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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 31. The House met at Four o'Clock, to hear the Royal A.sseat given by Commission to several Bills. The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop .of Canterbury, and the Duke of Buccleuch. The House of Commons having been summoned, the Royal Assent was • given to the following Bills :—The Excise Spirit Drawback Bill ; the Ecclesiastical Houses and Residendes . Bill ; the Turnpike Roads (Ireland) Bill ; the Saandersfoot Harbour and Railway Bill ; the London and Blackwall Railway Bill ; the Equitable Gaslight Company's Bill ; and several Road, Dock, and Inclosure Bills. The House then adjourned during pleasure. Their Lordships resumed at Five o'Clock. MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. A message from the House of Commons brought up several private fills.• Lord CAMP LL gave notice, that on Thursday next he should dtill the attention of the House to certain proceedings which had taken place in Stirling, in conse quence ot a witness refusing to take an oath. ATTEM'PT 'TO ASSASSINATE HER MA JEsTY.—THE ADDRESS. The Duke of WELLINGTON rose and said—My Lords, your Lordships must have heard with horror and ootteern, and with feelings of the greatest indignation, of the - attOmpft.made upon' the life of her Majesty last night; andirriow My lot to perform the duty on the part of her 3Taje:ity'l Government, to state to you, that an at tempt was made upon her Majesty's life last evening, as her Majesty was returning in her carriage, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, to herl'alace of Buekingham 1 louse, which, by the blessing of Divine Providence failed, by a person who was within it short dints tee of her Alajesty'a carriage, who fired a pistol at her thjesty. Der Majesty, as I have stated, by the blessing bititiu Providence, was unhurt, and the per sen'ivto etimtnitted this act—this atrocious act I may - retil immediately taken into custody, and his etime is 'noiv undergoing the usual course of legal inviry; and in due course he will be brought to justice. My Lords, I avoid enter ing into details upon this painful subject.—(hear, hear.) I confine my:self strictly to the performance of my duty in stating the facts to your Lordships, and mov ing your Lordships to agree to present to her Majesty an Address of Congratulation upon the failure of this atrocious and treasonable attempt on her life, and which, by the interposition of Divine Providence, was pre vented. I will therefore propose such an Address to your Lordships, and I will afterwards submit to your Lordships a motion in the usual course, that the same Address be communicated to the House of Com mons in a conference, and that that House should name Members to hold the conference with your Lordships on tltr übj ef!t —(he ar. ) I therefore, my Lords, move your Lordships to agree to the Address. The NoLle Duke then, in a very low tone of voice, read the following Address "Gracious Sovereign : We, your Majesty's loyal sub jects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Cum mins in Parliament assembled, beg leave humbly to approach your Majesty, to express our feelings of regret-and abhorrence at the late treasonable attempt against your Majesty's sacred person. We, at the same time, heartily congratulate the country on your Majesty's happy preservation from the danger to which your Majesty has been exposed. Attached to your Majesty by every sentiment of loyalty, by a sense of the benefits which we derive from the wise and paternal GUN eminent of your Majesty, we cannot but highly appreciate and acknowledge the great and merciful interposition of Divine Providence which was mani fested on the present • occasion, and we make our earnest prayer to Almighty Gad that Ile will he pleased to efinfer upon your Majesty every blessing, awl that Ile will cos:finite to Watch over and guard a life so justly dear to tts all." The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, I know not, my lewd , . whether I ought to delay, by a single moment, your Lordships' adoption of a proceeding which cannot bet meet with the universal concurrence of the House.— (Cheers.) In the absence of my Noble Friend, who, I am sure, would have been present on this areashin, if his absence fr :an London had not prevented him from receiving any account of the sad and melan choly event to which the Noble Duke has alluded, I may be permit! ed to state, that every sentiment which has been uttered on this sorrowful occasion by the Noble Duke must find an echo in every one of your Lordships' breasts.—(Loud cheers.) I have no hesitation in saying that we must all concur in the adoption of the Address which has been proposed to your Lordships, and that we have quite sufficient grounds for that proceeding in what the Noble Duke has stated with regard to that fact, so deplorable end so melancholy, and which is unhappily but too well known. On that question I will nut ask for any information, as during the present state of the inquiry all informa tion is most properly withheld. But I trust that, after giving expression to the feelings which actuate your Lord shins on this occasion—after going up to the Throne with those feelings which are common to us all, I trust that your Lordships will not stop here, but that you will, - when you contemplate what may be the causes which have led to this extraordinary crime—that .you will address your attention to 'the consideration of what . may have been the causes which may have led to this attenipt, which is the greatest of anomalies, if made in the absence of all -motive, as it is the greatest of crones, if we leek to the unhappy event which might have been its consequences. I am sure I need not say more upon this subject. I believe that there can he bat one feeling in the House of participation in the sentiment:, expressed by the Noble Duke. Lerd POR,TMAN begged to be allowed to interpose, for a single moment, for the purpose of stating to their Lof (Mips a fact, which would tend to increase, if any fact conk! - hienAbe- -their gratitude, and that attachment to h e r Maje s ty, e hieh they all should feel as expressed itt the Address of the Noble Duke. He wished to state to them that her Majesty, while contident in the protection of Ahnighty God against any danger which might sur round her, had been thoughtful of those who are in her service. Feeling yesterday that *same risk might he incurred by these who were attending her person, 'she declined the attendance of these ladies who actually accompanied her in her drives, because she did not wish to subject them to that risk to which she herself might he exposed.—(Hear, hear,) As he Was one of the parties who had a Lear and dear rela tive attached to her Majesty's person, he could not help communicating that fact—a fact which must attach her eubjeete the more closely to her Majesty. • ;Lord BROUGHAM said, that there was but one feel ite- upon the subject tinder their Lordships' notice, both indoors and out of doors. He begged, however, to have t. distita understood that it was his deliberate opi • • e iu reference to what had fallen from his Noble Friend ' (Marquis of Lansdowne), that the law of England . t present stood Was abundantly sufficient to prevent 'atrocities as this, and to prevent their repetition. ' le Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that he did not It to recommend any new legislative measures ; but tt'j‘ltat he meant was that all the eirettinstances eon ' neeteel tt its that utrocious and unaccountable crime should be carer:l:lv proved to the satisfaction of the public. Lard fiRtAIGiLI3I. understood then that his Noble Friend did not. contemplate any change in the criminal law, in censequestee of that greet—that melancholy and atrocious latenq . On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, a Committee was then appointed to draw up an Address to her Majesty. The Committee then retired and immediately returned with the. Address, which was read by the Duke of CAM BKI The Address was then agreed to. The Earl of SHAVrESBURYtneved for a conference with the House of Commons, which was agreed to. Messengers were then sent to summon the House of Commune to a conference. The two Masters Ferrer and Lynch, who had been sent to request a Conference, returned stating that the Cernmons had agreed to the request of their Lordships. On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY the `'following Peers were appointed to manage the Confer ence :—the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the Duke of Wellington, the. Duke of' Richmond, the Mar quisof Lansdowne, the 7,l.larquis of Normanhy, and the Bishop of London. lehertle efterwards Mr. Pulman, the Deputy USher of the NIA Red, appeared at the Bar, and announced that 1 , the Lords appointed as Managers were ready for the Conference. lime tames of their Lordships were then called over, Itrld they the the 'louse to attend the. Conference. After tne lapse et Amalie ten minutes. the Conference returned, and Lord 1 4 7.14AIINCLIFFE reported to the liehea, that thee essareeeace With th e House of Commit's had taken plaea, and' thei, the Address to Her Majesty Wa6 left in the hands of Sic ' Robert . Peel, and other Members, who repreiented the House of Commons. . FENTONVILLE PRISON BILL. On the metiou of Lord Atm, Ma s. CLIFFE, this Bill was read a third time, and passed. CLERKEN %VELE, IMPROVEMENT BILL. This Bill was read a OA time. • MONUMENTS IN CHURCHES. Lord HO WDEN said that seeing the Right Rev. Pre late who had the spiritual welfare of the C e t u s tries' under his. superinamdence, he would tak e the liberty of putting question to him. he thought that him. lle did n u t meat to detain their Lordships long, b many of them would he surprised at the statement he was going to make, of a transaction whicliwohl_dappe7 more properly to have taken place in the middle set's than - an occurrence which hardly had taken place a veer - woo. An officer of rank, with whom he iseed Itawden) Was well acquainted, died in 42'irehee, and after his decease the officers of his regiment usetnimottele resolved that a testimonial should be raised to ;times eaulahry caused: a tehlet to he engraved, merely elate - fee the circumstances , (_;t• his death, and the • respect a" 4 alleetifee Ott' his hew her officers, which he carried to 1-11 ? feetimoniel, one would have thought, Was 'vary hataseente They washed to erect it ie one or the churches of the city, told appliad to the Colonial for nerinision to do so. That iwyai.,:iion .refeeed• Bat be thought it would be difficult to find any justi fiable reason for utftring, under any circumstanees, an nemit to tt..e dead. lie wished to draw the attention of their Lordships to the fact. tat this officer was torn of parents, members of the Church of England, that he was baptised and brought up in thet.Church, and that he was ac custome d to its serice with the . officers and men of his regiment. Now be was not aware that there was any oeourrence upon record which could justify any inquisitorial surmise as to his not having belonrred to the Co mmunion of the Established Church. For his part, ha respected the rights of the ecclesiastical authorities; but he should saY • thrt, in this country , such an occurren ce as that to whi c h h e had referred could not have taken plisse, smi L t h at. public opinion would have checked any attempt of the kind, however willing some parties might he to make it.. He 'should "ecno tu j e b ; asking the Right Rev. Prelate first of all, whether ,the state:• ment he had made was a correct one? And, if it were correct, whether the conduct of the Colonial Bishop had met with the confirmatiun and approval of Ids spiritual superiors at home? The Bishop of LONDON said, that as the Noble Lord who s had just sat down had had the kindness to communicate to him his intention of putting those questions, he was prepared to answer them. lie should say, however, that he did not admit that a Bishop was responsible to that House—much less to any individual Member of the House—for any regulations he might think fit to make in the administration of the affairs of his dio cese. The Noble Lord was mistaken in supposing that he, the Bishop of London, was entrusted with the superintendence of the spiritual affairs of all our colonies. They had no jurisdiction whatever, except in those colonies which had not a Bishop of their own. Canada had had, for many years, the advantage of a Bishop to superintend its spiritual affairs, in which he (the Bishop of London) could not therefore interfere. If he were at any time consulted by any of our colonial Bishops, they addressed themselves to him merely from any defer ence they might think fit to entertain for his opinion. The Bishop of Quebec was answerable for any course he might think fit to pursue, to no other party but the Primate of all England, the Archbishop of Canterbury. It happened, however, that the circumstances of the case to which the Noble Lord had referred had been communicated to him by the Bishop of Quebec. He should first Fay that the facts of the case had been correctly stated by the Noble Lord. The Noble Lord, however, was not correct as to the infe rence which he drew from those facts. It appeared, that in the month of August, 1840, the Bishop of Quebec had ad dressed a letter to his clergy, calling on them not to allow any monument to be erected in a church which was not sub mitted to the clergy of the place, and to take care that the erection of such monuments should be confined to the case of persons who had been communicants of the Church. It hap pened that the officer to whom the Noble Lord adverted had died shortly after those orders had been issued, and the Bishop saw no reason why they should not be followed in his case. That course was, however, adopted, without any in tention of singling out the officer in question as an object for the censures of the Church. Ho (the Bishop of London) might take that opportunity of observing, that a Bishop pos sessed the undoubted right of making any regulations he might think fit with respect to the erection of monuments in the churches of his diocese. He need not remind the Noble Lerd that even in this country that right had been not unfre quently exercised. There was, for example, more than one in stance inl which the Dean and Chapter of Westminster had thought fit positively to refuse permission to erect monuments in Westminster Abbey to persons of great distinction and of high literary merits. He thought he had said enough to jus •tify the conduct of the Right Rev. Prelate in the case to which the Noble Lord referred. ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY. Sir R. PEEL. Sir G. CLERK. and others from the House of Commons, brought up the Addrese, proposed by their Lord ships, to ber Majesty, which the Heuse of Commons had agreed to. On the motion t of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY it,was ordered that the Address should be presented to her Majesty by the whole House. It was next agreed to, on the motion of the Noble Lord, that her Majesty should be requested to state when she would be pleased to receive the Address. MONUMENTS IN CHURCHES. Lord HOWDEN had listened attentively to the answer given by the Right Rev. Prelate to the questions he had put to him. He (Lord Howden) thought that their Lordships would agree with him in thinking that theregulations of the colonial Bishop vvere neither politic in the times in which we lived, nor in har mony with the mild spirit of the Church of England. Lord BROUGHAM had listened with very great interest, and some anxiety, to the explanations of the Right Rev. Pre late. The defence which the Right Rev. Prelate had made, was no doubt as powerful as the nature of the case would per mit. But the defence of the Right Rev. Prelate, notwith standing his ability, appeared to him (Lord Brougham) to be feeble in the extreme ; and he could only explain that feeble. ness of the defence by the badness of the cause. He rejoiced that we had not in this country such regulations in regard to spiritual matters as those which appeared to prevail in Canada. He rejoiced to know that St Paul's and IN estminster Abbey were under more just, more charitable, and more liberal super intendence. He would not go into particulars ; but, of this he was sure tlat, if the same regulations which prevailed in Canada, were enforced in St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, many of those monuments which grace these great national Cathedrals, would not now be found within their walls. And when he (Lord Brougham) adverted to the only precedent. which the Right i'ev. Prelate had been able to cite on behalf of his absent Brother, he must needs say that that only prece dent was the very one which ought to have been selected by the Bishop of Quebec—(Hear, hear)—in order not. to fol low Hear, hear. ) The Bishop of LONDON said the simple statement of facts into which he had entered should have precluded the possi lity of such animadversions as the Noble and Learned Lord had made. After what had fallen from the Noble and Learned Lord, he confessed that he had no hesitation in saying that he thought the Bishop of Canada was perfectly justified in the course he had pursued. A Bishop had an undoubted right to make any regulations he might think fit relative to the erection of monuments in the churches of his diocese. He would go a step farther and say, that the unquestioned facility which ex isted with regard to the erection of monuments in the churches of this country was a source of great abuse ; and he could not but say that he looked upon some of the inscriptions on those monuments with a feeling of shame. He never went into one of those churches without taking shame to himself for the mo numental inscriptions which disfigured it, in commemoration of parties who, neither in life nor in death, had shown their sense of the privileges to which, as members of the Church, they Here entitled. In the circumstances of this country, he dared not to enforce the prohibition of the erection of such monuments ; but he thought that the Bishop of Quebec was perfectly justified in the course he had taken, if he found there was no usage in his diocese which would prevent the enforcement of his regulations. He insisted that it was quite consistent with the principles of the Church and true charity. The Right Rev. Prelate con cluded by reading a paper containing the Bishop of Quebec's own reasons for not allowing the erection of the tablet. Lard BROUGHAM said he had not made any attack upon the Right Rev. Prelate, and yet the Right Rev. Prelate said that he rose to answer an attack made upon him by him ( Lord Brougham). He did not think that the Right Rev. Prelate had at all mended the ea..e, he had rather made it worse. - . The Bishop of LONDON explained. Earl GALLOWAY said that, without wishing to be set down as a bigot, he must sa)• that he agreed with every word that had fallen from the Right Rev. Prelate. CONDESINF.D SERMONS AT NEWGATE. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE rose to bring before their Lordships a cue relating to Newgate, which he thought was most disgusting and profane.--( Hear, hear.) He held in his hand an account of the matter, taken from the newspaper: of the day. He would refer to the Times of Monday, the 23(1 inst. (The Noble Lord then proceeded to read the account of the condemned sermon preached to Daniel Good, and re ferred more particularly to the words—" and then Good was led in by two constables, and placed in a chair, in the centre of the congregation," and to Good's conduct during the sermon..) He must express the indignation, disgust, and horror, which this recital excited in his breast.--( Hear, hear.) For if they read the account of the barbarism of the most savage nature, they could not find exhibited a more refined, morbid feeling than was exhibited in this case. Here was the man brought for ward to let them see the effect that this sermon would have upon his physical frame, about to leave the world. This was a kind of Sabbath pastime which took place in one of our public es tablishments, and to which a Minister of the Established Church was not only a party, but a very active agent. He thought it was quite high time that notice should be taken of a scene of this sort, to prevent its recurrence. He did not know whether in this instance the occurrence took place by the desire of the criminal, but he thought that it was not according to the spirit of the law ; he certainly had no right to have the prison dress changed, and to be made a kind of hero of in that way; besides, how could it be supposed that when he was an object of such attention his thoughts could be properly directed towards the making his peace with the offended Deity. Whilst he disapproved of this exhibition he could not say one word against public executions ; he thought it quite right that every'publicity should be given to the execution that could be according to the law ; but the law never meant that a place of worship should he subject to the desecration which he had described. He begged to mve for a copy of the rues and orders regulating one conduct of prisoners convicted of capital offences in the gaol of Newgste. The Duke of RICHMOND was of opinion that the Noble Lord who had just sat down deserved the thanks of the Hou.io for having brought this matter before them. He thought, if public feeling did not put a stop to such proceedings, a legis lative measure should be put in force. THE MESSAGE. Lord DEL A WAR R announced, t hat having waited upon her Majesty relative to th;- reception of .the Address, he had to announce that her Majesty had appointed three o'clock to morrow to receive it. A message was then di,patehed to inform the Commons of the same. CONDEMNED SERMONS (RESUMED). Lord WIIMINCLIFFE thankedthe Noble Lord for having brought this matter before the House. He was quite of opinion with the Noble Lord that a criminal like that man should be kept as much alone, as possible—should, in fact, be kept en tirely to himself. He did not think that the Government had anything to do with the matter, which rested entirely with the City corporation. The Marquis of NORMANBY confirmed the statement of the Noble Lord opposite, that the Government had nothing to do with the management of Nevtgate. When he was Home Secretary, he had been much struck with the disgraceful practice of exhibiting criminals of that class during different stages of their confinement ; and he took occasion to inform the Sheriffs that, unless they would prevent it, he shuuld feel it his duty to call the attention of Parliament to it.—( Hear, hear.) The Sheriffs of that time, he was happy to say, ex pressed their willingness to co-operate with him. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE also rose to tender his his thanks to the Noble Lord for having brought this matter before the House. He perfectly agreed with every viord that had fallen from every Noble Lord on the subject. The motion was then agreed to. SUNDAY TRAVELLING ON RAILWAYS. Earl GALLOWAY presented a petition from the Presby tery of Edinburgh, praying their Lordships to pass a Bill to put a stop to Railway travelling ou Sundays. He thought the matter deserved the attention of her Majesty's, Government. Lord WHARNCLIFFEthought, if they pntastop to travel ling upon railways on Sunday, they should put a stop to travel ling in any other way. The question was whether the people were to travel at all on a Sunday, whatever might be their ne cessities. He knew the feeling which prevailed upon the sub ject in Scotland, and he must stir that he thought the Scotch people went a great deal too far in their ideas upon this subject. The Government was not prepared to bring in any measure upon the sUbject. Lord CAMPBELL was of opinion that the notions on this subject which prevailed in Scotland, were very extravagant. It might be perhaps desirable to prevent the carrying heavy mcr , chandize on Sundays, but to say that you might travel by turn pike roads, and not by railways, was excessively absurd. BAKERS' HOURS. The Marquis of DOWNSHIRE presented a petition from the Bakers of Newry, praying for some law Ito be passed which should regulate their hours of labour on Sunday. L C A H W A YNECREI'LCOPR:RpTreI s F e l n C te A d T a g pe S t . The LORD Lawyers of Lancaster, p ra yi ng that the law requ i i t r in in n g fr t o h m eni th to e take out a new certificate every year should be repealed. Their Lordships then adjourned at half-past Seven. fRE SUN, LON DON. WEDN.ESDAI MORNING, J UNE 1, 1842. trusted that the performance of the negotiations with these countries would increase the desire on the part of the wine growers of France to remonstrate against the proposed rise of duties adverted to. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, as this question was before the House, he would observe that the Right Hon. Gentleman had a perfect, right to delay communications and regulations with other Powers respecting the wine trade, according as the interests of this country might require. It would not now be wise for us to depart from the course which had been found hitherto to have been pursued with so much advantage in these matters. Sir it. PEEL—The present Government had had a due regard to the feelings with which these negotiations had been entered upon by their predecessors. POOR-LAW BILL. Captain PECHELL said that the Poor-law Bill stood among the motions of the day for this evening. He trusted the Right Hon. Baronet would mention if he intended to bting on that motion to night. Sir J. GRAHAM said it was not his intention to bring it on. HOUSE OF CoMMONS - , Af 31. The SPEAKEn took his seat at the usual hour. Mr. Hussey took the oaths and his seat for the boning - It of .Lyme Regis. Lord Eastnor took the oaths and his seat fir the borough of Reigate. ROYAL ASSENT. The Deputy Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the table to summon the House to the House of Lords, to hear the Royal assent given by Commission to several Bills. The SPEAKER, accompanied by several Members, left the House, and on his return informed the House that he had heard the Royal assent given by Commission to several Bills (for which see Lords' Report). The evidence taken before the Lyme Regis Committee was laid on the table. CAMBUSLANG AND MUIRKIEK ROADS. On the motion of Mr. LOCK HART, this Bill was read a thfrd ....Nl;:iiiii.KENZlE moved that the 19th clause of the Bill be struck ►►ut. Tl4o_ ground tm which he made the motion was, that it was contrary to the usual practice to levy a larger toll on those who came from a distance than on those who lived in the vicinity. Mr. DARBY said this was a most extraordinary case; there were no less than five parties before the Committee, all represented by Counsel. The creditors stated that there was 60,0001. owing upon the trust, and other par ties stated the debt to be no more than from 12,000/. to 18,0001.; it was admitted, however, on all hands, that if the debt of 60,00►)l. were not owing, the present toll ought not to be increased. From what he knew of the matter he was of opinion that the tolls should not be in creased.—(Cheers.) _ _ . Mr. P. M. STEWART would support the motion of his Hon. Friend, the Member for Peebles. After a short discussion, strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the amendment Against the amendment 9l Majority against the amendment —56 BELFAST ELECTION COMMITTEE. The following Members were sworn in to try the merits of the Beirut Election petition : —Mr. Ward, Sir A. L. Hay, Captain Polhill, Captain Bernal, Mr. Bald win, Mr. Bagge, and Mr. Hayter, Chairman. CAMBUAANG AND 'MUIRKII{K ROADS. Mr. DARBY moved that the operation oe the Cam buslang and Muirkirk Roads Bill should be limited to five years. Mr. DENNISTOUN seconded the amendment. Mr. LOCKART opposed the motion. A short discussion ensued, in which Mr. Denistoun, Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Darby, Mr. Greene, Mr. P. M. Stewart, and Mr. Johnstone took part. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment 43 Against it lO3 Majority against the amendment --60 The Bill was then read a third time and passed. GRAVESEND TERRACE PIER BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. TADCASTER AND OTLEY RAILROAD BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE HER MA- JESTY. A Message from the • House of Lords requested a conference with the Commons to agree to an Address to her Majesty, condoling with her upon the attempt made upon her sacred person, and congratulating her upon her escape. Sir It. PEEL begged to move that the House agree to a conference, as desired by their Lordships. The following Lords and Gentlemen were then ap pointed a Committee to confer with their Lordships:— Sir R. Peel, Lord John Russell, Lord Stanley, Lord Palmerston, Sir J. Graham, Lord Howick, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Baring, Sir J. Hobhouse, Sir G. Clerk, Mr. 'Macaulay, Sir E. Knatchbull, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Sir G. Grey, Sir Thomas Wilde, Lord G. Somerset, Lord Seymour, Mr. Fox Manic, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. O'Connell, Sir R. Inglis, Sir C. Napier, Sir G. Cockburn, Lord Ashley, and Lord Elliot. _ _ The Committee left the House to confer with their Lordships, and on its return Sir ROBERT PEEL said, Mr. Speaker, Sir, We have held a conference with the Lords, which was managed on the part of their Lordships by the Lord President of the Council. I have to acquaint the House that in consequence of the late most atrocious and trea sonable attempt which has been made on her Majesty's most sacred person, their Lordships had taken the same into consideration, and had agreed to address her Majesty thereupon, to which Address the Lords desire the con currence of this House. The Right Hon. Gentleman was then requested by the Speaker to bring up the Address, which was read by the Clerk at the table (for which see Lords' report). At the conclusion of the Address, Sir ROBERT PEEL rose and said, Sir, it is my duty to propose that this House should concur in the address to which the other house of Par liament has assented, and I anticipate but one unanimous feeling respecting the proposal which I have to make.—(Loud cheers.) Scarcely two years have elapsed since I had the painful duty of seconding the pro posal of a similar motion made by the Noble Lord, and it is with mixed feelings of shame and indignation —(Loud cheers)—that, after a lapse of two years, I rise now to discharge a similar duty.—(Hear, hear.) I should have thought that the naturist feelings and sym pathies of human nature would have been protection suffi cient against such an atrocious crime. —(Loud cheers.) That our young Queen, seeking for innocent recreation from the cares and toils of business, in the presence of her beloved husband, should be a second time exposed in this country to an attempt like this, tills inc with feelings of shame and indignation. It' feelings of humanity would not have prevented such an attempt, I should have thought that the burst of loyal affection which had been called forth from all classes of her Majesty's subjects by the first attehipt, and of indignation and abhorrence against the author of it, would have prevented a repetition of such an atrocity.—(Loud cheers.) It has not done so. Yes terday evening, a little before six o'clock, her Majesty, returning home, in the presence of her beloved husband, having, I believe, taken the precaution that no other fe male—(Cheers)—should be exposed to the danger but herself— (Continued cheering) she relying with confidence in the generous loyalty of her people. —(lmmense cheering)—with a determination not to be confined as a prisoner in her own palace—(Loud cheers) —yesterday evening, on her Majesty's return to the Pa lace, a shot from a pistol was discharged at the carriage in which her Majesty was sitting, and I have at least the satisfaction of stating that the person by whom that pistol was discharged, was immediately arrested, and is now in confinement. There is every reason to believe that this crime had been meditated on the precedingday ; at least a person answering in every respect the descrip tion of the appearance of the person apprehended fir the offence of yesterday, was observed to point a pistol at the carriage in which her Majesty was seated on her return from church, and was heard to express his regret that he had failed in effecting his object. This person so charged, has been committed for the offence of high treason, and is now before the judicial tribunals of the country ; I shall, therefore, abstain from any further comments on the offence with which he has been charged ; but I am sure I shall be justified in anticipating that the country, from one end to the other, will concur with us in our expression of abhorrence at the crime, and gratitude to Almighty God for the protection of her Majesty from this second attempt on her life, and will offer up an earliest prayer to the same divine Disposer of events, that lie will continue to vouchsafe his protection to her, and Ion: preserve a life so justly dear to all her Majesty's subjects.—(Loud cheers.) The only motion I shall make is, that the House do agree to the Address, with the addition of the words—" and the Commons." Lord J. RUSSELL seconded the motion of the Right Hon. Gentleman. lam sure, said the Noble Lord, that the predominant feeling in this House, and in the coun try, must be that of gratitude to Almighty God for the preservation of her Majesty's life ; in the next place, that there should be a second person found who could meditate and commit a crime so atrocious, and so cowardly—(Bear, hear)—was most lamentable. The only thing we can now hope is that this crime has been that of a solitary individual, and that it is not the result of a concerted conspiracy. —(Ileac, hear.) ( this at least. I am sure, that when her Majesty goes abroad among the people, there is net one among her subjects who has less reason to fear an enemy in any single individual of the millions who constitute her subjects.— ( Hear, hear.) Let us hope, therefore, that this may be the crime of one person, and that the voice of abhorrence anti indignation that will arise against him will have Ow effect of preserving the life it has pleased Almighty God to protect, for many years to come. Mr. LASCELLES stated that her Majesty having reason to apprehend this attack, would not suffer her usual attendants to partake the danger.