The Sun. — London, England, 1831-02-16 00:00:00

Press for notil vagant espendit tatest state of p . tyment of anY a p, been investig teu Tani to decided taste usly deo d it at a publicbeside' cence ; .. f the faintly lay ° but 6 161 nothing b ..t .n such a iniserabl a too 11 : 1 200,0 0 of of , the paYm t pi informedof the i the he House that e popular` l7 elect Conel _ Or' to be called ou . r .t overru n an ss the House : ee it t ho ut his expense • it, let thetn .. .l ) :: f the late 3illore larger ell)01(i short thought that . they should be e 41,1 whether the ,ttpra: hey had DA l o i io had given • 2 d heard the - g p rr hed that a p r op s (gland. ishe d I tk R that be that I all ; bu b e es should S el i a tiea uld of t h , es Chancellor a i the occa s cog ► )uld be n°t ever said over a° bat , impeached ace. n ion that when estl 4 'se was bound °el been done.--1./e respect for the that these epell'e! like not only for 1 0 4 f ,archical form 6°;,l had ever been dell': o{ in the ;no tion could not b ele ; ember for flert!or far in pronouocill as it was quite 10 with the fade Otit laid on the table ip wade a statetnent ,°rit gone bey ond V "' d4 , md it Nvaq Well ' eded, and tbat there, lons waste of t be P cir GouLnutts an d are that his goo. io ,1( •d on as to any a that had preq 'Y had been voted oe, t that there coold 011. ;peers.)--Tha t P bowed that t here t iv (..h should preve°,, is! lid) they would 1 " t , ' 'gill their tintYst°r,(. appointed last YeEw :bete was a il° ° ''d OW., it Wa s idu r P );. led—(Hear, 131;0: the late 111 r.• and inserted in the ;' j te , ,! iat was referre.,,, their future that before aOY !re should be 0 : li ef' pith a ye arly 'tt°tete! rhether the estot r probable 001 Y, h d the work ; voting moner before them, a ° e l , r if they chosee e O o di. .count of the e furniture o) oc h , ) Jim] out holy ØOJ, of Parliame nt talent of this 0" e 0 01 lent to crane t° airman of the w• Noble Lord 1 he re p ort that bso, in the future °P,., the furniture 0 t o , ation had take) 17, i at it formed 00 l uire minute/f i!lt011 objection to a lihe4 with respect to f3``(f nf eren t feeliog.'"Nif ,d the Noble La- P e incurred there; d, sent, were suspedes rstood him) °liger'' luckinghtt n I'Bl 'at the Noble Lor position when bei I t the Trefoil! . t' ) moment were the bee o Zeman who had op, sec that one 113,,ii e was because the accession (100 hat an opeajeg,,,flP) St. Jameacefr tether the p"? !r disappsintejnti) that lie coos' lic it ti that he hoe7be" progress that oje believed that #°ooo4 of d oc cupiers 01° »4 there hail —ittr 1 t when he 1 tO which there , ;if us discussiooP.eit hot iorj.kfl y the Nobie voiv trees, togethei.fd;lol ml to thos e vi nti "ge °3 o ine new I° r „ o g O f ; Lnd it wall ° l ee A ve if the CO lO l, A ve hat the e',.'' s ble ter in I,vliicod vier icted. It I° 0 ntrouliog P°/,, ;toad what nt ? Was sr„ Tits a mere 61:04 .he absurd, 'op y person %fib% A, ? The IN ° g i r o O o r e furniture 11 oig Jo lidesuaau to‘a bat the 1 131°P -.0" ee ine to be her for I , b iy blame , le; 0 1 0 that ther . olo o A tit rIon• :oce, been a gt o9. tnd if the„ s ble, tilt h t also to u'initteuooo he had P er oil ) ,tioo for rely a ciu! d 01 obe Carrie aleoi iy it sPre3,r.: of ° r4l consequer'd r :" he use we' 1 00 11 a then, tbo pa tad be f.°,,u;sll°PetrOr ,ds? In be it luestion ; '6OO, .4 h full atter' poiog7o4. had bee n a P co ° ,? //ad ther oa 0 9 , 0 , any restrietli r:le had beer' d;let f ig ured oe tje" v ;hing at mons Wow ~~1, MEMORANDUM. His Majesty has been pleased to command, that the 50th Regi ment of Hoot shall in future be styled " the 50th, or the .Queen's Own," instead of " the Duke of Clarence's Regiment ;" and that the facings of the Regiment be accordingly changed from black to blue. War-office, Feb. 15. Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Sub-Lieut. and Comet E. Ham mond to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Medwin, who retires ; Lord C. P. Clinton to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Hammond ; Ensign the Hon. J. Macdonald, from the 81st Regiment, to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Nesbitt, who retires ; Feb. 16, 1831. 7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Surgeon S. C. Roe, from the 2Sth Regiment, to be Surgeon, vice Blake, who retires on half pay, Feb. 15. Ist Regiment of Foot—Gentleman Cadet A. Hope, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Warde, deceased, Feb. 15. 10th Foot—Lieut. J. Wilmot to be Captain, by purchase, vice Anderson, who retires, Feb. 15. Ensign G. Stourton to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Wilmot, Feb. 15 ; C. Harford, Gent., to be Ensigit, by purchase, vice Staunton, Feb. 15. d Foot—Lieutenant H. Parker, from the 49th Foot, to be First Lieutenant, vice W. R., Stretton, who retires on half-pay, Feb. 15. _ _ _ _ 26th Foot—Lieut. G. L. Ramsay to be Captain, by purchase, vice Ellis, who retires; Ensign G. S. Fitzgerald to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice L Ramsay, Feb. 15; Second Lieu tenant NV. E. F. Barnes, from the Ceylon Regiment, to be En sign, vice Shelley, promoted, Feb. 14; H. Dalrymple, to be En. sign, by purchase, vice Fitzgerald, Feb. 15. 9,Sth Foot—Surgeon A. C. Fraser, from the half-pay of the 16th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Roe, appointed tothe 7th Dragoon Guards, Feb. 15. 49th Foot—• Lieut. T. Gibbon, from the half-pay, to be Lieu. tenant, vice Parker, appointed to the 2.3 d Foot, Feb. 15. 77th Foot—Lieutenant H. Fenwick, from the 55th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Coils, appointed Paymaster to the 91st Foot; Lieutenant R. Bevan, from the 57th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Atkin, promoted, Feb. 15; Ensign and Adjutant M. F. Steele to have the rank of Lieutenant, Feb. 16. 81st Foot—R. Hale, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Macdonald, appointed to ie Ist Regiment of Life Guards, Feb. 15. 56th Foot;—Captain J. Stuart to be Major, without purchase, vice Richardson, deceased ; Lieut. P. North to be Captain, vice Stuart ; Ensign W. F. Theobald to be Lieutenant, vice North ; Gentleman Cadet H. C. Cobbe, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Theobald, Feb 15. 96th Foot—Lieut. A. Dalgety, from the half-pay of the 86th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Nolan, whose appointment has not taken place, Feb. 15. Ceylon - Regiment—H. C. Hodgson, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Barnes, appointed to the 26th Foot, Feb. 15. HOSPITAL STAFF. Hospital-Assistant J. L. Hartwell, from the half-pay, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Macdonnell, appointed to the 2Sth Foot, Feb. 1, 18.11. GARRISONS. Colonel Sir A. Christie, of the late Ist Royal Veteran Bat talion, to be Deputy Governor of Stirling Castle, vice Lieut.- General Graham, deceased, Feb. 15. Office of Ordnance, Feb. 14. Corps of Royal Engineers. Second Lieut. E. W. Darnford to be First Lieutenant, vice Clavering, deceased, Feb. 5. Royal Sappers and Miners. Second Capt. E. Matson, of the Corps of Royal Engineers, to be Brigade-Major, vice Stanway, who resigns ; Second Capt. J. Jebb to be Adjutant, vice Matson, both Feb. 11. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Nottingham. Royal Sherwood Foresters, or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia.—G. G. G. Cooper, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Feb. 7. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Carmarthen. Royal Carmarthen Militia. The Hon. G. P. Treiror to be Colonel, Jan. 28. Captain W. Price to be Major, vice Evans, resigned, Jan. 28. First Lieut. J. Thomas to be Captain, vice Price, promoted, Jan. 28. --- E. P, Lloyd, Esq. to be di te, vice Davy, deceased, Jan. 2EI. Second Lieut. T. Hawkins to be First Lieutenant, vice Thomas, Jan. - F. Philipps, Gent. to be ditto, vice G. Philipps, resigned, Feb. 4. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Leicester. Leicestershire Militia. T. Pochin, Esq., to be Captain, Feb. 2. It. Chislyn, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Feb. 2. J. Jackson, Gent. to be ditto, Feb. 2. W. Topman, Gent. to be Ensign, Feb. 2. G. F. Hurst, Gent. to be ditto, Feb. 2. Lieut. and Adjutant Deakins to have the Brevet rank of Cap tain, Feb. 2. RAW IDES. ter Stone. s.d.tos:Cl. — Ter Stone. s. d. to s.d. Best Heitors & Steers 3 0 3 4 Ordinary ...........--- 0 0 2 0 Mi idlings---2 4 2 8 Market Calf...—. 6 6 each. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Thomas Lewis, King's-road, Chelsea, builder. Samuel Backler, St. James's-street, Westminster, tobacconist. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. James Heane, Gloucester, brick-maker. BANKRUPTS. EDWARD SHERRARD, Hart-street, Bloomsbury, tailor, to surrender Feb. 22, at twelve, March 1, and 29, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Loveland, Symond's Bin, Chancery lane. _ EDWARD BAKER, Bristol, oil gas-manufacturer, Feb. 25, 26, and March 29, at one, at the White Lion raven), Bristol. Leman and Son, Bristol; Blower, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London. JOHN PO AR t 'II, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, grocer, March 2,3, and 29, at eleven, at th e C ommerc i a l -rooms , B r i s t o l. Evans, Stevens, and lower, Gray's Inn-square; Haberfield, Bristol. HENRY JONES FLIGHT ETHERIDGE, Broad.street, St. Giles's, grocer, Feb. 22, at eleven, March 1, and 29, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Smith, Dorset-street, Salisbury. square. JOHN BIN DLEY, senior, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicester. shire, glue-manufacturer, Feb. 24, 25, and March 29, at twelve, at the Queen's Head, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Fisher, Ashby-de-la- Zouch ; Austen and Hobson, Gray's-Inn, London. JAMES MARTIN, jun., Swindon, Wilts, currier, March 2, at six, 3, and 29, at eleven, at the Chequers Inn, Speenham land, Berkshire. Hall, Hung erford, Berks ; Taman, S on , an d Squance, Coleman-street, London. PETEII. BROWN, Farnham, Surrey, upholder, Feb. IS, 25, at eleven, and March 29, at ten, at the Court of Commis sioners. Teague, Lawrence-Pountney - hill , Cannon -street. JOHN LEE, York, haberdasher, Feb. 28, at six, March I, and 29, at eleven, at the Falcon Inn, York. Williamson, Gray's-inn square, London ; Blanchard and Richardson, York. WILLIAM EWI NGToN College-street, wine-in erehan t, Feb. 18, at two, 22, and March 2), at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Wigley, Essex-street, Strand. ROBERT JONES, Gracechurch-street, woollen-draper, Feb. , March 1, and 29, at ten, at the Court of Commissioner s . Clark, Broad-street. HENRY GOODWIN, otherwise HENRY ANDREWS GOODWIN, Millbank-street, Westminster, plaster of Paris manufacturer, Feb, 18, at two, 25, at half-past one, and March 29, at three, at the Court of Commissioners. Gibbard, Stan gate-street, Lambeth. NICHOLAS WILSON, Halifax, Yorkshire, straw hat ma nufacturer, Feb. 24, at six, 25, and March 29, at twelve, at the PRICE OF POTATOES.—Feb. 14. Kidneys 01. Os. to 41. Os. per ton. Scotch iteds Marsh Champions 4l. Os. to 41. 10s. ditto. Oxnobles and Shaws COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. Boston 74 40 25 40 Gainsborough 73 42 24 Grantham 70 86 36 46 26 32 38 44 Grimsby 6B 80 28 42 18 26 32 38 Eierncaatle 70 78 25 33 15 20 30 40 Lincoln Spilsby 7O 76 34 42 22 26 36 40 Stamford 7O 85 38 44 21 27 36 40 York— 6B 82 36 4ti 22 32 38 48 LEWES MARKET.—Feb. 15. White Wheat (perquarter)--- £3 18 0 to £4 0 0 lied ditto --. 3 ;5 0 3 18 0 Oats, New -- Beans Oil Cake, New. 1 14 12 0 0 to £4 0 0 0 3 18 0 62 5 0 61 4 6 0 1 15 0 0 pet thousand. NORWICH, Feb. 12. We had a good supply of Wheat to-day, but the greater part was in a damp state, and the sale was slow at a reduction of 3s. to 4s. per quarter. Barley is plentiful; price unaltered. Oats, Beans, and Pease, obtained last quotations slowly. Flour is no minally the same, but there is very little sale. Wheat (per qr.) 68s. 765. 808. I Beans (per qr.) 365. 445. 38s. 445. 465. Pease, Grey 38s. 445. Oats 28s. 325. 345. Flour, fine (per sack) 58s. 60s. CANTERIM IFt, Feb. 12. We had a very short supply of Wheat this day, still our mar ket was very dull for Wheat, as well as all other kinds of Grain. Wheat, white 71s. to 84s. —a. to —s. 565. to 768. ....-.. —B. to —s. Barley, Malting 375. to 475.., Grinding.. 30s. to 331. Oats 20s. to 325. -- Old--.. —s. to 31s. Beans 31s. to 38s. 365. to 465. Pease ••••• 38.5. to b Os. .0.10400 355• to 38s• --- EXETER MARKETS.—Feb. 11. Beef (score). --Bs. Od. 8,. 6d. Wheat (bushel) —9s. 93. 10s. Od Mutton (1b.).--- 0 5 0 6 Barley , 4 6 5 0 Veal and amb--0 6 0 0 Oats ,2 9 3 0 rk 4 0 6 Beans 6 5 0 Geese (each) 4 0 6 0 BAter (Ib) ---1 1 1 3 Ducks (c0up'e).......3 6 5 0 Eggs (15) 0 0 1 0 Fowls 0 3 6 Potatoes (peek) —.O 0 0 6 CRIM. CON.-Mr. DANIEL CUNLIFFE, an artist, came up to be heard at the Insolvent Debtors' Court yesterday, on his petition, when he was opposed by Messrs. CHARLES PHILLIPS and BARRY, on behalf of the assignees of Mr. JOHN GOTLIEI3 ANTHONY, merchant, late of Cornhill. It appeared by the statement of the learned Counsel, that the insolvent subjected himself to an action for criminal conversation with Mr. ANTHONY'S wife, which was tried in November, 1827, and a verdict re turned f o r the plaintiff, ofsoo/. damages. The plaintiff sub sequently became a bankrupt.--The Court sentenced him to ten months' imprisonment. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED., D. J. Stewart and G. A. Claude, Liverpool, dealers—J. Merry and W. Sawbridge, Coventry, ribbon-manufacturers—E. Turner, W. Crisp, and J. Boden, Monmore Green, Wolverhampton, brick-makers—W. Cousins, J. Lorymer, and S. Lorymer, High_ street, Bristol, woollen-drapers—J. Banks and J. Wharton, Cockermouth, Cumberland, flax-spinners—E. Stevens and A. Turnbull, New Bond-street, milliners—T. Scott and S. Huth_ Waite, Bromley-le-Bow, Middlesex, common-brewers—J. Pother_ gill and .1. Hodgson, Manchester, engravers—J. Boyle and R. Asbury, Ewloe, Flintshire, tile-manufacturers—W. Harrison and J. Miller, Portsmouth, printers—A. Clapham and J. Gilpin, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, chemists—J. Goodfellow, Hyde, Stock port, Cheshire, and T. Cooke, Ashton-under Lyne, Lancashire, furnishing-ironmongers—G. Hoyle and R. Holderness, Man chester, commission-agents—W. and J. Auld, Bath, tea-dealers —R Joyce and J. Bevis, Cambridge, boot and shoe-makers— H. Phipps and J. Whines, George yard, Lombard-street, general agents—H. I'. Danvers and J. Wilson, Cullum-street, drysalters —J. Hamilton and F. T. B. Davies, Hayes, Middlesex, surgeons —J. Hayward and T. Halsted, Norton-falgate. grocers—T. M. Knight and E. Young, Hammersmith, surgeons—H. Chambers, R. Bullock, J. Clemmitt, and H. S. Evans, New Inn, Old Bailey, waggon-ottice-keepers—J. and W. Prior, Wickham, Hampshire, merchants—W., T., H., and J. Slingsby, Manchester, graziers. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGARS.—The sale of West India Muscovades last week was much interrupted by the late arrivals from the Mauritius, by the fine quality of the latter, and by the packages being much pre ferred, particularly for the country trade. The estimated pur. chases of West India Sugars last week were only '2,000 hhds. and trs., the prices were without variation. The Stock of West India Sugar is now 25,636 hhds. and trs., being 735 more than last year. The stock of Mauritius 21,528 bags, being 10,268 less than last year. The delivery of West India Sugar last week 3,4i8 hhds. and trs., being 106 more than last year. Of Mauritius the delivery is 4,114 bags, being 125 less than in the comparative week of 1830. The demand for West India Sugar was again interrupted by the three public sales of Mauritius, but we think there is apparently some heaviness about the Market on account of the continued stagnation and decline of the Refined goods, and the confirmation of no change in the duties. The estimated sales this day are only about 700 hhds. and trs., including the Barbadoes, which sold rather lower. The Refined Market was very dull last week, the prices were generally 6d. to Is. per cwt. lower, and the decline did not facilitate sales to any extent. The purchases, both for export and for home consumption, were very limited. The Market this day still dull. FOREIGN SUGARS.