The Sun. — London, England, 1828-03-31 00:00:00

WRIT OP THE PU111.14 JOURNALS. The Chamber of Deputies did not sit on Thurs day ; but we learn, from the journals, that the com mission appointed, on the proposition of M. B. Con stant, to inquire into the propriety of abolishing the discretionary power of the Government to re-esta butsh the Censorship, had reported unfavourably to the measure recommended, by a majority of seven to two. It is not hence to be understood that the seven antagonists of the motion were for a coNdi tional Censorship,—far less that they thought it:; immediate re-establishment either possible or desir able;e but they expressed set unwillingness to change 'toy portion of the law of the press without a re visiou of the whole. France seems to be making rapid progress towards the completion of her insti tutions, or the removal of obstructiottiS 'to the exer cite of ber rights, but the aborts-mentioned check to the Itlberal party, ;intones several others; shows that the, precipitation of change does not preeltete in quiry, and drat the Chambers poesees Yfembers nu merous ;And courageous enoesek to resist sudden, though nerhaps reasonable. innovations. The Mi -Dieters have evidently no firm bold of either party, Watt derive their support from resting an arm on 6e ennstinutional pornott of both. As yet they have tenstrived to command the suffrages of the whole of the left side, because they have made concessions to e public opinion r and to secure the vo-operatidlF of a d'etnehment of the right,_ because they gratified the hatred of the latter to M. de Villeins In the meantime the anti ministerial Ultrae, who occupy seats in the erne Chamber by the known influence, and in the other, by the direct nomination, of the late Ca binet, are endeavouring to alarm the Court and the Church by raising the cry of revolution and jacoe Itinism against the royalist deserters and the con atitutional liberals. The Gazette de France, in the hands of the ousted party, has of late shown great real and displayed considerable talents in exposing the alleged tnischiefs, and pointing out the probable dangers of the new coalition of antagonise factione, tend the timid submission of the Government to their will: The writers in this journal, who com posed pert of the literary' forces of M. de Villele, boldly defend Royalty - , against th King's Go vernment, and the Royalists again their own measures. The party for whose /Aunt to power they contend seems to adhere film y tegether, and in ease of any disunion between the present ma ority in the Chambers end the directors of !elate affairs, would be ready again to seize the helm. For it eeeres evident, that the King has been obliged to listen reluctantly to the voice of thee people,—that he ...alleged his Ministers against his will, at the dictation of the Chamboes t —theet these `Ministers are now obeyiug an impulse which they oauttot resist, and that if the Court is separated from she Jesuits, it is only by a slight partition like that of the confessional chair, through which they can still whisper, and which they soon hope entirely to remove. The eagerness on the part of the Liberal, to gain all they can for public freedom during the period of their ascendancy, and the alarming cry of revolution on the party of the Ultras, may bring abut a rapture among the present supporters of the Cabinet, before a really constitutional majority has acquired consolidation, or asserted its ciahns to the national confidence. But the prudence of the Mi nietry, in throwing the responsibility of the most de licate inquiries and projects on commissions appoint ed ht. the King or the Chambers, may avert for a time the necessity of their taking such e decided part as would endanger their popularity with either of the aides by which they are eopported.—Times. pursuance of Mr. Brougham's motion, two die tsinet Commissions are to be issued—oue for the Revision of the Practice in' our Courts of Common Law ; another for the Amendment of the Law of Real Property. The Commissioners for the latter epartment are not yet named; but it is understood eNat Sergeant a Bogen qiiet and Stephens, with. Messrs. ...klderson, Parke, and Pattison, are to be the Com mon Law Commissioners. In a matter of this na ture every thing depends on the character of the erten; and we must, therefore, be excused making some remarks on the respective qualifications of Those gentlemen to discharge the important trust anfided to them. The two last named, Messrs. Parke end Pattison, are eminent Pleaders, being generally esteemed at excellent lawyers; thorough adepts in their own peculiar and technical parts of the profestiOn ; but making no pretensions to the more litseisal ever - exalted attributes of Advocates. Frorotteneh Inertia is not in human nature to expect any rigorous measure of reformation, since any very . extensive alterations or effectual simplification of legett,process would destroy their practice. And eittbnuf attributing to those gentlemen any son. diri feelings, we ought all to bear in mind the rea soning of the whitestniths, who made shrines for Diana at Ephesus—" Great is Diuna of the Ephe tiens"—for, " Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth." There is no gentleman named in the Commission from whom we can expect that the two, above named craftsman will experience any etrennons opposition. gerjeant Bosanquet is a pet eon of no great vigour, nor are his dispositions much known; and Mr. Alderson, though generally consi dered a man of strong mind, partakes in some degree of the talent for turning, in which one person has eminently found his account. ,Seeolont Stephens, indeed, has afforded evidence of the possession of talents which would well qualify him to act with advantage in a commission for the amendment of the law. His book on pleading is by far the first work' on that sehiect; and entitlee him to a high place among jurist,. Had he, with either Mr. Parke or Mr.Pattisoo, but not with both, been associated with such membcre of the profession e —men who aspire to a higher name than " mere lcguleii—anc:- pea syllabarum, cantatores formularzon,"—and whose talents as advocates would insure them even a greater share of business under a more intelligible, reasonable, pure, and simple system of practice, something might be expected; but from a commis eion constituted as we understand_ this is to be, no thing.