The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-12 00:00:00

7r _ .:: -, r , Y~ • thltuAilarr. . HOUSE OF l' Me)' Mince ri. The Assessed 'Fears Repeal Will, and disAnsoaq!.. Its Light Bill, wee. brought ep from the Hesse of COM MOM, and read a first time. Mr. Johnson, from the Lnudoit Dock • Company, I •beonght vac account of the receipts And disbarsements of the Company for the last.T . far. Mr. Witschercr, from the Vogt-office, brought no an Vwount of the balances in the bawls of the Deputy Post ft: • Maeter-General for the last year. • • 1 - A person from the office of the Commissioners of made and Bridget' in the Highlands of Scotland, pie wetted their tenth Report. The Scotch Creditors' Bill was read a third time and passed—Adjourned. HOUSE OP COMMONS.—Tnienat. Mr. Hutchinson, from the Post-office, brought up He tes= of the arrears due to the General Dl•partment. Ordered to lie upon the table, and he prin ed. anaDWIILL CHUNCU. Mr. BYNG moved the second reading of the Shadwell Church Bill. Mr. D. GILBERT presented a petition arainst the Bill. Mr. G. BENNET opposed the Bill; the advocates of the Bill baying by fraud taken it out of the hands of those who originated the measure. Mr. BYNU said the majority of the parish were in favour of the Bill. A discussion then took place between Mr. Byng, Mr. St c ,aet Wortley, Mr. D. Gilbert, Mr. Marryatt, and Mr. C. Calvert. The gallery was then cleared fog a division, but no ail,ision took place. Upon our return to the gallery, we found the SPRA R. • ER explaining upon the regulations of the house with respect to the bringing in of private hills. The tibiae. , tion in this case waso that one party gave the due notices, • but did not follow them up by bringing in a Bill—an . emission which the adverse party took advantage of, and brought forward the present measure Upon the same notices. It was contended no one could act upon the • notices but those who served them. The Speaker gr:e a decided opinion that the proceeding irss regular, fcr if parties were to he shut out fromemning before the horse because an adverse party had served the notice, it would be always in the power of one party to exclude the other altogether. The Bill was then read a second time, and referred to a Select Committee. SOUTHWARK BRIDGE. Alderman C. SMITH presented a petition from a Rev. Oentleman, holder of several shares of the Southwark liri4P, complaining that the Compan y had exceeded their powers.-14.1 on the table. Mr. S. RICF. presented # petition from the merchants and other inhabitants of Lisnetick,. complaining of cer tain ahutos on the oart of the Corporation. Mr. • ASH(; [CST presented a petition from Oxford, against the Insolvent Debtors Act.—Ordered to lie on the .table. COLDIUTIPPIELPS PRISOX. Sir R. WILSON stated that debtors - Confined in this pri , .:on were treated in all renierts like felons, beitig al lowed to see their friends only once a week for one hour. lie asked whether this was sanctioned by anthority. Mr. FEU. said complaints on the 'subject had cvr taink reached him,- but his informstiort was not suffi ciently oulsstaitiaterl to take any reps yet. Mr. N. RIDLEY COLBORNE presented a peqtion from the parish of Meldred. iu Cambridge, against the latoleent -Debtors' Ant.—Orderoi to be printed. . LICATHIR:TAX. . • Colonel. BAGWELL presented a petititiwfreth the tan ners of the to ten.of Cloninel; against die Liather Ditties. The right - honourable gentleman - wishes! to know' whether it etas iwelicie , l to give Amy relief from this ditty. in Ireland,' -by 'airsiniiiiting the mode of collection with tiiipsoistry. At present tbe.tat ing ascertained Lytho weight or •leatLer,_ bore must oppressively upon tint lowerarders,4bo used the heavier leather. thp CHANCELLOR . of the EXCHEQUER said' an oesinastion is id contempllition in furtherance of the trtegestioes a the Poliatuentery Commissioners of . tn •41"11"P • STIUIT GUMS. - , Mr. SPRING RICE ashici. when the remission of the dates on Spirits io Irelani as likely to was into ope. • ration. • • . The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he could no:mune a precise day, but certainly nut before the 13th of October. Sir JOHN NEWPORT sprake in favour of the total - repeal of th• Leather Tax —Thu peition was then laid u p e the te!.le. Mr. C.nLCILAPT gave mince, that on the Ist of May he would move fur the total rep .41 of the Leather Tax.— (Hear.) TALLOW DVTIES. gr. CU RWEN liesented a petit:on from the Graziers, Varner*, Sar..of Wiltshire, preying fur an increase of the petits oe Foreign Tailo a.