The National Register. — London, England, 1822-04-08 00:00:00

... might have been there, they had no right to And fault with the petition. Alderman WOOD, adverting to what had fallen from Alderman Boil;ea, stated 1114 t the only inn, Comma, . .. . . . . doiditlrFs war deemed Chet which had elected _ _ hint chlr f 111 , 1ektrate • The I).'tili ,ll l WA+ ordered to lie printed. Mr. ABE ROW NI RI E said, that, seeine the Lord A.I. vocate in his office, he Imeged to July, that nn public et ds he fell it isecessaty to call the at.ention jut mcnt to Ire Inc, of the Lord Advocate. its politic pro mentor, in relation to the press of Scotland. fle should do so only in the discharge of what he deemed his dots . . As to the time of doing so, he felt himself' utionestiouably sander some difficulty, from eit . eum•tatteett .poetficieolly no lotion*, and to which he did not otherwise wish to allude ; but after the holidays he should bring forward a motion on the subject. 'rite LORD ADVOCATE said, he hail been most anxious to have an opportunity to explain his conduct; the notice now given would afford him that opportunity ; and lie hail only to add, that lie trusted the house would suspend all judgment respecting recent transactions till the business was brought before tly.m. He hoped they would not give credit to err .ons %tate-nowt'. CRIMINAL Laws.—Sir J. MACINTOSH postponed till the 9th of May, his motion on the subject of the criminal law*. Mr. BENNET presented petitions from Liverpool and Stock port. in favour of Mr. hunt. BREAD.—Mr. CALVERT brought forward his motion to amend the laws regarding the sale of bread t to cromplish this amendment he pioposed to repeal parts of the existing laws, the 39th Geo. Benefits had not resulted from the alterations. Nobody tuulerstood the present weight of loaves. Ile proposed to embody all the acts on the eubject—the most important one expires' July 23; and Wile were allowed to bring in the Bill. he intended to have it referred to a Committee above stairs, and to afford ample opportunity for examining it, and giving publicity to it. Ile concluded with moving for leave to bring in a Bill to embody the Acts. After some remarks from Sir W. De Crespigney, and Ald. C. Smith, the motion was agreed to. EXTRA Posr.—Mr. S. WORTLEY moved that Mr. Bur gess's petition for remuneration for his endeavours to promote the extrapost scheme be taken into camideratinn. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER repeated that the petitioner had incurred considerable expence, and in some way under the countenance of Parliament ; and though there might be no strict right, yet lie thought there was some claim to the consideration of the House. The gallery was then cleared for a division. The numbers were—For it. ea.—Against it, 36—Majority against it. 8. Mr. KEN N EDY moved for the Jurymen who had served in the Court of Justiciary on the Western Circuit (Scotland), during the last ten years. Motion, so amended agreed 0. YORKSIIIRE.—Mr. C. W. WYNN gave notice. that to.mor row he should move for leave to bring in a bill to regulate the elections for Yorkshire. similar to the Bill introduced last year. Mr. HUME moved for returns of the total expenre of the board of trustees for encouraging manufactures in r.cotlandt the persons to whom the amounts were paid, and what the re wards were granted for. &c. The I.OIID ADVOCATE wished the return to require what were the duties of the officers, as some of them had to stamp webs, &c. Their offices were nut sine tires. Mr. II InIE had no objection to the alteration...-Motion agreed to. Mr. HUME next moved for returns of the Herring Pishery Board, of the amount of the salaries, &c. exclusive of bounties.— He also moved fur returns of bou nties granted, &c.—Motion agreed to. The orders of the day having been disposed of, the report of the supply presented, &c. the House adjourned WEDNESDAY, MPhil. 3. Mr. Quarme, the yeoman caber of the blaek rod. IMM 111011ed the Home to attend to the Howe of Peers, to hear the royal assent to lry bills.