The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-04-20 00:00:00

yr b. 1- Wi i• Ilftlm.ll--1--11.'"------------ . the Quarter Sessions. The follanang Thursday would he the King'- birth -lay, over which the House *met adjeourn. H. • won l . l th erefore p ut it to the Biala Honours'ole tient. whether it would not be better, if it did not trench too mach upon the public business, to extend the period of the recess to the week following the day he had appointed :- said, The CHA NCELLOR of the ENCHEQII:R that he eltonld have lengthened the recess, but for the reasons whir hhe had before sssiened. With r spect to .Monday being the nut day of the Quarter Sessions, it was the usual day on witi.:lt Parliament met, anti no material inconvenience had hitherto been experienced on that account. CONDIERCIAT. INTERCOURSE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Sir 11. PARNELL roee to more fur a Committee to con irier the hest mean, of improving the Commercial Intercourte between Great Britain and Ireland —l.l With respect to articlee subject to Excise Duties, where the internal dative were the same in both coun tries, he should propose that the present system of Drawbacks and countervailing Putiee be done away, and that the articles pass flee between both conntrieences st :rid where the intern:A ddlltiee differed, the artic differes of o nly 'Amnia be the drawback. '2. As to l roreign and Colonial produce, be wiehed the same t-gulati n 4 to be adopted in respect to Drawbacks and oonntervailittg duties. He maintained that the whole trade between the two countries ought to be carried on in the same manner as the Coasting Trade. As to ankles subject to the Union Duties, be should pro pose that those duties be repealed on all articles not made in Ireland, and continued for a short time only o n 'hot' fow articles which are made with the aid of 1 c spi:al and machinery. Ile proreetled to say, that one of tl:e objects he hail in view was that some regu Wien sheeld be established to relieve persons travel ling between Great Britain and Ireland from bring euirject to have their luggage searched, which was very vexatious, and inconvenient, particularly when %itch persons were under the necessity of bring at ti eir destination on a given day within a short period, es in the Limerick case, where twenty persons were ordered to attend the House of Common's front that ei , v, within ten days from the dve of the order. Ile 3 7 , uhl have Ore search only to take place w hen there 'rem circumstances to justify s uspicion, which would sulciently tieritre the Reroute from fraud. Another olaject of the greatest importance which be would pro- I lose, was the a ssimilation of the ciirrency of the two cantitrie4, but that was nut the titoe to enter into a th.tall of it: lott it was impossible that both countries s'n uld be placed on an equal commercial footing, eil-ile the differences of the currency produced nd a f :actuat i n g value ill CJ111M41631 commoditiee, a threw lousiness mnetly into the hands of little brokers a-il est-barge riealeis. If a Committee was a pno i n terl. / e would prepu e that there ebottirl be an alteration in tl-se cnrper role. wl-leli tumid have the effect of re moving ti.e tliffn niries; on :be whole, lie was convinred • eat if the comm.:vial etrateettierits which lie wished to submit to a Cottenitt.e were adopted, th t th ey ey roxiti h a ve the effect of raisin's the character tve..ltli of Ireland. lle concluded by trios lug, that a Seicc". Coustaittee be appointed to intetire into the Commercial Intercourse between Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. GREIgrELL seconded the motion. Ile thought Is most desirable that some of the arrangements of the cature proposed should be acceded to, more partieu• I :fly that fur assimilating the Irish currency to that of Oreat Britain, as it would have the effect of sitn piifyirg financial accounts. lie hail conversed with ieecral intelligent and practical Irisitinee on the sub je..t, and although there was some diffetence of opinion among them, yet on the whole lie bad reason to believe that the general opinion of practical aid well inform ed me:: was in favour of ends assimilation. By means' 1 of it they woul d g et rid of all that machinery which made tl e exchang e between the two countries so corn plrx. Ile had al s o 1C3.4011 to believe, that the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (the t hanrellor of the Ex cheqeer) bad, aed the Government had for some time, a grieactl• - e of the kind in contemplation. flie CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that lie a.,::e oi with th e Hon. Baronet so far, as tu . think that it was highly desirable the subjects which he tueutioee I should CO,lle under the cuneideration of tie Horse, but to undertake a plan of the kind pro- i Hosed in the present Session coithl only' excise anxiety an d a l a rm in the minds of permit's concerned in the trade between the two countries without proditeitigi any practical result. It ties necessary to hear the ob-I jections to be urged against the pl al, as w•.. 