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I II 1 A i s 01 L ( it, KENNET AND AVON CANAL NAVIGATION. OTIOE is hereby given, That the Proprietors 1.1 of the Kennet and Avon Canal Navigation will meet, for the purpose of choosing Committee-Men for the dif ferent Districts, for the year ensuing, on TUZSDAY, the sth day of July, 1831, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, at The fyllowing Places, that is to say— The Proprietors resident in the Western District (com prising the counties of Somerset and Glocester, and the cities if Bristol and Bath), at the White lion Inn, in Broad vreet, Bristol. C *CT - , • ---: 7--.-.'---- o unoutexpro. 7.-- ) 1788. , C•IIIIITTEE Or lIUPPLT. Lord ALTfIORP moved that the Houle re%9!ve itself into a Committee of Supply, and that the Artily. Navy, ai tl Ordnance Estimates be referred to said Committee. PRObCCUTIOX OF MR. o'coportt. Lord CHANDOS asked whether Government Lad ail objectioa to the production of the correspontince between the Irish Government and the law officers of England, which led to the abandonment of the prosccation of ?4r. O'Connell ? 'T• .-. The Proprietors resident in the Wiltshire District (com prising the county of Wilts),at the Town Hall, hi Marlbo rough. The Proprietors resident in the London District (com prising the cities of London and Westminster, and else whe►e within the limits of the Bills of Mortality), at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, London. And the Proprietors resident in the Eastern District (comprising all the residue of the said Proprietors), at the Town Hall, in Hungerford. Dated the 21st day of June, 1831. THOS. MERRIMAN and SONS, Principal Clerk. Let the Axe h. Strike at the Root, the Poison-tree will fall; of And where its venom'd exhalations spread a . Ruin, and Death, and Woe, where millions lay Quenching the serpent's famine, and their bones Bleaching unburied in the putrid blast; it i. A garden shall arise, in loveliness e. Surpassing fabled Eden." at 1 1'1HE Nobility', Gentry, and Public, are most t* 5 1 . 1 * Nitwi the _ _ AUTHENTIC RECORDS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND For the last Seventy Years, will speedily be published, in defiance of all attempts and exertions to suppress them. This unique and extraordinary Volume will be published ai soon as possible, and particulars will be made known by advertisement previous to its appearance. KENT. IMPORTANT FREEHOLD ESTATES, Belonging to the Crown. THE HIVE and INGRESS ESTATES, delightfully situate at NORTHFLEET, SWANS COMB, and GREENHITHE, on the South Bank of the Thames, and on the High Road to Dover and Paris, WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. ADAM MURRA Y, At thrtraway's Coffee-house, on WEDNESDAY, the 6th JULY, 1831, By Directions of the Commissioner of the Admiralty and Navy. These Estates, containing Foyle HUNDRED and FORTY EIGHT ACRES, arc divided into Lots, for the convenience of purchasers; and it is presumed that the delightful and enchanting situation, commanding extensive prospects of a bcautiful country, and the rich aquatic views afforded by the noble river Thames, wafting innumerable vessels to and from all parts of the Globe, added to the convenient distance from the Metropolis (only 18 miles), will render many of the allotments eminently desirable for the erection of Country Residences. The property includes rich and productive Arable, !ilea dow, and Pasture Land, excellent Marshes, finely timbered Packs and Pleasure Grounds, Mansions, Houses, Cottages, Also, substrata of Chalk, Flints, and Brick Earth, of very superior quality, which may be readily shipped to any port whatever. Printed Particulars, with Lithographic Plans of each Lot, may be had of Mr. Joseph Wood, Nortlifieet ; of Messrs. Green,Pemberton, and Co. Solicitors.Salisbuty-square,Fleet street ; at Garraway's ; at the Office of Woods and Forests, Whitehall.place ; and of Mr. Adam Murray, Surveyor, Land Agent, and Auctioneer, 61, St. Martin's-lane, Charing Cross.—Lcuers to be post-raid. -GENUINE WINES, &c... OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, AT REDUCED PRICES. riIAYLER & Co. Importers of Wines, Spirits, ite. No. 80, Mary-le-bone-lane, Oxford-street, in consequence of their connexions in Oporto and Bourdeaux, arc enabled to supply the public with 'WINES of the finest quality at the wholesale prices. For the genuineness and superior quality of their Wines and Spirits, they are autho rised to give reference to the Editors of the IllonildyGazette of Practical Medicine, who have examined their stock. They have pleasure in laying the following Priced List of their Wines, &c. before the public : PRICED LIST OF WINES. per doz. Old Port, from the wood, per do:. 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Cognac Brandy ... 28s. to 301 Old ditto, superior .. 321 Ditto (White Champagne) 36 Old Jamaica Ram 14s. to 18 Fine Orange Shrub ... 