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~~ 1 tha not tad t o,tori o re t at P°r tu cj iuld he g el, a great roo st w h°sl , ports to rtoi.i le the „ tblot ever; u p per an °AI to the Vy •fficult, f . t hougf , I have oti ll v o lite bran'-p tri h e feare i elt ° I to the t. se ded the ide at n ' y ot olseq u c to o that e° dot' pot. what events tire annon Of the AiseoSa'tented in Portugal, sted by French power migba ultimately lead. There Was, adjoining tion ; and theirto Portugal, a brave and high•spirited mi- Lordships might depend on it, that Spain .. never would, anti never ought to tolerate the ovettbrow or the Portugetse Government by such meaoss •—( Hear, hear.) if anarchy Were once introduced into Portugal, it would speedily be felt all over the Peninsula, and perhanS a ge neral war would be the lamentable result. /a cons id er i ng this question, he wished their terrisliips for once to sly, nothing about the character oi Don 11Iiguel. He might be Worse than Nero ; or, if it would please Noble Lords , More, Worse than the elder branch of the fatnily of the 1 Bourbon ; but they were to look to the eor.aevenees of interfering with his government. It I ,Sarta;ld produce war 1 ,hroughout the Peninsula peal all over E"rnite-- 1 Hear, hear.) ]eta It And fott Wilatt 'a Because Don Miguel was y , , - G 3o o r .. P . _!tr in aceotalance with th e feelings of his Ma th s toe only measure Of hostility which re n ' t asort a:t.vnt-(Hear, hear.) He loc,ked . r . ip , ( , i . n as th i i o s Ma ths pouse a of , . against P0r tu,..41. t iLIQ Alirliaten to bring forward last t hl t u . 1 Was a ineastrre which would serer the - w aa flted that tt';o countries • and he must say, that it if 1\11„-ie.'2 eneroue, and a less ' fair course of hostility, than i. (Ileal,-.'rrt had actually declared war against Portugu could " his)heart For all the reasons he had stated, li . e 'lot give sanction to the third reading of this Bill . . a Viscount rs 1, "°DERICI-1 said, he would not enter into i,:stateheeiisrce iti o i: f tnpri t (ai h esoh: di ep 4 genera_ _evrew of our relations with Portugal, because the relations could not be understood, unless stood in which she at this country in the situation were. enabled to trace . all . the circumstances regretted He f the oath respect to Portugal. the doeuments which would be elucidatory o ghatlanduet pursued towards Portugal were not yet ready i\,o Zaus those documents would show that what the Go e 11 adduced as matter of crimination aeainst the or!:erornent had no foundation whatever. The Noble E I L • "4 V to express an o inion that this measure of eqee . t i. - :itn'pt"'s duties on wine proceeded from a spirit of host G l i ( r ) ) . • ereidet:ugal, Coupled with l a desire on the pirt this ....„ (t.r . t to conciliate the existing Governme h n e t o o f fFrance. understood tl ia l ,°, d AteltbEEN...." No, no.") Then sol e l e to a ho,,„"e Noble Earl attributed the measure aeor_ toX feeling towards the present Government oet,al.___ a gallgg t IS( ' W it n'as very difficult to prove a ', s t a tv y : that a. such an assertion ; but he would distinctly hoar :lc, notion was utterly unfounded in fact.—(Hear, r ) Th never hard e 1.-esent measure bad nothing tre4 . anything to do with the existing_The ia el of this country and Portugal.—( It relations t o' and l ie - w e , a b!cloalizing the duties on ovine wag nhoetarn:e)wc,ee„ ceaco-oricasure the propriety of which ti fiei l aiF e '' o f• Very soon after he became aerloanttle:ils, he bad long coup T, With the commercial interests of td vaot Y, he entertained a douht wheth any: ,r o e f (tibee ;seed le, deeerilied by the Noble Earl . w a c rid be tvas at e r "' the treaty with Portu h i a e.,.:lgth convinced, that so far from bgeain'gthbae,nseofiefiaarl frn, "to"tindiercial or political point of view,tc tries,,ta in g to cement the union between I hear.) Th at :lc effect was decidedly the reverse.—(Hear, nigh: or two coun- Wr oo ,,u.as his Opinion, and, whether it was rlg • , o hew,l B ,. ) _a) it o was not now taken up for the first tithe. 1 ent, ak, w hen he was not connected with the Government, 41 the regneSt,4l by certain individuals who were' o rove eeotatioton- nufaetures of Birmingham, to malse som.ric they escribed s wit h r espect to the trade with France,. 1 preaeotedthe evils which they complained of, that with l'ranee 6'141 carrying on an extensive trade t He and being te a nee , t" the operation of the Alethuen trFcai,.Ze.erald, who wtoairsted. their re presentations to Mr. tt)o k th e ii t h i e '" letter which President of the Board of N . re T s a e r Y ade and he a ecore p rty of an old friend to state, in his the anled th o • "that in As ethtio ee representations,. nuisance. but a ' ' '' ' -- (dle ar.\ u treaty was not only an evil,o . but it opinion , hhow ed ' This might be too strong a . term . , tirgued What his 11 • 11 ' I th4t )° Pre -" was unjust and impnli tic— ., feelin g s •as at the time. 7he Noble Earl count the it tv'aesr' measure 'ltion of treaties by which this hwoul°l4ght to be I l i n ou v n i rl, a and impolitic because it se r • e as .. l ' i Proe l. 4lr e t ,°, a nation that did not meet us r d tr ea t feeling, lie admitted, that if it were N l' a o l i t e ) h • l i e ol a a L t o io rd n eouiti heap there was no censure which the ld not ' in that rais e des:ai:e• on Alinisters that they w u o e u now, as he bad ,ar,eued before, ~Hte would, however, violated, ar and that Miri- t 4 1 1 t ie were not'Abodundo btreahty ‘ lll a e s thuen treaty to give that ar] teaf.,4 which eon Nyltl the Methuen contended. The Noble nocce w as r e 4". that, accordinog ' to e the Methuen treaty, no i after 15 yealtolred. but that by the treaty of 1810, which, _et._ i p o ° o 3 l, e . of Brecilis°i'votted, naanty.article to , Ite n, s , u . spended for Now he contended, the pu . 4 14, 1 , 1 1 1 0 the mann er e ': v n as wh e it ees h t a h'e Methuen treaty . was aotatetti , 1 in the treaty of 1810, that no such notice was the Alto Plated by the latter. The Noble Earl spoke of t:Tatlicheeca:::ll:orttirt,inatigtlyaltr as a great measure of commercial policy. it sa as War not a true description of it. The fiict was that p or a e t ttlirna,tlla t l h ' e ort s u i g m a i l tis t i o t ' t iter tn4' The treaty r e ovided that if at any time there- s so l t ) a r r ibL ; relative vi induce d u to ee 3„tiPUlatmgland refused the p e ' wines of Portugal on the term "tehituT' the', Porto al should v'l have a referelat''l°,l in hick she stood before the treaty hadn it a right to return .. to b r a ' a te "Y in 1, 0 English woollens. Thus Portugal '" ( int 0 a her own hands• There was not a word . said hot tre4t;telcee.,„arld therefore * no just charge as treaty were, as ` " o neei ve, 7".' be Made. if the Methuen- to to a violation set !e t , t ti i i d a. ef i t " . l i t was di sadvantageous, they had a right . ,;', 1 r 01 hi:opinion it was contrary tosonakd cottu t :t,.'Aetl43l.,;"iltles, and it was likely to involve 111 .. ." country ie eolutoes, ins' of really benefitting: it. Tile Oporto it'C a nd w a , ° Y tlaes the legt f'..bg!a.) s' quite as had that be t ween far from the „,,hatedt one ar, ' w een the two oi-e-: 3)e asion that 1 moat:4'l..4le :Itta!rel. Forinsi th at i \ t. Ss obii..llt, istration or iri sot he ai a g e u tO write to that , tualaoridnot give satisl treatyr(lnality f w°l - 11 ( . 1 give ti t° te'. 111"(1)‘1011v/lehliihrsdhe ' fts °'n e l " tu ra' t h °PI ly .0 (41 -po tt° ° -We 20,00 L args of a,,,,"ta, vi/ , and not from Lisbon and other ports of th a s t 'N, f o uat advantage that was to the consumer .. , N , t irl eoll, r his life he could not tell ; but the fact wa .e , siii;ugldd'quence of the monopoly of Oporto, the people the'ttneee ecittrank, under the name of port, ae n)o t o '044/4 'lli4lnd that could be invented —not, indeed, g1a,,,, chi 0 , ~ the ~,,,.