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Z. 1:' , • • g,„\;4,4,:',t,-, g ; - . I.'', et • 41": • .~ ~ ~~" IUI4II3ER 9862. NOTICE is hereby given, by the LORDS COMMISSIONERS of HIS MAJESTY'S TREA -208X,, that all Persons desirous of signifying tLair Assent r ftlire fi 10s. per Centeus Annuities, in lies of Z 4 pet %WM Annuities, directed , to be paid off, in purstranee of alltigution of the Hasse of Commons, of the 44th Fe ktll 7 , 18i4, in the nominee . therein specified, must signify "1 1 43 Assent on or before the 6th April, 1524, to the Goer!. l iqr- awl Company of the Banks of England, or of Ireland, 411 (ittling as the Dividends nay be payable. 'Vass for expressing seeb Assent have been- seat to the dal Country Bankers in Great Britain and Ireland ; and "Iff also be bad of the Postmasters of erery Market Town ( *vat Britain and Ireland, as well as the Banks of Eng heed ace Ireland respectively. It B. The Assents addressed to the Banks of England and } mod respectively will be delivered free of Postage; but elar, isept,i t e taken that they are put into the Post-Offlse in It4 lia ' time to be delivered in London or in Dublin, as the "Ito any be, on or before the 6th April, 1814. EAST INDIA HOUSE, January 28, 1824 THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG .4I"D TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give )106 4 , 4 that a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be itald at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESPAT, l the 14th April next, from Nine o'Clock in the Morning until la the Evening, for the ELECTION of SIX DlREC 'rafts of the said Company for Four Years. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. To THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LAMES AND GENTIAMEN, THE ELECTION of SIX DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY being appointed fur WEDNESDAY, the 14th of April nest, the favour of your Vora and Interest is requested for the following Gentle- -nita. via. Du Pre hleaander, Esq. Hon. Hugh Lindsay Robert Campbell, Esq. John Morris, 111 . 11 Benjamin Edmondsone, John Goldshorongh Raven : Esq. shaw, Which will much oblige, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most humble Servants, Charles Mills, jun. William Wigram . William Taylor Money William Astell John Petty Nluspratt John Baillie Edward Parry John Bebb James Pattison Jacob Bosanquet Richard Chicheley Plow•den William Stanley Clarke Charles Elton Prescott James Daniel George Raikes John Hudlesson George Abercrombießobinson John Loch George Smith Campbell Marjoribanks John Thornhill John Masterman. Sweny None East India House. March 31, 1824. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADINS AND GENTLEMEN', HAVING the honour of being recommended to you by the Directors of the East India Company, " CANDIDATES for the DIRECTION to he chosen this Year, we tuke the libe►ty of requesting the favour of your VOTE on the Day of Election, WEDNESDAY, the 14th April next. We are, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient and most humble servants, JOSI AS DU ➢RE ALEXANDER. ROBERT CAMPBELL. NEIL BENJAMIN EDMONSTONE. HUGH LINDSAY. JOHN MORRIS. JOHN GOLDSBOROUGH RAVENSHAW. East India House, March 81, 1824. NOTICE TO ARTISTS. ALL WORKS intended for the ensuing EX HIBITION at the ROYAL ACADEMY of ARTS, witzst be lent in on MONDAY, the sth, or by o'Clock on TUESDAY, the 6th of April, after which time none Gan be received. The Regulations necessary to be observed may be obtained by applying at the Royal Academy, Somerset House. HENRY HOWARD, R.A. See. mtrnsa INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL. TH - E GALLERY for the EXHIBITION and SALE of the WORKS of MODERN AR'T'ISTS IS OPEN DAILY, front Ten in the Morning until Five in the Evening. By Order, JOHN YOUNG, Keeper. _ . Admis.ion IC—Catalogue Is. The Remaining Subscribers to the Engraving from Mr. 'West's Pictuic of " Our Saviour Healing the Sick in the Temple," who have not received their Impressions, way re eel's Om upon application at the British Institution. BRITISH FIRE OFFICE, STRAND and CORNHILL, ESTABLISHED in 1799 for Insurance of Houses, Buildings, Manufactories, Goods, and Mar ehandiae, Stri p s , Vessels, and other Property, on the most aquitable teems, and on principles affording solid and per atanent security to those insured. DIR ECTORs, &C. GE SIR JOHN COX HIPPISLEY, BART. Chairman. Hon. D. Ki nna i r d M.P.ORGEMOLNIE SUMNER, ESQ. .P. Deput, Chairtia William Agnew, Thomas Maude, Esq. Esq. George G. Mills, Esq. Sir Robert Wigraw, Bart. Neill Malcohn, Esq. J. P. Auriol, Esq. Richard C. Plowden, Esti. Jahn Bebh, Esq. John Sonne, Esq. Janie' Henry Deacon, Esq. Joseph Warner, Esq. Yranci‘ Freeiing, Esq. James West, Esq. William Marsh, Esq. Richard Williams. Esq. JOHN HELPS, Seertary. This Day was published, With 99 Plates, 410. price 41. 14s. ltd. CAPTAIN PARRY'S JOURNALdf a SE COND VOYAGE f •tl DISCOVERY of .yNOWIII veIesT PASSAGE. fur le Printed tot JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle-strt.ri• :40eletY Of 130 '01 ne, the Sri ( ' . • . . Ik',-1 t , • , • ....