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HAMBURG, APRIL 22, 1834. HEINE, BROTHERS, in Hamburg, Con tractors for the GREAT LOTTERY, drawn and published by Authority of the Government, and gua ranteed by the Honourable Board of Treasury of Ham burg, beg to inform the Public that the Sixty-third Lot tery will be drawn on the sth, 7th, 12th, and 14th May ; llth, 12th, 16th, 18th, 19th, 23d, 25th, and 26th June next. Tickets are now on sale at 140 Marks Banco, or Ten Guineas ; and the cost of Tickets left in the Wheel be tween the 14th May and 11th June will be 200 Marks Banco, or 151. Those desirous to purchase at 101. 10s. are requested to direct their orders by first mail to the said Heine Brothers, in Hamburg, who beg to observe that no orders but for whole Tickets can meet with attention. The largest Prize of the four first days is 60,000 Marks, and the largest Prize of the eight last days is 150,000 Marks. Every Ticket drawn on the four first days, if not coming up a Prize of net 131. 10s., or above, will be entitled to Two Tickets Gratis for the last eight days. DAY AT ONI o'cLocr. PRICES OT 'TOM) THII Rank Stock 214 3 par Cent. Red 9l 9114% 3 per Cent. Cons. 92 1,4 2 34 per Cent. Ditto Red 96%4% Now 34 per Cent. 99%4% 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 - 4 par Cent. 1826 101%4 lank Long A nn. to expire Jan. 5, 18110 17 3-16 Oct.lo, 1859 17 1-16 Jan. 5, 1860... . . 17% 7-16 Jan, 5, 1880 Aprils, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 New 5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds .. 30 32 29 30 pm. South Sea Stock lOl% Old Annuities SB New Ditto 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Ex Bills, £l,OOO 49 46 pm. Ditto 500 49 46 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised Bank for Account India for Account ... 267% Sl4 Cons. for Account 92% 1 4 1 7 4 2 PRICER OP FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds 10254 !Peruvian Bonds .2% le sdan Bonds l OO4 Ditto Account 22% Ditto Account ...... ...... 100 'Portuguese Bonds 74 % Brazilian Bonds 72 6 Ditto Account 7454 4 Ditto Account 72 14 Ditto New Bonds ...751 4 6 1 4 Buenos Ayres Bondi 25 Ditto Acconnt...7s% 7 t 4 6 % Ditto Account 0 6 1 4 5 1 1{ 6 Prussian Bonds 10314 3 Chilian Bonds 0 7% Ditto Bonds, 1822 lO3 Ditto Account "r l 4 j Russian Bonds, 1822 105% Columbian Bonds Ditto Account 231 Ditto 111 Ditto Bonds, 1824 ......27 1 4 1 4 ;Spanish Bonds, 1891 36 1 4 Ditto Account 27% Ditto Acc. 3614 7% 6% Danish Ron t '4 1 4 Ditto Bonds 1893 ......34 3 5 4 Ditto Acccunt 74 1 ,4 i Ditto Account... 31 54 43% Areek Bonds ;French Renter, 5 1 3 . c• —f -- c Ditto Bonds, !825 3 514 1----- Exchange.... —f —C Ditto A ccou nt..... ....... - 3 per cent...... —C —C. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 31% I -•- Exchange .. —f —C. Ditto Account Dutch, 21 p. C.... 51 50% 114 1 o•o, ft per cent 41N 2 1 4 Ditto Account .51% 1 Ditto Account 4214 Ditto, 5p c. .96 5.g. Neapolitan . 9454 Ditto Account 96 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Alton Mining Company £9 1154 Angtc. Mex. Min. *Ai. has. at U. pm £loo 9 Bolan°. Mining Company ..£150 130 Brazilian Mining Company 5 Brazilian Imo. Alin. Co. (iss. at 51. pm ) £2O Ditto Macaubas Cocaes , 20 Ditto St. John Del Rey ......... Cata Branca Mining Company 3k3 British Iron Alinins. comnanv £so Columbian Minim, Co. (its. at 51. pm.) 52 1 4 'English Mining Company l2<, General Nlinincr Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo Mexican Mining Co .£4B Real del Monte Mining Co....(unrag.) ti uteri Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) 40 . Ditto New Som... •.—. ........ 5 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp 0 Protector Insurance Comp. ..«.« £2 Australian Ca Canada Company ........... .......... General Steam Navigation Co. ..... National Provincial Bank of England 13 Rio Doce 2 Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 5i 0% 31 104 25 26 8 65i '5% 8 10% 1 4 117 31&; 15) 2% 42% HIER WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning . 18 minutes after 7. I Evening...4s minutes after 7. ~• LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1834. We direct the attention of our readers to the observations of the LORD CHANCELLOR last night on the subject of the Trades' Unions. They are full fraught with sound sense, and proceeding, as they do, from the lips of the highest law authority in the empire, will, we trust, be productive of beneficial results. The ' members of the Trades' Unions will do well to lay them to heart, and turn from their present misguided courses, which, if persevered in, can have but one termination—the ruin of all en, gaged in them. The CHANCELLOR'S remarks are conceived in the best possible spirit of kind ness and charity towards the productive classes. So we are to have a repetition of the East Retford business in the House of Lords on the Warwick Borough Bill—the examination of some sixty or seventy witnesses, the expense of bringing them up and keeping them in town — the same protracted examination and discus sions, and probably the same result. The pro ceedings are to commence on Friday; when they will end no one can tell. The expenses of the East Retford Bill for witnesses alone cost about 8,0001., and after all this expense, and much un necessary delay, the constituency was but little altered, and left nearly in the hands of the same patron. The same will probably be the case with most of the disfranchisement bills now before Parliament. The Lords know nothing of reform, in the true sense of the word. While the one house is gradually advan cing, stage after stage, on the high-road of improvement, the other is at a stand-still, or owes any occasional advances, not to its own locomotive power, but to the rough jolts of its more enterprising neighbour. It is high time to put an end to this double expense in almost every-thing connected with the business of the hro houses. Many hundreds of thousands had the country paid for duplicates of papers for the Lorok : which conferred no benefit on any one, except the printer, and no effectual at tempt was ever made to alter the system, till this Session. Now a great saving will be made—many thousands a year on printing alone, and we can see no reason why the same rule should not apply to the mode of taking evidence on election