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gallons—increase, 1,528,000. Foreign spirits. rum and brandy —rum, first average, 2,791,000 gallons ; last year, 2,757.000 gallons—deereme, 34,000 gallons. On brandy there ass an increase —previous average, 866,000 gallons ; last year, L 061,000 gallons—increase, 195,000 gallon.. Tea, tt commodity which yielded a stmng proof of the rate•of consumption in the necessary articles of life —average consumption of tea for former period, '22,156,0001bn. ; last year. 22.514,u001be.—in- Mime. 356,0001b5. Tobacco and snuff, former 'average 11,847,000Ibs; last year 11,680,00011a5. Wine exhibited a dimirentien; French wines average consumption 975 tufts ; last year, • /6 tous--e-decrease 59 tuns. NVines, not French, average 1111,446 tuns; last year, 16,300 -decrease 2,146 tuns. Cape wine, average 2,103 tune; last year 1,000 tuna—decrease 1,105 tuna. Sure censitmed in England on average before taken 3,117,000 cwt.; last year 3,133,000 cwt.—increase 310,000 cwt.—Upon artmost all the important articles of life there was a manifest increase of consump tion in the last year's ; with one or two excep tions, such as coffee and wine, they exhibited uni form increase. If on beer, spirits, tobacco, coulee candle., soap, and salt, it would be rattan that ibere was a tendency to increased rather -than to ilimiisisheri consumption, and in defect of lamina tarn upon the consumption of agricultural produce, liat !Possible ground could he have for believing that there was a decrease in the general cotaiumption of bread, especially wile', it eas shewn, that in the eases of tea, sugar, male, beer, and other articles, upon which the greater part of the population were fed and subsisted, there was so Merlons an increase? If no fair inference would be drawn of the decrease of consumption, the only design able cause lefewas tnet of over production. He did not undertake then to ray this of the productions of tire soil, because that would involve a con sideration of the laws as they affected the expor tation and importation of corn, into which he was not disposed to enter. The laws which bad been p as sed to relation to that subject might be questioned as to the excellence of their principle ; but return tug back to the system from which the enact ment of those laws had diverted them was another question. He was very far from underva luing that distress which vexed and depressed agri culture in many parts of the country ; but to bring it forward would be of no use in establishing or overturning this important fact, namely, that it was impossible for any one to ray, as it repealed the whole mass of the population, that they could be suffering any diminution of comfort, while it was made menitest that there had been a consider able increase in all the great branches of commerce which contributed the essential articles of exist etice. If any fact could be reasonably establivhed, relating to such numerous and extensive details, and bring inferred from undeniable premise.. was Calculated to justify the firmest reliance upon it, the House must agree with the inference which be bad drawn from the accounts which he had detail ed. • The Noble Marquis bail called for that atten tian to the distresses of !agriculture ; and he agreed with the Noble Marquis, that it was a care of very great importance, and deserved the gravest coesi iteration, though he ass not likely to be convinced of the propriety of making any alteration in the laws which existed on that subject. Whether the inatein adopted was right or wrong in its principle, might he a fair subject for doubt; but they were bound, before any alteration should he attempted, to consider seriously if the evil complained of was traceable to the enactment of those laws, what de gree of immediate relief was to be hoped from their sodden repeal, and if the cell might nut be more easily overcome by a steady adherence to whatever prin ciple might be adopted after the most serious and earnest coneidelation had on all the relations of the case. %Ville respect to the system of rettric now, fur example, the object of every statesman ought without doubt to be the aveulsurr, as far as poristee. of laying restrictions on the work leg of any of the great interests of the country.