„:„. ,::,,,,. . _ .2. : ,,,4 ) „, ti r.,_..,,, iillr-e.5 - •'- --. _-- - 1 \ • - ~.. _ Ati• • . ...., ,04 .. , - ' 4:5 11t 1 • 4 ' , , •• • .., • _ FrICS PARLI ANIE NT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARGIN Si. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Slave Trade Piracy Bill, the Penalties Recovery Bill, and several . private Bills. The Loan CHANCELLOR, the Duke o f MONTROSE, and the Earl of SHAFTESTTIRT, sat as Corn mizsioners. Mr. BROGDEN and others from the Commons brought up the Union Duties Repeal Bill, and a private Bill, which were read a first time. The Convict Bill was read a third time, and passed ; and the Postage Rates Bill was committed. —Adjourned. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1824. county of Cambridge, praying for the repeal of the duties on coals carried coastwise. Mr. GOULBURN brought in a bill to amend the Irish county treasurer's act of last session. Mr. ELLIS brought up a report of the burials in Ireland bill.—lt was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. BERRIES brought up the report on the law stamp du ties act. _ The Board of Works Bill was read a third time, and passed. Lord PALAIERSTON obtained leave to bring in a bill for altering the rates of quartering soldiers.—The House than ad journed. MIDDLESEX ELECTION DINNER. T brating tine Ali. e Election of .S. , Tv H ITBREAD, took place at the Mm e a r i the Anniversary Dinner for cele --ickney. The large room was crowded in every part. At five Velock, the Chair was taken by Mr. SHAW LEnEVRT, 'UPPatledby Mr. Byng, and Mr. Whitbread e e s r td d a Ty the (the Members for the county), Mr. Hume, Mr. Hobhouse, Mr. H. Grey Bennet, Rke. f ltlerman Wood, and a considerable number of the Freeholders' of,the County. After the cloth was removed, the CHAIR:wax gave the health of the " King, and may he never forget the principles which seated his family on the Throne."--Three times three. " The Duke of York, and the rest of the Royal Family." " The Army and Navy." The CHAtitatAw said, it became his duty to propose a toast more immediately concerned with the object of their present meeting. They had lately heard so much of the popularity of Ministers, and the decline of the attachment of the people for the great question of Parliamentary Reform, that it was time to point out the use which had been made of that state of apathy respecting their rights, which had marked their transi tion from a time of distress to a state of comparative comfort, arising from the progress of their own industry. He was proud, however, to find, from the crowded state of the room on this day, that the Freeholders of Middlesex were at least free from such an apathy, and were still prepared to rally round their principles.—(theers.)—He was, he repeated, glad to find them still the same consistent reformers who had at the last election re-established the independence of their county. (Applause.) With respect to the popularity of ministers, he would not say that it was altogether undeserved, so far as they claimed credit for a departure from those narrow and illiberal feelings which had so long characterized the general system of their administration. He also thought the people indebted to them for their reduction of taxation, small as it had been ; but to much more were the people of England entitled, before they either would or ought to be satisfied.—( Hear !)—The "Ministers must also depart largely from their old and bad political predi lections--their alien bills, and their unconstitutional alliance with foreign despots, who were leagued against the liberties of mankind—before they could hope to obtain the confidence of the people.—(llear, hear ! )—Of what use, however, were any concessions, so long as the great question of Parliamentary re form was wanting to give them permanent and steady effect. (Hear!)—They must remember that the government had still " a giant's strength, although they might not use it as a giant." So long, then, as the question of reform was not pressed, exact lv as long had the people no security against the recurrence of the measures and the oppressive taxation which had so lately weighed them down, and disgraced them in the eyes of the world. During war and during distress, when they called for. Parliamentary reform, they were answered " This is not the time." Now then, when no excuse on the point of tithe could possibly he urged, they ought to come forward and firmly call for the attainment of their favourite rid most essential object, with out which they could have no security for the enjoyment of those rights which their constitution warranted. They ought to show the Government that they did not conceive themselves "born with saddles on their backs, or that any others were born with spurs en to ride with them." The Chairman strongly enforced the necessity of reform, and lamented the absence of some of its most distinguished supporters, particularly Lord Nugent, and Sir Robert Wilson—sawn entitled to their warmest good wishes, and who had, a t the greatest p ersona l sacrifices, evinced their attachment to the cause of liberty on a l a te unfortunate oc c als n e i r i e ng awa would recollect, that when they last met awaiting a n impending contest for the o there, eo—rwe(:ol theyf i) a p c l i a d u r s w )...._fhe freeholders whom he had the ho nour e. liberties of Spain. The two individuals whom he had named, had generously and chivalrously devoted themselves to that sa cred cause. They were men who were above the rewards of despots or the frowns of Po wer, and who carried with them what the honours of tyrants could not confer—the satisfaction of their own consciences and the gratit u d e of all free-born men.