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I R I, • i . wonld have the effect of increasing the poor rates, by adding to the already heavy list of paupers. He could not calculate to what length the feelings of the Hotionrable Gentleman might lead the House. lo future. he said, it would be neces sary to have an attorney oil the one hand, and sit Act of Parliament on the other. —(A laugh.)— Th e H a n. Gentleman should recollect that clnm ney-sweeners were not the only persons who were noder control. lle Monthd recollect that soldiers and s:nlor. wrref nodert,evor ittsrinlioe. He would oppose the VIII, because hr console-I.rd its objeLt impracti cable; but 11 it %vie even placticaldr, it would only throw so many idle hands upon the public. The Hon. Baronet, in conclusion, said, that if the chat nes were altered in some houses, he had no doubt but much cause or excuse of complaint would be removed. Mr. RINPIETT said, the number of houses amounted to right hundred thousand, end it would be idle to think of altering the chimines of these houses; but houses might in future he built iii difietent manner. It whs, he said, a remarkable fact, ilie greatest difficulty, and the greatest sod; r ings of those miliappy cro worts, was occasioned in sAel - ing the chimmes of modern-built houses. These houses hove been limit for the *wenn'. modition of the vo volt hy —they enjoyed warmth anti rdea-titt at the expense of the conifort, the hialti., and the morals of those devoted beings. Nu eao.r, lie believed, was ever more elver:) , made out to the satisfaction of the public—few cases were more likely to interest the feelings of huma nity sod of charity, for the most forlorn, the most friesiollees Sod helpless of human beings. As to the utroervation made by the Hun. Baronet. when he could prove that !Oils bad been put under the feet of sailors—wlien he could prove that straw wits Luria under their naked and lacerated bo dies, then lie would admit of some parallel be tweet, the case cited by the lion. Baronet. and the Wider' situation of those destitute little wretches, in whose fate the best feelings of the etonitry were eillisted, and for whom he implored Ibe jurtier and CIIMIIIO6IIIII of the House. Sir Pntt.te l'untit: said, lie had known many sailor 1 . 11111/Wtti with the cat. 10 turn hail up.— lame.) Mr. CunweW presented • Petition from Mr. Richard Clat kr. who bud petitioned agimist the return for tihelemere, stating, that one of leis se entities hail !writ refused, and proying that the time for Clliellllg tutu his recuguixtuce might be enlarged. Mi. ROBERT Wasp said, he did not intend to opi•te.e the milieu', but or the Petition stated that one of the securiiira had been disallowed, he would, on behalf of the sitting Member, claim an exami nation on both sides. It was ordered that the time for entering into the recognizance be enlarged to Wednesday next. Sir Fatima' Buitmire said he held in his hand a Petition of mine importance; it woe a Petition from Mr. Wm. Harris, against the monopoly of the West Middlesex and Chrlpea Water Companies.— Ordered to lir on the table. ISLAND OF CEYLON. S.r WM. DE CRESPIGNY mid, that it was now publicly ktivwn that a most destructive war 111111 broken oil ill the Island Of Ceylon, and that heel to ii mast l'itglitful amount had been lost. It was right that Proi !lament should inquire into the ['attire and ooligin of that war. lie would ask Gentlemen whether they would tircultice such pallets as v•oold ulford this information to the Clouse If they refused to tin so, he would feel it his duty to move for the pi ieluction of them. Mr. Gnu LIM RN said. that there (wild he no ob jection to the production of ally documents tied might give the desired information, but no (official account had been nceivert; but from private iii furinhtion there was every reason to think that the tsar alluded to by the lion. Baronet had entirely lei iiin.ated. EI : ECTION PETITIONS FRONI IRELAND. Si Jowl N•wroav said. that the Act of the 53d of toe fin% hail been interpreted in Ireland in 110111111ee that gave rise to great inconvenience; mid if the !louse did not adopt sonic measure, would lead to injustice. It was, in fact, consi dered In tl.at country, that the provisions of the Act in question did not extend to Ireland ; and on reading over the Act he round the name of Ireland