—Laid on the table. ULACKIILRNE presented a petition from Old h art against the losolnent Debtors' Act. isle. J. SMITH wished to ask the Chancellor of th F.ycheipter, if any plan was in his contemplation for the a.nendtnent of the !oar:vent Det,tora• Act. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he etattinly had no pl in in his contemplation, but would vaiily lend his as.:lsrs.nce to the furtherance of any Bill for amending the lbw. Sir J. NEWPORT titouirht that the Law Officers of the . Crown were the persons to appeal to on this oc casion. The ATTORNEY-OENERAL said that he would be happy to he any 3 11g-eat:one that may } be ma le to him on the sehjeet, alai to give his as:istance towards promo. tine any amendment. The petition was laid on the table. An' Amtract of die Ex2ertes of the itfilitary Eva. Lliehnient was laitron the table. sir H. PAItNELL presented a petition from. Robert Smith, Clerk of the -Nue., county Monaghan, proving for rriief, he bovine been deprived of the fees Attained to Iris ottie.—Laid on the talkie. Mr. RiCAßDO.moved to: an Account of the Nomber of Ceuntry Rink Notes etimpel from October, len, to • Onsoher, lnitt; a ud from that date to January, Ord. - red. Air. ASHTON presented a petition from Bridgewater, against the Insolvent Debtors' Act. Mr. HUME withdrew•his motion for accounts rela•ive to the Post Office (Dublin,.) A MEMBER from under the gallery said, that as the Attorney-General was in his place, he wished to suggest that a very necessary amendment ought immediately to lie m ade t o the law ; an losolvent might now come up from tire country and Lane himself arrested in London. The expense of bringing tip perms to oppose bins, and. the other enamel assusents which were thi own in the way of. proof. almost tendered it certain that an Insolvent, in . inch cases, should be immediately discharged. The petition was laid on tire table. On the motion of Mr. HUME, returns were ordered of the Amount of Land• Tee Unredeemed since the year 17516, for England and Welts. Also similar Accounts for Scotland. And a return of the Amount of Land• Tan Redeemed •Ifor the WSW places; the Stlol3 of Money received', and how it had been appropriated. These Rearms, the Honourable Gentlemen stated. would complet fo e he series cf Returns on the subject of the Landidax, which he tad already mond. THE STATESMAN: : 1. the contracting of loans. He was alsisys of opinion that great praise was due to the Right Hon. Gentleman, now a Noble Lord, for the teansactions of 1919, alluded to by his Hon. Friend, when, instead of 24 millions, he li mited the loan to 12 millions. The result proved the propriety of the measure. He Wili one of those who thought that the country could go on in the present sys tem of raising money far two years longer without the service of the Sinking Fund. Sir HENRY PARNELL said that the Hon. Member for linaresborough had put the question of the Sinking Fund on its true grouoils, when he asked if the country was in a state to bear the appropriation of a surplus to such a purpose. if the country were not c•ipable of bear ing ir, he could certainly oppose any measure which went to effect such an object. But when he 'coked at the improved state of our commerce and manufactures, he hail no hesitation In saying that the country was in a fiouriehing condition, and was therefore in a condition to bear a Sinking Fund. An improvement had taken place even in the agricultural interest, and it was 'now in a much better state than it was last year. He would agree to the proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on certain conoitions. Whatever surplus existed, should be produced in such a manner as would give most ease and convenience to the public, particularly at the present moment. It was the duty of the house to look at every establishment, with a view of making further reductions. He admitted that Government, withih the fist two years, had made considerable reductions in the several tiepin rnents; hut ha thought more were still prbcticable, if they were seriously examined. lie also ,bout ht that consi derable benefit would be conferred on the country hy . a revision of taxation, as many taxes had been imposed in great haste. A surplus thus obtained would not ember rase the resources of the . country. tVith regard to the half-pay measure, he thought one so inconsistent would, on asecmidjconsideratioii of it, be