14 I Noyeau, Maraschino, Curacos, Parfait Amour, Cherry Brandy, in eases or otherwise. iVines at the Docks, in Piyes, Hogsheads, and Quarter. ('asks, regulated by the London Price Current. Superior Herefordshire Perry and Cyder.—Brrclay's Bottled Stout, and Scotch Ales, from Is. to Bs. t The Marsala Wine is a very wholesome, pleasant light Wine for Summer, and fur dyspeptic persons, superior to Sherry. &hedam HoH Pc* Pl ands ... 28 English Gin, of superior Hay. iSt qual. Bs. Ss. 10 & 11 Gine Corolla' Gin .. 12 RUS IN URBR. THE Cool Serenity of the Country will be found admirably conjoined with the convenience and luxury of London, at th 2 SALUTATION TAVERN,I7,NEWGAMSTREET. This favourite retreat of the late celebrated Lexicographer, Di. Johnson, is particularly recommended to Gentlemen, where they may enjoy, in the highest state of perfection, LVEI{Y SPECIES of REFRESHMENT, the Coolncas of the Shrubbery, for Cigar Smoking, &c. and the neatness ut the COFFEE ROOMS, the Proprietor feels convinced nerd only a trial to insure general approbation. N.B. WELCH ALE and WELCH RABBITS, Well aged Betlx, &c. HARMONIC MEETING on THURSDAY EVEN INGS. BUTLER'S FLUID RETRACT OF SARSAPA RILLA. QARS A PA RILLA has of late years been used as eV an alterative in Scrofulous Affections, Scurvy, and other cutaneous Diseases, and is considered by the most eminent Surgeons of the present day as the very best Medi, -Me - for re•establishin the constitution after it has under -Aone the effects of Mercury, or has been injured by what is denominated Secondary Symptoms. This Fluid Extract contains all the properties of the root, in a concentrated state, will keep fur any length of time, and the Decoction is made in one minute. Sold in bottles at 4s Gd, 7e Gd, and 20e, by 3leaus. Butler, Chemists, Cheapside, corner of St. Paul's, and the pr ,in- Druggists and Booksellers. Of whom may be had BUTLER'S COMPOUND ESSENCE OP CUBEBS. —This Preparation is recommended for those affections arising from diseases of the Kidneys, Bladder, An. aid that cliss of diseases generally in which the use of the übelis has been found so serviceable. It bottles at 4s 6d, 6d, and 265. Ask for Butlcfs Fluid Extract of Sarsaparilla. of n ie 'if Is, ho he w nit in- rly ias es. 'ho X°. 13,821. THE ARMY. DUBLIN, aunt 25. A squadron of the 7th Huuars arrived in town yesterday morning at eight o'clock, and immediately proceeded to the North Wall, for the purpose of embarking in the steamers which had just arrived with another squadron of the 10th Huuars. We understand the 71st regiment relieves the gist at Bermuda, and that the latter corps and 52d regiment return to Europe. We learn truss good authority that all regiments on the American station are to be augmented to the full service Company establishment. Drafts from the depot compa nies of the following regiments may ihcrefore be soon or dered out.-Bth regiment, 54th do., 57th do., and 81st. 12th ROYAL Loussas. This distinguished regiment, ander the w eomnaold of Lieutenant-Colonel Stowell, leaves Dublin to-dry for Newbridge. On the several occasions on which the Royal Lancers have been on Dublin duty, the gentlemanly conduct of the officers, and the correct de meanor of the men, have been universally admitted. The recent instance of their liberality in contributing 761. to the relief of the suff in the West of Ireland, gives them an additional claim on the good wishes of our fellow-citizens. PORTS M OUTH-SAT RDAY. An order has been received to assemble a Court Martial, which will probably sit on Wednesday next, on board the Caledonia, (bearing the flag of Vice Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, G. C. B,) at Spithead, to try Captain theßight Hon. Lord William Paget, for having ordered Captain Ays cough, late Commissioner at Bermuda, to be excluded from the Cabin allotted to him, on board his Majesty's ship Winchester, by Vice-Admiral Colpoys, Commander in. Chief on the lkrmuda station, and for disrespectful and unofficer-like behaviour, during the passage to England in that ship. Sir Edward Codrington's squadron, which still remains at Spithead, was joined on Thursday by the Curacoa, of 26 guns, Captain Dunu, a noble corvette, formed out of one of our 42-gun frigates. It was intended, we have heard, that the squadron should have dropped down to St. Helen's on Monday : but that such intention is prevented by the circumstance of all the Captains being required to sit at the Court Martial on Lord Wm. Paget. The object of going to St. Helen's was merely exercise. No orders have been issued relative to the ships proceeding to sea, nor can any idea he formed of ►heir destination. The Chanticleer, surveying vessel, Commander Fitzroy, at Woolwich, will return to the southern part of South Atne. rica, to complete the survey commenced by the late Com mander Foster. The Briton, 4e, Captain Markland, C.B. is