petitions. By allowing each house to appoint its own counsel, to watch the examination of witnesses, and di recting the evidence to be given on oath, one report would be satisfactory to both, and great expense saved. Evidence has been taken on the Warwick Bill amply suffi cient to satisfy every impartial judge that the borough is notoriously corrupt, yet we are to have all the evidence repeated, to the delay of public business, and with a large additional expense to the country. There are some half-a-dozen disfranchising bills before Parliament now, the expense of which, for wit nesses, would cost probably 60,0001., over, and above the expenses already incurred in the Commons ; and that with the certainty, too, that they will not be disposed of, either this or next session, or disposed of in such a way as to screen the guilty. If the Lords wish to pre serve the good opinion of their fellow-subjects, they must keep pace with them. By lagging too far behind, they will be forgotten or despised. A bill has been brought in by Mr. O'Corr- NELL " to improve the navigation of the rivers, lakes, and estuaries in Ireland?' This is its title and its professed purpose, but its provi_ sions go no further than to enable any person, or body politic or corporate, or joint stock com pany, to apply to the Lord Lieutenant for authority, by commission, to construct a pier, quay, wharf, or landirig place, upon, or adjacent to, any navigable river, lake, or estuary, ins Ireland. Now, we in England would be at a loss to understand how the navigation of .any river, lake, or estuary, was to be improved by the er.,:t:on of piers, quays, wharfs, or landing places. It may be desirable for particular per sons to have such piers, quays, or landing places, erected at particular places ; but we cannot see how the navigation is to be thereby improved. We suspect the bill is a job, or that, like its author, it professes to do one thing, when it means to do another. Lord kULGRAVE was in the House of Lords last night, looking extremely well, and receiving the warm congratulations of his friends. No one could have acted better, or conferred a greater service on his country as well as the colony. Jamaica is very tranquil, and there remains no doubt that the plan adopted by the Government will work alike advan tageously for the colonists, the slaves, and the mother country. A Bill is now before Parliament to regulate the salaries of the officers of the House of Commons, and to abolish the sinecure offices of Principal Committee Clerks and Clerks of Ingrossments. It proposes, upon the termination of the existing interests in such offices, to reduce the salaries as follows :—The Speaker (whenever the House shall again elect a Speaker) from 6,000/. to 5,000/. ; the Speaker's Secretary, 5001. per annum, in lieu of all salaries for perquisites and emoluments whatsoever. The Clerk of the House of Commons, 2,000/. ; Clerk Assistant, 1,500/. ; Second Clerk, 1,000/. ; Sergeant at Arms, 1,500/. ; his Deputy 7001., all in lieu of annual grants. The sinecure offices of Principal Committee Clerk and of Clerk of Ingrossments are to be abolished, compensation being made to the holders. These salaries are sufficiently ample, and there can be little doubt that the duties of the respective offices will be quite as well performed when the officers are paid by salary. The sinecures are to be abolished. We hope the Government will look carefully into all the public offices, and put an end to jobbing of every kind. If it were to get rid (though it were at some expense) of all those persons who are the avowed friends and tools of the Tories, it would inspire great confidence throughout the country. If Roman Catholics had been enlightened by the new morality on oaths and subscriptions, no Emancipation Bill would have been neces sary to qualify them for seats in Parliament. Why should they not have signed the declara tion against transubstantiation, the worship of the Virgin Mary, the invocation of saints, and other articles of their religion, if it had been under stood that subscription did not imply belief or acquiescence in the thing subscribed ? What should hinder a Jew from swearing on the faith of a Christian, if these words mean nothing more than an engagement to consider the proof and ad mit the doctrines of Christianity when convinced of their truth ? If such latitude of interpre tation be admitted, what is there binding on the conscience in an oath ? Let our Courts of .Tustice be on their guard when young men from Oxford, brought up on their new princi ples, come before them as witnesses. In Scot land, before a man is admitted to give evidence, he must purge himself from malice. In Eng land, it might be a fit question to a witness— whether he had ever subscribed articles which he had not read, understood, or believed ? and if he could not answer in the negative, should he not be committed, like the sceptical ur chin the other day, till he owned his fault, and expressed his repentance for the transgression ? The number of Spanish grandees entitled to sit in their own right in the u pper chamber of the Cortes will not exceed 60 or 70. Perhaps, under the circumstances, it is fortunate for th e cause of liberty that the ecclesiastics and the titulos are to be selected by the Crown. No one who has read the introductory paper to the decree can doubt that those who pre pared it are well disposed to the. cause of constitutional liberty, and they will doubtless select only such as will be favourable to the young QUEEN, and to those free institutions on which she must rely for her security. We find that those Spaniards who have been exiled will be able to sit in the Cortes as representa tives of the people, even though they may not have resided in Spain for two years, provided they are in other respects qualified, and elected for the provinces in which they were born. We learn from Madrid through Paris that favourable accounts had been received from Portugal. A reconnoissance had been made by 2,000 Spanish troops in Portugal, and General Rom', was to follow with 7,000 more. The supplement to the Madrid Gazette con tains an official account of SANGUANENA'S movements, dated La Guada, April 15. It appears that his troops were very near taking Don CARLOS, who was on his way from Pin hel. The entrance of the QUEEN'S