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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 8. The SPEAKER resumed the chair at the usual hour. Mr. BRISCOE presented a petition from the Dis senters of Richmond for a redress of their grievances ; also a petition from Tooting ; also a petition from Clapham in favour of the bill for preventing the sive - Ting of chimneys by climbing boys ; also a peti tion from Carshalton against the Poor Laws Bill. Lo-d R. GR 0 SVE NO R presented a petition from the Dissenters of Chester for a redress of grievances. CAPTAIN ROSS. Lord R. GROSVENOR gave notice, on behalf of his hon. friend (Mr. C. Furgusson), of a motion for a grant of 5,000/. to Captain Ross. SABBATH OBSERVANCE BILL. Mr. H. FLEETWOOD brought in a bill for the better ob3ervance of the Sabbath, which was read a first time, and ordered for a second reading on the 21st. PENSION TO THE WIDOW OF LANDER. _ -- - Mr. K. TYNTE begged to ask the noble lord op posite whether it was the intention of Government to recommend the widow of the late unfortunate traveller Lander as an object of the Royal bounty ? Lord ALTHORP said that a petition had passed by which the widow was to receive 701. a year for life and her son 701. Copies were laid on the table of the correspondence relating to the claims on the King of Oude. Mr. LITTLETON presented a petition from Bel fast, praying for a removal of the grievances of Eng lish Dissenters. Mr. C. WOOD laid on the table certain papers re lating to kilmainham Hospital. Mr. AGLIONBY presented petitions from Mary port and Cockermouth for a removal of Dissenters' grievances; also a petition from the hand-loom weavers of Cockermouth complaining of distress. Mr. PLUMPTRE moved for a return of the an nual amount of money paid by the London sea pilots to the Corporation of the Trinity House, and of the names of all sea pilots relieved by that corporation in the same time. Mr. LABOUCHERE presented a petition from Taunton, praying for a remission of the sentence on the Dorchester convicts. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Lord ALTHORP gave notice that he should to morrow move that for the remainder of the session orders of the day do take precedence of all notices of motion not now on the books. He did not mean to give them precedence of notices now standing, but of all such as might be placed on the books for the future. ADMISSION OF CLERICAL MEMBERS. Mr. PR YME rose to bring before the house the question of the disabilities imposed upon persons being in holy orders, whereby they were excluded from sitting in that house. The hon. member described the attempts which had formerly been made to remove this restriction, and stated that he wished to remove it from no partiality to the clergy, nor from any wish to see them in the house, but because he wished to see all exclusions removed. He was opposed to all such restrictions, because he regarded it as the natural right of every person to be eligible to a seat in that house, and the natural right of electors to choose from what body or class of men they liked. The hon. member then went into the circumstances of the re turn of Home Tooke by Lord Camelford. There were two classes of persons whom the present law ex cluded from the privileges of a seat in that house, and whom it was his object to restore to that privilege. The first class was that of persons who once belonged to the profession of the church, but who, through con scientious considerations, chose to discontinue their ecclesiastical functions ; and, secondly, persons who, having been brought up to the clerical profession, had not as yet been appointed to benefices or cures. He thought it hard that such persons should not be al lowed the privilege of a seat in the House of Com mons, upon the condition that whenever they might be preferred to any benefice or cure the seat should ' become vacant, as now was always the case with respect to other lucrative appointments under the Crown. It was, he thought, a most unfair thing that, whilst other professions of the law, the army, and the navy, had their interests repre sented in that house by members of their respec tive bodies, the ecclesiastical profession should alone remain unrepresented, especially at a time like the present, when so many sects and divisions of opinion assailed the church. In bringing forward this subject he begged to observe, that he expressed opinions which he had entertained for a great number of years ; but that in respect to the particular motion which he had now before the house, he had conferred with no other member, and did not even know who he had to look to to second his motion. Mr. A. BARING rose to second the motion. He did not see why a person because he had once be longed to the ecclesiastical profession, but since seceded from it, should for ever be incapacitated from a seat in that house as a representative of his fellow freemen. Lord ALTHORP, who spoke in a very low tone of voice, said that he did not see any peculiar griev ances which the bill proposed to be introduced by the hon. member would remedy. There were few per sons who would, according to the hon. member's pro position, fall within the provisions of the bill ; and under such circumstances he could not see the prac tical utility of such a measure, whilst there were many points of inconvenience to be urged against its adop tion. Mr. BERNAL opposed the motion. He did not think it fitting that clergymen, or those who had ever belonged to the clerical profession, should be seen canvassing through the streets of a populous town, and resorting to those certainly questionable acts by which such canvasses were generally accompanied. (Hear, and laughter.) There was another objection to such a measure, that it would be the means of introducing into that house a number of young unbeneficed clergy mai aspiring to