— Ile was afraid, and lie had expressed that fear on a torture occasion, just like the present, that this enuutrV, from time very live of its coinnierae and manufactures. heel too much addicted itself to re steictioes for its true interests, and that the wealth a.fd commercial greatness of the kingdom had iisen rather in spite than through the assistance of restrictions. Yet it would be admitted ley all who heard him that it would be difficult iii the extreme to stake off those restrictions, which obviously im peded the suer:ems of many branches of inattufac tures snd trade. ‘Vliaterer evils could be traced to restrictions, and he was by no means disposed to undervalue the clasaaiss which depressed maim. factives and commerce 'to particular iiistancese there was one tvll much more to be dreaded thee; the effect of the severest testrictione.- Tired e vil was fluctuation. Restriction* were • Peibmpsimpolitic, and to some cases utiviumlyi sinschievoas; but when imposed after fell tarration, it wall inure, better to perreveie with them thee to risk the rife et of rashly throwing them off. Hold on in the course first adopted, and ihr• restriction; might become tolerable—the evil would in time right itself, or circumstances would be found out to obviate it altogether. But to be al ways aiming, rendered every thing insecure; no Man would know what to trust in ; speculation would be battled, and trade would be injured in altits•brauclies, from the hesitation which wirer. taint, threw import all transactions of trade. Let their Lordships observe how arbitrarily trade am& commerce had been confined to free countrimee and how speedy had heeu their flight on the oe-"i currency of interruption to any of their regulations. 'there were many monarchies which had softer law. teen those which regulated the affairs of these kingdom.; but the people were not flee on that account, because there was no certainty in theme tete of their circumstances to wavraie c onfide n ce i n the continuance of those laws. Let their condition be compared with that of the people of Giestit Brie taio, and it would be found that the suiseribe Prot pertly of this country was attributably ,Miele to the fixed sad •unvarying nature of the list and nista.. lunette, rather than to the superior mations of theme • the •laws ware in porticulin instances geod, the subject was sure to enjoy the beneit •of 1100 without any fear of' interruption ; if Axed. at the catgut of the rya was fixed wad lemited. violatime the* :evident, reel/7 the '• Isealidiag their enter into any of the various topics to the discus sion of which the speech of the Noble Marquis invited. Especially would he avoid the considera tion of the cruse, of the distresses which affected agriculture. He would only observe that eiremar stances had contributed towards , the end of the war to force great tracts of lain - f int° cultivation which were never fitted fur it, and could not be made to produce but at an expense far greater than the value they were copable of reitoring to those who had expected considerable profit from the under- . taking. This of itself must have wrought in aid of that increase in the productions of the country, which he had before attempted to establish. He had not adopted his opinion on the subject of cultivating waste lands without deep consider ation, nor without its application, from having wit riessed the proofs of it in several parts of the coun try. Yet to far from regretting the increase of cultivation as an event, he thought that there was the greatest reason to look for consolation in it. His remarks were peculiarly applicable to the agri culture of Ireland, Awn which country, during the war, the importation of wheat into this country was 'text to nothing. In the last year of the war the whole of the exports of grain from Ireland were 38,000 quarters. In the course of the last year there were 351,579 quarters exported from Ireland. Ile was 'tot aware that any of the topic-sin the speech of the Noble hiarquis to which it was necessary for him tospeak, had been left unconsidered. 111 moving for the papers which it was his intention to call for, he would take the opportunity of replying to the ob. set vationsof the Noble Marquis opposite, whom-clued to think that considerable relief might be afforded to the public by changing the mode of taxation. Ile was very far from saying that no method more advisable than the present could be adopted for collecting the revenue, but lie could not entirely concur in the observations of the Noble Marquis. lie was not going into the consideration of which was the most preferable mode; he might even admit that a system of taxes, which comprised more direct and fewer indirect taxes, would have proved in the end less oppressive. lie believed that if at the end of the war a certain pro portion of the Property 'Eat had been retained, and other taxes remitted, that would have