The Sun. — London, England, 1835-03-26 00:00:00

SUPPLY. The House having resolved itself into a Committee of Sup ply, the following votes were agreed to without comment :- 813,115/. for the half-pay of the officers of the navy and marines. 523,695/. for widows' pensions. 2'23,6251. for civil pensions and allowances. The Chairman then reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL. Mr. PO ULTER moved the Order of the Day that the Sunday Observance Bill be read a second time. Oa the Speaker proceeding to put the question, several pe titions were presented against the measure from market-gar deners, fruit-sellers, and others. Mr. WARBURTON could not see the necessity of this Bill. Looking at the habits of the people at present, and comparing them with the past, he did not perceive that they 'were becoming more awl more irreligious, or at all the ess observant of the Sabbath-day. In viewing the acts of the Legislature of the country for the last two hundred years, he incidentally discovered that the people were fens religiously disposed formerly than they were at pre sent. And if Hon. Gentlemen about him would tax their recollections, he did not doubt but there were many among them who must remember that thirty or forty years ago Sun day evenings were devoted to parties of gaiety. Sunday was the favourite day, and he bad himself at that period attended where there were Clergymen present who did not appear to think it any sin to join in the singing of glees. - He remem bered on house in particular that he used to .visit, it was the house of a very learned physician, who used to devote- that evening to a conversazione ; he had been often present, in eernoany with three or four Bishops, and the conversation was of a grave and discreet kind, and the time was passed in agree able amusement. With respect to the present Bill, it had been asserted that it was different from that of last session. It was not so far different but it was to prevent keeping open shop and trading. Now in an Act of Parliament "open shop" was a loose expression. What was open shop? Wby, leaving a door open might be construed into open shop, or one shutter might make it open shop, and indeed he could scarcely see what would make it' eeping close shop. Besides he theught that shops where refreshments were sold should be kept open for the .benefit of those who sought exercise and recreation in the fields. He begged tomove by way of amend ment that the Bill be read that day six months. Mr. POTTER understood it had been distinctly stated by the lion.- Gentleman who introduced the Bill, that it was very different from the Bill of last year. With a slight exception be found it the same, and hoped th'at it would meet the fate of its predecessor. The House would recollect that the former Bill had been rejected by the House. He quite concurred in the sentiments of a charge - delivered by the Rev. Dr. Butler to the clergy of the Archieaconry of Derby, June 26, ISM. The Hen. Gentleman then read the following extracts from the charge to which he had referred :—". One or two efforts hare been made, evidently so uncongenial to the spirit of • freedom and liberty which belongs to our Constitution, so hersh in their restrictions, and so unequal in their operation on the different classes of society, that .we ought, I think, most heartily to rejoice at their rejection. Furthermore, the severest prohibitions will not effect the truly religi ous observance of the Sabbath, by influencing the heart. Rather will they tend to bring odium, not only on such legislation, but on the sacred day itself ; and by turning it into a day of ascetic gloom instead of religious cheerfulness, may conduce to harden men's hearts, but not to convert them. Acts of Parliament may perhaps be so framed as to provide for the decent external observance of this day ; but what Act of Parliament can reach the heart? Could all men be com pelled by Act of Parliament to attend divine worship on this day, how little would be done towards making them religious when their attendance was compulsory ! It is the will that gives the life and meaning to the act ; and this leads me to mention what I consider as far more likely to be efficacious in promoting the proper observance of the Sabbath than a whole statute-book of Parliamentary enactments—l mean, the gentle force of persuasion and example. I have watched, myself, and I have consulted others who have made the same observation, and who concur with me in think ing, that since so general an_eexpression of public opinion has bean elicited respecting the desecration , of the Sabbath, the good feeling of the people has sympathized with it ; and that, although there may be some places where the evil is not yet remedied, this holy day has been generally obse'rvecl of late with much more solemnity and propriety than heretofore. A point which seems to have been overlooked by some legislators on more than one occasion, is the very wide difference between a metropolitan and country population. In large towns, and especially in the metropolis, excesses will prevail which are unknown in more thinly inhabited dis tricts. Again, they who have been confined in the close and heated air of manufactories and shops, in narrow streets, and crowded and ill-ventilated apartments, for six days continually, naturally wish to breathe a freer and purer air, and to enjoy a refreshing relaxation on the seventh. To debar these froria their usual and only gratification, that actual rest from their labours, and, I may add, that moral enjoyment which they can only receive on this day, would be as oppressive as it for tunately is impossible." He hoped the sentiments contained in the extracts he had read, would have due effect on those who were so anxious to coerce the people, to observe the Sab bath—they were highly honourable to a Gentleman, not less celebrated for his liberal and enlightened opinions, than for his classical attainments. They so much more effectually treated the subject than he was able to do, that he should con tent himself by seconding the motion of his Honourable Friend the Member for Bridport. Sir S. WHALLEY gave his support to the Bill, on the ground of its protecting the poor, and adding to their conve nience and comfort on the Sabbath day. He thought that the higher classes should abstain from desecrating the Sabbath, that Cabinet Ministers should cease to give Cabinet dinners, and that the flux of carriages to the Zoological Gardens should be no longer observable.