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CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ANNUAL GENERAL MEET -II- ING of PROPRIETORS will be held at the Office of the Society, on THURSDAY, the 6th of March ensuing, at twelve for ONE o'clock, at which Meeting four Directors will be elected, in place of four who retire in ac cordance with the Deed of Constitution. At the septennial division of profits in January, 1832, the sum appropriated to the holders of Life Policies amounted on an average to 33/, per cent. on the premiums which had been paid. JOSEPH PINCKARD, Resident Secretary. No. 78, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. 111 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. --. India Stock Ditto Bonds... ..... ... 33 pm. ,South Sea Stock lOll4 Old Annuities .... ---- New Ditto - . 90 ...... ..... -.-. 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 .... Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 49 50 pm. Ditto..-...."..500 49 50 pm. Ditto Small 5O 51'prn. Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised Bank for Account —. India for Account Cons. f"r Account...9l poi 1i 1 recit.Es Or ' , TACKS TH) lank Stets 216 K 153 16 1 4 per Cent. Red. 91 % 14 $ per Cent.Cona..... ....... 34 Xi tqi per Cent. Ditto Red 083 0 i New 3% per Cent. 8 9 ner Cent Ann. 1766 - 4 per Cent 1696 ... 10434 4 Bank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 186° shut Oct. 10, 1856 17 7-16 % Jan. 5, 1860... ...... -- Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880........».« -- Jan. 5, 1876 TRICKS OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds lOO Belgian Bonds 97% Ditto Account c 7% Brazilian Bonds _ _ . _7IX THIS DAT AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account QIN Portuguese Bonds 69'>4 BY4 Ditto Account 74% 3%%, Buenos Ayres Bonds 26 Ditto Account 25% Chiban Bonds . Ditto Account 27 Columbian Bonds Pitto Account 25 Ditto Account — Ditto New 80nd5...7N f 9 14 Ditto Acconnt 7 l l /4 60 3 4 Prussian Bonds lO2 Ditto Bonds, 1822 lO3 [Russian Bonds, 1822......1 0 44 Ditto Account lO4 Ditto 111 lO 6 l, Spanish Bonds,lB2l —32 1 4 21! Ditto Acc. Ditto Bonds, , 8 . 23 Ditto Account 3O French Rentes, Sp. c. —f —c '--- Exchange —f —c. -- 3 per cent —f ---C -- Exchange —f —c Dutch, 21 p. c. 5O Ditto Account 5O 497 i Ditto, 5 p• c. 96%4 Ditto Account 06% Dittn Bonds, IRA ...... 27 Ditto Acrinnt vanish lion Ditto Accrunt Greek 80nd5.......... Ditto Bonds, 1825 29v 4 Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 3134 Ditto Accourit o, 8 per cent 401( I)itto Account. 4014.4 ....... 89 TIMIS or MARIS THIS DAT AT ONY O'CLOCT. Paid. Per Share. Alton Mining Company £7 9% Angh. mex. Min..-'. ties. at 5/. pm ) XlOO 214 Bolanos Mining Company -£l5O 137% Brazilian Mining Company £s 15 Brazilian 'mp. min. ('o. (ss. at 51. pm.) EV' 60% Ditto Macaubas Cocaes 22% 29 1 4 Ditto St. John Del Rev 91 Cata Branca Mining Company ...... British Iron Minim , Company £so 29% Columbian Mining Co. 'iss st 5/. pm.) 52% 9 English Mrhing Company ..... 12% 25 General Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo Mexican Mining Co.. ...... ......- Real del Monte Mining Co....(unreg.) --- United Mex Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40 Ditto New Scalp 5 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector Insurance Comp. .... ...... Australian Ca Canada Company .. ....... General Steam Navigation Co National Provincial Bank of England 15 Rio Doce Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 42 1 , , ,, 4 fi34fl 6 0 25 1 4 61 15N 133' 3 403' PRICES OK IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEB. 28. Bank Stock — St. Patrick Insur.(perShare Consols, 3 Der cent .. Royal Irish Ditto — Gov. Stock, 3X, per cent 96 National Ditto Ditto, New .... ....... ......• Patriotic Ditto - 4 per Cent. — Hibernian Bank OM% Gov. Deb. 3;4 percent.— 88% 'Provincial Ditto ............... Royal Lanai Stock .... ..... Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Stock — Imperial Mine ........ .......... City Deb. 4 per cent...— — Mining Co. of Ireland ...... Ballast office Deb. 4u. c - Commercial Buildings HIG , WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ...15 minutes after 9. I Evening...so minutes after 9. NOTICE. In a few days, when the arrangements for that pur pose are accomplished, The Sun will be conside rably enlarged, and printed with a new and beauti ful type, cast expressly for this Paper by the cele brated Alex. Wilson and Sons, of Glasgow. . • 044' ,t.'`,;,tfe • e e l tin„ 4 ,1 ,A. fo. • , LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1834. Dutch papers of yesterday's date have been received. Their tone is remarkably pacific; so much so, that they express astonishment at the assertion of the Belgian Minister that the King of HOLLAND was increasing his army. On the contrary, we are now assured that the Dutch army is to be reduced, and that extended fur loughs are to be given to a large portion of the sch u ttery. There is, besides, to be a general change in the cantonments of the army ; the divisions, it is said, are to be diminished, a part of them to take up positions further from the frontier, and ano ther part, with the brigade of Major-General FAVANGE, to reinforce the garrisons of the for tresses. The object of this measure is said to be both to lessen the burden of quartering the troops in the province, and also to be able to extend the furloughs in the schuttery, with a view to economy. This looks. as if the Dutch King was begin ning at length to find out that the game of delay is likely t 6 become as dangerous as it has been hitherto expensive ; and that it would be impru dent to tempt the patience or the pockets of the people much longer. The death of General REUTHE, who was at the head of the administration of the army in the field, is considered as a very great loss, on account of his excellent character and distin guished talents. The late storms and inundations have caused greater damage to the dikes of the polders on the Meuse than the oldest inhabitants remember to have seen. DUTCH FUNDS-AMSTERDAM, Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. 