been it mode preferable to the present; but it was an en tirely different question to attempt any alteration. Even in a case where eventual benefit was likely to secure from airy alteration, it must never be for gotten that a considerable derangement of interests must take place. Suppose a Mall of 1,000/. or 1,200/. per annum , It t a property tax of any con siderable amount be imposed, and the other tuxes remitted—the tax, perhaps, would require an im post of '25 per cent. to compensate for the loss to the revenue of the other taxes—what a difference would be mode in the income of this person, and all of his class. It might be urged that lie wculd find a recons pease for his loss in the cheapness of provisions and all other articles consequent on the reunionist) of the other taxes. So he would ultimately ; but what would he suffer in the mean time ? Any attempt ut alteration on a large scale would ouly derange the general interests, and produce greater incon venience, greater pressure and distress in the operation than was likely to arise from going through with any measures once deliberately udopt. ed. At all events, he thought that the good likely to accrue from •idopting the proposal of the Nobie Marquis was very problematical. His Lordship then moved for the production of the accounts described in the beginning of his speech. The Marquis of LANIDOWN wished to offer a few observations on what bad fallen from the Noble Earl. In the first place he would express his gra titude to the Noble East for his willingness to fur nil!' explanation; but he feared that the papers moved for would by no means elucidate the object of must moment fur the House to consider, namely, what were the causes of the distress allowed to be so prevalent throughout the country ? He thought, moreover, that the papers, however useful in other respects, would slot be enough to prove that the increase of capital could lead to, or be connected with in any way, as cause and effect, • diminu tion of demand. In particular cases, the increase of produce might not lead to enlarged consumption s as in the case of cotton, supposing the manufac turer to be co:nprlled to keep his capital working after a considerable dnuisiutioss had taken place its the demand, which he had been in the habit of sup plying. He would in that case increase the pro duceof manufactured cotton, and render it cheaper ; but if by so doing he created any enlargement of consumption, to he must, under the cir cumstances, be working at a Inn, the advantage derived would lie only to the customer—th? mann. facturerand the country at large must suffer from the sacrifice of capital. lie thanked the Noble Liirl for the paper', but they would scarcely be found applicable to the question which it must be the desire of the House clearly to complehrtirl. Perhaps some useful information could be derived from the Cliainbers - of Commerce, established in various places in the country. lie did not kilo* ill what way the accounts of those assemblies were prepared, or if they were sufficiently eatenoise in their bearings, or correct in their calculations, to throw soy very useful light nil the subject be fore the House. These erre Chamber-a of the kind established at Birmitsgham, 111 incliebter, Glasgow, and oilier places. tie knew himself that considerable attention bud been paid to the question of consumption in the main articles of life. corn, meet, 'manses, and beer ; and . in more than one instance the conviction of those bodies was, !lint a considerable diminution had taken place in those articles. The Earl of LIVERPOOL promised to make in quiries respecting the constitution of those CIIIIIII.. ben, and how far their se-counts were to be relied . . on, and if those accounts were likely to prove available for any usefnl pirposev, to use the influ ence of Goverismesit to obtain that information for the Committee. As to the observation of the Noble Marquis Upolll the subject of cotton. it . /40 happen ed that he had purianiely omitted to mention the article of cotton air his details, because he was aware of its Lei% open to the objeetion advanced upon it by the Noble Marquis; had he taken it its, how ever, it would not hate invalidated his issfereuce, that es there was increase in the consomption of all the easesitisl articles of Me t she &striates of par- Coulee parts of the rews - brianeb* siP tirade a.. • A nod metes • r . pleasure oittsiu .tbe t sugsseultute mast be attributed oveitjeteit esuitrol •. 1055pi . . 