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,7 e•-• ask for relief. The ...Jitniis netted, was su ffering irsVnuc agricultural was. Sir H. VERNEY said the agricultural interest had been promised relief from a commutation of the poor laws, but he 4 k ,• t s was afraid the machinery necessary to carry the Act into operation would increase their burdens.—(Hear.) He would 41 5, take the opportunity of stating that he would give all the support 44 - in his power to the motion of the Noble Marquis, or any other which tended to the relief of that class. Mr. BARRON was sure that the Noble Marquis would re. ceive the support of almost every Member from Ireland, .Norinit for in that country the agricultural interest was in the greatest state of distress, and unless that House stept in to relieve them, he did not see how it was possible for them to recover from it. They complained, and * with justice, that while to England, since the peace, taxes to thp amount of nearly thirty millions had been remitted, nothing had been done for Ireland. Thy had been threatened in that House with opposition to the death upon the question of repeal, buthecould assure them that this question would gain much ground—the people would lose confidence in that reformed House if they found that the metropolis only was to be relieved from the taxes that pressed upon it. Mr. F. O'CONNOR said that he for one would give all the assistance in his power to the motion of the Noble Mar quis ; but he was afraid that House could do no good for Ireland unless they gave it a well-considered code of poor laws. Mr. WILKES presented petitions from the Protestant Dissenters of Halstead, in Essex, Buckfastleigh, in De vonshire, Wethersfield, in Essex, and the Baptist con. gregations of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Brawnston, in Northamptonshire, complaining of the grievances under which they laboured from the present laws against Dissenters, The petitioners were averse to infant baptism, and therefore were deprived of the benefit of the Act for the registra. tion of births, nor could they read the burial service over the members of their congregation, as they were precluded from doing so by the 68th canon of the church. The Hon. Member also presented a petition from an individnal named Joseph Browne, complaining that he had made plans and surveys of certain improvements in the metropolis, of which the Corporation of London were about to avaittheMselves, without having remunerated him for his trouble and expense. Ordered to lie on the Table. Sir WILLIAM FOLKES presented a Petition from the inhabitants of a place in Norfolk against the malt tax. Mr. MURRAY presented a petition from the ship owners of Leith, praying that no alteration might be made in the rates of duty. The same Hon. Member presented a petition from the Provost, Bailiffs, and Council of Leith, praying for a total revi sion of the stamp duties. Mr. WALLACE presented a petition from the parish of Currey, in the county of Carlow, praying for the total abolition of tithes. The Hon. Member expressed his perfect concurrence in the prayer of the petition. Mr. GREENE gave notice of his intention to bring in a Bill on the 28th instant, for the abolition of oaths of office, except in certain cases, which were to be specified. Mr. MAXWELL presented a petition from the Corporation of the Drogheda and Kells road, praying for leave to bring in a 818 for the improvement of the same. Lord ROBERT MANNERS presented a petition from the trustees of the Swannington and Loughborough rail-road, praying for leave to bring in a Bill. The House then adjourned. he ailit)nig interest, ing ainiuch at the !~~-z~i BARON SIR W. C. SMITH leVigi .:1- C:;:' , *d i (. it t 4.l -4_, : „.1 ...; ~. ... -- ;:-* . =:.E...7,... - ---) .•:,: 1 ~.. I ... „ : 74 1 t . 1 --s -•. , ` , _-... - t!.. 1 } ,„.. 'lit ..,itg , , lk. 4.4- ---.,>-_ - ~, , ...4..a5we•v, , ,„. •, ', • / - ,4.. .”. , s .re' --1- 1‘ .1 4, 41 \, • - i.4..."41 , / ~...-. , e' . l - ..,-,--aa• ... . - - -- 11 • 0.- c 'elke•'•' : .,,,• () - - te,j f_.:4 - "<te . ' ' 'WA./ - t's.:-.. •-•- '' - ' ''' -- /- fVi ...-- -- y '^ 1 ,1 44 - ' •.- ' , ,y- - , , .r. - - - - ',sill , - -_, ,-.. . .. _. - a I ) ',ll', Ir ~. P 1- - -4.,, , 1.. ,,,, - • •,----- • , ~. litlM,' , - --,.. ./ibi 1•.,„ , . , ;ii„ . 1 4 ,-- . 4.-stioi , ,,, , , ; ;. „.tc, , j,....- 7 ,, •-• ~ , • , with which he was con. present moment as the MR. O'CONNELL. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21. 183-1. (i ) RicE (No. 2,933.) 1 826. But we have before us another proof of Mr. O'Connell's honour, truth, and consistency. On Saturday, December, 13th, 1827, the assembly then sty'ed the " NEW CATHOLIC Associamox," held its meeting, CHRISTOPHER FITZSIMON, Eq., son-in-law of Mr. O'CONNELL, and the present Member for the County of Dublin, being in the Chair. Upon that occasion this same Mr. O'CONNELL, who had the audacity to declare, most probably in the very pre sence of this same Mr. FITMIMON, " that he had never ex. pressed a favourable opinion of Baron SMITH. He never had pronounced him to be a good Lawyer, or a learned Judie,"—used the following languase : " I have a proposition to make, although there is no no tice of it. Still, I hope I shall be allowed to bring it for ward.—(Hear, hear.) lam impatient to speak on a subject which has lately so much occupied public attention. I allude to the foul conspiracy against my Rev, and esteemed friend, Mr. Maguire. I allude to this in no small spirit of gratifica. tion, because there was a pure administration of justice." bents, and paying liberally if you please, but only whet some duty is done: The following ie an outline of the Bill which Mr. Lit tleton has in preparation : " 1. Tithe compositions are to be abolished, and a land-tax of equal amount, and payable by the same persons, substi tuted, to be managed and collected by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. peculiar hardship. The fact was that though the person now in prison had effected good by his exertions to put a stop to the conflagrations, still he was, according to the extraordinary law of libel, committing a breach of the peace. He (Mr. F. O'C.) thought that the prosecution of the press would be con fined to Ireland; but the Whig Government were active in pro secuting both in England and Ireland. There were more preise cutions under the present Government of the press, than under any former one; and he was sure that in a short time petitions would pe pouring in from all the proprietors :of newspapers in this metropolis for a commodious place of imprisonment.—(A laugh.) He hoped the Member for Dublin would meet with a successful issue to his present Bill, otherwise the press would be so fettered as only to serve the purposes of a corrupt _Go. vernment. " 2. The land-tax is to be redeemable for a sum of money equal to four-fifths of the value of land in each county, as determined by a commission to be for that purpose appointed, together with such further sum as, reckoning the interest of money at 20. per cent. per diem, may be required to make up for two years an annual income equal to four-fifths of the land-tax; or the land.tax is to be redeemable for so much land as shall yield annual rents and profits equal to four-fiths of the land-tax. " 3. So much of the land-tax as shall remain unredeemed on the Ist of November, 1839, shall be converted into a real charge equal to four fifths of the land-tax, and payable by the owner of the first estate of inheritance in the land, who shall be entitled to recover the whole amount over against his tenantry. " 4. Such rent charges are to be redeemable or saleable for the best price to be had, not being less than the consideration for redemption of land.tax. " 5. The tithe-owners are to be paid by warrants issued by; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, and addressed to, the Col;amissioner: of Woods and Forests. Such payments are to be of the amount of the compositions to which the tithe-owners may be severally entitled, subject to a deduction for the trouble, loss, and expense of collection. Such rate of deduction is to be variable for each county, and to be fixed by a commission, with reference to the average expenses and out goings attendant on the collection of tithes in each county during the ten years from 1820 to 1830. "6. When redemption of land.tax or sale of rent.charges shall take place, the payments by warrant as aforesaid are to cease ; the redemption or purchase-money is to be paid over to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and yield an interest of 21d. per cent. per diem. The money is to be from time to time drawn out, and invested in land for the benefit of the tithe-owner entitled to the principal money." " I saw the Bench filled by a man whose DIGNITY is EN NOBLED by HIS SUPERHUMAN TALENT.