The Sun. — London, England, 1827-06-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIFIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Corn Law crisis is not yet over in the House of Lords. Last night Lord Goderich, in a speech the most temperate and conciliatory that could be ima g ined, moved the second read ing of the Warehoused Corn Bill, the effect of which will be to apply a partial and temporary mitigation to the evils engendered by the over throw of the former corn measure. Lord Malmesbury declared his resolution to oppose this remedial Bill ; but as his Lordship was at once abandoned in that resolution by the Duke of Wellington, who concurred with ?Ministers in the wisdom of the measure, there is little doubt cr its being successfully carried through the House. The Duke of Wellington read some further correspondence with Mr. Huskisson on the subject of the unfortunate amendment. These supplementary letters afford certainly an additional pr fof the Duke's good faith, but they prove also to demonstration that his Grace's intellect ie as impregnable as his honour. Mr. Huskisson's clear and forcible reasoning seems to have made as much impression on his mili tary correspondent as a cannon-ball would on a mud-bank. The - weakness of the Minister in the Upper House compels him to trim and tack in all directions, when pressed by the sullen mass of the piebald majority on every point relating to the price of corn. Lord Goderich proposed an amendment to the Average Bill, which measure was so strangely neutralised on a former evening, to the effect of en abling his Majesty to ascertain the corn averages as he thought fit. This was graciously concurred in by Lord Farnham, and the Bill was read a third time accordingly, and passed.—Time:. The Commissioners of Inquiry into Irish Education have made their fifth report, which, it is said, concludes a series of labours, prose cuted by them with assiduity and fidelity, discri minating judgment, and uncompromising spirit. The subject of the present report is the diocesan schools of Ireland—one of :considerable interest to the Established Church, and to the friends of a general system of education for its less affluent members. It appears that so long ago as the 12th of Queen Elizabeth, other means besides the barbarous instrumentality of the sword were contemplated as essential to the maintenance of an English and a Protestant power in that i s l a nd. Education, free of expence, was pro- Tided by law—that is to say, by an authority not perfectly enforced, nor, consequently, much re spected, throughout Ireland, by an Act for the " erection of Free Schools," one of which was to be in each of the 34 Dioceses of the king dom, now held by 22 Archbishops and Bishops; and that " the Schoolmaster should be an En glishman, or of the English birth of Ireland ;" and moreover that the expence of these well-in tended establishments should be borne, one third by the Bishop of the diocese, and two thirds by the remainder of the clergy. In the reign of King William an Act passed, stating that the former Act had failed to produce the desired effect, and that it should thenceforth be strictly enforced and executed. Notwithstand ing the enactment of several laws for the further advancement of this object, from the reign of - William to the 46th of George 111., inclusive, it was found, by a report from the Board of Education, published in the year 1809, that Only 13 effective Schools then existed through . out the 34 above-mentioned Dioceses, and that the whole number of scholars therein educated did not exceed 380! Such was the degree of zeal and skill with which most contrivances, peaceable and reasonable in themselves, for improving the people of Ireland, were conducted. Schemes w hi c h had coercion for their .tistrument, and national degradation or extinction foe their end, showed more alacrity in those who planned and pursued them. The highest salary allOtted to the masters, so late as the year 1809, did not amount to' more than 401. per annum. Some were so low as 251. A military police-of3icer to dragoon the natives, instead of teaching , them, has from 500/. to 1,000/. per an many, By an Act passed in the 53d Geo. view many In3portant provisions were rnede with a view to the it:ore completelysealizing thiesystem of -lion by by the establishraem.of free :diocesan schools. Among these' provisions of the above law, was o n e tat empowering the grand juries to levy on their re epecsive counties whatever sums " they should think proper," towarn '; building or repairing school houses where required; ,and the working of this clause is, foe a serious subject not altogether with out amusement, inasmuch as the .Commisioners , in the year 1825, (tlh. present gentlen:en), are com pelled to report to the Lord Lietitenan: that the grand juries in many counties did not " thins yr j ° - per" to raise any sums at all , fo r such an unwortt;" object! Had it been a guard - ho use, now—or pub lic stocks—or black-hole—or triangles—or pair of gallows—no such amiable hesitation with regard to expence need have been apprehended from the con sciences of Irish grand jurors. After a full and mi nute account of each diocese in the kingdom, as to the condition and circumstances of the school, the Commissioners wind up with an elaborate series of suggestions ; rl recommendations for an extensive s - ystem of pub .c schools in Ireland, the details of which would not interest, nor much enlighten, a reader practically unacquainted with that country.