troops was unobstructed, all the authorities having fled. They seized three coaches, three waggons, and two printing machines belonging to Don CAR LOS, and some important letters. RODIL was setting out for La Guada. The Frankfort Papers contain a copy of the official note of M. D ' OLFIERS, the Prussian Charge d'Affaires in Switzerland, in which he seconds the representations made to the canton of Zurich by Sardinia, Austria, and the adja cent states of Germany and the German Diet, relative to the Polish Refugees, whom he con demns, and wishes the Burgomasters to dis- It is said that the latter are countenance. anxious to rid themselves of the Poles, and that they are strictly watched by the police. The number of Poles in the canton of Berne is only 165, of whom 25 live on their own resources, and have taken no part in the incursion into Savoy ; the others will, they say, be compelled, by necessity, to accept the offers of France. The Governments of Vaud, Geneva, and Berne have applied to the French Ministry, in order to obtain their re-admission into France. BERNARDOTTE has returned an answer to the address of thanks presented to him by a deputation of the four estates for the effectual measures which he had taken with respect to the cholera, in which, after expressing his con gratulations, he calls upon Providence to pre serve the people for ever from a worse and more fatal danger ; that is, the want of una nimity and firm resolution in all the mea sures to be adopted for preserving sure pros perity at home and independence abroad. He is right : disunion is a worse evil than any of the calamities which we are prone to charge on Providence ; and the worst enemies to their country are those who endeavour to divide the people into factions, and set one class against another. The Swedish Government has substituted a fixed duty on corn, for the former graduated scale. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK A Halifax mail has arrived by the Eclipse, which sailed on the 23d of March, by which papers to the same date have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. Also papers from Boston, one day later, to the 29th of March, Philadelphia, to the 21st of March, and Prince Edward Island to the 12th of March. (From the Philadelphia Papers.) GREAT MEETING OF THE PEOPLE. The great meeting of the people will take place at four o'clock this afternoon in the Independence-square. Long before that hour the great mass of this community will be in motion, proceeding to the various rallying points, and prepare to form in procession, and march to the Senate House-yard. We anticipate a glorious spectacle—a sight that will make the office-holders tremble for their places, a sound that will ring in the ears of the wretched men who still adhere to the last of all the Romans, and the first and the last of American despots. It was currently reported in this city that the merchants of Boston have, in a body, refused to pay the duty bonds. The Halifax papers state that the accounts from Cape Breton, respecting distresses from the failure of last year's crops, are still of a very painful nature, and require imme diate attention. The House of Assembly of New Brunswick has agreed :o a civil list, amounting to 14,0001. per annum. (From the Prince Edward Island Papers.) NOVA SCOTIA.—His Honour the President announced to the legislature that he had received his Majesty's com mands to form a legislative council, and assured both houses that the measure would be carried into effect. Singapore Papers to the 6th December have been re ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house. SUMATRA.—Six boats have arrived during the week from Campai with coffee. The Naguadap reports that accounts have reached that country overland of a signal defeat experienced by the Dutch in the interior of Sumatra. About two months ago a detachment of 120 Europeans, under command of a major, with a large body of native troops, had established themselves in the interior, when a quarrel ensued, for which a native was punished ; the people of the country commenced an attack in an immense body, having first gained over the Sumatra troops, and the result was the total defeat and slaughter of the soldiers. The natives are in possession of the fort or stockade, and all the guns, small arms, and ammunition. It is stated that the major poisoned himself when he saw all was lost. The natives at first sustained great loss. With regard to the proceedings at Jamba, the Dutch troops sent to Palembang from Java have erected a stockade at a place called Campai, which commands an extensive district where grain is raised, but no engagement had taken place. Extract of a letter from Rio Janeiro of the 25th of Ja nuary, received at the North and South American Coffee house : " Referring to my last of the 13th inst., I have nothing to communicate, but that everything in this place is going on very well, and that we enjoy tranquillity such as we never before experienced. The Government is firm and resolute, and several vessels have taken away a number of troublesome Portuguese. All this has done much good, and I consider the funds of this country as the safest investment that can be made even in Europe at half of their interest. No doubt you are aware of savings banks all over the country. Commerce is rather brisk. Coffee is coming down in abundance. Exchange, 40% to 41." Consols have again improved this morning. They left off yesterday at 9136 for money, and 92 to % for the ac count, and opened at 92% to iLA, at which price they are at present. The official information of General Rodil entering Por tugal is now published, in which it appears that his object at present is only the pursuit of Don Carlos ; therefore it still remains to be seen if he will take any part with Don Pedro against Don Miguel ; nevertheless, it has had the effect to improve the Portuguese Stock to 76% to 77. Spanish Stock has also improved to 36% %. This is owing to a rumour in the Stock Exchange that the holders of the Cortes Bonds are to have 1001. three per cent. stock, and a deferred stock for the unpaid interest now due. HALF-PAST ONE. Since the early part of the morning, when all descriptions of funds were looking up, a reaction has taken place in them. Consols which had reached 92% 1 4 for the Account, have receded