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resist Mr. Harvey's motion. Still less are we disposed to condemn harshly the motives of the popular Mem bers of the majority, many of whom considered this sacrifice pare of the price paid for the Reform Bill; and who rather voted from a dislike to aban don their friends, acting in their particular situation on honourable feelings, than from any di-position to withhold from the public redress and reparation for the plunder of this system. With all these admis sions, we, nevertheless, rejoice at the result of the debate. The pensioners—at least those of them who have no legitimate claims on the beneficence or compassion of the country—may be assured that their rent-day has passed, if that of retribution; and disgorging has not arrived ; and that the most decent and becoming course to pursue, is to sur render that which they are conscious they could no deserve, and ought never to have enjoyed. Conduct of this kind will b 3 more Credi'eble to themselves—show a reasonable sense of gratitude to Ministers, who have done their best to pro- tect them—and save the exposures and discussion, without in the least affecting the necessary conse quences of the further proceedings with which the divisioe o (Tuesday must he followed up. The state of parties in the House was curious and instructive. A large portion of the Tories were for some time in doubt, when their scouts ascertained the probable result of the division, whether it might not be more for their interest to sacrifice their pensioned friends. Some left the House, but after all about .55 voted with the majority. A large phalanx of the Ministe rial rank., feeling strongly in favour of the motion, went away to avoid dividing against Ministers. We did not hear that any official Members, bound, of course, to vote on what was considered an open question, were absent. A very considerable num ber of popular Members voted in deference to the merits of the case brought forward by the Govern mem, rather than to the opinions of their constitu ents, or in pursuance of their own feelings and in terests; and many of them, we can tell ti-ei4 friends, complained grievously—with what rea son we pretend not to say—of having been left in the lurch by some near relative' of Cabinet Ministers, not supposed to be over li beral in their opinions on other occasions, whose devotion to their constituents in this instance was the more meritorious, as it does net appear to have been in the least affected by the least partiality for their Ministerial connections. If we suppose fifty Members to have acted on more generous, if not on more correct feelings, and to have sacrificed their opinions on this division to their personal attach ment to Government, and the policy of maintaining them in office, and make a reasonable allowance for official votes, the number of independent names in the majority must convince Ministers of the impos sibility of further resistance to public opinion in this case. They have done what was necessary for the vindication of their own honour, in what turns ont iu the opinion of the country to be an imprudent contract ; and we entreat them at once to retreat with a good grace from a hopeless and unavailing eontest. If the pensioners will not take our advice and resign their ill-gotten gains, let a further in quiry precede an address for their removal from the list.—Morning Chronicle. EXPRESS EDITION. SUN-OFFICE, Eight o'clock. INIPERIA LPA RUM , ' ENTI THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. The House met to.day at five o'clock. The Royal Asscnt was given by commission to the Fac tories' Regulation Amendment Bill. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Ripon, and Lord Auckland. Earl CAWDOR presented a Fetition from Llangollen, in the county of Carmarthen, comVaining that prose cutions had taken place within the last few years for the purpose of enforcing the p.yment of tithes, and praying for their abolition. The Noble Earl also presented a pe tition from the Matirrates of the county of Somerset in Quarter Sessions assembled, praying the House to adopt measures for the purpose of relieving the householders of the county from the burdensome rates on account or county prosecutions. Lord BEXLEY presented a petition from Cranbourne, in the county of Surrey, in support of the Established Church. The petition was signed by a great number of Dissenters. The Noble Lord also presented a petition from the parish of Blair, playing for an equitable arrange ment of the tithe system. Lord KING presented a petition from the Dissenters of Bridport. praying for relief from Church rates and Eater-offerings, and also for a general rsgistry of birth• and baptisms. The Noble Lord also presented a petition from a parish in Callow against tithes. The Earl of DURHAM presented two petitions, one from the Dissenters of Newport, and another from the Dissentrrs of Newcastle upon-Tyne, praying for relief. TEe Noble Lord also gave notice, that he should present a petition to-moi row f.orn the parish of Allhallows, Lom bard-street, with respect to the appointrn• nt of the Rev. Mr. Dawson to the rectory of that church. On the motion of Lord AUCKLAND, the report of tl e Committee appointed to inquire into the best mode of measuring the tonnage of ships, was received, and ordered to he print!d. Lord STRANGFORD said that it was his inten tion to give notice of a motion with reference to the foreign policy of this country with regard to it. commercial affairs. The time at which be would bring that motion forward would depend upon the production of the documents to which he referred when last be brought the subject before the Heuse—(Heir, hear) — namely, the Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the commercial relations between this country and France. He wished therefore to know when it was prob,ble that document would be laid upon the table? Lord AUCKLAND said that there could be no ob jection whatever to laying the documents upon the table as soon as thy were ready. He was afraid, however, that they would require some time for correc tion. _ . Lord STRANGFORD then said that he would give notice, that after the recess be should bring forward a motion with regard to the policy of thiv country in rela tion to her commercial affairs with foreign countries. l'hf. Duke of RICHMOND pr. rented petitions front West Grinstead, Shipley, and several other parishes in the Bounty of Suriex, in favour of the Labour Rate sill. On the motion of the Noble Duke, the Turnpike Road Coo. Ong, -ion Pill ••:ia read a a-cond t;rne and ordered to bp ..outwitted to-morrow. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Ths SPEAKER. took the Chair at a quarter-past live o'clock, and having called on Mr. Littleton, Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL rose, and said be P 44 a motion of peculiar importance to bring forward, in which the character of a Judge was at stake. An Host. AIEMISER rose to order. The SPEAKER said that the House would decide upon what questions were irregular and what were not. Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL said the motion be had to mike was an exceedingly important one, as it related to the character and conduct of a Judge upon the Bench. Mr. LITTLETON said the question had already been decided by a large majority of the House, and the ap pointment of a Committee, which was fixed for Monday }next. There would be no House on that day, and be Therefore saw no reason why they should now discuss the question. Before be moved that the Speaker do leave the chair, and that the House resolve itself into a committee. he begged to move that the clerk do read that portion of his Majorty's speech alluding to tithes in Ireland. The Clerk then read that paragraph : " I recommend to you the early consideration of such a final adjustment of the tithes in that part of the United Kingdom, as may extinguish all just causes of complaint, without injury to the rights and property of any class of my subjects, or to any Institutions in Church or State." On the question that the Speaker do leave the chair, Sir E. KNATCHBULL said that be conceived he was now perfectly in order, and as it was hin determination to oppose the motion of the Hon. and Learned Manber for Dub lin, he would aak,witether, under the circumstances of the( e being no House ou Monday the Hun. and Learned Mem bee should not name another day. He would then state what it was his intention to do. Mr. O'CONNELL was totally ignorant of the reason why the House < , hould not sit on Monday. He should therefore name Toesday. Sir E. KNATCHFIULL did not like to trifle with the time of the House, and he should therefore postpone his motion until to morrow. The STRAKER then left the chair, and the House re solved itself into a Committee, Mr. BERNAL in the Chair. TITHER IN IRELAND. Mr. LITTLETON said, in rising to call the atten'ion of the Committee to the subject of which he had given notice, he must, in the first place, express his extreme regret that the statement r e specting a measure of such vast importance, not only to Elreland, but to the entire country, should not have been placed in ablerihands. He regretted it the more because it not only involved principles of the utmost importance to the Church but to pro perty at large. There never was a question submitted to the consideration of the House of Commons which in volved a question more important to the tranquillity of Ireland, than that which he now invited their a'ten tint) to. He must beg leave of the House, before proceed ing to call their attentio❑ to this question, to caution Members of all parties against supposing that this was a question purely relating to Church property. He implored Honourable Gentlemen to consider that this was not a proposition for the appropriation of the revenues of the Church. The question which the House had now to consider was simply and entirely a question of property. It was as much one as if it re garded the rayment of rents—bec-rse the opposition in Ireland had extended itself not only to the property of the Church, but also to that of the lay impropriators. It might not be inconvenient or inapplicable to a discussion of this nature, to invite the Committee to go back for some time, and consider what the state of the law respecting tithes and tithe property had been in Ireland, during the last century. He would not do so at present, but be begged of them to bear in mind that the Legislature had been loaded with statutes, for the purpose of enforcing the law for payment of tithes, and for enabling its owners to realise it. He was sure he was in some degree making admissions to those whose opposition be might possibly, he hoped not, erre. unter in making that statement ; but it was far better that the truth should be state], and in what he had] stated, as well as in that which he had hereafter to state, he would state that only which he believed to be the real condition of the case.— (Hear, hear.) To such a height had the resistance to tithes been carried, and the resistance of the public voice in 1823, that the Right Hon. Member for Cam bridge was induced to bring forward an Act which had been of great value, and the general machi nery of which had given great satisfaction.—(Hear.) The importance of that Act could riot be overrated ; great as it was, the measure did not reach the root of the evil. To so great an extent did the opposition go in 1831, that his Right Hon. Friend, the now Secretary for the Colonies, brought into Parliament two Ac's, the one to relieve the immediate and almost total destitu tion of a large proportion of the clergy, and the other tol give more complete effect to the Act passed in 1823.1 —(Hear, hear.) But, valuable as these enactmen 8 1 undoubtedly were, and valuable as they proved to be— one of them at least—the Compulsory Composition Act, to which he should wish to apply to the measure he was about to explain to the House ; still they were manifestly insufficient, and the House scarcely requir ed to be reminded that the distress became so universal over the greater part of Ireland, among the clergy, occa sioned by the general resistance to tithes, that the House of Commons was persuaded to pass an Act which did the greatest honour to its li berality, for advancing one million of money towards the payment of outstanding arrears in 1833, and the pay ment of the tithes of 1832 and 1833. It might be in teresting to state to the House the results that bad at tended that enactment.—(Hear, hear.) When it was brought in, the Hon. and Learned Member for the city of Dublin seemed to apprehend that parties in Ireland, who would be entitled to avail themselves of relief under it, would by no means do so in any extensive degree. In that respect he had been mistaken. Out of 2,486 applications sent in, 2,216 had passed the Council and been declared entitled to relief. He should tire the House if be were to read a statement of the proportion of all the counties from which the applications hod come. They had come from those counties the most peopled by Catholics. Mr. O'CONNELL wished to know what was the proportion of tithe owners ? Mr. LITTLETON was not prepared to answer that question ; he would mention, however, a few of the counties from which the fewest had come, and a few from which the largest had come. From Antrim, only 3 applications ; from Londonderry, 11 ; from Mo naghan, 17 ; and from Tyrone, 14. He was speaking with refirence to the properttens according to the schedules that had passed council, and obtained relief. The counties from which the greatest proportion had come, were, from Carlow 52 ; Dubiin 54 ; Kildare 101 ; Kilkenny 160 ; Meath 63 ; King's County 64 ; Queen's County 62 ; Wexford 198 ; Clare 144 ; Cork 303 ; Limerick 154 ; Tipperary 248 ; Waterford 279 ; and Gdway 94. The total amount claimed, including both clerical tithes and lay impropri ne, was seven hundred thousand and a fraction, and he thouebt little more than seven hundred thousand would cover the whole demand. The schedules furnished to Government afforded the means of making many cal culatiens, and showed many useful results, illustrative of the present tithe system of Ireland. In order to show how minute and general the payment of tithes in Ire land was, and how multiplied they were, he had in the first place, called fur an account showing the five largest amounts payable by each individual in each county. In England, gentlemen knew pretty well what amount of tithes was payable in good agricultural districts, but the result was very different in Iteland. In the county of Antrim, where some of the largest amounts were paid, there were not more than five individuals who paid more than 61. ss. 60. ; in Armagh, not more than five who paid mote than 51. 