49% to 50 Ainort Syndic, 4% per cent. .... ..... ..... E43. 34 to 89Ni Ditto, ditto, 31.. per cent. Loan of 14 Million, 1830, 6 percent lOOl4 to 100% Ditto, 1832-1833, 5 per Cent. 94q to 94% Exchange on Landon l2 05 Ditto, two months l2 —Dutch Papers, March 2. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. H A MBURG, FEB 25.-13 7% ; two months, 13 6%. CBRISTIANIA, FEB.I s.—Three months, 5 1 4 a. fkrocanomit. FEB. 18.—Two months, 12 36. BERLIN, FEB. 22.—Three months, 6 25%. ST. PETEEBBLIEGH, FEB. 14.—Three months, 10 41-64. VIENNA, FEB. 12.—Two months, 9 46. Litiestc. FEB. 17.—Three months, 6 15%. Hamburg Papers, Feb. 25. Bcpaszw-HattE, FEB. 25, HALF-PAST TWO, P.M.—The Eng lish mail arrived yesterday after the close of business, but ap pears to have produced no effect. To-day prices have risen a trifle, and several transactions have taken place in Austrian and Russian securities. Discount 2 per Cent. End of February. Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent ............ 70 1 1 Anglo-Russian lO O l4 Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 18 3 ) 92% Ditto.ditto, 1831 4. 4 Ditto, ditto, 1832. 924 i Certificates 93% Polish Bonds 12 7 14 Prussian Bonds, 1832 Austrian Bank Shares 1256 Ditto Metalliques .. 98% Ditto 4 per Cent..... Spanish 3 per Cents. Spanish Cortes (A. F. Haldimand and :tons) 32 Ditto 4 per Cent 43 y 4 " Dutch 2% per Cents. ................ . 49 Ditto 5 per Cents his ...Hamburg Reporter, Feb. 25. The- Paris papers of Saturday mention the r iaLof,M. C ABET, Member of the Chamber of Elqufies, and Editor of Le Populaire, for two separate libels on LOUIS PHILIP inserted in that Journal. M. PERSIL, who conducted the prosecution, addressed the jury in a fierce, ex aggerated strain, evidently intended to terrify them into a verdict of guilty. He was success ful in his efforts, for M. CADET was found guilty, and sentenced to two years' imprison ment, two years' more interdiction of civil rights, and a fine of 4,000 francs. If the King of the barricades thinks, that by thus per secuting the press, he will crush all obnoxious discussion, and rally round him the respectable and influential classes, he will find himself, at no very protracted date, in a state of lamentable error. The punishment he has caused to be inflicted on M. CADET will, from its dispro portionate severity, only recoil on his perse cutor. It is impossible but the sympathies of all tolerant and enlightened citizens must be against the accuser, and in favour of the accused. A sentence like this will do more to spread republicanism throughout France than all the secret societies that were ever yet propagated. We judge from it that Louis PHILIP is full of serious alarm for the stability of his throne, and imagines that his last and ot* hope remains lin a show of vigour. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARis, MARCH I. Five per Cents., 105 f. 9"c. 95c 106 k. Four and a Half per Cents., 1011. 10c. Four per Cents., 93f. Three per Cents., 76f. 25c. 45c. 50c. Bank Actions, 1,780 f. Rente de Naples, 92f. 50c. 55c. Roman Five per Cents., 92%%q. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 27 27%4. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 39% % Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, k ive per Cents., 61%%. Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 98%34. Haytian Loan, 275 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 20c. Three months, paper, 25f. 10c. —Coors Authentiaue. The result of the Dudley election may, in some measure, be attributed to the slowness of Ministers in granting relief to the Dissen ters ; but that forms but a small part of the cause. Sir JOHN CAMPBELL has himself chiefly to blame for the untoward event. He chose a new borough where the electors are of such a description that they are either led away by Radical principles, or controlled by Tory masters. Ike irritated the latter by making an uncalled for attack on the magistrates, and branding them as violent political partisans. His support of the Irish Coercion Bill and some other measures, ill-suited to radicalism, formed an excuse for the radical party coalescing with their bitter enemies. The Westminster election was another proof how difficult, nay, impossible, it is to fill a high office under the Crown and at the same time be a popular re presentative. _ The affair of the Rev. INIr. GLEIG and Lord JOHN RUSSELL continues, as might be expected, to excite a strong feeling against the Govern ment. The Tories secretly boast of it as a proof of the imbecility of Ministers, and ask whether this does not show the superior intelli gence, learning, and piety of their party, when the Paymaster of the Forces comes over to their ranks to select a chaplain for Chelsea Hospital? And who is the individual chosen ? The nominee of a Tory Archbishop a Tory writer in a publication ever hostile to the Government,—the favourite companion of the Tory LONDONDERRY, and one of the bitteres t writers against reform. Mr. GLEIG admits that he wrote against reform ; and he also admits that the favour was unsolicited. Here we have the author of the Reform Bill conferring the best living in his gift on a writer who joined with th e LYNDHURSTS and LONDONDERRYS, and all the enemies of reform, in opposing a measure on the success of which the GREY Administration rested, and in ex citing a commotion in 1832, which threat ened the very existence of the Constitution. No defence can be made for such conduct, be cause it is impossible to reconcile absurdities. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has the appointment in trust for the benefit of the public service—he grants to an enemy, and encourages every Tory underling in office to persevere in thwarting the views of Government. What an encouragement to friends, and what a compliment to the inde pendent clergy, who, from principle, continued, through good report and through bad report, to support the Whigs, when they had nothing to expect from them ! Had this strange proceeding attached blame to Lord JOHN alone, it would have been of little conse. quence, but it is only of a piece with the doings of some others of the ministry. What was their conduct in filling up the office of store-keeper in the stationery-office ? They made an attempt to put the son of Sir JOHN KEY in it, but the choice was so notoriously bad that they disgusted their friends by it more than their enemies. Whom did they appoint ? One recommended by their friends, or the nominee of the most unflinching Tory in the United Kingdom. " Call ye this backing your friends ?" There is no news in the Brussels Papers o! Saturday worth quoting. . _ BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, FEB. 27. Actual Debt, 2 % per Cent. 5O Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 961 Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent.. 9334 The following is the Russian version of the treaty lately entered into between the St. Pe tersburgh Cabinet and the Porte : ST. PETERSBURGH, FEB. 10.—A treaty has been signed here between our Court and the Plenipotentiary from Constanti nople, Achmet Pacha, which settles several points relative to the treaty of Constantinople, to the perfect satisfaction of the Porte. These points are the evacuation of the principalities on the Danube, the settlement of the boundaries of Asia, and of the war contribution. We hear that Hospedars will be ap pointed by the Sultan for Moldavia and Wallachia without delay, and that the evacuation by the small number of Russian troops still remaining there will be completed within two months. The question relative to the boundaries of Asia is settled, and the Emperor of Russia has abandoned a consider able proportion of the war contribution, and has consented that the remainder may not be burdensome to the Porte. Several years will be allowed for payment. The treaty has been sent to the Porte for ratification. Achmet Pacha is about to take his departure for the Ottoman capital—alligemeine Zeitung, Feb. 25. By accounts from Niadrid of the 20th, we learn that a Royal Ordinance has appeared re lative to the organization of the Urban militia. When a military corporation like this, enroll ing in its ranks those classes of society who have an interest in the preservation of good order, is fully organized, the QUEEN•REGENT of SPAIN wilt have one great obstacle removed to the convocation of a liberal and constitu tional Cortes. We perceive, by the same papers, that General QUESADA has been ap pointed Viceroy of Navarre and Commander in-Chief of the Army of the North, in place of General VALDEZ, who has been made Captain-General of Old Castile. We learn by German Papers, received this morning, that the prices of corn at Odessa have fallen considerably, in consequence of the de mand for Government having ceased. This augurs well for the continuance of peace. We also learn from Russia, that the prices have abated throughout the Governments on the Wolgo, in consequence of the usual supplies for St. Petersburgh having been obtained from other sources. The natural consequence is, that corn is now become more plentiful for the poor, in proportion to its cheapness. VIENNA, FEB. 19.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 97 21-32 ; Four per Cents., 87 3-10 ; Bank Shares, 1,238. A Second Edition of the Birmingham Journal, dated Saturday evening, mentions that tranquillity is perfectly restored at Dudley. We have news from Portugal to the 24th ult. by which it appears that MIGUEL had so far increased his army by the junction of that under General LEMOS from Alemtejo, and re inforcements from the vicinity of Oporto, as to be able to make a sortie on the 18th, with a view of dislodging Marshal SA LDANA. The Miguelites, were, however, defeated, after a very sanguinary battle, in which they fought with more than usual bravery. The details were not known when the steamer left, but it was reported that MIGUEL lost 1,200 in killed, wounded, and prisoners, while PEDRO'S army suffered to the extent of about 300. A correspondent of a Morning Paper says of the affair of the 18th near Santarem : " That Count Saldanha displayed very great courage upon that day, and was foremost wherever there was any danger. At one particular moment of the engagement, 300 men of the brave No. 12 Cacadores were involved, and must have surren dered to the enemy, but for Brigadier-General Bacon's timely assistance with the only cavalry on the field, not more than eighty men. The enemy fought so well this time in consequence of a proclamation of Don Miguel, telling his men that Donna Maria's troops were all dis persed about the country, and that consequently they would meet with little or no resistance, and be able to arrive in Lisbon on the :12d, being the anniversary of his own entry into this city some years since. It is stated by some officers who were in the engagement, that, notwithstanding Brigadier- General Bacon's and Captain Wakefield's efforts, about 40 of the cavalry on this side, all Portuguese, when charged by Don Miguel's, conducted themselves with very great cowardice, and that it was almost a matter of impossibility to get them to keep their ground. Captain Wakefield, toge ther with three other cavalry officers, is amongst the wounded, although not severely. A Spaniard is reported to have been made prisoner, and it is imagined that a battalion which Don Carlos has been forming at Beja for his own service was in the action. I have endeavoured to ascertain this f, om gentlemen who were present, and I find that some assert it as a fact, and others say that if there was such a corps they never saw it. General Saldanha did not make any mention of it in his despatch ; but if it really was the case, it would alter the position of Great Britain re specting an armed interference, although it would be an occurrence very much to be deplored, from the loss of men and expense which it would bring on us, as well as from the length of time which might be required to settle things. My own opinion is, that there was no such battalion of Don Carlos's engaged on the 18th. We have not yet seen Count Saldanha's promised despatch with all