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.e? .Lit , R --- .- - IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAI , 7. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. :Tha CHAS. PALLIER presented a petition in favour the East London Railway. the Bill from Mr. WARD presented a petit ion against' Mr. 11. Mackintosh, of Bloomsbury.--Referred to the Committee. CRANBORNE CHASE DISFRANCHISEMENT. Mr. BANKES moved the Third Reading of the Cran eorne Chase Disfranchisement Bill. Mr. PORTMAN took this opportunity of expressing the gratitude which he, in common with a large body of landowners in Dorsetshire, ft to a Noble Lord (Rivers), ter enabling this Bill to pass into a Law. He had pos sessed the honour of being proprietor of a very singularly noble franchise, but he would possess the gratification of leaving conferred a lasting benefit on all his neighbours and dependants in the Chase. Mr. Portman felt proud of Laving two such constituents as Mr. Browne and Lord ;livers, who had in this Session se proved their liberality and regard for the welfare of their native country. ROMAN CATHOLICS. Sir 11. PARK EL presented a petition from Portarling ton, in favour of Catholic Emancipation. Similar peti tions were presented by Mr. H. HOWARD, from the Itnroueh of Arundel and several other places. Mr. C. PALLMER presented a petition from War einoton against any further concession to the Roman Ca tholics. Mr. ASHURST presented a similar petition from the Clergy of the Diocese of Oxford. FOREIGN WOOL. Mr. CAMPBELL presented a petition from Argyle praying for a duty on Foreign Wool. Mr. LLOYD presented a similar petition from the Agri cultural Association of the county of Limerick. Petitions were presented in favour of the Catholic Claims by Mr. FITZGIBBON from the county of Limerick, by Mr. S. Weiler from the county of Leitrim, and by Mr. D. Da sieereoper from a parish in Cheshire. Mr. WILBRAHAM presented a petition from the owners of land in and near Stockbridge, praying for pro tection against the importation of foreign wool. Sir E. LLOYD presented a petition from the Roman Catholics of Holywell, in favour of the Roman Catholic! Claims, and a petition from the Merchants and Inkat& tants orthe sane place praying for a Repeal of the Small ,Notes Bill. Mr. CHAPLIN presented two petitions from the eesenere of land in Lincolnshire, praying for the itnposition of a to upon foreign wool. Mr. PAULET THOMPSON presented a petition f rotas a person named John Thornset. residing at Dover, complaining that in the year 1810 a :,ox of his, containing gold to the amount of '7,5001., was illegally seized by, an officer of Customs and confiscated, and praying for enquiry. The petitioner was advised by his legal adviser to bring an Action of Troyer, which he accordingly did, but pro ceedings having been instituted against him without his knowledge in the Court of Exchequer. the first inti mation which he had was, that the gold had been con faicated, and he abandoned his action. The petitioner then applied to the Court of Exchequer, which informed Lim that that Court could not afford hint nnv redress, and that Lis course was to memorialise the Lords of the Trea sury which he (lid, and their Lordships were pleased, in the year 1820, to direct that a sum of 2,5001., one third of the property seized, should he paid him. The petitioner stated that this property was seised in Lombard-street, where it was seat to be forwarded to him by coach to Dover, and although the petitioner could not complain of any want of courtesy towards hint on the part of the Lords of the Treasury, yet he (Mr. T.) thought the case stated by the petitioner such es would induce that House to afford him some redress for the loss which he haul sustained, Mr. DAWSON did not wish to throw any impediment in the way of any inquiry whielt the House might wish to 6reett, but he felt himself hound to state the facts of the case for the guidance of the House. Information was given to the Custom-house officers in 1810 that Mr. 'Th - ornset was shout to export gold to the amount of 7,0001. from Dover to the continent, anti accordingly the officer seized the gold en its way from London to Dover, which according to tie law at that time was liable to confiscation. Due noalce of the proceedings in the Court of Exchequer was given to Mr. Thornset but he took no notice of it, and the gold having been confiscated, one third of it was given to the Custom-honse officer—one third to the informer, anti one' third to the Crown. Mr. Thornset took no notice of the transaction for some years, and he then presented a Memo-. sial to the Lord of the Treasury, who did all in their power to relieve him by giving up the share forfeited to the Crown ; tint their Lordships ceold not order the resto ration of the two-thirds which were fo: . feited according to law to the Custom-house officer and ti informer. Tie would not say whether nt not this was an act. Gf hard- Aip towards the petitioner, hurt he must say that ho thought this gentleman had to attribute to his own negligence any loss which he might have sustained. Mr. BROUGHAM said he knew nothing of the facts of tte ease, but taking them as stated by' the itight Hon. Centlentan, he (Mr. Brougham) must say that the seizure was illegal, as it was made on the way from London to Dover, without, ar.y evidence that the gold was on the way to Dover for the purpose of being exported. There was nothing to warrant the Custom-house officer in making the seizure, except the information of an interested person. Ile (Mr. B.) thought such information was not sufficient to warrant the confiscation of the property, when the' owner, for anything which appeared to the contrary, might have been at the time conveying it front London to his house in Qie country. Mr. 1). W. HARVEY thought the petitioner would Lave had a better chance of getting redress if he had, in stead et presenting a petition, intimated to the Treasury that he was a freeman of Canterbu r y and Dover, end haul Treat influence in both places.