— Th e state of the Ecclesiastical Law of this cou n t r y was , pretty significantly alluded to by Mr. Peel and others, in the course of the pro. ceedings in the Wakefield Divorce Bill. It was again alluded to last night in the House. of Lords, on the presentation of a petition by the Earl of Hardwieke, from the inhabitants of the -parish of Sutton. Foreigners will hardly believe, .that in a country, with a Legislature sitting six months in every year, of which Legislature the Prelates of the Church form•a part, such is the -state of the Ecclesiastical Law, that a Rector of a parish can, with impunity, neglect to perform the duties of his office himself, • and refuse to al ibi,' others to perform them, Lot sixteen years. It d ur i ng - this long p • d appears that, erio , the pa rishioners of -Sutton have only had the Sacra ment twice a dirtinister?d to them. We say no thing of the Rector s having several women living -with him in concubinage, and having had several bastard children sworn to him, because, if we wish to allow the Church the lustre de-, livable from th e rank and fortune of its members, I a certain allowance must, we suppose, be made for occasional escap ades of this nature. But what strikes us as singular is, that there should be no means of enforcing the performance of the duties of religion. The Bish o p of Lincoln, in whose diocese the parish is situated, " hoped the present petition would draw their Lordships' at tention to the state of the Ecclesiastical Law, and induce them to provide s o me remedy for the evils the petitioners complained ca se no exertion ha d been p£ In their spared ; a great deal of money had been expended, an d y e ars had elapsed, and the case had not yet reached that s tage that the article s could he admitted to proof." When consider this state of the law, we ought to give -the Clergy all the credit to which their forbearance entitles theme They are the only class of 'functionaries who may entirely ne glect their duties. A tradesman knows that •if he neglects his business he will e ruined ; clerk, that if he absents himself 'without leave or cause from his duty, he will be dis charged ; in short, every class of men in society, except those possessed of estates, are kept to their duty by some powerful motive in addition to the suggestions of conscience ; but the Clergy man, it seems, may exclaim with the Poet, " Let inclination be my law." The Bishop of Lincoln, alluding, we believ, to Lord Stowell, observed—" He deeply re- oretted that Ecclesiastical Law had not been reformed by him, who, of all men living, he be lieved he might say who ever lived, might have reformed it most successfully, as he was most capable ; but he was, unfortunately, too much enamoured of a system which placed in such a superior light his own sagacity and knowledge." We think, while dealing out animadversions, the Bishop of Lincoln might have bestowed a word or two on his own order, who, having such glar- ing proofs of the defects of the law, as it regard ed Churchmen, cannot easily exonerate them- selves from a charge of neglect of duty, in allow ing the ltw to remain in so disgraceful a state of impotency. He might have reminded his brethren of their promptitude to relieve those who had vio lated the law against non-residence, from the pe nalties to which Wright the informer was entitled. lie might also have reminded them of the prompti tude with which they came forward, when Bonds to resign Livings were declared simonkcal. But there is a material ditfercnce, it would seem, between the protection of Clergymen from the penalties attached to a violation of the law, and the protection' of the rights of Parishioners to the enjoyment of the rites of religion. We do not wonder that the Bishops were mute! the Courier of last night tells us, that the progress of the Reformation in Ireland is most cheering. We say, with the courier, " God speed it;" but will the Reformation be promoted by the disclosure of such a hideous state of things in a country which has enjoyed the blessings of the Re formation for three centuries ?—Morning Chronicle. The Earl of Mahnesbury, who is a first-rate man in the House of Lords, supplied the coun- ,ry last night with some striking specimens of hat profundity and acuteness which have so long Formed the distinguishing characteristics of that Assembly. His — Lordship drew attention to the enormous increase which had taken place within a few years in the importation of foreign produce into this country. Among other ar ticles noticed by him were foreign hides. " The average quantity of foreign hides imported an nually, he said, during the nine years previous to 1823, was 345,000 ; while the average quan- • tity imported annually, during the last - three years, was 787,000." He complained of the imports bearing heavily on the farmer. He meant by this, of course, to say, that the price of hides would have risen greatly in this country, had no increase in the importation of foreign hides taken place. Now, let us observe how sagaciously he follows his observation up. •' With respect to leather, he begged to observe, that although it was a matter of infinite importance to the village labourer, this taking off the tax in this country had made no difference in the price. Although the tax was reduced from 75 to 30 per cent., _ _ . . ....._ the consumer had gamed nothing ; the difference having been gained by the manufacturer."