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the other productions of this country, he would take leave I Duke, however, ought to recollect, that cotton had fallen to read to their Lordships a short statement of the duties 1 from 24d. to Sd. ; and although wool is low in price, he imposed upon someforeign articleswhichcameinto competi- I thought that it had hut kept pace with the fall in other tion with these productions—on Swedish iron there is a duty I artielee, and the increase in the value of money. After of 10 per cent. ad valorem. On Swedish steel .a duty of observing that one of the reasons for the falling off in the 20 per cent. On copper 28 per cent. On hemp 11/.135.4d. ! consumption of coarse woollens was to be founcLin the in a ton. And on fo re i g n oak bark, an item to which he ' creased use of cotton manufactures, such as . fustian, in the wished particularly to call the attention Of the Noble .summer season, the Noble Baron concluded by repeating Baron opposite (Lord Wharncliffe), there is a protect- his opinion, that no good could arise from the inquiry, and tug duty of 90 per cent. (Hear, hear !) .The duty on ! that it was certain to produce some degree of injurye'-' foreign wool, for the protection of th e home grower, i Lord ELLENBOROUGH contended, that-the - inquiry " SUBJECTS FOR D ISSECTION. being, in the mean while, about 31 per cent. He was I was conceded for the were purpose of 'satiefYing the wool- The M arq uis ,of LANSDOWN E Preaented a, petition not disposed to detain their Lordships by any length - growers that they-had no fair ground of complaint. from the Physicierise S:urgeons, and Students of the West- ened argument upon the result of this unequa l prone.- Lord REDESDALE observed that an inquiry was ne minster Medical. Society p ra y ing for means for facilitatin g ti o n I t s it affected the interests of the wool trade. I eeseary, for tlsessake of the Wool-growers, and of the agri dieseetion ; also, a petition to the same eff ec t from a ll th e Neither was he disposed to go into an inouiry upon the culturists in general. Medical Students at Edinburgh ; ditto f rom the - Physicians amount of taxation and of poor rates, and county rates, The Earl of HAREWOOD did not see how the Cosn and Surgeons of Sheffield; ditto from th e ph ys i c i a n s a nd and all the other burthens which weighed so grievously inittee could inqifire only into the state of British wool, Surgeons .of Huddersfield ; dittoof Preston, Lancashire ; upon the wool growers, end compelled them to seek for without entering .into the question as to how it generally ditto, Halifais; ditto, from the Physicians, Surgeons, and protection against fiireign competition. He was satisfied affected the nrenufactures of the country. Members of the Hunterian Society. that he had mole out a prima facie case, that the wool After a few words from Lord Ma LmEsrlu air and Lord Lord SUFFIELD presented a petition from the Master, grower was without any adequate protection, and he claimed ELLEbIBOROUGH, the motion for a Committee was agreed 'Warden, and Society of Apothecaries, London, praying it as an act of justice from the hands of their Lordships, to, and The Members of the Committee appointed. that the House would adopt some measures - for enabling to he permitted to prove, before a Committee, that these The Earl of SHAFTESBURY made the Report of the surgeons to procure subjects for anatomical dissection. The statements were correct. The Noble Duke concluded by Committee on the Stamp Duties' Repeal Bill. Noble Lord said that the law upon this question was most moving, " That a Select Committee he appointed to in- PENRYN DISFRANCHISEMENT BILL. extraordinary, as surgeons were liable to be Punished quire into the present condition of the Wool Trade, and re- The House resumed the examination of witnesses on the for any injuries which they might inflict on their patients port their opinions to the House." Penryn Disfranchisement Bill. Two witnesses were exa through ignorance, and if they resorted to the only means The Duke of WELLINGTON expressed himself quite mined, one of Whore, a Mr. Mallet, a tavern - keeper at of improving their skill, they were punished also. w illin g to accede to the Noble Duke's preposition for the Penryn, stated, that though he knew of many practices to Lard SKELMERSDALE presented a petition from appointment of the Committee. He considered it quite infirience votes in that borouith, lie never actually saw mu -1 iverpool, against the practice of burning widows in India. sufficient for his Noble Friend to make out a case that a ney given for a vote. . • 'The Bi s hop o f NORWICH presented a petition from great number of persons complained of the inconveniences 'The further examination of witnesses to be resumed to_ Newport, Mayo, praying for Catholic Emancipation. We of the system pursued with regard to the wool trade, to morrow.--Adjourned at a Quarter past Ten o'Clock. understood the Right Rev. Prelate to say that, with the warrant the Government in consenting to an inquiry. exception of a few Ultra Tories, every person was desirous While, however, he gave his consent, for these reasons, - et' putting an end to those unj4st laws, which visited a to that inquiry, he begged it to be understood, that he man with civil disabilties on account of his religious opi- did not believe any inquiry, either in that House or in any Ilinne. The Right Reverend Prelate stated lie also had other place, could end in diet relief whirls the Noble two petitions to present, signed by a considerable num- Mover seemed to anticipate. He consented, however, to ber of respectable Roman Catholics in Norwich. For an inquiry into the state of the trade in long wool as well.' tw enty-three .years he had been personally acquainted with as in short, that the growers mighe_ be able to bring under 'soany of the petitioners, and could say, that no *here did thentteiiiion of the Coureuttee•whatevee they .Wright con e ' there exist wen more respectable or more sincerely loyel ; rider calculated to support their case ; but while he did so, and yet such men, tinder the - existing laws, ' were he begged it to be understood, that it was not the inten iiiohed on with suspicion. 'The time was approaching, be tion of his Majesty's. Government to consent to the ireinosii. was happy to say, when the Catholics would be restored to tion of any:further tax on foreign wool.--(Hear.) their rights, and lie could not but consider that the Bill • The Eat! of HARE:WOOD admitted that the wool which had just passed their Lordships had given the death- trade was in a state of considerable depression ; that he blew to the system which hail so long prevailed. The pea. did not think that the inquiry by a Committee could be /ions, which were from the Catholics attending Divine Ser- productive of any good to the country. He was alto ready 'vce at St. John's and St. Swithin's Chapel, Norwich, to admit, that . the: statement of the Noble Duke was ,were then read, and laid on the table. correct its to there being no increase in the quantity of Lord LORTON presented a petition numerously signed woollens exported since the diminution of the duty ; but by certain Protestant Dissenters residing in county Louth, while he the ' didwor so, lie begged their Lordships to thisfailing off The petltion was i mid at length by the clef k. • in the exports. It ought to be recollected that he •had ' Lord LORTON said that the petition appeared to hint gone through a long and widely extended war, in which to Le very important, and therefore he had trespassed on this country enjoyed a monophly of the trade in woollens, their Lordships' time hy having it all read. (Hear, and. :• to the exclusion of all foreign c umpetitione—(Hear.)