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initials of his name- t. L. nearly obliterated. On inquil, he found th a t tl-,e farmer had bought them of a person as suming a which corresponded with the initials on the sides, of the sheep. Th a t person, front the descripti on g i ven , w 3", believed to be the prisoner, and on his being questioned on the subject, he acknowledged haring sold the sheep, aad accounted for his having them by saying he had purchased them of an Irishman named Charles Lusty, but he could give no information where that man could be found, and he was then taken into custody. The prisoner, in his defence, said, that he was in the habit of buying sheep of strangers, and proved, thathe had been in the possession of money for doing so, by calling an auctioneer, -who had sold his late father's property, from the proce•As of which he had received upwards of lOU Thr : Jury found a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Justice PARK sentenced the prisoner to suffer death, as a practised offender. There were now two other in dictments against him, for the same offence; and as the crime was carried on to a great extent in this country, he felt himself bound to make a dreadful example of him that others might be deterred by his lamentable fate il - om similar depredations. His Lordship then pronounced the sentence in the formal words of th, law, and gave him no hope that mercy would be extended to Ent. The prisoner was removed from the bar in tears. NORTHERN CIRCUIT —YORK, Arnie 6. CROWN sir - 2. John _Littlocoed Was charged with the wilful murder of Edward Smith, on 31st December last. Mr. Maunz briefly stated the case for the prosecution. The deceased bad been the head gamekeeper of Philip Cooke, Esq. of Owston, and had, on the day mentioned in -the indictment, met with his death in consequence of a shot fired from the gun of a person of the name of Rushy. —The prisoner bad been in company with Rushy at the time, under circumstances of a suspicious character. Bus by had made his escape, but the prisoner had been appre lieuded. Thomas Gleddell examined—l am under-gamekeeper to 31r. Cook, of Owston ; and have been 20 years in his ser vice. I went out on Saturday evening, the 30th Decem ber, about six o'clock, in company with the deceased, and a person of the name of Howe, to watch the game coverts of Mr. Cooke; deceased was head keeper; deceased car ried a double barrelled gun. Howe and I had each a walking stick. We remained out all night. About half-past six o'clock on Sunday morning, I heard a gun fired at the distance of about three hundred yards from us; I awoke the deceased, who was at that time asleep, and we all three went in the direction in which the shot was fired; when Ave got into the plantation we heard a rustling noise in the wood ; we concealed ourselves, crouching d own un d er a tree, and the deceased standing in front, a n d H owe an d I behind him, eo that only deceased could h e seen . Wh en the noise oeme nearer we all rose, and just as Smith was getting up, I heard a shot go off, and he fell back in my arms, saying, " Lord have mercy." The moment Smith fell I saw a man at a distance of a few yards; he pointed a gun at me and snapped it, but it rnisseei fire- "closed with the man who had the gun, end called to Howe to dome forward. Howe came forward, and after a severe struggle we threw the man down, and xcue e d him by tying his hands and legs with handkerchiefs. That man was the prisoner. I said to him, " You in tended to shcot me." He answered, " No, it snapped when we were scuffling." On examining the gun, I found that it was loaded. The prisoner refused to give his name, and said " Lord have mercy upon my poor father and mother, they have trouble enough with my brother Jesnes." I then knew that he was John Littlewood. Cross-examined by Mr. JONES-When the gun went off, deceased was close before witness, and Howe close behind him. He supposed that the shot was fired at the distance of three yards from Smith. When the prisoner snapped the gun at witness, the muzzle was within a foot of wit ness's body. lie would not swear, that the next day he did not tell Mr. Workman that t'S a e gUa was unloaded. William Wmlgin an — i. reside at Adwick-le-stre e t, an d ama high constable : d ad clerk to the magistrates. In con sequence of infossnation which I received, I went on Sun day, Deeemly,r 30th, to the public-house where the pri soner Li*.tlewood :vas. I asked him what had induced him td commit so rash an act, and he said it was not he wlso had done it. I said, "Ifit is not you, it is your gun." Ht replied, " No, you'll find my gun loaded." The prisoner was then taken to Doncaster gaol. I then went to the spot where Smith had been shot. I found the marke of footsteps which I traced from the spot to the house of John Rusby. In that house I found two guns, one of which was loaded, and had apparently been so for some time. The other gun had the appearance of having been recently discharged, and had fresh marks of blood upon tire muzzle, and stock, and ramrod. I then searched the house, and found a pair of shoes with large nails in she soles, and covered with dirt. The shoes corresponded exactly with the , footnlarks leading from the spot where Smith had been shot. On the Thursday following the prisoner sent for me, and said that he was very sorry that he had not told the troth at once. He said that he was very sorry for what had occurred, but that it had been Rushy who had shot the deceased. Crosesexamined—l saw Gleddell in the course of the Sunday. Gleddell did not say that the prisoner had snapped his gun at him. On the contrary, he insinuated that it was the prisoner's gun which had shot the deceased. It was not until we had found out that the pritioner's gun was loaded that Gleddell said any thing about its being snapped at him. I think the prisoner's gun was not in such a state that it could have been fired. I have known the prisoner 14 or 15 years, and as far as I know he is a quiet, good-tempered man. I never beard any complaint against him until the present. The gun which had been taken from the prisoner was produced. It had been cleaned, and the trigger wasdrawn in Court, in order to ascertain whether it made much noise. A very distinct sound, which might have been heard at a distance of 20 yards, followed the experiment. William Mason stated, that he had accompanied Mr. Workman to the house of John Rushy. Witness remained outside to hold Mr. Workman's horse, and, while there, he saw John Rushy the younger running away. Witness fol lowed Rusby for some distance, but at length lost sight or him. The confession which the prisoner bad made before the 4oroner was then put in and read. In it, the prisoner stated that he had gone out with John Rusby to Mr. Cooke's plantation to shoot pheasants. Rusby shot one, and soon after prisoner saw the flash of a gun, and per ceived two men come towards hint. He at first thought that they had