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r y' 3u~ St4i- el l 1 ,% JJ cred se `th e t ( V ie t s ; pu y 01 ,cf -10,16 e ' til e toidcr at' •11 - ,f till - ;1 0 .• il,it . of 1( 0° 1 4 : C.4l'" • , LK:t - 'II,P Ilis • '1 0 • . ' li 6W tlig t ' t it 1 1 l ' ct " ill Irt: li Jet Ifitt ',teal() CO .~~ the tti b Commission fee a short time, as he considered it i e almost impossible then to pass the Bill within the Co tn ttl e liited. Since thn rtight ha elased the next ru 'Fe tn lon would expire on a th f e o .3 ts n t of July, the p week ; after the ' they would only have to-night this week to consider thro, subject, and next week after the Bill should have passed ercuigh Committee, they would have one night to receive the 17ort, and another night for the aird reading, and that irolttiout giving any time to the House of Lords to consider this, ite l e ) , ° ' ta nt measure. If the Commission were allowed t o be in s s ,„ \ i' i re the greatest confusion would result. Many unions Ami te dissolve. He knew of one instance—the parishes of St. Th e v. Holborn and St. Geor g e the Martyr would separate. te e i rs *tit Bill 'would require alteration; as it was at present eliti tle i ti tt l , as to continue the C o m m i ss i on . It would have to be p e „, b , 'A Bill to Renew the Commission." It would be im selt° Carry the Bill through in time. He knew not what the,tyseee majority m i g ht effect., but they ought not to pass it grease in that time and he felt assured they would have the B is lt difficulty in 'doing so. If he received no satisfactory w e " ,frome the Ri g ht H on . B arone t h e s h ou ld move that the s eer do le ave t h e Ch a i r t h at day three months.—( A laugh.) th„ ` e r J AI‘IES GRAHAM compassiinated the situation of ei e - ti 'l'Peaker if the Hon. Gentleman's motion should be car ° • an d if anything could induce him ( Sir James Graham) Rive t. fr he assurance required, it would be to free the Speaker fla t " the inconvenience of remaining in his chair for the next ei,ree mo nteCheers,) He thesews happy to perceive that the gr e 4l. „ t ' ° - Fotleman was alive to xtreme inconvenience and teen evil which must arise from the sudden lapsing of the the Hear, hear.) He could not, however,. give th e i i ° e• Gentleman the assurance lie asked -for. He hoped ta rs ~e ta would acquit him of having occasioned any unneces "e'aY• hadpressed forward the question on every or e .ort un i t t eeii y that had offered. For four nights there had been a C ee , 4tr eary discussion. One of the clauses had passed through th e l i nittee; and as the House had on all occasions sanctioned 111 It by large majorities, he felt bound to go on with it. deei w d o e uld be his duty to proceed with the measure till he had I diY ascertained what was the opinion of the House Pectins"re extreme He had endeavoured to urge on the House the an te 0r chooser to the poor of the country from the discontinu. te m Poor-law Commission. He thought a short Con 1-a4ee Bill for only one year, would but brand the Commis ,ee,, with the want of the eonfidence of the Hou e, that Bill would encourage factious opposition to it ; he there. stib '. Gees' the House would proceed at once to discuss the coed with had stated his sincere and earnest desire to pro tin, the Bill, but it would be for the House to deter appr()bwatiaieotnh.eror t i t t. course he had proposed met with their rs,i, lto P i t in BERNAL said he should offer no apology for any kind 4 1 , e he might offer to this measure, and he would re against °se Hon. Gentlemen who might have voted on it th ere their public pledges and private convictions, that it h ar Tieht be" such a thing as factious support. He thought 4cl b that the Government should think themselves justi tee defects of the old Act bf Elizabeth, in continu lses. ith imperiurn in imperio. He connected the Poor presl the Corn-laws. and he trusted the House would tare s ° , n the Gove rnmen t t h e necess ity o f re - cons id er i g th e bas etWee`auses. The tone of the Under-Secte'asy fur the Colonies, I e rilouth, was that of unmitigated hostility to the Poor-laws. eh„ i lit whe n t h e exc i temen t subsided, another gentleman to law , n e he would refer stated, that, on the subject of the Poor te,,t'le had nut chang ' ed his opinion. He seed he thought it e ste tiniest that a Commission should take upon itself the . ti ena ,eeeent of the poor throughout all England, that . a . discre lie e Y Power ought to be vested in the local authorities, that lis en d like to see such a law as the old Poor-law would have think 'f 't h a d b een duly a d m inistered. Now, who .did they sear, h a v q.' the person who used that language? It was a gentle secret:ring a high post in the present Government, the Under /4s. A ,Y of, State for the Home Department. whi c h C . SUTTON had no hesitation in repeating the words whi e h had made use of. But there were parts of his speech fully' co tue . Hon. Gentleman did not quote. No one was more Mll e ], need than he of the great and mischievous abuses lard;, r endered a change in the old law necessary. With re. Th e di fi r the New Poor - law ; he. • vrislied to entertain any The ob , t imt or amelioration-harsher clauses of that et the. &ct of goinginto Committee was to reeise the clauses be e r in!'ill, and ter introdiese Witeh 'chines is 'the • Mouse might' is e th mg to insert ; and he did not conside at in consent lienielftrhe House' •bould go into Committee, he rendered tame. he tuthe charges which' the' Hon. Gentleman had lion. e ta' JOHNSON said he would put it to the Right t o go Baronet whether. it was 'possible on the present occasion into all e the details 'of the- measure • 'He 'thought it' tortyot:rdeesionne.ither creditable to the Government, nor satisfac tent s ! the country, that the Bill should be passed in the pre sible ,sf• RUSSELL said he had interfered as little as post the with these discussions, thinking that ha would best assist Ceele)imligress of the measure by leaving it in the hands of the the ttleilt• But on the last occasion when he spoke on es ti ; sUbject he stated that he thought the best , til e r would • be to go into Committee on the Bill, , h ot : to consider the first four or five clauses, to which the ‘'llethAhrnber for Durham had alluded, and then to consider ,_er t here would be time and opportu n ity for discu ss ing a ll 4tije4rions clauses in detail. Those clauses embraced mail} , 4 i ncluding the Gilbert Unions, the School Districts, and .°ther clauses, on which, meat differences of opinion pre. e tn He thought that when the Government had gone into. 404teittee and disposed of the earlier clauses upon which the ta was pretty well agreed, the Government should listen 46" rie presentations which might be made as to there net I) ° , :s tlitte to go into the whole question. The greatest op. Cse ° , ll `!ef the Bill admitted that an immediate cessation of the , would he attended with great inconvenience. (I P *. STUART WORTLEY said the first clause to if• n e ettled was,' that which related to the continuance !osj,,,ge Commssion. If they passed the first clause, '4 l q t : ut ile the Commission for five years, it would not then be Right u' Power to retrace their steps.--( Hear, hear.) The ti tlis e l, 40 0. Baronet thought, that if the term of the Corn t'f t ii"°,.evas not extended to five years, and if the prof osition to clon. Member. fiir Finsbury were adopted, it would tend . t hetV nt k ll the e plisotnissioners , before the country, and render 4,,,f He (Mr. IN oytley) could not come to any h ' 4 l7i t a" - "" e PS,,,i, He thought the House had already pro. , -- °I .- lic , ,uu f eepled an opinion upon that point, that it would trittkel , s e et eee stileg any slur or stigma on the Commissioners e ",effse e s ler, e 2 aenie only ,: cOntinued for one year. He thought i t llotiuld:dh right; ceinsidering the peculiar position in L'etne l a weeitopareed, to adopt the sugg, stion of the Hon. -`"sitint.and continue the Commission till next ne Finsbury.e 't,ke.a s ,.. 44l, file meantime the Bill could be considered, and L or44l l l ,,tesrarious provisions could be discussed.—( Hear.) de':,,OELL eaid that the Hon. Gentleman certainly t- gOftra t aleiin if he supposed he was not in faeour.of the le e t re b el3f 'te Commission fur five years. e.. 41t t0 d 'd that if the opinion of the majority was c i t iree e -e tv i de a ;aid, there was an end to the utility of a sembly.--( Hear, hear. ) If the sense of the ▪ 'w favour of the continuance of the Commission for the'other clauses might be considered in detail. All est, was, that the House should proceed with Ok i _ eleta of the measure with as much haste t o fli.,i-Wnastent with due deliberation.—( Hear, hear.) i l s olesirimed any intention of forcing the Bill upon the 7 0 , .he oit f ihe strength of a majerity o . n the other hand . , 'p eerie ',le, that if they sanctioned the principle that . a . ini eesee-,:got obstruct a majority, they would be establishing a tie; foe overruling by a despotic power the popular will. t 'ile n - `ed that the present opposition would subside before the t e' i ttet e e : ° I reason. If parties were dissatisfied with the con t'.'ete'e °! the Commission, after the changes that might be thdlr "f tothe ey would take the sense of the House on the third , Bill. The Government were prepared to abide ' 4 .44 of fre e di scuss i on ; an d a ll th ey asked was, that no toe s 4,, obstruction should be offered to the progress of the • lI NCONIBE suid that he did not mean to offer any ; „71rie t " s ° PPosition to the Mill. But he still felt that they innficient time to bestow upon the measure that t 'llltt Cum which it deserved. He had not said that there • ta,:., v erY great inconvenience felt if the Commission were ltte st ,;".eo ; but he had said that if they were determined on -tt a e i ei p T e g e the Commission it would not'be advisable to allow Ph v te e. th • ORKE thought it would be impossible to proceed A ti :ltt e s l s !!l l, :th any satisfaction to the country during the tc e b A r• b . BY could not consent to the consideration of this 4. k4 ted e ing rostivaied. He could not undentaod those who se r e , a revision of the Poor-law Bill inviting the Government 14 e3ti"' it for another year. He was most anxious to see the f 4 s l a settled, k ( 7 ," SON thought it would be better to pass the law the Ili }'ear, and and consider the proposed Bill nextsems.soiuon_d. passHe enee w ,.,nOA• whether the Right Hon. Baronet li„'Lieout the first clause, as such a pledge wou:d j Lawson's) vote ? the t i t 'lES G RA HANI said lie hoped the House would - vote was very inconvenieut on the point of going ieto i ttee t • 1, w 0 give an account of the conduct of the Govern respect to a certain clause,. He should be most c 'ole no , Lave the support of the ion. Gentleman, bet _he I t de e , all 'e i nture the Hon. Gentleman's vote by giving the pledge u ed• He (Sir James Graham) concurred with his fi kills ,"o• Friend and the Noble Lord opposite, that it was t 'st fi,telliedient that they should as soon as possible pass the 0141 t clause s in the Bill