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GAMBLIN43.--DERNARD v. POP& Mn. Danacist, who appeared for the first tient* his silk gown. as Common Serjeant, conducted this case. The plaintiff brought his action upon the Statute of the 9tb of Anne, to recover back a sum of money which he lost in play to the defendant, at the games of Un,Trois,Cinque, and Rouged Noir. Henry Compton, a clerk in the Stage-coach Office, Somerset House, said he knew the defendant, who kept a house in Jer myn-street, St. James's. He went there on the 7th of Novem ber last, and saw the plaintiff playing the game of Un, Trois, Cing. Pope, who was master of the house, was present. He saw him take money and acting as the master. The plaintiff put down his money and the witness saw him lose between £6O and £7O. He said to the plaintiff, " I think you have lost between £6O and £70." Atter that the plaintiff began to play at Itou,ge et Nair. Pope, he believed, was at the table dealing the cards. The plain tiff lost, on that occasion, 450. Dir. Caterer, fur the defence, said, it was doubtful if the evidence of a witness, and particulaly in the situation of Mr. Compton, a clerk in the Stamp Office, who frequented gambling houses, was entitled to much credit. Two persons might be wicked enough to bargain to give evidence fur each other in si milar circumstances. The Lazo Cut; JUSTIC6 said, it was impossible the Law could ever be enforced, except they admitted the testimony of persons who were present at play, and who for some reason or the other, might think proper to appear as witnessee.;The Jury ought to be sure the money was paid to the defendant, or his servants. If the defendant, being master of the house, placed servants to receive money won, it was the same as money paid into his own hands.—Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £9O. THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY V. RUSSELL. The Noble Burl, who is one of the Trustees under the will of the late Duke of Marlborough, brought this action against the defendant, who distraintd upon the furniture at Blenheim House for arrears of assessed taxes due front the present Duke. The distress was considered illegal, the Duke of Marlborough having but a life interest in the furniture. Auotber question was raised respecting the right to levy for House and Window Taxes, Bien he . ..ti being given by the Parliament and Sovereign (Anne) to the Duke of Marlborough and his heirs, free of claims on the part of the Crown. —The Jury, under all the circumstances, found a verdict for the Noble Plaintiff—Damages, £1120; subject to the opinion of the Court upon the legal objections. FAMINE IN IRELAND. FROM THE DUBLIN JOURNAL OF MONDAY. The accounts received to-day, from the West, re garding the sufferings of the people from a deficiency of food, are deplorable. In the county of Mayo, the great mass of the peasantry are unable to procure a sufficiency to preserve animal existence. It does not appear that there is any absolute scarcity of provisions, but the potatoes being consumed, they can only be procured in the market, and there is no money to purchase. Oatmeal is quoted in Castlebar at twenty shillings per cwt. or about twopence per pound.— Two pounds of meal will support a man Fur one day. Beef is quoted at 4d. per lb. These prices shew that it is the scarcity of money, and not of food, which distresses the people. On the Ist of May, a Meeting was held at Westport, for relieving the poor, and the 'sum of £BOO was subscribed, of which the Marquis of &too contributed £320. • From Galway we learn, that every moment in creases more and more the distress of the poor. In the west of the county of Clare, many families are actually living on the poultry, and limiting them selves to a hen or a duck in the 21 . hours, joined to whatever adventitious aid chance may afford. There are families in this quarter, who never knew or felt want, who are ashamed of making it public, pining away in private. The patience of this afflicted people is unequalled in the history of mankind, dying of hunger, without committing any exce.s worthy of notice. A soup-kitchen has been established at En nis for supplying the poor, and its utility will extend in proportion to the amount of subscriptions. In Limerick, the fever is increasing, and it is said to be very virulent—several have died in the Hospital within these few days. In the County of Cork the peasantry are also suffering from the deficiency of food, that is, as we have already stated, from the want of money. In Carlow market, on Thursday, oats rose to 13s. per barrel ; and potatoes to 7s. 9d. FROM TILE DUBLIN EVENING POST. Although pressed more than ordinarily for space, we cannot avoid, in reference to the duty we owe even to the dictates of humanity, from placing the following few paragraphs before the Public. Again, and again, we say the people are literally starving, and the citizens of Dublin are canting about the Bible and