had been omitted. As matters now stood, it was evrtisiti the greater number, or perlialoi all the 111611 Election Petitions would fall to the groom!, and the distres.ing consequence would he, that men, okainst about strung objections were made, would be held ss the repirsentauses of the people, whilst others %Dula he shut out, who, whips, hail on every fair and constitutional ground, • better right to sit in th a t Mouse, The Right Finn. Baronet said he would loot origitiale any motion vim the subject. Ile submitted the taut to the [louse, leavnig it to their wisdom to pursue whatever course they might think fit. Alt. W. WY N N said, the subject as stated by the Right lluu. Baronet was of great importance. ' he understood him rightly, lie stated, that it was considered in Ireland that the provisions of the Act did lost extend to that coontry ; and that moat of the Irish Petitions were in consequence likely to 1..11 to the ground. If thy fact were so, it was one that required the must serious consideration, and he (Nlr. Wynii) would be sorry to give his opttiuni 011 i t , without taking more time for con sideration. The SPEAKER said, that perhaps the hest course to ',mane would he to move, in the first instance, for a return of the presetit slate of all the Irish Eke Petitions; he wools!. lie slid, take care that return should be as full as possible. (ht the motion of Sir JOHN IN LVVPORT, the re turn was accorditigly ordered. TURN PI F.S, die. Mr. PROTIIEROE piefaced his motion respecting highways and turnpikes, with several observations. lie was .ure that when he stated to the llouse the torigitiol cir 4 oh cuustructing those in England and Wales was old less than seven millions, that they extended thioughout a space of loot less than 2.0,000 nitha, and that the monist expense of keep. log them in repair tonoontril to between 120 mod 130,000 t. it Avoid deem thr litiliject worthy its 'irritant attention. Ile e11i.11 . 4 . 11 0.1 the great advantages Clic gentleman had discovered a quarry of excel lent stone adjacent to a road, on which nothing but soft, inferior materials, had previously been u►rd. There were various other points proper for the con sideration of a CoMmittre, from whose well-di rected labours the public, he was convinced, would he saved large sums•of money, and derive incalcu lable advantages. The Honourable Member then moved— " That a Select Committee be appointed to take into con. videration the Acts regarding the Turnpike Roads and Highways of England and %Vales, and the expediency of adopting additiunal Regulations fur the better Preacrvation therea." Mr. GIPPS. in rising to second the motion of the honourable Gentleman, begged leave to say, that if he had not introduced it, he had himself intended to propose a measure for the purpose of amending the 13th and 14th of Geo. 111. lie thought the subject one well entitled to investiga tion, and lie hoped that every thing relating to it would he considered in the Committee. It was a great hardship on persons in posses sion of agricultural horses, that they were sub ject to very high charges for repairing of highways in the way of duties. he wished also that lives on borers al Id he altogether removed, and laid on weights. (Machines on roads were coming very much into use; awl it would he very desirable if the mea sure proposed should lead to their general erecti . lie could see no disadvantage in putting the num ber of horses working on roads altogether out of the question, and transferring the [woollier to . . weights. Sir M. W. ittur.car asked if the intended mea. sure was to be merely prospective ? Mr. PROTHEROE answered in the affirmative. Colonel WOOD hoped the intended improvement would not be confined to turnpikes only. The question before the House was intimately connected with that of the Poor Laws. They had papers on the table, by which it appeared that fifteen hundred thousand pounds had been expended on roads in the last year. lie thought it expedient to take away the Statute duties. which were productive of great inconvenience and loss to the farmer. lie could appeal to any Gentleman in the !louse, whe ther the day on which his horses were sent to work at the roads, wa• not • complete (lay of idleness on the farm. The Highway Act might be brought under the revisal of the Conuuitter, so as to pro cure an entire