—lf laugh.) - - the exports were not the same as formerly, their Lordships Lord DARNLEIreehI that he never heard -more un- would see that there was another and a sufficieut cause for founded allegations than' Chute' containet in the petition ; the falling off. But even admitting that thi s countr y did hut there was one allegation whieh must excite the indig- at onetime enjoy a monopoly, which it could nut hold any. nation of those who were net bigotfed, I meen,(strid the longer, was that a reason for throwing back upon the Con- Noble Lord), that part of the petition which states that the tinent 211 the wool which it could produce beyond the con- Catholics have been disloyal and disaffetted to the throne. eumption of its own manufactures? if the British wool All their conduct proves that this charge is strirrue ; in- •groweis were to succeed is procuring a monopoly of the steed, time preatilhle to the last Bill expressly states trade, and excluding all foreign . wool, he was • satisfied diet the concessions then granted were in reward of that British 'wool would fall in price la exact propor their loyalty. Ido not wish, my Lords, to enter into pre- tion with the exclusion of the foreign. It was well mature discussion of this mighty question, but in justice to known that the greater proportion of British wools could an e l i t e-weed, degraded, and vilified people, . I cannot sit not he worked up at all without a proportion of foreign mere and listen to such allegations without entering my wool being used along with them. The woollen ina eolemn protest against them.—(llear.) nufacturers might be compelled to Ilse Britiels wool ; Lord LORTON w a s - understood to ask whether the but their Lordships ought to recollect, that the trade was Noble Lord objected to the petition being received, carried en by order and by patterns, and that these orders Lord HOLLAND would not object to its being received could node executed, our these patterns imitated, without ' although the petition was certainly not regular, es it pro- that spe of wool which the British growth did out fessed to be against a Bill not before the House. produee.. As to the Committee which the Noble Duke Lord LONGFORD presented a similar petition from had consented to grant, he could only say that he regretted the Protestants of a parish in Wicklow. the Noble Mover had brought ferwaid any such proposi- Lord HAREWOOD presented petitions from the suer- tioo. The expectations or the fears arisipg from its ap chants, manufacturers, wool-staplers, and other persons peiniment would have the effect of throwing the trade engaged in the Wool trade in Leeds; praying that no further quite out of joint ; and the more so, as this was the season duty may be laid upon the importation of Foreign Wool, when the manufeeturers were in the habit of making their and for an enquiry into the subject. Also petitions annual purchases. .14 too, there was, as the Noble Duke. to the same effect from individuals of'' t he sonic (Wellington) states!, Ho intention to make any alteration c h arac t e r residing in and near Saddleworth, Birstall. upon the subject of duty, be was very much at a loss to Golderston, Netherton, Amley, Kirkheaton, Gornershant, understand what was the nature of the protection the Noble Itlorley, Yeadon, Horseforth, and Various other parts in Mover desired is to abra and tra im. At de ee em a moorhenivin distreshe s was s as Yorkshire. rapidly diminhing,g , Lord J. RUSSELL, and cohere from the House of Qm-;rne I aorry to see a measure adopted whic h W ould have the effect. mons, brought Iva Bill agreeing to the amenrhmentsto a'Billi, of noldrigiog he whole of the districts in which the . entitle'!, "An Act for repealing so much of the Test and 'woollen trade IR merited on. Upon the subject of time . Corporation Acts, as went to the necessity of receiving the eixportationthat of 6 by )te a cloths gelati being of the Cuto, all Mr. Beetme and others brought up Ole Hertford Road cloths from 3s. up tn 10s. are entered as. cameras, anti all Hill, above Ws. are entered as tine. By the altation in the Dir. CA LC RA vr and others brought up foe Southantp tun, duty upon .foreign wool, and by the-, changes pf - the trade, lildeford, Carnarvon, and Somersetshire Road B:ll. these prices are now very much reslOced, and the. conse- Mr. Joyce presented a return of the weekly average im- 1 quence is, that a very large quantity of one s clothe .are 'serial Measure Of British corn, as received from the inspec- • exported under the denominatioo of coarse. ; Time Noble tors of the United Kiegdom.again urged the impropriety of granting a Comn.ittem Lord MALMESBURY presented petitions from farmers The rarl of MADIESBLTRY contended, that a Com oro] landowners of Durham, and of Cleveland, Yorkshire, mitten must 10 appointed, in order to enable the com growers of long and short wool, praying for a return of plainants to eetaleholt the grievance before they demanded the duty on foreign wool, and for an inquiry into the pre- the remedy. In the tea iig;trs from 1819, an account of sent state of the wool trade. The Noble Lord presented the exports of woollens would skew. .how far the naanufac petitions to the strne effect from individuals residing Curers have been benefitted by the ehenge in the dude& at or Near Thornton, Andover; and persons in different In the first five of these years, the exports amounted to ports of England, to the same effect. 35,363,000 yards ; in the last five they amounted only to Lord CLARE. presented petitions from the Agrieultn- 34.,691,000 yards, leaving a deficiency or falling off of sal Association of Limerick ; the 'city of Lincoln; Wil- 672,060 yards. He said that the complainants ought to loughby, in Lancashire ; Louth, in Lincolnshire ; and the be allowed to state theie grte - yeeces. One of them wos parish of Carrington, Yorkshire, against the importation the excessive importatiorr offo,reign , Yr:P l to such an extent. or foreign wool. as to throw all the British wool tivholly put pf the market. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition To thew the progressive increase of this inipeetrition during from persons engaged in ' the wool trade in Breatford, the last nine years, fie would divide that peeiptl into parts Wiltshire, against the importation of foreign wool. of three years, and state the gross amount of importetion The Noble Lord stated that, looking at the impression that in each. In the fu-se of these three years, he found that pervaded so many petitions on this subject, he did not treaen the importation amouoteit to 42,500,000 pounds. In the to oppose the House directing an inquiry into this subject, - second period of three years the importation reached an The niehle tot'Marqie stated that he bad a petition in his aeu t eent of six ty.one millions of ponnele s and in the isast it baud, re l a ting a Bin th a t h a d b een brought into the wan actually eighty-nine millions. After otoeing ome other House for regulating the affairs of-the Hibernian other facts, to slimw the great difficulties under which the Itint Stock Company, but which lie sc'onld not present at . wool-grower I:thawed itomn the want of