(1.0 .. ss.ortu,gal, but of the ... dealers of wine in state to th 'gal, t h n t of England had been compelled to _ l'u't 'verntit " r'l9 o f " Hear.") Since the year 1810, is' 11 , at ' ll ' I i • , oss vi 'olation of aer, s -eu eti ,e la reen guilty of aar , ef -6ktie, ".reatY, and that if re'dress were not giveo, the andg of tt °hi e I. h ad, th f nec essar il y 11 *e which the would f o llow. The Government re, Ora „ e , ere_ore, given the no e t ese4ta Otlired. ~,eat h. ens and therefore the , ffcct of the Methuen itwo No redress bad been a ff orded to its te:l44tlries. .1,1 . 1 _ toy thing but frisndship between toni-eroos to ad"ttopeopl:eo-11,1!_thuen !reeky, moreover, vlwaas obliged Ne e , . t our w(io`pyortuga.. That country We might Wi ll , 4 uY (l et , t ent! et 15 per cent. duty. 1\; 0 .! .3 °1 P ort. ''‘' liked On the salt, the orange . s, and the ortiorm L tsi w thi, wa:a!, provided we preserved the th o 3 ef all ~... a bad policy ; for reciprocity should be be the you Prupobi jitomarnercial treaties. Unless we could establish : ion r ould dot Co_tl.eartl e n d two negatives made an affirmative, on i er j : ."olit r i es ___"!. d that a treaty which was r ' 1),„"e Wills c e id Y 01 the change in our commercialwith • " ee ' the u be good for either. After contending that any e0ti.,... N!)ble Vis-stint concluded by denying, ttaeee, ;. w eratiai n os hostility to P -tu a'l or favour to . alii est ,"ad ever had policy , ti, y g Goer,,._ the slightest cieffecgt of inducing his ti i e 1a,,.1,_ " 1 " , cot to propose this measure. . ieliat(hie laet'w%frld‘sEfilsh..lNGTON had heard with . sati.sfac hetes , declared th': 1 is Noble Friend's speech, in w n h o i . " e h r b. noe t i lity to port re motive s for this measure had , oe . b ugal or extravagant favour to would P"lrt'e've l'he d that neap' !liter the act, could believe that the country. ii ,.l' !ti t eon(, of ti e Noble Lord and his colleagues, tAt'.°llltl shuo'ence in that declaration ; but Ire thought that ad a• g et , 0, IV, that the country must suppose, from the t..°Pted thi ' t e Government to Portresel, that they had th"ig4al, but 4811:0erai.s(umnre, not.only from inimical b feelings to Poe- . bth_Ttesiti on ..' passion. His Noble Friend bed placed ts ,ar f "POn two grounds —one of finance, and the I,:'ved att e : rn s tt ' e ree• On the first his Noble Friend had re w°l-de countarinwer. On the latter there was a fact to which the tenetd 48 . ) th at 51, 'inle t , w _ "" coneumption of Portuguese wines since the s n'e last fixed had dropped in' this country. The hernpti D' l °n of Portuguese wine was a decreasing con be de ", am] therefore the produce of duties upon it must ; egon Would sUnc e „ creasing prod The way to increase the con ment dPtY'ti Gover n be t4oced'ecreaße the duties : but Ills Ma ‘("rea4) the hail increased the duties still further to „,.,___ oi e consumption for objeats inimical to the ~,,,,7,1 se nt of Portugal. The Not D 1 - e then pro- Vi u sel q t° ecntrovert the doctrines laid' down eu ' by the No , ble , if it re„,,ea e was o._er,-ong .the Methuen treaty, and contenueu ought, . o, i.ntentin to abandon that treaty, that we r„ te , '..? have given notice --and lon notic inoo He in -110" " ra t the Alethuen treaty was ingd !tend r‘tlir:deiatrteeattyhaotf 14i4i)stertssoulil tre at .; s , if a nntice of our intention the have itch given, and if it had no ' fbeen given, l ions. Were - u ~,, _ g yof a gross violation of its stipule gven, but the treaty b tu . T he N o Viscount contended that notice had specified the form of the u9tiee, , t and that fora► of notice certainly had not been git'En. His Noble Friend hail stated that the basis of all commercial treaties was reciprocity. Now whet was the reciprocity here? With France all our cOlomercial dealings did not exceed 7 300,0001, or 400,0001. a year, whereas with Portugal it was 2,000,0001. or 3,000,0001., and with Spain it was 2,300,000/. During the last ten months Portugal had been regarded by the Government of this countryin an inimical manner, and measures affecting it had been adopt'd in passion ; and not on those sober principle s that ought to regulate the relations of nations. We should not have telacted the present moment for taking these steps with respect to Portugal ; but the fact was, Noble Lords did not like the Government of that country as it now stood, and they wished to produce alterations in it by what he would call revolutionary means—( Hear) —and he would tell them, if these means were successful, they would es tablish is that part of the world a war of opinions con netted with a war of religion—(Hear)—attended by all the mischief inevit tidy associated with such a species of strife in countries so situated. It was his duty to put that Hou•e in possession of all the information he bad obtained concerning the question before it. He had been informer, and he believed correctly, that a loan had been negotiated in the city of London, on the security of the church property. the Crown property, and the property of individuals in Por tugal, for the purpose of enabling Don Pedro to carry war into that country. Was it net surprising that this Prince, who had diverted the money appropriated to the payment of the interest en the Brazilian bonds from its original purpose to carry on a Portuguese war, and who had in consequence lost ground in Brazil,—was it, he rei•eated, not surprising that he should be able to raise another loan in England ? Yet he had done so, and for the very same object.—( Hear. ) There was another fact to which he would call their Lordships' attention. It appeared that we had now two ships of the line, and he knew not how many frigates, stationed, for the protection of his Majesty's sub jects in Pm tugal.—(Hear.) Why, he would ask, was this formidable mode of protectio❑ required in time of peace ? It was not to ships of war that his Majesty's subjects should be taught to look for security, at the moment when we were negotiating with Portugal on various points oi policy. Teeir protection ought to be the laws of that nation, and the faith of treaties.. And what was the period chosen for this display cf force ? The very time when we had compelled Portugal to do justice to his Majesty's subjects under the very treaties we are now breaking—(Hear)—for it was through the provisions of those treaties that tee enjoyed the privileges we claimed. Transactions like these were unworthy of the dignity of the British nation. They would expose his Majesty and Ministers to the consequences of a war of opinion and of religion in that country, and those who had advised these measures would be responsible for the result.—(Hear.) The Marquis of CLANP.