substitution of duties by rates in stead of by Statute. lie trusted that the whole of the question would begone into by the Committee, and that such regulations would he adopted as to apply the whole of the surplus labour to the con struction and repair of the highways. Si► IL PARNELL rose, not for the purpose of offu ring soy opposition to the motion, but merely to say, that having on one occa►ion acted on a Committee of the same nature with that proposed. lie had heard abundant evidence to satisfy hint of the expediency end necessity of investigating the subject. Mont• witnesses lied stated before that Cutoff ter, that the duties had of late years been doubled, without any improvement being effected iii the roads. The motion was then put, and carried unarm• mously, and the Committee appointed. CHIMNEY.SWEF.PERS. Mr. BENNETT moved the order or the day for the House resolving itself into a Committee on the Chimney Sweepers Regulation Bill. 1111 r. GREN FE LE said, that the thanks of the country were due to his lion. Friend (Mr. Bennett) for his unremitting efforts to diminish the mass of human misery.--( Hear, hear.)--Ile had that morning happened to go to one of the fire insurance offices, and had taken the opportunity to inquire into the proportion of fires occurring in el cleaned in the old way, aid by machinery ; because he had heard there was a great difficulty in pie venting fires in chinmies cleaned iii the latter mode. lie was lobo tnert that the average number of fires in the metropolis was sixty or seventy moodily, and that by looking at the chimnies wherein they took plate for several months, it was found that in a given number of mouths, the proportion of those cleaned by machinery to the others was 2 to 65. lie then inquired what was the proportion of die entire number to which machinery was applied? To this no direct Bossier could be given; but he siva assured that, in point of fact, thousands were swept by machinery at present. Such fact% clearly %hewed the safety—he might say increased safety-411m . , hear) --of universally adopting the use of machinery ; and proved, that his Hon. Friend's views were not visioisary, but sanctioned by experience. A Gentleman had said, as an objec tion to the measure, that it would deprive the pa rishes of the means of sending out boys es appren tices to the trade. That might be a very good argument for the parishes, but it. was not one for the House; on the contrary, the very bringing for ward of such an objection, skewed the poor boys to be in so degraded a condition as to call for the • ediate further protection of the House.— (licar.) A Member, whose name we could not learn, said, that he could not suffer a motion, with so Mondale and benctoltiit an object, to pass without expressing his most cordial approbation of it. When they saw how much was done by the appli ol machinety in mills, manufactories. and other extensive concerns, they could not doubt of its ultimate and universal efficacy in cleaning chiumies. Its a large house, which lie hail occu pied fur years, he had never suffered any of the ehintnies to be cleanest but by machinery; his ser vaults, however, clandestinely had the kitchen chim ney cleaned by climbing boys, and it was remark able, that it was the only one of the whole number which had ever been on hire.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. °MUNN ET was hostile to the principle ..1 abolishing the use of climbing boys, as it would deprive parish officers of the opportimity of ap prenticing boys out. Ile was also of opinion that machines could not in many cases be made use id: Colonel Woo° was sure the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down could not have read the Report of the Committee on the subject, because it both recommended the adoption of machinery, and considered amid condemned the practice eulo gised by the last speaker. Whoever bad children and read that Report, could not but ifortunate, oppressed there were any not be cleaned E Y i • . ill IC1111011• fi r rial ..A,.. wr, .• sw i ,- 0 .. . * . vd,,o, .„„hi result from employing rerentohc men o is o wn, arid read that Report, cot ' • r ' I (h . 1 , - us or erkeei sof roads, which, 1w cohteaded, would feel an anxiety to have the unfortunate a Ivo *lw public ten tunes the amount of their 114. climbing boys relieved ; nod if there • , lanes, awl uientruncd out: itisiauct iu which a scieu. houses with clerunies that could not , . . . • .e o i . A . . . 