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without onoy motion, or ierosihd.ty or reserve. the discretion therefore of the Co.•wo not hkrly to hr aliarril, and hr v0..•0hl iinrk ,vh-finer PArloo,rtat woo:la now •!1-iv ;1 slonri-ol•t of the f'r'own which ass pi r p ri olomlaved om say former net:Anon ? The cr movements suggested by the Noble Lord could not be attended with any advantage, he therefore should opposer the motion. Lord ELLENsonotiost expressed a wish which, as he said, he sincerer felt, that the (louse were then assembled to offer theor unanimous thanks to his Majesty, for his gracious determination of plec tog all the hereditary revenues of the Crown at the disposal of Parliament, I !iiicipally because he conceived that such an act on the part of the Crown would tend to render his Majesty the most pepular man in his dmnin 1111 l p, and , ti leis 014 1 1 11 01 1, no King could feel hippy, or be really powerful, bothout enjm big the fullest aff.-ctione of his people. Had such a determination been expreered in the present instance, the sarriticc were nothing. be cause the country was at peace ; and although it was their unanintour wish that his Majesty should enjoy a long reign, they must yet hope that peace would continue still longer than his Majesty's life. The sacrifice on the part of the Crown would have been inconsiderable, but to the people it would have established a valuable princi ple. The Civil List had Manitly provided for all the wants of the Roved Person. His Majesty, un turtunately, had no children; he could want no surplus revenue ler himself, and in the course of nature there were no persona who had a greater or niore immediate claim upon his affection than his people. It had been argued that the possession of these funds in the hands of the Crown had often prevented applications to Parliament for the pay meet of debts incurred by the younger branches of the Crow Naiad which Parliament might he unwilling to liquidate. Undoubtedly there often appeared an iiodieposioiou on the port of Parliament to defray the debts of the Ruyai Family, but the most rf let-fuel way of preventing the inconvenience re sulting from the contracting of debts, was to take away the inducement to contract them ; there was n.. inducement so powerful as the circumstance of loosing an uncertain income, for men uni formly calculate upon their own good fortune that they will obtain the larger share in the distribution of uncertain property. Ile further objected to the continuance of these Nude io their present mate, as it was 4 ontrary to the principle on which the Civil List was framed. It was indeed very fitting when the Crown possessed a variety of on. cerium revenues, that these casual funds should be permitted to brut a part of the aggregate 'Mount of tie property of the Crown, but when a specific and vet tain sum were granted upon the presumption t%, it tt was sofficieut to cover all the expenses of the Croot..ii. the 'nuance of tissue casual revo••ites must be a owning, and must of course be unnecessary. Tl.e kilns of the Civil List was colculatimi„ but Ilse nature of these casual revenues defied till cal colettino. The Droitv were at present frothing, but their amount might her very great. lie also toh . pcseil to the present eystem in a constitutional swim of view. 'rile principle of the Constitution was irooluoPy, God more purticolaily in, pecuniary matters. The t'oestitution existed by the force of conflicting ionwcis; the Kong might indeed declare war, but Parliament might in its turn refuse sobsidies. The existence of* right such as war now enjoyed by the I',owit, of disposing of the Druids of Admiralty at its eliscr , tion, might control the liower of Parliameut ; Inn would their Lordships desire that their King, instead of going to war like a King and a man, ri.pid.t pursue lumilities like a pirate ?—(llear, kenr.)—Would they place him in a condition, whereon his proceedings might not only lead to the infamy of the motion, bat hob% upon his people cal-mimes which it was impossible to calculate or conceive ? The demise now proposed did not inter!ere with the discretionary power of the Croton to reward captors, mid make restitution if recessary to the captured. In supporting it, he norsiot nut to insinuate that the application of those boob' in part times was nut as perfect and as be. soetb7osl as could be desired or expected ; but the rtiirrt of the clause being to prevent the possibi lity of future abuse s while it interfered in no re spect with the heurticial discretion of the Crown, he should falsify his sincere sentiments if lie did no; give it lois support. The Hnosr ate() divided, when there anpu,ired—... Fee the clause •• • Against it ..... Majority -.60 The claum win conoequently negatived. 