ordered again to Lisbon, to lie in the Tagus until all matters between the two countries are settled. The Medina, 20, Commander Castles (acting). arrived on Monday from the coast of Africa. She left the Dryad, 42, Commodore Hayes, and the Athol, 28, Captain Webb (act ing). at Prince's Island, both of which were on the point of proceeding to auise in the Bights of Benin and Biafra; the latter, however, has since been ordered to England., The squadron on this station is now reduced in strengdr, no in tention being entertained of sending out other vessels, to re place the Athol and Medina, than the African steamer, and one of the brigs at this port (fitted to carry three guns, with bulwarks so low u to admit of the guns bein g fire ! over all), either the Brisk, Lieutenant Butterfield, or Charybdis, Lieutenant Crawford. We ate sorry to learn that the slave trade is carried on to a greater extent than ever, and almost entirely ender the French Rag ; all the cargoes are consigned to the liavannah, the trade to the Brazilian possessions be ing now prohibited. Indeed, to such a of effrontery is the detestable tra ffi c now persevered in, de tt r a c t e lt has been as certained that some liberated Africans from our settlements up the Sierra Leone kiver had been kidnapped, and sent on board two French slave-vessels, any attempt to retake whom (although they spoke English, ;ad described where they came from) our cruisers dare not make, without such an attempt Irani; construed into a violation of the French flag. The Medina brought home Captain A. Gordon, late of the Athol, and Lieutenant Parker, IL M. She ail ed on Thursday to Chatham, to be paid off.—HarepsAire Telegraph COMMON LAW COMMISSIONS. It seems right that the public should be apprized of the effect which has been already given to the recommendations of the Common Law Commis sioners. The following is an accurate general account of the principal reforms hitherto resulting from their labours. It is to be observed that they are the produce of the original commission only, as appointed in May, 1828, and that they amount but to a very small portion of the general plans of im provement developed in the two reports of that commission. The introduction of the bills by which they have been carried into effect is a set vice that has been divided between Lord Tenteiden and Sir J. Scarlett. Of the acts hereunder men tioned, the Ist Will. IV. sera. 1, c. 70, and 1 Will. IV. seas. 2, c. 3, were the work of the latter gentleman, the others of the noble lord : 1. The abolition of the separate judicature of Wales and the admission of the principality to the benefits of the general judicial system ; by which the complete consoli dation of England and Wales is at length, for the first time, cffectel-1 NVill. IV. less. I, c. 70. 2. The I , trengthming of the judicial establishment of West minister-hall, by the appointment of three additional judges. by which the Welsh circuit is provided for, and great despatch given in various ways to the general Masi res. of he courts.—lbid. 3. The better regulation of the terms, the fixing of Easter term, and the substitution of a simple method of returns, in lieu of essoign or general return days.— lbis. and 1 Will. IV. seas. 2, c. 3. 4. The establishment of a more reasonable and convenient system of appellate jurisdiction among the courts at West. minster. by which the writ of error from the Common Pleas to the King's Bench Is taken away, and a writ of error given from each of the three courts to the other two. —1 Will. IV. seas. 1, e. 70. 5. Power given to the judge to pronounce %entente (in case of misdemeanours, &c.) at the trial, in lieu of the former Inconvenient system, by which judgment was postponed till the full court met in bank.—lbid. 6. The breaking up the monopoly of the officers of the Court of Exchequer, the admission of all attornie, to prac tise therein, and its consequent establishment upon an equal footing with the other courts in Westminster-hon.— /bid. 7. A provision by which rules of practice ate required to be made by all the judges of the three courts jointly, or by 0 of them at lent, whereby foundation is laid for the future uniformity of their practice. —lbid. & Provisions for giving immediate judgment and execution upon a verdict in lieu of the former system, by which judgment and execution were postponed till the next ter m, and the plaintiff often subjected to the ruinous delay of sevcial months.—lbid. and 1 Will. 4. seas. 2. c. 7. 9. Provisions, giving increased facility to landlords as to the time of bringing an action of ejectment, and protecting them from the inconvenient and prejudicial delay to which they were formerly exposed when the right of entry oc curred at certain pctiods of the year.-1 William IV. ACSS. 1, C. 70. 