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_ ict igat statenatrAtil, but he thought it right that the individual aspersed should be heard in his defence. The letter stated, •• that he (Mr. J. Dubois) was sorry to trouble him, being un known to him, but that he hoped he would pardon the liberty he bad taken from a consideration of his earnest desire to free , nkroself from unfounded imputation. He denied that he had ryer published any thing in a newspaper, and declared that he hi been offered one thousand new shares in Mr. Fry's Pasco I , ?ruvian project if he would give up his opposition to it." He t Mfr. Hobhouse) did not pledge himself, he repeated, for the accuracy of this statement, but he thought it fair that the indi ydual should be permitted to reply to what had been advanced arainst him. Mr. F. BUXTON said that Mr. Dubois had asserted he did not publish any thing in the newspapers, but he had not an swered the accusation that he had used his efforts against the Company in other ways. He had charged him with offering kit twenty shares to withdraw his opposition to the project, and by publishing all the truth to ensure the rise of the shares. "ilhat charge he begged to repeat, upon the authority of two of the most eminent merchants of the city, and Major Hinde, a well known officer, who was present at the interview. If it should turn out that this should he a base conspiracy by these two individuals and this officer of rank against the character sfltir. Dubois, he should be one of the first to reprobate it in We strongest terms the English language could dictate; but if it should turn out, as he believed it would, that all he had as serted with respect to Alt. Dubois was true, then he would say eat this letter warranted him H 4 applying even stronger terms *llan he had before used in expressing his contempt and disgust wen he spoke of the conduct of that Gentleman. LIVERPOOL RAILWAY. Mr. B. WILBRAHA M presented a Petition from certain per sons in Lancashire against the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. METROPOLITAN WATER COMPANY. Mr. 13-YHO, presented a Petition from the West Middlesex Water Company against the 31etropolitan Water-works. Mr. J. SMITH presented a Petition from the West India • Dock Company against the Coal Dock Company, praying to be heard by their Counsel.—Ordered to be laid on the table. Sir R. WiLsom presented a Petition from \V. Perring against the London Docks..—Ordered to be laid on the table. Lord A. HAMILTON presented a Petition from the Weavers cf Leith against the Leith Docks. 31ILK COMPANY, Mr. T. WILSON presented a petition from the Cowkeepers sad Milk-sellers of London against the several Joint Stock Companies for the Sale of Milk. The Hon. Member support ed the prayer of the petition. ' Mr. ROBERTSON warmly advocated the cause of the pe titioners. Mr. GRENFELL begged leave to call the attention of Go -•erlment to the present uncertain state of the law respecting Joint Stock Companies. The Lord Chancellor had intimated his intention of proposing some measure, but as yet those in tentions had not been put into execution. He hoped that some thing might be soon done to settle the doubts which at present greatly agitated the public mind. Mr. .1. S3I ITH said he could speak from his own experience or the magnitude of the evil. New Joint Sock Companies were proposed every day. Within the last twelve hours no less than three had been submitted to him. It was the case on every other day of the week, Sundays excepted. Some of the schemes were extremely ridiculous. but still the interest of the .public required that the law should be settled. HUSKISSON said that he was called upon to state his opinion of the law as it existed, or to state the intention of Government. If any new law was necessary it would best become those who knew the evil to propose the remedy. If a declaratory law was necessary the doubt as to the existing law ought to be first distinctly stated. When the evil and the doubt were made known to him he should be ready and willing to confer with more learned persons for the purpose of deviz lag some remedy. He had paid great attention to all the new Companies, and he thought that the Partnership-law applied to them generally. It was certainly a great folly for specula tors to interfere with the ordinary concerns of life and trade, and attempt to take them out of the proper hands. If they ap plied to Parliament, then Parliament would know how to deal with them, but until then they must be left to their own course. They could not last long. The eyes of the people would soon be opened to their folly. The old modes of trading must be recewed. Individual sidll and enterprize would drive the Joint Companies out of the market. The good sense of the nation would cause their destruction. Although they were absurd, still they were not illegal ; when the illegality or the evil was brought s thstantively before him, he should know how to act, until then i.ie,could do nothing. He was sorry for all parties concerned, but it was art inconvenience which ought to be left to cure Ltr. GRENF ELL explained. lir. Alderman BRIDGES defended the character and good effects of one of the Milk Companies, with which he was ac quainted. It had the effect of bringing the. milk sellers to a s.!nse of their duty. Mr..l. P. GRANT said that the existing law was inoperative in consequence of the high penalty attached to it. The Go vex:tit:eat therefore ought to take the subject into consideration, and alter the penalty. The Petition was brought up and ordered to be printed. Lord A vritottrE presented a petition from the Deputy Steward of some Court in Vest Derby, praying that such Court .rught ri , _,st be abolished under the County Courts Bill. Lord A LTHORrE presented a petition from the Inhabitants of Daventry, in favour of the County Courts Bill. Mr. P. CoitnETT presented a petition from John Hardy and others, for compensation under the County Courts Bill.