—(Loud cheers.) The Address was then put and carried unanimously, and the Cabinet Ministers and the Members forming the Committee to manage the Conference, took it up to the Lords. On the return of the Members who formed the Con ference, Sir ROBERT PEEL said that it would be perhaps convenient fur the House, that he should adopt a course which had usually been pursued on these occasions, and stated generally that it was his im pression that her Majesty would probably name to-morrow at a quarter tiefore four o'clock, which would be after the Levee, for the purpose of receiving the joint addresses of both Houses of Parliament. SUDBURY ELECTION. Mr. W. WYNN said that the House would remember that when the Sudbury Bill was introduced, the Hon. Member who brought it forward read some evidence, showing the state of the hand-loom weavers. He would move that the evidence should be reprinted, and laid before the House; but as the Report of which it formed part was voluminous, he believed it would be necessary to move the appointment of a Committee to select those parts which related to the borough of Sudbury ; he would accordingly make that motion, and he would at the same time move that, as had been done in former in stances, a copy of the Bill should be sent down to the returning officer of that borough. After a few words from Mr. REDINGTON, the motion was agreed to. TIE FRENCH TARIFF—DUTY ON ENGLISH LINENS. On the Order of the Day for resuming the adjourned debate on the second reading of the Property -tax Bill beinc , read, Mr. b LABOUCHERE said he wished to ask a question on a subject which had created the greatest excitement among the trading classes of this country. It had been re • ported that the French Government had increased the duty on linens and linen yarns, the produce of this country. He wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman if he was able to make any statement on this subject. He could not put the question without expressing regret that at the mo ment we were pursuing measures for the adoption of a more liberal course of commercial policy towards other nations, a step of a nature so hostile to our interests should have been adopted. Sir R. PEEL said, in answering the question of the Right Hon. Gentleman, he might be allowed to state that within the last three or fourdays her Majesty's Govern ment lout received information on the subject,to the effect that the Minister of France had stated that the Government of France had power, by an ordonnance, to raise the duties referred to, and that the Government of France intended to exercise that power. He (Sir R. Peel) could only assure the Right Honourable Gentleman that they had not permitted a post to leave this country, without making their communications on the sub ject to the French Government, which they thought their duty required of them to make, namely, expressing their 1.02-rot at the intention expressed to raise thOse duties. With respect to the commercial negotiations now pending be tween this country and France, he could not help thinking that there were interests in' the south of France which would regret any impediment to the conclusion ot those Commercial Leuotiations. Government had had comroutacations with other countries in Europe which produced wine, and ht• ' INDIA. In answer to a question from on How. MEstowit; Sir R. PEEL stated ►hat it had been the habit in conduct ing our relations with the East India Company, that they (the Company) should make advances from time to time to the Government of this country for the expenses incurred for the service of the East India Company's Government. Such ad• vances had been made by the East India Company, and, if he recollected right, the Company had at the present moment 340,0001. Her Majesty's Government prop sed to make an advance to meet the expenses of the Government of the East India Company in this country to the amount of 400,0001., which would be equivalent to a corresponding advance made by the East India Company on account of the expenses of that Government in conducting the war in Affghanistan. It would be a great convenience to them if the Government of this country would make a further advance in two sums of 200,000/, each at the present time. Those were advances which would hereafter be settled. The advances they engaged to make, or contemplated making, were such as would be a set off to the corresponding. advances made by the East India Company. The whole amount would be about 800,000/., of which 400,000!. were advances for money already paid. Mr. lIUME said he did not think the Right Hon. Baronet gave the exact answer. He apprehended the object of the question was to ascertain whether the British Treasury was to pay any part of the money advanced by the East India Com pany, or whether they were to pay it only in the first instance. S►r R. PEEL said that he alluded to advances made on ac count of the Government in this country. He answered the question put to him ; and he could say nothing of any other question. The advances stipulated for were sums to be repaid. INCOME TAX. I%lr. LABOUCHERE wished to know from the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he would make his statement of the ex penses to be incurred in bringing the machinery of the Income tax into operation ? He thought it was right that the state ment should be made before the third reading of the Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was ready to make the statement now, but he would rather defer it till he spoke on the subject itself. INDIAN DESPATCHES. _ _ _ Mr. D'ISRAELI said that as he was going to allude to a subject of much importance, and one which involved a cha"ge of a personal nature against a Right Hon. Gentleman, he hoped the Halm would allow him to place the wiestion before them in its proper light. About the third session of the last Parliament the Ri g ht H on . G en tl eman , i n hi s o ffi c i a l capac ity as President of the B o a r d o f C on trol, l a id on th e t a ble of the House a variety o f d ocumen t s , cons i s ti ng o f s t a t e p a p ers an d political despat c h es , the object of which was to explain and vin dicate the invasion by the Indian Government of those countries commonly known under the name of Central Asia. The most important portion consisted of despatches from an individual who had bean sent as Envoy to the city of Cabool, but many of those despatches were suppressed by the Home Go vernment. A portion of those dispatches which vi c, e public were published. Sir Alexander Burnes had charac terised the production of the correspondence in which it hail appeared as little more than pure fraud and trickery. Fie wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman whether he could explain why he adopted steps with respect to the despatches of a British Minister which that Minister had described as pure fraud and trickery. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE said the letters to which the Hon. Gentleman had alluded were not laid on the table as the whole of the fetters and despatches of Sir Alexander Rurnes. On the contrary, there being in all thirty-six letters, thirty of them were described as extracts. It was never intended to repre sent them as despatches in ertenso. There was nothing what ever to bear out the inference which the Hon. Gentleman seemed to draw from the omissions. The Hon. Gentleman would find two letters, dated October, 1837, in which the opinion of Sir A. Burnes with respect to the settlement affairs was distinctly stated. There was no wish whatever to conceal the opinion of Sir Alexander Burnes on that sub ject. So much, then, for the omissions—omissions which he had not the least wish to disprove, since it was impossible for any State department to print papers received from agents em ployed on foreign stations exactly as they were written.— ( Hear, hear.) With respect to the alterations, he would tell the Hon. Gentleman what was their precise nature. No altera tion or substitution was made, except such as were positively called for by a doe regard to the public interest. If the de spatches had been published in the very words in which they were written, personal offence might have been given in quar ters where such offence might have led to the most grave, serious, and mischievous results. No change was made which in the least degree affected the spirit or termer of the letters. If despatches were printed as they were written, the confidential agents of the Government would be afraid to give such informa tion as they now felt it, their duty to afford. The Hon. Gentle man who had asked him this question must consider that the late Government were aware that their su cessors would have the means of printing the whole of the correspondence if they thought it necessary or desirable to do so. Personally, it would 'be a matter of perfect indifference to him if every scrap of paper which had ever been addressed to the Board of Control from India was printed by the House of Commons. The Hon. Gentleman was aware that there was a notice on the paper for the month of June, for the production of other papers. When those papers were moved for, he would do his best to give an answer, but at present he could not say more than he had done. NEWGATE.—CONDEMN ED SERMONS. Mr. V. SMITH, seeing the Right Hon. Baronet the Secre tary of State fur the Home Department in his place, wished to put a question to him. It appeared, from the public prints, that in the chapel of Newgate, on' Sunday week, on the occasion of preaching the condemned sermon, there took place a scene that appeared to him highly improper, and indecent in the ex treme. Orders were issued by the Sheriff to admit particular individuals, and among that number, he was sorry to say, were many females of rank and sta ion, and in fact, the whole mat ter appeared much more like a theatrical parade, which was most revolting when it was recollected what the occasion was. He wished to know from the Right Hon. Baronet, whether he had any power or control to put down such exhibitions ; be cause if he had, he was sure he would do so; if he had not, he wished to know what authority should be applied to for such a purpose. Sir J. GRAHAM said that the Secretary of State for the Home Department had no power over the civic authorities of London. He had, however, always futinil the utmost readi ness on the part.of those authorities to attend to every sugges tion from the Home Department that was conducive to the general good. They very much agreed with what had fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman. As to his regret at what had occurred, certainly the scene that took place was calcu lated to disturb the last moments of an individual whose life had been forfeited to the laws. He was quite satisfied that any suggestion from the Home-office would have its due effect. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. In answer to a question from Lord J. RUSSELL, Sir ROBERT PEEL said, he should not take any Order of the Day in preference to notices of motions, unless it were the Income-tax. They had now nearly arrived at a period, the Ist of June, when the House would not be indisposed to give an additional day to the Orders. As soon as the Income tax should be disposed of, he would give notice of a resolu tion to that effect. Mr. ROEBUCK said, he wished to bring on the Wit nesses Indemnity Bill that evenin4, and if the House would permit him, he would move that the Order of the Day for the (nether consideration of the Report on the Witnesses In demnity Bill be read. Sir IL PEEL, in opposing the motion, said he was not taking any advantage, but was acting in strict conformity with notices. . . . A short conversation took place, from which it. was under stood that the Income-tax should have the precedence of the Orders of the Day. INCOME-TAX—THIRD READING. The Order of the Day for the third reading of the Property.. tax Bill, was then read. Mr. HUME said that as he had not been present at the in troduction of the measure then before the House, he trusted he might be permitted to indulge in a few observations. (The noise occasioned by a host of Members leaving the House, ren dered the Hon. Gentleman for some time inaudible. A t length the Hon. Gentleman paused, and after the confusion had somewhat subsided, the Hon. Gentleman resumed.) He was anxious to state the views which he took of the measures brought forward by the Right Hon. Baronet to meet the difficu'ties of the country, and also his opinion of the difficul ties which the Right Hon. Baronet had encountered in taking charge of the Government. He believed he was warranted in concluding that the proposed alterations in the tariff would pass into a law—that the Corn. law was all which the Right Hon. Baronet meant to propose to the House on that subject —and that the Income-tax was the only other measure on which the Government relied for relieving the difficulties and distresses of the country. He (Mr. Hume) was sorry to say that he took a different view of what was likely to be the re sult of the Right Hon. Baronet's measures. He believed that the Right Hon. Baronet was fully aware of the state of distress existing among the manufacturing population of the country, and he believed that the Government had not adopted the means best calculated to relieve that distress, because they had not duly considered its causes. It was an error to suppose that that distress was merely of a temporary nature. Years had rolled on, and he had continued to raise his voice against those evils. Our commercial system was conducted on a false foundation. Ho had always insisted on the necessity of open ing additional outlets for the exchange of the industrial pro ducts of this country. He considered the restriction imposed on our commercial relations as the primary cause of the dis tress. The second cause he considered to be the lavish ex penditure of the public money. The Right Hon. Baronet was right i n c h ang i ng t h e taxes w hich pressed upon the industry of the co un t ry f or taxes upon c apital, but he ought to have made due allowance for the enormous taxation which pressed upon the manufacturing industry of the country. The Right Hon. Baronet had not carried out his own principle. He had said that he was desirous of affording means of relief to the financial difficulties of the country, 'without pressing upon the labouring classes; but he was sure that the taxation could not be increased to 4,Q00,000/., without increasing the difficulties of the labouring classes. MESSAGE FROM. THE LORDS.—ADDRESS. Messenger s f rom the Lords were announced, and having declared their message at the table, withdrew. The SPEAKER announced that their Lordships had sent word that it was her Majesty's pleasure that the two Houses should attend her blajestyfat the Palace at three o'clock. He, therefore proposed that he should take the Chair at a quarter past two. INCOME-TAX—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. HUME resumed. Had the Right Hon. Baronet looked at the expenditure of the country ? Had he taken any Measures for the effectual reduction of any of the large and un aecessary expenses which had been incurred during the last five years, and which had led to all those difficulties? All that the Right Hon. Baronet had stated was, that he did not believe that any great reduction of expenditure cou ld t a ke p la ce. Did the Right Honourable Baronet sxpect that by taking 4,000,0001. more from the capital of the country, to be wasted in war or ether useless expenditure, be would afford any relief cr which e ad t h i, e x to the distressed poor of the country ? He (Mr. Hume) would only tell him, judging from past experience, that he was likely to be disappointed. He knew of no in,tance in p fi e n n an (li c t e i s i : the country were in difficulties without the Hohse immediately proceeding to inquire into the causes of . those ffifficalties, and. into the state of the revenue ; and how 'far it Was possible to make reductions to meet'the in of the country, or confine that expendi ture: witbin proper-bounds.- Had he been in the Honk in the early part of the session, he would have pre,sed upon the Go vernment ilia propriety of appointing a Finance Committee. In 1817 a Fihance Committee had been appointed, and all its Reports pointed out the means whereby relief could be af forded. The relult was, that great advantage had been de rived from the inquiries set on - foot by that Committee. In the year 1828, also, a Finance Committee bad been nomi nated; and though it only sat me session, yet it sat long j enough to show the great causes of the country's expen,e, and how that expense could be diminished. The Right Hon. Baronet said that the honour of the country must be supported at the expense of the country; but why were those wars entered into? Because they needlessly med dled in the affairs of other countries, and they were now pay ing the penalty. He regretted that the late Government, who came into office stating hat reform, economy, retrench- ment, peice, and nen-intervention, were the principles on which they would act, violated the pledges they gave, and plungsd the country into expenses for objects Wally worthless. But he must say, that the present Government ale aye showed' themselves ready to support the late one in those views. The Noble Lord the late Secretary for Foreign Affairs was pre sent, and he would forgive him (Mr. Hume) for stating frankly that he considered him (Lord Palmerston) as the chief cause of those expenses which were incurred in useless wars— that he was the evil genius who led the Goverrment into the mire, where they we•e found by the Right Hon. Baronet— ( Laughter.) He did not think the past history of the country would sfford another example of the Government having re course to a Queen's letter to get charity to relieve the distresses of the country. The Right. Hon. Baronet had promulgated sound principles of free trade; but he believed that nothing weuld relieve the di tresses of the country but a complete free trade in corn, and every other kind of provision . He could only suppsse that the Right Hon. Baronet had been compelled to propose these half-and-half measures, in order to meet the wishes of those around him. What was the condition of the cotintry might be learnt from the Report of the Com mittee of Distress. From that Report it appeared that en Stockport failures of mill-owners were constantly occurring, and that the distress of the people had assumed a most ag gravates! form. NI hat was said of Stockport would, however, apply equally to Burnley, Manchester and other places, fin.- marly the hives of industry, their people happy, contented, and comfortable. Could the Hight. Hon. Baronet celieve that the paltry change which he proposed to make in the Corn-laws would produce any real benefit? Was it possible that he thought such small and trifling. changes as he proposed to make in the tariff could have any immediate effect on the feed ing, happiness, end employment of the people ? Why did he not meet the difficulty by reducing the twenty-four millions of expenditure ? The Right Hon. Baronet knew that on former occasions, when the amount of saving that might be effected in the expenditure of the country was brought before the House, it had been urged that they should not take a farthing more from the public than necessary ; that to effect great reduc tions they should look at. their army and navy as they were the principal objects of expense. He knew the manner in which that appeal was met by the Right Hon. Baronet, hut he did not analyse the subject, and see what was necessary to the protection ..f the country and what was not. lie would simply look at the number of men in arms in the army and navy at several different periods. In 1792 the whole marine of the country consisted of 16 000 men • the army, 45,000 men ; the artillery, 4.000 men. In 1822 the navy consisted of 21,000 men, the army of 6,8,000, anti the artillery 6,250, in the whole 97,000 men. This year the navy had 42,000 men, the army 95,600, the artillery 8,864, in the whole 146,01;0 men. The Right Hon. Baronet had asked him if he would reduce their naval force, and he had said he (Mr. Hume) would do so. The expedition to China had cost the country b,000,000/. The next foolish act was interfering with the affairs of Syria. What necessity, he would ask, was there for such an interference ? There was, at the present moment, 34 ships of war in the Me diterranean, and the expense of that force amounted to upwards of 1,000,000/. a year. This Showed the manner in which the public finances had been mismanaged. He believed that 900,000/. of that amount might have been saved : he had no doubt that, in every other branch, similar extrava gances bad taken place. In 1840, there were 14,600 men at one place alone; in December 1841, there wee, e 41 ships and 12,700 men in the Mediterranean. Now what had bi en the result of the Syrian expedition? Why that the Sultan himself had requested Alehemet Ali to march into Syria, and take pos session of it. He might talk to them of Canada, where they had 15,000 men, and an expensive establishment, for no other purpose than that of keeping down men who wanted an Execu tive Government ; and, after the expenditure of five millions of money, the Government had agreed that there ought to be an Executive Government in that country. He thought there ought to be inquiry on these subjects, and he should not rest until such inquiry had been instituted. In 1822, he (Mr. Hume) had strongly pressed on the Girvernment the necessity of a reduction of the army. lie had moved an address to that effect, which was carried, and the result was, that a reduction of 10,000 men took place in a few months afterwards, and, in the following year,. the estimates were lessened by one million and a half sterling. Subsequently, however, the unnecessary promotion of naval and military officers increased the estimates again. He had said enough to show that, :fit were not for the nnnecessary expenses.of the Syrian and Chinese wars, and the useless promotions in the army and navy, there would be no need of resorting to an Income tax to meet the expenditure of the Governmen'. In the year 1830, when Earl Grey's Government came into office, they were so strongly pressed to lessen the taxation which then burdened the country, that they yielded ; and in consequence, in the period intervening between the years 1830 and 1835 eight millions of taxation were in the gross repealed. 