—( Laughter.) Mr. POULTER said, since the second reading of the Bill of last session he had received a letter from the worthy Arch deacon D'Oyley, of Lambeth, stating that there was more trade carried on in that parish on a Sunday than on any other day, and he trusted that the House would not assist in main taining such a state of things. With regard to the argument used as to what was open shop he presumed that it would be interpreted by the law according to the quo animo. It would not be considered an open shop because there was an open shutter, but according to whether or no there was an intent to trade. Mr. HA WE S objected to the Bill going into Committee. Sir R. BATE SON felt it as a duty to a large constituency who were anxious for the passing some law on the subject, to give his support to this measure. He was not to be daunted by the sneers or taunts of those who advocated the necessity of free trade. Mr. L ENNARD said the Bill expressly revived the statute of Charles 11. And the statute of George IL, which inter cepted the healthy amusement of boating from its other inter dictions, would also be repealed by it, and thus that delightful recreation would be forbidden. Mr. W. ORD had an objection on principle to the Bill be fore the Ilouse. It was founded on exceptions. No Bill could proceed upon such a principle. Mr. G. F. YOUNG said the opposition to the Bill was of the most pertinacious character. He could scarcely refrain from perceiving that those who opposed it seemed determined to break down all distinction between the Sabbath and the week day. He trusted that the House would never consent to such an encroachment, for if they did the poor man alone would be injured by it. At present the labourer worked six days in the week, and rested on the seventh. The object of the Bill of the Hon. Member for Shaftesbury went to affiim that regulation, and enforce it. If the principle which the op posers of the measure advocated, the entire freedom of Sunday trading, were once admitted by the Legislature, the poor man would be compelled to work the remaining day, the Sabbath, and he would get no additional wages. Mr. EWART, as far as he could judge of the temper of the House and the inclination of the country, he never knew an opposition to any measure to be so extended, so uniform, so temperate, and at the same time so determined. The measure was radically defective, for it gave exclusive privilege to a cer tain class, while it took away privilege from another. It was consequently most unfair. It proposed to enforce the obser vance of the Sabbath, and yet it left servants, and others of that condition, under the controul of their masters, and compellable to work. He should therefore oppose it. - Mr. GOULBURN had on more than one occasion given his support to measures which bad for their object the preser vation of the sanctity of the Sabbath, so that he thought he needed do no more than repeat his conviction that some addi tional means of effecting that desirable object to those already in existence were required.—( Hear.) He had not, hotvever, supported some Bills which purported to have the same gene ral object in view as the present measure, because he believed they went beyond those limits where legislative interference should stop short. The Bill of the Hon. Member for Shaftes 3eary was not open to this objection; it went to the exact limits which it ought to stop at, and went no further. It prevented only the obvious and publicly offensive desecrations of the Sab bath, and did not interfere with those harmless enjoyments of the poorer classes, embraced by the other measures to which he had alluded. The Hon. Member for Liverpool had said that the Bill took away the privilege of a certain class, and instanced servants in sup port of his arguments, that Sunday trading should not. be interfered with. But the argument of the Hon. Member to be of avail, should be extended farther; and if it were extended farther on the principle sought to •be established, the theatres might be opened on the Sabbath.—( Hear. ) Mr. EWART said that there was a special Act against opening the theatres on Sundays. Mr. GOULBURN admitted that there was, but lie also begged to remind the Hon. Member that there existed a spe cial Act against all desecration of the Sabbath. That Act, however, was found so foreign to the present state of society in this empire that it was permitted to remain obselete. Another lion. Member had said that he should ratber the observance of the Sabbath was left to the feelings of the people than to the interference of the Legislature. He (Mr. Goulbura) did not desire to compel the consciences of others, but the abuse was one which calla for redress. It should be borne in mind also, that the continuance of the desecration of the Sab bath hurt the feelings and offended the consciences of the re ligiously-disposed portion of the community ; and he thought the House had a distinct right to attend to their feelings as much as to these of any other class. With respect to the ob servance of the Sabbath, he could say for himself that he en tertained no austere feelings or impracticable opinions. He would not wish to debar the poor man from those innocent recreations on that day which did not desecrate its sanctity, while they invigorated his frame against the ensuing week of labour, and made him look up with more gratitude to the Great Author of our being—the source of all happiness. He hoped due regard would be had to th e feelings pp iness• the people and the interests of religion, which could be shown no better than by suffering the Bill to be read a second time. Mr. CLAY said that the opponents of the Bill took their stand on the fact that Sunday trading was not so great in amount as to require legislation to prevent it. A great deal bad been said about not offending the consciences of religious' people. Other people bad consciences as well as religioits people, and if the one were protected he did not see why the other should not be equally so. Why no go to the extent of the puritans in the time of Cromwell ? If the arguments was good in the one instance it was good in all. The . Hon. Mem ber here quoted a quatrain from a Latin doggrel poem of " Drunken Barnaby," in illustration of the - length to which the puritans of that period carried their strictness respecting the observance of the Sabbath ; and proceeded to show that such a re-action took place in consequence that in the reign of Charles 11. the Sabbath was no better observed than it was at the present day, in France... It was to enable the artisan to enjoy the luxury of his Sunday dinner that Sabbath labour was not required; and the same would be - the case if there were no restriction on Sunday. As far as his (Mr. Clay's) obser vation of the metropolis went he would fearlessly say that in ninety-nine cases. out of one hundred Sunday trading was li mited to procuring enjoyment for the artisan, the labourer, and, generally, the working classes. Mr PRINGLE said that the Bill was founded on the re port,of a Select Conunittee of the House, who bad taken every pains to produre information on the subject. If the Hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets had read the report and the evidence given before the Committee, he could not have stated that Sunday trading was not too great. Any Hon. Member, however, who wished to take the evidence of his owe senses on the subject, needed only go through various parts of London, on a Sunday morning, Tooley-street, Lam beth, and St. Giles's, and he would soon be convinced of the incorrectness of the Hon. Gentleman's statement. It would, he was aware, be urged against the suppression of Sunday trading, that the artizan and labourer were not paid their wages till late on Saturday night ; but all practical men were agreed that that was the effect and not the cause of it. Most of the witnesses examined before the Committee said, ‘" Sup press the Sunday markets, and you will compel the employers to pay their labourers and mechanics on the Friday." The complaints against it were not confined to the religious portion of the community ; they came from the Sunday traders themselves. _ _ Colonel EVANS said that the Bill, if passed in the pre sent shape, would have the effect of reducing many thousands to a state of beggary. As he wished all information possible on the nature, of the Bill, he desired to know of the Hon. Member whether it o,s contemplated by it to prevent the sale of fruit, vegetables, fish, and all other perishable commodities left over Saturday night on the Sunday ? Mr. POULTEP. had no objection to permit the sale of the articles enumerated in the exceptions, up to a certain limited hour on the Sunday. _ _ _ Colonel EVANS wished 'to ascertain whether the Bill did not mean to put r.O end to the preparation and sale of all de scription of Sunday newspapers on two days of the week, Sun day and Monday ? That, at least in his mind, would be its effect, if it should be carried into operation. Mr. POULTER replied that Sunday papers were printed on the Sa.turday.