The Sun. — London, England, 1834-02-27 00:00:00

V FIRES. Wmcfasrift. About eight o'clock on Wednesday evening a fire broke out at Upper Cranbourn Farm, be tween Winchester and Whitcburch, occupied by Mr. Saunders, jun. It commenced in a load of straw, which had been drawn into an open space between the wheat and barley barns, so that the straw, when fired, spread the conflagration on each side, and rapidly consumed the barns, stables, cart-houses, &c. The house (owing to ite having a tiled roof) and a small granary, were the only build ings saved. The corn (about 300 quarters of barley, and between SOO and 400 sacks of wheat, mostly thrashed out and placed in the barns) was in great part pre served, though very materially damaged by the smoke penetrating the heaps. An oat rick, containing about sixty quarters, was also consumed. The horses were let out of the stables immediately the fire was discovered, and only two pigs, out of a great number on the premises, were consumed. It is calculated that not less than 1,000 per sons were collected before ten o'clock, nearly all of whom rendered assistance in the most praiseworthy manner ; a few, however, assembled at a short distance, smoking their pipes and amusing themselves with the utmost indiffer ence, but manifesting their recklessness and malignity by cheers and other tokens when any part of the buildings fell in, or at the probability of any increased disaster. Mr. Beckett, of this city, whose promptitude on several occa sions has always been of the utmost importance, was on the spot as speedily as possible, and before five o'clock on Thursday morning, had apprehended three persons on sus • picion, and lodged them in the county gaol, where they have been examined. The facts which have been elicited lead toy confident belief that the perpetrators will not long escape the most revere punishment.—Rampshire Courier. The Sunderland Herald of Friday states—" Just as we were going to press this morning, about three o'clock, we were alarmed by the rattles of the watchmen, the cries of Fire,' and the rapid ringing of the fire-bells. On inquiry, we found that the premises occupied by Mr. Douglas Lonie and others, situated between Vine-street and Burleigh-street, and fronting the High-street, were all on fire. On our arrival at the spot, the devouring element was raging with unabated fury. The several engines were ep. edily in attendance; and we cannot too highly eulogize the exertions made by the inhabitants to assist in sub duing the fire, by supplying the engines with water from the liver. We must here express our regret that the water. pipes in the street are not available at nighttime; had this been otherwise, the devastation would not have been so dreadful, nor the destruction of property so fearful. The officers and soldiers of the Bth reeiment, stationed at the barracks, rendered very efficient service in keeping off the pressure of the amid, and thereby facilitating the pro cess of conveying water to the engines. On application, we presume, to the manager of the water-works, the pipes were ultimately supplied, and the flames were then rapidly extinguished. The apartments occupied as the Jew's Synagogue have been destroyed. We are happy to state that the spirits contained in the cellar occupied by R. C. Nesbitt were removed before the fire communicated to that part of the premises. The pro perty belongs to Mr. John Renner, and is, we are informed, insured. We regret to state that Mrs. Smith, occupying apartments in the premises, in attempting to make her escape from a window, had the misfortune to break both her lugs. This, we are informed, is the only instance of personal injury having been sustained by this dreadful fire. It is worthy of notice, that the above were the pre mises once occupied by the famed Colonel Lilburn, and in which Oliver Cromwell slept when he visited Sunderland." Wednesday evening, between seven and nine, a fire broke out at Kessingland, on the premises of the Rev. D. G. Norris, vicar of that parish. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary.—Bury Herald. A dreadful fire broke out in the Bridge-hall paper-mills, near Bury, last week, which destroyed about 5,0001. worth of property.—Leeds Intelligencer. A dinner was given by Lord Erroll, at the Clarendon, in honour of the Queen's Birthday, on Mon day., Feb. 24, to the following Noblemen and Gentlemen : .The. Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Conyng. Ism, the Marquis of Tweedale, the Earl of Albemarle, the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Uxbridge. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord Saltoun, Hon. Captain Hay, Hon. Sir Charles Paget, Hon. Berkeley Paget, Sir George Sey mour, Sir J. Whatley, Sir John Conroy, Colonel Wemyss, Colonel Bowater, Captain Pechell, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Wombell. The appearance of the west end on Tuesday was most exhilarating, indicating as it did that, if not all the world, nearly all the world wag in town, and that the annual reign of fashion and gaiety had begun. Many leading families, however, including the Londonderrys, #3uccleuchs, Harewoods, Aberdeens, and Mansfields, will tint visit the metropolis until after Easter. CIIICHESTER.-011 Thursday morning, at a quarter before two o'clock, a slight shock of an earth quake was again felt here; it was accompanied by a rumbling noise ending in explosion. Many persons sen sibly felt the shock, which was confined to a smaller extent than either of the previous one., this being the fourth ex perienced from the 13th September last. —Sussex Paper. LITERARY UNION.—This club, according t 6 a vote of a majority of the members, is to be newly modelled and newly named, but Mr. Thomas Campbell is still to be continued President. On Saturday next the new club is expected to be formed, and when complete is net to consist of more than 600 member.. A committee bas been formed, consisting of 30, to select such ex-mem bers et the old club as they shall think fit as founders of the new establishment. This schism among the parties has given rise to much discontent, for after the committee make their choice of the founders, the remaining members of the old club, if they think fit, to be proposed, must undergo the ordeal of a ballot, and pay an entrance fee, should they be elected members of this scion of the old institution. The old members not included in the selec tion of the committee will consider themselves not only awkwardly situated, but hardly used, after having paid 15 guineas entrance-money when elected members of the Li terary Union, if they should not be