The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-04 00:00:00

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" And your petitioners further pray, that your Honour able House will institute a serious and solemn inquiry into the subject of tithes, in order to devise some plan by which not wily your petitioners may be relieved, but the Ministers of the Estkblished Church may be adequately paid by some more respectable end conciliatory means than the impolitic, unjust, and vexatious mode at present practised. " And your petitioners further pray, that as there appears' from past experience, but little hopes of the redress of na tional grievances from your Honourable House as at pre sent constituted. That your Honourable House will forth with encourage, promote, and adopt such a full anciefficient Mean in the Commons House of Parliament, thet your lion. House may become in truth and in fact, the Repre sentatives of the People. freed from the baneful a llo y and d zi ... 4:t ir og influence of the servile nominees , titled, or ideals, and of the equally leellelest represen tatives of those dettgayed, contemptible, a_d notoriously ve nal, betoughs. " And your petitioners further pray, that if, after your Honourable House shall have adopted end fairly put to the proof the expedients before humbly suggested, and such others as to your wisdom shall deem meet, the whole shall be found Insufficient to afford adequate relief from the heavy pressure of taxation—that then, and not till then, your Ho nourable House will d rect its serious attention to the mak ing some equitable arrangement or accommodation, under well considered lignite and restrictions, not only with the public creditor, but in certain special cases between man and man also." 'IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. A POLICY FOR 13.000. • A policy for 3.0001. is the Amicable Society, Sergeants'-inn, and Leasehold Estate, Battersea, Surrey. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. HINDLE, AtCarraway's, To-veoanew. at 19, In 2 lots, by order of the Assignees of Dymoke Wells, a bankrupt. Lot I.APolicv for Fifteen Sharesof 2001. each, in the Amicable Society of Sergeants'-inn, subject to the animal pay meat of 1001. 10s. for and during the life of the bankrupt. now in the 82d year of his age: the policy "its effectol in ISIS. Lot 2 .. A Leasehold Estate, comprising three dwelling bousestextenslve warehouses and stables,. situate in New street, near the. Duchess of York, Battersea-fields, let on lease, and now in the occupation of Meter:. Armand and Co. ut the rent of Ult. per annum, held for a term of 41 years from the 24th of June last, at a ground rent of only 131.; net improved rent 311. Printed particulars may be bad of Messrs. Bell and Brod slck. solicitors, Row Church-yard ,at Oarraway's; and,at Mr. Ilindle's oUlcr, 98, Chancery-lace. HAMPSHIRE PETITIONS. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoNDAT, M*aca3. The LORD GHANCELLOR called the attention of the House to .the Scotch Appeal, Agnew v. Agnew, on which he had signified his intention of giving a:decision this day. The case had been on a former occasion de cided by the House, and it now came before their Lord ships in the sliape of a petition for a re-hutting.% He • • must now state that that House could not re-bear, on the 'henries of the case itself; any appeal on which it had at smaly piven a decision; and jhat be should defer until Wednesday next stating his reasons for this opinion. • ' A person from the Treasury presented cettain psperst . relative to the Exchequer in Ireland. The Earl of COVENTRY presented a petition frets • the traders of Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, against . the Insolvent Debtors' Act. • The Earl of suerrzsßow prevented a similar petition from the town of Leicester. His Lordship ate* preseeteda petition from the brothers and sisters of the free Cbspel in the Tower of London, against the clime in tie late Marriage Act, rel Wye to ,the granting of licenses. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented the 14th, llth, and 12th Reports of the Commissioners for ii pav ing into the Salaries, Fees, and Emoluments of Olhmes belonging to the Courts of Justice in Scotland, %Lich were ordered to be printed. The Earl of DARNLEY presented a petition from the Bankers, Merchants, and Tradersof Kingston-upon-Hull, against the Insolvent Debtors' Ai t. STATIONERY AND PCBLIC OPTICES IN i Ratetto. The Earl of DARNLEY called the attention of the House to the several notices he had already given on this 'subject during the last. three years. It appeared by the papers on the table, that a patent had been granted to Sir W. Bradley King. of Dublin, for supplying the pubic offices in freland with stationery, and that the Irish Go vernment was so convinced of the disadvantage and lelss to the public resulting from that patent, that they bad come to a determination to alter the terms of it. Tee pipers also showed that a correspondence had take place between the Irish Government and Sir W. B, King, on this subject, in which the latter was given to uslizt• stand, th it if be did not accede to terms proposed to bite, he must relinquish the rights he derived from his paten', end that another mode must be taken fur supplying the Government offices with stationery. He wished there• fore, that their Lordships should be in possession of the terms in question. Since lie came into the House he ur deratood iron the Noble Earl opposite (Liverpool) that Sir W. B. King had agreed to those terms; but he feared they ;were not very advantageous to the public; and he wished to know what they were ; theretere, he should: move that there be laid before he House a•copy of the agreement entered into betwe o the Government of !re- • land, and Sir W. Bradley ing, in consequence of the correspondence betwen him and the Secretary for Ireland ; and also an account of the quantity of stationery fur- nished by Sir W. B. King, since July last, with the prices charged thereon, and the former charges he had • made. On this occasion be could not help noticing that at the time when his Majesty visited Ireland, this person was Lord Mayor of Dublin, and was on that account honoured with peallidi . marks of favour by the king; that notwithstanding these marks of Royal eondeseetr sioe, he did not accede to the wishes of his Majesty, tor promoting a spirit of conciliation among his alayaty's British subjects; and by the best account from Ireland, it appeared, that, Sir Wm. B. King so far from showing a disposition to promote his Majesty's gracious admoni tion to that respect, had proposed a re-enactment of the penal laws against Catholics. .The motions were agreed to.—Adjourned. 4 1 4 , To Law-Vtationers, Solicitors, and others, Chancery-lane. • BE SOLO BY AUCTION, By Mr. HINDLE, At Ms Spacious Rooms, 28, Chancery-lane, on Ttrastar Murch I t, at twelve for ode, by order of the Sheriff of Mid dles. a, A BOUT 5,000 Skins of Fine Writin g Parchment, • of the hest manufacture and quality; each from 22 inches to 32 turtles, and which will be lotted suitable for the trade in general. To be viewed the day preceding and morning of sale ; ca talogues bad at the rooms. ,~ MR. CORBETT'S PETITION. " The Petition of the County of Hants, to the Ilononrable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, in Patlianient Elegant Furniture, Table and Be.! Linen, China and Cut I ti ass, Pier and Chimney Glasses, Two elegant Grecian Fight-light and Six-light Lustres, with Icicle Drops, capital MahoganyConnters,Fietures.and valuable Effects. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. BINDLE, •At his Spacious Rooms, 22. Chancery-lane, onVreitivastay, March 12, commencing at 11 for 12 precisely, rnnine and modern FURNITURE, com- JIL prehettetirtg elegant drawing-room furniture in ripen zi re drapery et:r airs, with Grecian couches and chairs en suite, patent, card, 100. and breakfast tables of beautiful ruseauoti, on cisw . frstnes. large Brussels carpets, chimney glasses and mirr , ra, elegant beds, with suitable bedding; also a large French bn.!stead, purchased at the late Duke. of Kent's snit. wetl made cabinet articles in winged wardrobes, commode chest of drawers, dressing-tables, patent dining tables, pedestal sideboards, parlour chairs in leather and satin hair "rats, hall chair s, stair carpets, painted !Wor e otbs, c :Oral mahogany counters , sh elves, drawers. glazed Moors, bronzed rc gist. r stoves, fenders, fire irons, kitchen range, kitchen requisites, die. To be viewed the day preeeding and morning of sale; ca. talogues 'may be bed at the rooms. SPLENDID SALE AT THE AUCTION MART. M 11 11 . 4 W G 1 WILLIAMS t h r e e s K c b t t e a 1 that s i t u fm t o h r eo s rd t e h r e fNusablie -Sur To -Mummy', MARCII 4th, and four following days, is orrosilod lo the following order. via.:— To-Morrow. March 4.-7'he Kidcboard of Plate. Trinkets, a brilliant toned Cabinet Piano forte, iu an elegant ma rmot' CUP, a Untst i narrel Organ, ploys 42 tunes, ire. Weilseadoi, Sa.-:4Tna eliguiicent3heleal and French 'Clocks, Indian end Chinese Curiosizies, a unique collection of Snug Boxes, Carvings in Wiry, Enamels, large brilliant Plate Masses, &e. Tharsday.-4 rich Collection of Pictures, Drawings, and Miuiateres of a high cuss. Friday and Saturday.