11 as the arguments in its favour. It %vas mot so far advanced in the Sesiitnl, that no practical result could be accom prshed by a Coutruittee of Parliament, but he so far coincided milli the object of the lion. Baronet's to tien, as to think, that upon due notice given to the parties concerned, they should prepare their several. statements, and on the evidence submitted, the Par liarneut should undertake the investigation. Ile these pr.spar eery inittiriee, it was likely that a considerable mass of evidence would be procured, arid in the next Session of Parliament some practical result might he I obtained ; be would therefore move an Amendment 1 to that etiect. As to the assimilation of the currency , it was one of great importance and deny:icy, and could I not be u ndertaken without great disadvantage. at the I moment of approaching Cash Paymert of the two' Hanks. It would have the effect of agitating the 1 public mind, and could not take away the necessity of 1 culiatige, as it depended on the course of payments and remittances; with respect to the Union Dittieetes, he believed there wa s g reat jealousy xi the eubj aiming the manufacturers in Ireland : it would be therefore far better to postpone the measure until both I parties were prepared. He concluded by musing as an Amendthent, " That the House would, early in the next Session, take into c o nsideration the Duties and Itegolations affecting the Trade between Great Britain and Ireland." Mr. DAWSON thought it a hardship that those pro prietors who chose to reside in Irelauti, should nut be allowed to have their goods from England ; there ought, in his opinion, to be no restriction otlthe trade between the tow countries, and the tirst Capitalist in Ireland on the Woollen Trade agreed with him, as did other Manufacturers. Mr. PHILLIPS observed, that the Protecting Duties were a serious evil is the Trade with Ireland. He thought the House ought to be pledged to enguiry.at the earliest opportunity. Mr. GLADSTONE t h o u g ht the pledge gives hy the Right HunOttrahle into consitletatiou to satisfy the essmitry.—They were now ascer tain the effect of the Prot ection Duties by an et prriment of '2O years. CHICHESTER expresses% himself anxious that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should say something decisive with respect to the Protectiug Duties ; to know his real opinion on the subject would be a matter of satisfaction. The CHANCP.I.I.IIII of the EXCHEQUER said. that by the Act of las; year, those duties were renewual ed, not Perusanentle , but with a view to their grad expiration. Had they ceased at once the consequences would have been very injurious ; he thought, un doubtedly, an end ought to be put to the system of Protection, hut then it onglit to take place in the gra dual way provided for by the Act, to prevent the shock which nould otherwise be given to the interests of the Irish 31anufactitrers. tfeneral HART supported the motion; he stated, that the interests of Ireland reqnired immediate cotssi d-ration and relit.f. 1I r. C. lIICTCINSON op posed the motion, and H complained of the ninon 111 which (lie Honourable Baronet had thon!tlit proper to briug on this propo sition. lie bad b..en deferring it from day to Jay, for many weeks, and he came forward now at er those du ties had beep settled by a solemn and deliberate act of last year, which provided for their gradoul abolition, to endesvour to put an cud to them by a sudden mea sure, for which the persons most concerned were to tally unprepared. lie slid not see why Irishnci inatilifrom ac turt•rs should be tre aleti on a 11111.141'111 priple f those of Ilreat lititain, and it was never known that where a solemn act of trade was passed to protect Bri tish mannfaetnrers in one year, it was abrogated in the next. Ile