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rirr , • 'S S' I 1 1 . • • . . am, --------- PARLIAMENTARY PROC4SEDINGS. . %mhos DITSIDON TAVERN, • .... 1114 y 31, 1828. ..i.—.0'...—.. ..:... s. NOOSE OF LOPS. KAT In. •.it T it MBVING of the COMMITTEE for the tom b . Li Dittents tad catmints wit the • . AVM NERinSUBSCRI FT lON for some I M MEDIATE *dr ewe. • ." ASSIrANCE in the EXTREME TEMPORAR Y DIS- Mr. Cnatatias pa:emoted the Fifth Septet from Com ' mission's* for opening the Coannunicatlan betireen Edinburgh TRESS of the South _Western PensrAmes of IRELAND. and Flfe. The following Report was aid on : Mr. Maim', from the East India House, presented certain The amount of 112 remittances in V oney to Ireland, from the Accounts of Receipts and Disbursements. • Bth to the 31st but. is £24,730, transmitted to Central o r Local The Irish Revenue Inquiry Bill was read a third time, • _ and Committees, or other official or proper persons. Amount of Funds placed and-to be placed with the severall Protestant and Catholic Bishops of the Dioceses in which the extreme distren prevails, ~600. Offered in Bounties to encourage the Imptirtation of Potatoes ; where required for Seed, £1,200. Offered 41. ins. per Ton to encourage the Importation of teen hundred Tons of Potatoes from Scotland, England, and Wales, to be delivered in the Ports nearest to the Districts =oat in want. The Committee have made Purchases in Scotland, the River 'names, and Western Ports of England, of about fifteen hun dred tons of Potatoes, intended for Seed; and have dispatched Obi lire dispatching them to the several Ports and Harbours of Ireland, from Sligo all round to Bantry. VillX equal pain and regret, the Committee feel obliged to certify; the - _ _ that they passed. The Earl of HAREWOOD presented a Petition from the Merchants and Maa=orors of Halifax., in 'Yorkshire, praying for the repeal of ebe on Foreign Wool. Laid on the table. Mr. Sconarmso mod others brought up from the Commons the Pembroke Jail Be.—Read a first time. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented live Petitions from various Incnrporadons of Trades at Glasgow against the Catho lic Peers Bill.—Laid on the table. The Bishop of CHESTER presented a Petition from the Gentry, Merchants, and Clergy of Manchester, against the Ca tholic Peers' Bill.—On the question that it be read being put, Lord SUFFIELD stated, that be had received a direct con tradiction to the title which the Petition assumed. It was said to be from the Gentry and Merchants, as well as from the Clergy of Manchester, and he held a letter in his hand which instructed him to say, that it came from the Clergy alone, and that there was not one of the leading ' or Merchants, and to _ general community of Great Britain, have found the poverty and distress of Ireland, and the great deficie: 4 i of the accustomed food of Potatoes of the Southern and Western %'rovinces, to be very extended and general , an d the suffering of the people extreme and increasing. 'They anal tingly hope, that the assistance afforded by the Government, by the Proprietors, or Residents in those Districts, who have pro. perty Or means, and, by the humane and liberal symp ath y of England, has tended, in some degree, to mitigate this great dis tress and moss severe Want ; but they feel themselves, by their position, obliged publicly, to declare; that the evidence they have of their existence, through nearly one-third of Ireland, contain ing a opulation of nearly two millions, is • such as is render it indispensable for them to continue to call on the generous sym pathy of Englishmen of all ranks and classes, to contribute to the mitigation of the extreme distress and misery in Ireland, to which the most general and liberal beneficence cannot be wholly from this time to the middle of August next, however nobly and usefully it be suited to assist in the seneral efforts for mitigation or relief. The deaciency of the crop of potatoes of the last seams, throu&hotat the Southern and Western Provinces of Ireland, and the discovery made, Ws late, by the peasantry, that of that part of thtir crop saved and stored a large proportion had perished in the , its, through the unsoundness of the growth, have toge ther lie , n a principal cause of the present sudden and lamentable scarctiy of the accustomed food of the poorer class of a nume rous i s.)2u Tbr Committee have every reason to rely on the spontaneous liberality and sympathy of the inhabitantrof Great Britain, to affot:i their generous aid, in the pressing calamity of the hour, in a manner to avert the danger of more extended suffering and Wan. JOHN smirii, Chairman. ADDLD TO TIM GINIZAL 00X.1107T106 John Cator, Esq: of Beckett- C.Towers, Esq. of Weald Han, hart-place, Kent. I Essex. Amount of Subscriptions already advertised, £64,759 12$. Ringston-upon-Thames, I T. N. Aufrere, Esq. 5 0 Independent Congre- From Messrs. Hoare. gation £l3 19s. 3d. bi e rs. M. 