elected into the new club, which will hold its sittings in the same premises now occupied by the Literary Union. The task of the committee will be rather invidious, and certainly not very enviable, considering all the circumstances of the case. By the last advices from Paris the premium on gold is 8i per mille, which, at the English Mint price of Si. 17s. 101 d. the ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 36. and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 30, it follows that gold is 6-25 per cent. dearer at Paris than in London. Died, at New Orleans, on the 18th of De cember last, Edward Knight, Esq., formerly of London, and recently of New York. Mr. Knight was the son of Riward Knight, the celebrated English comedian, s ea came to this country about seven years ago, with his lady, formerly Miss Povey, whose excellence as a vocalist was well known to our readers. Mr. Knight was an ac complished musician, a good artist, and a man of exten sive information and acquirements. During his residence in this country he gained many friends, by whom his early death will be lamented. Mr. Knight was well known in this city for his musical talents, as well as his retiring and amiable disposition, and his loss will long be severely felt by many of his friends.—New York Atlas. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—On Tuesday se'nnight, as one of the large wedding processions, which are frequently seen in the streets of this town, was wend ing its way to church, a pensiener, named James Evans,' who fo med one of the party, dropped down, near the house of Mr. Hughes, hatter, and instantly expired. TWs awful event threw a gloom over the party, and the gaiety which exhilarated the buoyant group, a few moments before was succeeded by a feeling of consternation. An jnquest was held in the afternoon at the Town Hall, before A, eon Timmins, E when the facts above stated were profelir and a verdict returned — " That the deceased died a oatuttl death, and by the visitation of God."—Car marthen Jozrnal. HORRID MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROB sintY.—lnformation was conveyed at an early hour this morning to the Metropolitan Police of the horrid murder about six o'clock last night of Mr. John Richardson, farmer, of Bletchingly, surrey, between Epsom and Ban stead, upon his return from Epsom market. He was shot through the lungs, and death must have been almost in stantaneous. The inhuman wretch, or wretches, for two are supposed to have been concerned, afterwards rifled his pockets, and took from his person between 30/. and 40/. in cash and Bank of England notes. It is strongly be lieved this foul murder was committed by two men who we re seen immediately afterwards coming from the spot, and who are described as being, one about five feet ten inches high, and the other half a head shorter. One had on a dark jacket or frock, and the other a lighter one. They are supposed to be the same men who were seen about two hours prev i ously on Walton Heath : the tall one is thin, and the other had on a light smockfrock, and a bundle under his arm ; be is a poet erful-looking man, although thin. The other is remarkably ill-featured. A reward of 100/. has been offered for the apprehension and conviction of the murderers. All information on the subject is directed to be given to Menra, Everest and Berthas, of Epsom, Surrey. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1834. We congratulate the country on the successful progress of the important measures for the re formation of the corrupt constituencies who have bartered their birth rights for a mess of porridge. The Warwick Bill for the annexation of Leamington to Warwick, was read a second time without a division ; the Tories decently confining themselves to a simple protest against it, and a barefaced denial of the corruption so distinctly proved. Mr. HALCOMB— by common consent of all parties, even his own, the greatest bore in Parliament—appears to be the Solicitor-General of the rotten boroughs but the " Honourable Member" for Dover invariably assists the cause he endeavours to injure. The Liverpool Freemen Disfran chisement Bill was also read a second time by a triumphant majority-190 to 38; and such a decided expression of the sense and deter mination of the reformed House of Commons must insure the success of the measure in the House of Lords. The conduct of Sir ROBERT PEEL was the subject of much obser• vation. The right honourable member was "in and out" of the house the whole evening, and " slipped" the division on the Liverpool bill. We believe the fact to be that Sir ROBERT PEEL could not make a " turn" on this occa sion, and probably could not screw up his courage to vote against his customary political party. Sir R. PEEL had heretofore supported Mr. BENETT'S bill, and after the royal assen t to the English Reform Act, viz., on the 13th of July, 1832, recommended Mr. BENETT then to postpone the Bill on account of the late pe riod of the session, and said he felt the less dif ficulty in advising its postponement, " as I was a supporter of the Bill myseY."—(Mirror of Parliament. Debates, July, 1832.) The Right Hon. Baronet will still, however, have the op portunity of delivering his sentiments, and recording his votes on the third reading, and much curiosity, exists to know how he will redeem his consistency, and at the same time please his party. But the Li verpool Bill is now safe on its own merits and independent support. Mr. C. P. THOMSON, Mr. ELLICE, Mr. SPRING RICE, Mr. C. WooD, colonel GREY, Lord J. RUSSELL, Mr. H. T. STANLEY, the LORD ADVOCATE. all members and immediate friends of the Go vernment, voted for the bill. Lord DUNCAN NON also paired off in its favour. The numbers present, attracted solely by the importance of the two Bills, speak well for the Reformed House. The condign punishment of these venal and despicable electors will operate not only as a punishment of the guilty, but prevent the imi tation of their political crimes. It was not to be endured that the sound constituency of the second commercial town in the world should be swamped in the corruption of its mis-called " Freemen." It has very recently been rumoured of late that Government intended to increase the duty on spirits. We do not know whether the pre sentation of the following accounts by Mr. S. RICE has any reference to the subject. Mr. RICE also presented a similar account of the several articles charged with the duties of Ex cise. Perhaps the whole has reference to a com mutation or revision of our present very unequal, and, in many respects, very oppressive