—Re fermi to a Committee. Mr. MAXWELL presented a petition from Paisley, against the Attornies Tax.—Ordered to Iv: printed. Mr. CALVE ftT presented a petition from the Inhabitants of Ware, against the House and Window Tax.—Ordered to be p: inter;. - Sir R. VYVYAN presented a petition from l'owey, in Corn wall, against the Roma' Catholic Claims.—Ordered to he punted.. Mr. II t73IE moved for a Return of the Amount of Fees re mit-Fed in the Registrar's Office in Bell-yard (Temple-bar), for the Registry of Deeds in the County of Middlesex for the last three years, and the manner in which those fees were disposed . . . _ Mr. Cour.nunN presented a petition from the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough, against the Claims of the Roman Catholics.— Ordered to !ie on the table. Mr. S. litcf: presented a petition from the Chamber of Corn nwce, cf Limerick, praying for an Amendment of the Law mating to Bankers.—Laid on the table. Mr. COURTENAY presented a petition from the Mayor and Corporation of Exeter, against the Catholic Claims.—Ordered to lie on the table. CORN AVERAGES. Mr. HIJSKISSON begged permission of the House to refer to a conversation which had taken place in the House last night, upon the subject of a Return made to the Orders of the House, in which the names of Claude Scott and Ca. were inserted. -Having been called upon by the lion. Member (Mr. Scott) who . fek-himself implicated, he had felt it his duty to send to the lispector General of Corn Averages for an explanation. From hie statement, in answer, it appeared, that a return of the names alluded to was made to him by the Inspector of Ips wich, but owing to a doubt which he entertained as to the ac cm racy of the return, there being no such persons at Ipswich in corn trade, he had struck the names out of the return. In consequence, however, of an order of that House for a return of oil the names which had been struck out as fictitious, the In spector General found himself under the absolute necessity of inserting these names amongst the rest. He (Mr. Huskisson), however, had no hesitation in saying, that a more improper transaction than that which originated this fraud upon the In spector never was practised. A more respectable character than that aspersed there was not—(llear, hear, hear!)—and the *sole business was altogether a daring and impudent attempt to impose spot: the public. He could not entirely acquit the lAsiector of Ipswich of neglect in not being aware that there w;•Ve no such persons at Ipswich in that line. Ile had desired the Inspector General of Corn Returns to make him a written report of the facts of the case, which he would shortly lay upon the table of that House, in order that the refutation might be ss.that aspersion.—( Hear !) The Small Debts Bill, and the Debts Recovery Bill (Scot land) were referred to a Select Committee. COLONIES. Mr. HUSKISSON gave notice, that on Monday he would mate to refer the 43d and 44th of Geo. 3d to a Committee, in wl;ich he would move on the subject of the Colonial Trade ; and on Friday following on the subject of the prohibitory system. IRISH MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES. The House _having resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, Mr. °MILBURN submitted the Miscellaneous Estimates fat Ireland, and proceded to move the usual Grants. The first Grant was, For the Protestant Charter Schools in Ireland - X 15,650 Mr. HUME said, he hoped no more money would be asked ci i n this head, until they had the Report of the Commissioners before them. He very much objected to money being laid out bg.purehasers of land and houses until the sense of Parliament wait taktn on the subject. Yet this was done with many an ,ntud grants of this nature. GOULBURN said, that this sum was merely on ac count, and the Commissioners' Report would lie on the table before a farther grant would be requisite. The mu aunia were—, For the Society for Discountenancing Vice - - £ 5,160 Educatioh of the Poor in Ireland - 20,000 We J. NEWPORT here repeated the objection urged by the lion. Member for Aberdeen to the practice of laying out money, which was annually granted by Parliament, before the question was submitted to that House. For the Foundling Hospital - - - £24,478 Lunatic Asylum - - - - - - 5,840 Soldiers' Children Asylum - - - 7,550 Hibernian Marine Society - - - - I,aoo Mr. HU3IE, upon the passing of the last vote, complained of the amount annually voted for charities in Ireland,--these amounted to no less a sum than 340,0001., and had greatly in creased of late years. Mr. GRATTAN observed that a great portion of this vote was for the promotion of education in Ireland, which ought not to be called charity. Sir T. LET BRIDGE said that England, be was sure, would not complain of the amount of this sum. The education of Ireland it was one of the first duties of that House to pro mote. . . . Mr. 310NCK said, that to whatever amount charity was given, they might rest assured that it would be Absorbed to the last farthing. This was e:Tecially applicable itt the case of a Charity for foundlings. . Mr. CURT EIS recommended the adoption of Poor Rates in Ireland. Mr. LOCKHART contended that the system of Poor Rates was a great evil. Mr. C. GRANT thought that there was something faulty in the principle of some of the institutions to which these chari table votes had reference. He particularly alluded to the Charity Schools, which he thought tended more to the promo. tion of vice and idleness than to any good end. He could wish they were gradually removed. _ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Goulhurn) would have been veil pre mature had he extinguished all these charitable grants at once. The condition of a capital like Dublin naturally required a number of charitable institutions for the alleviation of misery. Tl•e next Grants passed were— For the Female Orphan House - - - £1,761 Westmorland Lock Hospital - - 2,734 Lying-In Hospital . - - - 2,885 Dr. Stevens's Hospital - - - - 663 Fever hospital - - - - - 3,892 Hospital for Incurables - - - 400 Roman Catholic Seminaries - - - 8,928 Cork Institution - - - - - 1,900 Dublin Society - - - - - 7,000 To the Commissioners for widening Streets In Dublin 1,000 For the Farming Society - - - - 2,500 Royal Irish Academy - - . . 