—(See Lords.) 51r. ELLICE obtained leave to bring in a hill for the election of a new ,jell and house of correction fur the county anelicity of Coventry. Mr. cALvEitr prevented a petition. signed by up wards of 1,000 persons resident iu the Hundred of llris ton, &c. praying for leave to bring in a bill to amend the Sunthwark Conti of Requests. The fees were cues...aye —being upwards of 161. to recover 55.; they were indeed two *lends more than the fees of oilier Coma of Requests. ►hen such was the fact, lie thought it would he admitted that the petitioners did not approach the house wieaout I mom. Sir F. OM AN EV brought iii a bill for the building of • new cline flu at Greliowieli.—Read a 14 , 4 time. Mr. IL D IVIS presented a 1101111111 from parts of Bristol, praying to be heard by counsel against the 13ris tut poor bill. Tire LORD ADVOCATE brought in a bill for the more easy recovery of small debts.—Read a first time, and ordered In be read a second lime April 9. Mr W„SmiTII presented petitions from parts of Kent, Tavistock, Colchester, Hackney, Dover, kr. pray ine for an amendment of the marriane act. 011 the 17111 of April he shorn(' move for leave to bring in a bill to obtain relief for the petitioners. Ordered to be printed. Mr. CANNING said, he should positively bring for ward his motion respecting Catholie Peers, April 30. There had been some doribt •bortt 11111 former notice, lie call,r it was given conditional y—but what he now said was positive. Mt. BENET (Wiltshire) presented a petition. com plaining of Sal icultural distress. He espre,sed his dis appointment a! the report of the committee, and he knew it 14 (111111 occasion great disappointment throughout the cottony. He was goinz ;mom: his constituents—other gentlemen were shunt to do Me same ; and he knew the smiretsal language of the farmers would he, Ilmt they were 10.1—that thei• ruin was confirmed—that the pr..• /Wimrs most take their lands on Meir own hands. He honed Pottle discos ion on the report would take place, to ',hew the count y what were the sentiments of the house on this ittopnriant quell ion. Mr. ELLICE that the mtni.ters had nil rrinn^ irle• loci-used int. 'rite fart that the mini.ters had tint been entshled to f•ec the wny before them, rind they thr refore rcnl to the committee. In the hope of fiLriii%etirig souse raprdient.— A out o hat was the rills-Refer of the report I The committee had been orrupied upwards of sif t oeeks, and ii was tviilent 11141 cal their !abour had tended 10 diKover 1101 s they could rake the price of curt,.—(Hear, hem - 0...411e eatoe of the • di‘tiess, the operation of the injudicious measures ueK:rrding the earl ency—t he effect of the deli. Chit was tilionod Ices I lientint—ail th.se apliettied lo have been ".. 41 01111. . 11 4Y hyoid( it t inn object wad eimmtlered r scept boo toady,ore the pike of cheat. Ile 'X On iiio:l2eti of 01 1 hi%,l.rifl if wadi u•tifoith the Couldri ; but al %wild it he WUre aatUld hid thou the schemes—llia wleittiort • THE NATIONAL REGISt ER _ of them had not been recommended—to advance mill' for the busing of corn. That plan was futile. as *fluid be every effort In keep up the pekes of like articles in other rotta t r i ts ,......; l e r epeat e d; that in their labours the committee endeavoured In see how priers could he raised, a bile the H „,.., t w i t , a . corn ed in VOlllig 1.1‘1.• for no r stra•sigasit expessilisore. Ile a mold der I ,te, .111.1 110.1,0 0 ere nit time. lo di.elli.