system Reform in Spain, we are afraid, is making but slow advances. There is evidently a hang ing back—a slowness and irresolution on the part of the Minister, which are incompatible with the redress of wrongs, and the renovation of a decayed and corrupt system of govern ment. After many promises and long expec tation, no day is yet fixed for the meeting of the Cortes, little or nothing is done to esta blish public credit, and the amnesty, or rather the amnesties, granted, lose half their effect by the niggardly and reluctant way in which they are doled out. From the last accounts, the Carlists are taking advantage of such indecision, and assembling forces and braving the consti tuted authorities in a way which leads to serious apprehension. A little more indecision, or any neglect in the payment of the troops, may give a complete change to the whole state of affairs. The clergy and apostolical party lack neither money nor will, and the constitutionalists may depend upon it the army will fight only for those that pay them. Their first object therefore ought to have been to assemble the Cortes—in order to gain their sanction not only to the change in the succession, but to some financial measure s which might in some degree re-establish the credit of this bankrupt state. Nothing short of this will obtain for them either the hearty sup port of the liberal party or the fear of the other. Would they profit by example they have only to look across the Pyrenees and see what France gained by decision. In three days the people of Paris decided the fate of the French monarchy. Had they delayed their rising for three weeks, a powerful army would have sur rounded the capital, and kept CHARLES X. on his throne. A similar delay here may bring Don CARLOS to Madrid. He anti his party have not been idle since the death of the KING. The Government will find this to their cost by numerous risings as the season advances, and by plots and defections partly excited by money, and partly by the timid, wavering, and discouraging policy of the Minister. We are afraid, however, that all advice will be lost on him and his colleagues. The liberal party par ticularly, whenever it has got into power in Spain, have acted with all the sluggishness and blind obstinacy of the animals with which the country abounds. When FERDINAND returned at the close of the war, they would not advance their pace one jot, and he was allowed quietly to re sume all the absurd prerogatives and the uncon- trolled despotism of the ancient monarchy. Ihe same delay, the same indecision and apathy, mixed up with a little folly, formed the bane of the Constitutional cause in 1822, and decided the Allied Sovereigns on sending a French army into Spain. It is painful to think, that with such advantages, now when France and England will allow no foreign inter ference, they should be following a course which will prolong a civil war, and possibly delay, though it cannot finally prevent, the regeneration of the country. These fears may be unfounded, but no one who knows the de termination of the Apostolicals, their wealth, and their influence over the country people, can believe for a moment that they will give in without a violent struggle. The Paris Papers of Tuesday have been re ceived. The Government introduced a law into the Chamber of Deputies, with a view to suppress illegal associations. This will be found more easy in theory than practice. The news from Spain is not satisfactory. The day for assembling the Cortes had not been decided on so late as the 17th inst. The plague has broken out in Jerusalem. Paris was tranquil, and so ... • was Lyons. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARis, FEL 25. Five per Cents., 105 f. 65c. 75c. Three per Cents., 76f. sc. Bank Actions, 1,780 f Rente de Naples, 921. sc. Roman Five per Cents., 92M. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents.; 37k. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., P 94. Royal Spanish Loan, 704. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 61. Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 98%. Haytian Loan, 285 E EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, 25f. 25c. Three months, paper, 25f. 12%c. ; money, 20f. 10c. —Cours Authentigue. Brussels papers of yesterday's date have been received. Their contents relate principally to th e late affair of M. HANNO. Three thousand troops were ordered to proceed towards Luxem burg, and other preparations were being made, but we do not think that hostilities will ensue. The Queen of the FRENCH and the Prin cesses were to leave Brussels for Paris to-morrow. News has been received from Portugal of ra ther a gloomy character. We refer to our city article for the particulars. Don PEDRO seems to sink in the estimation of the Portuguese in proportion as he acquires power. This is a bad omen for the cause of freedom. German Papers of the 21st inst., contain some further remarks respecting the Poles in Switzer land and the wish of Russia that they should be compelled to quit that territory. It appears that the mildness of the season has extended to Odessa, the harbour of which was open on the 20th of January, by the ice breaking up. The fAlowing are some extracts : FRONTIERS OF POLAND, FEB. 6.—We learn from Warsaw that the tribunals have within these few days pronounced judgment upon the promoters of the revolution of 1829, and the persons arrested at that period. Peter Wyzoski, one of them, was condemned to death, but an appeal to the Emperor remains open to him, and it is believed that the punishment will be commuted. When Wyzoski was called upon to speak in his defence, his subordinates being present, he contented him self with maintaining that those who acted under him only did theirduty by obeying the rules of discipline, and declared that he alone was guilty, and that he was ready to terminate his long suf ferings by the fate which he knew inevitably awaited him. We have not yet learned what punishment will be inflicted on the others. Public opinion at Warsaw still appears to be unsettled, as well as in the other towns of Poland, nor does there seem to be any tendency towards cordiality between the inhabitants and the Russians. The taxes are very oppressive. The citizens of Warsaw have also been compelled to furnish large sums for the fortification of the town. Formerly the officers of the corps that formed the garrison were rich, and spent a great deal of money in the city; but now, though the gar rison is composed of thirteen regiments of infantry and four of cavalry, amounting together to 15,000 men, the offi cers are all without private fortune, and their pay is so ex tremely scanty that they can scarcely procure the necessaries of life, which are very dear, consequently their presence does not give any encouragement to industry or commerce. BERLIN, FEB. 19.