seriatim. The opinion of the House 7 . f „e.kstertained in a very short time, on the Hon. Mem '44,'nsbury's motion as to whether the Commission should Iljr."ufive years or a shorter perio.l. Iketh` l e I\II )LEY said he must confess that if he wished to ! tee, Government unpopular, it would be by recommending ' e they were now adopting. He thought it was un e.,4l 1 °, 4 unbecornin in them to go into Committee on a . l eat), : s toat on the' 12th of July m , knowing, as they did, that de their supporters were pledged to the count' y against et!, , ha, ) 'l he intention of the Right Hon. Baronet evi 'Pea w e a s , to Set the five clauses passed, and then abandon the i•tits l e 4 " e r of the Bill and pass a short Bill. He hoped the brie he the Hon. Gentleman the Under-Secretary of State than°me Department %you'd be better received in Cam 'etset te r t he k would be in the House. If the Hon. Gentleman te e t he continuance of the Commission for five years,. ti e °osi ste l o ) ?vers . it at Present . possessed, he wouldbe l ae l t i i o n n g kri ith the declarations he had made athis e ee .t . th t ot e nidley) would move as an amendment that . be th e p etit traction to the Comn.ittee to give the Commissioners ;1114 r i ° 11 f ., making rules and regulations for the conduct of e Sp" ce nid F AKER was understood to say that the Hon. Mem- J In , ion paint of order, move such an instruction. „est to, eI EATHCOTE thought it would be better to pass a A te t() cont . qi inuethe se Commission for a year. The next ea to 4 ad ti g (t ht be a vere one, and the Poor-law was calcu- Le%t to the pressure of.the distress by the refusal of relief. P p E • , °HELL thought he need offer no apology for T wnie p gilt he fe it his y to pursue ith regard the ter, he i o non. lt Ban et c t himself was, w in a great to ineal- ght enable for the delay which had taken place. The ,t us Inpo,laronet had quoted a letter, obtained by surr in ey: 137at et tj ' a l for the purpose of showing that one man . h tag s wo u l d (81 was favourable to the Poor-law Commission. • 4 Y do e C ompel him to read to the House letters (ruin so !Int towns and unions that the discussion they would t Ol e. ( rl occupy the whole week. toe ep c °NNELL said that no one could blame ro c ; n Ment for not having brought on this Bill before ti: 4 le sed e !' s °t . great importance had been discu s sed. But he its fi'n'e was. now utterly impossible, at this late period of rat n i e ,to discuss all the various clan es of this BO in all th 4e w s u O, t ,'" , • For instance, the school districts was quite it 11 41 tti l i s et se • s,i lle would suggest the necessity of postponing dils' c a u n se d ed bring lre g el l ' t d or n i th'tl 4 , l e 4 be fully o ea t r n y wa n n ex t t o s g e i:e his vote , fe st rrPose of throwing any obstacle in the way of the Bill, "et to conviction that it was better for the interests of the Rio"rie the • e t , r e Bill to next year. 'Rbt DON concurred in the oPnion expressed by the n• ON hat .7 of man who had just sat down as to the pro. th e po s tponing the Bill. He (Lord Sandon) thought e' 4 n or-lae e !ti). keislati ' ought to have another year's trial before per en lres od e o og on the subject, after which Government fl . i e m Gutty a Bill which would have a more beneficial effect tttisr ances l itt _lar i ge.. to q:IA, l .l said he rose for the purpose of . giving _two t o t iler f ro t he House. The first nes that nothing could be It ir ess the°,3the intention of her Majesty's Government than lA, was kw ill Unduly, when the attendance would be thinned. e t ill. are a the obstacles which existed to the progress of t lo e tele be j'robably next Tuesday was the period when he iet erit roe further to proceed with the Bill ; but it was not 'Mere ot P tt . °f importance Government to press forward a ' 4O l when, in consequence of the ad vanced period of the session, the attendance would be thinned. In that case, the term of the Commission being extended, it would be the duty of himself and his colleagues, at the earliest period possible in the next session to bring forward a measure in detail, containing all the amendments which their present experience and the experience of the interval of the next winter might dictate. —( Hear, hear. ) For the spirit of those amendments he referred his Noble Friend, the Member for Liverpool, to the course which had lately been pursued by the Commissioners relative to the relief of the poor, as well as to the enactments themselves. Now, the second assurance which he considered it necessary to give was as so equally important point. He could not, consistently with his duty, eonsent to shorten the period for which it was proposed to ex tend the Commission.—( Hear, hear.) He had on former oc casions stated that he was convinced that the renewal for a short term, anything like an annual term, would be inconsistent with the authority, and being inconsistent with the authority would be fatal to the effiziency of this measure.—( Hear, hear.) From the present circumstances of the country—circumstances which they all deeply deplored—the Commissioners in entering upon the discharge of their duties would have to encounter peculiar difficulties. It was necessary, therefore, that they should be armed with full authority, and their authority would c3rtainly be incomplete if, after having had five years' ex perience of the manner in which they had performed their functions, they should either limit to a short period the duration of the Commission, or curtail the authority of the Commissioners.—(Hear.) He was most anxious that the question of the duration of the Commis sion should at once he disposed of. The matter was now fairly before the House. He thought they should then go into Com mittee, and if the Government were out-voted on that point it would clear the ground for proceeding further with the Bill. Afteer a few words from Mr. 'VERNON, the House went into Committee on the Bill, Mr. G►ixxxs in the Chair. On clause I being proposed, Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD rose to propose the amend ment of which he had given notice. He hoped that her Ma jesty's Government would not imagine he was actuated by any factious motives in proposing his amendment. The powers possessed by the Commissioners were of an arbitrary character, and therefore he was of opinion that this clause should not be passed for any prolonged period. He would refer to the clauses in the Bill whi h conferred this power on the Commissioners. The Honourable Gentleman then referred to the different clauses which conferred the power of which he complained. He objected to those clauses which placed irrespon sible powers in the hands of the Commissioners. He considered the conduct of the Commissioners improper in the extreme ; and it was not until he had brought the subject before the House that they relaxed their regulations. He did not defend the old system, but he thought when Commis sioners were appointed to carry out a new system, it was not right that such cruelty should be exercised as had taken place. Looking at the Act of Elizabeth, he found that relief was provided for the maimed and the impotent. He would ask whether such provisions were made under the Commission? The powers conferred on the Commissioners were utterly incon sistent with the principles of the Constitution, and such as no Legislature ought to confer on any individuals. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving that the blank be filled up with '• 1843" instead of" 1847." FERRAND seconded the motion. The Poor-laws had roused the opposition of all parties throughout the north of Eng'aisel, aswas proved by the petition he had presen ed to the House, signed by 4,oW•persons. The Honourable Member then read a Report of Mr. Mott, in which he stated that relief was given in the Keightley Unton ire aid of wages. He (Mr. Fer rand) was there to say that such was not the case. Mr. Mott said that rents were paid to an alarming extent, but he (Mr. Ferrand) had the evidence of Sir John Walsham himself, who said that no such thing had taken place. He (Mr. Ferrand) knew that rents were not paid by the Board of Guardians in Keightley. Mr. Mott said the paupers insolently claimed relief as a right, but he (Mr. Ferrand) denied that such was the case; the reci pients of relief had expressed tile deepest gratitude for the assistance rendered them. This was an untru . h on the Fart of Mr. Mott, and a calumny on the poor in the parish. He went on to say that no efforts had been made tosupply the paupers with work, but he (Mr. Ferrand) was there to deny that such was the fact. lie went on to say that the education of the children was neglected.: This was untrue. He (Mk. Feriand) knew 'that Mr. Mott had never set a foiit workhouse since he had' been'i guardian. Mr. Mott ikneik nothing Of the Keightley Union." He then 'went on to say that the disputes in the Board of Guardians had been caused by the Magistrates of the : town. Th a he, (Mr. Ferranti) denied, for, the Magis trates never interfered at all except in their ex officio eltai aeter. The Magistrates only consulted the interests .f the poor in taking the course they did. Mr. Mott said that tiingley work house was in the middle of the town. Stull was not the case, for it was outside the town, and was open on one side. to a park of sixty acres in extent, and on the other to a garden of two acres in extent. He (Mr. Fer rand) was there to say that a case of fever had not occurred in that workhouse since is formation. He then sai 1 that the living were often associated with the dead. This had never occurred but once, and then it was with the consent of the parties in the room. An old man had died, aged 82, and, in a few days after, another old man died, and the governor of the workhouse came to take the body away, and the inmates of the roods - said they would rather he remained there, as they had been friends together, and they did not wish to be parted till the last. That was the only time that the living had ever companioned the dead. He hoped that in future, the Right Hon. Baronet would have something better to go upon than the scandalous reports which had been laid on the table. He (Mr. Ferranti) believed that these men had been sent down to get up these things to be used against him (Mr. Ferrand). He had the greatest pleasure in seconding the motion of the Hon. Member for Rochdale. Mr. AGLIONBY hoped the Right Hon. Baronet would consent to thesCorstini,sion being continued for one year instead of .five. This 'Was hot an 'ordinary case of the continuance of a Com mission. The State of the public business was such that it was impossible duly to Consider the importance of extending the period. He thought the-clauses relating to the eatensit n of the Commission should have followed the other clauses of this Bill.