cared not whether the principle of the proteetitor duties was correct or yitions ; he objec ra ted to the motion, because it w ent to remove, by ,a pid mea sure. reenlations w hich were so recently ut by p Parliantent on a footing of slow but defined enira tions. It was nut only the manufacturers wwho a ere concerned in this q ut•stion, but merchants and deadens+ and he wonlil protest nettiust their interests being treated differently from those of any hr inch of the 'mercantile body in this country. This s ubject of thss protecting duties the Hon. (tart. had slipped in among the other six subjeris which the propositions embraced, and it was the principal one which he hail in view, ths.ugr. h he did not think fit to make it app ear so. lie (M II.) had advocated the protecting duties the last t• • in which they rime before the (louse, although on un• popular measure tot if the principle of protecting duties was impolitic and unwise, why was i that llac the Vice-President of the Board of TradeTrade (Nit-.t Wae) :was then in the House, for the purpose of vrocitring the enactment of such ditties relative to the Canadian Colonies. Ile then adverted to a Petition Otitis he Is rid in Isis hand, on this subject, from Lverpool, and read some parts of it in confirmation of his ar giont•nt. Sir 11. PARNELL node a short reuly, oloserviug , that his object was nut. as seemed to he apprehended hr Isis llossynral•le l'uiend who had just sat down, t.s make an ipittsNliate change in the laws r e gulating the commercial intrerstarse tween the two countries, but inertly that Pulioitit•nt should enterinto a n inquoweveriry iota the subject. li e had no obj i ecti on, h, to leave the wattl•r to tike the course proposed by the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the 1 . . chequer. and therefore tt wild not press his motion to a lANCES. that of length beinkalready determined by the experi. tweets related is our former reports: and we have fonad by the computations, which will hr detailed in the appendix, that the weight of a cubic inch of distilled water, at 62 deg. of Fa hrenheit, is 252,72 grains of the parliamentary standard pound of 1;53, supposing it t o he weighed in a vacuum. We beg leave therefore finally to recommend , withal humility, to Tony Majesty, the*doption of the regnla lions and modifications suggested In OUT former reports, which are principally these:-- 1. That the Parliamentary standard yard, made by Bird in 1760, be henceforward considered as the au thentic legal standard of 'the British empire; and that it be identified by declaring that . , 39,1393 inches of thtt standard, at the temperature of WI deg: of Fahrenheit; have been found equal to the length of a petultiluin posed to vibrate seconds in bond" on the level of the sea, and in a vacuum. 2. That the Parliamentary.standard Troy pound , ac. cording to the two-poun.l weight made in 1;56, remit unaltered; and that ;MI Troy graius be declared t o constitute an Avoirdupois Omit! ; the cubic inch of dis. tilled water being found to weigh at I's 2 deg. in a vacuum. 252,72 parliamentary grains. • 3. 'Chat the ale aid corn gallon be restored to their original equality, by taking, for the statatable common gallon of the British empire, a mean value, such that '4 gallon of common water may welch It) innuitls avoirdo pois in ordinary circumstances , its content being near!v 277,3 cubic inches : and that correct standards of th;, imperial gallon, and of the bushel, peck. q uart, and pint. derived from it, and of their parts, be procured without delay foe the Exchequer, and for such other offices itt your Majesty's dominions as may 1w judged most con tenient for the ready use of your 51ajesty's subjects. 4. Whether any further legislative enactments are re quired, for enforcing a u niformit y of p ractice throogima the British empire, we do not feel oarselyes competeet to determine : hut it uppers to us that molting would be more conducive to the attaii ttttttttt of this end, than to increase, as fas as possible, the facility of a read, re currence to the legal standards, which we apprehend to be in a great measure attainable by the means that we have recommended. It would alstb, is all prollahlity, he of advantage to give a greater degree of publicity to the appendix of our last report, containing a com parison of the customary measures wopioyed througbeat the country. 