—Morning Chronicle. There is not the slightest foundation for the re port that the Porte had agreed to au armistice for three months. No entreaties from the other Powere, to induce Russia, either not to invade Turkey, or to delay doing so, have had the least effect. She states distinctly that she enters Turkey on a ground of her, own—the violation of the Treaty of Ackerman, and the wrongs suffered by her subjects ; and having publicly announced her determination to seek prompt reparation by an armed force, she can no longer, with reputation, abandon that determination. It is pro bable that by this time the Russians have crossed the Pruth; and the best-informed in the political circles do not expect they will stop till they have, at least, attempted Constantinople. Ministers are' in great perplexity at present. • France does not draw with us now; and the armament in the Mediter ranean is a source of infinite uneasiness to• Ministers. We suspect they would willingly compound for 41giers, if th e y cou ld b e certa i n t h at no i ntent i on ' teas entertained with re eard to Egypt. It strikes 712 that the French will' purchase their coffee and otton at a very dear rate, by an attempt to colonise' Algiers ; and as Egypt is a country of unbounded fertility, possessed of a patient and laborious peasantry, trained by ages of servitude to the most perfect submission, sad as - it can be de fended with comparative ease, while Algiers it in a country w hich can only b defended with great which have been given, that the latter is the destination of the French armament, we can a l most excuse Ministers for having their suspicions with re gerd to the former. But however this may be, Mi nisters will not feel themselves so secure as to y en _ tore to diminish either the Naval or :Military forC e ; and we have heard, indeed, that both will be mim e _ di a tely increased in the Mediterranean. The affairs of Portugal are another source of perplexity to Mi nisters. It is greatly to be lamented that we should have been so mixed up by Treaty with that country as to be obliged to send a force thither, whielo though hominitily it had for object to repel the Spa- 4 .r... ~r... :..i:s7.i: ~:...3..E.rt'~'1k~ niarde, yet in reality enabled the Constitutioailitte to put down the Servile& Had an Englich force not entered Portugal, the Absolutists would have been successful ; and, should Miguel now trample on the Constitution, tie shall have been, however in nocently, the cause of aggravating the sufferings of the Constitutionalists, whom we encouraged. by our presence to commit themselves. We wish we were well rid of our particular connexionwith Portugal. With foreign nations our relations 'should be merely commercial. The Portuguese imagine that we at tach a great value to the influencing their Govern ment, and our interest !s greatly promoted by the connexion, ?fence the jealousy of our interference, Which breaks out every now and then in so unequi vocal a mann er.—lbid. This evening the Corn quetion is to be brought forward in Pailianient. To us it appears a plain question—either as an abstract one, or What is called a protective one, or one of Revenue. As an ab stract question, .every grower of Corn knows, that if we import the product of foreign land, we !mist export the product of British land, in order to pay for the import product The abstract question comes to this then (at least we think so)—that if a man posse - i,ing 100 acres of hold, on which he grows wheat, and nothing but wheat, and on which wheat he and his family live; yet if he can import wheat at a less price than he can grow it for, and is determined to grow no more wheat, but to import wheat—yet, on the presumption that this man has nothing in the way of maintaining his family to look to but his 100 acres of land and his labour—yet, he being resolved to grow no more wheat, but is de termined to import it, he must pay for his wheat so imported ; and how can he pay for it but by means of his laud and labour, having nothing as we pre mised, but his land and labour to-enable him to pay for his imported wheat ? It comes to this then, that from his land of 100 acres, and his labour on the said land, he must produce wood, wool, iron, lead, upper, tin, barley, oats, cattle, poultry, game, or 'We.ething else, in order to pay for his wheat im ported. Therefore, in an abstract point of view, the wheat question comes to this—that if the land of England does not grow wheat, it must grow some thing else to pay for wheat—consequently, as a rent question—whether the land grows wheat or whether it does not, it is the same thing to the landlord. Now as to a protection question. If a quarter of corn costs in England 605., and if the like quarter of corn can be imported at 405., put on a tax of 205., and the protection is at once given— even mere than given, because it will cost at least 101% a quarter to bring the quarter of wheat to this country—in freight, iusur6nce, merchants' profits, brokers' commissions, &c. And as a revenue ques tion. Suppose, by means of the importation of wheat, which we will assume, for illustration's sake, amounts to the sum of 100 millions a year in value, we could levy and collect a tax of fifty per cent. on it, which would be in the proportion of 20s. on 40e. Here would be a revenue of 50,000,0001. got in an in direct way, the most pleasant of all ways to tax payers.—Morning Herald. The lobby of the House of Commons presented, we understand, a curious scene on Thursday even ing, when the Marylebone Select Vestry Dissolution Bill was to be read a second time. Both parties, reverend and irreverend, formed a passage through which the Members had to pass. On the one aide was placed the leader of the Insurgents with the petition of the inhabitants upon his shoulder; on the other stood the select, anxiously looking out for one of their own body who was to present their counter petition—when, lo and behold Mr. Alderman Wood, to whom the Bill is intrusted, having put down his name early on the Speaker's list, came out and informed his friends that the Bill had been read a second time without any opposition—and away went the select, clamouring wofully at- their dis appointment, and at the trick, as they called it, which had been played them.