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He was aware thht in doing so they were treading upon delicate gmund, and that the course was liable to some objectsos`i ; but it was to be recollected, as he was prepared to prr,ve, that the Government had only a choice of evil-. Co ammtion and rebellion were threatened, and Govern ment thought itself compelled to take the course it had pursued, and to incur the responsibility of adopt ing a measure which, though objectionable, seemed . least liable to objection. Everybody who was acquainted with the Noble Lord at the head of affairs in Ireland must know, that nothing was dearer to him than the preserva tion of the peace and the promotion of the happiness of that kingdom. He bad done his utmost to allay religious animosity, and he had thought that to equip the yeomanry was the least likely to occa sion new dissensions. At pre sent their arms were nearly unserviceable from long disuse, and their clothing, which had not been renewed for eleven or twelve years, was completely worn out ; but it was not intended to overawe the professors either of one religion or of the other. Lord Anglesea was most anxious to see both Protestants and Catholics united under the same standard ; he called upon both to join it ; and he only hoped that he might not be required to summon them to active service. Mr. O'CONNELL said that he would not apply a term he had used on another occasion, but he must observe that the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Stanley) had come to Ireland as a sort of apprentice' Statesman, unacquainted with her peculiarities, wants, or distresses.—(No, no, and hear.) Was the Right Hon. Gentleman aware, among otb r things, that it was the constant practice of the Orange yeomanry, whom he so applauded, to leave their arms only a short distance from any town where a fair was held, and then, having excited a disturbance, to send for those arms, in order to intimidate or destroy the Catholics? Did he know how inmy Catholics had lost their lives in consequence? or if he did not know it, was Lord Anglesea acquainted with the fact ? Probably not, or he would never have resorted to the measure of calling out the yeomanry; and he (Mr. O'Connell) implored the Right Hon. Gentle man (taking it for granted that an augmentation of military force was necessary in Ireland) rather to increase the re gular soldiery, who had always behaved with generosity and impartiality, than to resort to the yeomanry, the source of so much dissension and bloodshed. The unhappy Ca tholics, on many occasions, had fled to the protection of the army from the persecution of the yeomanry. Ile also implored the Noble Chancellor of the Exchequer, by the high character he had ever maintained, and which, no doubt, he would continue to maintain, not to be led away by the misinformation he might obtain from Ireland, which was given by those who only visited her shore for an hour, and returned to England to vapour against keep ing up religious distinctions. As he had said before, he would vote for any increase of the King's troops, if it would render-needless the re-equipment and organization of the yeomanry. Already dissensions were reviving, in consequence of the determination of Government in this respect, and he solemnly assured the House that nothing was more calculated to keep up distinctions between sect and party. The announcement that the yeomanry was to be called out was of doleful omen to Ireland, and ealcu (Hear) —especially when his address came like oil on troubled waters, in the midst of one of those angry discus sions which sometimes took place amongst them. But the Hon. Gentleman had then expressed his surprise that both sides of the House supported the Government on the present estimates. But that gave him (Lord Palmerston) no surprise, at a time of great difficulty, when it was ne cessary to supply to the Government the means of support ing its authority at home, and the honour of the nation abroad. That the House should recognise that necessity excited in him no surprise. That was not the first time that such general support had been given, and he hoped that it would not be the last, should occasion arise for a similar concurrence. The I-ton. Gentleman had found fault with an expression which had been used on a former occasion, that the proposed augmentation was merely a tempo rary completion of the peace establishment. But what was the fact ? All that was proposed was merely to com plete the establishment determined on three years ago (and that might certainly be called a peace establish ment), in order that the nation should be prepared, if cir• cunistances occurred requiring a large force. In reply to the lion. Gentleman's allusions to the foreign relations of the country, he (Lord Palmerston) would only say, that he should not then go into a full explanation respecting them ; but the Hon. Member and the House would find, when the fitting time for explanation should arrive, that England had not dictated to other nations in the settle ment of their internal Constitutions.—(llear, hear. )—lt was not to he said that the present estimate was brought forward with a view to interference with other ❑ations.-- (Hear.)---llis Bight Hon. Friend the Secretary at War had explained the ground of the estimate. The augmen tation was made, not with a view to external war, but to the preservatio❑ of internal tranquillity. He had no doubt that, if the time should arrive that the Government should find it necessary to call on Parliament for the means of maintaining the honour of the country against foreign aggression, they would receive the required support.— (Hear, hear.)—But the estimate had not bee❑ brought forward in that view, but simply in consequence of the in ternal circumstances of the country i:self. The Hon. Gentleman recommended that we should retire within our insular boundaries, disband our army on the one hand, and dismantle our fleet on the; other, and shut ourselves in from all connections with other countries. But he (Lord Palmerston) did not think that the advantages of our in sular situation, however important, should prevent us from maintaining a good army for our defence within, and a respectable nay to protect our shores. Mr. VANE was understood to approve of the augmen tation. Mr. C. W. W. WYNN denied that the proposed aug mentation was occasioned by the state of the foreign re lations of the country. It would be time enough to make an augmentation on that account when the honour of England should require it. He thought (as we under stood him) that they should be able to decide that ques tion in the course of the ensuing month.