6s. 6d. ; in Donegal, not more than five who paid more than 141. Even in the county of Down there were not more than five who paid more than 91. I4s. ; in Londonderry, not more than five who paid more than sf. ; in Sligo, not more than five who paid more than 71. Bs. ; in Tyrone, not snore than five who paid more than 71. 1 It was trite that in one country there was one individual who paid 501. ; in another country, one individual who paid 601. ; and in another, one who actually paid, be be lieved, 159/.--(Hear, hear, hear)-but the House might form some idea of how small the sums must be which the lowest paid from the statement already made. He had no doubt that had he called for a return of the first ten who paid the least the sum would have appeared very Flow indeed. To illustrate this statement still further, he had called for an account of another description, with a view to take an average amount of payment. After enumerating several parishes, the Right Honourable Member said, that in a parish of Galway, for in stance, where there were 1,218 tithe payers, the average payment was Bs. 54.; in Waterford this ave• rage was 6s. 7d. ; and those were amongst the largest payments. Then, by another schedule, containing the largest number of names .with the smallest amounts claimed, he found that in a parish in Armagh, consisting of four hundred and seventy tithe-payers, they did not pay en an average more than Is. 3d. each. In a parish in Clare, containing 529 tythe payers, they end nut pay snore than 1 s, 7 d. earn. Iu a parish in Cork, containing three hunched and sixty five tythe payers, the average payment was not more than 1010. In Donegal, in a parish consisting of 17,00 tythe pas era, the average payment was not more than Is. 31d. In a parish in Kilkenny, consisting of 903 tithe payers, not more than 11d. In a parish in Londonderry, comprising 1243 tithe payers, they paid only 61 on an average. In a parish i❑ Mayo, consisting of 338 tithe payers, the average did not amount to more th in Is. Jid. He bad another account in his possession, which showed the extreme poverty of many of the tithe payers, an l the consequent difficulty which must be experienced in col lecting the payments. There was a large proportion in 20 parishes of different counties in Ireland which paid only ninepence each person. In a parish in the county of Carlow, there were 446 tithe-payers, of whom 289 paid under 91. In a parish in the county of Clare, of 434 tithe-payers, 254 paid under 90. ; of one in the county of Cork, out of 1.270 tithe-payers, 419 paid under 94., and many considerably less than that sum ; in a parish in the King's County, of 205 tithe payers, 97 paid under 9d.; in a. pr.siih in the county r f Roscommon, of 243 tithe payers, 119 paid under 90., and in a parish in Tipperary, of 341 tithe payers 125 paid under 9 , 1. Upon the whole, taking the average of twenty counties in Ireland, in which there were 7,005 tithe payers,' not less than 2,444 paid under 9d. each. The gentleman in the department from which he had his information, stated to him that in a parish in the county of Carlow, the whole amount due by 202 payers out of 481 was 10s. 31 f., being little better than a penny per heal, while in the larger number it was not above 7d. each. There were a great number of defaulters whose debts ran up from a farthing to a shilling, and those persons exhibited a large proportion of the whole. Her bad taken a schedule containing an immense numb', or small; claims, and he had counted !about 140 or 150' the highest amount charged against whom was not more than twopence, and of that in some instances there were several quarters due. The House ought to be aware of tl e extreme difficulty there was in collecting sums of that amount, and particularly when in many of the parishes there were not less than three claimants, each of whom collected for himself. It was important that the House should be acquainted with the nature of those difficulties, independent of the agitation which prevailed in the country, for he did not attribute them to that cause, although agitation of a cruel, unjust, and unprincipled de scription prevailed there. He did not allude to any par ticular person ; but that system had disturbed the peace of Ireland, and bad endangered that description of property. He was aware, however, that but for that agitation the existing system might have continued some time longer, but from the difficulties which existed there must shortly be some alteration. He might, perhaps, be told that the Act which was passed in the last session bad caused a very considerable diminution in the difficulty of collection, because it had dimieiehe the number of payments ; and so, he admitted, it had. It was not possible for him, without great expellee and inconvenience, tc ascertain with precision what the re sults of that act had been, but, as far as be could, he had obtained sufficient information to be able to give a pretty accurate notion of the result. There were a great number of occupying tenants, and those who under the Act of last session were liable to composition, and his in formation came for all the counties in Ireland. He would not trouble the Committee with all the details of particular counties, but the general result front sixty-six parishes in 22 connties, in which there were 16,231 occupiers liable to the payment of tithes there were 7,047 as tenants at will or yearly tenants, and as such not liable to its payment ; thereby reducing the number of last year from 16,231 to 9,190. That certainly offere d consider able facilities to the owners of tithe in collecting it under the composition, supposing that no other difficulties inter posed. He might perhaps be told that the result of the operation of the Act of last year ought to satisfy theGovern meat that :the ;law e at present was sufficient, that it armed them with sufficient powers, and that there was no reason to use arguments of expedient. He only used the fact of this reduction as one of the arguments in favour of the measure which he was about to submit because the Government would never consent to snake this description of property a prey to any party, but to make it for the support of the church in the first in stance, and in the next to be applicable to such other pur poses as Parliament in its wisdom should deem expedient. Having inside these preliminary observations, because it was most important that all the facts connected with this question should be declared. He would now proceed to detail the plan which it was the intention of his Majesty's Government to lay before the Committe. The great ann and object of that measure would be to find means for commuting Tithes in the quickest possible manner, and by the most practicable process, by the composition of Tithes not Land. The first thing therefore fur Govern ment would be to confer on that description of property all the vatuabre security it was in the power of Parli ament to confer.