The Sun. — London, England, 1828-04-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF flit, PUBLIC JOURNALS. 'We alluded some time ago to a certain discovery, touching a sum of 250,0001., —for the precise amount we care not—it may be '200,000/., 250 5 000/., or 300,0001. The question is, who were the jobbers The transfer of a large sum of money, the unappro priated balance of a sum still larger, paid to the British Government by a Foreign Power, and for public purposes;—the transferring, we say, of such a sum, the surreptitiously withdrawing it from under the eye and disposal of Parliament, and turning it over in compliance with irresponsible importunity, to hands who had no right, either legal, moral, or constitutional, to meddle with, or touch, still less to squander it !—what is the name for such a pro ceeding ? Is it impeachable ? And will it be brought forward by the Finance Committee—or by that which was the instrument of its detection': A z.ery short time will show.—Times. It is quite true, as stated by an evening paper of S,attirday, that the Finance Committee have, after a division of eleven to seven, decided on recommend ing that the office of Lieutenant-General of the Ord nance should be abolished. We understand, that in coming to this resolution, the Committee have taken an opposite view of the question of upholding the above office or extinguishing it, to that which the Duke of 'Wellington had entertained, and had stated in the course of his examination. There is nobody who, from observing his Grace's administration of the Ordnance, and the anxiety for economical as well as other reform which he there e xhibited, and on avhich he regularly acted, will accuse him of having gfaien a dishonest opinion to the - Finance Committee, or of having endeavoured to impose upon the coun try the continuance of an expensive and superfluous office, for any purpose connected with his own pa tronage As a Minister. We go further, and pay tri bute to the Duke's consistency in his recent de claration that the Lieutenant-General of the Ord nance ought to he maintained. For when, some years ago, he tendered ;hat oce, st to Lord ill, who declined it , and nex ffi t to fir Lord Beresford H , by whom it was at once accepted, we recollect his ac companying the proposal by an intimation that the Lieutenant-General was an efficieiat officer, and must be constantly resident in London. Thus much, therefore, in jnstice to the Duke. 13nt although Siis Grace's opinion may be (and is, we doubt not), ;strictly conscientious as regards himself, it does Not rest on such incontrovertible authority as ought to induce the Finance Committee to abandon the exer cise of their own judgment, and to saddle the country avith 2,000/. or 3,000/. a-yeas, because an official personage, however honest, considers that a depart ment over which he himself presided has room for ail officer who might be disposed to work for such a -alary. The office, we trust, will be abolished, in he teeth of the Duke's wish to retain it. There is hardly a department in the state which has not for half a century been loaded with inmates, and de ,7toured by them. Retrenchment is the first duty of Finance Committee; and the present instance will afford a salutary example to its successors, as well as to the Ministers of the Crown.—/biel. The country may judge how much it has gained 7)y the dismissal of Lord Eldon from all share in the management of its concerns, by the." mischievous" nature of his interference with public questions, even aosy when no longer able to direct them es he thinks Cif, and by the monstrous combination which he manifests from day to day in Parliament of every thing obsolete and barbarous in opinion, with a spirit so restless, arbitrary, and inflexible. The conduct pursued by this pertinacious old lawyer reflects no eredit on the tendency of long practice in the Court which under him became a public nuisance, to en large the mind by wholesome principles of political Justice, of Statesmanlike sagacity, or of Christian charity. His Majesty's ad visers, instructed by the representatives of the people of England, have fur nished to Lord Eldon, on the Corporation and Test Acts, a useful lesson of the duty he °wee the State. duty to the church has been with equal clear ness, with honourable independence, and powerful pointed out to this inveterate partisan, by prelates who adorn the established religion of their ieotiatry, and in whose wise and manly toleiance of errors which they do not sh are, the church find a snpport more certain and enduring, than in whole piles of tests and of exclusive statutes. The bench of English Bishops has earned for itself well -merited praise on this very important occasion, — not by disregard of the interests of the eharch,— not by criminal apathy, as seems to have been insi• »tutted by Lerd Eldon, (a.cd most criminal would such apathy have been in them, its chosen guardians) hut by its discerning and enlightenial estimate of that in which consists the real security of the Church of England, and by its manly admission, on behalf of those who dissent from its own precise ritual and' doctrines, of that sacred right of religious freedom which was appealed to by the first great fathers of the Reformation in defesice of the Church of Eng land herself. There was one associate of Istnsi El don, in opposition to the civil privileges of the Pro testant Dissenters, whose presence et any time in the United Kingdom would be dispensed with by a .large portion of society, and whose presence In the mouse of Lords, on such an occasion, so inetante neot,aly after his setting foot on English ground, few besieles Lord Eldon could have thought very graceful or Lecoming. The gentleman we speak of may as well g a s back an again, we fa in would say—to thse land from which he has thought. proper to migrate, lie never , we suppose, will have any business here. Though his soo. is paid for being a resident of this cousery, we haVe nGt heard that any human being ever dreamed of bribing, the father to such a visitation.—lbid. Some of our contemporaries have asserted foe some days, NN ith a great deal of confidence, that the crossing of the Pruth by the Russian armies was postponed till the middle of May, and that the set tlement of the Greek question was left to the arbitra tion of Austria, adding, that these' results were owing to the almost threatening tone of remonstrance used by our Government against Russia. This is very far from being an accurate statement. The delay in crossing the Pruth is, we suspect, owing en tirely to local causes, such as the badness of the roads and the wet seasota—causes which may cease t o exist from one day to another. The Greek ques ioo, so far frosn being left to the arbitration of Austria, (a power which certainly has, by its eon duct at Constantinople, disqualified itself from being an unexceptionable judge), is more than ever in the bands of the three contractine- parties to the treaty the 6th of July. Lastly, the state of our re lations with Ruseisa is more friendly and cordial than it has Leen, at least for some time past. It will be recolie,ated that we, not 10 ' 0 ,g ago, gave a concise bat cortect account of a note Pt* great itnp4rtance sent by Russia t on learning the com!