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PRISON TREATMENT. Lord F. OSBORNE presented a petition -from John Clarke, eof Shipton, in the North Riding of Yorkshire e complaining of 'the treatment he had experienced while in prison, and before. lie had been tried on the charge preferred against him. The prisoner had been kept to hard labour upw a rd s o f o ne h un d re d day s, and had been eventually discharged without receiving any - recompence for • his. labour. The Noble Lord considered there had been gross injustice used towards the Petitioner. • Mr.' S. WORTLEY had been as indignant at hearing of, this case as the Noble Lord could be, considering the conduct; of the partieS connected with the prison to be illegal. He, how -ever, found that a- prisoner might b e l ega lly employed before -, -trial, so that the,labotrr were not severe. The petition was ordered to be printed. Lord F. OSBORNE then,preaented a petition from.a per son of the name of Martin Stapleton, complaining of the On tfuct of a Magietrate who had co m mitt e d h im to pr i s on, to work .:at the. Tread-mill, not having heen triedon the charge preferred against him. - • Mr. JAMES seconded the motion, and spoke in favour of ~ theetmetitione • Lord F, OSBORNE spoke against compelling females to Work at the . , Mr. Secretary PEEL had 'made minute inquiries to, ascer, stain from the Physicians of ,the Severale.Prisone what effect the labour of the Tread-mill had on the health of prisoners. From " --these inquiries nothing had transpired with respect to its operation on Canal* that made it at all necessary to alter the law, but sit the same time, for various reasons, it was ,desirable that they *should only be subjected to that. punish ment under the vigilant superintendence of the Magistrates -.and Surgeon. Mr. DENMAN thought the punishment of the Tread-mill 'oughtnot to be inflicted before sentence had been given. Mr. S. WORTLEY showed, by reference to the 22d of the Tate King, that it was lawful to employ prisoners before trial. After u few further observation*. from Mr. DF.NMAN, Mr. S. •WonrLrey, and Lord MILTON, Mr. Secretary PEEL said, persons might be put to work be fore trial, but he thought it objectionable to put them,,to work' the Trea&mill in company with those who hid been tried.— . 'Though prisoners might be set to work before trial, it' the labour of the Tread:.thill was considered to fix a stigma oa - them, this pUnishment ought to be spared. , Mr. S. WORTLEY had merely stated the law of the ease. The policy of employing prisoners, in the manner described, - Mikht be a very different question. Lord MILTON had listened with delight to the words of - the Right Hon. Secretary, and perfectly concurred in the s'en . timents which lie had expressed. Mr. Secretary PEEL wished it to be understood that he was not against the prisoner being employed befoeearial, in a way that might vonduce to his own benefit. • - Lord MILTON said that was precisely what he meant. The petition was then'ordered to be printed. - • - 'Mr. D. GILBERT moved that the Committee on London Bridge should have leave to make their, report on or before filontley sennight. SCOTCH . BUSINESS. The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND, on the re.. - ports of the Confirmation (Scotland) Bill, and the Commis saries' Bill being taken into further consideration, moved that they should be re-committed on Wednesday. Lord A. HAMILTON wished to know if these Bills were to be'advanccd one step forward on the present occasion The LORD ADVOCATE said the Bills would be advanced - a step, as it was moved that they should be re-einumitted on Wednesday-. • The SPEAKER 'remarked the progress,of the measures would be one step backward.—( A. laugh.) Lord A. HAMILTON could not allow these Bills to be noticed without complaining of the Manner in which they had been kept back hitherto, and were now hurried forward. lie wished to know why it was proposed to re-commit them on Wednesday. • • • The' LORI) ADVOCATE explained, and i defended the - course which he had pursued with these Mills. If the Noble Lord 'objected to their being re-committed on Wednesday,. he 'would willingly name any other day which he might prefer. After a few words from Mr. AItERCROMDY and Mr. H u Mr., ,the Bills were ordered to be re-committed on Friday next. Mr. WHAIOT HORTON presented a Petition froni New castle-under-Lyme against Slavery. Ordered to he printed. Mr. HUM E rose topiesent it Petition from Mr. Butcher, a "fruit-d ea l er , res idi ng in Dundee, complaining of the manner in which the Excise was conducted In Edinburgh. He had Amen 'ruined by a collector, iii consequence of a dispute be tween them as to the time at which his license expired. • One . said it expired, in September, and the other that it expired in Janqary. Thellonourable MeMber complained of the system of the Excise in .Edinburgh, and stated that it was very dif. fcrent front the regulation of the Customs, and ought to be altered. .The LORD ADVOCATE said that Ile was nut acquainted with the circumstances of the case, but that lie had no