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P* BPI, time timisaper Nth Sill, anti tlbe Transfer Aide ilkll, were read tle third akar, sad peeved. LONDON 11111 DOE. Wr. Alderman WOOD Named fur leave to beieg L4:l . . Roe removing Ore water works at London 15.idge. Mr. HOLM E SUMNER was sorprlsed the worthy Alder• rasa had not snowed for leave to bring in a aid for building Bill. starillegraii-lIIRS-116.=11114 Ars it probable Omit be should be instructed to am far a 11111,' sod Ise hoped be should sot be prevented - Lome eras 'ken Sir CU rris VAGRANTS. Mr-CHIETWYND gave umbra bb isteadow •to move en Tuesday next for lea,* te-briair is $ Bill to consulidale ft Asa" eimpretiag ragman; and aloe tier a Bill to fecal . sate smbeisary peamsediage before Magistrates. aIPERANNUATION ACT. Lord LONDONDERRY postponed the motion of the Mikellor of the Exetritrer Molise to the Snperannosition Aet. is Thursday, is comexpreace of the iudispositiois of for Right Hoe. Friend. Xad el the same time he expressed lama that Its Member fbr Aberdeen (Mr. (tome) should *mews* his assign as %tech of the information which *we assitims was prop osed rer °beats would be evatairsed in the maismeat of Isteßiglit Hors. /riled. Iv. CURWEN said be should reserve the observations he had to make rpm' the qdealioo to that period. Mt. HUME unmated' to Postpone Ms motto.. SUPPLY. On the motion of Mr. CROR ER Mr. BROODER brought opt's** Report of the Committee of Simply. The Beselatiosie were rhea reed. GIerENWICH HOSPITAL. Sir M. W. ReDLEY moved for certain retires% stating the gross rental of the esWtes belonging to Vferentrich Hospital in the toonties of Narrlitrasa Nyland, Durham,fcre. and the net produce arising from lands mid mintso—Ordered. INDBSINIFICATION OF INJOKIES DONE BY ItIODERS. Mt. Denison rose in pursuance of a notice he - had given, to move for leave Yo bring in a Bill 'to - amend the 59th Geo. 111. which was a Bilt for the 'more effectually prrventing sedittous•rneetings and assemblies. The object of his motion was to lessen the estraordirteryexpenses incurred by applying for Yeriress to the 'higher 'Courts ; and, with the per misaiots of the'lloule, he should state briefly a few instances which hid 'lately - occurred in the county he had the honour to represent, which would sum ' creittly demonstrate the necessity of the ioesvore; -and from his confidence io the }louse, he had uo doubt they could lend every assistance to remove 'the evil. In one case en action was brought to re cover deinages to the mount of 1391 7s. 6.1. sod the iaxedCostsamoanted to no less than 1,1061 gr.loil.! In another inetehce. the damages were 71. 6s. sd. and the taxed•costs amounted to 5311. I d.l— (Hear, hear.).But a still stronger instance was to I •et case -where the damages amounted to eighteen 3 'shillings. and 'the taxed costs to 11 EL 9'. 6d.. "I'Hit•reuld ask the House then, if that were not a .`eels* Calling for Inquiry ? (Hear, hear.)—But the one was not confined to the county of Surrey. 6 ketir'in hit hand a letter fie had received from - a .elect ',retry in the town of Liverpool, stating, •-'4"hat in Detember lest an action had been brought • against the hondred to recover damages dune by sv''rroters to the amount of 214/. Bs. Id.; and the I , taxed costs upon the action amounted to fourteen 'brandsiiel pounds and upwards He had now stated , 111se grievances complained of, and would beg leave • - state the remedies proposed. ‘v hen an injury e.liteat *lammed the party aggrieved should apply to vuthis aterseers of the parish and the Magistrates, ':Mho should have the power of examining witnesses -1 pop oath, and of awarding the damages. That . "derision might be referred to the next Quarter • Sessions, when ■ smaller or • larger sum might be gnat. dv and the treasurer of the county should then levy an additional rate upon the hundred. That ass the proposition he hod to submit to the considerstion of the House, and he should there ' fore move.— • 4 714 For leave to bring is s Rill to emend the 57th Geo. ,(,_'winch war as Act-for the more effectually preventing eediii• one meetings sal Assemblies" Mr. B. WiLSRAHAH said he should give every assistance to the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Denison) • ID the accomplishment of the proposed object. The evil seemed, in his opinion, to arise from the par. ties being compelled to seek redress iu the higher Courts. Mr. SCARLET? thought it extremely desirable that some less expensive should be devised of 4rcovering compensation for the injuries received in cases. Some alteration should be made in the sr, whereby an investigation into the extent of the 10,jury might be had without imposition, and that the Magistrates should be invested with