—(Hear.) It was intended therefore to propose that from and after the first of November next Tithe Composition should cease in Ireland ; and from and after that day a land tax should be granted to his Majesty, payable by the same parties who were now subject to compositions for tithes, and payable in the same amounts. For the first tive years a redemption was to he allowed to any parties who should have a substantial interest in the estate, on terms to be hereafter proposed which he thought would be favourable to the landholders without injuring the titheholders, for he thought it would be seen both these parties could be easily reconciled. Of course one of the objects of the measure would be to fit d every possible facility for those on whom the charge of redemption would fall, for meeting the different kinds of redemption. Lastly it was proposed that whatever proportion of the land tax should continue unredeemed, at the end of the five years, should become a rent payable by the individual standing next in the real interest of the estate, and also that this indemnity should consist of an abate ment of one-fifth of the composition, and that the party should be entitled by a process hereafter to be explained, to recover the whole amount against the tenant or the party liable to composition. With reference to the clergy, the lay impropriaters and the tithe holders—the Com missioners would have to take an account of the total amount due to each party, and issue an order for pay ment on the Commissioners of Woods and Forests for the full amount, subject on!) , to such reasonable reductions for costs and expenses of collection to be deter mined and hereafter described. Of course these sums were to be paid to each party as long as redemption con sisted of money, but whenever it was invested in land, it would be made over to them. In these brief and comprehensive statements be had endeavoured to convey to the House the idea of the plan it was the its. tention of his Majesty's Government to bring forward. The first proposition was to convert Tithes into Land. He was quite aware that the subject of a general Land tax was popular on two grounds, sonar approved it because they were unwilling to submit to the destruction of Tithe property and others, because they thought it would be a convenient mode of including all the charges upon land in Ireland. It was the bounden duty of Parliament to devise means for realisiug property in the bands of the church ; and if it should be attempted to be done in a more general way than by a land tax on the plan he had devised, it would, perhaps, be found that they would be driven to transfer considerable burdens from those who were now by law liable, ;o others who were not so liable, and such a proposition could not be entertained on the fair principles of justice. It may be inquired why five years should he chosen as the time for effecting this redemp ion, rather than four or six years ; but there is sonic reason for making this choice, that of the million, or about 800 0001., which was about the usual amount of composition, such a period may be the best to discharge this. It must be effected either by the transfer of lands, or of the sums collected to some other species of property. The period of sixteen years seems not applicable to the case, nor ad vantageous to Ireland. The Bishop,' lands may be made available to the purpose at a trilling veer, by being trans ferred to the purchasers at au equally favourable rate; but there is sufficient reason for considering that the rental may be applied otherwise with snore advantage. It is fair to suppose that the four.fifths of land in the rental may be hel; still in the same position, and the re maining fifth appropriated to the object proposed by the Bill, and thus the most equitable adjustment take place by this arrangement.—(Hear, hear.) When this mode of l effecting a transfer should be duly considered, it would he found to Isossess the weight of testimony from many who have reflected upon and approved of it.—(Hear.) He proposed to ascertain, by a commission, composed of persons fully competent, the number of years comparedwith the fee simple of the land in which the tit hes mi g ht be redeemed in the different districts of Ireland.—(Hear , hear.) Having thus ascertained the number of years the purchase would be governed by the rate of the num ber of years applicable to tithe. As an instance to illus trate this position, there were some counties in which the land was worth twee y-five years purchase, anti in these the tithes would be estimated at twenty years purchase.—(Hear, hear.) There were other counties in ' the land was estimated at not more than 18 years pur chase, and in these the tithe was not estimated at more than 14 years' purchase. In the majority of the countias, aceordieg to the evidence iii 1613, the land was worth 20 years' purchase, and the valve of the tithe was worth only 16 years' purchase. It was not necessary to read through the whole statement, but the three instances which he had mentioned would be sufficient to illustrate the manner in which the measure he had described was intended to operate. Having stated that the object of Government was to frame a measure which would admit of the redetnption of land tax, be would now state what were the advantages which the measure held forth to the landowners. He would beg those Gentlemen who were landowners in Ireland and their representatives to do him the favour to suspend their judgment fot the present, for he could assure them, and he considered that be was fully borne out by his statement, that the measure, though it would not be attended with the serious diminution of the plo• perty of the church, yet it would be attended with consi derable advantages to the owners of land. In the first place, be hoped that the owners of land generally would not consider it any mean advantage that the adoption of this measure would put au end to the cosnbinitions and confederations which originated in this description of property, to the innumer able evils which followed in its train, and which had driven from the country all capital and industry, which had lowered the value of their estates, and which had lowered the credit of tne country generally. These were no mean advantages, but ti.e measure would be attentle I with still more positive advantages. In the firs , lie had stated that it was proposed to give to such land holders as were desirous of redeeming their tithes, not only an abatement of one-fifth of the composition, but also the power to recover the whole amount against their tenants. _(Murmurs, and cries of " Order, order.") Surely nothing could be snore just than this. The land was subject to the payment of Whew. It would become the property of the landowners, who, having purchased it, %vote,' be fairly entitled to t!:e whole amount. if in any particular instance the landlord chose to make his tenant a party to the lesnefit, he was perfectly at liberty to do so. —(Hear, hear.) He had already stated that on land wotth twenty years put chase the tithes might be re deemed for the amount of sixteen years pur chase. He considered that this amount of com position would be favourable to the landowntrs Ho had