preferment. M r . PL UM PT RE opposed the motion upon the same grotnds, and recommended the hon. member to withdraw it. After a few words from Mr. A. BARING, Mr. PRYME withdrew his motion. SCHOLARSHIPS AND PROFESSORSHIPS IN THE COLLEGE OF DUBLIN. Mr. SHEIL rose to move for leave to bring in a bill to enable Roman Catholics to hold scholarships and professorships not connected with religious in struction in the College of Dublin. Amongst those professorships which the hon. and learned member proposed to include under this bill were the regius pro fessorship of common and canon law, and the pro fessorships of feudal and English law ; the Greek pro fessorship, the Donegal lectureship on mathematics, and the appointment of astronomer royal ; together - with the professorships under Erasmus Smith's foun dation, of natural philosophy, natural history, oratory, history and oriental languages, those of anatomy and chymistry; and, lastly, those founded by George 111., in 1796, for the teaching of modern languages, two in number. The scholarships belonging to Trinity College, Dublin, were seventy in number, and there was no sort of political characteristic attached to them, except that of voting for members in the united parlia ment conferred by the Reform Act. Under these cir cumstances he entreated the liberal attention of the' government and of the house to the measure which he proposed to introduce on the subject. Mr. FINN seconded the motion. Mr. T. LE FRO Y rose to oppose the motion. Any one could easily see that that small beginning w as but the first step to the subversion of the Irish University, and, through the subversion of that nursery of the Irish Church, to the total extinction of the Pro testant religion in Ireland. That was no slight alte ration, as the hon. gentleman insidiously intimated, but one of great and lasting importance ; one that would eventually involve the constitution of the Uni versity in destruction. ( Hear.) He (Mr. Lefroy) hoped he would show the government, since the hon. member directed his appeal to that quarter, that there was no one principle of justice or national good on which they could stand in introducing any legislative innovation on this subject. First, the hon. member would open scholarships to all persons of all religious persuasions, or of none. But he well knew that by the constitution of the University, which in the spirit and letter of its charter was founded, endowed, and upheld for the culture and support of true religion, all its officers were exclusively confined to Protestants. If, indeed, the Irish people stood with respect to the University in th., same situation as the English dis senters did to the English Universities, then there might be some foundation for an appeal to parliament. But when the dissenters of 0 classes were pot only allowed the privileges of admission ;',21c1 instruction hut even of degrees in the Irish University--when tle university was found to answer all the provisions of national education without murmur or public remon strance from the people—when it was on every side allowed that— Colonel PERCE VA here rose, and moved that the house be counted ; and it being ascertained that LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1834. The question of the poor laws comes on for discussion to-night, and if we are to judge from the opposition raised to the bill out of doors, it will probably be postponed till next session. From the great variety of interests Involved in the measure, its vast importance, and the hostility which might be expected from parish authorities, it appeared to us from the beginning that it could not pass into a law this session. Indeed, looking at all the circumstances of the case, it would be desirable not to hurry the entire measure through Par liament ; and if any enactment take place, it might be better to confine it to the metropolis, or some particular district, rather as an experi= ment than as a general and fixed law. Lord ALTHORP will probably explain more fully the provisions of the bill—answer the ob jections raised against it—and then leave it to the House to say whether it should be proceeded with, or allowed to stand over for more mature deliberation. We have taken an impartial and disinterested view of the question from the beginning, and still think that it may be so altered as to satisfy all, except those who are determined not to be sa tisfied. At all events we look to a thorough and impartial discussion in the Commons, founded solely on argument, and without any of that abusive and violent language which has unhappily characterized the discussion out of Parliament. For correcting the abuses of the Poor Laws, the leading object is to put an end to the pay ment of wages out of the rate. For this pur pose the commissioners recommend, and the bill brought in proceeds upon that recommendation, that no relief shall be given to any person unless he or she go to the poor house. We think there is here an inaccuracy, and that relief is confounded with work. We agree that no relief should be given to the able-bodied, and we carry this point a little further than the commis sioners. We think that work should be found for them :sub nzodo. This is the course that has been followed by the Rev. Mr. WHATELEY in the parish of Cookham, where the farmers were prevailed upon to suffer him to say to every able-bodied man who applied for relief, "We give no relief in this parish to ' any man able to work, but farmer such-a-one has ground to dig, and you shall have so much a rod, as you dig it." The farmers were appre liensive that the paupers would dig all the land in the parish ; but Mr. WHATELEY says they did not dig quite half an acre. 