—[The Right Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to detail particulars, we believe, of Colonial Estimates, of which on account of the tone in which he spoke, and the noise of the House, lated to produce the most calamitous results. Mr. STANLEY—I am sure that the House will not he influenced in its decision by any personal feeling it may e ltertain of the Hon. Member for Waterford. I am cer tain also of this, that the speech he has uttered, and the we could not collect one sentence.] Sir. H. HARbINGE explained. Mr. EULIVER made some observations which were quite inaudible in the gallery. Mr. LITTLETON expressed his thanks to the late Go- sentiments it contains, would justify Ministers in proposing vernment for the economical management of the army, a larger increase of force than they hope will be necessary in consequence of which the present Administration was to preserve the tranquillity of Ireland. At all events we enabled to make so great an augmentation.—(llear, hear.) can have the benefit, if benefit it be, of his opinion that In every company in which he (Mr. Littleton) heard the an augmentation of the regular army is desirable in pre- conduct of the late Secretary at War spoken of, the Terence to the yeomanry. The Hon. Member said that he Right Hon. Baronet was universally eulogised. For his had spoken of me elsewhere in other terms than those he part, he (Mr. Littleton) was not afraid that his consti has veotured to use here. tuents should know that he was favourable to a small in- Mr. O'CONNELL—I said that I had spoken so of crease of the military force at present. Considering the persons filling the office held by the Right Hon. Gentle- state of affairs on the Continent, the Government was man.—(No, no 1)—I will tell the House at once, that in not departing from its principles and promises, in snaking allusion to a ludicrous story I called them shave-beggars. the contemplated augmentation. Mr. STANLEY—In the Irish newspapers I have seen Mr. HUNT said, that the last Hon. Member who had reports which gave me reason to think what indeed I did addressed the House, had thought proper to praise both not doubt before—that no man better accommodates him- the present Ministry and the last, for their conduct respect self to the character of his audience than the Learned Mem- ing the military force of the country. Now, he (Mr. H.) her for Waterford. No two persons could be more different found that he could praise neither.—(Hear and laughter.) than the Learned Member for Waterford in the House of —The present had promised retrenchment; and, amongst Commons, and the individual who hears his name in I re - their first measures, they proposed an augmentation of the land (for I can hardly suppose it the same man)—(Hear)— army and of the expence. On the one hand, the Right agitating and courting" the most sweet voices" of the rabble Hon. Secretary of War announced a reduction of 5001. of Ireland.—(Much cheering.) 'Whatever may be his con- per annum ; and on the other, an increase of expense to duct in other places, to me in this House he appears in no she amount of upwards of 300,0001. per annum, or nearly other light than as the Member for Waterford; I shall v i e w half a million. He trusted that they would find they were his conduct to me in this place with no political animosity placing themselves in a situation which would prove in the arising out of past transactions, and without condescending result one of extreme mortification. One gentleman said, to notice what may have occurred elsewhere, or the shave- that the augmentation was occasioned by the internal state beggar abuse which he addressed to the mobs of Dublin.— of the country. Another attributed it to the agitated state ( Loud cheering.) To borrow an expression from the H on . of the Continent. In God's name, why increase the army Member himself (an expression employed in this Ho u s e , from 81,000 to 88,000 for the purpose of putting down and, therefore, liable to no exception), we can trust to the violence in the disturbed districts? And if the purpose was returning good sense of the people—to the wealth, respec. to overawe the Continent, he must say, the force was not tability, anti influence of the well-disposed in opposition to such as to indicate the intention. He appealed to the House, the schemes of the Learned Member for Waterford, and in on the part of the country, not to sanction the increase. support of the Constitution, and I will also say, of the liber- He perfectly well remembered the sarcastic terms in which ties of his country.—(Hear, hear.) the Right Hon. Baronet below him observed upon the con- Lord F. LEVESON GOWER expressed his approba- duct of tire present Government in following the course tion of the vote, pursued by their predecessors. The former Ministers were Mr. HUME congratulated the House on the new scene unable to effect reductions, and the present Ministers found it had this night presented, when three Secretaries at W ar themselves precisely in the same situation ; and therefore were disputing which deserved the merit of saving 300/. the Hon. Baronet found himself unable to comprehend The people of England, however, would hear with sor- how he and his friends had been deprived of their situations row, that while a retrenchment of only 300/. was made in the late Government. In what condition was this on one side, an expenditure of half a million was made on country at the present moment placed? We were dictat the other. It was preposterous to call the present a peace ing a King to tire people of Belgium—we were determin establishment, when the army consisted of ten thousand ing who should and who should not rule over them. In more men than for the last ten years. It had be e n sa id his opinion, the only fault the Belgians had committed that both France and Russia might be considered