—(Na, no.) Well, then, the Bill would deal with nothing except what should be sold in an open shop Colonel EVANS asked if the Bill intended to restrict tra velling on the Sabbath? Mr. POULTER replied, that it did not refer in any way to any species of travelling whatever, either by land or by water. _ _ Sir A. AGNEW hoped that the Hon. Member for Shaftes bury would not enter into any compromise or entertain any suggestion made by the enemies of Sabbath legislation. If he did the effect would be an impairing of the utility of the Bill, perhaps its destruction. lie ( Sir A. Agnew) was happy to and a growing number of Hon. Members in the House disposed to respect the petitions of the religious por.: tion of the community, and interfere to prevent the desecra tion of the Lord's Day. The Bill should have his best support. Mr. HUME was disposed to vote for the second reading of the Bill until he had beard the observations of the Hon. Ba ronet addressed to the Hon. Member for Shaftesbury. He (Mr. Hume) was very unwilling to trust the measure in Com mittee to a man who could advise another not to listen to any reasonable suggestion. He wished to know of the Hon. Mem her for Shaftesbury whether ,confectioners' shops, or those traders who travelled from place to place in steam-boats, on a Sunday to provide refreshments for the passengers, would be interfered with by his Bill ? Mr. PO UL TE R replied that confectioners' shops fell under the equitable construction given to the Act of Charles 11. by the Court of King's Bench ; and the Bill had no reference whatever to what was done on board steam-boats. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading Against it Majority 76 REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. . 121 . 45 Lord J. RUSSELL moved the second reading of the Re gistration of Voters Bill. Mr. ORD objected to that clnuse which subjected candi dates to be examined on charges of bribery. Mr. C. W. WYNN approved of the clause. Lord G. SOMERSET asked a question of the Noble Lord, which, with the answer, were inaudible in the Gallery. Mr. WARBURTON when the Bill went into Committee should oppose the clause which gave the Committee the power Of opening the whole list of voters, and which in fact would amount to a destruction of registration altogether. Lord J. RUSSELL would not persevere in the clause if the sense of the Committee should be against him. Mr. H. L. BULNVER would oppose many of the clauses in the Committee, as he deemed them very unfair. Mr. FOSTER should object to the cruelty of placarding people on church-doors for not having paid up their rates. Mr. WILLIAMS said that the wish to extend the franchise prevailed all over the country, and he would oppose every part of the Bill which had a tendency to confine it. Lord J. RUSSELL said that his object was only to pre vent the practice of building small tenements for the purpose of overwhelming the respectable householders.—( Hear. ) Mr. HUME would wish the Noble Lord to consider whe ther many of the clauses which were in the Bill for the better regulation of polls at elections, now in progress through the House, might not be introduced in the Bill at present under discussion? Mr. MILES protested against the present Bill, as un satisfactory, but he should have no objection to support a short Bill on the same subject. Mr. C. BULLER did not consider that the payment of rates or taxes was any test whatever of solvency. He thought it would be much better to have the Bill referred to a Com mittee up stairs. Mr. BAINES said that the expense of examining into votes before the Revising Barrister was a most mischievous incum brance, and rather than encounter such a scrutiny it was well known that many Members had been returned to that House by voters made for the purpose, in order to swamp the real voters of a borough. An HoN. MEMBER made an observation that was inaudible. Mr. ROLFE concurred in many of the impressions of his Noble Friend who had introduced this Bill, but he would not pledge himself to support some of the clauses which it con tained, particularly that which gave such extensive powers to a Committee of that House. Mr. M. PHILLIPS said that it was a great inconvenience and hardship on parties that they should for the time be dis franchised because they transferred their interest from one property to another, although the transfer might be from a smaller to a larger property. Mr. AGLIONBY should wish the Bill to be referred to a Committee up stairs. Mr. S HEIL wished to know if it was the intention of the Noble Lord to extend this Bill to Ireland? The 36th clause gave to a Committee of that House the power to set aside votes approved of by the Revising Barrister. That clause ought, not surely to be extended to Ireland. There were in stances in Ireland where the registry was of no use whatever. Mr. BE RNA L did not consider this to be the proper time to enter upon a discussion of the details of the Bill. He be lieved the Noble Lord who had introduced the Bill was not so wedded to the clause in question that he would not suffer a divorce.—(A laugh.) Sir H. HARDINGE thought the Noble Lord was per fectly right in bringing forward the measure. The House had a right to set aside any votes that it might deem objec tionable. Mr. H. W. ORD agreed that the House did not abdicate its functions because of the registry or powers of the Revising Barrister, and he thought that a Committee should rather act as a Court of Appeal. Mr. PRA E D said that the Bill was fraught with inconsis tency. It said that all decisions of the Revising Barrister might be gone into by the Committee of the House, but that those cases that had been passed over sub sileniio by the Re vising Bea rister were not to be inquired into, thereby placing the parties interested in a situation to incur double expense. Mr. GROTE said that the presumption was that if the votes were suffered to pass sub silentio by the Revising Bar rister they must be good votes. Mr. GO ULBURN doubted very much whether it would not greatly increase the expense of a Committee, if the House were to be deprived of the power of inquiring into every vote, for it must have the effect of increasing litigation before the Assistant Barrister. Lord J. RUSSELL would not offer any opinion now upon this. clause. It was not intended by the Reform Bill to question the power of that House to inquire into every vote. He would not say now whether it was right or not the mat ter should so stand, but leave it to future considerations of the House. The Bill was then read a second time, and committed for the 6th of May. The British. Territories (India) Bill went through a Com mittee. Report