'l'vr.gge, Derby 10 0 Baptist Meeting, Eagle street £35 151. 2d. St. Giles, Cripplegate Without, 9d Subscript. 49 0 Ramsgate Chapel, per Burges.and Son, £55 Os. 6d. Josh. Kam and Son 5 0 W. Stanley Clarke, Esq. 5 0 Bellamy, Nield, & Terrail 6 6 Richard Till, Esq. 9 0 W. H. 1 1 Ilr. Abm. fed i 3 0 G. and 11. Field 5 S Small Subscriptions, £l7 la 10 From C. Towers, Esq. Weald Hall, Essex, 100 Bushels Seed Potatoes. From ChaMbers and Son. P. Henry, Esq. ' 2 0 From Martin, Call, k Co. Geo. Vansittart, Esq. 10 0 Benj. Nicoll, Esq. , 5 0 Moses ":2 2 J. Shoubridge 1 1 Elizabeth Chapman 1 1 From Hammersley and Co. , John Sanders, Esq. 5 5 From Drummond and Co. Major T. C. K. 1 1 Friends at Hammersmith. per Rev. J. Day 4 5 From Cocks and Co. Rev.Alex.Thistlethwayte 5 5 Richard Long, jun. Esq. 5 0 Charles Kent, Esq. 1 1 From Coutts and Co. The Duke of Montrose 100 0 Lord Grenville 50 0 Lord Ebrington 10 0 Lady Eliz. Gavin 10 0 A Friend 10 0 FrotnWright and Co. Richard Bosley, Esq. 2 0 From Hodson and Stirling. Rev. Robert Blayney 2 0 George Delavaud, Esq. 3 3 From Snow and Paul. Mrs. Anne Marriott 2 2 From Child and Co. Miss Grahams 6 6 Servants at Mr. G raham's, 36, Gower-street ef. 15s. 6d. From Goslings and Sharpe. The Earl of Stamford and Warrington 100 0 The Committee will meet at the City of London Tavern daily, at Eleven for Twelve. Subscriptions are received at the Committee Room, between the Hours of Twelve and Four; by Smith, Payne, and Smiths; sud by all the Bankers in London and Westminster,. no other persons being authorised by the Committee to receive them. By Order of the Committee, MICH. W. TROY, Hun. See. Gentry or only three Inhabitants of the Town of Manchester present at the Meeting at which the Petition had been adopted. It was also a remarkable fact, that many of the names were in the same hand-writing. He knew not whether the fair sex were allowed the right of Petition ; but it appeared that three. Ladies' names had been originally subscribed. Mary Mill, Margaret Robin son, and Ann Thompson. The female appeliatives of Mary, Margaret, and Ann, had been afterwards crossed, and the male ones of William, Henry, and John, substituted in their stead. It was clear, therefore, that the Petition had been got up in an, extraordinary manner, and was not that which it was repre sented to be. The Bishop of CHESTER said that he bad received several, letters, together with the Petition, which came from the most respectable quarter, and which al l concurred in giving to the Petition the character which it assumed. After a conversation between Lord Kim and the Bishop of Cusasits, Lord SUFFIELD' said that had it not been for the shortness of the time before the second rearing of the Catholic Bill, which then stood used for that very day, a Counter-Peddim would have been sent up. The LORD CHANCELLOR then took .the Petition to examine its signatures, and the House proceeded with other boldness. Lord ROLLE presented a Petition from the Parish of St John's, Exeter, against the Catholic Peers'. BUL Lewd HOLLAND complained that the Petition described the Bill as Mr. C,anning's Bill, which might be maddened a breach of the privileges of the other House, as the measura , vela' not chit of one individual alone, but of the whole of that House. He did not wish, however, that the Petition should be rejected .on that ground. He wished on the contrary, to throw wee the doors of the House to Petitions from all sides.--The don was then laid on the table. The Marquie of ANGLESEA presented a Petition front the Borough of Carnarvon, in North Wales, against the Catholic Bill.—Laid on the table. The Duke of BEAUFORT presented Petitions to the same effect, from the Parishes of St. John the Baptist, ard St. Mary, Redcliffe, in the City of Bristol, and from the Arehdeaconry of Gioucester, T -Laid on the table. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a similar Petition from the Dean, Archdeacon. and Clergy, of Chichester, and another from 945 inhabitants of Chichester and its vicinity.