The Sun. — London, England, 1837-04-05 00:00:00

Soap • he meant the agricultural interest. But the most c "ortant point o f v i ew i n which to put his case, in advo- Ating the abolition of this tax, in his opinion, was to show that it was a tax which operated with very unequal pressure on the different portions of the population, and with the greatest severity on the poor. The excise duty on a ton Of soap was 14/., and the customs duty on the materials ght be stated at 3/. more, making together a duty of 17/. (.;:nton of soap. N ow, t h e cost of a ton of soap used by tile poorer class es was a b out 401., the duty being, as he ;said, 17/. The cost of a better kind of soap was 601. a ton, the duty still being 17/. ; while the cost of a ton of perfumed s oa p, w hi c h was consumed by the rich, was about 1001., st ill b ear i ng a duty of only 17/. ; so that the duty of the article consumed by the poor man amounted to not less than 45 per cent. of the .whole price i while the duty on the article consumed by the rich man bore only the proportion of from four t'dn to twenty per cent. on the whole price. He thought he could not bring forward a stronger reason for the abolition of this duty.—(Hear, hear.) Unlike the duty on tobacco or on spirits, which affected only certain Portions of the community, the duty on soap was a tax that interestid every class. It would not be difficult to show that the abolition of the duty was much more pre dferable than a reduction of it, because if any portion of the *uty were retained the whole of the machinery for collect the duty and for protecting the revenue must be kept P. The expense of re-paying the drawbacks was very great, `and the present system gyve every facility to fraud. By Itholishing the duty this expense would, of course, be saved. Gross duty, 1835 £977,122 Drawbacks on Exportation........ 81,209 Manufactures Ireland 62,538 198,009 ,11 net. It must be observed that th ere were two £779 descr 3 iptions of drawback—one paid by the Customs on soap exported, and the other by Excise to manufacturers, and requiring dis tinct sets of officers. It had been said that the soap duty was reduced in 1833, and therefore other trades ought to have a preference over it in 1837. But to this 1 e would answer, that the reduction of the duty in :1833 was made in consequence of the proved existence of :smuggling. But the improvements in alkalies which were 'then commencing had placed the trade in a worse situation with respect to the smuggler than it was at that time. The facilities for fraud were now greater than ever, which was ac knowledged by the Commissioners of Inquiry in their 17th report. It was also said that glass ought to be relieved in Preference to soap. But flint glass had been reduced to a great degree, and sufficiently to prevent smuggling. No 'one complained of fraud in window or plate glass. The co nsumption of glass was rapidly increasing. It was in 1832, 7 45,000/. ; in 1833, 862,000/. ; in 1834, 922,000/. ; in 1835, 966.000/. Notwithstanding a reduction of 2s. 3d t hu duty on flint-glass in 1835 was calculated at 15.5,0001.* The manufacturers of glass did not apply for any reduc tion. The cost of the materials, labour, and duty on plate and crown glass, and on soap, stood thus : Mate . _ Glass. _ Soap. lurials . £l4 per cwt. £57 5 For corn our, includi ng coa l s 53 7 5 mon brown 33 35 0 soapat 401. - £loo £lOO 0 per ton. lTherefore to defraud the revenue of 331. in the manufac ure of g l ass requ i red an expenditure of seven times the a bour necessary to defraud it of 35/. on soap. The ma nufacture of glass required a bulky apparatus, and glass Could only be made where coals were cheap. Soap, on the c ontrary, could be made i n a f ew h ours . N o d ou b t the ;tight Hon. G en tl eman would be called upon t o a ff or d re lief b y the reduction or abolition of other taxes ; but it Was his (Mr. Gill on ' s ) conv i ct i on t h at t h ere was no tax Whiccalled more immediately for repeal than the duty on soap, If his Majesty's Government would consent to this Proposition, they would thereby confer a boon on all the productive classes of the community, and contribute mate rially to the h ea l t h, com f ort, and happiness of the popula iti°h• The Hon. G en tl eman conc l u d e d b y mov i ng for leave td bring in a Bill for the abolition of the soap tax. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER trusted t he Hon. Member would abstain from pressing the House to a division on the subject until after the financial state ment had been made, which would be early in May. Be fore a decision was come to upon such questions as these, it was essential that the House should know precisely the amount of income and expenditure for the year. There Was no doubt that the duties on Soap were in many re 4Pects arbitrary, and subjected the manufacturer to great ; and the same observation was -applicable to sban 3 branches of the excise duties. With a view to ob viate these and other objections, it was the intention of Government, at an early period, 'to bring forward a nice aure for the consolidation and simplification of the excise duties, of the same character with that which had been so a dvantageously introduced in reference to the customs du ties. Government was well aware of the great expense of collectin g t h e exc i se dut i es, and it would be their endeavour nsiderably to lessen that expense. The Hon. Member Would find that his notion as to the surplus revenue was 4 1 .1t A IKEther a delusi ve one . H e ( t h e C hancellor of the nilequer ) did not i nten d on t h at occasion to reply to '", c Hon. G ent l eman ' s arguments, as he wished to leave e"them untouched until a future occasion. He would again Press his h ope t h at t h e H on. M ember would not divide 01 1 the motion. lair. HUME quite concurred in the propriety and ne cessity of reducing, the soap duties. He trusted the House Would decide for the removal of this mischievous duty, with- Out reference to the statement of income and expenditure. hlqr. HAWES would have been b e tt er p l ease d h a d t h e ksticello r of the Exchequer in his observations placed rtater reliance on the recommendations of the Commis 'loners of E xc i se i nqu i ry. It was most desirable that this f a Vorta n t b ranch of our maufactures s h ou ld b e re li eve d 1:` a 17 i u t t i the many difficulti es un d er which it now labo ure d. an increasing population, and with increasing wealth dui,.B..eountry presented the striking anomaly of an actual e e 'resse in the consumption of one of the first articles of e: ess itY, soap. In his opinion, the Board of Excise (lid not I . l het its business in the way in which the public busi e ought to be conducted by a public Board. The Right 6 °ll ' Gentleman had urged as an objection to the motion state it Ought not to be brought forward before the financial ti:.ftent for the year was before the House. Hon. Gen °' however however, were aware that it was then too late to h ope to induc e the Right - Hon. Gentleman to change his (m''s• The proper time, therefore, as it appeared to him Zdll% Hawe s ) to press t h e re d uct i on o f any particular tax utY was while the financial arrangements for th e en ver ' Ye roent. r a were still under the consideration of th e Go clkfter a few words from Mr. HUME and the CHAN tiehLLOR of the EXCHEQUER in explanation, the mo il was withdrawn. t o t - r ' MAULE o b ta i ne d l eave to b r i ng i n ' a B i ll to secure do lila 'ts of farms in Scotland compensation for damage ,c to their farms by game. AIL A ST L INDIA COMPANY'S OFFICERS. sev er ., • P. YOUNG, a ft er present i ng a pet i t i on f rom t he e fttrizind ers b e l ong i ng