—The substance of the Noble Lord's observations may be thus expressed, that the exclusion of foreign hides would have raised the price of Englib hides, but would not have rased the price Gf leather ; and consequently, that the village la bourer would have been no loser, while all the loss would have fallen on the manufacturer ; moreover, the importation of ,foreign hides, by lowering the price of English hides, has not bertefittell the village lelecnxrcr any reduction of the tax on leather; for if the price of hides were to rise,, and if the tax were to be raised from 30 to 75 per cent., the manufactu rers would not add anything to the price of leather: The corollary from all this 'is, that high prices to the farmer do not add any thing to the price paid by the consumer, rOr the manu facturer will furnish articles at.the same price, whether the price of the raw material be high or low, whether it be taxed or untaxed. Good God ! that the patience of the country should be.tasked,to the endurance, in addition to the misery of blundering Legislators, of perusal of speeches like these: You - areincreasing your importation of wood ; it has risen from 485,000 loads in 1823, to 767,000.10 ads in 1826. We cannot have the same land covered with wheat and timber, and unfortu nately, too, when we grow more corn, we produce less butter, ~rid then some 'neighbouring country ruins us' by increasing their shipments of butter (notwithstanding the heavy protecting tax.) What a, pity that we cannot shut out all foreign produce. These Englishmen are your sages; these are your lips; is set on a hill l The. Duke of Wellington entered to a justification of his conduct, the amount of which wal;; that he never had considered the Amendment whit he had proposed, and which their Lordships had doi:, e him the honour to adopt, as inconsistent with the prin(7. ; . rile of the Bill, and that he had laboured under a misice, in believing not only that his Amendment would be PpproYed of . by his Majesty's Government, but that :t was actually founded on the suggestion of one of the . Ministers of the Crown. This defence and the Clause first submitted to Mr. Huskisson, only prove —what .is now ,no longer doubted—that, of all I things in this world, the last with which his Grace ought to concern himself, is, to legislate with regard to Corn. Earl Grey observed, that the speech of the Noble Duke was remarkable for its propriety and clearness. • When a man deals in assertion only, like his Grace and the Noble Earl, and avoids every thing like reasoning, there is no great difficulty in being clear. The task of the Noble Duke was one which did not require much circumlocution ; it was merely to say, I mistook the principle of 'the Bill, and did not comprehend the meaning of Mr. Hus kisson's Letter.—lbid. There are sundry awkward indications as to the instability of Mr. Canning's present situation, which cannot, we imagine, be misunderstood. Among these, the not ° least remarkable is the delay which has taken place •in the disposal of ' the Church patronage, which has been so long vacant, and the way in which, after all, it is said to be destined. The golden prebend of Dur ham, it is now said, is to be given to the brother of the Duke of Wellington, a person already over-loaded with Church Preferment, and who, it may be presumed, would not be the person of all others whom Mr. Canning would just now single out for this new, and we may add, unne cessary addition. It is curious enough that at the very moment when Mr. Canning is repre sented as accusing the Duke of Wellington of being the unconscious tool of others in his re cent opposition to the. Corn Bill, Mr. Canning himself must be the powerles(m . -sfrurtient in s ome other hand of doing that for a member of one of the same family at which both his con science and inclination must recoil, •The long . vacancy in the Bishopric o f ...R o....^beste; is a still more striking instance of tlse appar6t manner in which the new Prime Minister's hands are tied, or at least withheld, upon this subject. The Lord Chancellor disposes of his church patronage without restraint, and in a manner which at least showshis gratitude to his Cambridge friends ; but Mr. Canning seems without the power to do a single act of the kind ; and even the very first Bishopric which falls to his gift is some-. • _ how or other withheld from his disposal. Report assigns this, too, to another scion of Nobility, already weighed down with the extent of his ecclesiastical duties and emoluments - ; and the de"- inur' which is said to exist, is as to what part of his present preferment he will give up in exchange for the destined mitre. This, if it b 2 true, is disgust ing enough. Resignation may, indeed, be said, both as regards the clergy and laity, in the words of the poet, to be A thought that borders on despair; Which human nature must, but cannot bear." And while we are on the subject of ecclesiastical preferment, we may, perhaps, be permitted to re mark, that there are few subjects on which those who have the disposal of it would •do themselves more honour, or confer greater credit and advantage on the cause of religion, than in putting a stop to the shameless practice which is but too prevalent, of accumulating numerous and incompatible duties and benefices in the Church on one and the same person. If we were asked what corruption in reli gion meant, we should point out this abuse as the most striking instance of it; and when we see mat ters so important made the mere objects of political barter, we tremble for the character, if not for the safety of a Church which ostentatiously describes itself as " the most pure and reformed" part of the Christian hierarchy.