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N r - VIMe 4 k - PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. ._.....0—. HOUSE OF LORDS, WIDIIIIIDAT, hianca 9. The Royal Assent was given by Commtasion to the Irish Unlaw ful Asouiation Bill. The Lords Comruiesionets veto, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Winchester, and Earl Bathurst. Mr. Johnson, from the office of the Secretary of State of IrsLehd, brought up various papers pursuant to Act a Parliament. Me. Klemm brought up the Annual Accounts of the Commis shilleim for the Reduction of the National Debt. igh Stuart VFortley and Mr. Craddock, from the House of Cam =, brought up several private Bills which were read a first BARING'S DIVORCE BILL. The Home west iato a Committee on Rarities Divorce Bilk and Me Bereft wee mewed to be received to-morrow. ,filrese's Dimes* Bill also went through a Committee. The Reroutes the Glebe Lands Bill was received. CATHOLIC CLAIMS. Lord CLIFDEN presented& petition from the Protestaste of the county and city of Kilkenny, in favour of Catholic EmancipatiOn. Ibis Lordship observed, that the petitlen was most numerously and irespeetably signed. It had unseated from gentlemen who were the • • *my first to the county in rank, property, and influence. fie could • out help especially his satisfaction at the *MMus reports on this subject that were abroad. The Catholics had now remooable hopes ' Mot their prayer would now meet with More consideration from those wbo bed heretofore takep part against them.—Laid on the table. 'The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Il'anstretiov, lialcat 1. On the Speaka's taking the Chair, the House was summobed b die Usher eq the Black Rod to the House of Lords, to hear the . Bohai Assent given by Commission to the Irish Unlawful Amos Mottos Bill. IRISH RETURNS. Mr..loatome brought up some Returns from the Chid lierret.' taq's*O is Ireland.—Ordered to lie on the tab:e. NATIONAL DEBT. Highstn brought up same from the Comillusdhltolr • to reduce the National re P b c t r ..—The papers were ordessill tripe printed. LONDON HARBOUR-MASTFIK'S OFFICE. Beturris were broeght up. and laid on thii table, of the cumber' id_tesoels engaged in the coal trade in the Pert of Londun,and their 'etertavve tonnage._ IifETROPOLITA N WATER COMPANY. Os the motiod of Mr. HOLMES, the Metropolitan Water COW. peay Bill was read a second time, and committed. KENSINGTON TURNPIKE ACT. A petition was presented against the renewal of the Kensington Turnpike Att.—Ordered to lie on the table. SEA WATER BATH COMPANY. • CURTEIS moved for and obtained leave to bring io a Bill to inaceporate a Company foe-the erecting sea water baths for the accommodation of the inhabitants of London, Westminstet, and Middlesex. • IRISH PROVINCIAL BANKS. Ms T. FITZGERALD presented a petition from Sligo, in ilseour.of the measure for establishing Irish Provincial Banks. The Hen. Member said • few words in support of the prayer of too peti. ticoare r —Ordered to be printed. , PASCO PERUVIAN MINING COMPANY. Mr. OR.EEN moved the second reading of the Pasco Peturian Mining Company Bill. Mr. BM:MOUSE declared his intention of opposing the Bill at a fauns stage. He had looked ioto the merits of the scheme, and he would undertake to show the House that there wan not the least shadow of pretence for coneideting it a profitable speculation. The mines which it was proposed to work were situate an a mountainous country, ar.d were elevated thirteen thousand five hundred feet above toe levet of the sea. The last attempt made to work client had iatteriy failed. The Hon. Member went on to say, he could con. wince the House that the promoters of the Bill had no plausible grounds on which to call for Parliamentary sanction. The Bill was then read a second time. ST. KATHARINE'S DOCKS. Mr. N. CALVE'RT said he had two petitions to preser.t against fee St. Katharine's Docks Bill. The Hon. Member condemned the hasty mode of proceeding adopted by the Committee on the Bill. The Committee were to sit at o,e o'clock, yet they contrived to sit earlier, and despatch mach of their business before that time. tio carder= were they, that in three hour" they hurried through more than was wont to occupy three weeks last Session. tie had come dawn to the House last night to present the petitions then in his hand, and found that the House did not sit. His object was to hare the petitioners go before the Committee h but the Committee, availing themselves of their absence, voted the preamble of the Bill true. On the Committee there were eight for the Bill and three against it. 'Of the eight, four appeared to be subscribers; two of them admitted that they still had a pecuniary isiterest in it; and the other two-satisfied hfm as to their having disposed of their interest. The flonounible Member, after some further remarks, declared the conduct of the Committee to be, • indecorous. Oee of the petitions was from certain pro prietors of warehouses and wharfs in the parish of St. Botolph Without, sad other places below the site of the intended Docks. The petitioners prayed to be heard by Counsel against -certain chums in the Bill ; and also that, if the Bill passed inte a law, the Company be compelled to erect two bridges instead of one. The other petition was from the London Dock Company, and ' prayed the Bill may not pass as it then stood. Mr. P. ORENFELL said, the petitioners could thee no just cause of complaint an to want of time ; a fortnight bail been al lowed them to petitMo lihtween the first and second reading of the Bill. (Near, hear.) The Honourable Member thought the peti tioners should have stated tome sped* grounds for their opposi. iron. He thought them highly season in waiting down to the very last day, and the fact of therebeher no House yesterday could be no excuse. They should have contemplated the possibility of such an occurrence. for the simple him of forty !Members net being present at four o'clock on any day was sufficient to create a disappointment. Mr. H. SUMMER stated, that the Committee did cot sit before one o'clock as had been charged against them. On the question that the petition be re fe rred to the Select Com