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ration until November last, and the accounts could not be made up until the end of the year. The returns were then ordered. INCENDIARY FIRES. Mr. AGLIONBLY called the attention of the Noble Lord ( Althorp) to the case of Richard Bustin, just tried and con victed before Mr. Baron Taunton at Warwick, of setting fire to a rick of corn. He (Mr. A) was aware that there was nothing in the merits of the case to entitle him to expect that Ministers would remit the sentence ; but the circumstances were peculiar, when it was recollected that this House had ac tually sanctioned the principle of lessening the punishment for this offence by reading a bill a second time which had that ob ject. The communication he had received came from a gentle man of the highest c haracter, but he did not attempt to deny the guilt of the man, and only suggested that perhaps it would not be expedient, in the present state of the law to insist upon the infliction of death. He (Mr. A.) felt a painful responsi bility on the subject, inasmuch as he had consented to with draw the Bill on account of the lateness of the session, when, had he persevered, it might perhaps have been passed, and the life of the unfortunate man thus saved. He had applied to the Home Office, but the answer was, that as there was nothing to impugn the verdict, the Secretary for that department could not interfere. He hoped, however, that the Noble Lord and his colleagues might be induced to interpose. Lord ALTHORP adverted to the injurious consequences that might result if the law of the land was not to be executed, merely because a Bill had been introduced to alter it. It was true that the measure referred to had been read a second time ; but it had only then technically received the approbation of the House to is principle. He felt that, as a member of the Go vernment, in a case like the present, he was placed in a painful situation ; but he did not feel warranted in advising the Crown to mitigate the sentence. Mr. A GLIONBY explained. Mr. HUM E remarked upon the general principle that pu nishment was meant to deter from crime, and to protect so ciety : the question here was, whether the severity of the punishment did not frustrate the end in view. The evil of wilful fires was to be abated much more effectually by an in variable but less severe punishment, since, in some cases, par ties who were injured refused to prosecute. Mr. E WART said that petitions had been presented from sufferers from incendiarism, praying a mitigation of the law, in order that it mightbe more effectual. Colonel DAVIES objected to discussions of thiskind on the very eve of prorogation, since it placed Government in an em barrassing situation. Mr. F. O'CONNOR suggested that the sentence in this particular case might be altered to tratspartation for life with general benefit to society, from the wholesomeness of the example. • ECCLESIASTICAL REVENUES. Mr. WILK S asked, whether it was the intention of the Commissioners on Ecclesiastical Revenues to present to the House a more ample report? Lord ALTHORP replied in the affirmative. Mr. WILK S then gave notice, that next session he would move an address to the Crown, for the appointment of a com mission to inquire into the revenues; foundations, &c., of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. lie had refrained from doing so this year, from the persuasion of several Members, who had thought that Ministers would themselves appoint such a commission. • CHURCH TEMPORALITIES (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. LITTLETON m, - ved the consideration of the Lords' amendments to the Irish C:iereli Temporalities Bill. Mr. HUME asked the nature of the amendments. Mr. LITTLETON replied, that only one was of any importance, and that related to the difference between leases for lives and laves for terms of years. The Bill had been altered to adapt it to the former. After a few remarks from Mr. O'REILLY, on the subject of leases for terms of years, and on the hardship upon certain individuals, by a refusal on the part of the Bishop of Kildare to renew them, the amendments were agreed to, and the Bill sent back. Colonel PERCE VAL repeated a question he had put on a former day, to the Secretary for Ireland, regarding - the con duct of a magistrate of Limerick, and the report of a trial be fore the Solicitor-General. Mr. LITTLETON answered, that the Solicitor-General's notes of the trial had been placed before the Lord Chancellor. Mr. F. O'CONNOR had no doubt the gentleman impli cated would be freed from all imputation. He asserted that the charge of the Solicitor-General to the jury had been most improper. Mr. LITTLETON deprecated such accusations without due examination. The Lords' amendments to the South Australian Bill were considered and agreed to, on the motion of Mr. HILL. BIER BILL. Lord ALT HORP moved that the Lords' amendments to the Beer Bill be taken into consideration. A conversation of some length ensued upon some of the minor charges, between Messrs. Warburton, Hume, Davies, Aglionby, Phillips, Hawes, and Lord Althorp. Mr. HUME objected strongly to an amendment which closed the beer-shops at eleven at night, arid subjected them to visits by the police during any part of the night. He con tended that none but disreputable persons would open beer shops under such circumstances, and expressed his determina tion to take the sense of the House upon the Lord ALTHORP expressed his readiness next session to assimilate as nearly as possible the hours of beer-shops to the hours of public-houses. He should have been satisfied with a power to visit beer-shops for one hour after the time fixed for closing them, but he did not think it worth while to.refuse con currence with the amendment. Mr. WARBURTON supported the view of the subject taken by the Hon.- Member for Middlesex. Mr. T. ATTWOOD denied most of the charges against beer-shops, and warned the Noble Lord against listening to the libellous gossip of old women of both sexes. The inquiry into the subject of drunkenness had originated in some male old woman.—( Laughter.) Mr. AGLIONB Y said he could not agree to give a power for visiting at all hours of the night. He.should vote with the Non. Member for Middlesex, should he press his motion to a division. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the Lords' amendment Against it —l7 Majority The remaining amendments were then agreed to. The House then adjourned till one o'clock to-morrow. ° GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPAI` The half-yearly Meeting of this Company was held yester day, at the Office, 69, Lombard-street, and was attended by a numerous and respectable body of Proprietors. The Chairman ( Wolverley Attwood, Esq.) took the chair at one precisely, and immediately proceeded to open the busi ness of the day. A report from the Directors, explaining the position and prospects of the Company, was read by the Secretary, and appeared to be received with general approbation. A satisfactory account was given of the affairs of the Com pany, and it was stated that the City of Hamburg, and the _London Merchant, both steam packets of a very superior cha racter, had been added to the fleet, now amounting to twenty one vessels, and that another steam-boat of 600 tons, was now being built for the Company. The report further stated, that, during the past session, an " Act of Incorporation" had been obtained, by which all the advantages belonging to chartered corporations, such as the Bank of England and the East India Company, were secured to the Company. The usual dividend was declared, and, on the motion of M. Attwood, Esq., John Wright, Esq., was elected an audi tor of the Company. The cordial thanks of the Proprietors were voted, amidst much applause, to the Chairman and Directors, and the meet ing then adjourned. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY. (FROM L !NOD'S.) DEAL, Arc. 14. —Wind N.E., strong breeze.—Arrived and remain, the Zenobia, Owen, from Bengal for London ; his Majesty's ship Vernon, from the westward, for Sheerness. The Albion, Hill, from Stockton ; and Flirt, Sergeant, from London for Lisbon, sailed this morning with the Montrose and outward-bound, reported yesterday. PORTSMOUTH, Auo. 14.—Wind N.E. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 13.—Wind N.N.W. FALMOUTH, Ace. 13.—Wind W. to N. N. W., fresh breezes and squally.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Pike from Lisbon— sailed on the al inst., off Oporto the sth. BRISTOL, Co.K I4.—Arrived the New Volunteer, Stewart, from St. Vincent ; Eden, Purcel, from Shedrac ; and Cathe rine,"Lovering, from Charente. POOLE, Arc. 15.—Arrived the Venus, Gilbert from Cadiz. LIVERPOOL, Ace. 13.—Arrived the Brothers, Bell, from Laguna ; Isabella, Campbell, from Trinidad ; Albury, Ro gers, Talumah, Madigan, and Suffolk, M`Donald, from New Orleans ; Falcon, Headby, from Quebec ; and Highlander, Minden, from Newfoundland. CLYDE, AUG. 12.—Arrived the Minerva, Brown, from De merara; and Margaret, M'Alister, from Dominique. CORK, Ace. 12. —Arrived the Duke of Clarence, Clarke, from Barbadoes ; Adelaide, Newlin, from Leghorn ; and Tyro, Tritton, from Cadiz. BELFAST, Auc. 12.—Arrived the lanthe, Brown, from Alicant. • SCARBOROUGH.; Ace. 13.—Arrived off port the Columbus, Gray, from Pernau. S UNDERLA ND, Ave. I2.—Arrived off port the Dido, Tran mer, and Robert Peel, Hambro, from Archangel ; and Wend ley Dale, Luney, from Miramichi. HULL, Arc. 12.—Arrived the Houghton, Hunter, from Richebucto. The Malconia, Vidal, from Barcelona, was wrecked at the entrance of Maranham, 20th June. The greater part of the cargo expected tp be saved.' The N an di ; Bishop,, frcint'Liverpool to but ea was on shore on krklow Banks on the 12th inst., but expected to be got off.A , 1:: gir D. K. Sandford, M.P. for Paisley, who was obliged, through ill health, to leave his parliamentary duties about six weeks since, to seek retirement and sea air in Scot land, has not received all that benefit from the change which his friends and constituents had anticipated. His continued indisposition has given rise to a rqpint that it is his intention to resign. Whether this be so or not, we know that some little political movements have taken place ; among the rest, Mr. Crawford, a former candidate, has visited Paisley, and eld . a conference with some of his political friends, and that ci:culars were issued on Friday last for a meeting of the 21 hat formed Mr. C.'s original committee.—Morning Paper. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1834. PROROGATION OF A:NE PINT. THE KING'S SPEECH. This being the day appointed for his MAJESTY'S Prorogation of Parliament, in the course of the fore noon vast crowds began to assemble on the line of the Royal procession, from St. James's Palace to the House of Lords. A great number of Police were stationed on the same line for the purpose of pre serving order. The day being fine, tAie acme WAS very animated one. About twelve o'clock the Peeresses began to arrive, and take their seats on the Peers' Benches. The Peers present all wore their "robes and orders. The Gallery appropriated to strangers was crowded at an early hour. His MAJESTY left the Palace at a quarter past two, accompanied by the usual Officers of State. The line of route was kept by the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards. His MAJESTY was escorted by a party of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue). His MAJESTY appeared in excellent health and spirits, and was frequently cheered by the people along the line.' His MAJESTY entered the House at a quarter to hree o'clock. The SPEAKER of the House of Commons was then summoned, 'and shortly after appeared, accompanied by several Members. After the usual ceremonies His MAJESTY deli vered the following most gracious speech : " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " The numerous and important questions which have in the present, as in the preceding years, been submitted to your consideration, have imposed upon you the necessity of extraordinary exertions, and it is with a deep sense of the care and labour which you have bestowed upon public business, that I at length close this protracted ses sion, and release you from your attendance. " I continue to receive from all Foreign Powers assur ances of their friendly disposition. _ _ _ . . " The negotiations on account of which the conferences in London upon the affairs of the Low Countries were suspen ded, have not yet been brought to a close ; and I have still to lament the continued postponement of a final set tlement between Holland and Belgium. " On the other hand, I have derived the most sin cere and lively satisfaction from the termination of the civil war which had so long distracted the king dom of Portugal, and I rejoice to think that the treaty which the state of affairs in Spain and in Portugal induced me to conclude with the King of the French, the Queen Regent of Spain, and the Re gent of Portugal, and which has already been laid before you contributed materially to produce