to t h e mar i t i me serv i ce o f 1.40‘.3, 4 tast Indi a C ompany, rose to bring forward a motion th, ti lle subject of w hi c h h e h a d g i ven not i ce s i m il ar t o tlt twiwed o ' i s e e ll he urg e d i n th e last sess i on . H e conten d e d r officers were entitled to compensation under the pl oyin charte r o f t h e C ompany, f or t h e l oss o f their ern ing beenents fore, aabolished, and the services of those officers, there tilittee I° ';',Ter required. H e mere ly as ked for a Com be 031 a nd If th a t was grante d , h e f e l t con fid ent h e s h ou ld tl etn e t ,„o prove the justice of the claims of these gen- Illitt ee They w ere a d m i tte d b y t h e Fi nance Com ," al of the I n di a House, by the Court of D i rectors, bo ard s° by the C ourt o f P ropr i etors. I t was b y t h e M ember o f Contr o l on l y t h ey were opposed. The Hon. S ele c t co ncluded by moving for the appointment of a Sir Com .rni ttee. ht C. HOBHOUSE opposed the motion, as it 'Wi t • t nPIY a doubt as to the justice of the claims set up. f re i,ilt res Pect to C apta i n Mangles, he was only in the s erviee, and he was entitled therefore to compensa -4.,, ordUger the regulations. This case was decided by o f - nenhorough, when he was at the head of the Board p_Uoritro l'h ere Th.. 1 11, and he saw no reason to alter that decision. 1v44, a s no new matter here. If the Board of Controul let not Properly constituted, let it be altered by law ; but ea se. t ,The House be called upon to interfere in a special a bl Eve if a Select Committee should report favour ilillts_tioi..tnhe views of the Hon. Member, he should not feel tivr:lJustice called upon to comply. th ose ROBINSONIt contended that by the Act of 1834 g r o an g entlem en were entitled to compensation, on the irr..giat th e y had suffered in th e i r prospect i ve i nte rests. wh ole 01-S A GSH A W h a d pa i d the greatest attention to the th e Ri f this case, and he came to the same conclus i on as t o t aii. gbt Hon. B aronet (Sir J. Hobhouse) It was easy fs vo ._" of the gen eros i ty of the proprietors in deciding in 4\ LT of this claim ; but the Hon. Member (Mr. Robin very well that the proprietors must be paid their Th e ex , and that they could lose nothing by their decision. wh f_ expense must ultimately fall upon the natives, for ,n,uscwiposrotection the Board of Controul was instituted, _e duty it was to protect them. Prel.r;ePllAED said that the Right Hon. Baronet the t „ nt of the Board of Control appeared to expect him fi ghho P ti P s o ,, r , t the view of the case which he (Sir John had taken, but he was at a loss to know on /1 -4 1 , 4 greund that expectation was based. When he (Mr. ,atneede.alisl attached' to the Board of Control, and these a v r .:?!,... e s r were brought before him, he treated them in b y .o;Ye(ll,!t:,,ent light from that in which they were viewed tl ba lit lion. Baronet opposite, and he would tell re4l meritstuber for Teignmouth that his opinion on the of the question was not changed. He thought the House was bound to support the motion for a Commit tee on the case of the present petitioners. Mr. V. SMITH considered that the Right Hon. Baro net had not swerved from the principle of the rule he had found established on coming into office. The House ought not to grant compensation out of the public money to officers who, if they had not made fortunes, had had ample oppor tunity for doing so. He was at a loss to account for the change which, on this qnestion, appeared to have taken place in the opinions of the Hon. Member for Yarmouth. The Hon. Gentleman had said that all the cases of those officers who had not performed the five voyages, or served the five years, might be explained ; but during the time the Hon. Gentleman was in office, he had not thought fit to call for that explanation—(Hear)—and he now changed his opinion, because he had heard those cases were capable of explanation. Mr. HUME, however anxious he had been to support the claims of these petitioners, nevertheless could not do so. If the House opened the question at all, it ought to do so fully, and it would then be found that at least one-half of the compensations granted might have been saved. Lord G. SOMERSET should vote for the motion of the Hon. Member for Teignmouth. Mr. G. PALMER should vote for the Committee. Mr. C. PELHAM was of opinion that the claimants were not entitled under the Act of Parliament. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON should vote for the Com mittee. Mr. G. F. YOUNG replied, and the House divided, when the numbers were— For the motion Against it Majority Sir J. HOBHOUSE said, when in the discharge of an important public duty a Member of the Government acted upon his own conviction of what was right, in accordance with the recorded opinion of his predecessor in office, it was rather hard that he should be turned round upon with so sudden a change of opinion as had been manifested on this occasion by the Hon. Member opposite. Mr. PRAED said the allusion of the Right Hon. Ba ronet to the change in his opinions was quite uncalled for. He (Mr. Praed) was content to avow that his opinion had undergone a change, and the reasons which had induced that change. But if he had on an important matter changed his opinion on coming to that (the Opposition) side of the House, the Right Hon. Baronet had changed some much more important opinions still on going to the other (the Ministerial) side. The following Committee was then appointed : Young, G F. Labouchere, H. Praed, W. Bagshaw, John Lynch, A. H. Reid, Sir J. Ewart, W. Marjoribanks, S. Robinson, G. R. Fergusson, R. C. Palmer, G. Somerset, Lori G. Hastie, A. Thompson, W. Mr. A. TREVOR moved for a return of the number of schools to which grants have been made by the Board of Education in Ireland ; specifying the sums allotted to each, and such as are of Protestant or Roman Catholic founda tion.—Ordered. Mr. BARRON moved for an account of the present state of proceedings instituted by the Commissioners of charitable donations or bequests in Ireland, for the reco very of any sums applicable to the poor or to charitable in stitutions ; also an account of all sums received since the last Report ; and to move to print the last Report of the Commissioners of Charitable Donations in Ireland.—Or dered. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS IN IRELAND. Mr. BARRON also moved for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the state of the Preroga- Live and Ecclesiastical Courts in Ireland, and to consider the Reports of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of these Courts in 1826 and 1830.—Agreed to, and the following Committee appointed : Barron, W. 11. Jackson, J. D. O'Connell, D. Ball, N. Lefroy, A. Stuart, W. V. Clements, Lord Lucas, E. West, J. B. French, F. Lushington, Dr. Woulfe, Sergeant Hamilton, G. A. Lynch, A. IL Young, .1. TOBACCO DUTY. Mr. EWART, after presenting two petitions, then rose to move, pursuant to order, for leave to bring in a Bill to reduce the duty on tobacco from 3s. to Is. per lb. The Hon. Member stated that the main ground on which he moved was the great extent to which smuggling in this ar ticle of consumption was carried. The cause of this was the excessive duty—l,2oo per cent. As a proof of the extent to which the smuggling of tobacco was carried he would state that, although the duty was 3s. per pound, the article was to be bought in many parts of the country at 2s. per pound. Another strong reason for reducing the duty was the vast expense of the preventive service, main tained in a great measure for the prevention of smuggling in tobacco alone. He should move that the duty on to bacco be reduced from 3s. to Is. the pound. Mr. HUME seconded the motion, and begged to draw the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to a con sideration of same importance on the subject, and that was that a diminution of the duty on any article of necessary consumption not only put an end to smuggling but operated beneficially to the revenue. If the Right Hon. Gentleman were to reduce the duty on tobacco to 15d. or 18d.