—(Loud cheers.) The mind of Baron Smith is like the sparkling diamond—brilliant, chaste, and glittering." . The busine.s of the day concluded by— Mr. O'ConNELL's propo3ing three cheers for Baron Smith. We think we have done enough for this day; bat we have by no means di.cnissed the snl:j•cr. MONEY MARKET IN AMERICA. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) (Flom the Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday.) . These are ' , ally and truly the parties now before the country—the question at issue being whether the supre macy of the law is to be advocated by one of the Judges of the land- - whether the infatuated dupes of a selfish, de signing, and mercenary adventurer, are to be warned of the toils with which they are beset—whether order is to be rearm-id, and British connexion maintained, or whe thee the lasesare to be violated and agitation continued ; and the Government of the country and the Ministers of the King, having thrown the preponderating influence of their weight • ak to ht and their power against ju stice and its admi 13aron Smith has been sacrificed and Daniel • o. Connell has triumphed. It'leforeign to our present purpose to scan the low, ' p a ltry, and pitiful policy which led Mr . Littleton and his c°l , lea ßues--.*in breach of a solemn and distinct promise, • li:e lu e nter , il Y given to the contrary—to take the line . they adapted. They, of course, looked for their re * Aar to the clamourou ' s prai • aff se of the disloyal and the die th "te4 ---to the laudatory panegyrics of that portion of press which supports such principles. Th e y have foe press both. ?or object just now is to show, that throughout a life h inour and respect, Baron Smith, however he might,.. t weorai n t h._ g o our view, have . been mistaken in his politics. been at least honest, straightforward, _and consistent ; and that IN accuser, who a few nights since, in the hear- I t Z ei the House of Commons and the face of the country, of that he had never expressed a favourable opinion 4,that f unctionary, was his fawning slave and sycophantic , 1 4 " e laor, so long as be conceived his great name, stupen -a" talents, and unblemished character, could be made avaa.t., 4, 'tole to the objects he then had in c , ontemplation. e e ll the following from Mr. O'Connell s speech . . " Of that person (Baron Smith), he (Mr. O'Connell) .. had n er ' he begged to say, expresteil a favourable opinion. He ever ts _ , J " 4 . 1 Pronounced him to be a good Lawyer, or a learned tot e At the bar he had no practice. His object had been r e li . "'° o lin on those who joined with him in the fiendish • cry of p roft,s lts intolerance, and excitement of one class of religious h -4, against another." Piej::"Y previous to the commenctment of that inane - t t tt . ssion when the accursed Act of Roman Catholic timaneipation was passed, a dinner was arranged to be th e " tti Dublin to those favourable to the measure, under .specious and high-sounding title of " Friends of I?digious Liberty." ,;.," invitati , n, to this solemn feast were issued in the 11 4 w- e," "DANIEL O'CONNELL;"and this very individual, in ue lli•ril)e,i " the hallooer of all who would join him tiu4 e cry of religious intolerance," was amongst isithT r oost of the distinguished guests besought to honor of th "pr, sence , and sanction by his name, this meeting Friends of Civil and Religious Liberty !" iv} c1 ~ 1, 4e 110 in,an3 of a,Ctl raining the precise terms in ti c t hat invitation was couched ; but that it was a par 501'1 -'1 : a nd si , eeial on-, written by Mr. O'CowatELL hint- Low' "" full 01 all that unction which he knows so well t t °a PPIY when he lias an object to attain, can be little Crum the answer of the learned Judge, whic h sk - Z rCrum i iu e w l s the public papers of the day, and which is ha:rbea! R* " January 21, 1826. eop I am gratified by the invitation which I have Nis "' W ed, and acce pt with pride a portion of the title which civil 'otter gives me. Ido belong to the class of ' friends of t hat l a re ligious liberty,' though I cannot claim to be what v Otter „ us me, a , distinguished' member of that class. th i . ur candour will, however, induce you to agree with me, r torn e e lass includes more than those who are favourable to tioo, is atholic p re t ens i ons. Y ou w ill a ssent to my sugges elsinos in the ran k s o f t h ose w h o are i n o pposition to their thou.,' fri ends ' of civil an d religious liberty' are to be found; taab i :" at the same time you may grieve, that wise and esti e.oont Per s , i nns, who all have the same object, the welfare of our This their view, should differ as to the means by which 740,1110 n end is to be attained. the w i n , th ns claiming on behalf of many, who are adverse to h orto:T s Of th Roman Catholics of Ireland, a share in th . e ?f being recognised as distinguished friends of civil ui rectl 3 . 4 rus liberty, I am not consulting any interests, or in tarliaroen'Ring any pretensions of my own. The annals of my who w career, of course, are, like myself, obscure. who w as search them will not find me in the list of those etc adverse to the claims of my countrymen of your re that i; w hile 1 trust, as well for their honour as for my own, seemed Z it ' appear that I only espoused them because they tl exion ~.. compatible with the permanency of British con- N eu ; !tbtne t he safety of our Church, and stability of our 0041 Ptibi l . • ceti" ' • and because it was my hope, that any apparent 4 ' 4 fair_urP" might be met and obviated by mutual candour ra ugein eor o u 'g ; and twoamicable compromise, in the ar- Tna . ; What fo f ii tt e a d il , s o , nb the two reli ions. hare l 'e tames t „ the close of my parliamentary career, 4°" been, turned the channel of my public duties. I which / t u. for ma tachmentlruosotilitrc4t . years a Judge ; a period during while I tef , vestige or svm,-,, hur eh an —no room for doubting my at ' 'or be d. (1 Constitution, neither could any Il k of the want of a co "eetl ted, either in my public or private tholic fellow subjects them : 414 feeling towards my Roman Ca- Shtass p re j udice against Z o rn which it could be inferred unchecked by any the Indeed nothing has occurred that if I were again in Par :edenr,,lo might not resume the course which I formerly pur opizon,l doubt I ought con scientiouslyto review my past be Ur 8; tow eigh impartial( a Arigh t against them ;to conYsidneYr arguments w um p e r n esent circumstances rrly do . ar eot and regulate their application. All this would be tesq t ` 7 ; and I hope I shall perform it. But possibly the his o ._, lt light be, my serving as a private in those ranks which e‘').uistingoished statesmen lead. l orne . '_ . " " conceive that the situation which I fill makes it in lire — my duty to stand aloof from such political scenes, oolo ur L"ves, and transactions, as, from their nature, are 1 e0 ,.