The Sun. — London, England, 1831-04-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS: All accounts from the West of Ireland represent the counties of Clare and Galway to be in a state of the most unmitigated and frightful anarchy. In the former of the above counties, where an election for a representative has recently terminated in the return of a young man of the name of O'Connell, a son of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, altogether unconnected with the county of Clare, who was preferred to Sir Edward O'Brien, tie head of an old and opulent fa mily alzveys resident on their estate in that county, as described to us by p e rsons of observation and vera city, the name of law is used in utter derision. Pas ture land is broken up at noon-day by assernhls i a•es of hundreds of people : gates are torn off their binges —fences levelled with the earth—cattle turned from what used to be enclosures, into the public roads, and herdsmen, or other farm-servants, forbidden, on pain of death, to resume their work, and protect or watch their masters' property. No gentleman's family, be the members of it ever so respectable, or indivi dually popular, consider themselves safe within their own grounds. More than half the gentry have fled their homes, and taken refuge in Limerick or Dublin. The remnant, who are bold enough to stay behind, or so much in want of money as to be incapable of removing to any distance, are forced to barricade their houses and keep regular guard day and night, to prevent surprise by the wretched and ferocious peasantry. The last exploit of these des perate beings was the massacre of five policemen, and that a few hours after the King's representative had set his foot within the county on a journey of beneficent examination into the wants and sufferings of the poor. With regard to this particular crime, the circumstances attending it as given by the Irish' Papers are, like all statements of a struggle be tween authority and insubordination in Ireland, most glaringly irreconcileable. Irish factions make it a point of conscience to lie systematically " for the public good." Thus one print says that the policemen had caught two vagabonds in the act of administering Whiteboy oaths, and that while escorting them to gaol they were attacked by a mob, who broke in when the police had spent their ammunition, and literally stoned to death these martyrs of an unavoidable duty. An other journal tells us, that the peasantry were mark ing out potato-land in the presence of the proprietor, and with his entire sanction, when the police (not very probable !) fired on them in mere wantonness, and after killing a man, were put to death in just retaliation. A third newspaper, with a prudent re serve as to the origin of the business, describes it as a regular battle, wherein the police were defe,ted. Ilut whence arose the " battle?" Somebody told us that in Emmett's rebellion, the object of which was to attack the Castle of Dublin, and subvert the Government, as its first and characteristic incident was the murder of Lord Chief Justice Kilwarden, the gentle appellation bestowed upon that bloody and atrocious scene was " the dispute in Thomas street." But the " dispute" on this occasion has net confined itself to Clare—Galway is in open in surrection. Five thousand Whitebays attacked the house of Sir John Bur he, the county Member, de stroyed the windows, furniture, Sze., and carried off several stand of arms. They threatened to storm the town of Woodrord, and did actually plunder the habitations of other gentlemen besides Sir John Burks, making srms the chief purpose of their depredation. It seems clear that there is no po litical motive—we mean, as against the Govern ment—at the bottom of these terrible transactions; fur if there were, Lord Anglesea could hot have traversed the whole country without defence of any kind, and every where cheered by the people; nor is the slightest distinction made between man and man upon religions grounds, for many of those gentlemen, Sir John Burke among them, who have felt more severely the want of protection from the law, are known to be Roman Catholics. The war is a servile war. It is in every instance the poor against the rich,—the hungry man against the full man. It is reckless despair against ruthless cupi dity. A remedial measure at once prompt and perfect, there is none; but imperfect measures may do something, if they are prompt; and if pains be taken to alleviate the suffering, as well as to punish Jegahy the criminal expression of that suffering, the tinfortunate people may at least be taught to hope that patience will not be for ever unavaling. In the mean time, it is much to be feared, that without the fristerection Act,—a dreadful, but energetic in strument, —the confusion which now aggravates and perplexes every thing cannot be even momentarily suspended. To coercion, however, none but a Government actuated by the spirit of a fiend would think of limiting its political operations. The peasantry are ground down to the lowest point of misery ever borne by man. They are famishing,— their ;rives and children are farnif.hing. They are, to we a homely phra'e, "eating each other's heads off," so fierce and unreflecting is their competition for land, the occupancy of which offers them their only chance of subsistence. It is said that the land lords deserve no blame for accepting tie highest bidder as their tenant, where all bid desperately against each other. This is a wicked falsehood. The landlord has no right, in equity or humanity, to deal with human life as the pedler with 'his wares. The duty, the bounden duty of the landlord, is to calculate what his land can produce, and charge the poor man no higher rent than the land well culti vated can furnish the means of paying, after render, l low a fair reeompence to the cccupant for his outlay onabour, manure, and seed. The craving, snatch ing eagerness of the peasant, who will offer fifty times the value of all that the spot of earth can ever be made to produce, rather than lose the possession of it, ought not to be made the rule of the landlord's expectation, or the measure of his demand. We know that he is encumbered with a multitude of unprofitable mouths, and of helplesehands, the con sequences of his own previous ambition and rapacity, aided by the barbarous habits and grovelling resignation of the rustic crittvd who hang upon him. But such difficulties can be only further increased by continuing the practices which first created them. The gentlemen must help the legislature in striving to stop the growth of famine, —for they have long since reason to knew, that it is a giant whose force never fails to turn upon his authors. Poor laws must follow. It is inevitable : all the committees that ever sat cannot obviate the necessity of a provisicn for the