doubt a proper remedy would be afforded by the proper tribunals if ap. pealed to. After a few words from Mr. DRUMMOND and Mr. HUME, - the Petition was ordered to be printed. • A DJOUR,NME NT. Mr. Secretary CANNING moved that the (louse at its rising do adjourn till Wednesday. The Right Hon. Gentle. .man also presented certain Papers to the House, but the noise -which prevailed rendered the few words he in explanation of their contents quite inaudible in the Gallery. HUSH CHIEF .1„1ARON. Mr. WYNN presented the Report of the Committee upon , the Itish Court of Exchequer. Mr. S. RICE said, that having brought forward this ques. whicheinvolved charges of a serious nature against the Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland, he thought it was incumbent upon the Government to take further steps in the :business. Ile should never shrink from a duty in which he had embarked, but he thought it unfair that the whole burthen of .any future proceedings should .fall upon an individual. • Mr. Secretary CANNING s a id, that if Ca.! Hun. Member meant to affirm, that when any Member brought forward •charges against an official character, and, in his own opinion, proved them before a Committee, that then the Members of ;the executive were to -roceed by prosecution, he enlist state , that that was neither Parliamentary in practice nor in ]prig- ciple. Mr., Burke, in the impediment of Mr. Hastings, did not e e xpect to have the assistance of the Government • and Mr. Whitbread, in. tb3 case of Lord Melville, pursne‘the saute course. If they were dealing with a-reniovelAe Alter, and a •case of corruption had been proved, then be eultavitted they Were bound to remove such officer, as members of the Execu.. , tire but not as members of that House. With the case of Judge he knew only of two courses of proceeding.; either by an Address of that' House, or by impeacliment: And either of ethose courses would better originate with the first accuser than with any Member Of the Government. Ile would now tell the 'Boa. °mach - ion that it was not the intention of any MeMber of the Executive to move in this-case. He should not tu T ove in it, and he hoped that none of his Colleagues would. - • Sir .7. NEW Pt p wr contended, that the charges had not ore. ginated with his Hon. Friend the Member for Limerickebut with the Royal Commission which the Right lion. Gentleman opposite supported. Mr. WI NN thonght no case could be so extreme as that of supposing the Government bound to proceed in this'ease, he cause the charges grew out of Commission of Inquiry instituted by the Crown, in consequence of an Address of that House. If they were to do so, it would be impossible to prevent the question being considered in some degree P. party question, and thaewould be most unfair to the individual accust.d, as well as injurious to the.operations of justice. • - .Mr. AIIERGROAIBY did not mean to prolong this Con. vereatioe e because it 1;38 plain to every- man at all -acquainted with ParliamentaV practice, that • the case - would proceed no • farther. lie agreed with the Right Hon- President of the Weird, of Ceintreul, that the queition, if brought in by Govern:. -merit, INOitht be coneidered a party one; ant: consequently if it. ongieated on the other Side of time Honey, it would .be .treated in the same ivey e and, opposed. Afte r tm declaration.or the , Bight Hon. Secretary of State, that time Government would not ainxi,t further proceedings, it was plain to all men of sense that they-would oppose diem if moved by others. Mr. :Secretary . CANNING.---" . Mr. Speaker, I eke this. tinctly to deny, in -the face of this House and of the country, `the covrectnees of that inference. On the contrary, if the Ho. noerable Accuser deterinines to go on with these charges, I 'shell give my inmost attention to the investigation. I give this pledge without any knowledge of the merits of the case,. and eon lees of the individual whemse character it effects. As to his pelities, which is the only thing that could influence, or could be eileged tuinfuence the feelings - upon anal a question, I have m. - ,cc: even heard on which side they are." The Might lion. Gentlemioi repeated - that he pledged his honour to sup port hr. pertial ineumry if the Hon. Member chow to proceed, and theft he wot,ld discountenance every feeli:,g of 'party upon the sebjeci T Mr. NT NN appealed to the lion. Mover of the Committee, whethe: ha bd. ma paid every possible attention to its pro cectliti, and rued impartially upon them. lie considered the langilage of +La lion. Member (Mr A bercromby) to imply a char g e cr' party feeling upon the occasion ; and if the lion. Member hiri attended Cite Committee, he would have seen how little grouid zl , xist , ed fJr that charge. At all events, the charge came wi:h a beid grace fruul the 'Hon. Member, w ho had di nt t7d the Couuuittee. .Mr. Dior:. (IL' '3. ltlcE wLiJ he perfectly agreed eaAt nothing could a:kAuwic-dgments than the svdtdon and con . - cf the night [lon. Gentleman, except the im .2; an fairnebs.by wLich it vat. accompanied.--.