the power • of assessing the damages. Mr. LOCKHA KT said, it was a misfortune that auch grievances should exist in a well-regulated country, as that in a certain class of actions the costs should amount to upwards of twenty times • the damages. He hoped that the measure won ldelford a precedent to others, and that the people would pot be lorded over, and their Wood sucked tiorn them by the vampire system at present in existence. • The House were bound tisinterfere and enable the people to receive damages fur any loss they might sustain on the moat reasonable terms. Leave was then granted. SCOTCH JURIES. . . Mr. KSxxkDY said, that to moving for leave to bring in a Bill, of which he had given notice, he was aware that them were two courses open to hum to pursue. The one was to enter at length iuto the details of the measure, the other to confine himself to the principle upon which his motion was found- . . ed. If he were to consult his own inclinations he should choose the farmer; but as he wished to con sider the convenience of the House, he should occupy as little of their time as possible. His ob ject was to reintroduce a" Bill, which was read a second time last year and stood fur committal, sod if the Learned Lord opposite (the Lord Advocate) would have the kindness to intimate whether he • meant to accede to its introduction, it would save considerably the time of the House. The LORD ADVOCATE could not give an opinion upon that subject uutil he was in possession of the • irrimeiple upon which the measure was' founded. • •• • ain KEINNIDY then proceeded to state the ••• - :.•docionds upon which be made the motion ; and first . it vs necessary to state the mode in which the cri -ssilisal'law was administered in Scotland. The :,, t Crsisst of Session sat in Edinburgh, except when • thivilodges wens on .ciscost, I el CO a year. It was • • •sretessety also-iostexe r that the Sheriffs of counties were chffereut from Slteritli in this part of the peracess... was iriii - 111re.iice - Qiesea them and the oT this cooutry, that it was not necessary they ;.awasonsous,.tbe verdict was derided by the msjoily. sod upow the day of trial, when as individual was arraigned. 45 persons appeared in Court. from whom the Jiuy was selected. He was now going to state a fret with which, perhaps, the House was sot familiar. The Jury of 13 were selected frees the -45 by the presiding Judge. These 13 versos' en selected sat in use box to try the ease. From this *linemen' it would appear. that it could be scarcely proper for Couusel to idler any objections to the telectioo; for it could not be dour without approach. ing at least to sousethirig like a contempt of the judicial authorities. One thistly only was reserved to the prisoner, and that eat, to make some legal objections. These were nut objections that might occur to the prisoner, arising out of the circum stances of the case. They were strictly defined by the law. The objections were these :—Either it must appear that a person objected to had suffered conviction of • ttttt e crime, or that he here ill-will or malice to the ohjecting vurty, or that he was (led, dumb, or a mirror. Now from this it would ap pear, that the power of challenge was extremely litnited indeed, and that the circumstances which would disqualify a 'man IO iry rt awe 1484 vely rarely occur, and therefore the practice was seldom resorted to. The remedies 'Moshe should proirose to Inert the evil would be them : that the Jury of 15, instead of being selected by the presiding Judge from amongst the 45, should be chosen by ballot, sod • peremptory power of challenge should be given to the prosecutor as well as the prisoner. Ile should feel considerable be. citation in submitting this proposition to the House, if it had been • speculstion of his own. But by the 55th of Geo. 111, the experiment had been made, and by the 59th Gro. 111, it was continued for four years, and found to be successful ; so that the House had the authority of experience in sup. poi tof the practicability of the plan. lie had now stated the principal grounds upon which he found ed his motion. He forbore, fur the present, to en ter into any details, althoogh he confessed lie wish ed to do it, for much odium, both general and in ' &tidos!, bad been eacited against himself in con sequeoce of the immure. He should, however, re serve any further observations be had to make to the usual time, on the second reading of the Bill. At the 'same time, if any discussion arose upon the present occasion, and he should hope no such dis cussion would take place, he should claim the in dulgence of the Home while he offered some obser vations in reply. He should therefore wove for leave to bi:lig in a Bill to alter the mode of elect ing_Juries to serve on criminal trials in Scotland. The LORD AovocaTa said, lie should abstain from any remarks for the present that would create discussiew, reserving the right of reaserking upon it on the second reading. He must, however, ob serve, that there never was a measure more uncalled for or more unwise thou that proposed by the Hou. Gentleman. Leave was then ;rioted. HENRY HUNT. Mr. Howe presented a petition from some place in Lancashire (the uame of which we could not heal, praying the attention of the House to the sufferings of Mr. Huut.