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Just Published, TIMBER DUTIES Observations on the PROPOSED ALTERATION of the Timber Duties, with REMARKS nn the PAMPHLET of Sir Howse° Douot.ss. By JOHN RRVANS. London . JAMES M. Ricnsitosox, Ti, Cornhill. \_ ~, -~ ~~ 1 ~, ek\ • AA, vaIiCAZI 2.Z.ITTif.• XAC3l.4 tb 0 trYWISAIOZb 1788. but submitted that it was hard, that in all the redaction of taxation. Ireland should not be considered, except en the subject of cools. If the reduction of the barilla duty were enforced, the distress would be Immense. Lord VA LENTI A (we believe) said, if it was enforced, 12,000 people must be reduced to starvation. Mr. KENNEDY regretted that the government had not been able to reduce the duty on slags as that would have enahl rl them to relieve the kelp growers. Next year he trusted that such duty might be reduced. A Mcwsta said. that this would be a reason for postponing thr proposed meant% ; let the reduction take place whew the repeal of the glass duty could be effected. Mr. RUT HVEN spoke of the distress of the kelp growers. Mr. CAMPBELL then presented petitions from kelp growers of the Hebrides. /Cc. PUBLISHED BY THE LABOURERS' FRIEND SOCIETY. PATRONS. THE KING'S MOST EXCRLLETT MAJESTY. THE QUERN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. VICE-PRESIDENTS. Most Noble the Marquis of Bute Right Rev, the Bishop of' Bath Most Noble the Marquis of Sligo I and Wells night Honourable Lord Kenyon J. 1. Briscoe, Require. M.P. Right Honourable Lord Dacre W. J. Denison, Esquire, M.P. Right Honourable 14m1 Teynham Bellby Thompson, Esquire, MP. Lord Viscount 31orpeth, M.P. Thomas Wyse, Esquire, M.P. TREASURER, THOMAS WRIGHT. ESQ. 74, WEST SMITHFIELD. 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The following are the outlines of the Bill for Scotland :—lt is intituled, " A Bill to Amend the Representation of the People in Scotland." P AAAAA Lt.—Whereas the laws which regulate the election of Members to serve in the Commons' House of Parliament foe Scotland arc defective, whereby great inconveniences and abuses have been occasioned ; and whereas it is expedient and would be for the evident utility of the subjects within Scot land that those defects should be remedied, and especially that the right of election should be extended to persons of property and intelligence, and the mode of conducting elections be better regu lated and ordered.—Be it therefore enacted, &c. that from and after the time when this Act shall come into operation, and in all future Parlia ments to be assembled, there shall be A/7y Representatives returned for Scotland to the - Commons' House of Parliament, of whom 28 shall be for the several or conjoined shires or stewartries hereinafter enumerated, and 22 for the several burghs and towns, or districts of burghs and towns, hereinafter enumerated or described. That the two shires of Peebles and Selkirk shall jointly return one Member to all future Parliaments, and the whole electors in both shires, qualified u hereinafter directed, shall vote together as the electors of one shire for such Member ; and in like manner the two shires of Ross and Cromarty, and the two shires of Dumbarton and Bute, and the two shires of Nairne and Elgin, and the two shires of Clackmannan and Kinross shall, each two of them, jointly return one Member to Par liament ; and all the electors qualified in the manner hereinafter pro vided shall vote, or be entitlec to vote, together for the return of such Member, in each of the two shires hereby for this purpose united. The district of burghs, consisting of Easter Anstruther, Pittenween, Wester Anstruther. Kilrenny, and Crail, shall no longer return a Mem ber to Parliament ; to be held to be pans of the shire or county of Fife. _ . _ That of the 28 Representatives hereafter to be returned to Parliament by the separate or combined shires or stewanries of Scotland, one shall always be returned by each of the counties or stewartries following, and no others—namely, one by each of the counties or stewartries of Aber deen, Argyle, Ayr, Banff, Berwick, Caithness, Dumfries, Rdin. burgh, Fife, Forfar, Haddington, Inverness, Kincardine, Kirkcud bright, Isanark, Linlithgow, Perth, Renfrew, Roxburgh, Stirling, Sutherland, and Wigtown, and that one member shall also be returned by the two shires of Peebles and Selkirk jointly, one by Dumbarton and Bute, one by Elgln and Nairne, one by Boas and Cromarty, one by Orkney and Shetland, and one by Clackmannan and Kinross. That of the 22 Members to be returned for the several or combined bar in and towns of Scotland, two shall always be returned by Edin burgh, including Portaburgh. Canongare, and other contiguous suburbs ; two by Glasgow, including