—( Hear, hear.) It was morally certain from what had passed that evening, that the Government could not go on with the: Bill during the present session. The Bill, so far as its &task were concerned, was at an end. Under all circum stances, he thought it would be unwise to confer large and un known powers upon the Commissioners, leaving the details to be settled next sear. He had never joined in the outcry against the New Poor-law, but he thought it would be well for all classes that they should confine the extension of the Commis sion to a single year, and he would vote most cordially for its continuance for that period.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HARDY said his former opposition to the New Poor law had been founded on the belief that it was passed for the benefit of the rate-payers, and not for that of the poor. He sill objected to it on the same ground. All his experience in his own district tended to strengthen the objections which he entertained to the measure. The great evil of the system was the refusal of temporary out-door relief. Under the old law, if a weaver carte from a distant part of the country, and did not receive sufficient to maintain his family, he could obtain through the overseers temporary is lief; under the new law, all such temporary aid was refused. The poor were in fact entirely at the mercy of the body of the Commissioners, who knew nothing of their circumstances. Entertaining these ob jections to the law, he should support the motion of the Hon. Member for Rochdale. Sir C. NAPIER. said although a young Member, he must say he thought the Hon. Member. for Knaresborough was irregular in referring to the Report upon the Keightley union, lefore that Report had been laid on the table. The Hon. and Gallant Member then entered into a defence of the Reports of Mr. Mott, and Sir John Walsham connected with the Keightley union. The Honourable Member for Knares borough made accusations without proof, and instead of waiting for a reply, walked out of the House, and he dared say would return by and bye, and say that his charges had never been replied to, but that they were all a " set of humbugs." He thought the term " humbug " was much more applicable to the Hon. Gentleman himself. Mr. LIDDELL said he should give his support to the motion of the Hon. Member for Rochdale, hoping the Govern ment would be able in the next session to introduce a measure which would be more satisfactory than that which was under discussion. If they could bring in a law more in accordance with the spirit prevailing. in different localities, he should have no objection to vote for the continuance of the Commission. He could not see why they should aiihere so rigi ly to the system of dividing the whole county into unions, especially when there were localties in which the management of the poor had been conducted in a perfectly satisfactory manner. As long as he saw a desire in the Corn missionees to carry on every thing by their own square and rule manner, regardless of local feelings, he should refuse them his support. He believed a different course was quite possible. The new system differed entirely from the old one in the appli cati in of a workhouse test before relief was afforded, a distinc tion that alwata ought to be 'borne in mind. • Mr. HAWES met the objection of the Hun. Member to the workhouse test, by asking what they meant to substitute for it? They had never yet heard any clear or well defined system from the declaimers against the present plan. He contended that there never was a period when the wants, and wishes, and interests of the poor, were more consulted by public men then at the present time. *I he present plan was far superior to that adopted in Scotland. He also pointed out, that under the old system it was never worth whi'e to found political attacks upon it ; but this system was extensively adopted now, as they had got responsible public officers. As to the Bill before the House, having passed the continuation of the Biil, he did not see that his Hon. Friend could offer any opposition, as all the remaking clauses. went to mitigate the evils of the Bill. Hitherto he had not teen any relaxation in the system of ad ministration under the Bill since the Right Hon. Gentleman came into office. He should give the Bill his support if the Right Hon. baronet pressed it on. Mr. PETER BORTH WICK did not impute to the Hon. Member for Lambeth any charge of cruelty when he imputed to him, and those who acted with him, • the Bill that was now upon the table of the House. He accuse d the Bill of carrying cruelty in its bosom. In the . borough, wh ch he had the honour to represent, whilst the condition of the poor was grievously deteriorated, the.., poor-rates had increased threefold; and he must therefore deny the assertion that the measure was one either of humanity or economy. The Bill ought to be framed with a, regard to the wants and the necessities of every class of her Majesty's subjects, and of every district in her Majesty's dominions. The question before the House was whether the Commission was to be continued for five years or for one only. The Hon. Gentleman opposite (-Mr.- Hawes) was in favour of continuing the Commission for five years, and leaving it to Parliament to determine next year what the powers slimed be. Could any. thing be more monstrous ?-e( Hear.) For his part he would not consent to the continuance of the Commission for one hour, because he thought it monstrous that the poor should be the only part of the community entirely at the mercy of a despotic power.—( Hear.) He was not bound by any pledges to his con stituents on this question, for they contented themselves with informing him of their objections to the existing system, and leaving it to him to judge of the merits of any measure which the new Government might propose. But even if the opinions of his constituents were opposed to his lie never could give his vote for the continuance of so unconstitu'ional and oppress sive a system.—(Hear, hear.) He wished it at the same time to be distinctly understood that his accu sation was not made against the gentlemen who at pre sent held the Commission, but against the Commission it self. 'faking fur granted that the Bill before the House was the best that her Majesty's Government could devise, after a consideration of nine months, could it be expected that the House would be able, within little more than nine hours, to judge of its merits, in all its multifarious details ?—(Hear.) But the Right lion. Gentleman (Sir J. Graham) said that all the alterations made from the former Bill were mitigations and ameliorations. But was the suppres•ion of the Gilbert Unions I an amelioration ?—( Hear , hear)—and were they to agree to its enac t i nent for fit e years without examining it in all its parts? ' He would take every opportunity of expressing his disapproval of it, by his vote in that House, Mr. C. WOOD thought that the opposition to the Bill was made by gentlemen who were ignorant of its principles and its op • • eration No petitions against the workhouse test had been presented from those unions in which it had been enforced. ( Hear.) The petitions came from the manufacturing districts, not one of which had been subjected to it. He contended, from his experience of the union of Colne, that the condition of the poor had been greatly improved, that the medical at tendance was far better than it had ever been before, and he could see no reason why its beneficial effects should riot be ex tended to every other district in the kingdom. The work howe test, if properly applied, was a sound test of the efficiency of the Poor-law, and he thought the Conimission ought to be allowed to continue to prevent a lax administration of that test. -The substitution of Boards of Guardians for Overseers was a vast improvement in the adininistration of the law; but even those boards ought not to be left to themselves. There was an absolute necessity fur control being exercised by some body, such as the Commission, over them. With respect to the con tinuance ot the Commission, he could hot agree to the shorten ing the period to less than live yea's, and even at the close o: that period he believed that there would be as great a necessity for the continuance of the Commission as there now was. Under the old law a good adininistration existed no doubt in some localities, chile in the neighbourhood of those localities there was a very bad administration ; and it was by the Commission that a uniformly good adminis tration was introduced throughout the country. With respect to what had been said a s to the passing of all the clauses of the Mil on the present occasion, as far as his opinion went he must say he had no objection to the passing of all the clauses ot the Bill. Lord SANDON said that if he looked on the powers of the Commissioners in the same light as the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down, he too would be for the continuance of the Commission. If those powers were to be confined to super- vision and reporting, without the Commissioners making laws, taking on themselves the power of deciding how the law should apply to one locality End how to another, thus drawing distinc tions between different parts of the country, if such piw•ers as these were not in the hands of the Commissioners, he would have no objection to the existence of a Central Board. To pre vent abuses of the powers of the Commissioners, it was neces sary to limit their duration. He certainly objected to the con tinuance i f this Commission for five years, a, d he would there fore vote fur the motion of the Hon. Member for Rochdale. Sir .1. GRAHAM said he was unwilting,to trespass on the time of the House, as he could not forget that they were now advanced to the fifth evening in the discussion of this subject, and had made but little progress in the present clause. Still his respect f..r the Noble Lord who had just sat down was such, and his regret so great at the opposition which the Noble Lord bad thought i t his duty to give the measure, that he (Sir J. Graham) could not remain silent after the Noble Lord's address to the House. He could not understand how his Noble Friend, entertaining the opinions that he did of the Commission, could consent to its renewal for a single day. His Noble Friend adopted the opinion of the Hon. Member for Rochdale, that the discre• tionary powers given to the Commissioners were uoconstitu tutional. Now he ( Sir J. Graham) thought that no term was less applicable to those powers than that of unconstitutional. It was a mistake to suppose that the Commissioners were ir responsible for the power they exercised. The Minister of the Crown was liable to be askedrespecting any irregularity in the administration of the law, and if he was not able to an swer, he referred to the Cotnmissioners, who made a report on the fact; and if that was not considered satisfactory, a Committee of the House was appointed, as happened in the case of the Keightley Union.—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Mem ber f Knaresborough said he was there to assert and prove. He was there to assert, he (Sir J. G.) well knew —( Hear. ) The House would remember the assertions then made by the Hon. Gentleman, and the evidence taken before the Commit tee would show whether the statements of Mr. Mott and Sir J. Walsham were unfounded or not.—( Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord, the Member for Liverpool, said the workhouse test was universal. Now the application of that test was en tirely under the control of the Commissioners, and that brought him to the advantage of vesting a discretionary power of relief in the Board. What was said by the Hon. Member for Halifax was perfectly true, that the universality of the law would r,nder it inapplicable in many cases where different cir• cumstances required it to be variously applied. He had stated that the number of persons who were receiving parochial relief amounted to 1,300,000, but of them only 192,000 received in door relief.—( Hear, hear.) That showed the test was not universal in its applioation.—(Hear, hear.) What was the, state of things under the old law? In 1803 the population was 8,872,000, and the number of persons receiving relief amounted to 1,040,000. In 1815 the population was 10,150,0(10 ; the number of persons relieved amounted to 1,290,000. In 1841, when the population was 15,900,000, the number ► elieved amounted to 1,300,000. It had been stated by the Hon. Member for Durham that the workhouse test had only lately become the law of the land: But enat was a miss take;; that ,was the law from the year 1779. .Anoti.er Honourable Member had stated that they , must travel two hundred miles to the Ceram! Commission to obtain relief. Now on the contrary there were four sources from which relief might be obtained—the Relieving Officers, the Board of Guardians, the Overseers, and, in case of sickness, the resident Magistrate. Applica tion could be made to the Board of Guardians and then to the Assistant Commissioners, and, if that was not sufficient, to the Central Board itself. It was said that was an ineffi cient appeal which was made to the Assistant Commissioners, es they considered themselves bound to protect the rate-7 payers. He could only say if that was so they mistook their duty, but he knew it was not the fact. The real ques tion was, whether the Commission was so com posed as to command the confidence of the house. If their rules and regulations were, on the whole, satisfactory, he did not think there could be any doubt that they ought to be continued for five years. He confessed he had the strongest (Onion of the expediency of continuing the central control, and he stated that i's continuance for five years would be a mark of the confidence of the House being placed in it, which was of the utmost importance.—( Hear, hear.) He trusted he would be able to go on with 01 the clauses of the Bill, and no further obstruction would be thrown in its way; but, on the whole, he was of opinion that it would be impolitic to shorten the dura tion of the Commission for any term less than five years. Lord SANDON explained. He did not say it was the universal practice to refuse out-door relief, but he said that it appeared by last year's Report that the Commissioners were fa vourable to that view.—( Hear, hear.) . Mr. FER RAND, in explanatiJn, said that the Hon. Member for Hali 'as having made a charge of rather a personal nature against him, he would only beg of the House to wait till the evi dence taken Lelore the Committee was laid on the table and compared with the Reports. _ . . . Air, C. WOOD was not aware of having made any charges against the Hon. Member, further than to say, that certain alle gations were proved to have taken place in the union of which he (Mr. Ferranti) etas a member. He stated thlt upon the authority of au Hon. Gentleman near him, who told him that the allegations made were proved generally. Sir B. HALL wished to make a few observations on the present question. The Right Hon. Baronet had referred to the Union of St. Pancras in a former debate, and used the statements he then made as an argument for the continuance of the Commissioners. The abuses, he stated, did exist, it was true, but the Right Hon. Gentleman ought to be aware that these abuses existed under an inefficient management. In the parish he represented he could assure the Right Hun. Baronet the children were well a!tended to, and there was no occasion for the Commissioners coming there, and exerc'sing their jurisdiction. He should vote against the continuance of the Commission for five years. Air. TROTTER, as a representative of West Surrey, believed he was doing his duty to his constituents by voting for the adoption of the first clause of the Bill. As to the time for the continuance of the Commission, he had received no inti mation from his constituents as to their opinions, but fur him self he thought it was bad to agitate the question from year to year. General JOHNSON considered the Commission objection able and he should therefore ,vote against its continuance. Mr. BUCK concurred with the opinions that had been ex pressed by the Noble Lord the Member for Liverpo'sl. He be heved tha; the distress that existed in many parts of the comp. try arose from the uncalled for interference of the Assistant Commissioners. He should V erefore vote that the term of ex. istence of their powers should be as short as possible. Captain PEC H ELL would strenously oppose the further ex istence of the Poor-law Commissioners, believing that their acts were most unjust and uncalled for. The Hon. and Gallant Member then proceeded to read various documents, for the purpose of showing that the inhabitants of several districts were dissatisfied with the conduct of the Commissioners. He strongly disapproved of the principle of vesting the Com misioners with the power to abolish the Gilbert Unions; and, under those circumstances, he could not approve of the continuance of the Commission. Mr. AG LIONBY felt the importance of the present discus sion; and he should, therefore, address a few words to the House on the subject. He had already argued, and he re peated the argument, that it would not be advisable to continue the powers of the Commissioners until they should ascerta'n what those powers might be. But he believed that those powers could not be defined this session, and under those circumstances he could not vote for ar. extension of the Commission for a period of five years. He found that many of the supporters of the present Government had on a former occasion spoken against a similar proposal, and amongst others the Honourable Member for Kent (Sir E. Koatchbull) and the Honourable Member for East Sussex (Mr. Darby). He thought that those gentlemen were bound in consistency to give their votes in favour of the amendment for limiting the authority of the Commis sioners to one year. Even the Right Honourable Baronet, the present Secretary fur the Home Department, had expressed his disapproval of the principle of vesting the Commissioners with an unlimited control over the local authorities. He wished for his part that the whole question should be left open for the discussion of Parliament in a future session ; and he could not therefore approve of the principle of extending the Commission for the next five years. Mr. DARBY said that he had. on a former occasion, disap proved of the principle of extending the Commission, because he felt that no opportunity would then have been afforded of considering the various clauses of the Bill. But that opportu e,ity was now afforded, and the Bill might be discussed clause by clause. Mr. KEMBLE had not received any instructions from his constituents on the subject ; but if be had he considered it would be his duty, as a Member of Parliament, to vote for what he considered best for the community at large. He should vote as he had voted last year. He had heard no argument for con tinuing the Comjn;ssion for five years which would not equally apply to snaking the Commission perpetual, and it would have been more honest at once to propose its perpetuity. Believ ing the power of the Commission to be arbitrary and uncon stitutional, he should vote against the continuance of the Com miss'on for a longer period than one year, although he thought it it would be better that the Commission should continue for three years than for one. Mr. TROTTER axplained. Mr. MUNTZ considered it to be the duty of a Member to do what bethought right; but, on this occasion, he went hand in-hand with his constituents, for they ail agreed in detesting this unnatural and unconstitutional Bill. He could not under stand on what principle the Hon. Member for Surrey could propose to continue the Commission for three years; he ought to have proposed its abolition at once. He should support the motion of the Hon. Member for Rochdale. He protested against this law altogether. Mr. LAWSON objected to the application of the law to the northern counties. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Commit tee divided, when there appeared— For continuing the Commission for five years 164 For continuing it for one year 0n1y... ...... 92 Majority in favour of five years ... - —72 On. the gallery being re-opened, we found Mr. T. DUNCOMBE taking an objection to the manner in which the Chairman had put the motion. Mr. G REENE explained the manner in which he had put the amendment. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the printing of the words in italics was quite a modern practice, for the convenience of Members, and were left blank in the Bill itself. On the question that the clause stand part of the Bill, Colonel SIBTHORP stated his objection to tie clause. Ee protested against the number and expense of the Assistant- CGmmissioners. They were a perfectly useless body, involving an expense of more than 641,000/. He thought they were perfectly justified in throwing every at stacle in the way of the Right Hon. Baronet and the Fill. , He should take the sense cf the House on negativing the clause. General JOHNSON said thit, previous to the Gallant Member's rising, he had moved that the Chairman ref cart pro gress and obtain leave to sit again, ant he thought that that question ought to be put first. After a short discussion, in which Sir .1. GRAITAn and Ge neral JOHNSON took part, The question that the CLairm n report progress was put from the Chair, when Lord WORSLEY said that after the speech of the Ho nourable and Gallant Member opposite "(Colonel Silthorp), he felt it his duty to state that in their county (Lincoln) their constituents took a different view from that taken 'by the Gallant Colonel. Colonel WOOD hoped that after to-night's tiscussion the House would be allowed to come to a decision that the clause stand part of the Bill. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1841 Strangers' were then ordered to withdrati, and the, Comma tee diiided. . _ For the motion .. ... Against it Majority against the motion —l62 Mr. FIELDEN then moved that Mr. Greene do leave the Chair. he ga"ery was cleared for a division, but none took place. On our entrance, Sir li. PEEL was on his legs. If the power which the House was possessed of was a good owe, he did not think it right to abuse it.—(Hear, hear.) The House had already de cided upon the question of the continuance of the Commis and.he did not think that the course pursued by the Hon. Alember was fair towards the House.