—0 f the loan contracted in the year 1822 with the house of Rothschild, in London, 65,0001. sterling are to be repaid on the Ist of July this year. The Directors of the Society of Maritime Commerce intend, however, by notice of the house given them, to reduce at at that time the sum of 500,0001. sterling in the bonds of that loan ; these will be decided by drawing lots on the 28th of this month, and the numbers drawn will be published. Of the still existing bonds, amounting to 1,600,000/. there will then re main 1,100,0001. which will remain to be reduced in future in a similar manner.—Prussian State Gazette, Feb. 20. We beg to direct public attention to the report of a meeting on the tea trade in another part of The Sun. The resolutions come to will be found in our advertising columns. By the Columbine, M. W., from Mexico, we have accounts from Tampico to the 9th, and from Havannah, to the 28th ult. The ship Mexico sailed from Tampico for New Orleans in April last. The crew mutinied, and killed the captain and all the passengers. Among the latter was the eminent merchant, Mr. MAN NING, Of the house Of MANNING and MAR SHALL. The crew afterwards took the ship to Cape Antonia, where they landed the specie, which was very considerable in amount, and scuttled the vessel. The Kentish Gazette says, "We hear that the Rev. Mr. GLEIG, of Ash, has been appointed Chaplain to Greenwich Hospital !" This, of course, is a Government appointment, and we are exceedingly desirous to know what claim a notoriously high Tory churchman has to it. Surely, Ministers should think of their friends before their enemies ! Some late appointments, however, equally inconsistent with the present one, lead us to conclude, that the only way a hungry expectant, whether lay or clerical, can hope to obtain a loaf or a fish from Ministers, is by ranking himself among their bitterest oppo nents, and bullying them into submissiveness. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Fairy Queen has ;rived at Liverpool from the Mauri. tius ; sailed on the 14th December, and from St. Helena on the 16th January. When she left the Mauritius, everything was tranquil; but there prevailed a considerable gloom and dis. content through the greater part of the island, and matters were far from being satisfactory between the government and the inhabitants. By the Intrepid, in thirty days, from Demerara, files of the Bengal Gazette and the Guinea Chronicle to the 13th have been received. Everything was quiet, both there and in Jamaica. INIF'ERIALPARLIAMENT THIS DAY, THURSDAY, FEB. 27. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SrEmtaa took the chair at a quarter-past twelve. Mr. BRINES, the new member for Leeds, took the oaths and his seat. Mr. JAMES OSWALD presented a petition from the city of Glasgow, the object of which we could not learn, from the noise in the body of the house. Mr. BETHELL brought up the report of the committee on the Sculcoates Small Tenements Bill, stating that the amendments hdd been agreed to, and the bill was read a second time. Lord SANDON brought up the report of the commit tee on the amendments to the Liverpool Small Tenements Bill. The amendments were ordered to be engrossed, and the bill was read a second time. Lord JOHN RUSSELL presented a petition from the protestant dissenters of Ashburnham, Devonshire, praying for the removal of the disabilities under which they laboured. Mr. HALL DARE presented petitions from Glanbury, Essex, signed by the occupiers of 16,000 acres of land, t praying that the petition, with c o a r n similar p might ray e n r, o tbe from th e hundred repealed. Rochford, county of Essex. Another petition from the hundred of Denby, in the same county, signed by the occupiers of 9,815 acres of land. Another petition, with a similar prayer, from the owners and occupiers of land in the parish of Asheldean, in the same county. The p petitioners eop s f r t a et t sh e s o d i os en t , ht and nx t de s they ,v lhi prayed c ab h ot that o r r e et ds pressed eh u de n dh moste o r ns t e h e greatest heavilyw ou re peal o n agricultural industry. They also prayed that the malt tax might be repealed, and suggested, that if the finances of the country required any substitute, that there should be a tax laid upon property. The hon. member then presented another petition from the landowners of the parish of Granwell, in the same county with a similar prayer. The lion. member said, that after the expression of that house regarding the dis tressed state of the agricultural interests, it would be un necessary for him to occupy the time of the house, but he could not present these petitions without expressing a confident hope that after the result of the motion brought forward by the noble lord, the member for Buckingham, on Friday night last, on the subject of agricultural dis tress, his Majesty's Ministers would see the necessity of making some alteration in the financial scheme, announced to that house a few nights since, by the noble lord the Chancellor of the Exchequer—an alteration not more necessary than just towards those in tenets which were labouring under depression. The Marquis of CHANDOS said, he entirely con curred in the prayer of these petitions. He hoped that_ the important motion which was to come on that night would meet with the support of the house. He did not think that the government would resist a motion to in quire into that oppressive tax the malt tax.—(Hear, hear.) He understood that the motion was for a com mittee of the whole house to inquire whether this tax could not be partially or totally repealed ; and he thought this was a motion which the house, with any regard to the interests of the country, and to their own character for consistency, could not resist. Mr. D. W. HARVEY said, that the petitions prayed two flings, and protested against one; they prayed for the repeal of the malt duty, and protested against the agitation of the repeal of the corn laws; and what, in his opinion, was every rational prayer, they prayed for a property tax. In this respect he trusted that they would not be regarded as supporting this measure from factious views. While they prayed for the repeal of the malt tax, which would place the revenue of the country in a deficiency, they suggested a mode by which that deficiency was to be supplied. This was a very important point for consideration. He was not aware that all the petitions contained this prayer for a property tax, but same of them contained that prayer—(Mr. Hall Dare: "For the substitution of a property tax, if necessary"). He (Mr. Harvey) took it for granted that no one in Essex wished unnecessarily to incur a new tax.