adequate protec present. tint], the Noble Earl ex/luded by expressing his thanks to Lqrd WHAIINCLIFFE presented similar eetitions from the Noble Duke at the howl cf his Majesty's Government, the Merchants, Manufacturers, Woolstaplers, and Oethersm for the readiness with which he Wel granted a Committee of Wakefield, Hunstield, Ilolbeck, Bromley, Ifeckmottd- .. to enable the complainants to estahhtla the existence of wick., Huddersfield, Soetheross, Longwoods, and other ' their grievances. Flare -fie—in all ten petitions. Lord WHARNCLIFFE, with great defereeice 0, , the On the moti on of t h e D u k e o f RICHMOND, the Oider opinions.of the Noble Duke (Wellington), could not agree of the Day was read, a n d th e N o ble Buke proceeded to say sa'itli him that it woe right to appoint f a T ode Committee sly of this that ha rising to m ove t h a t t h e i r Lordships should appoint description. There was se. Board o exp ap se 'Committee to inquire into th e . ca u ses o f th e present state pointed for the purpose of iretuiring into these matters; of the Eettisii wool-growers, their Lordships would expect and lie could not understand why the parties could not lay him to state his reasons for calling o n th em t o do so. He before it those statements which they now required to he would begin by referring to 1819, when the duty was 6d. heard by a Committee of the House of Lords, If they per pound on foreign wool. Prior to that period the long collie! satisfy the Board that some alteration ought to be war as hit& had desolated Europe, and its effects, had no t m a d e , then tt would be the duty of his Majesty's Govern permitted tie market of England to be overstocked with went to take tip the question ; but until they did so, he .tirreio-mt wool. In 1825 the -duty was reduced, front• six- thou g ht there could no be a snore injurious course with pence to one penny, and on all wool above the value of one regard to its effect upon the woollen trad too, e, th there coat at shilling per p ound the dut y was fixed at one halfpenny. At which they were now about to prerone. If the acme time the exportation of long wool was permitted. any one time more inconvenient than mailer for entering The manufacturers were the only p erson s who opposed this uporo - stmcfr , au "inquiry-by aTarliatnematary.Cs , ow..ittee, it exportation ; and the agriculturists only consented to it, was this very peri,xl. The manufacturers were now about after repeated assurances fromhis Mutest?. Ministers that tp set out to make their purchases in the Spring Fairs of the loss they mig ht suffer by the reduction the duty on the Continent, and the seinen:mow must be, that all busi oi of the foreign wool w ould be made up to theca by the sedan- ness or speculation will he at a biased during the progress tageee which would acct ue from the expectation of Beitish of this inquire. Their Lord:ships might probably inia- give that that these things were little more than a meeee mat- ' Majority woe'. Their Lordships would see, however, that . they had b e en injured by the reduction of the duty, l without re- tcr of conversation in the House of Lords ; but there was General ARCHDALL presented a petition from 10,00 0 ee i v i ng . any' advantage w .h a reefr from tme ex d p , o u rtatio l n. not a h o u se 01 . a cottage in the Empire into which the Protestant inhabitants of the county of Feimanagh, against For every sine pound of British wool exported amig h t the report of their determination to make these inquiries any farther concession to Roman Catholics. - test year, one hundred and four pounds of no wool had would not smog, and ep'on the proceedings of the bl eep had no wish to pre It e s m no a t te: av o e fA i V n hl i e n l 3 l,..i i f o co us serte eire et a e . d with Mr. PRITTIE presented petitions front the following w t . l a te ,s, tr i. ; ( s u tle jiypoaorl„t,wrohuok.l parishes in the county of Tipperary, in favour of Catholic been brought into the country. vent the importation of foreign wool ; but lie wodsell Emancipation,—viz. Tipperary, Dilly, Arc:l4aq and see such an increase of duty as would give to the w. - 4 , • roughly satisfied that the greater the .quantity of foreign the maim- wool which came into thie country, so much the better . I ‘lede n Ballybeecon, Cappawhite, Templemore, Pallas-green and , Powerstoun, Clogheen and Ballyslieekan, Donn, growers the same protection as was enjoyed by lecturers of the other staple commodities of the Kingdom, muse ,be fur the British wool-grower. It was a well- Liolie end Dunha, Clonen and. Drlngamo Caller, Banshas produced in.this country axe totally untit for use, so that that the price of wool might correspond with the price known fapt, grist almost the whole of the Southdown woof Killenarile sad 11,loylcss, 11.macarthy, Bourne and Conine, of other commodities. At present the price of Wool was now Knocklong and Glissbeeliars, 4:illinprry, m e and and ne t equal to what it was in 1777 ; but the letwdeos Wera less mixed up with foreigas A great change has also Holyfoot. Aliso agains Cabereee ect from the fol four times greater last year than at that period. The agri ,. taken place during the last t e n yeare, eed since the reduce lowing places, viz. : Powerstown, 'aka esti/ well as Monagh, Tipperary, Cappawhite, •Cleneen and Drangans eulturists might have bo rne t h e i r ow n ruin with patience, .tiou cf the duty, in the quality of the weeellena, et if they had seen that the . manufacturers of woollens bad in the Ashjor of the colo r rh-s an d th e t exture; eti d un k ss Bansha, Ardfinan and Ballybeacon, Killenaule and Moyless. inn niafactuce Is able to Procure the species of Ass() against the vestry act front the following places, protitted by their ruin; but b appeared from the Returns the En glish peetation of the , that the revenue had suf- wool which allows him to . p . rokace such a quality of cloth, yiz. : —Clonmel, Tipperary, Caber, Bellybeacon and Aril then on their Lordships' table e enes e se verely by the re'duction of the duty, and the exports t h e cons umption of the nr!t" li 'tv° 9l -Rest be p roport i ona bl y titian, Cloneen and Deangap, 4aosha, Killenaule and Noy less, Powerstown, Cappawhite, and Newport. of woollens had decreased. He ref e r re d to cer t a i n re t ur n s decreased. After observing that the len then on their Loralships' table, and:they show e d that ()wi n low priced wools had enabled out ! merchants to rii „ n c ktztur , • Mr. HUTCHINSON presented petitions. from ewo 1823, and 1824, when the duty Wee a species of woollen at 3s. a yar d , and drive i foreigners out perishes in Tipperary against the Sob-letting &1.. . . IS2O, 1821, 1822, sixpence, the average amount of woollens exported coop et t 4, market which they ha monopo is d, th e N,,bi r , Lord MILTON preeented petitions from the coroners of 8,152,94:3 pieces, containing 35,350,617 yards; but i„ B aron proceeded to reply to the observations of the Noble York, praying for an iucrease of their feee. His Lordship time subject of Oak Bark, and also presented petitions from friendly socielieo in Ifalifest 1818, 181 , h...1826, an d 1827, when the du ds ' o f pieces expo y was one Duke (Richmond) upon fall , in price as ' - penny, the average number 35,020,046, 11 f: 1 w: , V , begged time House to recollect that the high protecting duty and other places, against the Bill before the House. 