poor from that soil of whose produce they have never yet tasted food of such quality as was due even to the ox that tilled it. So the burdens imposed by the Catholic priesthood, and by the Protestant Church Establish ment, on the Irish people must be revised, with a view to some more judicious distribution of them. As for absents e landlords, who will dare to be other than an absentee at the risk of being robbed or tnartlered The country must first be reduced— by force if necessary—to a condition of obedience and tranquillity; but woe toEngland if she does not instantly after apply the healing ointment to the The recent disturbances in Belgium have been made a pr etext the most intemperate certain Journals for pouring out r r r e abuse upon the people of that co untry, Whose gacrime, in the eyes of the open enemies or helloes friends o f constitut i ona l lib erty , th e see ms to be that are resolved to maintain, at all hazards, the national independenc e w hi c h t h e y so dearly purchased, and whi d r the .. Holy Alliance" have by plots, intrigues, and to subvert. The violent pro P ee : d ttols, endeavoured eves in defence of liberty, p roth i l s e of a Ptc.Pulace, greatbut the blame of t h o s e evils ought tofall evils; real authors of the p o p ular excite ment which leadsonthe to such disturbances. Who are the real authors of l Cie civil commotions in Be l g ium ? T h e partisans of the Prince of Orange, who, while the diplom a . ti.ts of the "peat Powers" lime been " protocol ing" against the independence of the Belgic people iu London, have been intriguing against the same independence in Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp, and other places. While these things were going on the Journals in the interest of the expelled dynasty were careful to inform the %%Trill, ffoin rime to time, th:t the public feeling thieuglintit Belgium in favour of the Prince of Orange was becoming stronger and more manifest every day, and that, in fact, a decided reaction had taken place. It is likely th e emissaries and agents employed en this occasion to prepare the way for a counter-revolution deceiied their employers. Certain it is that,. when Matters: were thought to be ripe for an explosion, atteinptS were made to proclaim 'the Prince of Orange in' , everal towns in a manner that argued, on the part of the ringleaders, an extraordinary degree of blind' . confidence in popular support. Tlic-se wild attempts at counter-revolution not having been repressed with' any firmness by the existing Government, and the guilty parties not being brought to trial, the people . became strongly impressed with the notion that they were betrayed by the weakness or corruption of their rulers, and thought it necessary to take the defence of their liberties into their own hands.— Hence deplorable excesses, the natural consequence of that popular frenzy which the infatuated prc ceedings of the friends of the expelled dynasty provoked, and which proved, beyond all doubt, that the decision of Congress, in excluding the' family of Orange from the throne, was but a faithful expression of the national sentiment. It . sometimes happens that a State is saved from immi nent peril by the people themselvei when their rulers are deficient in energy or faithless to their trust. If the Orange family has, at the present day, suffered from popular commotion!, it cannot forget that in former time it derived great advantage from them. The grandeur and power to which it attained in the latter end of the seventeenth century were owing to the ardent love of liberty - which inspired the Dutch people at the period when the infamous league was entered into between France and England, and their German Allies, to destroy the republic of the Seven United Provinces, and utterly obliterate it from the map of Europe. The principal men of the States- General acted at that time, even when the power ful armies of France, under the renowned Turenne, were on their frontiers, as if they co-operated with the invaders, for until the last moment they made scarcely any preparation for resistance ; and whe ther their conduct was to be imputed to co wardice or treason, it was equally dishonourable to them, and injurious to the interests of the nation. When town after town had been most treacherously delivered up to the invaders by the Burgomasters and other authorities, in the apparent ruin and des peration of their affairs the humbler classes of citi zens rose, and, in conjunction with the peasantry, overthrew the power of the delinquent Magistracy —deposed the pensionary De Witt, who was treat ing for a dishonourable submi , sion—and caused the Prince of Orange to be chosen Stadtholder, whose intrepid patriotlsm and military skill baffled the most celebrated Generals of Louis XIV., and saved the country. It is true that De Witt and his brothir lost their lives before those tumultuary struggles were over. The violence was greatly to be lamented by which those distinguished men were destroyed; but their subtle and equivocal policy had driven the country into that state of ferment of which they were the victims. The people acted upon that sudden impulse which, like the for ce o f su dd en in . , spration, pas sometimes rescued a State from ruin when the courage of the noble and the wisdom of the gnat have failed. The name of the Prince of Orange was then the watchword for liberty in Hol land, as it is now the countersign of tyranny in Bel gium. The people were on the side of freedom in both cases. In both their love of country was ar dent, and led them into the excesses which are the consequence of the passionate vindication of a great ' cause which cowardice had endangered or treachery betrayed. Such excesses are not to be defended ; they blemish the cause of freedom, and tarnish its victories; but those who provoke them by plotting , the overthrow of a nation's liberties, and thereby drive a people into madness, have the heavier weight of crime opt) their heads.—Morning Herald. S ECON I) EDITION. SUN OFFICE. Seven o' Clock THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. WILLIAM CLOSE, Jewin-street, apothecary. BANKRUPTS. REES POWELL, Llangammarch, Breconshire, cattle-dealer, to surrender April 26, 27, and May d 4, at eleven, at the .Castle Hotel, Brecon. Bicknell, Roberrs, and Finch, New square, Liu_ coin's Inn ' • Vaughan and Bevan, Brecon. D ANIEL and BINGLF.Y- SMITH, Liverpool, cotton-spinners, April 21, 2'2, and May 24, at eleven, at the Bell Inn, Derby. Johnson anti Wise, Ashborne; Derbyshire; Barbor, Fetter-lane. ARTER MUIR, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, draper, April 19, E2y 6, and t 24, at 1 yen, at tl. e Half Mcon Inn, Newcastle-upon- Tyne. Nilson, Newcastle-upon. Tyne ; Dunn, Raymond-build ings, Gray's Inn. JOHN LAPA GE, Leeds, merchant, and FREDERICK LA HAGr E, Liverpool, merchant, May 2,3, and 24, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Chester, Staple-inn, London; Davenport, Liverpool. JOHN COLTMAN READ, Leicester, tailor, April 19, at five, and 20, at twelve, at the Office of Mr. Richard Toiler, Leicester, and May 24, at one, at the White Hart Hotel, Leicester. 