shot Rushy, and suffered himself to be quietly taken. The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, simply asserted that he had known noth: ,, g about the death of Nuitth until that event had taken place. Mr. Baron Huncoc lc stated to the jury, that before they could convict the prisoner of the crime of murder, they must feel convinced that he had gone nut with Busby- with an understanding that they were to oppose to the last ex tremity any one who might resist them. In such a caso the act of one would be the act of all. But if they thought that the prisoner and Rushy had gone out merely for the purpose of killing game, without any concerted design of resistance, then the act of Rushy could not be visited upon the prisoner. The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner was then put to the bar on an indictment, charging him with being out, armed with a gun, on the night of the 30th December, with intent to kill game. On this charge also the prisoner was found Not Guilty. Charles Cormach was indicted for the wilful murder of Robert Crossland, at Bradford, on the 4th of July last. The prisoner bad been committed on the Coroner's in quisition, which charged him with manslaughter only, but Mr. Baron Hullock, on reading the depositions, had ex pressed an opinion that the facts of the case constituted a murder, and this indictment had been in consequence preferred. Joseph Butler examined—l am a wool-comber residing near Bradford. On the 4th of July last I accompanied the deceased and his wife to Leeds market. We returned together about 12 o'clock at night. When we were pass ing the Talbot inn, at Bradford, the prisoner, who is a butcher, came out. The deceased had got into the cart, and his wife was walking. Prisoner went sip to the wife of deceased, and behaved to her with great rudeness and indecency. She called out to the deceased, and he went up to the prisoner, and flung the prisoner away. They had a seullle, and some blows were exchanged. I inter fered, and the prisoner went away. I then went with de ceased and his wife to his home. I and deceased remained in the yard putting up the horse and cart, and on a sud den prisoner rushed from behind one of the pillars in the market-place, and struck the deceased on the head with a stick. Deceased instantly fell. No words passed between them before the blow was given. Prisoner then struck at me and at the horse. It was about half an hour after prisoner first left us that this happened. Deceased died in about a month. From the night he received the blow until his death, he constantly complained of a pain in his head. c ron _ exim i ned. _Th e prisoner was tipsy. The deceased r,eeived 101. from prisoner. It was given to prevent de cea-'‘e,l indicting prisoner at the Sessions for an assault. Jane Cros s l an d, the wife of the deceasedwidence., gave similar From the of this witness, it appe ay . e d 1 that the pri"n" bad paid the doctor's bill, besides lot. which he had given to deceased. The deceased had gone to Leeds on the let of August, and died as he was returning. Mr. Beaumont, a surgeon, examined the head of the deceased, after his death, and found the skull fractured. he believed that the death of the deceased might be re motely attributed to the first injury, but that it was im mediately owing to the fatigue occasioned by the journey to Leeds. Three other medical gentlemen were examined, one of whom believed that the death of the deceased had been occasioned by apoplexy, unconnected with the injury, and the other two were of opinion, that the death of the de ceased had been occasioned by the fracture of the skull. For the defence a great many witnesses were examined, who gave the prisoner a good character. Evidence was also o6ered to show that the deceased had drank a consi derable quantity of liquor on the day on which his death occurred. Mr. Barott nuttocx summed up the case, and the Jury found the prisoner guilty of Manslaughter. The prisoner was immediately sentenced to seven years' transportation. At Bury Sr. Edmund's Assizes, on Wednesday, the Rev. Mr. Blornfield, cousin to the Bishop of Chester, obtained 800/. damages against Mr. Tempest, a gentleman of large fortune, residing near Aldhorough, and a member of the profession, for a libel, imputing to Mr. Blomfield gross practices. At Hereford Assizes, Mr. Boyd, an officer on half-pay of the Army, obtained a verdict of 3001. against Mr. Townsend, as compensation for injuries he received by-the overturning of the defendant's coach. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSSIOUTII, APRIL 7.—This morning his Majesty's sloop of war, Slaney, 20, Captain Samuel Thornton, arrived from the East Indies. She left Rear-Admiral Gage at Trincomalee on the Ist of December last. The Rear-Admiral had then his flag on board the Boadicea, the Java not having reached India. The Rainbow and Hind were like wise at Trincomalee, which place had been of late years uniformly healthy, The Rainbow was about to proceed to New South Wales. A squadron, consisting of the Tamar, Athol, and Pandora, had been detached to the Persian Gulph, under the orders of Captain J. Gordon Bremer, C.B. The Fly, 18, Captain Wetherell, was at New South Wales ; the Cyrene, 20, Captain Campbell, in the Straights of Malacca. The Champion, 18, Captain Studdert, was hourly expected at Trincomalee from Rangoon, where she had been stationed since the conclusion of the war with the Empire of Ave. Rangoon had been evacuated b;• the British forces. The Hon. Company's transport Sir Edward Strettle, with 220 followers of the army, lately employed in Ava, had been totally wrecked on the island of Gomez, near Acheen Head, on her passage from Rangoon to Madras, in September last. Twenty of the camp followers were drowned. The Slaney, making the same passage, fortunately arrived in Acheen Roads a week after the accident. Very rough wea ther had prevailed on the Eastern side of the Bay of Bengal during the last S.W. monsoon. The Slaney left Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on the 4th of February, St. Helena on the 17th, and the Island of Ascension on the 27th of that month.—Commodore Christian was in Simon's Bay, with the Owen Glendower, Sparrowhawk, and Helicon.—The Semarang, Captain Dunn, was at the Mauritius.