-enta of the Terkish manifesto. Our readers will recolisect that the tone of this document was•of a nature to cause serious apprehensibtis that the peace of Europe would be its great jeopardy, inas much as Russia seamed determined, syhatey6a might, be the views of Eingieud and France, to commence a war with Turkey on zeparete grounds, and to claim, in consequences separate, and perhaps very large, indemnifications- Such measures, it was evi dent, might, though justifiable in themselaes, lead to consequences involving other countries in the quarrel. At all., events, their necessary and im -, ,mediate tendency was t o embarrass the negocia Lions on the subject of Greece , It i theyefore with great pleasure we lear n, that Russia, asesseitas atandines the confessedly great provocation she has received from Turkey, has, from a eonyie tion of the sincerity and good faith of England, sent to her Ambassador here the most moderate acid pacific instructions: she gives up any idea of in vading Turkey upon her own separate ground pf quarrel, and confines the compensation which she intends to claim from Turkey to indemnities for the injuries to the Russian commerce, (which cannot be of a very extensive amount), without any thought of territorial aggrandizement; arid lastly, she will l ive instructions to her Admiral in the Mediter• sensate to act in concert with the Admirals of Eng- • land and France, according to such arrangements as the united Powers shall deem expedient. There is reason also, at length, to depend upon the hearty concurrence of Prussia and Austria : whatever the motives may be of this tardy coneurrence,it certainly exists, and is not without its value. Under these circumstances, we trust that we may, without much hesitation, affirm that the peace of Europe will be preserved : and this desirable result is, we think, in a great measure owing to the confidence which foreign Powers have felt in the British Government both as to the sincerity of its intentions and the firmness of its purpose to see the treaty of July faithfully and effectively executed. Unless we sup pose the Sultan to be absolutely insane, he must at last be convinced, by the cordial union of the Live great European Powers, that all attempts to break the alliance must be hopeless,—a conviction which will be the more strongly impressed upon him, if, as is, we believe, the intention, Russia shall immediately occupy the Principalities as a pledge for the indem nities to her commerce, while the three combined fleets blockade the Morea and Alexandria. So de termined and formidable an aspect will, we should snppose,alarm even the obstinacy of Turkish fatalism, and dispose it to settle both questions at issue,—the indemnity to Russian commerce, and the independ ence of Greece.—lbid. Mr. Sugden appears to have taken the earliest opportunity of making the anzende honorable to the supporters of the established system of legal abuse and chicanery for having been betrayed into expres sione, the other day, which savoured of a liberal and enlightened anxiety for legal reform. If those ex pressions gave offence to the learned and puissant body of which he is a member, he made ample atone ment for the use of them, on Thursday night, by the " generous" indignation which he lavished on Mr. D. W. Harvey, for having dared to impugn the in violable sanctity of the Chancery system. If that high Court of .Justice wanted any eulogy beyond its own records, it only requires Mr. Sugden to become its historian, to hand it clown in the most glowing colours of panegyric to all posterity. There is, how ever, such a figure in rhetoric as hyperbole, and giv ing —as, of course, we do—all possible credit to the motives which animated the Learned Gentleman, we cannot help thinking that he made a more abundant use of that figure we have mentioned than was exactly consistent with good taste. When he said, for instance, that " he knew the high-minded spirit of the Chancery Barristers," he ought to have recollected that, being himself a Chancery Barrister, he could not be eensi f lered a disinterested witness in this matter; and ;that, with whatever sincerity he might have applauded himself and brethren, a man's praises do not come best front his own month, When he stated also that there existed, on the pert of the Chancery Barristers, rather " over-anxiety for reform," he ought to have done hie audience the favour of assisting them to believe so novel a prepo sition by giving it the support of a few facts. We agree with him that" nothing is more necessary than to uphold the dignity of thr Court," though we cannot easily conceive how its dignity is to be pre served by the perpetuation of its abuses, When he goes on to say that "the fault did not lie with the Judges or the Barristers," he admits, by implication that fault does 1.;.e s omewhere ; and so far we have an admission of there being, eornething wrong in the made in which justice is administgre4 in that Court. But the,Jedges and-Barristers are not in fault, accere ding to Mr, si";gden. Who then are ? Is the blame to fall . upon ,•:,,elicitors or the system ? Mr. Sugden says on neither, He has discovered what the most ingenious champions for the Chan cery piaetice had not heretofore found out; he has ascertained that " the fault lies with the executors, the trustees, or the eetetipe who had an interest in delaying judgment." Had nut %Ir. Sugden assured his audience that he meant to pratse die Cenrt of Chancere, we should have interpreted this sentence as conveying thee i.,7-.,pst severe condemnation of the system ever pronounced,. Nothing is more clear than that parties who wish to eie t tae judgment are conscious of not having a just cause, and eoneee quently hope to 01;4'in, by the length of the purse, that victory over their adveievies which they could not derive from the soundness or their eleims. Now we would have supposed that a Court of Equity, peeperly constituted, would prove its right to the name by p,erenting, instead of assisting, the designs of such unjust suitors. What would be said of the constitution of a Crini,a; Court, if, 'on a cletege of not protecting the public, the defence set up was, that " the fault was not with the Judges or the Barristers, Wet with the thieves, swindlers, and other malefactot s, who had an interest in delay ing judgment ?" Yet such is Mr. gugdeh'e defence of the Chancery system !