4 4, _lt was not his iuteotian,tt doctiou. Y :e . .1 • • • • Lord Eatlatlllt had come down to the House with considerable inconvenience to himself, and he would have to retire with very great disappoint ment at what he had heard from the Noble Earl. The doctrine of passiveness tinder the pressure of admitted evil and difficulty, reminded him of a celebrated quack doctor, whose fame was em blazoned on the walls of the town. He would sup pose this doctor to have called on one of his ill treated patients, who should complain to him that lite disease increased in proportion to the frequency with which he applied the medicines of his physi cian. The doctor would answer, " Go on with your present medicine,"—“ lees," the putitnt might say, " but if l do, doctor, I shall never have the happiness of seeing you again, us I am in the last stage of a "oellopping consumption."— The doctor replies, "That unity be, but there is no other remedy for you; if you wish for other ad vice, I can only recommend you to an undertaker." Such was the reel amount of all the statements and argurnetits of the Noble Earl. to the papers, " the chronicles of small beer," they 'sent hut a very little way into the real case which it was the duty of the House to consider. There W 34 another cause, besides those which the Noble Earl had stated for the distress which was ravaging the coun try—the destructive system of war lied expendi ture which had been carrying on for twenty-live years past. A debt had beets contracted of seven or eight hundred millions. The owners of that property had lent the money to carry on that wee and the country bad become utmost too poor to pay for it. Excessive burdens tell in cosi trequence on the land. lie was wry far front urging a breach of faith with the public creditor but if lie were to be told that there was no remedy fur the increasing distress of the country, lie would say in reply, that if so, the 'nitrite creditor could nut very long be paid. The table was perpetu illy loaded with representations of the distresses of agriculture, and yet the House had done no thing. lie admitted that as to the Corn Laws, if all the countries in Europe would do the same as ourselves, there laws would be not only useless, but mischievous. He complained of the neglect of the Noble Earl to say any thing on that vital question of the poor rates, and t h at lie should content himself amidst so much crying calamity with de. daring that nothing could be dime. Something ought surely to he done to prevent the effects of those Acts of Parliament which gave the pot rates an oppressive operation which they were never intended to have. lie deprecated the declaration which had gone forth, that the Legist dure never intended to depart from the Statute of Elizabeth, with respect to the poor rates, which would ie tract of time, have the effect of giving over the whole landed property of the country in poor rates. A stoutliealtliv ls bourer, on bargaining fur his hire, veil s oppressed by the lowness of wages, might undertake to pro vide for himself and his wife, and some part of his little family, but if the wages were nut sufficient, his employer would frequently undertake to aug. merit them by procuring an allowance from the parish. This system would its the end swill. low up the whole of the landed interest. It would not do to tell the country that great as was the distress they must be eatisfied with things as they were, because aerie was no remedy. His Lordship argued on the eteceseity of the poor having cheap bread, to enable trade and in inufac tures to compete with those of the other states of Europe, as things were at present, whereas if labour were to be paid with gaud wages, it would not 'natter whether breed were cheap or dear up to certain point. lie looked for no great benefit from the labours of the Committee while the Noble Earl opposite persisted in It that there was no remedy for the distresses of the country. The same Committee had sat before; but what, be. aides ;saying for the pointing of the Report, had the public derived from their labours? Upon the subject of the poor rates, he remembered tiering put a question in the Committee to a gentleman of Berkshire. in the commission of the peace, whe ther he considered the case of the paupers or that of those who paid the rates the more lamentable?