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THE GALLERY . for the EXHIBITION and SALE of the WORKS ofBRITISH ARTISTS ' I OPEN DAILY, from Ten in the morning until Five ni the evening. Admiesiclii, Is. ; Catalogue Is. WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper. HORTICULTURE. TO be seen 'by the Nobility, Gentry, and those interested in Horticulture, at E. WEEK'S h orticultural Manufactory, King's-road, Chelsea, the prin ciPlea of Heating Hot-houses, Green-houses, &c., on 4 , ll Perior principles, hitherto unknown, by hot water, it ing been generally supposed that the pipes must be on a ral.lvithout dips, rises, &c., but he has by experiment proved ;I' 4 they can be rose to any height, sink and rise again, and e action the same as if on a level ; hot water flowing in 13I Pea is the roost beautiful and beneficial method eve r in „ho' "nod, as by ocular demonstration he can chew in a small hot °f earth, now growing in boxes, with only about three inches earth, under his own direction, the most luxuriant and Productive crop of early cucumbers and grapes ever seen 4 " g r Own in the shortest space of time ; by this new in ,,ration he can with an equally damp heat , heat p its fo r ' 41411 , melons, flowers, &c. 4 lvithout tar or hot dung. SUFI OLIC. TO BE SOLD, FRE E HOLD MANSION, MANOR, AND ESTATE, 13f upwards of 2,300 Acres. The Land-tax is redeemed, . _ and about One-third is Tithe-free. THE MANSION is adapted for the resi dence of a Nobleman or Gentleman, was erected about ten years since, and finished in the most excellent 41 anner ; is now in the most perfect repair, and may be homedistely occupied, without requiring the least expen ditare. The domestic Offices are of the most convenient descrip 11°u, and - calculated for the accommodation of a consider able establishment. Stabling for 12 horses, and standing .or seven carriages. The Pleasure Grounds and Gardens occupy about six rre' and ace most advantageously disposed, with hot- L °l4 es, green-house, ice-house, Sex. ; in short, nothing -- "''Been omitted which could tend to the comfort of the , The Mansion is admirably situated within a pale qf rout 100 Acres, of which about 72 are meadow, and the 44 , ti a plantations. th. l 4 Estate. is in a highly cultivated and healthy conn - C' is within eight miles of Aldeburgh (a fashionable sea ill- p l a c e ) , fonr miles of the market town of Saxmund th and the Entrance Lodge within a mile and a half of tbroughwhich several coaches pass daily. 44 e whole Estate is of the most desirable descripti on, 0 — "unds with game of every species, particularly the French cart r id ge. f purchaser may have immediate possession, and the ur nitur e a t a valuation. 'ot• further particulars, apply to Messrs. Wenn and , 3 „, tini4 ing 4, ham, Ipswich ; or to Messrs. Pickering and " 4. th, Stone-building - s, Lincoln's-inn. 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This Cane, which had passed through the hands of many eminent doctors, had been present at so many im :Nat consultations, and had moved so long. in the service it the Profes s i on , by an easy fiction was supp osed to become e p tobiographer, and thus to relate the History of 1,,,,7 1 ei0e in England for more than a century ; this Was done in the first Edition. The book was very popular, 4 , A - I : t i. deserved to be; and its success has encouraged the I,,,c tl ' O r to enlarge the Second Edition by several additional ' e s•"---London Medical Gazette for April. for John Murray, Albemarle-street. This day was published, price Six Shillings, No. IL of r ir E FOREIGN REVIEW, and CON TINENTAL MISCELLANY. Contents • IPapa Domination in Spain—ll. Chinese . i: 3v eh and Tales—lll. Lanai's History of Painting in V. Moratin's Poetical Works—V. Goethe's Helena Chateaubriand's later Productions—Vll. Botta's -4,2-stories and Historical Veracity—Vlll. 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HOPTON'S; 336, OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF ARGYLL-STREET, MILLI •NERS TO THE ROYAL FAMILY, respectfully ac quaint the Nobilityand Gentry that they have an extensive Assortment of FASHIONABLE HATS and BONNETS. with every other description of MILLINERY, ready for their inspection; also a •superior and extensive Stock of LEGHORN and STRAW HATS. N. B. A great Variety of Tuscany and other Fancy Straw Bonnets, entirely new. LITERATURE. PENELOPE, OR LOVE'S LABOUR LOST. London. 1828. There is some talent and infinite assumption about this smart supercilious Novel (of which we have been favored with the earliest copy, the work being yet unpublished) ; it evinces satirical powers of .ob servation, great tact in composition, and much amusing impudence. But its object is as faulty in ! intention as it is easy. in execution, being nothing more nor less than a splenetic attempt to run down the aristocracy by representing them as deficient in the usual honor, intelligence, and even hu manity of our common nature. For this pur pose, a patrician triumvirate, the Earl and Countess of Smatterton and their only son Lord Spoonbill, are held up throughout the tale to the reader's most unmitigated ridicule; not so much as the representatives of one family in particular, as of the whole aristocratic community. In illustrating the lights and shadows of these characters, the au- 1 thor is perpetually taking an opportunity to hint that noblemen are not often conjurors—a remark which leads its to conclude—independently of the internal evidence afforded by his novel—that the au thor himself is no conjuror. There is nothing so easy as to run down a class by this generalising system of vituperation : it is as easy as calling law yers rogues, physicians death-warrant s,and so forth ; a man of talent should deal in more original invective. As for the would-be witty reiteration of the phrase, " hereditary legislators," it has absolutely no meaning. Thus much for our author's