—lllorning Herald. It has i,eAti considered by many that the shipping question had beers so entirely settled when the last changes were effected in the'lla - eige(ion Laws, that no attempt would be made to disturb tile exestine srrangersrnt, .w.,d that the Shipowners, if they did not benefit by its natoee, would at least submit in silent resignation to the losses eehie it might inflict upon them. This impression, we fear, l'a4 preveikq to suet: an extent as to prevent the reconsideration of many poiiete which could not otherwise have escaped observatioa or h;eee denied inquiry. Shortly, however, silence will be at an entl. In every port of the United Empire, the inaction of British etse seas, :44 the reduction of British tonnage, have awakened th Members of the Shipping Interest to the dangers of tile 4 .:itpation—dangers which in crease every day. In every poet, therefore, they ayg preparing to address Parliament; 41,4 q ! , . peti tionS eeent forth by individuals, who can Prow l ; that since tke well-meant, but unrequited favour of other States, their pros shown td the sajq t, '' perity has gradually LleciinA and their flourishing condition has been succeedAed by certainty of approaching ruin—the petitions of individuate, on whom depends, in a great measure, the present and future strength of tin) British Navy—will not be re ceived with indifference, po dismissed without con sideration. That inv.es.tigation yiLJ he granted can not be doubted, for those times are past' when griev• ances were met by a simple denial-and that Inves tigation will be followed by correction, or remedy, is nearly equally certain. At all events, the Ship owners wilt and must be heard ; and when their case is before Parhamga and the Country, and they establish all the facts which they promise to bring forward, there is no Minister unpi r striotiei or head strong enough to sacrifice to a vain regard for his own consistency, the interests of a most important, useful, and honourable hedv.—.2Ven , Times. MEETINGS OF ,citk;DIFQII-5. APRIL 28 Commissioners, liasin t h i a id ll ,: si — ree A t. t the "u" 'a.' LONDON IMARY.—TUESDAY, i Forster; T. Newington Causeway, q. Gardiner, J., Veldington, scavenger 1 Sattertliwaite,.L.,T*.e.7-gtreet, merchant Stevenson, G., Tottentrarn-eourr'-read, nia'er ld, eoachk I Usill and Wood , spice-dealers l "- 1 Waikliog, E. Batty , draper' - • .• • 1 Wells, J , 4l'dbourn, corn-dealer .............. .. ... • „, I 1 Wiltdn, 11.,'Brortd-i:treet, merchant .................. .... ' lioliand, J., I.iKai,n, 7;ctpaller Lav;ranee, J., Park-phicy, tailor,. 9 ' Letts, ti., Nine Haiti, baYge!.o.lo - ___L______.,-„r---,:.'„ •-• . 2 COUNTRY DIARY.—WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30. Bailey, J. Liverpool—Clarendon, Liverpool Brour,:xi, J., Margate—Royal hotel, Margate •.. I Burch, J., f4ieter—Old London inn, Exet er — Norw(tid, J., "giviner;eet—Ki n gston hotel, Kingston-upon Hull • • „ li Fortes' S., Exeter-01A-London inn; rx . , , ..t , ..r l2 INSOLVENTS AI PLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, PetitWms bilk ii6aid at Portugal-street, Lincoln's - i nn-fields ; May 1, Barclay, William, Wapping,•mariiie 7 nmson Chevrey, ,Sebastian; Shoe-lane; linie-deaidf Coredon, llir.tivd, Ald ersga t e -street, dealer Field, John, Chuhea, lieutenant in the royal marine s Fowler, 'l Fowler, baker ' '• Francis, John, Ilunsdon, conidealer Franks" Robert, Walthani Abliey;Shoemaker (lranger, Tliomas, Westminster, bricklayer Hall, William, Bethnal -green, clerk flay, James, Newgate-street, publiiher \13116C11, Sir, W.. Shrewsbury, dealer Price, Charles, Ilutarnaro Monmouthshire, farmvi Tyler, William, Bristol; plasterer Wall, Clialles, H e nley-uivm-'Thomas, dealer Widlake, John, Stepney, tailor Tnl VAN DTEMAN'S LAND PAPERS. By the Lang, Captain Lusk, we have received a copy of an Address to, and correspondence with, his Excellency Lieutenant-Governor Arthur, upon the subject of the recent Colonial Acts, imposing a Licence upon the Free Press of Van Dieman's Land; the Address, dated the 21st Nov. 1827, and in respectful terms, is that of the Landholders, Mer chants, and Inhabitants of Van Dieman's Land, ex pressing their surprise and deep regret on the pro mulption of the recent Act of Council, subjecting. the Free Press of the Colony to the restriction of an official licence, and requesting his Excellency to re peal the same, and relieve the Local Government from the unpopularity, and the Colonists from the degradation, of an enactment which is humbly repre sented to be no less repugnant to British law and destructive to British liberty, than impolitic and inexpedient in the present advanced state of the colony, and more calculated to deter future emigre tion from their native land to that Island. To this end, they refer the Governor's attention to an an nexed brief report of the opinions delivered . by the Judges of the Supreme Court of India, not only as high judicial authority upon the subject, bu►t as emanating from and applying to a quarter of the globe where if restrictions could be justified under any grounds of policy and expediency, the strongest reasons might be laid, and the most specious case made out, that such restrictions are Constitutional, consistent with, and not repugnant to the law of England; they presume no British born subject can be so ignorant of the institutions of his country as to avow, or so self-debased in nature and principle as reluctantly to submit, to assuming that the cir cumstances of the colony, and the character of its inhabitants, may have been considered as a ground and motive for the Act imposing a licence on the press. They feel themselves called upon to state, as their conscientious and settled conviction, that in either or both respects, no colony under the British Crown affords stronger claims to exemption from the operation of such enactments, or any restrictions be yond those provided fry law, than Van Dieman's Land, were it possible to suppose that the British Govern ment would advise, or the British Parliament suffer, the glorious Constitution of their country to be so far broken in upon, as to inflict such a serious visitation upon any of her Colonies or subjects. Under this impression, a hope is expressed, that from whatever. misrepresetitstions or misconceptions, that the reasons which may have induced the local Government