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r `_ • der* • '' t 't• - • ••• I' - - 1 1 b e *Yt PARI.I.4MENTARY INTELLIGENCE. IIOUSE OF LOR II3DAY, May 12. As it vas Holy Thursday, theirleordships did not sit to-day. HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUtaSDAY, MAY 12. EAST INDIA REVENUE. A person from the India House brought up a statement of the amount of the East India Company's revenue. IRISH AIANUFAi•TURES. SirJOHN BRYDGES presented a petition from the noblemen, gentlemen., traders, and manufacturers of the county of Waterford, in favour of the Irish Manufactory Company's Bill. The peti nioners loafed it to be their opinion that the encouragement of such eompanies wbeld St eady conduce :o the prosperity, peace, and happiness of the Irish people.—Laid on the table. LEITH DOCKS BILL. Mr KENNEDY, in consequence of what had taken place in the Committee on that Bill, moved ihat the evidence be printed. After some observations from Ale DUNDAL, Mr. KENNEDY, and Mr. J. P. GRANT. The evidence was ordered to be printed by the authorised printer of the !louse, at the expense of the parties. The SPEAKER taking the opponanity to observe, that the potence of printing evidence through the means of printers not au thorieed by the HOOST was contrary to the law of Parliament, the appointment of a printer by the House being intended as a guard against the substitution of any other evidence by the parties than neat which was taken before the Committee, and as a security fur a leithfel transoeipt under Its immediate sanction and authority. `CARNARVON RAILWAY. On the motion that the Report on the Carnarvon Railway Bill he brought up, Mr. BERNAL moved, as an amendment, that the Bill be re committed. Sir ROBERT IFILLIA:1113 said, that the parties opposing this Rill were connected with a mining company, and acted from interested motives. Mr. BERNAL denied the imputation. if applied to him. and hoped his Honourable Friend knew him better than to suppose he could be guilty of opposing any public Bill on private motives. He had no connection whatever with the mining company men tioned. Atlas a few weenie from Mr. DAVENPORT end Mr. WORE, The amendment was negatived without a division. the Report brought opt and time Rill ordered to be read a third Date. BASINGSTOKE CANAL. Mr. S. SMITH presented a petition from the Provost and Fel lows of ibe Royal College of St:blare, Eton, against certain parts of tie Basingstoke Cana Bill.—Befeired to the Committee. HULL DOCKS. Mr. DENISON presented a petition iruen certain merchants of Loudon and Southwark connected with the trade to Kingston-on. Roll, against some parts of the 'lull Docks 8i11....•-Referred to the Committee onsaid Bill. COUNTY COURTS BILL. Lord AIiTHORP presented a petition front the inhabitants of Manchester. in favour of the County Courts Bill. Mr. 0. PHILLIPS presented a petition from Bolton, in Lan ceshire, in favour of the County Courts gill. These Petitions were laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. COMBINATION LAWS. heint-VILTON presented a petition, signed by 5,000 persons of Sheilidjli praying that no alteration may take place in the Com bination bias, and that the repeal of the last Session be left tin. tonetted.--Otdered to be printed. IRISH FItEEHOLDERS' BILL. Mr. GRATTAN lee • g a petition from the county of Monaghan, ' Bill, again expressed his eversion to the t of so large a portion of the peasantry. Mr. S. RICE said the Bill was not intended, an wan generally supposed, to disfranchise real freeholders, but leaseholders, and thnee who voted from fictitious titles ; an far from being a limitation of the right of voting, it was, in his opinion, a real extension. Mr. ()RATTAN thought it a monstrous proposition to assert that the alteration of the qualification from forty shillings to ten pounds, was not a limitation of the right of voting. Mr.- HUME could net understand what the Hon. Member for Limerick meant by saying it was an extension of the qualifies nen. The Bill of the lion. `!ember for Staffordshire (Mr. Little ton) was intended to take away from all future forty shilling free. holders the right of voting, and fie the future qualification at the sum of ten pounds; now. if that was not limitation, he really knew not what wee. The llor. Member for limeric k said that it was intended to put an end to the practice of fictitious voting and the evil.; attendant upon it. If there was such a practice why not put an end to it at once by some specific measure ; that would be the proper method of dealing with the evil, if it existed. He begee leave here to observe, that it had been stated he dill not, on account of his hostility to this Bill, vote for Catholic Emancipation. That was not correct ; he had attended in his place, and voted in the majority, which he was sorry did not prove much larger. hoed ALTHORP said the Bill was one of best and wisest jreasurea which had ever been sent forth from that House. It would put an end to that system of dividing properties which had wholly extinguished the power of the middling and independent deem in Ireland. It would again give those middling classes that relative importance tbcy before possessed, and take away from the iniatocracy the means of converting great counties into close Ito. roughs. The measure had his unquelified approbation. Mr. LITTLETON argued, that as not one individual now livinX would be deprived of their present right of voting by the ' Bill, It could not be very properly called a measure of disfranchise anent. It was a virtual extension of the legal power of freeholders, by removing that mass of fictitious votes which overpowered the expression of their opinion, and therefore both an extension of their right and an obvious reform. The Honourable Member fur Montrose (Mr. Hume) supported every proposition for a reform of line representation of his own country (Scotland), and he (Mr. Littleton) did not see on what principle he could deny the Jame Cawood to Ireland, when it was known that It would put an end to a TiTtitTOUS system of representation. He would ask, what a repre. 'tentative of the fair and liberal feeling of any county in England would think, if one or two gentlemen of large property commenced Ropier's of cutting up their esta•es into small freeholds, and there. by drowning, at the next getter:ll election,the honest and intlepend• , cot voices of those who had hitherto trusted them with the preset.