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PAELLIMACNTARY INTELLIGENCE. ItOUSE OF LORDS, W. maxispAr, MAIM t 2. COMMISSION. The Royal Aunt wee given be Commission to the Assessed Tat.* Bill, the Army and Marine Murkily Bills. the Olebsesade Dill, and arena private Bills. The Lords (24wassissioners were the Lord Chanceßea, the Arch of Caniabwry, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. Sunday, Mr. Mundy, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Egerton, and other MOM 1 die House uf Commons, brought up the Li. fre= Lebe er Railroad time.llroißill, and several other private were teed ast a fleet ANNUAL DUTIES BILL. The Annual DCesiiiii,Thedritutiliteebeini waved, was read • *led time, and passed. PROTECTION OF HARDENS* BILL. Qs the motion of Lord SUFFIELD the House went into Cardnlttee on the Bill for the Protection of Gardens. The Earl of ROSEBERY obwrved, that as the Bill provided only against gardens that were enclosed with wall, he would sug oat the propriety of introducing the words " close paling" into Bill, as many gardens, particularly in the vicinity of London, OM so enclosed. The LORD CHANCELOR admitted the propriety of the mg. gliatalts.gad agreed to die introduction of the words " close • few words from Lord HOLLAND and Earl Geo,- the Rill, with the Amendments, was agreed to, and the rat ordered to be received to-morrow. MOU2E OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY, MAackt 23. ML Adaien., from the Treasury, brought up certain Accounts allii =a3Wfs;:i ER s t;toved for a new writ for the city of Carlisle, in the room of Sir James Graham, deceased. Mr. P. MOORE brought up the Report of the Committee of the Equitable Loan Bill. ft was ordered to be engrossed. Mr. S. WHITBREAD presented a petition from the parishes of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell, against the Equitable Loan Balt. COLLIER DOCK. Sir J. YORKE, in moving the second reading of the Collier Dock BIM, in the Isle of Dogs, was desirous of observin upon the menu: of colliers into the port of London. He woul d take as a easodard of comparison the years 1803 and 1824. In the former year the number of colliers was 4,ooo—in the year 1824 the number exceeded 7,000. This Bill was introduced to supply the deficiency et depots for colliers, and to prevent the inconvenience of their un. loadieg in the river. Besides, the price of coals would be tonal derably reduced by a depot of this kind. In 1816 the coals had been so high as five guinea. a chaldron ; by this depot the supply would be more regular, and the price thereforemore even and moderate. S.nce the reigns of Elizabeth and James, due attention had not been paid to this subject, and it was one every was worthy the notice of the Legislature. It was not the object of the Bill to procure say exclusive privilege for this Company in the Docks they proposed to construct in the Isle of Dogs, which might not extend to other Docks. Under these circumstances, he would put it to the House wtether this Bill, of the many that were presented to their consi deration during this Session, was not peculia ly deserving of supprt. I.ar o d ALTHORP opposed the Bill. He had no interest in it or.s way or the other, but ha would oppose it on the ground of pcblic convenience, and its tendency to increase the price of coals, tie would move as an amendmeut, that this Bill be read again this nay six months. Mr. CALVERT also oppcsed the Bill on the grourd of public convenience. Mr. CALCRA FT said it was not the desire of persons applying for this Bill to introduce a compulsory clause to oblige colliers to enter this dock, they only sought to prevent the inconvenience and nuisance of colliers unloading in the stream of the river. Any ob jectionable clause might be altered or modified in the Committee, er:licit was the proper place for entertaining it. Sir 0. COCKBURN supported the Bill, as he was of opinion that a great public benefit would arise from the removal of the ob struction of the many ships out of the stream of the river, which impeded the tide, and was otherwise attended with infinite ineon. yeniencec At this period of the discussion the Dcputy Usher of the Black Rai summoned the Speaker to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission to several Bills. The SPEAKER, after the absence of a quarter of an hour, re. turned, and stated, that the Royal Assent had been given to the Army and Alasiue Mutiny Bills, sod several other Public and Private Bills. The House then resumed, and Sir G. COCKBURN addressed a few words more in support of the Bill. Alderman WOOD supported the amendment, and said, that if the harbour-masters discharged their duty the inconvenienc' com plained of in the stream of the river would not exist. It was worthy the attention of the House that the principal projector of this Bill was a harbour.mester, so that the necessity for this Bill grew out of the neglect of that duty which he should have per formed. If the compulsory clause were struck out, however, there would not be, he presumed, any opposition to the second reading. Mr. J. SMITH objected to the second reading, on a ground dAtrent from those who had already spoken. The President of the Board of Trade had stated that the exclusive privileges of the Loodon Docks and West India Dicks should cease after the term tor which they were to enjoy them bad expired. This Bill went to crate new privileges for docks ; and when tiro privileges for these docks had ceased, he was unwilling to see new privileges for other docks introduced. Mr. • . WORTLEY was adverse to the compulsory clause con tained In the Bill. tic M. W. RIDLEY stated, that there was a formal objection to the clause complained of in the Bill ; for it was a private Bill, arse the clause would have a public effect, as it would be applicable to all colliers entering the port of London. Besides, the Bill went on a presumption that the navigation of the river required the alterations proposed in the Bill ; it the navigation of the river tees. dered it necessary, it would be better in the first instance to appoint • Committee to examine that fact, before they proceeded on the presumption that it was so. He thought the MU might pass with tne exception of the compulsory clause, which had been ania ad. voted upon. After • few words from Sir S. VIVIAN, the gallery was cleared for a division. The House then divided— For the second reading - 66 I Against it - . 