the Religious Tract Society. OUR SAviowt fed the multitude with the loaves and fishes before he preached his Sermon on the Mount. In London it has been otherwise. Two subscriptions have already been opened. In Dublin, nothing has been done. It is, we repeat, a crying shame ! _ CASTLIOAR, MAY 2. Accounts of the most serious suffering are pouring in upon us, and we have a perfect conviction on our mincl4, that more than half the people of this county are unable to procure half enough to eat. One case, communicated by a Magistrate, we select from se veral which have both fallen under our observation and been mentioned to us. A man, named William Kerby, of Carabeg, has perished for swot of food ! A party of nine men, wearing white shirts outside their coats, broke into Milford House, near Miltown Malbay, in the county of Clare, on Saturday. the flth ultimo,' and took away a quantity of potatoes. . RESOLUTIONS FOR REOULATIOPt . CORN TRAIDR--BY MR. CURWIN. I.—Tbo Average Price of Wheat exceeding Ws. and the Ports bebsg declares! open fot the Importation of Foreign Wheat; varelaTerdedat exceeding - Four Hundred Abonsand *quarters, be • , on a duty of We. per Charter. . The. Average Pri ce o f Wheat continuing above SOL at the expiraden *Ellie Weeks froth the first opealor the Ports, a farther Import.** of Fqur Hundred Thousand quartets to be per mitted, at Ss. per quarter. • PARLIA NENT.ARY PROCEEDINGS. • . , HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 11. • 1 Their Lordships Witt at ten o'clock, to hear Appel • MACAO, Appellillart OFFICin Of STA= IS •1106.611110 9 - Respondents. • This was an appeal frOm the Court of , *—Mr. Wass= and hlr. &Aux-re were heard far. Appiliantr; the Arroamay-Gesuoms., in part, for the 4.- r -ioniser ar gument postponed. Faveral private Bilb were brought up from the House of Consesons.ky Sir J. GLAIIAIe. The Scotch Malt Duty 11111, and the Irish Linen Bounty Bill Were read a second time. The Excise Licenses Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Countervailing Malt Duty Bill was coinmittedo—Ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMON& Sir H. SHAW presented a Petition from the !totel-keepers of Dublin, against the Window Tax levied on them by the Police Act.—Laid on the table. Mr. LOCKHART presented a Petition from seieral Owners and Occupiers of Land of the County•of Oxford, expressing their surprise and dismay at the proposition contained in certain Resolutions before the House (those of Mr. Ricardo), for ad mitting the warehoused foreign grahisinto the market; and two similar Petitions from the County of Dorset and a Hundred in the County of Essex.—Laid on the table. Mr. CH ILDE presented a Petition f om the County of Salop, for a revision of the Criminal Code.— Aid on the table. Sir J. NEWPORT presented a etition from the Woollen Manufacturers of the town of Carr against any modification of the Act protecting their manuketjes. Mr. C. HUTCHINSON trusted that care would be taken not to injure the manufacturers in Ireland, who had, on the faith of Acts of Parliament, embarked their capitals in manufactories. Mr. WALLACE said that inquiry was going on upon this subject, and that, if any change was proposed, care would be taken to give due notice to the parties interested.—Laid on the table. _ Mr. Alderman WOOD gave notice that he would(on Tues day, move for the production of such book or books as have been kept in Ilchester Jail since the appointment of William Bridle to be jailer. Mr. F. BUXTON, me behalf of Sir J. Mackintosh, post poned his motion on the state of the Criminal Law to Tuesday, the 4th of June. Mr. COURTEN AY moved for leave to bring in A Bill to con solidate and amend the Laws relating to Prisons.—Leave given. Lord F. OSBORNE presented a Petition from the Town of Cambridge, praying fur a revision of the Criminal Law.—Or dered to be printed. Mr. LAWLEY presented two Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of Land in the County of Warwick, expressing their surprise and dismay at the propositions contained in the Resolu tions of the llon. Member for Portarlington.—Laid on the table. Mr. CKREVEY moved for a Copy of the appointment of the present Clerk of the Pells.—Ordered. ?Ir. G REN FELL wished to ask, now for the third time, what was the cause of the deli) , in the production of the corre spondence between the Government and the Bank on the sub ject of the renewal of the Charter. There was a letter of Lord Liverpool's published in a Newspaper, and if the correspondence was so limited where was the ground of delay ? Mr. LUSHINGTON said, that he had but to repeat his an. swer of yesterday, and referred the Hon. Gentleman to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. GREN FELL moved that the correspondence be pro duced forthwith. • Alr. LUSHINGTON Wished the Hon. Gentleman to wait until the Chancellor of the Exchequer took his seat. Mr. BROUGHAM saw no reason for waiting. The delay was a contempt of the House. - • The