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ner, the country will only view from afar the atoms tint tlittutb the repose of the nations. At all events, there are no tyrannical acts of the go. vanuient to cause popular tumult. Wherever the people have assembled, they have rendered justice to their governors; they have only accused in. stitu dons, and required ameliorations in the social system. Every petition every step they have taken, has been dictated by this sentiment alone. The moderation cf the different governments is equally worthy of praise . Resistance on their part would have caused frightful consequences, and have inspired alarm without, and caused lamentable convulsions within This was felt by the governments, and by mild and judicious measures they have brought the popular excitement. down to a regular tone. At Zurich, Lucerne, Argsu, Thurgau, and Soleure, new compacts are form. ing, ameliorations are promised, guarantees are given, and governments bare yielded to the general feeling. Throughout the cantons the deli. iterations of the councils have been grave and solemn, inspired by alove of the country, and by the desire of presetring it, as it has ever been— noble and pure." COLOM BIA. PROCLAMATION OF BOLIVAR TO HIS COUNTRY. The public calamities which have reduced Colombia to a state of anarchy, forces me to quit the repose of retirement, to fulfil my duties as a citizen and a soldier. Many of you call me that 1 may assist in freeing the republic from the alarming desolation which threatens it. Penetrated with the sincerest gratitude, I promise to fulfil, to the utmost of my abilities, the confidence with which you have honoured me. I offer you all my zeal to co-operate vrttli you in the re-union of the familia. Colombia, at present sunk in the horrors of civil war, it belongs to you to save her, and to unite your selves to the government, which our common danger has placed at your head. Forget, I entreat you, even your passions ; for, without this sacrifice, Colombia will be no more ! You will, otherwise, leave th Inglorious reflection that a people, who did not respect themselves, sacri ficed their glory, their liberty, and their existence. But, no ! Colom bians, you are obedient to the voice of your religion, and your country. You respect the magistrates, and will obey the laws; and, by these n:eans, you will save Colombia. " BOLIVA R. " Carthagena, Sept. 18, 1830." It appears that at Rio Hache the people and the authorities had declared themselves against Bolivar, and that they had seized a vessel belonging to him on Its way to Corsa*. Bolivar remained at Tor bacco on the 3d of October last, but was to proceed on the following day for Barranquilla, on his way to Santa Dlartha. General Mon tilla had preceded him, with all , the troops that could be spared from Carthagena. The militia had been called out, and were doing garrison duty. The Carthagena Mail bas brought letters from Bogota to the 21st of September. After the conflict which terminated in that city, on the 28th of August, in favour of the party who appear to have come for ward to insist on the removal from the Government of persona who had been strongly suspected of having been concerned in a high political offence in Sept. 1829, the President, Vice-President, andel' the Minis ters, resigned their offices. From the moment of this point being gained the city was restored to tranquillity. On the 9d September, a meeting was held of the Cabildo and " Pa dna de familia" of Bogota, who immediately determined on sending a' Commission to Carthagena, to invite General Bolivar to resume the Presidency of the State, and appointed General Urdaneta, a man of experience and respectability, as president ad isterisn. At the de parture of the mail from Bogota, General Bolivar's intention in respect to this invitation could not be known. The English had been in a state of considerable alarm during the contest between the two parties (which lasted from the 10th to the 28th August), in consequence of the adverse feeling entertained to.. wards all foreigners by the party dislodged from power. The energetic exertions of Mr. Turner, the British Minister for the protection of British interests, In every event that could have been contemplated, are spoken of with satisfaction and thankfulness by the British residents. Trade had been completely at a stand, but h was beginning, by the last letters, to resume its usual course. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. Trams.—The declaration of the Duke of Wellington in the House of Lords, on Thursday evening, with respect to the late revolutions on the continent, has excited much conversation, and provoked 'several se vere remarks, the knowledge of which It would be uncandid to withhold from his Grace. At his disapprobation of the Belgic commotion we are not altogether surprised : it is certainly an affair of much more du bious merit, and, we might even say, of a totally different character, from that by which it was preceded in the neighbouring country. How ever, foreign nations and governments will be pleased to observe, that the Duke is no longer a Minister,—that he no longer directs the councils of this country,—and therefore, were his censure much more decided of the efforts by which the kingdom of the Low Countries has been broken in twain, and