—(A laugh.)—The words of the Act of Parliament under which this gold was seized, were that gold on its " way to a ship" to be exported was liable to seizure, but it did not follow that gold in Lome Lard-street, to be conveyed by a coach to Dover, where the owner resided, came within the Act of Parlia ment. He I:ad no doubt that the Law Officers of the Crown, if consulted upon the point, as one' of dry law, would say that the seizure was illegal, and therefore, that all subsequent procedingz, however gross might have been the negligence of the petitioner, were void. frran any thing which the House knew, this gentleman, who was the owner of property near Dover, and who had 0 , Lonse there, might have been taking clown this money for the purpose of making a payment et Dover, and it would he too hard that a gentleman taking motiev front London to his house in the country should be liable to the risk of seizure upon the bare intuit-elation of an in former, that it was the intention of the geussieman to ex port that money ultimately to the Continent. He sliould stlggest to the lion. Member to present the petition now, and afterwards move for the appointment of a Committee to investigate the transaction, and repGrt to the House. The CHANCELLOR u-f the EXCHEQUER admit ted, with the Hon. Mernlwr for Winchilesa, that a seizure in L o mbard-street of gold, without any evaidence that such gold was then on its way to the Continent, seas but he might at the :snot time say that if the petie Come - had at the time thought fit to dispute the seizure, the Custom-house (ewey. might have been able to establish a tede of circomstanees J ustifying the seizure, But evidence of which , , after such a lapse of years, he might not be able to establisi,l, if the House should think fit now to inatitatte inquiry.He deeply an , regretted the loss which this gen tleman had sustained, but after the petition* had thought fit not to make any defence iu the Courte of Law, he thought the g e neral consequencee of revising decisions to Courts of Justice after so long a lapse of years would, - ender all the circumstances, be of the nioet dingeroue stature, and he (Mr. Goulburn) should riot be one who 7,vould rpeornmend such a proeeeding. Mr. BARING was one of those who considered this as a tiv.es.tion of the violation of law or uot, without taking into consideration whether the law was good or bad in principle, aid it appeared to him that if the petner had violated the law he ought to take the consequences, and the solemn decision of a Court of Justice eves sufficient evidence to justify the Howe in presuming that a violation of the law had taken place.—(Hear.) — He was of r.pititon that the petitioner should rather have tionNl ques t h e propriety et' the conduct of the Go vernment in retur nin g to him their third of the eon- Lerated property than have come before .Le House, as he had now done. Upon the whole he thought that no petition had ever come before that House -of consideration than that of the th p a r t ese t zt e pe li ti o t i i i o . n. Mr. P. THO3IPSON said, Gentleman opposite (Mr. Baring) bad grounded his argument upon several assumptions, all of which he seemed to think well were the very reverse. Hi, • founded, when in fact they first assumption was, that the petitioner was about to e - tport this gold, but that he denied. He like wise was of opinion that the petitioner might have defended his rights in the Court of Exchequer ; whereas the fact was, that he was wholly ignorant of any proceedings in the Court of Exchequer against him. All the opposition advanced to the petition therefore, fell at once to the ground. T he ver y nature of the Court f 3'endered it improbable that he should know any thing o the proceedings, for they only advertised that they were Trout to proceed, and unless this motion met the eye of the party interested, they proceeded in his absence. He should then, and in that case, content himself with moving that the petition should lie on the table, reserving to himself the right of adopting any future measure he might think necessary after Government should have more fully inquired into the facts. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. Petitions, praying for Catholic Emancipation, were pre sented by Mr. A. Dawson, from the Catholics of the collo t!4r4 of Monaghan, Down, and Louth ; by Mr. Brownlow, from the county of Antrim ; by Mr. Caleraft, front a parish in Suffolk ; and by Mr. V. Fitzgerald, from various parishes in the county of Clare. Petitions against it were pre sented by Mr. ;Mcqueen, front several parishes in I-h,d fordshire. CORN LAWS Sir I'. LETHBRIDGE presonted a petition from certain Landed Proprietors of the county of Soinerset, against the Corn Laws Resolutions. GLASS. On the motion of Mr. HUME, certain Accounts were ordered to be laid before the House, of the Amount of Duties and Drawbacks no the Importation and Exportation of Glam. Mr. V. FITZGERALD presented a petition in favour of the Catholic Claims, from Ennis. Mr. BROUGHAM presented the following petitions : Nine in favour of the Catholic Claims, from Connaught, Tipperary, Cork, Leitrim, and Roscommon ; and seventeen petitions against the Friendly Soriety Bill. [Mr. COURTENAY said, that he intended to modify the present Bill, and to leave it for discussion after the present Session]. Three petitions against the Test and Corporation Acts; a petition of the Roman Catholics of Kildare, against any further grant to the Kildare. street Society ; a petition from the inhabitants of Cockermouth, against any protecting Duties in favour of Weet India Produce; two petitions in favour of affording facilities to Anatomical Dissection. Mr. DAWSON presented a petition front the town of Bandon, near Cork, against any further concession to the Roman Catholics. Lord NUGENT presented five petitions in favour of the Catholic Lord W. FITZGERALI) presented a petition from the parish of Kildare, and three other places in Ireland, in favour of the Catholic Claims. Mr. GEORGE BANKES presented a petition from the Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of East Retford, praying that they might be heard at the Bar of the House, against the pending Bill for the Disfranchisement of that Borough. The petitioners stated that they had never re ceived any pecuniary consideration for their votes at any Election of East Retford. He was one of those who thought that an early day ought to be fixed for the discus sion of this measure, without refer< nce to any thing which might be pending elsewhere. The petition was brought up and read. On the question that it do lie on the tabk., Sir JOHN BRYDGES lamented there was a necessity to proceed to the disfranchisement of East Retford ; but bribery had been proved, and therefore this House was bound in duty to visit the offence with punishment. As innocent persons, however, would iu this case suffer for the guilty, he hoped the interests of the former would be pro tected by the House, as far as was consistent with making a due example of the latter; and he confessed, that for this reason, he proposed a partial saving of their rights, by ex tending the franchise to the neighbouring Hundreds, in stead of altogether depriving the Borough of sending Re presentatives to Parliament, and conferring the privilege upon some of the large manufacturing towns. He re peated, he regretted the example that must be made, as the punishment would not fall on the right head, but that it would be a verification of the lines of the poet— " Little rogues submit to fate, That great ones may enjoy the world in state." - - Mr. J. S. LUMLEY, in the absence of the Gallant Admiral (Sotheron), his colleague, gave to tics, that unless some steps were taken on this Bill before Mon day, he should on that day move the issuing of two new writs for East Retford. EXPENCES OF PRIVATE BUSINESS, FEES, &c. Colonel DAVIES wished to state shortly the objects of the Bill. The Hon. Member then went shortly over the great expends which attended Road Bills, Canals, Rail ways, and every other improvement made for the purpose of facilitating the internal trade and commerce of the coun try. He would instance one case alone—that of the Man chester and Liverpool Railway Bill, which was introduced in 1820 ; that Bill cost its supporters no less than 00,0001. that Session, and yet it was lost. The Bill was again in ' troduced next Session, and nearly the whole forms were to he gr.ne over, at an increased expense. True, the Bill was carried ; but it cost those who felt bound to oppose it no less than fifty thousand pounds. He intended that the Committee for which he was about to move should also inquire into the present mode of appointing Committees up" - ..a:rs, which, as it now stood, he conceived so cum brous as gwegly to retard the progress, while it added to the expence of private Bills. The Hon. Member con eluded by moving " for the appointment of a Select Com mittee, to inquire into the mode of conducting Private 4usiness in this House, and the Fees paid thereon ; also on ail Fees paid on Trials of Controverted Elections of Members to sort•: in Parliament ; and further, to inquire into the mode of appointing Committees o❑ Pt ivate nets up stairs." Mr. LITTLETON was ready to support the first part of the Non. Member's motion, but he could nut cons.ant to alter the measure adopted last year as to the mode of ap pointing Cocntnitters up stairs, which was admitted upon all hands to work well. A; to the expenses of the Man chester and Liverpool Railway Bill, it was not a ease in point, as it oemirred under the old and defective system of ippointing Committees, which was amended by the measure of last year. Ile moved as an amendment, that the further discussion on this motion be postponed till Tuesday next. The amendment was put and carried. Dr. PIIILLIMORF. postponed his motion to extend the powers given by the Ist Ceo. IV. cap. 76. to the Deputy Warden of the Cinque Ports. CORN TRADE. Mr. F. LEWIS brought up a Bill to arneod the law re lat;,✓e to the Impot tation of Corn. It was read a first time, and ordere4 to be read a second time on Friday next, awl to be printed. COUNTY BRIDGES. Mr. GEORGE BYNG moved the second reading of the County Bridges' Bill. A ..lort conversation took place upon this motion, in which Mr, c.RIVPS, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Lord LOWTISER, anti Mc, SyKrs took a part. After a few words from C,olonel WOOD, the Bill was ordered to be read a second time c: - ; Friday the I Gth. The other Orders of the Day were dispOsed of, and the House Adjourrta at Ilalf-past Seven. NS THE POET.—" I went to see laid out for the grave," Faye Mr. ALLAN CEINNINOHAM ; " several elder people were with ow. He lay in a plain unadorned coffin, with a linen sheet drawn over his face; aild on the bed, and around the body, herbs and flowers were thipif.)y strewn, according to the custom of the coun try. He WEa wasted by long illness ; but death had not increased the swarthy Imo of his face, which was uncom monly dark and deeply marked, his broad and open bross was Gale and serene, and around it h'4; sable hair lay in masses, slightly touched with gray. The roar:, where he lay was plain and neat, and the simplicity of the poet's humble dwelling pressed the presence of death more closely on the heart than if his bier bad been embellished by ye nits', and covered with the blazonry of high aneeFtry and rank. We stood and gazed on him in• silence for the space of several mimitca—we went, awl others succeeded us; nut a whisper was ht hnl. This was several days after his death."