House was about to divide, but the motion was carried without a division. Sir M. ♦V. RIDLEY gave notice that he would, at the pro. per occasion, propose a clause in the Navigation Bill, to repeal the Tonnage Duty altogether on British ships outward and homeward bound. Sir R. HERON postponed to next Session his motion respect ing the Settlement of the Poor. Mr. HUME wished to call the attention of the House to a mistatement in a Morning Paper, of what had Linea from him the day before, on a motion for the Return of the several . sums paid for the insertion of Proclamations, Advertisements, &c. in Public Newspapers by Public Offices. This was not a private matter, but a purely public transaction. He would premise that he was the advocate of free discussion on public questions, and would be the last to limit the right of examination into, and animadversions on the conduct of public men. He never would bring a public journal into the least trouble on his own account ; but he would require, in return, on the part of public writers, an adherence to truth. Whether or not he had a right to com plain in this instance, was for the House to judge. The Hop. Member then proceeded to read an extract from some comments made upon what fell from him on the occasion alluded to by one of the Morning Papers, and concluded by saying he had no inten tion to take any step against the Paper, his only object being to set himself right with the Public as to the purity of his motives. Mr. LUSHINGTON having moved the Order of the Day for the second reading of the Stamp Duties Repeal Bill, Sir M. W. RIDLEY asked whether it was intended to lower at all the duties payable upon debenture bonds, which were at present excessive ? It was usual in transferring debentures to give a bond ; .but the stamp duty was often so high that they were of no use to the merchants, which was a great grievance to the trade. Mr. LUSHINGTON said, this was not the first time he had heard complaints against the part of the law to which the Hon. Baronet alluded. When the Bill came into the Committee, it would be seen that the subject had not been overlooked. After some more conversation the Bill was read a second time / and committed for tomorrow. _ _ Mr. LENNARD postponed his motion for the repeal of the Seditious Meetings Bill to Thursday, the 30th of this month. The Order of the Day for going into a Committee upon the Stamp Acts being moved, Mr. LUSHINGTON said, that his object was to propose some Resolutions In the Committee, relating principally to the stamp duties payable on policies of insurance, as well as to regu late the mode of distributing these stamps. It was not, how ever, his intention to submit these Resolutions for discussion at the present moment, as he wished Members to suspend their opinions until the Re solutions were printed. A conversation then ensued between Mr. Homy Mr. Baum; Mr. Binds, Mr. C. Cadmus, Sir M. W. MIDLEY, and Mr. Ewes ; after which the Hoene went into the Committee, the Resolutions were adopted, and the Report ordered to be brought up to-morrow. Mr. BENNET gave notice that, on Friday next, be would bring in a Bill to alter and amend the present mode of Licensing Publicans. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY moved the Order of the Day for the House going into a Com mittee for the further considerate's of •the Agricul tural Committee Report. • • Mr. WYVILL said, that it was withreluctance be put himself forward it eels early stage of the buds sets, but he was impelled io it by imperatife than ttra He thought it behoved every man , i t this Inaba Of general and unexampled 'distress, td sink all enbeia derations f s of private Ikelingt in earning to a q t ie st i ot i like this, and to suggest fearlei4uelt a tonne appeared to hitri likely to alleviate that distressi That the distress was of the nature be had described it; be believed few would deny. Last Year a Committee of this House tval.appointed upon the subject, who made a Report which was now upon the table. They stated that there lay great difficulties in the way of relief; but as they did not make it appear that these difficnities could not be removed ' the Report gave but little sati s factio n . This year another Comtnittee .was appointed, and another Report made ;but-though it had not yet arrived at that stage when it *is pos sible to pronounce so decidedly upon its futility as the first, yet enough was disclosed to persuade him .(Mr.Wyvill) that, if we looked to the plans emanating from it for substantial relief, we should be disap pointed—Wear, heary—lndeed, the Noble Lord 'him. self, who brought forward the plan, admitted that he did not expect any good from it; and was it pot, there fore, a delusion to be discussing that which the very projectors conceded would do but little benefit? Now of this conduct, of this inattention to the distresses of the people, as well in this Session as the last, the people had much to complain against that House.. The fact was, that the real remedy was riot stated— (Hear, hear).