—Laid on the table. the LORD CHANCELLOR then stated that he had looked at the Manchester Petition s and that it was perfectly true that one lady had signed it, and that besides three female signatures hail been crossed and turned into male ones But wh ,t appeared still mare pressingly to demand inquiry was the tact that many names were in the same hand-writing. It was proper that their Lordships should be informed how that bad come to pass. The 1:isoop of CHESTER said, that it •here was any irregu larity in the Petition, it had been entirely unknown to him. Lord HOLLAND did not object to the signature of an old woman, although he should to the language of an old woman in any Petition presented to that House, and was disposed to receive that submitted by the Rev. Prelate, notwithstanding all its irregularities. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that if their Lord ships allowed doubted Petitions to be received without inquiry, they might have some presented as from 70,000 persons, when they were not those of twenty individuals. He did not make the female signature a ground of objection. but he conceived it necessary to ascertain why so many names happened to be in the same hand-writing. The Marquis of LANSDOWN suggested the propriety of deferring the receiving the Petition, in order to communicate with the persons by whom It had been sent. After a few words from the Bishop of CHISTER, the Petition was withdrawn. Lord SUFFIELD wished to inquire of the Noble Earl op. posite whether the abolition of 13s. out of the 15s. duty now existing upon salt, would be attended with the abolition of the right of search and of all other regulations which had proved so inconvenient to the fisheries, and had prevented their growth and prosperity? The hirer of LIVERPOOL replied, that the subject in question was under the ersideration of the other House, and that it was nut for him to pretend to say how fat it might mo dify its different branches. It was obvious, however, that as a considerable drawback had been hitherto granted to the fisheries, and as many of the regulations which had proved inconvenleit to them were connected with that drawback, they must become no longer necessary when the abolition of the general tax would occasion the drawback to cease. The equalization of the small remaining duty would probably be attended with the removal of all those regulations. Lord SUFFIELD then presented a Petition from the Inha bitants of the Town and County of Nottingham, in favour of the Rill to prevent Cruelty to Animals, and another from the Parish of St. Matthew, Bristol, praying for the revision of the Criminal Code.—Laid on the table.—Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. • The Haverfordwest Jail Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. hl. A. TAYLOR presented a Petition from the Church wardens and Overseers of the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields, against the Poor Removal BUL—Ordered to be printed. Two Petitions to the same effect were presented from Parishes in the County of Durham.—Ordered to be printed. Six Petitions on the same subject were presented from Wont• ley, and different places in Lancashlre.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. R. SMITH presented a Petition from the Guardians of the Poor in the City of Lincoln, against the Poor Removal 13IK Mr. WILLIAMS remarked on the number of Petitions. Iwhich bad poured in against this measure, from the lantifao turing Counties; and now, he added, one •was brought before them from the centre of one of the great Agricultural Counties. If his Learned Friend who had introduced the measure was not suffocated under this mass of Petitions, he must possess more might than any man he (Mr. Williams) had ever known.--The Petitions were ordered to be printed. Petitions on the same subject were presented from the Bai liffs and Burgesses of Leicester; from the Borough of High Wickham ; from the Borough and Town of Macclesfield ; from the Inhabitants of Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire; from the Nam Burgesses, and Corporation of Liverpool ; from the Parishes of St. Sepulchre, St. Peter, All Saints, and S t . Gil es , in the town of Northampton ; om the Overseers of the Poor, and the Inhabitants of the town of Manchester ; from the Minister, Churchwardens, and Guardians of the I'oor et Buuwt ll ; from the Rector, Churchwardens, and Over seers of the Poor, and Trustees of the Parish of Whitechapel; from the Parish of St. Peter, in the town of Nottingham; frogs the Corporatioreand Guardians of tkePoor of the City of Exeter. from the Inhabitants of Swansea; from the Guardians of th Poor at King's Lynn, in Norfolk; from the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Parish of Sr. George the Martyr; from the In habitants of the town of Leeds • from Southorum ; from Bever ley ; from Witney ; from Sbeeeld ; and from Halifax.