`.. with anything of a party tinge. Do not suppose that parttrnsider the dinner to which you have invited me, as a soci a l ,„ eet ing, in the ill sense of that expression. But it is a to pr o Z e t e : i n_e, originating in, connected with, and intended , 4 1 11 etio n ,2 e . r n tain political arrangements, and to as h si e s r t is an hed d sen o toany'errimras.i political opinions, enterta . ined and d. t ed fro„ t respectable persons; but disapproved and is lisktur_ by many others of the same description. The Le aflet th. 7, r uaY have to arbitrate between these opposite opinions; Isb leh "7 indecision will form a portion of that general law, rort evurrivriantyeustetip. aim hold be my tY not only to obey, but to administer ; "/ :::: an re d verence and submission. Whatever hopes may be, I ought not to risk th nte, or p la ya antic iPation, in the censure of what may con tines established law; and which, in discharging the 3' department, I may have to declare and act upon. sty in estio ia b 'et pro p s de and distinguished individuals may, with Of etthe kind Y ' and I presume will, attend a convivial meeting tournd which I have described. But I doubt whether a ea°, wit' pe t ~ equal correctness, do so. The tone of the er,„,„ %IR naturally be in unison with those objects, con . WilliZY with con which h . tittered ic it is assembled. The pervading sentiment „ . :velt ogs Iv,. with the warmth which belongs to those power "' With these associate themselves with a cause like yours, the.tee. All this which conviviality is , calculated to of .lnt e u i ZtU this will be in maintenance of opinions on which , oUr ge nt classes of our community,and even the branches ar -eeN e 1 . f itted ß 7 latu re, are unfortunately divided ; and all this „,, tket,„, ° Produce a scene not discreditable to those who scs -g l ett aZDa'take of it, but, perhaps, not precisely that in ""ireely be "ge should be an actor, and a mere spectator he can Lith er tat patty in a „.„'" ° ._ e ne , , which it might be quite , correct for the r e ,, k r Ogar d t r,O . ra . l to assume, will be suppressed, from . a deli frh,aint his situation ; and thus his presence will impose ti e ,": 'hat he May have to listen to, join in, or abstain T hey 'hall suir le h . a it he joins, he mixes more in conflicting poli te, roar jo It this station ; and from which, if he refrains, he tiee u e ' ' 0 iar iell degree, the harmony of the meeting, and ' donee ati return for the hospitable honour which has cs er er liap, ""• f or , do ""Y scruples or too punctilious. You will, how on th e first tit justice of recollecting, that t h ey are not recent l y lh a i" el ll,,„ tt nie tak en up ; but that I enterta i ned and acted „ nicb'has era l Years ago, when I received an honour similar to /li e u I :her e Just been done me. ii, her tal o rder tn Public convivial meetings, which persons of the It a, ntcu rr ac e in ti le h a bi t of occas i ona lly a tt en di ng; yet kl - s: r . ' ll that r n h e , e :' may take place, in which they might think POii t to are eY did n o t part i c i pate. But mee tings such as part ~ .ii „irnpien?t necessarily, perhaps are not properly, of a of 6 , 0, 3 ' natu re '"°n. We are not to anticipate occurrences of 'run e a risk , ', 4n d in uniformly absenting themselves, because to n .recc,, o . Ole tbt, ," I . .ges . might withhold their presence from th e Public bodies, to whom a degree of respect is tua y attend 4, ➢ ,f o 'lue, and who are entitled to whatever lustre Per geo ß , i ve. tot c ) f public functionaries and official rank Whkb h and e,_ convivial meeting, formed of private p„"sel connected with political opinions on tha t I a nl a af rant " th are divided, I feel to be a different case. tet,tane..,eeling insnlio satisfy my that no anxi ou .. a t I have been prolix. My apology must be, Roman Catholic countrymen, true rna : °f y our 'cal to them stands between me and an ac bie ' s ons for 'nvttation. I have preferred assigning the ever se a 1 1,71 Y declining it to inventing a civil and plausi -1 diet ac e t ale Qui( ' e qually decline to attend a meeting how highly reap ° n l ay assertible(' to • Catboli Years further views opposite to yours. otata,.' "vete! the wh:,:,eoithiro, eoisavind,:tractrisvaer, decline to meet company, in which I learned that anti -1" hosts, set to r : t rade olys t u be very zealously proclaimed. On that ded at d r °Uct l y a , e u l f, that those who have offered to be rnat my ream:, toe nit impartiality in a Judge, to be ohj eot ?_ ° n in their party, when they know " TZbaniel O'c o „ ". to joining any. Tv e ar e .; A " I have the honour to be, &c. of „,, r ,_ 'nutbted 9" „ *t I, ''unttinpar for the for W. C. SMITH. " lj eo , ary th e egoing letter to tbe research t l s e. o 4iw r , c p 7" Mr. o , co ;erder, who tells us that, after _nta t h " acYaie "'ell" rose and PRONOUNCED e "NOUR " t he ri ues and SPLENDID to• oelo AoLt e v p wegvo... ..a was LEARED wr ced iter." 4 " p N ronoun in February, Thepossible consequences of the crisis in the United States to this market continues to be a subject of much discussion and some anxiety in the City. A view of it will, therefore, be useful in letting the public, as well as the initiated, know something of the real state of the case. In general the impres sion is that the quarrel between the United States' Bank and the Government is the sole cause of the panic, but this is an error; it merely applied the match to a heap of combustible matter accumulated by over-issues of paper money, and a long series of other injudicious banking operations. One fact alone is suffic:ent to show this, when it is stated that one esta blishment, the United States' Bank above-mentioned, increased its issues of notes between the end of the year 1830 awl the month of February in the year 1832, from 42,000,000d5. to 70,000,000d5. Within that interval a mania commenced in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and the other large cities of the Union, only to be paralelled by our own bubble-year of 1825. Rail-roads, canals, and banks were, however, the favourite objects of speculation. In August, 1831, a prospectus was issued in Philadelphia for a new bank, with a capital of 4,000,000 dollars, when, such was the eagerness to obtain subscriptions in it, that men had their coats torn from their backs, and women (for they also partook of the mania) fainted from the extreme pressure of the crowd. At this time no names were given, no list of directors for the new bank was published, but the sub scribers were to ptit their names and the number of shares they wanted into a letter-box in s house fixed upon for the purpose. On this occasion the subscriptions amounted to 40,000,000 of dollars, that is, to ten times the capital proposed to be raised. With the additional supplies of paper, however, from the United States and other banks, all went on smoothly enough, till the removal of the Government deposits from the former, and the subsequent differences, compelled the whole of them to contract their issues suddenly to an enormous extent, and to call in the greater part of the outstanding engagements with them. This was the commencement of the crisis. Nothing was heard on all sides but the complaints of ruined speculators, making up their accounts as well as they were able, and meetings of directors of the different bubble companies to make arrange ments for winding up and abandoning them. Next began the action of this state of things on the solid and substantial un dertakings with which the Union abounds, and on the ma nufacturing and mercantile interests. Money bad become so scarce that it was not to be had but on the ruinous terms of 2 or even 3 per cent. monthly, in consequence of which all bu. siness was paralyzed. Men of real credit and substance pre pared themselves to weather the storm by shipping off what goods they possessed to England and the continent of Europe, in order to obtain specie in return for them, at the same time sending out orders to stop all purchases of manufactured and other goods in this country and elsewhere. Bills on London were so scarce that they fell from 8 or 9 premium to par—a circumstance which has not occurred for 20 years before. Besides these, large amounts of subscriptions in the stock of the different states of the Union have been sent off to Europe for the purpose of borrowing money on that security. In fact, there are no means of raising money abroad which have not been resorted to. The calculation of persons conversant with American business, is that specie to the amount of from 25,000,000 dollars to 30,000,000 dollars must be imported into the United States before affairs can be restored to their natural level. This is the exact state of the case, according to the best in formation current in the city, as regards - America ; and the point debated among our capitalists is, whether England can supply her share of the sum required, without deranging her own money system in a serious degree. There arc men of good judgment and dispassionate views to be met