8,017,350, and the number ofyards, FOREIGN WOOL. seowsng given to it had not saved it frOin 4, 9 g';%-' 4 pieces, an d wool. He knew very few article.s whicie h L.,.,1 pot ; Lord MILTON presented a petition from different. a decrease in the amount exported of 135,593 of yards 530,601. His object iie su bmitting thesestate- fallen in price. Gold had fallen hi Price .ftnn! K.:tens egainst any additional duty on Foreign Wool. alarm was excited in the coun rnents to their Lordships was, as lie observed before, to 935. an ounce to 77 , =. Foreign wool had fellen in price sts tie said and grea p show that there had been no increase in the exporta- much as English. The very best Saxon had fallen since • try, and he thought the timo was now come when tion of British Woollens during the last three years, 1818, from Bs. 91 to es. 6th. ; the oext quality, from Is. his Majesty's Minleters ought to make a declaration PP ,:o compensate for the evils which the reduction n if lod . t o e e ,, 2d. ; the n e xt, from Bs. 6d. to tte. Bd. ; and the important subject ; he understood this declaration t h e d u ty had brought upon the wool-growers. In order to the Estramadura, from 3s. 6d.SonthdoW" fell was to be ritade night,. and he should not t h ere f ore i re ,- .shew that the British wool-grower was not sufficiently in elBl9, 'lBl9, the year of the alteration in the duty, from 2e. pass longer on the House. protected, nor even protected to anything like the extent aa. t o is . 2d ., at which price it remained for thur yeare, Mr. CHARLES GRANT said that his Majesty's 'Mi which the Government had thought it fit to bestow upon elthough h e b e li eve d it was now 9d, or Bil. The Nola nisters had cope to the resolution that a tax could IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. . . . HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 5. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat' on the Woolsack at a quarter past five o'clock. The Duke of GORDON presented a petition from the physicians of Aberdeen, praying that facilities might be afforded for procuring subjects for anatomical dissectiou. The Noble Duke also presented a petition from the county of Ross, against the proposed scale of.duties in the Corn Bill. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAY 5. 00 the motion of Mr. BYNG the Hammersmith Bridge and Roads Improvement Bill was read a third time. nd passed. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented petition front the Governors of the London Hospital again-it thlOirslttt London Railway Sill. Referred t 6 the 'Committee on the Bill. • - Mr. BROWNLOW brought up the report on the burue and Monaghan Roads Bill. Mr. Q. MOORE said a few words in opposition to - the Bill, which were not audible in the gallery. Mr. BROWNLOW replied, and the Bill, with the amendments, was read a second time, and ordered'ty Le engrossed. , Lord BELL4RAVE brought up the Repod on the Ches ter Roads Bill, the amendments of the Committee were agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be engrossed. Sir T. ACLAND brought up the Report °Ellie Com mittee on the Tavistock Roads Bill.—The Amendments were agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be engrossed. Sir G. WARRENDER brought up the Report of the Committee on the Aberdeen Harbour Bill. • Mr. HUME' , said, that in -1809 the Magistrates were authorised to'borrow money to carry the improvements in this harbour into effect. As soon as it was known, however, in Aberdeen that the Magistrates intended to apply to Parliament for 'a renewal of the Bill of the year 1810, which had yet 'four years to run; public meetings were held ; in Aberdeen, ut a more numerous' meeting ? it was resolved that some of the merchants and ship-owners of Aberdeen should be joined with the magis trates as trustees, to carry on the Docks, and as a similar provision was made With great advantage in the Dundee Dock Bill, lie (Mr. H.), thought it disirable that such a provision should be introduced into this Rill. The magis trates, to whom the management of those docks was granted by the original Bill, had been for eight years in a state of insolvency, and could not, during that time, raise a shilling without the consent of their credi tors--a circumstance which in his (Mr. H.'s) opi. nion was sufficient to justify the House in refusing to those partiei a renewal of the Bill. He should therefore move that the Report he taken into consideration this day six months. Mr. MABERLY seconded the amendment. He thought it desirable that the inhabitants of Aberdeen, who paid taxes for the interest of the money raised for carrying on those docks, should have a voice in the expendititre of this money, instead of leaving it wholly to a self-elected, and therefore irresponsible, body of Magistrates. Sir G. WARRENDER opposed the amendment. He considered the proposition of the Hon. Member for Montrose, no less than a total change in the corpora lion of Scotland. He was no way interested in thtt matter, although he had undertaken the management of , the Bill, Wit he had without any authority from thecorpo ration of Alerileen proposed to allow that in the former Bill they should be'reduad from niteen to thirteen, *tad that to this latter number there sEould be added six of the tradesmen of Aberdeen to be elected for five years, and at the expiration of that period to be succeeded by six other tradesmen for a similar period, and so on until the expir tion of the time- limited by-the Bill. That propositiolf . was rejected, and as the object of rejecting it seemed to him. to be to do away with the corporation of Aberdeen, he had no other course left him but to support a renewal of the original Bill. Sir RONALD FERGUSON supported the amend ment, because he thought that the state of insolvency in which the promoters of this Bill had, upon Their own confession, been for eight years, was of itself, independently of all other circumstances, sufficient to justify this House in rejecting a Bill which was,. in his opinion, as great a job as any which had ever been brought under the consideration of the House. Sir G. WARRENDER, in explanatioM said, that when he made the proposition to which he alluded, he was igno raut of the circumstances of the case ; but after hearing the evidence bell re the Committee, his conviction was that, no case had been made out against the corporation of Aberdeen. Mr. FERGUSSON opposed the amendment. He con sidered that the appointment of any tradesmen or mer chants of Aberdeen, as trustees, with the management, would only excite dissension and disunion in a body in which the greatest unanimity had hitherto prevailed. Sir J. NEWPORT said the Bill now before the House was, with a few verbal alterations, the same as the former Bill, and he thought such an attempt to impose upon the House ought not to be countenanced. Sir Q. CLERIC thought that the appointment of addi tional trustees to the . original body would cast upon the corporation. of Aberdeen a stigma, which the evidence before the Committee - iiid not warrant the House in affixing upon the conduct of the respecta?le body to which the management of those Docks had been hitherto intrusted. The lion. Baronet went into a detail of the proceedings of the corporation, and justified what they had done in the exercise of the powers granted to them by the original gill, Mr. ABERCROMBI E said a more clear ease for rejecting the Bill for nou-compliance with the standing order could not come before the House than that made out by the parties themselves, who were the promoters of this Bill, and lie should therefore support the amendment. Colonel WEMYSS said if there had been such a consti tution at Aberdeen as that enjoyed by Dundee, the Aber deen Harbour would have been finished long ago, and he would support any measure which would have the effect, if not of doing away with, at least of altering the powers granted by the former Bill. After a few words from Lord - Stairtis'illititiiiieelfi: For the Amendment 103 Against it „.,„...