20 minutes bad elapsed ! During these 110 minutes perhaps the fate of the Monarchy was decided. but etiquette was saved The Quolidiennt makes • fierce attack upon that part of 31. Lailtte's speech which related to the Common Indemnity Fund, and adds, sneer. Jingly, that the King, when Duke of Orleans, received nearly eight millions out of this fund, in the distribution made so the emigrants. This is not quite oorrect ; the sum in question was shared between the King and the Princess, his sister. Upon this subject it may not be amiss to observe that, notwithstanding the great inroads which had been made upon his paternal property, the law does not permit his receiving an indemnity in right of succession to his father. The whole of his receipts in right of his mother have bees expended hi the embellish ments of the Palais Royal. Thousands of volunteers have already entered their names for foreign service at Bordeaux, in case France should be compelled to go to war. Lists were forming of a similar nature throughout the south of France, a SPIRI OF THE JOURNALS. Cunoxicr.x.—Lord Altborp, alluding last night to the state of the disturbed districts, observed, that, " in addition to the Commissions already issued, another had peeled the Great Seal, far the trial of offenders iu Buckinghamshire. There would be in the issue of any more commissions considerable difficulty in finding judges to try the accused. He fully concurred with his noble Mend, that none of these persons ought to be tried by the magistrates under whose warrants they were committed, or by any person liable to be swayed by local or any undue in fl uence." This opinion is highly creditable to Lord Al thorp. We trust the principle involved in it will receive in time greater extension. No man ought to be a judge in his own cause; and in ninety.nine cases out of a hundred the Magistrate is judge in his owa case, er hajadoss in a similar cause of his neighbour; and his neigh. boar, Is in a similar cause in which he is a party.— Hence the ems under which the psamantry have at length sunk, and from the pessnrcof which they am now main a desperate effort to extricate themselves at the ex of the pesos and security of the country. We artablet the far time to blame in these die. turbances ties die panniry. We am arrised, by a gentleman of the Let at Idest, tbet neding want ben ben mere easy than to have arrested the Mendensis In the asraiisimst. Two or th ree labourers went hen Ohms Mffiumptiffiessing hiss a oomph Omen, and theses couple. Had they been met whit detendistion, they could have made no head. But the Penn Ileglmeates seek fright, and the timers began to think themselves mere feessidebb psimmages then they really were. Thetriding punishment of dues digs' amilmmset, and the recommendation of the Magistrates to the Amen to Wee wages, set the whole country in a dame. A gentlemen ham the inn of Sussex where the disturbances began, seems us that the evil bad its origin there in the same source. From Battle to the liner, s wild, woodland country, of about ten miles is length, and about the sem in Minh, there is oo Manaus* Our informal* tells us, that at the Wednesday before the outrages, as be was to Hastings , be found a mike of men assembled, who were with the esminct of the Overseer—who. bed, they thought, hen unnstennerily severs towards them, and they civilly conducted bin out of the parish. This passed. Os his return on Friday, he hand that they had assembled, and forced the farmers to men se raise their wages. Still this passed. on the Monday and Tuesday the whole diemin was in insturectien The only Magistrate of that pert of limn who hes acted with vigour and ensegy, is fife Webster, aid he bee had two forms Ind in coseslesnes d his Our ieforment had a oseverestisi wish a poison pumeased of • small poperty, as she subject of essebiliing a Watch sad Weed, which be ex ceed himself ftklmely to east. This maw es. marked, that " Sir . 9mlf!ej Webster was wee saved—Mat he bed no business is put nemen forward.w.—Thwo can be little doubt that many Magianism allowed Mir fear of their property to mvail wen their seems of dirty. Ito rid re mark has been szampMM what le every tote's business is is tee's Mennen - The Magic sat. 1116.7gadY to act when their mirky is mischievous; when their services are really wanted they are not to be found. Tress.