to 92 sellers. At present they are 92 to lA. Spanish, which was done at 37, may be quoted 36% %. Portuguese was done at 77, reduced to 76 1 4 1 ,4. This is settling-day in the Foreign Market, and it ap pears to be a Bear Account in Spanish and Portuguese Stocks, which was the cause of their reaching so high a price in the earlier part of the day. We do not hear of any defaulters. THREE O'CLOCK Consols for the Account, 92%. QUARTER PA ST THREE. EXPRESS FROM MADRID. We hear that the Spaniards have entered Almeida. The towns through which the Spaniard pass are rising in favour of Donna Maria. Portuguese Stock 7714. A Commissionership of Customs has become vacant by the death of W. T. Roe, Esq., brother, we believe, to the Chief Magistrate of Bow-street, and nephew to the late Mr. Alexander Adair, who be queathed him a legacy of 10,0001. By a Treasury minute of the Duke of Wellington, it was regulated that the Commissionerships of Customs and Excise should be each reduced, on vacancies, from 1,400/. to 1,2001. per annum. We have heard from a respectable quarter, a gentleman well known in London has accumulated upwards of 20,0001. in buying and selling horse flesh, having in 15 years slaughtered the immense number of 45,000 horses.—Stamford News. Water-mills in this neighbourhood will soon be as scarce as heretofore they have been plentiful, in consequence of the new drainage of the fens : numbers are daily employed in taking them down, the owners thereof saying, as they are useless,—why encumber the ground ? Many of the farmers and graziers are of opinion that it will take all the ingenuity they are possessed of to keep a sufficient quantity of water in the dikes for their cattle : if that be really the case, which is not unlikely, the good which was anticipated will not be realized.—Stamford News. A BLOW UP AT BancHAm.—The inha bitants of Upper Brixham were terribly alarmed on Tuesday morning about four o'clock, by a violent con cussion of the air ; and those who lived near the Lord Nelson public-house were the more astonished to find the glass in their windows shivered to atoms. As soon as it was possible to make an inquiry, it was discovered that a man who lives in a cottage near the above inn, and who is employed in blowing the rock, had by some means or other ignited a parcel of gunpowder, which carried away the whole roof of his cottage, and rattled down some of his neighbours' walls, besides breaking about two hundred panes of glass in the houses near the explosion. What was most extraordinary, neither the man nor his children, who were asleep in the house, received the smallest injury, nor did any fire follow the explosion.—Devonshire Chronicle. Saturday night, as Bartley, the mailman, was ascending Hinksey Hill, near Oxford, at an easy pace, he was met by four men, who, dividing two on each side, suddenly unhorsed him, threw him on his back, arid rifled his pockets, in hich luckily he had no money, nor any thing f value. Bartley begged hard for his life, which they engaged to spare if he would lie quiet. The fellows then proceeded up the hill. Bartley found the horse in a neighbouring field.—oxford Aurnal. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, THIS DAY, TUESDAY, APRIL 29. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter past twelve. The Kingsbridge Roads and Fishguard Market Bills were read a second time. Petitions were presented by Lord Chandos against the Itchen Bridge Bill; by Mr. Baines against the Leeds Turnpike Bill ; by Mr. Fitzsimon from the county of Dublin, against the present system of tithes in Ireland ; two petitions to the same effect from Tippe rary and Cashel, by the same hon. member ; by Mr. Rus sell from Kingsnorton on the subject of agricultural distress; by Sir H. Parnell, from Dundee, against the corn laws ; from the same place, against the union of church and state, and praying for some relief to the Polish exiles ; and like wise one to prevent the plying of steam-boats on the Sab bath day ; by the same hon. member, from the parishes of Christ Church, Surrey, Bermondsy, and St. George the Martyr, in favour of the Southwark Market ; also a peti tion from the hand-loom weavers ; by Mr. A. Johnstone, relative to the Kirkintulloch Railway Bill. Mr. N. FITZ SIMON presented petitions from parishes in Westmeath and King's County, praying for a repeal of the union, and an extinction of tythes. STEAM CARRIAGES. Sir W. MOLESWORTH presented a petition from an individual named Gurney, complaining of the interfer ence of the agricultural interest with locomotive carriages invented by him. The hon. baronet entered at some length into the merits of the invention, which he contended would be productive of the greatest public benefit. The petitioner prayed that the house would be pleased to re peal the legislative enactment by which he had been de prived of the profits of his invention. Mr. CRIPPS (as we understood) thought that Mr. Gurney was a much injured man, and that he had been unjustly deprived of the merits of his invention. He sup ported the petition. Air. JEPHSON thought that Mr. Gurney had laid the foundation of the science of locomotive carriages in Great Britiin, and he regretted that he had been so hardly dealt with. Mr. WALLACE said that in Scotland the people had given every encouragement to Mr. Gurney's invention. He thought the house should take Mr. Gurney's case into consideration. The hon. member then gave a very.ani mated description of Colonel Maceroni's steam-carriage, in which he had frequently travelled, and in which he had invited half a dozen members of that house to take a trip with him on Saturday next. Mr. CAYLEY thought it would be extremely advanta geous if Mr. Gurney could bring his steam to bear upon the business of that house. (Hear.) He concurred in the prayer of the petition. Mr. CHARLES BULLER complained of the legisla tive enactment which had interfered with Mr. Gurney's invention. Mr. ROTCH hoped the hon. baronet who presented the petition would bring in a bill for the purpose of carry ing into effect the prayer of that petition. Sir W. MOLESWORTH presented a petition from Bladston against Church patronage. Sir R. VYVYAN presented a petition from Bristol in favour of the better observance of the Sabbath. The hon. baronet concurred in the prayer of the petition, but said he could not support many of the extravagant propositions in the bill before the house. Mr. J. E. BAILLIE said he never could be lieve that his constituents could wish him to support such a mass of absurdity as the bill before the house con tained, and therefore he should take a decisive course, and reject it altogether. Mr. ESTCOURT said, as the bill would come before the house to-morrow, it would be better to present all the petitions on the subject by that time. Sir A. HOPE said he would support the second read ing of the bill, but vete for amendments in committee. Sir R. VY V YAN presented two other petitions from the city of Bristol in favour of the better observance of the Sabbath, and also one from the same city against the use of climbing boys. Mr. J. E. BAILLIE and Mr. ROTCH supported the prayer of the petition.