[CARDE thought it their duty in considering the question before theta, not to look at what good Portugal or France might reap from the measure, but what would be the benefit likely to arise from it to Great Britain. For his own part he must re. ward it in a very different manner from the Noble Duke ; it being, in his opinion, good both as a measure of British finance and as a measure of commercial policy. In @eying this he was not bringing forward any new view of the matter. Mr. Pitt, in 1797, when speaking of the Oporto Wine Coiop,ny, stated that if the grievances complained of were not remedied, they would be at liberty to seek a more beneficial win:• trade somewhere else. With respect to the alleged violation of the treaty of 1810, he thought he could satisfy the House that that argument could not affect the question. By the provisions of that treaty the treaty of Methuen was continued ; and now, because they acted as they had a right to do under the treaty of Methuen they were charged with breaking the treaty of 1810. The Noble Duke had compared the relative amount of their exports to France and the Peninsula ; but surely they were not to act on that ground alone. Were they not to consult the comfort of the people of England, and to pro cure them an article of convenience or gratification if they desired it; were their enjoymente, to be abridged because the French p rsisted in refusing English exports ? He would not appeal to the French system for the purpose of the Noble Duke—he would appeal to that system for avoidance, not imitation. Let the admirers of forced ma nufactures look to those of France, and see the result of a narrow policy. They should not think of Don Miguel in their deliberations en the present measure, but of the financial and commercial interests of England ; and he was of opinion that they would act wisely in cultivating those relations of trade with France which might lead her to direct her energies to arts productive of peace and its blessings. The Bill was then read a third time, and passed. LUNATICS BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR rose to acquaint their Lordships with the great difference of opinion that had arisen between the two Houses of Parliament concerning the Lunatics' Bill. The amendments introduced into that Bill by their Lordships had been rejected by the Commons in a lump, and as the 13i11 now stood it presented a fright ful picture of legislation. He would just lay before the Howe the consequences that would result from making it, in its present state, part and parcel of the law of the land. Suppose any of their Lordships had the misfortune to have a female relation who, from child-birth or some other ac cidental circumstance, was afflicted with temporary de rangement, say for six weeks, and that during this time she was sent to a lodging. The Bill bound the keeper of the lodging, under the penalty of a misdemeanour, to send her name and her condition to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and the Solicitor to the Commis sioners of Lunacy.—(Hear.) This was not all. There was a greater instance of thoughtlessness, so great, that how any number of persons could commit it, it was im possible to conceive. The keeper, for concealing these particulars limn the Secretary of State, and the solicitor, was liable to an indictment for a misdemeanour, even after the lady was recovered, was moving about in society among those who never dreamt that she had experienced such a calamity, —yes, even though she might have married in the interven ing time. Any meddling malicious person might indict the lodging-housekeeper ; and what would happen then ? Why, that the special pleader, and the Curt, and the Jury, and the papers, and the public, would be put in possession of all the circumstances ; and if the trial went on, the lady must be called into the witness-box, to prove the collateral issue establishing the fact of her former lunacy. She might he called, when in perfect health, to prove that she had been mad three or four years before.—(Hear.) How any mortal could advise such a clause he could not con ceive. His observations implied no disrespect to the House of Commons ; for that House could not have known the contents of the Bill. It had been sent up a second time to pass in that state, or not at all. He should be sorry if no Bill passed ; but if they could not get a better remedy than that, it would be more advisable to leave the care of lunatics, as of old, to patents and guardians. He could not see on what grounds objection had been made to the Commissioners taking an oath of secrecy. Other public officers (lid so; and it was more especially called for in a case where secrecy was the very essence of the thing. As the Bill now stocd, it contained one or two of the greatest abominations in legislation that he ever SAW, coming from one House of Parliament to another. In its present state he never could agree to it. Tie course lie would recommend to their Lordships was to have the Bill printed with the amendment~ inserted by the Commons, and the rejected amendments of that House, which would 'thee the different bearings of the matter before them at cne view. Their Lordships agreed that the Bill should be printed as recommended by the Lord Chancellor, and adjourned at a Quarter past Ten o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, SEPTEMBER 30. The SPEAKER took his seat to-day at Half-past Three o'clock. _ . _ Lord IN GESTRIE presented a petition from Mr. John Cecil, of the city of Dublin, setting forth the evils which at priscnt afflict Ireland, and praying for the appointment of a Baird of unpaid Commi,sioners, to examine and re port upon the state of that country. Aftcr a few observations from Mr. LEADE R and Mr. PLUTIIEN, the petition was ordered to lie en the table. ;iiitnate child of the 4i4ttfucti as itinwi t nto.--(" -Hear," and is Alett**ty being - a bond coutrittlid only to say bond dirtily-lad nearly stance, stlitpiol rs ago, in 1 SOl, Df Mr. iiet;:lbat'great states- o the 1114(66..tint0, stating sfa e ti on tfr. t; , • 4601 Govern- to Fraucey - istrgcriority but was depriv the' Methuen pposite thought it an advantage 'OO hogsheads of wine annually NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. 1-I.oLmas, a new writ, was ordered for the borough of Dorchester, in the room o f L ord Ashley, who bad accep ted the Chiltern Hundreds, CHURCH BUILDING RATE. Sir J. NEWPORT presented a petition from an inha bitant rote-payer of the parish of Sr. George iu the county of Dublin, complaining of the conduct of the trustees of that church, and stating, that without any previous notice he had be e n recently proceeded against for no less than 22 years' arrears of church building rate, of the existence of which he previously knew nothing. The Hon. Baronet went into a statement of the expence of this church, which cost nearly 100,0001., being five times the amount of the original estimate, and contended that the trustees should be comrelied to account for the appropriation of so large a sum of money. Mr. O'CoNNELL assured the House that this case was one of th e grosses t exac tion, and he e ntreated hi s Majesty's Government to institute an inquiry, so that if the tarts Staten! were borne our, the law officers of the Crown might be instructed to tile an injunction against the trustees, to prevent the prosecution of their claims upon the rate-payers until all the accounts were produced. Mr, CRAMPTON promised that the law officers of the Irish Government would give the subject their most atten tive consideration..—( Hear. ) The petition was hid on the table, and ordered to be printed. VESTRIES' BILL. Sir J. HOBHOUSE moved the order of the day for the House resolvi , g itself into a Committee on the Bill fur the regulation and appointment of Vestries. Mr. HUME begged to be allowed this opportunity to present a petition from the parish of St. Pancras, in sup. port of this Bill, and praying the House to piss it with out delay.