stated another proposition, viz., that those charges should he redeemable by any one who had an interest in the estate. He went upon the same ground as a late Act of Parliament had laid down, that no one who had a lower interest in the land than 21 years, should be precluded from taking advantage of the pre sent measure. It was as was now the case with the land tax, that after five years that part of the charge upon the land should be put au end to. The law always considered the property as belonging to that party who had the greatest interest in the land, therefore the present proposition was only carrying into effect the same principle as had alre ,dy been done by a late Act of that House. He bad stated that the payments should be made to the tithe owners, subject only to those fair and trifling charges attendant upon their collection—to those charges they were clearly liable, acd therefore he proposed that they should be deducted. In strict justice, therefore it was impossible that one uniform plan should govern the whcle of Ireland. He then proposed to appoint the same sort of Com missioners as were at present employed, in order to consider of and report upon the proper reductions that ought to he made upon the tithes in each parish and district. He, however, proposed that in no case should the reduction exceed an amount of 10 per cent. It might have occurred to the observation of some gen tlemen, that a difficulty would arise from this arrangement and that in such a case the Clergymen would have only 80/. for every 100/., sod the money considered in stock. It was not considered probable that any long period would elapse without having a satisfactory investment for the moneyl—(Hear, hear, hear.) Prom records that had come into his possession. it appears that during the three years that hail elapsed prior to the year 1830, the value of the lands sold in Ireland was not less than 9,000,000/. sterling, and for the purpose of redeeming their estates an abundant supply of land would he always had in the market. Honourable Gentlemen mean looking into this Bill would find that ex tensive provisions had been made for this purpose. It was proposed, also, that the value of all trees felled, and ail monies which shall be placed in the hands of the trustees of property under certain circumstances, shall be applicable for the purposes of that act. There were a variety of minor details, which would enable an adequate supply of land to be found, in any parish in Ireland for the purposes of that Act. The Committee would bear in mind that certain parties had taken advantage of a Bill lately passed through that House for the payment of the composition due then, deducting lb per cent.. Of course, the payment of these individuals would be considered a land tax and some of those individuals could sustain any loss. The Committee would recollect in the Act which was passed during the last session tertian provisions were made for such persons A clause was inserted making them also liable, bnt.that was afterwards altered by the House of Lords, and this House acceded to that alteration. They still, however, continue liable in the first instance, inasmuch as it was now proposed to make composition of every dischargingdescription of land t ax , an d t h e G overnmen t t a ki n g that upon them se l ves , t h ere ( cou ld b e no r i s k w h atever i n the cleigymen from the peculiar liabilities under which they were placed. It was the intention also that the amount advanced to the clergy should be first made upon the funds to be collected. He (Mr. Littleton) knew that of the objections by which the. present scheme :would be met would be one that he had sometimes heard, 1 1 , but on which he thought little or no reliance could be placed— that was, that compositition was undue and unfair re muneration for property of this description. The Hon. Member for Dublin stated on a previous occasion that composition had the effect of raising the tithes, and he (Mr. Littleton) at that iime incautiously admitted that it might he true in one-third of the parishes; he had since ascertained that he should have been much more correct if he had stated oue-firth of that one-third. He believed that very few cases indeed exi-ted in which any increase had at all taken place, because the commissioners had nothing more to do . than to ascertain the atnount of tithes agreed for or adjudicated to be paid, and charging that to the owner of the parish, taking only into account the adjustment term. He had endeavoured as well as possible to inquire into some of those minute cases of increase that had taken place. The Committee were aware that a clause had been introduced in the act giving to each Commissioner power where he thought the amount tendered to him was considerably lower than the amount that was due, and not exceeding one-fitth of the amount of the composition. The Com missioners, he was happy to say had had recourse to that power but in very few cases. It bad happened when the landlord had been lay-impropriator, and where the tithe bad been separated from the rent, that by that operation a nominal rise had taken place in the amount of tithes ; again, in some cases the amount of increase not occurred upon the whole amount that was chargeable upon the parish, but upon the amount chargeable able upon individuals, and this had only been productive of great clamour and dissatisfaction. Severed instances recurred of persons who were afeid of lending any countenance to vestries, that they should resucirate tithes, which they bad supposed were buried. Instances occurred where they would not allow persons to attend vestries, and prevented the requisite number which is ten, from attending. There were many individuals at present in town for the purpose of explaining those cir cumstances, to which he (Mr. Littleton) alludes. Regarding the subject of illegal combination, some cases may have occurred When such de mands were made as were unjust ; but there are some cases, such as in abbey lands, whose land, though exempt from composition, still becomes chargeable under some peculiarity of circumstances. In the pariah of Arilguin such was the cass ; but there always remained an appeal which was available to the parties who thought proper to have recourse to it ; and there were few instances where parties were debarred from these advantages, that it did not arise from their own neglect of all available means.—(Hear.) An objection might be raised by the landholders of the following kind—they might say " Why do you deprive sts in 1840 of those advantages which are now se cased to us by the price of grain being the basis of composition, which, in ISO, may possibly be considerable lower ?"—(Heae, hear.) In the Bill he had not introduced any clause in reference with that point, but it might be worthy of consideration whether they should not be allowed the advantages of the existing scale of prices in regulation of the redemption. ' Sir R. PEEL asked the Right Hon. Gentleman who would be made to pay the expenses of law proceedings and others ? Mr. LITTLETON said that the Bill stood at pre sent, the tithe owners would have to pay all expences. He believed be had included every point of importance in his statement, though he cotifese.l lie found great of such magnitude, he could not sit down withouth im pressing upon the House that the Government were not submitting any proposition for the appropriation of the revenues of the church. The two questions were totally 41i, , tinet. it tv:s the bounden duty of Parliament to realise this property, which belonged, if not to the Church, most undoubtedly to the State.