—The Petitions were read, and ordered to be printed. On the last-mentioned Petition being presented, Mr. SCAR LErr said, be was as sensible as any man of the force of public opinion, and he.wu the last man to wish that any measure should pats which was strongly opposed to ; .1. 5 0 The Rt. Hon.N.itb. Bond 20 0 Miss Meredith From Masterman and Ca C. D. Mrs. Williams 2 0 Messrs. Humphrey 5 0 Hy. Comper 1 5 Mrs. Harrison, Streatham Park 5 0 Miss Shepley, ditto 2 0 ER. A.lt. M.H. & W.C. 4 o Mrs. Robt. Cranford 10 10 Watson and Metcalfe 5 0 Mrs. Wm. Watson 2 0 Fretn Martin, Stone, and Co. Benj. Jowett, jun. Esq. 2 2 From Curtis and Co. Worcester Subscription 350 0 A.B. per Newbury Bank 1 1 Geo. Hobson, Esq. 2S 0 Thos. Kearny, Esq. 5 5 G. A. 5 From Fry and Co. Jas. Martin, Esq. Melton 1 1 From Marry= and Co. W. Castleman, Esq. Witubourne 10 0 From Ladbroke and Co. John Gant, FAq. 2 2 From Pole and Co. Key, Brothers, and Son 20 0 iis Elizabeth Key t 0 Miss Susan Key S 0 From Grote and Co. Mr. Thos. Roberts _ 3 0 From Perring and Co. Royal Merioneth Light Infantry 3 10 10 George Wynne 1 1 From Barnard aad Co. Friends to the distressed at No. 20 Captain Lys, R.N. 2 0 Dr. H. Frampton S 0 From Smith, Payne, and Co. Hereford Subscription, . . per Lubbock and Co. 100 0 J. H. Deffell, Esq. 10 0 Chelmsford First Sub- Kription,perEsdaile and Co. 60 0 From Barclay and Co. Lynn Regis, Norfolk 213 11 ti Lloyd's. R. P. H. 4 0 The Duke of WELLINGTON was prevent at the Ball on Thurs. d.-1 night, at the Opera House, in a Fuld Marshal's uniform, A serious accident had nearly occurred about three o'clock in the = ming. after the KING quitted—a Lady fell over the projec tion under his Musser's box, and bad she not been caught, would, in all probability, have taunt on the spikes; but she for lanately escaped with only the fright, several Gentlemen having with difficulty released her. Notv. kbstanding Ban sold in Shales both the Two last Prises of Twenty Thousand Pounds ever drawn, yet we x.nderstand he feels a presentsmcnt he shall sell one or oth the Twenty Thousands which must be drawn Near TUESDAY, when the entire Lottery will be decided, as it is all in One Day. Of all the Works published on Egypt, the New Travels of Can,Laun are regarded as the most curious, learned, and original. A literal translation of them appears in the cur- ; nest Number of that popular Periodical Work, the Journal of Voyages taut Travels, illustrated by seventeen Views and three original Maps. Mosses or as. DoNarre.—A man who was brought from Birmingham, on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of llrs. Oonatty, underwent an examination at Bow-street yester day. The civunistances of suspicion against him were, that be was very Intimate with the family of the servant girl of Mrs. Donatty, was godfather to one of their children. and bad left London, soon after the discovery of the murder ! The parties who had seen a suspicious man about the door of Mn. Donatty, declared trim sotto be the person. The atoned, on being dis charged, appeared very indignant at the proceeding, and declared he would suck legal redrew. • Gentleman then read part or the conimonieatioti which he INC mentioaea. It set forth, that the Bill fee removing the Poor would diminish the number of appeals at the Quipster Sessions. 'lbis, the welter observed, would bear hard on the young Bar. rasters, and Attornies, who had strorg claims to the proCeetien Government ; and therefore it expressed a hope that that part of the Bill which bad been particularly alluded to, would be re punged, as it would be manifestly unjust to the Barristers and Attornies, toadopt a measure which would diminish their prae- 1 tice—( A laugh). The Learned- Gentleman acid be ham. read this to give the Home a correct idea of some of the 'views of i 'those who were opposed to the Poor Removal Bill. • Mr. MONCK gave it as his opinion, that the number of cases likely to grow out of the new law, if the Bill now in the House should pass, would afford the Barristers and Attornies a better harvest than they enjoyed at present. Petitions spins* the WI were then presented front North.