872,0001. had certainly been re-imposed during that thu s "; but, allow ing for that, the reduction of the taxation of tile country was 7,220,0001. Let them mark what then nc eirred. From 1830 to 1833 a reduction of taxation of 7,000.0001. took place ; the revenue was then 52,000,0001., and it only fell on the re duction to 49i millions sterling, thus giving an instance of the elasticity of the revenue arising from the reduction of taxation. In 1837 the taxation of the country amounted to 51,300,0001. ; and it had unhappily gone on increasing. In 1839 it amounted to 51,700,000/. ; in 1839, it amounted to 53.000,0001 ; in 1840 it again amounted to 53,000,000/. ; and in 1841 it amounted to nearly 54,000,000/. He would tell the House, too, that in his belief this country could have more easily paid a few years ago 70 millions, than it could now pay 53 millions. And why? Because trade was then in a sound and prosper ous condition, while it now languished. The prospects of the country were at the present moment truly lamentable. He was sorry to find that the Right Hon. Ihronet, instead of at.. tempting to relieve the national distress by a repeal of the Corn-laws, had had recourse to a begging-letter, which should never have been issued. He would take that opportunity of expressing his regret at. the little sympathy manifested by the clergy of the Established Church in the distresses of the people, and at the little they had done for their relief. They seemed, he was sorry to find, to have almost all allied themselves with the richer classes. The majority of the clergy were leagued with the aristocracy, and the labouring population of the coun try lad become influenced by a feeling against them. He had supported the Poor-law Bill because he thought it was right that the population of the country should be thrown on their own resources ; but he protested against the keeping up a law for rasing the price of corn, and rendering it difficult for a poor man to procure a subsistence. He did not believe that the mea sures of the Right Hon. Baronet sr ould produce the relief that was proposed. He had gene through the expenditure of the country, and he could undertake to reduce three millions of the expenditure, with no injury at all to the public service, within the year. He had already pointed out the impolicy of the ex penditure for the Syrian expedition, undertaken in con,radic tion to the system of foreign policy laid down by Mr. Canning and acceded to by Earl Grey. Taking the expen-e of the Chin, se expedition, there would be a sum of twenty millions required for a vote that had, up to .last year, been fourteen. Still, had he known that the Right Hon. Baronet would bring forward measures so excellent in principle, as far as his ex ertions could have gone he would not have been so long out of offi,e.---( Hear, hear, and laugh ter.) But they bad expe rienced the bad effects of Tory rule, and they were afraid of coming under their sway again ; they therefore kept in something bad, in order to keep out some thing worse. But putting this aside, was the measure of the Right Hon. Baronet calculated to remedy those evils ? Nothing would do it but a reduction of taxation, and a free trade in corn, without which no foreign nations would sym pathise with this fusion. His Queen's letter, and h's doling out the public money, would only adil to the difficulties in which they were placed. He therefore objected to the present mea sure, without. first instituting those preliminary inquiries, by which they might ascertain what might be reduced in their ex peediture, and the causes of the distress. The principle of taxing every kind of income, on the average of the last three tears. ws.uld strove a very serious evil. He objected, also. to the inquisitorial part of the plan. He did not, however, object to a Property -tax; on the contrary, he would reduce six millions of taxation, which pressed on the people, and lay the burden on the property of the country. He gave his opposition to the passing of the Bill on principle. Sir C. NAPIER reminded the . Hon. GenCeman, and the House, that in the years 1837 and 1838, the whole country, from one end to the other, was crying out on the inefficient state of their navy. It was to the credit of the Government that flu y increased the estimates by me million and a half; and now, while a war was raging in China—at the moment when they had incurred a disaster in India, the operations of which were not yet finished—( Hear, hear, from Sir R. Peel) — when they saw that France had increased her navy by eight sail of the line—he would ask the Hon. Gentleman, and the House, whether this was a time in which it would be advisable to make any reduction in their navy ?—( Hear, hear.) With regard to the Income-tax, he thought it very unjust to tax the man of a thousand a-year landed property, and the man who realised the same amount from trade or industry, to the same amount. Neither could he approve of the tariff of the Right lion. Baronet, which kept up the duties on butter, cheese, sugar, corn, and apples, all articles which were the food of the poor. Colonel WYNDHAM repelled the motion that the forms of Parliament allowed the Hon. Gentleman opposite to bring such charges as he had done against the aristocracy of the country. Mr. CURT EIS defended the course taken by the Hos. Member for Montrose. Mr. BARING fully concurred in the opinion expressed by the Hon. Member who had just sat down, and he joined with him in paying a just tribute to the consistency of the Hon. Member for Montrose. He had always consistently advocated economy, even when that word was least popular in that House. With respect to the Bill before the House, the first question was, was it likely to effect the object for which it was intended? —( Hear.) Was that Bill to raise money from the country in a fair and just mode ; and they, as he had often heard them say, they did, by that Income-tax, lay the burden of taxation in proportion to the ability of the party to pay.---( Hear.) By this Bill they actually chargedlparties for an income while they were in the receipt of no income whatever. If a person sus tained loss under one schedule he could not set that off against the gain under another. Take the case of a merchant, who was a holder of stock to the amount of 1,0001. a year, he might lose by his trade two or three thousand a year ; yet would he have to pay an Income-tax under the provisions of this Bill. Now a principle of the Bill was that they were to charge parties upon their income, and yet by the provisions of the Bill itself, they were actually by Act of Parliament made to pay a tax upon an income which they did not possess. There was no such anomaly as this in the records of legislation, except the single instance of the salt tax in Germany, by whi c h th e consumer was made to pay, not according to his actual con sumption, but according to the notions of the tax-gatherer, who levied the tax according to what he thought the party ought to consume. 'rake the schedule D, the tenant's schedule. In this case they transfered the tax from inc ome t o rent. . T h i s was no just means of ascertaining the profit of the occupier of land. H e came to the next schedule, and he must say that this clause was in itself an argument against the ;Bill. In this schedule, they charged terminable annuiti es the same as perma nent annuities. The Right Hon. Gentleman said there was no breach of public faith, but this did riot make the case less un just or unfair. They prop o s e d t o c h arge 3 per cent. on that part of the public fund; which vi erc merely the reimburse. meats of the holder's capital.—(Hear, hear.) He then came to the schedule for trades and professions. By this clause manufacturers and traders would be subject to as severe an investigation as they were subject to by former Bills, and that, it, w uld be remembered, was an insurmount able objection, inasmuch as the manufacturers, in their petition in 1816, said, that though the House lowered the charges, and lessened the per tentage, they did not care for that so long as the system o f searc hing investigati on con ti nue d He be bered this measure of investiAation would have a most injurious effect upon the morals of the country ; perjury and fraud would he constantly committed. Looking at the circumstances atten dant on other Income-taxes, he regretted to fear that perjury and fraud would be extended so fir and wide as materially to injure the char .cter of the British merchant at home and abroad.—( Hear, hear.) These were the objections to which he wished to draw the attention of the House, and though they had been urged before, he must say that they had met with no answer whatever from Gentlemen on the other side. He thought the Bill was full of injustice ; injustice belonged to the nature of the Bill, and could not be avoided in such a system ; the inequalities in the Bill were greater than in all their other taxation put together ; on these grounds he should give his cordial opesitioti to the third reading of the Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER trusted the I House would forgive him for again troubling them with a few observations, after the great number of times which '..e had bad occasion to address them before. The Right Hon. Gen tleman who had just sat down had thought fit to repeat the arguments which had already been made use of, and he laid considerable stress upon the inequalities of the Bill. lie would remind the Right Hon. Gentleman that a Bill precisely analo gous to the present was introduced . in 1803 by one Alinistry, and in 1806 by anoth e r. It had long been considered as an advisable measure to impose a tax upon property, by classes of the two extremes of pa , ty politics ; they would. see Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox both supporting it. The Right Honourable Gentleman found objections to schedule B. 1-le corn pl tined that in the ease of the occupier of land an arbi trary assumption was made of his profits; and he said that ) no correct estimate could be formed of the profits from the amount of. rent paid. This was an objection which applied to the Bill from the earliest period, and was quite as apalicable in the time of war as of peace. The Right Hon. Gentleman arid it was wrong to levy the tax according to the rent, but were not. all the local taxes, the poor-rate, the county rate, and other charges levied in that way? The Right lion. Gentleman objected to the Bill because he said it had a tendency to induce the owners of land to sub-divide their property into small farms ; but he (the Chancellor of the Eachequer ) did not see !lox it could have that effect, because, if the capital was with drawn from the land and invested elsewhere, it would not escape the operation of the tax ; and also when he considered the advantages derived from large farms he did not think that. for the sake of avoiding a tax of three per cent., the landlord would diminish the size ref his farms. With regard to the next schedule, relating to funded property, the Right lion, Gentle man urged the same objections which were stated on a former occasion. With regard to the objection ari.ing from the supposed injustice of levying the same - amount of taxation upon terminable as upon permanent annuities, the House had by a decided majority already pronounced an opinion. The holders of those annuities stood in the same position with those persons who, having a limited income, fail by a portion of their profits for the support of their families. And if they were to draw any distinction between terminable and permanent annuities, they must be prepared to make a mints e investigation into every person's circumstances, to ase certain the nature of the property of which he was th • owner. With regard to the objection of including foreigners in the tax, the Howe .had already pronounced an opinion, and he should nat. therefore enter into that subject ; lint if the Right Honourable Gentleman's objection was good as to the interest which the foreigner had a right to expect from his property in the funds, he did not see, on the same principle, why he should be restricted in the free disposal of his property, especially when he was under the impression that he could dispose of it as he pleased; but the fo reigner was too conscious of the advantages he derived from having his property in the English Funds to wish for an exemption from the imposition of the tax, or to trans fer the property to some other country. It was said that it. was not right to diminish the property which the foreigner had a right to expect ; but that amount which he had a right to ex pect was diminished by means of loans..