--It was not without reason that we urged the people gene. rally to mess forward now, with tenfold eagerness, to secure for them selves a solid reform of Parliament,—now, when the Government, br pledged to that all-important measure, may be said to have thrown itself upon the nation, to assist its efforts in the eat cause of freedom against the common enemy. The nation are meeting every wheree—the Lag. lisp, Irish, and l as t, b ut not least valuable ot all, the Scotch—have acceded to the holy league fa favour of a literal, as well as real and practical representation of the people. No where has the pub lic feeling been held in such contempt as In &alai In no part of the empire has the apparatus for oir:, whis per of independent opinion, through the organ of th e ye body, Wen so dexterous and perfect as than In capital of 140,000 inhabitants—the passe wise to Wand pti their interests and wishes has beenestumsillo Isx 33 deems ! Electors,—elected, as their fathers were lobo disoh—the Insaiblo ad. herents of a single family, of which, whatever individual was pointed out By the head of it has had their votes fee a seise of and with as much right to designate himself the mamba fe " Ellehargh" as for London, Pols, or New York. Imre* an inghnd to be an over grown Old Serum and you have arm idsa Odle system of Scotch re presentation. Ac cordingly, the peurieelrisedeed have shuck upon the heated iron of this great aisle, and bentletiased ill lop. mg with a unanimity, in which an honest government most see Is met powerful support, and a corrupt or oppressivesseits innellatedeetuldl, it they will have reform. Even the corporations b* to dud that disk hour is come, and, folding up their robes, they pigpen tots with diseeocy. That of Glasgow has acknowledged its own ansthatiso to be -s which requires amendment. But a meeting has taken place at Edinburgh, to which public attention ought to be pointedly invited, where the people of the highest character and i n fl uence crowded the spacious assemZ e . rooms in George-street, listening with eagerness io the indignant con. demnation pronounced by many able speakers upon the degrading condition under which those who ought to form the constitu ency of Scotland have been so long deprived of their most obvious rights ; and passing, without a dissentient voice, re. solutions which indicated that they would no longer submit to the privation When we recollect that the whole body of Scotch electors, as well for counties as for burghs, amounts only to something about 2,500 voters,--not above half as many as are polled at any contest for a moderate-sized English county, we can the better sympathise with Mr. Adam Black (Master of the Merchant Company), who exclaimed, " One only wonders that this wretched system should have found abettors and supporters for so many generations. Is it not as true as it is humiliating to Scotland, that the Scotch Members ate a proverb and 6 by-word for subserviency, even to the moat profligate Mi nisters, whoconstantly look to this steady phalanx fortheir unflinching aid in all crusades against liberty at horn and abroad, in the perpetrating of every job, and the maintaining of every abuse ?" " Who supported the Bathurst and Dundee job ? How did the Scottish Members vote on the last decisive question of the civil list ? We find that 30 voted for a large and long-continued expenditure, without inquiry. and only seven for inquiry and retrenchment." This appears to us a satisfactory proof that the Scotch are neither blind to their political situation, nor likely to remain dumb as to its vices and disgrace. It is at the same time requisite to add, in the words of another eloquent member of the same meeting, ,- that although we have won the government, we have " not yet won the legislature." That, indeed, is true: one branch more particularly of the legislature has not yet been won to the cause of re. form—we mean the House of Lords; and we would, therefore, with much deference, put it to their lordships to outsides how deplorable— how desperate—how lost--would be their condition. if, unhappily, the , Homo of Commons should pass a bill for a substantial and thorough purification of Parliament, and the House of Lords venture to reject that hill ! So much for the principle of reform. With respect to the details of it, much, doubtless, is yet to be determined. POST.—The advertisement for a Master-General of the Ordnance has at length been answered to the satisfaction, we presune, of Lord Grey, and he has not been reduced to the painful necessity of finding another member of his family to fill a lucrative office. We doubt, indeed, whe ther he could have had recourse to that alternative. We have searched the Peerage Book narrowly, and can find no relative of his Lordship now unprovided for. We do not hesitate to say, that the country will be glad of the embarrassment which has compelled this ultra-libmal and disinterested minister to seek, in the person of Sir James Kemp—an ex cellent officer and an able man of busineer—fis a Master-GeneraL— What the wishes and intentions of Lord Grey have been with re spect to this office, and how his Lordship would have filled it, If a series of blunders and disappointments, without parallel in the history of official arrsngemsot, bad not defeated his intentions, is too well known to the pnb ie. Wears told that Sir James Kemp is not to be in Parliament, and the office wW therefore in his person not be political. Was it with such a view that it was offered to the Duke of Richmond ? And, when his Grace was found not to be qualified, that it was tendered to Sir Willoughby Gordon ? And when Sir Willoughby would not take it without accompaniments which Lord Grey promised but could not give that It was offered to other political characters ? Truly, the whole conduct of the Premier in this matter of the Ordnance is as little creditable to him hi his character of a political leader as any passage in his political life.