—Lockhart's Lifs of lian;s. N r MT To THE DEAD SEA, TILE .10111)AN ' AND JERlel vi iP h . e -- re A s t ,i4 h o a r i n f- a p n a ( s i t G eleven we arrived ''. , at the t h e %ea t e r, and found i t name otnoi rha stood. M. e tasted Dead Sea; : e an to d hitter beyond any thing we ever tasted. I read the p o a e o t t v o e j a ; r r liv h e o f . l the German tra vellers l)fatmew xi. 11-24. At half at the Jordan, where the Greek pilgrimsusually visit it, is,iowna, ia •t i l l tt lifi t n l i.l i and where the Israelites passed over I read to the German travellers Joi,lnia i i : again •,and . to my self a lone the fourth chapter of Joshu j a Germans Matthew iii., and then I sent word to the principal Itabliies tslipeir.ilto,radlauni,pli.anyet,hi efoiriatmhee coofmt.hereZloiefr;t,d:,e Jev,„.grarinetfo_irt)e: I left Jerusalem, of Jerusalem, that I should, if the Lord should pray for them at the river Jordan. Brothers KING and l'ist: swam across the Jordan, and took a walk in the plain of Moab, in the inherita nce of ilrEt.taFN ; I then read agai n in my little Hebrew Bible, and in the Hale Bible which dear Mr. SINEoN gave me. The whole country round is a desert inhabited by wild Bedouins ! At six we arrived at Jericho. We took up our lodgings for the night, men h and horses altogether, in an open yard of the castle. The wole Dumber of inhabitants amounts to three hundred souls. 'lime Arabs here around us are true genuine Arabs, who are as free and wild as tkeir desert. I asked one of the Arabs " which do you like lost, the city or the desert ?" Arab.— " I am the son of the desert, I um not the son of the cite." —Wolfs Missionary dolling DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ruicas OF STOCKS ?HIS Bank Sitnck 2Ol l 3 per Cent. Rol fl-044,i%;, 3 per Cent. Cons 554 34, per Cent Ditto Red. 9•2 1 4% 1 pet - Cent. New ... Ditto, ltiv.t. 102% Bank L. Attu, India Stock — Dit to lionciA —pm. South Sea Stock ...... ..... — Oki Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2,1.64 85 pm. Ditto .... .... 500 94.14 65 pin. Ditto scull .... 2d. 8486 pm. Ditto Commercial ..... ... pin. Bank for Account ....... India for Account .......• Cons. for Ac................ 96% i 4 YRICEs OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds.- 60 5.9:543i Buenos Ayres Bonds Molds, 6 pet et- Bonds Ditto, 1824 ....... tkuiish 3 per cet&t. .- 59N, Greek Bonds Ditto, 1 .9'25 17!4 Linatamala 31uxican Bonds Do. .............. THIS DAY ♦T O) O'CLOCK. Neapoßum. 1421, Peruvian Bonds.. 3l Portuguese Bonds. 58 5% Prussian. 5 per cent Ditto, New Russian, New Spanish, Itl2l qr. 1 &ill French Roues, Sp. c. —t --e. Exchange —t. 3 per cent —f. —c. Exchange —f PRICES OF SJdARIS TH/A DAY AT O'4 O'ef OCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (Sao. at 5/. pm.) .C9O 21 Brazilian Milling Co. (is. at 51. pm.) £2O , 84 B,', 96 Columbian Mining Co. (Sm. at 51. pm.) .C2Vsr 15,, Canada Company YItICES OF VlLltill STOCKS.--LaniLlN, may 5, Bank Stick Congols, 3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 3% percent.... 92}(1 Nailoual Ditto Ditto, New —1 Patriotic Ditto ..„,.. .......... _ I per Cent. 1004 ' Hibernian Bank Ciov. Deb. ,', per cent. ... 93F, Provincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock .... ...... I Itoyal Irigh Aline _„, Grand Canal Stock —1 Imperial Vine City) Deb. 4 per cent. sllning Co. a Ireland 3allast Office Deb. ID. Ct. -- ! Commercial Buildings — Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. U A naeriCh U 2 Hamburg h. ........... 0 0 Brazil 1 0 holland 0 0 Ilueuoil A yro. I Dublin 1 Plunder. 1 Franc* 1 6 ottenburidi 0 0 .if axle() 1 Guernsey 8, Jersey. 0 1 Waterford 0 iIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-YOKROYir. Nlorning...l6 minutes after 10.1 Evening minutes after 10. _ l3 *lino LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1828. This is the day fixed by Sir FRANCIS BURDETT for bringing on the Catholic Question, and on the eve of a battle which may win or lose the Kingdom of Ireland even the most confidgut must be filled with deep anxiety as to the issue of so momentous a conflict. For our own parts, though we cannot boast, like a cotemporary, of frightening Foreign Powers into a change of measures, we hare, nevertheless, lent our constant, though humble aid to the advancement of this vital question ; but considering that the highest intellect of the nation will make its appeal to the Legislature in the approaching debate, we should deem it pre sumptuous now to repeat those arguments which we have from time to time addressed to the in telligence, the justice, the generosity, and the manliness of our countrymen. There is, however, one distinction between the advocates and the opposers of Emancipation to which we cannot refrain from alluding. All parties agree in opinion as to the degraded and miserable condition of the Irish nation, in which, if History is to be credited, there has been little alteration during the centuries which have rolled away since their connexion with England. The advocates of Emancipation propose a change—the Anti. Catholics rvi4t to give their system the experiment of some centuries iore. To that class of individuals who may sup. pose themselves incompetent to decide this ques. Lion by the limited amount of their intellect, or of their application to such subjects, we would in conclusion, venture to recommend that they should surrender their judgment to the guidance