—He (Mr.Wyvill) had prepared a Reso.. lution, setting the thing in its proper lights upon which he would take the sense of the House. It would, at least, save the people from being deluded by pretended remedies, which did not apply to their ease. He had always considered that there were but two modes of relieving the present distress, one of which was by the repeal of Mr. Peel's Bill—a mea. sure to which he was averse, for he thought we had got so far into the difficulty that it was better to face it through than retrace our steps—(Hear, hear).—Thd other mode was by a reduction of taxation. It had been said that a reduction of taxation could give no relief; but he was of opinion that that alone could give relief. His grounds Were these—the agticultu• ral produce of the country had been valued at 50,000,000 of quarters, of which 5,000,000 went to pay tithes, 8,000,000 for seed, '22,000,006 were con sumed by the agriculturists, and there only remained then 15,000,000 to bring to market to pay the taxes, &c. Now would it be denied that if 20,000,0001. of taxes were taken off, and only ten remained, by which the farmer's outgoings would be lessened 30 per cents that it would give no relief? He objected then, to any other remedy hut a reduction of taxation. As to the Resedutions before the Committee, he would prophecy that, even if they were carried, they would not last sii months. He wished, however, again to state that he was averse to repealing Mr. Peers Bill ; but, if it wits repealed, he knew no course more wise than that pointed out by the Hon. Baronet's Rescind. dons.' The lion. Member concluded by moving— ,. That it is the opinion of this House that the best and mod effectual relief that can be given to the agricultural interest is by a large remiuion of taxation." Mr. LOCKHART said he had no disposition to occupy too much of the time of the House, but he was induced to rise in consequence of some opinions thrown out by the Hon. Member who spoke last. It was his wish that the true interests of the agricul turists were well understood in this House, and not mixed up with subjects of another nature. That the distress under which they laboured was fully appre ciated here, he was prepared to contend for—for how often had a melancholy but a true picture been drawn of that distress in this House ? The House were told that the farmers' capital was wasted, and that the working poor could be no longer rewarded for their labour. The consequence of such a state of things had been the loss of all faith between debtor and creditor; the latter, apprehensive that his de mands would never be satisfied ; and the hands of one-half the community had been lifted against the other, not in direct hostility, but in the several Courts of Law. There it would seem that each man perse cuted his brother, imagining that he would thereby preserve himself from falling in the general ruin.— To all this was to be added, the decaying state of the property of the clergy—that venerable body, whose interests this House had been so often called upon to attend to, but to which it had shewn itself so indifferent. If the case at the Northern Sessions was to be taken as a precedent, the property of the clergy would be entirely ruined. But to remedy this dis tress, several modes of relief had been proposed— amongst others, the repeal of Mr. Peel's Bill, as it was said the evil was attributable to a sudden return to cash payments. Another mode suggested was a re duction of taxes openly, and covertly, a reduction of the interest of the National Debt—( Hear, hear).— He.certainly looked at a proposition to reduce 20 millions of taxes, and a reduction of the interest of the debt as the same thing. For it was clear that if the taxes were reduced by such an amount, it would be quite impossible to pay the present interest of the debt—.(Hear, hear).---Now, he would not inquire whether the House ought to take up the question just now ; but he wished to say that the agricultural inte rest was no party to this demand—(Hear, hear). — The farmers had never put their case in that point of view. Nut one of the numerous Petitions which had been presented to this House claimed so large a re duction of taxes' as 20,Q00,0001. though thil cer tainly prayed for a more reasonable reduction of taxation. It was clear then, that whatever the House might think of the Resolution of the Hon. Member, who never, t in had any no t instance, h e ' p t i r o a n y of ed h a e :e g of the debt, in a repeal of Mr. Peers Bill — (Hear). interest Some ascribed the distress to foreign competition... others to a superabundance Now to this last agriculturist produ c e. 4 . his calm It was ' to hiark4ane wpm:* 9t c 4 W r: ;~ i~, ;.~ ri t 11 laistcau --- sehe could not give hisacquies- was true that lag yeah mote corA ;anti • than aver Wire; but was this a coil. t h e eurpities of the sellers, or the Stiorp . . ,