—At public sale last week 1,516 chests yellow Havannah were offered, chiefly sold 20s. 6d. a 235., good colour, but not strong, a few lots 245. a 295., 350 boxes sold by private contract 21s. a 235. 6d. ; they were old and soft yellow Sugars; 479 packs Brazil Sugars were brought forward, but only a small parcel sold, fine white Pernams 30s. Bahia mostly taken in. EAST INDIA SUGARS.—Last week at the India House and public sales 11,041 bags Bengal Sugar, white low and mid. 255. a 275. 6d., good 275. 6d. a 295. 6d., yellow 245. a 255., nearly all sold at steady market prices, being ls. a 2s. lower than the October sale; since the sale the inquiries have increased, several parcels have been re-sold at a premium. This day at public sales 4,783 bags Mauritius, of very good quality, chiefly 465. a 555. a shade lower. Average price of Sugar 265. 5%c1. per cwt. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—There is nothing new in the market for Rum; several more purchases, but they are not of a marked nature, and there is no alteration in the prices. Some sales of Brandy are reported, at steady prices.— Geneva still neglected. HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—The general expectation of a higher duty on Foreign Tallow is disappointed ; there is no alteration in duty, but the tax on Candles is removed, which will promote a greater consumption ; there is, however, little v‘ria. tion in prices; the market is dull, and a shade lower. Hemp is rather higher. Flax unvaried. The letters front St. Peters burgh are of the 28th ult. Exchange 10d. 11-16ths. Tallow 102. COTTON.—There has been much briskness in the Cotton market, on account of the proposed new duty of Id. per lb. on imported Cotton. About 3,000 bags have been sold at full market prices, but little advance, and about 10,000 bags have been cleared at the low duty. The sales by private contract are 3,200 Surats, 4%d. a sd. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Ketropolliis 1014 d. fot the 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from 34(1. to I%d. below that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Feb. 14 New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. Ws. fine —s.loss. Old Ditto Ditto —s. —s. fine —s. —s. New Foreign Ditto..---- * 525. 70s. fine 995.1205. Old Ditto --- New White Clover. Old Ditto Ditto—.... New Trefoil Old Ditto ......5...•.—. —s. —s. fine —s. —s. —s. 80s. fine —s. 955. —s. —s. fine —s. —s. —s. 60s. fine —s. 6.15. —s. —s. fine —s —s. Rib Grass -.........----...........-.. 10s. 255. fine 30s. 355. English Carraway Seed - -s. 455. 50s. fine 58s. Foreign Ditto .....-...........-----w. -s. -s. 555. fine .575. Coriander - ------ -.. -s• 50s. fine -s. Ni s . St. Foin .(per Quarter)............- -8. 425. fine 435. 16s. Rye Grass . -s. -s. new 20s• 255. Pacey Ditto .. -. 40s. 455. new -s. - s• Linseed, for feeding _ Ditto, for crushing _ _ _ 44s. 465• -s. fine -.3. Canary Seed, New-......-..........---.............- -s. 70s. fine -s. 84s 4 'at° Old.--..........................................-----...... -s• -s. --s. fine -s. White Mustard Seed -.....(per Bushel)..,- -s. 14s. 18i. fines. Brown Ditto ................-----... -.5. 13s. 17s. fins. -s. Turnip Seeds, Rounds--,... -s• -s• - +S• tine 14s. Green and Red Ditto -s. -s. -s• tine 18s. Tares, Old --........................... -s. 255. 365. fine -... Ditto New -s. -s. fine 425. 465. Ita . pe Seed, English, tine (per Last) 35/. 38/....... Foreign .-1. .....,. PRICES OF HOPS.—Feb. 14. Kent Pockets Bl 123. 101. o+. to 14'. 144. Smsex Ditto Fisex Ditto B/. t3s. 91. 9s. to 11/. Os, Farnham Ditto. Fine . • 0/. 0, MI. Os. to 181. O s . Seconds 0/. Os. 8/. Os to 12/. Os. 4/. 44. 8!. 8s to 11/. Os. 71. Os. 81. Os. to 81. O s . Os. 91. Os. to 101. Os. Kent lk Essex 1) to.. Sussex Ditto PRICE. OF OIL. Rye Oil, brown Os. IWOMA• Refined X5O 0 Linseed Oil ••••••••••••••••••••••••*000.1... 32 10 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, Per thousand 11 11 Rape Cake, per ton 7 10 WHITECIIAPth, HAY I%IARKET.—Feb. 12 H ty 50, (M. to SOS. Od. I (lover Od. to 1053. Od. Straw 56g. (Id. to 40i. Od. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. ,_ l4lO What had gone before, and take care that the game Rot practised again, to the detriment of all justice and the injury of the country. 4 4 4 t a t li . oil. MEMBER wished to ask, whether it was true ,i t his present Majesty had declared his determination 16, toadopt B uc ki ng h am P a l ace f or hi s res id ence ; an d if t: what purpose that building was to be applied ? iien rd erany ALTLIORP was not able to answer that question. r • RUTHVEN was glad that the House appeared to agreed as:to the propriety of the appointment e Committ ee; f or , un d ou bt e dly t h e p eo pl e had, at • -4 L ', a right to 'know hew their money was expended. NColon e l SI BTHORPE said that, understanding from the ° e Lord th a t t h e wor k s a t B uc ki ng h a m House were qed, he should not divide the House on that point. _ -ue- appointment of the Committee was then agreed to. td ALTHORP, in moving the names of the Mem : to form to the openinginto o es's-park t l e , , h ad teen taken by surprise. He now understood that ? ) ,l e was no legal difficulty to the undertaking, and the - *age t o the public would be opened as soon as possible. „The f o ll owing are the names agreed to as t h e S elect Lord on Lord Althorp's motion:—Lord Althorp, a L I , J. Russ e ll, M r . G ou lb urn , Mr. Pendarvis, Mr. tj , 07 1 ca, Mr. J. W oo d, M r . W. B an k es , M r . W ar d, Mr. i'Llt, M r . S . B rowne, L or d L owt h er , C o l one l D av i es , k t • Sandf or d, Si r R. V yvyan , M r . J ones , L or d G. So -3.1c, 13 ""et, Sir R. Gordon, Lord Killeen, Mr. Rumbold, Sir cbright, and others. THE GAME LAWS. n Lord ALT HORP—Itwas not necessary for h i m to press torti 4l b Rouse th e ev il p ro d uce d by th e Came Laws, ae pa,., NC to their present enactments.—(Cheers.)—No W ci * of the l eg i s l a ti ve vo l ume h as p ro d uce d more ev il, by I ,„ 3 _ngto crime by the infliction of misery, and by the %cation of vice ; and the number of able men that : r e constantly committed to prison, and there learned all ly s t , tB o f vices, sufficiently showed the bad workings of the thi;-(Hear, hear.)—One of the principal reasons for „wag, that the Game Laws, on the principle which 1 6 1 ,7 regulated the ntem, were contrary to the feelings and Iruions of people 'of England.