this happy result. " Events have since occurred in Spain to disappoint for a time the hopes of tranquillity in that country, which the pacification of Portugal had inspired. " To these events, so important to Great Britain, I shall give my most serious attention in concert with France, and with the other Powers, who are parties to the treaty of the 22d of April, and the good understand ing which prevails between me and my alltes encourages me to expect that our united endeavours will be attended with success. " The peace of Turkey remains undisturbed, and I trust that no event will happen in that quarter to interrupt the tranquillity of Europe. " I have not failed to observe with approbation that you have directed your attention to those domestic questions which more immediately affect the general welfare of the community, and I have had much satisfaction in sanctioning your wise and benevolent intentions, by giving my assent to the Act for the amendment and better administration of the laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales. It will be my duty to provide that the authority necessarily vested m Commissioners nominated by the Crown be exer cised with temperance and caution, and I entertain a confi dent expectation that its prudent and judicious application as well as the discreet enforcement of the other provisions of the Act, will by degrees remedy the evils which at pre sent prevail, and whilst they elevate the character, will in- crease the comforts and improve the condition of my people. " The amendment of the law is one of your first anal mo st important duties, and I rejoice to perceive that it has occupied so much ofyour attention ; the establishment of a cen tral Court for the trial of offences in the metropolis and its neighbourhood, will, I trust, improve the administration of DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK PRICES OF STOCKS THI: Rank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. per Cent. Cons 34 per Cent. 99% Ditto Red. (l 9 8% New 3% per Cent. 9 834% r Assented 9:414 I per rent. I Dissented lOl% Pank Long A nnuities to expire Jan. 3, 1860 17%% Vet 10, 1839 174 5-16 Jan. 5, 186° l7 1-16 Jan. 5, 1880 — April 5, 1880 Jan.. 5, 1870 New 5 per Cent India Stock _ _259;4 Ditto Bob& l7 I?..p.tii South Sea Stock 162% Old Annuiticc New Ditto 681 i 13 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... - Exch. Bills, 41,1'00 43 45 pm. Ditto 500 - 43 45 pm. Ditto Small 43 45 pm. Ditto Commercial — Ditto Advertised PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds lOl% Belgian Bonds VS Ditto Account 9S! B Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account . .„bli Buenos Ares Bonds :304 flank Stock for Account.. ... .224 India Stock for Account 2581; Consols for Account (30%14 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Dit o Account 2 6 1 / 4,, Portuguese Bonds Std Ditto Account 84% Ditto New Bones 8 4 ,0.1 4 le Ditto Account 83 , ,i 414% Prussian Bonds l, 1. , /. Ditto Bends, IA , . Russian Bonds, 18'2 , Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds 47 1 A 6% 7 Ditto Account 47 , 6Z. 73 Ditto Bonds, 1533 45% 6 J)itto A cenursts. - ...,..... 46 Frelich, 5 per cent. —t. —c. —.,,- 4 per cent. —.l. ..—c --- 3 per cent. —f. —c. ----- Exchange .f. —c. Dutch, 254,. per cent. 5l3N4i Ditto Account SIN Ditto, 5 per cent. • 83 4 Ditto Account ,issi Ditto Account 3 1 34 Chillian Bonds Ditto Account r l o .> Columbian Bonds 29 t 4 Ditto Account 294 Columbian 80nd5,:1824 3'!4 3 11 Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1823 Ditto Account - Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 22 Ditto Account 22 Dittn,fi per cent. 42 Ditto Account 4114 Neapolitan 941 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Alien Mining Company £9 11N A nglo lilexietai Mining Company (iss. at s'. pm.) if.tr 7 molanos Minir,g Company 1:)0 115 Brazilian Imperial :‘,ning, Co. (issued at W. pin.) l 3 '2 7V, Ditto Macaubas Cocae; 2O 2 l Ditto Serb, lO 13 Ditto St. John del Rey Cata Branca Mining Company British Iron Company 5O 6 1. ' VAT British Cipp , r Cn? ny Cotumbian Mining Company (issued at 51. pm.) 5311 11 1 4 English Mining Company l24z 9.9.11 Hibernian 51ming Compmy ... 10 3% Mexican Mining Company 49 4 M Re .1 dclMonte Mining Co . Registered 63/. I(A. dd. Ditto Unregistered — 33 !Z 4 Unitcd Mexican (issued at 2 /. pm.) Ditto Subscription Ditto New Scrip . London and Birmingham itailwav Company l5 London and Greenwich Railway Company . 7 Australasia Bank • lO Australian Company 2% Canada Company IS General SI eam Navigation Company l3 London and Westminster Bank 5 National Provincial Bank of England Provincial Bank of Ireland Rio Doec Company Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Company -- i2.,, PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, AUG. 12 3r Cent. Consols 9'..; Grand Canal Deb, ti per cent. 91% Ditto Reduced - Ditto, 4 per cent •6l 3 !; per Cent. Stock 9774 Hibernian Bank ' Ditto New, 1830 3 1 4 per Cont. Debentures 90% National Insurance Company - Rank Stock :.124 City Debentures, 4 per cent... - Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock 2.5 pe- cent. 93 MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due Arrived. Due. I , America - 1 France 0 l List= ... 0 0 Brazil I) 0 Guern. &Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico... ...... .. 0 0 Cartliagena...... 0 1 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Jamaica .......... 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Flanders HIGH- NNATEA AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-1 1 ,1011110W. MOrning... ...... 0 minutes after :0. I Evening 3 minutes after 0. THE SUN IS NOW THE LARGEST DAILY PAPER IN LONDON. , , . • • • 0 7 • - • - •: - CA Srr L - Zfle THE MI LONDON, FIZIDAY, AUGUST 1.5, 1834. justice within the po,?ulo us sphere of its jurisdiction, and afford a useful exam' Ile -to every other part of the kingdom. " To the imports: tre subjects of our Jurisprudence and of our Muncipal Cori mtations your attention will naturally be directed early in tl. vie next Session. You may always rest assured of my disposi ti On to co-operate with you in such useful reformations. " GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, " I thank you for the readiness with which you have granted the Supplies• Th e E s ti ma t e s said before you were somewhat lower than those of former yea rs, although they included several extraordinary charges which will not again occur : the same course of economy wi] R still be steadily pursued. " The continual inc. cease of the Revenue, notwithstanding the repeal of so many to aes, affords the surest proof that the re sources of the country are unimpaired, and justifies the expec tation that a persever ance in judicious and well considered measures will still further promote the industry and augment the wealth of my peopl6e. • " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " It gives me great g.