„ .... B3 not be imposed on Foreign Wool, without injury to the manufacturing interest, and he had now to inform the House that it was not the intention of his Majesty's Government to impose any duty on the article.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. W. W I M ORE expressed his surprise that it was the intention of 'Government to allow the appointment of a committee. No good could result from such a com mittee, and its only effect would be to create alarm In the country. The petitionsivere then brought up, and read. ' Petitions against the Catholic Claims were presented by Mr. CORRY (five), from Ireland; by Mr. H. Davis (two), from Bristol ; by Mr. Dirscostim, from Sheffield (one) ; and from the county of Wicklow three. Petitions in favOur of emancipation were presented by Mr. Huskisson (five), from Liverpool and other places ; by Mr. Lumley, from Catholics in Nottinghamshire; by Mr. Van Homrigh, from Catholics in Drogheda ; by Mr. , Wallace, from Catholics in Dublin ; by Mr. C. P. Thom son, from Catholics in Margate and Canterbury ; by Mr. H. Grattan (four), from Catholics in Ireland ; by Mr. Rumbold (three), from Catholics- in England ; and by Lord Wm. Russell, from Catholics in Shepton Mr. HUSKISSON presented a petition from Liverpool, against time practice of burning widows in India. Mr. SLANEY brought in a Bill to amend the law relating to the employment of able-bodied labourers, which was read a first time, and ordered to Ire read a second time on Monday. Mr. W. PEEL presented some returns relative to pro secutions for fineries committed on the Bank of England. Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from the ship owners, merchants, and manufacturers of North Siiields, praying that the country one pound bank-notes might not be withdrawn from circulation. After a few words from Mr. Bets., Sir J. GRAIIANI, and Sir M. RIDLEY, the petition was ordered to hf! printed. Mr. HE ATHCOTE presented a petition froM certain owners of land in Lincolnshire, against the Government C .lAesolutions. :DUNCOMBE presented a similar petition from To shire. Sir J. ASTLEY presented a petition from certain ma nufacturers in Wilts, against a tax on wool Me. C. PALLMER presented a like petition from-19a nufacturers in Surrey. Mr. MARSHALL also presented another petition of the same kind from manufacturers in the West Riding"of York shire— OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON. Mr. PEEL said, that betbre the Speaker left the Chair, he was anxious to explain to the House7 . the nature of the subject about to he discussed. The Bills in question had been prepared by a Noble Lord (the Marquis of Lans downe), whilst he filled the office of Secretary of State for the Home Department. The measure which he was about to propose would introduce some alteration in the Law of Evidence. The Bill contained only four clauses, the ob jects of which were as follow :—The first' provided that the affirmations of Quakers and Moravians (under a par titatler form) . should be received in Courts of Justice in all criminal cases. As the law now stood, their affirmations were taken in civil cases : and the proposed law provided, that it should be extended to them in criminal cases also. This became the more essentially necessary, inasmuch as, in many cases, where persons of those classes were the sue refers, criminals were allowed to escape, because neither Ake Odip t or the other class would take the oath prescribed in ou>t Courts of Justice. By the adoption of the pro posed clause no injury could arise, while it would, on the other hand; materially forward the ends of justice.— (Hear, hear.)The object of the second clause was, to allow persons interested in cases of forgery to be received as competent witnesses. As the law now stood, a party injured by, and therefore interested in a case of forgery, Was precluded from giving his evidence, which be looked upon as a serious perversion of the ends of justice. The third, clause had for its object the removal of all doubts as - to third persons who were parties to felonies, not capital, being competent to appear as witnesses for prosecutionti. The fourth claise was of the same tenour, and provided that persons convicted of misdemeanour, and having undergone the punishment thereunto attached, should be restored to their competency of giving evidence in criminal Cases. One objection to this rule was, however, very properly made, which was, that all persons convicted of perjury should be debarred from giving evidence in such tatses.—(Hear, hear.) The second Bill which he meant to introduce, included the whole Statute Law of the country relating to offences against the person: The effect of this measure, if carried into a law, would be the repeal 'of no less than fifty-seveo Acts of Parlia ment on that subject. These laws, as they now stood, ,were obscure and intricate, and the object of the prof: posed measure .as nut so much to '.consolidate them as to simplify therii and make them clear. As the law now stood, a wife murdering her husband, a servant murdering his master, or a clergyman murdering his clerical superior, was considered guilty of petit treason, and in all such "ciees the accused were allowed 85 challenges of jurors, and two competent witnesses to prove their guilt. Now he could not, in cases of this description, see any good ground for departing from the general rule adopted in our Courts incases of murder ; on the contrary, be conceived that in all such cases the practice ought to be uniform. There was another alteration, too, upon which he wished to say a few words. According to the, existing law, a person knowingly harbouring or concealing a murderer, was, under the law of William, liable to imprisonment for one year, or for a greater period of time. But he thought it Would be right to make this a capital offence, and in sup port of his argument he mentioned the recent murders which had' taken place at Fetcham (Surrey) the mur der of Mrs. Donatty, in the neighbourhood of Bed for&row, and the still snore recent murder of Mrs. Jeffs, in Montague-place, as instances of the manner in which the ends of justice must have been frus trated by the concealment of the guilty persons. An other criminal case in which he wished to make an alteration was the following :—As the law now stood, in all cases where parties were accused of murders, com mitted abroad, an examination must first take place before the Privy Council—witness the case of Governor Wall.