—Th e squadron at the Cape was healthy. At St. Helena all was well. At Ascension (where the Slaney remained three days), an outward-bound Indianian, which left England in December, had brought news of the embarkation of troops for Por tugal, &c. The William Harris transport was left at Ascension. That island is represented to be now in a most flourishing state of progressive improve ment as to its resources, both natural and artificial. Roads are constructing from the several springs (sixteen in number), to convey water to the gar rison; and hopes are entertained of being able to supply a squadron with that essential article, in the course of a year, by means of iron pipes, from the principal spring to a reservoir near the beach. Pas turage for cattle is making its appearance. Sheep, turkeys, and live stock of every description, thrive well there. Fruit, such as pines, Indian gooseber ries, and plantains, have been successfully cultivated. Potatoes, onions, carrots, peas, French beans, and almost every esculent vegetable have been produced upon the Island ; and thus, from a desert cinder, nature has been courted successfully to yield most of her useful vegetable productions. Only two deaths from sickness have occurred at Ascension during the last two years ; and when we consider that gales of wind are unknown to have visited the anchorage there, the value of that island as a rendezvous and a depot for stores and provisions, for a squadron of observation, destined to cruise either on the African or Brazilian coast hereafter, will obviously repay the liberal attention that has been bestowed upon it. The Slaney is ordered to Woolwich to be paid off Yesterday his Majesty's ship Calliope, Lieut John Powney, returned from Vera Cruz, having conveyed thither M. Rochafeurte, Charge d'Affaires from Mexico to this country. Mr. R. is expected to return in the Queensberry packet, which was to leave Vera Cruz on the Ist March. The Calliope brought the Queensberry's mail, and dispatches from the Mexican Government. She left Vera Cruz on the 22d February, and the Havannah on the Bth of March, and brought 80,000 dollars, and 20 stvons of cochineal, on merchants' account. The Tweed, 28, Captain Frederick Hunn, sailed from Vera Cruz on the .sth of February. She had taken on board two millions of dollars, and 350 serous of cochineal, and was to touch at Tampico, to ship 10,0004 sterling, in specie, on account of the Mexican Government, for conveyance to England. It appears that the apparent critical situation of affairs between this country and Spain, had induced Sir Lawrence Halstead to dispatch orders to Capt. Hums, by the Pylades, Captain .Jackson, and Nimble, Lieut. Holland, not to touch at Havannah. The Pylades had been at Vera Cruz, with these orders, in search of the Tweed ; and the Nimble was left cruizing off Havannah, with the same object. The Calliope lay five days at Vera Cruz. The only political circumstance of any interest which had occurred, was an attempt on the part of the Priesthood to disturb the present Government. The plot being discovered, the Ecclesiastics at Vera Cruz were seized by General Barangar, and sent off to Mexico, to be hung in that city, with several of the agitators discovered there. The Calliope left the American corvette John Adams (of twenty four 32-pounders), Captain Wilkinson, at Havannah. Commodore Laborde's squadron was refitting, ex cepting two frigates, which were cruizing off Key West, where Commodore Porter, in the Mexican frigate Libertador, was lying, with two brigs of war. The desire of the Cubians to declare themselves in dependent of Spain was daily manifesting itself; and, without a reinforcement of European troops, that country mast lose possession of this fine island. The Scylla was cruizing off Havannah ; she had lately had a marine killed by a musket ball, in a rencontre with a Spanish private ship of war; the Scylla had only occasion to fire a broadside, which lodged five shots under the Spaniard's counter, and killed and wounded several of her men, when she hove to, and made the amende honourable. The Calliope performed the voyage well ; she was only 99 days from Spithead, and sixteen of them she was at anchor at St. Vincent's, Vera Cruz, and Havannah. This morning the Grasshopper, 18, Capt. Court nay Boyle, arrived from the North American station, last from Bermuda, having left that Island on the 17th ult. She was relieved by the Ringdove, Capt. Thornborough. The January Packet from England arrived at Bermuda on . - ,larch 3d, after six weeks' passage. Rear Admiral Willoughby Lake was left at Bermuda with the Jupiter, Niemen, Ringdove, Orestes, and Dotterel]. The Dotterell being found unseaworthy she would be paid off, and her officers and men sent to England. The squadron would continue at Bermuda until the beginning of May.— The Island had been ♦ery healthy. That the alte rations going on in the Dock-yard may be facilitated, it was intended to remove the establishment for some time, and not refit the ships there. The Grass hopper sailed this afternoon for Woolwich, to be paid off. A letter we hare received from an officer of his Majesty's slip Rose, dated January 28, mentions-- " On our leaving Egina, yesterday, the steam vessel Perseverance, Lieut. Hastings, was , lighting her fires, preparatory to diverting the attention of the Turkish force before Athens, during the night, whilst Colonel Gordon, with about 4000 men, at tempts to throw a supply into the Citadel." The Meaai, 26, Captain Michael Seymour, will leave Deptford on Monday next, for this port, pre paratory to proceeding to the South American sta tion. The Sybille frigate, Commodore Francis R. Col lier, C.B. fitted for the Coast of Africa, will go out of harbour on Tuesday next. The America, Clarence, Conquestadore, Cornwall, Cressy, Dublin, and Rodney, small 74's (the remains of the " Forty Thieves"), are to be converted into heavy frigates. The Brunswick steam vessel, recommenced the passage between Plymouth and this port, on Tues day, and arrived off the Needles, in eleven hours. Commander R. A. Yates, of the Espeigle, is pro moted to the rank of Captain; and Captain Sandom succeeds to the command of that ship—Lieut. B. R. Owen, to the Hyperion. —Hampshire Telegraph. EMIGRATION. SECOND REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ox EMIGRATION FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM, 18-4. The Select Committee appoirted to consider the subject of Emigration from the United Kingdom, and to whom the Report of the last Session, and the several Petitions which have been presented to the House, in the present Session of Parliament, on the same subject, were re ferred; and who were empowered to report their obser vations and opinions thereupon, together with the Mi nutes of - Evidence taken before them from time to time to the House, have further considered the matters to them referred, and have agreed upon the following Report : The inquiry into the general subject of emigration is con nected with so many important questions, and involves considerations so various and complicated, that although upon many of them your Committee have received a mass of very valuable and satisfactory evidence, they do not feel themselves in a situation to present to the House, so goon as they would have desired to do, a general and final Re port. But, in the prosecution of their investigations, a special case has been submitted to them, so serious and so urgent, as to induce them to devote to it, for the present, their principal attention, and without further delay to lay it specially before the House. In addition to those ordinary causes, which in many