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Marvis thus expresses 'himself- 1 The introduction of a new kind of torture in France appears to me an evil of greater mag nitude than even indiscipline itself, which demands other reme e.ies. The tread-Wheel is a real torment. This is evident from the description given of it; from the acknowledged falls and fractures mimed by this machine; and, lastly, from the dread wish which it inspires the prisoners. If physicians hare been found capable of asserting that this horrible exercise strengthens arid preserves health, they have indulged in a cruel mockery.' The distinguished writer of these remarks, who is a Minister of State and First President of the Cour des Comptes " also <keens with particular emphasis on the mi sc hief of s uc h pa niShments as stamp lasting disgrace, and he shows that a very large proportion of crimes is committed by convicts returoed from the genies. ", The degraded man,' observes the Noble M a rquis, thinks he has the right de ed become the enemy of society, because it dis wns him.' " The appearance of .such a report at such a crisis as the pre sent, may be considered as offering in itself an excuse for in " troducing it before your Honourable House ; and to none is the value of this Royal establishment in France better known or more energetically acknowledged than by our own correspond. ing institution, expressly organized as it is for the promotion of similar objects, and which in successive reports of its own ha s placed at the head of its foreign correspondence the proceedings of this very society, with a detailed account of its institution, and various references to the reports it has presented to the 'Duke de Rochefoucauld, together with an antecedent report of the Marquis de Barb 4 Marbois. " From the circumstances already adverted to by the peti tioners, and none are mentioned but what they consider they have the most satisfactory means of proving at the bar, or in -the committees of your Honourable House, together with other weighty reasons which press upon their minds, they are them selves convinced of the inefficiency of any discipline founded on a principle of unmixed terror and degradation. They also -,eel great anxiety in respect to the intepretation of the clause • respece.ng untried prisoners introduced in the Bill now before your Honourable House, as• indirectly sanctioning a mode of Punishment, against Which, as Magistrates and as Englishmen, they humbly protest, from its inherent evils, mechanical, me dical, and moral; and the more so, as the same instrument of terror has for some time past been introduced into a consider able woritouse in the country, containing an incorporated aggregation of eighteen parishes; and unless restrained by the interposition of Parliament, may be adopted in all such esta blishments, under the dotomination of hard labour. " And your petitioner, Sir John Cox Hippisley, begs leave to observe for himself, that he has individually undertaken, from the obvious exigency of the occasion, and stands also in dividually engaged to the county in which is his principal resi dence, for the completion, by prison labour exclusively, of one of the most considerable Houses of Correction in the kingdom, situated in . the vicinity of considerable manufacturing towns and villages which are but too often in a state of great insubor dination—and of a considerable colliery district, which has more than once called for exertions beyond the ordinary means of the civil magistrate ; and consequently that, should the principle at present so much encouraged and promoted by the majority of the magistracy charged with a visitation of pri sons, find any countenance by a concurrent enactment of the . Legislature, every effort to persevere in the completion of • the Provincial House of Correction at Shepton Mallet, by prison labour, must unfortunately be abandoned; concerning which prison, however, ,so far as it has advanced, the So ciety of Prison Discipline 'has been pleased to affirm, "Phat it has afforded many instances of the reformation of indivi duals--that great benefits have arisen from the instruction there supplied, particularly in respect of juvenile prisoners—that a classification has long been adopted there to manifest adyan rage, and that many persons have been taught to work as masons, carpenters, tailors, and shoemakers, who are now maintaining themselves by the trades they have so learned.' fo this testi mony, and which is no other than the fact, the petitioner, who has long been occupied in the superintendence of the said pri son, anti is yet respotesible for tile execution of the works un dertaken .in' its extension and completion in the terms of his contract, can add, from long experience, that an adoption of similar measures would be found to save, in the public dis bursements of counties, an amount of expense, which if particularly cited could hardly be credited ; exclasive of all the advantaged hereby derivable to the health and habits of priaeners. " To render such efforts still more advantageous, and trust. ing that in the wisdom of Parliament, such resources will not be abandoned, the petitioner ventures also to suggest the great ad vantages derivable front a re-enactment of the Act, chap. 56, of the 24th year of his late Majesty, the practical operation of which has expired, and by which one justice of assize, or