'roller, Gray's-inn-square, London ; Toiler, Leicester. JOHN GILDER SHACKLES, Kingston-upon-Hull, linen. draper, April 20, 21, and May 24, at eleven, at the Kingston Hotel, Kingeton-upon-Hull. Alderson, Chancera-lane, London ; Johnson, Hull. I M 1 3 .1 - 'lll.l A L l'A Rid AM E NT THIS EVENING. The House met to-day pursuant to adjournment, at Half-past Three O'clock. Prayers were read by the Bishop of Br'stol. Lord WYNFORD took his seat on the Woolsack in the absence of the Lord Chancellor, as Deputy Speaker. Mr.. Foster, from the Trustees of the Livery.' Docks, presented accounts pursuant to Act of ParliaMent. REFORM Petitions in favour of Reform were presented by the Duke of Richmond, from Anglebea k by the Earl of Lime rick, from the Cliamba of Commerce, of the City of Limerick ; by Earl Grey, from Hackney, Hastings, and eleven other places ; by Lord Durham, from a place in Scotland ; and by Lord Tankerville, from Abergavenny. Petitions were presented against Negro Slavery by the Bishoo of Bristol, from New Sarum, and several other places; also by the Bishop of Chester and Earl Grey. Adjourned at a Quarter-past Five o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The House re-assembled this day. The SPEAKER took tie Chair, precisely at Three o'clock. A great number of private bills were read a third time and passed, and others forwarded a stage. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. ELLICE, a new writ was ordered fa. the borough of Shaftesbury, in the room of Mr. Dugdale, accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The SPEAKER informed the House that he bad re ceived a petition from John Hart, complaining of an undue election for the city of Londonderry..—Ordertd to be taken into consideruion on Tuesday, the 3d of May. Mr. MAURICE O'CONNELL was introduced by his father and another Member, and took the oaths and his seat as Member for Clare. The Hon. Member after the usual ceremony of shaking hands with the Speaker took his seat on the right of Mr. O'Connell. Mr. WILSON PATTEN presented a petition from the merchants and others of Manchester and Salford against the Reform Bill.—Ordered to he printed. The llorr. DIEMIiEn then presented a petition from Wigan, in Lancashire, complaining of the great distress in the cotton trade, and praying that a duty might be laid on cotton yamn. Mr. HUNT supported the prayer of time petition. Mr. lIUME admitted the distress, but in his opinion, if a duty was laid (:1 cotton twist, it would only aggravate the distress that at present existed. After a few words from Mr. HUNT and Mr. llnmE, the petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. WILSON PAT fEN then presented two petitions from other places to the B:tine effect. Mr. SANDERSON presented a petition from the town of Cavan, Ireland, praying to be allowed to return a Re- Pre , entalive to Parliament. General GASCOYNE presented a -petition from the Corpo rat i on cf Liverpoolin favour of the Reform Bill; hut the petitioners objected to some of its details. The ,Gearlploanoit Ganenderiatletityeineinp.:rtesentedda similar petition from Li. of opinion, that y Zvh a e n n tterved• that he was de cidedly;•anme to be perfectly understood th P a i t u it ei w Pi o ls ul o d f b e the Billp onlar in !be country. It was only opening w ay uton-dce: mend further streeping _innovations in the C ►nat;tut;c.n. He supported the prayer of the petition. , Mr. O'BRIEN consiilered that Ireland vas entitled to a larger number of Representatives; He would reserve what'be had further to say on tbe subject until the ques tion came regularly before the House. The Lonn ADvocarn took the oaths and his seat for . Mat ton. On - the motion that the 'petition he printed, Lord ENCOMBE made several observations, which could not be distinctly heard in the gallery, and, after touchinw on several points, he concluded by asking the Noble Lord oppoSite (Lord J. RusSell) whether it was the intention of Ministers to abide by what they termed the corrected returns of the population in various towns and cities in the year 1821 ? Lord J. RUSSELL said, that Ministers when they were considering the Bill for Reform, obtained from the Koine Office the number of inhabitants in all cities, towns, and bo roUghs, sending Members to Parliament. They afterwards sent to the returning officers of all boroughs a copy of such statement, and requested to 'be informed if such list was correct. These returns, and the answers of the of freers, had been laid before the House in separate paper s , and also the corrections of the census of 1821-- These returns and the letters were now in the course of printing. All inetnorials complaining o f erroneous returns that had been presented to the Secretary of State would also be laid before the House, as well as the corrected returns. From these documents it would be able to pursuean equal course of justice to wards all places.----( Hear, hear.) He would mention one place where the return had been erroneous, he meant Buck ingham.—(Hear. ) A petition had been received stating that certain parts of that town hail not been included in the population return of 1821, and that the parish contained more than 3,000 inhabitants. He should therefore pro pose to leave that town out of schedule A.—(Hear, hear.) Truro had also presented a memorial, complaining that the population of that town was not properly represented in the census of 1821., This memorial would have its proper effect when the Bill went into a Committee.__ (Hear, hear. Guildford also complained that it possessed a greater number of inhabitants than was given to it in 1821, as several streets were not then included in the returns, but the way in which this complaint was made was so vague and unsatisfactory that without in formation it could not be acted upon. It was his inten tion, on Monday next, when he moved that the Bill should go into ,Committee, to state the grounds on which he meant to propose an alteration in omitting or add ing Members to the various towns named in the schedules of the Bill. By so doing, it would give an opportunity to these places to apply to Parliament if there was any mistake. He should also pursue a similar course towards all cities, towns, botoughs, and counties—,-(Hear, hear. ) There were one or two other points to which he would say a few words. He could assure the House that the whole Bill had been well considered before it was brought in by his Majesty's Ministers.—(Hear.)—lt had also since been well considered by the friends of the measure. —(Hear.)