—lbid. The remarks contained in the Extraordinary Sup plement of the St. Petersburgh Journal of the 11th instant on the Turkish Proclamation of the 20th of December, indicate with sufficient clear ness the intentions of the Court of *Russia; but, as we have already observed, neither of those docu ments amount to pledges of indefinite or unchange able line of policy ; for neither being regularly offi cial, the form in which the two Governments have thus been talking at rather than to each other, war rants the conclusion, that they - have not on either side intended the documents to be considered as public and irrevocable acts. That Russia would act in the spirit and upon the principles of the article in the St. Petersburgh Journal, if she were not likely to encounter any other opponent than Turkey, we are ready to believe. Affairs have arrived at the precise point which might have been foreseen by all politicians of ordinary sagacity, from the date of the Treaty of London, which was foreseen by many— foreseen meet clearly, contemplated and desired with the most joyful and triumphant anticipations by the Russian Government itself. Russia became a party to that Treaty, mainly, we believe, and have always believed, for the purpose of producing the state of things that now actually exists. The ex pected harvest of Russian ambition now appears to be fully ripe, and she will be deterred from putting in the sickle, if deterred at all, only by the appre ' hension 'that she may be interrupted in the act of reaping—that she may be driven with loss and ig nominy from this field—or that while she is occu s pied there, the rich and ample granaries where she has stored away the produce of former harvests of the same kind, may be violated and destroyed--an apprehension from which she would hare been en tirely free, had the powers of Government in Eng land not passed into the hands of men very different frog: those with whom the Treaty of London. origi nated. The pretence that Russia may fulfil the Treaty of London, and at the same time wage a separate war against the Porte, is one, the absurdity of which sets all reasoning at defiance. The Russian Jour nal insinuates this pretence indeed, rather than advances it ; thus indirectly reproving the more li beral and more shameless Journals of France and England—the more eager abettors of Russian am bition, who do not scruple directly to maintain the opinion, that the two characters of Mediator and Belligerent—of umpire and party, are in no wise incompatible. Whenever Russia shall distinctly put forward this pretence, as her liberal partizans in France and England encourage her to do, it must and will be taken not as an argument, but as an intimation of her definitive resolve to prosecute her ambitious purposes per fas ant nefas. Let us now regard this question in another point of view. It is to be presumed, that at the period when Russia became a party to the treaty of media tion, she had no ground of quarrel against Turkey, or none which she intended to prosecute; other wise she was in all respects what we suppose nei ther she nor her liberal advocates will admit, an utter hypocrite, concealing alike from the object of her enmity and from the powers with whom she was then contracting an alliance, not only her ulterior objects but her actual position. Then with re spect to any offences, however numerous and . ag gravated, which Russia may now allege against Turkey, it is clear that they must have been com mitted subsequently to the Treaty; and in conse quence of it, that they are offences lot specially directed against Russia as a separate power, but against Russia as one member of the alliance.— dence it evidently follows, that Russia can have no motive but an ambitious one, and no right whatever to treat any complaint she may now have against Turkey, as any other than a federal complaint, or to prosecute it b y any other than federal councils, or by any other than federal means. Should she, from the natural and excusable—(our argument does not require us to say, as we might say, the justifiable) manifestations of Turkish resentment, pick out for herself a separate ground of quarrel, or a pretext for isolated operations not sanctioned by her Allies, Russia will pro Claim at once her ambitious purposes to the world, and breathe suspicion, insult, and de fleece towards the Powers with which she is united by Treaty for the aeoompliehment of a *MINOR par , pone--illornifig Amt. SECOND EDITION. N OFFICE, Seven o'clock. IMPERIAL PAR LIAIVIENT HOUSE OF LORDS. The Press were not admitted till five minutes beti►re five o'clock. Several strangers were allowed to enter before we got in, who, to add to the great inconvenience reporter:; ;we usually under from a crowd bainel them, occupied the front of the Bar. The Duke of WELLINGTON made his appearance a few minutes before five o'clnck. He wore a blue riband, star and garter. He was soon followed by Lord Goderich, the Duke of Gloucester, Lord Eldon, and a number of others, there being an uncommon number of Peers present. The space too below the Throne was crowded with Members' from the House of Commons. Indeed, to have seen the assemblage of Commoners, one would have supposed that nothing of interest was going on in their own House. Lord TEYNHM presented a petition from the Broad Silk Weavers of Spittalfields, praying for the prosection of Wages. The Duke of GLOUCESTER presented a petition from certain Protestant Dissenters of Gloucester, praying for the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts. The Duke of MONTROSE presented a petition from the Provost and Corporation of Glasgow, against the Cor peration and Test Acts. The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from Woodborough, against the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts. The Noble Duke also presented a petition from certain Woolgrowers, residing near Sherwood Forest, in Notting ham, against the importation of Foreign Wool.—The peti tion was laid on the table. ~' -y1 CORN LAWS. The Duke of WELLINGTON said, in rising to move your Lordships for certain papers, which will tend to show the operation of the Act passed in the course of last ses sion of Parliament, relative to the protection of the Home . consumption of corn from the Ist of July in that year. I • avail myself this opportunity of stating to the House.rthe nature of the measure Government mean to proposo to Par liament for the reform of the Corn Laws. and the prineieetss upon which that measure is founded. My Lords, OM. Lordships are well aware that there are a variety of opinions on this subject throughout the country. Some of those opini ons reach both the extremes. I have considered it my duty and my colleagues have coneidered tt theirs, in the mea sure we are ebont to propose, to endeavour to steer In course between those two extremes, and to bring for ward a measure that will conciliate, if possible, all par ties, and be favourable to the public at large. Your Lordships will recollect that, notwithstanding the extremes of these opinions, all parties agree generally that corn ought to be in some measure protected.