two or more . Justices of the county, might remove any prisoners under sen tences; and orders made by one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace at their Sessions, or otherwise, upon conviction in a summary way, without the intervention of a jury. If such a pces'er were revived, and extended to convictions when capital punishments did not attach, it is humbly conceived that great public benefit might result, by the visiting Magistrates of prisons being empowered to concert with each other for the ar rangement of removals for any of the purposes' of the Act,', Massed in the Lust session, for the consolidating and amendment • of the several laws relating to gaols anti houses of correction. " The petitioner also having presumed early to solicit the at tention of sonic Members ofthe Committee of your Honourable House to the restrictive clause, respecting the tread-mill as it originally stood, ventures further to submit that some practical inconvenience may arise, should the enactment take place even as it now stands, on the amendments ordered to be printed on the 15th of April ; as, from a cursory reference to the Bill, the title will still be found not to correspond with the enactment, ,nor to have arty application whatever to the state of the largest house of correction in this kingdom, namely, that of Cold-bath fields, where there are no tread-mills, as well as to Many other . considerable prisons. Under these circumstances, the petitioners beg leave to close intrusion upon the patience of your Honourable House, with humbly praying, that for the reasons already stated .introurly, the titter inutility of the work as exercised in some places, the pain, the peril, and inequality of the punishment, ohs impropriety, indecency, and cruelty, in varitaia circumstances and situations, its inefficiency in all to answer the intent and _purposes of etntection and rethrmation, while it debilitates the Italy mini demoralizes the mind, without inculcating any habit of useful industry, together with its impolicy anti illegality, as ~at prement administered—that from the comparatively short .period of its probation as a mode of discipline, the irregular, ~ partial, and discordant cot:Jimmies-lions officially made upon its • nature and etfects—the particular exceptions and limitations arefully recommended by the medical committes, appointed to , examiac into its action on one class of the inmates of a single Loose of correction—and the increase of committals, and recom usitt-als, in most establishments where it is in use, the tread .wheel may not be sanctioned, adopted, or in any way desig nated or included in our statute-book as an instrument of pun ishment, or means of bard labour or employment of prisoners, Without further investigation by your Honourable !louse; anti that,Magistrates be restricted from enforcing its use till such tinveatigation shall be made, and such sanction and adoption an the part of the Legislature obtained. " Aral the petitioners further, pray that the Bill as at present before your Honourable House may not -pass into a law; and that such other relief may be granted' in - the said matter as to ..your.wisdom shall seem expedient. (igned) " J. C. HIPPESLEY " BRISCOE. • " - The petitioner; SirJ, C. Ilippisley, begs leave further to . ,observe, that while the p rece di ng o b servat i ons were draw i ng, .up, an incident occurred which seems to render the 'present %application to your Honourable House a duty of themost im perative necessity; and the inure especially , as it •is now occu pied with a revision of the existing Gaol Act. Under the 17th %section of this Act, it is provided,-'. that any Justice of the Peace of any county, or otherdivision, whether a visitor or not, shall,,at his own free will and pleasure, and as often as he shall see fit, enter into and examine any prison of such county or other division; and the Act requires of him, if he shall disco. cer any abuse or abus e s therein, that h e sin 11 report the same in writing, at tlAe . next General or Quarter Sessions ; and that, the abuse or abuses so reported, shall be taken into imme diate consideration, and the most effectual means adopted for inquiring into and certifying the same.' In which enactment it is obvious, from the report being required to be set forth, in writing, without any demand or personal attendance, that Parliament designed to provide for a spe e d y and effectual re dress of any known abuses, even in cases in which the Magi. trate acquainted with them should not be able to be present personally at such sessions from indisposition, or attendance in Parliament, or any other cause". c°Under the authority of this provision, the petitioner, Sir J. C.,Hippisley, being at the time suffering under much_ inditpo. idtion, reported, in writing i -to-th e Magistrates assembled in th e late Genera! Quarter Sessions of the peace for the county of • surrey, of which county lie is an acting i%fagistrate, the existence of certain abuses in houses of correction, under their jurisdiction, which in his judgment demanded such a report to be made. His report was delivered in due time to the clerk of the peace; and from him he has received a letter, dated the Ist of the present month, infbrming him as follows : " Haul your statement, or report on the subj ec t of the tread wheel, befor e t h e Court on the first day of the session, and wa s proceeding t.o read it, but the Court declined hearing it, on the ground that it was contrary to the practice of the Court to re ceive written statements from Magistrates who did not attend themselves. I have therefore returned your paper. ‘' (Signed) C.. 1. LAWSON.' so that while by the penalty of the tread-wheel the Magis trates are introducing into Our prisons, and even many poor- Louses, a punishment unsanctioned by either common or statute l aw , by the practice.of the above Court 91 Sessions they. are di.