to pass, and his Excellency to sanction the enactment, that he will reconsider the subject, until a petition can be transmitted by tbe Colonists for its immediate repeal, or at least suspension, to the proper quarter in England. The address then goes on to add, that the Colony cannot be considered or treated by the local authorities as a penal settlement in any way to prejudice the respectable and recognized Colonists who have emigrated under the official sanction and encouragement of the British government, deprived of their rights and liberties, and on their arrival be amalgamated with the veriest outcasts of society, or affected in any way by the enactment and discipline necessary to transported offenders. The address is signed by six Magistrates of the Colony, and the principal merchants, who possess the greatest pro perty these. On the 26th November, the Governor in reply, states the responsibility of the measure, as to its being inconsistent or septignatit to British law, does not rest with him, and he assures them the subject has undergone a consideration so careful, that there is no probability the act will be repealed under the existing circumstances and condition of the Colony, and in broad terms states, if is is intended that Van Dieman's Land shall be continued as a Colony, to which offenders from Great Britain shall be trans, ported, it would be the height of imprudence to admit an unrestricted press within the territory, and it is under the impression that such is the intention of his Majesty's Government that the law has been promulgated ; that the idea of its proving injurious to er T trion is erroneous. Individuals whose un bounded love of liberty would carry thsrn t t s the last verge of prudence for its unshackled enjoyment, can scarcely be expected to resort to Colonies, when they are aware a large portion of its inhabi tants are subjected by their crimes to more than or dinary restraint, tlml whilst men, whose love of civil liberty is chastened by a sober and prudent regard For peace and tranquillity of their domestic circle, and the security of their property, will gladly ex_ change a little portion of these rights , w hich t hey expect in a penal Colony. In the remaining part of the reply observes, he wishes it had been possible for the letter to have omitted one passage, which contains sentiments epially presumptuous and un just, and looking to the importance which they have ' attached to it, he will not fail to transmit the letter to Viscount Goderich. To this an answer is sent, re +sestina the Governor will inform them what part of the Address desersss the terms of presumptuous as 4 unjust, prior to its transmission to LordOoderich, and in answer thereto a letter is sent, signed by J. Bur nett, from the Colonial Secretary's office, that the passage alluded to is so plain and obvious that he cannot think it necessary to noint it out, and that he has already noticed it in bib answer 'of the 26th of November. Really this Governor has marvellous high ideas of his own prerogative, and the civil rights of British subjects; ds s es h mean to say those acts, and their attendant measures, are the result of orders from the Secretary of his Majesty's Government for the Colo nial department at home, and are not the arbitrary art of a man whose whole Government, since he has been in the Colony, has disgpstrd the most respect able part of the inhabitants, men as well informed and entitled to as much respect as any portion of the British population in the most valuable settlements of the British Crown ? It is not the first time we ilsys been obliged to read and learn Governor Arthur's syst,im of Legislature, snd his conduct gt Honduras, or wherever he has been employed ass public servant. The sooner he is recalled the bent+ the present Governor of the Upper Colony manageS matters better, and is consequently beloved and, respested., ;pt GERMAN AND - 1-iA:MBU - ROli PAPERS FROM THE 'MAINE, APRIL. 18.—It is now considered as beyond all doubt, that not only the Electorate of Hesse accedes Fo the commercial treaty between Bavaria and Wuriernlnarg, lay 4 that the Saxon Duchies and the Prin cipality of Wa.l,Jeck will 'also join it. • T: hi? urF4per:li-V is said to he the result of the negOciations Which hay e been lately carried on at Cassel, and respecting which oi - 6- cial information is shortly expected. MUNIcH, APRIL 14.—The following is the rescript which wp mentioned yesterday, addressed to all the Com manders of 4ivisions of the wtyariao afloy " Louis, by the grace or Grid, iic...We tr r 4eh desired to have a great part of our army assembled this year in' a eamp of exercise, and to witness the address and precision which it has acquired to enable itself to accomplish its high vocation, and which may be justly expected from an army s"ilse PiPeraiP and officers have gained s uch die • • tinguished glory ,in so . many . campaign`: But the de hberationt of the Assembly of the :strate, whOl wtil continue till late in the summer, hinder use 'rto our great regret, from appearing among the brave men Rho have fought for the preservation and the glory of our done. he.ye in consequence resolved that the Camp of Exercise, whie was tlfc • Pi-D.4 YhiY year near Augsburgb, shall not take place. oue of war is ordered to announce this resolution as speedily as Fusible to all the divisions of our army, and to take the necessary measures to a - wok', 4a far 4a FOgii!?le; thg preliminary expenses, while it is still time, or at least to diminish them considerably. (Signed) " LOUIS." " 'Munich ? April 11, 1828." FRANKFORT, 'A Ter!, Oavarian Journal, speaklog of the affairs of the East, observes that the simple fact, whether Russia does or does not acqiire some additional provinces, and some millions of subjects, cannot much affect Germany, but the main point is where those acquisitions ;Ire .madei' The writer then proceeds to allow that the great interest of Germany is that no great power should eb tairlpossession, or tie unrestricted control, of the mouth of the Danube, one of the grand yenta for the coinwerce of Germany and Hungary. BertpN ? Arun. 13.