—Laid on the table. Sir R. BATESON presented several petitions from the north of Ireland for the better observance of the Sabbath, without reference to the particular business before the house.—Laid on the table. THE CASE OF LIEUT. H. DUNDAS PERROT. Mr. T. ATTWOOD presented a petition from Henry Dundas Perrot, late a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, pray ing the house to inquire into the merits of his case, with a view to restore him to his rank and station in the navy. The prisoner admitted that he was tried at the Maidstone assizes, in 1812, for obtaining money under false pre tences by forging a protection, and convicted, but the judgmdgment was afterwards reversed in the Court of King's ent was afterwards reversed in the Court of King's ench, and by affidavits, one the uncle of the party him self who actually forged the protection, his innocence was entirely established. Though this occurred twenty-one years ago he was still denied his rank in that service in which he had so often bled. The hon. member also pre sented a petition, signed by 500 respectable householders of the parish of Shoreditch, neighbours of the petitioner, bearing testimony to his respectable demeanour and good character in that parish, in which he has been living in poverty, and endeavouring to support himself by keeping a school, and praying the house to follow up the declaration of the learned judge who reversed the judgment against him, and who said that he ought to be restored to his rank and all his rights. The hon. member proceeded to give an analysis of the case, and stated that the petitioner was now about 45 years of age, and lost his arm in the English Channel while exercising with small arms in 1806. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, which he enjoyed three years. He distinguished himself by his valour, fought twenty-five battles before he was twenty-five years of age, lost his left arm, had his right arm severely shattered by two bullets passing through it, and to this day carried a bullet in his body. It was true he committed an error, but it was on the right side—he refused to obey a signal of retreat when he was endea vouring to cut , out a vessel from under the battery at Calais, and succeeded in his object. For disobeying the signal, however, he was dismissed the service, but the Prince Regent instantly reinstated him, and his country men, admiring his valour, carried him on their shoulders about the streets of Dover. Such a case as this deserved some consideration ; and though some fault might have been committed, it should likewise be remembered that he was very young. But what was the mistake ? The Admiralty sent to Mr. Perrot to know how he had lost his arm. This was evidently an unworthy manoeuvre to entrap him into a mis-statement of the case. The little mistake was this, • Mr. Perrot, in his answer, stated that he had lost his arm in exercising great guns and small arms in the Channel. Now, in fact, he had lost his arm by small arms in Portsmouth harbour. This was said to be a misrepresentation ; now in his (Mr, A.'s) opinion, " great guns and small arms" and " small arms" were analogous, and it would be ridiculous to pretend that Portsmouth harbour was not in the Channel. He hoped the right hon. gentleman would not attempt to found a charge upon such a miserable distinction. Mr. Perrot was convicted, in 1812, of obtaining 20/. from a sailor for giving him a protection against impressment, but to show that there was no foundation in this charge, he need only state, that the judgment was reversed by the twelve judges. It would have been but just for the then Admiralty to restore him to his military rank, when the judges had restored him to his civil rank ; but such was not the case, and he con tinued to suffer for a crime of which he was entirely inno cent. Under these circumstances, he hoped that the case would receive a favourable, though late, consideration. The hon. member proceeded to read two affidavits made subsequently to his conviction, which deposed that the charge against him was groundless, and fully asserted his innocence. The petitioner was anxious for an inquiry into his case ; he wouldsubmittoany tribunal,however strict, to investigate his conduct, and he would be content to abide by its decision. He (Mr. A.) hoped that if the right hon. baronet (Sir J. Graham) could not bring any im peachment against him, he would accede to the prayer of the petition. Sir J. GRAHAM would ivish to be concise, in respect for the time of the house, but he would still endeavour to follow the hon. member for Birmingham, who, he con ceived, was under some delusion on the matter he intro ducedbefore the house. He deprecated making that house a court of appeals interfering with the discipline of the army and navy. The petitioner was, in his mind, not un fortunate, for he was convicted of felony, and not transported : he was dismissed from the navy for conduct not becoming an officer, and was now enjoying a pension of 2s. 6d. a day. That was much more than he deserved. If his friends per sisted in bringing his case before the house, it could only tend to disgrace his character in society. The right hon. baronet read some documents—one of a public nature— in which the conduct of Mr. Perrot was reprobated highly, and a letter from Sir T. Harvey, declaring him unfit foe holding a commission in his Majestys's navy. (Hear. ) No doubt was entertained of Mr. Perrot's guilt; and he would have been punished to the utmost