with here who maintain that she cannot ; that a material depression of the foreign exchanges will he produced by it; and that the Bank will be compelled to contract its issues, with all the train of consequences which usually follow, and with which all moneyed men are sufficiently conversant. We consider this, however, a mistaken notion, at least in the degree to which it is carried, and that this arises from overlooking the consi deration that the United t States will obtain supplies of specie from France and other European countries beside England, and that even from Mexico large shipments of dollars may be made, which will have the advantage of being nearer at hand for that purpose, and the sum distributed will form an unimportant drain on the London market, where money, it should be ob served, is more abundant than has .been the case for a long time before. Still it must be allowed that it is extremely pro. per to direct public attention to this subject, which will be of some service, if it only checks the mania for speculation in the foreign funds which now prevails at the Stock Exchange, and which must suffer great impediments at this moment, even by an increase, otherwise'immaterial, in the value of money. There are other considerations connected with the crisis in the United States, regarding its action on our manufacturing inte rest, by whom it may be more seriously felt ; but on this part of the subject we meet with conjecture chiefly, and no approach to accurate information. The actual transmission of specie hence to the United States is not believed at present to have exceeded 1,000,000 dollars, of which 500,000 dols. have been . . . . sent by one leading capitalist, and the remainder by other houses.— Times. IRISH TITHES BILL. (From the Times.) The Bill of Mr. Littleton proposes to substitute a lend tax instead of the present tithe system, and is to take effect from and after November 1, Mt. The tax to be collected on those who at present pay the composition, is to be collected by the Commissioners of Land Revenue, and is subject to the same mode of collection as the quit rents in Ireland : the advantage to 'the landlord consists in being relieved from the vexatious system that has so long been complained of in that country—the advantage to the clergy in having a secure payment, with a deduction pro - pottionate to the risk and uncertainty attending tithes. The value of the tithe seems to have been fairly taken by making it dependent on the value of land in the different districts of Ireland ; and as it is proposed that the tax shall be redeemable, and as soon as may be converted into land, it is intended that the value of each 1001. shall be p- rp:tuated in land of the value of SOL The questiL n is one of great importance, and if the amount of tithe is to be collected at all in Ireland, the present plan seems a fair one in reference both to the tithe.payer and tithe•owner. To those, indeed, who contend that tithe should not be collected in Ireland, this Bili cannot be ac ceptable; but the people of England will never consent to sacrifice so large a sum, which, if not brought to the ac count of the state, will go into the Irish landlord's pocket, land must be eventually paid by England. The plan is a good one, but good only as it affects the collection of an impost due to the State and not at all as affecting the future appropriation of the revenues to be collected. The abuses of the Irish Church,—the sinecure parishes, where no duty is done, because there is no duty 0 do,—the parishes in unions, without a Protestant parishioner or parish church,—and the p irish churches, built for the squireen's family, and not fiequented by any other individual, are, thank God, not affected by the Bill ; and i! the Government do nut shortly take up the question of appropriation, the House of Com mons will not do their duty to their constituents, if the whole question is not brought before Parliament. But in furtherance of this most desirable object, this Bill should first pass into a law, anti the Members of England and Scotland, unacquainted with the details of Irish church .buses, should be in possession of the report of the Com. missioners, and of some most valuable returns moved for tt the close of the last session by Mr. Stanley, Member for Cheshire. When these reports and returns are before the House, it is clear that an hour should not be lost in exposing the abuse and remedying the defects, by making a different appropriation after the death of prevent Mr. LITTLETON concluded his explanation of the object and probab'e effects of the projected Bill by moving the following resolution:— " That it is the opinion of this Committee, that compo sition for tithes in Ireland ought to be abolished on and after the Ist day of November in the present year, in consideration of an annual land-tax, to be granted to his Majesty, payable by the persons who would have been liable to such composition for tithes, and of equal amount; that such land-tax shall be redeemable; and that out of the produce provision should be made in land or money, for the indemnification of the persons entitled to such composition." IM PERIAL PARLIAMENT THIS DAY, FRIDAY, FEB. 21. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Speaker took the chair about a quarter past twelve. This being the last day for the presentation of petitions re lating to private Bills, a great number of such were presented. Mr. RAMSBOTTOM presented a petition from Windsor, upon the subject of the London and Windsor railway. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a petition, signed by 2,000 inhabitants of the city of London, praying that they might be allowed to participate in the benefits resulting from the London Bridge Improvements Act. Petition ordered to be referred to a committee. Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE brought in a Bill for the formation of a railway from London to Southampton, which was read a first time. Mr. PONSONBY presented a petition from the inhabitants of Hull for leave to bring in a Bill for the building a bridge over the river Humber. Mr. O'DWYER presented a petition from the Limerick Bridge Improvement Company, and obtained leave to bring in a Bill. Mr. FERGUS O'CONNOR presented a petition from Gar. rowcloy, in the county of Cork, praying for a repeal of the legis. lative union. From the quantity of business at present before the House, it would be impertinent on his part to occupy the time of the House by any lengthened observations. He would merely beg leave to call their attention to a mistake that appeared in the papers of this morning respecting some ex pressions used by him on the previous night. It had been stated that he had said that by the Government adopting a good tithe measure a stop would be put to the agitation of the repeal question. This must have been a mistake either on his part or of the press such a measure would never obtain his consent, as it was totally at variance with his principles. He was sa tisfied that nothing the Government could do would put a stop to the agitation for the repeal of the union.