defects : we turn with pleasure to the brighter side of the picture. His novel, as we said above, evinces much smart satire ; this is particularly the case with his inferior cha racters, who, like Kean's bye-play, relieve and keep lip an interest which would otherwise flag. Of Honoria Letitia Spoonbill, for instance, -who is in troduced to, and dismissed from, notice in the short space of half a page, we are neatly told that she " was a maiden lady of some 40, 50 or 60 years, but in whose cranium the organ of number was so slightly developed, that she could not say which of theabove numbers came nearest to the truth." In cursorily alluding to a certain country lady, who has infinite love for her parish, and equal respect for nobility, our author slily informs us that amid all her misfortunes, it was some comfort for her " to reflect that the great man in her own parish was an Earl, whereas the great man in the next parish was only a Baronet." Of a bachelor, who is disconsolate in single blessedness, and a great mathematician besides, we are told that he con soled himself by reflecting that both Bacon and New ton were bachelors." These are minute touches of character which none but practised observers could paint. With regard to incident our author is singu larly deficient; his meagreness of invention is really surprising; the plot of his narrative might be compressed, with great advantage to its interest; as it turns merely upon the old stale subject of seduc tion. Lord Spoonbill, a gay young Cambridge man, falls in love with the niece of his parish Rector, a Miss Penelope Primrose ; and after making both honourable and dishonourable proposals to her, finds that she has jilted him and bestowed her hand and heart on the son of a neighbouring clergyman. This is literally the sum of the main plot, which, however, is relieved by a variety of subordinate cha racters, one of which, an enthusiastic agriculturist, who discovers that the nation stands every reason able chance of being starved to death by a super abundance of imported corn—is very felicitously sketched. Lord Spoonbill, teo, is hit off with spirit, though not perhaps with justice. Lord Spoonbill was the only son and heir of the Earl of Smatterton. At the time of which we are writing, this promising youth had just finished his education at the Uni versity of Cambridge, or snore properly speaking, at the joint universities of Cambridge and Newmarket ; for the latter is a kind of essential appendix, or chapel of ease, to the former. It is indeed, a great piece of neglect, and grievously impeaching the wisdom of our ancestors, that Cambridge only of the two universities is blessed by the vicinity of a race-course ; seeing that our hereditary legis lators are in many cases mote timd of applying the know ledge which they acquire at Newmarket, than that which they gain, if it be any at all, at the University of Cam bridge ; and if there be any truth in the observation, that the best kind of education is that which is applicable to the purposes and pursuits of after-life, then indeed New market may be called the better half of Cambridge.— Lord Spoonbill was not one of those careless young men who lose at the University what they have gaind at school ; one reason was, that he had little or nothing to lose; nor was his Lordship one of those foolish people who go to a University and study hard to acquire languages which they never use, and sciences which they never ap ply in after-life. His Lordship had sense enough to con clude that, as the nobility do not talk Greek, he had no occasion to learn it ; and as hereditary legislators have no thing to do with the exact sciences, it would be a piece of idle impFrtinence in him to study mathematics. But his Lordship had heard that hereditary legislators did occasionally indulge in other pursuit% and for those pursuits he took especial care to qualify himself. In his Lordship's cranium, the organ of exclusiveness was strongly developed. We do not mean that his head was so con structed internally, as to exclude all useful furniture, but that he had a strong sense of the grandeur of nobility and the inseparable dignity which attaches itself to the privile ged orders. The only instances in which he condescended to persons in inferior rank, were when he was engaged at the race-course at Newmarket, or when he found that con descension might enable hint to fleece some play-loving plebeian, or when affairs of gallantry were concerned. in these matters no one could be more condescending than Lord Spoonbill. We should leave but an imperfect im pression on the minds of our readers if we should omit to speak of his Lordship's outward and visible form. This was au essential part of himself which he never neg lected or forgot ; and it should not be neglected or forgot ten by his historian. He was tall and slender, his face was long, pale and thin, his forehead was narrow, his eyes larg e and dull, his nose aquiline, his month wide, his teeth beautiful white and well formed, and displayed far arc : more liber a l t h an many ex hibiti ons i n the metropolis which only op en f rom ten t ill d us k.' His lips were thin, and anotis of proud lie was h naturally and whisk ers were tremen d ous l y thi c k. Of his person justly proud. Who ever possessed such a ur pe r rson t t r erasct e xdifferentdifferent order; -it de scribes the death-bed of Doctor Greendale, a worthy man and sturdy polemic (a sort of regenerated Doc tor Primrose), and uncle to the heroine of the tale. Cord Spoonbill hastened to time room into which the patient had been removed. When he entered the apart ment, he saw by the light of one dim candle, and a re cently • l'indled fire, the figure of Dr. Greendale sitti ng i n an easy chair, in a state of apparent insensibility, and on one side of him sat :qrs. Greendale, grasping his hand with convulsive eagerness, and looking anxiously on his still and frozen features : how like and how unlike what he was ! On the other side Penelope was kneeling, holding him also by the hand, and hiding her face, that its expres sion of deep feeling might not needlessly distress her aunt. Gentle sobbings were heard, and the hard breathings of the death-stricken man. his Lordship stood for a few se conds as if rivetted to the spot where his eye first caught the sight of the melancholy group. Mrs.