— The answer was that the paupers had the leest cause far regret of the two parties. Lord Ktensaial e that formerly Ministers were content to come down to the House with an annul budget. The modern prettier was to accompany it with an annual paradox. The distresses of the country had been referred to all tOfilliict of causes. —Firet they were owing to peace ; then there was distress io America, and so this country was in distress ; then the cause was foreign loans ; at last it was discovered in the excessive production. Hai there been ally deficiency iii the supplies of the country, the Noble Earl mi g ht ha ve s t a t e d w ith safety, that as there was a scarcity, so there must be a suffering of distress. But to say that the dis tresses of it country were owing to the abundance of its produce, was something which the mind ofStritt himself, purposely engaged in seeking for illustra. thins of absurdity, could never have conreived. There was nothing like it to be found in Gallie er's Travels. Ile would ask if produce must not always agree with the uruount of capital employed in crest. ing it ? Hud there not beet, a great duniitution of the capital ofthecountry ? If proofs were asked, were they not to be found in the immoderate increase of poor rates alone ? %Vitt; respect to the Noble Earl's statenrent, it might be perfectly true that in parti cular articles there had been an increase or an ap parent increase in the ronaumption. But there were other considerations belonging to the subject. Was there any waste of capital iii bringing about the consumption ? War the difference of quality in some of the articles compensated to the merchant by the price? Hatt the abundance of quantity wooed in each care for the decrease in the pt ice ? House would perceive to how very different an inference it might lead from that entertained by time Noble Earl, were the explanations upon all those points full with respect to each article.— As to the causes of the distress, thee had not far to go fur them : they bad been at war for 25 peer, and nue they had to pay fur it. At the time of the war they did ant feel the expense, because the money was spent all e paper currency, %Inch it was now found very difficult to pay in metal. lie should like to know if the Noble Earl, when ha prepoard that expedient of paper currency, had in formed the Holier of the result. to which it had since ltd.—hod the Noble Earl et that time stated dtit the measure was necessary, but though the cosiitty would not feel Ouse irsults then, 'et the time would come when they would be Mt most pressingly--..was it to be conceived that the mea sure would hove been suffered to go into effect ? Why lisd not the Noble Earl said this at the time ? Did lie understand the subject? Was lie aware that such would be the results? If so, had lie not practised wand chlosion nn the country by neglect ing to say %oat the time? Ilia Lfirabhip in•nc,edrfl to argue, that the prosperity or ilistre..rs of any country mug be regulated by the proportion' which capital bore to the population. If the waste of capital duriog the war was the ttne cause of the aiNtremo. the national cure was economy, which would enable the country to replace its vivito!. Let the House look at the want of rout rut in the Treasury—the 'obtuseness of pay to the chief of ficers—the excess of the whole of the civil est:l - to see how far they were from any thin : : like economy in the expenditure. Retrenchment alone would give considerable Earl DARNLEY' recommended retrenchment in I the expenses, and more economy in the collection of the reveirue, especially in Ireland. Earl Gael( urged the siecesaity of introducing retrenchment mid economy, in holies that the adop , iou of those measures 'night brad to greater relief than ‘<eiS at present thought possible, which measures he was certain might be carried into effect without diminishing from the usefulness of any one department to a very conaiderable amount. He %imbed to say a few words on what had passed. He had come down to the House tiustitig that the Noble Earl would be prepared to give some light and throw Out sonic hope of relief upon the distressed state of the country, and lie would depart without much satisfaction. lie had seen the Noble Eirl do theta what hail been very frequent with Irina sod many other Minister., come down with offi cial statements, with documeoto, and taldes of figures, from which some general inference was to be drawn, upon which the House and the public were required to place their reliance in preference to the result of their own observations. It was said that figures could not err, and he had very little doubt that those accounts appealed to by the Noble Earl were accurately summed up. But what purpose could they serve when the inference to he drawn from diem was completely falsified by facts which were in the observation of every man in the country ? The existewteof distress to a very great amount could not