4. . .. ' ,-.' with tuncliinery, they ought to huriied."—(i/ear, and a laugh.) Mr. BRoVGRAM arts in general averse to legisla tive interference between parent and child, on the groom' of right, mid no less on that Of ex p e di en cy. But he conceived that the Hill before the House went only to regulate between the parent and child, where the conduct of the former towards the latter would be is breau•h of natural duty mid a crime. Neither did he approve of the priories'.• of interter jog between the maater and boy ; Lot lie would interfere, where the child was of such a tender age as not to be in full possession of his facul ties, and to require foreign protection. The present Bill did not interfere with the right of any permit arrived at years of maturity to apply himself to what occupation he pleased. The ques tion, therefore, resolved itself into the pro priety of the period of time fixed in the Bill, and as lie knew that his lion. Friend would fix it con siderably below 21, when the law considered an in dividual to be capable of governing himself, mid to he suo jury, the measure should receive his support. He wished to remind the House, that the Bill Was tint a novelty in our law ; its first clause referred to a preceding Act, and the Bill wits in point of fact almost a► copy of the 28th or the King. That Act interfered boas with the right of parent and master, and stated, iu as strong language as could be employed, the evils against which his Honourable Friend's Bill was directed ; it was car ried too at a time when the present Law Officers were in office. though lower than those they now filled, and in Mr. Pitt's Ministry; so that if Ibis Honourable Fsieild was a visionary, others had been so before liim.—(llear.)—The preamble of the Act iu question stated, that " whereas the various com plicated miseries inflicted on climbing boys are be youid any other to which children of their tender age are subjected, be it provided," &c. Mr. I)ENM *ll was sorry to (howl) the unanimity of the House on the present occasioir, but lie was of opinion that the principle of regulating labour might be carried too far, and that the Bill snider discussion, did, iii point of fact. carry it to too great a length. Besides, lie could not think, that if machinery was as useful and effectual as lied hero represented, the people of this country were so cruel as to persist in the use of climbing boys merely for purposes of cruelty. An lion. Gen tleman (Mr. Grenfeli), laid said, it was ascertained by insurance °Rives that machmes were capable of general application. in that case, climbing burs were perfeetlj utmecessary ; sill if such were the fact, lie did not see how legislative enactmetits were at all required ; and when lie perceived so many clauses in the Bill Ity which a Magistrote could impose permitter on offenders, and award a part to inform .e, the intervention of n jut,. being altogether removed, a strong case must be made out before he could vote for it. He heartily wished that the use of climbing toys wan entirely abolished, but he thought it might he salely left to the humanity and good sense of the people Of England to dispense with them, when universally knovati that their services could be dispensed with. However severe such employment might be, it was deserving the consideration of the House, whether it was not superior to others to which boys themselves niight turn if it were taken away—to pilfering, sod jackirig pockets and robbery. He objected to that clause, which pro alder] a penalty lot a breach of i n dentures by the master, to be assessed by a Magistrate, instead of leaving it to be recovered by action. lie had a strung, a decided overaiim to vesting powers of this nature in a Magistrate. lie should take that no. port unity to say, that those prrsolis who had breo in the Itahit of using noichitiety, had hero very re miss in giving notice of it to the public. Mr. GRENYELL, iii explatiatiao, said, lie had not stated of has (Iwo knowledge that machinery %via more efficacious and sale than bays—tit it would be usserting too much. What lie had rood was, that he had been informed list the proportion of chinthies swept by machinery which had taken fire in a gives' time, but two oust of 65. Mr. IVtaprorouce had a much larger oppor tunity of observing the operritorii nod nithrence of the principle 811%1o:iced sod relied 011 by 1!