its Sovereign dispossessed of one-half, it is only the censure of a private person of high rank in civil society, and of great and just military re nown throughout Europe. It has nothing warlike in it, unless his Grace were the chief Minister of State, and at the head of a majority in Parliament. With respect to the revolution in France, we do not think, more particularly at this time, when the whole conduct of that misera ble creature Charles X. has been: brought to light through the evidence adduced before the Chamber of Peen, that any man in his senses can do other than approve of the removal of such a wretch from the kingdom, or can smother the feelings of admiration which rise in his breast at the gallantry of that people who asserted their rights to have at least some thing human to reign over them, he being ebvioualy much below huma nity. But a good act may b e drawn into a bad example, and it may be in this sense, that the D u ke of W e lli ngton t h oug h t or designated the happy events of July and August last as " misfortunes." Nay, we observe that in another part of his speech he says—" This" (i. c. the mischief in England) " has been encouraged and heightened by the misrepresentations and false ideas, which have been too generally cir culated throughout the country. of the causes and chancier of the un fortunate events which occurred last summer in an adjoining kingdom, sad above all, by a want of knowledge on the part of the people, of the real n a t ure o f t h ose events, an d of the mischiefs sure to follow front their imitation.' The nature or the event in France was a most ttngrateful and unworthy ant ropt on the part of the Sovereign to over throw the constitution : nobody doubts, or can doubt, that a brave '•eople arrested his detestable project ; the mischief would be, if others, :ti,out a similar provocation, were to attempt the ovine course. lIERALD.—The determination of rtlinisters to submit their own -sissies to a Select Committee of the House of Commons, with a view to reduction, shows that they are resolved to begin the promised work of retrenchment and economy at the right end. The late Administration began exactly at the opposite end, and stopped there. They contented ' themselves with cutting down the salaries of hardworking clerks, who auc in general nut overpaid, while they left untouched the splendid ' revenues which the idle and pampered children of patronage drew from the public purse. This was a one-eyed economy which looked with mi croscopic glance to small matters but was blind to great profusion. Who can wonder that the public were disgusted when they saw the hard-earned pittance of industrious men reduced, while those who scarcely lent more than th e i r names to pu bli c offices, an d whose mode of attending upon the business of their departments, showed that they considered themselves more for ornament than use, were allowed to pocket t h e un di m i n i s h e d .mount of their extravagant salaries ? Thus industry was taxed to sup port indolence—and the acquirements and experience requisite for the public service in various departments of the State were obliged to sub 'Ha to severe sacrifices, that luxurious incompetency might con. iinue to revel in its unearned riches undisurbed ! It does Lut require any reasoning to prove that that reforms was but a delusion and a mockery, which appli e d i ts prun i ng- k n i fe unly to th e s m a ll t w i gs , but left the broad branches of pro. digal expenditure untouched. We hail, therefore, with pleasure another era when, so fur as political connection or f a mily influence from being a hindrance to retrenchment, which render s o ffi cial e x travagance t h e in violable ri g h t o f a particular class, that ministers set the example of an impartial and equitable reduction of the public salaries, by submit. ling their own in the first instance to the revision of a Parliamentary unimittte. CHRONIC'. e. --Nothing has, we believe, contributed so much to the I :romans:idol ) of the southern counties as the existence of tithes • and I i 4 astonishing how a t ax so oppressive in in operation should have INen so long suffered. There are at the present moment several dl.. .ricts in which the tenth of the gross produce actually absorbs all the • iirplus after defraying the charges of cultivation, leaving nothing foe roil. From this cause many estates have been thrown on the owners, "no have the mortification of seeing the titheholder derive a large t rout lands whi c h y i e ld hi m nothing. In some of the clay s, for "tuna, the produc e , though great, can only be obtained by an enoe. 