— Sir James Kemp will do credit to himself, whatever be the situation in which be may be placed. His appointment, after all the trick s th a t preceded it, dom no credit to my Lord Grey. THIRD EDITION. - - hOUSE OF ITIIIS DAY. Gnat interest was excited, as it was expected that Fisk, the man who attempted to shoot one of the officers of the House of Lords, after undergoing an examination at the Home Office, would be brought up before their lordships ; but it was afterwards stated that Lord Mel. bourne would explain to the house the whole of the examination, and that the man would be delivered over to the civil authorities. None of the ministers were in attendance up to nearly six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TiIIs DAT. The gallery was not opened till half.paat four o'clock, in consequence of there being a ballot to try the merit,, of the Rye Election. Mr. KNOX moved for a new writ for Dungarvon, in the room of the Honourable J. KNOX, who had accepted the stewardship of the ChM tern Hundred.'. Sir J. NEWPORT presented a petition from St. John's, Water. ford, for the repeal of the union. Ile said it was unnecessary for him to repeat that he was wholly against the prayer of this petition ; he con. sidered that compliance with its prayer would be of the most ruinous consegnences. He then moved for returns respecting the produce of the first fruits of Ireland during the last three yeas.—Ordered. Mr. O'HARA and Lord UXBRIDGE presented petitions from Galway, for the extension of the Elective Franchise. Several petitions were presented against Negro Slavery. Mr. DYSON appeared with the list fur the election of the Ryde Election Committee. TAX ON NOMINATES& Mr. STRUTT presented a petition 'ping the tax on newspapers, which was a tan on knowledge. It encouraged ignorance, and when offences were committed resulting from ignorance, the parties were pu. Dished, and they considered unjustly, bemuse they were debarred the means of obtaining knowledge. Be trusted that the member for Dover, (Mr. P. Thompson) would persevere in the motion of which he had heretofore given notice. The petition was from the operatives of Derby. The pedtionars laid, give them knowledge, and they would answer for the peace of the country. Mr. WARD presented a similar petition. Several petitions were resented, praying for Reduction of Taxation. There is no doubt of the Master-Generalship of the Ordnance having been given to Sir Jamey Kempt. We can state, that Mr. Evelyn Denison, who has lately failed in the Liverpool Bleak°. has Dot been appointed Secretary to the Board of Controul. Lord Sandon has received that office. We are assured by a Gentleman in Paris on whom we can rely, that M. Posse di Borges, the Russian 11x.Antbareadoe, sent on Sunday last to several Russians in Peril; to wait upon him, and he counselled them to leave Paris without delay. We leave the informs. don, and the inference from it, for our readers, without inquiring whether M. Pomo di Borges could have obtained information from his Court subsequent to the change of Ministry here or not.—Chreisicfr. Some erroneous statements have gone abroad with respect to the appointments by the Lord Chancellor. It will be seen by the following, which are the only appointments yet made, that his Lordship has continued all the persons whom be found in durations except ewe, who have been seeaeded by Mr. Visaed and his Clerk, Mr. Fisher : Win' Visara t Req. Secretory of Bankrupts; John Lowdhatti, Bark Secretary of lainatica ; Beals Le Merchant, Nee. Principal Secretery Dynely, /eq. Secretary of Pleseatetions ; Mr. John Fisher, First Gentleman of the Clamber; Mr. John Miller, semi ditto; Mr. Henry Matte, Train Beane. The Earl of Carlisle attended the Cabinet Council hellion Saturday at the Foreign OiSce. Sir J. Graham was ab sent, having left town to attend his re-election for the County of Cumberland. Earl Grey, Viscount Beresford, Lord Hill, lard F taro; Somerset, and Count Munster, bad audiences yesterday of the King. IMPERIAL PAR lAA M ENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, DEC. 7. The Regency Bill was carried to the Commons by Judges Pat'tkaa and Alderson, who attended the House for that purpose. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented several petitious from Ireland. for a noble and gallant Marquis ( Anglesey), and expressed his sincere belief that the noble marquis would greatly promote the intrre►t of all classes in that part of the United Kingdom. One of the petitions was from the Chamber of Commerce, in Dublin, praying that the bank rupt laws in England and Ireland may be assimilated. Another pe:i. don prayed for a more equal distribution of the public grants for pro moting education in Ireland. There was also a petition for a repeal of the duties on seaborne coals. POOR LAWS. The Duke of RICHMOND, in tits absence of the Marquis of Sails. • bury, moved that the evidence taken from time to time bdime the S Committee on the Poor laws, be printed.—Ordered. The noble duke also moved, that the said eoanniuee be empowered to report th:ir pro ceedings from time to time, as they may think fit —Ordered. Sir A GRANT, and several members from the Commons, brought up the Consolidated Fund Surplus Bill ; which, on the motion of Lord AUCKLAND, was read the first time. Petitions against Negro Slavery, were presented from various dis senting congregations, by Lord Deere, Lord Calthorpe, Lunt Bexley, and the Bishop of London. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Dsc- 7- The House ballotted for the following Election Committem the members of which were sworn at the table u follows MAITIWOR I'llll'loX. Hon. Lloyd Kenyon, Earl of Uxbridge, Mr. Ralph Bernal, Sir J. Banal, Sir B. Harrison, Load Brabazon, Sir C. E. Smith, Mr. C. B. Wall, Hon. F. A. Prittie, Hon. R. Fizgibbon, Right lion. T. P. Courtenay. NEW •OWNEY PETITION. Mr. G. Trail', Mr. P. Thomson, Mr. C. Russell, Mr. M. 31 illuank, Hon. W. Duncombe, Sir K. Scott, Hon. J. H. Krox, Mr. E. Rogers, lr. J. L. Lushington, Mr. SI. Bamford, Mr. H. Maxwell. ILCIIESTER PETITION. Mr. E. Blount, Hon. G. Pore Campbell, Mr. H. L. Stevens. Mr. J. 0. Shelley, Lord D. C. Stuart, Mr. Purey. Mr. J. A. Smith, Sir W. A. Inlleby, Mr. W. Buck, Mr. H. J. Mean, Mr. T. Green. CORI PETITIOW. Mr. J. Lawley, Mr. S. White, Mr. S. Percival, Mr. C. Blackett, Lord V. Maitland. Mr. T. Chaplin, Lord Russell, Alr../. Hayward Hawkins, Mr. J. Calaaft, Hon. W. Browne, Sly. J. It. Lee. AZGINCY lIILL. A Message from the Lords brought up the Regency Bill. Agreed to by their lordships. On the motion of Lord ALTHORP the bill was read a first time and ordered to be read a second time on Thursday. Lord ALTHORP gave notice that on Thursday he should move fur the appointment of a Committee to inquire into what reductions might be made Wu salaries of officers under the Crown (loud cheering.) The noble i also gave notice, that on Friday he should move for a vote on account of the Civil List. Sir H. PARNELL inquired whether Government meant to propose any amount of Civil List, or to wait fur the report of the committee now sitting. Lord ALTHORP said it was the intention of Government to propose • Civil List to the House, in the shortest possible time after the Chris. mast recess; and he believed the Committee would not think it neces sary to make a report before Government should lay their proposition before the House. Mr. DAWSON said he had heard from report that the Lord Chan cella of Ireland was to retire, to make room for a successor. He thought it quite unnecessary that the country should be put to the expense of 4,0001. a-year retiring allowance foe such a purpose, and wished to know whether it was intended. Lord ALTHORP said he had ;unheard the report as the Right Honourable Gentleman had beard it, and was not prepared to give an answer. Sir R. PEEL said, a Committee having been appointed to report on the Civil List, he did not think that Government should interfere with their proceediags, by proposing a Civil List before the Committee made its report. Mr. JOHN WOOD said, be thought it was not for the right hon. gentleman, who had opposed the appointment of the committee, to prevent government proposing a civil list to the house on their own re. sponsibility (bear). The right hon. gentleman was mistaken, it he supposed gentlemen on that side of the house would support him in impeding the proceedings of government (hear. hear.) Sir It PEEL said, he did not think the hon. gentleman should lec ture him for merely suggesting that the civil list was now in the hands of a committee appointed by the house. Lord ALTHORP said It was the intention of government to submit a civil Ust to the house on their own responsibility (hear). Mr. HODSON moved for a return of the number of electors in each of the cities and boroughs sending Members to Parliament in the United Kingdom. Mr. BANKES opposed the motion, on account of the great UR eulty and expense of making it. Mr. CROKER said, it was often a question that came before t 'urn mittees of that House to decide who were the electors of cities