— (Cheers.)-11 e conclud e d byproposing the healths of " Mr. Byng and Mr. Samuel Charlesp Whitbread." The healths of the co unty Mr. BYWO, in Members were drank with loud applause. returning thanks, said that at all times he felt a difficulty . of acknowled ging, in any rising like suitable terms, the gratitude he f e l t to his constituents f or t h e i r inva riable attachment during the long course of his 30 years' ser vice. He could confidently assure them that on all occasions his anxious and unabated desire was to serve them and not himself.—(Applause.)--Their local interests and the general interests of the people had been the daily objects of his solicitude, and would continue to be so as long as he was honoured with their confidence. Of all th e questions' which could be agitated, none so vitally concerned them as parliamentary reform ; for until the people recovered that share in the election of their re presentatives which of right belonged to them, they could have no security for the real enjoyment and security of their liberties. He wished he could congratulate them on a greater reduction of taxation this season. The Minister, however, preferred mak ing an experiment in principles of trade, rather than what he (Mr. Byng) should have preferred —a reduction in taxation.— knew, was not well received by those of That experiment, he hi s constituents who were conn ecte d w i t h th e silk trade ; how , , ever, it was due to Ministers to say, that many eminent gentle men, not of their party, concurred with them in opinion_ that the trade of the country ought to be thrown open. He hoped, that ultimately a the experiment would b e su ccessful; and that next year f ur ther and more adequ a t e re duction of taxation would On this, and on all occasions, he could u ts that they might rely on a continu a ts n e c a e o b af r s d hs afforded sri assure tounabated s u te n i fltturbyer constituents to promote the welfare of their cons ' mon country—(Applause.) Mr. WHITBREAD said, that he appeared before them for the fifth time to return thanks for such a compliment as the present. H could assure them that these marks of attention because more deeply marked upon his mind by repetition. lie stood before them now, after four years' experience, and was not therefore now called upon to make professions ; they had his conduct before them, and he was ready to abide the issue of their scrutiny, not with fear, but with satisfaction.—(Hear !) —He must contend, that the change of the conduct of the Mi nisters, was to be mainly attributed to the efforts of a few inde pendent Members of Parliament, who insisted upon having Justice done to the country.--(Hear, hear !)__What security, however, had the people for a continuance of the moderation of Ministers ? None until the great question of a Reform in Par liament was carried into effect: he would not enter into the particular kind of Reform which the necessities of the country required, but an adequate Reform was called for, and the longer it was delayed, the more imperative would it be de manded by the people. Upon that great question his opinions remained unchanged.—(Applause.)—The people had a sight to a real and not a nominal representation. Ile concluded by re-assuring them of his warm attachment to those principles which had gained for him their support, and concluded by proposing—" A speedy and substantial Reform of the Repre sentatives of the People." The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of Sir F. Burdett, Mr. Hobhouse, and the Electors of Westminster, which was drank with three times three. Mr. HonrrousE, in rising to return thanks, apologized for the absence of Sir Francis Burdett, who was detained in the country, and said that from the Metropolitan County, the peo ple had for ages had received excellent lessons of Reform, and always found amongst them the best example of good princi ple, when opposed by the most combined eflbrts of power. This was one of the occasions when an honest Representative of the people felt a proud exultation at meeting his constitu ents, and asserting those principles of freedom which the coun try hoped soon to see realised, and which were inseparable from true greatness. H e thanked them for crowning by their approbation, not the little that he did, but the little which he attempted. As to his Hon. colleague (Sir Francis llurdett), he was known too well in that county to require his eulogy. While upon his legs, he could not help complaining of some allusion to the growing popularity of Ministers, by his Hon. Friend (the Chairman). Where was it manifested? He pro tested he saw no such appearances: it teas true that they were not assbad as the former Ministers, for thump.