abandoned. His great objection to a Sinking Fund was, that it always left a stir plus in the hauls of Ministers, and was thus a temptation to extravagance ; but this might he removed by applying the surplus to the diminution of the capital of the debt, im adding one per cent. to the interest. The project which he would recommend, was to convert the perpetual Annuities into terminable Annuities, and thus extinguish the capital of the 3 per cents., by increasing' the interest to 4 per cent. This plan would completely take the sur plus out of the bands of Ministers. Mr. RICARDO said, that his objectioo was not so much to the principle of the Sinking Fund, as to its being at the disposal of Ministers.. lie therefore concurred in tlie plan suggested by his lion. Friend (Sir H. Parnell), be cause it would take the surplus revenue out of the bawls of Ministers. His boo. friend the Member for Penryn (Mr. tirenfell) io reference to his (Mr. R.'s) plan for the pigment of a national contribution, spoke of the difficul ty of adjusting property. The Hun . Gentleman spoke as lithe project were to be executed in the space of ore or two months, but be (Mr. It.) meant it should be paid by instalments, uhieb would spread it over a considerable time, and thus remove the duficully of adjustment. He admitted that the Sinking Fund would decrease the debt if it were applied to this purpose, but the uncer tainty that this would be the case, being confirmed by experience, induced him to concur in the project of his Hun. Friend. A MEMBER, whose name we could not learn, said that the present state of the Sinking Fund of five tail , lions, was partly real end;partly delusive, there being but I I a real Fund of three million.. lie approved of the prin. Iciple, if the Fund could be applied to its propel object. He did not concur with those who wished to do away with a Sinking Fund altogether, because that would be declaring that it never had been of use. Upon the whole the country would lose by doing a its) , with it, because it would be compelled to borrow money on worse terms than if it bad existed. %nether the National Debt wee properly or improperly contracted, was immaterial; it was contacted on the public faith, and should therefore be kept inviolable. The Honourable Gentleman con cluded by saying be would vote for the meature of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, because he was friendly to the principle of a Sinking Fund. Mr. MONCK maintained that the best security to the public creditor would be the abandonment of the Fund altogether, and a corresponding reduction of taxes. — The rest of the taxes would then be paid wish more ease and god.l humour, which was the best security the pub lic creditor could have. Mr. T. MAR riN concurred with those Members who were of opinion that the Sinking Fund should be taken out of the hands of Ministers. Mr. 11U ME said, that nobody coati doubt that the Sinking Fund was at the disposal of Ministers, when from time to time they had encroached upon it, till they had taken from It 324 millions. He could cot agree to the Sinkiog Fund toll its system was altered. The house haviog then resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill, Mr. HUaIE proposed that the blank should be up with three millions instead of live millions. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that if the half-pay and pension urnsure should he sec cessful, there would bean actual surplus et five millions ; if it felled. the case would be exactly the same tab if a casual diminution of the revenue had taken plat-e, and there would be a Sinking Fund of only three millions, In the format eveut, it worth! be neeeseary to have. the blank filled up with five millions, and he therefers thought it better to insert that sum now, while the proposition of the Hon. Gentleman vcoeld leave the Sinking Fund at three milliens, thoeirh it had been actually five million;. Mr. OREN FELL wished to learn from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether in the event of not selling the half-pay and pension annuities, at whit he would consi der a fair price, he would allow the Commissioners for reducing the National Debt to beeome the parch tsars, and then only three millions would be applicable to the purchasing et the three per rents, ; or it in ease of 361- ing, he would go on purchasing with the t.ve Mr. HUSItiI9SON (as well as we could cat-hi his oh servntioos) said, that in the event of failure, the Com missioners