—A jaw has been promulgated, by s.vhich' it is enacted that the prohibition of Entails in the French Code shall out be considered as abolishing the En- :~ ~` 13T - 7.1 .7;.1 tails formerly snhiisting in the districts which made part of the Duchy of Berg; but they are to continue in force, and the order of succession to remain the same as it was before the introduction of the French Code. All aliena tions and other dispositions relative to such entailed estates, which have been made by the possessors of them from the time of the introduction of the French Cede to the date of the promulgation of the present Decree, cannot be called in question, nor can any claim to indemnity be made en the authors of such dispositions. SECOND ED 11 1 10 N . SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. IMPERIAL PARLIA 31 ENT HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Carlisle brought up the Report of the Commis sioners of Public Charities relative to the expenses incurred by them. Sir E. HARVEY presented a petition against the East London Rail-way. Mr. GRATTAN presented a petition from certain members of the Hibernian Joint Stock Company, praying to be heard against the Bill for dissolving the Company. LAMBETH-BRIDGE BILL. Sir JOSEPH YORKE presented a petition against the Lambeth-Bridge Bill. He said that if this Bill passed the House, the Archbishop of Lambeth would have no ease iu his garden, or in any room in his House.—(A laugh.) Mr. HOBHOUSE said that perhaps the Hon. Baronet w: e not aware that two bridges was proposed to be built, of iron, the other of stone. The Bridge against which the peti tion was presented is intended to he built 800 yards from Westminster-bridge and 900 yards from Vauxhall. Those proje( t 9 were generally founded in private and fraudulent interest. He was happy to hear however that it was not intended to go on with the 'Bill this present Session, and he (Mr. Hobbouse) hoped no Bill would be again applied for, for a similar purpose, until Westminster Bridge or Vauxhall Bridge had fallen. Mr. CURTEIS said that Tllackfriars Bridge was in such a state as to endanger the lives of his Majesty's subjects. After a few words from the SPEAKER on the point of older the petition was I tit! on the table. Sir JAMES GRAHAM presented a petition from York, against the Air and Calder Navigation Company. FEES ON TURNPIKE BILLS. Mr. LYTTLETON said it had been agreed that the re solutions for the abolitions of the fees on the renewal of Turnpike Bills should be referred to the House of Lords ; on consideration, however, we understand, that their Lordships had nothing to do with the matter, which was a question solely referring to the privileges of this House. He therefore moved that the Order of the Day for referring the Resolutions of the House of Lords, should be discharged.—Agreed to. LONDON DOCK COMPANY. ➢lr. Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition from 200 Merchants of the City of London, again.st the Clause in the Rill empowering the Directors of the Landon Dock Company to leyy dues on goods delivered in craft.— Ordered to be printed. Sir G. ROBINS presented a petition from Northamp ton, in favour of general toleration. Lord FORBES presented a petition from the Catholics of Tipperary in favour of Catholic Emancipation. Colonel WHITE presented a similar petition from dif• ferent pitrishes in the county of Dublin. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. Sir E. KNATCHBULL presented two petitions from Gravesend, against the Friendly Societies Bill. Mr. llRlcitur thought it very desirable that the public alarm excited on this subject should be allayed. He had petitions to present, signed by 5,000 persons, on the sub ject. Mr. COURTENAY said the report on the Bill would be brought up in the course of a week. The pre sent Bill would be greatly modifed, though he did not know whether it would ;wet with the wishes of all parch( s. Though hg should feel it his duty to trouble the House with some oh‘ervations when the Report was brought up, he might as well say at once that it was not his intention to proceed fUrther with the Bill this Session. Mr. HOB HOUSE was greatly pleased with the an nouncement made by the Hon. Member, and had no ob jection that the Bill should lie on the table until next ses sion.—The petitions were laid ex the table- S - ir E. Ii.NATCKEULL presented a petition from Hythe against the Corn Laws.—Ordered to be printed. Lord ALNWICK presented a petition from the Roman Catholics of Northampton for Emancipation. Sir E. KNATCHBULL presented a petition from Hythe, in Kent, against the scale of duties for the regula tion of Corn Lawe. 'Lord ALTHORP presented three petitions from Friendly Societies in Northampton, against the Bill for the Rega • lation of Friendly Societies. Colonel BARNARD presented a petition from the Ito man Catholics of Raharn, in favour of the Catholic Claims! Mr. R. COLBURN brought up the report of the Com mittee on the Westmeath election, by wh}el•, it appeared that the return of the, pitting Alembti was good, and that the petitions against his return was not frivolous or vex atious. Mr. MOORE presented several petitions from various Corporations, and also from some Dissenters in Ireland, against any further concession to the Cattlelira. Mr. MOORE presented a petition from the attorneys practising in thelrish Courts, praying that the Crown Solicitor's Bill might not pass into a law. a Colonel BERESFORD presented a petition from the Protestant inhabitants of Cork, praying that the House would take notice of the proceedings of the Catholic Asso ciation, and also that no further concession might be grant ed to the Catholics. Lord STANLEY presented a petition from the Catholics of Barton-upon-Humber, in favour of the Catholic Mr. CA.RTWRIMIT p.resented a petition from the Archdeacon of Northampton and the Clergy of Peter borough, against any further concessions to the Catholics. Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition-from the inha bitants of Leeds against any further concession to the Ca tholics. Mr, AIARSIIALL said that this petition gave a very erroneous impression of the opinions entertained on the subject by the inhabitants of Leeds. After a few words from Mr. DIINCONIBE to the effect that the people of Leeds, like the inhabitants of most other larges towns opposed to the Claims 9f the Catholics. Lord MILTON said, that this petition was signed by only about 4,900 persons, whereas a former petition from the same town was signed by upwards of 10,000 persons. This he took as a proof of the charge which was rapidly taking place in public opinion upon the subject. Mr. DITNCOMBE said that the whole of the signs titres were procured in 84 days. The petition was then ordered to be printed. Mr. DUNCOMBE also presented several other similar petitions from various places in the county of York. General KING presented several petitions from the Pro testant inhabitants of various places in the county of Sligo against any further concessions to the Ramp Catholics. CaptaitiNlA/TLAND Presented'a petition t r oni the oc cupiers of land 'near Bury against the impintation of fo reign wool. Lord OXNIANTOWN presented a petition from the Boman Cathulic4 of the