—ilforning Herald. The author of a communication which we in serted in our paper of Monday, relative to the introduction of the Poor Laws into Ireland, dif fers with us on that subject. He seems to think we have not argued the question fairly, but that we have been led into an erroneous conclusion by giving too much weight in the argument to the " assumed abuse" of the system in this coun try. He asks, " If mere imperfection be a suffi cient ground for discarding a system, what is there in the world that can exist ? Every hu man tribunal must present a balance of good and evil ; and to reject the one on account of the ex istence of the other would be the height of folly and injustice ; and, if persevered in, would, in the end, throw back society to a state of nature." We are surprised our Correspondent could think it necessary to remind us of such truisms as these. That every human institution must par take of the imperfections incident to humanity is, in other words, to say that there is no absolute perfection upon earth—a proposition which, we believe, no person in his senses ever denied. It is an ordinary sophism to argue from the abuse, of a thing against its use : but we were not guilty of it. Our broad objection to the existing Poor- Law system is, that it is productive of more evil than good ; and it is perfectly logical to condemn a system in tot° when its practical mischief over balances its advantages. That this is the case with the system of Poor Laws in England, we believe. At all events, it is on that view cf the question our opinion rests, and not, ES our Correspondent as sumes,upon our forgetfulness of the universaltruth, that the best human institutions are liable to im perfection. The fact, is, that the Poor Laws, as we have often stated; are so completely pervert ed in practice from their original intention, that they are not by any means what the Legislature originally enacted. To lay aside a provision for the sick and infirm, and impotent poor, appeared a wise and humane regulation ; but when the funds directed to be so applied are converted into a means of paying a part of the wages of men in full work, whether farmers' labourers or artisans—when parishes are kept in perpetual litigation by means of the legal quirks which the Poor Laws admit .of—when the guardians of the poor are enabled to squander on their own pleasure much of what was laid by as the re sources of charity—and when the hearts of the the working 'population destroyed by the opera tibn of those laws, then we say that the evil overbalances the good, and it would have been better for the country if these laws had never been enacted. But to abolish a. system to which a country has been accustomed for centuries; and to introduce the same system among a people who have never known it before, are widely dif ferent things. It is always a difficult matter, and sometimes an impossibility, to-eradicate a-code of laws (however objectionable) that has long been interwoven with the habits and institutions of a nation.. At all ,events, it requires great caution and critical judgment to prevent the innovation from being attended with danger. Therefore it is that, although we-consider that the introduction of the Poor Laws system would be highly injurious to Ireland, yet, we, are not prepat:ed to say that we would recommend an immediate abOlition of that system in England. As to the quantity of poor who come over to this country to obtain work, they are induced to do so from the temptation of getting higher wages here than they can have at home, la bour being much cheaper in Ireland than here; and this sort of emigration always happens when a poor and populous country is in the neighbourhood of one comparatively rich, and not so densely peopled. What is the reason that in Ireland, where the Poet Lawi never existed, we never hear of persons dying of want, except in a season of almoilite famine ? Be cause no artifleial.system, making benevolence com pulsory, has broken down the natural charities of the heart ; nor has the idle man and ;the spendthrift there the certainty of a regular provision for life in the parish asylum, when all his means shall have been'consumed by indolence and extravagant living. But if, notwithstanding this, the poor abound in Ire , land, it is not on account of the absence of the Poor Laws, but arises out of other circumstances, with which this country has not been afflicted, and which cannot be remedied but by such an alteration in the state of things as:will encourage the outlay of c apital in the island, and afford the people employinent.— ! Ibid. The proprietors of the Philadelphia Album, or Ladies' Gazette, which is a work similar in cha racter and size to the Mirror, have written to a. friend in London, desiring him to propose to . Mrs. Hemans a salary of 1,500 dollars per an num, with a house rent free, and furnished ac cording to her own wish, providing she will under take the editorship of the wor k in question. An elopement took place in this city last week. The parties, who are the younger son of a banker and a fair East Indian, resident, from an early period of life among us, contrived completely to out-wit their friends, and were ef s awakened.aron their journey before even suspicion • was Guernsey is, understood to be their destination. .L—Exeter Flying Post. We learn by a private account, that all was well on •bcard his IVlajesty's ship Glasgow , 50, Hon. Capt. MAUDE, at Alexandria, in