--(Hear, hear,)- o f'tead of giving the owner of land a full right over his tewbo. property, the principle of the Game Laws gave ex v,it:we privileges to one particular class. Although it well-know n th a t no one , und e r the present laws could p , tew rve d game, unless he was the owner of property ; yet 1:" 11 who were the owners of such property had no 'Pt right s to the game upon it. His object, therefore, op to get rid of these anomalies, and, by placing the laws , 10 - " 4 more reasonable basis, to conciliate the feelings of the b lin trY toward them , giving them at the same time an 4 4 1 , 11 chance of being willingly obeyed . by the people, , 4: 4 4 th e Member for Buckinghamshire had proposed to 1, / 24 ,g forward his Bill, he (Lord Althorp) had offered that lee 1 e Lord the assistance of the Government on the sub but when the amendments the Government pro were submitted to that Noble Lord, he stated that 1, - v were such as to make his an entirely new Bill, and tici t herefo re declined the proposal. At that late hour of I gtb aight he did not intend to argue the question at tattoos' he would, h state e ncipal regu ; which h e intended owever, to propose ; th and pri though there a tt t4 ,_ i niY was a very great difference between the two Bills , 4 i ue was bound to say that it coincided in many points Ltteo, that . of the Noble Lord. The great difference be n his proposition and that of the Noble Lord's was, p (t"le the Noble Lord preserved a qualification which he ti r ol a to get rid of. He meant to do away with all p e Lofications—(Hear, hear)--whatever, and allow any on payment of a sum for a license, which should a be of a very large amount, to be qualified to kill Biel hi, The Noble Lord permitted the sale of game, so MRill. The Noble Lord secured the owners of game ost fraud, and: in this he concurred with the Noble by compelling all the d 1 alers in game to take out a He thought it was not desirable to allow every ih7n. to sell g a m e wh o pl ea s e d without any c ont rou l, as k r t tnight encourage depredations on property, and there- Le he retained the licensing system. The mode by which t-17. Proposed t protect the landowner was by the law of ei t ,P 44 -(11 0 ear, hear.)—He would allow the landown tieeto carry t res p assers on th e i r p ro p er ty b e f ore t wo Jos *: by Whom they might be summarily punished. There p re one important part of the present law intended to ell en t night poaching. That was, he admitted, a great 1 4 , 4 , , but h e believed that increasing the severity of the l k i „, 4 td much tended to promote battles and bloodshed. Ali Noble Lord, in his Bill, proposed that night poaching e 0 ,114 be punished, for the first offence by tliFee months' iC 4 Pnent, and at the end of that find security for good - ' l our, for the second offence the Noble Lord proposed months', imprisonm e nt al s o, with security at the end 4 4 t ,11e confi nement ; an d f or t h e t hi r d o ff ence h e propose d t he it should be regarded as a misdemeanour, and the e nder be liable to imprisonment or transportation for r omt ° Years. In his (Lord Althorp's) Bill be proposed to hi th e the punishment for the two first offences somewhat lai v ". For the first offence he proposed four months' im the )4nt ent ; for the second offence eight months; and for toi‘ttliird offence be proposed that it should be treated as a akheoleatiour, and punished with two years' imprison ahrttithot not by transportation. Be left out that part ts a re q uire d security, but it was te ' that to demand ti om l t Y (front persons of the description of those who ita a .Y committed those offences, was to condemn them to horwortment for an indefinite period. That was not, he rtstoj: t he Noble Lord's intention, but that would be the tio o , °I demanding security. These were his proposi tlak,.."o4 they would, he believed, give persons of all had and conditions the amusement of sporting. He ti i tat .,..cd, also, th e diff erence b e tween his Bill and that ta,..eiloble Lord. Th ere w a s , however, another differ if th:bieb b e h a d f orgotten . B y t h e N o bl e L or d' s Bill, they ' e * Persons were found together in the fields by night hil4were rendered liable to transportation for fourteen Mated That cl ause h e h a d w h o lly om itt e d. Having thus mo te the principle objects of his Bill, he had only to A ir for leav e t o b r i ng i t i n .—(H ear .) `ireSi PLTHELL approved of the measure. a, r l * SHELLEY w a s sure the Noble Lord would find tip';` ot decei ve d i n hi s expec t at i ons o f th e good he anti- Of but would not oppose the Noble Lord's motion. t ati bi ; ' t ,'VLER ex p resse d grea t s atisfaction at the under e the Noble Lord. tilt th Ni l-I TTLETON expressed an opinion in favour of I d oe of ou little suan a td at t shou be two li , little cost, e to allow a ere man to ld shoot over his censes own tcne r ,l 4 l ;ther to cost a larger sum, to allow him to shoot l 'Y e4' t▪ h, l° l , ne l WOOD o bject e d to the two licenses proposed lle ` 4 °o• Member, and wished the Bill to be made as tea ,i l. Possibl e . He cordially concurred in the princi -47u.e. t it l e Bill, and hoped that it migbt come to a happy e suggested to the Noble Lord the propriety of ti o „ g t he • c .,ata f ro Bill into two parts, separating the money • j tt i all puts that merely related to game. 'Nor; S EBRIGHT gave his hearty concurrence to the ta4 t d . l li t the• RUSSELL thought it would not be advisable, , t ellie. - ` e of doing away the qualification, to lower the ' 4l ll ' °l3 , the contrary, he thought the price of the Sl e 4 1'4 ie tent , eate should be raised, and he believed . it was h e ; t h t oo of his Noble Friend to propose to raise it to th''''re t h e C ommittee. As to the money clauses, he hoped, their Houses R ill proceeded so far as the other House, that pik-in t""t*r p i' . 2, 4 sea would come to an understanding about eges, which would remove the obstacles to A„ ii 4 leb Bill s t4 le, sal e MEMBER concurred in the propriety of making Roble, and in making dealers take out licenses. , plpspine in PEEL was afraid the House was too me ”pectation, and too ready to overlook the I. ailling game. Any proposition to alter the bLthoaetiogtisaiwa, they were so bad, ought to he listened to e rot/ ct i°n, but he cautioned the House against ex • tnueb fr om th e Bill o f th e N o bl e Lord. He ivper t of a n ,fe abolishing qu a lifications, but did not think .1 ense of 5/. cou ld equa li ze t h e privileges of the l e ohjee.eone acre or t h e owner o f 1,000 acres o f l an d. h 4 li o diti t d also to the suggestion of the double license, tlei,,v o n ti ot know why a man might not shoot over Lt 0 ,4° is land, if that neighbour pleased, with . .7 v et , r.lg a dditionally. The double certificate would at io h, t() th Lia • He was afraid that the Bill might ocigh t a e d Present vexation of the Game Laws—that t o !Plc t,, d to the number of preserves, and stimulate 'l° T cake ca re o f game by adding a marketable value 4 %oar te mptation t o d es t ro y game wou ld, h e b e li e v e d, n • He suggested to the Noble Lord not to at b.:th alter th e ltwa respecting poaching by night. It he as Z m e in the Noble Lord not to attempt too much. a k tt t !;hiing of large bodies of men by night was a ttef ete the Bill might increase the desire for that ; and hod, t h 'S hoped, giving friendly advice to the Noble at i ke t ko w ould not repeal the penal laws to which he of „ He approv e d o f d o i ng away t h e qua lifi cat i on , t~Apf-is a tie n a; the s a l e o f game; b ut h e h ope d t h e 1/ 0 1 11 . w ould not b e t oo prec i p i tate. tO *Y, , e MEMBE R was g l a d the qualification was done 1 the h should su p port t h e Bill, because he w i s h ed 1;•,i;lti Alpine laws s i mp lifi e d . th_ RP EPTH expressed hi s th an k s t o hi s N o bl e ott!,.e he Chancellor o f t h e E xchequer, for the sound had introduced. It was one proof of the dis ,to ' 4 3 Noble Friend to use his new acquired power, a 41;.. ,„:4,JotreytThe,,,few, but to benefit the many.. e AT , ' , led) supported the proposition. lO RNEY-GENERAL wished that the Right Hon. Baronet had not adopted the tone of discouragement which he had made use of. He requested his Noble Friend not to give up that part of his Bill which got rid of the severe penal laws against night poaching. The crime was the result of the laws. The common law was sufficient to punish these offences, and they ought not to be left to be punished by au extraordinary law made by the landowners, and executed by the game preservers. The difference between the mild punishments of a Judge at the Assize and of the Justices at the Quarter Sessions had a very material effect in confusing in the minds of the people the notions of right and wrong. After a few words from Sir Thomas Freemantle, Mr. Benett, Mr. Hunt, and Mr. P. H. Howard, _ _ Lord ALTHQRP made a short reply. He did not ex pect that the Bill would do away with poaching alto gether, but he thought it would greatly