• Ittillilliii.. ill 11 II11•re 0:0;1811 halpt• of teller, e a rep t to adapt is rateable reducti .... of the debt sold their lase., so n 1 til suer• the settle of Ilf9V. These weir matter , , how ever, to %hick the c ~,,, mister made no reference, nod he thsso_ht these was nothing, left for Ihr lifii.e •I SPO.i4II but to protonic n reduction of 111 it, • ,10 me..tcorsitiled establish. meat,, pay Me, however the interest of the debt. Mr. F. LEWIS thought. whin the House came to dls eo ss the report, that they would not deem it to merit that cen sure which was now heaped upon it. As to the object of the committee, hr denied that it was to raise the price of cu. n ;—it was to render existing prithibitions more effectunl. Mr. W ESIEIRN could not concur in the co nmres that had been heaped upon the report, for not having issvestiunled what had been the Ilpefatifils of Mr. Peel'. bill, thnt subject was not ' , ferret, to them —The report had recommended to the consideration of the haute me:nitres that wield merit :I'.. tent ion—but in the torrent stale of Europe, it wit., doubtful a wit would h e th e effi.ct of imposioK a (hay 011 rOII . ICII corn. Things could 1101 4,0 oil Ste they a ere, and his statements of st f orm er night, (hat t w int hit do of 114 .-1111t.1 i I urn's. of the fan mere af Essex, were in f I in.olvent , some o f his mast lii. tellierid enossitssesstqm formed him that he was fully jut titled in this statement. hell did it not heroine the House k not !ulnae a moment le its eadeavutim to learn what had really occasioned di . strr4 among so many classes lw Tbe pros petty wits reduced one half...the income gave only half the forme, means—hut the isscumberanees remained unstirred.— The priers of !Amor Mid come down 11101 would come down lower, and yet th , labourer.' reduced means were all they had to meet thr still contioninz heavy taxation. After same further rrmaiks the petition was ordered to be piloted. Earl LONDONDERRY moved, that the House at its rising do adjourn to !hit day fortni;:lit. Armed to, Mr. V. W. WYNN brought its the hill for regulation the taking of tolls at the Yorkshire elections.—lteud a first time and ordered to he printed. Mr. BANK ES, jolt. gave notice, that after the holidays he should move fur leave to bring iu a bill to amend the game Isms. The Scotch Burzhs devours's' Bill, the summary proceed , ine.s before the osar,istrates trill, Are. terre severally passed through their singes, and the 'emulsible or:lets havinz been disposed uf, the !louse adjourned to 11'rdnesday week. FROM TUESDAY IVIGIIT'S GAZETTE. WHITEHALL. AVM. 1. The King bas been pleased to appoint a robe to be worn by the Pretest and Members of the Society of Incorporated Solicitors practising in the Supreme Courts in Scotland. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. W. Earle. Church Street, Rotherhithe, victualler, from April 6to April O. A. Joseph, Magdalen Row. Pr”seott Street, Goodman% Fields, merchant, front April 6 to Auril Xn. BANKRUPTS. T. Standen. Lancaster, slater. Solicitor, Mr. Armstrong. Staple I. .. T. Boultbee, Lichfield, coal master. Sol. Mr. Seudamore, Temple. W. Furnival and J. Hardy. Stratford upon Avon, corn mer• chants. Sul. ;%:r. Taylor, John Street. Tied ord Row. .1. Ricluttilson, Kingston upon Hull. corn dealer. Sols. Messrs. Rosser and Co. Bartlett's Buildings, Ifo:bnin. W. Baker. new, Devonshire, farmer. Sols. Messrs. Andros and Co. Chancery Lane. .1. Westkrook. St. Alban's, fanner. Sols. Messrs. Hodgson and Co. St. Mildred's Court. W. Bartliptp, sen., Kingston upon Hull, and W. P.arthrop. •irrn., Bradford, woolstaplers. Sol. Mr. Styan, Lincoln's Inn Fields. DIVIDENDS. April n. T. Lynn, Jerusalem Coffee House. Cornhill, mer chant-43. C. Shoobridge. Kensingtnn. draper-16. S. Holland, Bexhill, Sussex, coal merchant-25, J. Richardson. Liverpool, merchant-46. S. Raistrick, Idle. Yorkshire. clothier—? 3, J. Cranbrook, Kent, currier—May 11, T. Sawyer, Rims gate, chymi.t. CERTIFICATES to be granted April 23. T. Hall, Eagle Street, Red Linn Square, en.ichmaker—J. Iloultbee, Peterborou..th. banker—A. Roper, Go.poit. brewer — .1. 