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belonging to his Majesty's Forces, to Chelsea Hospital, and those unpaid belonging to the Forces of the East India Company, to the Treasuries of their respective Presidencies in India, viz., Bengal, Madras, and Bombay. It will, therefore, be to the sAvantage of all persons con cerned, especially those belonging to the Forces of the East India Company, to apply for their shares as soon as pouible. All persons belonging to his Majesty's forces, whose shares may be so paid over to Chelsea Hospital, must ap ply for payment of them to the Deputy Treasurer of that Establishment ; and all persons belonging to the forces of the East India Company, whose shares may be paid over as before mentioned, must apply for them in the usual manner, to the Treasurers and Paymasters of the respec tive Presidencies above specified. In order to save the Army the expeuce of powers of at torney and agency, it is thought riiht to apprise such of the parties concerned as may not be acquainted therewith, that every Officer, Non-commissioned Officer, and Soldier, entitled to participate in this prize money or booty, may (if in London) receive the amount due to them, in person ; or if at a distance by drawing for the amount; the Offi cers through any Banker, or other respectable person ; the Non-coinini , sioned Officers and Privates through the Agents of the Regiments to which they belonged, provided such drafts or bills are presented for payment on or before the said lath of June next, to Archibald Campbell, F.sq. anti Lieutenant-Colonel Arbuthnot (the Agents intrusted by the Trustees for the said booty, to distribute the same), o. 6, Regent-street, London. SCALE OF DISTRIBUTION. Amount of the Share of each Rank. Bombay Rupees. Proceeds in Ster ling Money. EUROPEANS. Commander- Lieutenant-Generals - ..',4j0r and Brigadier-Ge-' '4:era's Colonels Lieutenant-Colonel .7,la ) cr, &c. Captain, &c.. ... übaltern,!&c Trcop Quarter-master, &c. Staff-Serjeant, 64e. Serjeant Rank and File NATIVES. Subadar ionadar Naique, Drummer, &c DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. John Molineux, Brighton, Nippon James Ferguson Cole, New Bond-street, watch-maker. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. John Young, Leeds, merchant, April 8, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. BANKRUPTCIRC SUPERSEDED. Joseph Fearn, Angel-court, Throginorton-street, stock- John Poole'', son., and John Pooley, jun., Hulme, Lan cashire, cotton-sp i n nem BANKRUPTS. Thomas Pimhlett, Golbourn, Lancaoter, corn-dealer, to surrender April 1,2, and 22, at twelve, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Gandy, Liverpool ; Chester, Staple tnn, London. . ohn Gill, New-street, Covent-garden, clothier, March 14, at ten, 21, at eleven, and April 22, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Parker, Furnival's Inn. William 'Minhley, jun. Tavistock, Devon, draper, March 26, 27, and April 22, at eleven, at the Royal lintel, Ply mouth. Woollcornbe and iago, Plymouth ; Alliston, Freemans-Court, Cornhill. Samuel Smart, Devizes, grocer, March 21, April 8, and .'%2, at twelve, at the Castle and Ball Inn, Bath. Jeyee, Chancery-lane ; Bayley, Devizes ; Little, Bath. Thomas Earl, Worcester, victualler, March 21, at three 22, and April 22, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Wor cester. Elgie, Old Jewry, London ; Elgie, Worcester. John Castel], Brighton, coal-merchant, March 21, April l 1, and 22, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Shrymalier. Warwick-court, Holborn. Richard Lovegrove and William Cubbidge, Longwick- Mill, Lower Saunderton Mill, and Bledlow Bucks, paper-makers, March 18, 25, and April 22, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Smith, Golden .s.quare, London; Smith, Maidenhead, Berks. Thomas Bradwell, Loughborough, cordwainer, April ), ',I, and 22, at twelve, at the Queen's Head Inn, Ash by-de-la-Zouch. Pax and son, Gray's Inn-square. Henry Saxelby Wintle, Mark-lane, merchant, March 14, 25, and April 22, at eleven, at the Court of Cominis sicners. Alliston and Hundleby, Freeman's-court, Cornhill. Charles Shipley, Linby, Nottinghamshire, lace-manu facturer, March 24, at four, 25, and April 22, at eleven, at the Punch Bowl, Nottingham. Payne and Daft, Not tingham; Taylor, Featherstone-buildings, Holbora. William Cooke, Mickelhurst, calico-printer, March 24, and April 22, at nine, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. Perkins and Frampton, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Lew ras, Manchester. Tholoas Paddock, Chirk Bank, Salop, timber-merchant, March 31, April 1, and 22; at one, at the Clarendon Buildings, Liverpool. Holden, Liverpool ; Wheeler, Gray's Inn-place, London. Richard Hunt, Rochdale, money-scrivener, April 2,3, and 22, at eleven, at the othee of Dewhurst and Todd, Preston. Blakeloek and Fiddey, Serjeant's-Inn, Loudon; Dewhurst and Todd, Preston. Francis Shipley, Boston, Lincolnshire, glover, March 21, at air, 22, at ten, and April 22, at six, at the Globe l o n, King's-Lynn, Norfolk. Jarvis, King's-Lynn ; Clowes, Orme, and Wedlake, Temple. Charles Stretton and William Banfield, Great St. Helen's, wine-merchants, March 25, April 1, and 22, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Sanders, Ampton-street, (;-ray's- Ina-road. Isaac Le Mare and John Thomas Prestage, Wood -street, Cheapside, silk-manufacturers, March 21, 28, at ten, and April 22, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Birch and Garth,. Great Winchester-street. John Williamson, St. Mary, Leicester, victualler, March, 19, 20, and April 22, at eleven, at the Marlborough Head. - Leicester. Meredith and Brown, Leicester ; Hohne,yramp- Pnd Loftus, New inn, London. Matthew Wood M'Laughlan, Salford, Lancaster, victual ler, March 31, April 1, and 22, at two, at White's Hotel, Manchester. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford row ; Warner, Manchester. Richard Parker, Shrewsbury, boot and shoe-maker, March 31, April 1, and 22, at eleven, at the house of Mr. Thomas Harley, Kough, Shrewsbury. Kough, Shrews bury; Philpot and Stone, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury. DIVIDENDS. Thomas Lawford and Samuel Grimsdick, Bevis Marks, Mar}-Are, say-factors, March IS, at eleven, at the Court of C o mmissioners—William Neely, Change-alley, Comb;l4 printer, April I, at two, at the Court of Com missioners•—Samuel Hacker, Canterbury, builder, April 3, at twelve, at, the Guildhall, Canterbury—William Harvey, Launceston, banker, April 5.?, at eleven, at the White Hart Inn, Launceston--Thomas Hodgson, Pendleton, Lanca shire, school-master, April 3, at nine, at White's Hotel, Manchester. CERTIFICATES, APRIL. 