— Timis, it was found, was productive of great inconvenience; arse, lie meant to propose that an examination before a Jus tice of Peace in such cases should be sufficient. The next point to which he wished to call the attention of the House was au Act, commonly called Lord Ellenborough's Act, by which, all cutting or maiming with a sharp instrument, or firing with a gun ler pistol, with intent to kill or do some grievous bodily harm, is held to he a capital offence ; while all attacks with the same intent, if made with a blunt in strument, was visited in a different manner. He really could not see why the one species of attack should be differently punished from another, and therefore lie pro posed that, upon conviction, the punishment should be the same in both cases. He would instance a - ease of very re, cent Occurrence, in whisth a man named Howard at tempted, with a blunt instrument, to murder a Mr. Mullay, whom he had enticed to his residence under certain false pretences. Where, lie would ask, was the difference as to moral turpitude between that case and the case of an at tack with a sharp instrument? Where was the difference between a mortal blow given, or attempted to be given, with a stick, or with dumb bells, and with a like attempt made with a sword or a pistol? It was quite clear, that if death ensued in either case, the criminal party would be Aeceedekagaipst for murder. The next point to which Ilse proposed Measure referred was—the wilful concealment, by a female, of the birth of her child. As the law now stood, it provided, that where a concealment of the birth took place, and the infant died, or was born dead, the female was, on conviction, punished with imprisonment, even though she might have been indicted for the murder. For liiinself, h^ did oot see any ground opon which any difference ought to be made between married and single women in such cases. On the contrary, he imagined that if the law WaS just in the one case it was equally just in the other. Again, he proposed to alter the law of ab duction, either with intent to defile or marry the feresle, 4s the law slow stood, it extended protection only to heiressea to lauded property- heiresses to funded or other property being excluded. By the proposed alteration lie meant to extend this protection to heiresses in all ca.ses of abduction. Another clause provided, that it should not be lawful to kill any person in the preven tion of a felony unless all other means for the prevention of such felony were previcessly resorted to withoot effect. He now came to two or three eases of much difficulty'and deli cacy, in which he meant to propose alterations in the exist ing law. He felt how unpleasant it was to trouble the House with such a subject, but be also felt that he was, in the discharge of the duty he had undertaken, called upon to state them. The three offences to which he alluded, were—rape committed uponn - goiwn females ; carnal knoW:. ledge with intent to commit a like offence Upon infants under teo years of age, and the third was, " the Crimea infer qristianos non nominandum."—The Right Hon. Gentleman, after ipteriUg into a detail of the evidence neces sary to obtain a conviction in either of such cases, evidenae which, he observed, must consist, first, of proof of the assault ; and, secondly, of the party having succeeded in his criminal ins tentions--weat on to obsei ye, that by this Bill the first part of the proof should be conslusive of the guilt of the accused, it being in all cases difficult, * and in some impossible, to sub stantiate the other part of the cbarge , tie admitted that such charges were eaisilv made, and with difficplty rebutted, hut this 'formed no grlitind why protection should not be afforded where it was most needed. The Right lion. Member waist on to cite several cases of violation which had been referred to the twelve Judges, in IT2I, 1758, 1771, and 1780, in which great difference of opinion pre vailed as to the degree of proof necessary in such cases. In one case, Lord Mansfield and two ether Judges were of opinion that the one species of proof was sufficient, while the other Judges held that the double proof was ne cessary. He begged itardeu of the House for thus troubling them with details.—( Hear, hear.)—The sanction and sup port which his efforts had hitherto received were his best reward, and at the same time his• greatest encouragement to persevere in them.—(Hear, hear.)—He begged leave to. move, " That the House should go into a Committee on the Law of Evidence Bill." 'Mr. N. WYNN observej, that with resp e ct t o the cliuse respecting Quakers and Mo:avians, he apprehended it was too unguarded. Mr. G. LAMB should prefer some security being re quired that the person alleging his inability to take the usual oath, was in reality a Quaker or Moravian. _ _ The SOLICITOR-GENERAL defended the clause, 11r. WM. SMITH denied that the exception in favour of Quakers and Moravians mul anv_hoon to them. Mr. W. WYNN said, there were few cases in which an individual who would give his affirmation against a person unjustly would hesitate to give his oath. But he believed there were many cases in which an affirmation would he given in a person's favour, when, if au oath was administered, his evideace would assume a different com plexion. If an instance were required to show how loosely affirmations were sometimes given, he need only refer to the numerous instances of prevarication which took place before that House: . Mr. PEEL was apprehensive that the introduction of such a principle would lead to a great laxity of evidence, for every party who - wished to go as near the wind as pos sible, would beg to be released from the obligation of an oath. The consequence would be, that the general confi dence of the country in the administration of the law would be much shaken. In the case of Quakers and Moravians, few practical inconveniences could arise, but great encou ragement would be given to the creation of new sects, if every man who wished might dispense with the necessity of an oath. It would be going but one step further to let every man choose the terms of his own affirmation. Lord J. RUSSELL thought the subject well worthy of the Right Hon. Gentleman's attention. Every one was agreed as to the propriety of taking the affirmation of Quakers, and there was a small sect in Ireland who en-, sertained the same opinion with respect to the immorality of an oath. The smallnqs of their number ought not to be made an argument for denying them the same privilege. He would require those who asked to be ex empted from the oath to say that they belonged to some rsiigious society who entertained conscientious scruples against the practice. • After a few words from Mr. G. Lasts, and Mr. CUR.- MS, the clause was agreed to. Sir EDWARD CARRINGTON observed, that the solemn affirmation of a Qsaker in point of conscientious sanction, was equal to an oath, and it is found by experience that the ends of justice were answered by it; but it would be dangerous to admit those sects which sprung up day by day to substitute their affirmation. The remaining clauses were also agreed to after a few verbal amendments. The House then resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. Mr. PEEL moved that the House should resolve itself into a Committee on the second Bill, for consolidating the laws respecting offences against the person. • A Mamma, whose name we could not learn, wished to know whether the Right Hon. Gentleman intended to ntroduce any provision for giving magistrates a summary jurisdiction in cases of petty assaults. Mr. PEEL admitted that hardships might, and no doubt did arise under the law as it stood, but if they were to introduce any clause on the subject, it would be liable to the objection of increasing the summary jurisdiction of the Magistrate, and great caution should be observed to guard that power against abuse. The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the