of PITT, and Fox, and BURKF, and CANNING, in preference to any other indivi duals who have appeared in these latter times. But already the umpires of the fate of Britain are moving down towards the scene of conflict, and to a protecting Providence we commit the cause of the Catholics of Ireland. Brussels Papers of yesterday contain an Ad dress from the President of Greece to the various corps of the Army assembled in Old and N ew Epidaurus, in which, after praising their patriotism and heroic deeds, he informs them that their pay shall in future he discharged every three months, and he requests them in the meantime to be con tent with their rations till that period arrives. With respect to the arrears of pay, he promises that they shall all be made good as soon as the condition of the National Treasury enables the Government to discharge it. The various accounts from Greece are, on the whole, en couraging, and the prompt as well as prudent conduct of Count CAro n'IsTRIA is likely to give stability and effect to the proceedings of the Government. M. EYNA RD, that Guar (ban Genius of Greece, has subscribed 50,000 francs to the New Bank, as a stimulus to other I contributors : VIEI;NA, Aran.. 25 The Austrian Observer continues to give extracts from the Universal Gazette of Greece, which contains a new Ordinance relative to the organization of the National Bank. The President has issued a Proclamation to the varinu ° cm pa assembled in Old and New Epidaurus, to the follow ing effect : " Exploits which do honour to the country, the per'e verance, valour, and warlike spirit which distinguish you, convince me that you will proceed in the path of glory with the same zeal which has produced so many brilliant deeds. This same conviction encourages me to appear among Y°" , to receive in person proofs of your confidence in me, and of your readiness to obey the arrangements for the new campaign which are explained to you. The present struggle will crown ' 01 the brilliant exploits that have preceded it, as it promise' speedily to relieve the whole country from the burden of your enemies. In order to receive the necessary orders for this purpose, you are to assemble as soon as yon receive my directions on the 21st inst. at Damala. The effect of a military organization (which will he made known to you) will be principally under the present circumstances to se cure that necessary unity and connection which have always led soldiers to victory ; but it also promises to maintain internal order, which is the source of the pro sperity of the nation. The soldiers who invariably submit to the above mentioned regulation will receive hence forward the necessary bread and maintenance according to their rank : I also guarantee to them pay, which they I shall receive every three months. With respect to the present arrears of their pay, every one shall have his due as soon as the public treasury ellen have the means, which it will posses£► in abundance, as soon as the new military or ganization shall have been carried fully into effect, and have opened the resources which will enrich it. The Go vernment, sensible of the patriotism which inspires the hearts of all the soldiers of Greece, is convinced, that at a moment when the whole nation makte the last sacrifice for the general deliverance, by pecuniary a ssistance to the Go vernment, the soldiers Will al.o discharge their last debt to the country, and be content for a short time only with their provisions alone, and the assurance that they shall likewise receive their pay at the end of three months.— The Government ends it necessary to announce this to you at pre , ent, convinced that its hopes for the true interest of the country will never be deceived. " J. A. CAPO D'ISTRIA, President. " Egina, Feb. 28, 1828." FRANKFORT, MAY 1. Baron Munch Bellinghausen, President of the Diet, re turned from Vienna last night, and the Diet resumed its sittings this morning. BRUSSELS, MAY B. An impostor, pretending to be an agent of the Emperor Don Pedro, but in fact an agent of the bargemaster at Treves, is at present at Montfort in the province of Lux embourg, endeavouring to persuade the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages to emigrate to Brazil, proceeding for that purpose by the Moselle to Wesel, and thence to Bre men : he is said to receive from the Isargernaster two francs for every passenger whom he procures. He is provided with a proclamation, in which wonders are promised to the new colonists, who are required to pay 12i louis d'ors for the passage of those who are above twelve years of age, ti for those from six to twelve, children below six being free. The Journal of Luxembourg, which publishes these particulars, demonstrate. 4 the falsehood of all these delusive promisas, and proposes that the pretended agent shall be ar rested, and required to prove the truth of his statements and the authenticity of his pretended proclamation, and, in default of so doing, to be sent to keep company with an agent of the same description, sentenced to two years' im prisonment at Treves. HANIBITRGII, APRIL 29. The Ilemburgh Reporter of today has the following al tiele : We have to acknowledge the receipt of a letter signed " E.," in which we are reminded that, at the time of the battle of Waterloo, there were no Lancers in the British army, and that, consequently, it was iruposoale they could have been guilty of the atrocity so gratuitously attributed to them by Blackwood. GENEVA, MAY 1 • M. Eynard, in a letter dated Ap:11 29, to the laenefac • tors of the Greeks at Geneva, communicates one from Col. fleidegger, who states, that the appearance of affairs in Greece has considerably improved since the arrival of the President ; he mentions his appointment to the command of