'loos expenditur e fo r l a b our . I n a season like the last, the tenth of the ! , reduce may often in such lands considerably exceed the surplus, and :nos not merely a b sor b t h e rent, but encroach on the capital of the ettl. ivator. Hence the temptation to throw the charges of cultivation on the lii iie.owner, by making the labourers paupers and defraying wages out 0 the rates. It seems strange that the mode of paying an artablish rnent appointed for the avowed purpose of improving the mends of a maple should be the very means by which the month of tin pal& are destroyed. Yet so it is throughout England. The mode of paying the Clergy must be changed, or most assuredly the Church will not long continue to exist. There must be a permanent commutation—not a commutation from time to time—and then owners and occupiers of land may expend money in cultivation without apprehension of others sharing in produce obtained from their outlay alone. We know, too, that in many instances the distress might have been matcrhlly relieved, but fbr the influence of tithes. There arc few ranxllch in which there are not pieces of land of little value to the owner, from which men without employment might obtain crops equal at least to the value of their labour ; but when schemes of this kit d have been attempted, the Clergyman, (as we know in several instances) by putting in his claim fora tenth, has instantly caused them to be aban doned, the tenth in such cases being an enormous rent. So well known is the determination of owners and occupiers of land to have a perms.. nent arrangement with regard to tithes, that advowsons, at present, are absolutely unmarketable. The support of the Establi..hed Church ins '. suitable manner is what no one feels disposed at present to oppose; but this object ought not necessarily to produce distress and demorali- sation. With respect to Lay-impropriators, they must be dealt with on the principle of fair compensation. The interests of individuals in possession of livings must also be respected. But with respect to the Church itself, as, like all other Corporations, its existence depends on the good-will of the State, the State may also determine the mode in which it shall be supported. It is clear that in Ireland the question approaches rapidly to an issue ; and that In this country the owners and occupies' of land are looking anxiously forward for relief from the op pressiveness of the tithe system. TIMICII.—Tbe death of a Pope, was never leas likely to occasion any sensation in the world than at the present m oment . I n the first place, the chief nations of Europe are too much occupied with their internal affairs—their own civil and political rights--to think of the fate of an old man in a distant capital. In the second place, the ecclesiastical power or influenceof the Court of Rome has of late diminished so much, beyond the precincts of its temporal authority, that foreigners have scarcely any political interests at stake in any fresh transfer of the triple crown from one head to another. The trench, by their new char ter have deposed the Roman Catholic religion from being the reli gion of the state ; and by a recent law have declared a Jewish Rabbi as much entitled to a salary from Government as a Catholic Archbishop. It was formerly thought a great feat in a French Ministry to procure a red hat for one of their dignified eccle siastics. Now we find s proposition ander discussion in the Chem. berg, to deprive the French Cardinals of the pensions which they received to maintain their new dignity as Princes of the Church. Some per. sons are even daring enough to recommend the deposition of the Catholic Church from the Budget as well as from authority in the State—a change more alarming than that contained in the article or the new charter to which we have alluded. It is not likely, therefore, that Louis Philip, who has exchanged the title of Moil Christian King for that of citizen King, will feel much interest either in the death of one Pope or the accession of another. If the French Cardinals cross the Alps to attend the election at this inclement season of the year, they must do it at their own charges. Even the promotion of one of them to the see of St. Peter would excite little interest at Paris. It will be curious, however, to see the change in the formalities which must take place in the approach of the Catholic Am bassadors to the Princes of the Church assembled in Conclave. bast election we remember M. do Chateaubriand made a flaming speech to these fathers in the name of Charles X. the eldest son of the church.— Will the French King now abandon the rights of his spiritual primo geniture ? Neither in the other enlightened countries of Europe--Bel. gium or Germany, for instance—will there be so much curiosity felt in the personal character or fate of the Pope, as at the last, though very recent, election. The thunder of the Vatican cannot be heard in the clear bright sky of chi' and religious liberty. Even in Ireland the Ca tholic Relief act has deadened its sound, and taken away its tenors. From the extreme old age at which most of those sovereigns of the Catholic world are advanced to the throne, their reign must necessarily be short. Three of them have died within the last five or six years, Pius VII. Leo XII. and Pius VIII. If the holy fathers were sparing in their additions to the sacred college, and if the conclave always 'e lected the oldest or most infirm candidate for promotion, most of the cardinals might enjoy a short taste of supreme power, and consequently of infallibility, before their death. St. Peter would thus have more nu merous successors, and the election of a pope would become nearly as common u that of a lord mayor. Post.