—(Hear, hear.) —I believe that in Parliament, few, if any, have cx. pressed an opinion that corn should be imported into this country entirely free of duty • Some indeed have expressed an opinion that the duty ought to be very small. But all have agreed that some protection ought to be afforded to the agriculturist of this country. This opinion, however, is founded on the great burden of tax ation on this country generelly and the peculiar burdens falling upon the land. Those who favour this opinion that the duty ought to be but small, hold out a doctrine that goes to establish a system under which the poorer lands of this country, which have been brought into culti vation by the industry and capital of the country, are again to be led out of cultivation, and the richer lands are to he in some degree neglected in order to meet those views. My Lords, this country has - been brought into its present high state of cultivation by the protection Parliament has afforded to agriculturists, and which has induced gentlemen to lay out their capital in their cuitivation of estates and in bringing in lands formerly waste. The effect of the system of thote who are for this low rate of duty, would be to thtow those poor lands again out of culti vation—to discourage cultivation generally—and to dimi nish the productive powers of this country. Finally it would leave the country dependent on the agriculturists of foreign parts..—(Hear, hear.)—My Lords, I shall not exaggerate the consequence of soch a system as this, but I beg your Lordships to. recollect the consequences that might result,. if the powers of the dominions from which our supplies were to be derived, were to think proper to lay a heavy tax upon their exportss-L.upon their transits to this country. I entreat your Lordships to con sider what would be the consequences of such a measure, and which I would say, parties might be highly justified in adopting. But, supposing these to act in moderation, and not to adopt such a measure as the one proposed, this country would still find itself as it has previously found itself, in years of famine, both in the last and the present century: Thus it would be exposed to the hea viest expense: the costs in Holland and elsewhere would not be increased : the prices here would regulate, not the prices there, but the profits of all those who would be coneerned in bringing the produce to this country. Under these circumstances, I am of opinion that the reduc tion of the duty would not produce in England a reduction of pr ice, but that on the contrary it would produce an enormously increasing price. Putting the question aside as • in this sense it regard foreign impor tation. I would beg your Lordships to look to Ireland, and see the consequences of the want of encouragement to agriculturists there.—(Hear.)—That country now sup plies with about two millions of quarters of grain of differ ent descriptions, of which, in the course of last year, the supply of wheat was not less than four hundred thousand quarterns. My-Lords, I beg your Lordships to look to that which I might almost say is the only—at least one of the two only—manufactures of Ireland. If you were to reduce the duty to this low degree, it would be to deprive you of that plenty hitherto enjoyed. I have stated that the gentlemen of this country have by the expense of their ca pital and the labour employed, raised the aricultural state, to that high condition in which it stands—(Heer, hear) — and nothing would be more unjust than to take from them the protection which enabled them to bring the country to estate so desirable, and deprive them of those rents which are their due from the eapital they have laid out.---(Hear.)— My Lords, I say the merchants, the mrnufacturers; the poor, and the whole puitiie, are interested in the maintenance of this independent condition of the country. The nobility—the gentry, nay, I say the Government itself are interested in supporting it from the advantages derived from its condition. I say, their, that even i f I could believe that I could make grain cheaper bywithdrawing from it the protection it now receives,lwould not do it at such an expense to the interes oft the country at large, and therefore hope that system will be thrown from our considerotion altogether. The other system differs from this in being tire contrary extreme—it is one of entire prohibition, which 1 must say is greatly to be com plained of and scarcely less objectionable than that to which I have adverted. The truth, my Lords, is, it cannot be carried strictly into execution without exposing the country to the greatest inconveniences, first from want, next from a superabundance of grain in the country, at a time when we might want to be relieved from it, and next by a depression of prices, both as affect ing the corn of this country, and that brought from abroad —Such iticonVeniencies the country could only be relie ved from by the inteference of government, or by the Ministers of the Crown eoming ;o Parliament to get it to exact laws for the purpose. The Noble Duke, after some further observations, proceeded to give his scale of duty : the effect of which was, that ashen grain was at fifty shillings a quarter, the duty was to be sixteen shillings end sixpence; when at 558. a shillidg less, the rate of duty varying until the quarter was 6Ss., anti then the duty was to be five shilling - s. Lord FALMOUTH said, that be had expected that the statement of the Noble Duke would have been so clear and satisfactory as not to call for any remarks or ob servations from him. Me certainly regretted much that this expectation, which was raised by the opening obser vations of the Noble Duke, had been entirely disappointed by the character of the measure which it now appeared that he intsuded, to introduce. Although he entertained the highest possible respect for every thing emanating from the Noble Duke, yet he did not refrain from expres sing his disappointment at the inadequate protection about to that most important class, the agricultural interest of this county. Without entering into a consideration at the pre- sent stage, of all the details of what fell from his Noble Friend, at the bead of his Majesty's Government, he was still anxious to submit a few general observations on the subject, because if be, humble as he was, could suggest anything to their Lordships, likely to influence them in their ultimate determination, he thought that i the present would undoubtedly the best opportunity. He, however, begged to remind their Lordships that circumstances had most materially changed since the Bill ; similar to the one now proposed was discussed in the last Session.