diminish it. As to the licenses, the proper time of discussing that point would be in the Committee. In answer to a question from an Honourable Member, Lord ALTHORP did not mean to extend the pro visions of the Bill to Ireland. He likewise stated that he had some doubts in his mind with respect to the expedi ency of the arrests. Leave was then granted to bring in the Bill; and Lord ALTHORP soon after brought it in; when it was read a first time, and ordered to be lead a second time en Friday. On the motion of Mr. HUME, various returns were ordered to be laid before the House of the Civil Superan nuations in 1830 ; also, of all existing Half-pay Superan nuations, Civil and Military, for 1830; also, of the Ex penditure of 12,0001. for forming tables of the parishes in Ireland ; also, of the Half-pay of one hundred and fifty Officers having Halt-pay in the Army and the Militia. On the motion of Mr. MAXWELL, it was ordered that the House should be called over on Monday, the 28th February. Mr. STANLEY obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Richmond Lunatic Asylum Act. The House having resolved itself into a Committee on the Revenue Acts (Ireland), it was ordered, on the motion of Lord ALTHORP, that the Chairman should be in structed to move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the said Acts. Mr. COURTENAY asked the Noble Lord when it was his intention to bring in the Bills for the repeal of the various duties alluded to in the budget Lord ALTHORP replied, that he meant to bring in the Bills repealing the duties on coals and candles tomorrow; but that be had net made up his mind when to bring in de Bill to equalize the duties on wine. The House was then resumed, and Sir A. GRANT moved for and obtained leave to bring in the Bill. Mr. TRENCH obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Irish Election Acts. Mr. O'BRIEN brought in the Bill for the relief of the aged, infirm, and helpless poor in Ireland.—Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday the 28th of February; and to be printed. Mr. R. GRANT postponed, until the 14th of April, his motion for removing the Civil Disabilities of the Jews. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and at Ten Minutes after Two o'clock this morning the House adjourned. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. Whitehall, Jan. 27, 1831. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Joseph Smith, of Carlton itnh e t h c e ou i ll i t g y h of o N u o r t t ti o il f S&al a n i,;ce G r e y nt. to be Master uLP:tnra:orrr:Putiriyn Whitehall, Feb. 5. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert Beales Baas, of Halesw•orth, in the county of Suffolk, Gent, to be a Master Ex traordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Crown-office, Feb. 15. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TIIIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Windsor.—The Right Hon. Edward Geoffrey Stanley, one of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and Chief Secretary for the affairs of that part of the United Kingom called Ireland, in the room of Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, Bart., who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. \Var.Office, Feb. 15. Magistrates' Office. Halifax. Edwards, Bouverie-street, Lon. don ; Edwards, Halifax. JOHN KILLERBY, White-street, Southwark, "straw hat manufacturer, Feb. 23, March 1, and '29, at eleven, at the Court of Commissionrs. Wragg, Bedford-place, Southwark Bridge-road. JOSEPH JAMES COLLINS Three Hats, Islington, li cenced victualler, Feb. 22, March 1, and '2J, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Bowles, King's Anus-yard, Coleman street, London. DIVIDENDS. S. Furnis and W. S. Enrols New Bond-street, hatters, March 15, at three, at the Court of ' Commissioners—H. Brown, Nor wich, laceman, March 15, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners—T. Vinen, Norwich, woollen-draper, March 15, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Rowbotham, Long-lane, Ber mondsey, furrier, March 8, at ten, at the Court of Commis sioners-,K. H. Marshall, Plymouth, draper, March 18, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—D. Macleod, Water-lane, Tower. street, cork-merchant, March 8, at ten, at the Court of Commis. sioners—J. Thompson, Fox Ordinary-court„ Nicholas-lane, tailor, March 8, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Poulter, Black Horse, High-street, Marylebone, victualler, March 8, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners—W. C. Thorn_ t h waite, W. Ryland, and J. Wills, Fleet-street, iron mongers, March 8, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners —H. Holborrow, Oldbury-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire, meal man March 11, at one, at the White Hart Inn, Chippenham— W. Williams, Bristol, ironfounder, March 4, at one, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham—W. Barry, Bruton, Somersetshire, banker, March 14, at two, at the Blue Ball Inn, Bruton —E. Croft, Louth, Lincolnshire, tanner, March 10, at three, at the New King's Head Inn, Louth—J. Tetley, Harden, Yorkshire, worsted stuff-manufacturer, March 10, at twelve, at the Talbot Inn, Bradford—S. James, Carlisle, mercer, March 9, at eleven, at the Bush Inn, Carlisle. CERTIFICATES—Maacu - - ---• • T. F. Drought, Ilminster, druggist—J. and S. X myates, Li. verpool, provision - merchants—J. Booth, Plymouth-grove, Chorl. ton-row, Lancashire, cotton-spinner—J. Hulme, Stepney, vie. tualler—E. R. S. Falkner, South-hill, Nottinghamshire, school master—D. Stephenson, jun., Mitchell Laiths, Yorkshire, dealer J. L. Parker, Birchin-lane, merchant—S. James, Carlisle, mercer. A question was asked last night in the House of Commons by Sir R. Vivian, with reference to a subject of no small interest at the present moment, namely, the demonstrations of France on the Bel gian and Prussian frontiers. He wished to ask Lord Palmerston " whether the Noble Lord was aware, or whether his Majesty's Government had received information of the assembling of a large body of troops on the north-eastern fro►►tier of France ?" The answer was, that "he believed the amount of that force had been much over-stated; but this he would say, that his Majesty's Govern ment had received from the French Government, with respect not only to that force, but to all other military force in France, repeated and positive as surances of the most pacific intentions on the part of France, and declarations of the earnest desire of the French Government to maintain the relations of friendship, not only with England, but with all the other great Powers of Europe.—(Hear, hear.)" We cannot divest ourselves of the suspicion that the French Government and the Allies understand each other perfectly well, and that the object of the force on the Belgian and Prussian frontiers will soon be no secret. There has been a great deal too much diplo macy about Belgium. First, the poor people were not to form a republic; then they were not to choose for their Sovereign any Prince connected with the great States; then they are not to choose the Duke de Leuch tenberg; and all the while interest is made with the Rulers of the secondary States that they shall de cline the Sovereignty if offered them. The people are determined that the Nassau family shall not reign over them; and the Powers exert themselves to prevent their having any other. The unsettled state of the country, the danger of commotions, all pass for nothing. In Poland, in Germany, in Swit zerland and Italy, the people are moving. The Sovereigns of the Holy Alliance are well aware that the Revolution of July is the cause of these, and will be the cause of further movements. We may therefore be assured that they will endeavour to make head against the new Power which shakes their authority. Till it be determined whether despc tism or constitutional Government shall have the ascendancy, Europe cannot