1. Charles Horley, Melton Mowbray, Leicester•hire, vic sna;ler—Joseph Burbidge, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside, merct;ant—William Mph and Benjamin Jackson, Norwich, dy e rs--3.ndrew and Thomas Tomlin, Liverpool, drysalters, —Alexarvier Delisser, Judd-street, Brunswick-square, apot h ec ary— Samuel Garthwaite, Gibson-street, New-cut, Lambeth, auct :oneer—John Willett; Jennings, Birming ham, factor—Thomas Harrison, Fleet-market, victualler. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Martha Collard and iilargaret Addison, New Bond street—John Tempest and .Matthew Clarkson, Belgrave, Leicester hire, sills-throwsters—Joseph Woodhead and John i Pratt, Rotherham, Yorkshire, wine-naerchants.--Charles Gomelsa l, Yorkshire, and N icholas Brown, Eaton and Robert Sm ith, Rotherham, Yorkshire, mercers —Charles Carr, Jun., Leeds, Yorkshire, attorneys—Williana Lewis and James Burns, Liverpool , shoe-makers—m ary, James, and William Horseman, Ware a nd Bishop's Stortford, Hert fordshire, barge-builders—John King Penney an d John Ellis, Upper Russell-street, Bermondsey, dryealten--Mary Holme and Ellen Foster, Piccadilly, nailliners—Genr„ Leach and James Cousen, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted spinners—John Sheldon, Bartholomew Hounsfield, Joseph Parkin, Thomas Wreaks, and Joshua Denton, Shef field, Yorkshire, titters and forgers. The 11011. AGAR ELMS gave a grand dinner on Monday, at his residence in Spring-gardens, to a very numerous party. The freighters of a vessel recently arrived from Cenoa with marble for the new palace, are said to have received in exchange a cargo of ordnance stores from Wool wieh.—/Worning Herald, broker. It A. P. 617,475 7 9 23,234 IS 11, 17,426 2 51 s. d. 4,201 0 7 1,984 12 10 4 (1,970 7 4 4,182 4 5 2,788 2 11 1,394 1 5 097 0 8 1,498 9 S" 595 7 104 357 4 SA -238 3 ia 119 1 0 4 , 59 10 9i 171 4 2 It 17 8 1 34 13 7 2 19 6 1 23 3 9 119 81 11 9 10 0 19 10 69 11 3 5 19 0i 23 3 9 1 19 81 11 9 10 0 19 10 711 le i 013 2 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS 1. Mr. Hume—Promotions in the Artny, from 25th Ja nuary, 1827. 2. Lord Stanley---Select Committer on the Laws relating to the passing Irish Vagrants. 3. Mr. Harvey—Return of the number of Causes referred to the respective Masters of the Court of Chancery during the last six years, to Ist March, 1828 ; dis tinguishing the number now remaining undisposed of in each office. 4. Alr. Hume—Continuation of Returns relating to Sav ings' Banks, 5. Alf. Hugh Arbuthnot—On the Report of the Salmon Fisheries Regulation Bill, to move that Counsel be heard. ORDERS OF TIIF. DAY FOR THIS DAY. 1. Salmon Fisheries Regulatitm Bill—Further considera tion of Report. 2. Supply—Committee. :3. Ways and 3feans--Committee. 4. Life Annuities Acts—Committee thereupon. 5. Annual Duties (Pensions) Bill—Second reading. 6. Annual Indemnity Bill—Second reading. 2svricEs GIVEN YESTERDAY. Monday, March 17. I. Mr. Warburton—To refer Passengers Regulation Bill to a Select Committee. 2. Mr. Secretary Peel—lnstruction to the Committee on the Tithe Commutation Bill, that they have power to limit the duration of any agreement. Thursday, March 20. Mr. Sykes—Bill to declare the rights of Freeholders in separate Districts or Counties Corporate to vote at the Election of Knights of the Shire of the Counties from which they have been separated. Thursday, May 1. Mr. Harvey—Resolution, that it is expedient that an ef ficient contronl should he appointed over the origin and conduct of all proceedings instituted by the Crown for the recovery of penalties under the Cus toms and Excise Laws. After Easter. Mr. Leader Maberly—Bill for preventing the application of Funds belonging to, Corporations, to procure the return of Members to Parliament. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDV,, MARCH 11. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat at ten in . notes to five o'clock. The Marquis of Ciutrnos, and others from the House of Commons, brought in a Bill for repairing a road in the county of Buckingham, to which they prayed their Lordship.' concurrence. Mr. LECH KEeK and others, from the House of Corn. mons, brought in a Bill for repairing a Road in the count of Derby, to which they prayed their Lordships' concur• rence. The Bilk were read a find time. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved the third reading of the Truro Road Bill. Lord RADNOR presented a petition from the Pro testant Dissenters in Scott's-lane, New Sarum, praying for a repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. Lord DACRE presented a petition from the Protesta rt Dissenters of Linton, in Cambridgeshire, to the same ef feet. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE, presented one also from the Protestant Dissenters of Norton, in the county of Derby, to the same effect. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved the second reading of the Bill for repairing the road at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Bill was read a second time and committed. Lord WHAILNCLIFFE moved that a petition respect ing- the Game Laws—we understood him to say, dated 26th December, 1826—should be referred to the Com mittee now appointed to enquire into the state of the Game Laws. Lord TENTERDEN brought in two Bills, and moved their first reading, but spoke so low as to be nearly inaudi ble at the Bar. As far as we could collect, the first Bill was to regulate the administration ofjustice, rendering written memorandums necessary in certain cases : and the second was a Bill to prevent the failure ofjustice from a variance between records and the evidence given in sup support thereof. Tice Marquis of SALISBURY moved that their Lord ships be summoned for - as it was his intention then to bring in his Bill for the regulation of the Game Laws. Mr. Maguire attended from the Cxu•t of Chancery in Ireland, to deliver in attested copies' of interrogatories and depositions of that Court. Mr. Johnson, from the office of the Chief Secretary of Ireland, brought up a return of Grand Jury Presentments is Ireland, and other Official Papers. The House adjourned at a few minutes after Five o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 11. Mr. Johnson from the Chief Secretary's Office of Ire land, brought up some Returns from the Office. Mr. J. GRATTAN moved the Order of the Day for the House going into a Committee upon the Baron Robeck's Divorce Bill. • The House accordingly resolved itself into a Committee, and Counsel were heard and evidence received at the Bar in support of the said Bill. TI - o; House then resumed. • Sir C. COLE brought up the Report on the Ulster Canal Bill, and leave was given to bring in the Bill. Mr. LASCELLES presented a petition from a place in York in favour of the Aire and Calder Canal Bill. Gtneral GASCOYNE brought up the Report on the Liverpool Docks' Bill, and obtained leave to bring in the same. Mr. ASTELL moved the first reading of a Bill fNr the Improvement of the London Docks, by increasing the ac commodation for East India Shipping at Blackwall.