•e Gentleman behind hint (Slr. 'Denman), namely, of leaving Mingo to be reformed by the cood arose and humanity of the public, than that Gentleman had had. It woe a proseiple urged a;; boat roost humane improvenietsts sisagested to the House. Wlieu lie hail first brought the cotie.;iimi of the slaves under the cutirideration of the House, the opponents of change said that the 'water might safely be left to the discretion of the parties inte rested ; it was the interest of trafficktis to have the trading ships as c•omfortuble mid commodious ar possible, and of the colonial slave-owner to see that his slaves were knolly mid humanely treated : and yet how false had such reasonaig been proved to lie by fact* hear.) —The rotate mold which was capable of perseverance in a good cause, was perhapa prime to olostioacy ite a bail. Of toasty unprovetneuts discovered and produced to this country, had not the inhabitants of it been the last to tletive the benefit* ? No stringer example could be produced of that Ilion the fact, that after the dise•overy of the cow-Pock. we were lostog hundreds and thousitiols of people by the smalls pux. while the great eat:corm the Con titimit, winch had availed themselves of the great imororement, were placed is a state of eompara lave arc...iota. That Was as satisfactory all airawer to the Hon. Member's argument as stook! he ail duced.—(llear.)—Certaitily, machinery might get the upper hand of the other method after a num ber of years, without any legislative interference; but to how many miseries, mid to what wretched liras would the unfortunate boys he exposed in the mean time ? All who had read the Report of the Board id %Vol Ls instat have been couvoiced of the applicability of machinery. 111 any incotiveinemce were to follow f the measure before the House, it would fall out the rich. and those able to hear it, while it would re.•cue the roast Itelpleirs part of the community from aggravated degrodat and cm. elty. It should receive Ina warm support. Mr. liAttlissl said, that twenty years ago sweep ing boys hail lever been heard of to the vicinity of the place whirr lie resided. sod when he took steps to introduce stir use of them. so great was the love of ens! , that retool resistance was offered to it, and at the present time out one out of ten chimmea wasawrot in that part lit the country. 'flit Howse then wee iota Committee on the Bill. in the Committee BENNETT proposed to fill the blank in the clause providing that bays should not be apprenticed to the trade of a chimney sweeper before a certain age, with the number fourteen. Alderman WOOD said, that the binding of boys to master sweeps, instead of relieving, was ulti mately a burden 014 parishes, the licys being re turned in numerous instances emaciated, sickly, mill rendered unfit for any other employment. Mr. OSIMANNEY lever knew I,f a chimney 11,Wreping boy being returned on 141- parish. Ms :1 boys appeared in the streets In he among th e r o ost contented and light-hearted of human beings. They formed one great source of supply to that most to diSpensable part of the Luce of the country, the navy. Mr. BENNETT was astonished boa Cf-ntlemen could think of opposing the Bill, who 41111 sot seem to have read a single syllable of the Repot. lie could appeal to all who heard him, whether these poor boys were not to be seen in every rut of the metropolis with bent legs, hump-harks, distorted spines, and all the marks of premature old age.— ( Hear, hear.) Sir ISAAC COFFIN had not. 04 t he course of 40 Years experienue, known one ioyiaixe of a sweep Joining the navy. Alderman Wow) said, parents were t o be found cruel enough to put out their clitldreti at the age of six years. Mr. BENNETT knew an instance of a woman who went out to nurse, leaving a child at home five or six years of age ; when she returned, the found that lier husband had sold the child. The number 14 was then inserted, and CI was agreed to as the limit fur the terns of appren ticeship. After some conversation between Mr. BENNETT, Mr. DENMAN. surd Mr. WISBEDEMME, the other blanks were filled u,,, the Chair reit ttttt ed. and the Report ordered fur Friday next. CIVIL I.IIsT. Mr. V. FITZGERA LD brought up the Ilieinwt of the Committee on the Civil List. which was order. ed to lie on the table and IN. primed. USURY LA %VS. Mr. Setjeant ONsLow moved the Order of the Day for the House going into Comtuittee on the Usury Laws Repeal Bill. Mr. ON MA N NEY thought it Hfivisable to postpone that stage of the Bill, tin account of the thin -tate at the House. Afte► a few further remarks from the two last mentioned Gentlemen, the SPEAKI:It left the Chair, the Bill passed through the Committee. and the Report was ordered for to-morrow. REWARDS IVR APPREHENDING SMUGGLERS. 