—The Costly Library. To he viewed till the sale by catalogues, price ls. without which no person wil; he admitted, to be had at the Mart, Carousay's; and of Mr. Williams, Throgmorton-street. FROM SATURDAY'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS. Marsh 22. W. M•Niell, Charles-street. Middlesex Hospi tal. eyaeh-maker—Mareh 22, J.Marchanr, late of Maidstone, carpenter—March 22. J. Rose, sen. and J. Rose, jun. Sy. W hart Tooley-street, merchants—klareh 22, R. Mar tindale and E. Fitch, late of St. J arues-street. wine-men chants--March 22, J. David, Threadneedle-street, merchant —March 22, J. Ituatingdon, late of Snow-hill, jeweller— March 26, J. Brit an, Worcester, linen-draper—March 20. N. Richards. late of Liverpool, merchant—March22, T. Ed nuindv, Cacti-hr . ), gt d. Laaveter-Pontstephen,Cardiganshire , tanner—Mardi 20. J. Tundra, Dover, porter merchant — March 26, R. Ilendergon, Lowthian Gill, Ileskett, Cumber ittud, corn-dealer—March 24..1. Beeston, Drayton-in-Hales, Shropvitiee, mercer—March 26, E. Cnambers, late of Cul 14.apton, Devonshire. li. C. Granger, Knightsbridge, and R. Chrunbers. jun. Brosithembury, Devonshire, bankers — Mach 14,'1'. btauden, of Lancaater, slater—March 24, J. Co.iy hunt, Manchester, dyer—March 23, J. Can ary. Bishop Wearmonth, Alp-owner—Apr/1 2, J. Marsh, Devra..blre, bookseller—March 2L B. Wood, Nartreroagb, Leieeriteraltire. dealer—March 22. J. Bsckler, Nor% trian-strert. Ontard-street, dtwler in stained glass— M a p -,.t i 21, Wyche, late of New Sarum, Wiltshire, a ice me chant. • CERTIFICATES—AIsace 22. W.Creei, Grarechurch-street, stationer—J. - Russell, late of Rochester, wine-merchant-=l'. Bates Cushion - court, Old ti r oad-greet, uterehae: -D. Trangott Menke, late of Prim r.lsa .i-stret,, Bishopssate-stree an t Without, sughte e r, Seal, K tnt, tner—D. 11-Colston, late merchant—T. of Wing- I. n-road, upholsterer—fr.' Buckataster, Old Bond-street, sr y li,ler—M. Comfort, late of Brightheltustone, car rciiter —T. Lataploug'.. Bridlington Quay, corn-factor—J. Bennett. St. Helen, Worcester, glutei—J. Webster, Derby, tsilur—F. Mitchel , New Melton, corm-merchant—E. and C. Meat er,llloneest.r, pin-manufacturers. PAWS NERSH WS DISSOLVED. j.ltseck eat) M. Joseph, Eta Ordinary-court, Nicholas km—J Martin and W. Hall, Liverpool, bro- Si. Weddeij, .1. TI I, and J. Weddell, Aidgate, woollen tigress- T A. J. Absatoin, C. Russell, and M. A. Absalom, kiestimerwtre.t, Mary-la-bonne, millisers—J: Hill and W. Holywer -street, t:horeditch, and Church-street, Bethnal-green, eAtiophouse-koepers—W. Richardson and' W. Had, Liverpool, brush-manufacturers—J. Williams and it'. lirirrett, Conduit-street, Henovessquare, tailors—C. W‘octs sod 8. Potter, RobertebviJce, - Salehdrat, Sussex, stildlers—C. Johasoa, 8. Johnson, and F. Johnson, Bath, mittiners (as far as regards F. Johnson)—E.Apps, R. Dunk, :m11.6% Dunk, Counter-street, Southwark, hop-factors (as tar as regards R. Dunk)—T. Wilson, 'l'. Starkey, and N. Wilson, Rirosinghatn„ button-makers--11..Alleeton and W. hugdin, Leeds, malsters—W. 13. and J. Stubbing, Wool ale% butchers—l. Mayer sad J. Eastabrooki Greenwich, lineu-drisperg—W. Hall end D. Baxter, Bolton-le-Moors, j.iinera—W. Fs rsgth, 0. Thompson, and D. Woodhouse, Freebie:eh-street, orodsmeil (as far as relates to D. Wood house)-41.1toik, sen. H. heck, J. Rock. join. and J. Blake . more, flirminglism, coal dealers (as far as relates to the said M. Rock). AIIBILIDO OPIUM OP COIN IN INGLAND AND wsies t ron VIC WLL/li 11:016D I' DI. 22. s. d. /MR qv. s. d. - MeV 4O 11 Oats l9 1 . Rye.... ........ ..... 91 U Beans .. 25 9 liartey PS 5 Peas . ..... ........ St U Average Pelee of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com .wied from the Returns made in the week ending the 20th ..:17 of Feb. 1523, is 801. Hid. per cwt. pia. at. i~x'• - (Omitted yesterday for rant of room.) Ma. MARSH'S PETITION. " To the Honourable the Commons et the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament as sembled. The humble Petition of the County of South ampton, Sheweth—That the landed interest of this country is suffering under distress highly alarming, both in degree and in extent, is a fact which has been already recognized by your Honourable House,- and is therefor unnecessary for your petitioners to insist on. " That the measures hitherto proposed or adopted by your Honourable House for remedying the same, have been wholly inefficient. The difficulties of landlords and tenahts are hourly increasing, and threaten, at no distant period,. utter ruin to both. " That in this appalling situation it is natural that your petitioners should direct. and