know peace. The French are manfully preparing for the crisis; and we may be assured they have so taken their mea sures that no other Power shall prevent then+ and the Belgians from forming a junction at the suitable time. A strong force on the two flanks of the Prussian territory on the left bank of the Rhine will secure Belgium from that quarter. In the last number of Cobbett's Register, a very happy applica tion is made of an observation of Fielding to the disposition of the Belgians and French towards each other : " Fielding says that when both parties are of a mind, whether it be to fight or to marry, it is extremely diffi cult to keep them asunder ; but that if either of the parties have no stomach for the enterprise, a team of horses will not get them together—a striking instance of which latter I once witnessed in a man who was always boast ing of his pugilistic might and prowess, but who, having taken a culling and kicking as silently as a woolpack, and having been driven (in order to save his coward hide for the moment) to postpone the sequer of the salutation by the accepting of a challenge for the next day, dis covered, in shuffling out of the challenge, more ingenuity than timid hare ever discovered to avoid her pursuers, and, in resisting the arguments in favour of the necessity of fighting, more courage than St. Dunstan discovered in all his immortal battles with the devil. Far otherwise is it in the present case. Here is a marriage in question ; and the parties are both of a mind, and ready to leap into each other's arms. It signifies not a straw, therefore, what Louis-Philippe and his insolvent bankers may think or say of the matter; the rich and beautiful bride offers her hand to her brave and strong and ardent lover." Is the honour of this country concerned in pie venting this union ? Before this question is an-' swered, it might be as well to answer the question why Russia was allowed, at the late settlement of Europe, to run off with the lion's share of Poland ? Was it not because Alexander had 500,000 men on foot, as he told Lord Castlereagh ? Belgium was dissevered from France, because France was unable to resist ; Poland was retained by Russia, because no one durst challenge the theft. In looking to the future tranquillity of Europe, we see much less to apprehend from France than from Russia. The French are a brave people certainly, but they are a civilized and industrious people. War is to them a great sacrifice, and all the well-informed part of them must know, that though war is preferable to subjection in the ca to des po s t e is m u; a it Gu is ve notrnm the Government like Russia, less a great evil. But war is always to be wished for. Occupation must be found for the enormous army which is kept up. The independence of Poland is an object of far more consequence to the future tranquillity of Europe than the prevention of the union of France with Belgium. It is in the power of the French to manage matters so that Belgium shall virtually be long to her, though nominally independent. They have only to establish a free intercourse with Bel gium, and the connection will become so intimate that all attempts to break it will be impossible. It is useless, therefore to contend against the nature of things; and we trust that our honour will never prompt us to make the attempt.—Morn. Chronicle. The Bishop of London again adverted to the sub ject of tithes : " lie had made (he said) his calculations on returns presented to Parliament in the year 1811—a year, he be lieved, of great agricultural prosperity. These returns stated the whole amount at 2,300,000/. ; and taking the whole amount paid to the lay impropriators, which be estimated at full one-third, and making what he considered a very large allowance for the incomes of Bishops and the Deans and Chapters, he found that the average would not much exceed 1851. ; certainly it did not reach 2001. a year. The returns, he admitted, bad been made for the subject of taxation, and therefore there was probably some little deceit in them, but he had allowed for that ; and when they considered the depreciation of alt agriculturul pro perty in the year 1830, he thought the calculations would be found as accurate as any which could be made under the circumstances. He added, in answer to a question from Lord Radnor, " that the estimate included the property of ecclesiastical and lay corporations." So long as reliance shall be placed on pretended accounts de- Ir i ve d from this or that source, no conclusion can be drawn as to the income of the chum!) of the least value. The clergy may take less than th e i r f u ll claims i n some cases (we believe they do in many cases;) but as they c a n exac t th e i r f u ll c l a i m, we entitled to esti mate t h e i r i ncome at t h e full yran Now leavi ng out o f consideratio all the other sources n sources of income, and confining ourselves to the tithe, it is laid down by Dr. Bearblock, the authority most looked up to by the clergy, in his Treatise upon Tithes, " that any sum not exceed ing o ne-third, may be considered a reasonable pay ment in lieu of all tithes arising on a farm ; for this plain reason, viz, that unless the occupier can make the produce of his farm return nearer four rents than three, such farm cannot be worth his holding, Wherever farms are notoriously under-rented or under-rated, through concealment of the rent, there the tithe-holder' s claim, as in case of occupiers of land, must be regulated, not by what is, what oug h t to b e the rent proport i ona bl y butt rs h ' i e t i l r i by theo'ln neighbourhood." Now, taking the rental at 30 millions, and there can be no question that it is considerably more, one third would give 10 milli ons ; arid if we deduct one-third for lav-innpropriatio ns and moduses, the proportion usu, a lly assigned to them by the best authorities, we shall have a sum of upwards of six millions and a half. But this is wily a part of the revenue of the church. We all know that the clergy possess a num ber of sources of income besides. The author of the Extraordinary Black Book—a publication to which the Bishop of London evidently alluded on Monday night—allowing 6,8E4,8004 for the tithes to the clergy, make the whole revenue of the church 9,459,5661. every one knows that in the city of London the clergy have a large income from a rate on the rents. However, the public are bound to inquire into what the clergy actually do receive. It is obvious they may claim and enforce payment of about seven millions for their tithes. The well-in formed Editor of the Scotsman, in the paper of the sth February, makes the rietual income of the church seven millions. Sir John Sinclair makes the stipends to the Scotch clergy amount to less than one shilling in the pctind of the rent. It was assessed to the property tax at upwards of five mil lions. As the rent of Scotland includes the tithe, we may take the tithe at one-fourth of the rent, and that would give 1,250,0001.—a sum at least five times more than what the clergy receive, though they have 2501. a year at an average. The nation must not be mystified by such absurd statements as those of the Bishop of London.