1•:. Pownall. Lambeth, money serirener—J. Wright. Bloom field Cottatte, Vauxhall Turnpike. wine merchant—T. Swann. Wardour Street, Westminster, eating housekeeper—B. Gardner. Leigh, Worcestershire, fanner. BIBLE JIELTIAG. Tuesday a meeting so f the Simihwark Auxiliary Bible Society was held at the I lorti,taeern, at Kenning. for the purpose of TteCivitig the 10th annual report. It teas most nomerou .ly attended. At a little after twelve o'clock. Charles Barclay, Esq. was called to the Chair. He, in an eloquent speech, apillo.tited for :he absence of Earl Spencer, and congra tolated the meeting on the prosperous state of the insti tution. lie concluded by cal:ing on the Secretary to read the report. The Rev. G. CLAYTON then proceeded to read the report, whlch stated, id strong and iinpressit e the prosperity of the Southwa•k Bible Association. It stated the contributions for the last and former years In Ire upwards of 20.0001. After the report was read, the Rev. Charles rose, and in an Impressive speech dwelt on the inestimable benefits resulting from the cir culation of the Bible in this and distant climes. Tile Rev. ItoWLAND [I'LL cmintirneed by urging the necessity of disseminating the holy book. lie contrasted the conduct of those who readh the (rook of relteitts knowledge, with that of those who porvited a different course, and descrilwd with force the effect of the mode adopted Icy the distrilimors ul•on seamen, whose character had undergone a complete ehang a st ithin the l Ist few years. Ile called itpott the meeting to enquire into the state of the most etc tilled of mankind, and '•tiff them the result of that enquiry would prose that ‘‘ ,l . ll flut a (1444. sense of the precepts of scrtoottirc, attd a clue observance of them. coaiization prod:reed but I.w benefiti, and had nn other than a temporary influtoice upon the morals of society. After several speeches from other 11,0:11.ers or the soc.ety, the R. v. Mr. Clavittoi i or,o r oc,otl the ilhalks of the stiestiotg, tor Charles Li ,relay, EN. winc►t being car• tied, the meeting adjourned. r .~.} =1 ,, 4 1 t Ariiiihz_- . • IRELAND. From the Dublin Journal of Me Ist dpi!.) Today we have received accounts of Saturday's date from the south. From Cork we learn that on Tuesday last, about five o'clock, p. m an armed party attacked the steward of John Lysaglit, El. of MOtint.oorth, half a mile f 13,11ycloah, and after beating him seterely, deprived him of his goo. The bandit.i. we also learn, set fire to (Mir houses in the neialibutirhond of Ballyhoutra, near Bot stain, 0,, %1 ednesrlay. which unfortunately were con-mired. Two of these were the property of a tenint of John 11. Harry, Esq. of liallinvonere, and hot for the tinte'y arrival of Major Carter's police, who reached the spot in a quarter of an hour after the fire enminettced. the cattle in one of the houses would have been burned. Another belonged to James Hill. Esq. and was situated on the lands of llenethigeen ; six cows, also this gen tleman's property, were killed at the same banditti. The fourth house burned belonged to Mr. Sherlock, or Binybooro. From the city of Waterford we learn that threatening notices continue to be posted up. Ott Thursday the nt mist rates of the county Kilkenny. at special sessions, resolved to memorial the Lord Lieu. tenant •to place the baronies oc Kells, Kinektnplior. Irert, the tow., and liberties of Callan, and that part of the barony of Shellelogliee, west of the King's-river. under the insunection act forthwith. We are sorry we cannot communicate any abatement of the Whiteboy system in the comity Limerick. The following list of outrages is from the Limerick Ckronicle of Saturtliy:— Maoist the hour of if o'clock on Wedoesday night. the homes of J. Hogan, R. Regan. T. Roche, J. and P. C irmody, on the lands of Ratticantren. in the neigh bourhood of Athlacca, were broken into by a normlaer of armed men, who, after having severely wounded Hogan and Regan, directed them to surrender their farms within a week, under pain of death, said the destruction of their hoses and stock. A similar order was also deli. vcrrd to the other above.named individuals. The herds men of the late 'l'. Lyons, Esq. and Mr. L. Roche, on said land., were also desperately beaten by the sans. party, and ordered to apprize their