would beallowed to become purchasers; which formed a part of the plan so much approved by some Gentlemen at the other side of the house, that of solvat ing perpetual into terminable annuities. After a few further observations from Mr. Meter:o, Mr. OftartgaLL, and Mr. Hesittssoo, Mr. HUME then moved, as an amendment, that the bleak be filled up with the words " surplus revenue not exceeding 3,001.1,00 W.," instead of 5,000,Cria.1. After a few words from Mr. theitoratt and dl r. Hes orison. Mr. HUME said he wishe i to know from the Chan cellor of the Exchequer whether, in the event of the Re venee falling MI, he still intended to pay s,Mio.tifitlf. from the Consolidated Fund to the Cumnosatunera fur the kir duciion of the National Debt? • The CHANCEL Wit of the EXCHEQUER replied, that, in case of any such debeienev, the amount was to be made up in some other way. It would be meat extraor dinary It the fluctuations in the Revenue f rom one yea , to another should prevent a certain sum being opptupri ated to the reduction of the debt. Mr. RICARDO said, that the objection of his hop. friend (Mr. Home) was, that that should be made certain which was not so in rc'lity. It was . .rohsble that, in one sr, the surplus revenue might not be more than LOOthbOUI. or it might be 10,000,0001. ; but the chaniel 'tor of the Exchequer still wished to fix the amount at the Sinking? Fund at 5,000,0001. certain. Mr. ORENFELL said he should support • the vote for 5,000,01.41. as he was convinced the surplus revenue this yea would amount to that sum. The result, however, could. not be known till the end of the year. • t. • t, t ~,~ The Countnitter then iitiatt,pl uu t.ie Ameti.►tneut:— Ayer. 7 ; -1110m, ; —Majority agrinit the Ais vd ment, 4d. The other ciaose3 of the 13111 wee.. tiro agreed to, to.l the Report was ordered to he received ruff. ASSESSLD TAXES. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the E!•- CHEQUER, the Report of the Assessed Taxes Reda:- flow Bill was bronght up, and the st semi amendineLts agreed to. The Bill 11 , ilb that Lead a third time ant itemised. The Irish A rme.Bill was read a third time and pitted. The Kaport of the Irish Ye.noanry Bill was hroag:tt up, and the several amendments using agreed to, tie Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. HUME gave notice that he would, toonorrow, move for certain It urns i.,lative to tlie public debt. The other Orders of the Day were then d'aposed l and the House adjourned a few 'ninnies after b u clocks. SWEDEN. STOCENOLN, rm.. 21.—The Nino has given the fat' lowing Anse er to a congratulatory AthireSS, presented him by the States General, on the marria4e either Prince Royal nkb the Princess of Leuchteuhurg : " I receive your Address, and the congratu'ations which it courains, with tho expression of sentialeats which von have always testified towards me, and which bear the character of independence and of sincere grati tude. The diecussions which took place on the soh ect of this address, have given a new proof of the &tbs.: o .- ment which the national representation bears to me se well as to my son. This earnestliess uo its part weald inspire we with new energy in the fulfilment of my 'dui ! , were it possible to augment my soul's forte and ari'eset desire for the welfare of the country. My eon hat en tercel on a state, to which tl.e unanimous wish of the na tion called bin. The efforts it has made, and the unexpected results produced by these efforts, are powerful motives far desiring ti.c continuance of t' representative sys'em, which we have tanatcrea. A representative liosernment should preserve a jus medium between expression and licentiousness ; tt natural preperiaity of man carries him to them et.- terrors. it is difficult to €u I and maintain a La e; e d. point, but we hare attained this end. '1 here rc:gns here neither despotism nor licentiousness. The zeal aait interest which liberty inspires, are, doubtless, wool. of praise ; but when they are no longer contain id witi-ti just bound', the nation loses that liberty whirn it loves, instead of cwasolidatints its possession. Ido nut corneal from myself the obstacles which 1 hare encountered at first to obtain this teid:l;6mo ; these difficulties are mr..- tiplied wl en we elms: pass from ore old, ins'ilution to a mew Constitution, and from the laws and cus'oms Cony trated by the first to the improvements which the recomr presents us. As the guardian of this contract, I feel tbCt it is necessary to regard the influence of opinion. and the power of habit ; 1 equally respect teeth one and the othe r among men who have strong predilections for the :h:nre which they . have I:ard from their infancy, sad wiekh 1 they cherish more than their property. 