—a shilling, he admitted, was too low—he was satisfied that he would obtain an increase of the revenue. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not think his Hon. Friend could be serious in calling for a de cision on so important a matter at that hour of the night, and in so thin a House. There were many observations which had fallen from his Hon. Friends who had preceded him in which he concurred ; but, although he did not think the present amount of duty could be defended, he still wished to call the attention of the House to what occurred in 1831, when Lord Spencer, in bringing forward his Budget, pro posed a reduction of this tax. How was his Noble Friend met on the occasion to which he referred ? Why, his pro position was objected to from both sides of the House, and it was on all hands admitted that a fairer subject for taxa tion could not exist than the article of tobacco. He was by no means prepared to agree to his Hon. Friend's pro position unless he could be convinced that the same amount of revenue now derived from this source could be otherwise ensured. Some stress has been laid on the extent of the contraband trade, but he could not help thinking that the argument with respect to smuggling had been greatly ex aggerated. In England' the amount of tobacco on which the duty had been paid since 1826-27 was as follows : In 1827 1829 1830 1831 1832 15,300,000 1833 1834 16,000,000 1835 16,400,000 1836 17,000,000 This showed a progressively increasing duty, and he sub mitted that the fact of such an increase having taken place, notwithstanding the amount of the duty, went some length to prove that smuggling did not exist to any such extent as the Hon. Gentleman seemed to suppose. Ireland exhi bited a similar result. In that country the duty paid on to bacco was : In 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 • The amount of the duty collected on this article in England was somewhere about 2,600,0001., and in Ireland 757,0001., or, in round numbers, he might say that the tobacco duty yielded a revenue of 3,000,0001. annually. This would be too great stake to try experiments upon, and, therefore, unless he could be assured that a similar amount could be raised by other means it would be impossible for him to adopt the proposition of his Hon. - Friend. His Hon. Friend the Member for Middlesex had alluded to the consumption of tobacco in Ireland in 1782. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) could not take that year, because the records were lost ; but he would take the year 1786, and what was the result which he found ? Why that the duty-paid to bacco which was at that period in Ireland only 680,0001b5., bad increased by 3,400,000165. ; while in this country the increase was from 1 0,000,0001b5., to 17,000,0001b5. If he were to afford feller at all it would be to the productive in dustry of the country ; but at present all he would say was, without pledging himself t o anyt hi ng, t h at h e s h ou ld b e prepared, when he brought forward his Budget, to state either that he would give relief in the case of the tobacco duty, or state his reasons for not wishing to try experiments on 3,000,0001. of revenue which was raised, he might almost say, by a voluntary tax. Lord SA NDON said, as this was a subject which should not be taken out of the hands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he was desirous of leaving it altogether to the' Right Hon. Gentleman's discretion. Mr. EWART made a few observations in reply, after which the motion was negatived without a division. Mr. MAXWELL moved for leave to bring in a Bill to give publicity to the prices of weaving by handloom labour. After some discussion, in which Mr. HUME, Mr. THORN LEY, and Mr. BROTHERTON, and several other Hon. Mem bers took part, and during which it was intimated that there were not forty Members present, although the Speaker did not act on the hint, Mr. MAXWELL withdrew his motion, and fixed it for to-morrow (this day). The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER post poned the Order of the Day for going into Committee of Supply for to-morrow (this day). Mr. HUME objected to having Government business proceeded with on Wednesdays. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that it was not his intention to interfere with the Orders of the Day. If, however, they were disposed of at an early hour, he could see no reason why they should not go into supply ; but if it should so happen that they were not, of course the Government business would not be brought on. Colonel SIBTHORP gave notice that, on going into Committee of Ways and Means, he should submit to the House a resolution for the reduction of the duty on policies of insurance against fire to 2s. and Is. 6d. per cent. The other Orders of the Day haling been disposed oc, the House adjourned at a Quarter to Twelve o'Clock. rH. E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1837. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE This Gazette contains a despatch from our Consul-General at Hamburgh, stating that the Senate of Bremen have abolished the traffic in slaves—known by the name of the Slave Trade. WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 31. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood upon Lieut.-Colonel W. M. G. Colebrooke, of the Royal Artillery, Military Knight Companion of the Royal Hanoverian Guelpinc Order, - Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Lee ward Islands. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE. The Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household has anpointed the Rev. James Stewart Murray Anderson, Chaplain in Ordinary to the King, in the room o f the Rev. John Bathurst Schomberg, deceased. WHITEHALL, AlAncir 27. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Frederick Herbert, of Northleach, in the county of Gloucester, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the Hight Court of Chancery. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. THOMAS RUSHER, bookseller, Hailey, Oxfordshire. CHARLES W YNNE DAVIES, draper, Bishop's Castle ; Shropshire. JOHN CARTER, wine -merchant, Great Baddow, Essex. BANKRUPTS. FREDERICK WECTLEY and ABRAHAM HOPKINS DAVIS, booksellers, Stationers' Hall-court, to surrender April 11, at half-past ten, and May 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Copthall-buildings ; Hall and Gibson, Lincoln's Inn-fields. JAMES lIADLEY, mercer, Birmingham, April 18 and May 16, at one, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Stul thorpe, South-square, Gray's Inn, London; Weston, Birmingham. JAMES JOHNSTON, grocer, Newport, Monmouthshire, April 14, at twelve, and May 16, at two, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, London ; Cary and Cross, Bristol. HENRY WRIGLEY, waste-spinner, Halifax, April 17, and May 16, at ten, at the Magistrates' Office, Halifax. Jaques, Battye, and Edwards, Ely-place, London ; Stocks and Macaulay, Halifax. HENRY BA RTLEET, builder, Redditch, Worcestershire, April 14, and May 16, at eleven, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birming ham. Cresswell, Birmingham ; Gatty, Red Lion-square, London. THOMAS CRANE, grocer, I.oughborough, Leicester, April 12 and May 16, at nine, at the