-...(Hear, cireunistances had cer tainly changed, and changed too, as he contended, most favourably for the view taken by the advo cates of the landed interest. It now turned out that the arguments urged last year against the agriculturists were futile and eertguly uhfotuided. Nu high price bad taken place, and it did not appear that any of those alarming circumstances had occurred. After some further observa tions, which the great noise below the bar prevented us from hearing distinctly, the Noble Lord expressed his conviction that the proposed scale of protecting duties would throw down the average prices of wheat so extremely low, that after the lapse of a short psaiod it would not be generally - cultivated in this country. Indeed, after all the expectations which ha.l been raised in the turns of the Agriculturists, it appeared that they had only a boone of 4e. beyond the protection which would have Iron afforded to them by the Bill the Bill of last Session. The subject was then dropped. Lord DARNLEY then rose to present petitions, and their,Lordships adjourned at Seven o'Clok. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Lord STANLEY presented a petition from certain in liabilants of Manchester, praying that the Bill fwtbre the House for paving and lighting the town of Manchester might not pass into a law. Lord STANLEY snored the third reading of the Bill for Lighting with Gas the the town of Bury, in Lancaster. The Bill was accordingly read a third time, and passed. Un t he motion of Mr. MARSHALL, the Stockton and Darlington Railway Bill was read a second time, with amendments, and ordered to he committed. Mr. BYNG presented a petition from the Inbahitants of Manchester, praying that tho Hammersmith Bridge Bill might not pass into a law. On the motion of Mr. Briva, the Hammersmith Roads Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. On the motion of Mr. BYNG, the Covent Garden Im provement Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed. MARYLEBONE VESTRY BILL. Mr. ASTELL presented a petition from the Select Ves try of the parish of Marylebone, praying that they might be heard by Counsel against the Bill. Mr. MARRIOTT brought up the Report on the Dover Harbour Bill, and the amendments were read a second time. On the motion of Mr. N. CALVERT, the Clapham Roads' Bill was read a second time. Mr. DENISON presented several petitions from Wat ford and other places praying that the Hammersmith Bridge Bill might not pass into a law.---Also a petition from Mr. R. Kew, of Surrey Lodge, in favour of the Battersea In closure Bill. Sir E. OWEN brought up the Report of the Canterbury and Whetstone Railway Committee. Sir F. BURDETT presented a petition from the inha bitants of the parish of Marylebone, praying that the Marylebone Vestry Bill might paSs into a law. The Hon. Baronet condemned the practice of suffering select vestries to levy large sums of money, over the expenditure of which there was no controul. Such a system was unjust and absurd, whether that money was collected for good or bad purposes. Mr. ASTELL, said the parish of Marylebone was managed in a way which gave very general satisfaction. — (Hear, hear.)—The petition was got up in a manner so extraordinary, that if Hon. Members were acquainted with the circumstances, they would pause before they conceded to the views of the petitioners. The population of Marylebone was 120,000, and the parish rates were about 100,000!. per annum. The present system worked well fot' above sixty years, and the legislaure ought not to undo what bad been so long In existence. Hel (Mr- Astell was .himself a vestryman, and he could assure the House, that the greatest attention was paid to the affairs of the parish, at the head of which was the greatest landed proprietor in the parish, the Duke of Port land. ..... Mr. HOBLIOUSE said the Honourable Member who spoke last must have been joking when he talked of the parish of Marylehone being managed in a manner which gave general satisfaction. The complaints were loud and general in that parish, and he conceived that those complaints were well founded; for ►t was well known that the Select Vestry refused to let the parishioners examine the accounts of the parish. He hoped the Bill would have a Lir discussion in the Committee, and that was - all which the Petitioners required. Col. BAILEY said, he was one of the Select Vestry himself, and considered all the complaints made in the pa rish imaginary. He agreed with the Hon. Member who spoke last, that all the subject required was a fair dis cussion. Mr. HUME said, that nine out of every ten persons in the parish were disconcerted with the proceed ings of the select vestry. - lie believed the petition now about to' be presented spoke the sense of the pa rish, fully and accurately. Mr. Alderman WOOD said, that the Members of this House had been canvassed by as Hon. Member, and one of the Select Vestry, against the Remedial Bill ; a practice which he considered extremely indicent. All that the Parishoners required was a full and fair inquiry into their complaints. Mr. GEO. DAWSON said the subject of select vestries was one of great local interest. He thought the parish should have the power of controling the expenditure of the parish money, and that any vacancies which occurred in the select vestry should be filled up by the parish, and not by the vestrymen. After a few words front Mr. Alderman WAIThMAN and Sir CHAS. BURRELL, the petition was laid on the table. WANDSWORTH AND BATTERSEA INCLOSURE BILL. Mr. _Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition from the inhabitants of Putney, against the Battersea Inclesure Bill. Mr. DENNISON moved the second reading of the Wandsworth and Battersea Bill. He said au erroneous idea had got abroad that the intention was to inclose those parts of the commons of Battersea and Wandsworth, to which the public now had access. No such intention hoWever