Napoli, and the President's wish that he would remain : but this, he says, depends on the King of Bavaria, his Sovereign. M. E. adds, that the King has done him the honour of writing to him ; and he gives the Colonel and the other Bavarian Officers a farther conge of two years. M. E. encourages the friends of Gretic-e to subscribe im mediately to the new Bank, and says he has himself sent hO,OOO francs for that purpose. The French Papers, though they note the preparation making for the passage of the Pruth, yet furnish nothing decidedly new or certain respecting that important event. The next arrival from Russia will in all probability solve the mystery. The Havre Paper, received this morning, states that accounts have been received from Alex andria, 29th March, by which it appears that the blockade of the above port NaS inevitable by the combined squadrons. The messenger sent to Constantinople had returned, and the SULTAN would not listen to the evacuation of the Morea. He immediately ordered him to return to Egypt, without opening the despatches. Letters from Vienna, received this morning, of the 26th ult., bring the Yletalliques at 89i ; they also come higher from Frankfort, at 90. It is stated that the Regent, of 100 guns, is getting ready for the Duke of CLARENCE to hoist his flag on hoard, to pay a visit to Ireland. Dutch Papers to the 7th inst. have been re ceived, but they contain no news whatever.— Neither do the St. Petersburgh Journals to the 23d ult. contain any news. AstsTNß.nam, MAY 6.—Fachanges on London, 12 04}; :wo months, 11 91. The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 2d inst. says, that to the 19th April, nothing decisive had taken place on the Pruth, though they were daily looking forward to something important. The SULTAN was most energetic in preparing every means of de fence, and encouraged the enthusiasm of the army by his personal appearance among them. He rose early and superintended their exercise himself thrice a-day—condescending even to dine with them in the open air. But, notwithstanding his afFected contemptuous disregard of the danger ous position in which he now stands with regard to Russia, yet he occasionally betrays symptoms of irritation in his conduct, which are not at all in accordance with that composure which, to the surprise of every , body, he mani fested on the first receipt of the Russian De claration. The secret workings of conscious alarm occasionally break through the veil of policy, in which he has hitherto clothed himself with consummate mastery:— BUCHAUEST, Arum 21 Up to the 19th, in the evening, nothing unusual had taken place in the Pruth, but we are daily looking forward to something decisive. The bad weather had rendered vegetation so backward that it has been impossible to open the campaign. We have letters from Constantinople to the Bth of April, which give some interesting particulars respecting the state of the capital Itince the Russian declaration Was known. The mass of the people had received with indifference, bordering on contempt, the declaration of the Russian Court. The great men of the empire, on the contrary, appeared to be much alarmed and apprehensive of the consequences. The Sultan ap peared unconcerned, and resolved to prosecute the ex pected war with vigour. The Sultan, however, shows an irritation in his proceeding, which is not in unison with that composure which, to the surprise of every body, he manifested on the first receipt of the Russian declaration. At sun-rise he is on horseback, makes all the troops march from tke barracks, exercises them in person, and then re turns to the Seraglio. After bathing and taking his break fa-t he again rides to the barracks ; and exercises the troops in his favourite ruanonivres. After several hours' exercise the trool•s dine in the open air, and the Sultan partakes with them ; they then begin afresh, and continue till late in the evening. The treasonable conduct of Don MIGUEL /1119 deeply affected the security of the Portuguese Bonds, which are approaching to a level with the Royal Spanish. They fell since yesterday, full Nine per Cent. ! When the DON is actually proclaimed " King Absolute," we apprehend they will fall below zero.—So much for the legitimate sprig of the House of BRAGANZA, and the tuition of METTERNICH I It is one of the characteristics of Blackwood's Magazine that it is often calculated to amuse, but seldom or never to instruct. We have some times excellent sketcher of life and manners, a musing stories, and poetical effusions of great merit; but the moment the writers approach any great public question, be it the Catholic Question, Free Trade, or the Corn Bill, or a►►y other of the great topics which agitate the country, they indulge in such a strain of invective, that losing sight entirely of the nature of the subject which they are discussing, they seem to imagine that their readers are to be railed, not reasoned into conviction. Their reasonings, when they do attempt to reason, are shallow and inconclusive; they arealso irrelevant and desultory—their intemperate effu- sions being made up of shreds and patches from all manner of subjects. Thus in a discussion on the Corn Bill, which occurs in the newly published number, and on which we mean to make some remarks, we meet with abuse of the Whigs ; and in another part again, the writer, in place of calmly proving whether the Corn Bill be a good or bad measure, makes a solemn profession of his Tory creed—of reverence for the memory of WILLIAM PITT. This, with many other heterogeneous topics, is brought into a dis cus.6on on agriculture and commerce ; while, as ►nay be easily imagined, the writer throws no light whatever on the subject of which he has undertaken to treat.. He is too much in the way