parts of the United Kingdom appear to have led to a su perabundant population, or rather to disproportion between the demand and the supply of labour, an im portant change has been wrought, and is still in gradual but certain progress, in the condition of some of the ma nufacturing districts, by the transition from Hand-loom to Power-loom weaving. For some time the advance in the cotton trade was so rapid as nearly, if not altogether to absorb in the more productive system, the hands thus thrown out of employment. But difficulties arising from a temporary check in trade, shortly fell upon the weavers with the double pressure of these two combined causes, a diminished demand for the produce of their industry, and an increased facility of production. Your Committee are fully sensible that, to a certain ex tent, these disastrous consequences to a portion of the com munity must follow upon every new invention by which human labour is abridged : and that it is more especially the interest of a commercial count r y, f ar f rom discouraging, to afford every protection to such inventions : and while your Committee lay down this doctrine in its fullest ex tent, they feel themselves bound to add, that those who in the present instance are the chief sufferers, appear to mani fest juster ideas, and a more ready acquiescence in this ge neral principle, than could have been expected from their situation in life, and from the personal feelings with which their view of the case must be mixed up. But your Com mittee would wish to call the attention of the House to two circumstances which appear to distinguish this special case from those of ordinary occurrence. Independently of the extent of the change, the time at which it has taken place, with reference to their peculiar branch of trade, is for the weavers most unfortunate; and most, if not all, the ordi nary channels of labour, are in such a state of repletion, that it is difficult for them to transfer their industry else where. Though the state of distress, bordering upon actual fa mine, which these causes have produced in districts exten sively concerned in the cotton trade is so notorious es hardly to require pressing upon the 'Rouse, your Committee have had it confirmed by the strongest and fullest evidence.— These districts appear to embrace in England a large por tion of the county of Lancashire, together with parts of Cheshire, of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and of Cum berland ; and in Scotland principally, so far as the evidence i}efore your Committee has gone, the counties of Renfrew and Lanark. In mitigation of this extensive distress, sums have been raised from various funds, by legal provision, by spontaneous contribution, and recently by the King's let ter, and have mainly tended to preserve those districts from the immediate horrors of famine, and from the possible evils of riot and disturbance. But your Committee deem it their duty not to conceal from the House, that, notwith standing the temporary aid thus afforded, the long-continued pressure of the lowest class upon the poor rates legally raised in England, and of the same class of persons on the funds raised in various ways in Scotland, has ex tended the distress to the ranks immediately above; and that not only the local funds appear in many instances nearly exhausted, but the lower order of rate payers, far from being able to contribute to the relief of their pauper neighbours, are become themselves dependent upon casual or parochial assistance. Under these circumstances, the 'Manufacturers' Relief Committee with the fullest daily information before them, concurring in the statement above made, agreeing with your Committee in opinion, that there is little hope that any revival of trade can bring back the employment of the distressed Hand-loom Weavers, and that the fulness of other branches of labour renders it difficult for them to transfer their industry ; aware also, that temporary aid, however valuable in itself, and however judiciously applied, can only produce temporary benefit, have been led to turn their attention to the objects which your Committee have in view. Satisfied of the efficiency and permanence of the benefit to be afforded by emigration, they have signified their readiness to contribute in furtherance of thaw object s the sum of 23,000/. being a large proportion of their re maining funds, provided the farther sum of 50,0001. can be obtained from other sources. The assistance thus tendered appears to your Committee doubly valuable, first, as making the strong sense enter tained by a most respectable end well-informed body, that the mode suggested is at once the cheapest and most effec tual relief which can be afforded ; and secondly, as fur nishing the means of complying with that which your Committee have uniformly laid down as a rule of action, and have thought it expedient to make the substance of a special Report presented in the present year :—" That pri vate or local contribution in some shape ought to form the basis of any system of Emigration to which it may he ex pedient for this Committee to recommend any assistance from the National Funds." Your Committee do not consider it necessary, upon the oc casion of this Special Report, to enter into details of expense, they deem it sufficient to state broadly, that they are satisfied from the inquiries which they have made, the particulars of which will, with the evidence they have hitherto received, shortly be laid before the House, that the sum of 75,000/. if raised, will be sufficient to remove, provision, and locate in the North American colonies above 1,200 families, amounting to between six and seven thousand souls ; and your Committee have received assurances from the Colonial De partment, that preparation is already made for receiving, if need were, especially in Nova Scotia, a considerably larger number of emigrants at a very short notice. Recurring to the persons whom it is proposed to make the immediate objects of this offer of removal, it is riecee. wiry to acquaint the House, that in the districts above alluded to, and more especially in Lancashire, there appear to be among the hand-loom weavers, two classes almost wholly distinct from each other : the one, who though they take in work in their own houses or cellars, are congre gated in the large manufacturing towns ; and the other, scattered in small hamlets or single houses, in various directions throughout the manufacturing country. I t i s to the situation of thi s l a tt er c l a ss, th oug h both are i n a state extremely deplor a bl e , that y our Committee would chiefly wish to direct the attention of the House. It appears that persons of this description, for many years past, have been occupiers o f ema il farms of a few acres, which they have held at high rents ; and combining the business of a hand-loom weaver with that of a working farmer, have assisted to raise the rent of their land from the profits of