—(He a, bear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving the r esolution : " That it is the opinion of this Committee that the composi tion of tithes in Ireland ought to be abolished from and after the Ist of November in the present year, in consideration of a Land-tax to be annually granted to his Majesty, payable by the persons who are, and have been, liableto such compositions, and of the same amounts, such land-tax to be redeemable, and out of the produce a provision to be made for the indemnity of the persons liable to such compositions." Mr. O'CONNELL thought the Right Hon. Gentleman was not entitled to call upon the House to suspend its opinion of the plan until he brought in his Bill. He was disposed to congratulate the House that the Secre tary-at• War had not yet brought in the army estimates, because, after the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman, he might find it necessary to consider how far he should increase the army, for that army roust certainly be in. creased, and very considerably too, if this measure was to be carried into effect. (Hear and laughter.) Never was a more idle scheme or fallacious proposition. The Right Hon. Gentleman seemed to have a bad opinion of the understanding of the Irish people—he might be ig norant, ny r n i tla a brt g yhe i re n w e ooß t fu h i sad character, bet b tef s y ilisra m :bo:nr e usa. r fit e teoG l d y er.eoy c nuH h twild a eea n ms g baat i ano n ady g b norant, and he (Mr. O'Connell) was sorry to say he be lieved he was ; but he ought not to think so lowly of the read rth t :i e dgn gbf t n h or a bro a m ew t u e gal t ei h r i d e st : a bundle of facts, no matter how applicable they were, and applicable :edr t aain t ri lian they were ? He had brought,forward the wtlirtaits;he'tt,h,aseobtcoto, averages of several counties, but let it be remembered that none of those were Southern COantl s. M. LITTLETON oh , erved that he had taken them from Armap„h, CiVall, Fermanagh, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Londonderry,' Mayo, an 4 Sligo. Kilkenny certa:9ly was the only one of the southern counties. Mr.Tti C e t O , N a N n d E L d e L e la t r h e e d n p h r a o t g t e a d t e l y n y i n t c h .r a e t a the .. p n e u , b o er of tith e p a y ers h a d b een di m i n i s h e d b y the Corn u r it (Hear, bear.) I n a ll villages and s,naens were now a ' towns in charged lrela Ireland, the labourers with s ma ll kitchen gardens with tithes which they n e v er p a id b e f ore t h e C ompos i t i on Act. The averages of the Right Hon. Gentleman had been taken from persons occupying small plo(tsoefg, hear. roundo)f ground, and who paid but a few farthings in tithe._Har, He entered into these details not with the disposition finding fault with the Hon. Gentleman, but with a melancholy presentiment of the way in which the measure would he received in Ireland. It would at first be received with a shout of ridicule—that he did not fear; but next it would be thought of in a more serious manner, and of that he thought every one had a right to be afraid.—(Hear, hear.) Why should not the Government take other measures to put an end to the tithe agitation, which had been in existence for the last 75 years ? There certainly had been a lull lately, but it was the crse even in the worst of storms, and so it was now. He was afraid tbat the measure propounded by the Right Hon. Gentleman would again stir up the passions of the people. They might again renew their bloody laws; it %ould he in the recollection of the House that only a short time ago the punishment of death was put upon all offences, even the most slight resistance to the payment of tithes. They might again renew those laws, but it would not nuke the payment of tithes more eel. — (Hear, bear.) How should a statesman look at a ques tion which had been agitated so violently I.y a whole people for such a length of time as seventy years? It was not the amount of money that was objected to, but the manner in which that money was applied—(Hear, bear) —that caused the extent of dissatisfaction that prevailed. That agitation bad existed for sixty or seventy years, and he defied the Right Honourable Gentleman to deny that it was not now as vigorous as it ever was. If there had been a lull, as no doubt there bad been, it w a s only caused by the faith the people of Ire land put in the promises of the Right Honourable Gentleman, which were now to be all falsified. This was the extinction they had been promised. Whit was before tithe was now to he called land.tax. The grievance was not to be extinguished nor lessened: nay, in some instances it was to be increased, he believed, one third— Nugvgrkei done a a t t e e s it of all . Mr. LITTLETON—One-thirtieth. Mr. O'CONNELL—The Hon. Member now said one thirtieth, and on a former day he had said one-third ! This was the way in which he was legislating for Ire land. He (Mr. O'C .) would venture to tell him that he was legislating in the dark—that he was consulting neither the feelings, nor the wants, nor the wishes of the people of Ireland. He might still go on with his sys tems, but they would be found unavail , ng. The pimple of Irsland had been themselves so ctimin tl in their oppo sition to tithes, that people could feel . no compassion for them, but instead of palliating . remedies for but thos re t , t th h e e e . Ire land, tut' and auk,ld s t n i tl o f fleece Government tetit;heneyemmpee,ornemtas present had tdacodoweriidc Administration with mn this t i l s i' w w r w y rth t l h il: gave them a ‘lh,a,uirunadul inning xg g . s thatpity fi was The Hon. nt ever hoenp. ~ Gentleman t b e r s o t ogtheti clergy, ii,reetohntehl then he lei c en o c u e n d t sum of 60,0001. to relieve their distresses, and then he took all the powers with which the law armed him o f execution for d e bt, seizure of the person, and, in short, every mode that could be had recourse to to get back his 60,0001. He understood that 12,0001. had been recovered, and that it cost 28,0001. to get it back.—(An Hon. Member exclaimed 20,0001.) As far as he (Mr. O'Connell) could collect, it had cost 28,0001., and he had endeavoured to mace thaough the returns for the pur pose of ascertaining the fact. He would prefer bring contradicted by the Right lion. Gentleman himself but at all events, it was admitted that 20,0001. was thus expended. Nay, what was worse, horse, foot, artillery, and marines (for he understood five or six com panies eif marines were thus employed), were put in requisition, and scoured the country from one end to the other, at least three provinces out of the four to get back this 12.0001., and thus.horse, foot, and artillery were sent hunting after pigs, and many after cattle, and carrying off the clothing of the peasantry, women as well es men, and thereby got up as pretty a scene of predial agitation as ever was witnessed in Ire land.