31 Majority - - 3.1 The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be com mitted. SOUTH LONDON DOCKS. Sir J. BRYDGES presented a petition from St. Mary's and Michael's, Bermondsey against the South London Docks. MARGATE IMPROVEMENT BILL. Upon the motion for the third reading of the Margate Improve ment Bill, Mr. WILBRAHAM stated his intention of opposing the Bill, unless a clause WAR introduced to retain the jurisdiction of the Quarter Sessions to Dover. Mr. CALCRAFT said he would briefly state the object of the Bill. It was to secure to Margate the permanent advantage of Quarter Sessions at equal periods. This was secured by removing the jurisdiction in cases of appeal from Dover to Canterbury. Can terbury was only sixteen miles. Dover twenty-three miles from Margate ; and at Dover Kenrick. is the Judge. ( Hear, hear.) Sir J. BRIDGES opposed the introduction of the clause. Sir J. NEWPORT complained of the practice of Introducing of.clatayes :o defeat the object of a Bill st so late a period es the thhd Mr. WILBRAHAM explained. 'fee House then divided — For the third reading - 461 Against it - - 14 Majority - - 32 The Bill was then read a third time. EQUITABLE LOAN BILL. Mr CALCRA FT presented a petition from certain Inhabitants of the parish of St. James against the Equitable Loan Bill.— Ordered to lie on the table. METROPOLITAN WATER-WORKS. A peitton was presented from Bethnal-green against the Metro pideari N eta-woks BARING'S DIVORCE BILL. The House then resolved itself ink. & Committee of the whole /lonia on Etering's Divorce Bill. and Couosel were heard, and witnesses examined, in favour of the Bill. The House then Tesumed. EQUITABLE LOAN BANK. Dr. LUSHINGTON presented a petition from the prisoners cor..fird in the Eines Bench and Marshalsca, in favour of the Eget:able Loan Bank BlM—Ordered to lie on the table. SHIP CANAL. _ . Sir J. NEWPORT presented a pe tition front Waterford, in favour of the Ship Canal.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. FIIEEMANTLE presented a petition front the Gr.od Jaaction Watee•warks Company, against the Sleuupolitaa Water. Works. EQUITABLE LOAN BILL. Sir F. BURDET T presented the follnwine petition from the A itakmeers of London, against the Equitable Loan Bank Bill t— •. To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. The humble Petition of the undersigned Auctioneers of the Cities of London and Westminster, and its 4n virons ; " wEt ki,—Tbst your petitioners see with much concern the intrutluz.ion of the " Equitable L o an Bank Bill" into your Ho. nawible House, the passing of which Bill, they most humbly submit, mill sanction a mast injurious public monopoly . , and also, with reistd to your petitioners, do them incalculable injury. •' That, as a public measure, your petitioners humbly submit, the firth: ishment of any trading company, where individual capital sutte'ent for the purposes to which the establishment of such ccmps y appl es, is a public wrong, and a manifest check to the enreg:et of a mercantile peoll • 'Tn it such monopoly is directly at variance with the wise and I bent Wel now pursued by your Honourable House, condemned by out ablest wri'trs on political economy, and contrary to the view: of all enlightened statesmen. " Yc.tr pettiomers are moat anxious to direct the attention of you HortoureS:e House to the preamble of the Bill, by which the Company wittan enabled to employ their large capital to the to. *toy of every mercantile and trading interest now in existence, and by its. operation will become most destructive to the fair and just prospects of numerous classes of his Majesty's trading and mer cantile subjects. " Your petitioners humbly submit, that nothing can be more unfair in principle, that, because there is at the present moment a redundance of capital, so dangerous a monopoly should be brought in contact with the energies of persevering and industrious trades men of all denies. That its enactment will tend to disturb many large vested in. terests, which, although (by your Honourable House) they may be of secondary consideration In matters of national importance. yet your petitioners humbly hope, before this Bill is allowed to pans into a law, your Honourable Moue will be run, satisfied of its absolute necesaity, its real practicability, and its national ad vantage, before you will allow those vested interests to be dis turbed. " That your petitioners humbly submit, the passing of the Bill will be a direct violation of the Usury Law, now in existence, in giving power to a Loan Bank Company to advance large sums at more than legal interest, under the specious pretext of extra charge for •• warehouse room, insurance," ecc., which, if granted, will be to confirm such usurious views. " In addition to those public grounds of objection to the Bill, your petitioners have other and more direct claims on the protection of your Honourable House. " That the Company to be established by this Bill has other views for the employment of its immense capital than what may at first sight appear to your Honourable house, one of which has been shown by a public advertisement of the deed which has been signed by the Company ; eidelicit, to establish a " sale depart ment," to advance money upon all goods intended for sale, and which goods shall be sold by the Company, deducting usual coot mirsion, &c. Your petitioners beg to direct the particular attention of your Honourable House to this subject, and to state that such intended department for the employment of Oar capitel is a direct and in jurious attack upon the most material part of their business. " That your petitioners have most of them been many years established in business as auctioneers, niary have large vested interests in the adaptation of their premises for that peculiar bui nese, and all who have auction rooms are necessarily in expensive occupations. They have, at a considerable expense, and long period of exertion, formed their several connections in business, and