(11earl). stunt ~r.:ri~ :. etittee the eepott of which was ordered to be 'received on, He iihotila• not Shrink from what he night hereafter deem his lletlnectley. " duty ; - but he protested against the hardship of throwing the whole weight of that duty upon one indieidual. Mr. ABERCROM BY expressed his satisfaction at the pledge given by. the Right lion. Secretary of State; but it was the that time he had heard of a Government being the favourer ofthat which it would not bring forward.= - • 11Ir. Secretary CANNING denied having pledged himself to become the favourer or the disfavourer of either side of the question. He was ,ready to give it constant and impartial attention. Mr. DENMAN contended that the Right lion. Secretary of State had been premature in making a voluntary declaration that in no case would the Government take, up the question, because the Right Hon. Gentleman himself confessed that he was ignorant of the facts of the case. - Mr. Secretary CANNING made a few observations in re ply to what had fallen from Mr. Denman. Mr. Secretary. PEEL said, it was a dangerous principle to lay down, that the executive should undertake the institution of all impeachthents. Even in cases of retrievable officers, it was competent for any individual Member on one side or the other to originate proceedings in that House. - It was always better for such questios not to be brought forward by the exe cutive, and least of all would it be detareable, after a Member -had taken up a case, and carried it to a certain point, for them to come in.with further proceedings. Mr. S. RICE and Mr. &artery PEEL explained. Mr. It. SM ITII agreed with those who thought that the Go vernment ought not to be the originators of impeachments. But this was a case which,. by the meanness and littleness of the malpractices charged upon the accused party, Would stand in such ludicrous contrast with the dignity and magnitude of such a proceeding, that h e th oug h t i t wou ld be better to 'leave the whole matter where it was, than to pursue it by such m eans . But it rem a i ne d f or the overnment to see whether there was no other course which would Parry the matter out of that House, alai yet accomplish the ends of justice. lie hoped he should be able to suggest such a course ; for, although he had found no cases of precedent, yet in Coke's Reports there was a memo rial which clearly alluded to a case in which that course was contemplated Every body knew that the words of the patent by which a Judge • held his office were " yawn dims se bene gem, it."' The Memorial •to which he referred stated, that there was a Mr. John Walterman, a Baron of the Exchequer, whom it was wished to remove from the Bench. But he.stood upon the words of his patent, " gnaw din se bene gessirit," and refused to resign without a,scfre fiteias to shew malegestion on his part; in consequence of which, he continued to sit on the Bench to the end of his (lays. The Hon. Member contended that such a course as was here pointed out would best befit the case with which they now had to deal. Mr. Secretary CANNING said he was not ashamed to con fess his ignorance of what the lion. Member .had suggcsted,'as no precedent had been found wherein such a course had been pursued. And when •be spoke of no proceedings being taken 4y .the Government, he of course did not allude to this, but to Parliamentary measures. Mr.'WETHUIIELL made some observations which were not distinctly audible. Mr. R. SMITH explained. . . Mr. HUME contended that it was the peculiar duty of Go-- vernment to tyke steps in the case, and to keep the seat ofjudg ment pure. • . Dr. LUSHINGTON said he happened to have been a Mem ber of the Committee, and he declared that if the case came be fore the House, he thought it would' be impossible for a majo rity, or even a minority of , the House to understand its com plicated nature. • If possible they should avoid Parliamentary • proceedings, but' at all events. they could not let the case rest where it - was. -Mr. Secretary CANNING said that he had first spoken in what he believed to be the common ignorance of any other mode of reaching the case but through Parliameht. lie con fessed that the suggestion of die Hon. Member for Lincoln, if were found correct, wouldvery much alter his opinion of the judicial independence. But he was not at present capable of Judging of its correctness, and he was willing to take the opi. nion of those who were competent to decide upon such a question: • The conversation then dropped. • - PEERS' MESSAGE. A Message from the Lords announced that their Lordships had agreed to the Irish Militia Reduction Bill, and several private Bills. IRISH TITHES COMPOSITION. Mr. GOULBURN moved the Order of the Day for going into a tormuittee upon the above Bill. Mr. V. FITZGERA LD said, that before the Speaker left the Chair he wasanxieus to take this early opportunity o f ex.: pressing his disapp r ob at i on o f some of . the principl es o f t h e Bill. Ile believed that no proposal of commutation had ever been submitted to Parliament, without the provision that compensation should be granted for tythes .which had been re. ceiv,al only.. And it' he could slew that the present Bill gave remuneration not only • for receipts,'but for claims which the - Clergy had never imagined they a:mould receive, and even for tythes which they never thought of claiming, he thought he should prove that insterul of lessening, it amps. mented the evils of tythes, and that instead of relief, it would give increased oppression : to the people. Ile should not go into the details, because he believed many of them . to be im practicable, anti incapable of amendment, except by total omission. His main obje c ti on was to one particular clause.