-Greendale first noticed the presence of a stranger, and recognised his Lord ship, who then advanced with slow anti gentle step towards the sick man, and silently took the hand of Mrs. Greendale, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1828. %vhose tears then flowed afresh, as with louder sobbings she exclaimed-- " Oh, my Lord, what a sight is here ! Those dear eyes 'save been fixed as they are now for hours. He was a good man, my Lord ; such a heart ! such tenderness ! Oh, he cannot, he cannot continue long ! Oh, that I should live to see this !" As Mrs. Greendale spoke, Penelope rose from her kneeling posture, and turning round, then first saw that Lord Spoonbill was in the room. His Lordship intreated Mrs. Greendale to compose herself, and then turning again towards the side man's •he held - out his hand to Penelope, who resigned to his Lordship the hand of the dying man , - which she had been holding. Lord Spoonbill took the offered hand, and kneeling on one knee pressed the hand to his lips, and looked with searching earnestness to the face of the patient, as if endeavouring to rouse him into c onscious- ness And recollection. The eyes were fixed anti motionless, and their - brightness was passing away. After a few mo ments there appeared a convulsive movement of the lips, and there seemed to be a gleam of consciousness in the eye, and the hand which Lord Spoonbill had been holding was lifted up and placed on his Lordship's head, from whence it fell in a moment, and the breathing, after one long sigh, died att-ay and was heard no - more. There are other incidents in the tale, such as the interview between a gentleman Who has just return ed home from a sixteen years residence in India, and Mr. Kipperson, the agriculturist, in which the latter strives hard to do away with what he calls the ex ploded prejudices of the former, and to persuade him that the public mind (thanks to Mechanics' Insti tutes and all that) has nearly attained its acme of perfection—which we might dwell on at some length, did not our limits abruptly warn us to a conclusion. Enough then to soy, that Penelope is a lively tale of Theodore Hook's sketchy school, fertile in smart remark, but barren in invention, and altogether unde serving of the outrageous puffs which have for the last fortnight been propitiating the public in its behalf. SECO N 1) EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Foreign- Office, April 18. The King has been graciously pleased to appoint Henry Stephen Fox, Esq., late Secretary to his Majesty's Lega tion at Naples, to be his Majesty's Plenipotentiary to the United Provinces of Rio do la Plata. Colonial-Office, April 17. The King has been pleased to appoint Major General Nathaniel Blackwell to be Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Island of Tobago. Whitehall, April 17. The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Peter Markeschan to the church at Locligilphead, in the parish of Glassry, in the presbytery of Inverary and shire of Argyll. Whitehall, April 17. The King has been pleased to give and grant unto Lieut. George Read, of the Royal Navy, late Lieutenant of his Majesty's ship Lively, his royal licence and permission, that he may, in compliance with the earnest desire ex pressed by his late Most Faithful Majesty John the Sixth, King of Portugal, accept and wear the insignia of a Knight of the Royal Portuguese Military Order of the Tower and Sword, which that Sovereign was pleased to confer upon him, on occasion of his Most Faithful Majesty's visit on board that ship in the Tagus, in the month of May, 1824 ; provided nevertheless, that his Majesty's said licence and permission doth not authorise, and shall not be deemed or construed to authorise, the assumption of any stile, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertain ing unto a Knight Bachelor of these realms : and also to command, that the said concession and especial mark of his Majesty's royal favour,' together with the relative do cuments, be registered in the College of Arms. Crown-Office, April 18. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. BOROUGH OF SUDEURY.-John Norman Macleod, of Dunvegon-castle, in the county of Inverness, Esq., in the room of John Wilke, Esq., who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Whitehall, Feb. 27. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Ralph Lpicer, of Great Marlow, in the county of Bucks, Gent., to be a Master in the High Court of Chancery. Commission in the Shrewsbury Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Salop. William Egerton Jeffreys, jun., Gent., to be Coronet, vice Baldwyn Leighton, promoted. Dated April 9, 1829. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. James Rhodes, maltster, Gomersal, York. ' Robert Oliver, 'Willow-walk, Bermondsey, glue-mane• Facturer. Inhabitants of Moyallo, in the county of Down, praying For the Abolition of Slavery. Sir R. WILSON presented a petition from the Affec tionate Friendly Society at Preston, in Lancashire, against the Friendly Societies Bill. They considered that nothing satisfactory could be done until more full information could be obtained upon the Subject, and therefore time for that purpose ought to be allowed. Mr. PORTMAN said the object of the present Bill was to amend the former law. There was a clause in it exempting the old Societies from the operation of the Tunv law, provided they made no applications for new rules. The Committee, however, would meet on Tuesday next, and if they reported again that clause, it would, of course, be abandoned. Mr. W. DUNDAS preiented a petition from the Royal College of Surgeons, praying that the House might take into their consideration the state of the supply of anatomical subjects to the different schools of anatomy, and grant such relief as the case required. Mr. Secretary PEEL presented petitions against the new Friendly Societies Bill from the Tichfield Society of United Friends, meeting at the Coach and Horses, in Tichfield, .Ind from the Wickham, Southampton, and Fareham So cieties. They did not object to any prospective regulations with respect to new Societies, but they protested egainst anxinterference with the old. The Bill professed to ex empt existing Societies, provided they applied, not to amend their regulations. Now this clause was calculated to prevent any improvement in the regulation of the old Societies, and it 'might upon that ground be desirable to alter it. Mr. FOWEI. BUXTON presented four similar peti .ions from the county of Middlesex. _ . Mr. FOWEL BUXTON moved for an Address to his Majasty, for returns of the Slave Population in the Colo nies, distinguishing the sexes, and other particulars.— Ordered. Mr. IH presented two petitions from Friendly So cieties, in Hilgate, Scotland, and Landon, Dorset, against the Friendly Societies Bill. Mr. HUME said, he was requested to present a petition from St. Mary and St. Ann, Shandon, Cork, complaining that they were taxed by Protestants for the building and repairing of Protestant churches. The Hon. Member said he entirely concurred with the prayer of the petition. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Dundeen, pray ing for the repeal of the Stamp Duties on Receipts.—Laid on the table. STATE OF THE IRISH POOR. Mr. JOHN SMITH presented a petition from certain linen manufacturers in the King's County, Ireland, corn phining of distress, and praying for the establishment of the Peors Rate in Ireland. The Hon. Member was not sure that the English system of Poor Laws ought to be adopted in Ireland, but he hoped the House would not separate in the summer without doing something to show their feelings for the distressed condition of the Poor of Ireland. If Catholic Emancipation was granted, capital would flow into Ireland, and a great deal of the dis tress which at present exists would be removed ; but if this was not granted it was the duty of Government to introduce some other measure to relieve the Irish poor. The petition was ordered to be pr.nted. Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition Dom the Free and Happy Friendly Society, New-read, against parts of the Friendly Societies Bill. Mr. ♦lderman THOMPSON presented similar peti tions from two other Societies. Mr. HEATHCOTE presented a petition from the far mars of Carding, Perthshire, complaining of the depressed state of the wool trade, and praying for protection. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. Lord BELGRAVE presented a petition from the Benefit Societies of Chester, against the Friendly Society Bill. Mr. BYNG presented a similar petition from the Bache lor's Society of Bethnal-green ; and a similar petition from a Society sailed the Sons of Freedom, held at Somers'-town. Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a great number of similar petitions from different parts of Westminster, from Stock port, and other parts of the country. The Hon. Member said, the Bill now before the House altered the whole con stitution of Friendly Societies. Those who were inte rested were all opposed to the Bill, and he hoped the Hon. Gent. (Mr. Courtney) would give it up. Mr. HOI2HOUSE moved that an address should be presented to his Majesty, praying that there be laid before the House a copy of the communication made by the Rector of the Parish of Marylebone, to the Lords of the Treasury, as to their right to raise funds in the parish, foz transporting the poor of the parish to Boteny Bay. After a few words from Mr. SraING RICE, the return was ordered. _ _ _ _ Mr. G. DAWSON brought uy the Land Tax Commis sioners Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time this day fortnight. Mr. R. GRANT presented a petition from persons con cerned in the Herring Fisheries in the County of Inverness, praying Parliament to grant a bounty of 3s. per barrel on all herrings exported. He also presented a petition from the Magistrates of Forays, on the subject of Fire Insur ances.—Both the petitions were laid on the table. Mr. HUSKISSON presented a petition front the Phy sicians and Surgeons of Liverpool, praying the House to repeal the law which presses so severely on Teachers and Students of Anatomy. Lord STANLEY presented a petition . front Preston, in Lancashire, against the Bill for the regulation of Friendly Societies. The Noble Lord presented a petition from the same ?lace praying that the state of Gaols in Scotland might be -aken into consideration. The Duke of RUTLAND presented a petition from the )arish of St. Margaret, Leicester, against any further con •essions to the Roman Catholics. The Noble Duke presented a similar petition froaz Gran tham. Lord KING said that he had a petition to present, orerthing more Christian feeling than that just laid on the able ; it was from certain IZomau Catholics residing in ~ he King's County, in Ireland. ane it prayed that their Protestant Dissentina Brethren, as the petitioners called •hem, might be relieved from the oppression of the Corpo ration and Test Acts. Several petions were presented in favour of the Stockton Ind Darlington Railway Bill. The Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed on next Monday week. Lord HAREWOOD presented a petition from a parish in Yorkshire, against the Importation of Foreign Lead. After several other petitions were presented, Lord CARNAR VON moved the Second Reading of the Penryn Bill, Counsel being in attendance to address their Lordships, and witnesses to be examined. . The examination of the witnesses was proceoded in, when the LORD CHANCELLOR decided, that as the preamble of the Bill charged that there had been long con tinued corruption in the Borough, evidence might be offered to prove acts of bribery committed antecedent to the last election. (Left Sitting.) SPORTING.