Egypt, about the middle of April last. Several of her officers had been on a visit to Grand Cairo. The sailors had got up a race with nearly one hundred donkies at the foot of Pompey's Pillar, which they had successively mounted almost to a man, leaving an English flag 'flying 'on the summit of that relic of a ntiquity. The Turks feeling rather indignant at the sight of this ob ject, vainly attempted to shoot it away, and were ultimately obliged to ascend the pillar, as our flying a kite, &c. The ship's tars nam e b , ad h . o t e ri v e e , b r, y in tremendous capitals round the shaft, the Mussemen failed in attempting to remove. These incidents show the .e ccentricity of the British sailor t o be as remarkable as ever. —,Dcvonport Telegraph. I S MOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock• THE LONDON GAzErrE OF THIS EVENING. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. E. Nightingale, Manchester, porter-dealer. BANKRUPTS. W. Burbidge, St. Paul's Church-yard, general ,dealer, to surrender July 3, 10, and August 7, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Bousfield, Chatham-place, Blackfriars. T. Holding, Dover-street, Hanover-square, hotel-keepeer, July 3, 10, and August, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners. Vander Gucht and Co., Craven-street. G. Griffiths, Wrexham, printer, July 6, 13, and Au gust 7, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Thwaites, Little Carter-lane, Doctors'-commons. Younge, jun., Alundford, Norfolk, shopkeeper, July 12, at four, 13, at ten, and Aug. 7, at two, at the Swan Inn, Norwich. Ballachey, Holt. J. Gillies, Liverpool, merehant, July 12, 13, and Au gust 7, at one, at the George Inn, Liveepool. Chester, Staple Inn ; and Hinde, Marshall-street, Liverpool. F. Heude, Bethnal-Green, cotton-manufacturer, July 3, 10, and August 7, at eleven, at the Court of Commis. sioners. Cooper, Copthall-court, Throgruorton-street. W. Mullinger, Whitechapel, flloek-manufacturer, July 3, 10, and August 7, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Platts, Jewin-crescent, Aldersgate-street. W. Dunn, Great Dover-street, Surrey, undertaker, on July 3 and 10, and August 7, at two, at the Court of Com missioners. Shepherd, Thomas, and Lepard, Cloak.lane. J. Cohen, Chelmsford, cabinet-maker, on July 8, at eleven, 10, and August 7, at ten, at the Court the Court of Commissioners. Smith, Basinghall-street. AT. Edge, Burslem, Stafford, colour-maker, July 14, 16, and Aug. 7, at four, at the Albion Inn, Shelton, Stafford. Aetbury, Stoke-upon-Tient, Stafford; and Roe, Temple chambers, Fleet .street. W. Jotham, Bradford, Wilts, clothier, June 30, July 7, and Aug. 7, at one, at the White Lion Inn, Bath. King, Lukin, and Whittaker, Gray's Inn-square. R. Ross, Yeovil, Somerset, victualler, July 2,3, Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Sturminster. Pearson, No. 6, Pump-court, Temple ; and Harvey, Sturminster. J. Crook, Bishosgate-street, drug-grinder, July 3, 10, and: August '7, at eleven, at the Court', of Commissioners. Edis, Broad-street-buildings. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS. FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY felt it ne cessary, though most reluctantly, to make a few re marks on the Papers relative to the Foreign Office which he had called for, and at last been supplied with. He had looked over them with such diligence, under the conviction► that it would give him great pain to make any unpleasant observations upon them. But still he would not shrink from troubling the House with some observations, because it had been stated that he had brought forward this subject from motives of faction. He had not been educated at the school of faction, nor ever been actuated by any such feelings. He indeed had stated his opi nions with respect to his Majesty's Government, and those at the head of it ; and he had no hesita tion now in repeating that he had no confidence in that Government. It had been formed by manoeuvre and intrigue, and could not stand. This was his firm persuasion ; and if his Noble Friends on his motions, the sense of the House would have been taken long ago upon' them in a way that would have put the Noble Lords opposite in that state Of 'embarrassment which would have made it extremely difficult for them ever to have extricated themselves. . He thought_ the Government had no principle whatever, because he remembered the Noble Secretary opposite, stating . that they would , be the basest : of all men if they did not act on principles of Lord Liverpool ; subsequently lie heard another Noble Lord , ;ay, that the Govern ment was not formed upon Lord Liverpool's prig-; ciples, and the inference he drew from that was, tat the GOvernment wasformed on no principle whateveL (Much laughter.)—lt was on this - aCeOutit that they bad nearly arrived at the end of the Session without knowing the real state of the Government.— With respect to the returns of the Foreign Office .the expenditure of the establishment at home remained pretty. much as it was—there ,had not, been such variatiadin it ; but with respect to the. expedition abroad he would beg to state the totals in round .figures. In 1822 the total expenditure of" the establishment abroad was 241,000; and in 1826, 285,0001. Admitting the allowance for Consuls, which was formerly about 28,0014 there was a clear excess of expenditure of 16,0001: This might not seem very much, but it became the House to look how it stood as to the increased patronage of this office ; and by the inspection of the returns, it would appear that there. was an increase of patronage attached to the office given away of 141,0001. From the second return it seemed that there was in the New States of America three new Envoys .Extraordinary, and twenty-five Consuls or Vice-Consuls, who, with those in France, . . 