upon the proceeds of which (to the greater part) their present support and their future prorpeets entirely depend. `• Your petitioners humbly submit, that if this Bill be allowed to pass into s law, they must unavoidably suffer incalculable injury, it being justly reasonable to apprehend that individual teeniest stands little chance of success against the united efforts of many thousand shareholder., with millions at their command. That your petitioners submit their case to your most deliberate consideration, and hope it nay not be considered as assuming too much, in respectfully reminding your Honourable House, that in their official capacity they very largely contribute to the revenue by their numerous annual licenses, and that the amount of auction duty, of upwards of four hundred thousand pounds, annually paid by the auctioneers, is collected by the Government at a much less expense than any other tax paid in the same proportion ; and it is fair to presume, that the revenue will materially suffer in both these respects; the licenses of a company will bear but a small proportion to the prevent, and the want of energy in a public corn pary must reduce the auction duty, compared with that to be de. rived from the individual exertions of a large body of men. " Your pe:itionera further pray, that they may be heard either 'by themselves or their Counsel at the bar of your Honourable House, against the Equitable Loan Bank Bill passing into a law. " And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray." Mr. 110BHOUSE presented a similar petition from certain In. habitats of Covent-garden.—The petitions were ordered to lie on the table. EAST LONDON RAILWAY. Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a petition from certain Carmen against the East London Railway.—Ordered to lie on the table. SOUTH LONDON DOCKS. Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a petition from Robert Brudell against the South Lonrlnn Docks—Ordered to lie on the table. CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION BILL. Sir F. BURDETT brought up the Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the diaqualifications affecting his Ma jesty's Roman Catholic subjects ; and moved the first reading of the Bill. Mr. Secretary PEEL inquired of the Honourable Member for Westminster, whether the Bill about to be read a first time was framed in conformity with the petition presented by the Hon. Mem ber on the Ist of March. Sir F. BURDETT replied, that the Bill now about to be read a first time was founded upon the Resolutions agreed to by the House about three weeks since. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE could not allow this Bill to be read a first time without declaring that he entertained the same opinion on the subject which he had on all former occasions when it was brought forward. He would not take up the time of the House by entering into a discussion at the present stage, but he thought it his duty to declare that he objected in tofu to the Rill. It was the more unnecessary for him to enter into the discussion, as the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite (Mr. Peel) had mentioned his intention of taking the sense of the House upon it at a future period. He thought the country was under great obligations to the Right Honourable Gentleman fee the manner in which be had taken his stand upon this question of awful litiptiejouce. Other Honourable Members who agreed with him, buf were not possessed of the talents of the Right Honourable Gentleman, naturally looked up to him, and were of course disposed to act with him in his en deavours to support what he (Sir T. Lethbridge) considered the spirit of our constitution. The Bill now before the House, the Hon. Baronet said, was founded on the Resolutions agreed to after an elaborate discuesion, in which the subject had been treated by the Honourable Baronet in a manner creditable to himself and advantageous to those whose cause lie advocated. But it was pro mulgated that the Bill was not only founded on the Resolutions which had been agreed to, but upon the suggestions of some lion. Members; for instance, the suggestion of an Honourable Gentle man connected with the Admiralty (Mr. (eroker), that the Roman Catholic priest should receive a pecuniary allowance, lie had no acquaintance with the contents of the Bill derived from actual knowledge thereof, but he believed, and had reason to think, that it did not contain any provision for the popish clergy. There was another question which had been much the subject of attention out of doors, and one which, if carried, would alter altogether the character of the intended measure. The question to which he alluded related to the elective franchise ; but to that moment he was unable to say with certainty whether he had or had not been rightly informed as to the contents of the Bill; he understood, however, that the Bill, generally, was founded on the Resolutions which had passed that House; that it went to alter the tests, and to take out of them certain words which were objected to by the Roman Catholics, thus opening to them the superior public offices, and admitting them to seats in Parliament. Henessit appeared that the present Bill was the same, or nearly the same, with that which on a former occasion had been carried through Olio House ; there was therefore no objection to it on the ground of novelty ; but he held against it other objections of a much stronger nature. He had heard urged by the Honourable Baronet with that force and talent which are peculiarly his own, and he would add with that moderation and good feeling for which lie stands so eminent, ar guments of a powerful nature—fascinating arguments (a laugh)— arguments to strong, that it required no small counteracting force to resist them ; but still they were not such as would induce him to abandon the support of what he conceived to be the vital spirit of the constitution. Ile had heard that the essential points of the Roman Catholic creed were not to be taken into consideration. It was alleged that these hail nothing to do with the subject whatever. They were told that thou who attempted to touch on these points were no better than ideots • but notwithstanding this censure so pronounced he would adhere to the old opinion, that the creed of the Roman Catholics was most material to a just consideration of the question. He had heard of new lights having been thrown upon the subject; he wished those lights might be brought to a focus soas truly to illuminate. Ile wished that the House, pre views to the expected discussion, should have before it the notes and minutes of the evidence delivered before the Committee above stain, from which, as he hod been informed, much was to be ex pected. lie had lean 01 from those who were well acquainted with the subject, that the grounds which; in a religious point of view, be, and those who thought with him, rested on, were, according to the evidence before that Committee, cut from under their feet. There had been examined there (as we understood him to say) four bishops of the Roman Catiuslic Church—men distinguished for their high talents, learning, and other eminent qualifications; and, as he had been informed, those Right Reverend persons had gone such lengths in their testimony as to set at defiance, and trip up all that had been previously written or said upon the subject, either by other or by themselves. Doctor Doyle and another Right Reverend Doctor had been examined. The former person was generally understood to be the author of the writings which appeared under the signature of " .1. K. L." These writings he had read with a great deal of consideration, and he of course looked upon them as containing something like the authorised opinions of the individual in question. Ile was one whom a Roman Catholic would deem it almost heresy to differ from; yet he could not see how that individual could reconcile the inconsistencies which sub. sisted between his et idenee and his writings. They were incon. sisienctes which must strike the most casual observer. From these sources (the evidence) it wan, that the new lights are said to have sprung, under the influence of which they were to reject what had been heretofore received as authentic, but which they now were to learn fur the first time was no longer worthy of attention. He asked pardon of the House for anticipating what should, at a future seine of the proceeding, come more properly under their consideration. lie hail had to present, and should have still to present, many poitions on the religious portion of this great question: The whole essence of the matter in dispute lay in the religious question. As regarded himself, if he had any erroneous opinions on the subject, no one would be more ready to come for. ward and freely acknowledge them than he 'should. He regretted the apathy which had beep betrayed by Members of that House in reference to this great and important question. It was by no means in unison with the rime feelings of the British people. Mr. PEEL would not take the sense of the House on this the first reading of the Bill ; but he would not therefore be understood to relax in the slightest degree the opposition which at a more con venient dine he should feel it his duty to offer. He it felt due to the House Dot to interpose any obstacle to its having before it, in every point of vies, the measure to be brought under its con sideration. Ile thought it would be better to postpone until the second reading the debate upon this Bill. Ile wished to repeat that his opinions on the subject remained unchanged, that he would accept no Collllll7olllile. On the second reading he was deter mined on taking the sense of the House, end on giving to the Bill an opposition similar to what he had heretofore offered to measures of a like nature. If the Bill should be read a mond time, and be THE BRITISH PRESS• committed, he hoped that the Howewrable Members who differed from hint would in the Committee glee the detail' of the measure their closest attention. When it had been publicly notified that to Mr. O'Connell, the leading member of an Association which had been recently suppressed by Act of Parliament, was confided the preparation of the Bill, he saw no reason why they should permit the Bill to go through a C..mtuittee without the most scrupulous examination of its minutest details. Mr. TIERNEY, as one of the Committee, appointed to bring in the Bill, declared that he knew not of any person being con ' earned in the preparation of it in the way of which had been spoken of by the Right Ilonourable Gentleman opposite. lie never had a single political conversation with the gentleman al luded to on this or any subject. Ile took the course which in this matter seemed right to his own mind, without reference to what might be the sentiments of the Roman Catholics. Mr. O'Con nell. he was sure, was perfectly incapable of any wilful misrepre sentation. There was, he could not doubt, some mistake in the matter. Mr. O'Connell might, by some one, have been applied to, put something on paper relating to the subject, and he might, perhaps, have understoood this to signify an instruction to prepare a rough draft of the Bill. Mr. PEEL, in explanation, said that he had taken his informa tion from what he esteemed good authority, namely, from a letter which appeared in the public papers, signed by Mr. O'Connell himself, which stated that the Catholic , ' of Ireland would hear with satisfaction, that he (Mr. O'Connell) had been authorised to prepare the Bill which was to be introduced into Parliament for theirrelief. A Member, whose name we could not learn, said, that he would not support the Bill, unless that the two clauses, one respecting a provision for the Clergy, and the other relative to the Elective Franchise, were introduced. Mr. TIERNEY defended the Committee from the charge of having omitted these clauses, on the ground that they (the Com mitttee) were confined to the Resolutions adopted by the /louse on the subject. Tice Bill was then read a first time, and Sir F. BURDETT intimated that he would move the second reading on the 14th of April. Mr. ESTCOURT, after a few other observations, said, that hos tile as he might be to the principle of the Bill, if it should go into a Committee its details ought nevertheless to be strictly examined. Ile could not help noticing the very extraordinary