the details, I should mention that the arrangements on - -this 'side were sP badly made, that it was a mere matter of chance that the--:: happened to be any cavalry on the grouiScV ThelAioners taken arrived yesterday, and appeared to me to be between 120 and 130 in number, and better clothed thaix we could have imagined." THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL VE O'CLOCK. We have no arrivals this morning, or ship letters, with the exception of the Lisbon Mail, by the Coufiance, sailed on the 24th instant, and the Express from Paris. The accounts from Lisbon are to the 25th instant. A battle took place on the 18th instant, after Don Miguel had received his reinforcements from the Alemtejo, and some troops from the neighbourhood of Oporto ; immediately a sortie was made from Santarem of about seven to eight thousand men, under the command of General Lemos, who, it is said, took General Saldanha by surprise. It was fought at Azamluiguyeira ; the conflict was severe and bloody, but it terminated with the re, treat of the Miguelites, whose loss is stated at 1,000 to 1,200 men, and that of Saldanha at 300. Upon the whole, it appears evident that Miguel is at present in great force, and that Don Pedro cannot venture to make an at tack on Santarem, as his brother is strongly intrenched there, and it is stated has sufficient supplies to hold out for some time , to come. A letter from Falmouth, posted at the North and South American Coffee-house, says,—l beg to write to you that the Confiance steamer has arrived from Lisbon, by which I have received two notes : the first states that a heavy action took place on the 17th, and the Miguelites were compelled to retreat with the loss of 700 killed and prisoners, and the loss of the Pedroites was 500 killed. The Belgians marched for the army on the 19th. The second note states, that although the Pe droites have brought into Lisbon three standards of the enemy, I believe they have gained no advantage of consequence. The accounts from Spain are still unsatisfactory : the Carlists continue in great force. No positive information is given of the assembling of the Cortes. The accounts from Bayonne state that the Carlists have reoccupied severalposts which they had abandoned between Vera and Hernani, and the authorities of Irun have taken refuge in France. The , information from Belgium has rather a sombre cast. It appears that the Prussians have taken up the matter of Lux. emburg in a serious light and reinforced that garrison to 16,000 men; the Belgians are also on the qui vine, and moving rein forcements to that quarter. THE FUNDS. Consols, which left off on Saturday at 91 % I for the Ac count, opened this morning at 90 % to 91, with the appear ance of a heavy market, owing to the continued convulsed state of th e a ffairs of Belgium and Holland. It is now the general opinion also that the civil wars at pre. sent raging in Spain and Portugal will not terminate so soon as was anticipated. The Queen Regeot in Spain has not sufficient troops to put down the Carlists, and Don Miguel is still at the head of a strong force and will fight to the last extremity. In the Foreign Market the news from Portugal is not thought favourable, and the Portuguese Stock has fallen 2 per cent. — done at 69 ; Spanish has also receded to 31 % 3 4. HALF-PAST ()XS. The general topic of conversation in the city this morning entirely relates to the news from Portugal, and is regarded in various lights, according to the interest of the parties. Report , says that Saldanha was obliged to retreat ten miles after the battle, and that Miguel was strongly intrenched ()Inside of Santarem, with a large force. He had also received a great supply of shoes for his army. Portuguese Stock, which was done at 68, has improved to 69 1 ,4 ; Spanish 32 33. Consols have been during the morning at 91, alternately buyers and sellers, with little doing. The sale of the East India Company's tea has been put off until to-morrow, owing to the great amount of the declaration. THREE O'CLOCK Consols for the Account, 91. GRAND ORIENTAL BAZAAR.—We beg to call the attention of our readers to an advertisement in the front of our paper, in reference to this recently esta blished promenade. We have visited it ourselves, and the gratification we experienced induces as to strongly recommend it to the notice of the public. The " Duty Pohl List," published by the Customs, gives the quantities of wines cleared during eleven days, ending with yesterday fortnight, as follows —Sherry, 87,675 gallons, equal to 811 butts ; Port, 98,938 gallons, equal to 860 pipes; Madeira, 10,422 gal lons, equal to 113 pipes; French, 7,640 gallons, equal to 166 hogsheads; Cape, 11,679 gallons, equal to 127 pipes; all others 15,354 gallons, various. Total, 231,709 gal lons. * On the Thursday and Friday the quantities of Port and Sherry alone were, of the first, 25,818 gallons, or about 225 pipes ; of the other, 24,692 gallons, or about 200 butts. RATE OF INTEREST.—It is a singular fact that, owing to the amount of unemployed capital confined to the metropolis by the vicious state of the currency, the rate of interest has been for a long time in an inverse rati o to the nature of the security, the discount on bills of ex change being, at this time, little more than half the corn men mortgage interest. IMPERIALPARLIAMENT THIS DAY, MONDAY, MARCH 3. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter.past twelve o'clock. Mr. HODGSON presented a petition from Newcastle.upon. Tyne, in favour of the establishment of the Newcastle water works. Mr. SINCLAIR brought up the report of the committee on the Glasgow roads improvement petition, and brought in a biil in accordance with the report. Read a first time. Mr. TOWNLEY brought up a report of the committee on the Wisbeach improvement petition. Referred to the committee on standing orders. On the motion of an Hos. MEMBER (name unknown), the Bute Ship Canal Bill was read a second time. Mr. HARLAND brought in a bill to enable the Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company to make a new branch railway, leading from Hartlepool to the city of Durham.