'made thirty 7 nine. The reason of this he had been to tally unable to make out. The next return regarded the secret service money on which there had been a discussion already. In 1822, and in all the preceed ing years, the expenditure both at home and abroad, never exceeded 30,004 except in one year, which Might be perfectly accounted for ; but from 1822 until the present time, it had been gradually increasing every year, until it had arrived last year at the sum of 58,0001. He had asked the Noble Lord oppositetofurnish him with a distinct return of what was expended abroad, and of what was ex pended at home, but although the Noble Lord had de clined to furnish himwith ; he hadhowever been enabled pretty accurately, he believed, to make out the dis tinct amounts, and if 'he were inaccurate, he might easily be' Ceirected :The expenditure at hom e had been 23,00 0 /., and abrOad 35,000/. This showed an expenditure of the secret serv ice-mone y at home, to his mind, the most lavish and impr o p er. He did not mean to question the fact of its having been laid out, but he did question the judgment with which it had been disposed of. He remembered an Hon. Friend of his eulogising the Secretary of Fo reign.,Affairs on his amazing accuracy, respecting the expenditure of the secret service money, at stating that he had never spent a shilling of that money abroad, without having got a quid pro quo for it. Now, he should hope, that there would be a quid Pro quo shown to have been received for this, and he was extremely to .know what that would turn out be, because that expenditure was more than had ever been known in any preceding year. He begged to add, that the expenditure during the last four years had exceeded the former four years by 15,0001. a year. The next return regarded the F o reign Office tuilding, and the furniture , t he amount 0f that was 42,1472., eight thousand pounds of which had been paid for furniture. The 8,0002. he eon sideredan enormous amount to have laid out for uny such purpose. He had further to state that he had been personally injured with respect to this particular return. The Hon. Secretary had, either unintentionally or wantonly brought forward charges aga Linst him, which he had felt bound to enter into a correspondence with the Noble Secretary, and if the Noble Lord chose to give that corres pondence to the public, or to disclose it in any other shape, lie (the Noble Marquis) would be glad to see it, and by it to have his conduct judged of by the public. The remit of the whole were, that after making every possible allowance for the new States of America, there had been an in crease of expenditure during the last year, of about 70,0001.—He wished that this should be known, and he was sure the Hon. Secretary could have no objection to its being laid before the public, being no doubt anxious that a true return should be brought, with respect to that office, the patro nage and luxuries of which lead now so far exceeded any thing that any of the Noble Secretary's predeces sors had ever knownto enjoy. He had to apologise for having taken up so .much time, but having stated his opinions several times with respect to the change that had lately taken place in his Mrjesty's Govern ment, and especially being determined never to com compromised his hostility towards the present Go vernment, he did not think he wouh' have acted right towards their Lordships if he had not made the observations he had now addressed to them. Lord DUDLEY wished to know whether the Noble Marquis had any motion to make ? The Marquis of DONDONDERRY said, no, none. Lord DUDLEY thought the Noble Marquis had pursued a most extraordinary course. He had called for papers which were laid on the table, and he then went at considerable length into desultory remarks, inculpating a particular branch of his Majesty's Government without any public notice, and end ing without making any specific proposition.-- (Hear, hear, hear.) —He (Lord Dudley) theugliz he would be perfectly justified in giving no answer to what he must say, though he did mean any thing offensive to the Noble Marquis, but according to the usual practice of Parliament might be considered' unfair remarks. Their Lordships would recollect that the returns to which the Noble Marquis alluded had been asked for with considerable pomp, as if they were intended as a preface to some great discovery. The Noble Marquis said he wished to place before Parliament an account of the vast patronage in the gift of the Foreign Office, and to contrast the expences in the administration of that particular branch of the Government in the years 1823 and 1826, or in other and plainer words, to contrast the Admi nistration of the late Marquis of Londonderry and of Mr. Canning. Well, the papers which the Noble Maiquis called for was produced, and what was the result ? It appeared that there was not any increase of the expenditure of the Foreign Office, and that increase had arisen chiefly from increased expence in the Consular Depart partnient, in consequence of an arrangement sanc tioned by the late Marquis of Londonderry, though not carried into effect in his administration, and the principle of which was, that salaries should be FuhstiLuted