their loom. Upon this class it is, that the distresses of the times have fallen with peculiar hard ship. While the decline of their manufacturing busi ness has utterly disabled them from supplying those rents which were due from them as agriculturists, they have found themselves called up on to give support, as liable to the rates, to those of their f e ll ow weavers w ho were engaged in manufacture alone t and a remnant of honest pride and shame has prevented many of those in the extremest distress from applying for parish relief; while others, being from their remote situation less immediately under the eyes of the regular authorities, have lingered on, till found accidentally, as has been proved in evidence, in the last stages of misery and disease. Your Committee cannot but observe, that while the greater destitution of this latter class points them out as requiring more imme diate attention, their partly agricultural habits render them more eligible for the particular kind of relief contemplated by your Committee : and your Committee cannot but express a hope that the hand-loom weavers in general, and this class in particular will receive from Parliament, that at tention and favour to which their sufferings and their pa tience amply entitle them. Your Committee are strongly impressed with the con viction, that the removal to the Colonies of 1,200 families, small as the number may appear, when the extent of the district is considered over which it is proposed to spread the relief, will tend in a far greater degree than is com monly supposed, to the diminution of general distress ; and while those removed will be placed in a situation of comfort and of ultimate independence, those who remain will be materially benefited by the abstraction of their re dundant labour. And it is an object not to be lost sight of, that these settlers may by their success excite a strong feeling in favour of Emigration as a general measure, should it ultimately be carried into effect ; and may mainly con tribute hereafter to people our colonies by a voluntary, un expensive, and beneficial abstraction from the population of the mother country. Under these impressions your Committee, while they profess themselves not yet prepared to lay before the House the details of a permanent and continuous system of emi gration (which nevertheless they are persuaded may be so organized as to produce very beneficial results) confidently appeal to the House, under the present urgent circum stances, and strongly recommend the grant of 50,0001. from the national funds, in furtherance of an immediate emigration from the manufacturing districts, at once as a relief from present distress, and as an important national experiment for the future. In applying for this grant of public money, your Com mittee would have it distinctly understood, that they place the grounds of their recommendation upon the urgency and peculiarity of the case ; which appears to them to require prompt and immediate action, even although the means of carrying it into execution may not be so maturely or per fectly concerted, as they might have been, under circum stances of less immediate and alarming pressure. Your Committee have therefore nut paused to consider what portion of the expenditure may ultimately be repaid by the industry and improvements of the settlers in their new situations; although they have little doubt but that the improvement of the lands will be a sufficient guarantee for a certain proportio n even of pecuniary return, especially if allowed to be paid in the colony, and in produce for the benefit of future emigrants. But your Committee are yet further induced to sclicit the immediate attention of the House to the subject of their present report, because they cannot but be aware, that the very circumstance of their appointment has ex excited great and earnest expectation ; that exaggerated and erroneous accounts of their proceedings are daily cir culated, and that hundreds of families, prepared to emi grate, are looking with anxiety to their report, and the decision of Parliament. Your Committee by no means express their opinion that upon future occasions, and when the -übject shall he better understood, funds may not be raised from the parish rates, for the purpose of relieving themselves from the burthen of their redundant populations : on the con trary, 'they have had fr-.P.ent applications to this specific effect. But they deem it necessary in candour to state, that so far as their inquiries have gone, the funds of the dis tricts to which their present report alludes, are so far ex hausted that no such assistance on their part can fairly be calculated upon. It is hardly necessary to state, that in this, as in every other scheme for emigration which has ever engaged the attention of your Committee, it never has been for a moment imagined that it should be other than wholly voluntary: and your Committee are satisfied, that in the execution of their projects the main difficulty would be to select the objects most eligible among the can didates who would offer themselves for the liberality of Par liament and the country. In conclusion, while your Committee recommend the present grant wholly in the consideration of the present ur gency, and peculiarity of the distress, which demand that relief, to be effectual should be also immediate, they can not but express their hope that an experiment now, of the success of which they entertain no doubt, may lead to more extended, more organised, and more effective system for the future; and in such a system your committee con _ _ Edently anticipate not only a material and perpetual relief to the British Islands, but an augmentation to the resources of Colonies, and ;an additional link to those connections of blood and interest which now unite them to the Mother Country. Your Committee cannot, however, conclude this Report, without expressing their deep conviction, that whatever may be the immediate and urgent demands from other quarters, it is vain to hope for any permanent and exten sive advantage from any system of emigration which does not primarily apply to Ireland ; whose population, unless some other outlet be opened to them, must shortly fill up every vacuum created in England or in Scotland, and re duce the labouring classes to a uniform state of degradation and misery. And your Committee therefore pledge them selves to devote their most anxious attention to the state of that country, and the practicability of applying emigration as a means of relieving it from its present overwhelming population. April 5, 1827. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Journal des Debuts of Thursday.) " BARCELONA, MARCH 26.