—Ordered to lie upon the table. Mr. Howe said, as the Noble Marquis (Lon_ donderry) had postponed the motion of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer to Thursday, he should postpone his motion until after that period ; and if the statements of the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not appear satisfactory to him, he should call the attention of the House to the subject uu a lu ture day. PRISON LAWS. Mr. Wlll. COVtTCN•Y wished to COI the atten tion of the House to the motion of winch he had given notice, namely, for the appointment of a Committee upon Prison Laws. He thought there could be but one opinion upon the necessity of esta blishing some uniform system of prison discipline, which would be the general system of the country. He should not at present detain the House by eis tering into details; but with a view to the proba bility of bring enabled to carry some such measure inns effect, he should move—.' That a Select Com mittee be appointed to inquire into the present state of Poison Laws." There was but one altera tion he wished to make in the Committee, and that was, that the name of Mr. Secretary Peel should be added, Mr. WARRE said, that nothing could be further from his intention than to give any opposition to the proposition of the Honourable Gentleman; but be wished to direct the attention of the House Won branch of the subject, namely, the 'o val and corporate jurisdictions, which looked like • Compromise of the corporate jurisdictions on the one hand, and the county upon the other.— He highly approved of the principle of the Bill ins troduced by the Member fur Peterborough in Idly, and wished that it might be extended to many other matters of local and corporative jurisdictions. The Committee was then appointed. SCOTCH DENIZENS ACT. The LORD ADVot:RTS obtained les,* to bring in a Bill to continue the 58th of his lute Majesty, for preventing Aliens from becoming Denizens. ea end in certain cases. The Bill was afterwards brought in and read a first time, and ordered to be read a second tune on Thursday neat. Lord NOIII4NRY give notice of a motion for to-morrow week on the ruhjert of the ■ppototmeut of the Joint Postmaster-General. Mr. SCARLETT presented 14 Petition, praying the relief of ogriculturr, from Norfolk. He coururied in tho opinion of the Peiitioners, that the di►tress was caused in • great measure by taxation. He thought be could prove that by the alteration of the curcency. and the measures concomitant to that Act, there hid been a weight equal to nine millions of new taxes added to the pre►sure of the former taxation. The Member for Poriarlingtoti reckoned the alteration of the currency at give per cent. so Waif. This upon sixty 1134111014 of taw would he equal to a new impo.•tauu of three millions. The time Rot. Member 16001 file pet cent. *,t the e • r tol. .-toolteclien of the is aim per•ceet. 6n the resin' • tir pi t b the Bonk. , There were to elo , iewi 1061' re* take. The Chance • f the gsobequer, in 1819, laid on three million of really pew taus, making altogether an rdditionsl pleasure of true 'quill to nine millions of new tuxes. To Awry the effect of this on a co n . vertible produce, the House would hi . " 110 1 1 1) 0, e a cue, that all the charges on produce, for resit and taxes, and as on, wpre paid in kind, the rate would then be some adequate portion of the produce. 10 a very abenriaut harvest 011 the parties, the grower, the landlord, and the Government, would be so much better off by the augmentation of their several sharer, and superabundance could never. as nowt, be alleged as a ground of distress. But if the produce were convertible. sod the charges were find iu a 'stoney value (as there must be more sold at low prices to meet the charges than at high ones), the share of the profits of the grower dimi nished, as that of thus who received the charges augmented. The sons that required one quarter of the prodoce to meet it, might as now require one half; and the greater the quantity of the pro duce, the more distressed the occupier of the soil must be from the diminution of prices. Mr. RICARDO contended that in the case put, although