-atification tobelieve, that in return ing to your several counties you will find a preva lence of general tranquillity, and of active industry, among all classes of society. I humbly hope that Divine Providence will vouchsafe a continuance and increase of these w hl mlsinzs ; and in any circumstances which may arise, I sh ill rely with confidence upon your zeal and fidelity, and I ...42st satisfied that you will inculcate and encourage that obedience to the laws, and that ob servance of the duties of religion and morality, which are the only secure foundatrions of the power and happiness of empires." Parliament has this 6ay finsshed the business of the Session. The Houses have now sitten about six months and alialf, and though they have gone through a great deal of routine business, made considerable re ductions of expenditure, and discussed several impor tant questions, we can recollect only one great Bill which they have carried. The Session of 1831-2 hed its one Bill, and the same may be said of 1834. This has not arisen from want of subjects, nor, we are inclined to think, from any want of willingness on the part of the Government, but from the doubts they had of the concurrence of the Upper House, and the time occupied 1.1 the discussions of motions which led to no result. There are three questions about which the public are more interested than even the amend ment of the poor laws ; yet one of them has not been brought forward at all, and the other two were simply introduced rather for the purpose of showing the wishes of the Government, than with any, even the slightest, hope of seeing them passed this Session. These subjects are the abolition of tithes in England, the redress of " gross abuses" in the Church, and Municipal Corporation Reform. With the exception of passing some Estimates, the Commons did nothing up to Easter but indulge in long debates on petitions ; they afterwards passed some useful measures. The Lords did absolutely nothing—not even talk, till about a month ago, and then they began in good earnest to undo almost every thing the Commons had done. With the exception of the Old Bailey Court Bill, and the defunct' Coercion Bill, every measure has ori ginated in the Commons ; and with the exception of the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill, they have not allowed any one of importance to pass. They have thrown them out without ceremony, or introduced clauses which they knew the Commons could not assent to—both modes of proceeding being alike fatal to the measures. The Lords, through their organ the LORD CHANCELLOR, boast that they are the only branch of the Legislature where the details of mea sures can receive calm and deliberate attention, and that if there had been no House of Lords to make amendments for the last two years, the House of Commons must have stopped its legislation, or been covered with blunders and absurdities. This description of a reformed House of Commons, coming from the quarter it did, must have been highly gratifying to-the Ultra-Tory Peers. " Veneration for such an assem bly" can be regarded only as wicked sarcasm, or, if it has a direct meaning, can apply only to the walls of the House, hallowed by the acts of a slavish, corrupt, venal, rotten borough, and unreformed House of Com mons. There can be no veneration for a House that has lasted but two years, and been guilty of so many blunders. If, however, there is any truth in the re ' mark, what excuse is there for the idleness of the only efficient branch of the Legislature, this model of wisdom, and the corrector of the blunders and absurdi ties of the other? Can there be any doubt, that in the law, the Church, and Municipal Corporations, gross abuses exist, and require a speedy remedy ; yet what have the Lords done this Session ?—absolutely no thing. They have allowed these abuses to go on, a nd they still would go on but for the spirit and energy of that other House which had been described as totally unfit for legislation. If the charge is true, then it is the imperative duty of the other House to bring in a ,Bill to undo this work of Reform, and re store the House of Commons to its pristine state of purity and usefulness. Never, however, was charge more unfounded. Sir ANDREW AGNEW and some few others, have brought in Bills full of absur dity, and some clauses of an objectionable nature have been inserted in Bills towards the close of the. Ses sion when the interested parties only attended; but be cause there are a few fanatics and fools in the House; is that to be a plea for stigmatising all the 658, as men constantly striving with one another, and incapable of giving their calm and deliberate attention to any measure ? The number—the importance, .and the beneficial tendency of the acts of last Session prove directly the contrary. In the memory of man four such important measures never passed in one session as the Abolition of Slavery, the Irish Church Reform, the Bank Charter, and the East India Char ter Bills, all of which originated in the Commons, and received no amendments of the slightest import ance in the Lords. This session but one principal Bill has gone through the ordeal of the Lords un scathed, chiefly because it had nothing in it of a political tendency. That Bill received its spirit and corporeal form from the Commons, and though attacked by all the' Tory Press—all the Radical —some of the liberal, and two of the most widely-circulat e d London papers, with every possible term of vitupera tion, reproach, and threat which the most fertile and malignant imagination could invent--though praise was lavished on Members that opposed it, whom these papers hitherto had mentioned only to turn into ridicule, and a crown of glory was held up to any man of note that would throw out " the atrocious Bill," the great body of the House of Commons re garded their praise and their blame alike—discussed the Bill with calmness and deliberation, and passed it (with the exception of one important clause, which this paper always opposed) but little altered, and cer tainly not impaired. On no former occasion did the press ever take up such a false position, or pursue a