received. The report of the Tithes Commutation Resolutions was re ceived. The report on the timber duties was received, and a Bill ordered accordingly. The report of the Illegal Securities Bill was received. On the motion of Mr. PEASE leave was given to bring in a Bill to consolidate the laws relating to the cruel treatment of animals. LIGHTHOUSES. Mr. "HUME said it would be in the recollection of many Hon. Members that a Committee had been appointed to in quire into the number of public lights, and the expense of maintaining them. From the evidence taken by that Com mittee, it appeared that the system was very defective, and the light-houses quite inadequate to the wants of the people, and that, in consequence, not a year passed without many lives being loci, and much property destroyed by shipwrecks. In' England the abuses were in a tenfold degree compared with those which existed in Scotland and Ireland. Exclu- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1835. sive of the Trinity Board, there were individuals who, un der Charter from the Crown, had the privilege of maintain ingdighthouses, which became a very heavy tax upon the com munity ? and if ever there was a system of jobbing and plun der, that of private lighthouses was one. It appeared from the inquiries made by the Committee,'that the aggregate of lights was 105 land lights, 21 floating, and 93 local or harbour lights, making in all 219. The north-west coast of Sco tland was in such a c deplorable state that no one would be surprised at the number of shipwrecks which occurred, and yet exac tions were made upon the public which rendered it. very diffi cult to compete with the shipping of other countries. By an account furnished by the Trinity Hoilse, it appeared that for the fifty-five lights which they maintained the collection was :'„13,0001. ; the charges of that collection 6,000/. ; the cost of maintenance 35,900/. ; and the net surplus was 40,800/. over the - expense of maintaining them. There were lights in the hands of private individuals, for which 79,6721. was collected; the charges of collection amounting to the enormous suer of 10,000/. ; the cost of maintaiaing them being 9,1001. ; and thus, it would appear, the public sustained a loss of 60,0001. In Ireland the amount of lighteousst dues collected per annum was 42,0001. ; the charges of collection were I,SOO/. ; the charges of maintenance 18,5001., leaving a surplus of 21,5001., which was applied to the erection of new lighthouses. In Scotland and Ireland the amo.mt of annual surplus was 32,0001. a year, and upwards of 150,0001. had accumulated in the hands of the Trinity Houle, though 32,0001. were spent in pensions to sailors and roasters, widows, &e. There were three lighthouses, one of whicleproduced 23,000/. ; the charges of collection were 2,7001. Another produced 24,800/., the charges of collection being 2,7001. The other produced 31,000/., the expenses being 3,268/. The three produced 79,676!., while the actual eepenses amounted to only 9,000/. Such a state of things should not be suffered to continue. He complained strongly that the Trinity House should lease out of their power a number of lights for a given number of years • for, by so doing, they put it out of theit power .to reduce the charge, and the public must conse quently lose. The Hon. Member proceeded to state the age gregate amount derived from the lights so leased. They might he divided into three classes. One class consisted of seven lighthouses, of which Harwich was one. It was leased by the Crown to General Rebow. In 1833 the amount collected was 9,270/. The expenses were 1,1961. and the charge of mainte. nance 420/., leaving a surplus of 7,954/. When his ,Majesty was advised to renew those leases that advice was given hi de fiance of the recommendation of the Committee of 1817. It was not for him to say why those leases had been renewed, but such renewals he thought to be most unwarrantable and an absolute Waste of the public money.—( Hear, hear.) According to some of the new leases the surplus was to be divided be tween the Crown and the lessee. Accordingly for Harwich the sum of 4,594/. per annum had been paid to the Crown; and 3,060/. to the lessee. The Dungeness lighthouse, the lease of which had been renewed in 1817 to T. W. Coke, Esq., had its tolls reduced according to the scale of the orders of 1832. This new lease had been made, after a pledge to the contrary on the part of Mr. Huskisson and Mr. Herries ; and, indeed, it would appear from the cor respondence annexed to the the report that the Treasury ware determined that the lease should not be renewed ; and yet, after all, a letter came directing that the lease should be renewed. The annual SUM collected was 5,4841. The expense of col lection amound to 720/., the cost of maintenance was 628/., leaving a surplus of 4,1361., which was equally divided be tween the crown and the lease. The Wintertea Ness light house, which was leased to Lord Braybrool,,, produced 6,545/. per annum. The cost of collection was 1,153/., and the maintenance was 866/., leaving a surplus of 7,5271., of which the Crown received 3,563/. The total produce from the seven lights was 24,862/. per annum. The cost of col lection was 3,0001, the maintenance 2,000/., the net surplus 19,624/., of which 10,400/.- went to the Crown and 9,224 t. to the lessor. There was another class consisting of three lights, which were leased by the Trinity-house; these were the Long-Ship, the Smalls, and tle Mumbles. In 1831 and 1832 the Long Ship produced 7,3951., the cost of collection was 1,0001., and the cost of maintenance was 1,100/. The surplus of 5,086/. went to the lessee , H. B. Smith, Esq. The Small Ship produced 14,4331. ; the cost of col lection was 2,200/., the maintenance 1,100/. ; the surplus of 10,253/. went also to Mr. Sanith. Thus, epwards of 23,0001. was levied, of which 16,400/. went to the leases. In the whole United Kingdom the produce of the . lighthouses was 242,0001., the charges were 22,000/. ; the maintenance was 74,000/., the surplus 143,7941. per annum. Ile contended that Ministers ought to be impeached for renewing those leases- 7 ( Hear.)...... He begged to call the attention of the House to the state of Wintcrton lighthouse before the lease of it had expired, and he had no hesitation in saying that the recommendation to re new the lease of that lighthouse was little short of high trea son.—( Hear, hear.) In 1833, 34, and 35, Lord Braybrook had received 44,000/. from this lighthouse, being a profit of something like 13,000/. per annum. In the next three years he had received 47,000/., of which, after paying expenses, he kept. 20,900/., and the Woods and Forests received 17,859/. In the nine - years up to Decembet 1831, the gross amount of tolls were 124,500/. for two lighthouses, of which sum Lord Braybrook had received 72,150/., in defiance of the recom mendation of the Committee and the construction which the law officers of the Crown put upon the Act of Parliament. If ever there was a case called for impeachment, this was one. Notwithstanding the enormous sums which thus went into the pockets of Lord Braybrook, the lease was renewed on the Ist of June - 1828. This lease was thus renewed though his Lord ship had e pocketed 1,000/. per month by the profits and the dues.