—(Loud cries of Hear, hear.) What followed ? They then came down with their Coercion Bill, instead of conciliating, they laid this blister upon the shoulders of the people. This was the first step in tithes, the second was the Bill brought in by the Right Honourab'e Gentleman to composition, and there never was a Bill so grossly opposed to the interests of the people. What were they about to do now ? They were about to turn the landlords of Ireland into tithe proctors._ (Cheers.) He implored them to pause before they did so ; let them recollect, that it was not the amount of the payment, but the application of the money that went to the hearts of the people of Ireland. They bad a double object in view—one was in full force, the other which had been kept as much as possible out of the view of the people—he meant the rent—would be soon as much agitated as tithes had ever been. They had hitherto been separate. Landlords of Ireland look to yourselves ! You are made by this act tithe proctors, and rest assured that agitation will soon be applied to rent as well as to tithes. He implored the House not to ent still greater miseries upon Ireland, or they would soon find that an attack upon a sinecure church would be soon turned into one upon landlords and rent. He felt it his duty to protest against this Bill as holding out the smallest species of relief to Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) He protested against it, as holding out no alleviation whatever to the miseries of Ireland. Why could they not legistate with common sense? There was not common sense in Ireland.—(Loud laughter.) He thanked them for that cheer ; he really deserved it for asking them to act with common sense towards Ireland, for when had they done so ? —(Cheers.) He would ask them what would the people of England think, if they had a monarch like James 11., with a subservient Parliament, or if one of the illustrious house of Brunswick should take up the prejudices of the ex-illuitrious house of Stewart—if ha shouid reconcile himself with the Pope of Rome, and if he lad a majority of that House with him—supposed he passed a law giving all the livings of Protestants to a Catholic clergy, he would ask them what would be the feeling of the people of Englanc? They would, anti ought, to look with just indig nation and abhorrence upon the wretched imitator of James 11. They (the Government) wanted to preserve the sinecure Church in Ireland. There are thirty parishes in Ireland, and not a single Protestant in them. In the southern parts of Ireland, nine-tenths of the Protestant Ministry had no congregation. He (Mr. O'Connell) called on them to disengage the people of Ireland from p tying for a church they derived no benefit from.—(Hear, But that was not the scheme adopted. No ; the Right HonourableGentlemansmriales,na,bi on uth e.( Hear, is_planis hear.notoe that can be called a ti,) It would be vecy cruel to send a class of gentlemen like the Protestant clergymen of Ireland adrift upon the world. No one in that House would be more anxious than he (Mr. O'Connell) was to preserve them in the t li supply pil is no e ny o o,ov u tntii r ohtne i i t ehi y .eatfrh t i lite f othra t ecoo i nal i tsa a tceeeye t :tiv e na . e , iano t rt nt a ryey t i e s,sp ata w tbunir, uatiti thing s c otgams : t a tfloee s r t sete s vhlisah f ebtn o aneyd r ti,e t t(R.t i ttowi e .antfiL r oti Ehar t el ) ent a inee t :t u achi I.iwrce.aanhhot State church Ge l o:l i ied f c; e rih, . B: e u s p.o e n ha t t he r p el e i i g; e n , , daac b et u e t ietive le e t ndi t ud l n ie tn m o e church. What was attempted to be done in Scotland nyDot coulde h s i ntge the li Right H t o driven to their moors and their fastnesses, but they came hint nd if d m o under e tv an n bu t. t t for be toleration Air. o i v n o r n e n l i e g lo i l o f) n a . vernroent) to the earth; they did not fight for any thinghat clergyl e rey would o n u Ireland e u l a o n t If the BishoP ' s they could not. f t r h l e a r . c s woetial bld e have n otd b esa n at t yh ,the continue pe p s l i e n sinecure pretext uld all the troeli religions give o it s tod duty y e to Friars, perf, a 4 n ol d thus; sso the secular clergy would not, and if both accepted of it the . parish Priests and Bishops would be deserted, and the abhorrent is the idea of a connection between Church and State to the Irish people. He (Mr. O'C.) is an organ of a great portion of the Roman Catholics in Ireland, and he could sly, that no measure would be more dastardly condemned than any connection between Church and state. He cilled on them to alleviate the condition of the people; to pause before this bill he laid on the table. The Right lion. Gentleman made some mistakes on legal points. He (Mr. O'Connell) would make no observa tions on that, as they must have proceeded from hi not being acquainted with law ; but he roe to protest against any acquiescence in the Bill, introduced by the Right Hon. Gentleman. He (heap proved of it in tofu. It afforded no relief, it effect:d no alteration in their present grievances. What matter was it whether the lash was laid on too high or too Io e, if they still continued to flog, and the unhappy victim accepted they o"Gf'ot still writhed at the triangle. The alteration 04 care oc the landlords and the church, and still visited tbil Occupiers of the land with the same burthen as befo:e. Let tithes be abolished, and such part of them as be rendered susceptible of commutation ; let it 1 0 appropri a ted to the lowcrin4 (if rack rents ; to tbe, building of hospitals, and the introduction °I an equitable system of Poor Laws. LA this be done, and let them hear no more scolding speeche Mr. SHAW then rose, and was left ,p3aking. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. UNION-HALL . mooed by do mpaariinshtennaffincceersofof his S h d o a r u ed h i T e l: , f a or wi n (i Yesterday Mr. Thomas Taylor was su rnm° the i with four • The Vestry Clerk oft he above .parish stated that ds the widow received ss, a week from Shoreditch towar maintenance of herself and children. The parish aut i II rities having good grounds for supposing that Mr. TaY ° b . the father of the widow, was in a condition to assist i n t hi I s.. l :lti t l o d rep' , support of her and the children, had therefore adopted is the in w present proepedings for the purpose of compelling birth 0 rest T describedwh e a aha ind a th l retehaadty receiptl, e e refused na s e a l an t i onacndeno annuity of ratfa T iln l o i e e odl V „etahbtaer besides idea3Cflre.rkTstyhloc , ;:e f 3 Wi o d o o o w L said that her husband died about three l 't. - I 11: ' ` every means in e wan,chial relief. ~„,r s ', them, h it) e c me: until leaving at l h e e n r g with th hera family means uriicbtheuitlidenrlein:a u t hat u: su pport ' • + she had strived by ea, as a last resource, compelled to make applicat-- • straitened sf ir oh r e el‘p w ra disposition % c r e t s n Tp t e r iic i e h t u c tateos case to whf iha t 4 h si s e (pl l' meansaso daughter's tg p p p ho o tne r ear t d; 81 0 , of inwonechildren s o nearlywhp which ch alliedhe bad t a : . h v ti j : 1 , . , a . r s o , Cu i nralsifnage to,t, t r h tel e ,nedcehr solicitor,ieift support almostlo a oifm e a a ns r n d i b, s le 3 e n fafum t rhielhybi :elbasl.. 