—Ordered to lie upon the table. Colonel LINDSAY, previous to the Speaker's leaving the chair, begged to advert to a statement made by the Hon. Member for Middlesex (Mr. Hume) on a former night, on the presentation of a petition upon this subject. That Hon. Member, he understood, had been male t o say, that he had as well as others refused to pay the rates levied by the Select Vestry. With respect to the statement that the rates bad been levied illegally, that was not the case, the rates had been due at Christmas last, and the parties had been legally summoned for them, but the collector not wishing to put the law in force with held the warrants until lately, when they were issued, and the goods of several were seized, but the s..le of them was prevented by the assemblage of great numbers of persons. Ile (Colonel Lindsay) had applied to the collector toknow if it were true that the Hon. Member for Middlesex had refused to pay the rates, and he learnt that it was not. It had, however, gone forth that he bad refused, and looking to him as an example, others had refused to pay the rates likewise. He therefore took this occasion on the part of the Select Vestry to give the Hon. Member an opportu nity of correcting that mis-statement. He belonged to the Select Vestry cf Marylebone, but he did not solicit the appointment, he accepted the office in order that he might endeavour, if possible, to remedy some of the sub jects complained of. The Select Vestry were anxious that all future vestries should be elected by the rate-payers, and therefore trey did not in that respect oppose the pre sent Bill, introduced by the Hon. Member fur Westmin ster. In all other respects they conceived they were justi fied in opposing the measure, because they conceived it was inapplicable to the metropolitan parishes. In that lie (Colonel Lindsay) perfectly agreed with them. Mr. HUME said it was true that in the report of what he had stated on die occasion alluded to by the Hon. and Gallant Colonel diere was a little mistake. He did not say he had refused to pay the rates. He had seen the collector, who called upon him to represent the state in which the parish was, and the prospect of a breach of the peace being committed, and he in consequence wrote to the Secretary of State for the Home Department upon the subject. He certainly had stated that he concurred in the prayer of the petitioners, who stated they would not pay rates levied by an irresponsible body, and appropriated illegally. The Hon. and Gallant Member did not deny that the goods of many of the rate payers hid been distrained, and that no broker had bun found to sell them by auction. The state of rancour and dissatisfaction in that parish was at its ut most height. He strongly complained, not of individuals, but of time vestry system, and he hoped that good order and peace would be speedily restored in the parish. He Lad one of the resolutions agreed to unanimously, which declated that one and all at a public meeting would not pay a single rate. The parish of 'Marykbone was not singular in this respect, the parish of Islington was simi larly situated, and indeed there was scarcely a parish in London which was not almost in a state of civil war. Mr. HUNT wished to ask a question of theUnder-Secre tary of State for the Home Department,whether any inquiry had been made, or proceed;ngs adopted, relative to a pau per of the name of Somers, who, on a late Occasion, when brought before Mr. Walker at L imbeth-street, had been sAlt to the House of Correction to hard labour, and had died, according to the verdict of the Jury, from starvation. Mr. LAMB stated that the inquiries he had made sa tisfied his own mind, that although the individual referred to had died from starvation, it was not in consequence of the refusal of assistance by any parish officer. On the motion of Sir J. C. HOBIIOUSE, the House went into Committee on the Select Vestries Bill. Mr. PROTHEROE suggested a verbal amendment, which was acceded to. • Lord ALTHORP moved as an amendment, that in place of a simple majority, two-thirds of the parish should be had in its favour, before the introduction of this change was to be considered obligatory. Sir J. C. 110BLIOUSE stated, that it would be most difficult to gain such a majority as two-thirds in any pa rish upon almost any subject, and he therefore hoped that the amendment would not be pressed. A simple majority, he submitted, was all that should be required. He had been recommended by some to make the Bill imperative upon every parish, but thinking that impracticable, he wished every facility to be afforded to its general adoptien. Mr. J. CAMPBELL considered the Select Vestry sys tem fruitful in jobbing, and detestable in itself. Continual encroachments and complaints were produced by it, and the sooner a complete and final end was put to it the better, Lord ALTHORP said, no man could object more strongly than he did, to the disgraceful system of the close vestries. It was certainly, therefore, in his view desirable that a system much less objectionable should be adopted ; in some cases, however, it appeared that close vestries did actually work well, and where an extensive alteration in the entire parochial system was proposed, it would be well, he thought, if the approbation of a great majority of the parish were obtained previous to its in troduction. This was the principle on which his amend meat proceeded. Mr. HUME hoped the Noble Lord would not persevere in his amendment. It would he extremely difficult to get the majority of two-thirds in any parish to vote in favour of any change, so completely were the parishioners under the controul of the Select Vestry. Mr. PROTHEROE deemed the Select Vestry system so abominable and so contrary to the principles of all good government, that he would have the Bill intro duced into every parish upon a bare majority. Mr. HUNT took the same view. Lord ALTIIORP did not wish to press his amendment against the general sense of Hon. Members. Mr. ESTCOURT expressed Ids desire that the Noble Lord would persevere in his amendment. Mr. BYNG thought the most straightforward and honest way was to allow all the rate-payers to have a vote, although be certainly considered that to demand two thirds of a majority was not too much. Mr. LAMB was decidedly of opinion that his Noble Friend's amendment ought to be adopted. Lord ALTHORP was quite satisfied that there ought at least to be a decided majority of the parishes in favour of the change before it was introduced. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE explained. The Bill did not propose to alter the constitution of parishes so much as was supposed, although the original Bill did. The change would only be partial at first, but progres sive. Even when it was introduced, the former Ves try would still remain in office, at least they would only go out by thirds every succeeding year, so that it would be four years, even where the Bill was adopted, before it would come into full operation. The main object proposed by the Bill was, that each parish should have the power of choosing those who were to rate them. Mr. FERGUSON recommended the imperative adop tion of the measure. Sir C. WETHERELL objected to the Bill, as allowing persons who paid only a rate of a few shillings the same power and the same privileges as those who paid as many pcunds. It could not be slid that thit was equalizing the interests of the inhabitants of a parish. In many parisl.es it was not the practice to put into the rate the very inferior tenants, but this Bill would give 100 voters of bs. a-head each, the same power and interest as 100 persons paying as many pounds. Mm. HUNT was in favour of the Bill, but he was con vinced that good order would not be restored in any parish until Mr. Sturges Bourne's Act was wholly repealed.