extent of the law, but a flaw in the indictment had saved him from the penalty the law awarded to his crime. The right hon. gentleman then entered, at some length, into the' facts of the charge upon which Mr. Perrot had been tried. Independently of the false protection, there were two forged certificates in Mr. Perrot's hand writing, found upon his person. ( Hear, hear, hear. ) It appeared, also, that in answer to an application from the Admiralty as to how he had lost his arm, Mr. Perrot had stated that he had lost it " in the public service," although it was satisfactorily ascertained that he s ga ho in ot t in ro g ub s l e e a d -g u u i l t l h s. the H nas e e h , w oped hien t w he as h as ou t s r e wn w p o e u r l y d had lost it, not in "th e p u bli c serv i ce ," b u t w hil e amus i ng not him b se e lf a a one as had ever been brought forward, (Hear, hear. ) w , Mr. ATTWOOD rep li e d. H e t h oug h t th e Ad m i ra lt y t of the time whe n M r . P erro t l ost hi s arm was th e b es t judge of how he h a d l ost i t , an d o f t h e remunera ti on t o b e awarded. ;d e"ot H ase .would enta n le o d t abandonto nthe arrtheearcs ofase as he halfh etlioupgayht, and to be restored to his naval rank. Sir J. GRAHAM informed the house that the sur f geon's certificate stated that Mr. Perrot's hand was lace rated by the bursting of a fowling-piece on shore. Mr. ATTWOOD said, that Mr. Perrot was dismissed for conduct which was called unworthy of an officer, but it was not unworthy of a man, namely, that of cutting a ship out from under the batteries of Calais. Admiral ADAM expressed a hope that Government would not disgrace itself by inquiring into the case at all. The petition was laid on the table. Mr. ROTCH presented two petitions from Wesleyans in York, in favour of the better observance of the Sabbath, and one from several woollen mill owners of York, com plaining of the conduct of the Trades' Unions, in making exorbitant demands, and attacking the men not belonging to them, so that property and life were placed in the greatest danger. The petition was signed by persons employing 3,000 hands. The hon. member said he had other petitions from persons who had been com pelled to join the unions, praying for protection, which he would present at another opportunity.—Laid on the table. The SPEAKER left the chair at three o'clock. UNIONS. MEETING OF MASTER TAILORS. This morning a meeting of considerably more than 300 of the master tailors of the metropolis was held in Willis's I Rooms, St. James's-street, Mr. LESLIE in the chair. He said he had to acquaint the meeting that there had been one similar held last night, at which, though it was summoned very hastily, between 400 and 500 were present ; they then determined to adjourn it till that day. He was then called to the chair, and having been so, he would do his duty as impartially as it was in his power. He had no doubt but that every gentleman in the room had had a letter such as he held in his hand sent to him. (He then read the letter, a copy of which is given in our 3d page. It was in consequence of that most extraor dinary and most unjust letter that the meeting had been called. Some resolutions had been agreed to by the committee which would be proposed to the meeting—they so fully bore upon the case, that he was saved the necessity of detaining the meeting with any remarks of his own. He therefore would make only one remark ; he would state as a fact, that the demands contained in those printed papers would give an advance of 25 per cent. upon the wages of the workman, while, at the same time, the prices of the necessaries of life, were much lower now than they were in 1813, when the present prices were agreed upon. He had made some calculations with respect to the relative price of the quartern loaf at that period, and the present; the result was, that he found the workman could now procure 2 1 ,41b5. of bread for the same money, which he then paid for 11b. (Cheers.) In conclusion, he trusted the meeting would give every gentleman who might address them a patient hearing. Mr. Snazz proposed the first resolution, which was as follows : " Ist. That these regulations would, if acceded to by the master-tailors of the metropolis, be, both in principle and effect, injurious to the emp loyers and employed, because, firstly, an increased demand of nearly 25 per cent. on the present rate of wages; 6s. per diem is neither called for by the circumstances of the times nor the actual condition of the trade—the present scale of wages having been fixed in the year 1813 by the workmen themselves ; and, secondly, the 41b. loaf then cost 17d., the same sum at this time will purchase 81 , lbs. of bread ; meat also is reduced about 30 per cent., and coals are about half the price at the present time as compared with the prices of 1813. Mr. 11ANsLEY seconded it most cordially. _ . The CHAIRMAN then invited any gentle - man who might have any remarks to offer upon the resolution then to do it. A Gentleman in the body of the meeting then rose, and said he had been sent for that morning by several noble men and gentlemen, who asked him what course the mas ters meant to pursue. His answer was that they were firm as a rock, and were determined, with the assistance of the public, to win. (Immense cheering. ) Mr. REID then addressed the meeting from the plat form. After apologizing for addressing them at so early a stage of the proceedings, he said he thought the demands now made upon the masters were the most unjust that had ever been made, and he was of opinion (and that was his only excuse for trespassing upon them) that the spirit in which the resolution before the meeting was passed, would stamp the character and determination of the meeting. (Cheers.) The demands were most unjust, first, in the way in which they were made. There was nothing in the whole conduct of the journeymen had excited his disgust and pity for them, more than the manner in which they had spoken of their masters. They had designated them most foully and unjustly as tyrants, and threw every other epi thet of scorn upon them most undeservingly. He would undertake to say that, as a body, for in all classes there were exceptions, there was not a more humane set, or one who took more interest in the welfare of those they employed. The demand was