* impossible--(a laugh),—bus he believed that they participated in the tame deep-rooted opposition to popular rights ; they were the same Ministers who had passed gagging bills, suspension and in demnity bills, alien bills, and who formed a part of the ma chinery of the infamous miscalled system of the " Holy Alli ance."—(Applause.)--He iasisted that these Ministers, though not quite so bad as others, were equally opposed to the great question of reform, without which it was in vain to hope for safety. He warmly urged the necessity of the people standing by their real Representatives in the promotion of popular rights. The Hon. Member, after dwelling again upon the ab solute necessity of their having a House of Commons, not chosen by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but by the country at large, repeated. in warm terms, his recommendation that they should not cease to call for the restitution of those rights which alone could afford them any chance of real security.— (Applause.) the health of " Mr. Alder man Wood and the citizens of Lond on." —Three times three. The CliAtastAx next proposed Mr. Alderman Woon, in returning thanks for the honour 1 which they had done him, assured them of his cordial support i of the principles the success of which, they had assembled to commemorate. He was delighted to hear the sentiments which had been uttered by his Hon. Friends who had preceded him. He was ready to give credit to Ministers for whatever good they had done, although he entirely admitted tha t nothing would be satisfactorily concluded for the people, until a reform in Par liament was carried into complete effect.—(Applause.)—The worthy Alderman then thanked them for the good opinion which they entertained of his fellow-citizens, and expressed the cordial pleasure lie should always feel in giving his best assist ance to promote the interests of the people at large, in which the freeholders of the county of Middlesex were so deeply in terested.—(A pplause.) The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of " the Hon. H. Grey Bennet," whose public conduct, he said, well deserved their warmest approbation.—Three times three. Mr. 11. G. BENNET, in returning thanks, said that he could feel no greater pleasure than meeting his rother Freeholders in the county of Middlesex, whose present excellent Rrepre sentatives had uniformly supported those principles upon which alone the welfare of the country could safely repose.— He was of little use to the Freeholders of their county, but their example was of great use to the empire at large.—(Ap plause.)--With respect to any apparent improvement in the Government, he could not concur in the merit ascribed to the recent proceedings of the Ministers, who, after governing as long as they could upon bad principles, were at length driven from them by the voice of public improvement, and obliged to resort to a sounder system of conduct, after experience had ex ploded their previous one which had been so lamentably perni cious. For a long time the Parliament of this country had ex hibited the spectacle of a contest between the advocates of free dom and the promoters of slavery ; and of late a small change had taken place in a part of the system of the old opponents of popular right. Was it for that the people had reason to rejoice ? What steps, lie would ask, had these Ministers taken to get rid of those opprobrious laws which had so long dis graced the Statute Book ? Had they not continued many of the odious Acts which so long deprived the people of their con stitutional rights ? Had they not continued the infamous Alien Act, and the scandalous connexion with the confederated des pots who trampled on the liberties of the Continent ?—(flear !) —For whatever little change had of late taken place in the ministerial policy, not the Ministers, but the people were to be praised.--(Hear !)--Let the people then proceed onwards, and press their claims, and they must, like the gradual pressure of the human foot upon granite, succeed ultimately in making that impression which could not fail in securing to them the enjoyment of those privileges from which they had so long been unjustly debarred. The people ought to send petition after petition until they operated upon the house of Commons; for if they acted with firmness and perseverance, it would be in vain to oppose the recognition of claims which truth and jus tice sanctioned.—(Applause.)—He hoped that the freeholders of Middlesex would take the lead in the great question of Re form, for through its success alone could they expect to attain security for the future: indemnity for the past, he asked not, for that was impossible. The longer he lived, the less he hoped from a Parliament constituted like the present : the same changes which the present Ministers were conducting' amid the deafening commendatory shouts of the followers, were with the same cheers and by the same men resisted, and the same Ministers encouraged in resisting them, when they were pro posed two years ago from the opposite of the House.