- r reedy contravening a distinct Parliamentary enactment. It . will hence, perhaps, be felt necessary by your lion. House, that . some measure should be adopted to ensure compliance with the enactment of so important a part of the statute, especially at a I moment when the consideration of the house is drawn to a re. I viral of some parts of the Act in question. (Signed) " J. C. HIPPISLEY." Mr. HOIIHOUSE said, the great object of the Houses should ' be to prevent an abuse of the discretionary power which the existing Act placed in the hands of Magistrates. Now they 1, must be all aware that that power wa; very much abused in . one or two instances. He would not enter into the merits of the case alluded to by his lion. Friend, but he could not help thinking that Magistrates, when intrusted with so arbitrary a power, ought to keep a very strict guard over their con duct. It was always an object in punishment to avoid de - grading the culprit in his own eyes and those of others, as far as possible; but certainly no man could ever look upon himself as a man was entitled to do, after being made to run round like a dog in a wheel, for the'amusement of those who might choose to stand and gaze at him. The tread wheel might be a very fit and a very proper punishment to be inflicted for sonic: of fences, which now subjected those who committed them to transportation or to death ; but, as applied at present, it accru ed to him, and he was bound as such to treat it, to be in the last degree mischievous, cruel, and absurd. - The petition was then ordered to be printed. HIDES AND SKINS. Sir R. FERGUSON presented a petition in favour of this Bill from the butchers of Dundee. Also a petition from the i leather-sellers of Dundee in favour of the Bill. OIL GAS. Mr. lIOBHOUSE presented a petition from certain house. holders in the Strand, against the Oil-gas Company's Bill. IRISH MILITIA. Colonel DAVIES rose, pursuant to notice, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to alter the present state or the Militia eats. bliahment in Ireland. The expence of the Irish militia staff' (taken with reference to its extent) was rather more than a third greater in Ir e l e nd th an i n Great:Britain ; and unless a very sufficient cause for that excess of charge could be assigned, lie trusted that the House would support hitn in moving for a reduction. The Honourable Member then proceeded to st a t e the items in which he thought that saving. might be eirected. He did not - understand why the a ppointment of quarter-master should be continued in Treland--certainly not beyond the lives of person s a l rea dy • holding such commission. A s i t seemed to him, wiseneverquarterniastershiPs fell in, quarter. master.serjeantcies only should be kept up in their stead; nor was clear to him just now,.when.it was desirable to get rid of - • every experee which could be avoided, that without even the quartermaster-sergeants, the necessary duties might not be per formed by the paymasters. He also objected to the very large sums charged, under the present system, For "lodging -mosey" and " fuel" for the staff, when there were abundance of bar racks in the country standing unoccupied. By reforming the practice upon these-two points—the last of whiehamoun tett, in fact, to an abuse; for the charge of " laciging," while barracks were to be had, was made merely to •suit the convenience of colonels of regiments, who wished to keep their staffs imme diately about them—by making these two alterations, and e t a . - ting the stuff generally as low as possible, 20,001. a year would probably be saved. Ile should sit down, theretbre, by moving I for leave to bring in a Bill, enabling his Majesty to reduce the, establishment of regiments and battalion's' of Irish militia : his measure applying, of course, to battalions and regiments not embodied. Sir GEORGE HILL wished that the Gallant Member's motion had been brought forward earlier in the session. With respect to the future appointment of Quarter-masters, the ar . rangement which the Honourable and Gallant Member pro , posed (that of substituting serjeatucies) was already resolved upon ; but he (Sir G. Hill) protested against any further retitle , tion in the numbers of the staff. Th.! lion. Baronet then pro ceeded to eulogise the conduct of the Irish Militia Staff during . the late war, in raising and discipline, troops fur the line. The reduction, as it seemed to him, had already been carried too far ; and he could rather have wished to see the lion. and Gallant ' Member opposite bringing in a Bill to relieve those individuals who (after ;,10 years' service some of them) were now left starving ' without provision,•than making a motion which tended to reduce other meritorious persons to as condition equally distressing.