—(Laughter.) Mr. WIGNEY presented a petition from an individual named Cohen, the proprietor of the Brighton Guardian, and at that time a prisoner in the gaol of Chelmsford. The peti tion was of extreme length, and he would merely read a few passages from it to show the hardships under which the peti. tioner suffered. The Hon. Member then proceeded to read several extracts from the petition, by which it appeared that a paragraph had been published in the petitioner's paper rela tive to the incendiary fires which had taken place in that part of the country, and contrasted the conduct of the magistrates of the district where the fires had occurred with that of the magistrates of Horsham, in which place it appeared that, owing to the judicious arrangements made by the magistrates, no incendiary fires had taken place. The petitioner complained that no proceedings were instituted against him till five months after the publication of the paragraph, and that on the 16th of November he had been called up to the Court of King's Bench to receive judgment, and that although he had handed in affidavits, in mitigation of punishment, from several magis trates who had deposed that they did not conceive themselves libelled by the paragraph in question, he had been sentenced to six months' imprisonment, to pay a fine of 501., and to give heavy securities for his future good behaviour, and to be further imprisoned until the fine be paid and the re cognizances perfected. Although the paragraph contained only thirty-two lines there were eight specific charges brought against him, and Mr. Justice Parke, before whom be had been tried, stated that he did not think the jury intended to find him guilty of the libel The petitioner further stated that he was the sole support of his mother and family. The Hon. Member stated that he would not trouble the House with any further observations, but merely add that the petitioner prayed that the House would take some measures for his speedy release, he having already suffered three months' imprisonment ; and that they would be also pleased to make such alterations in the law of libel as would protect proprietors of newspapers from perse. cutions of this nature. He hoped that the measure brought for ward by the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, a few nights since, for the amendment of the law of libel, would be speedily carried into effect. Sir C. BURRELL felt great regret at the absence of the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin upon the occasion of the presentation of this petition, and could only account for it by the pressure of other business. It was one of very great im. portance, and it would have been highly desirable if one of the Ministers of the Crown was present.—(Hear, hear.) Being one of the bench of magistrates in the neigh tourhood of Horsham, the town which had been men tioned in the petition, he must be permitted to say a few words. He felt some delicacy in saying anything respect. ing the petitioner, but the House should know that that indivi dual, who came forward under the garb of innocence, had already been twice convicted of libel The -louse should not, therefore, receive the petition blindfolded, but should know the true character of the petitioner. He did not know why Horsham should be so eulogised in the petition, but this he knew, that very great endeavours had been made by the parish officers there and in the neighbour. hood, to find employment for the labouring poor. That was the object which the magistrates had in view, and in re ference to the Labourers' Employment Act, he believed that throughout England there was not an instance, in any parish, of acts of incendiarism having taken place where that Act was in force. That fact spoke greatly in favour of that measure, and was a proof that it should not have been so treated as it was during the last session of Parliament. He knew nothing of the petitioner personally, but he knew that his publications had been liable to great and severe animadversion. Lord W. LENNOX said he had no personal feeling towards the petitioner, whom he only knew as the editor of the Brighton Guardian, but he thought the case a very herd one.—(Hear.) In the first place, the petitioner was exonerated from the charge of exciting the labouring classes to acts of incendiarism. The defence was that he was ignorant of the insertion of the para graph, which was sent to his office late on the evening preceding the day of publication, and that certainly ought to have been taken into consideration.—(Hear.) Mr. Justice James Parke, who tried the case, in his charge to the Jury stated that the Jury had nothing to do with the reasons why the Government did not institute the prosecution, and that one reason might be, that in cases of prosecutions by the Govern ment, Juries had a very strong feeling in favour of defendants. That might be true, but he (Lord W. Lennox) was convinced it would not prevent justice from being done.—(Hear, hear.) He would not trespass longer on the attention of the House, but he fully concurred in the prayer of the petition for a change in the law of libel, for a more disgraceful law never existed. — (Hear, hear.) He wished that the lion. and Learned Member for Dublin (Mr. O'Connell) had been present, as that Hon. and Learned Gentleman had take ti up the miltet. thoiight the law of libel as it existed !Airerie'a was the best, By that law two things were permitted, viz —to prove the truth of the libel, and also to prove whether the libel be published on public grounds or from personal feelings. There was no such thing there as a farthing damages, and entailing heavy costs on the defendant.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. FERGUS O'CONNOR considered the case one of Mr. SHEIL conceived that there was but one feeling on the absence of all responsible Ministers from the House during the morning sittings. It was better that no meeting should take place in this House, than that there should be no Ministers present, and of course no answer given to such charges as were brought against them, and no consideration given to the numerous facts that were brought before the attention of the House. As the law of libel was introduced, he would take an early opportunity of stating a fact which he hoped would come under the cognizance of. the British Legislature, 'aud receive that degree of attention from it which its impor tance demanded. Mr. Richard Barrett, proprietor of the oPtlu wspaper, , in Dublin, was prosecuted for the publication of a letter signed Daniel O'Connell. The prosecution was in stituted before the late Jury Bill came into operation ; but after it had been enacted. It was pressed upon the Court to postpone this trial till after the Ist ofJan. , when the advantages of the new Jury Bill would be applied to the case of the individual prosecuted. This app'ication was refused ; therelerk of the Crown supplied forty-eight names, out of which twenty-four were to be selected. Amongst those were only four Roman Catholics, and the Crown Solicitor struck off the names of those four; so that, to use a common and a very strong phrase, this jury was a packed one ; and a letter, signed " Daniel O'Con nell"—was tried by persons, who he would not say belonged to a party, but whose public conduct was characteristic of factious feelings. Well ; did they stop there ? No ; a recommenda tion was given by the jury to mercy, and on the ground of this the prisoner was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The Government, availing itself of a statute which was passed in 1815, Act 55, Cap. SO. issued an ordinance he (Mr. Shell) would use that word, for it bore a strong analogy to the entire tran saction—not to give Mr. Barrett's paper any stamps.—(Cries of " Oh, oh, oh.") So that he was first incarcerated, though recommended to mercy, and after having been deprived of his liberty, he was next deprived of the means of livelihood.— (Cries of "Hear, hear, hear.") Was this a line of conduct to be sanctioned in a country where the liberty of the press was boasted of as a part of the liberty of the, people ?—(Hear.) Was all this done in a spirit of fairness and impartiality towards the accused individual ? He (Mr. Shell) would not appeal to the Government but to the British people, and he would expect that feeling of" just indignation," of which he hoped the royal bosom had no monopoly, that the circumstances could not fail to evoke from the hearts of the British people. He would sub mit the case to their justice; and he had to tell them that it was one not only entitled to their sympathies, but bound up with their interests. Mr. WILKS said he perfectly agreed in the opinions ex pressed by the Hon. Member for Tipperary. He saw the tran saction to which that Hon. Member alluded announced with feelings of the deepest regret and displeasure. In the absence of the Members of the Government, however, he thought it only due to the Government to state, that upon reference to the Act it appeared that there was no discretion left with the Commissioners of Stamps, who, under the provisions of the Act, were specifically ordered, in case of the conviction of a publisher,—(Cries of " Read.") He would read the clause of the Act, the words of which were, "That in case a printer, publisher, or proprietor, of a newspaper, shall in due course of law be convicted of publishing, &c., any seditious libel, the same commissioners of stamps shall and are hereby prohibited from selling or delivering to or for the use of such publisher, &c., any stamped paper."