— The Right Hon. Gentleman then went through the provisions of the Bill relating to the formation of vestries, and the ap pointment of Commissioners on the part of the parishioners and of the incumbent. They then came to a clause which provided that if within a-given time either of the parties held out and re fused to make composition, the Lord Lieutenant should hays the power of appointing a Commissioner to decide upon the amount of compensation for " all lawful tithes," without reference to any receipts whatsoever. This was to be the alternative even where the incumbent refused to appoint a Commissioner in the first instance. - do thatif he wished to revive dormant c l a i ms which he had . not thought. of. making himself, he had but to object to the composition, and - they would , be granted to him by this power. lie considered the Resolutions of the Irish' House of Commons of the year 17811 As a spoliation of the Church of Ireland: With regard to the Potato Tithe, he be. lieved it bad been rarely exacted in Ireland, though it bud re cently. been demandeel In a few instances ; and the' demand aline had caused a strong feeling of irritation. Ile objected, therefore, to a valuation being take», on the mere dormant right of taking this tithe. Ile wished that the Catholic meth. pier. should pay tithe in the shape of rent to the landlord; but he objectea to any measure which 'should profess to ac. complish this and . yet .should have the effe c t, of increasing . the revenu e o t the Church. Ile thought, too, that it would be impossible. to .-come to a fair valuation under this Bill without a previous new survey. Indeed he thought the whole measure would, have, been better had it been preceded by a Parliamentary Commission, to ascertain the value of the lifibeent livings of Ireland. At present the proceeding would be principally of a parochial nature. He should resist the motion for the Speaker leaving the Chair, though he did not dunk it necessary for him to divide .the house upon- it. He really trusted the 'lease would very gravely consider the int- ' portance of this Bill ; foe if it were once passed, it could not lightlY be altered. It W as a Bill, i n hi s op i nion, intended to relieve the country, but which would have the effect, in many instances of doubling, and in some o f qua d rup li ng t h e Incomes of the Clergy. Ile implored the House to pause before they proceeded with a Bill, against which the Clergy protested, and which would not give satisfaction to thepeople. Mr. GOULBURN declared his conviction that the Bill would not be attended by the evils imagined by his Right lion. Friend. Belied never denied that the subject was surrounded by difficulties; but, under any circumstenees, such a measure as the present must always boilable to objections. He merely called upon the Howie toeay, whether it was not a Bill as free from defects as it possibly could be, considering the nature of the subject; and whether such defects. as it realy did contain could not, in a great measure, be remedied by a discussion of its details in a Committee. Indeed, in the first instance, he had wished to have permission to carry the Bill, pro firma, through a Committee, and , afterwards to present it to the Howie with such ementithents as might be found adviseable.— Thie e however, bad been objected to by those who were op posed to the principle of the - Bill. The house were aware that, in general, the tithe in Ireland fell upon the poorer cold. vatore of the soil ; a circumstance which brought the clergy mehioto direct contact with his parishioner, and compelled him either to forego the principal part of his income (derived from several small sums), or exact the payment - of that Income with apparent harstmess. There were other evils arising from the mode of c•llecting the tythe, and the question was whether the turning or the tythe into a .money payment would not contribute v e ry materially to remedy these evils.. He was aware that in Ireland there would always be objections to the !acid adminharatitm of parish altars; but this was no argu ment against their endeavouring, as opportunity offered, to remedy this defect. Ile was aware, too, that as the Pill was originally frame& it would be particularly difficult to form a vestry. The qualification stipulated was too 'high ; for th'ere were many parishes in which no person paid 51. tithe annually, which was toe amount originally fixed. But, surely, this was a defect which might