mittee, Mr. GRENFF.LL objected to it, inasmech as the petition did not state specifically the grounds of their opposition. The Hon. Member proceeded to read a standing order of the House in support of his position. Hedeelared he should know what the grounds were before heconsented. As far as he had yet heard, the peti tions did not contain a single allegation. The SPEAKER said, his view of the order read by the Hon. Member was, that the House was not to entertain the sufficiency if the alleged grounds of opposition, but that the Committee were to be the judges. The order said, that if there be not sufficient • grounds rated, the petitioners may be called on to state them. Ac. cording to the proposition of the Honourable Member, the House were to decide on the question of sufficiency. If there were any doubt on the subject, he thought the sooner it was determined whe ther the meaning of the order was that the House should be the h.dgvr ; he, however, would say, that it ought to be left to the Committee. A conversation ensued.in which Mr. CALCilarr, Mr. H. Scat. s ER, and the SrEsara took part, and the petitions were ulti mately ordered to be referred to the Select Committee. SCOTCH COMMERCIAL BANKS. Mr. K. DOUGLAS moved for, and obtained leave, to bring in a Bill to incorporate a Commercial Bank Company in Edin burgh, and to enable the said Company to sue and be sued by its dicers. METROPOLITAN FISH COMPANY. Lord J. FITZROY moved the second reading of the Metropo litan Fish Company Bill. On the question that the Bill be read a second time. Ur CA LCRAFT said, that that Company was one of the modern speculations, and undertook to supply them all with delicious fish in ail weathers, fete or foul, let it blow high or blow low. (A Jaeigh.) He recollected that shout sixteen years ago a Bill was brceight in to errp!oy the boys of the Marine School in the fisheries. - nit Bill he opposed. because he thought it trenched on the live. Lhood of the fishermen, and for the same reason he would oppose the proseet siii. Ii was idle to suppose they could furnish the 'oolitic with fish cheaper than at its present rate, for at present the great bulk of the tish was seld at sevemiarthings a pound, and he datiod soy Company to furnish it at ato rate. The Hon. Mem. bey went on to say, that in the prospectus a manifest falsehood was set forth. is was Stated that at the present nioment the Dutch: en grossed the daintier. The fact was, that the Dutch were only er. gaged in the turbot and eel itlteriot, and the Company promise if they estch three hundred thousand pounds in money for that was the amount of their propo sed capital, to outsell the Dutch. and, as they say, by British sai ore. Fish it may be true, has dear at that end of the town, and why not ? lie wished to know, if delicacies are to be culled, if they shottid not be paid highly fur ? if a ver sos; chose to pick a tut hot from three or four cargoes, ought he not to eel ? The lion. Member. declared the proposed IllestaUrero be inimical to the interests of those who bed already embarked their capital in the fishing trade—it was inimical to the fishermen, and every one keel , : that the fisheries were the nursery for British sea. men. They talked of giving fish to the poor at a lower rate. If i t I were cheaper the poor very likely would become dainty, and not eat it if se cheep. lie trusted, however, that the poor would never become fish-eaters, whilst they had good bread and good cheese to live or.. The Hon. Member said, trade was never promoted by means of Compaoin, except where it became necessary to force it. The very first step of the present Company was to create an officer of two thousand a yes ; so that they set out with a job. So satisfied was he that he should defeat them, that he was quite rea. de to go into a Cotnmittee with them, if they dared to go co far, and jibe once got them up stairs, he promised the House he would soon send them to ma, and that nenho the House nor the country should hear any more of them. (A leagh.) third JOHN FITZROY declared he had no pricote interest whatsoever in the Company. (cleat. ear.) Air. J. SMITH said a few words in suppert of the 11:11. Mr. CURTEIS supported the Bill. Sir R. WILSON rose to e erect s mistake into which an lion. Member (Mr. Cekraft) had fallen when he stated the Dutch only liaised far turbots and eels. lie (Sir Robert) had resided for some time at a Duttb sea-poet, an Ihe could cr eek (ram personal °beer vatinn, that they not oufy Asia! for turbot% and eels, but ftw very Sne cod, flounders, and various other kinds of Mill. The prices, too, were as low as the halt was plentiful He had himself sent an uncommonly fine turbot flout Ostend to Brussels at the coat of ority seven tranca. Ir. CALCRA FT explained. After a few word. from Me. J. P. GRANT, the Bill wig read a accand time. JOINT STOCK COMPANIES. Mt. S. RICE obtained leave to bring in a Bill foe creating a Joint Sig& Coin say to employ British capital in Ireland. COMMITMENT OF PIaSONERS IN TILE BOROUGH. Mr. AlJeiman WOOD obtained leave to bring in a Bill, autho rising Mains:rates to commit prisoners taken in the Borough of Southwark to the gaol of Newgata PORTABLE GAS BILL. Mr. Alderman WOOD brought up the Portable Gas Hill. It was teed . first time. RAIL-ROADS IN IRELAND. Col. BAOWELL presented a petitlan from Limerick in favour of the establtshinent of Rail-reads to Ireland. OIL OAS COMPANY. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR presented a petition from aonut of the in habitants of Whitechapol, complaining of the injurious effects of this Bill to their interests, and praying that it may sot pass into a law.—Roferred. to the Committee upon said Bill. ' ASSESSED TAXES. Lord. MILTON presented a petition from Huddersfield. pray. Big- for the repeal of the Assessed Taxes—Laid upon the table. Mr. HURST /resented &similar petition from Horsham. The Hon. Gentleman observed, that the petition was signed by tee most respectable inhabitants of the place, many of them known to hint personal:y. . It comphained of the evils arising from the present method of taxation, in there being no scale of reduction in the amesement for houses of an inferior description—a house wortlra rent of SOL a year paying only the same as a house worth only 201. The petitioners prayed relief from this comparative evil.