Calton, Gorbals, Anderstoo, and other con tiguous suburbs; one by Aberdeen and suburbs thereof; one by Pais ley and suburbs thereof; one by Dundee and suburbs thereof ; one by Greenock and suburbs thereof; and one by Leith, north and south, and suburbs thereof, together with Portobello, Musselburgh, and Fishtrrow, jointly; and one by each of the districts or classes of burghs sin eified in an Act, passed in the bth year of the reign of her blajtsty Queen Anne, intituled, ". An Act for an Union of the two kingdoms of England and Scotland," and hitherto in use to return Members to Parliament: provided always, that the district of Rasta Anstruther, Pittenween, Wester Anstruther, Kilrenny, and Crail, shall, as hereinbefore provided, no longer return any Member : provided also, that Aberdeen shall not, after this Act shall come into operation, form a I I part of the district to which it hash belonged, and the town of Peterhead shall be added to that district, and all the qualified electors it contains shall be entitled to vote at the election of Members to serve In Parlia ment, along with those In the other towns of which it consists : provided ' also, that Glasgow shall in like manner no longer farm a part of the district to which it has hitherto belonged, and the town of Kilmarnock THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1831. PRICE 71). shall he melded to that district, and all its qualified electors be e. titled to rote v the election of Memhers to serve in P•rliame along with those of Dumbarton. itutherglen. and HetVrew t rash'. alio, that Dundee shall in like manner ro longer form a part of district to which it has hitherto belonged, and that the whole right 0 . dection for that district shall. after this act shall come into operation. b • in Perth, Saint Andrew's, Forfar, and Copal. of Fife ; pr.n•idtd al-- that the ►own of Falkirk s'usli be added to the district hitherto consist. log of Linlithgow, Selkirk, Lanark. and Feeble*: provided also tha the town of (omarty shall be added to the district hitherto consist in of Tain, Dingwall, Wick, and Kirkwall. Thcre are then clauses providing that freeholders now enrolled in counties be entitled to vote for their lives, but none hereafter to Merl . fi votes, except ag hereinafter provided. That the proprietors of lands or houses worth 101. a sear to be (I.:a • lifted to vote In counties. _ That heirs apparent and husbands in lywriessitm be entitled to rot.% That tenants possessing on leases of 10 years foe 601. rent be entitlod to vote in counties. That in elections for counties or stewartres, where two or more per. sons are interested in the subject from which 'he vote arises, as likrerrer and as fiar, the right of voting shall be in the lik ranter, and not in the far i sae where the subject, being of less valve rims to afford $ fr r yearly return to each co-proprietor of 101. is held by heirs portioners without division, the right of voting shall belong to the eldest heir ponioner happening to he a male, or ►o the huahand of the eldest heir porioner being a female, and married That the right of voting for burghs and towns no Borger to he in Town Councillor Delegates, but in qualified inhabitants. That the owner and occupants of houses worth 101. a rear be entitLil to rote in burghs and towns. That persons claiming to be entitled to vote to make application to the Sheriff. That the Sheriff shall adjust and make up the register within -- months after the passing of this Act, and annually thereafter. But the Sheriff"s decisions to be liable to revision as to matter of law. The next clause prorWes the form and manner of receiving or rejecting votes at elections. That the Sheriffs shall fix and publish the day of election —namt ly, to endorse on the back of the writ the day on which he rrceived it. and shall, within three days thereafter, name and publicly announce a day, which day shall not be later than 21 days after that on which the writ was received, for the election for his county or stewartry, or for any burgh or town within his jurisdiction ; and shall give due intimation thereof by advertisement, Itc. That on the day of election the Sheriff or Stewart shall, wherever the registered rote, exceed 500 in number, have two or more separate places for taking the poll, or one place. as nearly as may be. for each 500 voters, each of which places shall be under the personal charge either of the Sheriff or Stewart. or of a substitute appointed by him, for whom he shall be responsible ; and no poll shall be kept open for more than two days, and only between the hours of nine of the morning and four in the afternoon, &c. That the voters in burghs shall not vote in the county where the burgh is