0., met readmi4sinn below the bar, we found Loo t ! ELLENS O R O UOII oil his leg,, proposing a rlstl.e which seemed to be similar in spirit to ihe chow previously negatived. It experienced a et rtilir fate. The Earl of Ltonnroot. then stated, that in tritkiog out the estimate* contained in the schedule ariirx.d to the Bill, some cktieal errors hail i wrn trade, which he proposed to rowel. The Noble Farl's motion to that offect was "tweed to. The Bill was then read a third time, passed. and ' , catered to be tent to the Elkus.. of Commons, to it..ire its coortirronce in the ametwlntrnt. ...001111% THE COMMITTEE OF TRADE. The hirtrquis of L•xsoowit mowed for • variety of re• servo% Owning the nature and extent oldie prohibitions now pliced upon the import and export of articles of trade. for the purpose of being laid before the Cimintlitee appointed to inquire into the most effertitul means of extending the fineign eommeece of the enlintry —Ordered. On the motioo of the Noble 31..rquis, the Earl of MU' SOROUGIII (the Moguls of Oi.•ti.litre) was appointed a 31ember of the Committee; us. on al.e moll. , " .4 the Earl ..r uvrarool.. were the r.ll a or to is f mega an d Bravcarcier.—The Howse ih••n HOUSE OF COMMONS, Tummy, MAY MI, There toeing three ballots for the appointment of Com millers ref peeling the elections for floo.inspo Castle, G:oloray, end CaHoncho., the gallery WWI out Orbed for the adonis sun of 'frown until gee o'clock. Mr. Rirlo.rd Martin and several other Members took the owl's awl 111411 seats. ELECTION BALLOTS. Mr Lry appeared at ihe bar atilt lb@ retltterd list of !Weiebrrs for the Committees, the Bishops Caatte Electwo. The are the names r J. Pearce Conti'. II hrort• Brain Sa G. Feiherstune II snail:me Lelia Ti•umnr Glovrr Him It Att. Fitzgibbon J. A. Stuart Woi !try Chas. Brovvalow W. E Mots Lett Ho■. W 8 Volume Lord Smote, W. M. Bcomersby Hun. H. R. tVciteora Sir M. W. Sitltey. Robert Bruce Mr. Ley shut tly after s, Mires with the reduced list of the ~_ ~_ G ..t name. f.r- 'Me Committee OW the Gilway Tow% 'teeth's,. Ilia 6.lt^".wins er.- the names of the ilember. :-- .1. Vtral.a En , rell William Heary Clintog John MIOSIA I Charier John iGreeville 'lli•onas 'Whitmore Henry Monteith resit* Caltlll.l4 hates Montgomery rharlea Chapman Francis Erogilen ,it E. Knottclibioll Mo. V. Townsitend Thosnaw Ty I whit t 111.. m. J. M. Barry. Thomas 11'ilsou Mr. Ley next prerrrilell the re.locr.l list for lite Coniniil - on the Callington Election. The following are the !Cr J. Waller Pow lett John Wells Wilbraham Egerton General Chicopee Earl of &Hive Hon. Mama flare Arthur J Crawford James Alexander Hodson The Committees on the dill then withdrew to consider of iotruteted tee their examitiation. Mr. NEWMAN presented a Petition from the Inhabitants of Exeter against the Markel Bill—also a Petition from the I)eao aced Chapter of the Cathedral Church of r.xefee, for the pre rrrrr tines of their richts in the Manor of St. Sidwell, which were referred to the Committee on the Exeter Nlarket Bin. Sir Eillwara O'Brien Thomas Markesive Junsihan ElpOti J.inst• tinnier Blair Walter Barren Vioenniii Folk/done Henry Gunllium. retest ballots were newt, soil the seri:rat Election Petitious COLE lIE.STER QUARTER SESSIONS. Mr. Mlt.ossAs moved Ike first readmi of the Colchester Qoartrr Scssions Bill.. . ...... Mr. %Vv.'TERM said, that this Bill went to make it impera. upon the Magistrates of the comity of Essex to build another Quarter Sessions for that county in summer at Col. cheater, though smelt a step was against the opinion of a large proportion of the Mnistrates, sail without the justifi cation or any precedent. Ile knew that this Petition was respectably signed, but yet the object was certainly against the wish of the great majority of the Magistrates. Mr. WILDMAN said, the Act would not imperatively re quire the attendance of the Magistrates at Colchester who objected to the Bill; it certainly was introduced with the approbation of a number of other Magistrates, who, he pie stained, would be ready to attend the Sessions when the Bill authorised it. _ . .... Mr. I). W. Hattvey said, that the I'.