10. The improvement of the tour -e of pmceeding in prold. bition and mandamus, by which some unnecessary ex pence* is saved and some unmeaning forms rescinded, and proper provision made for payment of costs to the success ful party. 1 Will. IV. seas. 2, c. 21. 11. Power given to the courts of common law to order the examination of witnesses upon interrogatories, and to order a commission to issue for examination of wit nesses abroad, the want of which power .has hitherto been poductive of Feat difficull, delay, and expet:se, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1831. and sometimes of an absolute failure of jestice.—l Will IV. seas. 2, c. 22. 12. Various provisions with respect to bail, tending to the material diminution of difficulty and expense, to the abo. litiun of the disgraceful system of sham bail, to the beta security of the plaintiff against insufficient bail, and to the greater facility of the defendant in procuring bail. —I %Will IV. sess. 1, c. 70, leola rienera!es of Trinity Term last. 13. The retrenchment and simplification of the technical forms of demand in certain actions of the most ordi. nary occurrence. by which considerable expense is saved, and tiro foundation laid for still more important reforms of the saint description.—Regulte Generates, of Trinity term last. With respect to future operatiois, we understand the arrangement to be, that the original commis stoners are separately, from their colleagues, to make a further report upon various matters of pleading and practice, upon which they had en tered before the appointment of the latter gentle men, and that the whole commission (as lately re newed and enlarged) are to report on the important subjects of arrest for debt and the law of evidence. —Morning Paper. DISAPPEARANCE 01 0 MR. MATHEWS. FURTHER P RTICULA RS. Yesterday being the tlay appointed for the further investi gation of the mysterious disappearance of Mr. Mathews, of the Comptroller's-office, at Queen-square police-office a number of the young gentleman's friends were in attendance, anxious to hear the result of the proceedings, on account of some disclosures which have been made in private to Mr. Oregorie, by William Davis, the waterman, after the last examination, which it was supposed had completely cleared up the mystery. Mr. Maberly, of &Alford-row, solicitor, attended on be half of the father of Mr. Mathews. Viscount Chetwynd took his scat on the bench, and ap peared much interested in the inquiry. After the bench had consulted for some time , Mr. GREGORIE addressed the prisoner ' and said that no further witnesses would be examined that day, but he wished to know if he had any thing further to say. Orisoner—l have nothing more to add than what I told you in private, on Thursday afternoon. Mr. Gazooars.—Do you wish it taken down is writ ing, that it may be public before all the world ? Prisoner.—l have no objection whatever to its being made public, for it is the heath. Mr. Devious ordered the clerk to be called in. when Davis stated, that on the evening of Tuesday, the 14th inst. when Mr. Mathews disappeared, he told hint that he was obliged to go into the country, and requested him to keep it a secret from his friends. Mr. Gasooatz.—Where was this? Prisoner.—On the river, in his boat ; and be bound me by an oath not to disclose. Mr. GREGOMIE.—Did he tell you where he was going? Prisoner.—He did not., neither did he give me any reason why he was going away, nor did I ask him. He merely said that he was obliged to go, and I did not think proper to ask him any further. This is the whole truth. Mr. OREGOILIE asked the prisoner if lie wished to ex plain how it was that he was enabled to find Mr. Ma thews's boat in the manner described on the former ex aminations. The prisoner said, that he knew where to go for the boat. Mr. GAZOORIE desired him to explain that circumstance. The prisoner said that Mr. Mathews told him where he would find the boat. It appeared on the former examination that the boat was not found in the dock, at Battersea, until Thursday morn ing, anti it was in evidence that no boat was there on the Wednesday, the day after Mr. Mathews's disappearance, and Mr. Gregorie asked the prisoner if he could account for that circumstance. The prisoner said he could not. The boat might have been them, and no person aware of it. Mr. GREGOILIZ told the prisoner that it was in evidence that he had gone up the river, on Wednesday morning, with Evans, the waterman, in search of Mr. Mathews and the boat, and he wished to know why he had not then gone to the dock to look for it. The prisoner replied, that he considered himself bound by the oath he had taken ; but Mr. Mathews ought to have come forward by this time, and all would have been explained ? Mr. ClisEcorare —Do you think that oath binding now? Prisoner.—No; I have broken that oath by what I have stated. Mr. GREOOIIIIL—Are you aware that a reward of 501. is offered by the friends of Mr. Mathews to any person who will discover where he is, or what has become of him? Prisoner-1 am, Sir; one of the bills was put into my hands this morning. Mr.G nano a 1 e.