—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member then stated the items received from other lights which were leased to private individuals. The total revenues of fourteen lights so leased was 217,8721. The charges of maintenance and col lection was 42,000/. Of the surplus the Crown received 96,8431., and the lessees 78,941/. What was the use of their talking about reducing them 50/. here and there ?—why talk of men being cut down at the dock-yards, while suffering such extravagance as this ?—(Hear.) The House of Commons ought to address the Crown with a view to the retirement of those lessees.—( Loud cries of " Hear," from the Opposition.) He was desirous of impressing one point upon the House, though his opinion differed from that of the Committee. He thought light-houses ought to be viewed in the same light as Consular exponces, and the expense of them be defrayed as a public burden. Lord Palmerston had given every facility to the labours of the Committee by placing before it the re gulations of France, Russia, and Prussia, on the subject of light-houses. In France, from 1792 up to last year, the matter had been intrusted to a separate Board, which had shown himself extremely anxious for the improvement of science in that depart ment. They did not levy lighthouse dues upon ships, but they le , vied a small tonnage duty for that and other purposes. There was one importaut fact which he wished to state. While the Tri nity House had reduced the charges on the shipping, the private lights had made no reduction whatever. The Trinity House now maintained 55 lights at a less expense than 33 lights cost them in 1820. There were no less than 938 places of collec tion in the country, which created a great expense that might be obviated by appointing one individual at every port. ,The whole of these lighthouses would not cost more than 40,000/., if propeily managed, instead of a quarter of a million, which they now cost. The Committee had recommended that there should be one Board of Directors in London for Great Britain, and one general system for the whole country. It was also recommended that all the Northern lights should be placed under the controul of the Trinity House, and that a different mode of payment should be adopted. The Commit tee also recommended—and lie was sure the House would agree with them—that the lights' duty should be reduced to the very lowest amount consistent with the maintenance of the lights ; and that all the improvements in science sbould be applied to this subject. It was also recommended that the dues should be levied upon some one uniform principle, and he suggested the adoption of the Irish plan, by which each vessel paid so much for every light it passed. By such a con solidation, it was hoped that the expenses of management would be considerably diminished, and that an opportunity would be afforded of erecting new lights. It was also recom mended that lights under the management ofhprivate indivi duals should be transferred with as little delay as possible to a Central Board of Management in London. The rights of every individual should be carefully examined and allowed. The Hon. Member proceeded to read the recommendation of the Committee respecting the renewal of leases, but lie was completely inaudible in the Gallery. He thought that the people of England should contribute to the maintenance of the Heligoland light, as they derived advantage from it. The Hon. Member concluded by stating that he had said enough I to show that the present state of the system on which light - I houses were managed—its trouble and increasing expenses were grounds sufficient for adopting the recommendation cf I the Committee; and, if the House agreed with him, they, would, he trusted, give him leave to bring in a Bill to carry would were notgranted effect y such savinga he pdhoeue: tiraishpthtßiohroorsdeufiestlt,pidhs:eerlbg was Ttplhi uersei ex pense these recommendations into effect. e Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET (who was scarcely audible in the gallery) differed from the Hon. Member respect ing the recommendation affecting the rights of individuals in. f aat m sto o hu t a i r e tc y v%e_ to buy up those rights. And even if a sum vested in light houses. The Hon. Member' could not call upon the House to grant from the land revenues of the Crown f a o r b a o ) v in i s o u u s m u s e t h o i s s N independent rta t ehs) o bpaiyet t tn h the a v 0 u favour Heligoland of the s light t a.. pt n (Tote e hhn y seese ? ee — NNo . oo ( lfblb H ylilete e ßs a iL r om, , oaoarr h r ddidn e t a ceAe r os.n . atna ) asebi understood bstyod r tsea e afi s ryl t p ayi o ny e d House.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. CUTL AR F lcu ß i eds Ge With we da blishment of a Central Board. For Scotland, he should oh- serve, that it was not satisfied with the administration of the Board existing there. The Hon. Member complained of the want of proper lights in Solway Frith, where, in consequence of this deficiency, many shipwrecks had taken place. The entire establishment, he contended, should be a national esta blishment ; and where individual rights--the titles of which should be minutely examined—were proved to exist, compen sation should certainly be allowed. Colonel PARRY expressed a hope that the House would see that the deserving mariners, who were worn out by a life of fatigue; were not deprived of their just provision. Mr. CII APM AN should not oppose the Bill by anticipa tion. He submitted to the House that, in limiting the amount . of pensions, they ought not to diminish the allowance pa d to t the poor sailor and orphan. Mr. EWART was sure the interests of commerce wou ld be benefited by this measure, and that not only theßhiomasredif would hold at liberty merchants, but t the consumers, would be served by the change. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET explained. theSHAWMr. Billcame objec before tedto the tbe removal h o e f the D=_~blin the English and I r i s h B oards, an d i e l y t y o s opposeco it.contrasted a I‘ , fr. v sted . as well as f or mer ap ll p roved of ir.Gou tle system of LiBuRN defendedcentral centralisation. o n. present, Administrations, from the charge of peculation, or of appro printing the funds in favour of persons professing certain poli tical opinions. Mr. MURRAY approved of the Bill. I Mr. C. FITZSIMON protested, on the part of the Irish people, against merging the Irish Board in the Trinity House of London. The . LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND knew there was a strong objection in Scotland to have these lighthouses placed at the discretionary regulation of a self-elected 'Board like tile Trinity Board. From this Board naval officers were at present excluded. Mr. PEASE contended there was a great change required in the constitution of the Trinity Board. Mr. defended the conduct of the Trinity Board. Leave was given to bring in a Bill on the subject of the re 7 gulation of lighthouses. ELECTION PETITIONS. _ _ The orders for considering the petitions complaining . of un due elections a,id returns for Dublin University, Kerry County, ltutherglen, burgh, were read and discharged, the peti tioners not having entered into their recognizances. Mr. GISBORNE presented a petition from certain persons on the subject of the Leicester election petition, praying to set right some literal error in the name of the sureties. Ile should reserve his observations on it till to-morrow. Mr. WYNN observed the name of the sureties, he