up to r certain point the parties would he all benefited by increase of produce, yet after securing euough fur their families, and exchanging as nisei, as the other commodities of the Comm.. filly might require. any ruperabundarice must pro. duce very great distress to all the parties. This case was no doubt much aggravated where the charges on production were fixed and paid in money. He contended, that beyond the 10 per cent, which he had accounted for by the alteration of the currency and the iiirliocreet contractions of i.sues by the Book, agricultural distress was wholly attributable to ouperabundant prcduce. The Petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. Pau. gave notice of a motion for Thursday the 14th inst. for the revival of the Committee on the Police Laws. SUPPLIES. The Report of the Committee of Supplies was brought up. no the first Resolution for granting the service of 68,802 men for the army— Mr. Hums rose to move for • redaction of 10,000 men. lie was aware of the state of Ireland, which had been before urged; bur allowing for that, he thought that out of 86,000 men, com prising all the forces of the line for these king doms and the colonies, there might be at least 10,000 spared. He was the more of this opinion when he considered that the estimates for the army, which were now to be upwards of seven millions, were in 1792 only 2,300,0001. The difference was too great fur the House to submit to it. The Colonial Secre tary had called this • petty saving, which ought to be rejected with disdain by the House. He attri buted this feeling in regard toe ►eduction of no less than 500,000/. to a sense of importance which the new acquirement of office had raised in the mind of the Hon. Gentleman. That .Hots. Member hid appealed to the sense of chivalrl . in the House, sod had used the words of Burke, " the days of chi valry are gone." He (Mr. Hume) thought that it would be more honourable to cousider what were the means which the country had to meet such accumulated expenses. No proposition for reduction ought to be nettled with contempt by the House. Some allusions had been made to professions by the gallant Member for Liverpool, who, he was sorry to observe, was not in his place. His (Mr. Hume's) profession was well known. If he were to ask the gallant Member for what exercise of his profession he gut his last regiment, it would puzzle him (ti • gsilant Member) to answer more than any question which could be put to him (Mr. Flume). He dis liked such personal allusions, which were put for ward for unworthy and improper purposes, and not with a view to any public duly. The pay ex penses •lone of the 10,000 men he proposed to re duce amounted to 330,0001. He conclisded by moving, that 511,000 be substituted for 68,000 men in the resolution. Mr. WILMOT thought the observations of the Honourable Member for Aberdeen would have bten more apposite in the Committee Isst night. He denied that lie had treated a prOp4,llltloo kW savi n g 500,000/. as a subject which the House ought to re ject with contempt. His remarks applied to the erroneous view taken of the number of forces, es pecially those for the colonies, by the Honourable Member. It was in respect to that view that he considered the proposition as one which ought to be treated with disdain by the House. The Reeolution w•s then re•J • first •nd second time. M►. Hums said, that the words of the Honour able Member were now sufficiently explained—hut that certainly their import had been generally un derstood by his Honourable Friends as he had de scribed it. As to the error ascribed to him, it arose out of the returns laid before the House, in one of which the colonial forces were stated in to tal—in the other, the officers were kept distinct from the rank and ale. Theie was no difference in his statement, except that which lay between the two returns. The amendment to the resolution was then put, and negatived without a division. The resolutions were agreed in seriatim. ANNUAL MALT TAX. Mr. LUSHINGTON moved dist it be ao instruc 110i/ to the Couflutttee to consider t•f the above Act. —Ordered. The House then went into the Committee. Mr. LUIMINOTON mo►ed, that the Bill imposing • duty of Is, per bushel on malt, should he held to hove expired on the 45th Felowiry. slid the said duty should cease from that day. Mr. MONCK •eked for explanation us to the allowances to be utude fur stuck on hand, to which, Mr. LUOHINOTON replied. that at first it was in tended to take the duties on stock un hand, mak ing ao allowance to brewers. distillers. and vinegar makers. It was found that great inconvenience would result from that course, and it was now de ter unucat to give up the duty tai 311 malt which might remand