be remedied in a Committee.. And ifany lion. Member would point out to blin any elegible amendment, he should most cheerfullyadopt it. The first object of the Bill was, a voluntary adjustment, by bringing the interested parties together. The objectiou of his Right lion. Friend, however, was principally directed against the subsequent- part of the Bill in which there were some -.compulsory clauses. He de neid that this part of the Bill sanctioned any invasion of property. liThen the nublie good called for a forcible tak ing away of private; property, public justice called for the giving to the individual a fair equivalent ; and dile was the principle by wliieh the compUlsory part of the BM was re gulated. Still, if any intenrediate process between the volun tary and the compulsory mode could be suggested, he should be glad to hear and discuss it. lie was surprised at the allu sion made by his Right Honourable Friend to the tithe of agist ment, for it formed no part of the compulsory provisions of the present 13111. He should forbear enlarging upon a variety of subjects on which his Honourable Friend had discussed, be muse he was anxious to get the Bill into the Committee, to nave the advintage. of that full disussion and emendation which it would there receive. He had no doubt it would come' out of that Committee in such a form as to r econcile all hosti lity against it. Mr. WETHERELL said that he might not have offered himself to the House on a subject of the kind were his objec tions to:the measure confined to local objections. But his oppo sition went to the principle of the Bill, which principle he took to be, to compel,- not • to enable, the territorial owner of tithes to change the nature of his property, from that of land to money. This, he contended, was the meaning of this measure, and it was against this compulsory provision of provision contrary to the whole 'spirit of the British laws, and deroga tory from the character of the conservators of British pro perty—that he 'opposed himself. So far from this being it mea sure of conciliation, it took for its foundation the impossibility of amicable adjustment between the parties putting into the hands of the Lord-Lieutenant the power of appointing a con tractor to carry . into effect that accommodation which could not be otherwise done. If this Bill had been circulated •in Ireland for a year, it would have been more fair ; and he could not understand why so much haste should be ap- L 'parent. He did think it necessary that they should know more of the state of feeling in that country on this subject. The [object of the bill, they were informed, was to harmonize two 'parties, one of which was exasperated, because it had to pay tithes to the other. But the bill which was to do this did not pretend. to do away with these tithes, but offered to commute them-from kine-to money. He l o ok e d upon it as an irritative rather than sedative. All historians on the Constitution of England had pointed out that the grand harmonizing principle which so intimately united the Church and State, was the Clergy having territorial tithes, which mixed them up in com merce with their `parishioners, rather than being sunk into mere • pensioners': This-was a disastrous year bf innovation for Ire land, for there was the Honourable Member for Aberdeen (Mr. Hume) wishing to deprive her of her _Lord Lieutenant, and the Minister-wishing to deprive her - of her Church pro perty, so that that country was to have Civil Government with, out a Governor, and a Church without any title to property_ They had stripped the .statue of King Ni Whim of its ribbons by way-of conciliation, and had found it produce so much, that to complete the blessed work they proposed stripping the Church of its *petty. The principle of this Bill was the prin. ciple of spoliation', and no one could say that it would stop in any given place. If it passed he should say to the Church of 'lreland that its downfall had commenced. Mr. Secretary PEEL said, that the only point of the many they had urged, upon which the two opponents to this Bill agreed, was, that the Speaker should not • leave the Chair, and that this Bill should he at once, and for everdismissed the House. Now to this propositioti, - he rose humbly toeffer his most stre nuous opposition., After they had been ten years at variance on the subject of tithes,. he intreated the House not to turn their backs upon a measure which at length came forward to recon cile and accommodate all their differences. Ilis Hon. and Learned Friend (Mr. Wetherell) wished them to wait for new lights from Ireland, but it was just because he did. not think they could receive- any new lights from that quarter on the subject, that he called upon them not to wait. Ile, on the con trary, called upon them to go into • the 'Committee, that they might there compare their opinions, and interchange their in formation. His Hon. and Learned Friend was obliged to assume this as a compulsory measure to make out his case of opposition. But the fact was, that the very compulsory re- , gulation was one-which was voluntarily entered i n t o b etw i xt the ' parties in a large portion of the Empire. lle could not assent to the proposal of his Right Hon. Friend to estimate the future receipts at the Clergy by the past; for of late years ninny had been able to obtain tie tithe at till. To take that mode, there, fore, would be spoliation to the individual, and compulsion in the principle of the measure. He could not think any attempt at compulsion, by appointing an adjudicator on the part of the Lord Lieutenant, Would succeed. Any attempt on time part of the Gtivernmentao deal with a regulation - of this kind, where there were parishes containing ten thousand payers of tithes, he could not but think would f a il. 