—. Morning Chronicle. The opinion extends itself fast throughout the country, that boroughs, usually termed " close " ones, however unfit to exercise any longer the right of sending Members to Parliament, who do not and • cannot represent the " people," are nevertheless very far from being the most disgraced by positive corruption, or the most instrumental in spreading and establishing amongst Englishmen an utter con tempt for all political duties. The electors for a close borough, who have acquired the right to vote by subscribing to the single stipulation that they will vote invariably for one acknowledged patron, can hardly be accused of personal criminality in doing that which the very constitution of the borough as sures us must be done by every one wbo is admitted to its franchise. The vice of a close borough is in its own peculiar frame and character. The Legislature has left it in the power of some one member of the aristocracy to appoint the whole constituent body of the place, and human nature has so willed it, that the nominator of the burgesses does and ever will select them for that office, solely with the view of making, through them, a second nomination—viz., that of the person who shall call himself their re presentative. We dare to say that there are many electors of close boroughs who, regarding the sep tennial election of their patron's nominee as the just and indispensable acquittance of that service which constitutes the tenure of their elective right, would repel with scorn the offer of a bribe in money us an insult to their integrity and honour. Such men are merely passive tools for keeping up the movement of a destructive system; no degree of virtue on their part would purify or redeem the borough. Even if the law, permitted them, one and all, to divest themselves of the franchise, their successors must employ it, as they had done, in electing him, or the deputy of him, from whom they had derived the privilege of election—an elec tion which leaves them no free agency, compelling them to be either bad citizens, or faithless and trea cherous individuals. The constitutions of the open boroughs, on the other baud, are often framed in correspondence with some plausible theory of free dom. Numbers and poverty, as well as property, are qualified to send Members to the House of Com mons. The people of these boroughs (such people as they are !) enjoy an unrestricted right. They have none to direct or force them ; they are " free and independent" Englishmen ; and what is the worth to them of their elective franchise ? Why, just what it w ill bring in money from the candidates, so often as Parliament may be dissolved. We have be fore us, and shall add to these remarks, the copy of a curious petition, which was presented by Lord Ebrington on the 11th instant, from Mr. Flight, an attorney, respecting the practices which usually take place at Bridport, between the majority of the " free and independent voteis" of that town, and those gentlemen who achieve the honour of being sent by them to . Parliament. The number of voters, it appears, is not quite three hundred and fifty, and each constituent of those who vote in the majority,—that is, who return the suc cessful candidate,—is in the habit of receiving the sum of 101. for his vote. Such is the public spirit of those who would very possibly be among the foremost to cry out against the corruption of close boroughs, and the despotism of an overbearing aristocracy ! Here the vice is not so much in the constitution of the borough, as in the morality of the electors. The cure may be, either—first to raise the qualification in respect of property, at the same time that nine or ten times the number of individuals having property are admitted to the franchise; or, establishing some more varied qualifications, introduce the so-much called-for screen (the indiscriminate screen) of inno cence and knavery, the ballot. The principle of Reform has been for some time so universally re cognized throughout the kingdom, that it would be an utter waste of time and labour to recommend it. But there is almost an infinity of details to be dis cussed, on which it would be vain to hope for any thing like uniformity of feeling among the abstract, however honest, advocates for even the most exten sive Reform. " COPY of a PETITION presented by LORD EBRINGTON to the HOUSE of COMMONS, on FRIDAY, FEB. 11. I 4 TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GRAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, THE HUMBLE PETITION OF EDWARD GILL FLIGHT, OF BRIDPORT, IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET, GENTLEMAN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. " Showeth,—That the number of voters for Memhers of your Honourable House, for the borough of tii►lport, is less than 350. " That your petitioner is prepared to prove before your Honourable House, that for a long time past and hitherto, it bath been the established and recognized usage and custom, for each of the majority of the voters for Mem bers of your Hon. House, for the said borough, to receive 101. for his s ote ; and also, immediately after the election of the said Members, to be fed by the publicans and victuallers in the said borough, at the expense a the said Members. " That your petitioner hath lieu informed that the question of Parliamentary Reform is intended to be brought before your Hon. House. " Your petitioner therefore humbly prays tL•at your Hon. House will be pleased to take into serious considera tion the case of the borough of Bridport, and of every other borough and place where similar practices have existed, or do exist, so that all such abuses may be put an end to." " And your petitioner will ever pray," &e.—.[ Times The subjects of discussion last night, in the two [louses of Parliament, were various, and some of them important. We have elsewhere noticed Lord Palmerston's statement respecting the pacific inten tions of the French Government, and the opinion expressed by Mr. Alderman Waithman on the im ports and exports of the country. Besides these topics, we invite attention to the sound, judicious, and decisive declaration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the currency was in a healthy con dition, and ought not to be meddled with—a decla ration the most important, as the rather ambiguous language of Sir James Graham on the preceding evening had occasioned some disagreeable appre hensions. Lord Althorp referred to a Committee the extravagant bills for Windsor Castle and Buck ingham House—the former the pride, the latter the shame, of English architecture. lie also announced that the promised opening Mt!) St. James's Park will be made with all convenient despatch, But the most .;i4narkable circumstance of the even ing was the introduction of the Game Bill. When Lord Althorp gave notice of his intention to bring forward a measure on this subject, we anticipated a rational and humane enactment. We are not dis appointed. We have not time, however, at pre sent, for more than a very brief summary of the Bill. His Lordship proposes to repeal all the existing game laws he abolishes altogether the qualification to kill game, and any person taking out a certificate of 51. may lawfully kill it. The sale of game will be legalized, the sellers being licensed. Land will, as in all other cases, be pro tected front intrusion and trespass by the common law. Night poaching, which is a graver offence, will be punishable in the first instance, after con viction before two Magistrates, by four months: im prisonment; on the second delinquency by eight; the third offence will be considered a misdemeanour, punishable with two years' imprisonment. The sim plicity and plain sense of the proposed measure made a very forcible impression on the House. It ma y not effect all the good intended; but it re moves much of the evil of the existing laws, and by bringing the regular sale of game into competi tion with the irregular, must diminish the poacher's profits, and in the same proportion his temptation to steal. Nobody of course imagines that posch'ng can be altogether abolished, any more than picking pockets or sheep-stealin g; but the poacher—cod this is a great point--will henceforth be consi dered, not, as now, a daring sportsman, but a pet ry sneaking thief.