—Without imputing to the numerous bodies composing that procession—the Trades—any directly evil intentions, we yet cannot re tract one iota of what we have advanced on the subject. Will it be de. vied that this assemblage was similar in character to those which so alarmed and endanger the metropolis during the trial of Queen Caro. line ? Can it be said that they bad no iniquitous designs in view— that they did not, in fact, meditate treason and revolution. Yet were they fully as peaceable and orderly in their demeanour as that which paraded London on Wednesday last. We have brought no accusation against this particular assemblage; it is the prinpple, which such an array of physical force would seek to este. blish, that we denounce and oppose. A notion is abroad that the congregating in masses, however large or formidable, for the purpose of addressing or petitioning, is warranted by the law of the land. Nothing can be more erroneous than this idea, notwithstanding that it has ob. tained the unction of the present Lord High Chancellor of England. So outrageous a doctrine was never heard as that proclaimed by Lord Brougham in the House of Lords on Wednesday evening. The Learned Lord asserted, that no assemblages of the people, however inconve nient, or even dangerous they may be, are illegal unless acts of open violence are committed ; a principle equally at variance with reason and with the letter of the law; The pas sage of the Act of Parliament which we quoted yesterday expressly prohibits and condemns the presenting or delivering any intl. tion, declaration, or other address, accompanied by excessive numbers of people, or at any time by above the number of ten persons. Reason also leads to the same conclusion, and proclaims this to b e a wi se an d salutary regulation. If the legality 01 any one assembly, organized under whatever pretence of loyalty, be admitted, another becomes equally legal, and a principle would thus be established dangerous in the very highest degree, and which could inevitably result in an utter derange. ment of society. Security fur persons and property is the right of every subject living under a Constitutional Government, and not security only, but the confidence and certainty that it shall not be threatened or disturbed But how can this . confidence exist if the peace of society is to be menaced, at pleasure, by the bru te force of the multitude • if intimidation may at any time be resorted to by displays of the Physical strength of mere numbers One expedient only would remain to be adopted ; the Government must assume a military character, and be ever on the alert to oppose force to force. We need not dwell on the situation to which, under such Prelim stances, the country would be reduced ; yet such would be the infal lible consequence were the principle advanced by the Lord Chancel lor once admitted into the Constitution. We therefore do not dispute the propriety or good intentions of this or that assemblage of immense bodies of people ; their general tendency is dangerous, and it is abso lutely essential to t he safety of the State that no such proceedings should, upon any plea, be sanctioned or permitted. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. BERKSHIRE. RZADIXG. Dec. 9 —There was a farm on fire yesterday, at Shottes. brook, near Maidenhead ; it broke out between four and five, p. tn. There were a wheat rick, two hay ricks, and two straw sheds full of straw, burnt. SUSSEX. A few benevolent persons are about to form a society for improving the condition of the agricultural labourers in this county. It is founded on the consideration, that as them is a surplus of labour in the county, which its low price sufficiently proves, the most effectual relief for it would be to enable the peasant to sell the whole ors portion of his la bour to himself; or in other words, to assign him at a fair rate, to cultivate with his own hands. It has been proved, it seems, by repeated experiments, that 1 acre of land cultivated half potatoes and half eom,will enable the labourer, while earning wages from the farmer at the rate of 2s. a day, to support his family in comfort without any necessity for applying to the parish foe assistance. The Society propose, in the outset, to apply themselves to the obtaining correct information of the situation of the agricultural labourers in various pans of the county, and will promote by all possible means, wherever it may be deemed eligible, the allotment of land and the building of cottages for them. Other objects relative to the moral condition of the peasantry are also included in the plan of this society. The Committee for its formation already includes a number of highly respectable names; and the Duke of Sussex, it is said, has expressed his consent to become its President. The King, it is expected, will be the patron of this society, which is to bear the name of the Peasant's Friend Society. A tumultuous party of three or four hundred persons front the neigh. housing villages lately entered the town of Reepham, in Norfolk. A party of th e let Roya l Dragoons had arrived at that place about a quar ter of an hour before the mob entered, end some of the principal inha. bitanta of the town and neighbourhood were also hastily MOM hi as special constables. T. T. Berney, Esq. and the Rev. J. B. Cony.? (the only Magistrates then present), at the bead of the constables, with the military in the rear, met the mob at the entrance of the town, where they were stopped in their caner; and Mr. Collyer addressed them at considerable length, representing to them the dew and folly of their tumultuous proceedings, the impossibility of