- ' vation of their rights and interests ? Would they venture for a moment to stand up in that House, and support such a system ? 'Would they not give an instantaneous assent to any measure that would pat an end tow practice tending to destroy all liberty and independence? Such was precisely the case in Ireland, and he would consider himself unworthy to retain his sent in that House, returned to it as he was by the uninfluenced voice of one of the malt populous, wealthy, and liberal counties in England (Stafford altiree If he did not do his utmost to put an end ma practice so much at variance with all the principles of tree representation. He had been induced to trouble the lloase with these few observations, from a consideration of the ignorance which he observed was pre valent on this subject ; and from a desire to put an end to the miss understanding, misrepresentations, and misconstructions, which had totem from the proposal of an alteration. Sir J. NEWPORT said he knew many counties where men of property refused to register their votes. from a convictitm that they would in every case he overwhelmed by the fictitious votes of some great landholder, and that there was therefore no use in creating a right which they could not exercise. lie, for his part, did nut know how any man alto hall read the evidence on this subject, or knew at personally. could refuse to put an end to a system so nib'. ehievous, or consider it at all as a disfranchisement of legal voter*. Mr. S. BOURNE considered the subdivision of estates one of the greatest evil!' attendant upon the present state of Ireland. The greater part of the freeholds were held at a rack-rent, and therefore they had no pretensions to be considered like the forty shilling freehold., known in England. Ile thought a measure more im portant to the welfare of Ireland had never passed the House. kir. IV. W. BECHEIt expressed his disposition to support the Bill. Mr. AIONCK said they should rather disfranchise the pot walloping voters of English boroughs. Ile condemned the Bill, and declared hit intention to oppose it. Lord 311s,TON declared himself favourable to the Bill, and thought his Honourable Friend ( Hr. Hume), front the expressions which had fallen from hint on the subject of Scotch representation, would, when he considered it thoroughly, be inclined to support it. He admitted th:tt it would disfranchise a great number of voters : but he could riot, from its connection with the teat mea sure of Catholic Eauncipation, and from hie conviction that it would in some measure conduce to the ultimate success of that great national advantage, refuse to give it his support. But what the ruse principally for was, to ask the Honourable Member for Staftimlshire (llr. Littleton) whether it was his intention on that Ought to go into the Committee on the Freeholdere' Bill, or whether he would not consider it expedient to postpone its further considers ten until the fate of the Ruiner, Catholic Bill was detennined else where; for unless that Biil should prove successful in that other place, he apprehended it would be quite absurd to think of pressing on the accompanying measure in that House. (Hear, hear ) Mr. LITTLETON 'aid he felt happy that the Noble Lord had asked the question. as it was one which had been put to him several - times, both in the House sad ont of doors. Ile begged to say that he had noilbjectien to postpone the further consideration oa his own part, but that he felt himaelf precluded from announcing a positive determination upon the subject, without the consent of the Hon. Members for Armagh and Down. if they acceded to the Noble Lord's suggestion, tie had no objection ; bat he at the eame time hoped that his doing so would not he construed into any want 0: good faith on his part, for lie deettred most solemnly that up to Alt night he had not entertained the slightest intention of retarding site usual course. 11r. FORDE said a few words in a low tone of voice. We understood him to express his consent to the arrangement pre -posed. BROWNIA)W, with great emotion, and in a tone of voice 'ti low as to be nearly inaudible, said he left the matter' entirely 711 the hands of the House; for he was compelled to say, that atter havine 'civet' the subject his most attentive consideration, and listened ',lift the mast intense anxiety to all that had been ad. ..uneed fur and against Catholic Eatar.cipation, he -felt that he would now vote fur that measure, whether it was or was not eeeonipantetl by thmenother Bills, which had been introduced as •A'Aitltie.4 foam its dangers. (Hear, hear.) He had, indeed, he was compelled to say, been driven from post to postern his attempt at objecthms to Emancipation, until he haul not an inch of ground to steed upon flood cheers); and lie was satisfied that no one could helve heard the 'vetch of the Attorney-General for Ire land with out feeling convinced of the wisdom, policy, and justice, ‘777.' ft , g o, ), • of granting, to the full extent, the concessions required. (Loud cheering.) Alr. LITTLETON pledged himself to bring the Bill under the attention of the House with the same alacrity and zeal, after the determination of the question of Emancipation. Sir C. COLE thought it a duty he owed his constituenui to de. care t . is intention of opposing the Bill, whenever it came before the House. Sir F. BURDETT, after expressing his admiration of the conduct and lanauege of the Hon. Member for Armagh, said he had always considered the qqestion which they were now consi. dering as a measure of conciliation due to the wishes of the Pro testants of Ireland: for whatever might be said of the justice of the Catholic Claims—and he was or:e of those who admitted that justice to its full extent.