-RECEIVED THIS DAY. NEW SOUTH WALES. Sir J. MACKINTOSH presented a_ petition from the Gentry, Merchants, Landowners, and others of the Colony of New South Wales, agreed to at a public tneetiug con vened by the Sheriff, with the permission of the Governor of the Colony, praying for popular representation and trial by Jury in that Colony. As the subject was likely to come under the consideration of the House, upon the Bill introduced by the Right Hen. Secretary of State for the Colonies, he should not occupy the time of the House in making auy preliminary remarks, but should content himself with stating that according to the most credible in formation that the population of the two Australian Colonies amounted from 55,000 to 60 ; 000 inhabitants, of whom from 35,000 to 40,000 were free settlers. The annual revenue exceeded 60,0001. ; the annual produce of the land and labour 800,0001. Having made that state ment he would merely state that there was no instance in the history of English Colonies where so great a majority consisted of natural free-born British subjects, were those two privileges—Representation and Trial by Jury, the pe culiar, ancient, and immemorial birth-right of English ! men. _ - Mr. Secretary HUSKISSON said, that he would not then go into any discussion upon the facts stated in the petiticn, but he could assure his Right Hon. Friend that the person who gave him his informatiod respecting :the popu lation of the Colony either possessed better means of infor mation than his Majesty's Government could resort to, or that he was misled. According to the last returns in that Colony the population was 49,000, and a fraction, and of that number 18,000 were settlers, and the remainder, the majority, wore those sent to the colony as convicts. He was anxious to do every thing which would speedily place the inhabitants of those Colonies on the same footing as to rights, with the inhabitants of this country. But he should abstain till a future opportunity from stating the grounds of his opinion, that the introduction of these measures into that Colony at the present moment would tend to impede rather than to advance civilization. Mr. BRIGHT supposed that when the Hon. Gentle man stated the population of the Free Settlers to be 18,000 he meant those who originally went out as free settlers, and to exclude those who had been sent out as convicts, and after the expiration of their punishment had become free scalers. Mr. Secretary HUSKISSON--The 18,000 included the original free settlers and the emancipated convicts.— The petition was ordered to be printed. (Left Sitting.) LEWES M ARK ET.—April 15. Beef -- 4s. CA. to 46. Sd. Veal 4s. Sd. to ss. 2d, Mutton 4 2 5 0 I 4 2 6 Lamb Ss. 10d. to 6s. Bd. Supply, for the time of year, moderately good, trade dull. HOUSE OF LORDS. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Penryn Witnesses Indemnity Bill, and to several private Bills. The Commissioners were the Lonn ICHaNcur.Loa, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, and Earl BATHURST. The Stamps and Insurances Bill was read a third time and passed. _ Lord COLCHESTER presented a petition from the proprietors efa Lunatic Asylum in Oxford, against the Lunatic Asylums Bill. The Earl of ROSEBERRY presented a petition from the Provost and Corporation of Linlithgow, praying for the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts. RUMFORD MARKET.—ApriI 16. s. d. to s. d. s. d. toe. d. leef 3 8 4 8 Veal tutton 3 8 4 8 Pork 4 4 - 5 6 Lamb 6 , ,. 8,1. to Os. Bd. Suckling Calves from 12s. to 40s. ; Quarter old Pigsl6s. to 201. each. Supply limited, and trade dull. • LEEDS CORN AIARKET.—ApriIIS. We had a good supply of Wheat, and having a thin at tendance of buyers, but few sales were made in any de scription. parley much the same as last week. Oats and Shelling were very dull sale, but prices are unaltered. For Beans the demand was limited, but no alteration in their value. Rapeseed was dull, and 1/. to 2/. per last cheaper. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. -- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. 5 65 2 53 .. to 6 a 4t..} ~,,,,, Barley, Norfolk and Sutfblk C I Yorkshire and Lincolnsltire ---- Grinding Beans 63lb. - 38s to 525. Oats, Potatoc —Healing, Foreign 11d. to 12d....English lltL to 121 , 4 d. per at.. Shelling 2Ss. to Ws. per load. Rapeseed, English, 211. to 261. HOP INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER, APRIL. 16.—1 n our market on Saturday 72 pockets were weighed; the trade is very dull. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 17. Earl GREY presented petitions against the re- , peal of the Corporation and Test Acts, from Charlesford, in Gloucestershire; Northallerton, in Yorkshire ; and other places. Lord DACRE presented a similar petition from the Protestant Dissenters meeting at a Chapel in Fetter-lane, London; from Huntingdon, from Bath, and from various denominations meeting at South wark Chapel, Blackfriars-road. Several similar petitions were also presented. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had a number of pe titions to present to their Lordships on the question which was about to form the subject of an important discussion in their Lordships' House to-night ; and he certaialy was but ill-disposed to occupy their Lordships' attention in any way which could anticipate the arguments which might be brought forward in the course of that discussion ; but upon two of the petitions which had been sent to them, he had been particularly requested to say a few words. The first petition he should present was from one of those learned and respectable bodies, which had been alluded to in the course of conversation to-night, the Presbytery of Annan, and was headed by its most learned and respectable Minister. The petitioners were most anxious for the pre servation of the established religions in Great Britain,— not only of the Church of England, but also of that Church with which they were so intimately connected, and which they humbly conceived to be in the character of an established church, and to form as much a part of the state of this country as the Church of England itself. The petitioners did not, however, conceive that the Church of England requireda degree of support, which the Scottish Church, also an established one, had never enjoyed, nor ever desired to possess. They conceived that the species of sacramental test which it was the object of the Bill in their Lordships' House to repeal, to be, religiously speaking, a profimatiou, and, politically speaking, a source of weakness to the Established Church, which it was in tended to support. They prayed their Lordships to remove that stigma, and to grant that religious toleration which they conceived to be true religion ; and they were anxious to represent to their Lordships that which was perfectly consistent with history,—that they had experienced the utmost degree of safety and prosperity under their present form of Government, and felt no apprehension of insecurity to their Church. His Lordship made that statement the more willingly, because he thought that, looking on the Church of Scotland as the Established Church of that country, if either of the churches of England or Scotland re quired artificial defence and support, it would be the Church of Scotland, more than that of England ; for the latter en joyed a privilege which the for mer could not,—that of having the Sovereign of the king dom at its head, while the Church of Scotland remain ed ex p osed to dan g er, were it not for the wisdom which bad always distinguished the sovereigns of Great Britain. He had another petition, t o which he also desired to call their Lordships' attention, signed by 4,000 Episcopalians and others, inhabitant s of Glasgow. He was requested to state, that it was the opi nion of the petitioners that the Bill should pass without substituting any declaration. They were advocates, not BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. Sir Charles Henry Rich, Bart. Beenham, Berks, dealer, corn April 22 to October 22, at one, at the Bear int), leading. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. John Braithwaite, Leeds, ironmonger. Robert Butterfield, Scriven, within Tentergate, Knares. wough, Yorkshire, flax-dresser. BANKRUPTS. Michael Duffield Slater, Devonshire-square, Bishopsgate street, hatter, to surrender April 25, May 3, at eleven, and SO, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Robinson, Walbrook. John Sat terthwai te, To wer-str eet, wine-merchant, April 22, 29, and May 30, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Conway, Syiziond's-inn, Chancery-lane. John Eden, Wotton-underedge, Gloucestershire, scrivi ner, May 5, at three, 6, and SO, at eleven, at the Castle and Ball Inn, Bath. Meredith, Bank-chambers, London ; Stone and Bacon, Tetbury, Gloucestershire. Timothy Hoyle, Lee-Mill, Rossendale, Lancaster, wool len-manufacturer, Mai• 6, at five, 7, at ten, and 30, at one, at the George and Dragon Inn, Lancaster. Alcock and M'Connochis, Burnley; and Bevcriey, Temple. George Albot, Henley in Arden, Warwick, brick maker,, April 22 and 23, and May 30, at twelve, at the Office of Mr. Wake, Sheffield, York. Walter, Symond's- Inn, London ; and Wake, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. IM PERIM, PARLIA.M ENT HOUSE OF COMMONS. The House was summoned . in the usual manner to the House of Lords, to hear the Royal Assent given by Com -mission to several Bills : for which see the Lords' Report. Mr. WARD presented a petition from the inhabitants of All Saints, Poplar, in favour of the East London Railway. • Mr. RICE TREVOR brought up the Report of the Committee upon the Caermarthen Main Trust Roads Bill, and leave was given to bring in the same. Mr. PORTMAN presented a petition from the Trustees o f th e Sh a ftesbury Road, which stated that it became ne cessary for them to borrow sums of money, and they therefore prayed the House that they would consider the Bill for that purpose as a public, and not a private Act. Mr. WARD presented a petition from the Merchants, Traders, and other Inhabitants of Londou, praying that the House, in any future regulation which they might deem it necessary to enter into with respect to Foreign Corn, would still grant permission for the importation of Foreign Flour, for the manufacture of biscuits for ex portation. Mr. W. PEEL brought up a Return of the Number of Unheneficed Curates belonging to the Established Church. Mr. BALL presented a petition from the Merchants, Traders, and other Inhabitants of a town in Northumber land, praying for a repeal of the Duty upon Stamp Receipts._ Lord CASTLEREAGH presented a petition from the PRICE 7D. BATH SPRING RACES. C. W. CODRINCTON, Esq. and G. P. SMITII, Esq. Stewards. - . Mr. Martz ERum, Clerk of the Races. THURSDAY, APRIL 17. —The Claret Stakes, a Sweep stakes of 10 sovs. each, for horses of all ages. One mile and a quarter. Mr. Andrews's The Captain, by Abjer Mr. I. Day's b. f. Manes, by Spectre :Mr. Dickenson's I.laji Baba, by Filho da Puta Mr. Calley names the Black Buck, by Buffalo Mr. Wrexworthy's ch. g. Timepiece, by Pendulum 4 to 1 against the winner (rode by Captain Price) at starting—three drawn. Match for 50 sovs.