con cedi any thing to them by force, the liability they incurred of bringing down upon themselves the penalties of the law, the exertions whi were actually staking by the Government, on whom every reli ance might be ylaced, for the amelioration of their condition, and the necessity of their departing quietly to their respective houses, to pre vent the unhappy consequences to the netdves which would otherwise ensue. The remonstrance of the Magistrates and other Gentlemen had the desired effect—the crowd soon 'ignited their desire to return home, giving a promise that they would never again assemble in the same tu multaous manner. By these Arm bet conciliatory measures, this lugs ' concourse was dispersed, and to the credit of the people, they have kept their words, none of them having been since found in riotous meetings. Wednesday, Dec. Ist, a meeting of the magistrates and other owners and occupiers of land in the hundred, was held at the King's Arms Inn, at Hackford, near Iteepham, to swear in special constables, and for other purposes connected with the constabulary force. At this meeting, resolutions respecting an advance of wages of the labourers, and other measures supposed to be beneficial to them, were moved and passed.— During the meeting, a party of labourers assembled in the market-place of that town, and Mr. Collyer, the chairman of the meeting, was re. quested to inform them, from the window of the inn, of the resolutions I which had just been passed, with a view to their benefit. He accompa nied the communication with an admonition, that the law would be en. forced against those who violated it, with an expression of his reliance on the new Administration to adopt every means for the improvement or the condition of the people, and his confident expectation that from these means, and from the general wish to remedy the evils complained of, much benefit would soon be found to result. The people quietly dispersed, and have since gone to their work with apparent contentment and satisfaction. SUFFOLK. WALPOLE, DEC. B—(Eztract of a letter.)—" As early as eleven o'clock yesterday morning this very beautiful little village presented a scene of the utmost confusion, by the assemblage of about 300 persons, principally farming labourers, who had been summoned by Ithe Magistrates on the previous evening to attend here for the purpose of being sworn in as Special Constables. By twelve o'clock the num. bens hail increased to about 1,000. The Magistrates proceeded to swear in special constables from amongst the neighbouring trades. people, chiefly persons, it may be said, in some degree connected with or dependent on the Slagistracy or their friends ; but the Magistrates had not long proceeded in such useful duty, when a very general agitation amongst the labourers presented itself, displayed in grum bling.. noises, and all sorts of signs of uneasiness, accompanied with exclamations from the crowd of labourers, &c., We are stare. ing 1 Do you want us to be sworn in to starve one another ?" Amidst this confusion, and a tolerably general refusal amongst the agricultural labourers to be sworn in special constables—a refusal which, though :it may have accorded with their own views, was no doubt strengthened by the orders of many of their masters that they would be visited with discharge if they submitted to be sworn in—amidst the confusion that had by this time arisen, Major Bence, une of th?. 31a. gistrates in attendance, entered into some dialogue with one of these malcontents. He was indeed knocked down, and in the scuffle be lost his hat ; he, however, was soon afterwards enabled to recover his legs, and to regain his hat, and the worthy Magistrate (f am informed) then made the best of his way home, without staying even to attempt to swear in any more special constables from amongst such a disorderly group. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Km. Asaress Tail DAT—Dublin, I. The Faith, Cornish, from Smyrna, has arrived at Ilfracombe, leaky. The Good Intent, Ford. from Yougball to Portsmouth, was driven on shore near Yougball during the late gale, and must discharge. The Canada, Graham, from New York, was on shore on West Hoyle Bank on Thursday evening. The Unity, from London to liarmouth ; and Eliza, from Bordeaux to Dunkirk, were wrecked near Exmouth on Monday night. The Eliza, Wise, from London, has arrived at Plymouth, with da mage, and loss of rudder, bound to Philadelphia. Dux, Dec. 10.—Wind N.W. light breeze.—Arrived from the River, and sailed, the Parmelia tr.nsport, with sealed orders. Sailed his Majesty's cutter Linnet, for the Westward. Porrsmouxu, Dec. 10.—Wind N.W. by N.—Arrived his Majesty's brig Royalist, from Plymouth ; and Speedy, Filcher, from Lisbon.— Off the Wight, the Lonach. Cotgrave. from Bombay—sailed the 18th July, and Cape of Good Hope 6th October • Hannibal. Hebard. from New York; and Matilda. Mitchell, from eephalonia. PLYI4OI7TU, MC. 9 —Wind E.N E.