—Read a first time. Lord SANDON brought up the report of the committee on the Liverpool Court of Passage; and brought in a bill to alter and amend the practice and proceedings of that court. The noble lord then presented a petition from Liverpool in favour of the union of the Wigan branch railway. Mr. CLAY presented the report of the committee on the London and Westminster Banking Company's petition to ena ble any one or more of the directors or trustees to sue and be sued in the name of the company; and obtained leave to bring in a bill for that purpose. An Hot. MEMBER presented a petition from Melton in favour of the London and Bristol Railway. Mr. HODGSON presented a petition from a Baptist congre gation at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for the removal of the grie vances under which the Dissenters laboured. Mr. POTTER presented a petition from a congregation of Dissenters assembling for religious worship in Hope Chapel, Wigan. The petitioners prayed to be relieved from the pay ment of church-rates, and other ecclesiastical demands for the repair and maintenance of the established church, from which they conscientiously differed, and consequently received no bene fit. They also expressed their conviction that religious associ. ations should depend for support upon the voluntary contribu tions of their own members. They complained of the great hardship and serious inconvenience arising from the want of a legal mode for the registration of births, marriages, and deaths. The petitioners thought they ought to be allowed the of parochial cemeteries which were public property ; they also considered their exclusion from national schools and the univer sities as very unjust. As regarded the payment of church rates, he considered the dissenters had just grounds of complaint, and he trusted the house would at no distant period relieve them. The strong feeling which had lately manifested itself in the country against the payment of church rates, ought to con vince his Majesty's ministers that they cannot be long exacted. In many parishes the opposition to them has been successful, not by illegal means but by a vote of the vestry; two instances of this occurred last year at Christ Church, Surrey, one in May and the other in July, and the opposition was so general that there was a considerable majority not only by single votes, but by plurality of votes under Sturges Bourne's Act. The church was for three weeks without sexton, organist, and other persons generally employed ; even the clock was stopped. A few weeks back every thing was restored as usual, but not by means of the parish funds, and it is generally thought it will be impossible to obtain another rate; a circumstance like this must greatly in jure the establishment. Many other instances might be men tioned where church rates have been so refused. If he (Mr. Potter) was one of the most ardent supporters of the church the best and safest course he would recommend was to give up the church rates with a good grace. It was said the church rates in England amounted to about 600,0001., and an opinion had been given from high authority that they might be very considerably reduced; but he (Mr. Potter) begged to observe, that it was not so much the amount as the principle which was objectionable. An instance of this occurred last year in the great parish of Manchester ; a vestry was called to lay a church rate, only one halfpenny in the pound was proposed, but the ob jection even to that small rate was as great as if it had been twenty times as much : the show of hands was decidedly against the rate ; a poll was demanded, and at its close, at the end of several days, the rate of one halfpenny was only carried by a majority of 156 voters ; nearly double the number of persons voted against the rate, and it was only sanctioned by the voting under the vestry act. As regarded the Dissenters' Marriage Bill, brought in by the noble Paymaster of the Forces, he regretted that it did not give satisfaction, not only to Dissenters, but to the hon. baronet the member for Oxford. If hon. members would only refer to the report on parochial registration, they would find the registers of all classes were very defective, and loudly called for an alteration. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from an indivi dual named Thomas Hopkins, of the borough of Salford, pray ing for a repeal of the corn laws, and a remission of those taxes which press most heavily upon industry. Colonel L. HAY presented a petition from a place in Scotlard_ pr•ving for the repeal of the law of patronage. r Ordered to be referry=i to the committee. The same Flo v. Mr°4l3l_, gave notice that on the ;)'i of tat k; would move for a select committee to investigate the amount of fees, and other expenses, attending the passing of private bills. Mr. E. L BULWER presented a petition from members of the Baptist persuasion of the city of Lincoln, praying relief from the disabilities under which they laboured, and for the re peal of all laws affecting the rights of conscience. There were two points in the petition upon which he could not entirely agree with the petitioners, wherein they prayed for admission into the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, because he could not see how it was possible to compel those two univer sities to admit Dissenters, as they were supported by private donations. He concurred in all the other parts of the petition. Mr. TENNYSON begged to say a few words upon the petition which had just been presented. He greatly regretted that the bill brought in by the noble llord, the Paymaster of the Forces, was not of a more extensive nature, and he greatly regretted that his Majesty's speech did not express something like a recommendation to that house to introduce some measure for the disabilities under which dissenters laboured. Judging from the measure brought for ward by the noble lord, judging also from the measure of Irish Church Reform passed during the last session, he greatly feared that nothing satisfactory to the feelings of