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THE BRITISH LEGION. Antigua, near St. Sebastian, March, 25, 1837. My Dear Brother—After a long period of inaction, we at last commenced active operations on the 10th inst. On the Bth and 9th I was an out-lying piquet ; at twelve o'clock on the 9th I heard we were to move at twelve at night ; and of course looked, anxiously forward to the time I would be relieved, in order to make the necessary arrange ments for a move ; but from some cause or other I was not relieved until eight o'clock at night ; I then speedily packed up my few things, and took them to my billet in town, where I found several young ladies laudably employed in making making bandages and lint for the wounded. After chatting for a few moments with them, I went to the French Cafe, and had a capital dinner, which I washed down with a bottle of claret, and then went to the reginient, which I found just falling in. We marched off across the bridge, to the left side of our lines, and at five o'clock in the morn ning drew up in strong force opposite the enemy. The Ametza hill was carried in splendid style at the point of the bayonet, with trifling loss. Still more to our left the Spaniards were moving on in force, keeping up a tremendous fire, our artillery and rockets were speedily brought up, and did terrible execution among the enemy. The day was beautifully fine, and you can form no idea of the grandeur of the scene—the whole extent of mounta ins were in one blaze with the fire of musketry, and every now and then the shot, shell, and rockets fell in the midst of the ranks of the enemy, scattering death and dismay among them. I could see them scudding away in all directions, about 30 and 40 at a time. Our old friends the Chapelchurries with their white caps, who are always opposed to us, after a desperate resistance, and being fearfully cut up, were obliged to run for it. During the day we carried position after position, and a: night remained masters of a large ex tent of ground ; our regiment slept that night upon the Ametza. The loss on our side amounted to nearly 800 killed and wounded, and the enemy, according to their Gazette, lost about 1,100. On the 11th and 12th the weather was very unfavourable—on the 13th it was still very bad, but we threw pontoons over the Uramea, crossed it, and took up a position on the other side. On the 14th And 15th, the weather was still bad, but our troops con tinued to advance, and at mid-day, on the 15th, our whole force was turned out. British naval officers and jack tars —indeed every Englishman here was on the ground, giving every assistance in his power. We carried every thing before us, when we came to the Font of Oriamendi, com monly called the Yenta Hill, an immense fortified moun tain, which overlooks and command the town of Hernani, on the top of which the enemy had three pieces of cannon. Oar shell was soon rattling among them, when three of our regiments charged up the hill and took it. At this moment there was a yell of victory from one end of the line to the other, when all rushed on, carrying every thing before us. Night was now fast closing upon us, and we took up our respective positions, and bivouacked on the sides of the mountains oppo site Hernani. Next morning, at day-break, we were again under arms, and moving ; we advanced close to the town, and threw some rockets into it. The enemy had two small pieces before the town, from which they sent sonic round shots at us ; the resistance appeared trifling, end it was evident we should soon be in pos,ession of the town. At this time some Carlist Lancers made a charge upon us from the town , when a Lieutenant and several of the men were shot dead, and the Colonel taken prisoner. When he was taken there was one of our Lancer officers present, and the Colonel sung out to him that ha would give him 200 dollars if he would save his life. At the mi . ) ment a Spanish soldier made a thrust at him with bayonet. It being a critical moment, be exclaimed fifty snore ; his life, however, was saved without the reward being claimed of course. Just after this the enemy re ceived large reinforcements under the direction of Doi, Sebastian and Villareal ; in fact, it was evident that the f 1 aver of the Carlist force was brought against us, and as I looked through the glass at battalion after battalion forming into one dense mass, I anticipated that the hardships and elaiizers to which I had been exposed for the last twenty mrintii3 were on the eve of being brought to splendid ter mination. I was disappointed. After taking a survey I sat down upon the grass, tired and hungry, when a French man came up to me with a basket containing bread, cheese, and beer. I got from him a bottle of beer and some cheese an.] bread, which I consumed with a great deal of gusto. notwithstanding the cannon-balls were passing over my head, and knocking the trees about. As I finished my repast, the General's Aide-de-camp rode up and ordered the Colonel to take his regiment up a hill, to support some regiments &* Spaniards who were giving way ; he said he had only four companies present, the others being sent to cover some of our guns. N'inzpo:-te, we had to take what we had ; we accord intr.ly went up and found this Spaniards retreating. Our officers tir),.ed and drove the Sr aliards back to their posts, striking them with the fiats of their swords. One of our majors got a wound through his shoulder at this work. When we got to the top we found about five battalions of Carl:sts coming with fixed bayonets, at a slapping pace upon us ; our men were then brought up, but just as they arrived all the Spaniards, about 3,000 men, took to their heels, except such as got a bayonet in their guts, and two com• panics who were takel prisoners. As it was quite clear a few hundred men could not stand against against five battalions, aye fell back upon our supports. Such as were wounded were tenderly disposed of by the Carlists, as it was much too hot for a man to look after his neighbour ; and I can assure you, that as I retreated down that hill, the balls fell around the like hail-stones. We then formed at the foot of La Yenta, where the Marines were stationed, and opened such a fire upon them as seemed to astonish them a little. The enemy then got upon the top of a hill, and fired down upon us The firing here was hotly kept up for a considerable time, when our Colonel sounded the advance, and we charged end carried the hill, and trampled over their dead bodies which crowded the top of it. One of the Carlists was only badly worn led, when a Spaniard who came up with u; shook him, called him some names, and then sent his bayonet through his heart. A Carlist officer, laying dead upon his back, presented such a spectacle as I never before saw on the field—his skull was completely carried away, and his brains dropping on the ground, smoking hot ; his face was perfectly calm, and his mustaches were knowingly twisted up, and seemed to have been well oiled. One of our lads observed that he had on a pair of good gaiters, and saying they were useful articles in this country, whipped them off l.im, and placed them on his own legs in half a second. We took up our position on this hill, which we could have kept to all eternity, as long as the other troops maintained their ground; but the left wing, from some indescribable cause for which their gallant Lacers cannot account, gave way in terrible di s o r d er , w hi c h th e G enera l p erce i v i ng , and' always choosing to act upon the safe side, thought pro per to order in us to retire and fall o n our o ld li nes , an d accordingly in a very short space of ti me I f oun d my self our old position. The retreat was effected with out any loss, which was extraordinary, considering the disorderly way in which it was made. The Carlists acknowledge to have lost in the last days' operations 2,200 men, while our own loss has been close upon 2,000. So much for the grand combined movement. Saarsfield, I suppose, was amusing himself at Pampeluna, and Espartero at Durango or Bilboa ; however, without the assistance of either we ought to have floored the Don on the 16th, when the credit would have been all our own. With kind regard to every body, believe me, My deer fellow, your affectionate Brother, - - . RODERIC APLEOD. 