- rum North Byerly, from the Guardians over the Parochial Poor ei the Chapel of St. Andrews, of All Saints, of St. John and St. Nicholas, in the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; from Kidder in Worcestershire: from the united parishes of St. Mar vin and St. John the Evangelist, Westminster. They were severally read and ordered to be printed. Mr. BLACKBURN .presented a Petition front the Silk Manufacturers and Throwsters of Manchester, against the Na vigation Laws Amendment Bill.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. DICKINSON presented Petitions from the Silk Ma pufacturers in the West of England, and from Saddleworth, in Sornersetshire ' against the Navigation Laws Amendment Bal. Ordered to be printed. The Marquis of TICHFIELD presented a Petition from 'King's Lynn, against the Navigation Laws Amendment Bill.— Ordered to be printed. A Petition was presented from the Inhabitants of Bandon, In the County of Cork, complaining of Agricultural Distress.--. Ordered to be printed. General GASCOYNE presented a Petition front the Select Vestry of Liverpool, against. the Jails' Consolidation Bal.—. Ordered to be printed. He begged to give notice, that if the Bill came on that night, he should mote that Liverpool be ea. =spied from the schedule. Colonel SKEFFINGTON presented a Petition from the Merchants and other Inhabitants of Dundalk, praying fur the imposition of a tax on foreign Butter.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a Petition from certain Merchants and other Inhabitants of the town of Nottingham, in favour of the .Bill for preventing Cruelty to Animals.—Ordered to lie on the table.—The Honourable Member also presented a Petition front the Rector and Churchwarden. of the Parish of St. Bartholomew, against the Dill respecting Iron Corans.—Or tiered to be printed. Mr. CALVERT presented a similar Petition from the Parish of St. John, Southwark. It represented the burials to be many, and the burial-ground for that and the adjoining parish to be but small, and therefore prayed that the Bill now in the House might nit pan into a law.--Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. BY NG presented two Petitions from certain Brewers against the Bill for regulating Publicans' Licenses.—Ordered to lie on thelable.—The Hon. Member also presented a Petition from certain Lightermen working on the Thames, against the imposition of an additional Toll on the Craft in the River, on account of the Repairs of London Bridge.—Ordered to lie on the table. ,►lr. W. COURTENAY presented a Petition from the Cur tiers, Tanners, and other dealers in Leather of the City of Exeter, stating that the partial repeal of the Leather Tax would cause some defalcation in the Revenue, but would afford little or no relief to the Public. After a few words from Mr. BrAuworr, the Petition was or. dered to be printed. Mr. LITTLETON wished to put a question to the Attor ney-General. Certain Bankers, and others, in the central Coun ties, had made several representations on the manner in which Extents in Aid wete abused and made subservient to private views of interest or revenge. He thought the Session ought not to close without their knowing whether any steps were taking to correct the evil? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, it was his intention to propose the adoption of a rule, which, in his judgment, would completely remedy the evil. He meant to propose that it should be necessary to apply to the Court for full powers to use an Extent in Aid, which would not be granted but to mover for the Crottn. Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a Petiticn from the Trades men resident in the town of Sheffield, complaining of the injury sustained by their trade from Muck Auctions.—Ordesed to lie on the table. Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE presented a Petition from the Owners and Occupiers of Land in the County of Cornwall, very numerously signed, praying that the 13111 now in the House for regulating Foreign Corn may not pass into a law.—Ordered to be printed. The Hon. Member also presented a Petition from the .Silk Manufacturers of Taunton against the Warehousing Bill.—Or dered to lie on the table. pressure on the • Teatie. It h a d the abolition of and also of p o . he had alway s we ought to lose no opportunity eta to get a comple te abolition of it. He understood - thump., of our own merchants lent themselves to what was caned -the losfoi commerce ( - 4* Africa. This must be small, because little ot our commodities; could lad ilnrchased. This must go to the nave Trade, hem s , they meet the Spaniels Slave Traders of the toast, and exchang e great part of their cargoes for dollars, and that is carried to Africa to porches* Slaves for Cuba and the Brazils. This was not pro. I hibited by the general Abolition Act; but be thought it came 1 under the 48tb of the late King. This was, however, a matter . of extreme consideration. IMr. HUM E was sure that if the duty on West India Sugar' •was to be brought down to In or eos. the revenue on it would Ibe greater than now.