—And with regard to the wording of it. it was probable considerable alterations might be made.—( Hear.) But the principle as laid down must remain the same.— (Loud cries of hear, hear. )—On three or four points some alteration would be made, but he must repeat they would not alter the principle.—(Hear.)—He would more parti cularly allude to those points on the motion for the Bill to go into Committee on Monday next. There were several other points under consideration which he - would notice. The first was to interfering with the right of freemen to vote, whether such right had been obt deed by birth or servitude. That subject was now under consideration, and would be treated with what was consistent with justice and equity. With regard to another point, namely, the reduction of the Members of that House—(Hear) — he could not deny that it met with great opposition. Go vernment were persuaded that by a reduction of the num bers great advantage would accrue to the public, and great advantage to the public business. On this essential point, if the House thought it necessary that the pre sent number should be kept, 'Government would have no objection to relax its determination upon that point.— (Hear.) The Gallant General had made several observa tions on the provisions of the Bill, all of which were under the consideration of Ministers. He could assure the House that his . ll , ,jesty's Government in whatever they considered essential as to the principle of the Bill, saw no reason and had no intention to :make any 'alteration.—(Hear.) In fact they saw no reason for alteration. From day to day it was evident that the feeling of the country was in fa vour of the measure, and he thought little doubt existed that it was calculated to promote the interests of the country.—(Hear, hear.)—With regard to the proposition of the Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Vivian) t t allow the whole of the present boroughs to retain the elective franchise, such a proposition could not be listened to for a moment. —(Hear, hear.) If the number of Members were to be retained the rotten boroughs must be disfranchised and given to large towns. All further observations on the subject he should reserve for Monday next. Sir E. B. SUGDEN complained of the insufficiency of the returns on Which Mini,tera had proposed their plan of Reform, and if alterations were to be from time to time proposed, it would be impossible to enter in . () the merits of its details. He would, however, contend that if the 62 Members were to be restored, it would altogether alter the principle of the Bill.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He should, if it was proposed to lower the Member of Members in England, and give them to Ireland, offer his most decided opposition. He would never con. sent to take from the English to give to the Irish repre sentation.—(Hear, heir.) He would con'end that it wou'd alter the principle of the Bill, by which Ministers had stated they would stand or fall.—(Hear.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he felt himself compelled to correct a misunderstanding under which the Hon. and Learned Member for Weymouth seemed to labour. He (the NAle Lord) had not said that any of the boroughs named in Schedule A or B were to I e retained ; what he said was, that if there was an unanimous feeling in that House, that the whole number of its present Members (658) ought to be retained as the future number, the Go. vet potent would not feel, if they found that to be the sense of the House, that they were altering a vital or essential principle of the measure, if they con sented to ilter that part. His Hon. and Gallant Friend near him (General Gascoyne) hid misunderstood him likewise, if lie thought that his Majesty's Governmeot would agree to any motion relative to the proportion of Members between England, Scotland, and Ireland, fixed at the periods of their respective unions. He did not understand that any proportions had ever been so fixed, and he believed that if that House were to declare it now, they should be fixing that proportion for the first time. In the Union with Scotland There was indeed a proposi tion that fifty should be given to that part of the United Kingdom, the English Commissioners, however, had pro posed thirty-eight, and the number forty-five, being a kind of cotnpromise, was ultimately agreed to ; but, in the Act of Union, no stipulation was contained to preserve the existing . proportion of 513 to England, and 45 to Scotland. Mr. O'CONNELL said, that the Hon. and Learned Member (Sir Edward Sugden), after professing a great regard, to the welfare of Ireland, had laid it down, that the number of Irish representatives had been definitively settled at the period of the Union. He would, however, recommend that Hon. and Learned Member to take the trouble of consulting the Act of Parliament; where he Would find that the number of representatives then given was with the view of some alteration being afterwards made in that proportion. Mr. BANKES wished to understand whether it was the intention of his Majesty's Government that the House should go into a ComMittee on tl e Bill on Monday next. He (Mr. Bankes) understood the Noble Lord (Russell) to say, among other details, that on Monday he should state to the House the mode in which boroughs included in the sweeping clause of disfranchisement could most con veniently represent their case to that House. If that were so. upon what princip'e of justice, or propriety, or with what expectation of coining to an enlightened and un biased conclusion, could this llcuse then go into a com mittee 2 Lord JOHN RUSSELL would only say that be had made no alteration whatever to any determination of his, for none such existed, of pointing out on Monday next the manner in which certain boroughs should relieve them selves from the disfranchisement proposed. On the contrary, the course of the Government had been quite clear. The Bill proposed that the disfranchisement of certain boroughs should take place, founded upon the population returns of 1821 ; but at the same time it was stated, that if there was any error in particular places care should be taken to correct such mistakes. In conse quence of that statement various petitions had been pre sented, and latterly the Hon. Member for Tamworth had moved for corrected returns. These returns had been moved fin.:a fortnight ago, and he mentioned it merely lest any Hon. Member was not aware of the fact, and that the House might feel thorougly satisfied that every means had been taken to produce all necessary documents that related at all to the important subject under its consideration. He should on Monday as lie had already said, state what particular boroughs there were out of the sixty, and in the forty-six, which seemed to him to come out of the' rule originally