only wide- was, after fighting for their liberties and achieving them, extended ramps, so large Was their military force; but ad- that they did not, without consulting England or any emitting the fact, how was England interested in their war. power in Europe, at once appoint a King themselves, or like preparations? The peace establishment (as it wa s rather a President. That was what he should have pre mis-called) of England consisted of no less than 88,000 ferred. And in the same way he should say that France, men, of which force no less than 15,000 w ere officers, after three days of successful fighting—after losing 8,000 making one officer to about every six men. This, too, was precious lives--he should say that the only fault France at a time when the people in all parts of the country were committed, was in not at once returning to a republic. For calling for retrenchment. He was persuaded that ou t of his part he should say what he thought, whether in that the fifteen millions to be voted, three millions m i g ht b e House or out of it ; and the Right Hon. Member for spared ; and he called upon the Chancellor of the Excime- Windsor, whom he had often met in the presence of mul quer to reconsider his estimates. He protested against th e titudes, would bear testimony to Iris character in that employment of yeomanry either in England or Ireland, respect. They would not then be called rabble, he but especially in the latter, where religious ranco ur hoped, by that Right Hon. Gentleman, who had re would be excited and perpetuated. If increase wets ne- cently, in speaking of the rabble of Dublin, appeared cessary, he agreed with the Hon. Member for Waterford to have lost his temper.—(Cries of " No, no, no.") — that the augmentation should be in the regular army. It That Right Hon. Gentleman gave the Hon. Mem was th e duty of e v e ry m a n in the country to maintain a her for Waterford credit for speaking in a tone in peace. Before the American war, the whole expenditure that House which he was not accustomed to use out of the country amounted to no more than sixteen millions of it. Of him (Mr. Hunt) he was sure the Right a year, of which one was employed in the payment of the Hon. Member for Windsor, who had frequent oppor interest of the National Debt, and the other fifteen were tunities of knowing him, would say no such thing. If sufficient for all the expences of the Government ; and he could be reminded of any one sentence which ire now fifteen millions were demanded for the Army, Navy, uttered at Preston, he would now willingly and readily and Ordnance alone. He thought the co untry oug ht not repeat that sentence in the House, whether it was orderly to hear that. The military establishments hard now cost or disorderly.---(Cries of "Oh ! Oh ! Order, order.") two hundred millions sterling in time of peace, sinc e If he considered himself disorderly, he should certainly pay the conclusion of the la , t war. It was thus the the House the respect of desisting; but if he were re country was placed in its present difficulties. Gen- minded of anything which be said out of doors, he should tlemen might think that was very little ; but they ought proceed at once to repeat it without very curiously con t m consider that it was fully one-fourth of the whole sidering beforehand what might be the consequences, for debt. Had this country done as America had ma- he would sacrifice anything of mere form and ceremony for naged, 180,000,000/. of that sum could well have been tire sake of maintaining what he so highly prized—open eforded to be paid off the debt. The attempt to open the ness and consistency. He had still a few further remarks Scheldt cost the country on a former occasion 750,000,000/. to make, but he thought it right to apprise Hon. Members He could not say what the country had profited in return. that the moment tire clock struck twelve he should move The First Lord of time Admiralty has assumed great merit an adjournment. He was just reminded that the clock of for the present Administration, on account of the opening that noose did not strike, but when it got to twelve he of the Scheldt. In that they reminded him of all the credit should most assuredly redeem his pledge by moving an the late Lord Castlereagh used to take upon himself for adjournment. Of the questions before the House, the the former opening. Those expeditions were talked of as first was, whether the present estimates should be agreed lightly, as if it were nothing that millions of men should to ; the second question, whether they should be agreed be driven like cattle to be slaughtered wherever a Minister to for three months ? Now, so far from agreeing with might think proper. That was the doctrine of Lord either of those propositions—anti he would say the same Castlereagh I and were Ministers determined to maintain in and out of the House—he should propose, that in the alliances of 1814 by the same principle ? As to the stead of the numbers being reduced to 81,000, he protection of this country from foreign aggression, should propose a reduction still greater—lie should pro be (Mr. Hume) thought that if we confined ourselves to pose a diminution down to seventy-one thousand, un our internal affairs, and refrained from interference with less better reason could be given for keeping up the the other nations, the country was sufficiently protected by numbers than had yet been shown. Again he would its insular situation. He protested against those estimates say, that if the House sat for a few minutes longer he whi c h provided for objects, the maintenance of which should move an adjournment, if he got any Hon. Member was deprecated by the people. No man could suppose to second time motion ; and he should divide, however that the assessed taxes or any others would be taken off small might be the minority,—for he wished tire people of whilst such an extensive establishment was to be kept England to know who the Members of that House were up. Much relief might be afforded by exchanging one who declared themselves the supporters, and who the op. kind of tax which pressed severely, far another which posers, of a Naval and Military Establishment, costing might be felt less. But if Ministers expended fifteen 15,000,000/. a year. Tire Right Hon. Baronet near millions for the Army, Navy, and Ordnance, they could him had very truly declared that there was no way of ac not realise the expectations which their Promises had counting f or time course which the present advisers of the raised throughout the country. Until they should inter- Crown took, except by supposing that there was some pe fere—(Great noise, "ughl'e, and laughter)—Gentlemen culiar atmosphere belonging to that part of the House had better take care.