—(A laugh.) He was well aware that that portion of his Majesty's subjects had too much good sense to entertain such a project. Ha would impress upon the house that these petitions advocated the repeal of a tax which would create a deficiency of 4,000,0001., when his Majesty's government announced that they had only 1,200,0001. to deal with. He would impress this upon them, that they might be prepared to recognise a property tax. If he had had the good fortune to have been in the house sufficiently early to present a petition, he would bave had an opportunity of stating that a consider able number of the farmers of the county of Essex bad intrusted him with a petition upon the same subject as the petitions that had been presented; and their reasons for doing so—for he (Mr. H.) was not a party connected with the landed interests —was, that on a recent occasion out of the ten members from the county of Essex only one of them had voted for an inquiry into the pension list. They found the members from that county most disinte restedly pressing for a repeal of the malt tax, with a nega tive feeling towards the house tax, whilst for the continua tion of pensions they were eager and uniform advocates. Sir JOHN TYRRELL said he was one of those who opposed the motion of the hon. member for Colchester upon the subject of the pension list. He held in his hand a petition upon the subject of agricultural distress, signed by a large number of the constituents of the member for Colchester, and he would only make one remark upon this subject, which was worthy the attention of the house; these petitioners did not point out the pension list as a particular object of reduction. After the motion the other night for an inquiry into the pension list, he would give the hon. member fair warning that whenever the question came before the House, he (Sir J. T.) would be anxious to draw down upon himself all the indignation and unpopularity that would attach to a vote in support of the prerogatives of the Crown. His reason for not sup. porting the hon. member for Colchester was, because he felt that when hon. members now on the treasury bench sat on that (the opposition side) of the house, they had taken a very different course with respect to the pension list, and be (Sir J. T.) was anxious to see them dragged by their own friends through the mire, as had happened on a late occasion. He would only add that when the question came before the house he would not make any sacrifice under the head of popularity, but would, as he had before stated, maintain all the just prerogatives of the crown. Mr. HALL DARE would not follow the example of hon. members in alluding to topics which were not regu larly before the house. When hon. gentlemen spoke of abrogating a tax which was so productive to the revenue as the malt tax, were they prepared to look the alternative on the face?—(Hear, hear.) During the last session, he (Mr. H. Dare) stated that he was ready to adopt some substitute for that tax. He would not take up the time of the house, as so many petitions were about to be pre sented, further than by stating that he would vote for the repeal of the malt tax, and likewise for such provision in its stead as the exigencies of the revenue may demand. Mr. ROBINSON could not refrain from remarking nu downe p s o m then tor repeal p etat inconsistencysuheohus house, and of h at o an n xd o u a r d a se l t l l gentlemenhonourable ! alt x coming t o yielded over four millions to the Exchequ er, without con sidering the condition that governm ent would be p laced in their a ri h - by such a large reduction of their resources. There were u t)ve , t r h n e m d e i s n i t , atsosiorneapteealreileeeerttiaoi reflection w dps e u l t l oint consider g what substitute w ou ld to. Either the government should carry on the offal's oftmbae taxes, : be i Y i so a 'o d p.a e rni me s o d n es nil in t ie l bg i e e d‘rl s s-e u omu p tal p odn o sition of those demands being acced e d o a,etw, iqh f pl eoeup t a te e ( le,,hisdie c s}:..li o .yvv u ,ey n lai; t Nnip r da y r.oone,tnvy w shs e i ut t t tarri h hxiee o ees without people. operatedaermt? tepoesirneoe.wyf t axation,,et hroTi were aneuonr c oured o tino m tus rivlmsyeel visitedyr u s e,tc t i a ual tltinilahoebesrdngetuheseaeoullainsOl voyll,ir,hllitdisauenadabod..sef rtphaoetses.eps possessed ey others e i were e obllyi ht g b t sac O worie r i el remission nvT a o n htt d eeb epot l lefohoit.odapauxdi tonight house etcouldotouf oldr classes, coanihole,rtie a tere n e: ernidreadcyl endure ie l ro l :dee e f members to give . up a part of that abundant wealth they theHe d He (Dl lc; Robinson)t best mode of commutation. He called on the wealthy not to evade their duty in lightening taxes on the people, and bearing them themselves. It was their interest to do so, for their wealth would be rendered more secure, and comforts be better diffused through the people. Lord JOHN RUSSELL considered that the adoption of a property tax previous to the repeal of so many other taxes, would he the most just as well as the safest course for the house to pursue. Mr. A. BARING alluded to Mr. Harvey's observations on the pension list. He (Mr. Baring) had been in the house now near 30 years ; the uniform tenor of his con duct during that period was a sufficient testimony that if he considered the inquiry into the pension list cornpatib:e with the implied contract between the state and those who enjoyed pensions, he would have voted for Mr. Harvey's motion. Mr. BOWES presented a petition from dissenters, praying for a repeal of such laws as they considered to he grievances. Mr. Bowes dissented from one part of the petition, in which the connexion between church and state was deprecated. Mr. LEITH HAY presented petitions from Aberdeen Patr on f' and another place in Scotland, against church Tenements Bill. of A w l h r. ie H h U w T e T nn p u r id ese n tt t ed he a ar p , et a it g i a o i n ns f t ro t r r ie titles ' ed that the Pe An HON. MEMBER. was surprised when the should have been deferred till that moment, witted. report of the committee on the bill had been n i! ,_ an d Mr. PRYME bore testimony to the autbe t e l . C: i ' o Y n. respectability of the signatures attached to the P.: ~i ty o f Mr. EWING presented a p e tition from tb 1 , ed' to call Glasgow against church patronage. He begg .t. _. that oi t ci l ae i w e ltlnietdi p oo e tn : se i t : ry i rs o v n a — tio the attention of the House to the numerous pet! ; n earing [wing) had th i n e t had been lately presented upon this subject,--.ane,„oo, 180,000 signatures, another from Leeds with Di' v presents and the one which he was now about tor The have been signed by 42,000 inhabitants of the city of Glasgow' .. 