laid down. Lord G. SOMERSET said, that when this Bill came into a Committee, he should move that an additional • Member shoat' lie given to some - or the towns in theo county of Lincoln. Ife . hoped that Ministers would not; find it necessary to re luee the present number of the . Members'of that House. - Sir GEO. FORBES said, that whatever might be the . opinion of peOple out of deers he would leave these out of! doors to ascertain ; what he rose particularly fur was to' reply to an observation (almost the concluding one) of the' Noble Loid opposite ; namely, that the measure waa • calculated to proniote the happiness of the country•. As regarded Scotland; he (Sir G. F.) was decidedly of opinion that the measure would have just the contrary ef fect. The ITliuse might judge of this from what had already taken place, and that too upon the simple bringing' in of the Bill. Six weeks ago he ha :I had letters, in which the parties who wrote them prayed to God that every part of the country might be as quiet as in Scotland. What was Scotland now ? The Noble Lord had talked of illu minations. Would to God those who had lit the fires had waited till they got out of the wood before they had whistled.—(Loud laughter ) Those flames had set all Scotland in a blaze. The account of destruction in Edinburgh alone, he was enabled, on the best autho rity, to state amounted to no less than 20,0001. A copy of a petition was now in circulation, at 10 places in Edinburgh, for signatures of those who paid rent under 101.—it might be to the amount of 91. 195. Ild. yearly —complaining that they were deprived of the elective franchise intended to be given by this measure. The pe tition prayed that the petitioners might be allowed to have the franchise, or that they might be excu , ed from serving in the militia, and from paying taxes directly or indirectly ; or if they were draws in the militia that they might be allowed to choose their own officers, commissioned as well as non-commissioned, by btllot.—(Laughter. ) Now this was a pretty little sample . of what the House might expect if this notable Bill, unfortunately for Scotland, unfortunately for Europe—unfortunately for all the world—this revolu tionary measure should pass into a law. He had no doubt this petition would shortly come into that House, signed by tens of thousands. What were the petitions that had been presented, praying that the measure might be carried into effect, from Edinburgh 2—(Hear.)—Wl►y, they were petitions which had been opened at gin-shops in Edinburgh, into which people were taken by boys placed at the doors, with placards, crying out, " walk in Gentlemen now's your time to sign the petitions;" they asked what would be the consequence ►f the passing of this Bill? " Oh," said the fellow, " we shall then have whiskey for nothing=---we shall have no guagers—we shall have no excise laws—we shall then have every thing of that sort on liberal and moderate terms." Thousands and thou sand] had been got to sign the petitions which had been sent up to that House in this way. All the blackguards in the neighbourhood of the Caniangate—all the young blackguards in the worst places of Edinburgh were set to work to induce people to sign those petitions. But as to the respectability of the country—there was not a county in Scotland that was not decidedly against the measure. Even the towns were against the clause restricting the franchise to a rent of 101. If this revolutionary measure was carried, how would his Majesty's Ministers be able to quench the flame of universal suffrage ? It was not easy to raise a flame there, but when it was well blown up the House must know the rifficulty there was of overcoming it. lie hoped the Noble Lord would indeed address the House on Monday next (as he had said he should do) for the last time on this momentous subject, because he hoped and trusted the House would throw the Bill out—it ought to have thrown it out long ago. There was not one Member out of ten in the House who had not thought the Bill in the first instance a mere joke.—(Hear, hear, and much laughter. )—lf it had been grappled with as it ought to hive been it would have been tossed over board on its first a; pearance, and it would have even the new Bill as it was to be, to have a very different plumage before he could give it anything but his most unqualified opposition. Mr. HUME slid his Hon. Friend had adverted to him, and said that he had been to-day advocating universal suffrage. Why, the Hon. Member was altogether under a dream, for he (Mr. Hume) had Int opened his lips be fore this moment to-day. The Honourable Member had talked about some petition lying open somewhere for signatures in Scotland about something nobody knew what, and which was to find its way to London eotnetime, but nobody knew when.—(Hear, hear, hear.)—This weds marching much too quick for him (Mr. H.) therefore he should say no more on that subject. The Hon. Member for Weymouth, the Gallant Colonel opposite, and a Noble Lord not far from him, bad pointed out errors in the Bill. Ministers had listened to them, but they had not in the slightest degree altered the principle of the Bill—and yet those who were opposed to the Bill now carne forward and said that his Ma jesty's Ministers had completely altered it. No man could really say so who was not labouring under a delusion. (Cheers.) As to what had taken place in Scotland, the Honourable Gentleman who had just eat down could cer tainly only speak from what had been communicated to him, and so could he himself. Now the House ought to recollect that the counties in Scotland were exactly like the close boroughs in England—as close as the boroughs in Schedule A.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) the few freeholders in the counties were the monopolizers —they were the persons who opposed the measure, and with the exception , of them, there was scarcely an indivi dual to be found in Scotland ; not a borough, town, or corner in Scotland, from which an universal expression of congratulation did nor arise at the bare contempla tion of the passing of this measure,—(Loud cheers.) And with the exception of Edinburgh and Dundee, there was nut a place in Scotland in which there had been any disturbance. In Edinburgh there were a few windows broken, and the -only individual punished for engaging in that act was the s•.n of a gent!em in, a connect,on of an Hon. Member of that House, and who was fined in 101. —( Hear, hear, hear:)—He believed it to be entirely the Anti-Reformers, who had broken the windows ;: there was no earthly reason for the reformers to resort to such au act —the breaking' of the Edinburgh windows rested entirely on the shoulders of those who were opposed to the pass ing of the Bill:-(Loud elieers - and' much laughter.)