they accordingly have direct ed their attentions and inquiries to the cause: of the (vita which they endure, with the view that they may be per- I mined humbly to suggest, to your Honourable BOOM IV-- medics for such of their distresses as may be deemed re- mediable. ISS That your petitioners are fully persuaded that the pre 'sent distress of the country does not arise from any single cause, but from the combination of various influential events. That your petitioners will not attempt to enumerate the whole of such influential causes or events, but will briefly state those, which, in their humble judgment, have had the most decided operation. " That the violent and almost sudden fluctuation which at times has taken place in the value of the currency of this kingdom, insomuch. that at some periods within these five years, the value of the currency in exchange for corn and other necessaries of life has differed more than two parts in three : such difference as regards the diminished value of the currency (after making full allowanee for the increased demands for produce during the war) being created. as your petitioners believe, by the Bank Returns Act, in 1797. By the immense increase thence arising in the dr cnieton of paper, not only by the Bank of England, bot by numerous country bankers. Hence, it followed, that all contracts or engagements for the future payment of money entered into during this forced and unnatural depre ciation of the currency, have subsequently become ruin ous and destructive to most of those who were unfortunate-' ly in such contracts or engagements. If this argument be correct, it must apply most forcibly to the enormous load of debt with which the nation was burthened during the same period; the interest of which We are now paying, in a currency of much higher value tkan was that in which the ' principal was lent. " With regard to the sudden increase in the value of the circulating medium, your petitioners deem it may readily be accounted for—namely, in part from the diminished de mand, and other minor causes, operating since the war; but principally from a vast quantity of paper being with drawn from circulation, in consequence of the Legislative prevision for resuming cash payments, commonly called Peel's Bill. In short, the quantity of the circulating me dium having been very much lessened, it nec aaaaa ity, like any other commodity, became dear, in proportion to its scarcity. " That your petitioners have no hesitation in asserting that another great cause, nay. as they believe the greatest cause of their distress is. the greatest monstrous burthen of taxation imposed on them, arising from the Inordinate and profligate *este of the national wealth during a pro tracted wer ; and a still continued lavish and wasteful, and 1 jany puts. ugpeeessary and corrupt peblie gxpeadituea —a taxation the iwor. tosapportable to your peliiiireers particular, inasmuch as the price of three bushels of wheat grain will now ,barely defray the same nominal amount of taxes. as one busLel would have mid a few years past. " In addition to the grievances already set forth, your petitioners feel warranted in Mating two other burtbens which fall with peculiar weight upon the landed interest, namely, the poor rates and tithes ; — the burthen of tithes in particular, however sanctioned by long usage, as every day's experience proves it to be vexatious and injurious in priciice—the 'fertile source of haired, malice, and all uncharitableness—where the high interests of religion and morality demand that peace, harmony, and mutual good will should prevail. " Before your petitioners proceed to utter their prayer to your Honourable House, they presume. with all ituu.ility and respect, to state what they conceive to be another grievance of the most serious mngnitude—an evil, indeed, of such vast importance as to have been, in the firm con viction of your petitioners, the prime source and origin of the wrongs, oppressions, and calamities, of which, iu com mon with their fellow -subjects, your petitioners have to complain; ----your petitioners mean the imperfect, uncon stitutional, they vs ill add illegal means, by which members are returned, or nominated, to your Honourable House. " Your petitioners abstain from any detail of the cor ruptions end abuses iu the election of Members of Parli ament, seeing that, for many years vast, the table of your Honourable House has been loaded with the neglected and scorned petitions of millions of the people, upon the sdh ject of this crying evil—but your petitioners do most confi dently hope and trust, that the day will very shortly arrive, when the eyes of your