— Agreed to. Mr. DUNCOMBF. presented a petition from the malt sters of Leeds, praying for a repeal of the Malt Act. Mr. BYNG presented a petition from the Magistrates of Middlesex, praying that they, us well as those of other counties of England and Wales, might be relieved from their liability to actions at common law for the non-repair of bridges and roads. Mr. BELL presented a petition from Hexham, Nor thumberland, for the Repeal of the Stamp Duty. Colonel ARBUTHNOT presented several petitions from the Proprietors of Salmon Fisheries in Scotland against the Salmon Fishery Bill. Mr. AGAR ELLIS presented a petition from the Ro man Catholics of Kilbrough, County Meath, for Catholic Emancipation. Mr. S. MORLAND presented a petition against the Salmon Fishery Bill from the Fishmongers of London. Mr. STEWART.moved for a return of the number of East India ships cleared out from tiv year 1801 to the year 1826. Mr. LASCELLES presented a petition from North allerton, for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. Mr. H. PARNELL presented a petition from a parish in the Queen's County, in favour of the Catholic Claims. General GASCOYNE presented a petition from Liver pool for the repeal of the Receipt Stamp Duties. Mr. D. W. HARVEY postponed a motion which stood for this evening relative to Excise prosecutions until the let May. Sir M. W. RIDLEY presented a petition from certain freeholders of Newcastle, praying to be allowed to vote for knights of the Shire or for Burgesses for the town of New castle. Mr. HUME moved for returns of the quantity of wine imported during the last five years; also an account of the exportatiou'of wine, and an account of the number of gal lons of spirits which paid duty during the two last yearn Mr. HUME gave notice that to-morrow he would move for a continuation of the returns relating to Saving Banks. Colonel lIABERLY presented a petition from North. ampton for the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts. BANK NOTES. Sir R. VIVIAN presented a petition from Helston, Cornwall, praying the House to take into consideration the Bill fin- doing away with Promissory Notes. Mr. HUME wished some of his Majesty's Ministers were present to state, whether it was intended to make any alteration in the currency of the country. At present there was one law for England, another for Scotland, and a third for Ireland. It was the duty of Government to bring the matter fairly before the House. Mr. H. GRATTAN presented a petition from Wm. Kertland, complaining of not being admitted a freeman of the Corporation of Dublin. After a few words from Mr. W. LAMB, the petition was laid on' the table. _ . _ Lord F. GOWER postponed the second reading of 'the Passengers' Regulation Bill to Monday next. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. A Messenger from the Lords announced that their Lordships . ' had agreed to the Truro Roads' Bill, without any amendment. kr. SYKES presented ❑ petition from the merchants and other inhabita❑t s of Hull, complaining of the Stamp Duties on Receipts, and praying for a repeal of so much of the Act as applies to the two and threepenny stamps on receipts. Mr. LEYCESTER supported the prayer of the petition, and said that the Government, by doing away with the Sinking Fund, which could never afford relief to the coun try, might repeal so much of the Stamp Act as was re quired by the petitioners. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he must, in his situation, always look with jealousy upon any proposition which must have such an effect as to reduce the public revenue by no less than the sum of 240,0001. the annual produce of the Receipt Stamps, and he should not consent to such a proposition, unless it should he made apparent that such a reduction could be made without in jury to the country, or that the tax was so grievous in its operation that the deficiency arising from its repeal could be substituted by resorting to some other description of tax ation less objectionable. Mr. BRIGHT objected to the tax, because it gave an opportunity to every man who wished not to pay his debts, and who had ever got an acknowledgment on unstamped paper from his creditor for a part of the debt, to defraud his creditor of the remainder, threatening as Exchequer process if he should insist upon being paid a just debt. He denied that by repealing the stamp duties mentioned, the deficiency would be 240,000/. as stated by the Chancel lor of the Exchequer. He thought two and threepenny re ceipt stamps did not produce more than 50,000/. annually. He did not ask for a repeal of this tax from any wish to embarrass Government, but solely for the purpose of af fording substantial relief to the small traders in large towns, Mr. FRANKLAND LEWIS said he did not know any tax which would not be considered burdensome by some class or other in the country, and in his opinion there had been no grounds alleged to induce the Government to ac cede to the repeal of the tax in question. After a few words from Mr. BATLEY anti Mr. Hula, the Petition was brought up, and ordered to be printed. TITHE COMMUTATION ACT. _ _ Mr. Secretary PEEL gave notice of his intention, on Monday next, to move that instructions he given to the Committee on the Tithe Commutation Act, to limit the terror of agreement under that Act to 21 years. UNREPRESENTED FREEHOLDERS. Mr. SYKES rose to move for the appointment of a Committee to take into consideration the state of the un represented freeholders in certain districts or counties corporate. At the latter end of the last Session of Par liament, he drew the attention of the House to the case of certain unrepresented districts and counties cor porate, and a Bill which he then introduced was read a first time ; in moving the first reading of which he stated what he considered to be the law upon the