King's Head Inn, Loughborough. Allen, Wharton-street, Lloyd-square, Clerken well, London.; Parker, Loughborough. RICHARD LENTEN, stationer, Bath, April 18, and May 16, at one, at the Three Cups Inn, Bath. Nicholls, Lincoln's Inn, London ; Hellings, Bath ; Frankis, Bath. JOHN MA RSTON, chemist, Tess kesbury, April 21, and May 16, at four, at the Office of Mr. A. Sproull, Tewkesbury. Jenkins and Abbott, New Inn, London ; Sproull, Tewkesbury. JAMES WHITAKER, packer, Manchester, April 22, at two, and May 16, at ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Cooper, Manchester; Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, London. LESLIE M'KEY, merchant, late of Dublin, April 22, and May 16, at eleven, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Kay, Barlow, and Aston, Manchester. GEORGE ROBERT GITTON, printer, Bridgnorth, Salop, April 17, and May 16, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Bridgnorth. Philpot and Son, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury, London ; Vickers, Bridgnorth. JOHN BOWERING, butcher, Nelson-place, Bristol, April 21, at two, and May 16, at twelve, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. White and Whitmore, Bedford-row, London; Short, Bristol. JOSEPH GARNER, wine and spirit-merchant, Liverpool, April 15, and May 16, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Thomson, Tithebarn-street, Liverpool ; Cuvelje, Southampton buildings, Chancery-lane, London. TRISTRAM THOMAS SQUIER, brush-manufacturer, Exe ter, April 19, and May 16, at twelve, at the Old London Inn, Exeter. Gidley and K:ingdon, Exeter ; Burfoot, King's Bench walk, Inner Temple, London. WILLIAM COTTON, victualler, Deptford, April 13, and May 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Ridsdale and Craddock, Gray's Inn-square. SAUL YATES, bill-broker, Bury-court, Saint Mary Axe, London, April 11, at one, and May 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Sydney, New London-street, Fenchurch-street. WILLIAM BAILEY, plumber, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, April 11, at ten, and May 16, at two, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Clarke and Medcalf, 20, Lincoln's-in-Fields, London ; Wills, Birmingham. JOHN HALL WHEELER, baker, Hoxton-square, April 13, and May 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Abbott, Official Assignee ; Reece, Furnival's-Inn. THOMAS — FOWLER, victualler, Basingstoke, Southampton, April 17, and May 16, at one, at the George Inn, Winchester. Thomson, Rolls-chambers, Chancery-lane, London ; Brown, Lym ington. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. W. Townsend and W. Brown, warehousemen, Cheapside, April 0, at two—C. G. Webb, woolstapler, Long-lane, Bermondsey, April 24, at half-past one—J. Mould, cheesemonger, Newgate street, April 25, at half-past ten—T. Marshall, cheesemonger, High-street, Whitechapel, April 27, at one—J. Morris, sen., and J. Morris, jun., auctioneers, Upper St. Martin's-lane, April 27, at half-past eleven—J. Nicholson, carpet-bag manufacturer, South ampton-court, Holborn, April 27, at eleven—M. Fowler, cattle dealer, Bushey, Hertfordshire, April 25, at eleven. In the Country. W. Williams and J. Jackson, timber dealers, Liverpool, April 27, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool—W. Wilson, scri vener, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 28, at twelve, at the Bankrupt Commission Room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—H. Newport, wine merchant, Bognor, Sussex, April 26, at eleven, at the Dolphin Inn, Chichester—S. Smith, bacon curer, Witney, Oxfordshire, April 28, at four, at tho Crown Inn, Witney—T. Peacock, timber mer chant, York, April 27, at two, at Tomlinson's Hotel, York—T. and 11. D. Beale, saddlers, Birmingham, May I, at twelve, at Ra denhurst's Royal Hotel, Birmingham—T. W. Freeman, grocer, Birmingham, May 2, at twelve, at Radenhurst's Royal Hotel, Bir mingham—G. P. Tory, linen draper, Exeter, May 4, at one, at the New London Inn, Exeter--T. Beesley, grocer, Farringdon, Berkshire, June 15, at eleven, at the Three Cups Inn, Oxford-- W. Shorthose, jeweller, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, April 26, at eleven, at the Lansdown Hotel, Leamington Priors. CERTIFICATES.--ArRIC2S. T. Enock and H. Jacob, grocers, Leicester—T. Turner and Co., merchants, Liverpool—A. Cockburn, grocer, Carlisle—S. Ro berts, shoemaker, Hastings--J. Richards, corn measure maker, Bridge-street, Southwark—T. Marshall, cheesemonger, High street, Whitechapel—R. Morgan, linendraper, Southampton-row, Russell-square-- - W. Maibon, coachmaker, Brighton—T. Holeroft and Co., millwrights, Salford—W. Watling, beer-shop keeper, Arabella-row, Pimlico. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. _ E. Hickman and H. llamer, Kent-road bridge—D. A. Talboys and G. Browne, printers, Oxford—H. G. Jones and M. Williams, bankers, Llanellv, Carmarthenshire—J. King and T. Bowser, sad lers, Ipswich—W. F. Seagram and W. P. Brodribb, surgeons, Warminster, Wiltshire—J. Stripling and G. Kellar, sailmakers, Liverpool—W. Brumley and W. H. Jepson, tailors, Alanchester— J. R. Darnell and H. Norris, bakers, South Warnborough, South ampton—J. Greenwood and J. Austin, lace manufacturers, Not tingham—R. Shaw and Co., manufacturers, Norwich (as far as regards R. Shaw )—R. Winton and A. Brady, spirit dealers, Liver pool—J. Ralfs and C. E. Lepine, furniture printers, Tavistock street, Covent-garden—T. Johnson and T. Holmes, gingham ma nufacturers, Chesterfield, Derbyshire—R. and J. IZllis cotton spinners, Preston, Lancashire—P. W. Clark and J. G. Thomson, commission agents, Manchester—W. and C. Jackson, Cheshire, Congleton—J. Nicholls and R. Ruegg, wine merchants, Cloak-lane —E. Birch and Co., tea dealers, St. John-street, Clerkenwell (as far as regards R. Birch)—R. J. Jones and J. Burton, cotton spin ners, Manchester) —J. and R. B. Stephenson, silkmercers, Kings ton upon-Hull, Yorkshire—D. Nightingale and T. Dyke., book sellers, Piecadillv—R. Midgley and 11. Woodhead, spring wood dealers, Halifax,Yorkshire—J. J. Robinson and E. Sutcliffe, cheese mongers, Whitechapel—R. Edwards and J. Hall, hide merchants, Monte Video. poses of repairing our churches, and th ere f ore a su b s titu te must be, and has been, sought for and found. " S , Jcondly—We have examined this substitute, and seen that the funds which it offers can be derived from that very property without injury to individuals, and with benefit to the property itself, which, by the ancient law of the land, was liable for the repair of churches. " Thirdly—We have examined the mode of raising thes funds, and we have found that it releases our bishops and the higher clergy from the unscriptural management of great landed estates ; and also th a t it relieves iem from the temptation and the suspicion of benefiting themselves in the management of this property, at the expense of the pro perty itself. We have seen that it will give the lessees of this property the advantage of a fixed tenure, and that those only will suffer who have hitherto been profiting at the expense of the Church, by undue bargains or leases ; and that the nation at large will gain by the increasing. productiveness which will naturally arise from the agricul tural improvements and building leases that may henceforth be safely undertaken on this immense property. " Fourthly—We have also found that the inspection and repairing our churches will be placed in experienced and responsible hands, subject to the direction and control of the highest ecclesiastical authorities. " And finally, our vestries and parishes will be reclaimed from the bickerings of rival sects wrangling for money ; our poor will have ample space and accommodation in our re paired churches ; and the middle classes, the shopkeepers, the farmers, the smaller manufacturers, all who choose, will he relievedfroin an irregular and vexatious tax. " All these advantages to our Churches, to our peace, to our pockets, to our national profit, and, above all, to the decent ministrations of religion, are to be obtained by this Bill ; and yet it has been called spoliation and sacrilege— so was the Reform Bill !"