—Petition ordered to 1k upon the table. Mr. CRADOCK presented a similar petition from the parish of Orinthon, in Yorkshire.—Laid upon the table. Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a similar petition from DJDCAII. ter.—Laid upon the table. COUNTY COURTS BILL. .I , ord MILTON presented a petition from Thomas Hamilton, Of Morrrietta-street. Covent-garden, praying that no sompensation be granted, to claimants under this Bill. The Noble Lord observed that the petitioner, he thought, expressed himself with a great deal of good sense upon the subject before the House, and Preyed, 'very reasonably that, if compensation be granted tor the kisses arising from mean an d inferior offices, be too magic be aspen bated fit his toss of busing* as 40 atiorney.--Ordesed to be printed. I Mr. STITA R T WORT ' is -petition from swain : Connors, praying for compensation 'lldieforssoid Bill. The : lame Honorable Gentleman present s petitions against the Bill. Mr. J. WILSON obtained leave to bring in • Bill to anahle the Pariah of St. Dunstan to borrow money for parochial purposes. Colonel DAVIES postponed his motion upon the subject of the ' reduction of duties on foreign radon,. DUTIES ON COALS. Mr. LAM BTON presented a petition from Bishop's Auckland against the duties on coels.—Laid on the table. Sir THOMAS ACLAND presented a petition from the mer chants of Dartmouth, for the repeal of the duty on coals. Mr. CALCRAFT 'moved for a return of the establishment of the British Army, specifying the number If officers; subalterns, &c. —Ordered. CATHOLIC CLAIMS. Mr. MAXWELL presented a petition from Downpatrick against any further concessions to the Roman Catholics.—Ordered to lie on the table. Dr. LUSHINGTON presented tot, etition from DrUmcondra, In the county of Meath, against the snpmession Of the Catholic As sociation. Mr. HUME, in a low tone of voice, 'poitponed . his motion coon the subject of the Sinking Fund, in consequence of an event which he, in common with the House, unfeignedly deplored. (Hear, hear.) The SPEAKER said, with a voice of sup/tressed emotion, that he could not restrain the expretSton of his grateful feeLng foe the kinduess and favour he had received from the House do this occa sion. (Hear.) He had seen with very great pain the pressure of pri vale business this evening ; but he was glad to learn that the in convenien:e arising from the delay of yesterday had not been so great as he feared tt would be. The House had, however, already extended its kindness to his personal convenience longer than he bad any right to expect, and to the utmost extent he could have anticipated. (liar, hear, hear.) CONSOLIDATION OF THE LAWS RELATING TO JURIES. Mr. PEEL rose to move for leave to bring in a Bill to Conso lidate the Laws relating to Juries, and for the better regulation of Special Juries. The laws, he said, upon the subject of regulating Juries extended over a period from the reign of Henry the Third down to the present time ; all varying from each other, generally obscure, and in sonic cases wholly contradictory. The House would hear with astonishment that there were no less than 81 statutes relating to the impanelling of Juries. Could there be any objection to put an end to this vague contradictory state of legisla tion upon a subject so closely connected with the just and im partial administration of justice? (Hear, hear.) He apprehended not. It could not be said that it was any proof of disrespect to our ancestors if we rendered their enactments somewhat more con. formable to the spirit and knowledge of our own times. In Magua Charts, indeed, they had themselves shown us an example of this kind of revisal, for he believed that it had been altered and amended three times before it assumed its present form (Hear.) He thought they could not be charged with any indifference to the wisdom which had transmitted to us our present happy Con unction if we culled what is valuable, and rejected what had be come obsolete and unnecessary, in so large a trams of statutes upon the same subject. (Hear, hear). In the Statutes pasted in the first ten years of Queen Anne, a great many of the absurdities and in consistencies he complained of were to be found. In an Ate passed in the 3d and 4th Of that reign, entitled, "An Act to amend an Act for the better regulation of small Tithes," it would not pro bably occur to the House that any thing could be introduced upon the subject of Juries; and yet in the body of this Act were to be found several clauses relating to the summoning and impa nelling of Juries. This Act was now in force. In another respecting some regulations to be adopted in cases of fire, and upon the tut ject of building county gaols. There were clauses mato relating to juries, which lie believed it would puzzle even a lawyer to un derstand with reference to our present practice. In the Ist of the same reign an Act was passed to prevent the exports ion of leather; in this again there were clauses regulating the medical of appointing Juries ~ but what he chiefly wished to mention was the fact, that although the Act, so far as it related to leather had been repealed, that part which applied to. Juries remained in force. (Hear, hear.) There were 61 Acts of this kind, whose provisions it was his wish to consolidate, and 20 others which he proposed to repeal alto gether, so as to leave a pure, simple, and perfectly intelligible vide to the formation of this important protection of the subject. (Hear. hear.) There wan another statute relative to the conduct of .luries upon proceedings of attainder, to which he wished to direct the attention of the House. Twenty-four Jurors, according to the present law, might be called upon to pass an opinion on the conduct of the previous Jury, and if they found that the verdict of that previous one was influenced by any Irrupt motives, they were tiablo to the punishment of being considered infamous, their lands were forfeited, and their houses rased to the ground, &c. It had been observed by Mr. Justice Blackstone, that he would as