subject. His proposition was opposed by two arguments ; the first was, that his conclusions ought not to be adopted by the House without further consideration ; and the second was, that as it was so near the time for the termination of Par liament, it might lead to much confusion at the approach ing general election. Neither of these arguments could now be put forward, because, to avoid the force of the first it was his intention to shape his proposition as a motion for the appointment of a Committee of Inquiry. The Hon. Member then proceeded to point out several counties cor porate which ha.. been separated by various monarchs, and in which freeholders had no power to vote. In many of the counties of England, the freeholders of those counties were not placed on a footing with those of others. There were many authorities in support of the opinion that a King, though by grants he might separate counties, yet he could not take away the elective right—and one case of the kind, which was in Granville's Reports, page 154, had been de cided by the House. This ease regarded a borough in which Queen Mary had limited the charter to a smaller number of burgesses, and it had been decided that Queen Mary could not alter the charter, as far as the power of electing members to serve in Parliament was concerned. He trusted lion. Gentlemen would not feel alarm at the word Reform. The measure he bad in contemplation could hardly be classed under that head—it was one imperatively called for by circuinstances totally unconnected with political or other abuse of the elective franchise. The Hon. Member con chided by moving, " that a Select Committee be appointed to Inquire into the State of the Elective Franchise, in the several Districts and Counties Corporate of England and Wales." Mr. F. LEWIS had never heard in that House a mo tion made for the appeintment of a Committee, for which so little ground for inquiry had been laid as . for the pre sent. His principal objection to the motion of the Hon.. Member was, however, not because it applied to RrticUlar and isolated cases, but because it comprehended the whole and general subject of the representation of . the country ; and he must own, that the speech of the Hon. Member had, instead of removing his preconceived objections to the motion, confirmed them. He was quite sure that were a Committee granted, the result would be a report to the House that the present mode of electing Members was clearly consistent with the circumstances of the country, and the best that could he devised. Let the Hon. Gentle man look at the city of London, for example, and lie would there find that it had never been held to form a component part of the county of Middlesex ; that the citizens of Lon don, as such, had never exercised any right of freeholders of Middlesex, yet the city of London had never uttered any complaint on the- subject. In York, however, the contrary was the case, for the inhabitants of that city had a right to vote for Members of Parliament for the city and county also. In Carmarthen, a different practice from either of these prevailed. There the freeholders voted, not as such, but as freemen ; any man possess ing a certain amount of freehold property in the town, had a right to become a freeman, and in that cha racter to vote for Members of Parliament. This proved that there was no uniformity in the evil complained of, if it were an evil, and he was almost certain, that in the entire of the 19 cities and towns referred to by the Hon. Member, al most as many distinctly different customs would be fount to belong to them. How had the rage grown up which the lion. Member wished to put an end to? It had not originated in an intention to punish a borough or city, but ix a desiro favour it. It had been granted as an immu nity at a time when the right to return Members of Parlia ment was not, as now, a matter of pride and honour, but a heavy burden, as at Carmarthen, where the freeholders had absolutely relinquishe4l the privileies of voting for Members of Parliament. Sir M. W. RIDLEY thought that the House ought to concur in the motion of his Hon. Friend. Colonel SIBTHORP, though not favourable to the ge neral question of Reform, thought the case referred to in the particular motion before the House was deserving of at tention. Lord LOWTHER opposed the motion. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL thought the present motion was an anomaly to cure another anomaly, and would open the door to Parliamentary Reform. Si r J. NEWPORT denied that the freeholders could be said to "have surrendered their elective franchise by charters or contracts with the Crown. As to the defence of the present system, on the ground that it-was a constitutional anomaly, what then? If such anomaly was injurious to the public interest, he hoped the House would instantly abolish it. Mr. WYNN declared that the whole constitutional sys tem of representation was a collection of anomalies ; but then his belief was, that all anomalies went to strengthen the constitutional system, and he was unwilling to change them for speculative grievances—speculative in effect, as the Members of that House, however differently elected, represented the whole kingdom. He was satisfied with the present system as it stood. Mr. Alderman WOOD declared his wi s h that th e free _ _ _ _ _ holders of London should possess the right of voting for the election of Members of Parliament. Every man hav ing freehold property ought to have the right of voting, either by being added to the Livery, or by the freeholders electin,ga.Member of their own. Mr. PEEL said, the speech of the worthy Alderman was any thing but a recommendation of the measure which he supposted. The present right of voting in the city of London had been granted by charter, and freehold property had no concern whatever with the exercise of that right. " But," says the Worthy Alderman, " it is most unjust that persons possessed of a certain property should be exclud ed from the privilege of voting in London. Mr. Alderman WOOD—That they should be excluded from voting entirely. Mr. PEEL—In the city of London? Mr. Alderman WOOD.—Or elsewhere.—(Laughter.) Mr. PEEL—The worthy Alderman then insists that it is unjust to exclude freeholders in London from voting elsewhere, and so fu• he had met his (Mr. Peel's) objection, But he understood the worthy Alderman to say that the freeholders of London should have a separate member for themselves. Does he inean'to say there should be a fifth member for the city ? Mr. Alderman WOOD.