—(Cheers.) Lord PALMERSTON was of the same opinion with the Right Hon. Baronet. He hoped the Hon. Gentleman would riot persevere in pressing his motion against the general sense of the House.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. FIELDEN thought after the numerous condemnations of the clatise as unconstitutional, it was fair of any Member to r.ffer to it ail the obstruction in his power. He should persevere in dividing the House against the further discussion of the cause that evening. Mr. ESCOTTthought that the opposition given by the Hon. Member for Oldham to tfie progress of the el.ause, could only be considered as a - factious opposition. Sir C. NAPIER hoped that the Hon. Me tuber for Oldham would not persevere in his motion, as it had been already shswn that he had but sixteen supporters in the House. Colonel SIBTHORP said that he was opposed to the clause, but all, he wished was that the sense of the House should be fairly taken on the subject. Mr. WAR!) thought it was manifest that the course taken by the lion. Member for Oldham, if persevered in, would form a dangerous precedent, and could only lead to the total obstruc tion of public business. Mr. BROTHERION hoped that the Hon. Member for Oldham would withdiaw his. motion ; although he could not aVoid voting for an adjournment, at that late hour, if the ques tion went to a division. - - Mr. AGLIONBY also hoped that the Hon. Me nber fcr Oldham would withdraw his motion. Mr. R. YORKE did not wish to vote in favour of any fur ther adjournment, although he had been one of the minor►ty on he last division. Genetal JOHNSON wished for, further time to discuss the clause, although he did not intend to offer any factious op position to its passing. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, but the Committee did not divide on Mr. Fielden's motion for adjournment, which was put and negatived without a division. The Committee then divided on the clause, when there ap • peared— For the clause ........................... 146 Against it ... 26 Majority in favour of the clause --120 The clause was then agreed to. The House then re►umed, and the - Chairman reported pro gress, and obtained leave to siVigain. The other. Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Two. • INGRESS ABBEY. The following a description of Ingress Abbey, Gieenhithe, the seat of James Harmer, Esq., by-Mr. Smith: with, C.M.A..:— • • " Ingress Abbey is a fine pile of building in the Tudor style of domestic architecture. It is surrounded by • a beautiful - terrace, so eleverly construsted as to form a principal feature and enrichment to the scene. • All that art could achieve to increase the natural beauties of In gress have been accomplished through the taste and mu nificence of the respected proprietor, whose arrangehient of the landseape scenery is beyond all praise. The har fuonious beauty Of the fine outlines preserved in thi. grouping of the park foliage, the p ower f u l masses o light and shade, so artfully contrived and increased and 1116 Mehl:* of sweet.lAtie and grey.,colour, as pre 'sented from the ever-varyingsurfacAof the, Thames, give a grandeur and freshness highly attractive. . Tnere is aavilderness leading to 'a romantic. dell o te which the.proprietor has given frequent permission to CharitaWe useful societies,- and- otheeS. to assemble end aid their funds , by- the enjoyment of innocent Plea Sure The Lodge, the Vantiftihns, Mid - Shrubberies are es . There is a cottage in the' 'hid En g li s h stylJ. called the Farm, with a rustic bridge, which - crews a little lake,,and leads to a high mound, from which is ob tained several fine views of the surrounding scenery. The raised terrace and gothic ballustrade, behind whici. is a- sunk plane of sufficient dimensions to afford an abundant supply of fruit and vegetable produce of the rarest. kintlS,:is - very cleverly and successfully managed ; and 'the more to be admired, as the terrace effectual!) screens the kit Chen-garden from being seen from the On entering the hall of this fine baronial dwelling, the effect produced by Gothic tracery surmounting a handsome. corridor or gallery leading to the. upper rooms. is very imposing, while the eye perceives through the plate glass of the opposite gothic door the picturesque garden and foliage, and embellished by two ornamental fountains containing gold fish. The, dining room is strictly in the Tudor style. The richly carved side-board, with gothic perforated panels; the massive cellerat, fit accompaniment to the huge baron of beef of the olden time, so admirably restored te• its pristine grandeur by the hospitable owner of the man s sion, on receiving the " Harmer Testimonial," harmonise well with the gothic side and centre tables. The beautiful oriel table, which is a fac-simile of an old favourite in the Bodleian Library, at Oxford; the rich tracery of the ceil ing, the chairs, all in strict keeping with the style, render this room at once imposing and grand. We hasten through the " sanctum sanctorum" in which hang various illuminated and emblazoned drawings, presented to the. worthy owner of the mansion for acts of kindness anti merit, and attempt a description of the library. The style changes to the Elizabethan. It is impossible to.. convey an adequate idea of the intrinsic and very rich effect of the book-cases, which are divided into 32 corn partnients, in each of which is a. bas-relief of well-de , signed .subjects and very superior workmanship; at least ten of them are so considered by the . first artists of the -day; wko have examined them carefully. They are, in Tact, pictures 'possessing all the qualities of a painting evith the exception of colour, describing, with all the minuteness of German oak carving, the earl) w history . of Clwist, his birth, t h e w i se men ' s offer ing-, his working . ith his f at h er ' s too l s a t th e bent +, &c. These productions are so ingeniously con ceised, 86 exquisitely grouped, and so beautifully . carved, that no pencil, howeve r d e li cate, cou ld conve y a more correct representation of these beautiful subjects. The richly carved mantel, intended to receive a portrait of the great Bacon, the beautiful pannels on the doors, the enriched cornices, advancing boldly with the pic turesque old oak pediments and busts of Camden, and the learned characters of the day, are introduced in strict keeping with the other decorations of this room, and re lieved by a background similar to old cloth of gold, ar ranged with cool and rich mellow colours. Messrs. Ar rowsmith, ofßond-street, Decorators to her Majesty, have greatly added to their already high reputation by design ing and erecting the •Elizabeqhan and Gothic decorations and fu:niture in this princely m ans i o n. On the ground floor are several other rooms, one of them leading to a conservatory, at present in the course of erection. The Drawing-rooms are in the style of Louis Qtiatorze, and When painted will be exceedingly hand smile. The ladies' boudoir, on the upper floor, is a per fect bijou, with its beautif 11 oriel window, the handsome carved mantel, with Cupids supporting baskets of flowers, and enfraMing plate glasS, which reflects Father Thames and the scenery beyond. THE We must not omit to' notice the carved whole-length figures in this room. Two of these, Fortitude and Justice, are arranged as candelabra. A St. S e b as tian, finely carved, and reminding t:s of the picture of this subject so much admired at the Dulwich Gallery, is very ingeniously contrived to serve when required as a reading desk. Also a St. Paul, carved in the most masterly mariner : the repose and dignity of this figui e surpasses anything we have seen of Brustolini or Grinling Gibbon. The fine expansive forehead, the head gently leaning forward, the flowing heard, and the grandlines of the drapery, posed to be expounding, and the fine effect of light and is grand and contrasting the flowing lines of the book which he is sup btaaduetifpulrocineteidiein ; th l i i s er ar i r s an u g ti e il m v en fo t ' Totten. The rear of this fine figure displays, upon touching a spring, three apertures, one throwing fer:h a velvet cushion for kneeling, a recess for the book of prayer, and a project ing desk, thus most ingeniously forming a Prie Dieu, extreme gfrom t he whoe most richly carved and restored, in most ex quisite taste, without any regard to expense. PUBLIC FuNIIRAL. —The intelligence that the Municipal Amendments' Aet received the Royal Assent on Friday, arrived by Monday morning's mail, and it was re garded as deehive for ever of the pretensions, litigations, and annoyances of the old Corporation, the joy it diffused among all ' ' classes of the citizens can better be imagined than described. During the earlier part of the day groups paiided the streets ' with satisfaction, and victory lighted up their countenances. As evening set in tar barrels blazed up in all directions. There was not ails-, et in the old and new town without a dt,zen of them ; and bonfires were lit in all directions. But all was lite• rally nothing, when compared to the funeral procession of the and employed on the fortifications. old Corporation, which was accompanied through the city by at least thirty thousand persons ! We have. never witnessed so large-a concourse in the streets of Limerick at one funeral.— ' Limerick Reporter. a cor poral of the 18th of the line, cow ,ln the course of one month three suicides have Total Abstinence A w l i f t o h r d r ; eg a r n e d t been committed (says the Commerce), by soldiers in the bri gades el sta t ion e db tu l t . o , u Rousseau, ts idePa s.i ' a fusilier of the 65th, blew oust his brains at Montrouge. On the Ist ult., Devaux, in the m on a t t h e e d 4 th th e , item same regiment, did the same, in the barracks at Association was held in the London Mechanics' Institution, yesterday evenieg, over w hic h J. S. Buckingham, Esq., pre sided ; the following resolution was unanimously adopted with A ineetliiAkiiegnga°6cutfianttihCehaAreinettorno.poi , a a rd t and indignation . of 'the' recent attempt ou the life of our be loved Sovereign. It rejoices, however, that such attempts have proved abortive, and trusts that the klmighly, who has hitherto hearty clieei s: ---" That this meeting protected her, will still be her shie ld and domestic defence, and b es t ow upon her every personal and tble ss in g, arid grant her sober, long to reign over a free , loyal, r, an d happy people." OXFORD, S A TURDAY 31ORNING. ---'I,HE BOARD OP HEADS OF HOUSES AND SIR ROBERT PEE.I._ lt is cur rently reported here that the Puseyite Party hive gained a triumph by obtaining from the PP remier the nominati o n o f th e Puseyite Archdeacon Robert Wilber orce to th e R eg i us Pro fessorship of Modern History, vacant by Dr. Arnold', decease. Archdeacon R. Wilberforce came from York on a late occasion to record his vote against the Board of Heads on the affair of Dr, Hampden. NEGRO VANlTY.