— Mr. HUME observed,, that the main points in his Gallant Friend's speech had not been touched upon by the Hon. Bart. The charge for lodging, when barracks were standing empty, had not been justified or answered: lie was far from agreeing that the reduction had already been carried too far; and, on the contrary, he thought that the Colonels who had resisted that reduction ought to here been brought to a court-martial for their conduct, and dismissed the service. Ile was distinctly of opinion, that the letters written upon that occasion would hare justified such a course ; and he could scarcely wonder at some recent instances of disobedience by officers, seeing that that course had not been adopted. For the distress to which men might be reduced who were discharged from the militia, he re gretted it ; although it should be remembered, that the non commissioned officers, after 2U years service, had a provision ; but the plea of individual distress (however strong) he could not allow to operate, because the Came objection might have been applied to reduction of the army altogether. - Dlr. GOULIIURN justified the reductions which had been made in the Irish militia, and expressed his surprise at the readiness of the lion. Member for Aberdeen to place that con. stitutional force at the direction of the Commander-in-Chi e f, rather than the civil power. lie eulogized the promptitude with which the militia staff had always stepped forth to the support of Government in times of trouble and difficulty. Mr. HUME explained. - Mr. C. H. HUTCHINSON bore testimony to the good con duct of the militia officers, and promised to support the motion. Colonel DAVIES briefly replied.---The House divided— For the Motion, 10 Against it, 2G j Majority M.' SCOTCH J . URIES BILL, The Bill was re-committed, and the Report ordered to be taken into further consideration on Monday next. SLAVE LA WS CONSOLIDATION BILL. This Bill was re-committed, the Report to be taken into further consideration on Tuesday next. Dr. LUSHINGTON gave notice, that on the third reading he would move for 'the consolidation of the Bill which had already passed for nicking the traffic in slaves piracy, with this Bill. • The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and the House adjourned. LIST OF THE MINORITY Who voted for leave to bring in a Rill to reduce the Stsff of the Irish Militia to the Sallie establislunent as the English Militia. Ferguson, Su R.C.. Kennedy, T. F.- Hobhouse, J. C. Lushington, Dr. Hutchinson, Hon. blonck, TILLXRS. C. 11. Moberly, W. L. Davies, Colonel Heron, Sir R. Pelham, J.-C.. Hutne, J. Sykes, I). BRAZILIAN LOAN. To-morrow evening the Brazilian Loan will he tendered for, and the following has been circu lated as the basis for a Contract of a Loan to be (raised for the Service of the Emperor of Braa i I : '‘Carrrar..—Thre e millions of pounds sterliug: to be raised on Imperial Bonds of the different classes and sums specified : said capital to be paid in ten equal monthly instalments of ten per cent. each, the first instalment to be paid three days after signing of the contract, with or without discount of three per cent. to be allowed upon all immediate payments in full or in proportion for such sums as may be subsequently advanced. bersnEsT. l --Five or six Ter cent. per annum, payable in London regularly every half year, say Ist Nov. 1824, the first half year; Ist May, 1825, the second halt year; and so to con tinue in succeeding years, free of any charge whatever to the holders of the bonds. 6, SINKING Fultp.—One per .cent. on the total amount of bonds issued annually. Its operation to begin at or after the Ist January, 1825, by purchases and investments of said Im perial bonds, so long as they may not exceed par, say one hun dred, if loan be contracted at five per cent., or one hundred and twenty, if at six - per cent. interest. Whenever the market price shall be and continue for three months above par, pay. merit by terages (as practised in the Prussian Loan for 1822), to take place'a month after the payment of the half yearly divi dend, to extinguish at par to the extent of half per cent. of said ' capital of Bonds, and so alternatively to continue (according to the state of prices for said Bonds in the market) until the complete extinction of the Bonds. " RESERVE.—Out of capital raised by the Loan, the amount of the tint year's interest, as well as the amount of the Sink ing Fund, shall be deposited in the Bank of E ng l an d, i n the name of the Plenipotentiaries, and with regard to the dividends and Sinking Fund of the succeeding year, the Brazilian Go vernnient will provide so as to have deposited in the said Bank of England a surplus of six months. " SECURIT Y.—The Revenue of the Customs of all the ports of the Brazilian Empire generally, and especially that of Rio de Janeiro." This plan appears to be unexceptionable, and should tl►e plig he moderate at which the con tract is entered into, this Loan will probably prove beneficial both to the subscribers stud to the Brazilian Empire. PARLIAMUNTARY PROCEEDINGS. Ho vs it or:coi f: m om Mercurii,- 5' die Mali , 1824. Gas LlONT—Birmingham-Petition for Bill reported, Report to lie on the table. LatcLosu a es—Parriber and Inhuret (Hants)—Bill reported, to be ingrossed. Abboteide (York)---Bill read a second time, and committed. Roens—Whiteparish and Sonthitrripton—Bill reported, to be ingrossed. Buckingham and Towcester, and Godley Lane Head (Petitions from llipperholme cum Brighouse, Shylf, Halifax, Northowrani, and Bradford, in favour, to lie oil the table)—Bills read a second time, reed committed. Ken sington, or Hyde Park Corner—l'etition of William Cobbett, against, to lie on the table _Account ordered, "of the In come and Expenditure of the Trustees for executing two Acts, of the 3ith avid Slat of his late Majesty, for repairing the Road from Hyde Park Corner to Counter Bridge, and certain other Roads, in the County of Middlesex, for each year since the passing of the last Act of the 31st year afore said; distinguishing the amount thereof under separate heads." Q 0 . 