—Yes.—(Great laughter.) . Mr. PEEL conceived it to be a proposition open to se rious doubts whether this House possessed the power of in creasing the number of members for the city of London.— As to the Hon. Alderman's proposal to give the power of electing representatives of their own, to all freeholders re siding within corporate jurisdictions, if that were carried into effect it would introduce an additional number of Mem bers into that House, and thus the number of Mem bers returned by Scotland and Ireland should be increased in proportion —a consequence which would be rather incon venient. But surely, as persons resident in counties and possessing much personal property were excluded, if they -had no freehohl, from voting for ;be county, it was not Ull reasonable that persons possessing freehold property in cities should he excluded from voting for .the city, in case they had no corporate right to the franchise. These were anomalies, but they were useful in this way, that through the means of them men of any condition and rank had the power of obtaining the elective franchise—even the lowest in society could obtain it, as in cities, by servitude. But the local dif ferences as to the mode of possessing the elective franchise were very numerous; in some places freeholders within corporate jurisdiction had right of voting for the county. In other places they, as in London, had not a right. In Lichfield, Bristol, Exeter, and other plates, freeholders enjoyed the elective franchise for the city or borough. York was different from all these; for in some districts of that city, the freeholders voted for the city election, while in other districts they could only vote for the election of the county members ; and in some places, as Newcastle, and Kingston-upon-Hull, the freeholders could vote for neither city nor county. It would be im possible to enact a general measure suitable to so many different cases. After a few words from Mr. SYKES, in reply, the motion was withdrawn, and notice given of a Bill on the subject for Thursday se'nnight. GLASGOW CIRCUIT COURT. The LORD ADVOCATE, in moving, pursuant td HO tire, for leave to bring in a Bill to institute an additional Circuit Court in Glasgow, declared that the measure was founded on the increase of crime in Scotland of late years, particularly since 1805. The number of persons commit ted for trial in that part of Scotland, in 1805 was no more than eighty-five. It had increased much since tbenk that increase appeared, from some returns which he read, to he owing to the increase in the manufacturing popula tion, more especially in the western districts. The neces sity of an additional Assize at Glasgow, and of the conse quent facilitation of criminal trials in that part of the king dom, was confirmed by the very fact of Glasgow being the largest of the commercial parts of Scotland. The Judges, under the present constitution of the system of Scottish ju dicature, found the very greatest difficulty to get through the mass of business which pressed upon them, owing to the in crease of criminal cases, in this district more particularly. The Bill which he proposed to introduce would contain a power t o extend the Circuit Courts of Justiciary to other districts of that country as occasion might require ; but the House would admit, when they reflected that Paisley and other great manufacturing stations were within that dis- trict to which he had just alluded, that it called more urgently than any other for the advantage of the addi tional tribunal. The Bill would include various other im provements connected with the administration of the Scotch criminal law. The Learned Lord concluded by moving for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise an addi tional Circuit Court of Justiciary to be held at Glasgow, and for facilitating criminal trials i❑ Scotland. Mr. HUME was of opinion, that if there were eight Circuits, with intervals of only a fortnight each between them, crime, which had increased to so lamentable an ex tent in England, would be very much diminished. As to Scotland, where there were many more Judges than we have in England, there would be no want of additional Judges for any additional Circuits. Mr. BENETT (of Wiltshire) felt that much of what had fallen from the Learned Lord in respect of the increase of crime in Scotland, bore out and sustained his (Mr. Benett's) view of the causes of increase of crime in Eng land. The Scottish peasantry, and the people generally, had been hitherto considered a,s very remarkable for their high moral conduct and habits. Increase of crime among them, therefore, he must consider to depend, as he had before argued of the English people, not upo:•. an increase of vicious diSpositions, but rather upon the accumulated distress, which at present weighed so heavily upon them. —(llear, hear.) Mr. KENNEDY expressed himself in favour of the Bill. Sir M. W. RIDLEY desired to ask whether the punish ment of banishment still subsisted in the law of Scotland? The inflictiou•of this ancient punishment might in many eases be matter of great grievance to those neighbouring countries into which an unfortunate Scot who had been guilty of a crime which subjected hint to the penalties of the law, was sure to come immediately after his expulsion front Scotland.—(A laugh.)—lt would seem, too, that there could be little objection to repeal a law which, for any purposes of punishment on the party banished, was proverbially ineffectual ; for, according to a proverb of the north country : _ _ _ "Had Cain been a Scot, God had alter'd his doom Not forc'd him to wander, but kept him at home."' After a few words from Mr. Homit Datmxtoxn and the LORI) ADVOCATE, leave was given to bring in the Bilk The Learned Lord also obtained leave to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the Act 55 Geo. 111. cap. 69, entitled " An Act to regulate mad-houses in Scotland." Bill to be brou,ht in by the Lord Advocate and Mr. R. Gordon. Mr. S. RICE had the pleasure to assure the House that, in proposing to refer the Reports on Education iu Ireland to a Select Commitee, he should have to detain the Nouse for but a very short time indeed. IRISH EDUCATION. Mr. S. RICE rose, pursuant to notice, to move that the Several reports presented to the House on the subject of Education in Ireland, be referred to a Select Committee, to report their observations and opinions thereupon to the House. He did not wish to enter at all at large into the subject, but merely to establish such a Parliamentary case