time which the Hon. Bart. had thought proper to fix for the debate on this sub ject. There was but one week in the whole Session when many Honourable Members were compelled by law to be absent from that House ; lie alluded to the necessity which they were under of 1 being in the country to attend Quartet Sessions. It was very ex. ' traordinary indeed that the only objectionable week in the year was the particular period fixed upon. A very short time would make the greatest difference. Four days later would remove much of the the objection. As to the call of the House, he thought that Hon. Members entertained too high a sense of duty not to give their at tendance without cocipuleion. He concluded by urging the adop t tion of some more convenient day. Mr. SYKES said, that if he merely consulted his own conve nitnee he would object to the day that was proposed, but certainly his Honourable Friend (Sir Francis Burdett) had done all in his power to consult the general convenience. He had collected the opinions of as many Members as he possibly could, and from their opinions he found that the day which had been fixed was the best that under all the circumstances could have been adopted. As to the Quarter Sessions, though they must commence on a certain day, they might be adjourned . Mr. C. WILSON thought that it would be wrong to exclude from the discussion of the question Hon. Members whose presence at the Sessions might likewise be important. lie suggested that the 20th of A ptil would be a convenient day. Illr. CALCRAFT was of opinion that the discussion should not be brought on so immediately after the holidays. It would be very unusual to have a call of the House fixed for the first day after the Recess. He relied upon the liberality and good feeling of his Honourable Friend to postpone the discussion even for four or five days. Ile did not imagine it would be considered at all dis respectful to the Lords to send up a Bill to their House at such a period of the Session as early in May. Under all the circumstances he did hope that the 20th of next ruontb would be fixed for the debate. Mr. PEEL observed, that consenting to the delay suggested, would not have the slightest effect in delaying the progress of the Bill through such stages as it might be permitted to pass. If it were read on a Wednesday, he saw no objection to its being com mitted in the same week, for a matter of such importance might readily be permitted to take precedence of other business. It must be repugnant to all the feelings which generally actuate the Honourable Baronet Sir F. Burdett), thus to resist the appeal which had been made. It could not be forgotten that many of the Irish Members would necessarily be at that time attending Assizes, and as the majority of the Irish Gentlemen night be expected to vote against his views, he could not be accused of any undue motive in thus seeking to insure their attendance. He repeated that he would not oppose any thing short of indecent rapidity in passing the Bill through such stages as the House night agree to. Sir F. BURDETT trusted that the House would give him credit for the motives which induced him to name the 14th of next month for the second reading; but after what had come from so many quarters, he could no longer resist the appeal made to him. He therefore would agree to fixing the 19th of April for the debate on this question. Which day was fixed accordingly, and the Bill was ordered to be printed. CALL OF THE HOLISM. On the motion of Sir .1. NEWPORT, a call of the House was fixed for the 18th Instant. Grame't Divorce Bill went through • Committee. Mr Harri son was heard foe the husband, and Mr. Adam appeared for the wife, but enteredeinto no defence. When the House resumed. the • I Bill was repnrted. Mr. SYKES presented a petition from certain shipowners at Hull, praying the House to promote a vigorous prosecution of the herring fishery.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. SYKLS then rose to move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the 7th and Bth of William 111. The object of his intended measure was to facilitate the collection of small tithes and other ec clesiastical dues. Heretofore he said that the clergy had many dif. fictilties to contend against; for the law as it stood required that, for the recovery of these small tithes, they should go before the next Magistrate, but if he were patron of the living, he was incompe tent to decide. Now it frequently happened that the nearest Ma gistrate was thus incapacitated. What lie proposed was, to permit the clergyman to sue for the recovery of these dues before any neighbouring Magistrate. After a few words from Mr. DAVIES GILBERT, leave was granted. Sir J. YORKE rose to present a very extraordinary petition. It was the seventeenth which had been addressed by the same indivi dual on the same subject. One of these seventeen had been pre sented by the celebrated Mr. Fox. The petitioner in this case was Robert Eyre, only surviving brother of Samuel Eyre, formerly a Lieutenant in the navy. It stated that at a place called Chinchilla, about thirty miles from Calcutta, the brother of the petitioner, with a few British seamen under his command, took a prize to the amount of one million sterling in gold, but that the East India Company sent a large party of Sepoys and retook Flom him his large booty ; that shortly afterwards be died ; that the prevent peti tioner applied to that House in the years 17141, 1792, 1796, and again lint:HO—all of which were ineffective. That he also appiied by men orial to the Government with as little success. Ile now prayed that the House would take his case into their serious con sideration. Mr. HUME said it did not appear that any such sum was stand ing at the India House under the head of prize-money. It was a matter, he thought, which could not be settled by that House. Mr. BERRIES said, this was a very remarkable case. Seventeen petitions had Ireen presented on the subject: it had been going on for the space of thirty years without any thing conclusive having been done with respect to it. Though all the circumstances had occurred long before, he (Mr. 