—Arrived the Bellona, Mitchell, and Mary, Tureen, from Trieste. THE FANATIC IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. About one o'clock this day, the Middlesex Grand Jury came into Court, and, among a number of other presentments, returned two true bills against James Sisk, the fanatic, whose attempts at assassination in the lobby of the House of Lords, on Wednesday evening last, have excited so general a sensation. ' The first bill charges him with having maliciously and feloniously presented a loaded pistol at the person of Mr. Richard Gilbert, one of the Marshals of the House of Lords ; and, with having pulled the trigger of the same, with intent to murder him. In a second count, he is charged with intent to disfigure, disable, or grievously injure him. The second indictment charges him with having also at the same dine and place presented a pistol at the person of Mr. John Kingsbury, with similar intents. The witnesses were ordered to proceed immediataly to the Old Bailey, as it was expected the trial would be bro ug ht on there in the course of the day. There were the names of six or seven witnesses on the back of each indictment. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, DEC. 10. The Royal Assent, by commission, was given to the Consolidated Fund Bill. The Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, the Mar. quis of Lansdowne, and Lord Durham. The Marquis of LANSDOWNR presented a petition from the pa. rish of St. Peter's. Athlone, praying for an equitable distribution of the parliamentary fund for education in Ireland. Also, a petition from the currier. of Dublin, for a repeal of the leather duty; from Kilkenny and other places, against slavery; from Kinross, in Scotland, to the same effect ; and from Arbroath and Ayr, praying for Reform. ST. LEON ID isleuwren. The Earl of RA DNOR presented • petition from the pariah of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, signed by 1200 persons, complaining of distress, and praying for Parliamentary Reform. The noble Earl observed that the petitioners called for the reduction of those taxes which press d bard upon the poor. The assessed taxes, duties on sugar, soap, candles, 1 1 and reduction of tithes. In the course of the debate of last night there I I was a denial of the existence of deep distress ; but he was enabled to prove that distress of the worst character had long existed in the eastern parts of the metropolis, and that it must have been known by his Majesty's late Ministers. The person who that morning placed the petition in his hands, had given him a most lamentable description of the state of the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, in June last. There was one person in the parish who kept a carriage, and the total amount of the poor rates was 34,0001. The distress was so great, that persons to pay their rates, had been compelled to abstain from animal food. The Ministers of the parish did their duty with respect to moral and reli gious instruction, but the demoralization in the parish was beyond de scription. This was occasioned by distress and want of employment, which made the people profligate and reckless. The shopkeepers could not sell their goods, and were daily becoming bankrupts. Those who had been in the habit of receiving 201. per week, did not receive 20 shillings. It must be obvious to their lordships that the distress in Shoreditch parish must have been severe at the time a noble Duke stated in that house that distress was but partial. Ministers must have had distress passing before their eyes, and if they had done their best at the time many evils might have been avoided. The responsibility of Government was s mere farce, if such things could pus within three miles of the house in which they were seated, and no redress be given. The Duke of WELLINGTON said be was sure the noble lord would have the candour to admit that when the location of forming a Committee on public distress was discussed last haelon, not one word was said about the parish of Shoreditch. It had been said the late Mi. Miters were liable to be impeached for not making due inquiry into the state of the country. He called on the Noble Duke who entertained that opinion to bring forward his charge, and he(tbe Duke of Welling ton) would more it and defend his Majesty's late servants. The noble lord came forward with a petition from St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and made a statement, not from the petition, but private information. He (the Duke of Wellington) had never considered himself responsible for the distress of a parish. He had nothing to do with the parish of Shoreditch, although the distress might be twenty times more than it was. His Majesty's Ministers were not responsible for parish affairs. The noble lords on the opposite side of the house must feel they could do nothing in such a case. They might recommend his Majesty to subscribe, as the late Ministers did George the Fourth. More they could not do in such a case. Earl STANHOPE complained of the late Administration, with re spect to inquiry into the distresses of the country, which bad been occa sioned by the measures of that house. He thought the present Mi nisters, in refusing inquiry, were following the example of their predecessors. Lord KING said a charge bad been made against the noble duke, that he put into the mouth of the Sovereign the untoward words " Par. tial Distress." Upon that representation they made a reduction in the public expenditure. At the time distress was The Duke of WELLINGTON said the noble lord was in enor, the reduction of expense was the result of saving made during three yews. to the amount of a million sterling in the National Debt. Lord