'Nothing; he was con v i nce d, but parochial legislation would do in such a case. This, how ever was a bill calculated in all other respects to put this. dis puted. Matter in a train, of settlement, and he hoped, therefore, the •Housu would not reject it; but at least give it thatfair dis. cussion to which so important a subject was entitled. It was no reason that it would not restore Ireland to perfect harmony, that it should not be entertained. It proposed to put matters upon a little better footing, and that little was not to be dis., dained, because the whole could not at once be attained. Mr. V. FITRALD and Mr. - ‘VETuratrt.t. respectively explained. Sir J. NEWPORT said, the House to- be able to discuss the subject sh o uld be in posseS s io n of thereat state of Ireb ni d, and the stateof the Irish Church. If the Houso.cOuld aware of the inconveiuiences Ireland had been subject to for terry years, something would be done. His hope was that the House would not pays over the misery and calamity of , that 'un-' fortunate country. Colonel BARRI' opposed the compulsory clause:. as it ap. peared the Bill might be improved in a Cemmittee, his hope was that his Ilon. Friend would not oppose that proceeding Mr. ABE liCRO:11 BY thought the 11111 in d anger of .being lost. He objected to words in the compulsory, clause on the ground that it gave the clergyman more than heought to have. culty. . th6y . gave by the Bill in li eu of 'that tithe, a certainty The clergytran had a time which he co ll ecte d w i t h g r eat ditii of payment without difficulty. Ai r . \VEST wax desirous of going into the Committee. iel'uitPtreeelsweloi-ulltuli hope that the wisd om o f make the Bill a bl ess i ng to the c e i o a H l n o o d n u e r s lae rather t i h e N a C n C o l a m i curse. The question for the Speaker leaving the chair was then car. tied without a division. The House accordingly went into a Committee on the Bill. Mr. Ci MILBURN then observed that it would be advisable to commit the Bill pro forma, have it reprinted with his amend. ments, and re.committed on a future day, with an understand. ing that no debate was again to ensue on the Speaker leaving the chair. • The Bill accordingly went through the Committee pro forma, and, the Report was ordered to be received on Wednesday. The Commotion of Tithes Bill was read the second time, and conouitted for Wednesday. INsIIRBECTION BILL. Mr. GOULBURN brought in the Irish Insurrection Bill, which was read the first time, and ordered to be rend a second time on Thursday. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and they adjourned ,at BALr-PAST TWELVE 6 i CLOCK, to Wednesday. IKKLAND. [From the Carlow .31oraing Post, of !Way 15.] ST-ti - }: or COUNTRY.—is or eight houses have been burst in Limerick since our last notice. In Cork an attempt ‘ was made to assassipate a Magistrate, Mr. BEtsrmin Low. A few outrages have occurred in Clare and West Meath. We have not space for any details. At the fair of Ballinesloc, held on Wednesday last there was a good display of horned cattle, but a very poor show of sheep. Store cattle were the only deseription of stock in demand, and brought rather advanced prices. • The May Fair of Athlone took place on Tuesday last. There was but a scanty display of cattle ; those for feeding, and flinch cows, were in request,- and went ofTat tair prices. M‘Manus, on whom the strongest suspicion, of having mur dered- his wife, by 'drowning her in the Canal here, and who had absconded, since that transaction, was brought in here on Sunday last, through the wonted activity of the Roscommon police, and transmitted to the County Gaol. The following Gentlemen, from the English Customs De partment, are on a tour through I reland, for the purpose cf as similating the discharge of business with the practice in Eng land :—Mr. Weston, acting land . surveyor, M. Tetham, in- Spector of the. river at London, and Mr. lier, collector's clerk. • remewasnowaitsmism UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. thrronn, MAT W.—The following Degrees were conferred this day:— The Rev. James William Vivian. M.A. of All Souls' Col lege, was admitted Baclielor of Divinity.—Rev. George Tra kerne, B.A. of University College, was admitted Master of Arts. • Bachelors of Arts.