•titiun embraced co gent arguments to justify this pill, and unless some very forcible argument was tit get! against it, the measure should have his support. Admiral HARVEY had no objection that the Bill should receive a fair consideration, hot he must say that 24 Magis trates Were against it, and ouly 5 for it. The Bill was then read a find time. ANTIGVA SLAVE BILL. CM the motion of Mr. Bacructme, the Antigua Slare Bill WU mod • Ant time. SCOTCH COURTS. EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE. _ • • Mr. BZOIABIIA7I rose to pot off from tu•morrow until Thursday fortnight, his motion respecting the Scotch Jury courts. His lion. Friend, the Member for %Vestminster, was kind enough to let him have precedence on the day to which he meant to put off his mitt' ; and on Wednes daYt the 201 h of June, ht• begged also to give notice, that he would bring on his question on the general subject of &hi • est• . The reason he put off his motion et...peeling the /Wick Courts was, that it was considered by some persons out of doors in the nature of a private Bill, and a number of pi-oled IllattUlllllll, All was customary in such bad been circulated among Members. He wished, therefore, after it bad been said the last time a similar subject was brought on, that it was introdored by surprise, to obviate- a nee of such 311 1110.1111111i011. 111133 . WOlllll he amp!, lime fur all parties to consider the subject before the 20th of June. Hs begged to take this opportunity of rectifying a greet mistake which had gone abroad upon the object of Isis Bill. II was understood that his nwtiun 0311 term I;e.1 at certain individuals not n n •nmbers of his M:.j•sty's Govern meat, who filled offices of one description or another in those Courts. Now he twegril to explain that this was a total mistske, fur it hail no eumn►xion whatever with sash judicial persons, our should he ever mention their names, or hardly allude to their exist. mute in the view he meant to take of the subject. With respect to his motion too Eihication, be stated that copies of the evidence taken on the Commit tee, 90 NS as it regarded Englauet, would be ready ten days before the time Bxed for his sod the evidence re spectiNg Seelhuid ',mild be ready won after, and iu lime fur being read when the Hill should he printed. REFORM IN PARLIAMENT. no Sheri& of London appeared at tire bar with the Peti tion of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and C 1111.111011“ of the City of London, in Crannsoa Conseil amemblid, praying for • Reform of the Commons House of Parliament; and also with a P. titian *spying to be heard by Conned agaiust the Western Union Cams! BilL Them Petitions were laid on the table. AFRICAN COMPANY. - - - - - Mr. Guinnoxe presented a Petition from the African Company, for an addoioual grant to pay the expeuses 01 keeping the forts op within their juricaliclion of the 601,1 Coast of Africa. . air. GonooN alltolefl to the grants already made to the Arsine Company. Ile knew the object of these (rents war to keep on important part of Africa open to promote in that direction the pr ugi esti of civilization, hat as the African Company acted iii a two-fold shape, partly format,. tile, and partly legislatire„ wit hunt being miller the i Tine diate control of Government, lie should object in any addi tional grant omit the Co., peoy galle rip to the I.egislatme the entire control of the arr.atigements uu the rubel of Africa. _ _ . Thr Clatscru.ott of lire EXCIINCFR sail ills' this would, lie believed, br the la.t time the grant woold come heftier Parliament, and it was fur the payment rt . expenses already iurmred. He was happy to inform the Hon. Grim. tlemasi that si IS. the intentitm of Government to resume the entire authority of the district alluilei! to.—(hear.) • . Mr. GORDON expressed ill pleasure be rareived al this inlimatiou.—The Pa 1111011 0 A 4 Laid On the tabu. CIVIL LIST. A M rs aacr from th e birds amiouilerti their I.nr.lahips' •,nt to t h e 11.6 t Bill, with an ■menduteot, to which they &stir.' the contemner of ihe House. • The SPICAIERR intimated, that Ilse amendment was merely to correct a clerical cant% There were several items of ex pew:mere set down its tlw and all correctly, but the Clcsk, its tasting op the whole, committed • clerical error, whirls the Lords bad merely amended. Lord NI twrom said, that as the amendment had reference to • 1KC11111.44 y 1113111 T, hetloni,tcd whether it ought to be •creed to without n emit rettce stills their Lordships, espe cially its a Bill of au much impostatice as this. Ile had no &sa l e whatever II) tissue any silr.tscle to the way of the Bill passing into a law, but he doubled much whether the amendment ought to be adopted, though it was • clerical error. a. n mailer of course. CASTI.VILPAIM said, that the case of the Bill as the items eel rc inigivally east up,stood on its demerits rather than en its streriic , and he thought no possible rein e iple e t eod be dia.,. fenan their adoption of this Is nirmlinent tinder the pariitul.ir circum.ionces in which :5 •a. inagge.ted He object' los special entry on the Journals of Its being a ell rieal error. _ _ _ Lord Mti.rws said he would be perfectly satisfied with this special Mr NvsN Or., the entry stimuli' he the proper m o d, Of 11f111,1 . 