situate, nor view versa. The next clause provides how the limits of towns or burghs are to be determined. That no Sheriff or Stewart. or Sheriff or Stewart Substitute, shall be entitled to vote at any election for a Member to serve in Parliament for the shire of which he is the Sheriff or Stewart, or for any burgh or town, or district of burghs or towns, lying partly or wholly within such shire; and no Judge of the Court of Session, or of the Court of Exchequer, shall be entitled to vote at any such election for any shire, burgh or town, or district of burghs or towns in Scotland. That, from and after the passing of this Act, no person shall be eligible to represent any county or stewartry who shall not be the proprietor of a land estate in Scotland of the value of 6001. a-year, or be the heir apparent to such an estate. Provided always, that all persons who at the time of the passing of this Act were qualified to be elected as Representatives of any shire or stewartry shall continue to be eligible as such Representatives, for the term of their natural lives, and so long as they retain the qualification of which they were then possessed. That eldest sons of Scotch Peers may be elected. That persons wilfully disobeying this Act to be liable to penalties and damages, and persons guilty of crimes at election, liable to punish. went and damages. Disqualified persons voting, to be liable in pe nalties and costs. That Sheriffs Substitute may act as Sheriffs where not otherwise pro vided. That every person claiming to be registered shall, at the time of making such claim, pay to the Sheriff or Stewart offelatlng the sum of Is. and every registered voter shall, when tendering his vote, at any election, make payment of the like sum of la. to the acting S heriff or Stewart. Provided always, that out of the money so received the She riff or Stewart shall be bound to defray the whole expense of preparing and adusting the register, and keeping and providing books and copies of entr i es , and all the other expenses not otherwise provided for, of carry ing this Act into execution, and shall also keep an exact account of the whole sums so received and expended. to be at all times open to the inspection of any registered voter. That the expenses of booths and polling clerks to be paid by candi dates. That all former laws be repealed, where contrary to this Act. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. MARCH Is. The Bishop of WORCESTER took the oaths and his seat. Lord TENTIIRDEN officiated for the Lord Chancellor, and sat on the Woolsack at five o'clock. The Earl of MANSFIELD presented various petitlaas from Clacks mimosa, and other parts of Scotland. Rarl DA CRE also presented similar petitions fat the Repeal of the Malt Duty. Several private Bills were brought up from the Commons, and read the first time. The Census (Ireland) Bill was read a third time, and passed. Earl GREY presented various petitions in favour of Reform. stun VAVICIATION. The Earl of ROSEBER RY presented petitions from persons in the Liberty of Edinburgh, Port of Leith. and Royal Burgh of Stir ling, against the Steam Boat Duty. Lord RADNOR presented petitions from Kent, In favour of Reform. _ _ The Marquis of CAMDEN presented a petition from Galway, in favour of Elective Franehi•e, Adjourned at Half past Five &Clock. HOUSE OF COMMON'S. IMPOST Or ELECTION COMMITTEES. Lord FORBES peesented the report of the Athlone Committee, which stated that the sitting member had been duly returned. Mr. LITTLETON presented the report of the Pontefract election committee, which confirmed the return of the sitting niember. The Marquis of CH ANDOS presented the report tithe Maidstone election committee, comfirming the return of the sitting member. Mr. HUNT presented the report of the committee on the classifica tion of reform petitions. Ordered to be printed. RETOOLS( PETITIONS. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented petitions in favour of the Minim.' serial measure of refiwm from the different Wards of the City of Linden. Ordered to be printed. The names of the defaulters who failed to attend at the election ballots on Tuesday were replied, and they were ordered to attend on subsequent days. Mr. Alderman WOOD moved for various retorts respecting the duty on malt, the number of brewers, &t. for 1830. Lord W. GRAHAM presented a petition from the Chamber of Commerce, Glasgow, against the renewal of the East India Charter,and one from the ship-owners of Dumbarton, against the proposed afters tion of the timber duties. Mt. O'FA KRELL presented • petition from Athy, county Kil dare. complaining of distress and of the Union, as being the cause of the same. __ GROWERS or KELP. Mr. CAMPBELL (member for Argykshire) Mitad a petition on the subject of the di s tr ess es of the growers of Sir G. CLERK lamented that none of the Mluisises heard this pe• tition Re hoped they would abandon the primed measure ' as it would be the greatest injury to the Kelp growers, and it would be no bemat to the consumers of Soap. Mr. S. RICE said that the distress of the kelp growers was not a novelty t it had not resulted from the proposed reduction of the barilla duty. __.