as would warrant him in asking for the Committee. In 1806, the question of Education in Ireland was for the first time since the Union agitated in that House. A Commis sion then issued, which produced fourteen reports, on which . - arose the Board of Education, which had since continued to sit. These reports lasted down to 1813, at an expence to the country of from 17,0001. to 20,0001. Since that, another Commission had issued, which had published nine reports, at an expence to the country of nearly 40,000/. Nothing, however, had been since done in consequence. This was illustrative of the general prin ciples in Parliamentary tactics, by which an enquiry was got rid of. It was thus both sides of the House, (for he did not mean to except his own) found it con venient to get rid of the responsibility that ought to de volve upon them by moving for a Commission. Unless Par liament resolved to pursue enquiries and take measures in consequence of those Commissions, the farce of them, for it was nothing'better, might as well be done away with at once. For the Committee which he was about to move, he should not ask for extended powers of investigation ; he should not, for example, enable it to send for witnesses. The duty he should require of them would be, to take all the different reports that had been made upon the subject before them, and extract from them, if possible, some plan that might answer the ultimate object he had in view. In proposing this Committee, he did not wish to add to the burdens of the people: Enough money bad already been thrown away upon useless objects completely to educate Ireland. There was one establishment which he rejoiced to say hall been given up by all parties—be meant the Charter School system of Ireland, which had cost no less than 1,000,000/., a sum of money which, if properly ex pended, would be amply sufficient for the entire object he had in view; for he thought that the national funds should be aided by local contributions in Ireland ; the contribu tions would then serve as sureties to the nation that the money was properly applied.—(Hear.) He did not pro pose that the Committee should consist of more than 21 Members, as, in his little experience of Parliamentary mat ters, he was aware that a more extended committee, or one that was generally considered an open one, would not be so fit for the practical purposes to which he wished to put it. The Hon. Member concluded by snaking his mo tion as we have given it above. It having been seconded and put from the Chair, Mr. LAMB feared that the time was not come when the subject could be discussed with that calmness it required. He should not himself have brought it forward, and had the Hon. Gentleman taken his advice, he would have post poned it for the present for the reason he had. assigned. Standing in the situation in which he did, admitting that he did not see his way in the matter, he must necessarily go into that Committee with less sanguine expectations of success in coining to a favourable conclusion than the Hon. Gentleman. He was anxious to be understood with peculiar distinctness, as not pledging himself to further the recom mendations that Committee might make, although be should not oppose the formation of the Committe itself. Mr. BROWNLOW felt obliged to the Hon. Member for Limerick for having brought this subject befo;e the House. Sir JOHN NEWPORT d epreca t e d d e bating the sub ject before inquiry had been made. PEEL—The more they avoided every topic calculated to add to the irritation which he feared prevailed, the more would they be likely to promote the important ends which they all had in view. —(Hear, hear.) —Ile (Mr. Peel) was inclined to support the present proposition, from the circumstance that they had made the experiment of trying Commissioners, and that these Coin missioners had not given any precise advice to Parliament respecting the grand o bj ec t o f th e i r appointment. Th ere we re two points connected with the education of the people of Ireland on which he would express his opinions —namely, the extent of the public fund to be applied to that:_pur pose, and the mode of its application. It would be right, he thought, to apply that assistance in aid of benevolence, for if the public purse were devoted to the general aid it would have the effect of paralysing local exertions._ (Hear, hear.)—He strongly recommended that the public money should be distributed not only by inspectors, but that it should rather he applied in aid of local efforts, through the • agency of the resident gent►y, who, from their influence in the country, would be enabled to de far more than any public officers could '►e expected to accomplish. He wished to say one word with respect to the details of the Hon. Member's proposition. He (Mr. Peel) perfectly concurred with him in thinking, that from the mass of in formation laid before the House, it would be wise to limit the Committee to the consideration of these reports ; but he need not go quite so far as to exclude rigidly against further evidence which might he deemed necessary. Let it therefore be understood, that if circumstances required it, the Committee might be allowed to call for oral examina tion. If the Hon. Member would only say so much, then the Right Hon. Gentleman would fully agree with him. One thing he would entreat of his Hon. Friend, and of the Hon. Member for Armagh, that if from the degree of excitement existing upon the subject, the parties whose concurrence would be required could not be obtained to any new plan, then that these Hon. Members would refrain from taking any step to deprive the people of Ire land of the benefit of the existing Institutions, although that benefit might not be so full as could be wished. Mr. SPRING RICE, in reply, said that it would be better, in the first instance, not to give the Committee the power of calling witnesses, because the earnest Catholic, and the equally earnest Protestant, would he both coming with a request that their evidence might be added to the information before the Committee. The motion for the appointment of a Select Committee, consisting of 21 Members, was then agreed to. IRISH CURATES. Sir JOHN NEWPORT then rose to move for a return of all appointments to Benefices by the several Diocesans of Ireland during the last ten years, specifying the value of each benefice, and tlke previous length of service (as a Curate) of each person appointed in the diocese in which he had been promoted. The Hon. Baronet said that in several instances, although Curates