—(Laughter.) —Really that was not which they occupied, and which drove every man who fair.—(Hear.) —Even though the House should not he sat on the Ministerial side to pursue the same course. — disposed to support him, he would not be affected by the (A laugh.) Before be came into the House, he was told neglect in the discharge of its duty.—(H ear. )—He was that something of a peculiar atmosphere prevailed through „ icing to make allowances for the situation in which the out the whole House. He confessed that he was sensible present Government bad beers left. He trustee] that they of nothing of the sort. He declared that he was the same would be obliged to retrace their steps, and make amends as ever he had been.--(Cries of " Question, question.") for their defection from the right path, in which he had The question was, whether there had been any thing said expected them to move. If they showed themselves even on either side which could justify the maintenance of a yet sincere in the work of Reform, they would ha time military force of 87 or 88,000 men, for no purpose, ex remove all the evils under is hich the country laboured. cept that of keeping the people of England in sub- Lord PALMERSTON was always pleased to see the jection? He would ask the House in what situation Hon. Member for Middlesex rise to address the House, as they were placed, and he would remind them of the that Hon. Gentleman always did so in a pleasant temper... question put by the Hon. Member for. Middlesex,— What had produced that situation ? Had the people of England bean altered...3o altere I that the Govern ment dare not entrust them with arms? The people of England were so changed by the mischievous laws adopted in that House. Though called loyal, the Go vernment dare not trust them to have arms in their hands. Place but arms in their hands, and that House would be reformed in three months. It' the Government did but agree to a substantial and Useful Reform, protected by the ballot, they might from that moment forward con fidently place arms in their hands.—(Cries of " Ques tion, question.") The question was, would they endure such a burden as that which was proposed to be laid upon the country for the maintenance of a naval and mi litary establishment better suited to a state of war than one of peace? The table was loaded with petitions, and more petitions were, at the present moment, in London, than Hon. Members were able to present ; and even from the few that there was an opportunity of presenting, little ' good accrued, for they were laid before the House—were brought forward amidq so much noise, that what the clerk read could not be heard.—(Order, order ! Ques tion, question.) That was the question : let the people be given a fair share of the power in electing their repre sentatives, to which they were justly entitled---then, and not till then, the people might be entrusted with arms. He concluded by moving that instead of the reduction from 88,000 to 81,000, the reduction be to '71,000. Sir A. GRANT (the Chairman) inquired if the mo tion of the Hun. Member for Preston referred to a period of three months or twelve? Mr. HUNT—For one year. Lord MORPETH said that after the threat of the Hon. Member for Preston, he should confine himself striAtly to the limit which of old was pre,cribed to Cin derella.—(Laughter.)—With vote and voice he had always supported measures of economy ; and the present Ministers were in some degree brought into office on the pledge and principle of economy ; but surely such a reduction as that of 10,000 men would be stinting Ministers beyond what a reasonable and wise confidence demanded. He felt perfectly assured that his Noble and Right Hon. Friends would effect any practical reduc tion in the national expenditure ; and he was sincere and sanguine in the belief that the expectations of the country in that respect would not he disappointed. An Hon. Gentleman opposite had taunted the gentlemen of England with unwillingness to engage in military asso ciations for the maintenance of public order. He con fessed he did not desire to see any imitation of the French system. He did not desire to see a national guard making themselves the comrades of the Crown, the arbiters and dictators of Parliament. He did not desire to see the au thorities assisting at the demolition of (s.surches, or destroy ing monuments of art at the bidding of a tyrannical mob. The Hon. Member for Preston seemed to regret that the French had not returned to a Republic. Their recollec tions of their former Republic could scarcely be very pleasing to them. In one word, be would say that they could not pay too dearly for order at home and peace abroad. He much regretted that the House should find itself under the necessity of granting so large a force, but he should much more deeply regret had his Noble Friend expressed sentiments different from this, that the military was not the service es-ential and appropriate to the defence of England. Such a military force as they were com pelled to vote was an evil—but it was a necessary evil. Colonel DAVIES said, that after the promises on the part of the Noble Lord, that every point connected with the military should be minutely looked after, he did not feel called upon to press his motion any further. Mr. HUNT, however, persevered in his; and the House divided for the amendment of the Hon. Member for Preston— For the motion 6 Against it 250 Majority —244 The original question was then agreed to—the House resumed, and the report to be received this day (Tuesday). Sir JAMES GRAHAM gave notice that on Friday he should move the Navy Estimates. REFORM IN PARLIAMENT. Mr. BENETT presented several petitions from parishe in Wiltshire, praying for Reform in Parliament. Mr. HODGES presented several