—llitherto negroes have devoted very little attention to the comforts of their cottages. At pre sent dress is the great _ article of eirense. O n Sunday, the men are dressed in as good clothes as their masters ; indeed they wear only the finest quality; and the women are equally particular ; they will have whatever costs most money. As they advance in civilisation, aud acquire a taste for domestic comforts, they will discover how unsuitable their dresses are to their condition, arid that their money may be more rationally employed than in the purchase of finer Clothes than their ' steams requires. The negroes are universally fond of dancing; it i great honour to o en a ball ; and this hi nour is awarded to who will p a y most for it: the biddings sometimes ' teach a doubloon—about 37. 4s. sterling.-Janiaica Dispatch. Mr. I-Itunphreyp*ed 'off on . Monthly with Mr. Aaron Chapman in favour. Of Air., .I:tillers' motion for going ... goi _ ,,,..,,, i into Committee of tb u t...30.70,.°!A y ~/;., s b,;,-i - ~... au ftw; .. . RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR COLLECTING the INCOME-TAX. The following is a copy of the official regulations which will be issued to every parson for the purpose of assessments of profits in trade, prof4ssions, &c. :-- " County of " Parish of ~ In pursuance of an Act passed in the sixth year af the reign of her present Majesty, for granting to her Majesty duties on profits arising from property, professions, trades, and occupations, you are hereby required to fill up such statements as are applicable to your particular case and deliver the same,-under co ver and seal, a t my dwelling-house, situate et or at the office of the Commissi oners , a t , within 21 days from the date hereof, under a penalty of 201., old treble duty. ... , " RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR INCOME. " The tax under this schedule extends to all trades, professions, employments, or vocations, *Carried on or exercise 1 in Great Britain or elsewhere, by persons residing in Great Britain, or carried on or exercised n Great Britain by any persons, whether subjects of `ier Majesty or not, although not resident in Great Britain, and to every art, mystery, &c., carried on by them respectively, other than quarries o f s to ne , lime ;tone, slate, or chalk, coal mines and other mines, iron works, gas works, salt works, water works, canals, docks,- Ste., right of markets, fairs, tolls, railways, and other concerns of a like, nature. " The balance of profits of trade of manufacture is to be returned at the place where it is carried on, on an average of three years preceding; or if set up within three years, on an average, from the pe riod of commencing the same, either ending on the - day of the year when the annual ac counts of the trade have been usually made up, or on the sth April, 184 ; or, if commenced within the year of assessment, according to such fair computation, on average, as to the best of your know ledge and belief, you shall state, and shall be directed by the Commissioners. "In estimating the profits and gains in trade, "DEDUCTIONS ARE ALLOWED " For repairs of premises, or supply or repairs of implements, utensils, or articles employed, not, exceed ing the sum usually expended for such purposes, according to an average of three years. "For had debts only, or such part thereof as shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner to e such. , " For any average loss n o t excee di ng th e ac t ua l amount of loss or adjustment. , " And for the rent or value of any dwelling-house, or dothestic offices, used for the purpose of trade, a sum not exceeding two-thirds part of such rent. "NO DEDUCTIONS ARE ALLOWED "On account of loss not connected with or arising out of trade, &c. " Nor for any sums employed or intended to be mployed as capital therein. "Tor on account of capital withdrawn therefrom. " Nor for any capital employed in improvement of n-emises not occupied for purposes of trade. " Nor on account or pretence of any interest which eight have been made on capital if laid out at interest. "Nor en account of any annual interest, or any innuity, or other annual payment, payable out of such profit's or gains. •. • • - • " Nor for any 'sum recoverable undet an insur vice or contract of indemnity. • - :.• . " Nor for any disbursements or expenses which hall not be money wholly and exclusiiely laid out or trade,-&c: - - - .' Nor for any disbursements Or expense of, main -enance of the parties, their families, or establishments. " Nor for any sum expended in any other domestic or private purposes distinct from the purposes of trade. ' The profits on professions, &c., are to be returned in the amount of the preceding yeat, ending as be 'ore ; subject to the like provision with respect to ;hose profits as to profits on trade, or the setting up ,within the year of assessment. "The profits on all securities bearing interest pay dile out of the public revenue (except annuities, divi lends, and shares payable out of any publid revenue, or the interest o' East India Bonds . otherwise charged), and all discounts and interest of money, not being annual interest, payable or paid by any person whatever, are to be returned on the full amount of profits and gains arising therefrom within the pre ceding. year. " The profit from foreign possessions and secu rities, or in the British plantations, or in any other of , . her Majesty's dominions, m a y be stated to and assessed by the Commissioners of London, Bristol, Liverpool, and Glasgow, or nearest to such place where the property shall have been imported, or the j persons receiving the remittances or value thereof re • I side ; or, if imported or received in different parts, or 1 in two or mare of the outports above-mentioned, the whole profits are to be returned at each port ; but they are to he assessed upon the aggregate amount at each port only where the mayor part of the value has been imported or received. " The returns of profits arising in any other manner than as above described, comprehending every possi- We source of profit, of whatever nature or kind (not particularly described in the other parts of the Act), may either be formed on an average of years, if in their nature these profits are uncertain in their annual 1 amounts, on the profits of the preceding year., " The Act imposes the obligation of making returns not only on individuals for whose benefits the profits are received, but also on trustees, &c., receiving the properties of others; and state in what capacity you make the return, whether on your account, or as 1 trustee of any description for another, or as officer of any corporation or company ; and, acting in that ca pacity, you are liable to the same penalty for not making a due return of the profits you are accountable for as for your own profits. • " You are not required to make any . return of an unities, &c., payable in Great Britain out of any public revenues, or of the interest on East India bonds, the duties of which are to be retained by the respective Corporations or Companies trusted with the payment of the same, unless the half-yearly pay ment of dividend does not amount to fifty shillings ; nor are you required to make any return of rents, an nuities, or interests of money, and other .Annual pay ments payable to you by others residing in this kingdom (unless such payments are derived from pro perty out of Great Britain), they being chargeable on the party by whom the payment is to be made, and will ultimately fall on you by way of deduction from the amount at the time the payment is made, without a particular assessment." GENERAL DECLARATION. " I —, do hereby declare, that all the particulars required in this notice, to be returned as appertaining to me in relation to the duties on profits of property, trade, or profession contained in schedule ---, are in every respect fully and truly stated, according to the best of my judgment and belief, and according to the rules and regulaiions of the Act of Parliament in that belief made.—Dated -this -- day of —, 184—. (Signed) . OVERTHROW OF THE INCOME- TAX IN 1816. The upsetting of the Income-tax in • 1816 was a measure which was carried by the sturdy, strenuous, and unflinching conduct of the great towns and bo roughs of the United Kingdom,. in assailing the House. with their unceasing and numerously-signed petitions, and by the bold and determined opposition within its walls. Among those who figure promi nently at this period, Mr. (now Lord) Brougham, ex erted his mos vehement powers towards the over throwal of this obnoxious tax ; he was the earliest.in attacking it with his invincible and peculiar ardour, nor did he finally abandon the prosecution of it till, even after its abrogation," he had satisfied"himself that eve 7 paper, which was blotted by the disclosure of men s private - affairs, and transactions, was either burned, - torn up, or erased: This last interesting trait in the doWnfal of the measure we shall adduce, and then add various extracts from speeches `which we have gathered together by glancing over the regis ters of the Cominons House for the year 1818, when the debates on the subject were strongest, and the measure was finally ejected. The fate of these Property and Income-tax Re turns on the final termination of the oppressive Act, was thus :—On the 30th of May, Mr. Brougham asked what steps had been taken for collecting the papers for the purpose of destroying them. The Chancellor of the Exchequer—" 'here is no wish to preserve the returns alluded to, and it .W.a.S proposed to erase the names of individuals from all returns. The returns would themselves not be entirely re turned, as it was necessary to preserve an account of the sums contributed by different classes." Mr. Brougham—" I have to express my doubt at this mode of erasure : I think the burning of the papers would be much better, and there is a public officer, not in Feat estimation, whose assistance for this pur pose might be very advantageously called in." PUBLICATION OF MEN'S PRIVATE AFFAIRS.—A curious fact occurred while the Act was in force, showing how subject the petitioners were to have their concerns laid open to a train of inspectors and spies. A very respectable person, a ship-broker, had occasion to purchase an article at a cheesemongers, which he received wrapped up in a paper that proved to be, to his no small astonishment, the return of one of his friends and neighbours to the Commissioners of the Income-tax. A call was made by him on the gentleman to whom he stated the circumstance and they both called on the cheesemonger. The trades man told them he had lately bought a great deal of waste paper of the same kind, and they found upon further inquiry that the paper in question had been exposed to sale by the Commissioners, and consisted of the whole returns of what was commonly called their jurisdiction, but which was really their inquisi tion. Thus it appeared that the private affairs of all persons had been exposed, not only to .the Commis , siorers, but to the world, by their returns being ex posed to sale as waste paper. CASE or OrrussioN.