'When they found that by coming to the parish, they could only got hard work and little pay, they ceased to come at all, and found work for themselves. This is the consequence to be brought about, and for its accomplishment we like Mr. WHATELEY'S plan better than that of the Rev. Mr. BECHER, to which we think the Commissioners have leaned too much, while they have not attended sufficiently to that of Mr. WHATELEY. Mr. BECHER'S plan, however, as he has dealt with it, has produced exactly the same effect with that of Mr. WHATELEY, in the situation to which it has been applied. Mr. BECHER'S parishes of Thurgaston and South well form two of forty-nine parishes, united under Mr. GILBERT'S Act. These two pa rishes are five miles distant from the poor house, and Mr. BECHER availed himself of the act which says " relief may be with held from any person who does not go into the workhouse." The parishes of Thur pston and Southwell, being fives miles distant from 0 - xe united workhouse, the poor people were unwilling to leave their homes, and, rather than do so, found work for themselveS. Mr. BECHER'S plan, thertfore, operated in his two parishes exactly as Mr. WHATELEY'S did in his parish of Cookham. The object of both is to throw the poor upon their own resources, through which they will do a great deal more for themselves, than it is possible for any one to do for them. But for this purpose, we much prefer the plan of Mr. WHATELEY, to that of Mr. BECHER. Whether the one or the other is to be followed, the helpless and infirm should. be distinguished from the able-bodied. The former, that is, those who cannot work to main tain themselves, are the proper objects of relief. The latter are not. They should never be al lowed to ask for anything but work, and a poor house is not the proper place where they should be set to work. Work cannot be created ; it must exist, and it does exist in every agricultural parish in England, and as it hap pens in those parishes the most where the Poor Laws have been the most abused—for Mr. BECHER states the result of his plan to have been, that in the parishes of Thurgaston and Southwell, the quantity of work done by a la bouring man is four times the quantity done in other parishes in the county of Nottingham, where the poor have not been reclaimed--that is, in every parish where the poor have not been reclaimed, labour costs four times' the sum that it does in the parishes of Thurgaston and Southwell. The land, therefore, in'every parish where the Poor Laws prevail the most, must he the least perfectly cultivated, and admits of perhaps not quite four times the labour being bestowed upon them which it now receives, but certainly to an extent which would do more than employ all the labourers in the parishes who are out of employment, and if a suffi ciency of labour were bestowed to make and keep the land dry,—to make and keep it clean,—and to collect and apply manure, which might be done to a great extent, if active and available labour were to be had for this purpose, it is not too much to say that the produce of the soil in England might be more than doubled, and rents in creased in place of falling as they now do—and still more—if the vicious system of two white crops and a fallow were to be exploded, and a green crop were invariably to follow a white crop, as in Scotland, where also a system of under and permanent drainage is practised to a great extent, the landlords finding the money, and the tenants making a return for it in the shape of an increased rent, at the rate of 7 2 per cent. of increase upon every sum furnished by the landlord, and laid out in such drainage. We have stated these things to show that there is ample room in the fields for the employment of every agricultural labourer, if the abuses of the poor laws were removed. But we must re serve for another opportunity our further objec tions to work in the poor-house. The House of Commons shOwed a proper re gard to the interests of the poor id throwing out the Bucklebury Enclosure Bill. When waste lands are'of a description to repay the labour of cultivation, it is highly beneficial to enclose them for that purpose, provided the in terests of those having a right to the common be attended to, but in this instance both these requisites were wanting. It appeared from the report of surveyors, that the land could not be brought into profitable cultivation ; and it also appeared that the poor people would be great sufferers by the bill, and the Lord of the Manor almost the only one be nefitted. Many persons having the right of commonage, have been robbed of their property in this way, though their title has been as good as that of the Lord of the Manor. Mr. WALTER, and the Members who supported him, deserve credit for having thrown out the measure. If some Members, who vainly at tempt to play great parts in the House, would turn their attention to little matters—to busi ness of this description, and watch private bills, they might be of use to the public, prevent many acts of gross injustice, and acquire an honourable popularity. The French papers of Wednesday have been received. The Journal des Debats con tains the telegraphic communication from Bayonne. M. HUMANN remains in office. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, MAY 7. Five per Cents., 105 f. 25c. 35c 30c. Four and a Half per Cent, 99f. 90c. Four per Cents., ME 10c. Three per Cents., 79f. 20c. 25c. 35c. Bank Actions, 1,795 f. 1,792 i. 50c. Rente de Naples, Vf. 96f. 35c. Roman Five per Cents., 95% 4. Bente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 304 30. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 45)4 45. Royal Spanish Loan, 85% 85. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 75 74. Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 99 59 fir. Haytian Loan, 270 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25t: 35:!. • money, 25f. Sc. 3 Three months, paper, 25f. 25c.; money, 25f. 25c. —Coors iluthenlique. The Spanish Government have appointed an Ecclesiastical Commission to examine into the concerns of the clergy, their revenues and duties, and to propose a plan for an effectual reform. The admission of novices into the monasteries and convents is suspended for the present. This and other measures of improvement have made the Government exceedingly popular. Important news was received last night from Spain, via Bayonne, dated May 6. It is that Don CARLOS had embarked for England, and that the affairs of Portugal had been arranged between Don MIGUEL and Don PEDRO. The French Secretary, who brought this intelligence to Bayonne, from whence it is conveyed by tele graph, is the same gentleman from whom the re port of the death of FERDINAND was conveyed by theßayonne telegraph some weeks before the event really occurred. It is possible that he, or the directors of the telegraph, may have again mis taken a confident rumour at Madrid for a posi tive fact, officially announced. Yet there is no thing improbable in either or both these occur rences. Our present advices from Lisbon do riot come lower than the 26th ult.; and between that day and the Ist of May, the intelligence of the Quadruple, or, as it has been well termed, the PEACEFUL ALLIANCE, might have arrived, Don CARLOS have embark ed in the Tagus for England, and the negotiations between the' QUEEN'S govern ment and Don MIGUEL assumed a shape from which a final adjustment might be con fidently anticipated. We therefore believe that CARLOS has embarked oris about to embark for England, and we are equally assured that an arrangement with Don MIGUEL, which will lay his pretensions at rest, and restore Portugal to tranquillity, is either actually agreed upon, or will by the moral effect of the quadruple treaty be immediately accomplished. The treaty had arrived at Madrid on the 29th or 30th of April. The ratification was to be signed the day after the French secretary left that capital, which was the 3d of May. The German papers, received this morning, contain no news of interest to the English reader. They mention that accounts had been received from Constantinople to the 9th. ACHMET PACHA had arrived, and been re ceived with marked distinction. The new Hospodars had been summoned to Constanti nople in order to be installed by the Porte ; as soon as this is done, the principalities will be formally constituted, and completely evacuated by the Russian troops. M. ANCILLON was to return to Brussels in a few days. VIENNA, APRIL 28.—Five per Cent., 98; Four per Cent., 87 ; Bank Shares, 1,248. —Allgemeine Zei tung, May 3. LITERATURE. FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. XXVL London, 1834. We have read better, and some few worse numbers than this, which is just of average ex cellence, and no more. In the first article, headed " Spanish Painters," an attractive sub ject is spoiled by a clumsy, common-place mode of handling. The writer is simply a dry chronicler, instead of being imbued, as he should be, with a befitting apprehension of the Fine Arts. He ushers in Velasquez and Murillo with amazing parade to our notice, and then takes leave of them, almost at the threshold, as if he feared that, by enlarging on their peculiar ex cellencies as painters, he might betray his igno rance. 'We looked, as a matter of course, for some remarks on Murillo's heads, which beam with expression. But, no. There is not a word on the subject. There is not the slightest notice taken even of that exquisite little gem— the Duenna, we think it is—now in the pos session of Lord Durham, and exhibited a few years since at the British Gallery. By-the-bye, why does the author go out of his way to sneer at what he calls the " conventional forms" of Carlo Dolce ? This is very bad taste, to say the least of it. If not a first-rate painter, Carlo Dolce yet holds a high rank among artists, and deserves some more respectful notice than a dull sneer. Though as a whole the essay is bald and superficial, yet it contains one cka racteristie anecdote concerning the Spanish pairiter Cano, which we extract " His character was singular and his temper hasty : when the auditor of Granada did not appear to value sufficiently a St. Antony which Cano had executed by his orders, the artist destroyed it before his face. The choir of the cathedral of Malaga he left un- finished for the same reason. On his death-bed he is said to have put aside a crucifix offered him by his priest, because it was badly executed, and thus to have shown the ruling passion for art strong even in his last moments." " Comparative Mortality of different Popu lations," will amuse those who are addicted to such sombre speculations. The population of Normandy, it seems, is the most stationary which has yet appeared, and the whole province in a much better physical condition than the average of France. M. Charles Dupin indeed is quite shocked at its Malthusian character, and cannot at all reconcile the tardy growth of its population to his sense of the fitness of things. The reason is this : " The people are proverbially slow and circum spect.' They calculate on the consequences of a family. Marriage is there entered into later, and is less prolific, than in the average of France, just be cause the primitive peasants shrink from the respon sibility of bringing children into indigence, and sub jecting them to the vices it insures. The operation of this principle has its origin in remote antiquity ; and hence Normandy has always been remarked as a substantial, if not a wealthy province. The principle is consolidated into proverbs, and embodied in cus toms ; which at once demonstrates its antiquity of origin, and the power of its control. It is an adage with the Norman rustics, that to merit a husband, a young woman must have a goodly stock of bride's clothes of her own manufacture. The more elabo rately these garments are prepared, and the more costly they are, the fitter is the possessor deemed to be mother of an industrious family. The manufac ture is often a prolonged work ; and it is not rare for the girls to play at the wheel, encouraging themselves by the maxim, it faut filer son marl. But although we detect these emphatic intimations, the practical question is not begun to be resolved. How was this beautiful prudence infused into the Norman mind ? How has it attained an energy to bear it through the shock of ages ?