0 greatest cat e had been taken with respect to the sigoi in u ... : aSculcos DMus proof of this, they got up in any part of the kingdom' . respectable, intelligent, and influential meeting coauldmTnheet ; oleo of the church establishment, its patronage had cised to the injury of the interests of the people , an a complained,advertisementl honouri had ad ecouldmt hian t assureant tcaneokdne whicht from trthah ereye house, aoooa occasion, treshteaia publici place,not p hdn br P :. e t tl 'e noe ee e.in'en(tdx4soeniiiiii. , its the act of 1712, passed in the reign of Q ueen ( Anne, which bad been violated to the injury ° the rights h treaty of of the public, and contrary to t e Union. He 0 ., , (Mr. E.) hoped that his Majesty's gaye r referred to the act of 164 9, aa 1 went would accede t o th e comm i ttee move d f o r by his b oo * friend, for an i nqu i ry i nto the state of churc h patronag e '4 in Scotland. Knowing as he did the sentiments and feel ings of the peopl e upon this question, he was satisfied that 1 after parliamentary reform, th e h ouse wou ld accede to t he prayer of the petitioner s and grant a reform in the systee l '1 of church patrdnage in Scotland. The bon. gentian!' then presented' a petition with a similar prayer from the '.; Presbytery of Glasgow. Mr. SINCLAIR would not let that opportunity pee* i il without saying a few words. He rose more for the put . .. . I pose of expressing the encouragement he felt from the 1 presentation of the petition, than with any view to sup port its prayer. A petition so numerously and respectably. signed, and emanating front the city of Glasgow, which :„ , was superior almost to any other in i ntelli g ence and in.. 1, dependence, required no support from him. There was i no question on which the people of Scotland felt a de e p er t interest, and to which they were more opposed in consequence I of unpopular ministers having been inducte d into nutni 't parishes. In order to show the manner in which this ey 9 7 t, tem of patronage affected the church of Scotland , t . e ~ hon. member referred to several unpopular anpointnleme which had taken place, and in consequence of no redrebet now od fel piva etarrroerdniyigjeyed. the against T hßeis hb i t t o, .. p. o T inf h eE e :b s e y e t s re t re: then en w nd having been obtained, those who were formerly Ine e t strenuous in support of the church establishment were I Scotland ; he would also show how it worked in Enr land, and he would read a few words from a charge lately i what the Right Reverend Prelate said relative to the lavr ' from the charge, in which the Right Rev. Prelate stated , l' that he once had occasion to consult a high law authoritYs i respecting a person who bad been presented to a living Wb ° , was extremely deaf, and unable to move without aa"' t sistance, yet he was of sound mind, and abl e to read the service. The learned gentleman whom he consulted, said that notwithstanding his infirmities , ", e i astrheenayodtwaPnoecu Ind peculiar r ea t r o f: should be admitted. Another instance occurred in extract a very aged clergyman had been presented to a lotie f t although he was unable to perform any of its dutie s e ._. ciently, but the lawyer told him be could not refused. A third instance was that of a p arishin le :which there was a large town with 400 fame to which a superannuated clergyman had been appoiote who was totally unable to perform the spiritual domes, and on a remonstrance being addressed to the Bishop; the Diocese, the Rector was permitted to retire with ° , 3 full salary, leaving his house and flock to retie care selected curate. In these cases the individuals bad reen ae l l s e r _ . for their unfitness, not fcr their fitness. The hoTevanew_ her concluded by expressing a hope that the grt . ce''' eddy re" complained of by the petitioners would be "Pe dress Med. f r. OSWALD most cordially supported the.P r r al re e rth°B the petition, as far as it was calculated to A melia conditr. io DlLLON concurred with the hon. me mber lib spoke last but one, as to the strong feeling that had be% Mli ° expressed in Scotland upon this subject, but be thougi; the removal of church patronage would not put an en d ot all the grievances of which the Dissenters comPl a ,:t; Mr. CUTLAR FERGUSSON, thou g h though it might to many of them. No doubt h be v: ea; e : : : ::: pt irce .a i entertained it was injurious to the cause of religion. establishments either in England or Scotland , pared to go the length of breaking down all to his support to the general statement, that there ought be a change in the law on the subject of church patron.sfeei: He thought that a measure ought to be introduced w b e , would give parishioners not only a substantial but a P r suc h a vailing voice ' in the election of their clergyman' declined measure he would most heartily support ; but he I, rc.- heiug i party to the destruction of the established church would give in Scotland. The petition was then ordered to lie on the table. toe' Lord MILTON presented a petition from Northileito°ble shire, praying for the repeal of the malt tax. T,lse noble lord stated that he rose to do so with considerable r --1 f because he felt that lie was compelled, in cousequeli°o the motion of the hon. member for Lincolnshire, bit consequence of the course that had been pursued 1 1 , 00 ,•' majesty's government, to withdraw his support frolg t as he intended to do this evening. Hs regretted fee lin gf compelled to do so, but he felt it to be his duty to Ile such a course, seeing no prospect whateier of any re being affCirLAYded b pre y hsen t is Maj ed aestyetimt's ioninifrom the churchytwsters. y dens and overseers of the hamlet of Mile En d Old ' for the abolition of the house and window taxes. . p ar.. petitioners contended that those taxes could be well ,73:0 without the imposition of any new burdens. --(r'fe-tbe He begged to assure the house that the opision ° whole of the metropolitan districts was, that dog! tries were extremely unjust, because they were uneclua li° - b operation, and that that feeling, so far from subsiding, a in fact been all along on Mr.the i presented a petition from a f gregation of di s senters in Bridgecroft, the c°unt