'ferries) came into office, yet he doubted not it he had been apprised of the course the Honourable Member intended to take he should have been prepared to give a satisfactory answer to the allegations of the petition. Unprepared as he was he did not think it necessary to enter into the subject ' more fully at present, but he could not avoid saying . that though there might be some show of jurtice in the case, yet it did appear to him not to have any very clear or strong foundation to rest on ; otherwise he could not account for the want of success that had attended the presentation of so many petitions upon the subject for such a long series of time. Indeed he thought his Hon. and Gallant Friend (Sir J. Yorke) had made out tut a lame case on behalf of the petitioner. But however that might be there had been no remissness on the part of the Treasury in this transaction. The Treasury possessed no authority to compel the East India Company to redress the grievance% complained of Supposing them to be founded in fact, they could only force the Company to come forward and comply with the wishes of the petitioner by means of a suit at law. The warrant of the Lords of the Treasury did not extend to the East India Company, and therefore the 'Treasury was not to blame for no; exercising an authority which it did not poises& It should also be remembered that in a complicate' case such as the present delays were unavoidable. Sly F. OM MANNEY made an observation, the purport of which we could not collect. Mr. HUME explained. Mr. ROBERTSON said (as we understood), for his part he wished Lord Amherst to be removed from the Government of India. (A laugh.) The petition was then laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. LUNATIC ASYLUMS. Mr. [FUME mooed for Returns of the Number of Licensed 31adhouses, and the Number of Lunatics confined therein during the years 1822, 23, and 24, in London and 3 liddlesex.—Ordered. The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up, and ordered to be taken into further consideration on Friday next. The Report of the Committee of Ways and Means was brought up, and deferred for further consideration till Friday. IRISH COUNTY TREASURERS RILL. I Mr. BROODEN brought up the Report on the Irish County Treasurers Bill ; it was read a second time, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. • WINE DUTIES BILL. Mr. BBOGDEN brought up the Report on the Wine Duties Bill; it was read a second time, and ordered to be engrossed, and read • third time to.morrow. IRISH IMPOUNDING DISTRESSES BILL. The Bill for Impounding Distresses in Ireland was read a third time, and passed. CONSOLIDATED FUND. Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Report on the Consolidatci Fund Bill. Read a secon_ d time. QUARANTINE LAWS. Mr. BERRIES brou g ht is his BSI for the Repeal of the Qua rantine Laws as at present existing : it was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next. BRITISH FISHERIES. Mr. HERRIES brought in the British and Irish Fishery Bill : read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next. Mr. BROHDEN, in the absence of the Right Hon. Secretary for Ireland, begged to postpone the remainder of the Supply for Ireland to the lbih of April next. COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY (IRISH). Mr. BROODEN brought up the Report of the Special Com• mittee appointed to Inquire into the Affairs of Ireland. Laid on the table. The House then Adjourned, at eight o'clock, till Thursday (this day). ..p.mammosmossear PRICES OP BB ITISII 3 per Cent. Omit. 331 Ditto Acct. 934 New 4 per Cep!. 108/ India Banda 81 80 pm. Bank for Ace.23Bi iTOCIES YESTERD 1 Y. 1N.8i11a,144.1,000/. 62 31 pm Ditto, 3001. r 5 52 put Ditto, ... Eaiiery Tickets, IW. 19s. PRICES (►F FOREIGN Austrian Bonds 98j Ditto Acct. 98j Brazilian Bonds 871 Ditto Scrip 14 pm Ditto Scrip (1324) 11 1 pm Ditto Acct. 11 Buenos Ayres Bonds 901 Ditto Acct. 91 901 (Lillian Bonds Ditto Acct. 901 Colombian Bonds 91 1 Ditto Acct. 91 Ditto Bonds 0820 901 90 891 20 Ditto Acct. 901 90 891i90 89j VO Danish Bonds 1014 Ditto Alaska Banco 1001 Frtiltll ltentes 103 t. ex illy Exchange 251 10c. PRICES OF SHARES YESTERDAY. MINK& Share. Paid. Premium Per Aimee. Anglo-Mexican. 11l hi 85 90 85 80 824 Anglo-Chili= 108 6 654 6 Bolanos 488 476 pm Brazilian lBO 5 124 13 11 4 (Alban Colombian 108 5 31 30 29 Chilian and Peruvian Company 5 24 54A 54 English 25 24 A 4 din t.tr General Mining Aseeciation ISO A 10 94 104 10 4 Hibernian VI 4 6 si' Pasco Peruviat 111 5 18 1G 17 10 417 164 Royal Irish 1 9-16 9 4 I dis Rio de la Plata. ISO 5 2 23 ...- - United Mexican 4O 20 Ditto New 4O 6 28 28 Welch Iron and Coal 23 6 21 221 ASSUIRANCE COMPANIES. Protector Fire 2O 2 lUs nottscELLawEons. Atlantic and Pacific 100 10 1 i 1 Australian 100 1 25 241 /5 British Iron Company 100 6 3421 31 3 Bristol Ship Canal 1 p ar Ipm 4 dis Gatoal Gas Engine 5ll 1 Colombian Agricul. Company 106 5 3 General Steam Nov/lotion Hibernian Joint Stock Company 221 London Brick Company 5O 1 4 4 Maclean Company 100 10 64 11 6 Meropolitan Alderney Dairy 26 4 Aletropolitan Fish Company 26 1 Pearl Fishery (Yellow) 25 2 7 Provincial Bank of Ireland 100 5 64 71 61 74 Patent Bricks 5O 2 221 Patent Steam Carriage ..... ..... 6 24 1 1 Pearl and Coral Fishery 49 4 9 104 10 114 10 Royal Stannary 5 14 114 dis Sea and Inland Coal 5ll 2 1 ills par ght StittOh VMS. TREAT/JR ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This Evening, THURSDAY, March 24. will be performed BRUTUS. Luslus Junius Brutus, Mr. Sean ; Titus, Mr. Walleek ; Tullis, Mrs. Bunn; Tarquinia, lin. W. West. After which a new Pastoral Ballet, c►lled THE Or, THV . ITIFIVIIkiiIII 'BUSH. The Principal Characters by Mr. and Mrs. Noble, &c. To conclude with SIMPSON AND CO. Mr. Peter Simpson, Mr. Terry; Mr. Bromley. Mr. Browne; Mrs. Simpson. Mrs. Holm, Mrs. Bromley. Mrs. W. Hat; Mrs. iltsallan, Miss Smithson; Madame La Trappe. Mrs. Order. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDE'. This Evening, THURSDAY, Hardt S 4. will be performed WIVES AS THEY WERE AND MAIDS AS THEY ARE. Lord ?Huey. Mr. W. Ferrets; Sir William Dorrilon, Mr. Fawcett: Sir George Evelyn, Mr.