—by what beneficent circumstances is it still guarded ?" _ . _ It is clear from the expression " beautiful prudence" that the writer of this treatise is a disciple of the Malthus and Martineau school —which certainly does not say much for the " beauty" of his own " prudence." But all men have their hobbies. " Swedish Periodical Literature" is passable, and will be read with interest by antiquarians and black-letter men. " Austrian Government and Italian Liberals" is an able and temperate article, just the sort of thing to enforce attention to its remarks. " Ichthyology" is as dull as a modern epic, and as dry as a Utilitarian essay. But how should it be otherwise ? Who cares to know about the " sclerotica, or outer coat of a fish's eye ;" or to be told that a mackarel has " no eye-lids, but occasionally a membranaceous fold ?" All that one desires to know on the subject of mac karel is, when it is in, and when out of, season. “Judicial System of British India" is the best drawn up article in the number. It is full of useful materials for the statesman or the historian, and is the result of long and attentive investi gation of the subject. The notice of Prince Puckler-Muskau's last work is amusing, chiefly by reason of its copious extracts. Though full of quaint conceits and crotchets, the Prince is a diverting writer, whether he turns fact into tic tion, fiction into fact, indulge in maudlin sen timent or outrageous caricature. His Travels in England are the most entertaining we have read since the days of the renowned Mun chausen. ROOKWOOD A ROMANCE. Three Vols., London, 1834. This is a romance perfectly in accordance with the modern French school of wild excite ment, and has all the fantastic horror, the shadowy gloom, the recklessness, and the in tense but somewhat strained interest proper to that school. It is singular that the brilliant success which attended the introduction of Notre Dame de Paris to the English reader should not have earlier induced imitation ; but it was no easy matter, we conclude, to tread in the steps of that great master of the terrible. Here, however, we have not an imitator, but a rival. We do not hesitate to say that many portions of " Rookwood " are worthy of Hugo himself, and exhibit the same force which he exhibited in the " Hunchback." There is a " double murder," if we may so term it, which takes place in a vaulted chapel, in the dark, and amongst a crowd of gipsey by-standers. The interest of the tale, which is deeply tragic, is well sustained and exciting. Our limits do not permit of an analysis of the story, nor should we under any circumstances spoil the reader's interest. It is that - of an old family, oppressed by hereditary crime, and an appalling fatality against which each member vainly struggles. The scenes are dramatically wrought, and we doubt not we shall shortly see it transferred to the stage. The gipsey heroine Sybil is a delightful character. Her love, her devotion, her self-abandonment, and her fate, have power ful claims upon our sympathies. In the hands of a skilful actress (such as Mrs. Yates, for instance) what might not be made of this character ? One other peculiar feature of this romance we may notice, viz., its picturesqueness. The sepulchre of the Rookwoods, with the grey old sexton, and the dark figure of Luke Rookwood—the marble effigy and the grim ar ray of coffins—the wavering light, would form an excellent subject of a certain kind. We must not omit to mention the highwayman Turpin is a prominent feature of this remark able romance, and that his celebrated ride to York forms an episode to the main story. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The only arrival this morning is the express from Paris. M. St. Aubin had arrived in Paris from Madrid, which he left on the 30th, where it was reported that Don Carlos and Don Miguel had acceded to the terms offered to them, and consented to embark. All this is as yet only report, and the report spread yes terday of their actually having embarked, still requires con firmation. THE FUNDS. Consols which left off yesterday at 92% 1 /, for account, opened at 92% %. At present they are 92%. Spanish had reached 39, receded to 36 1 / 9 1 ; Portuguese was done at 79%; may be quoted at present 78% 8 79. A New York Paper of the 17th of April, has been re ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house. " Washington, April 14. " lam sorry to inform you of the failure of another bank in this city, the Patriotic Bank will stop payment to morrow, the Directors having come to that conclusion this evening." 11A.L_F-PAST ONE. We still continue without any confirmation respecting the embarcation of Don Carlos, as well as the submission of Don Miguel to the terms offered to him. There is a general discredit on 'Change as to the tele graphic despatch from Bayonne, which, it is said, only anticipates what will take place. Consols for Account, 92%. Spanish has again improved from 36 1 % to 37 1 %; Portuguese may be quoted 78 3 / 4 —was done at 79 1 4 in the morning. Accounts from Rio Janeiro, 20th February, state that some disturbances had taken place at Rio Grande. Stock, 52 to 52%; Exchange 40 to .1 THREE 0' CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 921. The official return of the exportation of the precious metals from the port of London from the 25th ult. to the Ist instant, gives 23,950 ounces of silver coin to New York, 3,500 to Hamburg, and 3,000 to Gibraltar. GLASGOW LOTTERY.