„. Mr. O'CONNELL admitted that the promed reduction of duty had not done all the mischief—that there were pre.dispoelog cause' ; Sir G. CLERK (Lord Althnrp having taken his seat) expressed the hope that the proposed reduction would not be Loed A LTHORP said th a : i t was not the epropoved reduction that affected the kelp growers, but the British manufacture of Si.. rill.. He regretted that he had not been able to reduce the glass duty. Mr. H. DRUMMOND admitted that the British manufacturers of Bari la had seriously affected the kelp growers, but the propmsed re duction of duty bad auratrated the dißcutty.—Petitions ordered to lie on the table. STEAM SIATS. Lord G. SOM ER SET mdted s:4.ther the tax on passengers or steam Ito was to be persevered in. Lord ALT HO It P replied that t he tax would be persevered in, hot Olat it was proposed to be imposed on the tonnage of the vessels, an I ut on the prunengen. Mr. PATTEN then presented a petition from Wigan. against • c newel of the Rut India Charter.—Ordered to be referred to the Ea , t India Camrrit•ee. The same hon. member afterwards presented a IP- • tition from Warrington, for Parliamentary Reform ; it was agreed ty before the ministerial plan was known. Mr. TYRRELL presented a petition from Renhall, Suffolk. for reduction of taxation ; also one agreed to at Stowe-market 'wean.% t parliamentary reform. Ordered to be printed. CORPORATION ROBBERY. Mr. STRUTT presented seven similar (reform)petitions frum places in Ekvhyshire. Sir R. FERGUSON prevented similar petitions fromKinghorn,Du^- dee, &e. He said they contained the best answer to the member for Borouglihridge (Sir C. Wetherell) who was so shocked at corporation robbery. They sere therefore ready to give up what were termed their rights. Sir C WETHERELL asked whether they bad not taken oaths to support the corporation rights ? Sir R. FERt.USON said he did not know ?hat the oaths were. ii any had been taken ; but if they had taken any such oaths the sooner they broke them the better. Mr. O'CONNELL said no corporate oath, could hind against At I of Parliament; it was in the power of Parliament to alter the !AWN ai,.l if the law were altered. the e nporations must obey then,. Sir C. WETHERELL declared that this was jesuitical resaaning ; till the Parliament had altered the corporations, the corporate person , ages were bound to maintain the privilege a till they were altered. Mr. Alderman WOOD said that the Learned Gentleman airs iemir. rant of what the oaths were. Did he know what oath or oat! s .r taken ? He undertook to any that no ouch oaths as the L.-ar. e Gentleman imagined were taken. Sir R. FERtiUSSON said he did not know what the na.hs war, but he believed that they only swore to sustain ihe min on weal. Sir C. WETHERELL observed that he should nit have spoken had he not been called up; but he trusted that not mind would always tuke fire when be heard perjury recommended. Sir R. FERGUSON admitted that he had used a hasty expression ; be had not intended to recononend the breaking of oaths: he meant to say that if the law did so exist, the sooner it was alter. d the be t.er.— (Cheers.) He had the pleasure of adding that all the Scorch burghs which he formerly represented had petitionnl for Parliamentary He. form.—(Hear. hear.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, this outcry about corpora. tion oaths was a delusion. -(hear) —it was worthy of the quarter whence it came.—(Cheers.) It was like the coronation oath brought forward against the Catholic claims, and he hoped the result would be ai milar.