—liforning Chronicle. The Times indulges yesterday in very coarse abuse of the united Committee appointed to consider the grievances under which Dissenters now labour, with a view to their redress, and of Mr. Henry Way mouth, their Chairman, who subscribed the address to which we lately called the attention of our readers:— " Knowing as we do (says the foul-mouthed apostate) that Mr. Henry Weymouth's select cabal, holding its ap pointment only from certain Socinian, Independent, and Baptist congregations in the city and suburbs of London, does neither represent the opinions nor possess the con fidence, nor act on the authority, of those excellent Dissenters throughout England whose genuine piety is unalloyed with sectarian ambition, it will not be sup posed that the innocent raillery we are about to indulge in is meant to apply, by a single inch, beyond the parties who immediately invite it. Who are those parties, the public will will be glad to know ? With the ex ception of a Henry Waymouth, who, we understand, is known to our reporting establishment as the spouting as sociate of Messrs. Savage and Murphy, at the Radical soirees of Marylebone, there is no other person, we believe, that can possibly be identified as the signer of this address. Co-operating on the united Committee,' of which the same Mr. Weymouth is the chairman, we have such paragons of peace as Mr. Yockney, of Covent-garden, Mr. Thomas Wilson, of Highbury, Mr. John Wilks, M.P., and a Dr. Baldwin Browne, a dissenting barrister of distin guished legal leisure.' That the address of the United Committee expressed the sentiments of the Dissenters generally throughout the country is proved by the zeal with which they are every where responding to the call made on them. There is no mistaking the meaning of the mani festations in all quarters against Church-rates. The three denominations form a large portion of the Dis senters of England ; but it is a mistake to suppose that the opposition to rates is confined to them. The Record is well known to be the organ of the Wes leyan Methodists ; and in the number for Monday last will be found accounts of several meetings of Wesleyans directly adverse to Church-Rates. In fact, the majority of the Wesleyans concur with the other Dissenters, and with a large portion of the members of the Chu rc h o f England,- in the wish to see Church-rates abolished. Mr. Waymouth, and the other gentlemen named .by the Times, very probably deem its abuse beneath their notice. As to the first named gentleman, it is quite certain that no one of the reporting establishment of that journal could state that he was known to them as the spouting associate of Messrs. Savage and Murphy, at the radical soirees of Marylebone, as we have occasion to know that he ne ver was present at any one of the Radical soirees in question, and that he does not know Mr. Murphy even by sight. Mr. Savage he has met only at the Vestry of Marylebone, which gentlemen of all parties or po litics in the Parish attend, among others some now high in the favour of the Times, as Lords Kenyon and Radstock, &c. With respect to the address, it is, we understand, neither the composition of " the busy and learned solicitor for Boston," nor of " the more lei surely and learned Pangloss" (meaning, we presume, Dr. Browne.) So much for the " convictions" of the Tories. As the term Socinian is liberally used by way of argument ad invidiam, we may observe that even here too the 'Times is wrong ; for it so happens that there is not a single Socinian or Unitarian now be longir g to the united Committee.—Morning Chronicle. Mr. Daniel O'Connell, as we before remarked, is beginning to peck and trim his feathers, now that he has got once more, since the holidays, upon his own Irish dunghill. All those who thought him or his affairs worth observation agreed in remarking the down cast, crest-fallen air of this insurrectionary bully, from the first day of the present Session to that of his de parture for Ireland, no less than the aggravated feeble ness and dullness of each and every of his attempts to speak in the House of Commons, whatever might be the subject of discussion. 'Whisky, circumambient Popery, and the fragrant incense of the Corn Exchange, appear during these last few days to have been repair ing the ravages made in his constitution by the alien atmosphere of England. He has become as insolent, extravagant, and obtrusive as in the most flourishing and offensive periods of his life. We have already taken occasion to notice the happy scheme of an address to the Princess Victoria, and to offer a sketch of that preparatory admonition hy, which her Royal Highness ought to be forewarned, respecting the species of person which Mr. Daniel O'Connell has proved himself to be ; and respecting the nature of those merits by which, as a subject of the Crown, which her Royal Highness is one day des tined—if Providence so wills it—to wear, he has en titled himself and his honest congratulations to a fa vourable and gracious hearing. It may be well, how ever, to hint to this learned courtier, that he is running a little too fast with his overtures of protection to the future occupant of the Imperial Throne. The Princess Victoria cannot yet be made a tool for factious pur poses. It is true that to certain ends, and in a specific but partial sense, the Constitution of England con templates an heir presumptive after the completion of his or her 18th year, in a different light from that in which he or she should be considered at an earlier age. Before 18 the presumptive heir to the Crown is to all intents and purposes an infant. After the demise of the predecessor, the successor under 18 years of age can execute no act of Sovereign power but through a Regent. The successor of 18 years and upwards en joys at once all the prerogatives of a Sovereign, reigning of his or her own inherent right, and in proper person. But during the interval between 18 and 21' the heir presumptive is still an infant, save in so far as to be capable of reigning in the event of a demise of the Crown. It follows, therefore, that dur ing King William's life the Princess Victoria is not, strictly speaking, « of age" until her 21st year shall have been completed. Whether a separate household shall be assigned to the Princess in the course of the month ensuing, and to what extent, it rests with his Majesty, and with him alone, to settle, subject, of course, to the approval of Parliament for what con cerns any increase of expenditure thereby occasioned. Mr. Daniel O'Connell, therefore, may find himself, as we have stated, somewhat prematurely in the field with this proj ecte d C orn -E xc h ange contribution. He will be given to understand, very possibly , that the King forbids thi s f am ili ar approa ch to the person and' public importunity for a disclosure of sentiments or decl arations o f hi s n i ece . It may b e s i gn ifi e d to the Agitator and to his Popish confederates, that they shall not succeed in extorting from the Princess any expression of political opinion, which might afterwards be misrepresented into an en gine of embarrassment, according to whatever slippery i nterpretat i on M r . D an i e l O'C onne ll m i ght