existed, the intention being only to inclose those fields which were at present cultivated. He understood that a majority of the inhabitants were opposed to the inclosure of those lands. He should always oppose any measure which,• by inclosing fields now open to the public, curtailed the inhabitants of this great metropolis in the enjoyment of air and exercise. He therefore moved that the Bill should be read a second time this day six months. Lord ALTHORP supported the Bill. He said the in closure would not inlure the inhabitants of the metropolis, who would still have the 'same opportunity of taking air and exercise, as it was not intended to inclose the footpaths or highways. It was only intended to inclose the culti vated lands. Fur his own part he had not a direct interest Interest in the inclosure, but the interest he had was so nearly direct, that he shbuld not vote. Mr. D. W. HARVEY wished to know in what manner they were to protect the Metropolis, if this Bill pissed. If the land were not to be productive unless this Bill passed that night be a reason for agreeing to the passing of the Bill ; but the fact was that the promoters of the Bill did not intend to make this land productive, otherwise than of money to themselves, for their object was to build a new city there : the ground was to be let to any person what ever who would build houses of soy description there, to the detriment of the health of the inhabitants of the metropolis. • Mr. FERGSON said that he should oppose the Inu. tion upon one ground, which was that there were no open spaces near Londor. ; and he was, therefore, opposed to the inclosure of any commons which now exist in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. Mr. SPENCER PERCIVAL said, that lie felt bound to oppose the Bill, fer he could look at it in no other light than as a Bili for establishing a general public nuisance. Mr. ri EN Err thought the ground of opposing a Bill on the ground of the keaith of the metropolis was the most unjust ground of opposition that could possibly be taken. Mr. Alderman WOOL) said, that the health of the me tropolis was always considered a very strong ground of op position to any Bill for inclosing lands in its neighbourhood. In tile present ease there could be no security against the building of small houses. Mr. CARTWRIGHT said he could not see why there should be one law for laud near the metropolis, and another for the rest of the country. Mr. CALCRAFT said, that he came down to vote against the Bill, but the arguments in opposition to the Bill were so extraordinary, that he should vote for its going into a Committee. Alderman WAITHMAN said, that the land in question was below the level of high water mark, so that any houses that were built on the greater part of it must ba of an in ferior description. There were so few places of refeatian about the metropolis, that he was opposed to the inclesnre Of any other commons. Lord NORMANBY said, that he also was opposed to the inclosure of lands in the neighbourhood of the metro polis; but the present one differed from all others; for, in point of fact, the land was in a state of cultivation, except for about ten weeks in the year ; so that it could be of little importance to the inhabitaxts of the metropolis. Mr. BARING said, that ae the land lay below the level of the river, the air could not be so salubrious as was sup- k . , „. , posed. He felt bound to support ti:e Bill, which. he did not think it at all calculated to injure the metropolis. The House divided, when there appeared For the second reading Against it Majority 2O The Bill was therefore thrown. Mr. BYNG presented a petition from the inhabitants of the parish of Shoreditch, praying for a repeal of the In habited house Duty. Sir J. SCAIILETT presented a petition from the In habitants of the parish of Bumar, in the County of Cavan, praying for Catholic Fmancipation. Mr, HUME presented a petition from the Catholic In habitants of Maryborough, praying that au alteration may be made in the Sub .letting Bill, under which they suffer many grievances. Mr. TENNISON moved the Order of the Day for the third reading of the Penryn Disfranchisement - Bill, fin• the purpose Of postponing it until the 18th day of April next. Several petitions in favour of the Catholic Claims were presented by Mr. Spring Rice and Sir F. Burdett. Mr. Secretary :I'EEL gave notice that on Thursday next he should move that the House, at its rising, should adjourn to Monday the 14th day of April. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. The CHANCELLOZ of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the Day for the House going into a Committee of Supply, and said that he should not do so on an evenigwhnen an important debate was • expeeted, hut that the suns of 100,0001. was immediately required for civil contingencieS. The House then resolved itself into a Committee, and after a few words front Mr. HUME, the vote was agreed to, and the House refflmed. (Left sitting.) TATTERSALL's THIS DAY The Craven Meeting being fixed for Monday the betting principally referred to the Riddlesworth, for which Ad vance has been hacked moderately. Although a great deal of talking took place the betting, however, was not brisk. . For the Derby the Colonel still holds the first. place, but Navare had jumped up nearly neck and neck with him. Druid has gone back, and both Zealot and Bugle are taken against him. Prue has been selected. and backed well at SO to 1. Latimer has arso jumped into notice, and been backed by old hands against Mariner. Nothing was done on the Oaks, and very little on the St. Leger, they closed os follows : - . RIDDLESWORTII. 5 to 2 agst Duke of Grafton's two 3 to I agst Mr. Thornhill's Shoveller colt 3 to 1 agst Mr. Udny's Emi!y colt to 1 agst Lord Exetcr's Advaice colt 5 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Bramin 5 to 1 agst Sir John Shelley's Cressida 1. S to 1 agst Lord G I H. Cavendish's Ridicule colt 2000 GS. STAKES. 3 to 1 agst Lord Grosver;or's Navarin Zi to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Sorcery colt 5 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Omen 6 to 1 agst Mr. French's Palemon DERBY. 6-? ; to I agst Hon. E. Petre's The Colonel 20 to 3 ag,st Lord Grosvenor's Navarin 11 to I agst Duke of Rutland's -Sorcery colt II to I agst Mr. Thornhill's Merchant 14, to 1 agst Mr. Nowell's Giraffe (Amy colt) 1S to 1 agst Latimer IS to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Mariner 22 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Omen-, 30 to 1 apt Lord Anson's Prue colt 30 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Mona colt 40 to 1 agst Mr. Rogers's Bugle 50 to 1 agst Scipio 100 to 1 agst Iflr. Batson's Cecilia DONCASTER ST. LEGLR. 