—Do you know where At r.Mathews is now ? Prisoner.—l do not, Sir; l have told you the truth, and all I know about it. Several other questions were put to the prisoner, but he persisted in denying any further knowledge of Mr. Mathews than what he had stated. Mr. Git EGO RIE, after consulting with the bench, said, that it was a perfect mystery to him what had become of the boat on the AVednesday. Mr. Mathews was well known upon the river ; yet, alter all the inquiries, note single person had seen hint since half-past nine o'clock on the Tuesday evening. except the prisoner. Urder the circumstances of the case, it would be useless to remand him from day to day, and he should therefore remand him for a fortnight. If, in the mean time, he had any communication to make to him, either in public or in private, he onfld send him an intimation to that effect, which should instantly be attended to. The prisoner was then removed, and on his departure in custody to Cold Bath-fields prison, was strongly urged by his father and Mends to divulge every thing he knew, but the only answer he gave was that he had told every thing, and that Mr. Mathews was alive. Since the examination on Thursday the police-officers have been dispatched into the country in all directions, but no trace could be found of him. Mr. Mathews's father, i highly respectable gentleman, is in the greatest distress of mind possible on occount of his disappearance, and we un derstand that nose of his friends or connexions can by any possibility guess his motive if he has absconded. The source of the complaints against the Beer bill are perfectly well understood. The Magistrates say that the unlicensed houses favour immorality. They do not mean by this that drunkenness has in creased, for that is the last thing of which Justices would complain, but that they have no longer the power of directing what shall be read in the houses. During the licensing system, it was perfectly well known that if a publican allowed a paper to be read in his house, of which the politics were not palatable to tke neighbouring Squires, Lis licence would not be continued. This is changed. Cheap publica tions, of a very inflammatory description, are read in the unlicensed houses. But the way to meet this evil is to allow publications, of a better tendency, to be circulated on equal terms. At pre sent tho advocate of disorder and anarchy has the market to himself. But to revive the licensing system, merely to put down licentious publications, is not to be tolerated. The evidence of Magis trates on this subject is absolutely worthless. All men love power ; and we all know that the li censing system was the main-stay of the rural ty rants of England. PRICE SEVENPENCE. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Just 27. Mr. Parker presenteti the 20th Report of the Tanjore Commissioners. The sth Report of the Commissioners of Metropolis Roads Ism also presented. MAGISTRATES . INDEMNITY SILL. Lori NIELBOURNE brought in a bill to indemnify certain justices of peace in Ireland, which was read the first time. On the motion of the tame noble lord. the standing orders of the House, which require that a bill shall not go through more than one stage in on* day. were suspended.. The Bill was then read a second time, and advanced to the third reading. CROLIMA 11101111115. _ • Lord WALPOLE vim to ask a few questions of • Noble Marquis, with a view of moving for returns. His object was to obtain a list of the medical persons appointed Members.of the Board of Health for consideration of the nature and character of the Cholera blorhus. He under. stood that in the list of the said Beard of Health there was not one medical person to whom the Cholera Morbus had been known. The Noble Lord had been informed that a person had been sent abroad to investigate the disease; still as It was so near our shores, it might arrive before any good could be derived from the information to be obtained abroad. It was desirable, under such circumstances, that additional medical persons he added to the Board, and more cm scially those who know something of the disease. Th.• Noble Lord concluded by moving for a list of the Board to which he had alluded. The Marquis of LANSDOWN said there was no objec tion to the noble lords' motion ; commissioners had been sent to Riga for the purpose of ascertaining whether the disease existing there was the same as that known as the Indian cholera. The Noble Marquis concluded by moving as an addition, that extratts from all correspondence, relative to the present state of that disorder, be laid on the table. Lord WALPOLE said. he had not the slightest objection to t;:e members of the Board of Health, but was desirous of having it us competent as possible. The motion made by Lord ‘l 7 sr.rout was then given up, and that of the noble marquis agreed to. EMPLOYKLINT Or THE ;0111CULTURAL POOL The Earl of WI NC HILSEA brought in his bill, of last session, to enable his Majesty's justices of the peace to cause a distinct rate to be made upon the owners and occupiers of land, for the employment of agricultural labourers during the winter months. The noble earl declined stating the de tails of the bill until the second reading. The bill was read the first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMON& The SPEAKER tool the chair shortly before four o'clock.