King'! County in favour Of the 'Oman Catholic Claiim, LIANCQCK Preaentetl a petition from the Pro testant inhabitants of Athlorie against the Roman Catholic Colonel ROCIIFORT presented a similar petition from the Protestants of Kildee, in the county of Westmeath. Mr. CHAPLIN presented a petition from the land owpera of Borpcastle, apirist the importatitm pf VoGign WOoT. • '•' • • Mr. O'NEIL presented a petition from the landed pro prietors of Antrim, against the Roman Catholic Claims; and, also three similar petitions from parishes in Antrim. Sir J. COCHRANE presented a petition from Roman Catholics of Hereford, in favour of the Roman Catho!i? • Mi. BERNAL presented a petition from the Royal York 'Friendly Society, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, against the Friendly Societies Bill. Lord JOHN HAY presented a petition from the No blemen, Gentry, and Landowners of Hereford against the proposed alteration of the Corn Laws. Mr. CAMPBELL presented 'petitions from Glas goW, in favour Of fhe Scotch Settlement Bill. Mr: STANLEY presented two petitions from the Ca tholics of Lancaster aril Garidang, in favour of the Roman Catholic Claims. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a petition from a Fish salesman named Davis, at Gloucester, vgainst the ialmon Fisheries Bill. - • Mr. SHIRLEY preyented three petitions from the Protestant Dissenters of Monaghan, and one petition from the Protestants and Churchwardens of a parish in Monag han, against further concessions to the Roman C itholics. Mr. Sheriff WYLDE appeared at the bar, and present ed,a petition from the Lord Mayor, Altlettnen, and Cum mon Councilmen of LOndon, praying for a repeal of the Stamp Duties on Receipts for sums under 50/. Mr. Alderman WOOD, in moving that the petition be read, said that persons engaged in trade experienced great inconvenience from the stamp receipt duty. Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN supported the prayer of thetition, and observed that the repeal of this tax would not make any considerable diminution of the revenue, as it was well known that many persons who paid small accounts never required a stamp receipt. Sir JOSEPH YORKE said he had no wish to stand wteen the petitionrs and this tax, but he must beg leave to say, in reply to an observation by the Hon. Alderman who had just sat down, that he (Sir J. Y.) was one of those who was always anxious to get a stamp receipt v, hen he paid money, and he trusted that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would net listen to idle clamours, and do away with a tax which recorded that people had paid those bills which might otherwise hereafter rise in judgment against them.--(A laugh.) The petition was read, and ordered to be printed. ROMAN CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. The Marquis of CHANDOS said he understood it to be the intention •of the Hon. Baronet, the Member for Westminster, to postpone the Motion which stood for to-morrow, and as it would be a great inconvenience to many Hon. Members who took a pal t for and against the measure, to know when the discussion might be expected it would be desirable that the Hon. Baronet should state what he intended to do. Sir F. BURDETT—Circumstances had induced him to postpone the discussion, but he intended to bring for ward his motion on Thursday the Sth of May next. Mr. BROWNLOW presented seven peiitions from the Roman Catholics of Ferrnannah, Tyrone, Monaghan, and Castlecomer, in favour of the Roman Catholic Claims. Mr. WARD presented a petition from persona engaged in the Wool Trade in the City of London, praying that no additional duty should he imposed upon Foreign Wool. The former duty upon Foreign Wool had done consider able injury to the English Woollen Manufacturer, who were but just recovering from the evil effects of the duty, and he (Mr. W.) was satisfied his Majesty's Go vernment would not try the imposition of any duty upon the raw material, to throw that body again into distress Mr. MARSHALL supported the prayer of:the petition. Mr. Ald. TUOMPSON said the imposition of a duty would destroy the competition which had already com menced between the English and Silesian woollen manu facturer. Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE thought such a duty ought to be imposed as would give to the English wool Grower, a protection against the Foreigner, adequate to that now given the English Corn Grower. Lerd MILTON objected to the imposition of any duty upon wool, which could only have the effect of retarding the improvement in Arts and Sciences, without giving to Cie English wool grower any protection, to which he was fairly entitled. _ Sir M. W,:RIDLEN: said that an lion. Member had stated, that if a further duty were to be imposed iu this way upon manufacturers, we should go back to a state of barbarism, but he would contend that we would revert to a state of barbarism if no duty were imposed. It would take no less than 7,000,000 of sheep to supply the quantity of wool imported during the last year alone. Under these circumstances he thought the House would be induced to agree to a committee. (Left Sitting.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The Reporters were not admitted to-day, until half-past five o'clock, at which time the space below the bar, was crowded by strangers. On our entrance we found The Earl of lIAREWOOD presenting a petition, as MB understood, front the City of London, against the im portation of Foreign Corn. Lord MALMESBURY supported the prayer of the pe tition, and said, that the Landowners merely required to have their grievances known, in order to ensure to them the attention of Parliament. Several other petitions were presented, but from the con fusion which prevailed below the bar, it was impossible to ascertain their precise object. The Dake of NORTHI.J.MBELAND presented a peti tion, we understood him to say, from the members of the Chirugical and Medical Society of London, praying for the facilities of dinie2tion. The Reporters having been to this time penned up in a corner, so as to have rendered it impracticable for them either to hear or write, deelared in a body to the door keepers that they would not write a syllable more, unless farther accomodation were afforded. A Messenger was then sent to the Chancellor on the Woolsacic, to inform him of the condition and determina tiun of the Reporters. His Lordship was then pleased to order that they should be allowed to enter within a small space between the strangers and the fire-place, which is usually considered to be a passage for the Peers. Here their inconvenience was slightly removed, and they could almost contrive to