—The following case, one lof frequent occurrence, a pp eare d i n t h at of a poor widow woman, who had the usual difficulty in ob taining the proper deductions, which was at the time a universal subject of complaint. This poor woman was proprietor of a house of 121. per annum, which was the greater part of her income. For this sum she had been assessed, and though she had made re peated applications to the Commissioners to have the deductions which the Act authorised in cases like hers, she could obtain no redress. She was obliged to pay for five years, and had contributed o u t o f t hi s poor pittance 6/. to Government, before her case was attended to. Cases of such low assessment of course will not occur under the present scale of the Income tax, but similar sufferings will occur plentifully a grade or two higher. AN IRISH RETURN TO THE COMMISSIONERS.—The following whimsical return was made against the tax, as stated by Mr. Freemantle, in 1816, in the House, to an assessor in the county of Cork in this way : " Take notice, I have cut the throats of all my horses —I have At ot all my dogs—l have burned all my car riages —I have shut up all my windows—l have dis missed all my servants, except my wife—and there fore I conceive that I cannot be liable to any assess ment whatever." Sir James Mackintosh said in debate—" Petitions pouring in from all parts of the country, universally agreed in describing the tax as the most unequal imposition ever designed by the ingenuity of man. An Hon. Gentleman had not considered it an oppres sive tax. Sir James would ask, was it nothing like oppression to drag the tradesman before Commis sioners, to whom he was compelled to disclose his most secret affairs, and having done so, to submit to the exercise of their inquisitorial authority, however unjust their decision, from which there was no appeal." Mr. Lushington, who spoke in favour of this tax, alleged that it would reach affluence in the hands of avarice, and to make use of an observation he had seen before, " it reached those who lived like beggars, and made them pay like gentlemen." Mr. Lambton said that "he need not himself recom mend that to the Government, which they had tried so long on the people of the country—profuse bleeding. Whether the lancet or thd leech would do best for this purpose, he did not know ; but possibly they would be able to obtain satisfactory information on this point from many of the commissioners of this very tax." " I have been informed," said Mr. Newman, in debate, " that in some parts of the country the prisons are so much crowded with farmers, confined for in ability to pay this tax, that some of the gaolers had refused to take any more for lack of room." "As long," remarked Mr. Brougham ' " as the tax is in existence, and the mac hi ne can be screwed up, we are not safe from its effects; and the country should know, that if it were not now entirely de stroyed, they could not hope for its destruction." "It was too easy a means," be continued, "of gratifying the Government passion for expense—by an infini tesimal turn of the screw, its produce might be raised or diminished to meet any demand. By it might be raised 1001., or fourteen millions. It was an engine which should not be left at the disposal of extravagant ministers or extravagant princes." The farmers of Aylesbury had their opposition to the tax spiritedly advocated by Lord Nugent. " Sir," said he, addressing the. Speaker, ." these petitioners are a class of men generally who suffer the most severely from the operation of thig tax. They are not merchants. They are not, manufacturers. They are in general graziers and dairk 'farmers. They inform me that at this time they can ne ith er 'make their rents nor stock their fitting. They hold in their hands highly valuahle old grass lands, at a very high rent, and are obliged to stock those pastures with a very expensive sort of stock. This state of things cannot and will not last. The yeomanry of England will and must resist this odious and profligate system, by every legal means in their power. They will not doom their children to want and beggary, themselves to bankruptcy and a gaol." Twenty-six petitions, signed by 700 occupiers and owners of hind in north Devon, stated that " many of them, in order to meet the payments of the tax, had been under the necessity of selling their young cattle to great disadvantage ; and many of them were now in confinement for debt, from inability to pay." On the 26th February petitions, from at least forty of our leading towns and boroughs, were presented against the tax. Sir Francis Burdett, in presenting one from Westminster, said the inhabitants protested against it as an " intolerable grievance." Sir James Shaw, also, in presenting a petition against the income-tax, from the inhabitants of the Ward of Bread-street, stated, that " though they had sup ported his Majesty's Government for the last twenty five years they were now unanimous i n th e i r opposi tion to this tax." Sir Francis Burdett, in the debate of February 27, I speaking on this tax, said, " It was a proceeding like this which caused the rebellion in the time of Charles the First. That Monarch always enforced his exac tions under the plea of necessity, and the most in tolerable burdens had been imposed on the people, under the specious cloak of necessity. The land-tax was one of these; and the property-tax was nothing but an extended land-tax." Mr. Brougham ' on the 22d of February, r ose w ith a petition in the House of Commons, spoken of in Hansard- as "a petition of enormous size in his arms," which was from the large body of the inhabitants of Clerkenwell, against the income-tax. In fourteen hours, and no more, 3,278 individuals flocked to sign this petition. . _ Mi.. Lambton said, on presenting petitions against the tax, that these would be followed by numerous others of the same character, " in order to convince Ministers that the people of England would not, among their accumulated distresses, endure the pres sure of taxation for the express purpose of supporting tyrants upon their thrones, whether those tyrants were the Bourbons of Spain, or the Bourbons of France." Sir John Newport resisted it, saying, " his own objection to the tax was to the principles—that it was unequal and oppressive in its operation—that it granted power to certain persons, which, in a free country, should never be granted." _ A speaker in the House, describing the oppressions which the farmers of Hull had undergone by the in fliction of the tax, used the strong expression that " they had been shorn to the skin." The petition presented from York against the tax reached in length from the body of the Hou s e t o Westminster Hall. The petition from the City of London was signed by 22,000 of those who had all along before sup ported Goi'ernment measures. The popular voice, as heard and felt in these peti tions, was too mighty to be withstood. Opposition had now reached its topmost pitch, and was ready to hurl down the landmarks of the realm, if unattended to. The House was alarmed—the contest within its walls grew, night by night, fiercer and fiercer, till at length the country had the proud consummation of beholding its exertions successful, and the tyrannous measure repealed. That day is past, however, and now—Ecce iterum Crispin us THE BEARING RElN.—England, where the best horses and the best drivers are to be found—England (it is said) is the only country in which that bane of the horse, the bearing-rein, is used l In France it is not used, and, as the natural consequence, horses in that country seldom fall to the ground, or so as to hurt them ' selves. At the very instant the horse stumbles the French coachman slackens the rein, that the horse may. save himself. The dray-horses in London exhibit the most painful examples of the cruelty of using a tight bearing•-rein. Whether at work or standing they will be tinind'in continual torment, tossing their he.adtf;"4l l '' resting the weight of them on the bit, and so drawhig back the corners of their mouths, as nearly to split the. ligatures ; at work, instead of going on steadily, they "bob" their heads, feeling the check at every st2p they take. On Sunday, the number of persons - who went by the Versailles and St. Cloud Railroad to see the Grand Water Works play amounted to 20,752, and the distance passed over by the several trains during the day was 894 leagues. THE REGICIDE MAistA.—Three times in less than two years Queen Victoria, an inoffensive sovereign, be loved by her people, and one may say, liberal, has be come the aim of the assassin. We will not recriminate against the English all that they have said against the French apropros of the five attempts on Louis Phi lippe's life in the space of twelve years. In lieu of recrimination, let b .th countries mingle their regrets, and join their efforts to extirpate the horrible mono• mania of regicide. The people of France and of England arc a prey—the one to a moral state of suffering unex ampled in history ; the latter to misery which surpasses human resignation. This does not excuse insurrection or assassination ; but it may explain the apparition of such a scourge. None but madmen can imagine that a riot is a revolution, or that any party can derive the power to govern from an abominable crime. Power in free countries is no fortress which one can lay hold of by treachery, and hold out against justice and right. Regicide has never served as the basis of a durable order of things. The murder ers of Caesar may have had high placed hearts, but the result showed their want of judg trent. The Consular system was consolidated by the blow they dealt to the Dictator. Ravaillac did not give France to the Jesuits. The dagger of Louvel nailed the Bourbons to the throne, which they after wards broke by their own folly. There is at once crime and madness in regicide, even where nations are given up to despotic power. For where the elements of' despotism prevail, there will be a despot. Human nature is made so. Under no Government is a king the only, or the principal cause of public misfortune. The fiction, which declares them irresponsible, is more true than people think. Th e remedy for popular suffering l ies in the intelligent and progressive reform of a country's Constitution. Kings are not foes of the peopl e, bu t aris tocracies with or without birth.—Siecle. Berlin, has woman aged 103, of Frei nwalde, near h yo a u s t j h u f a ul te b o r a i t d r e act ha e s d aheironfot3ourtyhemaragronf'agageew. ith a man of 60. The HALIFAX Cnuacit-aArc.