-- (Cr;es of '• Question.") Mr. CAMPBELL had heard it laid down by Lord Tenterden over and over again, that by the common laic of the land every rate-payer should be entitled to vote in parish affairs. Sir C. FORTIES spoke against the Bill. Sir R. V Y YVAN disapproved of the Select Vestry sys tem, but though to a certain extent an Anti•Refor►ner be should not oppose tbis Bill, which gave to the rate-payer the power of voting for the election of vestrymen. After a few words from Colonel LINDSAY, the gallery was cleared for a division. We understood that during the time the doors were closed, another amendment was made that the majority in the parish should be three-fifths, instead of two-third.. The House then divided, when there appeared— For a majority of two-thirds For that of three-fifths Majority —2 5 On our re-admission into the gallery, several clauses were put and agreed to. Sir H. VYVYAN rose to move as an amendment to one of the clauses, that no person should possess more than six votes, which was a similar number to that pro posed by Mr. S. Bourne's Act. Sir J. C. HOIHIOUSE stated that that was the great evil which was now so generally complained of. He con sidered that property would be sufficiently protected by persons hiving one vote each, and ettang►y objected ti those accumulated votes. Sir R. V YVYAN agreed to reconsider this amendment. He would withdraw it for the present, and if he saw any thing in it, would bring it forward again on the presenta tion of the report. The qualification clause was agreed to without any amendment. The CHAIRMAN was proceeding to read the other clausts seriatim, when Mr. HUME proposed the insertion of a proviso, that the deci s i ons of the vestry should not be considered valid until confirmed at a s ubsequent meeting, which was introduced accordingly. On the question that this be a public Act, Mr. MILES said, he bad been requested by a Select Vestry in Bristol to move the insertion of a clause, pro viding that nothing in this Bill should interfere with the right s of Select Vestries over charitable I equests. The lion. Gentleman made a motion to that effect i❑ compli anc' with the wishes of the holy alluded to. ....„ _ Mr. PROTHEROE opposed the introduction of such a clause, and stated that the opinions of the people of Bristol in general were favourable to the Bill as originally brought forward Its' the Hon. Baronet, the Member for Westminster. Indeed, the fact that this proviso came re• commended by a gentleman who was not regul trly con fleeted with that city, sufficiently proved that the majority of the inhabitants cr , uld be adverse to its adoption. Sir C. WETHERELL observed, that the Hon. Baronet might accede to the proposition of his Hon. Friend the Member for New Romney, if he deemed it otherwise un oitjectionable, as it would not in any degree impair the principle of the Bill. Sir J. C. HOIHIOUSE thought the Select Vestry unfit to he trusted with the distribution of the funds of charitable i , istitntions, and had reason to believe that the people of Bristol particularly desired to be included under the opera lion of the measure. He therefore could not consent to comply with the request of the lion. Member opposite. Mr. PROTHEROE adverted to the alleged misappro priation of charitable funds by the Mayoresses of Bristol, and defended those ladies from the charge, the correctness of which he begged leave to state no person could possibly substantiate who had not had access to the civic archives of the Corporation. Mr. HUNT replied, that he could fully prove the truth of the accusation ; for he had inspected those archives in the year 1812, by virtue of a warrant from the Speaker, as he had petitioned the House during that year Itelative to an election return for Bristol at the time. It clearly appeared from those documents which he had established a right to exatnine, that the Mayoresses bail applied to election purposes the monies which they ought to have ex pended in pea-soup to be administered to sixty-two lying-in women, according to the stipulations of the bequest. 'I he women were defrauded of their porridge, and a Member was returned to that House out of the lying-in pea-soup fund, and this he was prepared, if necessary, to substantiate. Sir C. WETHERELL indignantly repelled the accusa tion, and said he had no doubt that the Mayoresses would have provided the pea soup if such had been the intention of the original testator. _ _ Mr. HUNT persevered in his former statement, and in sisted that the pea-soup had not beau supplied, the funds having been perverted to el,z..tionetring by the Miyotesses to whom their distributions had been intrusted. The House resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on Monday next. GAME BILL. The House then proceeded to the Order of the Day for considering the Lords' amendments to the Game Bill. Lord ALTHORP said, that although he was sensible the amendments which had been made in tl.e other House had ❑ot improved the Bill, yet as the main principles re mained as the Bill had been sent from this House, it was most desirable that the amendments should ba agreed to. He hoped, therefore, that although some gentlemen might, like himself, differ from these amendments, yet as it was a great point gained to get rid of the anomalies in the existing liw,—he hoped they would agi - ee to them, and without delay, seeing that the Bill was intended to take effect on the Ist of November. Considering the state of the law at present, and the advantage gained by the Bill even as it now stood, and that when the principle was once adopted by the Legislature, it could not be receded from although it might be improved, be trusted the amend ments would not be rejected. Mr. Serjeant WILOi admitted the justice of the Noble Lord's remarks. At the same time he thought the House ought to be aware of the nature of some of the alterations which had been made in the Bill, and which, to his asto nishment, considering the place where they originated, in vaded the rights of property.—(Hear, hear.) By one of the amendments, proprietors of land were not only autho rized to enter upon the premises of a lessee for life, but to appoint other persons who could do the same ; and this was not all, for the occupant was deprived of the right he now possessed, and was not permitted to kill game on his own land, unless a stipulation to that effect was inserted in his lease, which, as it was not necessary under the exist ing law, would not of course be found there.—(Hear.) Mr. HUNT had disliged the Bill at first, and he did not think the amendments of the Lords had produced the slightest degree of improvement in it. He particularly objected to the clause respecting night-poaching, in which the penalties, which were severe enough at first, had been still further increased, and he should take the sense of the House on the clause. Mr. J. CAMPBELL considered, that though the Bill was a much better Bill as it formerly stood, still it was better than the old law, and was a great boon. He thought his Hon. and Learned Friend was in some degree of error respecting the clause giving proprietors and their appointees the right of entering and sporting upon the land of a lessee for life, and excluding the occupant, because, if lie paid a fine on renewal, which is usual, the occupant retained his right. He hoped that the consent of the Lords to this Bill was a presage of their intentions in re spect to another Bill, and if no more serious amendments were made in it, be should be content.—(Hear.) Mr. HUMS would submit to the House whether, after what had been stated by the Hon. and Learned Gentle man (Mr. Serjcant Wilde), the Commons of England were authorized to pass a Bill which interfered with pri vate rights of property.—(Hear.) He doubted whether it would not be better to reject the Bill altogether, and trust to another year.