also most unjust in the terms in which it was couched; on that head he was aware he need say nothing, the case was obvious. They were however also most unjust, from the consequences to which a compliance with them would lead. beT ( i C nhge h y e i e d r we s n . t ) Let the masters give way on only one single point, and who could foretel the consequences? (Cheers.) Every concession made would most naturntalhleylperttoderucane and fresh demand, and then that system would go on till the men were so into w x i i tas e taothe be dew out, found h c ta c ht w a s i s t htethhyeaywt were caredfor any bands nb of 3er iden tified, society but.w would interests u i l n d b , e . broken. hoaft thpear master a so ( tf L e rt o h u aa d v applause.) ptahpee rm e( ll interests but their own? Was it in the latter part, where the regulations) miserable threat w as driven from the trade ? (Cheers.) The masters had al ways shown a ready attention to the wishes of the men when they were couched in proper language, but when the men wished to take the conduct of a man's business out of his own hands, it was certainly then high time for a stop to be put to them. They were told by them, that they had no wish to hurt the masters—that they did not intend them to be the losers, but that the money was to be taken out of the pockets of the aristocracy and the rich, and they (the masters) were only to be the means of carrying that into effect. But how did that stand? Money would not be taken from the rich, but the middle classes—the real sinews and strength of the country, would be revived. He would most strenuously advise the meeting to oppose to that contemptible show of physical force, not a force of the same kind, but a great moral force. (Cheering.) The eyes..of England were upon them at that moment ; almost the fate of the country depended upon their conduct. ( Applause. ) Let them carry their threat into execution ; let them all turn mas ters (laughter) ; let them take all the responsibility and cares of the situation upon their shoulders, aad they would soon have a very different opinion of the matter. He did not think that anybody knew what they wanted—indeed he did not believe that they did themselves— (Laughter, and cheers) ; but if they did obtain their demands, the consequences would be ruinous not only to themselves and the master, but to society in gene ral. (Cheers.) The bonds of all society would be loosen ed, and such a chaos would be produced, as he should be most sorry ever to witness. (Great applause. ) He trusted that the meeting would not merely pass the resolutions, but would feel when they went home as if the well-being of their cause and of the coun try depended upon their own firmness. ( Great applause. ) Mr. SHOOBRIDGE, of Cheapside, stated that he had many men in his employ who had worked for him for eight or ten years, and until last night, he never heard that any one was dissatisfied; then, on returning from the country, he was surprised to hear that they had all struck, in conse quence of the resolution adopted by the Trades' Unions. He hoped, however, that a union would be found to exist among the masters, for the purpose of suppressing a union founded in wrong. (Cheers.) All unions, he was confident, would be but productive of discord if fouuded on wrong principles, for they were a departure from that great principle which taught man to do as he would be done by. (Loud cheers.) It was a union of men, who, if industrious, could easily earn six shil lings a day, while, by their own resolutions, they would place the idler, the drunkard, the sober and the industrious, all on the some footing. (Cheers.) It was a well-known fact that journeymen tailors were better paid than the mechanics of any other trade in the metropolis, and that while the master-manufacturers had been obliged, from the pressure of circumstances, to grind down their workmen to eight or ten shillings per week, the master-tailors continued to give the same rate of wages as they did twenty years ago. ( Hear.) The masters acted on the principle of doing as they would be done by, but it was ridiculous for the men to dictate to them as to finding a place for them to work in—unmindful of the expenses or the extent of the masters' premises. He hoped the masters would show the most determined re sistance to all such unprincipled attempts. (Loud cheers. ) The resolution was then unanimously agreed to amidst loud cheering. Mr. NUGEE, of St. James's-street, then proposed the following resolution : " 2d. This meeting is of opinion that the regulations pro posed to the master tailors proceed on gross injustice to the working man, inasmuch as they fix the maximum which an industrious man may earn, and make no distinction be tween the industrious and talented and the incompetent and idle." Mr. WILLIS, of St. James's-street, seconded it. Mr. STUART, of Jermyn-street, said there was one subject to which he wished to advert as connected with the trades' unions. He would ask, what would the journeymen say, if the masters were to form a union, one principle of which was to be, that if any journeyman were to displease his master, the master should report him, and thereby deprive him for ever of employment ? (Loud cheers.) The masters would then be de nounced, and justly so, as the greatest tyrants. Yet this was precisely what the journeymen were themselves doing. (Hear.) The eyes of the metro, polis were now on the trade, and looking to their firmness in resisting the demands which had been made, so as to ascertain whether the journeymen were to be their mas ters, or the masters to have a proper control over their workmen. ( Cheering.) He could tell them plainly, that if the masters now succumbed, it would not be long before this mighty empire would be prostrated at the feet of the trades' unions. (Loud cheering.) Mr. PEMBER, of Little Bridge-street, had never found any difficulty in getting his work done, in the face of all the combinations of journeymen, and the reason was,tha he always paid by the piece, so as that the wages should he . be, at least, six shillings a day. But many masters pat° by the day, and that made no distinction betw een expeditious, industrious man, and the idle and untalented man. If, however, the masters complied with the demands to limit the hours per day to eight or