5. We are oot aware that anv further services reeuin for us to perform, in the execution of the c ouimastislai.l upon us by your Ninjestv's commission : lint if any sr perintentianee of the regnlations to he adopted ere thought neerssary, we should still he ready to undertake inch inspections and examinations as :a; Ott he required for the complete attainment of the tqects in question. Signed) lironutt Cures. I)svir.ti 611,9E1tT. WM. hi. Wout.as Ns. Tnom Yo xe. London, March 31, 1921. Ilesnv Ka.ree. --- man wkirftft AT Losoo•-nntoo.r Moreilaglalaift. after 4 . —1e%1 - ..latT 3 . 2 T0-mollittoVr. win. after 4. l; OID• FUIDAI V ut the Pubric Offices. ap, Ct)t AptattOinati. TRW lIIITISII STATESMAN" IS 1•LortPollsITO WITS " Tilt "Al" 111 A t ONPON: FRIDAY APRIL !O, lb2l. Ilalifat awl New Brunswick Papeti arrived ill's morning to the 29th March, faro which we itstract the fol/owing : FROM VIP 11111.11,‘X JouttNAL•mAnc" J. PROROGATION OF Till.: GF7`.lltAl. ASIIF.I%IIII.T. At twelve o'clock on Satorday la't his Excellency the It rel.. Govsason, attended ac usual, went to the Council Chamber, and being seateol, sent a message to the House of Assembly, cow:oat:ding the attentlanceof the Representative Body. Mr. Sin.:l l .A:r, nil' the men berg, attended Ilia Excellenci gAri his ussent to sot rat arts, and afterwards closed the Sei,iun. AusTotre of liti sek , rem. The harmony which has prevailed in your delibem 'inns, has afforded me peculiar satisfaction, and I can• not too highly applaud the zeal u :Acts you have matte fested for the public service, in the diicliarge of p.m ditties. The discipline and ettbrienev of the militia f t hr. lug an object of great im p ortance to the seenrity ohe protince, I must express Inv particular thanks for the attention you have given to the improvement of that Inable cons titutional force. I tl,anh yen in Ws `l. jetty's name for the liberal supplies which you ; you bto! are gra nted for the service of the present jear rely on their being faithfully applied, for I conside (retie. rare of all public ts ..... ies placed at my ant minty in their expenditure, one of my first ditties. For some time past, toy attention has been partially m tf• reeled to the best mo de of affot,ling facilities to il settlers upon the forest lands, and putting an end t a r I+ 1... evils that have aris en from irregular locations. 1 w i t h confidence of receiving, your cordial Illpport ard a ssistance in carrying i t into effectual operation in puff rz.spective counties , anti upon yourhe constinuin ofg (ta en- n.: "'orate, by even y p utt tpt attai Imanstry, uhich now happily prevails in this iniprotir; and happy colony. TRINADAD, FED. ei.—Extrart of a letter frO M. Cigna, dated 17th February. An express has arrived from the Corte*, if G nadalonpe to our Gove rnor ; but at lie is at fa rt s ome distance in the iottutry, the particu lars bare m', yet tesnspir.ii , tut the Captain:c of II exp ress info . us that I brig, supposed to be front Iluadalone, dren %matted and snot. trl Point a Petre, by the who have murdered the captain, his wife, chilli , mate. The crew landed at Point a Petre, atal observed to have a quantity of money, they wee e • petted and taken up by t he police. tine of they: b owned the piracy. Slllew I.: I brig 31apr are t from goti.rt• bound to Jamaica, was lo Ft on the S. E. 110, at tk Isle of Sabb, on the nile.tt of the .2.9 th of October, : 0 melancholy to relate thirteen i5er...004 perished. The intelligence that hai reaches , tic ..itic••• tv:r 1.0 4 relAtive to the proget.4% Ht . the ir.w.rt ertion tie theek‘, rontinaes to he favontai)h. to tlit•ir Aecorilittg to a letter from 11;....bamb lilt 1111. of April, a COMffiltloji ;011111 IlfKl.roll4 datedMarrli :3. lia4 liven coutottsteirati" Mating that Count L ‘No:stos, c 1 .. 1 1 I a ii i k 1 I I 1 I I f ' l r 1 6 . t . ~. 1 ; , , 1 , 1 I 1 )1 1 . \, I i t TFIE T 111 A bjeot Esnts4 . ki entiesnan of ttking the eo 'lest ne xt S. Kim, °tight to be guilt Th• followti ....... _They were now enahleJ to I.:• .t.r ft mi II ( r N. !TME.VT OF R Mont rs►c. divigien. After a few words from Mr. Buttarr, the Amend ment proposed by tie C h ancellor, of the Exclietitwr was put and agreed to. T 11113 1 7.11 DI:TIES BILL. The Order of the liar Itavin: been read for the third reading of the Timber Duties !till. 1I r. WAL LACE moved that the Bill should he read a third time. Mr. ot - nN EV made a few olosereations cm the Bill, and that if it nen: not too late, he would prop, , r an alteration in 11. e rate o f duties, as they related to the admeasurettlent of thr timber. 