14 PANIEs--Compressed Gas—Petition of the South London Gas Light Company, against, referred to the Committee on the Bill. London and Westminster Oil Gas—Petitions of George Mackintosh, and Ship-owners in the Coal Trade, against, referred to the Committee on the Bill ; and of House holders of the Strand, to lie on the table. British Annuity— Petition for leave to platen a Petition for a Bill reported, and Petition for Bill referred to a Committee. St. Patrick As.. surance, and Alliance British and Foreign Life and Fire As surance—Bills ordered to be brought in. British Gas Light Petition for Bill reported, Report to lie on the table. BEER DUTIES Bit. L—Petition s from Brewers, &e. of Black-, burn, Wilton, Wellington, Wolverhampton, and Dudley, against, to lie on the table. FetEr MASOets—PetitiOn of Members of Lodge (No. 66) Tralee„ complaining of Act of last Session, which prohibits the meet ings of certain Societies ; to lie on the table. SALT Diories—Petition from Ilawkshead, and Two from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for the entire repeal thereof, to lie on the table. SPlnrrs —Account" ordered—Of the total number of gallons of home-made Spirits that have paid, been charged with, or liable to be charged' with Duty in Ireland and Scotland, be twixt Oct. 10. 1823, and May 15, 1824 ; and of the number of gallons distilled in England, and in Scotland for England, is t':e same period. Pent. Ica N s—Petitions of Licensed Innkeepers and Victuallers of Blackburn, for the repeal of the increased Duties on Li cences ; to lie on the table. COMBINATION or WORKMEN' LAWS—Petition from Not tingham, against, referred to the Select Committee on At; tizans and Machinery ; anti from Wakefield, to lie on the table. Ilimt II AND SKINS BlLL—Petitions from Butchers, &e. of Fa versham, York, Aberdeen, and Dundee, in favour, and of Tanners, &c. of Sandwich and Newcastle-under-Lyme, •against, referred to the Committee on the Bill. /sir ova: E reported. to be ingrossed. REG IsTra Orrice—Bill 4 ' to authorize the establishment of a Metropolitan Register Ot/ice, for concentrating and pre • serving the Registtrs of Bap isme,Marriages, and Burials, in England," read a first time, to be read a second tints on Monday next, and to be printed. Game 'Jews A MreNDINF.N T—PetitiOn front Norfolk, in fa vour, to lie on the . table. Lenot'REtte EMPLOYMENT BlLL—Order for Second Read ing discharged. EQUITABLE LOAN SOClETY—Petition of Inmates of King's Bench Prison, in favour, to lie on the table. Tom etsf.—Thantes—Petition of free iVatermen of Church Stairs. Rotherhithe, against, referred to the Committee on the Bill. Cyr r or LoNnox-LBlackfriar's Bridge, Thames Navigation, and Coal Exchange Debts—Petitions for Bills referred to Committees. WeTrILWORKs--Cheltenham—Petition of E. Iggulden, Esq, against, referred to the Committee on the Bill. BaisToL Tower Du us —Petition from Painswick, against, to lie on the table. TrritEs COMPOSITION ACT—Petition from Blackratli, against any compulsory Clause, to lie on the table. M ILL—Petition of Sir J. C. Ilippisley, Dart, and J. Ivatt Briscoe, against the use of, to lie on the table. LAND REVENUE SALE or STOCK Commitees on the Bills New ST itt r. T (Marylebone) . j deferred till Monday. Poo it itteolLeerrow 'Scotland) BlLL—Second Reading de ferred till Monday, May 24. FisfiEntEs—Bill " to amend the several Acts for the en couragement and hoproveMent of the British and Irish Fisheries," read a first time, to be read a second time this day.- • Coe:fery COTYRT3 BlLL—Petition from New Sarum, in fa vour ; to lie on the table. Compensation to Officers of the Course of Justice and of the County of Lancaster—The fol lowing Resolutions reported and agreed to, and Instruction to Committee on the Bill that they have power to make pro vision accordingly : "That his Majesty he enabled to grant an ar.nual sum, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, by w a y of compensation, to be paid to the persons at present entitleel to the office of Custos llrevium of the Court of King's Bench in England, of Filacer, of Clerk of the Inner Treasury, and of Clerk of the outer Treasury of the said Court; and of Custos Brevitim, and Clerk of the Jurats, in the Court of Common Pleas in England ; also to the Cursi tors for Wales ; ant', to the three Junior Sworn Attornies on the Plea Side of the Court of Exchequer in England ; and also to the Steward of the Court of the Hundred of Wirrall, in the County Palatine of Chester, for any deficiency in their lawful lararise in consequence of any Fees an t i E mo l umen ts that n Act that may be passed in the present Session, for the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small Debts in England and " That his Majesty be enabled to grant an annual sum, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, by way of compensation, to be paid to the of C o unts ' th.e Palatine of Lancaster, and the present of Cursitors of the e Seals of thcmmty Palatine of Lancaster, for any deficiency in their lawful Fees and Emoluments that may arise in consequence of any Act that maybe passed in the pre sent Session, for the more easy an d spee d y recovery o f Small Debts in Engl a nd and NV ales." NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY. 1. Mr. Hume—Committee to consider of the Church Establish. ment in Ireland. 