were licenced to re ceive 751. a-year, they were, by a composition, actually working for 40/. or 50/. Thii,wa.s a most disgraceful eva sion of the law, and where he should succeed in discovering an instance of it, he most certainly would feel it to be his duty to bring the matter before the House. He concluded by saying, that he would consent to withdraw his motion, if any serious objection were entertained to it. Mr. Secretary PEEL concurred with the Right Hon. Baronet in this observation, that if the Legislature fixed a particular sum as the stipend of a Curate, and that if he were paid less than that amount, such a proceeding would be highly culpable. The Right Hon. Gentleman, after reading the terms of the motion, said that it would, if agreed to by the House, convey its opinion that Curates bad a prior right to all appointments. It would be most incon venient for the House to make any such declaration ; in deed, in many instances, the Curate, from his moral cha racter, might not have the best claim. But as the right of appointment by the Diocesan was unquestioned, it would be wrong in the House M convey any opinion on the subject.---(Hear, hear.) He therefore begged the Right Hon. Baronet to withdraw his motion, and assured him, at the same time, that if he had reason to expect that any evasion of the law was practised, no inquiry would be refused by him (Mr. Peel) calculated to elucidate the truth.—(Hear, hear.) Sir. J. NEWPORT said that the great evil in the Church was the power of translating. It was, he thought wrong that a Diocesan coining into hie diocese should bring with him a number of Clergymen, who were to be placed over the heads of all the Curates belonging to it. _ _ Mr. Secretary PEEL explained. He did not mean to say that a Curate of unexceptionable character might not have a just claim on his Diocesan, in whom the right of appointment rested. The motion was then withdrawn. The Mutiny Bill was read a third time and passed. The Westminster Session's Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday next. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obtai ne d leave to bring in the Animal Indemnity Bill. The Marine Mutiny Bill was read a third time and passed. The Scotch Estates' Bill was read a second' time, on the motion of Mr. KENNEDY. On the motion of Mr. LAMB, the Cities and Towns in Ireland Lighting Bill was read a third time, and passed. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at half-past Ten o'clock. BANK OF ENGLAND. NEWCASTLE-yPON-TYHZ, MARCH 10. The Tyne Mercury of this evening contains the following : The proposed institution here of a Branch of the Bank of England, would seem to have at length ex cited amongst the Merchants and Manufacturers of this town a feeling of the most lively apprehension. On Saturday, in a very full Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of this town (a body comprehending all the leading commercial interests of the place), it was unanimously determined to address a Memorial to the Directors of the Bank of England, setting forth that the projected establishment of a Branch of the Bank of England in Newcastle, was equally uncalled for and unnecessary ; and that it was but too likely to do harm, whilst there was no possibility of its being beneficial to the public. The following is a copy of the Memorial agreed to on the occasion, and which lass since been transmitted to the Direc tors through the medium of MATTHEW BELL, Esq., Member for Northumberland:— TO THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. THE MEMORIAL OF TYE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE MOST RESPECTFULLY SHP:WETM, That your memorialists are informed that it is the inten tion of the Directors of the Bank of England to establish a Branch of that Institution in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. That your memorialists are all, more or less, extensively engaged in the commerce and manufactures of this town and neighbourhood, and that, in the conducting of their va rious concerns, they have hitherto experienced from the bankers here every degree of accommodation they could reasonably expect or desire. That Newcastle is the centre of a most important mining and commercial district, and that the system of banking which obtains here has becOme adapted to the wants, and conducive to the benefit, of all classes of the people. That, in proof of the soundness and utility of the existing system of banking, your memorialists have only to refer to the ca lamitous period of little more than two years ago, in which the credit of the country was shaken in almost every direc tion ; it being well known that, during the whole of that pe riod of unexampled commercial distress, the resources and liberality of the Newcastle bankers served effectually to protect this part of the country from any serious inconve nience. That your memorialists, in the absence of any avowed motive for the establishment of a Branch of the Bank of England in Newcastle, see no prospect whatever of good from such an establishment. That they beg leave to assure the Directors that no doubt is entertained of the security of the notes in circulation here, and that they have not heard of any complaint of the insufficiency of banking accommo dation. Your memorialists, therefore, most earnestly recommend to the Directors of the Bank of England to re-consider the policy of the measure they are about to adopt, and to ab stain from trying an experiment which, in the deliberate opinion of your memorialists, is but too likely to be inju rious, while it cannot possibly be beneficial, to the interests of a town circumstanced as this most fortunately is, with respect to every commercial facility which the operation of banking is calculated to afford. Signed on behalf of the Chamber, ISAAC COOKSON, President. Newcastle-on-Tyne, Btls March, 182 S. THE DISADVANTAGES OF A LONG SER- MoN.—A preacher had divided his sermon into thirty-two sections. One of his auditory rose immediately, who, being asked whither he was going, said, " To fetch my night cap, for, I foresee, we shall pass the night here." In effect, the preacher, having lost the thread of his subdivisions, 'could never reach the end of his sermon. The whole auditory, losing patience, and seeing the night approach, filed off, one after the other. The preacher, who was short sighted, did not perceive this desertion, and continued to gesticulate in the pulpit; when a little singing -boy, who remained alone, cried to him, " Sir, here are the keys of the church, when you have done be so pod as to lock the gate."