3lr. said, that the lwst hope he could en tertain r especting - the Bill was, that it would be wholly inoperative, for if operative, it would do mischief. Ile proceed...l tv areate wrainst the measure at cattsi.ter. able length, contending, that for the benefit of one data, the Atilt ott tiers. a ileaVy tax was laid on the res. of the cot ttttttt nity. Ile trw . teil that a pledge would be given by the ativiteates of the measure. that it would nut be a tinal o r. butt that the sithjeet the should again brottKlit under the consideration of Legislature. Sir I. COITIN briely re-stated his o bjections to the Bill. Mr. PHILLIPS artuted arainst the Bill. and trusted it would nut be a peristaiwitt measure. ALL.U.E. shortly replied. butt was generally i na udible in the I;:inery. We aniiee‘lo9.i the !tight Hon. Gentlem in to say. that the 11111 ar , se out of par ticular el.-enuroattee.t, and that when tluose eircum stances 4.. S ;41, the law might he Irtntlieially altered. The F.i.l was then read a third time and passed. The Irish Coroner's Bill went throw...it a Commit tee. tile Report of whirls was received, read, a•ol •r- , dered to be rate.l into further conslibtration on the :Id of May. 'lite Pill, as amended, was ordered to be printed. Mr. Illt011I)EN brought np the Report of the Com natter of Supply. On that motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX. CHEQUER, the resolutions which regarded the Ord nance uervire %%eve read, and ordered to be taken into further consideration on Ilottelay sett:tight. The other Orders of the liar were then disposed of, and the House adjourned to 3iontlay se'nttight. EistNnrstett, API:II. 16.—fhe weather fur some Jaea has been cold and ungenial ; yesterday the hills in the tieig!lbottrliosal presented a wintry appearance. being covered with snow. About four , clock sin Thursday afternoon, the town of llull and neighbourhood were visited by a %semen \dons thunder storm, aeriatipanied by one of the beavi- 1 em falls of hail witnessed for a long time. The hail- stones were as big as small marbles, andmeny of them I \angular pieces of ice , w hich rut the young leaves of ,the trees profsisely , a nd it is to be feared will have Jon, eon,islerahle injury among the early fruit 14444. The liglrtnitg was vivid. hut no serious in j ury was 1 snstaineil Jng is a copy of the Petition of John Whitaker and William lissota. presented last sight to the House of Commons, by the Honourable H. 0. Bennet :e To tiotHononraltie the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. in Pa. liantentassentbled. Tholiumble Petition of John Whitaker, of Union ettert, Southwark, in the county G reen ,re, and lifilliam Mason, of Clerkenwill in the Couutrof Middlesex , 1 Humbly Sheweth—Th a t your petitioners, in the month of September b 2.0, became bound in the sum of 40!. each , for the appearance of James Oriffin, of Middle-row, Holborn, bookseller, at the then en suing October Sessions for the county of Middlesex, to answer to a charge 'deferred against him, of having written and published a certain libel on his Majesty's Government. That at the Raid ensnine October Sessions f ont petitioners produced the said J:IIIICS Griffin, who at tended in the Court where the Sessions was then held, (teanwlv, Hick's Hall), front day to day, till his case was called upon : that lie was actually tried and con vicie.i, and sentenced to 13 months imprisonment, anal that he since has been and now is in the custody of the Governor of l'ol.l itathfields prison : That at the expiration of 5 tooltits from the conviction of h the said James Griffin, your petitione rs received, (to teir great amazement and vexation) a printed paper to the following purport : Ses.sloas OtTlce of the (leek of the Peace , llou be. Clrrkenu ell. March 13, Itkg I . ion were bound for the appearance of James tiriffin, at the October Sessions last, at the Sessions !louse for the said County, who not appearing, your Recognisance is become forfeited; and will be es treated into the Court of Exchequer, from whence exe ention will proceed for levying .101. on your li Is and Chattles, unless you stay proceedings, by an applicatioos, n for a respite of ihe Recognisance at the next Sessin u ill lie held at the Sessions House aforesaid, on Thursday, the 1.12t1 moay of March instant. Your humble servant, (Signed) Hrxry I:ol.LlNawnOto SELBY, Clerk of the Peace for the said County. Re here between the hours of 10 and 3, and bring this letter with von ; or information may be bad by ap plying at my of in the mean time. 