soon expect to see the Trial by Battle revived, as to hear of any proceedings under this statute of attainder. Now this same ii eager of Battle, coeval with the procegling by attaint, had in their days been revived ; and it was not impossible that some in genious lawyer might find occasion to call the other from its obscu rity, he thought there could be no objection to its total repeal. (Hear.) It was his intertion, in the proposed alterations ' to take the power of summoning Common Juries from the hands of petty constables, upon whom that duty now devolved. He had heard, and indeed he knew, that many persons in that situation could neither read nor write; and that in many cases they were in the habit of receiving sums of money to pass over the mimeo of those who might be averse to the duties of a Juror. The consequence of this corrupt practice was, it appeared to him, that the rich man could throw this public oflice upon the shoulders of his poorer neighbour, and, of course, upon those commonly much less qualified to fill it with benefit to the administration or justice. He proposed, therefore, that the duty of fanning the arrangements should de volve upon the churchwardens and overseen of the parish, who, from their situation, would be, be conceived, free from the imputa tions cast upon the constables. (Hear.) It was intended, too, that the enumerations of the qualifications and residences of those liable to serve on juries should be much more particularly set forth than at present—many name, being at present he understoot omitted, and many more passed over from ignorance of the street or number where the individual Juror was to be served with the summons for his attendance. It was also intended that Magistrates at Petty Sessions should be empowered to receive application of those omitted improperly, or liable to serve; this he conceived could be done with very little infringement upon the ordinary business of Petty Sessions. He now approached the subject of Special Juries. It was his intention to make a considerable addition to the class of esquires from whom those Juries were now selected. As an in stance of the inconvenience of the present mode, he would mention the case of Major Cartwright, at ‘Varwick, when the whole number of those qualified to serve on Special Juries, who an swered to their names, amounted to only 14; of these, 48 had to be selected, and he putt it to the Ilouse, what consequences are I likely to follow, when the whole Jurors of a county are no more than six above the number required for one trial. Suppose these six were detained by illness, or say other unavoidable cause, it follows that the duty devolves upon those who are presumed to be less capable of fulfilling the intentions of the law. He therefore proposed that all merchants and bankers should be included in the class from which Special Juries were in future to be selected. As to the mode of impanelling Special Juries, he proposed a new system, not that he meant in the slightest degree to east any re flection upon the person with whom that office at present rested ; the high character and unimpeachable integrity of that gentleman secured his office from any imputation of mal-practices; and as he had never heard of any complaints of abuses, he assumed that none existed. But to put it beyond the power of any artifice, and SMUTS a fair and impartial trial, he proposed that the names of the Special Jurymen be entered in a book, with the rank and qualitict- Lion attached, and numbered from one to one bombed arithmetic ally. These numbers were then to be written upon cards, and put into a box, from which forty-eight cards were to be drawn, and these cards thus drawn to lie the Jury, answering in their names upon the book to their numbers as placed in the box. By these means i he hoped to obtain in all cases what he was convinced would be the ' desire of that House—a fairly-chosen and impartial Jury for the administration of justice in all cues. (Hear, hear.) In civil causes he conceived that sortie difference might perhaps be allowed. The Juries desirable upon civil eases were nien aciputinted with meresintile proceedings, and the general laws of traffic. As Spe cial .11.ries by ballot might not at all times afford a number of Jurors calculated to give satisfaction its this way to the suitor, it • • ...W . -J. ' 'THn BRITISH PRESS. might perhaps be expedient to retails the ancient method of selec tion, pravided that both plaintiff and defendant were bound to signify their assent in writing before the trial; and in other cases between different patties, the same jury might be permitted in the same way, with th e same assent in writing front both panics: but unless both parties ennsented, there was to be in no instance arty resort to the old mode. In political eases, however. they could here no choice. lie would not now enter tnso any detail oftlte Re solutions ; as the House could best judge for jtself as it might be found in the Bill. He should merely propose the second reading of the Bill p . c./hens, and when It was printed they should have opportunity to discuss it. With respect to the laws themselves, he did not think there was any men who would say that it was not ad vantageous to consolidate them. He particularly wished that the laws in our criminal code relating to forgery should be inspected, as nothing was of more Importance than that the subject should home hole the law really stood. He thought the Address which was.presented to the Throne some time since was a sufficient war ' !ant to the Crown to appoint a Commission to inquire into the sub ject. He understend that the lion. Member opposite (Dr. Lush. ingtonj had a Bill far advanced on this subject, and this gerhaps might pass without being subjected to a commission ; bet if the present experiment continued, and he hoped it would, there ought to he a ('ommission appointed to eriunine into it. The first object of such a Commission would be to examine the laws feinting to forgery ; upon which they should be required to make a Report. No man could be more convinced than he win the there were some very important branches of our criminal law which required consolidation, in order to remove many inconveniences attending their present state. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving that leave be given touring in a Bill. Dr. ,LUSHINGITON gave his cordial approbatiod to the pm. posed measure. Nothing could be more in)unous than even a doubt existing as to the purity of the adtoinistration of justice. When a Jury gave a verdict, it ought if possible to coincide with the opinion of the country. He particularly agreed upon the mode of selecting the Jury by ballot. It was, he believed, the practice in the Court of Exchequer to make the same persons serve re. peatedly. This needed no comment. He agreed in the general plan proposed in the consolidation of the laws; be approved of the Commission proposed to be inatitutedfor their revisal. Bethought it bet a point of grudenoe to proceed in their examiaation step by sup. Although it was not pegeible for the laws to be made per fectly clear to the centprehemien et every body, yet he thought they ought to be simplified as much as possible. Several errors were to be found in other branches of our Code; they would no doubt in time be subjected to the same examination. They must, however, take care that in consolidating the laws they did not alter them. No man ought to come down to the House with a Bill of what he called consolidation, but which might be in reality an alteration. If an alteration was intended, they ought to have notice of it ; whether it be in the criminal or civil code, it oilght to be submitted to the House. He hoped the present forms would be preserved as nearly as possible, the those cases which had been de cided in the criminal law might still stand. Mr. HOBHOUSE thought that every man who valued the li berties of his country must be rejoiced, as he was, at this alteration. I He was now certainly of opinion that the Bill was every way cal. colated to answer the purpose intended. kit considered this as the greatest and most salutary reform which the country had for ages witnessed. There was not such another to be frnind on our Statute Book. The generation who would succeed us would look up to this as a new era in our legal records. Mr. HUME begged to join his thanks to those of the Honourable Member who had just sat down. He thought that the law, which VMS generally called the Common Law, might with great advantage I be embodied. In his opinion it was not law at all; and he did not think there was any difficulty in the measure he had suggested. Their were mady'forms which were considered as absolutely neces sary from long practice, not that there existed any law for them ; as in tile case of the unanimity required in juries, lie thought this worthy of corsideration. Mr. BRIGHT did not think this was, strictly speaking, a con solidation lie thought it • Bill of Improvement. The law was, that the juries should decide the cause: before they separated ; in. stead of this theygenerally adjourned if it lasted long. Now, in his opin'.on they Ought to be shut up. and not suffered to depart till they had determined the case. He hoped the Hon. Mover would not feel any objection to introducing a clause that would oblige them to give their verdict before separation. Another point . he begged leave to mention, and that was, that in challenges the Crown might 'be obliged to show cause at the time. lie thought the two circumstances he had mentioned were of importance. He congratulated the House upon the completion of this alteration, which was begun by the great Lord Bacon. After a few words from Mr. Aldrirrnen BRIDGES, which vine inaudible in the gallery, leave was given to bring in the Dill. RECOVERY OF DEBTS IN SCOTLAND. Mr. H. DRUM MOND moved for leave to bring in a 13111 for the more easy recovery of Small Debts in the Sheriffs Courts in Scotland.—Leave was granted,ind the Dill was accorditrzly brought in and read the first time. The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in a Hill to continue the Act 54th Geo. 111. in ordrr to render 'more equal and expeditious the payment of Debts in Scotland ; and also a Bill to regulate the Fees in the Sheriffs Court in Scotland. COUNTY RATES. Mr. DICKINSON moved that a Select Committee be appointed to take into consideration the expenditure of County Rates, and to report their observations.—Agreed to. The other orders...of the day were then disposed of, and the House Adjourned atilacr-eare Stv-tw. PRICES OF RH ITISII STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 par Cent. 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Alining Association 19 104 Pasco Peniatan 884 37g Rio de la Plata 32 SI United Mexican 140 Dino New 36 37; Welch Iron and Coal 9 GAB LIGHT AHD COICE •031. PANIES. Continental 8# f United Conceal IRON RAILWAYS. Hinting. and Liverpool 4 1 ES YESTERDA Y. London and Bristol 1 London and Northern 2 MIIICTLLANEOes. Atlantic and Pacific 12 f Australian 29 27 British Iron Company 113 Canada Company 37 311 Colom. Colon. Corn. 161 12 pm Equitable Loan Bank 21 Gen. Stearn Navigation 34 (,old Coast Association 6 Great Westminster Dairy 2 Hib. Joint Stock Com. II pin Mediterranean Steam 111 7 Mexican Company 20 101 Metro. Fish Company 31 3 New Corn Exchange Sli Pearl Fishery (Yellow) 231 23 Prov. Bank of Ireland 14 Patent Bricks 6 Patent Steam Carriage 3 2 pm Royal Stan nary b 3 4 THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE, STRAND. The Public are respectfully Informed that they will And MR. MATH .WS AT HOME THIS EVENING. when they ere invited to the Opening of Mr. Mathew as " MEMORANDUM BOOK." Scoros— . Memoranda In Confusion"— . Night Coach"—" Bubbles," a ropitai Set g—. Sailing Match*—" Old and New 'fines•—" Public Offlce, Bow street. PAST 111.—A Monopulylogne, to be called THE CROWN IN DANGER. Doors open at Seven : the Performance to comment). at Eight. CAortes.