2. 31r. Wodehouse (of Norfolk)—Continuance of the present Salt Duties. 3. 31r. Peter Moore—Bill to repeal Combination Laws. 4. 31r. Jones--Committee of the whole House on Salaries and Annuities to Welsh Judges. 5. Mr. Goulburn—Committee on the state of the Counties in Ireland in which the Insurrection Act has been in form. G. Sir John Newport—Statistical Returns respecting the Popu. latio9 of Ireland. ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY. 1. Dublin Small Debts Bill—Second Reading. 2. Vagrants Bill—Further Consideration of Report. 3. Plymouth Victualling Office Bill—Committee. 4. Saving Banks Acts—Committee thereupon. i. Dividends Transfer Bill—Committee. G. Passage Vessels Regulation Bill—Committee. 7. Glass and Sweets' Bill—Committee. IL Roman Catholic 31arnages MR—second Reading. J. Warehoused Wheat Bill—Second Reading 10. Fisheries Acts—Second Reading. NOTICE GIVEN YESTERDAY. Dr. Lushington,---TO..offer Claus& on Third Reading of Slave Trade Laws Consolidation Bill, to make the trading in Slaves Piracy. A SUBSTITUTR FOR. lAISIf WlllSKY.—Yester day Roberts, a watchman, brought before 31r.W YAT T, at Lam bath-street, a woman of the name of Mary Davis, who had been given into his custody the night before by the proprietor of the Green Man public-hou se , upon a charge o f being d run k an d disorderly. The charge b eing f u l ly es t a blished, the woman in her defence stated that she had only that morning been dis charged from the tread-mill where she had been kept moving , . for two months • and she solemnly protested it was neither whi4ky nor g i n diat caused the change in her, but the motion of ` c wheel, which kept floating in her imagination, and gave her the appearance of being in liquor. Her story not being re lied on, she was held to bail for future good behaviour. A HINT TO PAwNnitoKEus.—Yesterday Mr. Parsons, of New.street, St. Luke's, pawnbroker, appeared at Worship-street, before 3lr. liEVIISLE,upon an information ob tained against him by Edwards an approver, for an overcharge of sixpence upon the loan of 18 shillings. The defendant en treated the Magistrate not to go into the case, as he committed the offence through the hurry of business, or in " a bewildered moment." Under these circumstances the Magistrate fined him in 40s. and costs. Monday an old house in Gaol-street, Saint Francis's Abbey, Dublin, fell with a tremendous crash, and buried Ellen Meade, the wife of the occupier, and her infant child, in the ruins. The child was saved, but the mother was suffocated and died. 4,.11,40-A --W' -, ,r - ....ft .:, .2\ ,a , __ , , , , r p,„ 4-- N -- le ' s : 0' • `'e-,-7 N MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK. ENGLAND. .May 10, LoarnoN - , Nos. 40, 143, 241, 319, 329, 335. Coux'ruy.• Nos. 97, 131, 2311, 243, 320, 378, 425, 433, 437, 455, 473, 4517, 524, 536, 541, 546, 552, 553, 56a, 570, 574, 578, 643, 680, 701, 710. - 11, Itowno )4. Nos. 23, 62, 100, 290, 300, 316, 367, 421, 479. ~sOcI4TILY. Nov. 24, 67,133, 145, 211, 263, 285, 292, 427, 471, 477, 497, 501, 528, 579, 592, 604 626, 649, 660, 714. Wednesday, - 12. LONDON. Nos. 3, 11, 16, 19, 29, 47, 96, 237, 273, 334, 353, 435. Covx•rar. Nos. 54, 121, 126, 129, 159, 1111, 213, 215, 232, 291, 314, 344, 400, 440, 442, 447, 460, 472, 478, 537, 563, 577, 606, 647, 661, 690, 705. - 13, LONDON. Nos. 6, 18, 25, 34, 79, 191, 271, 299, 301, 326, 338, 499. CouNTA.r. Nos. 45, 51, 57, 70, 79, 110, 111, 153, 172, 173, 269, 278, 354, 364, 397, 420, 461, 483, 518, 596, 531, 540, 545, 556, 560, 536, 587, 591, 670, 1 179, 717. - 14, Lospox. No. 27.5. Coux Tit Y. Nos. 53. 282, 283, 533. - 15, LONDON. * • • COUN Tlt Y. Nos. 64, 3541. Monday, 1 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 11:ELA N D. Tuesday, May 11, Coax. No. 71. SCOT LA ND. GLASGOW, MAY I . — Yesterday the foundation stone of the first building in London -street, Glasgow, was laid by the lion. Wm. Saturn, Lord Provost, Acting Substitute Provincial Grand Master, for the Lower Ward of Lanarkshire, in pre sence of the Magistrate., Public Bodies, Masonic Lodges, and the Committee and Proprietors of the Joint Stock Company. At twelve o'clock Obon, the several parties assembled in the Cathedral, when the Rev. I)r. M'Farlane, Principal of the University, delivered a ;mist suitable Discourse, from Psalm cxxvii. v. 1. " Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." Immediately after Divine. Service was concluded, the Procession watt marshalled by Captain Graham, and moved down High-street, along George-street, east and south side of George-square, St. Vincent-place, Buchanan -street, Argyll-street, and Tron. gate, to the site of the Building near the Cross ; the . bands playing the Mason's Anthem at the beginning and end of of the Procession, vaiyinf; the tunes during its progress.