111111r 'Floe Spraw sit ro.pe:llmj that the special entry, when it was uce.s,ary to amend a (Icel.:Al error, w a the mudern Jl n Lord.' Amendment wn. then agreed to. SCOTCH CM! uissioN FA: s. Lotrtl Ire:..: lever in put L. finest ittls lo Ike Noble 1.0r.$ upposele. lir II nlrrslooll 163 t C 000000 isimnoss for knowing into Feet., &e. In Ilse crutch Courts, hard erased to exist. Tim. be tit gist arm a preosnlisre lennis.a tion astir Ishouro, nod aids that pe.rnasluis 111 Id tlye she linitor au r,oly opportunity of expressitic it. opt -1111/11 upon the onlq, rt, twists, he I.rard some rraansis a4osgiirsi Gtr it.: occurrence. lie rose to a>lt the Noble Lord simply, whether be bad any übjet titre' lo involute the eorreopuudeticet . ~_. ... V: .. hetween the Secretary or Ilse Home Department an 3 the Baird, twopert ing the proceedings unilir . the Cossniiimion ? ford OLSTLIMICAGII requested the yuestio■ vruukt be pot 'to hits lu•usurruw, CRIMINAL Sir J. MACILIPITIMIN bard the second rraitag of hie three Rills fur the tisoroduttut of parts of tire Critniosl Colle t fur MuuJay wrzt. . _ ALIEN BILL. lard CASTLEIN•OII postponed null! to-morrow the Alien Bill, ■nd hoped the discussion would be lakes immediately after the Army &similes. NAVIGATION CLAWS. Mr. Altana peesewted a Petition froth she Ship-owner and Merehauta of Great Yarmouth mtainto. hay alteration in the Navigation Laws.—Laid on the table. Mr. lirturtott presented a Petition from the Merchants *and Manufacturers at Wolverhamploa, stating the great dis tress under which they laboured, and that owe-half of the 10,000 people heretofore employed is the nail trade were now will t work, as well as a large proportion of shore engaged in the heavy iron branch. They 'prayed the Legislature to etiosi.ter their dist 1 stale, slut to revert to a more equi table system of trailiug with foreign states. FINANCE. Mr. M begged to ask the Right lion. Gentleman opposite what amount of Exclieqnrr Bolls voted last year remained unauld; ■nd next, in what manner the Right Uon. Gentlentau meant to pay the interest of the limos be was now about to contract ? lie thought an answer to this quer.. Stun necessary, because both iu the l►i nes Message, and iu other communications, it ris prated that no new burdens would be thrown upon the country. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that with respect to the first question relating to Exchequer Bills, lie tl ght Papers ordered by t►e House explanatory of that subject had been laid Ott the table. If t h ey were nut pro duced, he phonlil bare then) ordered immediately. As to the second part of the lion. klember's question, he tholight his explanation would come better when he intioduced his plan of finance, which would be in a few days.--(Haar, hear) Mr. M thought it so ililiptirtald some informa tion upon the bovines, should be given before, that he would, to.motruvr, move certain resolutions nn the subject of fin:nice. He now inured fur certain papers, to the prodac lion of ',thick he understood there was no objection : That there be laid before the House Accounts °Ube whole &a phis of the Consolidated Fund remaining ; after defrayiug the charges made upon it un the Stb Jaureary, 1817; al►o accounts shearing the same, or the deficiency, on the bib Janus's'', 1818, 1819, and MO; and also accounts thew. ing the total amount of the funded debt in the same years. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had no objection to the natation, but the accounts called for bad Men already printed. Sir Jorth NEWPORT said, that the Irish Accounts of the Expenditure were nut forthcoming as they ought by the tering of the Act of Parliament. . . Mr. .11•ButLY said, he wanted to ascertain the real ar. rear of the Consolidated Feud at any specific period, lint ha found that impossible from the confused state of the ac counts. Ile moved some time ago fur au account of the ill.. C4IIIIC and expenitilwre of Great Britain, from January 1819 to MO, and when he examined the account presented, he loon., at the bottom a note stating that the Exchequer were not then abl to make a return of the charge fur Ireland, though that particular charge was required by law to be produced quarterly. AGRICULTURAL PETITIONS. Mr. BFNETT prrio-niell two Petitions from the Owners and Occupiers of Lantl lit the North of %Vilishire, praying fur as inquiry into the stale of the agricultural interests. Mr. WHITMORE prestateJ a similar Petitiuts from Bridge north. ROSINSON presented a Petition from Win. Andemon, praying ihat t h e 'louse would repeal all the laws affecting the amino Intimn of foreign grain. The. Hun. Member stated that the Prtitioner was unknown to bins—his Petition con- Ntin.