it; posvemion of brewer*, inaltattre, mid any When, betwteu the 45'h ci fcbt uary sod the 3cl of stet with an ollootneetiatt n 'Ss. on porter, beewe4 pi Me , a, t' clauses soup 41114#4 es 11 .. ne fir AIM 'Mg to repeal, toe amyl dui, tis 1r led baled. L :, r * t' Sir Jong ?IMPORT thought the repeal of the window tax would he a greater relief to Ireland. The House was then resumes'. lid OW Report of the Committee was ordered to be received to. 1110 T row. Sir Joint NIWPOIIT moved for returns of all sums levied in the last seven years in Ireland ender the presentment of Grand Juries, and paid into the hands of the Treasurers and Clerks of county Courts; oleo of all sums levied in the sense tints its consequence of defalcation of any of the reve nues in the same Courts.—Ordered. MI. LUSNINOTON obtained leave to bring in . Sill to amend the laws relating to the offices of RecriversiiGeueral of Land and Assessed Taxes in England and Wales. The Bill was brought iii, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday next. The other orders were then dispelled of, and the House adjourned at half-past six o'clock. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. ki Dl et as. le Seellona the Sheriff. leer. dieted by 'roellib fain tinjoyLit the her . atitt i fette tro- ve, ilke pworgebt Notranettqc joiltierpt- Int His bitaßliby's Advocate ditched ex ' vieif *Went , were l bOsight it to tiobaib to the crliiiel trilBl6l4 of the country. la Mi. ...l au d anis:its cambial *fifteen pawns. and 'here PARIS PAPERS. PARII, X A arm 1. Twelve persons wore arrested yesterday soloing tla venue which were formed round the cherch des Pails Peres. The y were lodged first at the guard-Mouse of the Varian., then conducted at half-past eleven to the Prefecture of Police, a six hackney couches, escorted by eattlaronn on lowseb irk. Maur. de Cereals* avid Delancey, Members of the Cham ber of Deputies, being le one of the streets where the groups were collected, had also been arrested and conducted to the post of the Moire, near the church of Petits Peres.— After a proch rerbal had been drawn up in their presence, they were released. _ - Today already, at four is the afternoon, there were sta tioned in the Place des Victoires and the environs, gen. darates on foot and on horseback, • regiment of troops of She line, and veterans. Public tranquillity has not been disturbed in the c►urc► des Petits Peres, nor iu the streets adiscrat. In the chinch of SI. Rustic+, souse individuals who, it creole, could not be discovered, scattered, and,' rover of the (Imbues'', mephitic substances, which produced so infec tious au odour bat the people were obliged to leave the church. Some groups assembled near the church of Boons Nouvelle, cries were heard of" Down with the Missionaries!' There were some droops also in the street Neese des Petits Clumps, _bat it seems they were com i ,osed only of persons attracted by curiosity. Private sod public carriages drove about without hindrance, the galleries of the Patois Royal were frequented as usual. In the roe Nesse des Petits Champs almost all the shops were shot. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. The first part of the sitting was occupied in discsmittg the first article of the second project of law on the public accoente relative to the granting a credit of 1,800,004) freers fur the expenses of erecting the new opera house, which was carried after some opposition. M. Dernareay proceeded' to detail the circumstances of his bring arrested, as he was going with his wife, about 7 p.m. to see hie motheraa law. He mentioned his name, sad staled that be was • Deputy, when somebody made him • sign to pass; but • gendarme pushed loin violently against the wall. He remonstrated, the officer of the de tachment ordered him to be ed, which was done, Af ter being grossly abused, laughed at, and detained in spite of his remonstrances, and those of other persous who kites him, he was released at half-past elites at night. IL de Correllas gave ye account pretty similar of his being arrested; he heppeeed to be going that way, withoat knowing shat was passing, when he was driven up !whist a -all by the horse of • gendarme which reared ; he drove off the bone with his cane, *hes the bonen.