Honourable House will be opened to the necessity of redressing the manifold and avowed viola tions of both the letter and spirit of our laws; and that the Infamy and falsehood of the assertion, that such practices are necessary to the good government of this country. shall he made es manifest to your Honourable House, as it has long been to the great body of the people. " Your petitioners humbly request, that should your Ho noorable House condescend to take their above stated come plaints into consideration, it may be clearly understood that your petitioners utterly disclaim the wish or desire, to shift say burthen from themselves, or landowners and occupiers, in order to impose the slime on any other class of the com munity. Your petitioners, therefore, deprecate and pro test against all plans, projects, and expedients, fur a forced and unnatural rise in the necessaries of life, whether by Corn Bil's, renewed Bank Restriction Acts, or a large re. issue of an unsound Paper Currency; on the contrary, your petitioners humbly seek remedies, broad, general, national, and constitutional. " Your Petitioners will neither degrade themselves, nor insult ynur Honoursble House, by advancing any facts or propositions, in the truth and justice of which they have not the inost conscientious belief; acting under this feeling, and under the intimate conviction of the truth of the several matters Already premised, your petitioners presume to state to yonr Honourable House. that the main hope of relief from the calamitous circumstances in which they are placed, rests upon n very large reduction being speedily made in taxes rind impositions of every kind and description, so as to render the necessary and unavoidable expenses and oat goings of your petitioners, in some degree, commensurate with the increased value of money, and to your petitioners impoverished circumstances ; and your petitioners are well aware, that this cannot be effected. but by a rigorous and de termined cartailraent in all and every branch of national ex penditure. " Your petitioners deem it superfluous to Indicate, ha detail, to your Honourable House, the objects to which they would specially implore your attention; they tray, however, be permitted to point out—ah immense standing army in time of peace—unnero;sary or overpaid taxes—un everitted pensions—corrupt sinecure grants and reversions— and lest, though not least, an enormous visit li-t. " After this short enumeration, your petit boners do briefly, but most earnestly and humbly, pray, that your Honourable House will, forthwith. proceed to teko into its most serious consideration the important subject of the national disburse ments, in ell its various anti mut 'plied branches and di it bents, with a view of reducing I every possible way, cunsisteut will digeity of the kingdom ; and further i nv estigation. your Honourable her direct its inquiries as to the expedi' _ assembled, Most humbly sheweth,—That your petitioners will pot waste the time of your II onourab:e House by an attempt to describe the present elarming state of the agricultural com munity, and of all those who are immediately connected with it; that your Honourable House must be well aware of the sufferings which your petitioners have already en dured, of the greater suffe:ings that await them, of the na ture of that transfer of property that is now going on, and of the causes which have produced a more extensive confis cation of estates, of capital, and of the wages of labour, than, as your petitioners firmly believe, was ever produced by any revolution in any country in the world. "' That it is remedied only of which your petitioners will speak to your Honourable House ; that they do this with the greatest deference anti humility ; but that in hare jwtice to the intelligent and public spirited county, to which they have the honour to belong, they beg leave to remind your lion' House, that amidst all the perils of the memorable year 1517, this county, In the most earnest and yet most respectful man ner, besought your Honourable House to adopt, while yet there was time, the means necessary to prevent the ruin of the landlord, the clerical incumbent, and the farmer, and the misery and otter degradation of the labourer; that, on the 16th day of February in that year of events so little ho nourable to England, your Honourable House received from this county a petition, in which we prayed for • large 're ' duction is the standing army ; for a reform in you; Ho ' nourable House; for an abolition of all sinecure', pensions ' and greats, not merited by well known public services ; a ' redumion of all salaries paid out of the public