—Ettwartl Cornish Wells, St. Edmund flail; Richard Tawney, Trinity College; Rev. Thos. Brooks bank Charnock, Scholar of University_.College ; Richard Wm. Lambert, Pembroke College. Ecclesiastical Preferments—The Rev Clarke Jenkins, B.D. to the valuable Rectory of Leigh illagna, Essex ; -and the Rev. Francis Skurray, IL D. to the consolidated Rectories of Winter_ bourne Abbas cum Steepleton, Dorset-patrons, the - Rector and Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford. - The. Rev. George D. Whitehead, A.M. domestic. chaplain to - Lord Monson, and Minister of flueSingham,. to the . Vicarage of Sexilby, ne ar Lincoln. - The Lord Primate of Ireland lies presented - the valuable Rectory of Louth to the Reverentl Elias Thackcray, Rector of Ardee, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.. PRICE 0: TIIIS DAY AT Bunk Stock 3 per Cent. Red. O n g 3 per Cent. Cons lts - 34 per Cent oht— -4 Per { QLi New 9 Bii 5 per Cents. 1797 Bank Long Ann. 194 15-16ths Imp. 3 ptr Cents. F STOCKS ONE O'CLOCK India Stock India Bonds South Sea Stock . Old Annttities Er.. Bills — pr. I)itto Small Bank for Act. India for Con. Acct. Cons. for Acct. ~~~a PRICE or FOREIGN STOCKS ix LONDON, 31AY . 17, AT ONE O'CLOCK. Five per Cents. 87. Six per Cents. 00. Russian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. Neapolitan Ditto New 78.. .1 Five per Cent..Bouds, 00. I Scrip, 00. Austrian Five per Cents.( Metallic) 00. (Five per Cent. Bonds, 00. Spanish . 1 New Ditto, 35. - Scrip, 00 disc. - Prussian f Five per Cent. Bonds, 83k. - I Ditto New, Ili. Danish • Fi ve p er Cent.' ds, 90. Chili 611. Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds, 07. Peruvian New Loan, 00. (Bank Shares £2l ss. American _) Six per Cent. 90-98. (Five per Cent. 953-97. Three per Cent. 10. • French HIrII WA TER Al LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 20 minutes after 8. Evening, 56 minutes lifter 0. THE SUN. SOLE.," QUIS DICERS F. 41.917211 AUDEAT ? , LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1 823. Ills AIAJEsTY.—Our account from Carlton house this day, states Ills MAJESTY to be so much better that it was deemed unnecessary to issue a Bulletin. We may therefore indulge the hope of a speedy and complete restoration. NEW LOTTERY This day, at eleven o'clock, the present CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER received, for the first time, the biddings for a Lottery. The Lottery Office Keepers who have been for some time the Contractors, declined bidding, on account of re cent losses in the speculation, but a list com posed of the most respectable Gentlemen of the Stock Exchange was formed, and we have, but to name Messrs. RtcAnno, MIEVILLE, and MAu- BEST, who signed the Contract this day, for 20 ; 000 Tickets, to be drawn on or before the 31st day of October next, to prove to the public the good faith that will be kept in every part of this transaction. We understand that the Go., vermnont has sold the Tickets.at the same price which 'they have received for some time past; but that AV holt Tickets will be on sale at the Stock Exchange, at the market price of the day, to all purchasers who may employ their Broker's to buy them as they were formerly. We cannon help wishing the Contractors success in their undertaking, which will to that part of the public who purchase Lottery Tickets, be a considerable saving. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. of l y l e re k h e a rt v la e y li • received n X nd i' by Express the Paris Papers Thursday last. Their con tents are of great importance, for they not only confirm the fact that MINA had out-generalted Marshal Moarecy, and strengthen the hope that he has obtained some other considerable ad vantage over the invaders, but prove that the Duke d'ArrootmEme himself has sus tained some check,-;—that his communications with France are either interrupted, or are preserved with very great difficulty—that his advariced guard has been -drawn back from Valladolid to Burgos,—that Valencia has, gal lantly repulsed ULMAN, into whose hands that city was alleged to have fallen,—that the French have been compelled to raise the blockade of Santona,—that Madrid has been deserted by ahnost all the respectable inhabitants,—and that ABISBAL, the Portuguese General 1400, and perhaps MoarrAo, are now interposed be tween that Capital and the Duke d'ANGOtI• LEME, apparently with the intention of disputing his further advance ! But it is from Catalonia,—from MoNcta- or from MINA, —that additional intelligence is looked for with the most intense anxiety. The French Govern ment have suffered none of the information which has reached them, of a later date than the Bth; to transpire. There are letters from Burges of the tenth,—but beyond the eighth, the Ptiblic have been permitted to know nothing of what is passing in Catalonia f The Journal des Dards reasons upon the data previously furnished, and endeavours to spew that MINA was compelled, by the mancen vres of the French Generals, to make that move- 1 ment which has evidently disconcerted and sur prised his adversaries. But even allowing that the operations of the French were well and judicious ly conducted, still it is admitted by theMselves : that their object was defeated by the skilful and unexpected movement on the part of MINA, which the French official account so expressively terms his having " given the slip" to his opponents, — and still there is no disposition to give publicity. to what has taken place since the Bth, the date of Marshal MONCEY'S dispatch ! On that point the Journal des Debuts is wholly silent!