—still he could not keep out of view ' the claims of the Protestants; because, unless they granted Catholic Emancipation on terms acceptable to the Protestants, they would do little towards the Feat object of all their wishes—the pacification of Ireland; and Instead of accomplishing their desires, find that the difficulties were not ended, but had only changed sides. He felt it his ditty, now that the matter was mentioned incidentally, to say that he had not only supported it as one of the means for attaining their object of the cometaidation of the empire, but as a principle of Reform; and he did not hesitate to declare his opinion, that if the principle was applied to this country it would be equally beneficial. The other Bill, for paying the Catholic Priesthood, was, he thought, equally desirable, because it secured the independence of the Catholic Clergy, while it gave a great support to Emancipation. He considered the question of Catholic Emancipation as one of religious liberty, anti that they were bound, in granting that booe, to make a provision for the Mi. nisters of the Catholic religion. Inclined, as he would be, to sup port either measure on its own merits, he felt more fully pledged to give them support,fram their connexion with that other measure, which MUM: prove SO eminently beneficial. Colonel TRENCH, on tieing, proceeded to advert to a discus sion which bad taken place on a former night on the Elective Fran chise Bill ; on which occasion the Hon. Member fur Galway (Mr. Datyi retuned on his colleague (Mr. Martin). (Cries of " Order.") The SPEAKER said, that otter having prevented another Hon. Member from adverting to a speech imam on a formes night, he was bound in courtesy to interrupt the. Ilea. Gentleman (Colonel Trer.ch) in the allusions he was about he Make to a former discus sion. It was with reluctance he soy Hos. Gentleman, but when the deviation from the Ware the House was great, as at present, he was abbe. Illageger edentitotly, to tie so Colonel TRENCH wished o y se eg his regret to have heard Iran the Hon. Member for Sraitishire that Ireland was likely to lose the advantages of the point useful and important measure. (Cries of " No, no.") Mr. J. SMITH presented a padding ism certain landholders of Ireland respecting_ certain rends. Sir N. COLTRUlifgaigematedl i a v iss from the proprietors of the salmon fi shselesof pinta Selgion Fisheries' Bill. After a few words from Mr. 'lt, the petition was or dered to be laid on the table. Mr. HUMS presented a petition limn the Operatives of Car. marthen. The Honourable Genders.* also presented It petition from the Cotton Spinners of Glasgow, velative to the regulation of the time of labour in Cotton Mills. Mr. 11U1II: presented a petition from Ashtois-under-Lyne, praying to be heard by witnesses behre the Committee on the Combination Laws. Mr. BROWNLOW presented a petition from the city of Ar magh, in favour of the Irish Manufacturers' Bill. Mr. CURTEIS presented a petition from certain Landowners in the neighbourhood of Lewes, in Susses, against any alteration in the Corn Laws. DELAYS IN CHANCERY. Sir J. NEWPORT gave notice, oil the part of an Honourable Friend (Mr. J. %Vahan's), that on Thursday, the 19th of this month, he would present a petition, complaining of the delays in Chancery. IRISH BUTTER TRADE. Sir If. PARNEI.L presented two petitions, one from certain Merchants exporting butter, and another from Merchants import ing butter into this country, praying for inquiry and for alterations in the Irish Butter Trade. The petition was then brought up, and ordered to be printed. Sir J. NEWPORT presented a petition from the Farmers and Dairymen of Waterford, Wexford, and New Ross (frequenting the Waterford butter-market), praying that no alteration should be made in the Rutter Laws. Mr. DOHERTY presented a similar petition from New Ross.— Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. GOULBURN presented a petition from the prisoners con. fined in the Four Courts, Marshalsea, Dublin. praying to be allowed the benefit of rules, as enjoyed by persons confined in the King's Bench and Fleet Prison—Ordered to lie on the table. PAYMENT OF LABOURERS. Mr. bIONCK brought forward his motion 'to prevent the pay. meat of labourers out of the parochial poor rates. The present absurd regulations were equally disadvantageous to the labourer and the farmer. The situation of an unmarried man was pecu liarly unfortunate, and this induced individuals to marry who would never have thought of it otherwise. The object of the Bill which lie was about to bring forward was threefold. The first abject was to prevent the extedsion of the present system into Altman and districts where it did not yet prevail ; the second was Ie protect the married man ; and the last and principal object was Ili benefit the single man. The Honourable 111 e-fiber concluded by moving for leave to bring in a Bill to prevent labourers from being paid out of the poor rates. Mr. BENETT (Wilts) did not object to the Bill which was about to be brought forward ; but he felt considerable alarm at the intention of touching the present law. He feared any interference must prove disadvantageous to the poor. The present systetn worked well. The oily objection to it was, that it was admini stered too liberally. However, it should be remembered that those who administered the laws were themselves the principal contribu tors to the rates. Sir G. CH ET WYND thought the proposed alteration quite un necessary. Ile did not think any lawyer would take upon himself to say that labourers must be paid out of the poor rater. Ile (Sir G. Chetwynd) did not think such a prectice was legal. Ile thought any defects in the present system could be corrected by the local influence of individuals. Mr. aIONCK replied. The practice of which he contemplated the abolition was an abuse, but he (Mr. :Houk) conceived it was legal by the Act of Elizab eth. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. ASSIMILATION OF THE CURRENCY. Upon the motion of Mr. %Vett/keg, the House resolved itself into a Committee on the Currency Laws. Mr. WALLACE then rose to move some resolutions for the As similation of the English and Irish Currency. He should propose, that the future issues of the Bank of Ireland should be in notes equi valent to the Bank of England, and of theaame value of currency ; and to prevent any mistake occurring from the existence of notes of the old and new class in Ireland, the latter should be marked in such a manner as to distinguish them from the old notes, till all the latter should have been called in. A proceeding somewhat si milar was to be adopted ir. the case of private bankers' notes, which were not to be re-issued as formerly, but the old stamps to be al lowed for on their return to the Stamp-oflice. He wished it to be understood, that nothing in this measure was to be permitted to affict the right of voting possessed by the forty-shilling freehohlers under the present valuation. The alteration was one, as he thought, altogether calculated to facilitate the commercial intercourse be. tween the two countries, by rnnoving much confusion and in tricacy which crusted under the present system of currency. The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving his first resolution for the assimilation rd . the currency of England and Ireland. Sir J. NEWPORT said, much apprehension and confusion would arise in the first instance fmm the adoption of the proposed alteration, and reel a letter confirmatory of the anxiety and doubt entertained on the subject in Ireland. Ile, however, looked upon the assimilation as desirable in its nature, anal likely to remove great difficulties which at present existed in the commercial inter course of the two countries. Mr. 1,. FOSTER thought the clearness of the intended measure, in all its details. sufficient to remove every apprehension that might otherwise be entertained. Sir %Valiant Petty had, lung ago, well said, with tcgard to the currency, when speaking of Ireland, " This distracted people thought that calling their coin by a better name did increase its value." As for the present arrangement, he thought, at the expense of a little mistake and confusion at first, it would finally come into operation with great and permanent ad vantage. Sir li. PA Rb:ELI. said, this was the last of the great meastires for the purpose of establishing the commercial communication be tween the two countries on the most perfect footin possible. He was happy it was the intention of the Honourable Member to pro pose au alteration in the existing copper currency in Ireland, be cause that was the point on which the lower orders were most likely to be mistaken without such a regulation. He considered the measure altogether its one franghewith the greatest possible advan tage to the corniminity. Mr. ORENFELL suggested the propriety of improving the quality and raising the standard of the copper coinage in Ireland. Mr. M. FITZGERALD thanked the Ilonourable Member (Mr. Wallace) for the provisions of his measure, which were ex tremely salutary, arid not likely to create that confusion and mis apprehension in Ireland that some Gentlemen seemed to imagine. On the contrary, itwould tend to simplify add disembarrass trans. actions at present vary intricate in their nature. After an observation from Sir J. NEWPORT, on the subject of the coppercoin circulating in Ireland, Mr. WALLACE said; if the copper currency were issued at a Donniel value, approaching the actual and intrinsic value of the metal, as was the case in the years 1318 or 19, the coin would dis aapear altogether on the occurrence of a small rise in the price of capper- Mr. ORENFELL said, much of the•copper coin n Ise in circu lation was of the date alluded to. Hut there was another and a contrary danger to be provided ageinst. If the copper currency were to be reduced too low, it would - operate as an encouragement to counterfeiring the coin, when it could be done at so considerable an advantage. The Resolution was then agreed to. The remaining Resolutions were then put, and also agreed to. The House then Tenoned, and the Report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. The order of the day was then read for going into a Committee on the BANKERS' (IRELAND) BILIs. . • Sir G. 11 ILL thought this an importait measure, and was de %iron, it should come from the Committee in IA perfect a Viatica& posaible. With this object he would propose that an amendment be introduced into the preamble of the Hill, which would not go ininiediatcly to velvet the 31st of Lleorge 11., that being, as he, . 1 thought, a subject for the consideration of the law officers of the Crown in Ireland. Sir 11. PARNELL thought the present not a question of a legal but commercial nature, and helmet:mg rather to the Right Hon. Gentlemen opposite (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) than to his Majesty's Attorney-General for Inland. The financial affairs of the two countries had been assimilated, the Treasure consolidated, and the Board of Customs abolished in Ireland, and transferred to this country. Ile could not me the resents why they should be now called upon to change their principle in this last branch of trade. If the Irish Stature of George IL was found to promote the conveni ence and interests of the public, it 'Mould be extended to England. but he did not consider those laws as beneficial to the commercial relations of Ireland. ' The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not agree with the observations of the Honourable Baronet (Sir H. Parnell), that this was merely a question of trade. He conceived it was in a great degree connected with questions of law, and not entirely a question of trade. The Honourable Baronet had argued as if the postponing the repeal of the .Act of 31st Geo. 11. was done with a view to favour some partite, in Ireland ; but if the Hon. Baronet I conceived this to be the case, he was much mistaken ; for he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), was himself of opinion, that there was much in the existing law which ought to be repelled. Alr. PLUNKETT said he was the last person in the Com mittee to think that his opinion was of any groat weight upon this or upon any other subject ; but as the present law had existed in Ireland for upwards of sixty yeara, he hoped he might be Pardoned if heltfiteed to give his assent to the measure now before the Com mittee, without being previously apprised of its tendency, or hav ing had time to reflect upon it, probable operation. lie thought there was some degree of irregularity in proceeding to repeal the Act of 31st (lee. IL, which was s general law, applicable to the regulation of the whole body of bankers In Ireland, by a measure which was only a particular and private law; and this, ton, with out calling on those who had been employed for the last sixty years in administering the present laws in Ireland, to give their opinion upon the subject. IVith regard to the observation of thelfonourable Baronet (Sir H. Parnell), that this question was one of trade, he would beg to say, that although it were so, yet it might