—The news which our authorities daily eceive of what is passing on the side of Tortosa causes the greatest uneasiness. It is true that the conspiracy has been discovered in sufficient time to prevent the conspirators from getting possession of the place; but those who were out of the town, finding that the plot had failed, have raised the standard of revolt. They roam along the banks of the Ebro, and commit every kind of excess under the cries of ' Live Charles V.', and Death to Ferdinand VII.' There is no doubt that these movements are directed by the chiefs of the society of The Exterminating Angel,' and are protected by a secret authority. We shall ascertain this when those now in custody have undergone their examinations. I send you a copy of the des patches of Lieutenant-Colonel Coll, appointed by the Governor of Tortosa to arrest the persons im plicated, which will inform you how the conspiracy was discovered. A long letter is subjoined, in which it is stated that a Lieutenant wished to seduce a Sergeant-Major of the garrison, and that the latter affected to join in the proposed plan, but informed Lieutenant-Colonel Coll, and thus the whole plan was discovered and defeated. I (From the Quutidicnne.) (PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.) MADRID, MARCH 25.—Their Majesties and all the Royal Family returned to Madrid on the after noon of the 23d. An immense concourse went out to meet them, and the most lively acclamations bore witness to those august personages the pleasure felt by the people in once more beholding them. The streets were lined by the Royalist Volunteers. Yes terday our pious Sovereign, according to custom, washed the feet of a few poor people, and waited on them at their repast, in presence of all the Grandees of Spain that happened to be at the time in Madrid. The Royal Family is to go, in a few days, to the Royal residence at Aranjuez. MARCH 27.—Orders have been just despatched for the regiment of cavalry that is stationed at Al mendralejo, in Extremadura, under the command of Don John Malats to form a junction with the bri gade of light infantry command e d by General O'Neil. This brigade will be reinf orce d also by a of company , the squadron of light artillery,whiehis about to quit Badajoz to joi n th e Army of Obser vation, with eight pieces of artill er y. Different re giments of provincial militia have been told to keep themselves ready for marching. On th.. other hand we are positively assured that se veral bodies of troops are about to assemble in Old Castile, under the o rders of M. Jewph O'Donnell , lately nomi nated, as I have bac: a mentioned to you, G ene ral of that p roy i rce. The division w ill very s p edilY be formed; a l rea dy the three regim ents t h at are in garrison at Valencia, Saragossa, and at Ge rona, and which are composed of three battalions, have received orders to be completed each to a thousand men. The union of these three battalions will tak e place in Old Castile, whither large quanti ties of military stores are ab out to b e t ra nsported ; a numb er of waggons have b een p u t i n requisition for that purpose. The Director-General of the Artil lery is occupi e d i n prepar i ng a tra i n o f twelve field pieces. It is asserted that M. de Casa Flores, our Ambassador in Portugal, is positively to quit Lisbon on the 2d of next month. The Supreme Council of War has refused to purify a number of Generals and some Colonels, who acted under the Government of the Cortes. (From the Constitutionnel.) (EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.) LISBON, MARCH 21.—Two officers of the Portu , guess staff have proceeded to Spain, in order to de mand the horses and arms of the rebels. It is said that no difficulty will be started as to the arms, but that the horses will be refused. There is a report that Sir Wm. A'Court, the British Ambassador, has made use of his influence to keep the present Ministry in their places. The general section of the Chamber nominated yester day a Central Commission, which is to report and state its opinion respecting the proposal of the De puty Magalhaes against the Ministry. Conformably to the 17th Article of the Consti- tution, the Cortes must terminate in the beginning of April their present session of three months.— Last night it was asserted in the best informed circles, that the Princess Regent would prolong the Session. This measure is looked on as necessary, in order to finish the discussions upon matters still undecided, and to pass the regulating laws of the Charter—laws, whose necessity and urgency are correctly appreciated. At the same time the Coun cil of State was not convoked until to-day, at noon, to give its opinion on this affair. Now, it is known, that, according to the Constitution, this preliminary must precede the use which the moderating power may make, conformably to the second chapter, Ar ticle 74, of the Charter, of the prerogative of as sembling the Extraordinary Cortes in the interval between the ordinary sessions. (PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCL) MADRID, MARCH 26.—Every thing continues to wear a more threatening and hostile character. Our Minister wishes, it is said, to frighten England, whose moderation it takes for weakness. The Go vernment, far from disbanding the army, or with drawing it, had just sent forward towards Estrema dura the only regiment of the Guard which re mained at Talaveira ; and a park of nine pieces of artillery, which arrived here from Valencia, A few days ago, is to set out to-morrow for Palencia, in Old Castile. The following are even stronger pre sumptions. M. Salmon has, it is said, formally de clared to Mr. Lamb, that Spain is very far from dis approving of the conduct of the Portuguese rebels; that it sees in their conduct nothing but a desire to maintain peace, and that the hope of supporting them with effect, by negotiation, has alone hindered her from seconding them by arms ; but that, in ease the negociations entered upon should not have a satisfactory issue, then Spain will join those Portu guese, who, says M. Salmon, are affected to be called rebels. The reports which circulate those speeches of M. Salmon, appear, as I have just said, to be well founded, for, all of a sudden, and when it was least expected, a depot of Portuguese refugees has been found at Palencia, where, doubtless, the mass of the rebels will be placed, while the depots of Calahorra and Soria will be such only in name. Palencia is not so distant from the Portuguese fron tiers by one half as those two towns; and, instead of breaking up the soldiers, two new regiments have just been enrolled. PARIS, APRIL s.