—The Vicar attended in announced d t the s r 4 er ; lt a o g f ai t n h s e t poll the fora V c e h s Vestry church-rate Monday, fi n an o 7 d s rate , 1 , 561. . Majority against the tale. e2. isat , ♦/;~ij . MEMOIR OF.M. SISMONDI. Some :men appear ,to be born to ,erve as great' lights on the historical hOrizons of the World ; as it expressly to . illuminate, by the energy of eheir in tellect and the lustre of their powers, the dark por tions of foregone ages. Such was Niebuhr, when he annalized Rome in its barbaric periods. Such is Hallam, coping with the gloomy and cloud-hid me dieval ages ; and such undoubtedly was Sismondi, who, whether among the moral, social, or p o liti ca l grandeurs of Italy, and its mightier forerunner Rome, threw the greatness of his thought, and the sagacities of his understanding, in a manner that no historian. antecedent to him had done. The death of - this great writer and noble-hearted man, calls .upon us to memorialise his name, which to a late posterity will convey its own dignity and renown. Sismonde de Sismondi was born at Geneva on the 9th of May, 1773. His family, originally of Pisa; carried, according to its various disposals abroad, the name of Simond in Dauphiny, and Simonde at Geneva, but finally, after its sojourn in 'Tuscany, after the Gene vese revolution, settled the name emphatically into Sismondi. It was in the year 1792 that M. de Sismondi quitted his native town, and came with his family into Eng land. On his. return to Geneva in 1794, he was ar rested on suspicion, as also his father (a member of the Government), and both of them were fined by judgment to lose two-fifths ,of their fortune, and to suffer a year's detention. At the end of this period he went to Tuscany,- where, subsequent to the insur rection there, he was arrested by the French as an aristocrat, and afterwards as a Frenchman by the in-: surgentp, for Geneva was then reunited to France. Notwithstanding these vicissitudes he was enabled to return to Geneva in 1800. The life of M. Sismondi from this period has little of an active nature connected with it. Enclosed, within the limits of his learned closet--encircled by the massy tomes on which night and day the grave historian was accustomed to feed, storing his mind with the great features connected with the republics, dynasties, and religions of the past, Sismondi, from the age of 27 and upwards, gave himself up. to those deep researches and examinative processes of thought, which have tended to enrich the wcrld with some of the noblest works it possesses. The Treatise - intitled " Examen de la Constitution Francaise," was first published as a series of papers in the consecutive Moniteurs of Afay, 1815, at the time when the additional Act to the Constitution of the French Empire was submitted to the vote of the people. They created at the time no little sensation from the strength of their reasoning and forcible manner. These fragments were then collected and published by Sismondi, who bravely describes himself in a prefatory note as " tin homme qui n'a jamais varie daus son amour pour liberte." The political principles of M. de Sismondi were thoroughly republican; but he appears to have always advocated a mixture of aristocracy as necessary to a free government. Anterior to the events of 1814, he had constantly evinced, if not a hate or dislike to the Government of Napoleon, at least a decided indiffe rence. But he appeared greatly to have moderated his opinions after the return of the Emperor from Elba, for in his "Examen de la Constitution Francaise," published- in the May of 1815, he strongly ranged himself on the side of Napoleon, and pronounced hint the defender of the national independence. The Em peror comprised him in a promotion of Members of the Legion of -Honour; but Sismondi, nevertheless, refused this honour, iii a letter ,addressed to the Puke of Bas' san - o, declaring that he could receive neither office nor honour. Sismondi's most magnificent literary labour is un doubtedly his " Histoire des. tepubliques italiennes." In these, his republics, he describes events and eha meters in the history of modern Italy with the genuine feelings of a great and enlightened reasoner, indignant at the wrongs, the vices, and the.degrada tion of the country of his ancestors. He sits in the rostrum of history, on these occasions, with vast dig nity, connecting, in glowing terms, the rise or fall of letters with the political independence or debasement of the states in which they flourished or decayed. The " Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe," was translated into English by Mr. Thomas RoSeoe, in 1823, with the usual ele gance and care of that author. This work, abound ing with rich histoirettes of the primitive literature of the Arabians—the tongue and poetry of sunny Provence—the warbled amours of the 'I roubadours —the Walloon romances—and the influence of the majestic Dante on his age —gave it its most extensive and merited celebrity. •AL de Sismondi's Review of the Progress of Religious Opinions during the Nineteenth Century- " was so general a favourite in this country, at the time of publication, as well as on the continent, as to have immediately passed into an English form. :It is a grand and sterling tract. The author , wakas , up into a rich enthnsiasm, and into an , ehiqueitek:prp.')J found and deep-f e lt' at the aspect WhichztiVage.; *ban cents of 'an emiiteln i tiO•eligious character. "IN Phi sagitat molem," (4Ottiriiore:" " t0,T t 1 a, 1 , 4 i z ' 7l 'of religion, he eciiiqr4iVi, l !:‘ 4) B :frit nntyeNTUAD twa as at the return of,“4,piszgt,ii,o*trdts'iii,f9.o,qg u nn ~zs es, to. tine V aligyA j gq . , &hp tops. .r4ongalus..it#,A !:the ptilatce and tite;cottage,' ave , hiaxtmarlis 01 1 .1; the di v:n nat n re,- and the sublime deztinketn mszn,As less eloquently . treated of. . . Space will not permit ns more than toettunerate , thol.4 nu 'herons other arks which issued frorn'the prolific pen of this talented, high, and unweariable 'scholar.. The following are all the offspring of his fertileA*tik in' 'addition to the grander o n es w hi c h we haq'zilready. Mentioned :-1. Tableau de l'Agrieulture oacan, - Geneva, 1801. 2. De la Riehesse CommeColgeOur PrineipeS &Economic Politique; Geneva, 403. After this was published hi s grea t wor k . the Republics, the two first impressions of which were printed a Zurich in 1807 ; Q.• third and fourth at the same place in 1808 -; the fith edition to the eighth, with a second edition of the four first, at Paris in 1809 ; the ninth, tenth and eleventh at Paris in 1813 ; the twelfth qthe six teenth, with a new edition of the eight thA 3 tliTaris in 1818, in addition t o su b sequen t ones , an d reprints and translations every where abroad.. The ,Life and Writings of Paul-Henri Mallet, at Geneva,. in . 1807. 6. Of the Paper Money in the Austrian States, and the means of suppressing it, Weimar, 1810. 7. The Politico-Economic Principles of Adam Smith contrasted with those of l)r. Quesney, Pisa, 1812. 8. Considerations sur Geneve; London, 1814. ' 9. Extract of the Adventures and Observations of Philip Pananti on the Coast of Barbary, - . Geneva., 1817, with at least half a dozen others, which. treat upon Negro Slavery, the Laws of Genes-a; and the Constitution of the French Government. M. de Sismondi was an honorary member of the University of Wilna, of the Academy and Society of Arts of Geneva, as also of the Italian Academies of Georgofili, Cagliari, and Pistoca, Stith several others. The noblest monument of the departed historian exists in his works, that remain to an admiring pos terity. ONI"I'0 GET INTO TROURLE. 11WIEV, keep 3 ‘ 4 shaip look-out after 'tour neighbour's concerns : knowledge, you know, is power. Get upon parish committees ; if a party question, never mind which side you take, it will show your impartiality, besides, it will let you into the secrets of each_ .Always speak your mind boldly—no matter where, or who hears you. Do not refuse to be bail for poor Bob—it is only trifle. Take an active part in a popular election. If all these do not succeed, go to law ! GENERAL DISTREtiv.—WM copy the following' from Watson and Company's Leeds Circular, a publication contain ing generally correct information respecting trade and com merce : —" The cry of commercial distress reaches us from all . quarters, and some of its bitterest notes have lately been heard, at the meetings of the shopkeepers, both here and at Manches ter; such meetings as these held by thi s d ais we never heard of before, and they betoken a depth of suffering in trade, that, must nut be disregarded by those who hate the sole power to mitigate it. If, in the midst of summer, fast approaching the harvest, with the weather rather favourable than other wise, and with an abundance of specie at the Bank of England, such is the shocking condition of trade, as was detailed at these meetings, what are we to look for, as the winter approaches, especially if the harvest should turn out deficient in quantity (although a great breadth of wheat was sown), as some, parties begin to fear, from the of the crops? The fact is, the present :tate of things was fully predicted by the late Mr. Huskisson in 1830, who stated, at that time, something to this effect ; that should the commercial principles then at work, continue . a few years longer (as they have done) accompanied by a succession of bad harvests (which has actually been the case), a s ate of things would, of necessity, follow in this country exactly similar to what is now passing around us. The old mercantile system, with its bounties, its prohibitions, and its protections, is fairly worn out, and can never be revived is this country. Owing to the heavy rains which fell in the early part of last week, the Floating Island in Dement Lake his disappeared. It is generally believed, however, that on the return of warm dry weather, and the receding to its late level, the island will again be visible. MILITARY COMPOSITORS.—I'he Guernsey Star of reason for requestirg duties." PRISONS advertisers Thursday, tJou rend e n 23 d t , n :a n d e v v i e z f r o t l ! l sle w m i e n n g ts for next publication " In consequence of the one day earlier4hau g u tih s r u ee a isr l a t r o i d the their wholemilmilitary r o y f PRIsoNs BILL—The following'deputation had an interview with •Sir. . James Graham . yesterday at the Romp.; o m u i r l iteisatagboliisnhgm°eunt"haAvilinongdtaoy attendnext office, upon the Prison, Bill :—Mr. Bootle Wilbraharn, M.P. ; Sir Charles Douglas , N. P. ; Joseph Bi r l ey , M r. J. B. Wanklyn, Mr. Cropley, Mr. 0 . Mine, Mr Bri t h a ll , Rte a n k , Mr. H unt. ctr,usays editor o f a : d own east paper, " keeps hose so,well, th a t we g Rutter, churchr. Griffith clock week by it." et a day Oat o f every .ANTWET , I . , JULY 7.—This murtlin at 11 clocko' the Belgian steam-ship, the British Queen, departed for New Yurk, with 17 passengers. Ih e • t • inerary of her voyage has undergone a slight alteration, insomuch as she is to touch at. Cowes, instead of Southampton_ An officer of the Tribunal of Commerce of thiF city went on board at the moment of her de parture, in order to protest against this change in the name of the shippers of the merchand ize on b oar d, th e l atter b e i ng de sirous of securing themselves against the London underwriters. A number ler sons were walking on the quays to witness her departure.— • mancipationß russels, July N. CI 'MAT T - AKE or S ' ALNION.—TiIe sahnon fishery in this neighbourhood has-been more successful this season flail for many years past. Op-Monday last no fewer than 1,t;00 , fish were taken out of tbe Dee, while the daily average take has. been about 500. The fishing has been successful almost all over Scotland.—.lberdeers Herald, C ~. SAtaS