—Mr. Wilson's Yellow Hammer, be l t Mr. Smith's hr. m. Miss Foote. The York Stakes, a forced Handicap of Zi sovs. each, with 20 added, for horses of all ages. One mile. Mr. T. Gwither's Sailor 1 1 Mr. I. Day's Nimrod ... Mr. Forbes names Gossoon 4 3 Captain Jenkinson names br. f. Brocard 2 4 The i winner rode by 11. Powell—two paid A Silver Claret Jug, value 30 guineas, by subscriptions of 10 sous. each, • for horses not thorough- bred. Heats, about One mile and a quarter. Mr. Gwither's b. c. Sailor Mr. Davies's ch. m. Miss Paton The winner rode by Mr. J. Baylv—two drawn. A Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, p. p. 'from the distance in. Mr. I. Bayley's ch. m. Lucy Mr. Blathwayt's gr. g. Welshman Captaid Huntley's ch. h. 'Stockbridge I 1 2 2 THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET—ApriI lti This day's supply, though not to say great, having been more than equal to the demand, each kind of meat met' with a very dull sale, at the following prices per stone of Slb. to sink the offals:— Beef , .3s. Bd. to 4s. BcL Veal 4s. &I. to ed. Mutton I 4 8 Pork 4 2 5 6 Lamb 6s. Pd. to 7s. Ocl. The foregoing quotations are, Beef, Mutton, Veal, and Pork, '2d., and Lamb ed. per stone beneath those of this day sc'n. night. A considerable number of Beasts, Sheep, and Lambs, left the market unsold. only for that species of toleration srhich would embrace their own communion, but also for its extension to every other religious persuasion. He had been informed that a petition to a contrary effect,—namely, in favour of the Bill now in their Lordships' House, but expressly desiring that no other persons but those of the same communion as the petitioners might enjoy the benefit of that measure,—had been privately circulated in Glasgow, and forwarded for presentation to their Lordships. That petition was, how ever, signed by no considerable number of persons, whereas the petition which he should present to the House was adapted at a public meeting, and signed by 4,000 persons. The Earl of ELDON begged leave, before the question was put upon the petition, to say a few words. H e h a d t objection to the petition being received, but he apprehended that all the petitions which had come from Presbyterians in Scotland, excepting, of course, those who were in Eng land, bad been induced in consequence of a clause which he found in the Bill, but which he was surprised ever found its way into it. By the act of union their Lordships bad no power to enact any Test that might affect any person in Scotland. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, that the Noble Lord would find that the petitioners were precluded by the law as it now stood from holding offices in England, which was felt to be a great grievance in Scotland. The Earl of ELDON repeated that he had no objection to the petition being received, but lie asserted a —and he spoke in the presence of a person whom he hoped lie aniglit always be allowed to call a friend of his—that if the pa tition related to a Test affecting the Church of Scotland, their Lordships had no power to euact such Test. If the petitioners prayed that they might not be subject to a Test in England, that was another matter; and he had no dou T b i t ie tl E ia a t r m l o a f n ß y opo. present ss. them le:n eyt,iNf) s eo r tr e si thiezt stated, was t y .ht - aisoi a au t otg i x inhpetorltasbgbeatyri.tneilsii Presbyterians d l at t aseo right ffiri lams is ei resi dent Scotland.—(A laugh.) dent in Scotland felt great interest on the subject of the e l ; i c n nt te .°‘ r v e T s s t t ( l' :V e. at being permitted to serve the State as s to'ti o m'e l f d steeht iers or in. the • navy. Considering how many Scotch regiments bad been raised, and how many Scotchmen had served in the army, he thought that the Noble and Learned Lord would not maintain the resident inhabitants of Scot land did not feel such an interest as to induce there to pray for the repeal of the Test Act. The Earl of ELDON, we understood, expressed a wish to know how by the Act of Union, for the inviolable pre servation of the Church of Scotland;anything affecting the church could possibly lie introduced in the present Bill. The Marquiel of LANSDOWNE begged to be allowed to read one passage of the petition. The petitioners stated that, on the admission of the members of their communion to offices in England, and to the army, they were subjected by the law to the necessity of partaking of a most sacred rite, according to the forms of the Church of England. which they asserted to he at variance with their principles, and incompatible with their privileges, as members of national church. His Lordship then presented petitions for the repeal of the Test Act, from Annan, from Glasgow from Warrington in Lancashire, from the Scotch Baptist meeting in Lothbury, from Paisley, from Leightan-Buz zard, in Bedfordshire ; from Bricltstock, and another place, in Northamptonshire ; from Bromsgrove, Worcester shire ; from Carnow, Montgomeryshire ; from Carditi, and other places in Glamorganshire ; from High-street. Chapel, High 'Wycombe, Buckinghamshire ; front Bice , . ter, Oxford ; from St. Leonard's, Shoreditch ; from Barl; • ing, Essex ; from Uxbridge, Middlesex ; from a chapel io Mile-end, Stepney; from Torrington, Devonshire; from Elloxham, Oxfordshire ; from Sevenoaks ; from places in Cheshire, Derbyshire, and Carnarvonshire ; from Hen rietta-street Chapel, Brunswick-square, St. Pancras ; from Titchfield, Sussex ; and several ether places. CORPORATION AND TEST ACTS. At the request of Lord Hot.r,ANn, the Clerk read tl', preambles to the 13th and 25th c,f Charles 11., and th e clause in the Act of Indemnity respecting the taking tt . the sacramental test. Lord HOLLAND then rose and - spoke to the follcwine effect. I now rise to move your Lordships that the Teat and Corporation Acts Repeal Bill be read a second time— a measure respecting which the most extreme anxiety is felt by a large body of the loyal inhabitants of this country—an anxiety of which your Lordships have had evidence in the almost innumerable petitions that lie upon your