—The Committee ap pointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the origin and present state of the Glasgow Lottery pre sented their report to the House yesterday, it states " that the committee do not see sufficient grounds to recommend any legislative interference with the draw ing of the Glasgow Lottery, which is proposed to take place on the 22d July in the present year, and which is stated on the part of the contracters to be their third and final drawing." It further recommends that a bill should be brought into Parliament declaring that no other Glasgow Lottery except the one to be drawn on the 22d July next shall be deemed legal. Died, at Albano, near Rome, on the 18th of April, the Most Rev. Dr. Oliver Kelly, the venerable, revered, and pious Archbishop of Tuam. About one o'clock on Wednesday afternoon a dog, suffering under hydrophobia, dashed through the windows of a tavern in Holborn, to the no small consternation of the company assembled. Two gentlemen, however, with great presence of mind and determination of purpose, immediately attacked the furious animal, and never left it until it lay dead at their feet. On Saturday night a boat belonging to Deal, called the John, entered the harbour, and the officers of Customs observing that the crew were making off in different directions, endeavoured to in tercept them and two were seized, but one got away. On the person of the man detained they found a large jacket and trousers, with innumerable seams in each, which were filled with tea to the amount of about 24 pounds weight. The boat was immediately seized, and the man, whose name is W. May, was sent to prison for the penalty.—Kentish Gazette. DEBATE ON THE REPEAL OF THE UNION.—The morning papers containing these im portant debates were sent daily by express to Mr. J. K. Johnson, Dublin, by W. H. Smith, 192, Strand. Although each express did not leave London till eight o'clock, a.m., such was the extraordinary speed used that they regularly overtook one of the mails which left London the previous evening. It has been matter of surprise to many per sons here that a more decided advance has not taken place in the funds, in consequence of the promulgation of the plan for the reduction of the 4 per cents., but it turns out, at least there is every reason for believing so, that an opposition to it has been got up by a body no less formidable than the Scotch banks, who, out of their hostility to ministers, have determined on em ploying what power they possess, which is by no means inconsiderable, in preventing the measure from taking effect. With this view, they are said to have sold stock extensively since it first became known that such an intention was entertained. An opposition more impotent cannot, however, easily be imagined. The London capitalists, who support the plan, are more than a match for those of the north, and the attempt therefore can only recoil on themselves, and on their constituents and allies. barge sales, as was anticipated, have taken place to-day ( Thursday) in the 4 per Cents., which have declined in price, and ap proach nearer to the level of the 31 per Cents. Ex chequer-bills have also fallen, because as the 4 per cent. stock sinks nearer to par, it becomes a more eligible investment of money to the bardcers than they are ; as the repayment in full in October next, with in terest up to that time, is secured under the new arrangement, which makes, in fact, a better return than Exchequer-bills.— Times. IM PER lAL PARLIAMENT, THIS DAY, FRIDAY, MAY 9. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. CITY OF LONDON. Mr. Sheriff WILSON presented a petition from the Lord Mayor, and Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, praying for the abolition of voluntary oaths ; likewise one from the Common Council and Co r p ora ti o n of London again st the Poor L'aws Endowment Bill. Mr. BERTHOLD brought up the returns of the Trinity House. W NEW MEMBERS. Mr. COLBURNE took the oaths, as representative for BANK OF ococnvro tu against teiatltri uh,eyers ci nt eocgsoit ebst ~.. yAo.i Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition from the Governors and Company of the Bank of England against the London and Westminster Bank Bill, and pray' ing to be heard by Counsel against the same. Referred to the Committee. kawn Is amendments i ll . ,TtTartetlldhhhen,reee(e.. and n inn l I bd( el O nt tThseC report o amendments presented Edinburghnr t e rdh s eme e f i eeßr t nr e ii tler c : l mdr a raiter p o_ a, Birmingham petition ya t ao i mm o s3 n eimera a oi. n g tnAdt a del i e n , Lt i i i against The d i hhe;.: uthsreport Middlesexeejc, ip: and Essex Roads Bill. tion Canal Bill was brought up by Lord Clive, and thef the Kincrsbridge and Dartmouth Roads Bill by Col° ll ` guard Market Report by Mr. Eweu ; and that of the m a " - Paul's The os L DEno a o.a ir n tf h g swGp el Estate,i e lu oa y EHbcs lagl l main n onmird c "nA l im, c o n, BRI seoaufarTsrsunvar Hammersmith presented the rrt:shekt tsho, Pets he DeanevirßEstateoi lrl tl a fe n oyßr d i al tlnhsßills, were Chapter read a a S, t i ; second time. inhabitants established ad abi a third time and passed. ' Mr. ESTCOURT brought up the report of the OM Improvement Bills, were rea" Mr. SHAW presented a petition from the churc h ' Lanarkshire fnare: THE CHURCH. Mr th e present system of church,patron ein Scotland. ,_ I, Mr. JAMES OSWALD resentedpetitions from t- e ; blished church ; from the provost, the city servance of the Sabbath in Scotland ; f rom c ertain met ', cal practitioners of Glasgow, complainin g o f the present state of the law in regard to granting diplomas ; fro' .1 certain merchants, bankers, and other inhabitants of GIP , gow, praying that the duties on sugar, andotherprodu Ctian o , of India might be put on the same footing as the duties °, Hospital in Glasgow, praying that a clause West India produce ; and from the Directors of the Too!: m ight st°_ . I introduced into the Poor Laws Amendment Bill, topre' j tect Scotland against certain effects of the same bill. 0 , ; Mr. ESTCOURT presented a petition from the ruag oo trates of Somersetshire, complaining of the exile attending the transmission of criminals to prison. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. petitio n } The Hos. MEMBER then presented a from the chancellor and masters of colleges admission of the dissenters to that University} the University of Oxford, against the bill for . th e , the second reading of which was fixed forWednesdaZ ne : a s He regretted, in presenting that petition, th at " e r /I• deprived of the assistance of his hon. colleague (Si_ __, Inglis), who was prevented by severe indispositionrir_°' attending his duty in that house. [The hon. membe r e l, ceedel to read the petition at length.] The bill to r t i on he alluded would be an infringement upon the Conan a of the university ; and he was satisfied that even s - ho° ld h i e t unhappily receive the sanction of that house, it world t a n a n d t s Dionfa rtGth aotr ac ni t:, Navigation rejected in another place. (Hear, hear.) versity of Oxford had stated that immense mischief _. danger would accrue to the universities if they touched Mr. M. HILL said that the hon. me mber for theYt ~ dissent those institutions, and that the admission the orthoclosY n t of would raise sieh religious controversies t their foundations . of the universities would be p and, he asked, had i t The experiment had been tri ed ,. bridge ? He thought this sapped the orthodoxy of Cam the hon. ember. was a sufficient answer to the alarm of m _ _..? from Colonel Williams, Mr. Inept After a few words Mr. Miles, the petiti . Mr. C. Bulwer, Mr. Potter, and table. . . But dissenters had been alreadysaPedadrotoitted to Cambridge. was ordered to lie on the W sail in "versities• favour of the dissenters' admission to the tui . i far the The hon. member said the petition was signed 'r oya lty of greater portion of the intelligence, wealth, and • ~ Mr. FOSTER presented a petition from ._ai , F e the place. Mr. E. J. STANLEY supported the petition. en , _ e a ,!; Sir R. VY V YAN said there were many colleges_ e d c elf s i, i ! by Protestants, and that he should membersh.._°;iter !, dered to be the universities,unless the wis et , t° i them. Dublin Dil i. Mr. FINN said the system pursued at the t ,, I , versity had worked well. It had conciliated different lie, and had been a source otrevenue to the couatrYr a - , commended the plan to the English universities. Mr. BAINES observed,lt had been said the c hssente l i did not desire scholarships; now he begged to say that thi ' did, but they certainly did not wish for any ecclesiasti offices, because they were not congenial with their of principles. (Hear, hear.) They merely wished to ado' those privileges of which they were deprived as dissent/ and which they could only enjoy as dissenters. It was 5311)e to be a popular doctrine that dissenters should _ . , 0 placed in a situation of exclusion ; but it .;.,,, not a popular doctr.ne • on the contrary,. it was _'_' l 4, professed a" pursuing towards the dissenters under their acrd _tate, avowed opposition to the separation of church.o.that .D..ue,, unpopular, and the conduct which the universities sc_r_sa was the very means of urging the discussionlyles!itte had tion, and they were entirely defeatingtheiuse beta anY thought proper to make that open . declaration, ca able. ( fleac t • e i self nor the dissenters of this country w ere P re re resen The members of Oxford and Cambridge we p of conscience liberty as wishing to secure to themselveso that liberty; but le and undoubtedly they had a right t infringing on that them consider how far they were e, thing short of it would be hypocrisy of , whic neither bitt y Universities. (Hear; description for admission to the anxious to preset,' hear. ). It was said they were e aff i st the p il ; uniformity ; this was the charge brough- was theari worst man Catholics in former times, and it iver s it of the Roman Catholic religion which the iui , a __,, as i served. As long as there was but one religion n" religon, that the true ~ to h e was said in Spain, " but one, and right, in submitting certain tests t candidates of and that a doctri ___ of course it was all uniformity, but was t ~ the disse . , propagated in this country ? It was 1 " sa rivileges °fen ters designed to seize on the rights and P he wolIL71:t Universities by violence. This he denied, and it, seeing that the dissenters quietly and resP _,,L, Ave th_r t : boned the legislature to enact such laws as NroeL b na hted r i ftT those privileges to which they had an and - i t was a e i t e how the hon. member for Oxford could uncleretea?feuitirTett to the endowment of the different colleges. _,, an d riF ..,„, that thirteen out of the nineteen at Oxfo sc ru ed hc f o re i 7 t out of the sixteen at Cambridge, were COd ° hoed 011 t i , i o Reformation ; therefore, if they were to heh tu oity w" original foundation, there was another c° t f wti a had the best right to them. (Hear. ) Aniiration °- lo t. Mr. EST COURT expressed his a" -- ,,, l s pokeeol be had fallen from the hon. member who nat, i t wo 3 0 If the first degree were granted to the clissee_t, e ; h s ' e hypo c : t o3 injustice to deny them all the others ; they wul. , e 0 0 if they did not seek for them also. It had, e _ ; dotUre o f elsewhere that moderation should guide the I:pol io extending privileges to the dissenters ; the the church and state being the object of disse nt _ e A rs d ( h ell $ll hear), the concession of privileges to them vmr yer sit,t, , infringement upon the laws and rights of the tut es ilt r oll Mr. F. SHAWE denied any analogy the eltclatia tween the disabilities of the dissenters and '''''.,,' Pu„," i. of Roman Catholics from becoming se4-014ca in thrrO. University ; the latter being obliged - to do duty thr 1;0 lege chapel, which was totally incompatible yeA ear , he hi ,t fession of the Roman Catholic relision , ‘ hia tiona be ge. Roman Catholic students kept their exam:the co they could do so by residing within the walls e' to le After a few words from Mr. PEASE, _ ty atioe s I the Mr. O'CONNELL hoped that .the ob ri se l ra i s le,► iv by the hon. member for Dublin would rr u nive rsit)! 