hear what was said. Earl FITZWITLIANI presented from the Catholics of Leeds, praying for relief from the civil disabilities under which they laboured. Lord BEXLEY presented a petition from the Jewish community of London, praying that they might not be prejudiced by the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. Lord ELDON presented a petition from certain Pro testants of Armagh (County) against further concession to the Catholics. A similar petition from the Dissenters of a chapel at Brantley, near Leeds, and from a parish in Berks. Earl SPENCER presented two petitions from the inha bitants of the county of Northampton, praying for the re moval of all civil and religious disabilities. Lord RODEN presented petitions from the Protestant Dissenters of Camberwell. from members of the Grand Juay of Monaghan, against further concessions to the Catholics- Lord KING presented a petition from Roman Catholics in the county of Monaghan, praying for a repeal of. the Test and Corporation Acts. The Duke of BEAUFORT presented a petition an the subject of Wool. Lord LATiti-tP, presented a petition from the 12aruters Aft ast Lothian and Lammer Muir, praying for an additional tax on Foreign Wool. Lord DURHAM presented a petition from the Uni tarians of Sunderland against the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. The Marquis of CLEVELAND presented a petition from Catholics in tkurhem (County) praying for a removal of the civil disabilities under which they laboured. Al so a petition from the inhabitants of Teasdale, Derbyshire, praying for relief generally ; also against the import:At - 44k of lead ore. . _ The Duke of WELLINGTON PAtle an observation here, but it was nearly it;a1.:1:1:1. Lord CAI : THORPE presented a petition from Protest ant Dissenters of Lumley Chapel, Horseferry-road, praying for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. Lord GROSVENOR, in presenting a petitioo, from certain Dissenters of Chester, said lie %res. happy that that broad principle of putting an e& to all, civil, disqualifications on account of rel t iginoi: opi ß ions was about to b v ac t e d up?,n, and he trusted that the ulterior measure a loti v e—, reli,ef to, the Catholics—would fulloN. the Bill now before the House. The Eao, of ELDON 9,41, that the setitimmts uttered by cie Noble Lord, clearly dernonstrate4 what etrect the pre sent Bill would have. I understood, :lie Noble Lord said, Lord idon to, Ray, that he would bring the Catholic qqestion under the consideration of the House in the pre sent sessions. But of this I can assure him, if lie does not, I will.—(A laugh.) Lord ELLErs.II3OROUGH protested against to:ty infer ence being drawn from the,. present bill iu favour of the Catholc Question. of itA4ROWBY was of the same opiniou, After some further discussion the Bill for the repeal oh the Test and Corporation Acts WWI ordered to be read :1 third time. TAT'llE.lol:,:iis THIS DAY DERBY. 4} to 1 agst Hon. E. Petre's The Colonel 44; to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Cadlaud 9 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Zinganee 0010 9 to 1 agst Mr. HottlilswprOgs Lautbtouiau 10 to 1 afrs . t Merchant V t 4gst Mr. Nowell's Giraffe (Amy colt) 15 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Rough Robin 18 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Johanna Southcote colt OAKS. 4 to 1 agst Mr. Molony's Zoe 6 to 1 agst Sir John Slieltey'e, Ptcriatia 14 to 1 art Mr. Vrizse's Sarah, Sister to Swiss RINGING.-In the tower of Redenhall, in this county, the Society of Change Ringers, on Wednesday last, to celebrate his MAJESTY'S birth-day, rang a complete peal of 8000 changes, in five hours and nine minutes, which was never before accomplished within ninety miles of the above town, with the weight of metal, tenor weighing 24 cwt. —Nnfoik Chronicle. , CEVIO.I DURING LAST WM. Oats. Per Quarter. Carlisle Carmarthen --- Hexham----- Morpeth --- Penrith Sheffield --- Winchester Per Bushel. Coventry Newcastle (Staff:) Nurtliallerton Statford Siwansea Warwick - Per Barnardeastle - Darlington -- Durham --- Wolslnghain COUNTRY CORN MARKETS S. to S. 16 ZZ 15 -.. 21 25 11 26 20 23 s. d. s. d., 34 421 36 40' 23 29 36 40 22 29 30 40 5 6 6.6 68 T 6 49 56 60 73 I. to S. 52 TO a 40 fr d 44 5° 50 A [ 2.1 O. 9 6 0 1 7 ,(3 50 7 0 00 ° 54 5 0 0 Wo 0 Ii 10 0 lij 00 I_3_, Wheat. I Bailey. $. to s. S. to s. 24. 2)7 32 29 3;5 30 34 52 60 44 52 57 50 60 54 64 s. d. s. d. 6 9 7 5 86 89 66 80 00 8 6 • 39 64 68 7 8 30 34 s. d. s. d. 3t; 40 50 54 34; 43 43 00 40 43 36 43 110 160 86 93 113 3 156 90 96 110 130 80 86 130 156 86 100 WAKEFIELD, April 45. There is a good supply of Wheat here this mornil and it has met a fair demand, at the rates of last Viel ) , i Oats were much the same. Barley is not plentiful, sells at rather more money than was obtained last wec i '' Beans are Is. per quarter dearer. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, Rid ...... sts, to 58i. fine 60. White.... 555. to 59‘ one 05. --- New, Red 51s. to 57a. this 61$ White Foreign, Red Barley, Norfolk and Sutlbik ----- Lincolnshire 2Bs to .96 tine 31s. -- Yorkshire \Vold ............. Beans, Tick Sinai! 275. to 28s, 37e. to 395. 375. to 40s, tine 24 fine 400• fine 41s. Oats, Poland and Potato 2os. to 245. fine 254. Friezland and Small l7s. to 23a, fine 241. Mealing Shelling 2t.. to 28s. —s. to —s. lbeir L 0 3 4, Malt 16.5. 40s. tine 42a. pet Loam* Rapeseed SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN MA ItKlll'.—April 25. „ The market was dull to-day, and prices leave falleocfr all kinds of Grain except Wheat. Of Barley 76 quartz ° were sold, average dowu 9d. ; 184 quarters of Oats ce ll sold at a reductiou of nearly the same sum on the averer Wheat bay maintained List day's prices. Pease and Bey '' are both down on the average : the former 2s, the latter 5 Wheat. Barley. Oats. reuse. Beallt First F2s Od 40s Od I 2Ss &I 310 Od I 346 v. Second s2s Ud 36s Od 25s Cd gis Od 31s Ot i Third There were32o qrs. of Wheat in market, _4;l whereof were , 57 Unsold.-21 Grey. 21. 133.9 d. 8-12ths. Aver, DALKEITH CORN MARKET.—ApriI 24. i i The supply of all kinds of Grain at this day's market moderate. Wheat sold heavily; best, 62a. ; current, 60" . ' inferior, 545. Barley a heavy sale ; best, 375. - Od. ; c ° : l rent, 329. Oats a heavy sale ; best, 26's. Rd. ; core° ., 245. Pease and Beans from 325. to 365. per quarter. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beao!; 1 First ...... 62s 0.1 37s 0.1 26s Sd 36s Od fibs 74 Second... 60s Od 34s Od 24s Od 32s 411 32s ` O l Third..... 51s Od 39a Oct 21s Oct i 30. s (Al 30s CORNWALL MARKETS. TRU RO.—Wheat (average) "20s. o,l.—Earley, 10a.