* began to In mill him, nod struck at biro with bus sabre; the blow was deadened by hia hat, which fell off. He was seized and car ioca to the guard-house; he demanded that the gendarme should be a led. He asked whether he was a prism.. r M which they first replied, No ; then Yea: this lasted till I I. Three witnesses stated the danger that I had seen, said the Hun. Member. A fourth was beard, who contradirted the other there. le short, this stranger, this aye! proviarateur, if you will, was smite regarded, and the three other it seises and myself were ell wrong. I hope the Chamber will menthe in its wisdom the measures which should be adopt ed to pieltree the inviolability of AI Members. The Minister of the Interior said, that baying heard that the Archbishop of Psi is had been disturbed iu the exercise i f . his functions, and that disorderly thrones were assembling sear the Church des Petits Peres, HA Police wee obliged to take measures to disperse them. In such eircumamnres, all prudent citizens should retire. His Excellency hears that two Deputies hail been arrested, among others ; lie could sooty wake them to he set at liberty. His Excellency then asked, whether the Deputies had acted with becoming prudence? He had heard that they bad used very violent expressioes; that they had endeavour ed to pass in spite of the officers, who were stationed to prevent people assenildmg together, and that Gemara! De merely was arrested, as having atteniptid to violate a mire tertian, though • Deputy. This meld not he helped, as be was taken in . /Vagrants delfefo [violent tumult on the left.) M. earthiere observed, he did nut mean to say that Gni. De roarcay had any culpable iiitention; but at the moment how could he be considered but as battier made pieta' forbidden assemblage? His Excellency observed, ON the repression sf tweet provocateur, used by 111. Comedies, %'e knew roue sech, Gentlemen ; if you do, I beg you to name them ; you will reader • great service to the State, and to the friends of order and peace. A tumultuous scene ensued. M Cornet d'lncoort moved the Order of the Day. MM. De Coree'les lied D m.,csv both ascended the Tribune, aid gave forth explanations of what bad passed. M. de N Bourdonnaye observed, that the case was of a serious aware, hut he thought the Deputies themselves who had been wrested should have made • motiorrost the sub jett. Hitherto, Gentlemen, there has been saffireent scandal. Them movements exciting to diaotders and the overthrow of the throne, doubtless come from *one pat t of France. But to accuse the King's Ministers of them is • felony. These seditious, cries which ',attend every +here, do but repeat what has been said at this Tribune. What do those cries announce ? It is Napoleon 11. that is proclaimed. Well, let the factious know that all of pis Ministers and Deputies unite to combat with them; I, who have always defended our public liberties, I myself will be the first to demand that the Throne be invested with the tweet absolute power to save the monarchy. Yes, if ueresoary, we *lli sa crake individual liberty, the liberty of the press, every 'ham in short, that the Throne may not perok.--(Br•vu! rent the right )—lt is with islet I deal ire it, but sedstions it• noes are placarded in all the streets; the youth are caged to arms. All these attacks must be repelled If, in such sir • cionsteinces, I had bees entitled, lake the two Deputies, would be silent. diem this M. Manuel moved as inquiry, no • hick a most 'laical dank mussed; the Ministers of the Interior anJ nurture both thought that the Deputit a had drawn the treat Incnt they had received on tliemseivea, sea that the re i• dames could not do otbeersise than arrest them. We OEI not, Paid the Minister of Moaner. give Ike ene mies of the limes Covet violent the satisfaction of mskii.g the sacrifice of the public liberty to restore order. The at tachment of the King's faithful set emits sill suffice. awl we shall not ask wolves recrifiers. M. Fo.tv attempted to speak but the Piesidest pet the previous gurstiov, which ,was carried. The article which was the artier of tie day wet them seam brought forwsitl. M. Fry tit MY atterithAl to speolquo the pr. con.' pu,^4t. luvetßcri MAIL PaTltatattelON, ftlllll/11t, 11. A dumber of Pol.. who were lakes primer,. lu the caut. pip of ISIS, were carried to the farthest parts of Siberia Pose of Ihem, who reasaitied helund in the Goseroment of Tebolak t were takes by the Kisgeee hordes, sad weld to Me Me* of Beekria ati *hove 1 here they were employed six year' in the hardest labowr, till th at hilt\ escaped. eel wandered through Ike deserts for seven hastbed to the town of lifa, is Oreuborg; being nakuessa derma they weir hese pest to the hardest labosse, trit authentic Jai/rotation could be °Wattled respeetirg them. They at knelt, found means to write letters which made Ibtir it:audition known to Prince Coemanline, and raise. amenity to the Emperor, who) immediately gale otili•is !, s i t them at liberty, and to provide them with whiter rkrili ag and mousy fur their juoisey. Tiny have nor Issppily rived at Warsaw, Eller pammd ten year. In ibe hard.,,t captivity, a ceamarresice of the most singular rirrtirmitsi c s having prevented the Goverment sat from learning their fate. Respecting the expected chances in the tariff, sedan eir. Isis (say public papers) is yes Ititwwn; but it a tottaiderttt as higltly probable that piintid calicoer sad s ales of diffeeest colossi will be wlmlly prohibited : ufioeil saes, the saw% Ou raw sugar a deity of lirifwer riwililhw is expected, aud the duty on cloths it is supposed will be doublid. yaltaaw, attataire 16. The Jewi.h populaiira of {Varga. ineieues ua as tarry dible nanitner. In 1807, it am,...aird in that city, the trahterhs, and Naga, to 5.000; is 1816, to 1 8 ,006, and it ;r Now 20,000. Peterstrurth Estimate, F. beset 8: ..... •.