1 beseech PaomeNce to preserve to us the national hot:oar is ith out stain—the only good to which we ought to attach the greatest value. 1 lien, in :he quality of Beat Rept-seer:Le live and the first Citizen, I shall have acquired an tube rent right to the gra junk of a brave and loyal peop'w. alio have elmeen me to watch over their destinies, and raise again the glory of their name. Few years reirain for met but my last breath shall sound a wish for 'he happiness of the Suedish people, and of the -Ykancitizav'. • NeVIONA - 1, IYEAT . RiDteTION X 114.. The CHANCELLOR ufthe EXCHEQUERmoved, That the house do resolve itself itself bre a Committee on the Nstioual Debt Reduction Bill. Mr. GitENFICLL said, that he would avail himself of Mit opp tunity *to submit a few observations to the house. His remarks would have reference to one branch of the Sinking Fund, well described by an hon. Friend below him, on a former night, by the denomination of ' the Sham Sinking Fond ; and he felt it the more neces eary-to address the house on th;s occasion, because he feared that the doctrines promulgated by the hon. Mem ber for Taunton, and the lion. aleinber for Midhurat, on this subject, might have influence on many, on account of the great authority which the names of those gentle men justly carried with them. In reference then to this Sham Sinking Fund, he begged to remind the house that iu the origival Sinking Fund Act, which was passed in 1786, a clause was introduced by Mr. Fox, whereby the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt were enabled to apply the whole, or part of the Sinking Fund in their hands, to the subscriptions fur any loan which the Government might be under the necessity of making. This clause was universally known under the name of Mr. Fox's clause, and nos a wise and salatary provision. But, instead of acting in conformity to so useful a principle, the Ministers of the country did, from the year 1793 to the year 1919,a period of 26 years, con stantly persuade the home that it would be for the ad vantage of the public, that they should burrow from the loan contractor millions of money, in exchange for which they gave him an article known under the name of 3 per cent. And in the same year it was thought wise, that the minister should seal his commissioner and bro ker Into the market with this identical money so.borroe ed, to be'invested in the purchase of 3 per cents. This ' system was thought advautageous to the public. In 1814, he called the attention of she house to the ruinous consequences of such an arrergement ; but it was not until 1819, that a change wok place, and in that year happily the system was wholly abolished. Had this sys tete been harmless to the puhlic, there would not be any ground fur reproach ; but it could be clearly shown, that an actual loss ea; sustained by the public, arising from ibis system. It was calculated, that upon four loans contracted for, during the fall operation of this system, there teas an actual loss to the public of 5,000,e001. lie seated illustrate his meaning more clearly by referring to the proceedings of 1819. On the 6.h of June in that year, the keen was understood to be fixed at twenty-six millions. llowever, when the gentlemen who were to bid for the loin appeared before the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to tin ir over astonishment and disappoint ment they heard from the Right Hon. Gentlemen, that Government intended ti carry info effect Mr. Fox's clausal lathe Act of 1786, and that the loan fur that year would I be limited to twelve millions. Let the House mark the result. At the moment when the gentlemen who were to .bid, entered the Chancellor of the Exchequer's office, at Downing-street, the Futids were at 65. On their return to the City, the Stocks rose, and on the second day after that, in which they bad the interview with the Minister, they rose to 70 and 71. The loin of twelve millions hav ing been contracted for, according to the pri• e of the storks of the day, the consequence a as, that upon that occasion la taxing was made to the . public equal to three millions. —(tlear.) He had eo hesitation in saying upon the last information, that if the Ministers had acted from the year 1793 to 1819, in pursuance of the authority of Mr. tux's ' clause, there would base been saved to the public, upon' the loans contracted within the interveniog 26 years, no less than fifty millions.