—(Hear, hear, hear.)—Undoubtedly the words of the Act were specific upon the subject, and no person connected with the Stamp-office could supply stamps without absolutely violating the prohibitions of the Act. In the absence of all the Members of the Government it was but due to them to make this statement. The moment they found that this law was put into operation, it was the in tention of the Government, with the greatest possible expediti2p, to introduce a Bill by which the compulsory crause of: the Act would be repealed.—(Cheers.) And this most outrageous disgrace to the statute book would be endured no longer.—(Cheers.) He would repeat, that he agreed entirely in the sentiments expressed by the Hon. Member for Tipperary (Mr. Sheil). He (Mr. Wilks) and every man that had any regard for the liberty ofthe press,must regret the extreme wrong and hardship which was exercised towards the editor of the Guardian newspaper. He deeply regretted that that gentleman should be transported from the county of Sussex to a distant county. It was to be regretted chiefly that the industry of army man should be crushed, and that he should be prevented from earning food for his family.—(Hear, hear.) These proceedings had taken place on former occasions, but he hoped they would never again be revived ; and the expression of the feelings of the House would have a beneficial effect upon the Judges in their future sentences. Mr. C. O'DWYER said that it should be recol lected that the Commissioners of Stamps were not cognizant of this transaction respecting Mr. Barrett until they were in formed by the Government. They acted under the instruction of the Government ; and it was a remarkable fact that it re. mained for a Government professing the utmost devotion to the press, to be the very first to enforce the obsolete provisions of the abominable Act.—(Hear, hear, hear.) There was no penalty upon the Commissioners of Stamps for not enforcing this law.—(Hear, hear.) The provisions of the Act could not be enforced, if the party had not been convicted of publishing a seditious libel. If the word" seditious " had not been introduced into the indictment, the Act would not operate. Every lawyer was of opinion that the word seditious in this indictment was a surplusage, and that it was introduced solely from vindictive feelings, and to destroy this unfortunate gentleman.—(Hear, hear.) He had given notice of a motion upon this subject, and he would see whether a British Parliament had spirit to resist this abominable oppression. He deeply regretted the sufferings and wrongs of Mr. Cohen. He had been prosecuted for a libel against ma gistrates. Now he (Mr. O'Dwyer) thought that where a libel was directed against a particular class, the accused party should not be tried by the some class. He should be tried by his peers, and not magistrates ; he should at least he tried by persons who would not sympathise with the prosecution. If such had been the case in the present instance, the verdict would have been sanctioned much more strongly by public opinion than it now Major BEAUCLERK said that it appeared by the cause of the Act read by the Hon. Member for Boston, that the words of that Act were imperative on Government, and that there fore they were not to blame.—(Hear, hear, and No, no.) He agreed very much in the opinions expressed by the editor of the Brighton Guardian ; but he thought that in some instances that paper had gone beyond the strict line of preprieti, in the causes which is advocated, and that it would have been better for the paper itself if it had not done so. He therefore had no wish to see that paper attacking the Magistracy, but great allowance should be made for the period in which the publica tion was made. It Hon. Members looked at the columns , of the Chronicle or the Times, they would see much stronger attacks on Magistrates, and written with amore gigantic pep, or which no notice had been taken. He hOped Government stfoulg take this case into consideration and "Telege this `individual, whose prospects would be blasted for life if he were allowed to remain in gaol. He trusted Government would take this humane course; and when they recollected that this indivi dual had been charged with inciting incendiary fires, and that he had been honourably acquitted of that crime,. they would surely feel that it was a great stretch of cruelty to have him thrown into prison. He hoped Govern ment would look over the case and relieve the unfortunate man. If he had done wrong, the spirit of revenge ought tc; be sa'tii, fled by the punishment already inffic,ted: He joined sincerely in the'opinio!is exPies;ed by the Hon. Member who presented this petition, and he hoped it would receive the attention it deserved. Sir C. BURRELL said that until the case came before the House, in a direct form, it was impossible to come to any satis factory conclusion on it.—(Hear, hear.) Oil this ground alone he considered that it was incumbent on them; until there was a full and sufficient answer, from the course that had been adopted, to postpone their opinion upon it. He would only add, that, to his own knowledge, there was pqt single magistrate on the jury who bid tied this offence. (Hear, hear.) It should not, therefore, go forth that the contrary was the case. It would be a great injustice if it did so, and he repeated, he would take on himself to state that there was not a single magistrate on this jury. Mr. PRYME said that this prosecution was not insti tuted by his Majesty's Government; they had no more to do with it than with any other felony that hod teen tried at the last Sussex Assizes. 13.'t whoever Were the prosecutors, he }nut wqy, knowing nothing of the case but what he had heard in that House, and hearing the publication read by the Hon. Member who had presented the petition, that he was surprised at the punishment inflicted, and at the sentence of imprisonment in any gaol, much more in a distant one. With this, however, Government bad nothing to do.. Some Members were so anxious to throw blanie'on'thein, that they did so on pvery . ocCasiOn, #ll4 intrpduced discussions for that purpOie Which had nothing to do with the subject before them. He would not anticipate the question further, but would beg to make one remark upon the observation of the Hon. Member for Boston, that there was no penalty attached to a disobedience of the provisions of the statute. The words were that " they are hereby prohibited from issuing stamps ;" and although there was no penalty attached to a disobedience of this provision, every lawyer was aware that a disobedience of any Act of kar . liament was indictable at common law : and if the clause was not put in force, the party disobeying was liable to an indict ment at the prosecution of any person who sought to do it.— (Hear, hear.) _Mr. ROEBUCK said he would not trouble the House with many observations. It appeared to him that, although the Go vernment did not commence the prosecution of the Brighton editor, they had the discretionary power of keeping the party in gaol or not, and they did not exercise that power as they ought to have done, for they kept the unfortunate individual in prison. He would call the whole transaction a most disgraceful one—it was disgraceful to the prosecutors—it was disgraceful to the grand jury—it was disgraceful to the magistrates of Sussex, and he would say it was disgraceful to the judges of the land. He would not use guarded language, for this was not a case in which guarded language should be used. They had come there to express their sentiments freely, and he for one would do so. This unfortunate person (Mr. Cohen) had inserted in his news_ paper a paragraph respecting incendiary fires. He had stated a fact, and a fact simply—namely. that incendiary fires pr._ veiled in one district in Sussex, and that in another it did not. The whole gravamen of the charge was, that he had incited persons to make these incendiary fires, and yet the Judge before whom he was tried had declared, after the trial ha t terminated, that that charge was not made out.