—lt being the list day for receiving petitions for private bills, many were presented. The SPEAK ER stated that several Members had been summoned on juries, and threatened with distresses, for non attendance : he was sure such proceeding resulted from inad vertence, and would not be persevered in. Mr. HUNT presented a petition from MUborne Port, compLiniug of the tithe system. Also one from Collinkill, in Kilkenny, for the repeal of the Union, the petitioners at tributing the starvation experienced to that Act. Lord KILLERS presented a petition from the county of Meath, fora reform in Parliament. :Ur:O'FARRELL presented a petition from the land owners of Ireland. for a general drainage of Ireland, with a view to the employment of the people; and a similar peti tion from the inhabitants of Kildare county. NERPOUNDLAND. Mr. ROBINSON asked theUnder.Secretaty of the Colonies whether it was intended to grant a local legislature to Newfoundland ; whether they were to be protected In their right to fish on the French coast. and whether it was intended to bring in an Act to revise the administration of justice in Newfoundland ? Lord HOWICK said the case of Newfoundland had at. tracted the serious attention of Government, and it was their opinion that the colonists should have a more direct com munication with the Crown than at present. The claim of English subjects to fish on the French coast sae disputed, and how it might be decided it was impossible to say at pre. sent. There was no intention to bring in any Act to amend the administration of justice during the present Session. Mr. ROBINS(►? then gave notice, that on the 26th of July, he should make a motion relative to the present condi tion of Newfoundland. Mr. ROBINSON then moved for a return of the quantity of gloves imported during the last year, and the duty paid thereon.—Ordered. Sir C. DOUGLAS presented a petition from the Noble. men, Justices of Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of the County of Forfar, against the Bill of Reform brought in by Ministers. Captain ROSS said, be was confident ninety-nine in one hundred of the inhabitants of Forfar were favourable to the plan of Reform brought forward by Ministers. Sir C. DOUGLAS said, he did not present the petition as the petition of the inhabitant', but of the respectable sons by whom it was signed. Mr. DUNDAS asked the Lord Advocate whether steps were taken to bring the rioters in Scotland to justice ? The LORD ADVOCATE said four persons were in dieted, and other eases were under investigation. Mr. KENNEDY said nothing could be mote sound and loyal and peaceable, than the disposition of the people of ' Scotland--(hear, hear,)—tht•ugh enthusiasm in the cause of Reform, and still mote the opposition of the discontented, had in a few instances led to acts of violence, hut nothing to justify the imputation east on them, that when Scott& men assembled in numbers bloodshed was the consequence. Sir W. RAE said the lower orders of Facetchmen were an orderly people, very difficult to be cached, but when ex-' cited, their conduct was marked by violence which often het to bloodshed. This was what he had said on a former oc casion, not that Scotchmen could not meet in numbers without bloodshed. (A great burgh.) Mr. C. ADANI stated, that in Stirlingshire. where the Reform Candidate was unsuccessful, his numerous sup porters reversed their colours and marched off the ground without violence. or any expression of dissatisfaction. Sir 0. CLERK said, the rioters were encouraged by the opinion that Government would not bring thtm to punish. I punt. He hoped the Learned Lent would attend to a notice ' that was given for a meeting at Glasgow if the Reform Bill should be thrown out, who were to meet with black flags and march to the dead march in Saul —(A reit laugh.) He hoped the Lord Advecate would inform them that such a meeting would be illegal. Mr. FERGUSON said, he was confident it would be found that not one !moon to whom the elective franchise was to be•tommunicated was concerned in the riots in Scot land, from one end of the country to the other.