1:. . ' of Mr. Taylor, said his (Mr. T. s) Ins were so ' nu t i from this circumstanc e was rendered unable to do that with ed or . der that some arrangem e ; might be msde. '1 THAMES POLICE. DARING ROBRERY.—Yesterday two men, manse Daniel Ross and David Burns, were charged with stealing twelve sheets of new sheathing copper from the ship William, now lying in St. Katharine's Dock, beg which was, at the time of the robbery, under repair lot Mr. Ritchie's dock, Rotberhithe. Mr. BALLANTINE sentenced the prisoners to two months imprisonment and hard labour in Brixton gaol. THE MARKETS. CET.—Feb. 19. 9. d, Par Ton. 16 6 Walls End Hotspur....... l 6 6 Ditto s Not End Killingworth humberland, 0 , • Walls End Peareth..,.... 7 6 0 Walls End Perkins. 9' Walls End Riddell's : 6 9 Walls End g Lambton's Primrose ~•"' 18 0 Walls End Hetton 17 Walls End Lambton •"'" 17 Walls End Stewart'i.-** 1 7 U Walls End Adelaide (1 Walls End bordon.-...... 11 9 W. E South Durham.. 17 , 5 . Walls End Tees ...,-........ A Hartley ‘,/ 0 Swallow's Walls End last market-day, 7. COAL MAR Per Ton. s. (1. Adair's - 16 9 Chester 14 6 Dean's Primrose 15 0 East Percy.— 15 0 Hebburn Main 16 3 17 6 Ord's Redhugh 15 9 Peiaw Pontop Windsor 16 0 .. 16 6 West Hartley Wylam 17 01 Walls End Bell & Brown 16 3 WE. Bell, Robson, 81:Co. 16 6 Walls End Bewicke & Co. 17 3 Walls End 16 3 Ditto (unscreened) 15 3 Walls End Gosterth 17 6 Walls End Hilda 16 6 Ships arrived since .4110 , E COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURINGTHE W---W----.% Wheat. Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. t s. to s. 4 . Abingdon.....*. 62 81 31 43 22 30 38 50 61 24 28 $ Birminghain..—...— 56 Bridport 56 74 32 36 26 30 3/ Cirencester 40 52 23 26 18 2. 1 , 1 46 54 86 36 40 26 Guildford 48 74 23 32 26 4 0 H enley— 54 83 30 3 5 20 46 Hereford 64 68 32 34 2 2 Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 30 w Maidenhead 56 68 34 44 2 2 ° Monmouth----..... 66 68 32 36 24 oft 23 56" 14 Reading 40 66 22 3 6 „,, 24 36 Salisbur 42 54 25 2) , o ,'" 32 Southampton 54 58 33 40 .° 32 Stroud 64 78 37 3 8 2. „,, 2 44 - Tewkesbury 43 34 f 3 A Uxbridge 48 74 26 3 4 20 17,,,'" 34 Wantage--.---. 58 80 27 32 17 ""34 " Warminster 48 56 25 29 2 1 F„! oa 49 5 - 2 — 2 6 3 - 2 1 LEWES —Feb 18. on 14 White Wheat (per quarter) MARKET. —.......X2 10 oto x,l 0 • LEWES MA K ET.— Ff White Wheat (per quarter)—........ £2 Red Barley Oats, New Oil Cakes !1) IS. 10 0 to x! 4 0 1 , 7 • 18 0 I 16 0 ( 10 0 per th, 14 ° 1 0 1 ji g - • 0 , ,00311_%-' A lIKET.--Feb. d. to 1 . Per lb. 61 0 B 0 CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d.. Wheat Barley 3 0 3 9 Mutton .................. Oats 2 6 3 3 Veal ..................... Beans Pease 5 0 7 0 Lamb ..................... Hay 3l. 10s to 31. 15s. Od. per Wn' HULL MARKET.—Feb. IS. . Wheat, Old — s. 40s. 50s. ......New ...... . •••"........ . Foreign —s . 50 s. Ms. ln bond... . Oats, Poland Small or Feed —2 B .. Foreign —s. 16s. ISs ...................... j: 1 1 8 4 5 5 .. 2 1 04 . ......... 11 0_1 . d . .................. .:4....1.: Barley, Norf. & Sul 444. 4 ‘• 2 • m a , 05 6: • 27e. 313 :4: 29413% Foreign ..... . __s. Beans ___ —s. 925. 345. Foreign ....... Pease, White —s. 30s. 245. Grey ............ fares —s. —s. —s. Foreign ......... Rapeseed. ill bond none. Free, ~ DUMFRIES MARKETS.—Feb. 12 s. d• t 1 o „ O s. d. s.d.l S to l 0 Wheat, Imp. Bush 59t0 6 oButter, 160 Z. ''''''''' .'.O 0 0 0 Barley . Oats ....... . .......... Flour, 141 b.. Oatmeal 8 0 3 1 8 2 v M e u a t l t . on ..: ............. :::::: . .......2 t ~,v , 0 Potatoes, cwt. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREI" (From the London Gazelle.) in 2 0 g TO-MORROW, Fee. '2l. u W. B S a h y a l r e p y e , , Bi i i n ip_ su b ra re n a c k e e -b r, ro i k to e t r h , e T r h h r it e h a e d . n . ............................................ 1 oi DIVI DEN DS. E. Troughton, sen., silk-throwster, Wood-street .. ;611'1 ' C. H. Wearing and W. Green, merchants, N , ...... 11; Church-yard ................... .................. - ..................... W. Hudson, merchant, of the ship Prella ..................... W. Marsh, banker, Berners-street ............................ me O lv n il t le he ß l ro 7 w th n inst., eo a at d \N au " BTHS. e g y h m te IR o r u . th, the lady of Lieut..Coloo Bedford.streo4. On the 14th inst., Mrs. Edward S. Meyer, Covent-garden, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., in New Broad street, Mrs. ling, of a daughter. ----- 4 011 PAINTED /OW PUBLIFUED NY MURDO YOUN a ' 0 XVN OrIICS, 112, STRANL; ling, of a daughter. MARRIED. DOW ' On the 10th Inst., at Stockport, William Bolden i. di tteo, Esq., eldest son of John Bolden, Esq., of Hyning, L1 11 ' 4 701 1 0 to Mary Ann, daughter of George Andrew, Esq., of M ee 11 Compstall, Cheshire. o fO r On the 13th inst., Miss Ida Go r i ng, t hi r d d au ghter o' Charles Goring, Highden, Sussex, to Aubrey Willi ara f clerk, M.P., eldest so n o f Ch ar l es Beauclerk, F 44 '' ° • Leonard's-forest, Horsham. Tbot; On the 18th inst., at Fornham St. Martin, John Waddington, Esq., to Mary Anne, daughter of the I P° Cocksedge, Esq., of St. Edmund's.hill, Suffolk. 11 On the 17th inst., a t St . P ancras New Church, delzep ofCumberland.row, Islington, to Mi ss H . n a tter, of ig nr 'sorn k ' On the 18tl a inst., at Woolwich, Richard Beatncint'btet " by, Esq., Roy a l H orse Art i llery, to Eliza, e ldest cleng pe poti,j Colonel Sir Alexander Dixon, K.C.B. and K.C. ll ' . Adjutant-General Royal Artillery. Catnbri".of I On the 13th inst., at St. Michael's Church, hter ' Frederic Adam Catty, Esq., surgeon, to Ann, d a "' ilg ° job I James Edwards, Esq., of Downing College. Are• ,f• On the 18th inst., at St. George's, Hanover- 5 4 0 „ Jr - Lee Lee, Esq., M.P., of Dillington, Somersetshire , `" A te 01 0 1 daughter of the late John Edwatd Vaughan, Esq. , ° „,o f OS, Glamorganshire, Member in the last Parliament for " scln li g t ok formerly for Glamorganshire. On the 18th inst., at St. George the Martyr, Qu'',.. n e et ' John Johnson, Esq., of Nicholas.lane, Lombard -5. o f t'' Mortlake House, Congleton, to Ellen, third daug hte gilt, late John Whitfield, Esq., Moss House, Congleton , C" h r retSg ' On the 18th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Dune s ; ll Mitchell, Esq., of Thainston, Aberdeenshire, to 143 ! . . 5 ,' of daughter of the late Major Robert Anthony Bron12:0": Hon. East India Company's service. DIED. o te On the 14th inst., in London, Captain James GeP e ' the Royal Scots Greys. 13°.' ; On the 17th inst., at Brighton, Sir Thomas Clarg-•' in his 54th year. let e r I On the 16th inst., at Dorking, Mr. John ThoMPs ° Petworth, Sussex, aged 74. Cet tier On the 18th inst., in Camberwell.grove, Mrl. A • Esther Galabin, in her 91st year. (w rie r- On the 16th inst., Mr. Thomas Melrose, late joint P r ''' of the Queen's Theatre, aged 40. ' On the 17th inst., at Paris, Jacob Ricardo, age" „. 54 ;i011' 0 ( On the 18th inst., at Lordship-terrace, Stoke r 4e ,, e clt. George, the youngest son of the late Thomas Barton ti Hitchin. u On the 16th inst., in Euston square, Mr. Thotnes Mills, aged 22 years. ce i t , ' 14, kv, of , it" a G le n'