similar petitions from various places in Kent, praying for the vote by ballot, and for universal suffrage. One of the petitions, from the parish of Leeds, prayed for the repeal of the Union with Ireland. The Hon. Member expressed his cordial concur rence in all these petitions, except in the prayer of the last. Mr. BARLOW HOY presented a petition, respectably slgned, from the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight, against the proposed tax on steam-boats. Adjourned at Ten Minutes to Two o'clock. COURT CIRCULAR. Their MAJESTIES, accompanied by the Landgravine of HESSE HOMBERG, the Princess AUGUSTA, and Prince GEORGE of Cambridge, left the Palace at Brighton about eleven o'clock yesterday morning, attended by their suite, in four carriages and four for London. Their MAJESTIES came by the Sutton road, through Clapham, and over Vauxhall-bridge, and arrived at the King's Palace, St. James's, at a quarter past four o'clock. The KING, the QUEEN, the LANDGRAVINE, and Prince GEORGE of Cambridge, entered the Palace at the garden gate, the LANDGR.AVINE proceeded to the apartments which were occupied by the late Queen of WiaTEmBERG. The Princess AUGUSTA alighted at her own residence, which joins that of the QUEEN. A number of persons were collected in the Park, to greet their MAJESTIES and the members of the Royal Family on their return to town. Prince LEOPOLD left the Palace at Brighton yesterday morning, for his residence at Claremont. The Duchess of CUMBERLAND visited the Duchess of GLOUCESTER yesterday. A conference on the affairs of Belgium was held by the Representatives of the Great Powers yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the French, Austrian, and Russian Ambassadors, the Prussian Minister, the Baron de WESSENBURG, and Viscount PALMERSTON. The Mexican Minister transacted business yesterday at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The French Ambassador received despatches yesterday from his Government. A deputation of the manufacturers of printed calicoes had an interview with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE. QUER yesterday at the Treasury. A deputation from Manchester attended yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade, and had a conference with the President. Viscount GODERICH visited Earl GREY yesterday at the Treasury. BRIGHTON, FEB. 21• Their MAJESTIES, this morning, in a carriage and four, with two out-riders, took their departure from the Palace. The Royal carriage was immediately folowed by several others, containing the Royal Princesses and suite. Their MAJESTIES will arrive at St. James's Palace at five o'clock this evening. The departure of their MAJESTIES has caused infinite regret to the inhabitants and visiters of Brighton. The SPEAKER'S first Parliamentary Levee, for the present session, will be on Saturday next, the 26th instant. DOVER, FEB. 20.—Lord STUART DE ROTHSAY came over from Calais yesterday by the packet, and was saluted from the heights battery, both on his landing and departure for London. His Lordship had taken a house in Paris, on resigning the functions of Am bassador, intending to remain there for some time, but re cent events, it is supposed, have induced him to leave that country. During a heavy squall last evening, a brig had her foremast blown overboard off here, and his been towed into port to-day. The Correspondence of Sir JoHN SINCLAIR, announced for immediate publication, will contain not only letters from most of the European Sovereigns, but also those of many of our most eminent Statesmen, among others Lord NORTH, the Right Honourable WILLI.tat PITT, CHARLES JAMES Fox, CANNING, Lord Mitt.viLLE , the Honourable SPENCER PERCEVAL, Lord CASTLE REAGH, Lord LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord ERSKINE, Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Marquis of HASTINGS, Lord BATHURST, with characteristic anecdotes, &c. &c. BURNING IN SURREY.—A short time since, a barn upon the farm in the occupation of Mr. MAI - - Nwito, at Reigate, was totally destroyed by fire. Mr. MANNAnn filled some parochial office, and had been ap plied to by a pauper for money on the evening of the con flagration. This had been refused ; and in little more than an hour afterwards the barn was discovered to be in flames, which consumed the building, as well as the stock of grain which it contained. The latter only was insured. The pauper was taken up and examined, but no proof was obtained that he was the destroyer of the property. These things dispose us to melancholy reflections. It is the bounden duty of Government to lose no time in setting about the enlightenment of the people, for it is by that alone that a stop can be put to a system of violence and mischief which is absolutely a disgrace to the national character.--Bucks Gazette. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. TKICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 79%'4 3 per Cent. Cons. 79% B,i 9 3 per Cent. 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The Debates in both Houses of Parliament last night were various and interesting. In the Lords, Lord STRANGFORD brought forward a motion on the subject of the Methuen Treaty, which Lord ELLENBORoUGH supported, and which was answered in all its details by the shrewd practical sense of Lord GoDERICH, and the pun gent convincing eloquence of Lord B ROUGHAM. The motion, after some remarks by the Duke of WELLINGTON, whose tenour was avowedly hostile to the Cabinet, and Earl GREY, was allowed to pass. In the House of Commons, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER an nounced his intention of reducing the pro posed duty on raw cotton from 1(1. per pound to five-eighths of a penny. The tax on Canada'tim ber he proposes to retain as it is. An animated discussion followed on the subject of the sugar duties, which occasioned a difference of opinion between Sir J. GRAHAM and the President of the Board of Controul. The Army Estimates also led to a spirited debate. The Paris Journals contain long details of the proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies on the 18th, when the Minister of the Interior en tered into a full, elaborate defence of the con duct of Government with regard to the late tumults in Paris. All