• V 31 I iisoihurgh Ansaterdant .... V 26-j2 Paris RAMaV of R, FIBRUART 20. St veral journals have nightie of • Commission which los met at Bei lio to retelate the virile. lateen's coastetid with the late kingdom of Westphalia; Pettily', Ham. j see, the Electorate of Haw amid Bruitawick hive weed to come to an aitlerstanditig respecting their isterests %MOT from the dissolution of the kingdom of Wesiphafia b 7 a Commission, which Lipids its sittings at Berlin, and coanns of Comet Berostorff for the Prussian Government, asif Ministers of the other Powers concerned at the Court of Berlin. The immediate object of the Commissioe, however, is it lay lowa general principles, and dines*. the respecti►e re- Leine. of the distr. towards each other, wbetbev the Ws rests of the geveromeais thematic's Of thew *objects lit implieated ; but it is no part of their busier., to We, si.i the o LIONS of individeals. It will depend se the result of their labours what claims will be reguided as selassible, sad *bat measures shall be adopted respecting them. TILE BRITI S H PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY. MAace 6. 18c23. The indisposition of the CHANCELLOR of tie EXCHEQUER. prevented the Right Hoo Gri.tlrrnot from opening to the House of Commons vestredie evening his promised statement respecting the na ture, character, and extent of the measures of rt. treitchment *hick have heen adopted by his Ms. justy's Ministers. The Maiquis of LONDONDERRY rppriseti the House that on Thursday they 'night expect to heat this important expositton, and post• pelted the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S motion until that evening. The Act imposing the sentinel melt tax was re. (erred yesterday evesiiiig to a Committee of the whole Illouse. ►esulutions of the Committie import that the existing duty of one shilling bushel upon malt shall be held to have expired upon the 25th of Febrility last. It is determined to concede the duly on all malt in the possession if [Hewers. mallsteis, stud others, between the 25th of February and the 3d of March, nail an allot:me of 44. a barrel on ale, and 3s. a barrel ou porter, brewed between these periods. The Repott of the Committee of Supply relating to the Army Estimates was brought up yesterday evening, when Mr. Hums again moved the reduc tion of 10,000 men. The saving proposed by IL> apparently blight reduction would amount to 500,0001., but the motion was negatived without a division. It is not, however, in the ~umbers ,I rink and file, the effective strength of our vane that the [louse of Commons ought so much to look for reductions in the expenditure, as in the civil department of the ni.litary estimates; i t is ,a the immenae army within doors, with Its enorinou• ePtabli•hinent of well-pa.d functionaries, dist rt• treneliment ought 10 be effected. Those who ruses off the two Lords of the Admiralty would nut, per hips, have willingly d mantled a single ship; end we may form an opinion limn the aniouat of the Army Estimates, independent of !he pay. we ptesume that if the pruning knife were with ar• milar spirit taken its o the screed twilit:hes of t c civil department of the army service, a co nsieteuX 4 saving would be effected. In the military prim.- limbo 'ditch we published on Monday, we were xl4 l t , r see some appointments from the half-pie lo active service. This mode of proceeding ought io be pursued ; it not only causes a large :401114 the public, hut it dues substantial ikough ie justice to brave and deserving Lacers. The aeveral Ir.:. Papers of Siturdsy. have muted at our ufficr, repserent differeoly the chancier of the transactions which omitted Puri* on Thuraday evening. The cinurnotioni 'laid in the Cuhrtitrtionnel, and other JUllflloo, 10 hoc been renewed on Flida‘, and that the onlinot Were spins miuirtd to interfere for the diTente of the populace; other Journals speak nit-rit3 us*rtublageo of the people. without itoticiit girt:vainly of further military exertions. A' , .r of t!:e rolircii et been !snit d, hob:Lids:lg • e • : 3 4 • .1 . e r • rr lo • i.~