300 Linen Board of Ireland - - - - 19,913 Mr. HUME contended that this Board was wholly useless, and kept up at an enormous expence. Mr. GOULBURN said, he did not think it consistent with the interest of Ireland to abolish this Boord. The prosperity of the Linen Trade of Ireland was an essential object in the Government of that country, and it was a most delicate ques tion to meddle with. Mr. T. WILSON hoped that the Board would be abolished at no distant period. Mr. TRANT spoke against the continuance of the Board. Sir GEORGE HILL said, that the Manufacturers of el.e. Province of Ulster always expressed the utmost satisfaction at the labours of this Board. Lord A LTHOR PE, on general principles, should be against the grant; and from the opinions expressed by Hon. Gentle men connected with Ireland, he thought with his Hon. Friend behind him, it was useless. Sir JOHN NEWPORT complained of the rooms in the Linen Hall of Dublin being given away to favoured individuals, instead of being let, that the profits might be applied in lieu of this grant. Mr. HUME, after what had been given in evidence right and left, hoped the Chancellor of the Exchequer would join him in opposing the vote. The Right Hon. Gentleman would be inconsistent if he did not vote with him (Mr. Hume). He therefore moved, that instead of 19,938/. should be substituted the sum of 9,9691. Colonel BRAGW F,LL bore testimony to the benefits confer red on the people of the South of Ireland by the Linen Board, and supported the grant. Mr. TRANT explained. Mr. Secretary PEEL deprecated any precipitate decision against the present Resolution. He would remind the Com mittee, that in an elddress from the Throne in the reign of King William, it was recommended to destroy the Woollen, and en courage the Linen Manufactures of Ireland. He mentioned this to show that the question was one of feeling as well as prin ciple. He would also remind the Committee that one object of the Board was, with a moral view, to extend the linen trade to districts of Ireland which had not hitherto adopted the manufacture, and where the inhabitants needed employment. He threw out these suggestions in the hope that rather than withdraw the grant the House would gire the people of Ire land notice that they could not expect the hpon to be per -1 petual. Mr. GRATTAN said, the grant merely gave a certain num ber of Gentlemen a certain number of Spinning Wheels to be distributed in their neighbourhoods. Ile must also observe that not a single item of the expenditure of these 20,000/. was speci fied in the estimate. Dr. LUSHINGTON conceived that the grant exactly pro duced an effect contrary to what the Right Hon. Gentleman in tended by voting it. Nothing could be more detrimental to Ireland than to create a factitious trade in any branch of indus try. If he did not press a division at . present, it was only on the understanding that it would not again be submitted to Par liament. Mr. GOULBURN said, if the principle of the Resolution was bad, it was a principle constantly advocated by the other 1 side of the House. What was heard for a long time from the Gentleman opposite but entreaties to give employment to the poor of Ireland ?—( Hear, hear !)--Why then refuse this grant, when it proceeded on the very ground laid down by Hon. Mem bers themselves? The Committee would leave the country in a most awkward dilemma if they withheld the grant, and left the statutes still in force upon which it was founded. Mr. GORDON thought the first thing to do was to stop the money, as a means of having the laws alluded to rectified. — He could not help, on this occasion, remarking a striking dif ference between the mode in which public charities were ma naged in Ireland and in England. The Governors of the latter acted gratuitously—those of Ireland were paid considerable ' salaries. Mr. GOULBURN must beg to set the Hon. Gentleman right. The executive officers only of Hospitals in Ireland as in Eng land received salaries, and not the Governors. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER begged to remind the Hon. Gentleman opposite, that a Committee had reported upon the present subject, and had effected much good by recommending the abolition of the Linen Bounties. As to the application of sound principles of Political Economy in the present case, he must observe, that it was not easy to intro duce them among a people who, from the opposite course pur sued towards them for a long period, were unprepared for so material a change of policy. It would be very imprudent, he thought, in a country like Ireland to plunge into a new system at once, although Toone could doubt the expediency of ulti mately, and under different circumstances of general freedom of trade.—(Hear !) Mr. GORDON explained. ' Sir GEORGE Hill wished to remind the House, that the value of the Linen Trade last year amounted to a sum of five millions, compared with which the present grant was trifling. He must also remark, that the Linen Manufacture was not one which could be carried on by a few individuals possessed of large capital. It was principally carried on in the poorest do mestic circles ; nor did he believe, that even in the wholesale part of the trade was more than 20 or 25,0001. invested in it by any single person, and the great advantage of the existing system was to give employment to the poor. Mr. HUMF. conceived that as the mode now practised in Ireland was abolished two years ago in Scotland, and in con sequence proved highly beneficial in that country, there was the sanction of experience for his proposition. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Peel) said something was due to the feelings of Ireland,—but he considered the Linen Board an insult to the people of that country, when, among seventy-two indivi duals connected with it, not a solitary Catholic could be found. He should therefore press his present motion, and if it should be carried, and that owing to the reduction of the grant any old and deserving officers were deprived of their situations, he should not object to give them reasonable compensation. Mr. J. SMITH thought it impos , ible to apply the prin ciples of political economy generally in Ireland. If it was im proper to grant these sums, a charity with which he was concerned two or three years back, had acted most injudiciously—for it voted a large sum to the very same purposes. It was a con solation to him to know, however, that the sums expended in the way now proposed had afforded employment and subsist ence to several thousands of the people. If it was true, as stated by his Honourable Friend, that in the whole number of Trustees there was not a Catholic, he truly regretted it—nor did he think that peace and prosperity would ever prevail in that country till all religious distinctions were abolished. . Almost every speculation for the benefit of Ireland which had originated in the greai metropolis during the last one or two years had been communicated to him (Mr. J. Smith), and he uniformly found that, before supporting them, the first demand with the public was—Can you inform us what will be the fate of the Ca tholic Question ? Mr. C. PELHAM said a few words, which were inaudible in the Gallery, when the Committee divided. For the Grant - . - - - 78 For Mr. Ilume's Amendment - - 17 Majority - - - - —59 Several resolutions were then agreed to without opposition. On the vote of 3,6)111. for the Board of Inland Navigation in Ireland, Mr. II t:mV considered the grant as useless, aril moved that it oe reduced 2,000/. After a few words from Mr. ClotTLfturt:.•, Mr. GORDON, and Mr. W. Sum', the douse divided. "' • For the orixinal grant - - . - .. yo For Mr. Ilumc's amendment - - - 27 Majority - - . - _ . -48 Several other resolutions were then agreed to, when the House resumed, and the Committee having reported progress, obtain ed leave to sit again on Monday. The CHANCELLOR or the EXCHEQUER then moved the other orders of the day. DISSENTERS' MARRIAGE BILL. The second reading of the Dissenters Marriage Bill was postponed to Friday next. ANNUAL DUTIES BILL. Mr. SYKES called the attention of the House to the Sugar Duties, and contended for a reduction of the Duty on East India Sugar. Ile had gone along with his Majesty's Ministers in all their efforts to produce a system of free trade, and he in sisted that the bounties on West India Sugar were opposed to the course which Government in other cases had pursued. The bounty was, in his opinion, a benefit to the West India Planters, but an equal loss to us. Such conduct was, besides, an injustice to our eastern possessions. Our superiority in the manufacture of cotton had destroyed the cotton manu facture of the East 'lndies, and unless a return for our pro duce could be obtained from the East, our commerce with that quarter could not be successfully carried on. Upon this subject he would quote the authority of Mr. George Ilibbert, who, with the West India Commute, agreed that the bonus on West India Sugar was about fis. per cwt. which amounted to 1,116,000/. annually. For what was the bonus given? To bolster up the West India Interests, and keep up a system of slavery. The system of bounties he should ever deprecate.— Free trade he wished to uphold. The Hon. Member had wit nessed from time to time the allowance of bounties, and he was assured that ultimately they were not serviceable. Bounties had a tendency to increase colonial labour and promote slavery in its worst character. A greater quantity of Sugar was pro duced with bounties and there must be a greater exaction of Slave labour, thereby depriving the Negroes of the time which ought to be allowed for rest. It was also attended by decrease of human life. In the Bahama Islands, where there was a moderate share of labour, there was an increase of the I black population, to the amount of three and half per cent—ln Jamaica, there was a decrease of human life. In Demerara, where there was a great production of sugar, there was a de crease of three per cent. in human life. The extra produce of sugar had invariably been attended by detriment of human life. The lion. Member contended, upon the whole, there was a de crease of slaves in the West Indies, where sugar was produced upon too large a scale. Mr. GORDON was surprised that the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last should have come down on that occasion to make what he considered a tirade against the West India sugar trade. The effect of the increase of the West India sugar trade was known to be advantageous to the negroes ; property in that trade promoted the comforts of the negroes. The calculations of the lion. Gentleman had been founded upon an erroneous view of the question. The bearings of the East India sugar trade ought to be regularly brought forward, and then it would appear that the West India Planter was entitled to a remune rating produce for his produce. Mr. ROBERTSON wished the question between the West and Fast India Sugar Trade settled. The Hon. Member pro posed to emancipate the slaves and remunerate the masters.