—( Hear, hear. ) tinder schedule D it was objected that the tax w..uld ' have the effect of inducing persons to go abroad ;. but if the - merehants'and traders of the country were called oil to pay a tax of three per cent., the toss was m .de less to them be a corresponding advantage in the reduction made in the tariff. he Right Hon. Gentleman then objected to the tax on the ground of immorality. But this tax would operate on the higher orders of society, to the excld-ion of those who held property under 1501. a-year, and as property was in some de gree the representative of education and intelligence, those persons would be withdrawn from the operation of the tax who would be most likely to evade it. If this tax was not imposed and recourse had to taxes upon con 'tunable commodities, far greater inducement would be held out for the evasion of the Excise and Customs laws. He could not see why pro fessional triere should not be taxed, and he considered there was no distinction between their ease aid that of others who were liable to the tax, except indeed those distinctions which any ingenious man might draw with regard to any Bill affect ing different classes of society. The Right Hon. Gentleman complained at one time of the' strict examination to which persons liable to the tax would be subjected, and at another time he stated that it opened a dam to fraud and evasion ; but if the examinati n was stringent, it was for the purpose of preventing fraud. The Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Lahouchere) was anxious to keow the expense of the machinery for collecting the Income-tax. The House would understand that there were certain new provisions in this Bill, which gave parties an option of going before Special Commissioners to be assessed of the tax, which would create additional expense. It was difficult, beforehand to make an accurate calculation of the expense, but he would now state to the House the best estimate as to the probable amount of those expens , s he was able to form. In the year 1815 the expense of collecting the Income-tax amounted to 300,00 N. a year; but at the present time it would not amount to more than half that sum. It was intended to give the collectors of the Assessed taxes the collection of the Income tax, and by the additional expense of about 30,0001., the . Go vernment were in hopes that. they would be able to collect the whole.—( Hear, hear.) In making this statement it was but right that he should inform the House that he had called upon I each department of the Government offices, where there were superanuated officers, to furnish a list, in order that those officers, who were able, should be employed in the collection of ! the tax.— ( Hear, hear.) He believed that by acting upon this . principle, and by employing throughout the country existing officers of the Government that could be rendered available, I e believed that the expense of collect ' jug the Income-tax would not be half what it was in 1815. With respect to the proposition of the Hon. Gentleman the Alember for Oxford, he had only to say that if he excluded from the operation of the tax all persons having an income of 150/. a year, it would create a reduction in the property to be taxed to the extent of 33,000,000/. a year. In conclusion, he might say that he believed this tax was the best that could be adopted, and that it would effect the relief which was so much ' required by ever y interest in the country. MANGLEStide thought that the statements that had been made relative to the defalcation of the revenue in India had been considerably exaggerated. He could assure the Right. Hon. Gentleman that, if he went to the India-house, he would find that they were not at all disposed to sue to him in firma pauperis; they might, it was true, put forward a claim, and as he thought, a just claim, that a part of the expenses of the Go vernment of India should be bottle by this country. But they would not appeal to him on the grounds of the embarrassments to which they were subjected. The — Government of India could now raise money at 4 and 5 per cent. ; whereas, in the days of Lord Wellesley, they paid an interest of 10 or 12 per cert. Their embarrassments were not therefore so great as the Right. Hon. Baronet seemed to ,imagine ; and the Bight Hon. Baronet had therefore failed to make a case for the imposition of his In come-tax out of the supposed difficulties with which the ',Olen Government had to contend. Sir H. H. INGLIS wished to address a few words to the House on the subject of the proposal of which he had given notice, that the tax should only be paid upon any sum above MO/. He believed that if they were to adopt the plan intro duced by the Government, they would ti►,d that many parties having incomes of near 2001. a-year would find means to reconcile it tolheir consciences to return their incomes at less than 1501. He believed that the temptation to such a fraud would be removed by adopting the plan of calling up , n parties to psy the tax upon any sum only which their incomes might realize, above the standard which the Government bad fi ed. If men of honour would not stoop to deceive, they must yet remember that. they were dealing with men as they were, and riot with men as they ought to he. He had given her Majesty's Govern tnent the fuhr3t ere& for their intentions; he had, therefore, thrown out a proposition to apply the sliding scale to the Income-tax ; but as it had not. been adopted, and as. in the present state of the House and the public business, there was no chance of coming to a vote noon it, he should not trouble the House any further upon Loud cries of " Divide.") Mr. VILLIERS said at a time when they were about to add to the mi-eries of the people it became Members on this side of the House not to let it go forth to the country that the people were satisfied with this measure. He believed that the re. sult of their reflections both on the 'l'ariti and the Income-tax was, hat the former was not compensatory 'or the latter, and that the latter was essentially unjust. They might get what they expects d f.urn the Income-tax, but it would have the ef ' feet of making , their taxes less productive, as it contained no thing calculated to improve the resourses of the country. It ought. not to have been proposed without inquiry into the cast,es of the deficiency, which he believed were the laws that interfered with trade and employment, and enhanced the cost of subsistence. If they founded their revenue, therefore, on the expenditure of the people—if they diminished their re sources for expenditure, they must expect to see their revenue • diminished also. They did •nothing to extend trade, either with the United Stage or the Brazils, or did anything to enable the home consumer to expend more on home manufactures. . Calculations had been gone into of the amount withdrawn from the consumption of manufactures, and it had been estimated by Mr. Gregg at fifty millions within the last four years. They should have gone into an inquiry on this subject, and deem all in their power to have improved the condition of the people. But they had not proved that anything in their other measures would improve the condition of the people, and it was certain that the present tax must de teriorate that condition. The country was in a deplorable con dition ; that condition was constantly growing worse; and could not be expected to mend of itself. 'the Right Hon. Baronet had acknowledged himself that it was expedient to provide wider and ci.eaper markets for their increasing population, and an admission to the same effect bad been made by the Vice-President of the sloard of Trade. It was only this day that a witness had stated in that House, in giving evidence on the truck system, that the con dition of the working classes was worse than ever, ina smuc h I as their masters had given them warning in anticipation of the operation of the Income-tax. Ile was justified, therefore, in saying that this tax would do nothing to amend the condition of the working classes, and he should not be doing his duty to his constituents if he did not offer it his strenuous opposition. Mr. IYISRAELI rove amid loud cries of " Divide, divide." He only rose to state a fact. The Hon. Member for Guildford had impugned his statement as to the revenue of India. The statement of the Honourable Member himself as to the Indian revenue was most monstrous ; he had not included in his statement of the amount, the expense of collecting, which was very great, and he had iucluded in it the sums they had stipulated to allow the native Princes. The Right •Hon. Gen tleman had admitted that the English Government had advanced 500,0001. to the Government in India. It was well known that the latter Government was unable to raise any loan at this moment, and it could only look to us for a supply. He would not at present trespass any further on the attention of the House, but he would be prepared at a future time to substantiate any statement which he had made on the subject of Indian finance. Air. BROTH ERTO N said, as it had been stated that the labouring classes would not be effected by the Income-tax, he wished to make one or two observations for the purpose of re futing that statement. He would only refer to the cotton-tax. The tax upon the raw matertal wss about 600,0001., and it was well known that the effect of that tax was to reduce wages to a very cousiderable extent. Fl om the importer of the raw mate rial to the exporting merchant, who exported the cotton in its manufactured state, it was taxed six times over, and this mate rially diminished the wages of labour. For this reason, he must protest against thy Income-tax. The House then divided, when the numbers were— For the third reading Against it Majority for the third reading The Bill was then read a third time. On the question that the Bill do pass. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed the amendments of which he had given notice. - 106 Mr. G. W. WOOD said that th object of the amendments moved by tht: Chancellor of the Excht quer was to exempt literary and charitable institutions from the operation of the Act, but the words uf the amendment did not bear out the object in view. He (Mr. Wood) would therefore propose to remedy the defect, by moving the liver ion, in the t:sth of the words " and part of any building." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER objected to the proposition. The House divided. The numbers were— For the original;oii; -- l.`.* Against it Majority -103 The amendment was then agreed to On the motion that the Bill do I ass, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that he had given notice of his intention to propose a clause to the effect that persons con tributing to the Ineome-tax should be entitled to the franchise. The Bight Hon. !Gentleman said that he would introduce a' clause of that sort, but he (Mr. Duncombe) did not find it in the, amended Bill. If there was such a clause he should be ,1 glad to hear it read. He thorght they were passing a Bin the forms of which they were not aware of. ,-ir It. PEEL wag understood to !ay that it stas his inters' tion to introduce tech a clause. Ater a short conversational discussion, the Bill passed:: SELECT COMMITTEES. On the motion of the Earl of LINCOLN, the following S . e ' lect Committees were appointed . Dean Forest Poor Bill.