money ; and ' for a redaction of the interest of the publig debt, so that njigslifsilislerbsswsettatbeelutaxest. at duet debt reigtst .be ismer -* ed itilreerfortion t 6 the retincad state of the wages of la ' boor, and of the profits of tradesmen and farmers.' " That your humble petitioners who were then regarded as singular in their opinions and their prayers, need not tett your Honourable House that those opinions and those pray ers are now echoed from one end of the kingdom to the other; that, as to your petitioners, they have to state to your Honourable House, that they pray for the same things now, which they prayed for in the year 1817 ; that they wish not to impute evil intention to your Honourable Mouse or to any branch of his Majeey'sClovernment, but that they cannot help observing, that, if your Honourable House had been pleased to pay attention to their prayers of isl 7. they are firmly convinced, that, at this time, there would have existed none of those calamities, which now press down the country, and which threaten, if not speedily and effectually removed, to produce • convulsive revolution. "That it is in the nature of every species of evil, if it proceed unchecked, to be rendered more formidable by time, and to require remedies,which would not have been required at an earlier stage of its existence; that, accordingly, your petitioners, after viewing the state to which their country is now reduced, feel themselves impelled to pray that your Honourable !louse will be pleased to receive favourably any proposition that may be made to you, for the commutation of tithes, or for the adoption of such ether measures as in your wisdom may seem most meet and equitable for the drawing of resources, either temporary or permanent, from the property of the Church. and more esprcially from that large mass of public property, called, commonly, Crown Land.. " That your Honourable House, must be well aware of the numerous and unparalleled acts of injustice which have taken place in consequence of the change in the value of the currency; of the thousands upon thousands of families that have hereby been, tram a state of competence. and, in many cases, from a state of affluence, reduced to a slate of penury and want ; of the endless number of mortgagers, ren ters, and other persons, bound by contracts made, or by conditions imposed, by wills, by settlements, and by other means; your Honourcbte !louse must be well aware of these, and of the dreadful ruin which have fsllen and is fall ing upon the parti.ts so hound; and, therefore, your petiti oners, knowing that your honourable House mutt perceive, that this wrong and ruin are ascribable to Acts of your Ho nourable Houser. Smoot eardeslly implore your Honourable Masotti cause to take plea*, an equitable adjustment, - not only with regard to the public debt, but with regard to all contract's between man and man, which adjustment they deem abtolutely necessary to the defente of the country spinet foreign foes and to the restoration of internal tran quillity; and your petitioners further pray, that, in order to afford some Immediate relief to them, and especislly to the aow su 4 v ering labourers of the country, your Ho nourable Hoes ill he pleased wholly to repeal, during the pre sent Saliba of Parliament, the taxes oa salt, malt, hops, leather, soap, and candles." - " Daranvoi. Finc.—At 7 o'clock, on Sunday night, a dreadful fire broke oat in the Louse of Mr. Hawes, cheesc monger end porkman, in Berwick-street, Soho. Smoke was first observed issuing from the shop windows ; no person being in the house, admittance was not very soon obtained; the issuing of the smoke increased, and foaod its way in a great body from a window which was open in the second floor. Engines arrived upon the spot, and a crowd bad assembled, when the window shutters and frame of the shop fell into the midst of the people; *se vral persons were in consevence very much hurt. The flames had by this time nearly destroyed the house, three quarters of an hour haring elapsed before water could be o btained ; the engines /hen commenced a brisk play. Abouthalf-past eight the front wall of the house separated lioui the middle, the lower part failing with a tremendous crash; shortly sPernards the other part of the wail and roof fell with the saute dreadful •ded considerably sob- HOUSE OF COMMONS—MONDAY. The Sieastan took the Chair at four o'clock. Mr. MANSFIELD presented a petitiOn from the town of 'Leicester against the Insolvent •DelitOri: Act.