—(No, no.) It was nothing less than robbing persons of their rights. The Peers of Eng land ought to be the last persons to set an example of taking away private property. If they began with spo liation, and he did think this was a spoliation, let them not complain if it reached themselves. Mr. PAGET said a few words which were inaudible. Mr. HUNT felt it his duty to persist in dividing the House. A division accordingly took plice, when there appeared For the Lords' amendment Against it 3 Majority —C4 theN objectinggallery, w t e . found tbe clause respecting andlords and their appointees entering upon the lands of / their lessees. SirOt On returning t u s r n u i n G g o to E the amendments, for the sake of the a d vantage of getting Hon. Lord ALTHORP re.urged t he p r oprie t y of adopting the Bill passed. He hoped the and Lamed Gentle man would be satisfied to let the clause stand as it did, and the Bill piss into a law. Sir E. SUGDEN expressed his unwillingness to prevent the passing of the Bill. The amendments of the Lords were then agreed to without a division. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. Lord ALTHORP moved the order of the day fur the House to resolve itself into a Committee of Supply. Mr. KEITH DOUGLAS, before the Speaker left the chair, put borne questions to the Chancellor of the Ex chequer (scarcely audible in the gallery) relative to the mode of inquiry to be pursued by the Commissioners of In quiry into the state of the West India colonies. Lord ALTHORP had certainly given notice of a 'no tion upon the subject, but it was not usual to call for ex planations in such cases, until the motion was brought for ward. The object of Ministers was to inquire into the distresses, and the causes of distress prevalent in the West India colonies, and to consider what remedies could be ap plied to the relief of those distresses. It was not intended in the Committee to go into the subject of slavery. Mini sters had appointed the inquiry, for they really did not see what relief they could afford to the West India interests, consistently wit;" their ilutio; to the House. His wish was to give to gentlemen connected with the East India interest an opportunity of stating their views upon the if pos s ibl e, to a d opt some m easures ca l cu l ate d to ul m e evil s t h ey comp l a i ne d o f. sllrdelerc.te'dyand, th BURGS believed that the course resorted to by Government was merely meant to protract the case, whilst immediate relief was wanted and ought to be afforded. He wished to ask his Majesty's Ministers whether they had received any official accounts of the nature and extent of the devastations that had been occasioned by the late hur ricane in the island of Barbadoes, and whether they had taken any measures, or intended to take any measures, to relieve the suffering s of the inhabitants. Lord ALTHORP said that his Majesty's Government certainly had not received any direct information t rom the island, but that an official letter, which mentioned the hur ricane, certainly went to confirm the previous accounts that had appeared in the papers, Until official accounts wtre received from Barbadoes itself, he torrid give no answer the lion. Mem!ier. Sir C. WETHERELL put a question to Lord Althorp relative to the Bankruptcy Court Bill, the precise nature of which could not be heard in the gallery. Sir E. SUGDEN complained (as we understood him) that a copy of the Bill had been supplied to him only that evening. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL assured the Learned Member that he should be able to explain the delay he complained of. Sir C. WETHERELL said he would oppose the Bill by resorting to every expedient that was cansistent with the rules of the House. The SPEAKER then left the Chair. Mr. f.', 4 PRING RICE moved, that a sum riot. exceeding 120,0001. be [panted for the paym nt of certain salarics and allowances heretofore paid cut of the Civil List of England and Ireland, and out of the hereditary revenues or Scotland and the 44 per cent. dutits, and for the payment of whioh no provision has been made Out of the Civil List for the present year. Mr. HUME said that these charges were now under the examination of a Committee, and he was happy to say that Ministers had afforded to the Committee every means to investigate the nature of the charges. The sum was then voted without opposition. Sir J. aGmnouAnlit,Aths. said, t olugho fthath some t e im ro p s ( c rt t a o mo ncein ve a sum, smell in rept,, t() principle. It teas a vote in aid of the general naval ser vice. Ile preferred having a separate vote for the service, rather than to take the suns required out of the surplus of any odor fun.; ; for, otherwise, he should not be follow ing the principle which he himself laid down. The M miralty had issued orders to the subordinate boards to give in their accounts and estimates under the special heads of service, and not to run one service into the expences of another. Upon the service for which he now required a vote, no separate estimate had hitherto been made out. He would incidentally state, that the system of accounts at the Victualing Board was not correct, for that Board audited its own expenditure, and it drew for money without any superintending power to check or examine the drafts. By a better system of arrangement the Exchequer might be made a Beard of Audit, and every draft upon it ought to be made to express the service for which the money was drawn. The Exchequer ought to give to the Admiralty a monthly statement of the sums drawn, and a statement of tine balances left on elch vote of service. By this system no excesses could be committed without the knowledge of the Board of Admiralty. The vote he now required would be made up of the following items. First there was 6,000/. relating to outstanding contracts ; and a large amount of 74,0001. due for the machinery of a bakery, an extensive work undertaken without any estimate what• ever, and which had erns. quently proved very expensive. An expense of 4,2001. had been incurred by a failure in the work itself, for a principal wall had been so badly built that it had given way, and Sir John Rennie had been consulted, and he bad pointed out the necessity of building the wall in a stronger manner. This would make up about 20,0001., and a further sum of 7,000/. would be necessary to complete the service. He should therefore move that the sum of 27,000/. be granted to complete the works in the Royal Clarence yard at Gosport. Mr. HUME thought that 60,000/. a year might he saved if the Victualling Board would purchase cattle in the Irish markets, instead of making their purchases in London. The resolution was then agreed to. The House re sumed : report on Monday. BANKRUPTCY BILL. Time ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in moving the order of the day for the second reading of this Bill, said, that he 'elt relieved from the necessity of making a long statement, in order to show the necessity of the present measure, by the circumstance that its general provisions bad already re ceived a minute investigation before several Committees of that Howe. Without going further back, he would remind the House of the full inquiry which our bankruptcy laws had received from a Committee of that House which had sat in 1817. That Committee had examined barristers and professional men most conversant with that branch of the law, and merchants and traders beat acquainted with its practical operation ; and the result of all their evidence was, that the present system bad no tendency other than to defeat the ends of justice.