— In Dundee an unfortunate interposition on the part of the police to suppress the illuminations, led to a slight dis turbance—nothing serious took place, and the whole had passed over. If the Honourable Member therefore had been for any length cf time,prst labouring under any apprehension that his native country was being desolated in consequence of this measure he might allay his fears, because the whole of Scotland was as quiet and peaceable as the most tranquil part of London.—(Cheere.) (t.ErT STEALING.) NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (rßom OUR CORRESPONDENT. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 11.=-The William Miles arrived yesterday from Sierra Leone : she sailed from thence ou the 2d of February, leaving his Ma jesty's ships Dryad, Commodore Hayes; Medina, and Black Joie, at anchor, and all well. The Atholl sailed on the 18th of January, for the Bight of Benin. Mr. Herbert, mate of the Medina, stabbed a man for mutiny, while on service, in the boats of that ship, which occasioned the man's death ; and afterwards the circumstance became so distressing to Mr. Herbert, that he shot himielf. A Court of Inquiry was then held,'and the Court was of opinion that Mr. Herbert had done no mote (painful as it must have been to him) than his duty. The favourite sailed, all well, late in December, for Cape Palmos. The Plumper, with hardly enough men on board to work her, had captured a fine schooner, with 550 slaves on board. The vessel had been condemned, and sold for one thousand pounds. She may be expected in England every d ay . Immediately after the capture, the Dryad and Favourite hove in sight, when the latter ship con voyed the slaver into harbour. The Conflict had been very sickly, and the remaining part of her crew and officers turned over to the Plumper. The Con flict had captured a Portuguese slave-vessel, after a most tlespera'e resistance, in which the slaver lost a number in killed arid wounded ; the Conflict had none killed, but several wounded. In consequence of a dispute having arisen on the trial of the crew of this vessel, between the Grand Jury and the Chief Justice, on the construction of Lord Ellenbo rough's Act, of cutting and maiming, Mr. Rose, master of the Conflict, the officer who commanded during the' attack, had placed under his charge, for conveyance to England for trial, the Captain, mate, and two seamen, all Portuguese. One of the sea men had turned King's evidence. On the 29th of January the boats of the Conflict chased a vessel, the Carolina, for twenty miles, but, on boarding, found she carried French papers, &c. ; :IS they were about to leave the ship, a liberated African slave boy, Juan Antonio, came from below, and stated that he and his brother were trading among some of the African isles, with some:wine, in a small boat, when the Frenchmen, carne upon them, and took hirdand the wine, leaving Ms brother and the boat behind. Since' he had been on board, they had at tacked a French schooner, killed a marine, and took two thousand dollars out of her. The prisoners will shortly be conveyed to London. (From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.) PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 9.—His Majesty's ship Rattlesnake, 28, Captain C. Graham, arrived on Sunday, from the Mediterranean. She left Malta on the 3d ult. and Gibraltar on the 20th, and has brought to Englund, from the latter place, a detach ment of the 90th Regiment, fifty in number, one distressed British subject, one discharged soldier of the 11th Regiment, tour invalided seamenoind three Midshipmen. The Rattlesnake was towed into har bour on Monday by the Meteor steam• vessel, and is ordered to be paid off and re-commissioned imme diately. She brings no intelligence beyond what the Columbia brought, and which appeared in our paper of last week. In Harbour—Asia, St. Vincent, Wellesley,Royal George, Pallas, Pearl, Actaeon, Rattlesnake, Manly, and Linnet, tenders. PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &c.—Capt. Henry Hope is appointed to his Majesty's ship Dublin, ordered to be commissioned at Plymouth ; Lieut. the Hon. B. C. Carey is also appointed to her, as well as the following :—Mr. John Chimmo, Purser; Mr. Thomas Miler, Surgeon; and Messrs. Charles Smith and John Christie, Assistant• Surgeons. Captain David Dunn is appointed to.his Majesty's ship Curacoa, ordered to be commissioned at Chat ham ; Lieuts. A. C. Duncan, of the Prince Regent, R. 13. Beachey, supernumerary . , Lieutenant of the Belvidcra, to join the Blonde, and EdWard Dixon, are also appointed to her, us well as Mr. John Drum mond, Surgeon. Commander John Shepherd (b) is appointed to his Majesty's ship Donegal, vice Marshall. Lieut. T. L. Massie is appointed to his Majesty's ship Prince Regent, vice Duncan. Lieut. S. P. Pritchard is appointed to his Majesty's ship Donegal, vice Stewart, sick at Haslar Hospital. Lieut. J. R. R. Lilburn is appointed to his Majesty's ship Savage, vice Blair. Lieuts. F. Henderson, John - Wise, add John Steane, are appointed to the Coast Guard, vice Buckle, Hales, and Byne. Lieut. William Gibbons is appointed to the rank of Re tired Commander at seven shillings a day. M. Samuel Irvine is appointed Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship St. Vincent. Mr. E. P. Snowe is appointed Second Lieutenant of Royal Marines at Plymouth. The Rev. John Baker, Chaplain of his Majesty's ship Astr.es, is appointed Chaplain of the Dublin. The Rev. Thomas Ferris is appointed Chaplain of the Asti mt, vice Baker. Captain Chas. Graham, brother of Sir James Graham, is confirmed in his rank as Captain of his Majesty's ship Rattle snake. The appointment to his Majesty's ship Alfred, of Mr. Joseph Geach, late Boatswain of his Majesty's ship Thetis, has been cancelled. The ap pointment of Lieut. H. FL Bingham to the Coast Guard has been cancelled at his own request. The appointment of Commander English, as lately an nounced in our contemporary on two several occa sions, has not taken place; Commander English has received no appointment. Mr. ff. Arnot is ap pointed Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's steamer Messenger. Seco . nd Lieutenant 'William Lee is appointed, from the Royal Marine Artillery, to this division of Royal Marines, vice Second Lieutenant, J. P. N. Clapperton, appointed to the Royal Marine Artil lery, by exchange. First Lieutenant Andrew Hendry, of the Wool wich division of Royal Marines, and Second Lieu tenant HamnettParke, of this division, with a de- tachtnent, consisting of ninety non-commissioned officers and privates, embarked on board his Ma- jesty's ship Asia, on Tuesday last, to complete that ship to the full peace establishment. His Majesty's ship Belvidera, 42, Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas, was paid advanced wages on Wednesday. Mr. Fairen, his Majesty's Consul- General for Syria, having