employers that their farina must be immediately surrendered. Thursday five men in female attire, and well armed with blunderbusses and pistols, went on the lands of Tiermia, near Ballitagarry. and caused the men who ploughing for Mrs. Nl.dcalw, to cease work on p 7 1 a of death, and ordered Mrs. M. and her sons to quit the farm before Sunday's visit ; the fellows also went to other den... us at ions , and issued similar orders to different landholders. Extract of a letter, dated Newcastle, March t`q:-.. " The noted offender, P. I)illatie, alias J. Itoek, who. with Isis accomplices, have hitherto kept the raenethotir. hood of Newcastle, and the adj?cent mountains in a 'Lawn( terror, was this morning. apprehended in a cabin on the ()MUM this behind Nloimi-itliimmer, by a party of the rine brigade, tinder the superintendence of that very efficient magistrate, 'F. Is. Vokes, Esq. accompa. Merl by Lieut. Percy, and a party of the mounted This day, as a very respectable fartnet of the name of Raliegh, was its act of ill icing stock on the f a rm an d lands 'of ?laic, near Castle Nlahon, which he took from M ijor Sullivan on tile 25th, c dile was 1111Sianliy drove from off the farm, his furniture, which was 011 carts. seized and demolished, his men placed on their k trees to shoot them ; which was tint carried into effect, by swearing was at the hour of I? o'clock in the day, and in the presence of several spectators. Thursday night, a tier. rant of Major Sullivan's, named Collins, on the farm of Ciolygorman, was attacked and dragged out of bed by a party of insurgents, who, alt, r beating hin t rruir lc, swote him to quit the farm. The same night a fwld belonging to NI r. T. Cronin, of Rot., was malici ously tooted up by these legislators, 111%4 )2 cotiveycul several ploughs and horses into the field, with which they executed their lawless iii.ht work. The Rev. Mr. Hogan, p 'Fish priest, of Newcastle, fmm his pastoral admonitions and exemplary zeal, has smyeeetled its getting arms from his deluded parildtioners, four stand of which were this. day banded over by hint to G. Massy, Esq. Eons the vicinity of Croons we have received a list of very disgraceful outrages. Exec UTIO —Nulty:gar, Marti ?A —Ye‘terclAv, T. littford, Patrick 6 llixnt,'tat:lid-w Boyki n , an d .I..h is the four tritfortionate men who Were found godly on the Whitelloy Aet at our last assizes, underwent the dreadful sentence of the law, at Johnstow n , Burnt y of 1)ciVIO, in this CoOttly.—Ai seven o'clock, s.m. the cal lows, packed on drays, and the executioner ill a pn.t. chaise, moved forward to the ahnee-mentiotted plate, escorted by three companies of the Igth regiment of foot, and a large party of police. At nine the unhappy con victs, attended by the Ilee. Mr. Nl'CurtMek, Roman Catholic chaplain, and his assistant, emered two ear ri:eges, and set out for the same destination, strongly 'warded by a troop of the list dragoon gstards, and a de taehtnent or horse police. I)ttring the Journey from the jail to the place of execution, (about right miles), the clergymen were assiduously engaged adminktering that spiriited cot solation so peculiarly necessary nn these awful occasions. Alinut two o'clock the procession reached the *tyrol spot, and wide the pallows was er..cting they prayed! A rvently and incessantly. Shortly after they Were bAllelleti jilt() eternity, and after the usual time their bodies were cot down, pm itco leper:we entries, conveyed back to town, and deposited is she itaiJi yard for interment. The 'tenantry ec.lletted to witness this ew(ul spsetacle were nut ID qtlllliCrolle as was ex. peeted, but the distant hills were crowded. To-morrow (Friday) Denis Fieltlituz. - eonsicted at the late assists, under the %V hitehoy Act, will be executed Durso-tilt IQ his sentence, at the f of the it, this lowa. It has at length been decided by the Commission. ers of the live!vent Court, that, under the present A marled tvctuan cannot be die.durgcd, . ...a•NOMENI 107