be que stioned.. One pregnant cause was to be traced to an alteration in the currency. lie remem bered the period when the Noble Earl assured Vie House that there was no difference or deprreiati.an in the currency, and in consequence of the N utile Earl's declaration, the other House actually came to ale solution, that a pound iir paper was of the same iutriusic value as the pound lir gold. At that tune they were furoished with office statements respect ing the articles. from which it war inferred, that the alteration of prices was by no means caused by the depreciation of piper money, but was solely owing to the war. That opinion was es confidently maintain ed then, as the opposite was entertained now. The Noble Lord opposite, in an argumentative and very eloquent speech on the commerce of the coutitry, had counted the depreciation of the paper currency among the cause* of the distress. Hr doubted the returns of the Noble Earl as it regarded the infer ence to be drawn. lido the examination of 'the accuracy of the separate statements he was cot pre pared to enter, he would only make one of two general observations. What were the objects to which they were to be applied ? To prove that the • comforts of life were rather increased than diminished, with regard to the generality of the population ; secoudly, that as an increase of conatunption was proved, the distress must be caused by ove:-production, and especially through the cultivation of waste lands or others not quali fied to produce, so as to recompense the ex pense laid out on them. This was a consola tory doctrine, which would, tin don!rt, much gratify the Noble Earl's Friend, the Member for fiuspex, and others whose lands were of that character. But as to au in in the comforts of life to the people at large, was not every one who heard such an assertion, pre. pared, from remold observation, to say that It was not true ? Was there any our who would get up anal state distinctly that distress did nut prevail, or that he did nut believe it to pre vail in all the great interests of the country ? The agricul. tine, manufactnres, and commerce, were earls enthralled in thatress which threatened them with destruction. Ask aoy ref the farmers, or any of the chief trade-stereo of this great town, as to the stale of the affairs of their branch, and they Would reply that the diminution of demand in every article was frightful. An increase indeed in the consumption of the •rticlens of life so be proved by the increase of Excise choirs! And then they were to he told of increased pro. eliortion as the cause of distress. U', , it so with agriculture Why the reverie was the fart. The env of last year (one of the best ever knower) was rather under than over the artrage. The crop before that was so had that *tumults wcre unable to pay their rent; there was me truth in the fact of over-production. This was must extraor dinary. Hint there were Iwo things to be considered: increase of consumption must lead to increased sic. swami; increase of demand hd to • fluarisbiug condi tion with those who had to provide it. Who had de rived she hem fit ? Not the agriculturists; •gricolture was laugnishing. Then it wee said, o Oh'. agriculture aloes not flourish on account of over production from the cultivation of bail laud." Then it most be manufactures that were he nefiline trust the surplus of agriculture. Not ma—the manufacturers were in she deepest &stress. At Flirming. ham their cosolition had been (bond, MI nation, to be that of appalling misery. Even in arose instances where there was ati increase or sale, it must have been caused by the hope rather than the actual increase of demand. The diorite's wits caused by, and proportioned to, the diminution of manufacturiug capital. He then came to the first unerring cause of all this calamity. The war, profusely carried on, bad lift its brinks on she count/ y. This was coupled with another cause, the alteration of the currency. They Might torn and twist the subject as they would, the plaits fact was, that they had contracted • debt in • paper currency, which Couhl trot he paid in a metallic cement) , His Noble Fiteltel had &percales! the breaking of faith with the national creditor. Ile was as far as any one from urging it. Ile was filled a ith coustertia lion arid terror sit the prospect of the country's affairs ; but his Noble Friend would recollect there was • maxim of law, Amu fenetur ad inspossl ' Having contracted a debt beyond all power of payment, through the delusion procured tin tire coon. sty, how were they to proeeed ? Thitistate admits could not