parties were unanimous in their condemnation of the frantic proceedings of the Carlists, in whose factious manoeuvres the tumults originated, but striking differences of opinion existed as regarded the conduct of the Government, some Members asserting, that it had taken too many precautions, which implied distrust and fear, and others, that it had not taken sufficient, for the purpose of putting a stop to the proceedings of the Car lists at the church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois. In the course of the discussion the 11inister of the Interior read an extract of a letter despatched from London, at the instigation, as was sup posed, of the exiled family, or their agents and strongly urging the Carlists to keep up the agitation throughout France, no matter by what means, provide it might accelerate the recall of the banished BOURBONS. If this do cument be genuine, one thing is clear ; the BOURBONS have no right in England—no claim whatever on British sympathy or hospitality. Their intrigues are dangerous to the repose of Europe, which is leagued with that of Great Britain, and as fak as lies in her power should be promptly put an end to, by her expelling the foreigners from her shores. Judging from the present state of parties in Paris, we do not augur any long continuance in office to the pre sent French Ministers. Obstinate at one mo ment, timid and undecided at another, — they have neither the address to c onciliate esteem, nor the energy to extort obedience. The KING is still popular, but it can not be denied th a t even hi s popularity is on the wane. Th e war party is manifestly get ting up in France, and we fe a r that no pacific Cabinet will be long a bl e t o ma ke head against it. The Allgen:eine Zeitung contains some par ticulars respecting the late insurrectionary move ments at Bologna, and states that on the sch the Russians passed the Polish frontiers at fiv e places. General DIEBITSCH had with him, altogether, 160,000 men ; the Poles can o►ilc muster 57,000 ; but these are all resolute to conquer or perish. The LORD CHANCELLOR'S Bill, for the es tablishment of Local Courts for the recovery of small debts, is one of the most important changes that have been sought to be introduced into our judicial system. It seems to be regarded with favour by the public in general, and with hostility by those London lawyers who have, or think they have, an interest in the continuance of the present system. The subject is not in general, however, very well understood, though some able pamphlets have been published on it, parti cularly one by Mr. QUIN, a barrister, which contains some useful information on the provin cial courts in France. There can be no doubt of the desirableness of cheap and expeditious justice, nor can there be any question that the present mode of con ducting actions at law may be both cheapened and expedited. The Law Commissioners have recommended no substantial improvements in this respect, but have confined themselves so much to alterations of mere form, that suitors will find scarcely any difference when all the recommen dations of the Commissioners shall be put in force. At least one-third of the costs of every action consists in payments made to the patent officers, the legal sinecurists, by whom justice is, in fact, sold. The expellees of witnesses, &c., attending trials, are usually estimated at one-third more at least, so that the services of professional persons are perhaps not so excessively retnune rated as is commonly supposed. But by the abolition of office fees, and the better regulation of trials, combined with a change in the Law of Evidence, we are satisfied that (setting Local Courts out of the question) a diminution of at least one-half might be made in the costs of every cause that comes before a Jury. When every possible Reform shall have been effected in the established system of judicial practice, it would then be proper to consider whether the advantages of Local Courts would over-balance their inconveniences. There are many objections to them arising out of the diffi culty of preserving an uniform system of juris prudence, and even a consistency of law, throughout the country, if there are to be forty or fifty Judges, each laying down the law after his own fashion. Then, again, the salaries of these new Judges would be a heavy public charge, and they could not, in any event, be fixed high enough to tempt barristers of good practice to quit the bar for rural Judgeships. Barristers of no standing, or eminence, must therefore be resorted to, and it would be vain to expect that their decisions would in general in spire the public with confidence in the new order of things. The increase of patronage to the Government would be also a consideration •f some weight in a constitutional point of view, as well as in reference to the independence of the bar, which is supposed at present not to be wanting in its powers of scent towards the dis pensers of loaves and fishes. We are fully sensible of the evil of holding the Assizes only twice a year, but it should be remembered that a very small number of the actions that are brought ever go to trial. The proportion of actions tried, in which the defen dant succeeds, or any defence is offered, is also very small, perhaps not one out of ten. Where costs fall upon a defendant, they are, for the most part, a just punishment upon him for the with holding of what he knows to be due. By the present rule, it is true, the plaintiff is often put to expence, though he recovers his debt, which is not as it ought to be. Our law is, in all respects, except as to arrests, favourable to fraudulent debtors, but unless the principle of it be alto- ;ether improved, the only advantage to creditors from the Local Courts would be, that the sit tings would be more frequent than those of the Judges of Assizes. Lord BROUGHAM is entitled to better praise than ours, for his zeal for Reform in the law, as well as elsewhere ; and the clamour against him of those who talk of his undermining the respectability of the attorneys, and so forth, is mere fudge. If the Local Courts Bill be de sirable in itself, the interest of the attorneys ought not to weigh a feather in the scale against the public good. Nevertheless, there