must be aware, could not be altered a second time. The petition was read, and laid en the table. Mr. Sergeant LEFROY presented petitions from certain persons in the county of Cork, respecting the county of Cork petitions on the same subject. On the motion of Mr. IttiTOEN, jun., the House adjourned at ane o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. REGISTRAR OF DEEDS (MIDDLESEX). A Copy of the - Appointment of the Registrar or Deputy Re gistrar of Deeds for the County of Middlesex ; also the Amount of Fees received by him during the last Five Years, and the Hours of his Attendance at the Registry Office. The following information is respectfully tendered to the Honourable the House of Commons, in reply to their erder relative to the constitution of the above Office and its Officers. There are four Registers of Deeds for Middlesex, originally appointed by the Statute of the 7th of Queen Anne, chapter 20, which established the r Middlesex Registry, and which enacts, " That the sworn Clerk to execute inrolment in the High Court of Chancery, who is appointed to hire! for the County of Middlesex, the Chief Clerk to inrol Pleas in the Queen's Bench, the Clerk of the Warrants in the Common Pleas, and the Qu.?en's Remembrancer, or his Deputy, in the Court of Exchequer, shall be the Registers, or Masters of the Office, for the matters and things in the said Act contained ; who shall and may from time to time nominate and appoint one or more able and sufficient person or persons to be their De puty or Deputies." By the 25th Act of King George 11., chapter 4, the Secondary of the Court of King's Bench for the time being is appointed Register in the room of the Chief Clerk. '1 here is no other appointment than the above. The net amount of Fees received br the four Registers dur ing the last five years, commencing from the Ist of January, 1830. and ending the 31st of December, 1834, has been 9,6761. 145., of which sum each has received an equal pro portion. _ _ . There are at preseit two Deputy Registers; and the hours of attendance at the Register's Office are five each day, viz., from ten o'clock in the forillnoon until three oclock in the afternoon. Register's Office for Middlesex, JOHN BIGGE, March 17, 1833. Deputy Registrar. DIVISIONS OF THE HO USE. Recrt of the Select Committee appointed to take into consi -dration the best Mode of Publishing Correct and Authentic Lists of the Divisions of the House. That it appears to the Committee, that the reasons which caused the rejection, last year, of the various plans suggested fir taking the Divisions of the House, by a system of tickets or cards—namely, the difficulty of insuring that members should be provided before hand with these cards, and of iden tifying the individual with the card presented, so as to prevent the possibility of a vote being given by proxy-=continue in force. The Committee, therefore, find themselves compelled to concur in the opinion expressed by the Committee appointed in 1834, viz.: —That if the House should think proper to build an additional lobby, there is no plan of_ taking the divisions which in their judgment would combine so many recommen dations as this, or might so easily be carried into effect. In the event of this suggestion being adopted, the Corn, roittee propose, _ _ 1. That upon every division the House be entirely cleared; the Ayes and the Noes being sent forth into two separate lobbies. 2. That four tellers and four clerks he appointed, two of each to be stationed at the entrance of the respective lobbies. 3. That the doors being simultaneously opened by the Speaker's order, the names of the Members be taken by the clerks, on ruled paper, with numbered lines, as they re-enter the House by the opposite door, the tellers counting, and an nouncing the result at the table as at present. 4. That the lists of the division be then brought up to the table by the tellers, and deposited there for insertion in alpha betical order in the votes. The Committee would not feel itself justified in recommend ing the addition of a lobby to the temporary buildings of the present House, had they not ascertained that the whole cost of a lobby capable of containing 500 Members, and thus providing for the utmost probable inequality in the division, together with a commodious passage, and two small staircases communicating with the galleries, would not exceed the sum of 1,5001., ac cording to an estimate prepared by Sir Robert Smirke, who also states in his evidence that the building might be completed within one month. The Committee hope, therefore, that if it should be the plea sure of the House to sanction the principle of publicity in re ference to the divisions, it will not be deterred from applying this principle, during the next two years and a half, by the outlay required to give it effect in the present instance. The Committee beg also to state, that even if regarded in the light or an experiment, this outlay will in their opinion, be productive of some advantages, as it will enable the Building Committee to adopt any improvements upon the double lobby system which experience may suggest, and to avoid any ar rangements in the New House from which inconvenience may be found to arise. The Committee do not think that, by the adoption of the p'an which they have recommended, any material loss of time would be incurred, as the result of their experiments last year proves that 25 names may be taken down in long hand by a clerk in one minute, while the average time consumed in counting 100 members under the present system is four mi nutes, taken on a mean of those who go out and those who re main in the House. The Committee, however, are of opinion, that a discre tionary power should be retained by the House of suspending the present regulation altogether when the House is in Com mittee, where repeated divisions sometimes take place upon points of mere detail, unless called for by twi members, which it would hardly be in cases with regard to which no public interest was felt. March, 1835. SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, MARCH 2G.—Wind N. E. moderate.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Lee steamer, Mowle, from Cork ; and Eliza, —, from Memel. Arrived from the River and sailed, the Mack Breeks, Robins, for Limerick. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 25.—Wind E. N. E. fresh. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Wind E.—Arrived his Majesty's ship- Rolla, from the Mediterranean. FALMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Wind E., breezes and squally. PENZANCE, MARCH 24.—Arrived off port the Miranda, Hop per, from the Mauritius. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 24.—Arrived the Martha, Horafall, from Messina. CLYDE, MARCH 23.—Arrived the Portland, Leadbitter, from St. John's, New Brunswick. kI3E:,FA ST, MARCH 23.—Arrived the Charlotte, Ayre ; Alicant ; Duke,:lris, Shaw, and Triton, Connell, from London. NEwar, Mnacu 23.—Arrived the Dorchester, Maclean, from London. DUBLIN, MARCH 23.—Arrived the Juno, James, from Gib railer ; and the Jessie, Hawland, from Leghorn. GALWAY, MARCH 23.—Arrived the Albion, Stevens ; Dispatch, Saunders ; Lad the Hope, Ablett, from London. LONDONDERRY, MARCH 23.—Arrived the Bartley, Webber, from London ; and the Powhalton, Chase, from New York. CORI:, MARCH 23.