6th Scotch Regiment of the Legion, To John MALcod, Esq., Tulse Hill. P.S. Send me some newspapers, containing accounts o our last movements. A railroad is projected between Frankfort, Wisba , den, and Mayence, or at least to the borders of the Rhine op• :posite that fortress. PRIMITIVE SIMPLICITY.—Some years ago we alluded to a cottage in Galloway, far among the hills, in which tea had never been made, and where cups and saucers were utensils unknown, as a sporting party of gentlemen dis covered to their cost. Much about the same time the Editor of the Scotsman informed the public that there were persons residing in the remoter Hebrides who had never heard of .Buonaparte—a fact that will excite a sigh in the mind of ( A very Carlist, on the double ground that his lot has been very ditYerent, and that _ _ "Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise." But this state of things cannot possibly endure much longer, now that we have an Orkney and Shetland newspaper printed in London, and a John O'Groat's Journal printed at home. It is of the nature of the vallies to get before the hills, and hence alpine botbies, still exist, in which looking-glasses are unknown and unheeded—the women-folks adjusting their finery by " keeking into the draw-well, like my Joe Janet," and the men shaving as featly on Saturday nights as if they .had a mirror before them worth twenty pounds. In such places teeth-brushes and powder would be regarded as still veaterfarlies, and hence the mistake which a simple country gi,•l committed within our own county a few years ago. Du ring. .a snow-storm the stage coach stuck fast, and as there was neither inn nor village at hand, the passengers had to bivouack as they best could. A lean larder is even worse than a chair or table bed, and as the snow had laid an embargo on road, field, ald fell, the party, but for the never-failing pota-. toes, might ks'e been storm-starved as well as stayed. While this state of things lasted, one of the party, a foreign gentle. man, retired to a tiny closet to wash his hands and rince his mouth, and was making a good use of the brush when the ser vant girl leifnitsto tell.,bim dinner was ready. Still as he did ns lt appcaLitededilteUtZthe girl was questioned as to the cau on which she replied with the greatest naivete—" I l e f t a t i thrang sharpening, his teeth, and I'se warrant he'll no be ahint." A reply so unexpected, of course created a h ear ty I . l ing +, and it afterwards appeared that the lassie, having never se, a tooth-brush before, concluded that the foreigner In vast %i n is ginders, as the eagle whets his beak, that he ma lce fi et er , a:irstaughton such viands as were placed Lefore Courier. CRIMINAL COURT.--YESTERDAY. NEW COURT. SENTENCES. The trials having been finished on Wednesday, the prisoners who were convicted were yesterday brought up to receive their respective sentences. At two o'clock the Recorder, the Sheriffs, and Aldermen Atkins, Harmer, and Lainson, took their seats on the bench, when sentence of death was passed on John Backhouse, Thomas Waters, and John Davis, for burglary, and Edward Thornet for robbery. The following were sentenced to be transported for life : Richard Edwards and John Woodcock, for the manslaughter of a boy on the high seas ; James Thomas Sutton, for re turning from former transportation; Frederick Ware, Thomas Jackson, George Smithers, Edward M'Quillan, and George Herbert. To be transported for fourteen years--Martha Taylor and Bartholomew Kent, whose sentence had been res pited from a previous session, in order to give the latter an opportunity of taking his case before the Judges. He was a servant in an Insurance Office, and was convicted of embezzle ment. He had declined carrying the case further, and the Court thought the case so bad a one that they inflicted the severest punishment they were empowered to do. The only mitigation of the sentence was that the time should be com puted from the date of the conviction. The following were sentenced to be transported for seven years—Mary Hayes, Harriet Harris, Charlotte Clayton, Susan Stockey, Eliza Latham, Mary Ray, Maria Belmore, Louisa Mackintosh, Elizabeth Harris, Timothy Davis, John King, Wm. Parker, Henry Scroop, Thomas Johnson, Joseph Cop. pin, William Walker, Martin Thomas Briggs, John Charles Todd, James Wilson, George Spencer, William Hutchinson, John Smith, Thomas Jordan, James Burnham, John Edmunds, James Cook, David Sawyer, George Wyatt, Hadrack Cave, John Thomas Higgins, Richard Breed, John Wilson, John Clarke, John Smith, William Wilson, Robert White, John Robinson, James Munday, James Osborne, Cornelius Connelly, Wm. Appleton, Geo Jones, Geo. Osborne, Joseph Seers, Wm. Yates, John Epps, and Wm. Heath. John Keys, John Ralph, and F. A. Candler, were ordered to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years in the Penitentiary. Wm. Simmonds, John Lewis, Edward Tate, Jas. Ayres, Catherine Connell, Mary Flann;gan, Eliza Ball, Noah Aaron, Geo. Jones, Geo. Parker, Thos. Harvey, and John Elson, were sentenced to one year's imprisonment and hard labour. A great number of other prisoners were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment—part of it generally to be spent in soli tary confinement. The Sessions were then adjourned till next month. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-IJOUSE APfIIL 13. The Hawk, Norris, from St. Michael's ; Batavier, Dunlop, Rotterdam ; Melania, Land, Gravelines ' • Alexander, Lavalle, Gravelines ; Rapid, Cassie, Mauritius; Espoir, Lavalle, Gra velines ; Flora, Manning, H.lrlingen ; 80..1ey Wood, Cutting, St. Nlichae.',.; Hirendelle, Matheson, St. Michael's ; Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, Ostend ; Lively, Finch, Harlingen ; Davenport, Bidwell, Guel iisey ; St. Charles, Long, Calais ; Joseph, Lowe, Guernsey ; Charlotte, Doods, Memel; Alert, Margolle, Calais ; Odin, Hoist, Gothenburg ; Cecilia, Bays, Copenhagen ; Rose, Avery, Guernsey ; Attwood, Major, Rotterdam. ENTERED OUTWARDS, The Mary, Stcrry, for Malta; Urania, Cyder, Guernsey and Jersey; Columbine, Norwood, Rotterdam ; Ocean, Nlur fee, Antwerp ; Lord Strangford, Latta, Rotterdam ; Planet, Straughen, Gibraltar. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO. The Tyro, Tray, for Rotterdam ; Eclipse, Simons, Ostend, Bruges, and Ghent ; Elizabeth, Whitmore, Jamaica; Sancho Panza, Jones, Gibraltar; Calpe, Wrightson, Cadiz and Lis bon ; Iris, Mackwocd, Ceylon ; Porcupine. Laing, Mauritius. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST. The Orestes, Barber, for Richcburto ; Charles William, Trotter, St. l'etersburgh ; Troughton, Snellins, Quebec ; Livervool, Godfrey. Quebec; Brothers, Veal, flamburgh ; Calista, Jameson, Sierra Leone ; Alexander, Lavalle, Grave lines. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LrrERrooL, APRIL 12 MAGEE V. ATKINSON AND TOWNLEY. This was an action arising out of the non-performance of contracts for the sale or purchase of shares in the Great Western Railway. The action was brought against the defendants for non-delivery of 30 shares in that Company, by which non-delivery the plaintiff was obliged to purchase others at a higher price, to enable him to fulfil his engage ment for a sale over to another party. After evidence had been beard, A verdict was returned for the plaintiff for 38.:7/. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. !IA TTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Suscrunah Busher, was brought before Mr. Laing for final examination, charged by Mr. J. B. Glenn, builder, of No. 3, Liverpool-terrace, Liverpool-road, Is lington, with having intermarried with him, whilst her first husband, Joseph Busher, was living. The prosecutor's evidence went to prove that in the year 1827 he became acquainted with the prisoner, who repre sented herself to him as a widow, and be eventually mai. - - tied her at St. Botolph's Church, Bishopsgate. Two years after their marriage she left him, and he ultimately dis covered that her first husband was alive. Henry Tuson, the parish-clerk of Limehouse, being sworn, proved that in the year 1819 the prisoner was mar ried at Limehouse Church to Joseph Busher, her maiden name was Ann Susannah Hare. Mary Richards proved that she had examined the re gister, where the prisoner was described as having married Joseph Busher in the name of Ann Susannah Hare. Miss Mary Glenn, sister of the prosecutor, stated that she lived with her brother. She proved the marriage of the prosecutor and prisoner at St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, in 1827. Richard James, clerk of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, also proved their marriage in that year. Richard Bayliss, an officer of this establishment, proved that he apprehended the prisoner, who was living in lodgings in Mary-street, Whitechapel. She stated that she had not seen the prosecutor for eight years, and before her marriage she received legal advice on the subject, and she felt herself justified. Mr. LAING asked her whether she had anything to say in her defence ? The prisoner, by the advice of her solicitor, reserved her defence until her trial, and she was fully committed. The prisoner's connections are said to be of great re speetability, and, prior to her final examination, she for warded a letter to a Magistrate at Hertford, a near relation of hers, explaining the circumstances of her apprehension on the above charge, and soliciting his assistance. The Court was crowded by respectable-looking indivi duals during the investigation, and the prisoner, who is a well-looking woman, about 37 years of age, listened to the proceedings with apparent indifference. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Richard JePries, alias Thomas White, and George Dorrah, alias George Chattaway, were placed at the bar before Mr. CODD, charged with attempting to pass a counterfeit crown piece. The prisoners were genteelly dressed.—They were remanded. THAMES-POLICE. Yesterday Mary Ann Oliver, a young woman, aged 22 years, in the last stage of pregnancy, was brought before Mr. GREENWOOD, on a charge of stealing a quantity of linen and wearing apparel from a dwelling-house where she had been lodging, in Henry-street, Hampstead-road. It appeared from the evidence, and the statement of Henham, the officer who apprehended the prisoner, that she was the daughter of respectable parents, who, dying when she was young, left her to provide for herself, and she had since met with a series of misfortunes and accidents. In the beginning of last year, after her recovery from a serious accident, which incapacitated her from working for some time, she entered the service of a solicitor in Henrietta street, Covent-garden, where she formed an intimacy with one of the clerks, by whom she became pregnant. On discovering her situation the clerk promised her marriage, and they were asked in church. A few days before their intended union the clerk was attacked with influenza, and died. The prisoner's situation becoming apparent, she was compelled to leave her situation, and a few days afterwards while proceeding down Gray's Inn-lane, she was severely injured by a quantity of lime and mortar falling .upon her, by which she was for some time deprived of her sight. She became an inmate of the Middlesex Hospital for nearly three months, and on her discharge was without a home, or the means of obtaining food. In this destitute condition she called upon a labouring man and his wife, named Mellen, residing in Henry-street, of whom she had some previous knowledge, to whom she represented that she was labouring under a dropsical complaint, and begged of them to shelter her. The prosecutor and his wife find ing she had no home to go to nor victuals to eat allowed her to remain with them and behaved with the greatest kindness to her. A few days afterwards Mrs. Mehan missed a gown, and taxed the prisoner with the theft. The prisoner admitted that she had pawned the gown and promised to redeem it when she, recovered. The theft was overlooked, and the prisoner remained in the house a few days longer, when the prosecutor began to suspect that it was not the dropsy under which the prisoner laboured, and upon interrogating her she admitted her pregnancy, and implored of Mehan and his vac not to turn her out. The good people were reluctant to send her away, and al lowed her to continue under their roof until the next day, when she absconded. She made no defence to the charge. Mr. GREENWOOD said the prisoner had behaved with great ingratitude to Mehan and his wife, and committed her for trial. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1837. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Aran, 13. Lord BROUGHAM, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, and the Earl of DIGBY, sat to-day for the purpose of hearing Scotch appeals. WCRAW V. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Sergeant STEPHENS replied in this case, which was part-heard last Friday, the question in which was, whe ther the Waterloo Hotel, Edinburgh, was bound to pay rates to the city of Edinburgh, and also to the parish of South Leith. Lord BROUG HAM postponed giving judgment. THE CORPORATION OF TAILORS OF ABERDEEN V. COUTTS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was heard on behalf of the appellants in this appeal, the further consideration of which was postponed till to morrow ; when we shall give a short outline of the case. Lord SHAFTESBURY, in the absence of the LORD CHAN CELLOR, took the Chair at a quarter before 5 o'clock. Several private Bills on the table were advanced a stage. Lord ROLLE presented petitions in favour of Church rates from parishes in Devonshire. IRISH MUNICIPAL BILL. Mr. BERNAL, and other Members . of the House of Commons, brought up the Irish Municipal Bill, the Marine Force Regulation Bill, the Mutiny Bill, the Penitentiary at Milbank Amendment Bill, the Edinburgh Police Bill, the Royal Mint Bill, stating that the Commons had agreed to their Lordships' amendments to it ;the Durham Turnpike Bill, the Seven Oaks Road Bill. Mr. G. F. YOUNG brought up a message from the House, praying that their Lordships would allow Lord El lenborough and Lord Kenyon to be examined before the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to in quire into the cases of Captain Barrow and two other East India Captains. Lord BANDON presented a petition from the vestry of Paddington, against the Great Western Railway. The Marquis of DOWNSHIRE presented a petition from Carrickfergus, complaining of the unequal operation of the national system of education in Ireland. The Bishop of LONDON presented petitions in favour of Church-rates from Edmonton, in Middlesex ; from Brad . .. well, by the Sea ; from Althorn, in Essex ; and from Walthamstow, in Essex, the latter complaining of the undue means by which a petition against Church-rates had been got up there. The Right Rev. Prelate presented petitions also from the parish of St. Stephen's, London, signed by all classes, from the Member of Parliament to the humble labourer. Lord REDESDALE presented petitions to the same effect from parishes in Surrey and Herefordshire. The Duke of WELLINGTON presented petitions with a similar prayer, from Bradley, and many other pa rishes. The Bishop of DURHAM presented petitions to the same effect from Stockton-on-Tees and various other places. The Lor) CHANcELLott took his seat on the Wool sack shortly after five o'clock. The Duke of CLEVELAND presented petitions for the abolition of Church-rates from Sunderland. The Bishop of CHESTER presented a petition in fa vour of Church-rates, from Clergymen in Chester, Liver pool, and other places. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented similar petitions from Frome in Norfork, and fr,au parishes in Suffolk, Sussex ; from a number of the lessees in the see of Canterbury, and from other places. The Earl of RIPON presented a petition from the Bishop of Down and Connor, and 105 clergymen in the diocese, complaining of the want of Church accommodation there. They stated that there were 105 parishes i❑ the diocese, and that there would 'not be a sufficiency of accommodation, unless fifty-one Churches there were repaired or built. The petitioners further stated that they had applied to the Church Commissioners there for assistance ; but the reply was, that they had no means of affording it. He (Lord Ripon) could not state any means whereby this evil could be remedied ; but it was well worth the consideration of their Lordships, that the Act appointing those Commissioners had been in existence three >ears, but they had not been able to afford a farthing for such pur• poses as the petitioners required. The Marquis of DOW NS HIRE supported the pe tition. Y•y. Lord H ATHERTON said that he agreed ivith the Noble Lord who presented the petition, that the subject was one worthy of inquiry, and it was because he thought so, he supported a measure in that House last year, which would have taken from those pa rishes where the Protestant population was small funds for the support of those Where it was large. He did notwish to promote discussion on the subject, but be could not avoid stating this. The Earl of HADDINGTON said that the Noble Lord stated that he did not wish to create discussion, but had alluded directly to the Appropriation Clause, which was the best mode of provoking it. He (Lord Hadding ton) supported the petition. The Earl of RIPON said he had moved for a report of the expenditure of the Church Commissioners in Ire land, and thought it should have been supplied before this. In respect to the report of the Commissioners themselves, he thought the Lord Lieutenant had not cothidered it worth his while to send it to England. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (IRELAND) BILL. Lord MELBOURNE said that the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill having been brought up from the other House of Parliament, perhaps it would be convenient for their Lordships then to determine on what day they would take the second reading. What he would propose was, that the Bill should be read a first time and printed, and he would move the second reading on Tuesday, the `?sth inst. The Duke of WELLINGTON wished to remind the Noble Viscount of a passage in the King's Speech, and of a passage in the Address of their Lordships cm that Speech, relating to Ireland, in which Municipal Corporations, Poor laws, and Tithes, were referred to.—[The Noble Duke here read the particular passages in the Speech and Address.] A Bill relating to the first of those three subjects only had been introduced into their Lordships' House. Another subject, the Poor-laws, he believed had beeribrought under the consideration of the other House of Parliament ; but the third, relating to Irish tithes, had not been brought under the consideration of either. It. really appeared to him before the House was called on to discuss the prin ciple or details of the Municipal Corporation Bill, it ought cp know what the other measures were, the subject of which were alluded to in his Majesty's Speech and in the Address. Under these circumstances he requested the Noble Lord to postpone the consideration of this measure to a future period ; and he was the more particularly anxious the House should not proceed with it on a very early day, because a Noble and Learned Friend of his (Lord Lyndhurst), who took a very distinguished part in the discussion of the measure last year, was absent on account of a domestic misfortune, and would be unable to attend in his place for some days. Under all these circumstances, he trusted the Noble Lord would postpone the second reading of the Bill to some more distant day. Viscount MELBOURNE said, with respect to the three measures alluded to by the Noble Duke as referred to in his Majesty's speech, he would state that one of them had been brought into that House, and was the sub ject of their present discussion.—(Hear, hear.) Another was the question of Poor-laws, and the principle of the Bill on that subject had already been fully opened in the other House, but it was yet a question whether or not it would be adopted by Parliament. The third was the ques tion of Tithes, and upon that subject a notice would shortly be given in the other House, and the Bill would be brought in as soon as the state of the public business would permit it. He thought, therefore, that these measures would be before their Lordships in quite sufficient time to decide upon them calmly and deliberately. He regretted the cause that had prevented the attendance of the Noble and Learned Lord, and would be most happy to do anything to meet his convenience ; at the same time per sonal feelings could not be allowed to weigh too much in matters of importance to the country generally. He should therefore feel it right to persevere in fixing the second reading of the Bill for the day he had already stated. Lord ELLENBOROUGH understood the Noble Vis count to state, that all the three measures would be before that House before the second reading of the Irish Munici pal Bill. Viscount MELBOURNE had stated that they would be sent up to that House as soon as possible. Lord BROUGHAM understood from the Noble Chief Baron that Lord Lyndhurst would be in attendance when the English Municipal Amendment Bill was brought for ward. He merely inquired with reference to the judicial business of the House. Lord ABING ER made an observation across the table, which we did not hear. The Earl of WICKLOW moved for a return of all the petitions presented from Ireland against the reform of the Irish Corporations, and in favour of their total abolition. Lord HADDINGTON suggested, in addition, that all the petitions presented on the subject of Irish Municipal Reform be incladed. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE did not think the re turn would be an accurate or complete one, inasmuch as one Noble Lord (Cloncurry) had had a large number of petitions to present, but had withdrawn them in consequence of an allusion having been made in them to the term " aliens," which had been used by a Noble and Learned Lord in that House. CHURCH-RATES. Lord SKELAIERSDALE presented petitions from Preston, and other places in Lancashire, in favour of Church-rates. Lord RADNOR presented several petitions in favour of the Ministerial measure for the abolition of Church rates. The Earl of HARROWBY presented petitions against the abolition of Church-rates ; but the names of the places from which they came were not heard in the gallery. Lord ASHBURTON presented petitions against the abolition of Church-rates, from Sarum, from various places in Somersetsh.ire, and from Dorchester, and other places in Dorsetshire. The Noble Lord also presented a petition from an individual residing at Croydon, against the extension of the South Eastern Railway. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, that as the Noble Lord opposite had just presented a petition from Warminster, against the abolition of Church-rates, he would take that opportunity of presenting a petition in favour of that measure, from the same town.—[The petition, on being read, appeared to come from Westbury, when the Noble Lord said that he had fallen into the mis take on account of the propinquity of Westbury to War. minster.—( A laugh.)] The Marquis of HEADFORT presented a petition from Feversham against the abolition of Church-rates. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented petitions or the abolition of Church-rates from Brighton and several other places. The Bishop of RIPON presented petitions from various places in Yorkshire against the abolition of Church-rates. Lord BROWNLO W presented similar petitions from places in Lincolnshire. The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions from places in Norfolk, Surrey, and Sussex, against the abolition of Church-rates. POOR-LAW BILL. The NOBLE DUKE also presented a petition from the Guardians of the Poor of the parish of Westtburn, Sussex, complaining of the rating of small cottages to the poor-rates, and recommending that all cottages un der the rent of 5/. should be exempted from the rates. He supported the prayer of the petition, and he said that from his own experience he was able to corroborate the statement of the petitioners that the rating or those small cot tages was a very great hardship to the labourers, and was productive of much inconvenience to the Guardians of the poor, without any corresponding advantage to the parish. The NOBLE Loan also presented a petition from inha bitants of the Borough of Grantham, against a private Bill now before the House, respecting a charity in that borough. CHURCH-RATES. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from indi viduals of all denominations residing at Exeter, praying their Lordships to give the Bill for the abolition of Church-rates introduced by his Majesty's Government into the House of Parliament a favourable reception, and after all due consideration, to pass it into a law.—(Hear, hear.) The NOBLE DUKE then presented petitions in favour of the Ministerial plan for the abolition of Church rates, from Halifax, Bolton-le-Moor, Leeds, Somerset, Perth, and from the Archdeaconry of Leicester. Lord H ATHERTON presented three petitions from the borough of Stroud, in favour of the measure. Lord MELBOURNE presented petitions from Melton- Mowbray, Newton, and another place, in favour of the abolition of Church-rates. The Mutiny Bill, the Milhank Penitentiary Bill, and other Bills, brought up from the Commons, were read a first time. MARINE FORCE IN SPAIN. Lord ALVANLEY postponed the question with respec .o our Marine Force in Spain until Monday. Their Lordships thin adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIE 13. The SPEAKER took the Chair to-day five minutes before Four o'clock. LONGFORD ELECTION. .Lord CLIVE informed the House that the Committee on the Longford Election met this morning, but in conse quence of the absence of Mr. Horsman, the Committee adjourned. Dr. James Johnstone was then called to the Bar, and informed the House that the health of the Hon. Member was in so precarious a state, that he did not think he would be enabled to attend the Committee with safety for a month. On the motion of Lord CLIVE, the Hon. Member was excused from further attendance, and the Committee or dered to proceed without him. Messengers from the Courts of Chancery and Bank ruptcy presented returns. On the motion of Air. W. MILES, the Clapton (So merset) Enclosure Bill was read a second time, and or dered to be committed. On the motion of Sir W. GE ARY, the Seven Oaks and Woodgate Road Bill, was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Mr. LAMBTON, the Lobley Hill Road Bill was read a third time and passed. Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition against the Car• lisle and Maryport Railway Bill. GLASGOW AND PAISLEY RAILWAY. Lord W. BENTINCK presented a petition from the Lord Provost of Glasgow, against the Glasgow and Paisley Railway Bill. LEEDS WATER-WORKS BILL. Sir G. STRICKLAND presented a petition from the Earl of Wexburgh and the Earl of Cawdor against the Leeds Water Works Bill. The Hon. Baronet also pre. sented a petition against the Barnsley Waterworks Bill. BRIGHTON AND NEWHAVEN RAILWAY. Sir C. BLUNT presented petitions from the inhabi tants of Folkeston and Hyde in favour of the Brighton and Newhaven Railway. Major BEAUCLERK presented petitions from the landowners of Lewes and Newhaven, against Stevenson's Brighton Railway Line. Mr. WILKS brought up the report of the Committee on Becker's Naturalization Bill, Bernard Meettes' Natu ralization Bill, and Henry Anthony Mettees Naturalization Bill. The Bills were then severally read a third time and passed. LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY (STEVENSON'S LINE.) Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition, complaining that the Standing Orders' Committee had been grossly im posed upon by the agents on behalf of Stevenson's Brighton Line, and praying for an investigation. Mr. CU RTEIS rose to call the attention of the House to a petition presented by him from Mr. James Mills, and which had been printed with the Votes of that day. It related to the London and Brighton Railway, (Steven son's line) and Mr. Mills had pledge.d his veracity to prove that there were 37 variations between the sections deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Surrey, and . those deposited in the Private Bill Office. The petition presented a short time since to that House al leged that there were not less than 131 material variations, all of which were contrary to the regulations of the Standing Orders of that House. He did not bring the matter forward for any party or private purpose, but merely because it appeared to him to be a breach of the privileges of that House. He thought the parties who had given false evidence before the Committee would not get more than their due if they were committed to New gate for the rest of the Sessions. He believed that be had a case where he could prove that false evidence had been given before the Committee in no less than 146 in stances ; and that being the fact, he trusted the House would grant him a Select Committee for the purpose of having the truth of the statements in Mr. Mills' petition ascertained. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE seconded the motion for the Se lect Committee. Mr. G. PALMER, though he thought it was too late to throw out Stevenson's line, would vote for the Comtitlittee. .... _ Sir G. STRICKLAND thought if the allegations ofthe petitions were true, it would be impossible for the House to pass the matter over in silence. Sir E. KNATCHBULL did not think the House could with any justice refuse the appointment of a Com mittee. Mr. C. BARCLAY would support the appointment of a Committee. He should make no opposition to the Com mittee, as the object would be to discover who were the guilty parties. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE—The only argument he had heard against the Committee was, that it would prevent the Bill going forward, to the injury of other parties. With that, it appeared to him, the House had nothing to do. The question was, whether or not a fraud had been committed on the House, and as yet he had heard no denial of the al legations contained in the petition. If the House en tertained a proper regard for its character or dignity, it should grant the Committee. _ _ _ Mr. W. PATTEN thought the House should look with great suspicion upon a petition put forward by a rival engineer, because one of the Sub-Committees had investi gated his own line a little too strictly. It appeared to him that there was a combination among all parties to throw opposition in the way of Stephenson's line, and if the present petition was entertained the same thing would occur upon every line. Captain PEC HELL said, if the House was satisfied that it had been imposed upon it by false statements, it ought at once to grant the Committee. Ho could not see how the House could refuse to grant the Committee that had been asked. Mr. GREENE supported the motion for the Committee. Lord GEORGE LENNOX said that if the Hon. Member for Sussex did not wish to prejudice Steven son's line, the better way would be for him to wait until the Committee who were sitting on those lines had decided which was the best. This was exactly the same case which the Honourable Member had brought forward a few days ago, only it was dressed in a new garb, and he trusted the House would not ac cede to the motion. Mr. GORI N G contended that there was no direct charge The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER felt that he would be betraying his duty if he were to give answers to such questions put in such a manner ; an answer, in the present state of affairs, might be extremely preju dicial. Mr. ROBINSON begged leave to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman when any distribution of the Deccan prize money might be expected, and whether there would be any, diffe rence between the actual and the constructive capital ? 'The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the question of distribution rested with the Commissioners, and not with him. From a report he had received from them, he found that the question rested on the sale of a valuable jewel, which was advertised for public sale in July next. It also waited for the decision of a cause depending in the courts at Bengal ; but he trusted the matter would not be much longer delayed. Sir R. BATESON wished to ask whether the Govern ment had considered the claims of the Synod of Ulster to the increase of the Regizon Domon. By raising it they would only be doing justice to the North of Ireland. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, as we understood, said the subject was still under consideration, and until something definitive was determimed on, he must decline answering the question of the Hon. Baronet. Sir R. BATESON said he would, for the purpose of knowing what the intentions of the Government were, and if they did not come up to his wishes and expectations, he should call the attention of the House to the subject by a specific motion. NEWSPAPERS. Mr. ROEBUCK then proceeded with his motion. When he was interrupted he had stated to the House that it was his intention to move for a Select Committee to en quire into the propriety of repealing altogether the Stamp Duties on Newspapers.—( Hear, hear.) He made this motion upon the ground, and that only, that the alteration of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers was an obstacle to education. In his opinion, it was the duty of the State and the House to raise the funds required by the country in a manner that would bear as little as possible on its great interests. In the rank of its great interests he placed the education of the people. The mass of the community took a much larger ex tent, and had a much greater influence upon political subjects at the present moment, than they had at any other period. Such being the case, in his (Mr. R.'s) opi uion it became the more necessary that their education should be as little obstructed as possible, and it behoved a Liberal Government to do all in their power to fur ther so desirable an object. The great mass of the community were desirous, and most natu rally so, to discuss the concerns of the people, whether social or political. Now what had the present Liberal Go vernment done—had they done all that was calculated to remove every obstruction from education ? No, but for no fiscal purpose whatever last year, when they took off a great part of the duty on Newspapers, they left an obstruction still to the progress of edu cation. It was acknowledged by the Noble Lord at the head of the Government in that House, that the tax that still remained was retained for no fiscal purpose ; but perhaps it had been kept on to maintain some particular mo nopoly. The London newspapers were at the present moment in his opinion a monopoly, and perhaps it might be re tained to keep that up. Now his object was to do away with all monopoly, and afford to those resident in the coun try a knowledge of their local affairs. After what had been said in that House by those composing the Government, he should be surprised if the Chancellor of the Exchequer was to get up, and say he retained the tax for fiscal purposes. Even the leader of the Tories in the other House asked why the paltry penny was retained. It could never do the Budget any good. It seemed as if it was retained for the mere purpose of bringing the Government into contempt. He wanted that every small town in the country, as in America, should have its own newspaper—(Hear)— and then in a very short time we would have a good and well educated population. Upon these considerations he moved, without further preface, " That the House resolve itself into a Committee to consider the propriety of totally abolishing the Tax on Newspapers." Mr. WAKLEY seconded the motion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, whoever heard the Hon. Member would suppose the tax had been retained by the Government for some odious pur pose of their own. Such was not the case—they had not meddled with these'taxes, except to reduce them to the penny, as they had been called upon to do by the motion of the Honourable Member for Lincoln.--(Hear.) When that motion came on he pledged himself on the ques tion, and he left the House to say whether he had not re deemed that pledge in the last session ?