think proper to affix to it. No, gentlemen of the Corn Exchange, it will not do. Youth and innocence must keep aloof from all such evil communications. You are not fit company for the Princess. You shall neither trepan her into an implied countenance of your incendiary projects, nor intrude upon her privacy, nor foster the spirit of intrigue among those who are osten- sibly her servants, but as her directors and counsellors would be deplorably misplaced. The " rebel" address, we venture to prophesy, will come to no prosperous or honourable ending. If comment were wanting upon the folly, as well as th e e ff rontery , o f O'C onne ll, abun dant matter for both are furnished by the proceedings of this conspirator, simultaneous with his machinations for getting up the gasconade to her Royal Highness. Instantly after a priest with the appropriate name of " Dr. Cantwell" had repeated the profane flummery of Peter Den's patron, by designating the " illus trious individual" (Daniel to wit) " as a man raised up by Providence to free his country from the worse than Egyptian bondage which oppressed it for ages," up gets the said " illustrious" to inform the meeting (it was a Meath (limier) how it was that he proposed to free his country ; and the modus operandi was no other than the old quackery of " repeal." "I am a Repealer," quoth this prime mover of a congratulation to the heiress presumptive ; " I am an advocate for wresting her dominions from her, at the same moment that I insult her with my adulation." He is " ho nestly trying a grand experiment," is he ? So, we guess, will a grand experiment be tried one day upon the experimentalist himself in his own person—an ex periment in the presence of many witnesses, and to .the cordial satisfaction of many " honest" hearts. In a few days it will be seen once more what sort of metal this Kensington Messiah is made of.—Times. The public must now be pretty well convinced (if any such conviction could possibly be wanting) of the low, vulgar, radi ca l, r i o t ous crew o f w hi c h a large por tion of the Marylebone vestry is composed. Indeed, we would defy the most bitter and uncompromising among the opponents of Radicalism, to furnish a more complete show-up of the personal virtues which belong to it, and of the blessings which, were it in the ascen dant, it would inevitably entail upon the community cursed with its existence, than the display which the worthies themselves made of the question on Saturday. Yet this is the domestic parliament of the largest and wealthiest of the metropolitan parishes, the inhabitants of which, by their supine indifference, have allowed themselves to be thus grossly misrepresented. What the inattention, however, of those who ought to have prevented it has failed to effect, this precious band of ruffians seem to be effectually accomplishing for them selves ; and as the law under which they are assembled provides a periodical cleansing of this Augean stable, it is to be hoped that the inhabitants will, no longer than they can possibly avoid, allow this burning shame to exist among them. By Sir John Hobhonse's Vestry Act, one-third of the whole body retire every year. The month Of May is the period at which this tedium quid makes its exit ; and it will indeed be to the eternal dis grace of this and other parishes, if these specimens of vulgar insolent jobbers are any longer allowed to oc cupy a station which they have thus disgraced and de graded.—Morning Herald. Mr. Stewart Mackenzie, in his valedictory address to the electors of Ross and Cromarty, complains of frequent unfair attempts made by his opponents to persuade the electors that the principles on which he has acted endanger the best interests of this empire ; " but," he adds, "to such groundless charges your suffrages are my best reply." We had thought that Mr. Mackenzie would have found ample consolation and compensation also, for all hostile attempts, fair and unfair, if any of the latter description were ever made, in the " important situation abroad" to which " the principles upon which he has acted" have recommended him. But this opinion, it seems, is erroneous, for a Mi nisterial journal endeavoured last night to administer a little further consolation to the afflicted gentleman, by reminding him that " his principles are the principles of Ministers," and informing him that, "as the suf frages of the men of Ross were his best reply, so the suffrages of the whole empire are the best defence of the Ministers." We shall only offer a single remark upon each of these topics of con solation. It was, perhaps, scarcely necessary to re mind a gentleman just " appointed to an important situation abroad" that his principles are the prin ciples of Ministers ; and as to the suffrages of the men of Ross, and the suffrages of the whole em pire, the allusion upon this particular occasion is sin gularly mal apropos, because the vacancy created by the absence of Mr. Stewart MaCkenzie in the repre sentation of the counties of Ross and Cromarty will certainly be supplied by the return of a candidate whose principles are, not the principles of Ministers ; and this our Ministerial contemporary must know, un less its correspondents in the north are very negligent or very faithless.—Morning Post. REDUCTION of the NATIONAL DEBT. (From last night's Gazette.) The Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury having certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na- tional Debt, in pursuance of the Act 10th Geo. IV., c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual expenditure thereof, for the year ended sth day of January, 1837, amounted to the sum of 2,120,0921. Os. 7cl. The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of 532,5231. Os. Id. (being one-fourth part of the said surplus of 2,130,0921. Os. 7d.) will be applied under the provisions of the said Act, be tween the 7th day of April, 1837, and the sth day of July, 1837, to the following purposes, viz. : To be applied to the purchase of Sto3t... £32.523 0 1 Ditto to the purchase of Exchequer Bills 450,000 0 0 Ditto to the payment of Slave Compensa tion, pursuant to the provisions of the Act 6 and 7 William IV., c. 82. ... 50,000 0 0 Add interest receivable on account of Do nations and Bequests, to be applied to the purchase of Stock 532,523 0 1 314 8 7 X. , , , 33,837 8 8 S. HIG HA M, Compt o' ler- General. National Debt-office, April 3, 1837. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, APRIL 4. The LORD CHANCELLOR sat this morning for the first ime after the holidays. MARR V. LITTLEWOOD. Sir W. HORNE appeared in support of an application for a receiver of the property of a deceased person, the husband of the defendant, pending certain proceedings which she had taken in the Ecclesiastical Court, to pre vent the plaintiff's administration of the property under a will. The plaintiff was the executor, and also a creditor, of the estate. There was a sum of 500/. in the hands of a banker, which he was willing to pay, and there ivere two small sums due in bonds and bills of exchange. The de fendant had given the debtors of the estate notice to with hold payment, and that, as the plaintiff could not under such circumstances proceed against them, his object was to have the estate secured from loss by a payment into Court through the means of a receiver. The Vice-Chancellor had refused the application, and this was an appeal from his Honour's decision. Mr. JACOB opposed the appointment of a receiver. The LORD CHANCELLOR was of opinion that a rccAver must be appointed. His Lordship rose at one o'clock. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY-APRIL 4. SOLLY AND SOLLY'S BANKRUPTCY. The bankrupts in this case were merchants, in an exten sive way of business, whose failure created much regret in the commercial world a short time since. The first meet- in; under the fiat was held to-day, for the proof of debts and the choice of assignees. The Court-room was very much crowded by merchants and others in the City who have claims upon the joint and separate estates. Some lengthened examinations were gone into relative to certain claims, the decision upon which was not given to-day in consequence of there being an insufficiency of procf at the present meeting. One of them related to a claim for be tween 6,0001. and 7,0001. made by a stock-broker. As the examinations are incomplete it is not necessary to refer to the details more minutely at the present period. The total amount of proofs to-d2y were 37,000/. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT....--GLOUCESTER, APRIL 3 The business of these Assizes began on Friday, but both Courts have been chiefly occupied in trying unimportant cases. There are twenty-five causes entered for trial, and the calendar contains the names of 68 prisoners, who, fur the most part, are charged with offences of an ordinary de scription. There are one or two lamentable exceptions. The trial of Bartlet, for the murder of his mother-in-law, is fixed for Wednesday next. WILLIAMS V. REECE. This was an action for a libel ; plea, the general issue. The plaintiff, an attorney at Cardiff, had served his clerkship with Mr. Lewis Reece, a son of the defendant, who was a surgeon, &c., in the same town, and on the expiration of his articles, in 1833, Mr. Lewis Reece had some idea of taking him into partnership, but this design being opposed very warmly by the defendant, it was ultimately abandoned, and the plaintiff went into business on h is own account. In o..ttober, 1835, he heard from Mr. I 'ike, a law agent in London, that Messrs. Bloxsoms and Son , Sorcitors, Dunslev, were in - want of a managing clerk, tmi having entered into a ncgociation with them, and ref erred them to Mr. Lewis Reece for the usual testimonials of character, 5z.7., Messrs. Reece addressed a letter to, that gentleman, abo it the middle of October, to which, how ever, owing to his absence from home they received no nly. They the,' wrote a second letter to Mr. Lewis Reef ae on the 28th of October, and on the Ist of November •t 1 hey received a let ter, signed by Holland, and containing : , ome very severe reflections on the plaintiff's character. C )n receipt of this letter, which formed the subject of tiv a present action, Messrs. Bloxonts wrote to the plaintiff, , stating that they must decline to take him into their office ; and having re quested Mr. Pike to look out for another !) arson, they after wards concluded an engagement with a get Alernan, who re mained with them ever since, at a salary of 180/. per an num. The libel was then sent to the pi nintiff at his own request, and having set himself to work to find out the author, the result of his inquiry was such. as to induce him to fix it upon Mr. Richard Reece, the p rt !sent defendant. The Jury found a verdict for the plain OF—Damages 201. NORFOLK CIRCUIZ—Noniv rc•lr, APRIL 3. The entry of causes for the count' ? amounts to but eleven, of which two only are special jtn-i •es. One of these is an information in the nature of a quo warranto, calling upon Mr. Brightwcll, the present may() r of the city, to show by what authority he claimed to env 'rcise the office of alderman. Beyond this case there is no t any interesting feature in the cause list, except, perhaps, an action for a breach of promise of marriage , in which th e d e f en d ant i s a reverend clergyman. In th City Court, there is only one cause entered. . . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. WILLIAM MORRISON and GEORGE WILSON, iron mongers, Edinburgh, April 7 and 25, at two, at the Old Signet Hall, Royal Exchange, Edinburgh. JOHN MILLER, Jun. and Co., merchants, Glasgow, April 12 and 27, at twelve, at the Black Bull Inn, Glasgow. PETER SAWERS, saddler, Edinburgh, April 13 and 28, at two, at the Old Signet Hall, Edinburgh. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, We cannot render a better service to the cause of truth than to recommend the most extensive circulation of an excellent little pamphlet which has just been published by Messrs. Ridgway .on the subject of Church-rates. Its title is apt and happy. It asks, " Will you have your Church Repaired ?" for, after all, this is the real question at issue. %%Till you have fixed funds allotted for the repair of your churches, or will you introduce the volun tary system, by leaving each parish church to be. repaired according to the will and means of its pa rishioners ? The writer enters into every view of the subject : he exposes the double-dealing of Lord Stanley and his Tory allies ; he fairly states the case between the lessors and lessees of Church property ; he shows the great benefit which this property and the nation at large will derive, without injury to any indi vidual, from the measures proposed to be applied to it ; and he rests the leading principle of the Bill upon the Christian, though perhaps not the High-Church, doc trine of toleration, and of peace and good-will towards our neighbours and their opinions. We shall content ourselves with giving a summary of the arguments handled, referring for their elucidation to the pamphlet itself, which we arc glad to see is published in a cheap form for general distribukion. In conclusion it says— " This, then, is the substance of the Bill, which a fac tion, in its hunger for office, its hatred of all reform, and its utter disregard for truth, would fain make the people of England believe to be framed for the ruin of their churches, the degradation of their clergy, and the destruction of their religion ! '; - Let us, therefore, before parting, run over a few of our details. In the first place, then, we have seen that Church rates themselves are an innovation and encroachment on the pockets of the people ; and that they are a source of strife on religious subjects. That they are a voluntary tax, which can be, and is, frequently evaded by -vestries, both in town and country ; that such evasions are becoming more general, and bid fair to be universal, now that the House of Com:nons has twice voted a condemnation of them. We have thus found that they are necessarily, by the force of circumstances, without any blame of this or that Ministry, irrevocably and practically abolished fur all efficient pur- PRESS V. BAKER. The plaintiff was a most respectable alitornoy, and a Co , tuner for the county, residing at Hingilarn, and being in want of a horse, applied to the defends vt, who is an inn keeper and occasionally horsedealer at lodng Stratton. The result of that application was, that aft 4:r having seen the horse in question once or twice the plaintiff purchased her for 351. on the defendant giving a warra► ttry of " sound and quiet to ride or drive." On being take n home, however, as appeared from the testimony of a set v ant of the plaintiff and an experienced farrier, both of a -hem bad in vain essayed to ride the animal, she turned o.;ltt the most trou blesome and vicious creature. Her :favourite, pastime seemed to consist of turning suddenly ro and on her hind legs, and utterly refusing to pass gates, :milestones, horses, and carriages of all descriptions, while she would diversify her performances by rearing now and tlircn, and after that finishing with a terrific plunge or two. 'These facts having been proved, the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, da mages 3.5/. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-TUESDAY. The calendar contains the names of 89 prisoners, of whom 14 arc charged with stealing, 21 idle and. disorderly, 8 riot, 9 assaults, and 33 are females. The Grand Jury having been sworn, the Court proceeded :0 the trial of several petty offences possessing no public in ',crest. The report of the Committee appointed to examine _ _ the testimonials . ' of the candidates for the cxffice of district sur veyor of St. Luke's was brought up and read, after which the Court adjourned, at five o'clock. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Robert Johnson, the Scotch volunteer in -the Queen of Spain's service, and several others of the Spanish Legion, came to the Justice-room yesterday to learn whether the Spanish Ambassador had communicated with his Lordship on the sub ject of their application to be sent to Glasgow. The Lord Mayor had, however, left the Justice-room before the melt made their appearance. Mr. Hobler stated to them that the Lord Mayor had trans mitted a letter to his Excellency on the preceding day, as he had promised, stating the facts (with which the public are ar quainted), and recommending that the applicants should be sent home, and stating that their claims for pay and gratuities might be left for future investigation ; that his Lordship had waited at home until half-past three o'clock, ita expectation of an answer, but had received no communication of any kind from his Excellency; that his Lordship had also sent to Colonel Wetherall, the Queen of Spain's agent in Lon don, to know whether that gentleman had received any in structions upon the subject from the Spanish Ambassador, the answer to which was that no order had been issued. Johnson—lt is exactly what we might expect, judging from the scandalous treatment ►ve met with in Spain. The people employed by the Spanish Government are all the same where ver we go—looking to their own profits, and not caring a straw about those who join to do the work upon false repre sentations of what they are to meet with. What arc we to do now? They landed us at Portsmouth, expecting that we would beg our way home. We are almost all of us trades men, and never begged in our lives any one of us, and we are not going to begin now, when we are entitled to large sum of money, and after we have fought and suffered for it. Most of us are naked. Mr. Hobleribelieved, if the Lord Mayor were in the Jos- tice-room, his Lordship would advise them, under all the cir cumstances, to send a deputation to the Spanish Ambassador, respectfully to represent their condition, and beg that his Ex cellency would make arrangements to send them to the place where they were enlisted. Mr. Hobler then gave them 205., and they departed, ex ceedingly grateful, and giving assurances that their conduct at the house of the Spanish Ambassador should be mist or derly and respectful. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday the board of governors and directors, accompa nied by Mr. M'Gahey their clerk, who is also vestry-clerk, and several other of the authorities of St. Pancras parish, at tended at this office, before Messrs. BENNETT and Romig, to complain of alleged overcharges made by Mr. Blizzard, a broker, and Duke, the officer, who were employed upon a dis tress warrant to seize the goods and chattels of Mr. Wea therby Heartly, late one of the collectors of the parish, who absconded a short time ago with 8001. and upwards, belonging to the parish. After hearing evidence, Mr. BENNETT said, I have nothing to do with the broker. I offer no opinion upon the charges made ; I only sanction the officer's charges. The applicants threatened to bring an action, and the most angry feeling was manifested, whilst the office. was in a state of confusion. Duke and Mr. M.Gahey looked daggers at each other, and eventually the office was cleared. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A tailor, named Chapman, was yesterday brought before Mr. CONANT, charged with having created a disturbance at the house of Mr. Walter, of No. 11, John -street, Berkeley square. The defendant was fined a shilling and discharged. MARYLEBONE. Yesterday eight men, who gave their names Harold, Finn, Wiltshire, Mason, Hanriyht, Ginney, Groves, and Hartwell, were brought up in custody, strongly guarded, and placed at the bar before Mr. Hosxtris, Mr. ItAwwisori, and Lord MONTFORD, the two former prisoners charged with having brutally ill-treated several police and other constables in the execution of their duty, and the other six with rescuing from the officers two fellows (names not known) who had met for the purpose of engaging in a pugilistic encounter for a sum of money. Harrold and Fenn were for the assaults fined 60s. each, and the other six (who were proved to have ben the ringleaders iu the rescue) one-half the amount. In default of payment they were committed. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Christie, the relieving overseer of Bethnal-green, appeared before Mr. Broughton, with the mother of a boy named Gedrge Bailey, aged twelve years, who the day before preferred a charge against his father-in-law, R. Pluntmer, for having deprived him of food and a home. Mr. Broughton stated to Christie that several respectable witnesses attended,. who gave evidence of the cruelties to which the poor boy had been subjected, and but for whose kindness in finding him food, he would not have bad victuals to support him. He had been confined days and nights in a cellar, and was at length compelled to find shelter of a night where he could. Teaple, Sergeant of the H division, who brought the case before Mr. Broughton, said it was fortunate that some one had interfered -in the poor boy's case, since, from the state in which he was, his death would probably have sloe occurred. He was now partially deprived of the use of one foot. Since the short time he had been in Bethnal-green workhouse there had been a great improvement. The mother then swore to her child's settlement. UNION-HALL. Yesterday Frederick Land, a youth of sixteen years of age, in the employ of Mr. Godson, a watch-maker and . jeweller in the Old Kent-road, and John Brooks, the driver of a go cart, were charged on suspicion with entering' the premises of the former prisoner's employer, and stealing upwards of forty gold and silver watches, together with various articles of jewellery. There was some contradiction in the statements given by the accused parties, both of whom were remanded, as it is strongly suspected that they are both implicated in the rub bery, and that tho account given by Land respecting his hav ing been held down and threatened with violence while the men were plundering his master's shop, is a fabrication from beginning to end. The remains of the late Dr. Vance were interred in St. James's Churchyard yesterday morning. The funeral by desire of the deceased and his family, was at an early hour, and strictly private. The deceased's carriage alone followed. MEMOIRS OF A PEERESS.—ThiS work purports to be only indebted to Lady Charlotte Bury for the duties of editing. How the case may be we cannot tell. The begin ing relates to the fashionable world half a century ago, and possesses considerable liveliness ; and the latter pages bring us to the death and burial of Charles James Fox. Many of the characters are introduced by their own names, while others are mystified, but yet not so much as not to be readily recog nised. The same may be said of the incidents. The early career of the Prince of Wales and his associates, and the fetes of Carlton House, Devonshire House, Itanelagh, and other rendezvous of the gaiety of a preceding generation, are the staple of the performance.—Literary Gazette.