—The new Enmendtunent will not be prmted . and all Boor • professing to contain. any parts of It ate Eros Impositions and frauds on the ?unlit. ADELPHI THEATRE, STRAND. Tlais Evening. THURSDAY, Hareh 10, will be presented VALIIONDI: Or. THE UNHALLOWED SEPULCHRE. The Principal Character* by News. Campbell, Pot: er. Lee, Payne, Villiers. J. Reeve. W. brown. and Elliott; Signor Paulo; Mesdames Boden, Bryan. lifoMll. Daly, and Parrock. After vra,eb, NO DINNER VET. Bp‘mge,Mr. Wrench. To conclude with THE YOUNG. WIDOW. THE APOLLONICON. I:NDSR 7Na IMMRDIATII PAYSON/MI OP Mill 1114JNITY. On N IT LIR DAY NEXT. at Two o'Clock. The following SLISCTION of MUSIC will be performed by Mr. TURK IS on the APOLLONICON, a Orand Musical Instrum.mt, invented and emanated ►y Mesas. Flight and Robson, Organ builders, 101. St. MartiMislaree:— PAAT Overture, Sampoon Sad my soli' Orintarl—Trio, ' The duska leuve the mountains' (Ilandell—Mr, Angela ever 1.1,,,ht and tale (Handel)—Grand Chorus, Hallelujah,' Mount of ullita• (Heetboven). PART It. lverture. Num* Pompllio (Peed—lir. 'Cherry ripe (C. F. linrol— Glee, ' When the wind blows' alleboyi—Air, • Let nut sorrow' I N etwr) Sturm Concerto (Stiebeit). N.B. Mr. Porktres Performances will be continued every Saturday doting the Reason. the Mechanical Power., of the ApoHowie= are exhibited Daily, from One till Four (except during the time of Ildr. Pork la'd attendance). performing Beethoven's celebrated overture to Prometheus. Moran's Overture to Zaubergote, and Haydn's Grand Military kioVCllllelit 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 Is allowed to possess a grandeur and variety of efket, with a precision und a delicacy of expression, supe rior to any other I usu ument In Europe. The Music arranged for and set en the Cylinders by Mt. Flight, sun. • TI! EA I'IIR ROYAL, DRI7 !MLA NE. rltts present Plrenleur. THURSDAY. March hi. will be performed A NICW WAY TO PAY OLD DKRTIL Sir CiTes Overreaeh. Mr. Kean : Wellborn. Mr. Archer; Marrall, Mr. Terry; instiee Greedy. My. Cattle. Lad) Allworth, Mrs. Knight; Margaret, Miss Sinitbsun. After which Ilst timel a new Farce, tallest CHANGE PARTNERS. The Prinelpal Characters by Messrs. Wailful:. Knight, anti Harley; Wes Pueey, and Mrs. Yates. TIIE.4TRE ROYAL. COI ENT-GARDE A". T liet.cmt Erasing, THURSDAY, March 10.10;1 he perfut nied A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. r )(ark Chase, .Ir. Fawcett; Alfred Hightlyer, Mr. Jvces ; Fixture, Mr. Rayner. Marta Darlington, Inas Fo:Att. After CHARLES THE SLCONO. Sift Clw les, Mt. C. ICesnble; Lora Rochester. Mr. Jones; Captain Cupp. Yr. Fawcett. Mare. Huts M. Tree. To conclude with THE MILLER AVII Itl4 MEN. GriadutF, Mr. Farley; Karl, Mr. Blanchard Lothair, Mt. Coopat. Cauthne, Raviaa, Hrs. Yuma. ght Vri)oo. Theßasra* eziss commenced publishing yesterday tuoicizig at fire o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY, MARC)! 10, MTS. Ey the Paris Papers of Monday it appears that the project of a comprehensive decree cf amnesty, laid by the Spanish Minister CALOM AIDE before the Council of Cas tile, has been rejected by that body as ill-timed and im practicable. Some great political change, ho3vever, is ex pected is that country, though from all appearances we. can scarcely anticipate that it will be for the better. Con spiracies and insurrections are the order of the day. Amongst others, it is said the boys have formed themselves into a secret association, in support of Constitutional prin ciples. The health of FERDIN•ND mends but slowly, and hit Ministers are a"raid to disturb him with public lest they should irritate him again into indisposition. Every thing is stagnated, even the persecution of the negroes. The French division which occupies Corunna wait, evacuate that place on the Ist of April. According to the Efate fresh troubles have broken out in the Turkish dominions. The new wens of contention is Syria, where it is stated the Sheik Bechir has revolted against the Etnir of the Drures. It is positively denied that Spain has contracted for a Loan, on the conditicm of reCognising the bonds of the Cortes. Certainly, on ro other condition would any ra tional man consent to enter into a contract with the ab solute Government of FERDINAND. It will, however, require something more than the authority of the journal that lately announced the defeat and capture of BOLIVAR, to induce us to believe that " the Spanish Government rejected the proposal." IVe recommend the tethjoined information from B:nyrna to the attention A.! enemies of the Greeks, and the cabal confederated against the Llan. They ate entr-ting a set of worthy and grateful clients. L From the li:toile dated Tuesday.l ALCIANDITA. ED. L Oteek coriiirs have just offered fresh insults to the French flan. Three or four of them appeared in the roads of Damilla on the 20th of last month, pnd ill-treated the French vessels and those of other nations. They stole goods from on board these vessel., as Fell as all their provisions ; they even dared to lay hands on their hags and to lomat them in a shameful manner. The troubles in Mount Lebanon have begun anew, ; the Sheik Bechir ham teveled against the Emir of the Drum Mehemet Ali has just tent his Selietar Bey to attempt to'erect a reconciliation. Meantime his Highness is prepar ing 4,000 infantry and 2,006 ca salty to reduce the Sheik by force, in case he should refuse to come to oh arrangement with the Emir. PARTS, MARCH 7. The title published to-day by a Journal, of a considerable loin Made by Spam, aid guarantied by several great Powers, is wholly destitute of foundation. The report labia' has been in circulation for some days of a loan of 600 ruil/ior,t of francs by Spain, with the obligation on the part 'of the contractors to withdraw from circulation the but of the Cortu, and of the Dutch debt. in an indefinite period, is not founded iu truth. The Spanish Government had rejected this pro_ posed. The J mama its Commerce says to-day, that the proposal was made by Spain ' and rejected at London. The Journal desDebats and the Constitutionncl, which have the came correspondent it Madrid, both give us to-dsy a project of a decree of amnesty transmitted to the Council of Castile, by the Minister of Justice, with a letter in which M. Calomarde desires that the strictest socresy shall be preserved with regret to this affair; but nothing is a secret to the correspondents of the two Journals we have named. They accordingly publish the letter of Al. Caloniarde, the project of the decree, and the report of the Council of ('astile. We know not if the readers will give much credit to such documents; as for us., who do not pretend to publish papers of such Importance, we believe that we may decline relying on the authenticity of the dacuments which the Constifullonnel and the Journal des Detals present to us to-day. Letters from Italy announce that an epidemic disorder, the symptoms of which are very alarming, has appeared in Romagna. It is supposed to be the cholera morbus. Faxacw Fu Nos.