eurtinue, and be was snuck with dismay and tee rue rill it he considered bow • change would be bionght about. Every boor of eery runnel day added to painful con victions of bus mind, that the country hail really at last arrived at what had been eloquently termed in she begin. Mugu( she war the verge of haute n pity. There was no other way to save it than that of replacing the Governineut ou its proper mid nstsual basis—by run tallnient in the pro digal expenditure , and both House* of parliament ought to apply themselves ddigeutty to the work of economy end retretiel The motiun of the Fail of Liverpout was agi red Adjourned. MOUSE Or COMMONS, Wrfistsotv, Friamtay The SP EA KER tool• the Chair at a quarter before foot o'clock. Lord A LTHOR P prirrent-d the Report ur the Commit,. e on the Heydon Election Petition, declaring ille sitsitie 51, m iter, Culvert lobo Bernie, to he duly elected ; aged the. l'.e Petition was not &looking or seamanly. Sir C. COLE oresenitd eiKht Petitioo• 1,00 Landholders in the county of Glamorgan, complaining of agrieuliiii al Ili•i I CSC Sir T. B. I..F,THBnirx;r. presented a similar Petition from Isisilliolders in the ...aunty of &mewl. Thy) , were ordered to be printed. Sir 11. W. RIDLEY mesent.d a Petition from certain Inhabit nits of South Blythe, in the county or NortliiiinMr• laud, scsin•t any alteration in the doms un timbes, winch was referreJ In the Committee on ForsigisTi-nole. Qtr. H. SHMNP.II. port...rued to th • 711. of March 1.4 motion for a Committee on the thphaus' Fund, nod etMr payments into (be Chamber of the City of London. BREAKFAST POl% DEK. Sir R. WILSON said, having seru an account in the papers of a prosecution in the Courts below nemi,t all dividual, in which a verdict for a penalty was idd•iiiid t;., selling a newly.niatinfactured Nader, tinder the name cf. breakfast 'mailer, he wished to ask the Rigid Gun. (hall.•. man opposite, whether there was any iutenisou on the pa+ c of Government to propose any alteration in the law im abut subject'—fur in the ps eared lime of difficulty and distress, be coisceived it to be a loud ease that poor people should r 0 preircoied front the use of this powder, which they mould WWII/ e at the rate of 2d. per Pl. and which would aflGirrl them a wholesome and ono-iliums breakfast, as he knew front. the experience of his eon family, iu which it had been used for three or four months. Mr. LUSHINGTON said, he toolvrstourt the Rea. Gen tleman to allude to the case of Henry Hunt. The decision in that case skewed what the law at present was ; and it hail occurred so very recently, that Gueeruisent bad out had lime to consider whether it would be ca.pedicut to make sty alteration in the law. CLASS DUTIES. Sir M. W. RIDLEY look the opportunity of rept-idiom the mit altos. which be put on a foreuer•evening, as to floe intention of Guverstment to propose any alteration to the Dufits un Glass. Mr. LUSIIINGTON said, More the question was first put by she Hors. Baronet, the subjirt had been futHy atonal. &red by the Lords of the 'freastoy, u lio had decided that they would nut propose to Parliament any new regarlatiott 011 the subject, bit that the Act peeved two yeast' ago, which would expire in July neat, should be reenact' for three yeara.___ Mr. SYKES presented • Petition from cestain IL•ndholders . of Holderness, in Yorkshire, complussisug of age ictsildeal. distress —Ordered to be printed. TIMBER TRADE. General GASCOYNE preeented a p, Blinn from tole !tip metiers of Liverpool against any alteratiou in Hui ditties un timber ; and runlet ked upon the inconio menet tu the trade of the state of suspense in which they were at peered, held. Mr. WALLACE said lie bait before stated that Ike Com mittee who writ eligueell in inquiring into ilustesbject were folly aware of the inconvenience, and he was confident. they. uric desirous to rt move it as soon as possible. fle moved. ,bat all Petitions relating to the Timber Trade.'now on the table of the House, should be referred to the Oeihasittee on Foreign Trade.—Ortlerrd. Mr. H. G. BENNETT snowed for refutes-0106e nitather of Persons convicted of uttering Forged Bauk.of England Notes dining the last three years; alma of She atsinVer of Persons executed for the saute; end of the number of Persons transported fur having Forged Notes in their possession during the same peitud ; and likewise fur similes relines re spectiug Forgeries in Irelasid.