—(Hear, hear !) Wliat, then, could be expected from such a system? The people wanted an honest Parliament to check and controul the Government in the expenditure of the public money—to speak the language of the people, and not to bow to the beck and nod of corrupt power, but to take the public interests on the only true basis on which they could safely rest—the approbation of the country, and the affections of the people. The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of " Alr. Hume." times three. Mr. II u ME said, that he hoped he felt as he ought the man ner in which they had received the toast from the chair, and which far exceeded any claim he had upon their approbation, for supporting the principles to w hich the y ha d so invariably and so honourably adhered. It always gave him pleasure to meet large bodies of his fellow-countrymen, and to impress upon them, as strongly as possible, the necessity of promoting to the utmost of their power a Parliamentary Reform : without that, he agreed with his Hon. Friends, there could be no ulti mate hope for the country. Until the people had a full sha re in the elections of those who were to tax them, and regulate the laws which governed their lives and property, it was in vain to boast of their freedom, or refer to their venerated constitution. —(Hear, hear !)—lt was true in theory that they had a repre sentative Government, but he must deny that the people at large were any thing like fairly represented in the Commons House of Parliament. To set a large value, therefore, upon any appa rently liberal measure of the Government until the people were put in possession of their just rifhts, would be a mere mockery of their unprotected situation. fhe Hon. Member then took a view of the financial measures of the present Government within the last five or six years, and though Parliament had been changed, and ministerial alterations partially effected, still he contended that the system of government continued substan tially the same, and was at variance with the interests of the people; millions of useless expenditure had been, and still con tinued to be, squandered; a standing army of 80,000 men was in time of peace still maintained ; and though some slight in dications of yielding a reduction of public expenditure were visible, yet he saw no hope, unless the people put their shoul ders to the wheel, of compelling the Ministers to economize on that scale which the necessities of the country so justly de manded. He trusted that the county of Middlesex would take the lead in calling for a reform in Parliament and a reduction of the public expence. Let them not mind the asserted apathy of others. Let them once act, and they might rely on being fol lowed by the rest of the country. His plan was, in the House of Commons, to do his duty manfully and fearlessly—happy if he succeeded, and not depressed if he failed.—(Applause.)— Let them do the same, and they must eventually succeed. — (Hear, hear !)—The Ministers would then be driven from their fast hold of extravagant estimates, and obliged to yield to the wishes of the people. He disliked half measures, and was therefore the more anxious to see the people firmly and consti tutionally pursuing the attainment of their just rights. He concluded by congratulating them on the character which they upheld in the country, and upon the consistent and patriotic conduct of their present worthy representatives.—(Applause.) Mr. l3rsrt3 proposed the health of their excellent Chairman. C The HAIRMAN, in returning thanks, defended himself from the imputation cast upon him by his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hobhouse), of praising Ministers for their reduction of taxa tion. He appealed to the Meeting, whether the tenour of his speech was not to caution the people from giving too much credit to Ministers for the little they had done when so much remained uhnoticed.—(Hear, hear !)—But his Hon. Friend could do any thing with his ingenuity, and in this instance, when speaking of him, had made the most of a bad subject.—( Loud laughter.) Several other toasts were given in the course of the evening, and the company broke up at a late hour, after paying a warm tribute to their Representatives. A General Meeting of the Subscribers to LLOYD'S was held yesterday to receive the regular half-yearly Report. After the usual routine a vote of 2001. to the Society for the preservation of lives in cases of shipwreck along the coast was proposed and carried. Several sums of 201. and 251. were then voted to the boatmen of Deal and other ports, for services rendered to merchant vessels in distress, tic. SILK TRADE.—lntimation has just been re ceived at the Custom-house, that there is no objection to seve ral small holders of silk, anti silk-manufacturers, uniting and depositing their joint property, amounting to the whole to a quantity not less than 300Ibs. weight, to be deposited in ware.. houses to thenarae of as►e yam, at ono sad Ike . mins time._ PRICE SEvExPEnt. ASSIZE INTKLIA-GENCE..: 'YORK, iteneff t 9. WHitAkite. ANT) ANOTHER V. MALLINSON. This was an action for recovery of a‘sniali debt. -The pa4ticulars were not of any public iuteresto Mr. ScaaraTT was for the defendant, and on cross-examining one of the 'plaintiff's vritnesies, he asked him—Have you a good memory I—l hare not. Are you alive ?