—(Hear, hear, hear.) if riot was an injury to any cause, it was to the cause of Refurm. The question was, was Reform a tit measure ? If it was, then the excitement was to be anti. butcd to those by whom it was opposed --(Hear. hear.) The LORD ADVOCATE said, a great meeting had been held in Glasgow in favour of Reform, with the greatest order and decorum. (Hear, hear ) Mr. DICKSON said, he rose to give the most unquali fied contradiction to the calumnious statement of the right hon. baronet (Sir G. Clerk.)—(Cries of order.) The SPEAKER said, the hon. gentleman must be more circumspect in his language. (Hear.) ' Mr. DICKSON said be did not mean to impute calumny ' to the hon. baronet. (A laugh.) The hon. baronet thought to intimidate the House with the black flag and •• Dead March is Saul. (A great laugh.) There was a meeting of upwards of 411,000 in Glasgow, and nothing•eould be more peaceable than their conduct. (Hear.) He was confident that nine hundred and ninety-oint out of evesy thouiriod of the inhabitants of Glasgow, were in favour of reform, Mr. STANLEY said, if the Noble Lord should make a motion on the subject, it would be pr o p er ly r e pli e d to . Mr. O'CONNELL said, if the Noble Lord made a mo tion for the production of the correspondence, he would second it. It wu impossible that the prosecution could be continued. There were meetings in Ireland for the repeal of the Union, but they violated no law. The statute under which the prosecution was commenced was one which no minister would dare to propose in England. He was am plest! to see a person of the noble load's station so anstoos for a prosecution. Sir C. WETHERELL said the noble lord at the head of the government had said, that he would continue that sta tute, and the noble lord opposite said he would ritti.er incur a civil war than not continue it.—(No, no, from Lord Al. thorp and the treasury bench.) The learned gentleman ap peared to censure his noble friend because he was a man of rank, but the noble lord at the head of the government and the noble lord opposite, were both men of rank at present — how long they should continue so it was impossib'e for hint to say. The government promised to bring the learned gen tleman to Indgment, and did not ; why was that ? They might say the law had dropped, but why did they ullow the law to drop ? The poles could not be more distant than the government and the learned gentleman on that occasion, now they appeared to be on the most intimate terms ofiriend s hip. Lord ALTIfORP said the strong expression he Inul used Walk that he Xiis MAW the rep's& of tha iiwiee would lead to thsdismemberment of the empire, and sooner than consent to that he would even incur the evil of a civil war ; but he never said any thing so monstrous as that he would incur civil war rather than forego the prosecution of Mr. O'Conn:ll.—( Hear, hear.) Sir E. SUODEN thought It was impossible for Govern. ment to contfnue the prosecution after the Act of Parliament had expirod. Mr. O'CONNELL said he wilted to make an observa tion on the soiemn buffoonery they had just bear .l from the learned Gentleman below him (Sir Charles Lord STE WA RT rose to order. Th.: SPEAKER said Mr. (YCunnell might explain. Mr. O'CONNELL said he should not trouble the Home with explanation.—(Cries of spoke-31r. O'Connell s:t down). A MEMBER said he had just come ;from Portsmouth. where there was a large fleet ready for sea ; he wished to know its object—was it liosile ? Sir J. GRAHAM said the fleet was not assembled for any hostile purpose, but merely to practise those evolutions which were necessary to the maimenancJ of perfection in naval warfare. Tlie House resolved itself into a Commince of Ways and Altana ; Mr. Bernal in the Chair. ORDNANCE. EATINIATES. Mr. TENNYSON moved the estimates, which he prefaced saying that as they had all been agreed to before, but had been prevented from being granted on account of the sudden dissolution. they required no introduction. TI ey were as follows :—.For Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies, 1,418,8171. which were sub-divided into 22 votes, Tower, Pall-mall, and Dublin. 80,6191. Ikpartments Woolwich, 9,0891. Home Stations. 17,7051. Ordnance Stations in Ireland and Abroad, 27,7211. Barracks, tke. 40,7561. Fur Master-Gunners, Great Britain, Irelentl, Stc. .i.2l 11. Royal Engineers, Sapper, and Miners, kc 81.3281. /Wye' Artillery, 278,4391. Horse Artillery and Riding-house Troop. 36,216. Field Train Department, 1,: 1 231. Medical Establishment, 9,218 1 . Academical Establishment, 3,4021. For ►uperintendence of Ordnance. &c. 61 2001. Ordnance and Barrack 11'orks, Repairs, and Storekerp era' Department*, 96.7831. Barrack-masters' Allowance*, Expenditure. &z. 61,334 Military and Civil ContinAcsicie's; 146.2191. "` • Foe Unprovided or Evr.u.rtlimpiesi, 27,9741. • Military Store Branch, 69,9301. Excheqrser Foes, 1,6001. Charges of The Superannuated List, 297,1191. Votes on the same List of 60,1151.15% lOJ. Exchequer Fees, 6351. Mr, HUME in the course of moving the Estintates p :t a qaestion regarding the Half-pay List. Mr. TENNYSON rose, and explained. Sir H. HARDING E wished to know whether or not there was any difference in the arrangement of the present from the late government in the Ord:iAncc Estimates, as he thought, from the tenour of the introduction, an imputation was conveyed. Mr. TENNYSON explained, and Sir H. 11.1 CHM NOR expressed himself satisfied. Mr. HUNT said he was glad that the quei.ti..n had b:en put by the Hon. Baronet, or o therwhe he should have:gano away with a wrong impression. and that the remarks meant to imply reflection on the 14:e tiovernment.