is nothing in which greater caution is necessary than in Ju- dicial Reforms. For the people reverence the law of England notwithstanding its abuses, and would be slow to confide in a system which would withdraw them, to a certain extent, from the protection of the Judges of Westminster Hall. Without, therefore, going so far as to say the Local Courts Bill is impracticable, we should wish that the abuses of the King's Courts should first be thoroughly rooted out and certain laws, such as that of arrest, be p u t on a new footing, before a measure of doubtful expediency is put into practice. In the time of Queen ELIZABETH the river Thames was looked upon as the great nursery of the navy. Every summer 2,000 of the watermen were employed in her ships; the total number of whom employed between Windsor and Gravesend were said to be not less than 40,000. The late Sir JOSEPH BANKS used to com plain that tortoiseshell tomcats were the plague of his life, because every ignorant man or woman who hap pened to possess one used invariably to favour him with the first offer of it, at a sum as immeasurably below the fancied, as above the real value of so great a supposed curiosity. A Frenchman, in his recently published " Tour through England," remarks that " punch in all shapes is a great favourite with the English :—punch is his favourite liquor—Punch his favourite ent ertainrneut— and a punch on the head his favourite argument." A French artist, who had in vain endeavoured to awaken the public of the capital to a sense of his merits, which were by no means small in his own eyes, revenged himself on their want of taste and feeling, by exhibiting a blank canvass, as a picture of the "Judgment of Paris." " FERDINAND the Seventh," said a distin guished diplomatist, " is decidedly Priest-rid—but his people are absolutely governed by lunatics." Wh at e l se could be expected," replied a friend, " when' thel very capital itself is Mad-rid !" LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY)• COURT OF CHANCERY. JACKSON v. FORBES. importance as affecting the revenue law. The LORD CHANCELLOR said this case stood before , for judgment. It had been very fully argued, and was of a so r ll upon a petition presented on the one side, praying to have..., r duty allowed upon the administration of a tine under a a counter-petition praying that it might not. The testor died cited in the East Indies. In truth, he died on his pa,sage part of India to another part of India—hut this was quite ort it terial, because the Court regarded him as having died sttl' sta ! ' g while domiciled in India. He had the intention of return e ln t this country—he was not expatriated for life, but tzi n `gi, have come here, as was clear from the language, contain in his will, from having sent the objec ts of hi s at f o (illegitimate children) to this country, and we circumstances. His will he made in India ; the exec t n e ; b persons residing in India, and the will was proved W• to tb the money found its way, by some means or other, M D , tl Court, and the Court's interposition was called I.° _,„' ga pe administration of it. Question—under these ciretill',,s was the legacy duty payable in this country r ca w question was of importance, of more novelty, and less fr ° , wa r, by the cases that had hitherto been decided, than at tiot wa to the Court to be. The inclination of the Court's oPinerit that the legacy duty was payable out of the fund, but coiisl o di the nature of the case his Lordship did not wish finallY pose of it until it had been sent to the Court of Excholu" that Court had certified upon it. f Ott The SOLICITOR-GENERAL wished to know the -,? eq ue which the Court might be disposed to send it to the e•N c- ..,iiit The to vio l and whether his Lordship would also add, the question at upon the probate duty also? Id lii tn'e The LORD CHANCELLOR observed that he shoo 0,3 d draw the case for the Court below, and he should ce rtain the question of probate. VICE-CHANCELLOR'SCOURT nßrul His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR took l b - r e tl Petitions, but nothing of any public importance came Court previous to our reporter leaving. THE MAKKETS.-(THIS DAY•) HA N . 1:t1 A RKETS.—(At per Load of 36 TrusseM CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S) Xil Coarse bevy Lowland Meadow Hay x , to 0 New Meadow Hay 0 0 ' 0 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass buy 4 0 5 , lover Hay 215 , 2 Oat to .-C1 14 1 Wheat a. aN 1 05 „oil A moderate supply, and a dull trade; prices as last ( 1 SMITHFIELD. S' 2 0 to 0 Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay X. New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 Useful Old l)itto 0 15 4 Fine Upland Meadow and ktye-grass Hay 4 0 4 Clover Hay (extra tine).....£5 10 —Generally Oat Straw £l 14 to £1 181 Wheat Straw 118 he ro , c' Straw t2s. per load higher than last quoted; prices ' stationary. A short supply, and a dull trade. CITY MARKETS.—(TWO O'CLOCK SUGAR.—The deliveries of British Plantation Sub home consumption last week were 2,300 hhds. and 86t the stock in the West India Docks is now 185,000 hrld,l4 pro, trcs. The purchases are not on an extensive scale. Jamaicas are qu.-tcd from 465. to 48s. Gd. ; middling It'- '„,.(1 d rcti n i ; 51s. 6(1., and tine from stis. to 605. per cwt. In lbreign 3 " goods there has been no bargains of cons, quenc e repii,"' re (ro t morning. The arrivals of Mauritius are becoming °°,,sed and the stock in the West India Docks has been mere • n early 29,000 bags. COFFEE—The market for Coffees wears a mere heal th ' st' o a. pearance, and the demand for Jamaicas for home use i '44( th RUM—The deliveries are on the increase. Last •;ipov, exceeded 480 puncheons, principally for home cons co 0 0' leaving the stock in the West India Docks 24,380 punch dx 2,300 Mids. Prices are as last quoted. THE OIL TRADE.—The Government contract gallons of Linseed Oil, for the use of the navy, has br t 'he t 1. .4 1 % Much competition was experienced, and the price o is co,.r, TAE tract was 3a. per Imperial gallon, or 301. per tun. );') at' derably above the price at xx hich the former contract W. op which was at 261. 10s. per tun. The Oil trade is very c 0 6x q •1 prices of common Oils are still declining. Nt4; THE SILK TRADE.