—Ordered. RECOVERY OF SMALL. DEBTS. Lord A LTHOR p said, that when he wee emptied in the inquiry into the lusolrent Debtors' Act, he bad received. communicatioue from several persons *doming the expo dieucy of some alteration in the laws by which persons might be better enabled to recover debts of small smolt's?. • He had felt himself al first unequal to the subject, bra having communicated his views of the subject to a No ble mad Learned Lord in the other House, be had een• lured, under the guidance of his expetieuce, to filing fur. ward the present measure. The Noble Lord then entered into a detailed history of the coustitution and practice of County Courts front the time of Edward I. Their jurisclie. lion bad hitherto been confined to sums under forty shil ling; he proposed to extend it to sums not exceeding ISt. But although cheap justice was desirable, it was necessary that it should be justice; he, therefore, proposed a con siderable reform in the emetitution of County Caurle. He cositemplated the appuiulment of hatrlsters of five years standing as Judges iu those Courts; that hides should le empanelled in the same matinee ere in the Courts of West osiesler ; that the Coto ts alsoeld adjourn from place to place fur the convenience of Om suitors; and that the forms of pleading should lie simphfied. He moved, there foie, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable Omni) , Couria to enforce the Payment of Small Debts. Mr. CAMPBELL it CJllded the notion, and after a few words fro= Mr. C. W. WYNN, leave was gives to hriug is the Bill. RIVER THAMES. Mr. C. CALVERT gave notice of a motion for Monday next, fur leave to bring in a Bill to repeal so much of the Act of the 22d Chaska 11. cap. 7, sec. 26, as prevents the proprietors of wharves between London Bridge and the Tem ple from raiaiug any wall or paling, or other erection, ou the bauks of the River. Mr. HUME presented a Petition from a person named • Henry Mackintosh, staling that he ass sonic time ago bird at the Old Bailey fur forgery, when the Jury acquitted him by • general verdict of nut guilty; that be was however committed afterwards to confinement in Bedlam, as an ia sane persOn ; and complaining of the contiumnee of his confinement, notwithstanding his return to • sound •ud use state of mind, and hoping the House would devise mine means of relieving him from such confinemeot. Mr. C. W. WYNN thought ibis was a case in which the House could sot iuterfere. Mr. HUM E thought otherwise. The terms ails* Peti tioner's commitment welt " duriog his Majesty's pleasure: . which be uuder►tuud to torso wily so long as it might be dangerous fur the individual to be at large. lf, therefore. it cuolil be proved, and he was prepared to prove it, out by the Ism dizit of the Pctitiuuer, but by t►e certificates of Playsiciaus, that the iadiridual was in • perfect state of sanity so lung ago as the 15th of July, 18111, be should think it was n case calling for the interferenee of lbe Howie. The Petition was ordered to be printed. Mr BROUGHAM said, that having bees applied to by I persons, Members of that House, and others, fur iufortuation as to the time wheel it was probable he should bring forward his proposed Bill oo the subject of Education, lie would take that upporiunity of stating, that it would be impossible for him to introduce that measure till b.s return Gum the Northern Circuit, but that he would brine it forward as shortly as possible after that Circuit ass concluded. THE QUEEN. Sir J. NEWPORT I nerd a Million from 240 fishalit_ tams of the email Town of Longhairs), which be said wee the iroasequence uf that Address from the Presbytery uf the saute place, containing a libel use Parliament, to which he Lad formerly called the attention of the Home. The peters which was t lined to him wish the Minion espeesard the warmest thanks uf Site Prtitgnns fur his exposure ul that Address. The Penile,* spoke in terms of reprobation of the proceedings againet she Queen, mid ofsatisfocti. n s with tie failure uf else Bill; is prayed tis else rissuration of the Queers ramie to the Liturgy, •ud uf her Major) to the full enjoyment of all her sights and privilege. ; that the House will withdraw Hi cuoidence from Minnie...B,mnd turn its attention to the inspei feet state uf the Representation. parsiewlarly is Scotland. Sir K. FLRGUSON said, that the l'etiti•on tore-wed the at sisinreuts of a great portion of the people. Ile assured the Horne that feelings of detestation Ad th e d a m:etch of the holism witnesses were general throw ghoul Sr .otlaM 1. He had bat a few words to offer on th e 111th d C O lo.lllllllioli. When be last veer moved fur an tern I rir y i new , tw proceed. logy the brake Lord opposite deekared ti , 1 % re should out. - ------ - - -.---- - I ~: ~~.