00 - 11, house, respecting the evils of the Dublin ' t h e c ollegf , , e ol. man Catholics were enabled to live in „ f t heir C: ie ill suffered no penalty from the profession ' l ' le) b e 03 Let the same experiment ( 4 successful P the English universities. Mr, BAINES explained. t After the presentation of several o ther Pe SPEAKER left the chair.titions the ~+" 19 .S• 1~ sp ed a e r e d t G " g P O ce r I le' I Majesty,nTaylor,dlandau, u ainn a d t t t h e pe o r d oßc e e d eeg li de y endt a ,st b op ri ta l i l rl i ek a , n rw t eshi s de u er i en t e c: o so f pf ; tici, : hitsre :i t f where he inspected the Ist Reglinentor Life cet Palacedo : thencee x yesterday apnrde s express having tlojinthse pei m fa r o il,: a r gek n sh i e n i eny : po : t l ecl n ia srl3: : . , . Her with whose evolutions, and fine soldierly aPPerich. saaSpsmrP proceeded eEers pleasedCee, TI O N O F TIIELIFE d were ila men wore • their new regimentals,an mounted. i sle JOURNEYMEN MAKERS. ....... ~4 CABINET -3'lAl"--. ~,,oriy' upon the best at , i: 0 0 are extremely happy to learn, that the journeymen eabinet-roakers' combinatl:that Glasgow, one of the most powerful and united I _ o otir city, is completely broken up, ands he men are coritto forward in great numbers, fferingto work on ° f th e . conditions, involving a complete renunciation :tioel union, and in fact reverting to the good old r,_ t i l e system, when each workman sold his labour Too, best advantage, and allowed no man, nor bed)" °IO the to interfere between him and his employer. of the ease, as at Derby and elsewhere, the lowness von exchequer had a great effect in bringing the vO r to their senses...Greenock Advertiser. ihfSeaetss.ttwTaj a sufficient number of members was not in attendance, the house adjourned at half-past six o'clock. ?awn OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 214 151 3 per Cent. Red 911 ,004 S per Cent. Cons. 32144% IN per Cent Ditto Red 98% 9 New 34 per Cent. 110:993i per Cent. Ann. 1728 : -- 4 per Cent. 1,26 '00%% Bank Long A nn. to expire Jan. 5, 1960 1 7 14, 3-16 Oct.lo, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 l7 7-17 Jan, 5, 18'10 A nrils. 1880 5, 1870 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds ... 30 31 28 30 pm. South Sea Stock 103% Old Annuities — New Ditto .....- 3 per Cent. Ann. 1'751 — Ex. Bills, £1,000...51 50 49 pm. Ditto 500 5l 49 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial pm. !Ditto Advertised Bank for Account — India for Account ..... -•— Tons. for Account —.92 , 4 UN , '4 PRICES Or FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds ........... 10014 I Peruvian Bonds Be_ r l.ian Bonds 9 14 I Ditto Account 24 Ditto Account 99 Portueuese Bonds 7834 Brazilian Bonds 75 614 Dido Account 78 1 4 Ditto Account 75_6;4%4 Ditto New Bonds 79 814 411etios Ayres Bonds 29' Ditto Acconnt 7914 854 iA Ditto Account ' l 9v, 'Prussian Bonds lO3l, 3 Chilian Bonds 29 3 4 ! Ditto Bonds, 1822 lO3 Ditto Account ` ) 1 1 14 ,Russian Bonds, 1822 1 061.4 Columbian Bonds 234( ~ Ditto Account, Ditto Account 01 Ditto 111 Ditto Bonds, 1824 27 4%1 Spanish Bonds, Isli .3614 7 Di to Account " . "4 I Ditto Acc.........37 61i, 74 '7 Danish Bon I '4% Ditto Bonds 1823 Ditto Account 74% ' Ditto Account 33!4 Greek Bonds — French Rentes, Ap. c. —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 33% --- Exchange...... —1 —c. Ditto Account...... Itleximin Bonds, 5 per cent 31% ' ------ Exchange 2sf 40 !. Ditto Account Dutch, 2 1 p. c. 52 ..ht 0, 6 per cent 4314 Ditto Account 52 1% 2 Ditto Account 3454 4 33a ' Ditto, sp. c 96 7 4 7 Nasoolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Alten Mining Company £9 11 Angin Mex. Min. Co. kiss. at 5/. pm ) luo Bolanos Mining Company £l5O 120 117% Brazilian Mining Company 5 15 Brazilian imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O "' Ditto Macaubas Cocaes 2O Ditto St. John Del Rey Cata Branca Mining Company 3 British Iron Mininv Company ..... Columbian Min inA Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) 52% English Mining Company 12% General Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo Mexican Mining Co teal del Monte Mining C0....(unr0g.) United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40 Ditto New Scrip 5 Alliance Fire Insurance Cump ... 0 Protector In st trance Comp. ..... ...... £2 Australian Co. Canada Company .„.. 18 General Steam Navigation Co. ..... .... 13 National Provincial Bank of England 15 Rio Doce rrorincial Bank of I reland loci 12 X 1 7 0 31U 48% 15Z; IN 2% HIGH WA'T ' ER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO MORROW. Morning ... 5 minutes after 3. 0 Evening...92minutes after 3 BY AUTHORITY OF PARLIAMENT. T HIRD AND LAST GLASGOW LOTTERY, TO BE DRAWN TWENTY-SECOND JULY NEXT, Contains Prizes of £16,000, £lO,OOO, £3,000, £2,000, £1,600, and many others of £1,500, £1,400, &c. &c. Immediate application must be made for particular or favourite Numbers to R. WEBB, at the Glasgow Lottery Offices, 103, Strand, opposite Exeter Hall, and 115, Fleet street, London. , Country orders attended to. Irish and Scotch Bank Notes exchanged. - • - ..... ~ ET jr 4.,, - --..--Er3P‘ • 7 - .:- *llllO ,_ ),)) , ) , ), A ). ~,- ~ ,4•."', , Au. - ... ... L 0 . 4 f,,A, _ ' , , ir .• - 1' '•-..., .....-„ ...UP.' • _ ~ 6 6 3116 IN 25 Ir