Sir T. BARING alluded to the shortness of the inter val between the conviction and execution of a murderer according to the present law, and observed that the period was too short to admit of that re-consideration which in some instances might lead to the respite of the convict. Mr. PEEL observed, that the immediate execution of murderers had a great effect i n ` ' producing intimidation, as his Right Hon. Friend, the S tare for Ireland, could testify with respect to that coun He (Mr. Peel) was N therefore unwilling to remove an : , ing that would ope rate as a check to the crime, unless ere were strong rea sons for changing the law, and he did not recollect any case that would cOuntenkhee such' 4n opinion. Mr. VAN HOMRIGI-1' (as we understood) stated, that he was present at a trial ti•hea a man was found gulty of murder in a case which h thought only amounted to man slaughter. Under thatimpression be had applied to the Judge to grant a respite, but the Judge refused.. He then proceeded to Dublin, and applied to Judge Downes, who , recommended him to go to the Castle. Lord Talbot was then Lord Lieutenant. Mr. Gregory, the Under-Secretary, informed him that nothing could be done, and he told Mr. Gregory that in that case the man would be murdered, for • it was certainly a case of manslaughter He next saw - the Attorney and Solicitor-Gmerals, who agreed with him that it was manslaughter ; but Mr. Gregory said, where is the use of attempting any thing ? there is not time. Nis answer to Mr. Gregory wro, " Never mind, let me shave the respite, and I'll take care it shall be in time." The re spite was procured, and he arrived in Drogheda in time to save the man's life. (Hear, hear.) The letter he took with him required the Judge to send his notes to town, and on the evidence of his own notes the case was decided to be manslaughter. ( Hear, hear. ) Mr. PEEL said, that under such circumstances - there should be no hesitation in suspending the execution. The clause, as amended; was then agreed to. On the clause providing for the punishment of man slaughter, which is accompanied by the following proviso, " that no punishment or forfeiture shall be incurred by any person who shall kill another by misfortune, or in his own defence, or in endeavouring to prevent the party slain from - committing any felony, which such party shall then by force or surprise be attempting to commit." Mr. PEEL observed, that he considered this proviso to be drawn up in language too vague and indefinite for legal enactment. He proposed to leave out the words, " which such party shall then by force or surmise be attempting to commit," and to substitute in lieu of them these words, " which by any justifiable mode he can prevent." He considered this amendment necessary, because the clause, as it now stood, would prevent any person who caught a thief picking his pocket in the Strand-which was a felony committed by surprise—and who killed him for at tempting that felony, front being pronounced guilty of murder. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL thought that this clause was attempting an impossibility, in attempting to define where it should not be murder when death ensued. He should wish to have the law left its own expositor, with out stating when a party killing another should have a justification for it. It was an excess of legislation to define a crime, which had better be defined by a jury pro re nath. —(Laughter.) Mr. PEEL said that the common law had already do _ _ fined several cases in which killing was not myrder..,. The 21. th of Henry VIII. c. a, olowed a man not merely to kill another in his own defence, hut also to kill another in preventing him from committing certain felonies which it enumerated. It enumerated burglary and murder; but strange to say it omitted rape. Hale and Foster both said that the statute did not exclude other felonies, and main tained that it merely mentioned burglary and murder by way of illustration. It was to remove any doubt upon the subject that be wished to alter the law : and he wished his Hon. and Learned Friend near him to consider the point before the Bill was recommitted. Mr. SLANEY said that no doubt a man would be jus tified in killing his antagonist, where it was necessary to save his own life ; but by this clause a right would be given him to kill his antagonist where the antagonist's at tack did not go to the length of affecting his life. He could wish to insert the word " necessary" before defence. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that there was no occasion to add the word "necessary." Mr. PEEL—The words "in his own defence" are taken front a statute as old as In the 6,th Edward 1., chap. 9,, it is enacted as follows—" The King commandeth no writ to issue out of Chancery, when one man killeth another iu his own defence." To put in the words "ne cessary defence," would only give rise to new doubts and ditflculties. The clause, as amended by 1 41 r. Peel, was then ag reed to: On the clause being proposed, rendering shooting at, or stabbing, cutting, or wounding any person with intent to murder, rob, maim, &c., capital, Mr. PEEL said, that in the next two clauses in the Bill be intended to propose some alteration. Itt the first clause, which, as the bill now stood, related to murdering and maiming, he would leave out the word " murder," because, in the nat clause, provision was made for the punishment of attempts to mu rder. The m ate rial altera tion effected in the law by this clause was by th e a ddi t i on of the words "or wound." Those wor d s p ro vided for the inflicted punishment. o fany attempt to mu rd er made by a weapon contused,which instead of incised or stabbing wounds. 'lin the case of Howard, who was tried lately, a man was nearly killed by the blow of a cricket-bat, but not by a cut or stab ; and there were serious doubts enter. tained whether him conviction under Lord Ellenborough' Act would hold. So too, in a else Wherenauider was ate thempted to be committed by means of dumb-bell. For neither of these eases was any specific provision iriade by Lord Ellenhorough's Act. The clause as amended was then agreed to.. The ne clause was as follows : " And be it enacted, that if any person shall unlawfulltaP maliciously attempt to commit the crime of murder,liy or 6; means of any poison, or other noxious or destritctive thissgs or by or by means of any violence or injury to the peril) other than such means as are hereinbefore mentioned ,0 1,1 provided for, every such offender, and every person coo selling, aiding, or abetting such offender, Shall be _guilty 6 f felony, and, being convicted thereof; shall suffer .death felon ; provided always, that if it shall appear at the .trial of any person charged with any s►.ch offence as herein :14st before mentioned, except an attempt to murder by that the principal offender did, by his own voluntary_ is s ctt and with intent to spare or save the life of the perooo against whom such attempt shall have been made, desist from such attempt, and from carrying the same into full effect, and such matter shall he found and declared by the verdict of the jury, then and in such case the puriishment of death shall not be awarded ; but xi vertheless the of his counsellors, aiders, or abettors,, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall be - fable to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for such term, not exceediug,l,o.. years, as the Court shall award." Mr. PEEL objected to this clause, as worded atlitaeno lie conceived the words, " attempt to commit the Of murder by or by means of any poison, or other nonfat" or destructive thing, or by or by means of any violeneeo! injury to the person," much'too vague and indefinite. would alter the clause thus—" that if any krion shfinid unlawfully or maliciously administer, or cause to bi ad ; ministered, any poison or other noxious and destructive thing to any person, or should by drawingn trigger, or in any other manner attempt to dischargeliny ofloadcr fire-arms at any person, or should unlawftiltyor Malici ously stab, cut, or wound any person,' or - CoMmit any via lence or injury to any person, with intent, 'in any 0 1 . 