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ritRLIAMEN'PAIer PROCEEDINGS. • HOUSE OF LORDS. APRIL 19. t halfeniatb ve three ?clock the Marquis of Cnotstossnatar , NA. Loa, and toe Earl of StiAFTZSBUILY appeared as his ajesty'sCommissioners, and gave the Royal Assent to the Beer Duties Bill, the Innkeepers' Rates Bill, the Irish Law of Treason Amendment Bill, and to a great number of Road and nclosure Bills: MI". Buttocc, from the Treasury, presented an Account of the Duty on the Importation of Hides, and of the additions made to the National Debt during the last ten years.—Laid on the table. The London Institution Regulation, and the South London Gas Company Incorporation Bills, were brought up from the Commons by Mr. Pm, Mr. Mama, and others, and read a first time. The House then adjourned till Tuesday, the Ist of May. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The &MART% was summoned to the House of Peers. On his return he stated the Royal Assent to have been given by Com mission to certain Bills (for which see the Lords). Mr. H. SUMNER postponed his motion respecting the Or phans' Fund till after the holidays. This being the last day of receiving Private Bills, a consider able number were brought up and received. The Kensington Hammersmith, and Brentford Gas Light Bill, was read a third time and passed. Lord A. HAMILTON postponed the motion of which he had given notice, on the subject of Scotch Representation, from the Ist till the loth of May. Mr. HA RBORD brought in a Bill to alter the Act of George the Third, respecting the making and sale of Bread.—Read a first and ordered to be read a second time that day fortnight, and to be printed. Lord W. BENTINCK gave notice, that he would, on the Bth of May, move for the production of certain Papers re lating to Sicily. Mr. B. WILBRAHAM presented a Petition from the In habitants of Mary-la-Bonne against the Metropolis Road Bill. Sir R. WILSON moved for a Return of all Officers, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Establishment of Great Britain and Ireland, holding snore than one Commission, allowance, sinecure. pension, &c. with the names and accounts thereof.—Ordered. ILLICIT DIsTLLLATION IN IRELAND. General HART presented a Petition from the Parish of Culnash, in the County of Donegal, praying a revision of the Distillery LAWS. GAME LAWS. Mr. TENNYSON gave notice he should, on the 9th of May, move for leave to bring in a Bill to ena ble Gentlemen, not Lords of Manors, to appoint per sons to preserve the Game, and kill for their use. RECOGNIZANCES. Mr. BENNETT moved for a Return of the amount of all Recognizances forfeited in the Office of Re cognizance, in the County of Middlesex, for the last three years ; and also for the Amount of Fees de mar.ded in the Office of the Clerk of the Peace, on account of Recognizances for the same period ; and also for Fees paid to the said Clerk of the Peace from prosecutors and defendants at the Middlesex Ses sions during the same period.—Ordered. STEAM ENGINES. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR brought in a Bill for regu lating the use of Furnaces and their Engines.—Read a first and ordered to be read a second time on Mon day se'nnight. FINING IN COURTS Or LAW. Mr. HOBHOUSE said, he had to present a Peti tion, numerously signed by his Constituents, and in terms to which lie thought the House could not pos sibly object. The Petitioners expressed their regret that exceptions had been taken to the language of their former Petition on the subject of the power as sumed by a Learned Judge to fine a prisoner in the course of his defence; and they submitted, that such a proceeding was at variance with the law and Con stitution of the Realm. He was anxious, in the pre sence of the Honourable Member for Surrey (Mr. Sumner), to correct a misrepresentation which bad gone abroad, of what he had said on a former occa sion, when speaking of the Chairman of the Surrey Sessions. From the time he had the honour of a seat in that House, he never had uttered a syllable re specting any individual which he would not be ready to utter out of it, nor had he made any iniidicius al lusion to the Gentleman in question. He now gave notice, that it was his intention, after the holidays, to make a substantive motion on the subject. Mr. H. SUMNER read a letter from the Chair man of the Surrey Sessions, vindicating his conduct in the case of a person named Macreary, whom he had fined for interruption. The Hon. Member then' eulogized the Chairman, and said his merits were highly appreciated by the Gentlemen of the County. .IVIr. S. WORTLEY said, he should be sorry that the notion should get abroad that fines could not be imposed for interruption in Courts of Law. Mr. HOBHOUSE said he was not prepared to question the correctness of that principle; the point of which he, in common with the Petitioners, com plained, was the arbitrary power assumed by a Judge to fine a prisoner whilst making his defence. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR defended the right of a Judge to fine for contempt. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW declared be held the same opinion. Mr. DENNIAN had no doubt of the right of every Court of Record to fine for contempt ; but he doubted whether they were entitled to do it summarily, as by fining thus, without enquiry, an individual might be ruined.—The Petition was ordered to be printed. NOTICE OF MOTIONS, Mr. HUME gave notice that he would, as soon as convenient after the holidays, submit a motion to the }louse, relative to the conduct of Sir T. Maitland, and the present system of Government carried on in the lonian Islands. Lord NUGENT gave zotice that he would, on the 10th of May, move for the appointment of a Com mittee to inquire into the present system of Courts of Justice in Tobago. Mr. RICARDO presented a Petition from certain' Merchants trading to the North of Europe, complain ing of the present restrictive Commercial System. Mr. HUME moved for Returns of the Assessments to the Land Tax for the last ten years, he having un derstood, though he could not give credit to the fact, that they had not been duly accounted for. The Re turn was ordered. COURTS MARTIAL. Mr. HUME said, he had now to submit a motion for a Return of the number of Courts Martial held before the Judge Advocate in England, and his De puty in Scotland. He was anxious to ascertain from these Returns whether the number of Courts Martial held now were equal to the number during the war, and what share the Judge Advocate and his Deputy took personally in these Courti Martial, to determine whether the great increase of salary and expenses was necessary. The expense in 1793 was very little The CH. NC ELLOR of the EXCHEQUER agreed with the lion. Baronet on the importance of the ob ject he had now proposed ; but at this advanced pe riod of the Session, the Committee, if appointed, would not have time to make any report; and the effect produced by imperfect investigation, would only be to unsettle the mind, and would prove inju rious to all commercial transactions. He thought material advantage would result from delaying the inquiry till next Session; and, in the interim, inquiry on the subject might take place before the Treasury. Under this impression, he should move, as an Amend ment, that the House would, at an early period of the next Session, take the subject into its considera tion. One branch of the Honourable Gentleman's plan, namely, that of an assimilation of the currency, was indeed one most desirable; but it was one of , difficulty, and one which would require time to ma ture. There could be no doubt of the importance, of the measure to the whole of the kingdom. But the assimilation of the currency would not affect the state of the exchange any more that it would affect the exchange between this country and France. As' to the Union Duties, be was as anxious as the Hon. , Baronet, to facilitate and extend the intercourse be tween the two countries. But there was much con trariety of opinion on the subject ; at the same time' he had no objection that the Duties should be re vised. He should move an Amendment, " That the House, at an early period of the next Session, should take into its consideration the Duties and Regula• tions respecting the Trade between theat Britain and Ireland." Mr. DAWSON thought the subject should be' taken into consideration, and the present duties be removed as soon as possible. Mr. PHILLIPS said, that the subject ought to have been inquired into before. No more obstruc tion should exist between Great Britain and Ireland, than between Yorkshire and Lancashire. All com mercial men wished for the removal of the present obstruction. He should vote for the Committee. Mr. GLADSTONE thought the House should be satisfied with the assurance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The corn of Ireland was admitted into this country v ithout any obstacle, and he thought/411 similar advantage should be extended to the admis sion of the manufactures of Great Britain into Ireland. He wishel the difficulties attending the passing from the one country to the other, should be done away. Mr. CHICHESTER complained of the high duties on machinery paid by the Irish manufacturera.— These duties disabled them from competing with the manufacturers of Great Britain. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the Act of last year provided fur the gradual extinction of the duties alluded to. General HART deprecated further delay, and should vote for the Committee. Mr. C. HUTCHINSON said, that the Irish ma- more than £2OOO, whilst for the last year the ex-:nufacturers had every reason to believe that the &- exceeded £6700. He concluded by moving ties would be gradually extinguished. The sudden Fo e r :Return of the number of Courts Martial held repeal of them would be attended with the most in each year from 1808 to 1820, inclusive. • I ruinous effects. The motion had been brought for- Mr. BECKETT would not oppose the motion; he ward in the absence of almost all the Members for would only observe, that the Hon. Member was inite. Ireland, and without any - previous notice. Such a , curate in calling the Judge Advocate of Scotland the course had never been adopted in the case of any Deputy of the Judge Advocate General. Me was not t English manufacturer. The protecting duties had appointed by the Judge Advocate General, but by been found necessary at the Union, and the subject the Government. I had been determined by a solemn decision of the After a few words from the LORD ADVOCATE, the House last year. If he thought the repeal of the motion . was agreed to. duties would procure the return of the absentees, he IRISH COURTS OF JUSTICE. would consent to it ; but that could not be the effect, Mr. MARTIN moved, that the several Petitions and the immediate consequence would be to throw presented.to the House by the - Clerks and Officers of the Irish manufacturer out of employment. He the Courti of Justice in Ireland, be referred to a Select must deprecate any sudden attempt to alter the exist- Committee, who should report to the House thereor. ing duties. After a few words from Mr. WARRE, the motion Sir H. PARNELL replied, and vindicated the was agreed to. course he had taken. The object of the motion was ADJOURNMENT OF TILE HOUSE. not to do away the duties, but only inquiry. He The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, could not object to the amendment of the Chancellor he had now to propose that the House, at its rising, of the Exchequer, as the principle was the same with should adjourn to Monday se'nnight. He had hoped his own motion. that an adjournment of a longer period might have After a few words from Mr. BRIGHT the Amend taken place, especially when lie recollected the fa- ment was carried. tigue which the Chair in particular, and, indeed, the TIMBER DUTIES. House generally, had latelrundergone ; but the pre- Mr. WALLACE moved the third reading of the sent state of public business would render a longer Timber Duties Bill. recess extremely inconvenient, as it would be recol- Mr.GURNEY objected to the scale of the Duties. lected, that by adjourning to the day he now pro- Mr. MONCK said, the best thing for the country posed, three supply days would be lost. He con- would be, that the Bill should be inoperative. The eluded by moving, that the House, at its rising, Bill was a tax on the whole community for the benefit should adjourn to Monday se'nnight. of a particular class. Mr. CALCRAFT regretted that the recess was to Mr. PHILLIPS thought a scale might be adopted be so short, and particularly reminded the Right more productive to the Revenue than the-scale in the Hon. Gentleman that the day now proposed to meet Bill. The scale of duties should be from seven, four again would be most inconvenient, as it was that on teen, and twenty-one feet. Which the Quarter Sessions generally commenced.— Mr. WALLACEsaid, that the measure had arisen He would be extremely unwilling to interfere with from the state of the trade, and his object was to bring public business, but if the Right Hon. Gentleman the Canadian and Baltic Timber into fair competi would reconsider his motion, and give a few days tion. That he conceived to be due to the Colonies; longer recess, it would be a great matter of indul- and at no distant period, he hoped, would materially gence to many Members. contribute to the increase of their trade. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re- The Bill was then read a third time and passed. gretted the necessity which had imposed it as a duty The Irish Coroners' Bill went through the Committee. After some observations on the part of Me. MARTIN and Mr. Mr upon him to name the day he had done, from which CHINION, the Report was received, and ordered to be taken into he could not, consistent with his"duty, depart. further consideration on the 3d of May, and to be printed.. The motion for adjourning to Monday week was The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up; the then agreed to. other Resolutions were postponed; and the Vote of Credit for COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH IRELAND. £150,000 for the Ordnance Service was agreed to. The other Orders were then disposed of and the House Sir H. PARNELL rose to call the attention of the ad journed at Nine o'Cloc.k, to 31ondy sennight. House to the subject of the commercial intercourse at present subsisting between