20 to I agst Lord Grosvenor's Navarin LENT ASSIZES.. OXFORD CIRCWIT.—HEREFORD, 34.iitcu r. INoxs V. ROBBINS AND ANOTHER. This vas an action brought by a builder at Chel tenham against Mrs. Hobbins, the late landlady of the Cross Keys Inn, Cheltenham, and her daughter, to recover the sum of 341., being the balance of an account for building a club-room attached to the above-mentioned inn. Mr. Sergeant RUSSELL, for the plaintiff, stated 'that his client, a respectable bricklayer in Chelten ham, had built the club-house in question, and that the first-named defendant was the ',haft., but the other defendant (her daughter) was entitled to the reversion of the property on the death of her mother. Mr. Sergeant RUSSELL said that there was no Learned Judge on the Bench whose opinion he more highly respected than that of the Learned Judge who now presided, but he was placed there in the situation of an Advocate who must and would do his duty towards his client, or he should be un worthy of the robe he had the honour to wear. The Learned Counsel concluded by entering into a re view of the evidence adduced on the part of the de fence. Mr. CAMPBELL, in continuation, observed, that this action included Miss Hobbins merely as an after. a thought, verdict rhdei ci because t ufroyi.fi t te, byhp her a some n n i t o i ff t h ; 'e had 1)u t misapprehension, a be f te c r tme s ol , r d i reft o v ur e r n t n t h t defendant. MARCH 28. John Witherstoue was indicted for assaulting' Eli zabeth Fletcher, with intent to commit a rape. Elizabeth Fletcher said that she was la years old on '23d of February last. On the 4th of that month the prisoner's wife was going from home, and re quested the witness's mother to allow her to go t o her house to take care of her child in her absence. The, witness's mother having consented, she accor dingly went, and for the first two days the prisoner took no notice of her. On the third day be was sit ting by the fire, and, as the witness was about to put the kettle on, he pulled her into his lap, and pr)ceeded to take liberties with her. The witness then entered into a detail of the prisoner's conduct to her, which fully established the c harge contained in the indictment. She did not call out, though she struggled to get from the prisoner. She was afraid if any one saw her in that situ ation, the y would tell her mother, and she would be angry. this witness by order of the Mayor , proved that he foulnir. Juliusdherina jstoanteesO a surgeon, who had examined f disease, from the ill - treatment she had received. Mr. JUSTICE addressed the Jury for the 1,- ; i so „ er, and contended that the prosecutrix was Unworthy of credit, as it was evident from her own testimony that if she had made that resistance which she ought to have done, the pr isoner mus t have been instantly detected. to the Jury, after a short consultat i on they returned a verdict of Not Guilty, evidence mrßaron VAUGHAN havi ng recap i tulated the Mr. Baron VAUGNAN---" Prisoner, don't fancy that your character is cleared by this acquittal; the case on your part is most infamous." His Lordship then addressed Elizabeth Fletcher, the daughter, and her mother, and said that there was not the slightest imputation whatever on their character or testimony. john Williams, Harriet Williams, and An Grif- fith: were indicted f or assau l t i ng W m. H az l ewoo d Smith, arid steali ng f rom hi s person 301. in bank notes. The Jury having found the prisoners Guilty, Mr. Bunn VAUGHAN sentenced them to be traw ported for life. Thomas Williams was indicted for stealing a game cock, value 10s. The bill was thrown out by the Grand Jury, and a claim was made upon the coam° for 25/. expenses. The Magistrate had certified for expenses amounting to 11. 17s. We need scarcely add, that the claim for the 251. was rejected. NORFOLK CIRCUIT—BURY, MA RCH Lucy Gmont and John Gosling were indicted f 0... having on the 15th day of November last, at Melford, n this county, feloniously stolen a quantity of wood and chips, of the value of 6(1., the property of Wm. Ling. From the circumstance of the female prisonsr being a lady of independent fortune, and the widow of a g entleman of a very aneumt and respectable family in the county, this case excited great expec tation and interest. The Court wts crowded at at: early hour, and the greatest anxiety was niau fasted to catch a glimpse of the accueed, She ova BIRTHS. On the 28th inst. th e l a d y of Joseph Wood, A- v 0 1.• Westbourne-plaee, Of a son. On the 28th inst. the lady of Colonel Jahn Clitheto l6 of a sun. MARRIED. Ou the 29th instant, at St. James's, Clerkenw— Richaid Pittman, jun., Esq. of Paddington-green, to Jot only daughter of J. R. Vincent, E sq ., of Claremont-Or — Pentonville. FlithTitin and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG at SCN PFFICU, No. 112, Stand. arery lady like wornan,i.nd wits accommodated 1" a chair in the dock. William Edwards—ls a working tailor in the employ of Mr. Tipple, of Melford.. The shop f Mr. Tipple looks into the premises of Mr. Ling, 'I carpenter and joiner. Ling has a yard in which wood generally lies about. Tipple's shop looks into the yard. Knows Mrs. Groom, whose premises ad join Ling's. Has seen Gosling at work in Ling 's yard. On the 15th of November last, saw Mo• Groom go into Ling 's yard and take pieces of wood out of the yard, and carry on to her premises. Saw her return again, take oth er p i eces, an d carry their away; the other prisoner was standing by, chopping the p'eces Mrs. Groom took away. Mrs. Groom returned }1 third time, and stood by while Gosling took parcel of wood from the yard on to the premises of Mrs. Groom. Spilling then came up. By Mrs. Groom's premises he meant the back yard of her premises. Believes she took them into her house, but did not see her enter. Gosling took another parcel. Gosling looked cautiously at his master's shop before he took away the wood. Ling, in about ten minutes, came with Gosling into Tipple's shop. Ling said, " he certainly would prosecute him for what he had done, as he had ordered that nobodY should have chips off his. premises." Gosling " he hoped not," he had done wrong, for Mr , Ling had ordered to the