of taking every thing for granted ; and, by time help of bold assertions and doubtful facts, he contrives to patch together his flimsy and falla cious hypothesis. We may state, in one word, that he is all for the agriculturists ; he sees no harm in passing acts of Parliament to make bread dear; he reprobates the notion of freely admitting foreign corn ; and, lighting in his rambling dis cussions on the subject of the national debt, ho boldly asserts that this is no burden, repeating the thread-bare paradox, that what is collected from the people in revenue returns to them in expenditure. He begins the discussion of the subject with setting forth the pre-eminent importance of agri culture over commerce. We really do not see the necessity of fixing by any nice standard the comparative merits of those two great divisions of the national industry. Such idle discussions remind us of the fable of the Contention between the different members of the body, as to their re lative consequence in the general system. That the employment of producing subsistence is of importance, no one can doubt. But it does not thence follow that the growers of cern ought to hare the monopoly of the home market. The writer sneers at the policy of encouraging agri culture through the medium of commerce—" So then (he observes) the manufacturer should not be dependent on the agriculturist, according to the course of nature, but the agriculturist on the m a nufacturer." Yet, we may ask, can any thing be more certain than that agriculture depends on commerce. The tendency of foreign trade is to enrich the country, to raise the wages of la bour, and in this ease the necessary consequence is, a higher price of corn. When trade is de pressed, and when the rate of wages is low, the la bourer has not wherewithal to purchase corn at what this writer would call a remunerating price ; and, as he cannot reach the price of corn, the the er midst quarter, supply cannot be consumed until it fall to the l eve l o f hi s l ow wages . in. the year 1822, wheat fell to the extreme low price of 38 s. per quarter ; and it was to the depression of trade and to the low wages of labour that this remarkable cheap ness was partly owing. There was, no doubt, an abundant produce ; but we had frequently been favoured before this with abundant harvests, but such a low price had not been known for 30 years before,—yet tl:e h l i a s b: ,a u g re e r s of he plenty could was starving st s a t ' : s il l ' i g i a l i l n , i t i ) o r t ic p e r , oc a t i t l r d e w tl i t t e h ne th ce e ss s a a r m ie e s that even at the extraordinary low price of 38s. of life. At a higher low wages, the supply could not have been con sumed; and therefore it was clear, that as the wages could not be ,raised, the price of corn must fall, in order to be brought within the reach of the great body of the consu mers. " Let us," the writer adds, " s ecure that enough of food be grown by to, and no fear that, when grown, it w ill be eaten, and none die of want." Certainly there is no fear that it will be eate n ; but the writer forgets that, according to circumstances, it ma y be eaten at very different prices. It was eaten in 1822 at 38s. per quarter, because trade was depressed and wages low ; it was eaten in 1823 at between 50s. and 60s. per quarter, and the same crop, too, be it remembered, because trade had improved, and wages had risen. " What though the loaf be dear (we are told) if' every roan have money in both pockets to pay for it," We doubt it ; but the state of things. here de scribed implies a flourishing commerce. It 1 only in rich and commercial countries that t oil' can be consumed at a high price. In all othe cases high price indicates scarcity, when eve man cannot have money in both pockets to lA' for as much as he can consume. In place ° proving, as seems to be the object of this write r that agriculture should not naturally depend 0 ' commerce, every line which he writes provesth very reverse. He next proceeds gravely to t''' us that " to throw our market for agricultutr k produce open to every foreign competitor" woul d be little short of insanity and fraud ; and that would lead to the depopulation of the countri'' Mark how a plain fact shall put him down. 0 10 market for agricultural produce was thrown opo for 30 or 40 years prior to 1815 to every fore4' competitor ; there was in short a free admissi o into this country for all foreign corn, and wa i the country depopulated ? Was not agriculttu f 1 1 in a most flourishing condition ? The writ' goes on, in a mingled strain of paradox and in' vective, to broach several other theories. Uut wi shall not follow him further. The speciU which we have given above of his reasoning 141 suffice. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY. Twin,' toiCtect• The Consol Market closed yesterday at 651 ; buyers, but Immediately after the regular hours business they were done sellers at that rate. To morning the first price was S5l ; after reirchisi buyers, they have again given way, and a hs r gain done of 50,0001. at 851, looking heavy; th a e Commissioners gave 85f. India Bonds remain 9 " and Exchequer Bills 65 66 prem. In the Foreign Funds the attention of the des has been more particularly attracted to Porture gf ' and Brazilian Bonds, and the alarm has becosi e general with reference to the possibility of the dends on the former not being regularly paid. ~ The intelligence received by the Lisbon 1 10 ' leaves little doubt that this unhappy country is on tb‘ eve of events, which, however important, cannot bol have a disastrous effect on the credit and resourc e of that Government, it being a well-known fact between their expences and their revenue a defic it of 11 millions of crusados actually exists at thee' sent moment. Latterly the dividends have bet s ' supplied by the Brazilian Emperor; bat much I ' l9. certainty is felt how he will act in this particill° when he learns the events which have taken place Portugal. In this state of affairs the Bonds h ole kept gradually sinking in the estimation of trti British public, and the fall of yesterday has this , I l ` been succeeded by a further depression of 21 1 i. cent., having been sold at 56k. Brazilian 800 0 have also been extremely sickly and declined 58i 9; Danish, 594 4 ; Russian, 88f 9. The declaration of a dividend at the meeting! the Imperial Brazilian Mining Company yesterday,?