—The Petition was then ordered to lie as the table, and to be printed. IMr. CANNING had Petitions to present of a contrary n u tore to the last : they were from Liverpool, praying for relief from the duties on East India sugar. The prayer of the Peti. dots from London was against the alteration in the Navigation Laws, as far as regards East India Commerce. —The Petitions were ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed. Mr. ELLIS presented a Petition from the Agents to the West India Colonist, praying for a Lin to perfect and continue their rights.— Laid on the table. Mr. IIEATHCOTE presented a Petition from Ludlow, against the Poor Removal Ikll.—Laid on the table. Sir J. NEWPORT presented a Petition from two parishes is the county of Mayo, praying to be united.—Laid on the table. Mr. BROUGHAM gave notice, chat on the 9th instant he should submit a motion to the House on the increase of the in. fluence of the Crown. The Hon. Member then put off the motion of which he had given notice for the sth, to the 11th June. Mr. BEAUMONT presented a Petition from the Tanners and Currier of Hezham, on the subject of the proposed alter ation in the L ether Tax.—Ordered to be printed. CHETWYND presented a Petition from the Tanners and turriers of the Borough or Stafford on the same subject. He, for one, could not refrain front expressing his satisfaction at what Government had done to relieve the country ' • and he did not think that they ought to be pr e ssed for a furth e r remission of taxes at present. If it were said that much bad .not been done that went directly to relieve the agricultural interest, he would say he knew not what measure could have been adopted that would give them the relief they wanted. He had con versed with several farmers on the subject of their distress, and they had all cieciared to him that the worst burden of which they complained was their rent. He had little doubt that the question on agricultural distress would shortly resolve itself into a question between landlord and tenant. The next subject of complaint was the Poors' Rates. If the rent were lowered and the Poor,: Rates reduced, which he thought might be looked for from the measures proposed to be adopted, he thought, in ano ther year, the situation of the farmer would be very different from what it had lately been.—The Petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. LENNARD said a question was put to the Noble Lord, on a former night, relative to the Independent States of Ame rica, and their recognition by this country. The Noble Marquis then referred his lion. Friend to a clause in a Bill now before the House. He had referred to that Bill, and could find nothing on the subject, except a clause permitting the importation of goods from those States. He could not but regret that a more distinct recognition had not taken place, and he was desirous now o, knowing whether the Noble Lira had any further coat- munifation to make on the subject? The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said he had no farther communication to make. Petitions were presented from Ipswich against the Poor Re moval Bill ; from the Tanners of Tiverton, praying the entire repeal of the Leather Tax ; from Reading, against the License System Amendment Bill; from Plymouth, Tuffield in Derby 'hire, Belfield in Derbyshire, and otiur places in that County, against the Poor Removal Bill. Mr. CANNING presented a Petition from the Merchants of Liverpool engaged in the East India trade, complaining of the restrictions on the tonnage of shipping engaged in that trade as impolitic, oppressive, and inexpedient. The Right lion. Gen tleman said, ill presenting this Petition he must express the satis faction he felt at hearing it was intended to make some altera tions in the regulations on this subject. Mr. C. WYNN said these regulations were introduced into the Company's Charter in I{l3, and could nut therefore be al tered but with the consent of the Company. Ile was happy to state that the Company had listened to the representatious made I to them, and consented to alter these regulations and admit ships of inferior tonnage into this trade; and he accordingly gave no ,' lice that he would, on Monday, move for leave to bring ins Bill on this subject. 