the dissenters would be done by his Majesty's government. Mr. O'CONNELL having received many letters andpetitions of a similar nature, from dissenters, calling upon him to sup port their paayer, now rose for the purpose of discharging his duty to that body once for all. He concurred with the hon. member who had last spoken, that the bill introduced by the noble lord would be totally unsatisfactory. It did not extend any relief as to the want of a proper registration of births and burials of dissenters. For his part, he did not think it any boon to the catholic portion of dissenters, for they had the same objection as the protestant dissenters to have any religious ceremonies in which they did not concur mixed up with their own forms of worship. He did not concur in the observation made by the hon. member for Lincoln regarding the uni. versities. Nine-tenths of these institutions were founded for the relief of the suffering souls in purgatory, by the celebration of mass, and other Roman catholic ceremonies. Now, unless the Government could by an act of parliament clear out purgatory, they did away with the intention of the donors, by converting these institutions to any other purposes. He thought that having established religious equality, their next step should be to extinguish the feeling of asperity and animosity that existed between Christians of different persua sions. One of the best modes of doing this would be to educate the youths of different persuasions together. The Dissenters had requested him to support the prayer of their petitions, and they did him but justice in supposing that he would be ready to procure for them that relief from religious disabilities which he had already procured for themembers of his own persuasion. Sir M. W. RIDLEY said, that as he had a petition to pre. sent upon this same subject, he would take that opportunity of stating what his sentiments were with respect to it. lie en. tirely concurred in the prayer for granting relief to Dissenters from those grievances under which they laboured, but he cer tainly did not go to the extent that some of those petitions went, particularly as far as regarded the separation of church and state. This was a most mistaken view of sound policy, and if the house were to act upon this recommendation, it would do more injury to the Dissenters themselves and to the body of the community than any other measure. He agreed with the hon. and learned member for Dublin, that if the mea sure of relief were to be confined to the bill brought in by the Paymaster of the Forces, he (Sir M. W. Ridley) would be con cerned that it did not go further. He had, however, reason to believe that a measure granting more advantages to the Dis senters, and remedying more grievances, would be soon sub mitted to the house.--(Hear, hear.) A great deal had been said about the compulsory payments of church rates, &c. ; he concurred in the propriety of putting an end to them ; but there was a circumstance which had come to his knowledge so highly creditable to the character of the dissenters, that he would take the liberty to state it to the house. In the parish of St. Mar tin-in-the-Fields the church rates had fallen into arrear, and a large sum of money, about 1,6001. was due. The vestry did not think it right to press, and they trusted to be able to make it up by voluntary contributions. The plan was tried, the whole, or nearly the whole, of this sum was raised, and the collectors informed him that no class of persons contributed more liberally or generously than the dissenters.—(Hear.) Mr. C. I'DWYER said that there was one principle con tained in le bill introduced by the noble Paymaster of the Forces whir_ , in a similar bill introduced by Lord Plunkett in Ireland, had been productive of serious inconvenience and an noyance—he meant the Provision which rendered it necessary to have the permission of the clergy of the established church previous to the burial of the dead. Dr. LUSHINGTON said that it would be much more expe dient to wait till the noble Paymaster of the Forces was pre sent before entering upon this discussion. Unless the bill was fairly stated, and the principles of it fully understood, it was entirely incompetent for any gentleman, be his talent what it might, to pronounce a just opinion upon any particular part of it. The hon. member who spoke last has stated that a particular part of the present bill would be productive of considerable annoyance to the Dissenters. He would state, that when the bill was seen, and its provisions known, the Dissenter would not entertain that opinion, and for this res_ son, that there would be no such provision contained in it. lie was afraid that it was premature to enter into any discus. sion at present, but he would say that it would be competent to any person whatever, whether a Dissenter or a member of the church, to be married in a dissenting chapel. If any hon, member could tell him precisely what a Dissenter was, so as that it might be embraced in an act of Parliament, in such a manner as to render it effectual, he would say then that the practice might be different, and that they might go upon another system. He was well aware that these observa tions were premature—(Hear, hear, and from some hon. mem- - ber, " Why do you make them ?") Why did he make them ? For this reason ; he did not introduce the discussion, but he thought it right to prevent any misapprehension, and he thought that it would be expedient that no missatement should go forth upon this most important question, because he thought it desirable that they should not raise an outcry against a mea sure until they had had an opportunity of considering it, and because, above all, he thought it desirable:that the truth should be stated at all times.