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THE extensive use of Sarsaparilla in Medical Proc... tice for some years past, having rendered it an object of importance to procure t preparation of it in a convenient form, less subject to injury by keeping than the Decoction usually pre scribed, this Concentrated Syrup is recommended as possessing the properties of she Sarsaparilla Root, without Lability to change by long keeping, and as being, from its portability, well adapted to the use of persons travelling, or residing abroad. — Two table spoonfuls of the Syrup contain the same quantity of Sarsaparilla as a pint of the simple Decoction. Prepared and sold by W. A Hansom, Chemist, 97, Hay trinket, London. PARLIAMENTARY PROCAEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 6. To-day their Lordships met soon after one o'clock, and were assisted. by ten of the Learned Judges, in the - appeal of Thomas Jones Wilkinson v. James Adam and others, brought by a Writ of Error from the Court of King's Bench; when the Attorney- General was heard out for the appellant, and the further hearing was postponed to Monday. Mr. Mason, from the East India Directors, presented the usual Monthly Returns of Salaries, Gratuities, and Pensions; and also the Annual Account of the Revenues of the different ' Presidencies lh India. Ur. ChaiwitlGUT, Mr. P. Moos.; and others, from the Commons, brought up some Loch Bills, which were afterwards read a first time. Viscount GRANVILLE presented a Petition from several Parishes in the County of Stafford; praying for a County Small Debt Recovery Court ; which Petition was laid on the table. The Masters and Su:Tanta'. Bill passed through Committee, and was reported without any amendments to the House. The Earl of DO NOUG HMOIIE presented a Petition from individuals in different parts of Ireland, praying to.be heard by Counsel at their Lordships Bar against the Ireland Grand Jury Presentments Bill. So far from it being true, as one individual said, that the Clerks of the Peace were satisfied with the pending Dill, ten amongst their number had protested by. Petition to the contrary, and others, his Lordship said, were prepared to follow them. If the pending Bill were suffered to pass into a law, and no indennlification were given to the Clerks of the Peace, the latter would be aggrieved by it. Upon the motion of the Noble Earl, the Petition was read at full length, and then laid upon the tabk.—Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. CUR WEN presented a Petition, which was, 'he said, must numerously signed, from the Owners and Occupiers of Land, in the countyof Cumberland,complaining of Agricultural Distress. Mr. BLACKHU R NE presented rwo Petitions—the first from the Innkeepers and Pullicans of Manchester; and the se cond from the Innkeepers of Lumn, praying that the 8111 now in progress through the (louse for allowing the retail of Beer might not pass into a law. Mr. ROBERTSON moved a Return of all stsio entered Into the ports of the United Kingdom, together with an Acceant their tonnage, from the sth Jan. 1821, to the sth Jan. 1323.. On the motion of Mr. Haaatss , the House agreeed to adjoernl until Monday next at its rising: The Scotch Transference of Securities Bill passed through a Committee, on Mr. 1(744Ni11e. motion. The Report was brought up, and ordered to be received on Monday. The LORD ADVOCATE moved the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committee on the Scotch Con. firniation Bill. Mr. KEN \EDT ilia rot rise to oppose this stage of the pro ceeding ; but he thought it right to state, that he should feel it necessary to oppose the measure hertafter.—The Bill. went through a Committee, and the Report was ordered to be re ceived on Wednesday.' On the motion of the Loan Anvocars the Scotch Commis. caries Bill went through a Committee, and was ordered to be received on Wednesday. The Report of the Assessed Taxes Composition Bill was brought up by Mr. Bees me, the Resolutions were agreed to, and a Bill agreeable to those Resolutions ordered to be brought in. Sir J. NEWPORT gave notice, that he would on Tuesday next move for certain pa2ers reLitive to thc Chinch Establish ment in Ireland. LONDON BRIDGE. Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Report of the Committee on London .13ridge.