—Pants, Masten 7.—Five per Cents. Jesuit's. du Sept. 22, 1824, closed March A, at 106 f. 15c.; J. du March 22, 1825. opened at 103 f. 90c. ; closed at 103 f. 80c.; Bank Stock, 2,047 f. 60c. ; Neapolitan, &per cent. Certif. Falconnet, 91f. 50c. ; Rented'Espagne,2oif.; Royal Spanish Loan, 60; Exchange on London—one mouth, 23f.; three ditto, 24f. M.—Court Anthers liquc, March 7. From the Journal des Deltas of Monday.) SMYRYA, FED. 1. We think it our ditty to inform those Europeans who are in clined to enter the service of Mehemet Ali, Pacha of Egypt, that they are misled, and that they:are not aware of the danger to which they expose themselves in running headlong into the trap set for' their cupidity. On the 10th of lest month Ibuhim, son of Alehe. met Ali, hung at Boudron ten foreign officers, whom lie accused of being the cause of the reverses he had lately experienced, whilst he might with more propriety . have laid it to his own door. This fanatic (Thief is in the habit, just before a battle, to send all the Franks embarked in his vessels into the hold. Ile has been heard publicly to say that misfortune was sure to arise from any associa tion with Christians; and that if he succeeded his father in the government of Egypt. lie would immediately order the slaughter of all the Franks in his service. Let this declaration warn both ' those who are at present in 31chemet Ali's service, and those who may be inclined to enter. A stranger from Napoli saw the disembarkation of about 3.000 Egyptian prisoners. Their lankness, and the weakness of their frame', raised the pity of the Greeks, who uked one another how Mehemet Ali could think of sending such roldiers against them. Their condition in Egypt . was so miserable that the greater part of these unfortunate men rejoiced in their captivity. We have bean informed of the recal of the Commandant of the French naval station. We have inserted in this day's Paper the first part of the important official document respecting the state and pro spects of Greece, to which we alluded yesterday. It has been compiled, by order of the Greek Government, from the best sources of information, and may be confidently relied upon. The course of events, we expect, will soon render all that relates to the brave people, who so nobly maintain the ancient renown of their illustrious country, additionally interesting to Europe. We shall take the earliest opportunity to give the remainder of this valuable report. The intelligence received yesterday from India announc ing the mutiny of come native troops near Calcutta, pro duced a deep and extensive sensation, which was consi derably increased by an imperfect and exaggerated account posted at one of the coffee-houses. According to the offi cial statement, which will be found in another column, it appears that in consequence of the refusal of the 47th na tive regiment then stationed at Barrackpore to proceed to Chittagong, the Kt:4(l's troops were compelled to reduce them to obedience by military execution. Some artil lery from Dumdum took up a position in the rear of the mutineers, and after two signal guns had been fired, opened upon them with destructive effscr. They instantly fled. Many drowned themselves in the ri ver; about fifty others, we learn by private letters, were killed, and nearly the same number put to (hiker by sentence of Courts Martial. Two other regiments of native infantry, the 26th and 621, also under marching orders, were present, and behaved with the most perfect fidelity and steadiness. No great alarm seems to have been felt at Calcutta, from which city Barrackpore is only fourteen _,.,,~~, ..r._ miles distant. The Government paper fell only one per cent. on the arrival of the news. The sepoys appear to have disliked the service on which they were going, but the dreadful though neceiaary punishment inflicted upon the mutineers wit', we have no doubt, prevent the recur rence of a crime striking immediately at the foundation of our Oriental empire. That the feeling of disaffection or apprehension, or whatever it might be, was not general, ws know by the part taken in the suppression of the mutiny by the other two regiments of aepoya, who were under the same orders. Tranquillity was restored and all disquietude entirely removed. Intelligence had been received at Calcutta on the Ist of November, that the Burmese forces in Cachar had evacuated the posts of Tilayn and Doodpatlie, and re treated to Muonapore. The royal assent was yesterday given, by commission, to the Bill for suppressing unlawful Societies in Ireland. If the propriety of putting down these bodies generally. and the Catholic Auocistion in particular, had ever beet seriously doubted by any person who has attentively con sidered the state of that country, what has lately passed there must settle the question. We have before adverted to the false and partial manner in which the proceedings of the Catholic Association was reported by the Dublin Papers. The natural tendency and character of that mischievous club have been more fully displayed, since the absence of irs leaders has deprived it of the caution by which it had previously contrived to keep itself just he rood the reach of the law. The extraordinary meeting which was held on Friday evening has hardly been noticed; though it well deserved attention. The business was I opened a► eight o'clock in the evening, and the spirit manifested at this nightly and almost secret assemblage, was such as mast have satisfied the most sceptical of the propriety of preventing many repetitions of it. The principal object was, apparently, by every effort to collect the largest possible amount of " Rent," previous to the abolition of the Association. Part of a letter was read from