•d 111/I king improper, it certainly alluded pretty fully to opinions entertained by the Him. Member fur Essex (Mr. Western), but it did nut state that the opinions had been de lie. red in shat Iluusc. Mr. DAVI ES Gluiest? presented a Petition from the In habitants of la Cornwall, who prayed an ituptiry into the nzrieulittral iliAreas, as they traced to that the want of trade tinder *lnch they laboured. . . 1 hi sr: petitions, att well fill the following, for an inquiry into the mate of agricultural alistir3s, were laid on the Mr. Burrell, one from the county of Sussex—Mr. H nskis son, WIC from Chichester—Lim! John Cavendish, leo from De►by—Lord Edward Somerset, one from the county of Clout ester—Sir {Pillion Lemon, one from certain indivi. duals in the comity of Cornwall—Mr.'rremayne, from t►e NOW county—Mr. Curleis, three from Suwex—Mr. Western, four from various hundreds in the county of Ewen—Ad miral Harvey and Mr. Stroll, two from other parts of the same county—Sir Thomas Lethbridge, three from several parts of Sionersetshire—Mr. Woilehouse, one from Norfolk (for ass altesation in the mode of strikom the a ge)—Mr. %Vynti, one from Montgomeryshire—Sir C. Merrell, two from Sussex—Mr. Coke, one from Norfolk—Mr. Dawkins, one from Ilataings--Mr. Joseph Pell, 011 e from Gloucester—Mr. %Wildman, one from Colchester—Mr Holme Sumner, two from Surrey—Mr. Dismiss, six front Berkshire. Mr. LITTLETON presented a Petition from the Nferehants and Manufacturers of Walford, cumplaiuing of the anxiety of the agricultural interests to have grievances particularly discussed which they slid not endure in mu extreme a degree as the merrhauls and manufacturers. Loris Nlll. - ront presented a Petition from the Manufactu rers of K,lkhenton, Yorkshire. A great number of Petitions had been presented complaining of agricultural distress. He begged leave to stole one fact (facts, he had observed, were generally swore successful in carrying rouvictiOU than arguments) respecting the manufacturing distress. The place from which the Petition came contained 7 or 8,000 i Minimal*, among whom there were 289 families, consisting of 1,729 persons, which had been subsisting from the be ginning of this year on a weekly sum not exceeding Ind. for each person. 11e would ask if any thing contained iu the Agricultural Pi titiuus could be compared with such a Mr. Molar presented a Petition from Gallashiels, and an. other from Forfar, praying fur the Scotch Linens to be pit on the same footing with respect to Woollies, drawbacks, and Julie*, as those of Ireland. Mr. MArtrithir said a few words in support of the Poth. lions, and gave outice of a motion on the subject of thus fur Thursday next. General GAIICOYMF presented a Petition from the Ater. chants and People of Liverpool, complaining of distress, and expressing their regret at the anxiety displayed by the lauded interest to obtain higher restrictions on the imports. 'ion of Corn, although the alteration which bail taken place in the value of mune y since 1813, when the Corn JAW pass ed, had made the ri striettons Ihen imposed more rigorous than wag then intended. HP I vnented that the Right lion. Gestileinau to *bode care the Petition was to have been intrusted was not present, an that Right lion. Gentleman would not only have much more ably recommended tlte Pe tition, but be would most likely have been induced to satisfy the Petitioners and the House, by saying how far the Ga. veromeot could go in allowing the prayer of the Petition.-- The Petitioners complained for instance, of British snhjetts beiug excluded from trailing with the countries beyond the Cape of Good Moe, while America, and some of the coun tries of Furor ri.iried on a thriving commerce with those countries, and which the Pct itiouehs avert., d could be car ried On by Ceigli.ll subjects to a considerable extent without any pr. judiec to the interests of the Last India Company. It was far from him to wish to enter into any diseeessi iiii me such a topic; but when the charter of the Company was in debate before the (louse, it certainly was nut a isdeWomi or intruded that it should exclude British subjects ft any commerer which wan to remain open lii other treliuns. Ile would prefer isle. ring the whole rustler to a Committee. With respect lo Ilhe Corn Lawn, to winch the Petitioners alluded, he CHUM