—I believe I am. Why do you say believe. Hare you any doubt about it ?—Well, I don't know, I am sure. lent alive to all appearance.(Loud laughter.) Mr. SOARLETT then addressed the Jury, and said.----" Before I go into the circumstances of this defence, allow me to say a word or two for myself, as you might be alarmed at my appear.. ance here. Permit me to assure you I did not die an Thursday night last (loud laughter); or if I did die on that night, and if indeed on the two-fol lowing days I appeared in this Court on the part of my clients, as an apparitionf permit me now to assure you, I revived yesterday (laughter); and that I now address you in better health than I have been in for the last week." The Learned Gentleman then contended against the plaintiff's demand.— Verdict for the plaintiff. CORONERS' INQUESTS.. INQUEST ON COUNT SCHULENBOURG: Yesterday afternoon at half-past two o'clock f a most respectable Jury assembled at the One Tun Inn, Chan- . dos -street, Covent-garden, before 'l'. Moos, Esq., Deputy Coroner, to inquire into the cause of the death of the above named distinguished Hanoverian. On the Jury being, sworn they repaired to the Count's apartments to view the body. On their return the following evidence was entered into a— Mr. James Wilcox, wine -merchant, of Ilishopsgate-street Without, stated, that he about three weeks since, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, was passing through Chandos-street, when he perceived a gentleman's carriage coining in the dime,- don from St. Martin's-lane, and nearly at the same moment the deceased attempted , . anSindeed was crossing the road, and was knocked down by either the pole or horses, which went over him, as did the first wheels. Witness called out, and the coach man immediately pulled up ; there were some ladies in the coach: —On the witness seeing him down, the hind-wheels were very near his head; he was instantly released, and was found to be insensible; he was carried into the shop of Mr. Morris. The witness is of opinion not the slightest blame is attached to this coachman. Juror—Did you desire him to drive on ? Witneas-31erely to release the body ; the man seemed in-- dined to remain ; he appeared shocked at the accident ; origiv ing his master's address he was suffered to proceed. It appeared from the evidence of 111 r. Morris that the deceas.. ed lingered until the Tuesday following, when he died. After the examination of several witnesses the Inqueit watt adjourned, in order to obtain the attendance of the foonnan.whp was with the carriage. HOUSE OF COMMONS. At a little before four o'clock the Usher of the Black Rod summoned the Speaker to the House of Peers, to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission, to some public and pri vate Bills. On his return, theSPEAKER informed the House of the names of the Bills which had received the Royal Assent. Petitions were presented against the Hides and Skins Bill from the Tanners and Curriers of Shields, by Mr. Bttaxn- LING ; from the Butchers and lfellmongers of Canterbury, by Mr. LUSHINGTON ; from the Tanners of Gateshead, and from those of Barnard-Castle, by Mr. LAMBTOS. Petitions against the Duty on Excise Licences were present ed.from the Licensed Victuallers of Salford, by Mr. DEVEN PORT ; from the Licenced Victuallers of three parishes in Suf folk, by Mr. LENNARD; from those of the City of Canter bury, by Mr. LUSIIINGTON ; and from those of the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, by Mr. H. SUMNER. Mr. JAMES presented petitions rem several Owners and Occupiers of Land in the County of Surrey, and also in South ampton, against the Game Laws amendment Bill. Mr. HURST presented a petition from Horsham, against Negro Slavery. Mr. W. E. LOCKI/ART presented a petition from the Notaries Public of the County of Selkirk, against the Duty on Licences to practice as a Public Notary. Colonel O'NEIL presented a petition from the Freemasons of Belfast, praying to be placed on the same footing as the Freemasons of England, as far as regarded the Laws respect ing Secret Societies. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a petition from several in habitants of St. Botolph, Aldgate, in favour of the intended New Docks at St. Catherine's. A petition was presented from the ship-carpenters of the port of Sunderland, against the combination-laws. Mr. T. ELLIS presented a similar petition, signed by 3,000 of the working tradesmen of Dublin. Mr. T. ELLIS brought in a bill to regulate the costs of certain proceedings in the Prerogative Courts of Dublin. It was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday next. Mr. T. ELLIS presented a petition from the Chamber of Commerce of Dublin, praying for a repeal of the usury laws. —The Hon. Member bore testipiony to the very great respect ability of the body from which {he petition came, and express ed his concurrence in the prayer, some part of which lie read to the house. Sir IL PARNELL spoke, several words to the same effect. Alderman HE YGATE said he could not concur in the doc trines laid