—When the procession arrived at the site of the building, the bands played the King's Anthem, and the Rev. I)r. Gibb, as Grand Chaplain, gave a very suitable and impressive prayer; immedi a t e ly a f ter which the Grand Treasurer deposited the bottle containing the coins, and the Grand Secretary deposited the bottle containing the Newspapers, Inscription Plate, &c. Afterwards the Substi tute Grand Master laid the Foundation Stone of the Build ing with all the honours usual om such occasions, pro nouncing, " May the G ran d Architect of the Universe en able us successfully to carry on and finish the work of which we now laid the Foundation Stone, and every other un dertaking which may tend to the advantage of the City of Glasgow and its inhabitants, and may this Building be long preserved from peril and decay."- On which the Brethren gave three cheers, and the bands played the Mason's Anthem. The Grand Warden,* then delivered to the Substitute Grand Master, the Cornucopiw, the Vine and the Oil, which be poured on the Stone according to .ancient custom, sayin g ,_ " May the bountiful hand o f Heaven ever supply this City and Country with an abundance of Corn, Wine, and Oil, and all the necessaries and comforts of life."—At the conclusion of this prayer, the Brethren gave three cheers, and the Bands played the Mason's Anthem. The G ran d .11aster then retired to a table which was placed in the centre of the Enclosure, where he was joined by the Magistrates, the Committee. the Grand Lodge, and Office-bearers of 31 other Lodges, the Public Bodies and the Masonic Brethren out of office, occupied the space within, which was enclosed by a guard of the sharpshooters. The substi tute Grand Master (the Lord Provost) . then addressed himself to the several Public Bodies in an eloquent speech, to which Mr. Kirkman Finlay made a suitable reply. The Lodges, in re tiring, proceeded along the Trongate and Hutcheson -street, in the same order they came; when the. Junior Lodge arrived at Ilutcheson's Hospital, it formed right and left, all the other Lodges following their example,and remaining in that position till the Grand Lodge entered the Great Hall of the Hospital, after which the Lodges retired to their respective Lodge Rooms. The streets of the city were perhaps never so crowded, and, we believe, not fewer than 50,000 persons were in the streets, besides the house tops, which were covered with specta tied,eatl: that may the e e formedtitat perto f tors, the windows along the gir,eraeteelaesniognth(o3fsliin jeotiitgpear,ocheeestildedes, o lin f ies le 'we building at half-past two o'clock, were fully occupied by . females. Some Some ett the C f ivic tc n ai u rvr n i ic i v h ea e di r i tat o t f c ti c ei r l s s t persons xe s and the last, the Grand Lodge, at half-past three. The order preserved throughout the whole was wonderful, considering the immensity of the crowd. The greatest praise is due to Capt. Graham, for the precision with which he marshalled the pro cession. A strong detachment of t h e E nn i s kill en D ragoons assembled at the Cross, who, while keeping strict order, did it in such a handsome and pleasing manner, as to give offence to none. A powerful pone of the Police, under the direction of Mr. Hardie, the Stperintendant, also attended at the Cross, and were very efficient in the discharge of their duty, and, while strict in fulfilling their orders, they were generally mild in their execution. About 120 of the friends of the undertak ing dined in the Town Hall, the Lord Provost in the Chair, supported by the Very Reverend Principal Macfarlan, and the Reverend Doctor Bibb, who acted on this occasion as Grand Chaplain. Mr. Kirkman Finlay acted as Croupier, supported by Bailie Hamilton and Mr. Cleland. ~...L , • , A , * 0 <7. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. Yesterday the General Meeting of the British and . Foreign Bible Society was held in the large room of the Freomasons' Hall. Lord T 1: la x3lO UTIf in the Chair. The Secretary read the Report, which gave a detailed ac count of the great progress of the Society in every part of the globe. The issue of Bibles in new dialects had been greater during the last year than on any former occasion. They had copies of the Sacred Volume printed in the Esquimaux and Otaheitan languages, and the light of Divine truth was now penetrating in the most benighted countries. The account of the Scriptures having been printed and circulated throughout Ireland in the Irish language, was received with particular applause. It had also been printed in the Welsh language, with notes. The Report mentioned that since the last Anni versary 47 new Auxiliary Institutions had risen to their aid.