—{dear.) He trusted then,that after the experience they had had of the ruinous effects of tkis system, that, if new loam sbould be necessary in any exi gency of the country, the system would not be revived. After having said so mach on this branch of the Sinking Lund, which he should have abstained• from doing but for the Indirect countenance that bad been given to it by persons of so much authority, be would now advert to the subject of the teal Sinking Fund. In the same propor tion that he was au enemy to SAUD Sinking Vend, he was a friend to a real one. He was a warm friend to the prin ciple of applying a real surplus of Revenue as a Sinking A rune, and allowing it to aecumnlate in the :winner pointed Lent Ay the Bill before the House. Hewes surprised to hear the ohjeetioos which had been urged against it by some of hie bon. friende. It was argued in one quarter that the H o use-Anon n ot countenance the maintenance of a - fund for some future application, for they supposed that in the intermediate tirue some rapacious Minister would lay bis bands on it, aid m , Ire an extravagant use of it. But how was it possible fur any Minister, be his rapacity ever so unlimited, to interfere with this fund in any ' manlier. 'unless with the sanction of the House and that of the country? If an occasion should arise when it would be proper to convert the Sinking Fund to same purpose other than for which it was first designed, would it not be a great advantage to the country that a resource was inexistence on which the Government in an emer gency could lay its bands. He had supported the plan proposed by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1113, because he wished to give the country a little breathing time, and in point of fact, the plan had the effect of re lieving the country for three or foer years from the great pressure of taxation. His Hon. Patina, the Member for Portarlimiton (Mr. Ricardo), proposed to sateeitute for a Sinking t. and a project of his own far the re luction of the National Debt, by which he would make all species of p e eper!) , in the country contribute its proportions to that object. Now, with great deference to his hon. friend, he begged to ray, that of all the %dans which lie bad heard proposed for paying off the Nat ional Debt, this • was the l moat wild and visionary. He would ask his hon. friend, in the first place, was It possible for consummate talents, I aided by, the lights of the longest experience. to arrange such a plan as would ascertain with etpity rid imparti alit:, what every 'peace of property was to contribute—' freehold, leareholl, and the innumerable s r eies of property in this country? Funded property would be, perhaps, the least difficult to render subservient to such a plat, ; but tide was not the whole of the difficulty. After hoeing ascetts::.edtheproportion to be contribute:abreact , species ; was it practicable to make every msn in this country bring forward such a proportion of his property as would be necessary to assist in paying off the very tri fling debt of civic hundred millions ? fhe project, no sou t, would be a very advisable one to adopt. The only objection to it was that it was impracticable. What he had to add on this subject, was in reference to his hoo.friend, the Member for Aberdeen, to whose efforts in that !muse he, in common with a great many, offered the tribute of his applause. Among the Resolutions put on record by his bun. Laced on the subject of the Sinking Fund, and which exposed the operation of that measure in a men nee the most clear and comprehensive, there was ooa which aepeared to him to proceed upon a fallacy. 'The lceculuti . n stated, that because the debt of the country bad increased during the period wbiist the Sinking Fund was established, there-bre it was founded in felltry, and maintained by delusion. He den'ed this inference, and prozeetied to state a parallel case from which he con te.ndedethat the conclusion might be drawn, that it was possible that the Sinking hand might not be inoper ative, and that the country might even improve whilst ethe debt was increased. The honeurable gentleman concluded by stating that he gave his hearty support to the Bill. M. JOHN SMITH said, that though the Sinking Lund might, from a variety of circumstances, have pr e yed insufficieot as to the real objects for which it was Jai tined, it certainly had horn useful during the war, in ta cilitnting the negotiation or loans upon comparativriy advantageous terms to the country. His Hon. Frtend who had just set down, had shown the injarmas goats oi the system tbat bad bey ponied op to the year 419, in IRELAND. Coax, Mears I.