Air. O'Corts ext., atmouncing the probable suc cess of the Catholic claims ; the remainder was sup pressed, on the ground that it was " private." It was understood that amongst other things be directed all his briefs to be returned, as he intended to remain in London to insure the obtainment of Emancipation. His style was unusually violent, and like some other advocates, who love their cause more for the sake of argument than its intrinsic merits, he appears to be the more dissatisfied the more be is in danger of success. Mr. Secretary Nit List night, obtained leave to bring in lint Bill, for consolidating and amending the Laws re lating to the Impanelling of Juliet ; of this important mea sure we published an abstract at the close of last St ssion, and expressed our opinion warmly in Its favour. The praises we then bestowed upon It *ere last night echoed froth the Opposition Benches ; and certainly never did any Minister of the Crown better deserve the approbation of his country than Mr. NEL does on this occasion. The Ineid and able speech of the Right Honourable Gentleman will be read with the greatest pleasure, we do not hesitate to say, by every man in the community. It perfectly ex plains the nature and extent of the amendments with re spect to Special Juries, the only part of the present system which it is proposed to alter. After this enactment, it will be impossible for the utmost ingenuity of malice to pretend that the law does not award a fair and impartial trial to all who stand before the Courts for their deliverance. No one who knows any thing of the Master of the Crown Office could suppose him capable of sanctioning any abuse in his department. But it was unquestionably desirable that the administration of justice in all its ramifications should be, like CASAIt'II wife, not only quite pure, but absolutely above suspicion. Mr. Prr Cs bill will render it so. The Member for Westminster said truly that " this was the greatest and moat salutary reform which the country had for ages witnessed. There was not such another to be found on our Statute Book. The generation who would succeed us would look up to this as a new era in our legal records." W, repeat it : never was a larger debt of public gratitude earned by any :Ilinister of the Crown for any act affecting the internal improvement and welfare of the kingdom. _ _ How-roust renewed his attack on the Pasco Peru— vian Mining Company, last night, but the House disre garded him, and the Bill was read a second time. TLe Times, which is remarkable for indulging every mean and little passion, has chosen to devote its leading article of yesterday to the aspersions of the I.llxNnicrry SOC4ETY. It some time ago, as we all well remember, made a shameless and unfounded attack on the Secretary of this Society, of whi c h h e t oo k a very strong publ.: notice. Unable to support its imputations, and mortified that its malignity and falsehood should have been so openly and completely exposed, the Tinter has omitted no oppor tunity of revenging itself by a species of low abuse, which, however it may be despised, is not, from its nature, open to direct and explicit reply. " A Card (says this Journalist), which ban been transmitted to us; indicates that the Seventh Annual :fleeting of the Society for the Suppression of Mendicity will take place on Thursday next, at Freemasons' Hall, • when a R e p ort o f t h e Society's proceedings will be read. and *dicers appointed for the ensuing year.' W e may, probably, attend to this Report, if other mere important business does not occupy our time. In the mean while, we cannot help remarking upon the present state of the streets as to beggars. It is well known that rat-eatdiera en. courage the breed of those animals which they are paid to destroy. We should think that the agents of the Mendicity So ciety are actuated by some similar principle ; except that the rat catchers, though they will not allow the race to become extinct, will not suffer it to abound ; whereas the beggar-catchers do permit ma streets to be infested to a dcg.eee which we have neTer keolvn before. The doors of some of the pastrycooks are nuisances. ll't row and then see a beadle give a snirdy beggsr-bon plying there a stripe on the back, but who ever observed an agent attic Mendicity ricioiety clear the street ?" The paltry feelinLs which produced all this are mani fest. It is a sample of malice which defeats irselt,•.becauset every honest mind revolts at it. The writer deals in flat assertions; he " Sings of beggars blind and dark, Like some old snuffling parish clerk ;" but no assertions can be more grossly untrue ; the streets are not infested with beggars in any thing like the slum bers which haunted them a few years back. That there may be, 'here and there, a poor creature begging charity at the door of a pastrycook's may be true, and the Mr.- dicky Society, much to their credit, do not affect to em ploy agents to clear the streets with that inhuman and re morseless spirit which the Times Journalist would fain insist upon. The Society are not so strongly stnitten, as he is, with the love of arbitrary power. The aim of their benevolence takes a different and a wider range. The Society announces itself distinctly as being institiveil " for the put pose of checking the practice of public men dicity, with all its baneful and demoralising consequences, by putting the laws in force against Istrosro as, who adopt it as a trade, and by 'fronting prompt and '/ritual assiAt a:7:T to those ?clot?! sudden (-Amity and ?rani; :led distress. mail (as: in wont and misery span the public attention." These are the high and praiseworthy objects of the ma nagers of this Institution ; and we aced only turn to their A NI./ • I.R E roars to learn the very extensive and efficient services they have rendered to the community, not only in the vast amount of real distress which they have relieved, but in the variety of imposture they have detected—the systematic frauds they have suppressed—the Wpm 'of yr • tho anc 41 Ski ea. she oth 4512 let sut am to tba ten int tho thi qU 1' M WI • 1* Sp Fa IRO COI ha th, tin m, en an m; II 1 tl fo a a t t a 1, -,- -. 4177, -- ri - . " ~;-.