'that your petitioners attended in the Conti of the Sessions House aforesaid, and remained in attendance from the hour of 10 in the forenoon till 2 in the after noon, on the said 22 , 1 Jay of March, as mentioned in the printed notice; that no business was transacted in the Court dining your petitioners attendance there; that your petitioners saw a number of persons go into a private room in the lower part of the said Sessions House ; that your petitioners was informed that the said persons were Magistrates; that your petitioners were prevented front going into the room, but sent a letter, stating the business of their attendance; that a person cam , - out of said room and told your petitioners that they could take no notice of petitioners' business; that your peti.l:tters believe said person to have been one of the Magistrates of the county sit assembled; that your peti;litners was then conducted under the building to the naive of the Clerk of the Court, when ten shillitws and eight pence were de mooted by a person acting for the Clerk of the P ea ce, of e ach of your petitioners. and all information werewas denied as to the n ature of the demauil : that they told if it was not romplied with, their recognisance* would toe estreatell; that your petitioners elfi red to poy the demand, but were refused a bill or receipt ; that your petitioners a;tain attended in the Court of the said Sessions !loose, on Friday, Apr ti il 13, 1.021, when a Session being held , your pe tioners aslied the aspire of the Chaii mon of the said Sessions. when v onr petitioners were informed that they might pay the m oney, and if there was an extortion they io bad a remedy by an a ction at law m that your petitners have not the power of carrying tin an expensive action at law, where a verilia in their favour would be more expensive than the original demand ; that your pe titiotwrs think it extretuely oppressive, that they Can not stand forward to aslit-t a friend tur.ler such circum stances without being expose.i to threats so vexations, h ac e. t s4;pr, a nd ;!laringly unjust ; that your of pe money tition ers have re•.s .11 t o believe that Image sums are obtaine.l by t h e Clerk of the Peace for the to county of Miallie;,•,„ from persons in similar cases your petitioners ; that your petitioners remain in constant apprehension of havitc.: an estteat levied on their L oads and chattles. allhough they have roarylied to the v ery I s omer of the law with every thing they hail bound mlirniselves t.'s perform ; that your petitioners, having no other resource but in the justice of your [limier rile I louiroooAt earnestly entreat, that yo will adopt such measnres as, that not Ottly your peiltio u ners, but the pithlie may in future cease to be imposed upon by such illegal demands, ur annoyed by such harrass *tog amid alarming threats, sad your petitioners, as in bound, will ewer pray. PARLI.I.IIENT.IIII P.IPERS. BILL TO nrcrLATE ACCEPTANCES OF BILLA OF EXCHANGE. Whereas it is expedient, that no person should be bound as acceptor of any WI of exchange, other wise than by acceptance of such bill of exchange written thereon ; b He it enacted, y the King's most excellent Ma jesty, by and uith the advice and consent of the !Arils Spiritual and Temporal, and Commoas, in this Sent Parliament assembled, and by the autheAtv 0 ; the same, that from and after the day of now next ensuing, no person or pumas whatsoever shall be hound or charged as acceptor of any inland or foreign bill of exchange, otberuise than by an acceptance of inch bill of exchange, if the same should cutpsist of more than one part. THIRD impost . OF THE COMMItgIoNERA APPOINTED IT MAJl:silf To CoNsIDEII VIE 31.:11JEt T OF WEIGHTS AND AIKASURES. M a y it pleam your Majestc,—We, the rommiAtionery appointed hr your Nlajcsty for the purpose of consider• ing the subject of Weights and Itlea‘iires, have now ronspleted the examination of the standards which we have thought it necessary to compare. The measure. melds whirls we have lately performed upon the apps• raw* employed by the late Sir George Slinekburgh Evelyn, have enabled us to determine with sufficient pee• eieion the weiEbt of a even bulk of water, with a view to the filing the magnitadr of the standard of weight; M ,•".". J • r mu RIOS Boi give tion t I