—( Hear, hear.) In the state of the finances of the country, if he was called upon to make a reduction in taxation, it would not be on newspapers he would propose it, because by the free circulation of newspapers through the Post-office they obtained a great boon for the small tax they were called upon to pay. They had had the expe rience of six months of the reduction in the half year ending sth April, 1836, the number of newspapers stamped was 14,874,000. In the first half-year during which his experiment had been tried that number rose from 14,874,000 to 21,300,000, which spewed a vast increase, and therefore if the circulation of newspapers was a benefit, the Hon. Mem ber ought to give him credit for the success of his measure. When the Hon. Gentleman underrated the value of the experiment which bad been made, he must call his atten tion to the following facts, to show the progress which had been made :—ln the first quarter of the half year in which the reduction of duty had taken place the number of stamps was 8,302,000 ; and in the second quarter, endinE sth made in the petition. There was a general assertion that April last, they amounted to no less than 13,000,000. the Standing Orders had not been complied with, but in So that not only was there a vast increase as comparing that respect the petitioner stood himself in exactly the the last half year with that which had preceded it, but in same position, as the agents for his line had not complied comparing the two quarters of the last half year sepa with the Standing Orders, although they stated before the rately, the numbers rose from 8,000,000 to 13,000,000. Sub-Committee that they had done so. Take a further proof of what was going on, if they al- Sir E. CODRINGTON thought the Bill should be lowed the present system to continue : — He found that thrown out altogether, as the House had been most grossly in the last quarter of the last ha lf year (a s he before imposed upon. stated) the number of Newspaper Stamps amo unted to Mr. CURTEIS replied ;he regretted being obliged to 13,000,000 . In the lass half year previo u s to t he reduc tive the House the trouble of dividing, but he felt it his tion of the Stamp-duty the number of stamps for the whole duty to persevere in his motion. of Great Britain was 14,000,000 and odd ; so that the The SPEAKER said the House was informed that the number of stamps in the quarter ending April, 1837, was promoters of lines of railroads to Brighton had entered into within 1,000,000 of what it was for six months ending in an agreement that they should take no advantage of any April last year. Would not, then, the Hon. Gentleman lapse in the compliance with the Standing Orders. From admit these figures demonstrated a most beneficial result his own experience he would advise the House to be very from the operation of the present Act ? But then the cautious in interfering with Bills which had been read a Honourable Gentleman said, " Oh, but you have put second time, and no complaint made before the Sub-Corn- down the smu g gled stamps." Now that was precisely mittee ; the parties now complaining being then fully aware the object which he had in view. It was his object of the objections now made. to protect the capitalist from being undersold. But Mr. CURTEIS would then move for a Committee to he should be sorry if it were imagined that the financial enquire whether any false evidence had been given before view was the only one which he took or which guided him, the Standing Orders Committee. because the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had very pro- Mr. C. BARCLAY suggested that the matter had perly brought forward the number of criminal prosecutions better be postponed for a few days.—(Cries of " No, no.") to which infractions of the late Stamp Acts had led. Re- Mr. S. LEFEVRE thought the motion ought to be so turns to the House had been made showing the number of framed as to include the agreement said to have been en- persons who bad been imprisoned, the amount of penalties tered into between the rival Companies. they had incurred, &c., from year to year, for violations of Lord STANLEY thought these private arrangements the law in this respect. And, as had been stated, those between rival Companies was the very last thing individuals not only violated the law, but when they were which the House ought to interfere with. He would not punished they became martyrs and objects of commisera object to a Committee to enquire whether there had tion. From an abstract of the returns which had been knowingly been any false evidence given upon the Bill called fins , it appeared that there had been 600 and upwards before the Standing Orders Committee. of persons committed in the metropolis ; 384 committed to Mr. CURTEIS said he would move that a Select Corn- prisons in different parts of the country ; making 984 and mittee be appointed to examine whether any false evidence upwards of persons committed for violations of these Stamp had knowingly and wilfully been given before the Sub- Laws ; and let it be remembered also that these were pro- Committee on the Standing Orders, or Private Bills, secutions in the Court, of Exchequer. He found the law with respect to Stevenson's Line of the Brighton Railway, in this state then—he found that the greatest possible evils and report the same to the House. This, he trusted, arose from what were termed these infractions of the Press. would meet the wishes of all parties. But what was the altered state of circumstances now ? Sir CHARLES BURRELL hoped the House would Why, since the new law came into operation there had consider the subject well before it decided on it. been not one prosecution—there had not been one press Mr. GREENE hoped the Hon. Member would postpone seized.—( Hear.) No such evils had resulted since the his motion to Monday. measure came into operation. The Right Hon. Gentleman Mr. T. DUNCOMBE trusted that the Hon. Member here proceeded to advert to the way in which the revenue had would not. been affected by the change made in the law, and pro- Mr. PEASE said, if the motion were not postponed, he ceeded to contend that the reduction of the Duty on News hoped the House would meet it with a direct negative. papers, coupled with half the Duty on Paper, which was re- Sir G. STRICKL AND said, it having been stated by mitted also to other works of literature, had created in the the Chairman of the Committee that he believed fraud half year only a diminution of 8,0001. out of a sum of had been committed, there could not be a doubt that the 100,0001. (as we understood.) An objection had been made plain and simple course to pursue was to appoint a Corn- to the imposition of postage on Newspapers forwarded to mittee to ascertain if that was so or not. remote districts. It was eked why should the poor Agri- Sir E. CODRINGTON could not see that there was cultural population of the country to be taxed for that the least difficulty in making this a precedent, and be which the rich were not. This was a subject materially should oppose the adjournment of the motion. connected with the postage of Newspapers, which he hoped Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE said that what he, as Chair- in the present Session to see remedied. It was his inten man of the Committee had stated was, that Mr. Mills tion to propose the reduction of the penny postage on News had brought a statement before the Committee, and if that papers in the present Session if possible. He believed that statement were true, it was quite clear false evidence had such an arrangement would give great satisfaction ; though been given before the Committee ; but he did not pretend he confessed he did not yet see his way clearly as to sub to say whether that statement was true or false. stituting a hand delivery in the metropolis. With refe- After a few words from Lord G. LENNOX and Mr. T. rence to what had been done in lowering the duty on News- DUNCOMBE, strangers were ordered to withdraw. papers, the Right Hon. Gentleman observed that the Hon. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw and the House Member for Bath well knew the difficulty there was in divided, when the numbers were— another place to get the measure passed. It was almost a For the motion For the amendment 73 Hon. Gentleman would recollect that the proposition which Majority The further consideration of the question was then ad- own the year previous. He had done all that he had pro jurned to Monday next. mised to do. He had done all be could for the people-- Mr. SHEPPARD presented several petitions in favour he had reduced the rate of taxation to what it was in the of the Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill. , reign of Queen Anne. The Right Hon. Gentleman con- TITHES (IRELAND). eluded by moving, as an amendment, for accounts explana- Lord MORPETH gave notice that, on the Ist May, he tory of the effects produced on the revenue by the change should bring in a Bill on the subject of Irish Tithes. of the law ; returns of all legal proceedings against any Mr. C. WOOD brought up papers, which were laid on offenders ; and returns of persons committed to prison (if the table. any) under the new Act. This would complete the papers Mr. ROEBUCK was called upon, but was interrupted by which had been furnished, by showing an honourable con' Mr. HINDLEY, who begged leave to ask the Chan- tract with the former state of things. cellor of the Exchequer whether he had any application The question having been put, from Manchester or Liverpool for the loan of Exchequer Mr. WAKLEY rose. If the Right Hon. Gentleman Bills. the Chancellor of the Exchequer were really so well s atis- • fied with his own plan, he would ask, how could he hesitate to knock off' the remaining half of the tax ? The Right Hon. Gentleman had argued that the people had derived great advantages from the free circulation of the Newspaper Press ; and yet he had declared against the setting of the Press free, and hesitated to do that which was right. He felt that the Radicals were placed in an unfortunate position since the Right Hon. Gentleman and his colleagues had Come into office. They had been in a sort of partnership with the present Ministry, supporting them in their good measures, and hesitating to give that support when they disapproved of their proceedings. The Radicals were thus the watching, not the sleeping partners of the Ministry, and were acting in a most unfavourable position. If they (the Radicals), in their sincerity to serve the public, advocated those measures which were likely to serve the public cause, was it not hard, that after all these efforts on their part, they could not obtain from the Government one solitary sup porter ? It was almost time that this state of things s hould cease ; and it was utterly impossible that it should m uch longer continue. And he could assure his Majesty's Minis ters, with much truth, that they (the Radicals) were sub" jetted to very bitter complaints out of doors for the very q uiet, easy part which they took in that House. It was often asked of them, " What matters it to us whether Whigs or Tories, whether Conservatives, as they are called, or Radi" cals, be in power, provided we see some good measures' in: troduced, and some Radical measures proposed and carried :- Now he felt himself very often incapacitated from giving s satisfactory answer to this proposition.. It was impossible to satisfy his friends on these points. He had voted again st the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth when that gentleman was at the head of the Government, 0 ° almost every occasion, and he believed he might say he should do so again in such a case occurring, because h° had never approved of the school to which that Right Hon. Gentleman belonged, he (Mr. Wakley) not having o ' ll aristocratic connections, and being sent to that House to serve the people. And determined as he was to act tIP to every pledge which he had ever given, it was a matter 0 ' no importance to him who were in or out of o ffice, Pr °. vided that they could get measures passed which were eP t i proved of out of doors. The Right Hon. Gentleman I ' B ' told them of the number of stamps issued in the last sit months, but he had forgotten to say how many hundreds o'. thousands of papers had been suppressed by the 1 1 of last year which had been freely circulated amo n g the industrious labouring classes of the community He believed that many of the measures Of " I " Majesty's Ministers were good, and he believed, yo re ' over, that better could not be introduced by the Rad ical! themselves. But let the House look at the state of th e country people with reference to one of the best measurses, ever introduced into that House, namely, that for abolits% ing the Church-rates. Only witness the delusion svh.. s prevailed in the country on the subject of this question. Is: some parts of England—in every parish, or almost in everl s parish—the rector, the vicar, or the curate, had been rouli; to the parishioners making statements to the people, tia truth or falsehood of which they had not the means to as certain. In a parish which he lately visited in D e vonshol i the clergyman had called on the labouring people, and asket„ them " Have you heard of the Ministerial measure respec t° ing Church-rates ? Do you know that your Church Is i be pulled down ? Are you for the Church or not ?" T hi; had been done— Several HON. MEMBERS—Oh, oh I name, n ame 05 Mr. WAKLEY—The places to which his obsere ati %. had reference were Membury, Stockland, and Yarcorn'ng But he would name one instance further, where a labo uri se , man refused to sign a petition against the Ministerial min' sure for the abolition of Church-rates. He could not, ,;0 deed, write ; but the clergyman said to him, " rite will do , of course as your neighbours do ; I your name for you." Now this he believed had t pa the case in many instances. For his own p ar the a would say, that a more Conservative measure sho e that which the Ministers had introduced for the :i v lition of Church-rates had never been framed. /sir Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Cumberland hire' James Graham), on a former night, - had addressed !J oe ; self very strongly to the subject of the voluntary P rin . c A the and he had said that many of those who advoca te t n ot Ministerial plan were for the voluntary principle, h i % be , to the subversion of the Church Establishment. g` h ou ght lieved that if the voluntary principle were once " r o f O. into play, it would he beneficial to the best interests ve the will b een Church, because it would tend to awaken and irar,!, ) , ju scls• energies of the Ministers and members of that li la ,. of. He never wished to weaken or di s turb a single P so ugh t the Establishment. He denied that the Radica s , lB for or desired the subversion of the Church. r . y ea P i ° Radicals desired was, that. the great mass Of t "" s ; s ti o° ' should have an opportunity to und ers tand the V ° s uch submitted to that House. At present they had,:be the facilities afforded them. Th e N ews p a p e r ought 1.- 0 if ' s "'" weekly book of the labouring man , an d would be s od 0; had the opportunity of reading it ; but let him r ss . principles of personal rights and personal vire dj 'sgbe i l ! s these and other subjects he was now ignorant. tarp va o noranes. of the people, in many parts of the cou little While ag e so great as to be hardly credible. Only a there vier a farmer in Wiltshire was asked how many king s oh ! Isc' s r lit reigning in England, Scotland, and Ireland• se n ow, sir," said he, " I don't know how many there D ...sse ld Is . t o when I was a boy there used to be but tw ° La ught e es s George the Third and the Prince of Wales." - 4 13a 110t , t i . g Another was asked what he understood by ill a kaoil t ; what he thought` of it ? " Oh," said, be, w it of deieg shake of the head, "that's th e o t sly fair Way d r ove d ° bet a all our names be put iatoz; a hat, and his as ' 8 Now r f why he's the Memb,er.”--(Loud laughter.)