11 cases to murder, every such offender "should r be gui'ty of felony, and being convicted thereof,_ shouldsu death as a - felon." , He would leayti - fint the : proviso, alt!:t", gether, which he had no doubt ira4"intradneed to rerne4Y i the laxity of the first part of th e eLtuse. He (*wider.° the proiisO objectionable on this ground—that 4.left the J ury to decide upon a fact which did not appear on the. , indictment. Besides, if the desisting from the gUilty act before its final consummation was to be`good in murder , why should it not be good in other cases, as for robbery and burglary ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL could not comprehend the operation of this clause. Mr. WYNN said, that in Ireland to conspire was considered an offence equivalent to the commission re murder; hut he would leave it .to . the House to decide whether a man, who offered a poisoned cup to another and then dashed it from the other's lips, . just as_le was going to drink it, ought to be considered guilty of -,tbe same offence, as be who allowed the party, to whoM he offered it, to drink it off. . • Sir T. BARING defended the clause. - . Mr. FERGUSSON considered that the words of 111 x• Peel's amendment—" commit any violence or injury to the person," were too vague in their meaning. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL —By the words, " AnY violence," such violence was intended as would ociasio° death. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Probably, this clause?, if agreed to at present will he hereafter re-committed: FU t his own part, he could net consider the attempt to made!: equivalent to the act. In conclusion, he complained Pi the crude manner in which this Bill had been drawn up• Mr. G. LAMB was astounded to hear an AtiorneJrc General assert that a man who attempted to commit mur• der, and was only prevented from:eoniMitting it bir. 4c.0: dent, was not, in strict morality, as guilty as. the_ part/ who actually perpetrated it. He could not - ,say that, approved of the clause as ' it stool it present; but Ih e .- amentlfident of the Right lion:Secretary appeared . tniob".; jectionable. He thought that the person who had mitted murder was not, in strict morality, more guilty than the perscn'Who intended to commit murder 6otifi:frig,l . _ . The ATTORNEY-GENERAL defended hie morslo After some . further discussion, Mr. Pair. otatervPd.thik' he merely Wialied his amendment to he Printed, int .:beLt gir • consideration on a future day ; and on thattusdensti.nawP,' the clausewas agreed to as he had amended-it«, On the clause for punishing feniales for the concealing" - of child-birth; Mr. PEl,,inhatitated an. arnentlinelaa r .elat tha-ciattte' , shoOld ,apply . to "dea l children. only. LW" - he. wished to overthrow the distinction between a still-born child and one dying immediately after birth. On the clause for the punishment of violentontragn*Q"' a capital nature) upon females, Mr. W. SMITH suggested the propriety of exeeptinC . ,l. females from the revolting publi c e x a mination liiirhiici t !; they were exposed in giving evidence in. such cwt. , . . Mr. PEEL-said,' that if a private examinatioirwere'r -, e , lerated, one of the greatest impediments would be removed" to the detection of false charges of this kind. ' • Several clauses of the Bill were then put' froM the chtdr!, and agreed to. • Mr. PEEL proposed the introduction of a clause tending the operation of the provisions of the Cciinbinafic' n .' Act to seamen.—Agreed to. On a clause proposed by Mr. PEEL, giving sou-7 jurisdiction to Magistrates, in cases of comitionatiaulto fine to the amount of 51. and not under. IN., being re ad ' Mr. PORTAIAN recommended the reconsideration the clause. Mr. S. BOURNE supported the clause. Sir 11. INGLIS also advocated its introduction into O t Bill. Mr. PEEL had adopted the clause upon the suggol i°n _ - - he of others. He merely wished to have it printed viith t • Bill now, without pledging himself to support,it, on reel* . sideration in a future stage of the Bill. . The clause then agreed to. The House having resumed, the.reP°, l " . was brought up, agreed to, and ordered to 4e ,rceiyea • Monday next ; and the Bill with the amendments Vf. - . ordered to be printed. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and at half-past Twelve the House adjourned. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Gazette de Franke, May 4.) ALEXANDRIA, MA, cn have nothing new A inf I any importance, because the Tart a r has not y e t striv e " from Constantinople who is to bring the resolution of the Sultan with respect to the proposals made to our Pacha by '; an English Envoy. This Envoy remains in the Mean at Cairo, and an English frigate and brig have been JO 4 ' here for this month past ready for him. Besides these,'" •,' have here the Glasgow frigate, and the French have t frigate and three small men-ni-war, one of which is to Ow to-morrow with a convoy for Marseilles. The Paella ' still in the Delta, occupied with financial measures. An Egyptian corvette has lately returned from the Morea, which, on its entrance into Navarin, was brour: to by a French ship-of-war, which Aced three gime at Ind searched it, though it had no more provisions on boor than were requisite for its own use during, the voyage; after which it wal allowed to proceed. In this manner 00 Mores se e ms to b e bl oc kaded, and Ibrahim's come:tunics' tions to be intercepted. It is generally believed that O of port also will soon be blockaded, the Pacla's is preparing to put to sea, which the Allis* recording to the s ystem they a r d h e a d v , e as no a w no a t , h jo e i r )ted sq , aa w a i r il on oo, permit. ttioae4tY Aram 21 . L EGHORN , -- .-- The report (already men, groundless. ibyy a Swedish capta i n, of. the detent i on o f Russiani n eh en-of-war by th e G overnor o f M a l ta , ? roves days from Malt a , af fi rms , t h at t h e R uss i an squado;44 A captain who has urneed he re brought a e u i ngg ent i r e eight m which had been thoroughly repaired and provisioned dutiOr its long stay io that port, had sailed shortly before his de parture, and waited in the roads for the English *oo4' which was likewise beginning to weigh anchor. .•7 410 (ki r tination of the two squadrons was uneertaia.. .Borne P e r ' sons thought it was Navario, strictly to blockade Ibralliu l Pacha ; others thought Alexandria, to demand ilatisfoet it for an limit lately offered to an English brig ofyar by t he Egyptian fleet in its late expedition on the coast of CA'n"' s ' and perhaps to require the release of the Greeks carried 03 slaves to R i gypt. Faun, MAY 2.—The Duke de Montemart set out yes' terday evening. 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