embarked on Friday, the Belvidera sailed for the Mediterranean yesterday, taking out -despatches for Vice-Admiral Sir Put _ . _ ... teney Malcolm, and disposeable supernumeraries for ships an that station. The Belvidera's complement of Marines has been increased from fifty to sixty-five, in consequence of the service on which she is or dered. In consequence of the Royal Marine Corps be ng so many men short of the complement, owing to he late increase made in their establishment of one housand men, and but a small portion of this aug mentation having yet been made, the following ohic•ers of that corps have been sent on the re cruiting service, from the different divisions, to the places respectively set against their names :—Capt. A. H. Gordon, Woolwich Division, to Bishop's Stratford; Captain Michael Burton, Woolwich Division, to Bedford; Captain George Wright, Chatham, to Swaffham; Captain Robert Gordon, Chatham, to Cambridge; Captain Jos. Williams, Plymouth, to Wincanton; Captain Hugh Mitchell, Plymouth, to Monmouth; First Lieutenant T. R. Thomas, Plymouth, to Caernarthen; First Lieut. George Lloyd, Chatham, to Stamford; First Lieut. William Haig, Woolwich, to Worcester. Orders have been received at the different ports to complete the complement of the guard ships to the full peace, establishment, and to equip them •for sea. It is understood they will proceed on a four months' creise, but their deStination remains un known. Sr John Gore and Sir Thomas Hardy are both spoken of as likely to have the command of this squadron, which is expected to rendezvous off Cape St. Vincent. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have promulgated the following regulations, relating to Commanders in the Navy. Capta'ns of line-of battle ships may nominate their Commanders, sub ject to their Lordships' approval, but no Commander will hereafter be deemed eligible for an appointment to a ship of the line, or any ot her ship authorized to bear a Commander, unless he shall have served three years in command of a sea-going sloop of war, or three years as First Lieutenant of a rated ship. At Spithead—Ariadne, Satnarang, Dispatch, Nautilus, and Savage. (From the Devonport Telegraph.) DEVONPORT, APRIL 9.—The Donegal, 78, is ordered to fit for foreign service, and the Curacort (the command of which report gives to Captain Dunn), is to be commissioned immediately. The Coast Blockade Service is now generallfdis persed, most of the officers have joined the Preven tive cr Coast Guard Service under the Custom house, and the best men have been drafted into ships of war. The Talaveru, in the Downs, and Hyperion, at Newhaven, will shortly be paid off,. being no longer wanted as head-quarters. We stated, in a former paper, that the saving of the country would not be much under 200,0004 a year. The reduction in number, and the different constitution of the two services, will enable the Government to effect this object, though it will be deprived of the supply of seamen hitherto obtained from the Coast Blockade upon any sudden emergency. The change, however, is a desirable one, as it is generally consi dered that the Blockade Service spoiled the sailors by destroying the esprit de corps, arid giving them indolent and lubberly habits. The Lords of the Admiralty have postponed their visit to the outports, on account of the pressure of public business in London. Captain Henry Hope, (1808) who commanded his Majesty's ship Endymion, 50, in the action with the American frigate President, and Mr. Chimmo, purser, are appointed to his Majesty's ship Dublin, 50, ordered to be commissioned at this port for foreign service. His Majesty's ship Caledonia, 120, being ordered to complete her full complement, the marines have been this week embarked, and it is understood that this superb ship will be sent to sea shortly on a cruise, to try her qualities, after having been stripped and re-built upon a broader principle, with a view to her carrying a more powerful battery of thirty t wo-pounders. Lieutenant John Wise, R.N., is appointed to the Preventive Service. Remaining in liamoaze—Caledonia, Revenge, Orestes, Trincu lo, Druid, and Carron, Colombia and Meteor steam-packets, and Industry Naval tran sports. • At the Island—Royalist. In the Sound—Starling tender. BUENOS AYRES. The following letter has been received from the agent to the North and South American Coffee-house, dated Buenos Ayres, Jan. Sr.:— " I informed you in my last, that a re-action had taken- place in the province of Entrerios, and that the Unitarian party, who had for a moment assumed the Govern ment, were dispossessed thereof; the events which followed have confirmed the Federals in the Government, and given them additional strength, their opponents have been to all appearance completely put down. I refer you to our Newspapers for particulars, although I am aware that these disputes between province and province of the Ar gentine Republic cause hut little interest in England. "The Unitarian party had great reliance upon this move ment in Entrerios; it was thoeglit that General P.)z would have advanced from Cordova, to support it, and his nut doing so has been attributed by the Federals to weak ness. It is probable that re-actions would take place in the governments of the interior provinces, should the regular troops be withdrawn from thence, which in fact has al ready been the case in the province of Santiago del Estero. Its Unitarian Governor, Colonel Deza, has been chased away from thence after a sanguinary battle, in which the Federals, consisting clCefly of the militia of the pro vince, beaded by Don Francisco Antonio Iburra, were victorious. Flie Senate of Santiago assent bl.d and appointed Ibarra Provisional Governor. Ile has written for aid to Buenos Ayres and Santa F;'), in case Paz should advance from Cordova to endeavour to reinstate D. za, which, I should think, he must do, else his authority and protectorship will felt to the ground, and with him all the hopes of the unitarians. A short tune will determine whether Buenos Ayres and Santa F;') will decide for open warfare with General Paz and the provinces under his protectarship, or prefer the system of secret hostilities, which they have hitherto carried on, as being most likely to crumble hie. power into dust. Santa F 6 is piling a grand role—in this dispute the people of the province are warlike, and its Governor (Lopez) a resolute and somewhat-talented man as to his knowledge of the character of the people he governs, and by whom he is very touch " Our situation now, as it regards con&erce, is really serious, and those foreigners who are not partizans heartily pray that one party or the other may soon gain the ascen dancy, to open the trede of the interior. The reasoning men of the Federals acknowledge that their opponents may possess a greater portion of educated men