—The East India Company' 2 lon is proceeding some activity. The coarser sizes i.,;`;„p._ • v.n.loo` p ; al ?„ Itteik, an average, - slihtly advanced - prices, as - compared realised at last sale. The finer qualities obtain ra t " A quotations. t er m ,ie BALTIC PRODUCE—Some interest is experience li . 0 c how the Hemp contract will be' taken. Governmen t , oce, Hemp from the Home Market if suitable for the serv i i n pr , „ ) ; . navy. In Russia Tallow there is not much variation sr . d. being quoted from 475. 3d. to 475. tid. per cwt,, and fer delivery 41s. per cwt. The delivery last week was only 0 00 The stock is now 46,816 casks. Hemp steady. 11 6 :el ac • INDlGO.—Thedeclaration for April is expected to ra go ut' chests ; at present only about 2,000 chests have been a n alil t The demand for home consumption is pretty brisk. ~, There are numerous inquiries for SALTPETRE' price is firm at 38s. per cwt. , fhe The market for SPICES is firm. ing• In the COTTON trade there is not quite so much ' , , or o tb y modifications in the duty, announced by the Chanceuinalr Exchequer, are more generally approved than the ortg DAB' SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-Jill,' FROM LLOYD'S. nO tir til d DEAL, FEW 21.—Wind N.W. moderate.—The to Company's ships Vansittart and Repulse, are report „ o 'er, passed the Downs last evening. Arrived from th e ' l ' o il Frinsbury, Ducal), for the South Seas Arrive d 0 0 ' PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 21. Wind oir Woolwich, the Hope transport. Sailed his Majcst)'s net for Bermuda. Atr,te FALMOUTH, FEB. 20.—Wind N.W. to N.N.Winintr.:s; the Falcon, ----, from Malta ; Morven, Brown, fro„0, Columbus, Janssen, from Smyrna., leaky, rudder da'Ayrt+its Sailed the Calypso packet, for Rio Janeiro and Buenos DOVER, FEB. 21.—Arrived the Tyro, Tritton, Iron '.1017,, COWES, FEs. 21.—Arrived the George Canningt. th 1 0 ' from the Mauritius, very leaky, rudder damaged , v" bulwarks &c. CORK, , FEB. 18.—Arrived the Orion, Fraser, from ° 3ll°.- ' "fc The Mary, Shields, from Tralee to Liverpool, wa s , 1 1 Lo,thendahl, 13th inst., and would be obliged to disch.,.vea Penzance, leaky S h e a p , sz g ll, st f r r u o c m k t S h t e . D lic in h a a i e i r p s, oin h t. a s The Betsey, Riches, from Ipswich to Li ver pool, go_; d3 y with the Colombia, Delano, from New York on oft' Hastings, and sunk. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY; If. CITY, TWELVE O'C— LO C freof We have no ship letters this morning, and o n l y the Ay mail has arrived. that A letter from Munich of the7th February states, • a. , A pe trians are approaching to the Bavarian frontiers; fr ° , l l,ret',,o; thousand men are already in the Salsbourg, Tyrol, O t r i at S he A letter from Milan, received at Geneva, states hie rectionary movements have taken place in the t r oop s movements are thought to be of a serious nature been sent from Milan. THE FUNDS. The Express from Paris this morning states that alit s in that capital, and the Chamber of Deputies:was Iwoist" , sittings on Sunday, when a partial change in the oo v expected. Consols, which left off yesterday at 791,i, opened .. c con pt. at the same price, but have receded to 7S7i for the BRITISH FUNDS. D ptE,no l ic t tuiet t ir o oah:le,BgeNour Reduced enercwdes : 1a1460 )e co. Bank Stock, 199 200 India ditto, 3 per Cent. Cons. 78% y e Ditto, for the Acct. 78% % 3 per Cent. lied. 79% % 3y3 per Cent. 38% % FOREIG FUNDS. Greek, 25 7 Mexican, 3ti L Portuguese,P P r e u r u ss v i l a . ' an , 14 ;5,11 Russian, 91 ,4 , Spanish, 17% "0 o p 0 , HALF-PAS 0 0 ,4 We have spoken with a gentleman who arril,tcll,V,,t sterdam on Saturday evening. He states that the y are unanimous, and are now prepared with an at,',, e ot, men, besides which they have received a reinforFelnair°43o 10,000 Swiss troops, who have come to Holland in n a st and 300 each. The troops are daily exercised , a x iod confident of their present strength that they are an "toe to blows with the Belgians. i 0 The distillers last night put 3d. per gallon on Britrijoir consequence 'of which considerable business has bee , ruin market to-day. °ls The Consol market continues heavy, and Co t n er done as low as 78% for April account, and 'lB% f or they are now 7SY 3 79. In the foreign market there is not a bargain doi n g . - L THREE Consols, 78-i 79. Braliliatn, 57', Buenos Ayres, Chilian 20 21 Colombian, 10 17 Danish, 584 34 French 5 per Cent. 91% 92% Ditto 3 per Cont. 58 59 1 Of 11 6 ; SEAMAN'S COURTSHIP. —A s aixo r ,„,0 , t i , Sound, asked the wife of his mes‘m t Majesty's ship Windsor Castle, while I 'jug i n h ril o °. ,4 1 , by the time he came on shore, as h a e e was get married ; and he would hare any decent cv l i ol l f re l; would recommend. In a few d 4 , s Jack calv e 0 1 0 ' t and was introduced to the " fair One " he nPelb t ,,, ll . choice, and the next day they were m arrie d ,' W I :: t ) 5 g a e: te - r t ;: ri ev o l t ,t was paid his wagei two or three days afterw+trug'e: his wife the money, returned on board Castle, and sailed in her for Cork.--.Fah BIRTHS. iJ. ..-- p On the 20th inst. at Ascot Lodge, the lady ° af ol s , , of a daughter. ~,,aeot' 6 5, j On the 19th inst. at Cambridge-terrace,..—c-ick, ° pa' t , lady of %V. Ityves, Esq., of Ityves Castle, L.° le- f• % , ‘ l ' , re . ----- ntsl leFt. tt On the 21st inst. at rosby-square, the lady ° ~./ 1 1 ' ~ of a son. la dy v 0 11) , On the 21st inst. in Lower-Brook-street, the ser J' i o. , Esq., of a son. On the 19th inst. Mrs. Sherwood, d' OP f hall, of a daughter. tiP l . V MARRIED. of oi f,'ol fi'l• On the 18th inst. at Lewes, W. SterrY , „oe, r. Essex, to France , second daughter of T. 1.43 " fi riP o ,ll4, port, near Lewes. I- 10 11 ' e i e. I ir i On the 2d inst. at Belle:tie, county °- Afi l oct i, O'Kelly, Esq. of Acton, Middlesex, to 1 1 3 1 3 ',11y 0 daughter of the late M. Maher, l' sq., °` ' ffali Queen's County. bc taY , gt. ti DIED A 110_, , A i, ' Wir ~..• dei.l.lo-...4' On the 17th inst. late of Pall Mall, ', A ea ,...,0r eminent artist, and a Member of the Roya. it. Cl,d On the 18th inst. in Broad-street-buildings...os a.' ..44 0 Esq. President of the Royal College of St il l '. 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