course so calculated to destroy its influence on the public mind. The proceedings of the Commons, on the whole, have been satisfactory in all instances where the Lords could not interfere. They ; , have reduced the / navy, the ordnance, and the mis cellaneous estimates, by nearly half a million ; they have taken off the house duty, and repealed a great number of smaller taxes ; they have besides shown their determination to root out abuses in every department; and though the Lords may malign them, the people will support them, and by the end of next session we confidently hope to see many Of these abuses redressed. The more we consider the conduct of the Tory- Lords in rejecting the Irish Tithe Bill, the more in fatuated and inexplicable it apyears. _ Try it by what test we please, look at its immediate or its ultimate consequences,---the danger incurred,--- the good sacrificed, and it is difficult to discover the or dinary characteristics of sanity in the proceedings of their Lordships. They profess the deepest regard for the clergy, and they condemn them to starvation ; they reject a bill which would have insured them, without trouble, danger, or collision with their parishioners, 80 per cent. of their present nominal incomes, and they throw them back for subsistence on the act of 1832, the inefficiency of which Mr. STANLEY, himself its author, was con strained to acknowledge. His devotedness to the church no man can doubt ; his efforts to enforce the law no man can deny : nevertheless he failed ; with all his admitted skill, vigour, and determination, he failed— though aided by horse, foot, and pclice,—he failed. The tithe composition was imposed and made general by his act, but it was not—it could not—be collected. The vigilance and ingenuity of a peasantry stimulated by want were too much for him ; and in the following year he was compelled to come to Parliament, and, in the name of a suffering clergy, implore for them pecu niary relief. What has happened since ? Have the people seen the error of their ways ? Has successful resistance taught them obedience ? Haas a cessation of a hated tax rendered its renewal more palatable ? Will the know ledge that the House of Commons had decreed them relief from 40 per cent. of the tithe composition, recon cile them to the payment Of the full amount—and not only to the full amount, but in addition, to the arrears of 1831; 1832, and 1833, one-fifth part of which may be levied in November, 1834? Noble Lords and Reverend Prelates talk of enforcing the law ; but the law is not resisted. Signals in every direction give notice of the approach of its officers ; the cattle are locked up ; the wretched cabin contain s nothing worth taking, and a stray pig, duck, or gosling, led captive by cavalry and infantry, is the triumphant result of the enforcement of the law. But if the law is to be en forced, it ought to be done with an impartial hand. By the act of 1833, the parson becomes liable for the re payment of the first instalment of the advance made to him under the same act. Do Reverend Bishops insist upon this being enforced ? The immediate, but not the sole consequence of such a state of things, will be inevitable ruin to the Clergy. Will Peers and Prelates open their mansions and their palaces to shelter the men whom they are about to reduce to beggary ? In justice and in mercy they cannot refuse to relieve the wretchedness which they will have themselves created. But the Clergy will not be the only sufferers by this act of incredible folly. The people of England, have some interest at stake. We are condemned to renew a cruel, harassing, and unprofitable contest with the peasantry—to maintain a large and expensive force, utterly useless for its object—to see every effort for the amelioration of Ireland frustrated, and every attempt to soothe an irritated and long-oppressed people end in bitter dis appointment. The means of tranquilizing that unhappy country were placed within our reach—we seized them with avidity and gratitude, but just as the cup of expectation is raised to our lips it is again dashed to the ground— and by whom ? by men whose political opinions are repudiated by the great body of their countrymen, but who, nevertheless, possess the dangerous and fatal power of strangling every measure of reform sent to them by the Representatives of the people. We venture to tell them that within a year they will shrink from the fearful responsibility of this very act, and, flying from the resistanc e they have provoked, will attempt to purchase at a much greater sacrifice, but, unhappily, when too late, those blessings which they now so recklessly and so madly cast away. The people of England, disgusted with the eternal repetition of their follies, will not en dure them much longer. The rejection, this Session, of every measure having a liberal tendency, and, above all, the fate of this Bill, are the legitimate, but unfortunate consequences of the combination of an hereditary House of Parliament with one chosen as the House of Commons now is. A creation of Peers would be a temporary, but in many respects an unwise mitigation of the evil. It is only to be removed by a change in the constitution of the Upper House, and this the country will by and by demand, in the same spirit of determination which secured to them the Reform of the House of Commons. The Debates in the Chamber of Procuradores or Spanish Deputies, which we have given from the Times of to-day, cannot but make a deep and lasting impres sioiVon the people of this country. Spain is at length beginning to rouse herself—she is starting out of the lethargy of " contented ignorance" in which, despite of the revolution of 1812, and the spirit awakened by the constitution of Cadiz, she so long slumbered. The ex treme liberality of popular opinion cannot be better proved than by the double defeat of M. DE LA ROSA and the Ministry on the address prepared by the Com mittee of the Chamber in answer to the Queen's speech. The first division arose on the amendment, that the address be returned to the Committee for re-considera it was notori ous ly i m p er f ect . tion, thereby i m p l y in g This arbitrary attempt to reject opinions, without the formality of discussion, was warmly opposed, and the amendment, though supported by Ministers, rejected by a majority of 48 to 36. The next division was on the adoption of the Address as a whole, and here a aain the Liberals in opposition were triumphant. The chief interest of the debate, however, is centered i n the discussion which arose on the