out help thinkiro;, that if all the numbers were taken, there would be tnore against than for the r,strictious Thule was smother Pe it t ion cumin: its from the Slsip.oes nets of Liverpool s which be would have In lay before the House. The Petition was ordered to be ph i • AGRICULTURAL DISTRES 4 . Mr. lloLme Sumuet. iii risitig to make the motion of which lie had given notice, felt himself oppressed wills its importance, and lamented [lilt it had not fallen into the bands of a more able and intelligent advocate. The House would join with him in the necessity of bringing the subject before them. fie thought that if the ltlember for Essex would have toidertaken it, the motion might Slave been conducted throughout with more satisfaction to all parties. The distress of agriculture was get ting to :itch a pitch, that if something were not done to mop the absorption of capital '9llOl was lin. hually taking piece through that channel, it would spec lily produce complete ruin to the agriculturists, and thiough them to all the other classesof the state. The subject whenever brought before the House had always been used as aii opportunity for throwing down the gauntlet till behalf of the ie her interests. and the Members who represented those interests always gave any outwore intended fur the relief of agricul ture their decided opposition. Ile did last, how. ever. appear there to attack those interests to retains; no one could be more convinced than l• elf that the interests were united, and that which wits iojn- lions to one was so to all. lie did not come fur ward to ask for any new restrictions on Colllllllwfee or manufacture's, lie would only say, that in 1815 a Committee having been granted to take their ease into consideration, after the fullest deliberation by that Committee, and afterwards by the House, a pro tection was declared to he necessary for the native grower or corn, and the price fixed upon was nth , . per quirter. The Petitions which had beets laid on the table contained no extravagaiit request ; they only stated that the 'nodes adopted for giviug the mea sure of 1815 effect, had proved wholly inadequate, and they prayed that a Committee might be allowed, in order that the Petitiotters might be enabled to sliew that those measures were inadequate, and if they succeeded in their representation, then to fol low it up with some measure which would be perfectly adequate to prod ticiug the effects then expected. The language of the Petitions was in every instance moderate. A variety of Petitions had beau received by the House on other occasions, some of them complaining that the country had been ruined by borough-mongering—others attri buting the distress to the waste of public money. The general feeling of tl:e Agricultural Peti tit:mere, on the contrary, was that of extreme loyalty, and a perfect sense of the necessity of submitting to their share of the burden: which a long and gin. riots, war had left behind to the utmost limits of their power. The Petitioners also thought that the cause for which those burdens were un posed was the protection of their liberties and the remainder of their property. Had they possessed any other feelings—had they sought to (noted their table with Petitions brought forward only for the atitioyaoce of Gorernmeitt, the Petitioiters must have looked out for some other advocate. When ever the agricultuinl question was mentioned in that House, those Gentlemen who considered them selves as guardians of the commercial and twauufec turing interests, were in the habit of stmt . 's% up, and asking if the distress of those grouches were not enough already without aggravating it for the benefit of the agriculturist* ? However those Gentlemen might think that cheap bread would lower the pike of labour, and enable British Manaraetotes to cope with the cheapness of other markets more success fully, certain it was that the cry of cheap bread was one of the greatest mischiefs which could take place in any country, and had its no slight degree tended to aggravate the distress of this country. There was not a landed gentleman who had not witnessed the progressive decline of agriculture. The great iinproveineitts its husbandry, and the consequent increase of produce, had pro duced an unprofitahle suitertluity. Increased quantity and improved quality had led to • lamentable diminution of priers. The general cause of this distress was much the same as that which influenced the other interests. The war required au augmentation of taxer, which took place to the amount of 13 millions. This addition hail raised the country to a high state of prospe. rity. Of course when the