—(Cheers.) Mr. O'CONNELL said, his remarks might he termed jesuitical ; but the argument by which he was opposed was a relic of the old bi gotry. He maintained that the corporations had only rights in trust for the good of the community, and that the parliament 1.2 d the power to alter the rights. Besides, corporations did not lose their rights and feelings as men. Petitions ordered to be printed. Lord MORPETH said he had petitions to present from Sheffield in favour of the Parliamentary measure of deform, signed by 16,0110; from Huddersfield, signed by 7,000 ; from Leeds, agreed to at a very numerous meeting; from freemen of York resident in Leeds, who cheerfully acquiesced in the measure ; from kk hitby. Tadcaattr, &c. He said he presented the petitions with very great pleasure, and üb. served, that the charges of she Honourable and Leaned Metuher tor Bcroughbridge, about corporatiw obligations, would fall feebly on their opinions. Petitions severally ordered to be printed. Lord MORPETH presented a petition from Milsom, Yorkshire, for a new arrangement of tithes. Mr. T. DUNDAS presented a petition from the eorp irloo of York in favour of the plan of Parliamentary Reform. Tie p. ittioners did not view the reform as Corp nation robbery ; on the taintral, they eon. sidered it as of the most beneficial tenden Mr. J. WOOD said, as one of the Corporation, he was glad this petition was presented. The measure was no Corporal 4.11 I . .!lorty he property of Corporations remained untouched ; it edify aff c.ed prin. aid that :or the benefit of the comatunity.—( lear ) Ordered to lie on the table. Jr. Alderman WA ITH MAN presented petitioaa f the Common Hall of the City of London; from St. Dunstan's; and from the So ciety of " Johns " in fay tut of the Parliamentary plan of Reform. Mr. Alderman WOOD supported them, and lamented the absence of the member for BoronAhbridge, (Sir C. Wetherell) Monist: he would then have seen that the citizens of Loudon did not dread the measure. In fact it would affect no corporate rights. Mr. HUNT supported the petith na, and said the example of the Common Hall of London was being followed in all lar a of the country. Ordered to lie no the table. _ _ Mr. Alderman Ii'AITHIIIAN present, d a petition from the rrpe makers of London, against the importation of fore gn cordage ; also ine from St. Pancras, in favour of the vestries bill. 1111 LAND. Mr. O'CONNELL proem vl a petition from an indiv du*/ in Ire. land. for the extension of the Bankrupt Laws of England to Ireland also one complainii.g of the vestry system, nit e.tenths being thereby taxed for churches which they never attended. It these things were Legislative union, thtre was great inequality. Mr. HUM E asked whether the pie lite for the (measles's of the Batk rupt Laws to Ireland, was to be tedsemed. Mr. STANLEY replied, that the subject wa% under the considera tion of the Solici,or-general for Ireland. N ELL rejoiced that a learned lord la another place ( Lord Brougham) had assailed the fabric of legal abuse, with a giant's arm, and they must fall before the blow (a laugh), and tint being strewn plished, the remedies he now spoke of must come. The Irish V.:miles' Bill had given no relief where it was wanted. S:' RICE maintained the contrary it reli Ted the poor occupy. big tenants ; was that nothing? Mr. HUME contended that the legislation on this pint required Bir J. NEWPORT remarked, that he did not defend the bill through out ;at the same time, it bad effected many ameliorations. Petition' ordered to he printed. 3lr. O'CONNELL presented six petitions from bouse.painters and glaziers, tobacco-manufacturers, lath-renders, and ship-weights, of Dublin ; St. Michael's, Limerick ; end some places in Kilkenny, for the repeal of the Union. Those of the house-painters and shipwrights ordered to be printed. 31r. O'CONNP.LL presented a petition Atm Drogheda for Parlia. mentary Reform, by upwards of 6.oollllmilat Ordered to be printed. Mr. MAXWELL pregented a petition fan Qamipt in favour of the Kildare-street grant. . -• • Mr. SHAW presented a petition from the shipowners of Dublin against the proposed timber duties.—Or.lered to lie on the table. Mr. P. THOMSON moved for leave to bring in a bill to oblige calico printers to mark their name upon the pieces that they printed, cur the purpose of identifying their copyright.—Leave granted. Sir J. NEWPORT moved that the 19th report of the Commismon on the Court of Prerogative in Ireland be submitted to a Select Com mittee to give their opinions thereon and to see whether there L. ary measures that can he adopted to remedy the abuses that exist in the Rerlesiastiesl Courts In Ireland. Mr. CHO MPT N seconded the motion.—Leave granted. Mr. Alderman WOOD moved for a Committee of the whole house on the bill relating to canine madness. The motion was deferred till a future day. Petitions in favour of reform were presented from Chatham. Ten. tenon, Gloucester, Dysart, sod Kirkaldy, Chipping Norton, at d &venal other places. Petitions were presented Nam Aylesbury and tioadburbt for a repeal of the malt tax. Several petitions were presented mildest any alteration in the timh,r duties. A petition was presented by Mr. GUEST from retailers of beer praying to be pertafteed to keep their bealbs open daring the battle hours that are allowed to licensed v.c The orders of the day being diap tteda, she 10 OW adkairr.ed lialtpatt Eight. t