contrary." Heard nothing else. and Gosling went away together. Mrs. Groom being called on for her defence, curtsied in a very graceful and lady4ike manner T , the Court, and said, " she lef t it t o h er CounSel. Evidence was then adduced for the prisoners► which went clearly to establish their innocence• Among other witnesses, Miss Fanny Parsons, &c. The Jury immediately found both the prisoners Not Guilty, and they were ordered to be forthwith discharged. WESTERN CI RC Ul -L A UNCESTON, 11,Axen SR AN r. LORD FALMOUTH AND ANOTHER. This was an action to recover a compensation for the injury which the plaintiff had sustained, by reason of an excessive distress levied upon him hi the noble defendant, who is the plaintiff ' s landlor d• The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. Ds' wages, 40/. MARCH 28. Jeremiah Jose, aged 55, was charged, upon the warrant of the Coroner, with th e w ilf u l murder , Francis Jose. The deceased was nephew to the prisoner, and the witnesses called for the proseew tion were, the brother of the deceased, and "one or two other very near relations of both the parties. i t appeared from the evidence, that on the` sth Dec. last, the prisoner having• taken, by way of distress , some bullocks belonging to a cousin si his, sent them in the custody of a constable to the premise' which were the common residence of the prisoner family and that of the deceased. The deceased , thinking it a most unfriendly act, called the prisoner a rogue and an old dog, and came up very cl o se to the prisoner, upon which the latter, who had, up t° this time, had his hands in his coat-pockets, drew one of them out, and struck the deceased over the eye. The prisoner having had some nails in his pocket, one of them was in his hand when he struck the blow. It penetrated the scull near the temple , and the deceased di e d i n two or t h ree minutes. The prisoner was a little in liquor at the time, and 0 , 11 being told that h e h a d killed his nephew, he site' If I have done it, I'd g i ve a room full of gold i t restore him again." The prisoner sighed deeply during the whole tall of the trial. He was found Guilty, and sentenced to transports; Lion for life. Subsequently, the Judge re-operes the Court at his lodgings, and suspended the se tence for the purpose of introducing some mitigation' NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LANCASTER, MAa.cie 0' PARK AND OTHERS V. MUDGE. This was an action brought ou a policy of job?: ranee effected in the South Devon Company, 0 00: cargo of the brig Gratitude, Bowden, bound to w . St. Juan de Nicaragua to Liverpool. Half the va l , ll° had been insured in the Patriotic Company, and t he moiety of the loss had been paid to the plaintiff.' Soon after the vessel sailed, the mate died ; i n a fey days more the captain died; and there being then ne one capable of navigating the vessel, she went be fore the. wind, and was cast away on a desert island in the Spanish main. Mr. Justice BAYLEY, in bis address to the Jurlf left it f or t h em to say w h et h er at t h e t i me t h e vess el left Nicaragua she was in a complete and seaworthy state. The Jury, after a few minutes' consultation, re turned a verdict for the plaintiffs for the amoun t claimed, which we understand to be about 9501•' the precise sum to be settled out of Court. NORTHERN CIRCUIT, YORK, - MAR= 2€l. James Scholes, Isaiah Bentley, Joseph Brae , Samuel Smith, and Joseph Bentley were put to the bar► charged with shooting at John Clayton, game-keep , to Sir George Armitage, with i n t ent to kill the 58/u John Clayton. t J io u n r y w r a e s tu f r o t r ie: ,o a rk ve a r n d d ict la o b f o l . Not Gailty., _ il d Fl. e ial JEFFERSON V. HARDY. VIVIr. N EIGHTHAN opened the pleadings. T h. e . Sergeant JONES stated the case. The 0 0 , 1 • 01 II attorney at Pontefract, which. was, as t he doubtless well knew, a very ancient Pa r• borough. The defendant was a Learn.% nc i TMys e llae n hiratia' d of his (Mr. Sergeant Jones's), now ail tlllb atnogrea tfora distance , a tionable honour an d reputation. The claim of ti plaintiff was com n p d en a sa g ti e o n. n tl i e o n r ia services he had rend ere d to the defendant, as his agent at last election for the borough of Pontefract. Mr. Wood examined by Mr. WEIGHTMAN--- 3 l it an attorney. Th e plaintiff is an attorney, living 1 Pontefract. He was one of Mr. Hardy *.agent 6 ', frequentl y saw t h e plaintiff engaged for Mr. lisruf' I met him five or six times a-day when on our canvir: lie was canvassing for votes. I have met the pW es " tiff during the election, sometimes 20 or 30 tita a-day, in company with Mr. Mytton and his , 1 ' The plaintiff worked day and night for M r . WI From what I saw of Mr. Je ff erson's services, IWI not think that 1001. would have overpaid his er er tion. Cross-examined by Mr. BROUGHAM.--I am not al' lowing Mr. Jefferson ten guineas. a-day, nor eve n four guineas. I consider three guineas a-day to u'' a fair remuneration. When the canvass was ore! there was.still a great deal for the agent to do. T ll visiti:l NI n the eit : o ' rn o u u iGn l would Atoemfe.croonorm and houses o f enterta i nm ent course look after th e voters , a" r. —Well, now, did he do any thing else then, but drink to Mr. Hardy's honour and glory —Yes, a good dea l. Mr. B s mAK—Did lie prai se hi m b y eating ?"''' I can't • • M r . BROUGHAAT — Did he ma gn if y hi m by datic; ing M ? 'd he dance before hi m 2—(Loud laughter.) —I think - he did. . ff D i r . BitouGium—What was paidfor head.monej . , —I don't understand. - • . a 7.1-76 lair. BnouGHAst--Oh; you don't understand. What was paid for votes ? Do you understand that ?--Yes, I u n d erstan d th a t. • Mr. Bnor hoW many voters in Poo' tefract might there be, who were not paid for their rotes ? Were there ten righteous men to save tb• city ?--There might be ten.—(Loud laughter.) The Jury found for the defendant, adding, tbaS they thought the plaintiff had been overpaid. i/ ' R?t +•.~ ...: t • • wait **gm tc with geltia fiusd These Tobt perft are so 42,1 by, all ~.k JOH Grp Go( .Co: Joh Sat WE *ached A 4fcer Deed upon becom, Rat, Paurd sown* Ti and D: viz.:_ John I Come] Jahn I Willis, Ceorgi Sautue Willic Williai Hump May Williai James Geo. 1 The held ai Wedos till fou FL] mittee quired soma despati submit prodni 00Iapt miry, , iudivic slime i the etl &sake Wasp dornau riiiasi - I . • , ii clot, I are e l Gdat. ilkare . 4 Abu 3 ~~ 4471* 41 Alita ss , Paiod lii e , v