'rite Report of the Co 1111 l nitre on the Rewards for Apprehruding Smugglers was postponed till to-mot row. The House then adjourned at Half-past Eight o'Cluek. FOREIGN LVTELLIGENCE. rAnts PAN:as. FgsttuAßY 13. The King experienced a slight attack of the gout on the day before yesterday, but yesterday nis Nlajesty was quite recovered, and dined with his family as astral. His Majesty traiisarted bu siness in tits cabinet during a causideratile part of the day. It was et Naples, and not at Rome, that King Charles IV. of Spain died. The King of Naples was at the time absent from Ili% capital ; as soon as his Sicilian Majesty learned the dangerous state of his august brotlit r, lie set out for Naples, but having at Purticci heard of his death, he stopped there. Ilia Majesty is scarcely recovered from a very severe illness, ■ud the state of his health still excites serious apprehensions. We learn front Rome, that in repairing the prin cipal altar of the hover (slouch of St. Francis d'Assite, the body of its holy founder has been discovered, after having lain there unknown for six hundred years. The Sovereign Pontiff; apprised of this discovery, has given orders to the Bishops of Failigno l'erouse, Spoletts, and Assise, to repair to this latter town, alter the Epiphiiiiy, and to make an liutheitile recogintion of the body, with all the necessary foruw. The intention of the Holy Father is, that these precious remains shall be transferred with pomp to the u;•per church, and, be there ex posed to the veneration of the faithful. I I It is thought that the Law on the Liberty of the Press and the Journals will be presented ott IVed tiesday u, xt. It confirms, it is said, the freedom of the J=•uruals. CHAMBER or Ftsarmti 13. Several iiihabituniv Auxerre, in petition to the Chamber, complain that the active and useful see %lee of the Nationzil Guard is thrown on a fifth of the inhabitants, while the tither futtr-fifths ere ex rirwtra or eiapltorii only on service of parade or oatentotion. M. de I. , t!';lyette—" l'ronce lr , s long expected a real general ingot' of the SdininAl Guard, ii,.Aintti not to 1.11%..7,n the , citizens tint to arm them fur the defence of the country and public order, founded on the lows and liberty, and not on a system of ordinances and provis . ,onal regulatiuns. I require that this Petition be sent to the Minister of the Interior, nnf that a copy of it be left in the bureau of the Chamber." This motion was acceded TO. The \largo's and Marchioness Devienne claim the restitution of 220 , 0 0 f of remits confiscated during their emigration, and which reduced to the Thirds, would represent on the Great Book 71,000 I. in the Consolidated Thirds. The Com muter of Petitions proposed the order of the day to await the dippusitions expre,sed in the law of 1815, which rest..reJ to the emigrants nothing more thin had not been sold, or had m.t per6lictl i!, t!ie lie• • volution. The order of the dHy was adopted by a great majority. The cliscussimi on the commeocemeot of the Financial Year was then resumed. Some A1eti,1,1.1 4 Were liPA7d, acid the Iii11:UX1 6 011 was adjourned to Monday. . . THE BRUT. S LI PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IS, ISM The polling proceeded yentriday garden with soinewhat more spirit than on 'Fiji day, and the result has been to place Mr. I.sma, on the gross polo, within seven 'tors of Mi. Mi.. rinusE, the numb is twi —For Jr. floatioust, 622 ; for Mr. Lams, 616. During the (lay vriti-s for Mr. LAllReaceaded those of 11111 titiliwtoor by 107 ; those fir the forme, l ieinv . 