1 General GASCOYNE asked, if it was likely the Company Iwould make any concessio ns as regar d ed the Ch i na trade? Mr. W YNN•said he was not awace that the Company were incliued to give up anything on this head. l• After a few words from Mr. Caernso and Mr. G. Bunsen the Petition was received. . , • F o tEranims . The new% sr, wee aware tbassiest went I Mr; CAWS 'S. like roma a Rita*. mo t reeeeteCllP. Wee* to 'More Peddelli t yaw IffiLl e a= CbSaiS o t Warn' 400 1 1 011 as &I Solar wed% them Ist Mareliga i lga it hot allege*/ tame* • t ditardia. AT It. . .the large twee foga wbieik ihwY Mr: BROUGHAM said, one part of the prysso_ re on th e wont preowned. ,To tee How wpm Wald mops of the ' *war was in o : l 6: see of the Eureign Sash Trade. It h a d qtR the "aths and feetior which were opposed to ebeeerge queellient al Ways eta AS 'ideate whit advocated the abolition of Ibeitied to read to the Howe part of a latter Width he had re- the Om Thew t it was a measure ofjoacka end also of po. Lett from the Com- calved f ro m a . G ent l eman b th e worded= of the law. He • Key. With impact to Foreiga Slave Trade, he had alway s betimen Edinburgh would read what this person had objected to it, that the Howe • b ee n of tie 11121 n aohelas mid be siao we ought to l oge _ might give It ail the weight wbkh it deserved. The Learned ; oppo rt u nity of frawfagglis with feedie e ft n e to got as tompl:te ••••••••........3 . • • a.— a.—.l . _ --a —s 5 0 2 0 2 0 COUNTRY BANKS. Mr. GRENFELL presented a Petition from certain iudivi_ duals, complaining of the measures proposed to he adopted, a continuing to the• Bank of England its monopoly for a space cf sixty-five miles round London. The Petitioners complained of this as a partial measure. The Petitioners prayed tither that no extension of the Charter should take place, or, if it did, that those who lived within a certain district should be admitted to a par ticipation of the advantages which were to be given to the other parts of the kingdom. The lion. Member s.ud he should, when ever the question was brought forward, take the earliest oppor tunity of opposing any extension of the present Charter. He had felt persuaded that after the experience of the last twenty-five years. during which the Bank had made a profit on the Piet: of not less than twenty-five millions sterling, the Governmen t would not, under any circumstances, have proposed a renewal of the monopoly now enjoyed by that body. Mr. MANNING defended the conduct of the Bank of Eng. land, and contended that the profits made by the Bunk Proprie. tors had not equalled those made by a certain Company, in which he as well as the Hon. Member were Stockholders; he meant the Royal Exchange Maumee Company,during the war. He had received an increase of capital of X5O per cent. at the same time that the Company had raised their dividends from six to ten pee cent. Mr. s• REN DERG AST was of opinion that the arrangement contemplated would act unfairly to the prejudice of individuals, without procuring an adequate benefit fur the Public. The blarquis of LONDONDERRY thought the lion. Mem ber who brought up the Petition had travelled into a field much wider than the question warranted, for the purpose of attacking the Bank. So pointed was that attack, that his lion. Friuld could not well suffer it to pass without notice. lie, however, had no wish now to become a mediator between the partks,but would merely suggest that this was not the period for cafryiil the present discussion on further. Mr. RICARDO thought the Public had made improvident bargains with the Bank on most occasions. He declared his determination to oppose any extension of the monopoly which the Bank at present enjoyed. Mr. PEARSE defended the Bank, and denied that they bad any monopoly beyond what other banks had in proportion. Mr. MONCK supported the prayer of the Petition. He con demned the Bank for the bargains it had made with the Public. Government had to.en charged with making improvident bar gains ; but Gentlemen who so charged them forgot . the situation in which the parties stood. Government was a young spend thrift, and the Bank a money-lender. The Bank made the terms, the Government were bound to. accept them, and thank the lender for his moderation. Sr C. BURAELL supported the arguments of the Petition. The Petition was then read and received, and, after a few words from Mr. Gazitrzaa, ordered to be printed. POOR LAND. Mr. SCARLRTT, in rising to moye the second