— (Cheers.) Mr. SHIEL would say that if the present discussion was premature, the statement of the noble lord was one of supere rogation. If the learned doctor were right, no doubt ministers had misled the public. It was asserted that an evil would crise from the omission of proclaiming bans previous to the helebration of marriages ; that clandestine marriages would be the consequence. Still, in Ireland no bans were proclaimed, and there those private marriages did not occur. H e consi dered the learned doctor had treated the subject with too much warmth. _ _ Mr. H. BULWER differed from the hon. member for Lin coln. He thought it quite fair that the property of Uni versities should be subject to the controul of Parliament ; in fact, the constitutions of all corporate bodies should be altered, and especially those of Universities. Mr. C. BULLER hoped that the spirit of the nineteenth century would regulate such amendments as were proposed, and not the unchristian spirit of the 16th century. Mr. D. W. HARVEY said there was nothing so un grateful to the ears of Dissenters as the word " toleration;" it should be exploded altogether—perfect equality was what the Dissenters aspired to.—(Hear, hear.) All Christians should be put upon an equal footing. He would like to hear an illustration for saying that the separation of church and state would be prejudicial to dissenters. No argument had been used to prove that assertion. With regard to the sroperty of the church, it was not the wish of dissenters to spoliate it, for dissenters themselves had an interest in pre serving such property as was just; their own endowments were concerned—(hear, hear),—and while they prayed for an altilption in the existing system, they did not intend that the chu/ch should be disrobed of what fairly belonged to it. Mr. FINCH said he could not let the observations made by the hon. member for Colchester go forth to the public without a reply. There was no doubt but that Parliament had the power to enact any measures as regarded' the church that it pleased, but he for one held that the property of the church ought to be held as sacred as the private property of any gentle man who heard him. Then, again, the property which had been bequeathed to the Universities was bequeathed to them for a particular and specific purpose, and how to interfere with that —to divert it from that purpose—would, in his opinion, be complete spoliation. He also thought that it was the duty— the bounden duty—of every Christian state to provide, and that most liberally, for the religious instruction of the people. Mr. H. HUGHES said he would take that opportunity for stating that the intentions of the dissenters, as stated by the hon. member for Colchester, were not those held by the great majority of the dissenters in the country. He had waited there for two mornings in order to support the prayer of a petition from a large parish in Surrey. That petition was the joint one of churchmen and dissenters. There was one paragraph in it which belonged exclusively to Dissenters, and there they stated their desire to bear witness to the scriptural nature of the ar ticles of the church, and that they viewed the establishment as having been a complete barrier to the inroads of superstition and infidelity which otherwise must have overrun the land. Mr. A. JOHNSTONE believed that the hon.member for Col chester might have properly stated the views entertained by one party of Dissenters, but certain he was that the great body of Dissenters had a very different view of these matters as con nected with the establishment, and their intention was to strip the church of all its endowments. The hon. member has said, that the dissenters did not pray for, but demanded equality. He (Mr. Johnstone) trusted that he would never see the day when the highest privileges of the state would be conferred upon those who were inimical to the religion of the country—(hear, hear ;) —and that when any such demand was made to that house, the House of Corn mons would meet it in such a way as it ought . to be met in a Christian legislature. After a few words from Mr. E. L. BULWER, the petition was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. BELLEW presented petitions from parishes in the county of Louth, praying for a repeal of the union, and the total abolition of tithes. He said the petitioners did not wish that the abolition of tithes should benefit the landlord, but the people, and certain was he (Mr, Bellew) that until there was a proper appropriation of the Church property in that country there never would be any peace.--(Hear, hear.) Mr. RUTHVEN supported the prayer of the petition, ob serving that the extinction of tithes, in its most extended sense, would not prevent the people of Ireland from asking for repeal, and that nothing short of a domestic legislature would satisfy them. After a few words from Mr. Lalor, the petition was ordered to lie on the table. Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented a petition from the co - A:neis acting for the county of Kent, praying for addi tional fees. Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND, while he deprecated the burdening the county rates, admitted that the fees to coroners were too small, and ought to be increased. Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented a petition from the inhabitants and landowners of Clare, in the county of Suf folk, in support of the established church. Mr. O'DWYER presented petitions from Ballynocking for the repeal of the union and the abolition of tithes. The hon. member also moved for a return of the expenses of the prose cution against Mr. Barrett, of the " Pilot" newspaper. Mr. POULTER presented petitions from the dissenters bf Greenwood, in Wilts, and several other parishes in the county of Dorset, praying for the removal of the disabilities under which they laboured. It was the general opinion of the dis senters that the bill introduced by the Paymaster of the Forces was not only no boon to them, but a most ob jectionable measure. In the opinion of the honour able member, clandestine marriages would be prevented by a system of universal registration. He trusted that the time was not far distant when all classes of Dissenters would be ad mitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and receive that education to which they were entitled. Mr. TENNYSON presented a petition from Mr. Henry Hunt, complaining