`* well as the brilliant prospects held out to the P (4 6 9 ; prietors, had the effect of raising the shares to premium, to-day the premium is 61 2 ; nothing II !: been doing in the new intended Company, but appears that the propo:;ed Mines for this latter e 0" blishment are in the same district to; those which s 0 now proving so fruitful in ore. Three per Cent. Consols, 85f ; Ditto, for the 44 , e' count, 85i ; India Bonds, 96 al pm.; Exchequer 65 6 premium. FOREIGN.-Brazilian, 519 i 9; Buenos Ayres, 85 V, Chilian, 26 '7 ' Colombian, 28 4 4; Danish, 59 4 ;! Cheek, 16i 17i; Mexican, Five per Cent., 25 6 ; can, Six per Cent., 34 4 ; Peruvian, 231 4f ; Porturao 574 4 ; Russian, 864 9 ; Spanish, 111 1. M,sers.—Anglo Mexican, 70 67i dia. ; Brazilian, ti! $ pm. ; Bolivar, 4i 4 die. ; Colombian, "If 6f dim. ; t jw Mexican, 24 S die. ; General Mining Association , 11+ pm. TWO O'CLOC K Consols remain steady at 8.5 i I, with little busine ° Portuguese Bonds continue extremely depressetly'll; as the doubt increases of a due payment of the divide r a corresponding decline has taken place; they 1131' been as low as 55, but have rallied to 5 6 ; 13/1 zilian have been down to 58, are now 59, buyer s ' THREE 0' 6L 0 011 " Consols, 85k; Portuguese, 57i 57; Brazilian, j'ej The New Brazilian Mining Shares are to be i ou , i to-mot Tow, the belief of the forthcoming divid e/ on Portuguese Bonds being unpaid increases. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICE S ' Consols 85i - 1 Danish 59 Do. for Ac. 844 i Greek, 1825 171 Brazilian Bonds 69 Mexican, 1825 34 Buenos Ayres Peruvian 2.1. Chilian Do. Russian 89 Columbian, 1824. Spanish, 1821 11i DEAL, MAY 7.—Half-past six o'clock.---; I trge ship is just described to be on the Goodwin Sand' 4 , 4 A great many boats have been launched to her a ssist She appears to have a row of ports, and is supposed tcs_di a Danish man-of-war. Several large ships are p a*" the back of the Sand. MR. EDITOR—A question arises on 3 114 4 « Re-Insurance effected at Lloyds, by one of the 'icy Marine Assurance Companies, such reinsurance being e j gal, whether or no a stamped policy should be tj.,cit Perhaps one of your Legal Readers would give hie OP: A. P. on the point. CIIART,ER HOUSE SCHOOL.--The 1111- examination at this establishment took place yesterde'i presence of the Bishop of SALISBURY and a nunaern4, semblage. Several gold and silver medals were buted to the beat pr oficient in ancient and modern O tt t y tire, and among o thers a s i lver medal to a young gl en o man named WALFOIIII, fir a pleasing poem entitled Sojourn of the Israelites in the Wilderness." tI J FRENCH THEATRE.—This enterta,n.ni , theatre was well attended last night, on which neca.:y.c Jniarrir VERTPRE, the well-known comic actress, en : at Paris La Mars des Boulevards, appeared to g rea r , van tage iu SCRIBE'S v a ud e ville o f Le Premieres o rfl She was received with great applause. Garden-street, t op o f W est - stree t, th ere i s a swan ttr)! In a gard en b e l ong i ng to M r . Jogg s containing, a t t h e present ear l y per i o d o f th e season, 3 c° siderable number of ripe cherries.—Hull Packet. ; A person speaking with indifferenc e 0 , ) BraoN's poetry, a gentleman said, That is the Do r now, who would see nothing in St. Paul's dome large tumbler turned upside down." On Monday a gentleman's pocket was pi / in the hall of the Four Courts, of government debevvter amounting to three thousand pounds, with a nuns bank-notes to a large sum.—Dublin Patriot. Nearly a week of the finest weather, ( 1 ,4 4 ( which we were gratified with hearing the annual ae b ige, of the cuckoo, and with seeing the swallow, the ba r ed of summer, skimming over the placid waters, has beteso<, ceeded by a gloomy change in the aspect of the Yesterday morning, at about eleven o'clock, we we ee rea, ed suddenly by one of the severest. hail-storms we everre,4 beet to have witnessed, It was followed by a P er pt• luge of rain, accompanied by thunder.—Han Pac. te j A considerable sensation has been esc l o o: f ' Iledon and the vicinity, by the discovery, nn Sg aril';, week, of the lifeless body of a newly born c hild, P pa ? interred i the SIPPING Il D.tt, MAI! Ellen, Camper , Jamaica; and terra/ leo. Ar Loa der, for !a mem. % P AlatotiTn, the R apid, n Griffin, from L ji tslY, NJ frorz Rio Jane i Ga mbia; Nint a nd Two Brot uniton, from LIMERICK, t he Louisa, ( mlll , and Sur ;a GREts,Nrocl C ° o Per, fron DUBLIN, ° Porto, Mu -tit WATERFC )RI *erratb, fn am COY% OP C tired th e 14 etc a nd taros, 4 114, f low Lond a , n . , 11 AsTIN G ;s, A oryai, PE N tu ZAN' , CE, Tv an dI Livutpe T °4 3l e, fro' m I Triest e; R amb from Pa l e rtno C lover, V at , 6 tom Til e Ps rquh stated in 1: he n AL : I : l l : tet tß a ea l ( s tr .--Th a hal • J. full W 4 mu, t' 4 4 Nail le bul v - t ,,, i 4ect his t •ituati to ti CE krttec • We ca n rel Zi t with a l i t on i s l 1 14 14441 ), t 3 a sail ~) this week, w u to sl one cc I/44 e , t yes; rs of a ° ,44 „_ . " 8 at e the ( 4 4 ;7 4 A Ir . X 1 .4 v ed peac W ,4 afor t i he i gravel p„.• - QC. 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