not be amiss to have some little knowledge df the law re. lining to it. He was aware that the present law was liable to • and he was glad that the attention of the public had boo to it ; but k did not nee-smartly follow, that because tbo proosat law was objectionable it should be entirely repeal ed, Ma the law of England subseitired in its steel. The ustualla- Ass .ef *slow of Ireland and England was undoubtedly a very diabdildraidoot, but that principle might be carried too far, because *mad& bit Unsuitable to the interest of one country which was limy pilfer alt the other. Sir R. PARNELL explained. He considered the opinion ofw Ids Reneable Friend valuable on all subjects, but be be r .. that what hem met by saying the question was not a en, bat a question of trade, was this ; that the opinion of Hit RI OS Ilionourable Gentleman was not to be taken as a Crown =lt bit lady as i n individual . There was another point on be desired to be informed. fie wished to know why the Rwibe i in England. which was passed this Session, had not blew mantled to Irclane. He conceived that these laws ought also to be assimilated. TI e m mine now before the Committee was not a private Bill, but rne to carry into effect a regulation which had been made between the (lovermnent and the Bank of Ireland. which was that the Bat k should no longer possess a monopoly be yond fifty miles of Dublin. Such a regula ion he therefore con. etived to be a public one, and the law which had reference to it ought to be considere I as a public law. Sir J. NEWPORT observed, that if there were any particular clauses in the Act of George the Second which gave an advantage to the bankers of Ireland, he thought on principle the benefit of those clauses ought to be extended to England. lie conceived the Bankers Law of Irelane to be altogether objectionable. Ile knew of a case where the affairs of a banker were placed in the hands of trustees under the powers of that law, so far back as 1794, and which were not yet closed. Fifteen years ago the expenses of one Bill amounted to 15,0001. Ile thought that the law ought to be assimi lated, and that one law should prevail in both coun.ries. Mr. DAWSON thought that the opinion of the Attorney- General for Ireland ought to be taken on the subject, and if he ihould say that the repeal of this law would have a bad effect, lic should, for one, be desirous that the present measure should be postponed to the next Session. But nothing had fallen from hint to convince him (51r. Dawson) that the continuance of this law was st all necessary. It was perfectly notorious that under the Bankers' Act there had been suits in Chancery pending for forty years, in which the costs had been enomnoue—in some cases amounting to 40,0001. and 50,f 00/. In the cote of Lord Ffrench he had heard that one professional man received no leis than 10,0001. IVas not such a system a disgrace to this country ? If the Right Honour able Gentleman (Mr. IV. Plunkett) would rise in his place and say that he would take this question into his consideration, then lie (Mr. Dawson) would consent to wait; but if he would not do so, then, as a legislator, he (Mr. Dawson) had but one duty to per form, and seeing as he did the mischieti of the present law, be felt bound to stand up and protest against it. Mr. GOULBURN said it did not follow that because there were certain defects in the law as it now stood, that the whole law should therefore be repealed. He was of opinion that the law officers of Ireland ought to be consulted upon she subject, and that the assimilation of the law should not be precipitated, but that every opportunity should be given to ascertain the extent to which the measure now before the Committee ought to be carried. With regard to the Bankrupt Laws of Ireland. he would state that as soon as the law in this country upon that subject should be brought to perfection, and which he thought had bmsn already done this Semen, it was intended to submit it to the consideration of the I I Law Offinnss of Ireland, whether it would not be advisable to I extend the provisions of that law to Ireland. The amendment I before the Committee had his entire approbation. Mr. S. RICE said it had been admitted on all hands that there yes a tonsiderable distinction between the law of England and of Ireland in reference to bankers. The system of banking in this country was calculated to do good to all parties, whereas the one pursued in Ireland had quite a contrary tendency ; he therefore was dettirouz to have the laws of both countries assimilated. lie trusted the Committee would not abandon the principles upon which they had on all other occalicifle been legislating in regard to Ireland, but follow up that approved systEm of assimilating the two countries in the case of bniting as in every ether department of trade. Sir G. II IL., explained. It having been found in former eases that the repeal of laws was att‘adett with ill Consequences, inas much as certain clauses in them were afterwards ascertained to hair!. been desirable to retain, he thought he should be justified hi this instante in having taken the opinion of the law officers upon the probable effects of the repeal of the present law, and of acting upon that opinion. slr. DOHERTY spoke in fieour of the amendment, and con. sicken] delay was desirable, in order to give the measure that mature consideration which its importance demanded. Mr. AI. FITZGERALD said he was not satisfied that the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer should with. draw himself from this question. Ile wished to have the pledge of that Right Honourable Gentleman, that this subject should be taken into immediate consideration. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was as ready to agree as any body that it was a most desirable thing that in all laws made relating to Ireland they should be &salmi. lated to those existing in this country ; but there might be some peculiarity in the state of trade, or other circumstances in Ireland, which did not exist in England, which would prevent its being practicable to effect that assimilation immediately. This was a case of a mixed nature, and he therefore considered it to be his duty to take the advice of the Right How. Gentleman (31r. Plun. kett) to ascertain how far it was practicable to assimilate the law of the two countries. The amendment was then put and agreed to. Several other clauses having been agreed to, the Chairman re. ported progress, and obtained leave to sit again this day. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at ONE o'clock. HOUSE OF Cc/113151 7 :S, TiIIS DAY. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Juries Bill—Further Consideration of Report. Small Debts (Scotland) Bill. Distillery Bill—Cominkter. Transports in the Colonies Bill. Canada Company Bill—Further (7onsideration of Report. Supply (Report) 13th April—Postponed Resolution. Salaries to Judges, &c. (Scotlami)—Committee. Chelsea Pensioners' Bill—Third Reeding. Leasing Making (Scotland) Bill—Second Reading. Aliment of Prisoners (Scotland) Bill—Second Reading. Canada Tenures Bill. Exchequer (Public Works, Ireland) BiP—Rerert. Linen Trade (Ireland ) Further Consideration of Report. Lunatic Trustees Bill Second Reading. Lunacy Traverse Bill—Third Reading. Supply—Committee. Ways and 31eans—Committee. Impounding Distresses (Ireland) Bill—Tbiril Reading. M*ir-General Sir Tiaambert, commanding the Cork district, is summoned to give evidence before the Parlia mentary Committee on Irish affairs. It is currently rumoured (says the Perth courier), that Viscount-Strathallan is likely to be chosen a Representative Peer on the ensuing election. FUNLRA.L OF Slit JOHN COX lIIPFIFLEV, DART. — Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, the funeral of Sir John Cox Ilippisley took place in the Temple Church, the oldest ecclesiastical edificeinahe metropolis. The remains of the venerable Baronet were attended by his son, Sir John Stuart Ilippisley, who succeeds to the title, as chief mourner, Sir Robert Baker, Knt. and the following Leencheri: James Scoriae, Esq., John Gurnel, Esq., Ben jamin Johnson, Esq., name Borne, Esq., halward Finch Hatton, Esq., IVilliam Potts, Esq., and Robert Ray, Esq. The hearse, which was drawn by six horses, was followed by three mourning coaches, with four horses each, and twelve private carriages. Sir John Cox Uippislcy was a Doctor of Civil Law, a.Fellow of the Royal aml Antiqua rian Societies, and for many years an active Member of the House of Commons. No relief is given to the sufferers by tlw late inundation at St. Petersburg'', unless the claimants are able to prove that they have lost a fifth of their immovable (real) pro perty. C !~~ R EPAYMEN'r of the DANISH FIVE PER CENT. LOAN of 3,0000001. The undersigned B. A. lioldselimitlt and Co. hare received a Notification from his Excellency Count Moltke, bis Danish Ma jesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Great Britain, of which the following is a Copy, and which they publish for the in. formation of the holders of Five per Cent. Bonds of the abote Loan. B. A. GOLDSCHMIDT and CO. St. Helen's-place, May 2. 1825. GENTLEMEN—I am ordered by his Majesty the King of Den- Mark; my Royal Master, to acquaint you, that it is his Majesty's determination to pay of the whole of the Loan of 3.001.1,0001. cor mined for in London the 16th October, 1821, with Messrs. A. F. Haltlimand and Sons, on that part of it which has been issued and remains in circulation, and to cancel the Bonds for the half of the Loan which have not been issued ; and inasmuch as by the terms of the General Bond, signed by his Majesty, sic months' notice is required to be given of his intention to pay off the Loan, I have now the honour to acquaint you with his Majesty's determination. which, I think it right to add, has been duly comilunicated to the Contractors of the said Loan; and I request you will, without delay, cause it to be notified in the London Gazette, and public Papers that all Bonds in circulation, forming part of the said Loan, will I be paid orlon the 31st day of December next, at your Counting. house, with the interest due thereon. w The Funds to meet this payment will be placed in your hands previous to the 31st December. anti no interest on the Bonds form ing pan of the Loan of 1821 will be allowed or paid after that pe nod. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most ot;edient aervant, (Slimed) 3101.TKE, ilia Danish Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of (treat Britain. trite , _! , rittott I`eoo. D UR Y.- LA NE 711 E.4TE E. Thus Evening. Fltl WO% Mar 13. trill be performed WILLIAM TELL. ...-... . The Pr!ttelpal Characters by . Messrs. Macready. Matlack, Archer, and Knight ; Mesdames Dunn. Yates. Porgy, and Clara Italian Alter which, MY UNCLE GABRIEL. - Gabriel Omniam, Mr. Gatti,: Scrip, Mr. Bedford I Tom TWO, Mr. Knight: Jaek Ready, &c. Mr. Harley. Eliza. Mho Pores; Mrs. T. Mrs. Urger. To-morrow, Der Frelschutt, with The Rossignol, and Monsieur Tunsuu. COl - I?Nr-G.4IIDEN 7111?.4TRP. TWa Evening. rntimv. May 13. will be psoformed EVERT MAN IN HIS HUMOUR. [Rely, Mr. Youth; Justke Clement, Mr. Blanchard. Dame ILltely, Mrs. Chatterley. After which, LOFTY PROJECTS; Or. ARTS IN AN ATTIC. Mr.% alentine Vereatile, Mr.Vates. To couttudt with THE PADLOCK Leander. Miss Lore: Munro. Mr. Blanchard. Leonora. Miss Paton. To-morrow, The Iron Chest, with Lofty Projects, end Rosins. HAYMARKET TIIEATRE. This Evening, IrRIDAY, May 13, will be pettoimed Tug LORD OF THE al %NOR. Sir John Contrast, Mr. Williams; Rashly, Mr. Pyne; Young Cog. aat, Mr. Vining; Trumore. Mr. Melrose; La Nippr, Mr. N. West: Ralph, Mr. Roes. Sophia, Miss George; Annette. Madame Vestrls; Peggy, Mrs. C. Jones I Mull Flaggon. Mr. J. Russell. After which, TRIBULATION • or. UNWELCOME VISITORS. The Prissiest Character/ by Messrs. Dowton, Yining, and Raymund; Metdanses Daviinn and Glover. To conclude with INTRIGUE. Tern. Mr. J. Rumen; Ellen, Madame Veatria. To-morrow. Dog Days In Butid-street, with Tribulation, and The Agreeable Stlrprite. SADLER'S WELLS THEATRF. This Evening, FRIDAY, Mar 13, will he performed BEAUTY IN A BOX: Or. THE FOUNDLINCI PRINCE AND THE VIY.IER'S DAUGHTER. After which, HARLEQUIN 110AEt Or, A PANTOMIME PROPOSED, To conclude with TIIE MAN AND TIIF. MARQUIS; Or, THE THREE SPECTRES OF THE CASTLE OF Sr. VALOR!. The BRITISH Pates commenced publishing yesterday morning at five o'clock. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY Is, !so. The Paris Papers of Tuesday are almost entirely filled with the proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies on the previous day. The question under consideration was the proposed law respecting the receipts and expenditure of 1826. On the first article, fixing the charge of the con solidated debt and the sinking fund at the sum of 211,383,785 f., M. CASIMI n Natior availed himself of the opportunity to restate his objections to the financial plans of the Ministry. He complained also that by the ordon nance lately issued, to carry the reduction of the rentes into execution, the public would be ignorant, till the end of three months, what stock was converted. It was proper, he maintained, that the renders should have the benefit of . knowing the state of public opinion with regard to the pro priety of converting their roues to a lower rate of interest All that was actually known was, that 250,000 f. daily would be applied on account of the sinking fund, to the purchase of the three per cents. Ile required, therefore, that the Conversions of the rentes should be published. M. Di ViLLELE, in reply, contended that the delay of three months allowed to the renders would give them all the advantages they could reasonably desire. On the day following the expiration of that term, the ordonnance pro vided that an account of Pre conversions made under the law should be published. What benefit, he asked, could result to airy body but stockjobbers from the daily publication of the conversions ? The renders could clearly have no interest in knowing the fluctuations that migh! take place. The law had only been in opehrtion two days, but lie was willing to state that during that period there had been only 373,000 f. converted. As the ... end of the term approached, the conversiott would multiply, and the greater part of them, he thought, would probably be made during the last fbrtnight. M. C. Nat Ea, in a second speech, insisted that a publication day by day, or at least every two days, should be made, in order that the rentiers might be able to judge what was their true situation. They were threatened with repay ment, and they ought therefore to know the extent to which the conversion was carried, in order that they might prepare for the danger that was approaching them. M. DE VI 1.1.1:LE denied that the danger to the renders consisted in the success of his project for the conversion of the rentes. " In my opinion," said he, " the contrary proposition is true. In fact, the necessity of repayment would result front the heavy pressure of the renter. As soon as the five percents. have risen above par, the repayment is a matter of right. That being established, where can the holders of the five per cents. find a guarantee against the danger of repayment but in the liberty of conversion ofih•red to them by this much-abused law, the failure of which we have heard triumphantly proclaimed after an experiment of two days ?" All the articles of the budget cf the Minister of the Finance were agreed to. On Tuesday the department' of Foreign Affairs was to be discussed. The law for granting pensions to the surviving Swiss who defended the Tuileries on the 10th of August, 1792, was adopted by the Chamber of Peers unanimously, with the exception of two votes. The disputes at Rouen between the clergy and the people have been wisely settled by the Government. The priests had successfully exerted their influence to prevent the performance of the Tartulp ; but an order has been s:nt to the Prefect to allow it to be played as usual. Of course a vast crowd filled the theatre, and applauded every line that could be turned to the annoyance of the saintly hypocrites whore it satirises. At the conclusion of the piece the bust of Mom ras was brought on the stage, and crowned amidst the most enthusiastic acclamations. By the following paragraph from the Courtier Francais it appears, that the Inquisition will in fact, if not in name, be re-established in the Peninsula. This is the natural consummation of the atrocious system pursued by FEIIDI NA N-D since his restoration to absolute power. Every rational man must have expected the result which has at ;last arrived. iVe have just received R wry coriotut docum•nt from Bsreelonv, which the length of the deist* of the Chamber of Deputies hinders us from inserting to-day. It is a pastoral letter, by which t h e Archbishop establishes ai• A pustolicJUilta, consisting of three priests of the order of Si. " to proceed to the investigation and canonical punishment of all those Pliwagreseoffs Whi c h ekee merly to the resort of the Holy Tii.minal of t ie Ini t uS s i t i on. " The publication of this piece has excited 4 m ostWel) , 'oen,a, tion in Catalonia, and cannot fail t o cause new triii,blce in t h e Peninsula. The non-official part of the Illonite h r gives a lon g account of the recepticin of his Excellency the Tuni s i an A m b assador, at the Town Hall, on the 4th. de Chahrol, the Prefect, offered to his Excellency the medal, struck on the Restoration, and on the birth of the Disk, °fla t *. deaux. Ilia Excellency replied that he would keep them ac Fr. nourable recolle:tions of his visit to Paris, and as Haltering prof s of the politeness of the noble !Magistrates, and of the splendor if the city of Paris. The Prefect said that orders had been t etheti to give Ida Excellency an opportunity of examining minutely all the p_ublic establishments, &c. as he doubtless would wish to d o . Hie Excellency expressed his intention of staying two months at Paris, and that he should take pleasure in visiting everything interestin g in Parisi. M. de Chabrol then escorted him to the preparations itl. tended for celebrating the coronation, at which his Excell ency expressed much pleasure, and said he would ma k e a f aithful report of them In his own country. FRENCH FUNDII.—PAnts, May 9.--Five per Cents. op ene d at hilt*. 50c., closed at Init. Sic. Three per Cents. 74'. BSf. Stock. 2.1941. Neopolitan Five per Cents. Certif. Falconnet, 91r. Heide d'Espagne, Royal Spastiah Loan, an. sly Exchang e on London— One month, 24f.; three month s , 24f. 8,5e.....c5et,'",e .4aollernaqkt, May le. The Brussels Papers of Wednesday arrived last night. An article from Augsburgh contained in them, which we subjoin, will be read with some interest. The French Go vernment have long viewed with jealousy the ascendancy possessed by the British at Constantinople, and every arti. ficc, we have no doubt, has been resorted to, in order to excite the prejudices of the Turks against us. The strong feeling that has been manifested in this country in favour of the Greeks, would of course be turned to our prejudice, though his MAJ STY . 