— This deficiency is in some measure supplied by private letters from Paris, which assert, that a dispatch from Marshal MoNcy, dated the 11th, was received in Paris on Thursday morning•,— that it announces, that the Fourth Corps of the Army has sustained a severe check,—that MINA, instead of retreating by Olot and Castelfollit upon Campredon, as was at first said, had turned right upon itipoll,—had driven, before him ROMAGOZA and a division of French troops,—and, thatching upon Berga, had opened to himself a free passage I into Arragon.' Having gained the Valley of Segra, it was in his power either to pro ceed towards Lerida, to 'Occupy Cerdagne, or to threaten the rear of the French and their Allies of the Faith, in Catalonia!—The Journal des Minas, in stating that Madrid is alinOst deserted, seems to wish that it should be inferred that that city has been Abandoned. by the military force.-- The desertion, however, has been on the part of all the respectable inhabitants, Who have remov ed with their most valuable effects, while the Count nEt. ABISBAL has advanced with his army to the Santo-Sierra, in order to dispute the - .march of the enemy to the Capital, and the Frencli have retrograded from Val/olio/id to Bur gos, in order, according to the correspondent of the Pilote, that they may politely avoid having uz.l. action With ,the Portuguese, with whom France is not at war? What does all this mean ? The Debuts indirectly confirms the statement, that the French had ben obliged to retrograde upon Burgos, for it say s \ , " We are tosct out again from \ Burgos on the 13th May we be soon enabled to announce th a t th e y have. been \ set out again on thei , return toFrance . _,_ a l s f te t r h s e , y th e e s r p e er n i . e i i l l i ce be ai ii ry o s , e; g o o, u o s .lli s t u .o c , : s .e % oliliffed !I. ° they retain a foot of Spanish soil in their posses sion . . been ! de A sir l o tl u to s ug e l; it is s s si o ". l 4ij on . g di as : - 'that if brightening it is impossible not to see .coming to t t e ha e t n b oth ile c p a rties have driven to the their national: d i discus sions, ces . sions haughtiness till the French have been h e t c h t l s es o s p l e v n i i j u upon u t p h t e ly tril Spaniards, iinate t h t e h northern side of the Pyrenees ! [From the Yilolr i f Friday.] " P.11:15. MAY s.—Tlie ;Toter/11 opinion this day that Mina, instead of proceeding to Cam predon, had marched by Ripon and Berga, and destroyed the corps 'of posted in that direction. It is also said that from Berga he was again proceeding to \rich; where he would form a junction with the divisions of Llobera and Milans. " According to the news from Spain received this day, the Portuguese are in the neighbour hood of Valladolid, and the Count of Affisbal occupies the defiles of Samo-Sierra. " It is said that an Army ~.a qeserre will lac organized immediately to b(rnllrched into Spoil'. " It is believed that the French Army has raised the blockade of Santona. MAY 9.—Th e c ommun icatio n s on " Fawn TILE ENVIRONS or Sr. Scmismor, the high road from [run to Vittoria being in want of addition al escorts, several detachments have been sent ou this service from the troops which' blockaded Sr Sebastian. The garrison, observing/the weakness of the blockading I'M-Cc, took advantage df the circumstance and made a sorOe last night, when they captured many prisoners. "Two new Guerilla Chiefs have just appeared: one is Mandeca, Ex-Aide:de Camp of General Porlier : the other is Colonel Pablo, surname d Chapalanga, to whom is speciallY confided Oa service of operating on the road which leads to Vittoria so f n r s o lon f c Pam ou p n e t lu i t , ;: ;oeu lq e Sa , I l va x t . i l e r r i r c a e . roy o7 of t f Navarre, is also in that Province, at the pearl of a Guerilla party. " The advanced guard of use French arn'J', wl►ich was at Valladolid, has received orders lU fail back, and after having t a k en . four des' Pro visions it returned to Burgos. His supposed that this retrograde movement w as ma de in order to avoid an engagement With th e Vortuguese, tl►e French being at peace with then'. _ _ _ 64 General Ballasteros r kee- i b C onstantly in the rear, of the - corps of Molitor, oith in one da y' s march. An important affair ii expected in Catalonia. " BAYONNE, MAY 10.—Th e nussian Officer who went to San Sebastian t o p ropose terms of capitulation to the Government,, was desired to return immediately as so ul' as he made his ap_ pea ra n ce. [Front l'Etoile of p r op] " The fall of the English Funds caused the depregsion in our reuses, t General Donnadieu, as so l l zl. trot the defeat of Perso ns hare been pleased to report. Mina, by taking the direction .. Us.