—Arrived the . Waterloo packet, Fell, from London. Off port the Lyons, from New Orleans. Part of the cargo of the Hero, Smallwood, from Liverpool to Ba tavia, which put in here on the 17th inst., has been discharged, and the copper replaced. The cargo js being re-shipped, and she will be ready to proceed in a day or two. The Manion, Germaine, from Bristol, bound to Hamburg, put in to Penzance with stern broken, bows stove, &c., having been in contact with a schooner. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE, MARCH 25. Diligent, Grut, jun., from St. Michael's ; Louisa Cun ning, St. Michael's; Ciesar, Graeve, Ostend ; V enus , Newstadt ; Jonge Joanne, Challewyne, Antwerp; Orwell, Cubitt, Harlingen; London Packet, Viegnt, Dantzig; Arga, Hammer, Dantzig ; Twee Jonkvrowen, Stegengan, Workum ; Hoop, Nieuwland, Workiim ; Regina, Neilson, Frederick sand ; Oxenburg, Fiskers, Holbeck ; Brunswick, Brown, H a mburg ; Henrietta, Rieper, Kiel ; Felix, Stjernerentz, Ulaberg ; Henrietta, Ranhasvr, Masker; Wilhelmina, Beh rends, Carolineuziel ; Idoglieten, Wesstran, Gottenburg ; Superb, White, Aarhus; Malvina, Thicken, Leghorn. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, MARCU 25. Attwood, Morfee, for Antwerp ; Navarino, Playford, Ant werp ; Gassina, Wykmeycr, Rotterdam ; Vrouw Styna, Bek. kering, Rotterdam; Vrouw Christina, Dodd, Amsterdam; Anna Elizabeth, Boekbart, Amsterdam ; Sirene, Kupar, Brussels ; Neptune, Hills, New York and H a lif ax ; Mauri tania, Taylor, Gibraltar ; Swift, Way, Li s b on ; J ona , G rant , Cape of Good Hope and Algo Bay ; Claudine, Keen, Laun ceston, Van Diemen's Land; Liberal, de Araigo, St. Michael's and Terceira. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, MAncn 25. Ace of Trumps, Drake, for Terceira; Frances, Kirkus, Batavia, Van Diemen's Land, and Sydney ; Unity, Williams, Havre and Rouen; Franby, Smith, Elsineur and Riga; Gleanor, Ducklis, Flushing and Antwerp. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, MARCii 25. Ark, Clark, for Elsineur; Minx, Feria, St. Michael's; William, Vellet, Memel. p::1, - -,;:p o :,i ,c , .c.'; 'F:I DA Y AT ONE O'CLOCK Bank : , ,!ock - 3 3er Cent Eel. 3 ),.r Cp: , t. Cons .. 34:, per Cunt - i S. DC t b Sea Stack... 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To conclude with the New Grand Chivalric Entertainment, called KING ARTHUR and the KNIGHTS of the ROUND TABLE. 10 which Mr. Ducrow's magnificent Stud of Horses will be introduced, Arbor, Mr. Diddear ; Sir Ro►and, Mr. T. P Cone; John Galadin Mr. f3art2y ; Gyba Dagonet, Mr. Webster ; Gabriel, Mr. Tayteur.. Gyneth, 1 1 .1,5 s Clifton; Morgana La Faye, Mrs. Vining ; Doroth: Iltuzip, Mrs. Humby. _ To-morrow there wi'l be no performance THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING will be performed Aubcr's Opera of LESTOCQ ; OR, THE FETE OF THE HERMITAGE. Lestt.cch Mr. H. Phillips; Count GolofFkin, Mr. Giubclei; Dimity Mr. Wilson. The Princess Elizabeth, Miss Shirreff. To conclude with—THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindolf, Mr. G. i;ennctt ; Lothair, Mr. Cooper; Count Frederic] Fribeig, Mr. Brndal; Claudine, Miss Taylor. Tomorrow there will be no performance. 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The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at'lo minutes past 3 . o'clock. 41:44g, .41 44 1 111 e , LONDON. THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 183 b. Mr. HUME obtained leave, last night, to bring in a Bill, founded upon the recommendation of the Se lect Committee which _had been appointed last session, to inquire into the state and management of the Light houses in the United Kingdom. This is a circum stance which, we are sure, will be learnt with great satisfaction by every man connected with commeree. Prolific as was the old system of government iii jobs and abuses, there was perhaps no department of it in which they were suffered to attain more luxuriant rank ness than in that of the lighthouses. As a proof of this we have only to mentiop that the total amount collected in 1832, from shipping for light-houses, although con - siderably reduced within a few years before, was 240,3041., and the total expenses 96,9871„ leaving a surplus of 143,7541., of which 60,3221. went into the pockets of private individuals I During the last lease of the Winterton, Orfordness, and Dungeness lighthouses, the Crown received a net surplus of 96,843/.,and the les sees of 78,9411.; Lord BRAYBROKE'S share in 1823, 1824, and 1825 being alone 40,1841., or 13,4141. per annum ! Several other lessees have received ten or twelve thousand a year from the same source. The Committee consider that the Northern Lights should be transferred to the care of the Trinity House ; but Mr. HUME thought that all the Light-houses should be placed under a Board of management. The Committee fur• ther recommend, that the dues levied should be re duced to the lowest possible amount ; that the Lights should be improved, and new one erected wherever ne cessary ; and that all Light-houses, in the hands of private individuals, should be transferred to the Cen tral Board of Management. The second reading of the Lord's Day Observance Bill was carried last night by a majority of 76. With out impugning the motives which induce its supporters to press this subject upon the attention of the Legis lature, we cannot help thinking that their purity of in tention is coupled with much error of judgmelit. The present laws, if properly enforced, dre -quite sufficient to suppress the disgraceful scenes witieh are occasionally witnessed in, and around; the mitropolis and other largely peopled towns ort Sabha* ,days. The brawls and drunkenness, the brutalizin2,lamuse ments, and depraved levity which here'and there violate the quiet decorum of the day, are as revoltin l g to the well-regulated portion of the communityas, by eFample, they are injurious to the evil-disposed ; this is the:kind of .desecration which should be 'prevented'," ,and which the law, as it stands, is fully adequate:to meet without making more. It is fruitless to attempt„by any puritanical discipline, to interrupt the deeorous enjoyment of harmless recreation ; if such an !atiempt were to succeed, it would be productive of greater evil than good, by generating a sullen dislike to the reli gion that imposes, and the law that enforces, a restraint so unnecessary and irrational. Before any fresh acts of legislation are ma4e, let a proper attention be_given to those outrages oil morals, of which the law is already cognizant ;iila the Police receive a simple instruction to 'Watch and to in tercept those cases which are continually - occu7' big on Sabbath-days—such, for instance, as, street . drunken ness (and its off-shoot vices), when offensivily con spicuous for turbulence and depravity ; the sh..;ln'‘e less insolence and vulgarity of those gangs of blackguards which infest the suburban parts of town; the disthrbance of the public quiet caused by the bugle-playi!iig cads of the short stages (the interdiction of whi l ol 'dis graceful practice, by the way, merits the attention of Alderman WOOD, in his omnibus regulatioi Bill) ; the thieves-whistling groups of pigeon callers!and re probates ; and other similar indecencies which i require 1,, J -JI no line-drawing of discretion to determine' Pit" seemliness—let these -transgressions of Sab4a-ti 3- " propriety be checked (there needs- no extension, of . 