England and Ireland, and to the restrictions existing thereon. • The Hon. , Baronet then proceeded to enumerate the various articles subjected to duties in their transit from one country to the other. He was anxious to place the trade between the two countries on a basis similar to that of the coasting trade, to relieve travellers be tween the two countries from the disagreeable cere mony of search ; to assimilate the currency ; and to place the trade of the two countries on the same footing as the trade between any other parts of the empire. The assimilation of the currency, he con sidered as absolutely necessary to the regulating the intercourse between the two countries. Ile was con vinced the adoption of the propositions he had laid down would materially improve Ireland, in a poli tical point of view ; and would, in a short period of time, change her situation from a very poor country to a country of property and character. Ile con cluded by moving for a Select Committee. Mr. GRENFELL seconded the motion, and de clared his conviction that the assimilation of the cur rency would be a most desirable object to commercial intercourse between the two countries. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1821. Goos.FauraT.--Hollday at the Bank. A. vat iety of miscellaneous business was disposed of in the House of Commons last night ; and a num ber of notices were given of motions for early days after the recess. Lord A. HAMILTON fixed his mo tion on the subject of the present state of Scotch Re presentation for the 10th of May. Lord W. BEN TINCK gave notice of a motion for the Bth of May, relative to Sicily ; and Mr. Hums stated his intention of calling the attention of the House, on the 9th of May, to the conduct of Sir THOMAS MAITLAND, and the present system of Government in the lonian Isles. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the ExcliEDuctt, it was ordered, that the House, at its rising, should adjourn t 9 Monday se'nniglst. Mails have arrived to-day from Holland and Flanders, with Papers to the 18th instant. The fol lowing are extracts: HANOVER, ♦PRIL 7. • His Excellency Count Munster has officially an nounced, that the King will visit his kingdom of Ha nover at the end of July or the beginning of Au gust. The Royal Authorities yesterday received the necessary instructions for the reception of his Ma jesty and suite. The King's route has been entirely changed. His Majesty will embark at Dover, land at Calais, and then proceed to Brussels and to Frank fort on the Maine. The King will pay a visit to his two august Sisters, her Royal Highness the Landgra rine of Hesse-Homburg, and her Majesty the Queen Dowager of Vurtemberg. His Majesty will then go to Gottingen, and enter Hanover by the finest part of his kingdom. • • BRUSSELS, APRIL 15. The Russian Vice-Consul at Antwerp has just in formed the Merchants, that by an Ukase of his Ma jesty the Emperor, dated 26th February, 1821, the port of Sebastopol has been declared free for all mer chantmen coming• from the Russian ports in the Black Sea and on the Sea of Asoph, laden with Rus sian and foreign merchandize. The goods must have undergone the examination of the Quarantine Esta blishments in these places, and have complied with the formalities required by the Custom-houses, rela tive to the import duties. If we may credit the reports in circulation (says the Augsburg Gazette), the Prince of Carignan has been arrested by some Piedmontese soldiers, just as be was going to enter the Milanese territory. AUGSBURG, APRIL 6. The Revolution which has just broken out in Mol davia and Walachia, has assumed so very serious a character that Russia and Austria have determined to take such precautionary measures as circumstances require. It seems that those Powers will content themselves with assembling troops to observe what will be the issue of an insurrection which seems to have been long in preparation. The Divan is in consternation at these events, for it will find great difficulty in collecting a sufficient force to act against the rebels, since the Turkish army, acting against Ali Pacha, his not yet succeeded in subduing that rebel. A courier, who arrived at Rome on the 29th from Naples, brought from the Mole of Caeta a pip er, signed by several Austrian Officers, which is eo u . ceiied in these terms :—" According to orders re, ceived from Naples, General Begani has give n up the fortress of Gaeta. He has behaved like a brave Gedera . l. We have drank with him the health of his Sicilian Majesty, and also the health of the General: -.,.. __ 1 • P • • We. .311 LA A. LAUSANNE, APRIL 6. A tumult of the most alarming nature has jtut broken out at Bonneville, the capital of Faucigny, from the imprudence of the Military Commandant, who attempted to oblige the soldiers absent on fan-. lough to rejoin