-- He thought 15 per cent. on the sugar would be sufficient to de fray the expence which the emancipation mightrequire. He did not propose to have the emancipation too sudden. The slaves should work for a limited time, having three or four days in the week allowed for free labour. That would produce habits of industry proper to prepare them for emancipation. Captain 31ABERLEY said, the West India trade was a losing, trade, and the sooner the country was rid of those Colo nies the better. if we did not get sugars from the West Indies, they could get them from the East, from Brazil, and other places. The Hon. Member supported the view taken by his Hon. Friend. Mr. BLAIR supported the West India interest. Mr. R. ELLIS admitted the arguments of Gentlemen, and the soundness of their principles, anti he objected to the appli cation of those principles to sonic of the eases. He objected to the course taken by which artificial restriction anti encourage ment were applied to the colonial system, without looking at other questions. On that view he opposed the argument of the lion. Member who commenced the discussion on this sub ject. Whilst it was the practice of the Legislature to encourage the agriculturists at home, rather than the cultivator abroad, the old colonists in the West Indies were intitled to claiM an advantage over the - Colonies of the East. By taking cotten from Brazil and Georgia they not only encouraged slave labour, but the slave trade. They could not avoid encouraging slave labour in the West Indies, and other Colonies, unless they were prepared to sacrifice great commercial interests. The Honourable Gentleman adverted to the arguments in favour of free trade, and observed that one great advantage had been overlooked. The sugar refiners at home had an advantage over the Colonists, and before they could apply the principles of free trade, the British refiner and the Colonial refiner must be placed on the seme footing. Mr. F. BUXTON wished for the appointment of a Com mittee to ascertain what really were the advantages derived by the %Vest India Sugar trade. In his view of the subject, re duction in the price cf sugar would reduce the growth, and consequently labour would be reduced. It was impossible to contend that the decrease of sugar in the West India Islands would not lessen the labour of the slaves, and promote their comfort. Mr. THANT thought the discussion of slave labour in that House would produce the worst effect. Upon the motion for a Committee upon the question, he should be prepared to de deliver his sentiments. Mr. BRIGHT called on the friends to the West India trade to look to the measures to be brought forward during the pre sent Session and do justice to the West India planters. Much had been said upon the reduction of life by increase of slave labour, and a contrast had been drawn between the slaves of Jamaica and those of the Bahama Islands ; but the fact was, the negroes at Demerara and other colonies were wholly unlike the slaves of Bahama. The Hon. Member said he should not have then on that occasion to offer any opinion, had he not found his Majesty's Ministers silent on the subject. The Hon. Member strongly supported the IVest India sugar trade. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose to ex plain why he had taken no part in the discussion. The fact was, this Bill had gone through the stages to the third reading without one word being said on the subject of duties. He had been told it was true, that an opportunity would be taken by Gentle men to state the view they took of parts of the question, anti they had done so without proposing any alteration or amend ment of the Bill. Under these circumstances it could not ap pear disrepectful to the House if he did not take part in the discussion.—(Hear, hear !)—The Right Hon. Gentleman felt that this was a question so much involved in delicate considera tion, that it would be inexpedient to push any doctrine to its most rigid extent. The scale of duties was the scale of last year, and it was not deemed necessary to give any other scale. The question was then put, and the Bill read a third time and passed. Mr. WYNN obtained leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the salaries of Judges in India, anti to authorise the Supreme Court of Calcutta to transport criminals to St. Helena. Mr. HERRI ES gave notice that he should move the Con tingencies for the Civil Service on Monday. The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'Clock to Monday. COMMON COUNCIL. - a , n ___ Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall. A Petition was presented from sundry retail Fishmongers, in relation to the Bill now before Parliament, respecting the Me tropolitan Fish Company, which was read, and referred to the City Lands Committee. The Deputation appointed at the last Court, to wait upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer with the resolution of the Court, respecting the Assessed Taxes, delivered in a report upon the result of their conference, which was read, and she Court came to a resolution thereon, which was ordered to be advertised.—( Vile advertisement in our first page.) The Tithe Committee reported their proceedings in respect of Tithes, which was read, and it was referred back to the Committee to proceed therewith. The Committee for General P ur poses reported in relation to the Carriage-way of Blackfriars Bridge, and recommending the same to be raised to its former height, which was read, and Mr. Ja3tEs MONTAGUE, the Surveyor thereof, was called to the bar . of the Court and examined thereon, and after consi derable discussion it was referred back to the Committee to re consider their Report. The Lords' Committee on the state of Ireland resumed their sittings yesterday, and examined Major• General EGERTON and Mr. ABBOTT. The Committee then adjourned to Monday next. Mr. O'CoNNELL's examination, which lasted two days before their Lordships, is finished. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Veneris, IS° the Martii, 1825. Sr AND I N G ORDEits Comm t TTE E— Resolutions reported:— 'That, in the case of the Tewkesbury and Severn Bridge and Road Petition, Cie S:anding Orders ought not to be dis pensed w;th.—Postponed. That, in the cases of the West Lothian Railway, Tewkes bury and Cheltenham Roads, and Glasgow, &c. Improvement Petitions, the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill.— Agreed to. That, in the case of the Great Bow Bridge Petition, the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, and that leave be granted that Notices may be inserted three times in some one newspaper of the County of Somerset, and affixed to the door of the Sessions-house at the next Easter Quarter-sessions of the Peace for the said County.—Agreed to. That, in the case of the Clyde Navigation Petition, the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, and that leave be granted that an additional Estimate be forthwith deposited in the Private Bill Office ;_and that the Committees on the two last-mentioned Bills do respectively examine, in the first place, how far the said Orders shall have been complied with, and do report the same to the House on the Reports of the Bills. — Agreed to. MESSAGE from the LORDS—That they have agreed to— Midhurst and Petersfield, Leeds and Tong Lane-end, Hinck ley, and Boroughbridge and Catterick Itoads Bills, without amendment. ROADS—Dawlish and Exeter, Denbigh, Glasgow and Park head, Fulham and Kensington, and Trebarwith and Con dolden—Bills read a first time. Banffshire, and Little Sheffield and Dore—Bills read a second time, and committed. Bramcote Oddhouse, and Wigan—Bills read a third time, and passed. Leominster and Hope—Bill reported, to be ingrossed. West Wycombe, and Tewkesbury and Chelten ham—Bills ordered. Co itnaxtEs—Equitable Loan Bank—Several Petitions, in favour—to lie on the table. London Brick, and Cape of Good Hope Bank--Petitions for Bills referred to Commit tees. Atlantic Steam Navigation—Bill orderek. Royal Ex change Assurance, British Gas Light, and Regent's Canal— Bills read a first time. Metropolitan Waterworks—Petition from \Vest Middlesex Waterworks Company, against—re ferred to the Committee on the Bill, Counsel ordered. Lon don Water—Petitions from Castle Baynard, and Walbrook Wards, in favour, to lie on the table. DOCKS—South London—Petition of R. and W. B. Rich, against—referred to the Committee on the Bill, Counsel or dered. Bermondsey Collier—Bill read a first time. Isle of Dogs—Petition of West India Dock Company, against— to lie on the table. Ratherhithe Petition of It. W. Her rin,', J. Browning, and M. K. Knight,against referred to the Committee on the Bill, Counsel ordered. Leith—Peti tion of Weavers of Leith, against—a) lie on the table. Po on—St. Andrew's ( Holborn )—Petition of Inhabitants, against—to lie on the table ; Bill read a second time, and committed. Montgomery and Pool—Bill read a first time. Cum , E es—Gosport—Report on Petition for Bill referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. TITDEs—St. Botolph without Bishopsgate—Petition for leave to present a Petition for a Bill, referred to a Committee. Cockerham, and St. Olave (Hart-street)—Bills read a first time. St. Botolph without Aldgate—Bill ordered. ImPßOVEMEsTs—Alacclesfield, and Louth—Bills read a first time. Walcot— Bill read a second time, and committed. Margate—Bill reported, to be ingrossed. Dumfries—Report on Petition for Bill, referred to tile Select Committee ,on Standing Orders. Glasgow—Bill ordered. Gas LIG lIT s—Stockport—Bill reported, to be ingrossed. Bos ton, and Louth—Bills read a first time. Birmingham— Bill reported, Report to lie on the table. Devizes-13111 or. dered.: RAlLWAY—Liverpool and Manchester—Petition of J. Shaw Leigh, against—referred to the Committee on the Bill, Counsel ordered. INc LosliltES—Doddington (Cambridge)—Bill read a second time and committed. Staines (Middlesex), and Clench wharton (Norfolk)—Bills read a first time. NavioaTtos—Portsmouth and Arundel—Bill read a first time. Clyde—Bill ordered. Cuuuctr—Chelsea B RIDGE Chester CORN EXCHANGE—London New HARBOUR—Weymouth ARREST FOR MDT CONSOLIDATED FUND HOUSE AND NV tazDow Tax—Petitions fOr the repeal thereof, from Ware—to lie on the table. ATTORNIES TAX—Petitions from Selkirk, and Paisley, against—to lie on the table. Pour or LIVERPOOL—Accounts ordered :—Of the quanti ties of the principal articles imported into, and exported from, Liverpool during each of the last five years. Bills read a first time. NOTICES of MOTIONS, and ORDERS of the DAY, which now stand on the ORDER.BOOK of the HOUSE of COMMONS for the ENSUING WEEK. Monday, March 21. ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Game Laws Bill—Committee. 2. Land Tax Assessments Bill—Committee. 3. County Treasurers (Ireland) Bill—Committee. 4. Juries Bill—Further consideration of Report. 5. Arrests for Debt Bill—Second reading. 6. American and %Vest Indian 'Trade—Committee thereupon. 7. Supply—Report 118th March. 1 O. Supply—Committee. 9. Sheriff Courts Fees Bill—Committee. 10. Supply—Report 111th Illarch.l 11. Wine Duties Bill— L'ommittee. 12. Creditors (Scotland) Bill—Report. 13. Ways and Means—Committee. 14. Impounding Distresses (Ireland) Bill—Committee. 15. Caledonian Canal Bill—Committee. 16. Salaries to Police Magistrates—Committee thereupon. 17. Consolidated Fund Bill—Second reading. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1. Mr. Huskisson—Resolutions respecting Colonial Trade, and fur affording increased facilities to our Commerce and Na vigation. 2. Mr. Estcourt—Bill to empower Magistrates, in certain cases, to borrow money on mortgage of the County Rates. 3. Mr. Secretary Peel—To move Resolutions in Committee on Police Act. 4. Mr. berries—Civil Contingencies, and Miscellaneous Ser vices. (In Committee of Supply.) [Last Day for reading Private Bills the First Time.] Tuesday, March 22. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1. Mr. Maberly—Repeal of the Duties on Beer. 2. Mr. Grattan—Bill for the Relief of the Poor in Ireland. 3. Mr. Wilmot Horton—Bill to amend Act 5 Geo. 4, for amending and consolidating the Laws relating to the Abo lition of the Slave Trade. 4. Mr. Stuart Wortley—Bill to regulate the Cutlery Trade in England. 5. Mr. Secretary Peel—Bill for the Amendment of the Law as to the offence of sending threatening Letters. 