for f,les. This anangeme.it, he re peated, was sanctioned by the late Marquis of Lon -Thcre w4s_anotlier, reason for the trilling increase s in the - TO - reign Department, at which, he thought, all parties should rejoice; beCause it had arisen from our extended commercial connections—he meant the expense of missions to South America. Those were the two items upon which any increase of expense had arisen in the. Foreign. Depart ment. But • the . Noble Marquis had adverted to the expense of the house in Downing-street. Sir R. Preston's house in. Downing-street was pur chased for the Foreign Secretary, tit i an expellee Of 18,0001., a large sutra of motley he would admit, but if Secretaries' of State must have'Offieial residenees; they should be somewhat suitable . to the situation he d' by those with lived in them'; 'and, as to the House to, which the Noble Marquis alluded, he (LorclDudley and Ward) had no - hesitation in asserting that it was worse than the houses Occupied , by Secretaries of State, and even of Foreign Ambassadors, and that it were . not be compared with the Palace in which the : Noble Martinis lived, in Vienna.-: There was one other topic to w.. lich the Noble Mar quis hadadVerted,and challenged hint • (Lord Dudley Ward) to lay the particulars bef ire their Lordships. The Noble Marquis allnded to 'he correspondence which had taken place on the subject . of a pension; to- which the Noble Marquis conceived he was .entitled for' his diplomatic services abroad: The Noble Marquis addressed a letter on this sub ject to' the Under-Secretary of State, in which he stated the ground which, in his own opinion ; entitled him to a pension ; and the letter thus written, was of course handed b) the Under-Secre tary to the Secretary for Fore ign Affairs; but Mr. Canning, not wishing to tak , upon himself 'to judge of the value of the N0b1,.-! Marquis's ser vices; or to give any answer on the subject of his letter, transmitted it to Lord Liverpool who was then First Lord of the Treasury. Lard Liverpoo. shortly after returned the application to the Foreign Office, and on it was written in pencil an observation which had been communicated to the public through the medium of the Newspaper. The Marquis cf LONDONDERRY—The Noble Lord had .better say through the medium of the Foreign Office. • , Lord DUDL E Y admitted that the observation df Dord Liverpool must have come to the public through some person connected with the Foreign 0&e. The Marquis of LONDONDE.PRY ._It w as a breach of confid ence i n t h e oreign Office. Lord DUDLEY . —Th e Noble Marquis ha d seid ' that he received information of the cecret - service money through the Foreign 0 ffice, which woyldindeed have been a shameful a nd s c andal o us bre a ch of trust and of duty on the part of that peison from whom th e 'Nobl e Marquis derived his information. But where was the breach of trust in the communication to yvhich the Noble Marquis alluded? Lord ,Liverpool had written ;.on the Noble Marquis's application ,for'u pension the words " This-is too bad." The words were written i n p encil, and he (Lord D udley) h ad seen as them himself.—(Hear, and la ug h te r.)--There w b r each of confidence i n commun i cat in g this to th e p ublic. For th e Noble Marquis had ad dressed a letter to th e Under-Secretary, desiring that hi application 'might be laid' before the Secretary of State, with whom the Noble Marquis was not on that intimate footing that he would have confided to him any very important secret He (Lord D.) protested that he did not know by what means, or through what channels the transaction had got to the Newspapers. But he was sure their Lordships would not consider it in' the same light as the Noble Marquis He (Lord Dudley) had no motive in stating these transsactions, but he could Not allow the,. assertions made to-night to be repeated ; lest the Noble Lord should carry away the impression that the Noble Marquis had been ill-treated, or that there was any breach of confidence in the conduct of Government towards hiii.--He did not mean to follow the Noble Lord through all the details into which he had enterel He must, however, say, that the motion for the ?roduc don of the papers was blended with the obj !ct (he would not add the intention, for it wis not parliamentary to imputemotives), but the motion was made with a tendency to cast censure on th. Right Hon. Gentleman, whose great and only crime was, that he filled the chief seat in his M ijesty's Government. When the motion was made, if not with the defined hope, at least with the vague idea of bringing on the Right Honourable Gentleman the charge of being a prodigal public servant, it occurred to him (Lord Dudley) to inquire a little minutely into the question. Now, during the 30 years that Mr. Canning had been in the service of his country, to which he had brought tolerable abilities, and industry, he had received the public money a sum of between 60 and 70,0001. Whilst, on the other hand, the Noble Lcrd (Lon donderry) dining the ten years that he had been engaged in the service of his country, got from it no less than 160,000/.—(A laugh and cries of hear.) He (Lord Dudley) did mean to say, that these services had been overpaid. He was no judge, and therefore, did not pretend to say that they were not cheap for the money ; but when an attempt was made to affix by indirect means, a charge of prcdega' lity on Mr. Canning, he thought it right to explain, Thus much, and then leave it to the public to judge between the Right Hon. Gentleman ar..l the' N o ble Lord to say, whose services were most valuable, in proportion to the remuneration which.they had re ceived.