—(Hear.) What then was he punished for ? Simply for saying that eel fain Magistrates of Sussex were harsh towards the lower ' classes, and in other districts that they were not. He (Mr. Roebuck) thought he was perfectly justified in saying so.' (Hear, hear.) He was of opinion that in every district they would find some specific cause for the outrages of the pea santry. The people generally were fond of the law, and never kicked against it, except on account of some persecutions or oppressions. He was quite willing to admit that a resident gentry were of great service in promoting the interests of the people, and, as Magistrates, they had a great and powerful engine in their hands : if they abused it, or made it an instrument of oppression against the people, it would only excite them against the laws and against themselves. The matter for which the proprietor of the Brighton paper had been punished was what any man had a right to express his opinion upon, and the law which could put a man for six months in gaol for it was most disgracetbd. Those who sanc tioned that law must be tinged with some of the disgrace attached to it.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The Court of King's Bench had always evinced a leaning to the most strict interpretation of the libel law in its penal provisions, and had thereby made it a disgrace to the country. Mr. Cohen had by accident published in his paper a paragraph which he ex pressed himself willing to explain, and to show that he had done the very contrary to that which he was charged with ; but this wouldnot be allowed him. He (Mr. R.) contended that no man ought to be punished for a single act, when his inten tion was taken into considmation, and Mr. Cohen was willing to show, that if he was to be judged by his previous acts, the whole tenor of his writings had been against those incendiary fires, and that he was an enemy to this species of depredation, and destruction. The Government had frequently attacked persons in this disgraceful way. They had instituted a pro secution against the Hon. Member for Oldham, but they had been defeated, and they had now caught at the unfortunate Mr. Cohen, and, by means of a special jury and the disgraceful libel law, they had ilting him into prison. He trusted that the Hon. Member for Brighton would not permit the subjeet to drop, but that he would bring forward a specific motion for an address to the Crown; for the continuance of that man in prison was a disgrace to the law and the country. Mr. Cohen had merely stated a fact in his paper, and if that was a fact which should be laid before the people, then he (Mr. It.) conceived he was perfectly justified in doing so. It appeared that the Secretary of State would not interfere in the matter, and no other resource was left than an address from that House to his Majesty; and if the Hon. Member for Brighton would bring forward a motion to that effect, he should have his (Mr. Roe buck's) cordial support, such as it was. An HoN. MEMBER, whose name we could not learn, said the individual who prosecuted the petitioner had thought it was his bounden duty to do so on public grounds only. He , , hoped, however, the Hon. Member for Brighton would take an opportunity of moving an address to the Crown for the release of the prisoner, and he would be happy to support the motion.— (Hear.) He was bound to say, as far as the prosecutor was concerned, that a more honourable man did not exist, Another HON. MEMBER (name not known) said, he was one of the Bench of Magistrates who were the parties libelled (if any were) by the petitioner; but they thought it would be giving too much importance to it by instituting proceedings, particularly as there had not then been any fire in that part of the country, nor indeed had any one occurred up to the present time. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. FINN presented two petition from the parishes of Carrigeen and Coleron, in the county of Kilkenny, for the abolition of tithes. He stated, from an inquiry that he had very carefully made, that the Roman Catholic population in that county were as thirty-one to one of the Established Church. There were ten parishes lying together in which there was not a Protestant, and there were thirty parishes in that county in which there was not a singlemember of the Established Church. When the House was legislating for England and Ireland respecting tithes, that distinction was not made between the two countries which ought to be made.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Lord Grey had declared that in England the Protestant population was as two to one Dissenter, while the Bishop of London stated it was as three to one. In Ireland the Protestants, for whom alone the House should pisovide religious instruction, were only as I to 14—perhaps they might amount to 600,000. The measures now proposed, instead of relieving the people of Ireland, were calculated to increase the pressure of the burdens now existing, and would only give a premiuM to landlords to oppress their tenants. They would, in fact, produce a conflict of a most odious character, and the result would be that the mass of the pcopie, including the gentry, would combine for one common object. The mere changing the name of tithe signified nothing. What was the fact ? The House had made a declaration against the conti nuance of sinecure offices in the army, navy, and other departments, and yet the people of Ireland were to en joy the luxury of a sinecure Protestant Church.,4llear.) In the whole county of Kilkenny there were but 5,000 Pro testants, and it would be well for the House to guard against the future. It was certainly pleasant to possess patronage * and very painful to part with it ; so it seemed the, Ministers thought, for while out of office they condemned the system, but when they got into office they imagined that it was not a farthing too costly. He implored the Hquse riot to press too much on the Iwo* of Ireland, for they might arouse a spirit which in even the most peaceably disposed might be stirred up. In one parish (Bray, we understood) in which the op.. position to tithes first began, it was given on the authority of the Rev. Dr. Doyle, that many person who paid but Is. an acre rent paid more than that for tithe, so that it was a direct tax on the industry of the labouring poor. On many occasions it had been sought by the House to obtain the reiative popula tion of the county of Kilkenny, but he, would take the popula tion according to the returns of 1831, and on comparison with what it was a century ago-,,viz., in 1731—according to the re turn made to the House of Lords, upon the motion of the then Protestant Bishop, he found that the Protestant population of th at period exceeded what it was at present. Then was that result produced by religion or patronage? He contended that it was the system which had been adopted by establithiug severallaws, &c. The Roman Catholic poptdation had increae k ed four-fold, while the Protestant population had remained stationary, if it had not kcreaseti.