—l" Lincoln, arl of Sir Thomas Fre' e . mantle, Mr. Grantley Berkeley, Mr. Hale, Mr. Estcourt, Phillpotts, Mr. Cripp , , Mr. Bitola, Mr. Joseph Ba li ter Mr. Fox Maule, and five to be' added by the Co in Select:on. On Dean Forest Ecclesiastical Districts rid coin, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr. 'Grantley Berkeley, • Hate, Mr. Estcourt. Mr. Phillpotts. Mt. Cripps, 11r. 131":11 Mr. Joseph Bailey, jun., Mr. Fox Alatile, and five to b e adue by the Comn - ittee of Selection. On St. Briavel's Sn an Debts Bill.—Earl of Liocoln, „Sfrf Thomas Fremantle, Mr. Grantley Berkeley, Mr. Hale' ch. : Estcourt, Mr. Phillpotts, Mr. Cripps, Ble" t 1 ' Joseph Bailey, jun., Mr. Fox Maule, and .five to be added" the Committee of Selection. CAPTAIN MANBY. Sir C. -NAPIER presented a petition from o Captain .1/0, • b i ; v i i pra ) in the House to take his invention into considere d/ moved fur a Select. Committee to refer the subject' Sir 11. PEEL thought if the Hon. and Gallam to the Board of Admiralty, the matter would be be; there than by a Committee of the . House: He House ought to be allowed time to consider the sal sir G. COCKBURN said it would be better I some time, to afford a more full consideration ,o• tb Mr HUME said it appeared rather strange 'to' the subject without previous consideration.—(qt Capt. PECH ELL suggested that some time sl cified for again bringing the motion forward. Sir R. PEEL said, if the invention was one of , ante, he should recommend the Board of Admdr; experiment. But, if inventions of this kind investigated by the House, he hardly:knew to they might he occupied with such subjects. were postponed, he would consult with the miralty. Sir C. NAPIER said . that Captain Manbv of give evidence before the Committee. The lion Officer opposite knew Captain Manby, and sai think a Select Committee would be refused. Unlt Hon. Baronet would give him his assurancv thit would be taken into consideration by the Adni:rait: move the appointment of a Select. Committee.', Sir R. PEEL said, that all he asked was an reading the petition before be gave any the Gallant Officer was determined to persevere, against. him, but if he would allow the matter to (Sir R. Peel) would confer with the Board of the subject. Sir C. NAPIER had no objection, upon that width to postpone the debate till '1 hursday. • The debate was then adjourned till Thursday. The Poor-law Amendment Bill was deferepd till Tuesibl The New South Wales BM was read a second tiO' ordered to be committed. - The other Orders of the Day were then disp 'House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'Clock Are th e 11 0 leo THE MAR i< ETS.-YESTE COLONIAL MARKET. The trade is still very dull ; large parcels of gi for sale, while the demaLd continues very trif in some instances rule below the cost of produ, TEA MARKET. The public sales still progress with consider Prices have with much difficulty been supp( small quantity has found buyers. Common CI le. 6d. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. The demand continues very dull, but prices . sustained. P.Y. C. on the spot, 48s. to 48s. 6d, in the last three months of the year, 495. per WHITECHAPEL•HAYNARK The supply was but moderate, the demand steady. Clover, 21. to 51. 3s. ; Hay, cut, 21 I/. 10s. to 1/. 14s. (Prom the London New Price Current .SUGAR.—To-day the market for West Int Sugar presented a quiet appearance ; for re , fair demand existed, and 60s to 61s 6d paid ' greyish brown Jamaica; but the grocers pn, lion of yellow sorts, and in brown kinds few Merchants were compelled to accept prices 6i those of Friday. At public sale 150 hhds new Barbadoes w biddings wore languid, and prices declined 6d. the %%hole however found buyers, viz. fine 67e 6d to 68s 6d, good 65s to 675, mid 64e to of a greyish complexion 62s 6d to 63s 6d per REFINED.—To-day there was less demand from the home trade, and lower rates were acct lumps seling at 81s to fits 6d, and brown grace' to 818 per cwt.. Bonded crushed Sugar sells to 27s 9,1 for first sc.rt. In other articles there Illaununus.—This afternoon the trade ope The large quantity of 11,780 bags was offered; whole of winch found purchasers, but the biddi and the prices accepted were Is, and in some cat under those of last tale ; low yellow went . middling 593 to 60s, good 6ls to 62s 6d, fine 63 superior nearly white 65s to 675, good brown canary to fine grey 58s to 64s per cwt. EAST I N DlA.—The trade have been free bu scriptions of Bengal, paying previous rates ; , sorts.have been in good request, but a large been brought firward, has depressed prices 1 cepting for the best kinds of the latter, win stiff rates. This afternoon some parcels white Bengal Iv( at full rates. Only 43 boigs 40 casks were 01 which went at s'2s 6d for soft grey, and 58s 6d, 594, per cwt being full rates. FoR.EIG N.-1 he Market has presented a@ ui all kinds of Havatmah, and prices have slffed Is to Is fid for brown and yellow, Is " suits, and 6(1 to Is per cwt for new. Brazii sparingly by private contract, and rather lower pl accepted ; Bahia so d at 21s 6d for low to good strong brown 16s 9d, and white Pernambuco low quality. MotassEs.—To-dav several purchases we' India at full rates. At Auction 47 casks Jag, per cwt. CoCOA.—West India at 33s to 33s 6d for to Us for mid to fine Red Trinidad. Fore. Guayaquil at 35s per cwt. RUAt t BRANDI, AND HOLLANDS--For Jatm demand has sprung up, and 293 puns have rates, viz 30 to 33 per cent overproof at 4s 4k 36 over 4s tad to ss, good and fine stronger gallon. Leeward Island Rum at last Tuesd: to 3 per cent over, common at 2s 2d quality 2s 3d to 2s 4d, 5 to II per ci to 2s 6d, 15 to 19 over 2A 7d to 2t 30 to 32 per - cent over proof at 3s 3d to 3s .over 3s 6d . to 3a 8d per gallon. Calcutta R certificate, at which holders are firm. On unwilling to submit to lower rates. Cognac vintage of 1837, hhds at 5s 2d, puns 5s ; diti puns 4s 10d ; ditto 1839. hhds 4s sd. puns 4s hhds 3s lid ; ditto 1841, hhds 3s 10d, puns Geneva is cheaper, is 10d to Is lid for comm' is the vane of fine. English Corn Spirits, a, clsh. To-day the demand was good for Rum Leewards made at 2s 2 1 / 2 d to 2s 3d, and Jam over I roof, at 4s 74 per gallon. COFtEE.—lmportcrs having supplied the with Briti h Plantation, prices have been prevei giving way, and a fair business har been transa, To-dad there was a fair business transact home consumption ; sales were made private': for good, 733 6d to 75s for fine, and very plantation sort 925, and Company's Java 50s ordinary. Only 18 cases, 55 bales, 33 bags AI, Batavia, were offered at auctiin ; the form, taken in much above the value, fine ordi ary few lots sold at 95s to It 6s for good and fine fetched 40s Lr good ordinary. TEA.—In the Tea market much heavin (luring the past week, a greater desire was m, porters to sell, and prices declined consideribl Yesterday the public sales were very thinly bidd logs were unusually languid for every kind To-day the public sales were resumed : thk nifested more firmness, and the trade came more freely; still, the general aspect of the sa' trade purchasing with caution, and only ample diate wants. The bulk (if the Tea that passed bought in, the merchants refusing to tal buyers were inclined to pay. Twankay comm, to Is 7d, good Is 70 to Is 8d; Congou, low 1 common Is Gil to Is 60, but mid blackish 1 Is 7d to is 70, strong blackish leaf Is 8d to 1 flavour 2s to 2s Id, and vi ry fine is 6d, youni 110 to Is, Orange Pekoe pod 2s 2d, Imperi 2s 4d; Hy son low is 8d to is 80, middling to is lid , Bohea Is per Ib ; of the 37,000 only 6,850 have been actually sold. RlCE.—Carolina has met with a fair sale second 28s, and inferior 26s ; Patna has been 18s 6(1 per cwt. To-day there were several and 3,323 bags at public sale went briskly at per cwt—gom. mid pearly white fetched lOs 6d tid to 10s, low 95 to 9s titi, and good and fine yer cwt. Sews:EL—This afternoon the demand was L'gnes, and 250 chests at auction were all sold meneed at previous rates, improved as it proem at 3s to 4s advance on Friday's prices; low fetched 75s to 80s 6(1, and ordinary thick 66s s TA Ltow—Holders of Russia Tallow - hare obi 46s 6d for P. Y. Candle on the spot. For deli. three months of the year at 49s to 49s 3d American at 46s to 47s tor fine, and at 41s sorts. Town Tallow at advanced rates, 47s to 4' This afternoon the market was not so firm. limited for P. Y Candle at 48s 3d on the spa 48s 9d for delivery in last three months. pipes, 22 hhds, 60 casks, 2 barrels South AmericaO 41s to 47s 3d for low to fine quality. ci l V Ons—Prices have further given way for Lingo 000 33s per cwt have been accepted for parcels ',ot! ic F o oll Rape Oil has been in good request. Pale at 465 0 belti l l; and brown 45s 9d to 46s per cwt. Olive Oil firmness. Gallipoli at 60/, Spanish, 551, and 13ar ba q i1 . to 54/ lOs per tun. Palm, first sort at 32/ to ') oil ill. ordinary 30/ lOs to 31s 10s per tun. Cocoa Nu t lallf 41s for the best. Southern Oil at 281 15s ; 32/ lu r s ei t i, quality. Cod Oil at 31/ lOs to 32/. For Pale si4 quality 381 paid, 31/ to 35/ for yellow and strilvr4 , 33/ for Brown. Sperm Oil fine British at 771 to k O b l t kth, .leo -1)!& ---,----.................+1,14 it BIRTHS. ' f ix On the 29th ult., Mrs. Henry Campion, of .- ~" '' —boys. , hiliee" , On the 27th ult., the lady of R. E. G. J..- . 4e . of a daughter. On the 28th ult., the lady of Thomas Larkins tv '' i b ial iejy . ' P I of Keppel-street, Russell-square, architect, of a dl ti g t o l- !,1,' On the 25th ult., at Valencia, county of Ker r l' ' --= e e rld'il* Bewieke Blackburn, Esq., of a daughter. „,i . ......,,•• On the 30th ult., at Cambridge.squarc, Pl - ")P - Thomas Entwisle, jun., of a daughter. . i statti - ' , c On the 231 ult., at Latvrner Cottage, Ham ~i, 'irr' G. E. Cook, of a daughter. Wil t , • On the 12th April, at So r el, L ower Canada, L h i e ass • ..,4 Kennedy, Esq., Captain 68th Li g ht I n fai:trY, e' - 14 4iIt ; Cf. 11 AR p ß a l n E er / a ) s . ch Ol On the 30th ult., at Shiite, of Friday-street, to Amelia, younugrcebsti claird.gbiefik; - r d,„o„ Sutton, Esq., of Chase Side. Enfield. aloe CIO.' On the 28th ult., at Wakefield, Williani -,,, late. -,. solicitor, Barnsley, to Eliza, eldest daughter of :" •-•., ' Greaves, Esq., of the same place. 0 re DIED. Wil t s Or, the 25th ult., at Deventer, in the Nethe v r et ber .. r Dedel, wife of his Excellency N. Dedel, the ' .ien f6ter at this Court, aged 52. Cr!' . T homse On the 29th ult., at Cheltenham, - ' . I r ° Esq., of Rusliford Lodge, Suffolk. vr' r i ' y na , .LlO CO London: Printed and Published by_lo ll '` 11.1,442; No. 112, Strarnl. at The aS ,, ). 01110• 1 %%el; j the County of Middlesex, Wednesday , 4° iClera 11 tiont "- bE t to .' e) t eti ym t : hrill4i c ig e sie r iut lv sl e i f t i m _ s_ ll l object. ~Ir tot i sr i d ug e b i j a i eo y er, ct i t . I f: j f b tar. should be e 4 public be I r oor t, t o , ralty to trY lbe f e i I were to t oe t 1 03 o 3lota"rt.dhhaeor(lot,,,eio,,, , to ' )nly ;, A n. and G o ' aid he dan; 4,4 • `i nless the altyt.il e ''h°4' trd diR li. o t pport fe pledge. AI j lt oy , he intist de / s t a nd oven. pee Adtaif.:lq `'posed of, I' 6 ' k. ( . e l' Envi o i • ' ( ~,v4 rli goods are P r r i t et 11, ifling, and r A action. ~.., :eorratebdle, b h u es t ;i l ,: 8 4 ;ongou 10. 4 Si TH , nO ll s have been d ll i 6t1., and to r cwt. . 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