down by the petitioners. Mr. CURWEN said, so impressed was he of the bad ten dency ( o f the bill for the repeal of the usury laws, that he would oppose it whenever it should be brought forward. Mr. SYKES thought that the fears of those who were opposed to the repeal of the present laws were altogether un founded. _ _ Sir T. LETHBRIDGE was of opinion that the repeal of the laws would be productive of many bad effects. Mr. PIIILIPS was in favour of their repeal. Mr. P. GRENFEI.I. concurred in opinion that the repeal would be favourable to the public. Mr. T. WILSON thought that if the present laws against usury were repealed, the landed interest would he at the mercy of the capitalists, whenever money rose to five p er cent. They would be then charg e d 6 or 7. Mr. D. GILBERT differed from the last speaker. He was of opinion that the repeal of the laws would be found highly beneficial to the landed as well as to the monied interest. The petition was then brought up and read,_ and after a few words from Mr. SYKEs, Sir T. LETHBRIDGE, Sir E. KNATCHBULL, Alderman HETGATE, and Mr. Mosex, it was ordered to be printed. Sir H. PARNELL presented a petition from certain Mer. chants and Manufacturers of Dublin and its vicinity, against the Bill for regulating the Coal Trade of Dublin. Mr. C. ELLIS supported the Bill. Mr. S. RICE said, that there was a . general impression in Dublin that the Bill to which the Petition referred would, so far from removing the difficulties under which the coal-trade laboured, augment those difficulties in an extraordinary degree. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. COMBINATION LAWS. Mr. PETER MOORE said, that as he understood that many Gentlemen who wished to take a part in the discussion on the motion of which he had given notice for the repeal of the Combinination Laws, had stayed away from the House under the impression that no public business of importance would be entered upon this day, being Wednesday, he would decline bringing forward his motion at the present day. Sir E. KNATCH BULL presented a petition from the inha bitants of Woolwich, against the House and Window Tax. Mr. S. RICE presented a Petition from the Chamber of Commerce of Dublin against the Dublin Coal Bill. Mr. WODEHOUSE presented a Petition from a Land holder in Norfolk, complaining, that ander the operation of the Excise Laws, he could not employ salt as an article of food for his cattle. Mr. CURWIN and Sir 1. Comm expressed a wish that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would persevere in his intention of repealing the remainder of the Salt Tax. Mr. WORTLEY presented a Petition from the tanners of a town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, praying for the re peal of the Leather Tax. Mr. WORTLEY presented a Petition from the Inhabi tants of Sheffield, praying for the repeal of the House and Window Tax. Lord MILTON supported the Petition. After a few words from Mr. MABIRLY, the petition was ordered to lie on the table. Lord ALTHORP presented a Petition from the Inhabitants of Welbarston, in Northamptonshire, praying for the abolition of slavery in the West Indian Colonies. Lord STANLEY presented a Petition from the Licensed Victuallers of Manchester, against the Bill permitting the re tail of beer by persons under the licence of the Board of Excise, and without the license of a Magistrate. Lord STANLEY presented another Petition, signed by up wards of 30,000 inhabitants of Manchester, praying for the gradual abolition of Slavery in the West India Colonies. The Noble Lord said, that he believed all the signatures to the Petition were genuine. _ Mr. CUR'fRIS observed, that Mr. Corbett, the person about whom so much had been said in the House last night, had been in the habit of forging signatures to anti-slavery petitions from Lancashire ; he did not know whether he had exercised his in genuity with regard to the present petition. Captain BASTARD presented a similar Petition from the inhabitants of Dartmouth. Mr. T. WILSON presented a Petition, which he said was signed by upwards of 1,100 of the moat respectable persons in the city of London, in favour of the St. Catherine Dock Bill. Mr. S. RICE presented a petition from the linen manufac turers of Dublin, praying that a fixed duty might be imposed on foreign yarn imported. Sir R. WILSON presented a petition from sertain journey men shoemakers, and another from certain journeymen brass founders praying for the repeal of the Combin ation Laws. Mr. GIPPS obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better employing of agricultural labourers in the winter season. The Bill was then read a first time, and appointed to be read a se cond time on Tuesday next. Mr. EGERTON presented a petition from the Licensed Victuallers of Stockport, praying for some alteration in the Licensing Duties. Mr. C. HUTCHINSON presented a petition from the Grand Jury of the county of Tipperary, praying for the con tinuance of the bounties of coarse linen for the next ten years. The Hon. Member also presented a petition from Mr. Dever eux and Mr. M'Donnell, two Irish Catholics of great opu lence and respectability, praying that the Irish