—Tintcs. The affairs of Belgium have from the beginning been felt to involve the question of peace or war, —of the territorial aggratidizement or increased power of France, with all Europe as h er enemy., or of her moderation and controulled ambition, with the preservation of the General Alliance. Hence the intense interest excited by every n ovement or word of a set of inexperienced Belgic adventurer., who call themselves Statesmen because they tre placed in a situation to embroil their betters; and hence the legislative assemblies of four neigAnuring nations—the only nations in Europe which Ilse,• free legislative assemblies—entertain the satire in quiries at the same time. Almost :every day the French Chamber of Deputies, the Belgic Congress, and the States-Gen mai of Holland are called upon to hear some statement, or provoked to enter into some discussion on these agitating affair-. The Parliament of England has, till last night, attained from demanding disclosures, and the information which our Minister has communicated was, very properly, scanty and reserved. Though our cu riosity were even keener than it is, we might be almost satisfied with the communi cations which reach us through the medium of the papers and debates of our neighbours, with whom politics seem again to have become, as in areient times, a matter of the forum—who no sooner re ceive an official note or protocol than they lay it before the sovereign people in the market-place— who have abolished all diplomatic secrecy, and seem resolved to play the game of negotiation, as M. de Villele expresses it, cartes stir la toble. We have no objections to thi. in the case of other nations, but we are likewise pleased with the ordinary re serve of our own Government during pending nego tiations. '1 he answer which Lord Palmerston gave to the questions put by Sir R. Vyvyan last night was no departure from the usual course. The letter of General Sebastian; seemed so extraordinary as to warrant some doubt of its authenticity, sad the pie parations on the French frontiers have been so em blazoned as to require some explanation of their amount. The Foreign Secretary having removed the former, and given the latter in the shortest com pass possible, put an end to the conversation, The letter of the chief of the Belgic deputation at Paris, which fully accords with that system of publicity to which we have above alluded, is a very singular composition. It announces to the wondering Belgians what great turn their Deputies have become at Paris,—how they have been treated by the Minister, arid received by the King. It moreover informs them that tiny do not despair of yet inducing Louis Philip to give them his son for their newly-erected throne. Then the chief of the deputation dexte rously attacks the interest of both rivals of the Duke of Nemours, by telling Congress that the Duke of Leuchtenberg would not be acknowledged by the Allied Courts, and that the preter.sioiis of the Prince of Orange would be opposed if he ethic". What does all this mean 1' Does the French Mi nistry intend, by this cajolery and toque!ry, to keep the Belgic deputation in Paris until they ean find some pretext for breaking their eigagements with the rest of Europe, anti accepting the proffered crown? If they are honest and sincere, wiry not have given an answer at once? 'Why express so many regrets about the necessity of declining, for the sake of peace, an offer, the refusal ref which good faith and solemn pledges render itievitaVe What other Sovereign eau afterwards place reliance on the Belgians, so wheedled and seduced at the Palais Royal ? If we had not so great a reliance on the character of the King of the French, we should suspect a dishonest juggle in the whole of this pro ceeding from the beginning to the end.—Times. It is with pleasure we fintl that Sir F. Burtie:t has given notice of a motion to introduce a dame into the annual Mutiny Bill to suppress the punish ment of flogging in the army. Marry years ago the worthy Baronet distinguished himself by humane and eloquent efforts to induce the Legislature to put an end to a cruel and degrading practice, perfectly unnecessary for the enforcement of discipline in the a-my, and calculated to inflict the deep sta . ,' of barbarism on the habits of the country by wnieli it is tolerated. The civil torture of the peineforte et dare, which was once a disgraceful part of our judi cial practice, has long been abolished as inhuman and barbarous ; and the spirit of civilization, which denounced and rejected that malignant invention to punish by lingering torment, the unhappy being who stood obstinately mute wine called upon to plead to a charge of felony, demands, with a loud voice, the supprete.ion of the military tenure o f th e cat-o'-nine-tails. But this practice prevails in the navy, both in the King's met merchant,' ser vice, us well as in the army, though it is undoubtedly in the latter that it is carried to the most exqui site degree of savage perfection. Only think of a sentence of 300, of 500, and sometimes of 1,000 lashes, being carried into effect on tire naked back of a human being, by an instrument ingeniously con trived to inflict the greatest possible amount of tor ture with a given quantity of laceration—wielded by a muscular arm—with a surgeon occasionally feeling the pulse of the victim, to ascertain how much more of this agonizing pain call be inflicted without breaking in irreparably upon the sources of life ! Tell us not of the Holy Inquisition, with its pulleys and its screws, arid other modes of inflicting refined and protracted pain without destroying life, while this instrument of savage cruelty is applied to the back of the British soldier. Is there any thing better calculated to destroy those manly feelings, and that sense of shame, without some remains of which no reformation of a delinquent can, at least by human agency, be expected ? A being, with lacerated back, and utterly dishonoured among his fellows, may stir-. vive the torture of that punishment, but he cannot escape from its degradation—he may linger for years through the downcast, abject, blasted ex istence of the " whip-galled slave," but he will never rise again into the station and attitude of man! Vulgar minds, when they possess power (and such vulgar minds may be found in the highest order of patrician society) look only to force as the means of preserving authority. It is u quick and compen dious way of settling questions of obedience and dis cipline, but it is often too the most ready and effectual means of creating more disorder than it suppresses, and of giving a more dangerous activity to the spirit of insubordination. The application of the lash,however, for the correction of either trivial or grave offences, requires . the exorcise of no powers of mind—it does not induce the necessity of thinking about the reformation of the offender; and while it affords to the cruel and revengeful an agreeable spectacle and a favourite pastime, it recommends itself, by the ease with which it is accomplished, to the disposi tions of the indolent. To regulate the actions, to curb the will, and coritroul the passions of men by moral government, is a more troublesome matter, at least in the outset, and requiring a nicer and more laborious exercise of the mental powers; hut we imagine that the moral government, even of soldiers, when once it is established on right principles is not only more effective than th at o f torture and force, but . becomes, in the end, more easy. We believe, in the few regiments in which it tt f .. o , und to produce better soldiers, has been substituted for the lash in the British a t b we r e r m t hr t y lo eir s i m t ‘oy e fe i :l a s s s tai a yi b e ri e d t e e : l a a l more effective discipline, than the s e e h o a f v efl flogging g ought created. o t -nine to be abolished in the navy, as well as in the army, we ought not to forget the recent instance of the cruel and deplorable fate of the boy William heritage, of the King's ship the North Star—the subject of the late Court-martial at Portsmouth. There may be tnany such instances that never come to light. In that case the instrument of torture was not forth coming, though the victim sought refuge from it in a voluntary death! If the Commander of the cruet sel, as it was peeved,. did not _know whatt ru2l by means of tilli suffering was daily inflicted