their regiments, and the recruits to repair to the depots. The report which had bee n spread, of the speedy arrival of a body of Austrian troops, for the purpose of passing the Simplon, and to which the Swiss were to give leave to pass, had much contributed to excite dissatisfaction. The Confederation has not yet d ec id e d anything respecting the cordon of neutrality, though, at a l l events, prudence demands that our frontiers sho u ld be protected. • DARMSTADT, APRIL s. M. D'Anstell, Russian Minister at Frankfort and also at eur Court, has just delivered to the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt, a letter from his Maje s t y the Emperor Alexander, in which his Majesty e x . presses his satisfaction at the establishment of a c on . stitution in our Grand Dachy, and his approbati on of the principles on which it is founded. VIENNA, APRIL s. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and his nister, Prince Metternich, have not neglected, amidst their important occupations, to think, while at Lay. bath, of the interests of the Order of Malta, as we perceive by some Decrees, dated from that city, re. lative to that ancient and respectable Order. Among other favours conferred by the Sovereign are, the re storation of the Palace of the Prior, at Venice, and of the Church and its dependencies : these buildings being calculated for the abode of the Knights of the Order, if they should desire to assemble there. Some particular privileges are also spoken of, which are granted to the Knights, and which prove that the Order of Malta may hope one day to recover its ancient splendour. I,: is believed that the revolution in Naples and in Piedmont will at least have the good effect of lead ing to the introduction of a Constitutional Govern. ment in the Italian States. The report of an Italian Congress, at which all the Sovereigns of the Penin sula will attend, to deliberate on the bases of an ha. Tian Confederation on the model of that of Germany, gains ground daily, and becomes most positive. We have not yet heard anything to induce a be lief that the Russian troops, ordered to begin their march, had received counter-orders. Private letters from Barcelona, of the 4th instant, state, that on the preceding day the Neapolitan Ge neral Pepe, with some of the Members of the late Re volutionary Government, had arrived there in a small vessel from Naples. Pepe immediately sent off letters to the Neapolitan Minister at Mad: id, informing bim of the events that had taken place. Halifax Papers arrived this morning to the 29th of March. The Provincial General Assembly was prorogued by the Lieutenant-Governor on the Sd of March, in a speech in which he commends them far the harmony which had prevailed in their delibera. tions, and thanks them for the liberal supplies they had granted for the public service. The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this forenoon. If credit may be given to a private letter from Turin, in the Gazette de France, the Constitutional army d Piedmont had not behaved quite in so dastardly a manner as has been represented. The affair between them and General LATOUR and the Austrians, is said to have been keen and sanguinary; and to have lasted from nine o'clock in the morning till three o'clock in the afternoon, when the Constitutionalists dispersed. The letter will be found among the other enacts, which we subjoin. Marshal VICTOR, Duke of BELLUNO, who Was lately appointed to the command of the Sixth, Se venth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Military Divisions of France, with extraordinary powers, has published, from his head-quarters at Lyons, an Order of the Day, highly complimentary to his troops, on then steady, faithful, and energetic conduct, during the disturbances which broke out in that city, and It Grenoble, in concert with those in Piedmont. lie says, that the seditious movement was confined to some imprudent young men, and to persons of the lowest description. The imprudent young wen eig! the Law Students of Grenoble. The Marshal le pleased to treat with very little respect the t e►ek' tionazy party at Piedmont; he speaks of themes b ut a factious handful. 'French Five per Cents. Monday, 82 fr. TURIN, APRIL 9. (PRI VATE CORRESPONDENCE). We are every moment in expectation of the Ao trians. The following are some details of the sor guinary affair which has taken place: On the 3d of this month, General Latour, in orc lif to divert the attention of the self-styled Co:lstituto:el, Army, made a movement upon Verceil. A WWII troops (Constitutionalists) stationed at Casal, uni7 the orders of General Regis, directed itself on th' s point, and arrived there on the 6th. General Later returned to Novara, and found means to incrodEs 4"11111.41- 416 P Elik_ i col 71 alt the CL °ill Orl th .th Si . Ilk.