6 Govern !Tient has acted strictly upon the principles of neutrality. When it was judged necessary to repress the irregular excesses into which the Greeks were Palling, our readers must remember the outcry that *as factiously raised against the Ministry, for defending the neutral rights of British commerce. Yet, considering the views of the French . Government as to the Levant, it is obvious That no measures could be mole sound in policy, or just in prin ciple, than thAe for which his Msaasrv's Government Was on that occasion so coarsely calumniated. We ate glad that our countrymen have rendered the assistance they have yielded to the Greeks ; but, at the same time, bearing in mind all the great political interests connected with our alliance with the Porte, we apprehend that :flute can be no question concerning the wisdom of maintaiming, in fact and in appearance, a strict neutrality towards both the belligerent parties. These Papers inform us of the formal renewal of the diplomatic relations between the Courts of Russia and Prussia and that of Wirtemberg. The intercourse had been suspended upwards of tic° years. The Prussian Minister, VON KL:STER, had arrived at Stuttgardt ; Baron Assrm, the Russian Minister, was on his way thither, from Frankfort. The King Of BAVARIA has prolonged the Session of the Chambers until the 16th of July. Acoannao, Mar 3. We have lying before us letters from Constantinople. brought by the last mail, which aeluaint us with. the negotiations now going en between the Reis Effendi and General Count (ludic. minor, the Ambassador of France, with • view to the condo.. 'ion of a treat:t which should restore the commercial advantacre formerly enjoyed LI the Subjects of the King of France in the Ottoman empire, and of which they have been deprived since the cc mmencetnent of the French Revolution. It is believed that this treaty will be shortly signed, notwithstanding the obstacles which the British Ambassador is said to have raised from the very begin. ning, in order cause the failure of the ne i rciations of Count Guth:. minor. The Sultan, discontented with England, hiving •ince shown a coolness with respect to Lord Strangtord, the coninquencr ia, that the French Ambasaatier is on a eery Intimate footing w the Reis Effendi and the Grand Vizier, so that the influence of France with the Porte lt daily increasing, while that of England has gradually declined at Constautinople. Last night we received the Amsterdam Papers of Wet!. nesday. We have given some extracts in another column It appears from them that a piratical eonspiracy has been discovered in the Danish West India Islands. In conse quence of this discovery a Royal. Ordinance has been issued for the punishment of pirates. Principals arc to be banged, and accessories confined to hard labour for life, or a term of years, according to circumstances. The Swedish Govern ment, it is announced, has adopted a system of reciprocity ttiwards England with respect to harbour and light-house dues. What has been tii.ken too much since June, 12321, is t) be repaid to the English Captains. The staple towns are to be indemnifl)d for thVoss. Some conversation to?I place last night in the House of Commons respecting toe Hill for regulating the elective franchise in Ireland. Agsin the rights of the forty shilling freeholders, as they are falsely styled, were ostentatiously put forward, and the friends of public freedom implured not to consent to the disfranchisement of the Irish peasantry. It is not denied that the present system of vote-making is founded in perjury ; and, as Mr. LITTLETON well ob served, " at vatiance with all the principles of free repre sentation." It is not pretended that any pod, moral, political, or social, has resulted from the, practice now pro vosed to be abolished. On the contrary, one of thegreatest evils from which Ireland suffers may be ascribed directly to it ; we allude to the minute subdivision of the landed property of that country. The opponents of this measure talk of resisting it on constitutional principles. We are quite disgusted with this nauseous political cant. Are we to be told that the Constitution is in danger be cause a fraudulent system of making false votes is about to be abolished ? II cause the herds of fictitious free holders will no longer be driven to the poll, to drown and stifle the voice of the intelligent and independent p,trt of the Irish people, will public liberty be de• stroyed ? What would the apologists and defenders of this system in Ireland say to its introduction into England? It is impossible that Ireland can ever hare " a peasantry, their country's pride," until her con dition in this respect be assimilated to that of England. Sir Fxaxcts BVIIDETT, who has recovered his speech, said truly last night, though he was disposed to sup port the measure on its own merits, he considered it under the present circumstances rather " as a meastue of conciliation due to the wishes of the Protestants of Ireland : for whatever might be said of the justice of the Catholic claims—and he was one of those who admitted that justice to its• full extent—still be could not keep out of view the claims of the Protestants also." In answer to a question from Lord MitroN, Mr. LIT TLETON stated iliac it is not his intention to press the Elective Franchise Bill further, until the fate of the Relief Bill is decided in the House of Lords. An important subject was brought forward last night by Mr. IVALLACE, Viz. the assimilation of the British and Jrish currency. The difference now existing can answer no good purpose, and is only calculated to perpkx, and, as far as it operates, to discourage commercial transactions between the two islands. The assimilation of the cur rency is necessary, not only to simplify *rid disembarrass the triple of the united kingdom, but also to carry into complete execution the union of the countries. For that purpose, it is obviously essential that the cur rency should be tote same throughout the kingdom y ate cur MI NO sidi Ott the tha Ten deh for and all and oth i al ing chi the chi di( do an' Vra of vie cal Su PIPm!