41e laW's power for such a purpose) and a much ogr e chastened observance of it will result than from 11 ' closing of tea-gardens to the toiling artizan , or 1 t.' e baker's oven to his dish of meat and potatoes. f° discreditable toleration of the irregularities just: llr stauccd is not only a scandalous subversion of Pb! decency, hut has a .pernicious tendency by farnili a ing the thoughtless to barefaced violations of a d a,r set apart for religious observances aad the cherrin; tranquillity of mind and body; restrain those misd,ing4 and if not a more reverential, at least a more repulabli observance of it will be effected. The introduction of Bills of thiS nature, thou.V manifesting a very creditable•zeal on the part of a fel rigid Sabbath-day disciplinarians, casts 'an oblique re' proach upon those who deem it wise to oppose thew' which it is not altogether pleasant to be subjected lA' It was partly on this account, and because, as 1:e proved incontestably, that the Sunday was mote rigorply observed at present than it was thirty O r forty years ago, - that Mr. WA.RBURTON moved 11 0 the Bill be read a second time that day six mont hs ' For reasons of a similar nature, Mr. POT rER secondea: the motion, in a brief, sensible speech, .in the course at which he introduced some pertinent extracts freer t ' f charge lately made by Dr. BUTLER to the clergy° the Archdeaconry of Derby, to the el'ect that peaP le never would, and never could, be made religious by Act of Parliament. The Bill, though it have p asse d , the second reading, will of course be materially alte r e d in Committee. Lil was in the This evening Mr. TOOKE will move House of Commons " the Address to his IVIAJE s I beseeching him to grant his , Royal Charter (15 Incorporation to the University of London, evr approved in the year 1831, by the the n Le r Officers of the Crown, and containing no Ot he . Div t " restriction than against confirming degrees in , city and in Medicine." The Tories, as a ' natte r of policy, will hardly resist the adoption this Address, in its present form ; dud, thereferi we do not anticipate much discussion upon it to-niginc; - The full arrangements for throwing aside the mask ila o f not been completed, and so the Address, as a matter ; course, will be agreed to, the Government re servl° , to itself the right of examining and, opposing the Pirtive visions of any Bill prepared and brought in on.• subject. If the Government pursue n ot t . course, but at once oppose the Address, the e l . .s try may take it for granted that Sir 10° 6 - a PEEL imagines himself more secure than. he 13 0 when he sanctioned the introduction of the die for legalizing the Marriages of Dissenters. 0° ' 6O principle embodied in the address, we have not sr f a • for comment to-day. The Universities of Cambridge, and a few of the Isletronolit a° dical schools, opposed the granting a charter to t he v i fi ls t versity of London in 1831, which would ena ble , ' learned body to confer degrees in Divinity arsd Me c4 , l- e s These objections, whether just or unjust, bay ° c t ; , , attended to by the heads of the London 'Uni vers- is who now come forward and pray his MAJE sil i e b concede to the infant institution those privileges i i s were not denied by its enemies. Such forbear e°ce highly praiseworthy. We are glad that the question of breach of pri wil6e was not pressed yesterday in the case of Sir W I : 00 CODRINGTON. It is always a most invidious a c : the part of the House to resort to that mode of eating its privileges ; and considering that s ° t l ll e s the Members become judges in their own causes, 13• would best consult good taste, and maintain the by absta i°l " racter of the House in public estimation, from such a course, unless in very extreme case s ' des , The subject which gave rise to the foregoing T'f, tion was an accusation made on Thursday last by Sir o CODRINGTON against some of the Governmentotliceroj of interfering at the last election for Plymouth in fav ° , , , the Government candidate. This accusation we Per; ci( is confirmed by an article in the Devonport pendent, as well as by a spirited declaration, sig e scs 600 electors and inhabitants of Plymouth, in l i s eis to the address of Sir JAMES COCKBURN . 04 plc both which we insert elsewhere. This unwarralros exercise of Government influence would s eems t what has already been brought before Parliarnenider have been very general at the last Election. C°lls.sify ing the critical situation of the Conservative Dl° and that their struggle at that election was ($3 ,, lo which depended the very existence of their partie'd were fully prepared to learn that they had, res°rt d es g any means to support their candidates. But t he itt a tion is, whether any Government should be Pe rri : ol) i' to exercise such a power over the consciences a' ° , , ef er, nions of electors ? The only effectual ways b o ot to prevent the exercise of that power is not to ' il ls of to exist : and that can only be effected. by i nesl • the Ballot. to It appears by the Official Returns made 1 - 1 1 3 c o' 'Mary -last, that the number of persons taken i rit° t he tody by the metropolitan police constables in t ier , year 1834, was 64,269—whilst in 1813 110 ICSS ,g seventy-two thousand eight hundred an d t ;te , '' four persons were brought. before the tneg -is is siti' and in the following year - upwards of de s seven thousand. Thus, by comparing the t' v° ' sa d an INCREASE is shewn of nearly eight thcnjotBll Now, if we compare the year 1831 with 1833 ' 1' 1 increase, but a decrease, a progressive and V i ell re s#; siderable decrease will be given —a u ,l : amounting to eight thousand five hundre. cos co fifty-five. And if e. comparison be institu ted b cress' 1832 and 1833, a still further progressive ae de' will be seen—between these two years there ' s oot s' crease of nearly eight thousand. Compare, tb b e - oss of ber of captions by the Police in-1832, wi th t tholr the year ending January Ist, 1834, and thethirtc sand two hundred and seventy-four will b e ool' stilt on the last year ; which year, again, Bsle-d eese pared with the preceding one, exhibits 't a " sof of five thousand six hundred and ninety. C , ar ls l ' thing demonstrate more clearly the beneficial %% Of e ar of the institution than this progressive deereas e ,, an f' if tions for offences cognizable by the 111etroP°111:0 t . lice? The Return from which we hav e numbers, furnishes us also with evidence on 0011 can, to some extent, safely rely, since figur e; t he (16 ' err—that, happily, crime and offences are °n crease in London. of P i p We have received the whole of the Par is Pi l ' 1 9 ' Tuesday, with accounts from Bayonne t° t rose"' instant. The CITIZEN KING continues hie P • 'l ll4 tion of the Press . with unrelaxing sever it l i C0 0 5 ' 4 Editor of the Quotidienne—a Journal of fe_irJtie to via/ in tiati derable influence—was thrice brought Ch ris tf course of three days, for libelling his most I Coo Majesty the KING, and in the true spirit °as° 1)1 4 equity, was for each separate offence se ntell ' e re Sl fined and imprisoned during a period and for 8%. bettor which shews that Constitutional freedonl ie than a farce in France. The libels conlPr were e be were the most harmless effusions possible' of • • Ithe 1 le - t br°s tile by the way compared with ion yas s Constitutionnel. The subject •of b oth upe se American claims : the second -being tbe s o. s nel . copy of a letter from the Kl7sTes 1 a is Of t o W R tp