taxes were removed, there was a corresponding diminution of demand, to which most of the repent distress was to be traced. The burdens which accompanied this distress were gent-rally Oppressive to all die inte rests; some were more immediately so to the lauded interest, An Hon. Member who was a great poli tical economist, and was generally listened to with ;demure, had said. th it Vagrieulture starred from the pressure of any particular burdens, there should be • particular remedy applied. He was astoilish. ed that the Hon. Member should have stated the matter as ime of doubt, or Shut his suiss4 should have considered the subject as • mere hypothesis. Why, the whole weight of the church expresses fell on the land, the greater part of the poor rates. the whole expense of Coasts of Justice and Sessions, and all the expenses of highways fell upon the loud, nor did lie (Mr. Sumner) believe that any ago lotion could be devised for removing the proper aliases of those busdens from the agriculturists by making the other classes take their part in bearing them. S:ill Ilse agriculturists would be aisle to hear their burdens if they were WI borne down by the isiadtquary of the snearuies rimmed tar their relief. All they asked was be screened from the danger of competition with foreign gloweis. It was impossible fist this country, with the w e ight ..r its debt pressing it down—(Near s frost the Opposition —it was very easy for Gentlemen to cry bear, hear. when they were nisahle to point out any menial of ridding the country of that deld which would hear mentionirig. its that I (owe. The tit lit, however, continued to press down the country notwitiotand ing...-(lleue, hear, from the Oppositiem ride.) — He had before admitted that the war had left cu cumbrances, though he had stated that its fruits were beneficial. It would be impossible fur the British grower to live in competition with the foreigner. If the ports were open its all that might ' arrive America, the Mediterrourou. rod the Black Sea. the price would be 325. or less than half the price at which corn is grown at home tinder tar most favorable cites:tied ati:a s. lie could imagine that he heard the cottinteicial Gen tlemen sly, " Then why the restrictions? For Goers sake let us go 101111 1/1111'1111be Corti Whet.. ever we can have it cheapest I" Butt what would be the result of such it ineitsure but the imme diate withdrawiiig of all the capital and skill ' engaged in agriculture, and a population depend.. 1. . int for its support on foreign growers ? If such i coorse should afterward. he persisted in, theft this garden of the world would become a desert. The average price since 1815 had been 7841. There ...is much delosion abroad as to the late Bill. People anpposed that there were 80.. secured to the farmer by it. The agriculturists had in fact no control over the average ; it was a system of fraud from end to end. The grower would only receive 71s. even when the price at market was 80s. He hoped the House would never listen to the doctrines of those Gentle men who would mike the country depend for its sup.. port on foreign market,. Agriculture was the snty true riches of a country. If the supplies o; population were Confined to the soil, they winiht never he much more than were wattled, 1.11.1 the set-phis would always hr profitably available.— This would have the effect of improving the oilier bralorlien. This was the way in Which they list your on and flourished together. and had raised the coontry to her present grandeur. But if the tiles tinfsclurer went to a foreign market to buy his corn, what would become of the agriculturist ? The Petitioners claimed generally either to be heard at the bar of the House or by a Committee. lu either ease they pledged themselves to skew thee the present law was so far from protecting diem. that they were as badly off as if the law had not passed. They did not suggest any particular men sore as a remedy, but would leave it to the Com mittee to reeninmend one to the House. if the Committee were granted. He could not let the opportunity go by without adverting to the Petitioa which had been presented from the Merchants of the City of London. That Petition had been used a s a n insidious and disguised antidote to the A grt culturAl Petitions which were then in the hands of M em bers, and hail since been presented. But the Hon. Member had failed in maintaining the guard ed manner in which he meant to attack the Peti tions; fur when he came to speak of the agricul ture, he lost all discretion and temper, and could scarcely express himself (we believe the Honour able Alember slid) " with common decency" 4.1 i the sishject.