KING observed, that reduction was certainly medle, but they left what was called a margin, to answer public exigencies. If the late administration had remained In office, that margin would have told against the continental revolution. Lad ROMILYN supported the conduct of the late athathistration. The Earl of WINCHILIDIA agreed with the noble end (Illatther), that the refusal of his Majesty's late administration to inmedgme the causes et distress, had drawn upon them the reprobation of nay well. meaning penal in this country. He run certain, If MO, bed takes plea in the late scuba of parliament, that the pain obit it Ms. ress wbuld not have b,crgfound what it is. He had no doubt that the spirit of disaffection which pervaded the country might have been pre vented. He would not admit, however, that the present government, were preparing to follow the example of their predemsors in office. They had already done much good by the formation of a Committee ou the Poor Laws, and he had no doubt the country would derive advan tage from their measures. The Marquis CILANRICARDE defended the present Govamment, and contended that it would have been absurd to concede the comu:itter proposed last night. L I The Duke of WELLINGTON adverted to the 3,919,0001. tales taken off by his administration. The repeal of the beer tax, and the relief afforded by repeal of the test act. His object had been to avoid uselesi committees, and to give relief. He wished well to the present Government, cud was disposed to give them all the assistance in his power. Lord WHARNCLIFFE eulogized the Wellington Adn:inistration. The petition was then laid on the table. • SLAVERY. Lord NAPIER, presenting a petition against slavery, repeated his opinion, that their lordships would never be able to take a correct view of the slavery question without they sent out to the West Indies a com mittee of lords, to make inquiry. Lord STANHOPE said as the noble and learned lord on the wool. sack had said the slavery question:was a paradox of paramount ins portance, the noble and learned lord ought to go out as Chairman of the West India Committee.—(A laugh.) The LORD CHANCELLOR explained what he mum by the words —paramount consideration. He thought the aholizioil o!' slavery an act of justice, and justice should always be paramount 13 the delibe rations of that house.—(llear, hear.) Whether it wdhld be for the benefit of the suitors in Chancery to send him to the West Indies, he left their lordships to decide ; but if he were asked whether he would go, he should wish to know whether the noble call would Le one, and whether the Cmumittez. during the voyage would be favoured with the Noble Earl's critical speeches ? If the Noble Earl would give him good security that h.: would sail upon the same bottom, and con test with his eloquence every point adverse to his own vicars of the subject, in his usual spirit. and in the same tone the Noble Earl used in Cm! Hosts, he (the Lord C.taneellor) would t:lk tile to consid e r, and &Ain r teed to give his judipent—(a laugh) —whether he would go or not—(laughter.) The re idea was laid on the table. B:stcral other Slavery petitions were presented, and among others, one by Earl D.sawLEv, from a place in Kent. Mr. Tomlinson, from the Treasury, presented the last report on On: herring fisheries.—Adjourned. HOUSE OW COMMONS. DE:. 10.. Mr. DANVERS presented an account of the sums of money pail to the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot. Lord W. PAULETT reperted from the Boroughbridge Election Committee, that the sitting members had been duly returned. Mr. C. RUSSELL presented a petition from Reading, for tl cga blishment of local Courts for the recovery of debts. Sir W. INGLERY presented a !cation from Spalding, for II e abo lition of slavery; and a similar petition front Gainsborough : also, pe titi try from Gainsborough, and another place in Lincoln, for the terenl of the Assessed 'faxes ; and a petition from Gainsborough, for reform in Parliament. Mr. A. SMITH presented a petition from the females of the Wet. leyan Chapel, Lincoln's Inn-field., for the abolition of *livery. Lord J. STUART ptesented a similar petition from Cardiff. Mr. BEAUMONT presented a petition from Notth Shields, for parliamentary reform. Colonel SI BTHORPE presented a petition from Lincoln, for tlv. establishment of local courts. Mr. O'CONNELL said, he was afraid the bill broujht to "!•at house from the oiler, for the establishment of local courts, would he a disappointment. A more effectual improvement of the law wac i dis• pensibly necessary. Colonel Si BTHORPE presented a petition from Lincoln for the re peal of the:Assessed Taxes. DISTURBANCES IX KENT. Mr. HODGES presented petitions fmm parishes in Kent, praying for reform. He supported them, and trusted that the ballot would form part of the reform He was glad of the change of ministry, fo r h e h a d received a letter from a Magistrate, stating that previously,it was impos sible to get persons to be sworn in as special constables. Sir C. WETHERICLI, said that those who had refused to be sworn in special constables, had violated their duty. Mr. HODGES, to show the state of Kent, and to account for the disturbances, then read the Memorial from the Grand Jury of Kent to the Duke of Wellington, setting forth the great distress of the agricul. tural