—Cheers and laughter. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY, in reply, proceeded to read the correspondence which took place between hirn and the Noble Lord, respecting the remark written by Lord Liverpool on the back of the Noble Marquis's application for a pension. The Noble Marquis complained strongly in his let ter of the breach of confidence wco.nmitted by giving publicity to the remark in question, which was done for the purpose of making a wanton per sonal attack on him. Lord ELLENBOROUGH observed, that the rate of remuneration given to Mr. Canning w hilst Ambassador at Lisbon, was just as extravagant to that the Noble Lord received, whilst filling the same office at Vienna. [Left Speaking.] EXECUTION OF MARGARET WISHART• • • This unfortunate woman, who was convicted a t the Perth Circuit in April, of poisonii.g her sister , Jean Wishart, a blind woman, who real , ied with her in Arbroath,. suffered the awful sentence of ,the ho e , at Forfar, on Saturday last. It will . be rem e mbered that she, was also accused of the murder of a nat°' ral child, of which her sister had just been deli' vered; but the Jury found this part of the charg e not proven. When she arrived at For'ar, she en' tertained sanguine expectations of mere:, and these were fostered by well meant but injudijous comm° - nications which she subsequently received. A r ely , tion- haxinz pokeiv_de_eidedlY...as__ to the fallacy °! these nopen, she became sullen and th oug h tfu l , deb rium succeeded, and her situation havin i , bees re ported to the Crown Counsel, a respite for fourteen days was granted, but before it arrived sh , had bee ° restored to reason, and afterwards continued sole' It was not until within eight days of the tiro s fixed for her execution that she began seriouslf, to prepare for death. The gibbet and drop ha' for some time been in preparation, the t he public manifestation of what was going on was 41° appearance of a number of labo urers , w ho, ° I : Friday evening, proceeded to rail in a L arge in front of the Town-house; and, by one o'el° 1 "; in the morning, all was comp l ete d . I r the 433' time the unhappy object of these preparations ' C64 engaged in devotion ; attended by Mr. Clugst °° ' and the Rev. Mr. Ede. Sh e ev i nce d t i. e gr este g self-controul, and indeed never lO s t h er e ompos ufe of mind, except for an instant when it was conn° ll ' nicated to her that her arms must be pinioned. " - i i The unhappy woman was brought f rom her c e pinioned, and as she passed the door of. an adP il : ing apartment / she .shook hands with its innotr e and warned them to repent. She walked 4;long „' passages of the jail, and up stairs to 11 e Hall, without faultering,. leaning on theiarn of Clugston. In the' Town-hall, the Town Couflo, and some other gentlemen were alssinibled, here she joined in singing part of a psdin, at which an impressive prayer was offered II: , by t he Rev. Mr. Ranken, of Inverarity. slow she shook hands with the mag istrete; and RI . .A t its Condo . nisters, and, after thanking: them warmly .or their, Mr. s ay i w ilts hether she was r silty °I attentions, intimated that' she was really tc proceed ton Tio! begged her, po_ itto dyingth e scaffold. wom a n to I am not' guilty, lnd not. She - answered, She 'the n stepped the will plead my cans •on platform, leaning on Mr.' Clugston, preceded by the magistrates, and was now,' for the first time,. presented to the view of the assembled multitude' She was neatly dressed in black, with a white alit ° , l 7 and appeared, to be about 40 years o f age . A v"..e cap covered. her face, the fatal cord surround; ed her neck, and the handkerchief, with wh i h e t sne was to'gire the si gna l, was in .her hand. was placed on the drop, and remainedin that, situ!' tioti 25' minutes, fervently engaged in prayer.! She repeatedly shifted the handkerchief from the as she concluded her prayer; one hand to the other the fats' nature Atruggled hard, .reluetant ,. to give r it ryas necessary to inform h e signal. At length that the time fixed by the sentence was fast ex1 )1 ,... ing : she faintly answered, " Two inintr.-es ano after a solemn pause, lifting up her face to h e ave , she gave the signal—the drop fell, and in a m oment , after one or two convulsive motions, she' was ° corpse.--'rhe body, after having hung for thre e quarters. of an hour, was cut down, p ut into'a b° s ' 'and sent off to Edinburgh, .'to Dr . Munro, for djs. section.--Caledonian M ercury. • , A man named Ali'Lchell, an, itinerant shoW, man, has been committed to the county ga-n i - •, Westmoreland, upon a charge of murdering' wife, by droWning her in the canal at Kendab IRTH• !. On the 23d instant, a t .. Gilston S . Rectory, }l,, r t,, the 18 I ` . . of the On e 25th instant , th Rev. W. H. WiEs at inson, of a eon. Ih r o , 4on 4assett, the lady of 014 " Rev. Thomas Hyde Ripley, ,of a son. ' . _.--,--"I On Monday , the 25t Mh inst., ARRIE at D. St. George's Chore the very Rev. the Dean-of Carlisle, Gibbs Crawford tro b us , Esq., of Eaton Hall, Congleton, A p., to J3°- se cond daughter of Sir Coutts Trotter, Bart. On the 12th inst., at Barnton House, the Hon. M,':; ga , usay's, of Barnton), Archibald Dunly! Esq.' elueie hon . of Sir . Archibald Dunbar, - of Northn ' eld, Bar t '' Keith Alps, daughter of t _ PAINTsn and Puutxsurn by DI. YO:iNG, at th e ": • ` UN-OFFICE, "No. 11.2, s,"'tla.:(l,