—(Hear, hear.) He would par ticularly refer • to the evidence of Mr. Cullen, who fur twenty years devoted his exclusive attention to the subject, and whose evidence was above all suspicion. That gentle man stated, that it would be impossible for the human ingenuity at man to devise a machinery less ae'equate to its avowed object, one, in fact, snore conducive to fraud, and to defeat the beneficial administration of the law, than that of the various lists of Commis sioners, who had no connexion with each other, whose decisions were of no assistance to each other, and whose only business it would seem was to add to the expense, and to place obstacles in the way of a speedy determination of the cases submitted to their adjudication. Mr. Cullen proposed the easy remedy, a remedy which in principle and that was to do away with was adopted in the BM, the several independent, and as it frequently happened, contradictory lists of Commissioners, substituting for them one permanent body of Commissioners, to sit and dispose of all bankruptcy eases. Evidence to the same effect had been given by Mr. Montagu, and others acquainted with the working of our bankruptcy laws. A few facts, however, would better satisfy the House of the necessity of the pre sent measure than a thousand authorities. There was the case of Mr. Bartholomew Thomas, a brewer, which turned upon the facts, whether or not he was a bankrupt, that is, whether the petition of his creditor to the Com missioners established a valid legal debt or otherwise? Numerous actions were institued in the courts of law with a view to determine the simple question of tact, and after much delay and still more expense, the decision of the Commissioners was set aside by a court of equity, and Mr. Thomas was a ruined man.—(Hear.) After calling the attention of the House to the circumstances of Charn. bers's bankruptcy,—to various other cases of the same kind, in which, after years of vexatious delay, the whole of the respective estates had been swallowed up in legal proceed ing, the lion. and Learned Gentleman proceeded to notice the opinions of the most eminent lawyers respecting the grievous and oppressive defects of the present jurisdiction in bankruptcy. Lords Radesdale and Eldon, Mr. Charles Bell, Mr. Montagu, and Mr. Cullen, had all expressed themselves desirous of removing these defects; but no attempt had been made to remove them until the present Bill was brought in, atd that Bill was now offered to the House as a measure which erected an efficient and satis factory tribunal for the adjudication of cases in bankruptcy. 11.,2 did not feel it necessary to call the attention of Hon. Members to the provisions of the Bill, as it was before the House, and as it had been so much talked of, that few Hon. Members, perhaps, were unacquainted with the nature of its enactments. Upon one or two points of the Bill it was necessary that be should touch. The first was the augmentation of the retiring pension of the Lord Chancellor. As this Bill would deprive the Chancellor of so vas; an amount of patronage, and as it would so ma terially diminish his income, it was proposed to increase his retiring salary from 4,000/. to 6,000/. a year. The retiring pension of 4,0001. had been fixed in the time of Lord Lougl,horough, when the patronage of the Chancel lor was much greater, and when the income of the Chan cellor was much larger than they would be under this Bill. As Lord Chancellors were persons who usually ' gave up a much larger income than 6,0001. a-year on taking the seals, it had been thought—and he believed pretty generally—that in the event of this Bill passing, it would he right to increase the retiring pension of the Chancellor to the amount lie had mentioned. Now with regard to the Court which it was proposed by this Bill to establish, he was authorized to state—and he was sure time House would be please to receive the informa tion—that one of the most Learned Judges in Westminster Hall had consented to preside over it.—(Hear, hear.) There were some money clauses, which the formalities of the two Houses prevented the Lords from inserting in the Bill, but these had been printed, and if they were allowed to go into the Committee to-night pro forma, he should move the insertion of them. These, of course, regulated the salaries of the Judges, and other persons appointed by the Bill. The Chief Justice was to have 3,0001. a year ; the three other Judges were to have each 2,0001. a year ; and the six Commissioners were to have 1,5001. a year each,—making in the whole 18,000/. a year. The two chief registrars were to have 800/. a year each ; the eight other registrars were to have 600/. a year each ; the secre tary of bankrupts was to lave for himself and his clerks 2,000/. a year ; and there were a great vari e ty o f sun d r i es amounting to 1,8001. ; so that the whole am oun t o f th e expense of this machinery would be about 28,200/. a year. With regard to the official assignees, they were to be paid, not by a salary, but by a per tentage on the estate which was distributed. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman con cluded by moving that the order of the day for the second reading of the Bankruptcy Bill be now read. Sir C. WETHERELL moved, as an amendment, that the order of the day,be postponed till Tuesday next. The SPEAKER—The Hon. Gentleman will find some difficulty in doing that. An order of the day belongs ti a particular day—to a day fixed, ant it would be rather an inconsistency, therefore, to postpone an order of the day. The Hun. Gentleman con meet the motion by a direct ne gative, or when the order of the day is read ; be can wave that the debate be adjourned; but he can hardly trove Ow Postponement of the order of the day.—(A laugh.) The order of the day was then read, and on the motion that the Bill be read a second time. Sir C: WETHERELL addressed the House, contending that there was not a single statement of the Attorney- General which did not admit of a full answer. In the first place, Lord King, Lord Camden, Lord Erskine—all Whig Chancellors, and as clear-sighted as Whigs were generally supposed to be,—had never discovered all these errors, and mischiefs, and corruptions in the bankruptcy jurisdiction, which had been acted upon and approved of for a century past. " But," said the Attorney-General, " I have the authority of great men for what I propose-.. 1 have the authority of Lord Eldon." Now was the At torney-General not aware that Lord Eldon had placed upon the Journals of the House of Lords a protest, i which his Lordship plainly stated, that the preamble of this very Bill was false; inasmuch as it would not diminish ex pense, delay, or uncertainty. So neither had the Attorney- General the authority of Mr. Cullen or Mr. Montagu, for all that those gentlemen had said was, that there were defects in the bankruptcy jurisdiction, and so said he; but he de nied that any eminent lawyer had gone to the extent of approving of a new tribunal of this kind. For his own p t, -boutar h t e allowed heunfo al rtun l at t e ha c t ases the Attorneyb-General had said and others,--.- and he should be happy to agree to a statute of litnitation upon bankruptcy proceedings ; hut what had this to do with the establishment of an entirely new Court, at the eapense of 28,200/. a year to the public ? He ss'onld readily adopt any improvement in the bankruptcy juris diction ; but this Bill destroyed that principle entirely, and swept away every vestige of the existing system. With respect to the machinery of the Bill, he did not know, how it would work, nor had the House had any in formation on the subject. Every one, however, who had given a practical opinion upon the subject of administra tion of the bankrupt laws, agreed that it (night to be kept in the hands of the Lord Chancellor:; all said, do not se parate bankruptcy from the Court of Chancery. This Bill, therefore, violated the principle laid dawn by every practical and economical person. The preamble of the Bill came under the description of Mr. Pope's line— " Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies." That was Mr. Pope's description of the preamble of this Bill.