—This day, thirteen men were Ist ought into town, end lodged in the county• meter en escort of the Kinsale Cavalry Alsociation, command ed by Ceptair. Hard, and a party of the rifle brigiiites, the whole under the direction of William Newman, tsi. Sovereign of Kinsale. These men were apprehended cue Thursday flight in Courcey'e Country, on the inform?. don, as we teem, of a person of the name of Donovan, at present in gaol on a charge of Whitebovisra, baring been taken up rear the county of Limerick, ch trg•ng them with a conspiracy to murder some persons, nod among them the Hector of the parish, it they should be eo ordered to do by a certain persco. Sew ral of those men are very comfortable farmers, aed were coesi demi to be extremely well conducted, and very little diseosed to enter into any illegal association or critninal ion—each tram the itpinion entertained of some of them by Mr. Newman and Mr. Heard, the very respeclab'e gentlemen under whose directions nod care they were conducted to town, that they soul I now wt;lirgty give their own bail for them, if the nature of the oitte , e charged against the prisoners aliMtteil of tha'r enlargement: This ' however, not heitig the case, tbc men stand committed. It is but right to ide, the a:t the men have net the advantage of the sume gemi chs rsrter. ii:etract of a letter from Limerick, dated ;:h Metal : " Our assizes are just beginntrg, thin day. One hundred and twenty three fir trial, eighty for capital o6enet s. nrarders, burning?, &c. - The murderers of Mejer (leing are ameng the number. Ido not know if you ri collect It, bat he was the Polioe Magistrate murdered aa , :a: year ago, and on which there war a very large reused dared by t3ovetnment. We are by no rattans trio yet, though not near so had as last year." truce:ex, Mapes re—An I:n 4 'W:irate cetastretlse ot,::.rted last night, near Cr:aloe, county Care. 5.v•- r.,,ee, whose property had lately been destroyed In that reighbout hoed by th'r insurgents, went to the essiz a Eettia to look fur compenration, awl cooperiog attack woalal he rustle in his absence, from a notice t e st he hal ru"eived to that effect, procured a few Mete persons, well armed, to defend the house. • The Pace stationed at 13maratty, aware of Metratoe's thence, bet net Istowing that he had taken any precautionary ors sar.:•.., seat e p stiule at. suidni At to i Meet the premix: s. and ori•appr iaching supposing theirs to be a party of rebels, wete l tir id upon by persons on :he watch, when, onfortunntely, three of the Police were dtsi,;t retely it °nodal left:re the mistake uric discovered. FROM otat Nat% t7aSnii COattrant::Vrvf. A Iran:undo ut a Most unnatural, and, I may asp. preredented nature, having taken place a few days u-cl: in this town, I think it clue to the pnbiic to state trui plain facts of the case, as they have appcaretl in rvider.er. ibe subject of this communication is no less thin Ow sun of the late Rey. Ilenry Bateman, Rector of Abbey. t'a'e, a beautiful boy, nice years of ege,of most interest ing argri entra , ling manners. liaviog taken a quantity of laudsr.urn, given mini by his mother, on Sunday sennict.t, he very roan beeline delirious, and died alter seicat humus uurking violently in convulsions. From e ap• pater.t h -.lth ul the boy, and some corroborating suvri cionv ut hit inothr es treatment, the Magistrates lent t ;r the t . urocer, 10111 CIA, Estl., on whose arrival a revert. at,lo .liiry were Eumwoneu, and the body of the tcy (wto.tti hi: mother had prepared with a coffin ready to be interred in a few :WWI after his death), was bratli:ht t the Nlalket-hinpre, ant opened by Surgeon Campbell. hide Brigade, when, utter a view of the internal parr of the body, he rutin t ••(.111 ut mucus in the stomach, hlct, beimr tifsai,zr.l, the laud ,uuto fully appeared. Tor! Jlr) rotir.-41, ietrirhed a vertlkt, that the boy (lie Iby the effects a a ritiatalty of laudanum, admi aistelei to Mai by his mother." _ —_ _ — • On Moniay at twu o'clock a eahinet Council was Iwlli at the. Foreign office, Duwnintareet, which continued i io c:cliberstion till tarlipait thus o'clock.