('ooper. Lady Priory, Miss Jones; Lady Mary Raffle, Mrs. Gibbs; Miss Dorelon, Ulu Foote. - - - After which, ALADDIN; Or, THE WONDERFUL LAMP. Aladdin, Mrs. Vining: Abanevar, Mr. Farley; Kazrask, Mr. J. IL Ori makil. WMIoW. Mrs. Davenport. THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE, STRAND. MR. MATHEWS AT HOME. This Evening, THURSDAY, March 44, and on Mondays. Thursdays, and Saturdays. Passion Week excepted, MR. MATHEWS' MEMORA NDUM-BOOA of Peculiarities, Characters, and Manners, collected during Lis various Trips. Sows—"Memoranda In Confuslon"— .. Night Conch"-" Bubble, a capital Sorg—" Sailing Match"—" Old and New Tinies"— .. Publte Office, Bow-street. PAST lII.—A Monopolvlogue, to be called THE CROW. His DANGER. Doors open at Seven; the Performance to comntenee at Eight. Places to be taken of Mr. Stevenson, at the Box-otliee, Strand Entrance, from Ten till Five. Caortoor.—The new Entertainment will not be printed . • and all Books professing to contain any parts of it are gross impusltioni and frauds on the Pu'olic. ADELPHI THEATRE, STRAND. Tills Evening. THURSDAY. March 54. will be presented ALL AT COVENTRY. Timothy, Mr. Wrench; Gabhiewig. Mr. Salter ; Tommy. Mr. Elliott; Lively. Mr. J. Reeve. Dora, Miss S. Booth. After which, the nand Ballet of CINDERELLA; Or. THE LIT I*LE GLASS SLIPPER. By Mons. Hullhes To which will be added, A FISH OUT OF MATER. Peter Grill, Mr. J. Reeve. In the course (Mike Evening, the celebrated Seen* from THE DUMB GIRL OF THE INN. Straguardo. Air. Blanchard; Rebaldo, Mr. Auld. Together with a variety of Singing and other Entertalamente. The whole to conclude with Mol DER RED CAT's Or. 14 ‘RLEQCIN AND THE FAIRIES OF THE ROSE. Parleguln, Mr.W.Lirby; Pantaloon, Mr. Elliott; Clown, Signor Paulo. Columbine. Mrs. Searle. THE APOLLONICON. CND'S"' Tre INMIDIATS FATIONAO• OV NIB Itt A PUTT. On SkTURDAY NTXT, at Two o'Clock. The following SELECTION of MUSIC will be performed by Mr. PURKIS on the APOLLONICON, a Orand Musical Instrament, invented and conitrneted by Ileum nett Mid Robson, Organ Builders, 101, St. Martin's-lane: — Parr I. Overture, II Seraglio(Mozart)—Air, 'Should a youth,' Der Fre!rebut: (Weber)—Song, Bid me dlecour‘e' (11Ishop)—air, • So eet home' ,Ditto) tilpsey Chorus, Through the greenwood forest, Promos& iVieber/. PART 11. Overture, Taneredl (Roe/Intl—Song. • Cherry ripe' IC. S. Mosey Glee (Welsh)—Air, When the gentle eve descending,' Prceloba (Weber)—Lad Churns and Ballet, Prcelosa (Weber). N.B. Mr. Perkit's Performances will be continued every Saturday during the Season. The Mechanics! Powers of the Apollonleon are exhibited Daily. from One till Four (except during the time of Mr. Purkle's attendance). perforating Beethoven's celebrated Overture to Prometheus. Mozart'. Overture to laulierflute, and Haydn'. Grand Military Movement from his Twelfth Symphony, in the execution of which it has been honoured with the sanction of the most eminent mechanical and musical men of the age, and to allowed to possess a granclaur and variety of effect, with a prechdon and a deliewey of expresuion, supe rior to any other Instrument in Europe. The Music arranged fur and see on tin Cylinders by Mr. Flight, jun. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We must decline to copy Mr. L.swt. ES lel letter, for two reasons : first, because it is contrary to an established rule of our Paper to copy articles of that nature from other Journals ; and, secondly, because we are not disposed to foment a di-sension which must be mischievous to the cause which the dissentient parties both profess themselves desirous to support, and which we will cot as sist either of them to injure. The BRITISH Pats! commenced publishing yesterday morning at Fire o'clock. --- LONDON, THURSDAY. M•acu 24, 1823. The Paris Papers of Monday are filled with long and, to us, uninteresting dissertations on domestic politics and the current literature of the day. On the subject of French Finance, which is now under the consideration of the Chamber of Deputies, we find in the Covirr ier Francais the following statement of the results of M. DE. VILLELE'II administration. It brings at once under the eye a view of the oppressive burthcni imposed on France by the Royalists STOCKS Y ESTERDA V. Greek Scrip (1825) 415 41 dii Ditto Acct. 41 54 1 dls 3fesiesn Bonds 1:104 807911 Ditto Acct. 1;01 a 4 a 4 7 9 4 0 a 8 Ditto Scrip (1825) 24 11 2 1 I 4 1 04 4 pm Ditto Acct l . 24 11 2 14 4 Oi 14 i I Pm Peruvian Bonds Ditto Acct. 874 64 71 Portuguese Bonds 90 Ditto Acct. 904 4 Prussian Bon& Ditto Bonds (1822) 104 4 4 Russian Bonds 941 4 i 4 Ditto Acct. 944 4 Spanish Cons. 221 31 4 i Ditto Acct. 234 4 4 w Ditto Cons. (1823) 18 4 j Ditto Acct. 184 19 during the last four years they have had tht direction of the political affairs of the kingdom. It has been calculated, if 11. de Villele passes all his law pro jects in the present Session, that his admiliistratioo will have cost France, since the 14th December, 1821. that is to say, in less than three years and a half, infinitely more than the Administrations of Law and the Abb4 Teeny united. The calculation, which is rather below the mark, is as follows:- Ist. The Spanish war, which, notwithstanding the wisdom of the Prince Generalissimo, has left that country in an abs as of misery, even supposing it did not plunge her into it fr. 270,000.000 2d. The loan granted to Spain, and which will never be repent - . . 34,000,000 ' [Not reckoning the current debt, which will, per haps, mine that sum to one hundred millions.) 3d. The indemnity to the emigrants, not reckoning the interest of fire years - - . 