and boroughs, and be believed the House would not delegate the right of deciding to any officer. Lord A LTHORP suggested the propriety of withdrawing the mo. Lion, and making it in a more precise form. Mr. HODSON withdrew the motion, and gave notice of bringing it forward to.morrow. Mr. TENNY.SaN said, he wished to ask the right hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Ooulburn) whether it was true that the Duke of Wel. linguist had recommended the granting of several pensions after he had dalartd in the House or Lords that he had resigned his oaks, and only held ii till his successor was appointed ? Mr. GOULBURN said, he knew that one pension bad been granted on the day the noble duke made that declaration ; be did not know of more than one. bk. KENNEDY moved for leave to bring in a bill to regulate fu ture entails is Scotland. Sir G. CLERK said he believed there could be no objection to the principle of the bill ; but he thought there might be considerable diffevence of opinion in the details. There was Laded property in the Northern Confides of Scotland to the amount of half a million In the market at present. Mr. FERGUSON hoped the question would receive more attention than it did in tbs last session. It was the most important measure re. specting Scotland that had been introduced since the Union. Sir W. RAE thought the subject was one of the moat difficult that could be entertained by the house. He wished it could be talt.n up by the other House of Parliament, as he feared it was Impossible to deal with it with effect in that house, but he should not oppose the motion. Alr. KENNEDY said he was not guilty of the presumption of bring. int forward a bill on his own responsibility. Two committees had sat on the subject, and recommended the bill. Leave was given to bring in the bill, and two others on the same subject. Mr. IL DRUMMOND moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws for making turnpike roads in Scotland. Sir M. W. RIDLEY suggested that the mail coaches in Scotland should be exempt from the payment of tolls, as well as in England. Sir G. CLERK said, the present regulation of the tolls of mail coaches had been agreed to after mature consideration. Leave was given to bring in the bill. . Mr. RIDLEY COLBURN asked whether it was the intention of Government to Issue more special commissions than they had already issued for the trial of offenders in the disturbed counties. He was anxious that special commissions should issue for all the counties, ra. thee than leave the offenders to be tried by the committing magistrates. Lord ALTHORP said, special commissions had issued for three counties, and another was preparing for Buckingham. It is net possible to Issue more at present, without interfering with the regular adminis. tendon of justice. Mr. G. LAMB moved for a return of the expense of the Aletropoli. tan Police, and the expense of the Nightly Watch fur the same dis. tricts previuus to the establishment of the police. Sir R. PEEL remarked, that in receiving the report great aitko:ion should be paid to the nature of the items, as many would appear on the first year's return that would not constitute a portion of the after stows' expenditure. Mr. WILKS said the system of polite was much complained of, as inefficient and expensive. Ile ammerated several parishes where the rates had increased—in Shoreditch 10001. St. Lake's 13001. abil in Christchurch, Surrey, from 13001. the rate had rises to 10001. and be. sides it bad bees found necessary in many places to continue the old watch as private watehinen. Mr. ti. LAMB said, he had bestowed great attention upon the sub. jeer, and he was convinced that when the accounts were examintd upon the principle laid down by Ole boo. baronet, the result would be very different from what was germ* bessiami. He had not heard of the practice of retaining private waldmiss gloomily : he knew of one in. 'tam . but that was where some al Wm had a fancy to have the bouts called through the night.—Motion wood to. CODISSITITIC OF SUPPLY. The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up and agreed to. CISAUPPAIDLE ISISTITUTIOXL . BILL. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, in moving the mewed reeding of the Charitable Institution Bill, took occasion to observe that the object of the Bill was to exclude Rathbun Hospital from the payment effete* be lighdag, 114. To this there were stoned two objectless, namely, that the hospital was in the receipt of large sums of messy and, se. Goodly, that tbs Marital scowled • large space if grwari, aod, therefore, so& to contribute to the saposess of the pith& With re spect to the loge same which k wart mid the hospital was in pm - - maims of, be mold assure die Howe that he Whoa into the Disuse and ho found that the sueplus, after the szpsuass, was very trifling, I T.