— The statements contained in it were throughout received with marks of high satisfaction. The Earl of HAttnownr, the Earl of It °DEN. the Bishop of LITCHFIELD, Lord BEXLEY, Sir CHARLES GRANT, Mr. GURNEY, Sir C. IsoLts, and several other Gentlemen ex pressed their high satisfaction at the progress that had been made. The Rev. Dr. Moanrsos stated that the Bible was already made the test book in several of the Chinese Foititutions, and he had no doubt of its making due progress. The French Ad miral Count VERUAULL gave assurance of the successful pro gress of the Bible Society of Paris ; and the whole of thc pro ceedings of the day were in the highest degree satisfactory._ Thanks were unanimously voted to the Piesident, Secretaries, Ric. ace:, A woman of the name of CASEII,Y, aged 73, who has for several years been a pauper of the parish of St. Thomas, near Exeter, died on Wednesday the 28th nit. When on her death-bed, she informed the woman who attended her as nurse, that she had a concealed treasure of gold, silver, and bank-notes, amounting to between three and fbur hundred ponndx ! and actually crawled on her hands and knees to show where it was hidden. Previously to her death, a relative, who had been informed of the circumstance, came and took poses sion of the hoard. For LITELLARY IticY PRICE OF STOCKS Tills Bank .'tack 3 per Cent. Red. 95i 3 per ('ent. Conti.... • 9tii,i 3i per Cent 1022 `Old lOOl 4 per Cent. -• Assented IPI ( New loBg Bank Long A nn.22, 15-18ths 23 Imp. 3 per Cent& — PIIICES OF FOREIGN Fl Austrian Scrip, 3 per cent. 1 a 6 per cent 833 84 (Ws. 6 per cent. 893 Scrip 41 3 Danish, 5 percent. Greek Scrip 2i die. Mexican Scrip 9i pin. Neapolitan, 5 per cent. ... P. ruvian Scrip Portuguese lioncis Scrip 7L2- ff 1611 WATJ AT ira(M Morning, 38 tninutes after B. 'ICE, see the Fourth Page. IIAY AT ONE O'CLOCS• India Stock q 9 .11 India Bends B2s. 85s. South Sea Stock Old Annuities Ex. Bills 51 48 Ditto Sn►all 5l 4g Bank for Act. India for (78n. Acct. Cons. for Acct. 94311 NOS, AT ONE O'CLOCK. Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto New Russian. New, 5 per cent 97-i Spanish 11121, 5 per cent --- - 1823, ditto Alliance Shares Palladium par Equitable Loan Irish l)itto :Manchester Ditto French Scrip N MUDGE 'TO-MORROW. I Evenin.g., 11 minutes after .9.' r S UN. JULE)! (Wig FALVUM AUDEAT ? ',ON DON, 771C1R5D.41; lf./Y 6, 1824. aa • ••••••••aminmE.81114 Curt-, One o'clock. —Consols opened at 94 advancet: to 96--I—and are now OGI buyers, and for money 96-1, looking firm, and some business doing, but to no great extent, all parties being in expectation of intelligence- from France. • loarlom MARKET.—Th e Foreign Market is very lively this morning, and most of the Foreign Securities have experienced some improvement. Mexican Scrip o:H.—Colombian Ditto, 3 to 34• Greek Ditto, 2. 1 i to 24, and looking op.—Peruvian Ditto, -,f.—The business done, however, is not considerable. We have received the additional French Pa- peri of Monday. The Journal" day Rebels gives a further positive contradiction of the alleged augmentation of the French naval force at the Brazils. Brazils. This Journal, however, which is next in official character to the Moniteur, and un questionably speaks the sentiments of the French Ministryiaccompanies its denial with the remark able declaration that " Brazil is on the eve of a great change." The. Reader will see in this a strong corroboration Of the fears that we have expressed, from the best information, on the same subject, and of the intimations we have given of its being considered, in high political circles here, that the re-union of the Brazils with Portugal is almost inevitable. The caution which we pre sumed to give the Public on the subject of the South American Loans may therefore still turn out to have beets but too necessary, particu larly as intelligence has been received from Mexico, which is far from being of a satisfactory kind.—The intelligence from Spain, in these papers comes down to the 23d ult. The cele brated Baron d'EntmEs had arrived at Madrid, but in what capacity is not mentioned. Among the rumours current in that capital was one, that ItostEno ALBUENTL had caused Ceuta to be delivered to the Algerines, who had thus become the Allies of the Constitutionalists. However this may be, it would appear that something had occurred in Spain itself to excite alarm in the French Government, for we are told in these Papers that a Telegraphic Dispatch had trans mitted from Paris to the Reserve assembled in .he Department of the Lower Pyrenees, an order o hold itself in readiness to enter the Peninsula immediately. It was believed that those troops would repair to Arragon, where the want of them is acknowledged to have been most press ingly felt. Meanwhile fresh forces► were col lecting at Bayonne, and the 2d regiment of Swiss Guards, and the 52d and 55th of the line had already reached that place, where they waited for further orders. Advices from Trieste state, that it was under• stood there that the British Government was about to issue instructions to the lonian Govern ment, and to our cruizers in the Archipelago, of a very favourable nature to the cause of the G reeks. Letters were received yesterday fp m Misio loughi, dated on the Lith of Match, which con- tiuue to give a very favourable account of the good spirit which then animated the Greeks, at the commencement of their fourth campaign, in favour of the independence of their country. Lord BynoN's health had been completely re stored, and the whole mind of this illustrious character was again directed towards the accow- plishment of the great undertaking which he had in progress. The future operations in the East must be highly important, for the struggle em braces as well the lives as the freedom of several millions of Christians. The melancholy intelligence from the Gold Coast of the total rout of Sir CHARLES IWCAR.• THY by the Ashantees, and of the disappearance lb ‘ mc Sifirr l Th Spithi Marc not y ,of ru l (1 1 , As t ;On leVe id Nvisf 4ffAl rati, Pray thor 1 4th f p ri . Fri, Inh ab Vhi ch e. 4440 I)4 Pe -- 1 B k l, ol Pts s i n . N t 1.1, ed 1 th e tit *lo op C AI ," ' 4l d of