6. Mr. Secretary Peel—Bill for defining the Rights of Capital Convicts who receive pardons, and of Convicts after hav ing been punished for Clergyable Felonies. ORDER OF THE DAY. Prison Laws (Ireland) Bill—Second reading. 'Wednesday, March 23. NOTICE OF MOTION. Sir John Newport—Bill to limit the power of holding a plu r,lity of Benefices, and to repeal the Statutes granting to the Archbishops and Bishops the power of forming Epis copal Unions in Ireland. ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Baring's Divorce Bill—Committee (Counsel and Witnesses.' 2. Grzerne's Divorce Bill—Committee (Counsel and Witnesses., Thursday, March 24. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1. Mr. Hume—Motion for withdrawing from Ireland the Vice roy and his Establishment; with a view of affording to that Country the benefit which ought to be derived from its Union with Great Britain. 2. Mr. Martin (of Galway)—Bill to amend Act [3 Geo. 4, c. 71] for preventing cruel and improper treatment of Cattle. Friday, March 25. ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Canada Trade Act—Committee thereupon. 2. Dissenters's Marriages Bill—Second reading. PRIVATE BILLS. Second Readings for Monday. Frampton Cotterell Inclosure; Tavistock, Sheffield and Glossop, Rochdale, Rotherham and Tankersley, Barnsley and Pontefract, Petersfield and Alton. Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, Cockermouth and :MarypOrt, Bawtry and Sheffield, Kingston-upon-Hull and Ferriby, and Cheltenham and Glou cester Roads ; Derbylmprovement ; Chesterfield Water and Gas; Don Bridge; Sea -water Bath Company; Southwark Gaol; and Benyon's Naturalization. A painting by lioGAEITti, which had been sup posed to have been lost, has been lately discovered. It repre sents Garrick in the green-room at the rehearsal of a new piece. There are portraits of Mrs. Abingdon, Miss Pope, Macklin, Palmer, &c. &c. EAST-INDIA HOUSE. TIIF. MARQUIS OF HASTINGS, LITE GOVERNOIt tiE NEItAL OF BENGALOND THE HYDE-111AD PAPERS. (From the Horning Herald.) After twelve months of painful agitation and doubt, since the question of personal imputation against Lord HASTINGS was first raised in Leadenhall-street, and six days of angry and protracted debate on the voluminous mass of papers relative to the transactions of the house of Palmer and Co. of Ilydrabad with his Highness the Nizam, this long-de pending question, as far as the body of Proprietors could pro nounce upon it, was yesterday decided by ballot, and the amendment to Mr. Kinnaird's resolution, proposed on the firs t day's debate by Mr. Astell, the Chairman of the Court of Di rectors, was carried by a large majority of votes. The ballot re mained open from eleven in the morning to six in the after noon, when it closed. The scrutiny then commenced, and the result was declared at twenty mihutes to eight o'clock. There was no discussion on this last day. Towards • evening considerable interest was manifested to know the result, but the Court, during the greater part of the forenoon, was almost deserted. The Proprietors came in slowly, and deposited their votes without a word. The silence and solitude of yesterday presented a striking contrast to the . crowd and confusion of former days, on some of which the Chairman's best efforts could scarcely influence the assembllv and chaos was order to the tumult that at intervals prevailed. —This important question will probably not rest here. Lord Hastings is a man of high and proud feelings, and ;till not be contented with a negative exculpation of this sort. The late Governor-General and his friends have already menaced an appeal to a higher tribunal, and speak of bringing the whole subject before Parliament. The amendMent now carried goes to free the late Governor-General from all imputation of air- rupt conduct ; but it neutralizes this declaration, by includ ing in the exemption the other members of the Bengal Go vernmait, against whom, on this score, there was not A shadow of charge ; and it approves the political dispatches or the Court of Directors to the Bengal Council, since Slay, 1020, to January, - 1824, all of which reprobate the sanction givers by the then Governor-General to the transactions of Palmer and Company's house, in language as severe and unqualified as it was well possible to use. The debate on this ques tion was one of unprecedented length and acrimony. It enlisted the whole strength of both sides. The principal speakers who defended Lord Hastings, and vindicated the pecuniary transactions in the Nizam's capital, were Mr. Douglas Kinnaird, who proposed the original resolution, and replied in the last day in a speech of four hours ; Mr. John Smith, the Member for Midhurat, whose s peech produced a great impression ; Mr. Hume, who menaced.. Mr. Adam with impeachment; Sir. Russell, for many years the Company's resident at Hydrabad, and whose address of two hours on the second day was one of the most impressive ever heard in any assembly ; Mr. Patti' son, a leading Director, who had entered a most animated protest against the proceedings of the Court of Directors Mr. Randle Jackson, and the veteran Sir John Doyle, the old and attached personal friend of Lord Hastings through The leading speakers for the amendment were—Mr. Astell, the Chairman, who proposed it ; Sir George Abercromby Robin" son, and Mr. Impey, both Directors ; Messrs. Freshfield anti Poynder, respectable professional gentlemen ; Mr. Weeding, an extensive tea merchant, who waded through the whole Augean stable; a gentleman of the name of Boswell, w" appeared perfectly innocent of all oriental affairs; and Mr. Rigby,. who, by speaking and writing, has betrayed an uncom mon interest in the whole question, though neither Rajah nor Nabob. By these respective speakers, every thing in Hindoa mythology—all the attributes of Vishnu the preserver, - st" the destroyer, Kriten the mystic Apollo, anti Kamadeera the Cupid of the Bramins, was successively called forth-- all the volumes of oriental lore, from Pilpay's early fables down to the ponderous tomes of Mr. Mill, and the r ecent pro ductions of Capt. Seeley, were ransacked and cited. The mass of printed papers before the Proprietor s were in themselve a libra ry. Nothing but unwearied industry, anxious days, and sleep less nights, could have conquered these appalling folios. It is only surprising that, on a question of such vitality to his charc ter, Lord Hastings himself was not present : his last l et tere ,i g his friend Mr. Pattison, spoke of returning, but said he s ll° '" do so only to make war. He is now, we believe, at Valet ta; having exchanged his supremacy over 80 millions in In 3l for the government of a petty island in the Mediterrane an ' " 4 with a few thousand souls. The present situation of the 13.