—(Hear, hear, hear, and a fasrgh.)— lie apologised fir having lost that couttextott t,l thought which he possessed before be entered the House, and which his few opportunities of spealso.g in Parliament had not given him the chalice of guiding. Ile concleded by moving. that the Peti tions complaining of agricultural distress s h ould he referred to a Seluct Committee, to exAttlit:e the matter thereof, and to consider and report thel - eoti to the [louse. Mr. Goocii, at the representative of a great avi culture' county, felt obliged, notwithstanding in, inability, to state the reasons why lie would support the motion. 'Nothing could he more mischievous, to any toothilortr wnr..e of it, than ally attempt to divide the pgficultural, mercantile, and umilefoe. luring interest. They were all equally concerned in the present motion. lie dad nut deny his Fro ference for the interests of the agriculturists. Li their behalf a Bill lied been poised to secure the s i s fin.. per quarter for their wheat. That Ball hid proved to be totally inadequate to its poorpose; instead of 80.. the grower had only 'Ns. The re turn was taken from the merchants who boon ! hr, and not fr the growers who had to sell. Then there were districts among those winch gave the average, where the corn grew weak mill was more expensive; in others there were expenses of freightage for removing it, which were added to the price given in. Then there were VITIOII. (rated. to the operation of which the returns were subjected. Now all that was asked by the petitioners was, that the Bill should he made effectual. Their alocestors. thought agriculture worth encouragement, mid there was nothing is these times to alter that prin ciple. He compared the circumstances under which the foreign sod native grower were placed. The foreigner had no tithes, no poor rates, no heavy taxation to endure.-1 lear, from the Opposition./ He did not mean to go into the soviet of these hoi dens. For his part, he thought the taxes only just and reasonable. It was all nottsente to think of doing without times. If they meant that the Etig bah farmer should be able to meet the tow prices of the foreign grower, they must lower the tithes— ( Hear, hear)—they must lower the poor rates— ( liear, bear)—and the taxes—(Hear, larar)—doltur to a very small part of their present tonttont— (Hear, hear.)—lie had expressed his opinions because he was determined to prove to Ins eon stitueuts and the country, that he was not afraid to utter them in Parliament. lie concluded by se conding the motion. Mr. Hostage:ix rose, being l oudly upon from both shies of the House. He expressed Iris apprehension that he should not be as explicit us he wished to be in considering a subject of such im portance. Amour the numerous subjects to a biclt the attention of Parliament had been directed, there was none, in his opinion, which requistd s ., much reserve mod volition, or that sliesehl be calve .i into with less precipitancy. On all topics c..inierie with the subsistence of the people, ilirre was bo much apprehension likely to he awakeite k !, and admitted) so muds rriother. that the matter hail always been held to be one which I.9ttirt•il thr ut mostt delivery to manage it. Thrrrin•t• i c c,•ort not but declare his regret that the sooljtet load been brought before the House. Wren untie was given •f a motiou in the lee Virliameot for a revision of the Corn Law., lie and colleagues had expressly declared PIA, they coori thee' see no reason 1(4 . Hitrti:•i; Owns. 'nos had been stated withmot reserve on the part rf the Government, its 11 was hoped that it would liner the effect of preventing t:;. re stir an the question. Such indeed load irceti toe i estilt . I I tu to Pais , figment khan •at was not an diet./ hire. Atl the agricultural districts had been separately and gra dually agitated, the. their seutiments weir corn ntoiricatrd to each other, and at length the col lected la of all the agriculturists appeared no have been brought upon the table. lie (ferret...coif the numerous mann...toes which had hero piri.ar..t in great part by one haw% said whirtt ware lull of exaggentions.-171eor, hear.llle had heard a that he k new of Noble Lord opposite declare el uu such distress as had been represented to belong to his part of the country by the petitioners. For Ill! (Mr. ltobitoson's) part, he could safely affirm. that he had witio.ssed no instances of tenama leaving farms, nor the reluctance of others to oc cupy, nor of rent' its arresr, nor any of the evils declared to exist its such abundance. He did not asinine therefore that there was no distress, be . - S •_ • - 'q,-.- -e