Lordships' table—a larger number than per haps has ever before been presented upon any single sub ject, amounting to no fewer than S6O, all praying most earnestly that the Bill now before your Lordships may pass into a law. That measure, in addition to the interest thus attached to it, has this reconnendation—it has been brought up to your Lordships' House from the Commons of ,the United Kingdom, after having been passed in the shape in which it now stands--by nearly a unanimous vole of that House of Parliament. Your Lordships know that in allowing the second reading, you in some degree sanction the principle of the Bill—and I confidently expect your free and full concurrence in its great principle, that it is equally just and expedient to abrogate the law which renders the taking of the Sacramental Test a necessary qualification for holding civil employments, substituting ter the test a declaration that the individual who shall take it, will not use the power vested in him for the subversion or injury of the Church by law established. Such I conceive to be .the principle of the Bill which I now recommend to your Lordships for a second reading. Although measures of this nature have frequently been pro posed in another place—and more frequently discussed out of Parliturient, not only in publications but at public meetings, nay even in the pulpit itself—yet it neverhas been brought fairly before this House since the time when our great de liverer King William, shortly after ascending the throne of these Realms, recommended its satisfactory settlement, in those memorable words, which, before I sit down, I may feel it my duty to read to your Lordships. This then is the first time that, since the period to which I have referred, this, wise and necessary measure has conic properly and fully I;efore your Lordships, although I know that illustrious Monarch, George the First, and his Ministers, were anx ious that a law of this kind should be passed, and that although it was proposed to this House to introduce a clause into the Bill fur strengthening, the possessions of the House of Hanover, yet it was attempted to be effect e I in a manner so awkward and so ludicrous, that it is most extraordinary it should not have been adopted by your Lordships. It is a very fortunate and auspicious circumstance that this House of Parlia tnent has never expressed an opinion adverse is the mea sure which I now recommend to your Lordships for adop tion. We have now before us a Bill, which has safely passed through all those perilous passages which were se, fatal to its predecessors—which has calmly glided in this "Region mild of calm and serene air ; and until this day not a breath of adverse wind has hfolve against it. Crown, r 11ttsmm th os eoq vu edt e l aws awa aware etrieiatthien offspring or(tehre t.sio looofbe.t7B.. semperque innubilis tether Integit et large diffuso lumine ridet." 1 hail the omen. I consider it auspicious to the measure; the season, too, is most auspicious ; no political storms agi tate the country ; no party feeling divides our population ; no schism or controversy exists in the Church to impede iN progress. I consider, also, that if successful in its object, it will itself he an auspicious omen of benefit ta the whole community. It will be an event glorious to tlle reign in which we have the happiness to live if this act of uty, in order to impart justice and mercy be consummated—if those fetters of tip- , 'n o ) ; importance,d and of a b n y d a n t hat:: which h rs w of ill t a h p e pe,,l. t people, o be as o have bjo h i. e l 4-4 the result of deliberate wisdom, and dispassionate justice, a t s h P e ° r s e s p ib ea lc i .o f winch it is ray object to re ecehsa n s il tyranny, e l t : -. o li ab IBe .t a i t' me;;., t t a e with the intricacies of history—when I cc lemnity to which it is entitled, to i exelain, l at f u ll l ength, great sttot riet fto d hr u a ttaydcoidipaetvriaon character la s . no u df p l o d n ifge h ne il i t m ,i ,t, who o an f d th a o s se el l e a a n rl .s y , B —when I recollect how commend to your Lordships. I confess that when I re flect upon consider the sta t e of . the . law as it stands at present, in in t ec hnicalities volved and perplexities--I am fully irn pressed with the difficulty of the task I have undertaken— „ t a sk placed so much more beyond my powers because so the nature of tios . e laws-_ entangled th ey are different from my usual habits. * I hope and trust, how ever, that your Lordships will forgive use, if, in my anxiety to remove all ob scur it y an d t o avoid producing - the very evil of Which I I • comp am, I proceed to call the .atten lion of your Lordships to the subject itself. With that view it wa s th at I caused the three acts to be rea d pre vious to my aridressine•b your Lordships ; and it was with that vi ew a l so that I wished there should be placed upon your. Lordships' table those other Acts to which it may Po!sibly become necessary for some of your Lordships to refer in the progress of this discussion. Should I myself have occasion to allude to them, I felt that it might be convenient to Noble Lords to be able immediately to refer to that sacramental test, founded on the two Acts passed in the reign of Charles 11., and formerly known by the names of the Corporation and Test Acts. Those two Acts re semble each other, namely, that they require persons ap pointed to office to receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Sup per: and in one further particular, that they were both passed iii the reign of Charles 11. In no other respect, however, are they like each other, for the Test Act is without a parallel, conceived as it was, in a spirit so opposite to the principles of liberty. The Corporation Act was introduced into the other House of Parliament without any test, &nil re - )ur , lg is, idar , cart bus : h's , ;70116 11; as r a bed - Ades iudg-