—The Report was read a second time. ..... Mr. HUME was anxious to know whether the money to be advanced for London Bridge was subse quently to be repaid by a rate on the Bridge? • Mr. BROGDEN said that the Hon: Gentleman was in error in supposing that this was a Committee of Supply. The money was intended as a grant, and it was not to be repaid by any such toll as that sug gested by the Hon. Member. It was advanced for the purpose of assisting a great public work, and it was advanced, as money was frequently advanced, for the benefit. Mr. FIUME objected to the grant. Mr. Alderman WOOD supported the grant, and he thought that now the Hon. Member for Aberdeen was a freeman of the City of London, the objection came from trim with peculiar ingratitude. The SPEAKER interrupted the Hon. Member,. and observed that whether this was a loan or a gift would be a question to decide when the sum was given. The conversation was irregular. Mr. H. SUMNER observed, that large advances had frequently been made for public works. He was sure that whatever objection to the measure might arise from the Hon. Member for Aberdeen, the House would agree to its adoption. Mr. RICARDO remarked, that theonly wish of his Hon. Friend, the Member for Aberdeen, was, that the money should be repaid to the Public. After a few words from Mr. Cuawarr, an instruc tion to the Committee to make a provision pursuant to the Resolution, was agreed to. very heavy duties on British got s. T S WlPerlre rVarded America, we suffered various rodr k to. be indorsed from that country in'Britidi -ships, on pay- , litg%-very niodevateduty, but if In American bot toms, then a much higher duty. America retaliated, and imposed a heavy duty on British eroduce irrr ported in British vessels, and a light duty if in Ame rican vessels. This was found to operate considerably against our shipping interest, and we found it de sirable to concede the point to America. Upon which the Government of the Netherlands claimed the same indulgence, and on it being refused to that State, they immediately adopted the step of issuing a Decree imposing high duties on British shipping, to the great injury of our commerce; and the same line of conduct had been pursued by Prussia. The mea sure he had now to propose would do away this ex clusive system; and, he contended, would prove highly benekial to the mercantile interests of the kingdom. The Right Honobrable Gentleman con cluded by moving a Resolution for adopting a scale of reciprocal duties between this country and other commercial States. Mr. ELLICE thought the Right Honourable Gen tleman opposite was called on to do all he could to free commerce from the restrictive duties, so fir as it could be done with safety to our own commerce. Mr. SYKES hoped the Right Honourable Gentle. man would not press this measure hastily or rashly through the House. Mr. HUSKISSON agreed that it was desirable to have this Bill well considered ; but he also considered it desirable to pass the measure over as soon as pos tible, and therefore he was anxious now to bring in the Bill, read it a first time, and have it printed and circulated as soon as possible. Mr. WALLACE said, he was ready to ackisow ledge that these prohibitory measures had been be. neficial to this country, whilst other countries were content to submit to them ; but as they now took a different view of the subject, it was necessary we should adopt a different system. Whilst in office, he had intercourse with the ship-owners: he had known them frequently arguing ill results from measures proposed to relieve trade, - and he had almost itivat i ably found them wrong in the views they took. Mr. ROBERTSON strongly opposed the measure, as being a part of that system which Gentlemen op posite, economists, had forced upon Ministers, and .which was operating to destroy us. Our trade and shipping, he contended, were going from us, as would appear from the statement he held in his hand, and from which it appeared that the falling off in our ship-building between 1821 and 1823 was 161 ships in number, and in amount of tonnage 122,000; and in the same period the falling off in the navigation was no less than 732 or 129,000 tons, and in the number of seamen of 8,000. He strongly called on Ministers to pause before they adopted this measure. Sir 1. COFFIN supported the measure. The out cry of the ship-owners was all about nothing at all. We had been thrusting our restrictive duties down the throats of other countries as long as we could, but we could not do so any longer, and must give them up. Mr. RICARDO was in favour of the measure; he was convinced, as he had frequently said, that the freer the system of trade, the more it would prosper. Mr. T. WILSON approved of the measure. He had no fear but the British shipping would always be capable of competing with the shipping of other countries. Mr. MA /MYATT coml)lainecl, on the part of the . British ship-owners, of the burthens imposed on them by the duties imposed'on timber, and other articles used in building. These duties, and the high price of provisions and wages in this country, compared with the cost of the same articles in other countries, gave the foreign ship-owner an evident advantage over the British shipowner. Mr. C. GRANT supported the measure, and strongly urged its immediate adoption; any delay. however short, must be injurious to the British `ship owner.—The resolutions r, ere then agreed to.