—The events which have passed in the Peninsula, since the establishment of the Por tuguese Constitution, have proved, demonstrtivelr, that the focus of the conspiracy organised against that Constitution is at Madrid. The Chaves, the Magessi, the Montealegre, were merely the insru meats of the apostolic faction, which works upon the ignorance and barbarousness of the Spanish people. If any doubts remained upon the subject, it would be sufficient to peruse the Quotidienne, the official Journal of the Apostolics. This Journal, which is in the secret of the party, assures its readers to-day, that it is Spain which put an end to the hostilities in Portugal ; it then speaks of the rebels, whom it terms royalists, for that is the exclusive title which the enemies of public liberty arrogate to themselves in all countries. There are not, according to their views, any royalists but the partisans of the inquisi tion, and of absolute power. "If the royalists," says the Quotidienne, " have laid down their arms, they can take them up again when need requires. If the English retire from Portugal, the refugees will return to it in peace; if; on the contrary, the English army remains in Portugal, it is probable that Chaves, Magessi, Tellez Jordao, and all their com panions in arms, will penetrate anew into their na tive country, but, in that case, they will form the advance guard of a Spanish army." This is positive, and we give the more ready be lief to these assertions, that there exists en official correspondence, and a very active one, between the apostolic junta of Spain, and the apostolic commit tee of Paris. The Quotidienne draws from good sources; and the tone of prophecy, which it some times affects, has nothing surprising in it. It is as if we heard M. Calomarde, or Father Cyrille himself. (Fern the Etoile, dated Saturday, April 7.) On the Bth of March, the town of Salamo, four leagues from Milan, experienced the fate of Salins. It was almost entirely consumed. The theatres of Milan, which were closed, have opened again, to per form for the benefit of the sufferers. NEW PUBLICATIONS.The followinginte resting Works have just been published by Mr. Colburn, New Burlington-street, viz.-1. The Life and Correspond ence of the ce l e b rate d Dr. Jenner, b y D r . B aron , 1 vo l . Bvo.-2. Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, by W a l ter S avage L an d or , E sq ., new e di t i on, considerably enl arge d , 2 vols.—S. C oun t S e gu r ' s J ourney with the Emp ress C at h er i ne to t h e C r i mea ,B vo. —4. Memoirsof the Life o f M rs . Sidd ons, b y J ames B o aden, E sq . form ing a C ompan i on to t h e L i fe of M r . lieml,le, 2 vols.-5. A Secoud Dramatist,, Edition ix,ritte n o f t b h y e Lbiifne, himself; f anecdotes of distingui s h e d p e rsons, Royal, Politic a l, Li te- rary, and M u sic a l, 2 vole. ; Fr Frederick s i l n i g eynolds, th e numerou s —6 . Napoleon in the other World, a Narrative found near his Tomb at St. Helena ; Editions in French and English, 1 vol.-7. The Young Rifleman's Comrade, a Narrative of Military Adventure, hc. 1 vol.--8. The Political P - imer ; or Road to Public Honours, 1 vol.—And 9. Memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone, written by himself; with selections from his Diaries, whilst Agent to the Irish Catholics, 2 vols. The following is the House List of Governors and Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing, vii.:— PDX GOVERNORS. JOHN BAtots. RICKARDS, Esq. Governor. SAMUEL DREW; Esq. Deputy-Governor. mon DIRECTORS. John Bowden, E N. James Pattieon, jun. Esq. , C o rnelius Buller, E N . John Pearse, Esq. James Campb e ll , E sq. Char l es P o l e , E sq . John Cock erel], Esq. Henry P orc h er , E sq. Timothy A Curtis, Esq. Richard Mee Raikee, Esq. George D orr i en, Eeq. S i r J o h n R ae R e id , B art. John B en j amin Heath, Eeg. S i mon T ay l or, E rg. William Manning, Esq. And. Henry Thompson, Esq. William 111ellish, Esq. William Thompson, Beg. James Morris, Esq. Samuel Thornton, Esq. Geo. Warde Norman, Esq. William Ward, Esq. John Horseley Palmer, Esq. Money Wig - rain, Esq. The Election for Governor and Deputy-Governor will be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 10th, and for Directors on Wednesday, the 11th instant, from ten in the forenoon till four in the afternoon. LEEDS.—Two strangers attended Bradford market on Thursday 'au, in the character of merchants, and purchased about 730 pieces of worsted stuff goods, for ‘; ready money," with which they loaded a waggon, and sent it off in the direction of Manchester; they then dis appeared, and the person who had sold the pieces, after a long and fruitless search aft er th e rea d y -money purchasers, s ent a constable in pursuit of the waggon, which he over took at the Dolphin Inn, Clayto* Heights, and brought the goods safe back. The anonymous purchasers have not rinse been heard of.---On Monday last a boy three years and a half old, son of Mr. Joseph Oates, cabine t maker, g of this tow n, f e l l out of the garret window of his father's home, i n York-street and vra • no dreadfully hurt as to , occasion his death at boar o'clock the nex t ' twain !'" - ' ' PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS AND ORDERS OFTIIR DAY WHI NOW STAND ON TAE ORDER BOOK FOR THE Pl SENT WEEK. Monday, April P. ORDERS OF THE DAT. 1. Defaulters absent at the Ballot on Friday to be reported. 2. Distresses (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration of Report 3. Paroch;al Settlements (Scotland) Bill—Second reading 4. Fraudulent Bankrupts (Scotland Bill—Second reading. 5. Mr. H. C. Jennings to attend. 6. Corn Duties Bill—Further consideration of Report. 7. Writ of Right Bill—Further consideration of Report. 8. Postage on Parliamentary Proceedings, Newspapers, and Pamphlets—Report thereupon. 9. Ways and Means—Committee. 10. Supply—Committee. 11. Passengers Regulation Bill—Third reading. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. I. Mr. Estcourt—Billto regulate the granting Licences to per' sons to keep Inns and Alehouses. 2. Mr. Alderman Waithman—Petition respecting the Devon ad Cornwall Mining Company. 3. Mr. Bright—Copies of all Orders in Council, or of the Trea' sure, or of the Trinity House, regulating Trade, or affect' ing the Duties levied thereon, since Ist January, 1822. t Mr. Bright—That the Petition of the Ship-owners of the City of London to the Privy Council, dated 4th August, 180; together with the Report, dated December hth, 1823, rtugi g by a Committee of Ship-owners in support of that Petition; together with the Answer to the same, be laid before t 1 House. Tuesday, April 10. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. I Mr. Henry Grattan—Bill to prevent the setting fire to or de molishing Roman Catholic altars or places for Roman Cathy lie worship in Ireland. 2. Mr. Hume—Bill for the better prevention of frivolous Oa vexatious Arrests for Debt upon Mesne Process, and for fk cilitating the recovery of Debts accruing on Deeds, Bona , Bills of Exchange, and Promissory Notes. 3. Mr. Leader Maberly—Resolutions respecting the applicatiO of Corporate funds to Election purposes. ORDER OF THE DAT. Postage Duties Bill—Committee. NOTICES GIVEN ON FRIDAY. Thursday, May 3. Lord Nugent—A Return of persons qualified to vote for Citieit and Boroughs, respectively, in England and Wales ; Finishing resident from non-resident, together with the all ferent rights in respect of which they vote. Wednesday, May 9. Colonel Davies—Resolution, That it is expedient that in future the Estimates of the year, previously to their being printed. be referred to a Select Committee. rsda Mr. Macqueen—Law of Settlement. 