clauses respecting the insurrection in Spain, and the liberty of 'the press, and trial by jury. The Ministry appeared to entertain the most fearful apprehensions of the evils which would follow the abolition of the censorship of the press, in a country which, according to them, was not sufficiently advanced in knowledge to exercise a wise judgment on political subjects indiscriminately submitted to it. Thi s reasoning was well replied to by the opposition, w h o maintained that all systems were adopted not b ec ause they were perfect in themselves, but because the certain good derived from them far exceed d the greatest possible amount of barely conjectural and possi ble evil. In this country there is hardly a necessity of no ticing this. Yet we may ourselves be allowed to observe, that the liberty of the press differs fiorn all others, in the sure self-correction of its possible abuses. Politics, freely and fearlessly discussed, always with the " bane" present the " antidote." Besides, as was well observed in the debate, if the great evils produced by the liberty of the press in France and England were a suffiCient reason why the press of Spain should be subjected to a ministerial censorship, then never would a time come when that censorship should be abolished. All systems are inseparable from possible, and very fre quently partial abuse. The debate does not give the arguments of the Spanish Minister against trial by jury ; though it must have been as curious, as metaphysical, to hear him declaim against such an institution, from its effects in England. Trial by jury is assuredly au instution which we should have thought fitted for a people in any stage of civilization ; as in all cases, and at all times, the punishment 'of crimes would accord with the moral sentimirs of the com munity, which is one of the strongest ties that bind a nation to any form of government. The love of metaphysical subtleties, and distinc tions without differences, in which some great men among ourselves are fond of indulging, was well ex emplified in the first part of the debate about the substitution of the phrase " absurd administration," for " absurd legislation," with the amendment ulti mately agreed to, of " departure from ancient institu tions." The Chamber took fire at the insinua tion that ancestry could be guilty of absurdity in legislation, though every question which is to come before them furnishes an additional proof of it : and this independent of, the fact that laws provide for their administration, therefore abuses in the latter must arise from defects and absurdities in the former. The most important intelligence to the monied int-- rest are the principal clauses of a Bill for the manage ment of the public debt, which TORENO, the Minister of Finance, was to have brought before the Chamber on the 7th inst. The Bill proposes that the whole debt of Spain shall be called national debt ; that the foreign debt shall be divided into two parts, active and passive, to be put immediately into a course of li quidation. The difference between the active and passive debt •will consist in the latter bearing no interest ; but to compensate for this, eleven years interest, at five per cent., will be added to tie passive debt, and the bonds on it re ceived in payment of debt to be now created, or ac cepted at their nominal value in payment for the pro perty of the Inquisition and other ecclesiastical re venues about to be brought under the hammer for public purposes. It is out of our power. to express a decided opinion on the merits of a project so imper fectly developed, but if any reliance is to be placed on what is going forward in the City this morning, and the rise in Spanish Securities, we may state that it will be advantageous to the foreign holders of Cortes Bonds. In one point of view, it is one of the most profound schemes ever contrived for the abolition of monkish power, derived from pro perty, in Spain. The Government, only a few days since, abolished the Inquisition, and in order to the sale of the Dominican convents and estates, for which no purchaser could be found, it adds eleven years' interest to a part of the debt, and then leaves it redeemable by the purchase of ecclesiastical pro perty. The strife will be between avarice and supersti tion, and we. presume it will be a rare case in which a son of the Church will find himself one-third richer than he was, and yet be content to remain eleven years longer in the same state rather than take up his resi dence in the cloister of some fat Dominican Abbot. The arrivals from Spain which treat of the move ments of DON CARLOS, repeat nearly the same ac counts given in the extracts from the French papers. The Parisian journals contain no news, with the ex ception of some unimportant debates in the Chamber of Deputies. Press of matter obliges us to postpone, till to morrow, some observations which we had prepared on the excellent speech of the LORD CHANCELLOR, in the House of Lords last night, on exposing the ab surd way in which their Lordships exercised their appellate, or judicial jurisdiction. By the German Papers we learn that Don MIGUEL is still at Genoa, where he is said to be likely to remain some time. He is very attentive to the progress of affairs in Spain, from which country he appears to receive regular reports. VIENNA, AuG. 4.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 98h- ; Four per Cent. ditto, 88k; Bank Shares, I,232.—Allgemeine Zei tung. Hamburg Papers mention that the cholera has broken out at Gottenburg, and that the theatres and all places of public amusement have been closed in con sequence. The following are extracts from these papers : HAMBURG, AUG. 12.—The Hanoverian Gazette contains the following answer returned by the Queen of England to an address from the magistrates of the City of Hanover : " Your letter of the 18th of July, and the interest therein expressed at the pleasure I have experienced in beholding again a revered mother and a beloved relative have afforded me sincere satisfaction and have again convinced me of the feelings of true devotion which h ave ever s i g nalized the city of Hanover, and the remembrance of which will ever remain agreeable to me. lam still animated by the hope of soon seeing myself among you again by the side of our beloved King, my revered Consort. In the meantime rely upon my royalfavour and good will. " ADELAIDE. " Liebenstein,July 26, 1834." The celebrated Captain Ross has arrived in Hamburg, on his return from the Northern capital. We understand that he proceeds with the steamer this evening, to London. HAMBURG, AUGUST 12.