reading of the Bill for preventing the Removal of the Poor, expressed his regret that he had no opportunity when he introduced the Bill of stating the grounds upon which he rested it. He intended it as one of a series of measures which would chiefly depend upo:t the success of this. And he was convinced, therefore, that it the other measures had been stated, those who now considered their interests to be In danger of injury from this Bill,would, however, have entertained a very different opinion. He saw no reason to alter the grounds upon which he rested the question last year, and they were these, that the existing law imposed au unjust re straint upon the circulation of labour; that unlimited relief was granted to the poor; and that such relief was intliscri 11l i l lately applied. These were the effects of the law, and it was his object to remove them. The numerous projects which had been entertained at various periods for remedying these defects, proved the necessity of something being done. Some of these projects had been adopted, and at first acted as palliatives upon the system. But their good was soon worn out by the pernicious nature of the principle upon which the laws were founded. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then re marked upon the difficulty of bringing all the three heads of the subject into one discussion, and stated that he should restrict himself to the last, although nothing had occurred to change his opinion that all three measures were absolutely necessary.— He should also state, that if the present measure were adopted and not followed up by the two others, he should not consider his object to be effected. As the Poor were not represented in that House, he trusted that he might be allowed to enter into a statement of their history and condition; and in doirg so, he thought he could thew that it was worse than that of any other peasantry. As the law stood, if a poor man were to apply for relief, whether he did so from misfortune, crime, or idleness, a Magistrate, or Overseer, had the power of removing him to another township, however distant it might be, and there his personal liberty was restricted under the fear of punish ment if he left the place. Another consequence was, that a family so confined very frequently became beggars from gene ration to generation. He wished the principle of the laws to be that of the Statute of the 43d of Elisabeth, which provided that those who were impotent should be entitled to relief; but that those who were not so should be put in a place where they could work, by the Overseers, and those who would not work should not be allowed to eat. Upon this footing the law rested for sixty years without any material alteration. In the reign of James I. there was a Statute passed to prevent paupers leaving their families, but it did not appear that at that floe there was any remarkable increase in the numbers of the peor. In the reign Charles the Firat, which was a time of tumult. the population of the country had been disturbed and moved in different parts. Armies were raised and conveyed to dis tant places; one of which, being collected in Cheshire, was marched into Cornwall. They found what the res ult of this was so soon as in the time of Cromwell. In the ye.:' 1566, an Ordinance was issued, which stated, that the numb,: of idle, dissolute, and disorderly persons had of late much in c.:wed, by reason of the defects in the Statute relating to ;Simpers and beggars. The Statute of Chunks the Second tben came, which inflicted the hardship upon the poor of having them removed within forty days after an application for relive It was a most unjust and cruel principle, and only gave to Ma gistrates and Overseers the power of exercising arbitrary oppres sion. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then proceeded to re mark, that, Its the time of King William, the effects of this prip elple began to spew themselves. lie read a report made by Mr. Locke, in the 'year 1696, which &hewed what it bad produced, even in the course of two reigns. The report stated that the in crease of the Poor Rates, and the osultiplicatiou of the poor, with the consequent increase of the tax fur their maiutenance, were so commonly talked of as not to be doubted. It went on to any that the evils were not depending upon want, because the times had been blessed with plenty, hut upno tbe decrease of discipline and industry, and the consequent growth of vice and isncneas. There was one other Statute' upon the' subject, passed I !,1 I. ~I , t s._-.