1,000,000.000 4th. The premium granted on the sale of the Nati onal Domains by the reduction of the duty on registration in order to fume what is tolled figs rcsfitarflon 187,300,000 Bth. Premium granted to the Vendeans, after the suppression of a similar stun guaranteed to the General Officers by the text of the Charter, 200,000 franca, the valuation of which, viewed as an annuity to be extinguished, amounts to - 1,200.000 6th. Increase in the capital of the public debt by the project of reduction - - 1,000.000.0u0 Total - - - - fr. 2,4113.700,001 This, it must be confessed, is an appalling calculation, and accounts sufficiently for the lowering aspect of the political horizon in that country. While England it en tering upon a course of prosperity, to which it is admitted no man living can assign limits, France is sinking under the weight of continual impositions and insatiable demands of the emigrants. The Coronation oath it is understood is under the con sideration of the Cotinc:l of Ministers. In the old formula the Kt ::o pledged himself to the extermination of heretics. This part it is of course now if email to retrench ; but, on the other hand, the Royalists obtain a sort of moral in demnity by the suppression of a part of the old ceremony, in which the Heruld used to ask the auditory, in a loud voice, whither the people gave their consent to the Royal accession (si la nation consentait). The point most dif ficult to decide was, whether the limo should swear to maintain the Charter, or merely the institutions of the country, as in his Speech on the opening of the &Felon. Finally, we are told it was settled that the oath shall be talon expressly to maintain the Charter. We believe that M. De Vt LLE Le is alarmed at the violence of the Royalist party, and he intends this probably as a check on their rapid movement towards a counter-revolution. Several Papers state that Prince id ezzrax tett willliave Paris immediately. The state of Syria, it appears, from the Etuile, is truly deplorable; indeed every'part of the Turkish dominions is suffering the extremity of misery. The Janissaries are turbulent and ungovernable, and the Pachas seem more intent upon taking measures to secure their independence than upon rendering any efficient aid to the Porte. The plans of the Vicnoy of Egypt appear to he nearly ripe fo. execution. He is openly assuming jurisdiction over the adjacent provinces of the empire. From this to a declara tion of his sovereignty there is but a step. The surrender of Patras is again mentioned, but whether the statement be only an echo of those we inserted yester day, we cannot understand. FRIESCH lI:WM.—NAIL, MARCH 21.—Five per Cents. 102 f 70c. ; Bank Stock, 20f. 30c. Rente de Naples, Certif. Fal tonnet, 801. 45c. Rente d'Espegne, 191. Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 64. Exchange on London—one month, 26f. ie.; three ditto, 24f. 90c.—Court Asithentitme, March 21. There was, considering the state of the Market, a great advance yesterday in the price of Spanish Bonds, in spite of all the efforts made to depress them, by the reiteration of the most positive assertions that no loan can be negotiated with FERDI NA ND, because he will not recognise the bonds issued by the Cortcs. We have stated, and we now re- peat our statement, that the only reason why a loan his not been contracted for was, that the capitalists in London refuted the terms on which the King of SPAIN proposed to pay off the bonds. The question was one en tirely ofdegree. The principle of recognition was conceded. Advices were yesterday re ceived from Paris, announcing the arrival of Mr. GRI - GORY at Madrid; but as FERDINAND has opened fresh negociations with another party in London, some time will necessarily be lost before the arrangements can be sati;_ factorily concluded. We can assert, without fear of con tradiction, that the messenger who arrived on Friday night brought no despatches whatever relative to the loan. It will be observed by the quotations of the Paris Stock Exchange, that the Spanish Bonds there also ate ad vancing. By a typographical omission yesterday, we were made to state that it was calculated that " Mr. GREGORY would have arrived at Madrid yesterday." It should of course have been " yesterday week," as we observed further on that the result of his mission would probably be knot% n on Friday (to-morrow). Ti , e Catholic Bill was last night brought in, read a f r:t time, and ordered to be printed. After come conversation, it was agreed to defer the second reading to the 19th of April, when the measure will be debated, and the sense of the House again taken on its principle. An unexpected discussion arose yesterday at the India House, on a motion of Mr. Wu E, for the production of some paper= relating to the organisation of the Indian arm• We can now only refer our readers to the report. The question on which Leadenhall-street has so lately decided, is, it seems, at last to be appealed to the final judgment of Parliament. CITY, WEDNESDAY EYENTNO. The price of Consols for Money was the same to-day as yesterday, viz.-931 L and for the Account the bargains were done a shade lower, viz.-93i I. The market was extremely flat all the morning. In the Foreign market the • South American Securities declined considerably, Mexican Scrip being done as low as I. and Brazilian Scrip at 14. Colombian Bonds were at one time at 89, but they afterwards recovered in some degree, and left olfat 90. 'I be only reason assigned for this sudden depression was the unfavourable nature of the official report made by the Mexican Minister of Finance to theCon great', of which the substance was in our Paper this morning. A great capitalist, interesud in South American Securities, has, however, stated to-day, that the proceeds of the two last Loans are not included in the Minister's report. Creek Scrip was In .vier to-day ; it was done at S without the slightest apparent cause for the &cline. The Spanish Bonds improved materially, not withstanding all the efforts made to depress them ; the Old Bonds were done at 993, and the New at 18g. In the Share Market there was a great dearth of business; Pacco-Peruvians were done at 214. The Mexican Company's Shares were at Si 6. Pearl and Coral Shares were at 94 10. In tl.e Railroads there was nothing doing. The South Wales Mining Association came out to-dav, but we cannot as vet quote any price for it. In the - Color.ial Market there were a few boards of Sugar sold, at prices favourable to the buyers. Of Coffee there was no sale. Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with Lord B, xley at his House in Great George street, Westminster. , , .... On Monday evening Mr. Latchford, the King's mes senger, arrived in town with despatches from our Ambas sador at St. Pettisburgh.. Upwards of 20,000/. have been subscribed here and on the Continent for the sufferers by the inundations in Hanover. I ' - y++ir .~