—Re-, port on Monday. ' IRISH TITHES. ittr. GOULBURN moved the Order of the flay for the House going into a Committee on the Tithe Composition (Ireland) Bill. • • • On the question for the SPEAKER leaving the Chair, Mr. DOMINICK BROWN objected to the Bill; as it did not afford a fair mode of imposing the tithe in the Vestry ; and secondly, he objected to the ap pointment of the arbitrators and assessors, and the mole dassessment,•and especially to the power given to the arbitrators to make an increase of one-third to the value of a liiing. Mr. DENNIS BROWNE objected to the measure adopted in -this Bill, as regarded the tithe of agist ment. He censured the mode of policy generally adopted towards Ireland as regaided her trade, espe cially with respect to the woollen trade. He thought the Bill should be pressed no further now, but that a Pat liamentary Commission should be appointed, who should go over to Ireland, and inquire into the state of every parish in Ireland, and report next Session to . the House. Mr. A BERC RO-MBY objected to the clause which gave the arbitrators the power of raising the value of the living. Still he thought, as the measure came so strongly recommended from an parties in Ireland, they should go into the Committee, and endeavour to render the measure as effective as possible. Sir J. NEWPORT was of the same opinion. Mr. WETHERELL thought that if the measure 'was at all events to be rejected, it was immaterial in what stage that rejection should take place. He op posed the Bill, as, if it passed with respect to Ire land, it would furnish a plausible ground for a similar Bill in the case of Church property in England. Mr: CANNING would submit slit was fair to op pose the regular parliamentary mode of proceeding; the mere regular mode would be for the enemies of the Bill to withhold their assistance in the Committee, and then to vote against the further progress of the Bill.—The cure for the evils of which the Hon. Gentle man complained would be found in•the Committee. He thought the Bill would be a great boon to Ireland. After a few words from Colonel. TRENCH and Mr. Dom. Baawsig, the House went into the Committee. Along and desultory conversation took place on the clause empowering the Commissioneis, at the close of seven years, to add a third to the composi tion sgreed on by the arbitrator. Several clauses then received verbal amendments. Mr. 8 RICE, on-the clause of compensation to the Clergyman, wished that the sum should be such as ,might be rationally suppoved to be received b y it r the last three years, in order to make a stanched of his compensation. PEEL and others opposed this; birth that no such standard cou ld b e established. Theohruiii, standards were the customary tithes, tho..e.th at: been adjudged, or the sums that had been ACIII.IIIS PAi Mr. GOULI3URN also Opposed it, on the g m that in many cases the Clergymen had received , tithes for the last three years. • .. Mr. DAWSON stated, that a Clergy tilau of 1.1 a-year living, had written to him that he Clotlld ceive no money from his parishioners, they br.hr:' debted to him in several thousand pound,. Colonel DAVIES said, the Clergy paid. from% to 25 per cent. for the collection of their tidie st this Bill was intended to put that additional sumita the pocket of the Clergyman. • . Mr. RICARDO said, they should . Rs 0. ! sation of tithes according to the average price a for the last seven years.—The clause, lipuev er A,l allowed to stand in the Bill. . Colonel BARRI moved an addition to a ti at , giving an appeal in three months to the Lord Li t ,: tenant from the adjudico.tion of the Comn;issi,,, k .„: llIr.W ETHER ELL opposed this, as: ; iii ing rota which would be called into acti m in so many Oa the clauses which gave to the L n rd the tight of appointing an arbitrato., where tht trz . pires could not agree, r• Colonel BARRY objected ti, the comptil•oly p an of the clause, - as giving an estravagant p •%. ei - the Lord Lieutenant. He shuntd shove to climes relative to the comptil,Ory pal tot the itteitute.. A conversation followed, in which Mi. lIARTI%,, Sir N. COULTUURST, Mr. ABERCRoMBY, 111, / , Sir J. NIWPORT, Mr. FITZOERALD, Air. S. Rice, 4r,dl Mr. W. BAtexes, took n part; 'thee the Comnutzee divided--For the Amendment, 39-a-Against it, Majority, 45. The CIiAIitNIAN then reported prol: s tes., an tained leave to again nit Tuesoay. Lord MILTON gave notice that he wuzi!d, in the nest t e don, moue for the repeat of Mr. Banker's Bill for vrohilnulig thz purchase of Game. If he should succeed iu übt,u,ing slu m peal of that Bill, he should then coolie to repeal the La , t u,,ra hit a iting the Sale of Game. Lord NUGENT fixed the second reading of die Ca tholice Bill fpr Tuesday. Mr. BROUGHAM postponed the second reading of the S.:e of Beer Bill till Monday.. The other orders were then .thiposed of; and at Teo datiti the House adjounied to Monday. RECIPROCITY OP DUTIES BILL. Mr. HUSK ISSON moved the Order of the Day for the House going into a Committee upon the Re ciprocity of Duties Bill., The House having gone into a Committee, Mr. HUSKISSON entered