265, for ihe Ir'frr only 158. CA a . rw tti II T hat hitherto found 519!,pr00 .5 In tills 114.1111101.1 i City to favour his nrst imam, b a cked, although they hr, by his um spiivecal de. durations to favour of Annual Farb 'inputs sod Universal Suffrage. The flustlngs were. ciewded yesterday, as usual, towards the close of the pull. by the friends of the respective Condulites, but the people who occupied the spare in front welt disappointed in not seeing Sir FRANCIS 1/I.I9DIVe by the side of Mr. tionnovie. Mr. LAMfei friends were exulting in high spirits at the great progress made by that Honour dile Gentleman, at.d anticipations were confidently entertained by the,a that lie would, at an early hour this morning, take the lead of his antagonists. We received last ought Dutch and German Papers of recent dales. Pt Rucerts, ?LIMITARY 10. The intention of the Duke of Wellington to oppose the emancipation of the Irish Catholic•, makes the Mercury r.f Antwerp suppose that his Glace, nut satisfird with all the fine titles %loch he already pos.esses, dente, that of De. fender of the Protestant Faith ; and it takes occasion. front the Petition which the /Collie Lord has joss' isrescetted to 11 , . House of Lords, from the merchassia of Dublin, to adduces+ to his Grace the following apostrophe " Wellingtnn' remember that you arc an Irishman, th.t Ose whom this altann rut law „pprew►a are sour enunlr , .. men rernembei that iiiiv in.quiiinis law, in favour of which you have taken on y..urself t. par. , at a P. Wien, 4.rigin,atti in those uuhappy times when •naichy reaped. not that it would cnyer the whole Enlh•n nation w nl, tl. mai vprn. hrium to maintain it in spate of flip enlinht.,..d split* ad the nineteenth ccotu,y " • Journal de la Belyirej We have received Parts Paper, of Sun lay lot. They ore silent res: ecting the pr. twos Ilt :;011, of the POPCS death. Intel) get ce fr.r• Rome represents Ins Holiness all bontg 141:xioualy eo gaged in rtithrisiivatitig a holy relic, which is Paid to have been recently discovered. S fooltols people employed in reitaiting an ',liar, li u thew have fnuoil the body of a certaio Satot Francis, which had been lying in its native raid' for six centuries, nod three retain - ui have beta sit rioted to make an 'Artist recognition of the trea sure. To ally but percotis it would be a difficult matter to tell whether the moulder'' , g hones that have reposed in quietoess fur so long • time, had Irelonced to • saint or a murderer. A project of u law relative to the Liberty of the Press will, it is expected, he presented on Wedu,... day to the Chamber of Deputies. Its principle, it is said, is to free the Journals fii,iu ull previous Censorship. The French Five per Cents. on Saturday vtie 69 1. 70 c. Bank Stock 1,526 1. A Flanders Mail has arrived, with Papers from Brussels to the 15111 initial. The Dutch G vernment appears very anxious to clear itself from the charges in the Protest of Sir Timms% STAMFORD RAFFI.F.S. For that purpose, refer ence is made to on alleged letter of old date from B.ltavia, in which the predecessor of Sir T. S. RAFFLES, itt Bencoolen, invoking the intitietire and authority of the Dutch Commissioners or .1./ea over the Sultan of PALEMBANG, in favour of the English Company, and this request is relied upon as evidence that Palembang W 111 MAY II dependency of the Government of Jan. V. , reasoning is by no means conclusive. The re• quest only shewa the opinion of the parson who made it, lint catmct dive.t the Stittm of PA1.1.8• BANG of tie tack and estate with which he WO* 1,1• vested by solemn treaty with the Euglish teuvetr• ment. The following aan extract sat sEt.t, 11.11RVART 141. SITTING OF THE SECOND CHAMBER ..T 'THE STATES GENERAL, FEBRUARY iO. - _ This silting was chiefly occupied in rrecivire petition' which were referred to the Committee of Petitmits. I of them related to the mortised Laws of Citetoms and Ear The Committee of Pcittions reported on iiiiniewas re. monstrance, pustule , ' by the soap manuractiart i'a at Brae eels, Ghent, Amatetilani, kc. Polite the tax on snap, la , " propose a tax on putaplies inatead. On the other hand, ss• other petition chews that the tax on potash's nett w eeny injure the fine manufactory of crystal glass of %Ir DO' thine'', at Voniche. Tkis magnificent establish/ma; was on the point of being transported to Frisbee to, having bean sufficiently encouraged and protected ta tt glum It is known that a great deal of alkali is -'d ••• ~, r. '• It f- 1. I C• he u• 1.• Sn . 1111 wt. t • f '• ,1 M