- 77 (Hear.) The House was acting in a IPofit unjust manner towards that unfortunate country. He believed that the Right Hon. Secretary for Ire land had a strong sense of justice, and would be anxious, if he were permitted to do as he was inclined, to adopt measures for the benefit of that country. He conceded to that Right Hon. Gentleman, that in his deportment to all who had occasion to transact business with him he was roost courteous, but his measures were not his own, but were, the emanations of the whole Cabinet. Where the, Right Hon. Gentleman had had the power he 44 evinced every disposition to do justice to Ireland. The parts of the country whence the petitions came were the least disturbed of all. Lord NORREYS presented a petition against the tax on malt and hops. Mr. HODGES presented a petition fropl the county of Kent, for an alterotion in tithos, Mr. SHE4. I presented seyeral petitions from various places in thecounty of Tipperary, 3 for a repeal of theleoialative union, three, for abolition of tithes, and one for doing away with the corrupt borough of Fethard, After the petT,qns had Wen read, Mr. stipii, said, that he would call upon his Majesty's Ministers for a copy of the communication between them and the Stamp Office relative to Mr. Barrett, of the Pilot, as the Stamp Office had issued stamps to that paper after hi; convic tion, and of course it was by a direct intimMion.f,rom Govern ment that they were stopped, Mr. CARTWltlglrl:krvseated a petition from Berke, for a repeal of the trait ta - X: Lard CI - 14160S presented three petitions from the County of Buckingham, praying for an attentive consideration to the subject of agricultural distress ; and two petitions frorn Car narvon, praying for a repeal of the malt tax- The Noble Lora supported the petitions and bore textimony to the respectability of the signatures, which were, very numerous. Mr. ROBINSON said there were many petitions being presented 4o,ra tho Agricultural interest for the repeal of the malt tax, but ho would call upon them, or upon the Noble Marquis, who was so identified with that interest, to point out some mode by which the revenue of the country might be kept up without that tax. The petitioners not suppose that it was possible for the Noble Lorca, (Althorp) to continue in his office without having thp means; and they were well aware that without the malt tax the business of the countri! cpulft . skot' be . carried on unless another tax was substituted.—.(Hear, bear.). If the, Noble Lord and the class which he represented would submit to a commutation of taxes, then they might come With a goo 4 grace to that House and CORN EXCHANGE. This week there are abundant arrivals of all descriptions of Grain, and a large quantity of Flour. The Wheat trade is very dull at Monday's prices. Barley, Beans, and Peas, con tinue in a very languid state. Oats are difficult to quit, though the prices are so low. Flour meets a very unsatisfactory trade for the millers. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. English 8,460 qrs. 7,7802qr5. 22,0:1C qrs. 9,l6osaeks Irish 2OO 430 8,210 - Foreign l4) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE Ok BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended Feb. 14, 1834, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wileat-482. 9d. Oats 18s. 94.1 Beans—... 31s. 7d. Rarley—...O I 7s. 4d Rye 325. 4d I Pease-- 345. 9d. IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OP THE SIX AVEEKS PRECEDING, 4.45. 114.1 Oats 18s. 44 Barley .1 Roans."... 325. Id. 275. 83.1 Rye 32 i . Oci I Pease--... 365. • sd. DUTIES ON FOREIGN COItN. Whea1......._ 38s. 8(1.1 Oats 19s. 9.1.1 21s. 3cl Barley 21s . 4d. Rye 21s. 31.1 Pease......— 15.. sft. SIVAIT - HFIELD MARK E ; This day's supply of Beasts, Sheep, Calves, and Porkers, was vary indifferent, both as to numbers and quality. The trade was very dull, at Monday's quotations. Mitch Cows were rather numerous, and sold steadily at last week's prices, a useful Short,. horns. with her small Calf, producing from 19i. to 211. PRICES PER STONE OF EiLliS. TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. to s. d. ti.. a, 4 Inferior Beasts 2 2 2 4 Lar g e 'Lambe .......... e 0 0 Second quality ditto 2 6 3 2 Prune small tlittu... 6 0 6 8 Prime large Oxen 3lO 4 0 Large coaxieCalves 3 4 4 2 Prime Scots, Brc. 4 0 4 2 Prime swan 4 8 5 0 Inferior Sheep 2lO :3 2 1.0r , e Hog; '1 0 3 8 Second quality ditto 4 0 4 41 Sro:ll.POrktra 8 4 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 0 i Suckling Calves Mi. try3o. each. SnuthdownWethsrs 5 13 5 2 givirtereittPig: 11:..tf,18,each. WrPLY, AS PEA, CLERICS STATEMENT. Beasts. 1 Sh I Calves. Pigs. 421 1 ' 1,990 1 120 1 120 EW(.3 ATE AND LTiADENHALL SIA rth.E4l4. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. ay 242 6 I Mutton, inferior... -3 ! middling 2 6 3 0 --- middling.. prime large 3 4 3 6 ---- prime - prime small 3 6 3 8 Pork, large Veal 3 2 5 0 -small a. d.tos. d. 24 2 8 30 3 4 3 6 310 30 3 4 34 4 2 COLONIAL MARKETS. The Markets for Colonial and other produce are not firm, but an opinion is entertained that, as the spring advances, in. creased activity will be observed. The public securities having attained high prices, it is thought that capitalists will soon turn their attention to products, many articks of which the prices at present are comparatively low, BRITISH PLANTATION SVGARS.—Not much doing, and the sales of the week ending this morning scarcely amount to 1,000 hhds. Were tales pressed, prices would recede. Barbadoes Sugar Ilas been sold at 575. to 61s. 6d. per cwt. for middling to fine qualities. FOREIGN SUGARS.—The demand is not so brisk as last week. Strong Yellow Havannahs have ?etched 245. to 265. 6d. per cwt., being Is. per cwt. lower, EAST INDIA SueAn.—The sales have nearly amounted to 10,000 bagS t F4t a decline of about Is. per cwt. In Foreign Sugar:: little has been done. REFINED SUGARS.—The Market is now well supplied With goods, but the export and home demand is limited. SPICES.—The sales of Pepper have established a firm market, At improved prices. Rum AND iSRANDY.—The quantity taken for home use is pretty Large, and prices are still firm at the late rise. The Brandy market is lower—lst marks are 3s. 9d. to. 4s. 6d.; 2d marks at 3s. 3d. to 34. 6d. ; and other qualities at 3s. to as, 3,1. per gallon. COFFEE. —British plantation Coffees have fallen this week 2s. per cwt. East India and foreign Coffees support their value; some bold ordinary St. Domingo have fetched 605., and good ordinary Batavia 565. per cwt. Rice. —The public sales have gone off flatly, and most of the. Madras and Bengal qualities offered have been bought in. CorroN.--The sales of the week are about 1,200 to 1,500 bales at Md. per lb. advance. DRUGS.--Some considerable calks of Drugs took place - yes. terday, and on the whole they went off well. Camphor was sold at an improvement of about 5 per cent., fetching 61. 6s. per cwt. Barbadoes aloes went off at 17!. 16s. to 204 per cwt. ; and Colieus 'Adieus at las. (id. per cwt. in bond. Sea.nzraE..—The market for this article remains flat, with but little doing at Is. per cwt. decline. Stmt.—Thenear approach of the East India Company's sale sit Bengal silks has tended to pervert business to any extent, The sale is expected to go off at advanced prices. THE WOOL num—Them continues to be a good demand for wools, and the late high prices are maintained. The arrivals from the Continent are limited. The deliveries re. cently have 4en pretty large, and the accounts from the manu facturi,ng districts represent trade as brisk, though the very high prices now attained by wool rather check business. TAt.Low.—The market is now quoted at 445. 6d. to 445. Sol. per cwt. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S. The following were the priees at the close of the beAing yi e , day afternoon .—• THE n P: any. 11 to 2 agst Mr. Watt's Bubastes 15 to 2 agst Mr. Yates's Bentley (t 'ken) 9 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Plenipo (taken) 17 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Olympic 20 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Delirium (taken) 30 to I agst Lord Jersel's Glencoe (taken) 33 to 1 agst Lord Lowther's Trictrac colt (taken) OAKS. 0 0 to 1 AGO s'ir S. Graham's Zulima (taken) to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Pickle (taken) HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Cottesmore Hounds meet on Monday at Tolthorpe Oaks; Tuesday, at Cole's Lodp Thursday, at Irnham House —at a guars r before 11, Lord Fitzwilliam's. Ilaunds meet on Monday at Castor Hang lands ; Wednesday, at Aversley Wood; Thursday, at Stamford Staved;Ract Saturday, at Warboy's Wood—at 10. Lord Yarborough's Hounds meet on Monday at Crosby Pond ; Wednesday, at Hendale Lodge ; Friday, at Hainton House; Saturday, at Cadney Village—at 11. The South Wold Hounds meet on Tuesday at Turnby Wood ; Saturday : ,t Hangham—at 11. NI/SS EDGEWORTH'S NEW NOVEL.—We Are requested to state that Miss Edgeworth's new novel. mitled " Helen." will be published to.tnerrow by Air. Bentley, 8, Ne%v• Burlington-street (sunessur to Henry CJlburr.). The public are recommended to give their unenedia e orders to their respictivu booksellers to secure arty copies of the above w.s.lx,k. Agents f-r Scotland Me.s.s. Bell and Bradfuta, Edinhuggh ; for Ireland, Mr.. John Cumming ' , Dublin. To be had al•0 of all rezpectable l.ookbelleni throughout the British empire,