—(A laugh.) It was an abortive and ridiculous mea sure; and if not abortive and ridiculous, it would be an expensive measure, which was not consistent with the economical maxims of an Administration that attended to the saving of cheese-parings and candle-ends, and made an extensive use of save-alls. The eminence of the Judges to be appointed to the new Court bad nothing to do with the question. His objection was not to the Judges, but to the whole establishment of this new forum, as entailing an un necessary and superfluous expense upon the country. Then the next consideration was, where the expenses were to come from ? The lion. and Learned Attorney-General had hinted at the Consolidated Fund, though the Noble Lord beside him had not very cordially echoed him. But he (Sir C. 'Wetherell) declared that if one shillinc, or one farthing, was to come from the Consolidated Fund, he should object, because it was a principle of tee bankruptcy system, that, like suits between parties, every case should pay its own expenses. The amount of the expenses n Lich would be saddled upon the plop,rty of bankrupts by this measure would be about 3d. in the pound ; them. ore, if one halfpenny was charged upon the Consolidated Fund, he should object, and he :oily calculated upon having the Noble Lord with him, because bankrupts' estates should be subject to the costs incidental to the due and proper administration of jus tice. With respect to the expense of the establishment, the lowest estimate he had had an opportunity of forming, during the fear hours he had been enabled to consider this Bill, was forty thousand pounds a year. The Attorney- General said " Nu;" but he had omitted one thing in his computation, which was the salaries to the retiring gentle men. Another point be wished to advert to was the re tiring pension of the Lord Chancellor, which was to be six thousand pounds a year.—(Hear, hear.) In his opinion it did not correspond with the maxims of unflinching eco nomy and retrenchment to increase this retiring pension from four to six thousand pounds. He regretted he did not see in the House the Hon. Member fur Middlesex, who took these matters under his special care. Somehow or other it happened, however, that when some of these financial questions came on the Hon. Member for Middle sex was not in his place.—(Hear.) He hoped that when this Bill was re-considered, they should have the benefit of the Araus-eyes of that Hon. Member. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then commented on the extensive pa tronage which would be thrown into the Lord Chancellor'a hands by the operation of this Bill—a result obviously at variance with the profession of the Government. (" Hear, hear," from the Opposition.) But the truth was, that no Administration since the days of S:r Robert Walpole had ever presumed to arrogate to themselves one fourth of the patronage which the Whigs now in power had ventured to assume, notwithstanding all their specious declarations to the contrary---declarations which were at once a mockery to those to whom they were addressed, anal a discredit to the parties who bad the assurance to put them forth.—(Cheers from the Opposition.) He should now move that the second reading of this Bill be adjourned to Tuesday next. Sir E. SUGDEN hoped that an early hour would be appointed for the renewal of the debate, in order that ade quate opportunity might be afforded for ample satisfactory discussion. Lord ALT HORP assented, and the debate accordingly stands over to Tuesday, on the understanding that the de bate should he resumed at an early hour on that day. The other Orders having been disposed of, the House adjourned at Half-past One o'clock. ARMY AND NAVY.—We are requested to state that the United Scrrice Journal, and Naval and Military Magazine, for October, will contain, among various other interesting Papers :-1. A Coronation with out a Brevet.-2. Letter from Captain BASIL HALL on ltlassEv's Sounding Machine.-3. Reply of Col. NikriEtt to Count ALTEN en a Passage of his History.-1. On the Actions and Merits of the French and English Cavalry.-- 5. On the Loyal►ty of Military Men.-6. Considerations on Gratuitous Military Education s and its effects upon the Royal Regiment of Artillery, by a Field Officer.-7. A Dialogue between the Prussian General GNEISENAIi and a British Officer.-9. A Plan for Providing Seamen for the British Navy without resorting to impressment.-10. Nautical Reminiscences of the late Admiral Sir Jostrie YORKE —ll. Memoir of the Services of the late General LorTus-12. Memoir of General CIIURCII.—I3. On the Importance of Steam Navigation.—l 4. Record of the 71st Regiment Highland Light Infantry, &c. &c. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—On Thurs day we surveyed the interior of this (now) splendid dramatic temple ; the decorations have been under the direction of Mr. FINLEY (the gentleman who managed all the orna mental department of the late Brunswick theatre.) The prevailing colours of the theatre are rose colour and buff; the relief ornaments are of burnished gold. The ceiling is divided into hexagonal compartments, forming eight beau tiful pannels of corresponding colours with the fronts of the boxes, relieved with burnished gold mouldings, en riched by elaborate ornaments representing foliage, fruit, tic. Amid many very admirable devices are antique dra matic masks surrounded by wreaths of gold. The appear ance of the house is both gorgeous and classical. TILE OLYMPIC THEATRE.—The prevailing colour in the friezes is white, which is, perhaps, better adapted than any other for uniting brilliancy and chaste ness of effect. In the lower circle this is bordered with belts of rich dull gold and bright red. The pannels, se parated from each other by massy gold mouldings, are filled with very pretty paintings after designs or engrav ings by BARTOLOZZI, representing the sport! of Cupids. In the second circle red lozenges, bearing classic designs, are separated by small winged figure►, vases, at►d light ara besque tracery in the gayest velours; below which are festoons of variegated flowers. Slender gilt pillars sup port the projections. The ceiling represents a pink goss,- mer drapery floating Pound the lustre, from which descend garlands of flowers, supported by a circle of Cupids. The interior of the boxes is fitted up with dark crimson, and the private boxes have copious draperies of the tame colour. There is a new drop-scene of considerable merit, repre senting a palace, river, and mountain scenery. A new green curtain has also been introduced, which excited the approbation of all who saw it, in consequence of its fill ing from and being drawn up to the sides of the stage in stead of rolling down. MR. PALILDING.--Few novelists of the present day have so suddenly started into popularity 0 this writer, who has long been a great favourite in the . _ United States. " The Dutchman's Fire-side," indeed, bids lair to attain a high rank among modern weiks,o,f.fah.,:teloant_ " Many American writers," says the .Examine , ,_ 13 ,,_ .... „ .1 etupted to depict the appearance of the c ountry ucanoantfpitt l gia n :libgs ' e`po:cvaoll work. i rounds ,tate, when it was but employed for the .h b d to murtra s_ 1 .-oure . i .. y of the Indians; and others have the true Indian character; Clone ft : s p have ict ur e s s succeeded e ll e d u e d d , better koni .s they are now, Lh d icf scenery before b b, o t e h t fa h o e rree a t u l i i it t e a k:i n o e db r s c a p e s of the many of his Indian portraits, and ' i g liestbe n ty ge ; neral notion of' the Indian character, are 'bore all , we think highly discriminative and ingenious." ~-