ten, they would be productive of great injury to numbers of the honest and respectable journeymen in the trade. Ile recommended masters to contrive a plan so a s to pay by piece-work ; and first to let the men bite their own fingers' ends for] a time (A lau gh ) , and then plenty of men would be found to com e to r readily, and on fair and honourable terms. (Cheers.) The resolution was then carried amidst great applause. Mr. DAVIDSON, of Cork-street, moved the following resolution : "3. That this meeting do individually and collect ivel y resolve and pledge themselves not to comply with the de mands of the workmen." The determination evinced in the above resolution W& received with three distinct rounds of cheers. The following Resolutions were also proposed, meeting broke up about three o'clock : ed " 4. That the greatest publicity be given to the proce ings of this meeting, and that the nobility, gentg, master tailors respectfully requested to co-operate with the master tailors, by suspending or delaying the orders they may already have given until the workmen shall be desiro!i? of resuming their employment at the prices hitherto pain by the trade." wh. are " 5. That in order to encourage those men dissatisfied with the imperious mandate ofthe trades' union, all for the committee be empowered to appoint houses of c the the reception of all workmen willing to secede fr om •,,t unionists, and to be employed at thew ages hitherto psi and that this meeting pledge themselves to give exclusive supposupport and encouragement to such men." rt shall give the remainder of the speeches in our Second Edition.] arid the EAST INDIA SHIPPING. --mo.—. PoTinhtedAefoGraleyne, Jan. 1 , Ce C y a l p on e , F o e ff b. D l u 3 b , li an n, d sa s i t l . ed ifeien ; ir •L nd s The illarquis of Huntly, from China, off the -,.,.- t h End, sailed Dec. 5, Cape Feb. 13, and St. Helena Dee- ' rh; 26th. Departures from China.—The Vansittart, the Wa rren Hastings, and Lord Lowther, for London, Dec. 2 4 ; ~.a l , Arrivals at the Cape.—The Quebec Trader, 28(1 ''.--- 1 SingaP ° r i e ' from Newcastle, Jan. 31 ; the Germania, from Feb. 1; the Glenalvon, the 2d, and Justinian , th e "' from the Mauritius; the Courier de St. Paul, from Ro u , r , - . bon, the 4th, and sailed the 10th for Nantes ; his 3fa i est) ' and Industry, for Van Diemen's Land, Jan- '2B; ship Forrester, from England, Jan. 30. Lo n don , Departures from the Cape.—The Grecian, for _... the t '-i_a_ Liverpool, the 30th ; the City of Edinburgh, for Ne w mar, for Launceston, the 29th ; the Lady Fitzherbverso,,N Wales, and Welcome, for London, the 31st; the Resource, tter for Van Diemen's Land, the 27th ; the Hope, for Ro _. the Glenal dam, and Germania, for Hamburg,Feb I • • , von, for London, the 6th. ~ 1 .,, Arrivals at the Mauritius.—The Justinian, from R Dec. 18 ; the Grecian, from Colombo ; the General 6° _,. coyne, from Calcutta, and his Majesty's ship Wolf, fro.' Trincomalee, the '27th ; the Bencoolen, from Cowes iv t i h i e Royal George and Renown, from the Downs ; and ' '.-- randa, from Liverpool, the 28th. Departures from the Mauritius.—The Jane , PeKe n t , and Defiance, the 19th, for the C the f ape ; Duke 0 t he the 22d, for Launceston ; the Maria, for Pondicherlt,d 23d; the Dominica, for Bristol, the 26th; the and Burrell, for Ceylon, the 26th ; the Stirling Westal, for Calcutta, the 27th. Arrivals at Ceylon.—The Achilles, from London , r) e Se 7 ; the Nymphe, from Bordeaux, the 11th, and sailed ~ 16th for Bombay ; the Eliza Ann, from Malabar Coas,.!e Mexican, from Bordeaux, the 12th, and sailed the 11th, and sailed the 15th for Malabar Coast ;. the Bombay; the Morley, from Quilon, the 16th. Bombay , Departures from Ceylon.—The Victory, for . Copernicus, f o r and Grecian, for London, Dec. 4 ; th e Calcutta, the sth. from Pen al* Arrivals at Singapore.—The Australia, and Malacca, Nov. 26. Londeat Departures from Singapore.—The Arab, for Dec. 5 ; the George Hibbert, for London, the s t h. A Gil , Arrivals at St. Helena.—The Manchester ant. sa iled bert Monro, from the Mauritius, Feb. IS, an d to da fr e the 22d for London ; the Glenalvon and Miran , don ; the Mauritius, the 20th, and sailed the 21st for Leilau tor the Kyle, from Calcutta, the 23d, and sailed the e nth . .. 411, Liverpool ; the Sir T. Monro, from Singapore, th_ -T ot, and sailed the 25th for London ; his Majesty's ship " , !_at', s , from the Cape, the 25th, and sailed the 27 th kr ) i; t ` b , the 15th for mouth ; the Yestroom, from Batavia and Cape, tl r " i n and sailed the 27th for Amsterdam ; the Undaunted, ! Vansittart, from China, the 26th , and sailed the 28t n London. from f 1 Gib the c tar to Ch' The New J ersey, Williams, crew are at Si e o' was lost in th e Chi na Seas, Nov. 9 ; ral Bombay, the 26th, and sailed the 27 th for London !r t he i gapore. __.........-...-!"'"--- ----- - - ---._ PASSAGE OF THE SOUND. . . Of the 34 ships which passed between the 17th 311 e 20th April, 21 were British, and the remainder fore!i; one of which was American. Eight ships sailed from 13riPi ports, one of which was a Russian , t he rest 13ritis i f Twenty-two ships passed for British and Irish port ship 'Y °, which 12 were British and 10 foreign ; and 1 British between two foreign ports. ion' , The following is extracted from a letter dated Els 4 April 20, 1834 :_,, The ships from the Baltic hasge..o-0 proceeded, excepting the arrivals of to-day. Those bee" the North Sea have likewise sailed. The wind ha s of light from the north and north - west since the everning it the 15th instant up to the afternoon of the 20tb, s hen blew a little stronger from the same quarter. ~, of 2 being foreign and 23 British, April 20, six ships, viz , 4 British and 2 fc'r e tja 1 which, 3 British and 2 foreign from British P ° fl rt api s 'ely, 23 foreigner for England.—April 21, 27 shir'vttish Pr ts ' British and 5 foreign; of which 25 were from • r 1 sh ips to British ports.—April 22, 16 ships, nainelY , 11 , 0 f o reiP ; 5 foreign ; from Britith ports, 10 British an -. :en tic to Great Britain, 3 foreign and 1 British, b ells _ foreign ports.—Together 49 ships. . Great 130 The cargoes were as follows, namely, from with g taro, 22 ships in ballast, 18 with coals, 2 vessels ~„, 1 ith h :i tel it, neral cargoes. 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