into a statement of•the provisions of this Bill; and to the inconveniences which had accrued to our merchants trading to Ame rica for want of such a measure as that now under consideration. According to our laws, as they now , stand, heavy duties were laid on the produce of other countries coming into this country, amounting in some cases almost to exclusion ; and as a .counter-ba lance to this system the Government of the kingdom I of the Netherlands passed an Act, or Decree, laying Iri - L FURTHER EXTRACTS. From the FRENCH PAPERS of ITILDNI:SDAY. MADRID, MAY 21. The Commander-in-Chief ordered the fellowieg notice to be published yesterday ; COMMAND IN CHIEF OF FRC PROVINCE. " I, Don Joseph de Zayas, Lieutenant-General of the oatill2 armies, make known that the French army will erst,r this r A pkg on the 24th, ieeording to the convention agreed on, Immediately after a brigade of the army shall have relieved, at Moe u'elect in the morning, all the posts, which will be iiccupicd till throb/ the troops under my orders. Charged with tie pr:ermation of order during this interval, I hope, frOns the wisdom which cha. racterises this illustrious population, that I shall not be reduced to the necessity of empietytnt the forte which I have at my din. posal, nor of making an appeal to the French army, t• repress and punish, as I shall most undoubtedly do, with &lithe rigor of the military lawn any disorder. whatever it may be, Mid may in the slightest degree disturb the public tranquillity. Ihs rigorous discipline which I shall order to be maintained by G. troops under my command, will be the surest guarantee of tie firm resolution which I have taken narrowly to watch over de tranquillity and security of the inhabitants of this heroic capital, and of the desire which animates me in witbdriiring from 'a bosom, not to carry away any other recollection than those of dr virtues which have distinguished it in all times. " Madrid, May ao. " Juana Di Zara:, EVENTS Olt TIIIITERDAY EVENING. • All the inhabitants of this heroic capital, in the midst of uncertainty and pain, were yesterday trai quil, on account of the confidence which they have is the patriotism and virtues of the Commander-ip Chief; and the more so as scarcely any one was igno• rant of the capitulation agreed to by him and his Es. cellency the Commander of the French army, when, contrary to the expectations of every man in his senses, a column of more than a thousand infantry and 'airy, commanded by Bessieres, presented itthe at the gate of Alcala, one of the entrances into Madrid This Chief detached there a party of ten lancers to reconnoitre, who reached as far as the Custowhour, with a fei inhabitants, who were uttering dreadful cries. This unexpected event obliged our General to order a company to advance, which, after firing on the aggressors, compelled them precipitately to retreat as far as the Cibeles, where Bessieres was statioiled; This General himself (Bessieres) immediately Came forward to speak to the Commander of tile Company, who observed to him - that he most retreat, and tit he could not keep the position he occupied withcot violating one of the Articles of the Capitalation con cluded with the Chief of the French Army. It is to the latter alone (said Zayas), that the place shall be given up ; besides, according to the Laws of War, die Capitulation should be scrupulously observed. Iftbe French General were informed of what passes be would be grieved, because he has testified the warm desire to preserve public tranquillity, and offers:dos his own soldiers to attain that object. In spite of reasons so solid, Bessieres answered. that accustomed to conquer, be was resolved to enter Madrid, though he should do so - by mail, fa cer Our excellent Commander, Zayas, then replied— " Place yourself at the head of your column and fight I If you conquer you shall enter Madrid, but not nobs' • wise." In consequence our General, Zayas, gave the promptest and most opportune orders for the ConeFi• tutional troops to attack the column of Basietell which kept up a warm fire from the gate of Alcah. Our garrison drove back the enemy's troops, babe tween the two Venters the latter made a sea. d, aai a general action ensued. Our artillery having fired six rounds very a-propos, threw disorder into the rank , of our enemy. A squadron of cavalry, commanded by D. Barthelemy Amor, charged theta and shref them into complete route. The result of tbiv attk , has been about eighty men killed, a great number wounded, and 700 prisoners. Liessieres was lomat. enough to get off with six or eight horses. At bevel o'clock a French Officer entered the city a ith a gig of truce; it is asserted he brings au offer of troops' maintain order. , It is said that accounts from Catalonia an ived terday to the effect, that Marshal Moncey, us mat to" prosecute his plan of operations, and we better, concentrate his force r bad deemed it expedient evacuate lkiedElD. dll , I