Burial Bill may not be passed into a law. El/ .C. COLE presented a petition from Wisbath, in the SUN. THE SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT LEWISHAM, On Tuesday nigtiTan Inquest was held at the Lion and Lamb, Lewisham, before T. CARTTAR, E4q., the Coroner for Kent, on the bodies of Henry and Thomas Large, two brothers, who were burnt while confined in the cage at Lewisham, on Tuesday morning. The Jury proceeded to view the bodies, which laid in the stables of the Lion and Lamb, and presented the most horrid spectacle that can possibly be imagined ; scarcely an inch of flesh on the bones but was scorched to a cinder. A shilling, sixpence, halfpenny, and farthing, which had been found in tb,e cage, were also ex ibited, which, while in the pocket of one of the deceased, were burnt quite black. The Jury-rooth was crowded with persons of respectability. Mr. CazurrEn observed to the Jury, that one of the de ceased had been committed by Mr. Constable, the Magistrate, for throwing vitrol on two gowns, the property of his fellow servant, Sarah Longhurst, but not on the person. James Pople, conductor of the Bow-street patrol in 'the Sydenham district, deposed, that by virtue of a warrant signed by Mr. Constable, he apprehended Henry Large on Friday evening ; he was charged with throwing vitrol over two gowns belonging to Sarah Longhurst, who, as well as himself, wese in the service of Miss Brookes, who keeps an academy at Sydenham. Witness gave him into the custody of Lund, * patrol, to be lodged in the cage at Lewisham. This witness went to view the bodies, but they were in such a dreadful state he could not identify Henry Large. William Lund, a patrol, stated that Henry Large was given into his custody by the last witness on Saturday, and he took him on that day before Mr. Constable, by whom he was' re manded back to the cage until Tuesday, when he was to be taken before the Bench at Greenwich, and it was expected be would have been discharged. Thomas Burchepp, ostler at the Lion and Lamb deposed that from the contiguity of the inn to the cage, the keys were kept there for convenience ; he locked the deceased Henry up when the last witness brought him in custody on liaturday,•and since then witness supplied him with the county allowance, and a truss of straw to lie - on . On Monday the deceased complain ed of being nearly starved with cold, and begged while's so lend him some money to purchase coals. He in conidqUence supplied him with some ; and on that night his brother Tho mas was admitted to him to keep him company all night. *bast two o'clock in the morning witness heard cries of murder pro ceeding from the cage ; and having dressed himself, and ob tained the assistance of a watchman, they found the cage env.- lopped to flames—the cage door was then opened, and Thomas was lying at the door burned to death. H e and some others went in and brought out Henry, also dead, and lying under the seat. Witness did not take any pipes, tobacco, or candle,into the cage. He did not conceive there was any foundation for the rumour that they had intentionally set fire to the Fara*. John Abbott, a watchman, stated, that about two o'cloHr en . Tuesday morning he heard the cry of " fire," and on going to the cage he saw it in flames. Thomas Large was at the 'win dow, crying most pitifully, " Oh Lord, save me l eaveniet save me !' witness requested him to keep his head to thetiyia dow until he could obtain the keys; having got them, he at-. tempted to enter, but the flames prevented him; but in *short time Thomas was got out; he then ran for a Doctor, not know ing that any other person was in the cage , and w henl hegot back Henry had been brought out; they were both dead. • James Fowle deposed, that when the door was opened the watchman went in first and he followed, laying hold of his coat. In this way , they groped about until they reached Thos.'s hand, which was in an extended position ; it was twenty minute% be eiee fore Henry was got out, not knowing two p ersons were there. diedT Juryhbey suffocation, retur pro d uced 0 d a verdict, by th e i the two unfortunate person s had been sacrificed from the want of a necessary building in which p risoners mi g ht be k ept.' - If a rui t ti th on a o d f d dce a s straw."persona The Jury expressed the ir decided opinion.that the of building wa s erected, in which the Conductor of Police, at sotto c ident might perhaps be saved. other person might reside, the lives of prisoners in sca ts? ac- Mr. Goumacaw, our Chief Secretary, is, it id • reported, to be raised to the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom.--(lrish Obrerver.Y DULL—A meeting took place at the "Irish Chalk Farm" (Sandymount), on Saturday morn ing last, between two gentlemen, accompanied by their friends, when, after an exchange of shots, one of the parties received his adversary's- bail in the leg, when they retired, oue to palliate of coffee, and the other a less agreeable dtdesk# -- the assistance of a serron.---(ltish Times.) 03 - he ad let rs, ,cea 1, at the pd satl !:$ tc. re u s thel v; io' $ Thic ;s9 l-5 :, our" LC` rd , jUll. 110 116 awar d , P° 1 1 ; Role"' ag hter ibury-