—(llear, hear, from the Opposition benches.) Mr. 11U3IE temarked, that if :he Hon. Member had been in his place last Session shot this question was dis cussed, as he believed he had been. he might haws known that objections had tom made, and that the lien. Member for Preston might have known that he ( Mr. Hume) had pointed out objections, but that he had with drawn all opposition, well knowing that his 'Alajest *et ministers had enough to encounter on ether accounts, and also that he had withheld his opposition until they were free from their existing burdens Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in his answer to question. re halve to the navy, stated that the fleet now in apparent cie. cups ion, had been ordered out without any p minder des:;. nation, merely for the purpose of practice in evolution, and by detail showed that a reduction had been mule in the navy of upwards of two thousand men. Mr. HUAI R, in replying to another portion of the coneer nation, said, that the fleet, he had understood, had been Oc. tained from putting to sea, and would be tatainol fur a fon. night or sixteen days, and that this was nut for want of seamen, for there were many idle who would be glad of ea.. ployment, but that it was because a man might. under the present laws of the navy, b e li a bl e to b e flogged withou: being brought to a court martial. It was at prevent only necessary to send in a report to the Admiralty once a fins. night that such punishment had been inflicted. Whenever the law was so altered that a sailor should not be subjects to the chance of being punished at the caprice of a single individual, then they would soon have plenty to offer their services; and he hoped that the day was not far distant when an alteration would be made to accomplish that Dile:. Sir J. {GRAHAM said, he agreed in the importance of making the King's service acceptable and agreeable to his subjects. Nothing had been wanting on his part, and on that of' his predecessors, to effect this desirable object. The last step taken by the late Board of Admiralty had made much more rigid the controul over the infliction by Captains ..t' corpotcal punishments. Detailed statements, in writing, of the circumstances which had led to the p un i s hment were re. quired to be drawn up and forwarded to the Admiralty every quarter. The present Board had gone a step farther, ',qui:- ing a statement a fortnight after the occurrence of the pis nishrnent, and submitting it toe double investigation.l. The entire abolition of corporeal punishments, he considered lens possible ; but Government endeavoured to diminish their ne cessity by offering rewards for good conduct. The power of appointing to the office of boatman, which had been vested in the Treasury, and had been used for patronage purposes, the place being given to landsmen, had been transferred to the Board of Admiralty, to be given to seamen of at least three years' service, who war beat entitled to it by their g oo d conduct. The Board of Customs had also intimated, that by good behaviour a title would also be given to the office of tide-waiters. lie thought that there and similar measures would be strong inducements to good conduct. (Hear.) After a few words from Sir li. CLERK, Mr. HUM E, and Sir J. GRAHASI, Mr CHOKER rose merely to suggest, in allusion to certain order issued by the Boyd of Admiralty, prohibiting naval officers of a certain rank from attending at Court. which was subsequently recalled—that dun was nothing et* which that House was so jealous as the subjection of officers on half-pay to military command. Sir J. ORAHAII said, the order did sot specify h..'.°. pay officers. Mr. CROKER said, the order, if intended ferC ' oflicirs on full pay, would have been transmitted throogh the Ci.:;l. mending officers He called on the First Lewd of the Ad. miralty diatiactly to state whether be combined the of Admiralty to have power over the hal_ t-pay eilleersl ;; e (Mr. Croke) ?soled this pore:. He aboa make a motion an the sab)tet. 7'"" ielf I tiey 'en 11r. • ea i to- t, thf bea el der no i or I. - pis of :Uf t p - of i; t— int tey .lie the ow lip. rul ald Inn tr ; old • rn- ent Va. the It.e •t 104 I to it for otas in and iced had den as be, oed red era last sod ,: or her dful Etc to I . of Lop. ;lye bed% wer• Yif• inst. u• ..... t the