„ " Governor-General with the India Comy closely resembe! that of Lord Clive in Parliament, after hissecond rettoo LU Mee country in 1769. The great difference is, that Lord Clive re: turned with immense wealth, and Lord Hastings, after Hea l nine years government, with a salary of 50,0001. a year , is t " loaded with enormous debts. A motion was made in the Haig! . of Commons, on the 21st of February, 177 3 —" That , i n th e acquisition of his wealth, Lord Clive had abused the p one with which he was intrusted." The personal presence an firmness of the celebrated individual against whom the moot: was directed, saved him from impeachment and ruin. T f r i , speech he made on this occasion concluded with the p* lowing words:—" If the resolution proposed should re cei v e the assent of the House, I shall hare nothing left that I el call my own, except my paternal fortune of 5001 a-year , which has been in my family for ages past. But upon this r am content to live, and perhaps I shall find more real content °' mind and happiness than in the trembling affluence of an un settled fortune. But to be called, after sixteen years b °,, elapsed, to account for my conduct in this manner, and after a, uninterrupted enjoyment of my property, to be questioned a n d considered as obtaining it unwarrantably, is hard indeed, a l a treatment of which I should not think the British Senate pable. Yet, if this should he the case, I have a conscious iii. nocence within me which tells me that my conduct is irreprna L c „,, able—Frangas non flecks. They may take from me vc",,', I have—they may, as they think, make me poor, °': o I will be happy. Before I sit down, I have one request ' 4 make to the House—that when they come to decide upon 11 4( 0 honour, they will not forget their own !" Influenced by t'A animated appeal, the Commons House of that day reje the motion, and resolved, 44 That Lord Clive had rende red great and meritorious seivices to his country." This 1 1 , 4 3 5 less Nobleman subsequently died by his own hand. P O , he escaped the fate of Hastings by his personal firrnne,„ and his tides and vast fortune were transmitted to his ° To ' scendants. A powerful appeal of the same description from Lord Hastings might have produced the same effect: a All sides acquit bins of any personal corruption. Avar. ) ;„ is said to be the vice of age. But it would be a new W of Eastern growth, in the bosom of Lord Hastings, logl, known to him. In earlier years, and in a colder clime , whole life was marked by opposite principles—by a lavish regard of all personal prudence; hence his overwhelming e"; barrassments, which 9 years rule in Hindostan, with a prin er 4 revenue, and the added grant of 60,0001. from the C0mP33,10 ra. were unequal to redeem. The main charge against him 10 g patronage of Sir William Rumbold, who married his and accompanied him to India ; and the sanction given bi,„l, Governor-General to the alleged usurious transactions of 1;0 mer and Co.'s house, in which Sir Wm. Rumbold bee/ 011 0r partner, and speculated with his wife's fortune. Mr. Aro, sell's clear and detailed statement of these transactions for if correct, a complete defence of the whole—non wosi r tantas componere lites. We cannot now presume to ote,crof upon them. On a first view, the allowances of the Pa l c o. family, their " moonshees," and dependents, with the 3 C OII O mulated interest on the loan to the Nizam, appear enorra .nc e and the difficulties pressing on that Government in con:sego:or were evidently alarming. The endless embarrassments Allies, the Nabobs of Oude end Arcot, and the Rajah of itc7,l jore, were not yet forgotten ; and the policy which denlthG pecuniary transactions by the servants of the Company native powers of India, was a wise and necessary one. rhe t he important question is yet to he discussed, before one O , A lO highest tribunals of this country. Sir William Rumbnre now in England, anti the appeals of Palmer and Compa,nYee in progress for decision : there is, therefore, yet fill' ye rf for mature consideration, which this difficult subject ! c d. way demands,. before any just opinion can be pronotu:010 The ballot closed at six, and the scrutiny was over at •20 minutes to eight. The numbers were then declared to, For the question - - a 3ua Against it - 289 Majority for Mr. Astell's Resolution - The Resolution thus carried is as follows : th e " That this Court having taken into its consideratiOniot, papers printed in pursuance of its order of the 3d of 111 arch s l o p relating to the pecuniary transactions of the house of Ale dt William Palmer and Co., at Hyderabad, with the Govern i t of his Highness the Nizam, is of opinion that there is no gl ° o l, of for imputing corrupt motives to the late Governor-Genera tO India, the Most Noble the Marquis of Hastings, K.G•%,tli any Member of the Bengal Government ; at the same tiniNics. Court feels called upon to record its approval of the.Pc°94o, dispatches to the Bengal Government, under date the o w May, 1820, 28th November, 1821, 9th April, NA and January, 1024."