in their . ranks, but that if they mi , use this talent their opinions lose all title to respect. Doubloons are 115 paper dollars each. Exchange upon England, 71 per dollar." COURT INTERFERENCE AT WINDSOR. (From the Windsor Express of Saturday.) . - The attempt to which we alluded last week, and we regret to say the successful attempt, to suppress, for the present at least, all expression of public opinion in this town on the subject of the Reform Bill, has excited much speculation, both in this town and elsewhere, as to the " certa'n quarter" from whence the interdiction in ques tion could have proceeded. We have already expressed our own sentiments regarding the measure itself too ex plicitly to render necessary any further observatiors on the general question ; but, independent of the friendly feeling which we, in common with the vast majority of our readers, entertain towards this great public measure, we do feel that it would be a compromise of our duty, as public journalists, if we failed to indicate the quarter front which such dictatitm emanated, and to expose the un worthy manceavring of a party, whose object it has doubt less been, by suppressing the sentiments of our townsmen in favour of Reform, to encourage the inference that the people of Windsor are adverse to the measure, and by ins plii.ation, that the sentiments of the Sovereign—for' it would of course be inferred that the wishes of the loyal inhabitants of this borough, correspond with those of the Sovereign—that the sentiments, we say, of our patriot King are also unfavourable to it. TO discountenance at once such an erroneous supposition —such a monstrous absurdity—but which, if left uncon tradicted, would not only compromise the character of our own' townsmen in the opinion of the country, 'but - might possibly prove in some degree damnatory, even to the •Bill itself—to expose the shallow, but unconstitutional artifice that has bei•n resorted to on the present occasion, it will be necessary only brie fly to narrate a few interesting facts that have come to our knowledge, and which we shall pro ceed to do without further preface or comment. Towards the latter end of February, a requisition, most respectably signed, was presented to our worthy Mayor, calling upon him to convene a public meet ng of the inhabitants of the borough of New Windsor, fur the purpose of taking the sense of the town upon a petition in favour of the Minis.. terial Reform Bill. Our chief Magistrate, as might na turally be expected, wished for the advice and counsel of his constituted legal ;Adviser. This gentleman, we are in.. formed, thought it necessary to consult Sir Herbert Taylor on the subject, wishing (it is said) to know whether it - would be fitting and proper in the town to advocate the Reform measure. Sir Herbert replied, that it certainly would not be pleasant to the King for the town to put itself forward in advocating the measure. This message was delivered to the requisitionists, who in consequence withdrew their names. This we understand to be sub stantially the history of the first requisition. The respvc.. table inhahitants, however, far from satisfied by the vague and equivocal manner in which the public voice bad been stifled in the instance just alluded to, were determined to make a second attempt to give expression to their feelings and sentiments on a subject so nearly connected with the rights and liberties of Englishmen, and accordingly a se cond requisition was determined on, and actually in course of signature, when a letter was received by William Legh, Esq. the banker (of the firm of Ramsbottom and Legh), and himself one of the requisitionists—requesting that gen tleman to suppress the requisition then in progre so, which was 'accordingly done. To the latter requisition was affixed the fallowing names, besides that of Mr. Legh, naanely, Dr. Fcrgusson, M.D., Colonel Bridges, William Randall, Esq. surgeon, W. J. Voules, Esq. solicitor, Sharp, Esq , all influential men, and of the highest resqectabili ty. The last American papers contain the fol lowing resolution, which was passed by the House of Representatives on the last day of the Session Re solved, that the PRESIDENT of the United States be re quested to renew and prosecute, from time to time, such negotiations with the several maritime Powers of Europe arid America as he may deem expedient for the effectual abolition of the African slave-trade, and its ultimate de nunciation as piracy under the law of nations, by the con sent of the civilised world." • MAJOR. KEPPEL.—Among other attractive features in this enterprising traveller's Narrative of bis Journey across the 13alcan, may be enumerated—anec dotes and particulars of the Russians during their late invasion of the Ottoman dominions, and of the Russian Comtnander, Count DIEBITSCII-btatement of the re sources of the Turkish Empire—an accoant of the present state of Constantinople, Adrianople, Shumla, and other places of peculiar historical and political interest. The author's researches in certain parts of Asia Minor, of which no preceding traveller has given any description, must prove a valuable addition to geography. Maps of the line of route punned by the author, besides other illus trations, accompany the volumes. BIRTHS. On the 10th inst. at Palmer's-green, the lady of I. Walker, Esq., of a daughter. On the loth inst. in Great Ormond-street, Mrs. L. Stride, of a daughter. On the 10th inst. at Brighton, the lady of Captain Townshend, R.N., of Balls, Hertford, of a son and heir. MARRIED. On the 9th inst. at Lambeth, R. S. Biley, Esq. of Brighton, Sussex, to Harriet, eldest daughter of the late John Rogers, Esq. of Lambeth. Recently at St. John's, Westminster, George Pugh, Esq., of Brixton-hill, to Anne, daughter of the late Mr. J ames Pugh, of Lambeth. On the S;th inst. at Loughton, Essex, W. Marsden, Esq. of Tunbridge, to Harriet, fourth (laughter of W. Browning, Esq. On the 9th inst. at Hackney, Mr. F. Nalder, of Leadenhall, to Miss Emma Langrish, eldest daugh er of Captain Langrish, of Weymouth DIED. On the Sth inst. at Dalston, Mr. W. P. Musg rave. On the 7th inst. at Portland-plac e , Esq. in his 6.1t1 year. Camberwell, Wm: Law, On the 6th inst. at Lewes, the Rev. W. John• ton, aged M. On the 6th inst. at Sid-house, near Sidmottth, Devon, Eliza, beth, the widow of the late I'. Lyde, Esq. aged 71. On the 11th inst. Ann, the relict of the late W. Puckle, Es q • , late of Kennington. On the 9th inst. at Chart's Ed se, Westerham, Kent, Henry Rivers, son of the Rev. T. Streattield. On the Ist of November, at Calcutta, Colonel Vaughan, of the aith Regiment, N.I. Town and Fort Major of Fort William, and aide-de-camp to the Governor-General, ' the only brother of Captain Vaughan, of th e 'loyal North Gloucester Regiment of Militia. 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