— Ordered to be laid on the table, and be printed. Mr. CURWEN presented a petition from a parish in Cumberland against the General Turnpike Act: Mr. PLUNKETT presented a petition from the city of Dublin, praying an inquiry into the local taxa tion of that city. Sir GERALD NOEL presented a petition frojai s Olire calling herself Princess uf Cumberland, coniplainkog of severe pecuniary distress, and confinement for debt in the King's Bench Prison; and praying, as the Lord. Chancellor has no jurisdiction in her case, for the inter position of the House.—Ordered to be laid on the table. Mr. MITCHELL presented a petition from Kingstorl-- upon-Hull, against the Insolvent Debtors' Act. • , Sir T. LETHBRIDGE deferred his motion, respecting the subdivision of Counties, from Wednesday to ruddy vest. Mr. CURTEIS presented a petition from the pirisla of Northam, iu Sussex, 'praying a repeal of the Vatic% on Hops. After a few words from Mr. Aldentian WooD, Mr. LITTLETON, and Mr BRIT BENNET, the petition watt laid on the table, and ordered-to be printed. Mr. WILLOUGHBY presented a petition from New. ark-upon-Trent, against ent Debtors' Act. The Marriage Act Amendment Bill was read a second time. On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, t -lip House went into a Committee on the Scotch Credites Bill. The House resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought pp to-morrow (tais day ) The Lumentree on Ways and Means was postponn.l to • Wednesday next. • MILBANK PENITENTIARY. Mr. GREY BENNET said, that lie would take the liberty of putting a question to the Right lion. Secretary (Mr. Peel.) A lew days since, owing to that Hon. lieu tleman's permission, he had visited - the Penitentiary at Milbank, and found it in a state of sickness quite unusual. An Inquest bad been held on a man named Ilorupbror Mini, who died there; and the ./urv, though they brought i,t a verdict of " Accidental Leath," resoived._ unanimously that some alterations in the diet St the pri soners should be recommended. • He was anciotis not to be understood as conveying any thing like censure on the managers of tile est:abashment ; he was convinced thus. their zeal and activity deserved approbation, and if•any mistake in the treatment of disease had taken plicei At must not be attributed to the want of proper skill or attention. There were at present eight oundred prison ers .rithin the Peniteratiary, of whom one hundred and t wen ty-nine were on the sick list, lif - y-sis males. and ee veati-thrce females. Under the circumstances he was anxious to learn what measure his Majesty's Government was abort to take, and be conid nat . avoid expressing .a hope that a Committee would he appointed to make the necessary inquiries, oho mil ht call In the aid of medleal gentlemen who were connected with other institutions, and have a saisfactory inveatigation of the r ware aid treatment of the disease. As matter of fJ: ."4. be world brief Costner on Dint out—au immense standing oral persons were in constti.mt.. ~. y "aut... sou. e. a... • , pro-wary or overpaid taxes—un- flames had by this time nearly destroyed the house, VeLti-urree females. Under the orcuosstances lie WKS anxious to learn what measure his Maiesty's Oovernrnenc inecure grints and reversions— three quarters of an hour having elapsed before water n enormous civil 114. could be obtained ; the engines /hen commenced a . . was about to take, and he conid wit avoid expressing .a I Con, yourpetilioners do briefly. brisk play. Aboutkalf-past eight the front wall of the hope that a Committee would he appointed to make Ilse hly, pray, that your Honourable nut to take into Its most serious house separated loin the tuiddk, the lower part failing neces ;ivy inquiries, who niii,ht call in the aid of mcdleal subject of the oltional disburse- with a tremendous crash; shortly af•eruards the oth er gentlemen wit° were connected with otbe: institutions, nartof the wail and roof fel with the same dreadful and have a si:infactory invadgwion of the r ware ad mul iplied branches and depart- , - s. . ucing or abridging the same in sef he firemen succeeded in very considerably sub- treatm ent of the disease . AI . matter of f.g."4. he Wallid i' cut with the honour, safety, and not ' 'deck. A detachment of t h e m u t e fur a copy of the ieroest taken b efore a Cosouer ou ad further, that in pursuing such n . die flames by nine o r Foot Ouards arrived, as also a great number of the po• the body of H ump hre y Adam. 'Able Howse will he pleased t o lice, to prevent any property from being stolen. Not a Mr. l'Elria t twit his v►rws were ►n eviri ember- expediency of more effectuall single ill tick in Mr. llawes's house was saved. fence with the Hon. tit.kotan. No beneit cOarg pea- • ~ i ...t • . 4 - • • -",-t. . . -.•-. . .. .