population, and the danger that must result from the impossibi lity to endure their sufferings. Had that memorial been attended to, none of the scenes that had taken place in Kent would have occurred. (Loud cheering.) To be sure after that Memorial was presented. the Beer Duty was repealed. (Hear and a laugh.) Lord LowTH Eft said, after that memorial was presented, the beer duty was repealed. Mr. O'CON NOR DON present( d petitions from Roscommon against grants to the Kildare-street S:'ciety. He had a high respect for the present Ministry, and he hoped they would anxiously attend to the tresses of the people of Ireland. Sir J. BATEMAN contended that the Ki:dare-street Society had been much maligned. It had done great good, and spread education amongst Catholics as well as Protestants. They were not a sectarian body. The only objection to them was, that they circulated the Bible wilicut note or comment. Mr. O'CONNELL soh', that he entertained *very d!frerent opinion. The society was very unpopular in Ireland ; it was opposed by the whole of the Catholic Clergy, because they did not allow children to have the Bible without note or co m m ent . They did rot interfere in Pro testant education, and therefore wished that Catholic children's instruc tion should not be meddled with by Protmtans. Mr. LEFROY approved of the society. Sir J. NEWPORT disapproved it, though a Protestant, because he could not approve of its course of proreedi ti g. Mr. O'CONNOR DON hoped that a portion of the grant would henceforth be applied to the Catholic chiLiren. The Marquis of BLANDFORD presented a petition from Diss, in Norfolk, for the relief of distress, and a petition from Woodstock for parliamentary reform. Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Moses Phillips, of Paddington, complaining of being taxed Bd. in the pound on a rental of MI. a year, for a farm at Paddington, u nder the New Police Act. though no policeman ever came near his farm, nor was ever wanted there. ROYAL. COMMISSION. The Deputy Usher of the Black Rod summoned the House to the House of Peers, to hear the Royal Arseot given by Commission to the Consolidated Fund bill. The Speaker and several Members went to the House of Peers ae. cordingly. The SPEALRR, on his return, informed the House that the Royal Anent had been given to the bill. PAOLIAMENTAtT Mr. O'CONNELL presented petitions from Youghall, the Union of Middleton, In the Diocese of Cork, for the Repeal of the Union.—lfe then gave notice that, on the 10th of February, he should bang for ward a Bill to amend the abuses in Parliamentary representation.— When the Miscellaneous Estimates for Ireland were moved, he would renew the Resolution, declaring that it was derogating from the dignity of the Bar in Ireland, for King's Counsel to examine witnesses out of Court. Mr. 0•GOR11AN MAHON presented a petition from a parish in Clare, against any grant to the Kildare-street Society. Lord ALTHORP moved that Mr. R. Grant be added to the Corn inittee on Salaries.—Agreed to. SANK CHARTER. Sir ff. PARNELL said, that as the Bank Charter expires in :183.1, it was desirable that the renewal of the Charter should be preceded by enquiry, to secure a good system of bartering, and to prevent those losses that had heretofore occasionally arisen. Lord ALTPORP said, that he had not yet made up his mind whether enquiry should take place this or next Scrsion bat he certainly thought that enquiry should take place. Whatever other governments might have done, he would pledge himself that the present government would not make any previuse bar. gain with the Bank. The whole question should be left to the p+ ills. ment, and he admitted that, after so long an interv a l, it wax des able the Bank should be placed on a better footing. General DASCOYNE asked whether the East India Company Coin. mittee would be revived ? Lord AlalloltP replied in the affirmative; but thought it enuld not be till after the recess, as, till they the President of the 13 'tad of Controul could not be in his place. SUPPLY. Lord ALTHORP moved that the House go into a Committee of Supply. Air. P H I LPOTTS wished to make some observationson the committee appointed. The members were mostly members of the lateadminis ra tion, who if they abridged the salaries, must condemn themselves. He also thought it extraordinary that the name of an hon. alderman, who had given notice of a motion en the same subject, sad must, no doubt, have given it considerable attention, was not one of the names on the committee. Lord ALTHORP said, the principle on which the committee was rig who formed was that of not ay varnaher on it who 'might be sup. ponsd iri a be iollsaieed 011.111111111111 t. It vial t, necessary to streleoehen e en w sight be able to gin the necessary In. in the Odom of the committee. lie thought the mom. edam oggeheOld was OM 1111111dal to the public conidener. He W4B Paftddf Alb, We odd the none of the worthy alderman, whose notice of • toffs ft the *Wee he had ibegetten. (Hess, hear.) iiir G.WAIIitIINDBIL amend of the committee, which be con. _ • Adored ones Sir R. Pa mai d, be tik band to say that he thought the etill. mime was impoctiolly hawed. He certainly felt it was a eaters of great didlcalty, and he MI ehinh it would be better if government pm. ~'. • •1 It . of I, Ist nly and ing ON are wil In. 107 OS Ilan