—BORSEN HALLE.—Funds are heavy to-day at the opening, but improved in the course of the day, in consequence of purchasers not appearing for Austrian and Spanish Securities. Discount, 3 1 4,. per cent. End of August. Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent 70% Angln-Russian l O, Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1t,...!it 1 lift°, ditto,l83l Ditto, ditto, 183 4 Certificates Polish Bonds 1 130-N 13 Prussian 13onds 133:? 1244 Austrian Bank :Shares Ditto Metalliques . llll4 Ditto 4 per cent. _ Ditto 4 per Cent. (1334) Spanish 3 per Cwitg Spanish Cortes (A. F. Haldimand and - ons) 47 1 ,4 Ditto 4 per Cent. 5O Dutch 21, per Cents i,5 Ditto S per Cents P or t u guese IZegeiicy —.Hamburg Reporter. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. 11AN113111M, AUG, 12 —l3 9 ; two months. 13 75i„ ST. PETEfissimill, Auo s—Three months, 10.47-61. sTocs 1101. M. AUG. s.—Tlr. months, 12 19. BREMEN, AUG. B.—Two months, 605. BERLIN. AUG. 9.—Three months, 6 26%. Hamburg Papers. Aug. 11. DU I'CH FUNDS—MISTVIIDAII, AUG. 19 Actual Debt, 2,4 per Cent. Anton Syndic, 4Si per cent. SIR,3 to 91 Mf to, ditto. 3 , ,4 per cent. I, o ao () 5 per cent Ditto (F.32 W and .833) 5 per cent. Eschang., en Loudon Ditto, two months l2 OIS EXCESSIVE HEAT IN AMERICA.—The heat for the last three days has been excessive. Each day the mercury has been up to 92, and as high as 93 in the shade. All animal strength has been nearly prostrated. Several men and horses have dropped down on our streets, and expired—some from drinking cold water, and others from exposure to the heat. Nearly all the carpenters, masons, and labourers, employed out of doors, have suspended their work. Such was the gene ral prostration of working men the other day, that not half the usual numb er p er f orme d their daily work. Three labouring men died of the heat in Hudson-street in one afternoon. New York Gazette. HAMBURGH. The Hamburgh Senate has made the fo communication to Dr. Bowring : SIR—I have been commissioned by the Senate of Hamburgh to acknowledge the receipt, through his Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, of the first Report on the Commercial Rela tions between France and Great Britain. The conclusive arguments of the Report could only be strengthened by the eloquence of the figures so laboriously collected in the Appen dix. Placed at the head of a republic, whose very essence is commerce, the Senate most sincerely congratulates -the Com emission, of - which you are a tomember, upon so auspicious an ndeavour to oppose truth prejudice, the interests of the many to those of the few, and the legitimate exchange of in dustry protected by local advantages to thd illusory attempt, frustrated by fraud, of selling without buying. In conveying to you these sentiments, I am happy to express the high and unfeigned regard with which I have the honour to be, &c. SIEVEKING, Syndic. To John Bowring, Esq., LLD: July 30, 1834. ,OWIR THE MARKET.--(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of all descriptions of Grain are moderate, and the return of Flour fair. Fine Wheat, this morning, did not meet 5o much attention, and Monday's rates were not supported. Other. qualities very dull, and ls. per quarter lower*. Barley, Beans, ent d t Pease remain without variation. Oats are very heavy sale, and again cheaper. Flour dull and unaltered. ARRIVALS. Barley. Oat.; Viola I 760 qrs 2,2 0 cgs 6,210 sat:kg. 570 4,421 P Whe 14,670 qrs English I rich Foreign 2,630 I,B' SMITHFIELD MARKET. This day's supply of Beasts, Calves, and Porkers, was moderately good ; that of Sheep and Lambs was rather great. Trade wa l : dull throughout, with prime Beef at a depression of 2d., La "' from '2d. to 4d. per stone ; with other kinds of meat at barely Monday's quotations. Mitch Cows, which were rather numerous, experienced a slow sale, at from 151. to 171. ; good ones , 17/ • numerous. to 101: PRICES FEE STONE OF SLU., TO SINK THE OFFALS• Y 1 s d to s d s dto Inferior Bents—. 2 4 2 6 Infe for Sheep ...... Second quality ditto 2 8 3 2 Second quality ditto ..... 3 3 10 Prime large oxen lO 4 Coarse-woolled 4 4 Prime Scots, &c coar e Calves 3 6 4 0 Large Hogs ..... 8 n 8 PriMe *mall ditto 4 4 4 8 . Small Porkers Suckling Calves each —I.: t. 8 [Quarter old Pigs each 38 Lamt , s SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Sheep and Lambs i Calves. , pigs "0 Beasts, 445 NENVGATE AND LEA. At per stone, L dt os • d to s d 8 , 2 6 Beef, inf•rior ...» 2 2 2 Mutton, inferior .........4 ;1 4 -- middling ... ...... '▪ 210 --middling ...... 3 2 • 4 - plene large 3 4 3 6 -- prime ........... 3 g 6 1 0 - prime 5ma11.„....., :1 8 310 Pork, lare ..... . ...... 2 ,L 0 Veal 2 8 4 4 1,---- sma g 1 .................. 3 6 Lamb " Is 8d to 53. rd. DENII ALL MARKETS , )y the Carcass COLONIAL MARKETS.-(THIS DAY ) t BRITISH PLANTATION SUGAR.-The market is firm a g rea t , deal of Sugar has been bought for sale. There have been a° u d 4,500 hogsheads sod during the week, at former quotations , a n , with finer sorts an improvement of 6d. has taken place 174 casks °' 6 i i. to Barbadoes, and 34 casks and 30 barrels Nevis, realized 565. 625. for th former, for middling to fine, and for the latter 503. to 535. 6d. for good brown to good greyish yellow. EAST INDIA SUGAR.-Of Mauritius, but 4,441 bags 'c' er d e . brought forward, and on the colony sorts an advance was obtaibe Good bright yellows, 575. to 58s ; low and middling, 51s. to 555.a1' good brown, 495. to SOs. For foreign descriptions there i s still inquiry, and for Manillas 245. 6d. was offered. • . are FOREIGN SUGAR.-The Market is steady, and full p rice offered; but by the holders advanced prices are asked. 1,000 r b°a white Havannahs were sold privately from 30s. to 31s. foe raid. ° good uality of old importation. q R.-N plac e INED SUGAo alteration of importance has taken in the prices. Fine Crushed have fetched 31s. 61, but 3 2 a• been generally asked, under which quotation it is not eas y chase. 1- • and COFFEE.-British Plantation sorts are firmer, and 231 cas , - , 50 barrels Jamaica realised 675. 6d. to 765. for fine to ordinary: In Foreign and East India descriptions, not much has been don e ; privately 200 bags, good ord. Brazil fetched 435. to 49. ; f about 100 bags good ord. St. Domingo 495. ; also a sale afloa t . , 1,000 bags St. Domingo at 495. 6d., deliverable in Leghorn, p a r s part of a cargo of 2,000 bags, the remaining portion of whicl consigned. for COCOA.-300 bags put up, were bought in from 395. to .175. ord. to fine red. PrOd RUM.