li; Lancaster, complaining of the grievances u nder 'l t o f church te ras, the want of registration they laboured, particularly in regard to the parn en niar , ridges, and deaths, and their exclusion from the lo vers de , The hon. member, in supporting the petition, said sr, served the serious consideration of the house, for the pa w tioners asked for nothing but what might very safely granted to them, namely, the same rights and privilege:ill; those who belonged to the church of England. The of those rights was extremely unjust, and even the bipe troduced by the noble lord the Paymaster of the P r— ,, r o lu admitted the grievances under which the diblea."" of births, ities, laboured. frIO Mr. BLACKSTONE presente d severa l petitic.o9,„i places in Berkshi re an d Gloucestershire, complai , ( n. ""coe: distress i n th e agr i cu l tural districts, and pray i °o repeal of the malt -tax. One of them also coop rated of the tith e system, which, the petitioners said, °P`isod.. prejudicially in preventing the improvement of ,„ o f He stated, that he knew the state:oll;l3 he the petitioners in that part of the country sv ith ,„ `v e itiog was connected to be correct. At the publ ic ,;l l , be % fr which one of the petition; was got uP, and W ii:lna 4 ta%. tended, a gentleman stated that the repeal °fut that dell' Would of necessity produce a property tax, t ration was very oofavourably received, n atiti° l3 ' Mr. R. PALMER supported the prayer of tu e, r en tion :,„, att • 01 and contended that they required the very serious a oaf , of his Majesty's government. All petitions haulossatc; to the attention of the ho use , but those which ed at the from public meetings more particularly so, a ° at a sole! meeting in Berkshire whi c h h e a tt en d e d, the soki c in the petition was moat calmly and dis P ass lQ considered. The p Mr.s e e ti r t g io e n ni s t w s er p e A or N de K re i d E to pr l e le se o n n ted the a ta p l e d t e i • toio l d o ov ! Finsbury, prayin g f or a repea l o f t h e h ouse and 4r . pete taxes. He cordi a lly agree d w i t h t h e pra y e r of t he o government tion, and h o p e d th a t hi s M a j esty ' s cv °ll the subject a fav oura bl e cons id erat i on . Mr. GILLON p resen t e d a pet i t i on v ery ne l/l s es of signed, from the provost, town-council, and b ur a g bolp i t, Ayr, in the county of Ayrshire, praying for the," t bst:' - ot the system of church patronage in Scotlen u ' del* would not allow that opportunity to pass, witbo el op pose° that the great body of the people of Scotland we r , e nro la P e ; to the present unjust and impolitic system of e"; but / A " tronage ; they did not object to the establisbni o ".i v iler., the compulsory assessment of a dominant and they sect ; as a member of the church of Scotland , be felt were putting that church in an ambiguous e l ' ua e poeg; hey w e re to sa y th a t i t was not s trong - so ot/ 0 ' to stand on its own merit s , or to maintain itself oxiotig a compulsory and obn o xi ous assessment . The nbelevied, manner in which that assessment had been lately rendered the desire f'r its repeal stronger than esre' oo tre' Mr. CUTLAR FERGUSSON would n ot 0 , be ,:ict what the hon. member had stated , yert would say, that hie (Mr, F,'a) iolortaatiou ' 4 ;w ..~ x a PRICES OF STOCKS THI Bank Stud[ 21554 15 3 per Cent. Red. 9 0%N% 3 oer Cent. Cons. 904 90 3% per Cent. 98% Ditto Red 98 % 4 4 New 334 per Cent. 97%%% 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... - 4 per Cent. 1826 1043 ( 2% Bank Long Ann. to expire Jan. Ins, 1 Oct. , 869 1859 - Jan. 5, 1860 l7 1-16 Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 1880 - Jan. 5, 1870 - S T 0.4 y AT ONS O'CLOCK. NeVillhper Cent........,.... India Stock Ditto Bonds 32 33 pm. South Sea Stock 100; Old Annuities.. ...... 89 New Ditto — 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 .... Ex. Bills, ..fl,OOO 5O 49 pm. 50 49 pm. Ditto Small 5O 51 pm. 'Ditto Commercial ....... pm Ditto Advertised Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Account 901%%1,4 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds lOO Belgian Bonds 97% 3 4 Ditto Account ......... Brazilian Bonds 74104 Ditto Account 75 444 Buenos Ayres 80nd5—.....26 Ditto Account 25% Chilian Bonds 27% Ditto Account .7% Columbian Bonds Ditto Account 25 Ditto Bonds, 189.4 ...27% Ditto Account 26% Danish Bon s 74% Ditto Accrunt...... — Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, !825, Ditto Account...—. ..... Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent. 31% Ditto Account. 0,-6 per cent... 40% 40 14 Ditto Account 4l 40% Neapolitan B9. THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Pernvian Bonds... ..... 22% 3 2 - - Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds" 72 1 Ditto Account 71;4 Ditto New Bonds 72 4 11,4 34 Ditto Acconnt72% I► 4 2 1% Prussian Bonds lO2 Ditto Bonds, 1822 103 Russian Bonds, 182 9 10 7 14 Ditto Account lO7 1 Ditto 111 lO6l Spanish Bonds, 1821 31 3 4, 2g 1. 1 4 Ditto Ace. 3 2 14 % 1% 2 Ditto Bonds, 1893 Ditto Account 3O French Rentes, sp. c. —1 —c. --- Exchange —f —c. --.3 per cent. —f —c. —,fExchange —f —c. Dutch, '2l p. c. 5O 49% 3g Ditto Account 5O 49% Ditto, 5 p. c 96%4 Ditto Account .96% PRICKS OF SHARKS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Alien Mining Company £7 9% Anglo Mex. Min. Co. o ss . a t 5/. pm ) £lOO 2% Bolanos Mining Company .... ..... ......£l5O 140 Brazilian Mining Company...... ......... £5 15 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (ss. at 5/. pm.) £2B 603{ Ditto Macaubas C0cae5.......... ...... 2231 29% Ditto St. John Del Rey Cata Branca Mining Company 331 8 British Iron Mining (7oninany £so 28% Columbian MiiiinA Co. 'iss at 5/. pm.) 52% t 9% English Mining Company 1236 25 General Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co £lo 4 _ ._ Mexican Mining l':o. ...... .. ...... £4B Real del Monte Mining Co....(unreg.) 4736 6 7 United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40 9 9 Ditto New Scrip 5 14 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO 11X Protector I nsi mance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Company. ........ General Steam Navigation Co. National Provincial Bank of England 15 13X fti o Doce k'rovincial Bank of Ireland , 25 41 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEB. 24 Bank Stock — St. Patrick lnsur.(perShare Consols, 3 Der cent Gov. Stock, 3X, per cent. 96 1 ,4 National Ditto... ......... Ditto, New I per Cent — Hibernian Bank 23% Gov. Deb. 354 percent.... 89% Provincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock — , Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal Stock —'lmperial Mine City Deb. 4 per cent. — Mining Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4n. c. Commercial Buildings MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. O America 0 0 Hamburg 1 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica......—.. ...... 0 O Carthagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 1 Dublin 0 i 0 Lisbon 0 1 Flanders 0 i 0 Malta 1 1 France 0 1 0 Sweden 1 iluernsev &Jersey.. 0 ' 1 Waterford 0 HIGLJ WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning.. 22 minutes after 5. I Evening...ls minutes after 5. NOTICE. In a few days, when the arrangements for that pur pose are accomplished, The Sun will be conside rably enlarged, and printed with a new and beauti ful type, cast expressly for this Paper by the cele brated Alex. Wilson and Sons, of Glasgow. Zifir Jtoftsri4 1444, Due. of taxation. Let the count have but fair play , and her produ c ti ve energ i es k incalculable : Accounts ordered, "of the total number of gallons of proof spirits manufactured or distilled in the United Kingdom, from sth January 1832, to sth January 1833, showing the total for each kingdom : also an account of the spirits that paid duty for home consumption for each kingdom, with the rates of duty, and the total amount of said duty ; also, an account of the number of gallons exported from England to Ireland and Scot land, from Ireland to England and Scotland, and from Scotland to England and Ireland; distinguishing the number of gallons so exported to each kingdom :" " Of the number of proof gallons of spirits brought, either by sea or land, from Scotland to England, and the amount of duty paid thereon, in each quarter, from sth January 1832 to sth January 1833 ; distinguishing spirits made from malt, and those distilled from mixed grain ; and also showing what por tion of such duty was paid in Scotland and what in England :" ' "Of the imperial proof gallons of spirits distilled in each kingdom exported from Scotland to England, from Ireland to England, and from Scotland to Ireland, and which paid the home consumption duty of each kingdom, the rate of duty, and the amount thereof, in each quarter, from sth January 1832 to sth April 1833:" _ _ _ " Of the quantities of spirits made in Ireland and Scotland, which have paid the duties of Excise for home consumption, stating the rate of duty paid, and also the net amount of re• venue received, in each year since 1828." Mr. ELLICE has followed up the intentions of Lord ALTHOP, by moving for returns, in detail, " Of all pensions granted' under the head of compensation or otherwise, on the abolition of, or for sinecure offices in the different branches of the revenue, and in other departments of the State :" " Of all pensions granted under the head of compensation for other civil offices abolished in the same departments, with the periods of service in each case." Mr. HARVEY gave notice last night, that on the 10th of April he would move an address to his MAJESTY to revise the Pension List ; and on the 13th May, for a Select Committee to,in quire into the revenues of the Duchy of Corn wall and the Duchy of Lancaster. Mr. S. RICE gave notice of a motion last night on the part of Lord ALTHORP which will be hailed with delight throughout the country. To-morrow night Lord ALTHORP is to move for a select committee on the state of civil sinecure offices—in other words, an inquiry into the pension list. This is judicious, for Ministers could not hope to weather the storm unless they yielded to public opinion. We perceive that Sir W. INGILitY is to bring forward his motion this evening for the total repeal of the malt tax—and the notice of Lord ALTHORP for to-morrow is evidently with a view to neutralize the support of those mem bers who might otherwise vote against the Government. Colonel EVANS has postponed his motion for the repeal of the window duty to Thursday, the 15th of May, by INhich time there will be no necessity for bringing it forward. THE FUNDS. It is stated that an express has arrived from Falmouth ; the contents have not transpired as yet. Consols, which left off yesterday at 901 f for April Account, opened at the same price, soon after receded to 9014 ; for money, 90e to f ; are at present 90f 4. Yesterday was set tling day in Consols, and this is pay day. To the present time payments are going on well. Spanish Stock has been done at 31 %, owing to the unfavourable accounts from Spain; at pre. sent it is 32 ; Portuguese, 72. HALF-PAST ONE. We hear that the Plover has arrived from Lisbon, which she left on the 15th instant. A report prevailed that Saldanha had resigned, and that Don Pedro was going to attack Santa rem, but the resignation of Saldanha prevented the operation. It is also stated that Don Miguel was preparing to attack Don Pedro's lines at the head of 23,000 men. Consols are 901 : for Account; Money 90. Portuguese Stock fell to 71 ; at present it is 711 to 72. THREE O'CLOCK. The private letters just received by the arrival from Lisbon, are of the 15th. Tney state that Don Pedro was determined not to attack Santarem, but form a cordon round that town, or blockade it; the Duke of Terceira was going with a force to the south. Great distress prevailed in Don Miguel's army. A report prevailed at Lisbon on the 14th, that an action took place at Salvatera, in which the Pedroites were defeated, but on the following day it was contradicted. A number of reports prevailed on 'Change, but are not confirmed. Consols for the Account, 901 f. CLOSING PRICES., Bank Stock 2l4} 3 per Cent. Red 91 13 3 pet Cent. Cons 9.1 34. per Cent. BSI 3i per Cent. Red 984 New di per Cent ...... 4 per lent 104 Long. Ann. to expire 1 Jai, 1860 l7 7-16 O c t. 1859.: ...... Jan. 1860.. ......... -FOUR O'CLOCK. India Stock 2522 Ditto Bonds 33 pin, South Sea Stock 100:1 Ditto Old An❑ B9 Ditto New Ann. ....„ --..... Ex. Bills, 10u0/ 5O pm. Ditto 500/ 5O pm, Ditto Small 5l pm. Bank S. for Ace. - Consols for Opg 9Ol India St. for Opg. N FUNDS. FOREIG Austrian, 5 per7cent lOO l 5 per cent O7l s Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 25-i Chilian, 6 per cent 26 Columbian, 6 per cent 24 Ditto, 1824 26 Danish '4 Greek, 5 per cent Mexican 5 per Cents, 1825 311 Ditto 6 per Cent., 1825 5 9 1, Peruvian 6 per Cent. 2- Portuguese, 5 per cent 7 11 Ditto, Reg. Bonds Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per cent lO6l Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent 3ll Ditto, 1823 291 French 5 per Cent.... — l . -- c. Exchange f. —c. French :3 per Cent — 4 ,- -c. Dutch, 21 per cent. 491 Ditto, 5 per cent.• ..... ~.. 961 1