10. Tuesday, Ma 29. Mr. Robe r t Gordon—Select Committee, to inquire into th e number and state of Pauper Lunatics confined at the stance of the different Parishes within the County of middle sex, during the last three years ; distinguishing the note' bers confined in each house of reception. Thursday, May Lord John Russell — Repeal tfth o ee f rw t E he atst C twe o ro r . p: e 3l. r ar at s i . on and Test Acts. Mr. elilcuhritne--egNimuemnbtedruorfinCorporal Punishments in the Arm? WHO VOTZD (OH TIfIS s'. ITT N NEWPORT'S Marto% mums TO k : 1 'MUIR AMOUNT. !Portman, E. Pryse, Pryse Price, Robert Rickford, W. Robinson, Sir G. Robinson, George Russell, Lord John 'Russell, Lord G. 111 "' Rumbold, C. Smith, J. Smith, W. Stuart, Villiers Stanley, Hon. E. ur• Sebright, Sir John Thomson, C. P. Tierney, Right /FA- G. Tomes, J. Wall, C. Baring Warburton, H. Webb, Ed. Wood, Ald. TO REFER THE IRI S COMMITTER, WITH A lthorpe, Viscount Archdeckn e, A. Barclay, C. Baring, A. Baring, F. Baring, W. Birch, J. Brownlow, C. Calcraft, .John Calvert, N. Clements, Viscount Clive, E. Colbourne, N. R. Curteis, E. J. Day.-son t A. 1] Davis, T. Davenport, E. D. Ebrington, Viscount Easthope, J. Euston, Earl of Fazakerley, J. N. Fergusson, Sir It. Cfrattan. James ()rattan, Henry Grosvenor, General Gordon, H. TELLERS. Duncannon, Vise, Rice, T. S. PARL I TIMBER An ACCOUNT of the ) DsaLs, and other fish Provinces in Is Years ; stating also, been paid upon suet had been imported T OF THE MINOR: iTli ♦PRIL) FOR SIR JOR. MISCELLANEOUS E VIEW OF REDUCING Guise, Sir W. Guest, J. J. Harvey, D. W. Heathcote, G. Hume, Joseph Howick, Lord Ingleby, Sir W. Jephson, C. 0. Kennedy, T. F. King, Hon. R. Lamb, Hon. G. Lennard, T. B. Langston, James Lombc, E. Maberly, :J. Maberly, Colonel Mar hall, W. Maule, Hon. W. Monek, J. B ,Morpeth, Viscount Newport, Right Hon. Sir John O'Brien, Lucius Parnell, Sir H. Ponsonby, Hon. W. Ponsonby, Hon. G. MENTARY PAPER. FROM NORTH AMERICA. Amount of the Dvrms levied upon TWO , Articles of Wood, imported from the Brit' forth America, in each of the last three •, the Amount of Duties which would has h Timber, Deals, and other Articles, it thef from the Baltic. Amount of Duty paid in the United King. dom on Timber, Deals, and other articles of Wood imported from the Bntish Provinces in North America. I Year ended sth January, 1825 1826 1827 s. d. 2113,117 14 1 244,86E1 9 II 241,045 12 10 Inspector WILLIAM Gneral of I] 'nspector General's Office, Custom House, London, March 28, 1827. Amount of Dull which would have been received op, the same articles, it they had been charged with the Rates of Duty pal': able on si milar articles imported from the Baltic. s. d. 1,444,140 16 0 1,6511,947 10 11 1,519,636 1 1 IRVING, oports and Exports. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS FOR THIS WEEK- The Brighton harriers meet on Friday, for stag-hunting- The Shropshire hounds, on Thursday, at Lee Bridge ; Saturday, at Prees Lower Heath, at nine. The Worcestershire hounds, Thursday, at Tiddesley ; Saturday, at Cliffey, at nine. Lord Fitzwilliam's hounds, on Thursday, at AlconburY Hill, at ten. Lord Yarborough's hounds, Thursday, at Fox Dales ; Saturday, at the Kennel, at eleven. Sir R. Sutton's hounds, Wednesday, at Blankney ; Thursday, at Legsby ; Saturday, at Skellingthorpe, at 1l • The Duke of Grafton's hounds, Wednesday, a t Great Lawn, Yardley Chase ; Thursday, at Haversham Wood. Mr. Muster's hounds, Thursday, at Finedon-hall. The Hambledou Hounds, on Wednesday, at Waltham Pond ; Saturday, at Westend Telegraph, at half -past ten. Sir John Cope's hound 3, on Thursday, at Hempstead Norris ; Saturday, at Mattingley Green, at half-past ten. Mr. Horloek's hounds, on Wednesday, at South Grove; Friday, at Hamstead Mill ; Saturday, at Blakes. THE RING.-1 2 IGHTS TO COME. April 10—Marten and Gybletts, for 2001. Aprillo.—Mtirphy and M'Carthy, 201. April 14.—Harry Jones and Symmonds, 201. April24.—Whiteheaded Bob and Jena Burns, 2001. May 2.—Ben B urn and Tom Oliver, 1001. May B.—Dutch Sam and Dan M c Kenzie, 50/. to !251- May B.—David Hudson and Larkins, 50/. May 29.—Savage and Wallace, 100/. BENEFITS. Our old friend, and dealer in prime -fed pigs and poultry, Black Richmond, will take his Benefit at the Tennis Court, on Wednesday next, on which occasion, a fine set of G yb letts and a pretty bird, called a Marten, although not usually coming under the head of poultry, will be served up well hashed, as well as scored in the truepork-like style. Dick Ayres's Benefit has been postponed to Wednesday next, and will take place at the Th ree Compasses, i n H o t- born. The sport will commenc e at seven o'clock. JEM WARD attended at Mr. Belcher's on Wednesday evening, to make a match with the Manchester Hero for 250/. ; but there was no person in attendance on the part of the challenger. The letter containing the challenge wag directed to Belcher, and signed Nadirs. It was dated " Manchester." We suspect however, that like that on the part of Davies to Dick Curtis, it was merely one of those hoaxes in which fools delight to indulge, and which proves that even asses arc learned in the art of " Poli te letter writing." THOMAS ONION IS ready to fight George Elm, t h e Dor setshire Champion, fbr from 5/. to 1007., and will meet him to make a match, on Tuesday evening, at the King'' Head, High Holborn. The annual match CatOCCoKaINinG• which took place at Bishop's Waltham on T uesd d aay attraete g ' vast assemblage, and th e s p ort l asted two days., Betting at the commence ment, was fire and six to four in favour of birds from Chi chester; but the superiority of those bred at Waltham wa s ultimately established, by being two battles a head at the conclusion of the sport. Excellent dinners were provided by Austin, of the Crown Inn, whose arrangements met , vith the greatest approbation of every individeal present. -- Hants Chronicle. fo a r n m d er d e a . ugh y t Wa L ke A fie N ldfe C ii A biny S g T jh E is ll fi • l' wife ll e (the son that we announceh the perpetration of a of the neighbourhood in which the bloodyelarstofMro re Pi e . i, i ,m n_ e f . d u at ivfleiiiiigisiiiaznty s -- rot the near Peterborough, lat ter nine years old), a rrived here on Saturday the t i , r , g w or h e France, w ith a governess and female Servant lodgings har ing been taken for them near the Cantle. ' deed r g d h a t and v the per p e.. HORRID MURDER.--j t • with u. i . which and d thetheir monsters bodice d b i t i: n g i s t h h e e d is the most udders, and which has bar- The most active measures trated. A man, his glit on Thursday morning, weltering to thrown into horror the inhabitant s i wife, and child, were discovered , crime. 4 tad for the die- cov er , of . nres are a-op i the miscreants, who Zr,supposed to be divo u° ' ' ...Huntingdon t e ,i Weekly Jouanal. drte:edirfaire4vtroTtlintig