-The market is heavy. Prices are ld. lo wer. Leal reized 2s. '01% 416 COTTON.-There is little doing, with a steady market ; fed Surat by public sale fetched from 61d. to 63c1. for ord. to f air. private sale about 400 bales of the same were sold at 7d., and Pernams at 11%cl. a SALTPETRE.-There is a fair demand for this cornmoditY, a r i . 500 tons sold by the East India Company fetched former qtt o l o tions, namely, 265. tid. to 275. for 7to 8 1 % per cent. Of 5, for bags put up, about one-half found buyers at from 245. to 295• 2% to 3 per cent. PICES p .-Of pepper 2,000 bags were put up to sale, and lr i at t : portion sold at a decline of Ind. Sumatra, ord. to fair 31,4"' all 3V 2 d. Of Cassia, 1,500 chests of the Company's sale were.d. withdrawn ; 637 chests sold steadily at 645. to 65 5. ; a nd for ' Nut , to good were false packed. Barcelona cloves brought ls. rings 7s. to 7s. the Dru g two lots ord. fetched Gs. sd. Indi a Daucs.-As the Drutrade and the Committee of East merchants are not agreed as to the terms upon which the new 5) 1- tern of sales shall be conducted, the sales have been postponed - , Hors.-The accounts from the plantations arc more favourslue' the duty is at 115,0001. TALLOW is higher, and is now quoted from 435. 6d. W 445, per cwt. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CLOC K t Philadelphia Papers to the 20th July have been received a the North and South American Coffee-house. ( From the above Papers.) I , asp The New York Mercantile of yesterday says " The - a delphia Paper states that the Bank of the United States_f.e its last discount days increased its loans 200,0 00 do llars ; the Bank here has done the same to the amount of 1 00,000 dollar ; and the money market is decidedly relieved, confidentitis gradually being re-established, the Government has "' la id worst, and the Bank yet exists to lend its money in increas sums to the people. Accounts from the Havannah to the 30th June state di:: the yellow fever and cholera prevailed there to a gre at ete ao- An extraordinary courier has also arrived to the French of vernment with despatches from Constantinople, said to " a l s o the highest importance, and of a serious nature. It w as r ,, c eo stated at Paris that Count Toreno, in the name of the of Spain, had demanded a supply of arms and ammunttioo'-co, France, but no intervention of a French army was to take pia THE FUNDS At length some information of great importance t° , l t his holders of the Spanish Cortes Bonds has been reeciveu6th, morning, by the express from Paris from Madrid of tbc„,ake instant. The proposal which Count Toreno is going to of to the House of Deputies of Spain respecting the paYme debt the Cortes Bonds is--In the first place the whole of tba,td to be acknowledged, and half, say fifty pounds, to be pa l ol ds, mediately in a stock of five per cent., the other fifty rota, with the interest of 11 years, at five per cent. per t ill no t making 105/., for which a deferred stock is to be gi rer :,', c of bearing any interest, but will be taken for the purr; the national property in Spain, if required. Thero ca. ;eice holders of a One Hundred Pounds Cortes Bond will ri3cood• One Hundred and Fifty-five Pounds for his s uit ` or Various are the opinions in the City respecting the ar r ntr arf ment ; some think it favourable, while others are of a C O ' opinion. • h At the first opening of the Foreign Market SPan l o , s b l e b, proved 1 per cent., and were done at 47+ to ; si ace 85. they have receded to 46 4 1 to 47. Portuguese, 54 to 85. This is settling day in the Foreign Market, and they ,afloish. in settling their accounts, which is a heavy one in frotoit' Consols opened at the price they left off, 90a for the P.., "- iot isif The King's Speech, proroguing the Parliament, i s a ll looked for. 01 4 ' HALF-PAST t The settling of the foreign account up to the Rreselloisb• appears to go off well. It is a great Bull accoun t in Proiog, It was generally expected, in the early part of the i n° t f th e that the Spanish Minister's proposals for the a djustiv erl ICvhoiretheshasßonnodts been would th ehcaaysee.maAtetritahlleyopimenpirnogveodf ih th e a m t o r t got up one per cent. ; since which it has receded frau to 46. 47, for money. Portuguese, 84i- Consols for the Account, 90 '' THREE 0 1 ° Consols for the Account, 901 4. The French Government has 158 sl:;ps , of the force, in commission. The navy of France is greatly o- G A 14 E f o.r—t the h s e p v in o c u r r e a as bi e e . presentortsmanh ,5 P. who has been over most of the North Highland ri l . a P e condition. This information forms us that the birds were never more plentiful, or I' l i frel li ' °o rs, as season the faprmroemr.iseAs tgoau.iteckl,pielir.: we have heard corro various quarters. , es ter THE I'd . CORS.—Our sportive citizens w ere y , 3i ot day the riiing of this day's sun over the moors in our neic,ool'", hood. Should ~ the twelfth," however, prove as l i ,,, n 'tnia.,, ll. able as the eleventh, we are afraid the sport will me re" - to re The coaches, particularly to the Upper Ward, had r thei usual complement of passengers yesterday, and ti' e f nt ers . generally gtp.rded by formidable bands of trained P°tifiliel The game in the moors is spoken of as being p 1 e n i 1 Glasgow Courier. • , e 0;1 SELF-DESTRUCTION . — NIT. Morant, ',lli—coil*: spirit merchant, Houghton-street, Clare.market, borate° a fter g o of*: up yesterday morning (Thursday), went down into the_ r ly $O , as usual, after breakfast, and having been down for ee,' d o ssl, hour, the boy who serves in the shop wanting him, a h for: stairs, but receiving no answer, he went to s:_arieoo:, him, when he saw him hanging by the neck. Ile sv, s t 01 1° diately cut down, and medical assistance procured, Il i , 100' vain. He has left a wife and three children to nwe rn ( ;,, i n. The reason he destroyed himself remains as yet unke a 0 t ree ill S I NGULAR SUICIDE. — On Saturday last about thirty years of age wa s seen to ascend a big 1111 .. ,,0f South Lambeth, and, after throwing his hat down , " oi : himself from one of the projecting branches and fell % t oe * head. Seve: al persons immediately went to his u n,'„,:, re_ when it was discovered that he had fractured his sk t 1 i 1 . 5 0 0, to ,_l on ,lcsof ceived other serious injuries. He was conveyed of a neighbonring surgeon, who found the caic to be hop P The man soon after died. A Coroner's Jury have re , ' verdict of " Temporary Insanity." _mil 4~e }loni ! Poss, jers, Ai At4.l t tTB ' th e ' g gel