--,Lirerpool Albion. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock .................. shut 3 per Cent. Re.t. ........... . shut 3 per Cent. Cons ............ . 133: 1 4 3y6 per Cent. .................. shut Ditto Red. shut 4 per Cent. New Ditto, ISO Bank L. Ann. shut India Stock shut Ditto Bonds 90 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds, 5 per, cent. Brazilian Bonds (2 14 Buenos Ayres Bonds Chilian Bonds, 6 per ct. Colombian Bonds tt0,,1924. Danish, 3 per cent. tiO.o Greek Bonds Ditto, !825 Guatnuala Mexican Bouda -77 Do. 1825 :12 PRICES OF SHARES TH Brazilian Mining Co. 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I Evening ....13 minutes after 0. „-- a k t 44,4 A, - „ o p utn , -•=0:: 1 7,41 , .; '4 • LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 182i1. Mr. D. SYKES moved, last night, for a Com mittee to take into consideration the state of the unrepresented Freeholders in certain districts, or counties corporate, such as Lincoln, Newcastle upon-Tyne, and Kingston-upon-Hull. The Hon. Mem ber, in a speech of much ability and research, stated ' that in nine out of those nineteen corporate coun ties, the Freeholders were at present entirely unre presented; but contended, on the formidable authority of Lord COKE, that they had not forfeited their right to vote at the _election of Knights for the parent shire. The motion was resisted and ultimately with drawn, but n9t without giving occasion to a worthy Alderman to make an amusing display of his politi cal views, and of his zeal for increased prosperity and representation to the city of London, rich as it already is in the latter artitle. The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in a Bill for holding an additional Circuit Court at Glasgow, to which we are not aware that any pos sible objection can be made. The Learned Lord alluded to the probability of extending a similar_ be nefit to Perth, Fife, and Forfar. We hope, however, that in legislating for the interests of the principal towns in Scbtland, Dun dee will be no longer overlooked. That place, with a population of some 50,000 inhabitants, is materially incommoded by the want of a Sheriff Substitute to exercise a.most useful species of jurisdiction, and to issue ordinary processes, for which the people of Dundee are now obliged to send to the remote county tom n of Forfar, which, with about a tenth part of the population is not only honoured by the Sheriff's holding his Court there, bat seems afraid that a diminution of its importance would be the result of that officer's appointing a substitute at Dundee. ' This jealousy we believe to be the true cause of the opposition which has been offered, and not the salary of 3001. a year, which no Finance Committee would object to, at least without dismissing all the other Sheriff Substitutes in Scot land. We would call the attention of Mr. PEEL to this subject, though we may be so unfortunate as not to agree in opinion with the LORD ADVOCATE Of SCOTLAND. Sir M. WHITE RIDLEY was pleased to be facetious about simple banishment being one of the punish ments inflicted by the Scots Law. The Hon. Bart. seemed to viewas a positive blessing the removal from a peat fire in Scotland, to a snug chimney corner in that romantic district, where his own partialities sug gested to the Hon. Member for Newcastle that the exiled Scot would inevitably fix his abode. The disgraceful state of many of the Scots jails was alluded to, and we trust that the Legislature will shortly interfere, to prevent the continuance of so grievous an evil. Mr. Humu must, how ever, be aware that Scots criminals have the power of bringing on their trials before the High Court of Justiciary, in Edinburgh, without waiting for the circuit, when satisfied of being able to establish their innocence. Mr. S. RICE moved for a Committee on Educa tion in Ireland. No opposition was offered, and we trust the Committee Will apply themselves in ear nest to this important subject. Sir JOHN NEWPORT, in moving for a return of appointments to benefices in Ireland during• the last ten years, stated that the law fixing the minimum salary of Curates at 75/. was shame , - fully evaded, and Mr. PEEL expressed his determi nation to assist the Hon. Bart. in detecting this bean. dalous abuse. The Liberal party in the Chamber of Deputies have, after a protracted discussion, gained their point by was oti n a g tlta t the policy pursued by th e l a t e Mi n i stry deplorable system. Th e Add ress to hi s MA JESTY was carried by a majority of 198 to 164. So much for VILLELE'S Administration. It is said in an article from Odessa, that ABBAS MIRZA has proceeded to St. Petersburgh, in order to avoid the vengeance •of his SOVEREIGN, who has denounced him as a traitor. It is added, that the SCIIAII has united all his troops with those of his Son, and is preparing to recommence hostilities. This latter circumstance, should it prove true, will embarrass the existing relations between the PoRTE and Russia, at leatt, so says the article in question, as it is calculated to confirm the Divan in j the opinion that it may be able to resist the Allied Powers. If the Divan really trusts to its own strength, by calculating upon the disunion of the Allies, we think it will find itself much mistaken. Any one of the Allies is sufficient to overwhelm the mighty Otto mans : • $ (From the Gazette de France of March 10.) 4 . 4 ODFSSA, FEB. 12.—We have long been without any `-* direct news from Persia. According to the reports which we receive from Moscow, they must be very interesting.— A report is spread that Abbas Mirza is on his way to St. Petersburgh, not in the character of a negociator, but as a fugitive. his Soverei asserted, th of his son, If these a, affairs of ' ted to'eonl the Power PARR, stilts of tht the Chamb itment du united aga, to place Al sident's Cl On Mot before the It is aft on the 441 *ea to Hai paw throw 13y the from Ric Bth of Ja The lett eeived y Ayres pa were a Ayrean ( BRAZIL'. no hope, added, ti never kr revenue Increa,e. obstruetii the eaptt fish flag, riean free taking ti acknowl( bad state —first-ra had rail( was expt up the I general t turf to t States,' course, s and con way into eNpence The .; January, the heals latter ar the last, improve nature o presum e as no bul The r at Rio c English in 35 ch The tains an which was unc lie Ar Patriari toward take a differen have in for s on , dad of at least the Tui 1 031. 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