—Oats, 9s. 9 ` t HttusTov—Wheat, 20s. &I.—Barley, 9s. Od. ST. A. USTEL 1.--Whest, 19s. to "22s.—Barley, 91. to 10 6 ,0 Bs. to 10s. BouNns—Wheat (average) 21s. Od.—Barley, 10v.—Oats, LAtINCHSTON—Wheat (average) 225. Od.—Barley, 10a. Od.—O 7s. Od.—Beef, 60.—Mutton, 6d. • , CtSKlEmtn—Wheat, 19s. tid. to 21s.—Barley, 10s. to 9g. Od. ST. CoLuso—Wheat, 19s. to 21s.—Barley, Pg. to and Mutton, 50. to 6d.—Veal and Lamb, (kl to Od. PENZANCE—Wheato 19s. to 22s.—Barley, 1 Is. to —5.—. 0. 2 1 7s. to 9s. 6d.—Beef and Mutton, (Al. to 60.—port:, sd, to Butter, 100. per lb. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tone. CI Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thursday 2,550 j Average Produce. • t / 1 6 Quantity of fine Copper ... . 20. , Amount of Sale. 15,428/. Os. (id —Average Standard., 1091. 31. PORTRAIT OF MISS HUGHES, AS REW; I I rx 0 al: Row. —We have just seen a print of this )01 lady, which, as far as engraving goes, is neatly 9 d spiritedly finished. With respect to the likeness we cane r ; speak of it in terms of praise : it gives us the idea 6 ' young lady under the influence of an emetic. In spite of the stormy weather, the Newhall; beats have continued trawling for the bodies of the, sullifti in the Inverkeithiag pinnace, since Monday; but n os#:ci them were found till Tuesday morning, whea the hoe one named SCOTLAND was washed ashore, and the 01. 2 , evening two other bodies were thrown ou the beac h Newhaven. The pinnace is so deeply soak in the !?fl that there is no probability of her ever being raised ie 44 ' 1 ' tolerable state of repair. —Edinburgh Evening Courant' THE WEATHER.—There is not, we thinli , „ , person living who can remember so much rain fallint this neighbourhood, at this season of the year, as we /O A witnessed during the present month. F o r about righte r :, days, with hardly a fine morning or afternoon interveni7: the showers have freely descended, and yet the con A round about presents a very favourable aspect. The svng7, seem to have suffered in no respect, an the grass is 1 0 promising than usual at this time of the year. At Ab l r, cheater, during the same period, the weather was particalg fine.— Sheffield Courant. Saturday last, as two little boys of the name Of JOHNSON and SuaaAGp , aheut five years old etich,• ol , playing at horses in the parish of St. Ebbe, they nately ran violently towards the edge of the river, a bra; of the Isis, and both fell in. The cogent being verystr ° at the time carried the bodies down the stream, anct'w , , though active search has been mule for them it I ' hitherto been without effect.— Oxford Journal. REVIEW IN THE PFICENIX arrangements for the celebration of his MaJesrv's bird day (yesterday) were of a description mere than 1 191 w splendid and extensive; but owing to the unfavonr B ' o state of the weather, the several regiments now in (f , I!! garrison, which attended at the Phoenix Park for tlO, purpose, were obliged, after the customary salutation . 1 the guns had been made, to return to their resPe . barracks. The number of carriages and other 195 01 "11 that crowded the outskirts of the "fifteen acres," as w e , as the crowds of pedestrians whe flocked to the would baffle conjecture equally as they would computatV —.l)gb!in Freeman's Journal. EtIRTI I S. Oa the 24th instant, at Camberwell, Mrs. Christophe Davison, of a ds,ughter- us,ugi On tie, 2ist inst. in York-street, St. James's, 31r° Erskine, widow of the late Doctor Robert Erskine, 01 *laughter. On the 18th inst. at the Rectory-house, woodsttO. the lady of the Rev. I)?. 'Mayor, of a son. On the tad inst. at Cubbington, Warwirkshire , lady of the Rev. G. L. Cooke, of Beckley, Oxford*R t ot . a datsghter. MARRIED. On the 26th inst. at St. John's Church, Clerkeus ci ,., by the Rev. Elisba Law Faulkner, Geo. Walford Ar t strong, Esc), of St. John's-square, solicitor, to Eli ° (laughter of James Mansfield, Esq. of John-street, ford-row. On the 21th inst. at Kilverstoue, Norfolk, by the ip George Porcher, Charles Porcher, Esq. of Lincoln's -411 i to Minor, only daughter of Thomas Redhead, EkAl• Snare-hill, Norfolk. On the 26th inst. at St. Giles's, Czwberwell,, Rev. d, Q. Storey, Mr. James Booth, of Peckham. RliAsheth Bee, (laughter of the late John Bee, jun. v . ' of Bankside. On the 21st inst. at llastings ay the Rev. 14e1 Deane, Fellow of New College, the Rev. Philip ire, President of St. John's Cottege, Oxford, to liarrietteAu,i second daughter of Henry Boyle Deane, E 5 9.,,• late Hurst Grove, Virrks, : tp • Q t h e Bth iust. at Organge, county of Stirling, I to, R ev , Dr. Hamilton, o f St ra thblatte, John Graham* younger, of Ballagaii, advocate„ to Mrs. Major Dirn d i l ? you ngest daughtet of th e 1.3,t. Sir John and Itenton, Bart, At Dromoi: Cathedral, the Rev. \Yak. Henrf son V.( William Wynne; Esq. Conaaiesioner, of Intr; to i to Sarah Sai t ri n , daughter of te Bight Rey. she of Dromore. -/ PIED. 1 „ ,6 'lO On th e 24th i ns t. a t P ortsmou th, age d 67, '77IA wife of the Reverend Russell Scott, of that place,. daughter of the late Dr. Hawes, one of the t,uncle the Royal Humane Society. On the 25th inst. at Sleaford, Lineoinshire, Ben, Handley, Esq. in his 74th year. On the 25th instant, iu . mean's-yard, Franco, -, daughter of the Rev. 1)r. Goodenough, head inset' Westminster School, aged seven years. f" On the 22d instant, at his house at Bampton, - • Joseph Andrews, Esq. aged 72. °O' On the 25th inst, at Stockwell, John Chatfeili' age On d 79. 0 1 1 the 16th' inst. aged 78, Wm. Nowell, Esq. of Oxfordshire, Vice-Admiral of the Blue. - On the 20th instant, at Camden-street, Islington , 52, Mr. John Nelson, author of a valuable work, i • History and Antiquities of Islington," a gentleman,%%l general information and social companionable qualitreso% long render his death an object of sincere regret to '• who were in the habit of associating with him. 0 fC PRINTED and Purn.voizn by M. YOUNG, at the S UN 1 No. 11V, strand, London / /1 , / : CONTR PERS( for tl WORK, in tl and other 0 andermentior terminable o after the end on or before cretarY t o th and endorsed Kew .. liam pto Round ( Deptfor London Inv, with] Printed .. tact, and a ; qtured, rna , °nice, No Pc regarding the The Sche for Houn s l o , the Barrack --,___ PROVIDE] NOTII Nu, °I ?AIDA` of Accounts a Ballot tak o f those wh, The Cl W E/ pre ki th referer a eon the LI RICAN G( de t imby Of the *aid 1 pity of Len gar the I tot th e purl Purs ket i , tents the 410 te the in ''-'-----__._ r iE , 11 0N inrit of]RO PIE 4 .E. Clu tz ,' at " 4t t he 1.0121 Ith o tuay b Av:t7 4 nt : 6 c Lai ani 6illl Cove c o - or 4 44. 1111101 i CA Brtii CAltpz 441 t1 t kion , A 41,411 ko tisi s ktts 11, t.ll