of the expences to which returning officers put candidates for the House of Commons. The petitioner stated that he lost his election in consequence of the conduct of the re. turning officer for Preston, in appointing not less than 20 polling booths, instead of 15, which was limited by the reform bill, and he was thereby put to a very considerable and unnecessary expense. The right hon. gentleman moved that the petition be referred to the Committee on Election Expenses. Mr. H. FLEET WOOD would not enter into the statement in the petition at present, but would content himself with beseeching that the house would not come to any judgment upon the subject until the report of the committee had been presented. Mr. BUCKINGHAM presented petitions from Sheffield, and from the fishermen and seamen of a parish in the county of Fife, for the abolition of the system of manning the navy by impressment. Mr. H. HUGHES supported the prayer of the petitions, and he trusted that the Right Hon. Gentleman the first Lord of the Admiralty, would introduce a measure that would have the effect of abolishing the system of impressment. Mr. ROBINSON said he had a petition from a considerable number of merchants, shipowners, and traders of the port of London, upon the same subject, but as he feared that he should not have an opportunity of presenting it to-day, he would make a few observations upon the petitions presented by the hon. member for Sheffield. He believed that this was the first time the attention of the merchants and shipowners of London had been expressed upon this subject in a formal way to the house ; and they were of opinion that the time had now arrived when the House of Commons ought to take into its consideration this important matter. If ever there was a time when an inquiry could be advantageously insisted on as to the Impressment of seamen, with a view to ascertain any other mode of obtaining them this was that time; for we were now in to hearty concurrence doing a w a y a state of profound peace , and in close alliance with a most powerful nation, with whom w e were for man y y ears at e nmity. He (Mr. R.) would not occupy any further attention of the house; but for fear that he mi g ht not have an o pportunity of presenting his very important petition, he toa hogged y proposition t s ay w t h h i a c t h h w e o uwouldwould haveh give e his effect the impressment of seamen. Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND deprecated the system of im pressment for seamen. He could conceive that if the country became suddenly involved in war the Government might be placed in a position of great difficulty from not having the means of supplying the navy with seamen, but he trusted that some other system than the present would be adopted. He had heard with pleasure that it was the intention of government to have not less than 1,000 boys in the navy, for the purpose of having them drafted into vessels as they may be required, and this would have the effect of making employment in the navy much more popular. He conceived that no impressment should take place Unless when circumstances rendered it absolutely necessary. He was aware of many cases of hard ship and cruelty having occurred from the impressment of sea men during the last war. Mr. PARKER said that no person was more opposed to -the impressment of seamen than himself. There might be cases where impressment was necessary, but its abolition was perfectly practicable, and compatible with' the interests of the naval service, and called for the early attention of the house. Mr. E. BULWER presented a petition from the inhabitants of the town of Stowe, and another from the inhabitants of the town of Eccleshall, against the Stafford Disfranchisement Bill. The petitioners assumed that the object of the house was not to disfranchise the borough of Stafford, but to obtain a re spectable constituency, and that could be obtained in the towns from which the petitions emanated. Sir OSWALD MOSLEY would urge upon the house a similar proceeding to that suggested by the hon. and learned member for Dublin in the case of Carrickfergus.—(Hear, hear.) He thought that the franchise should be extended to the towns named by his honourable friend, and even if the principle suggested by the hon. and learned member for Dublin was not acted upon, that was no reason why Stafford should suffer. There had been a considerable proportion of uponStalfo t r h d e , b ut o i c t e w n t o . u — ld ( H b o e a v r e : r y h e h a a r r . d ) t c o or v r i u si p t t t io h n e isnintshoefbtohreoguugihßoyf . . _ Mr. O'CONNELL presented petitions for the repeal of the union and for the total abolition of tithes, from Elm Grange, in Wexford, Enni§corty and Temple Shannon, the Union of Dro toeln, , noes, Bantry, in Kerry, 13allinoslaney, \VelaOrd, Thorne: , ~„ in Kilkenny, and Colinkill, in the came county, for th Dublin tion of tithes, stating that there was but one Protest; in the parish ; from the glass cutters and makers 0 which the from the parish or St. Paul, Dublin, in w s's, in the tithes amounted to 2,000/. a year ; from St. same county, signed by all the inhabitants exceptMeath, from whom four were Quakers ; from Ardmurcon, in rtion of mi. , • jai seven, a .' Clune, from Kilcushan, from Dunore, for the abo I _ e , n. Nicholas parish, in Kilkenny, from nisters' money, from Balbynacue, in Cavan, fro be in t N fr " ora u " st. barry, in Wexford, from Dunlomond, NarY'from the Pro- Kilcormack, in the same county, and a petition Carmart testant Dissenters of Llamgan and Llanbody, in •stra a legal rev praying for a relief from their grievances , ber theit • tion of births, marriages, and deaths. The hon. Mein 0 ,,, 0 _ presented a petition from a person of the name of Hughes I_. o a , rofin, stating that he was 77 years of age, that he had . bee ng that I, landholder in that parish for the last 57 years, that dun soh period he had been paying 171. a year for tithes, that th e me ' and had been known to him historically for the last 300 Y, , during that time no Protestant had been born there, .tlini who Protestant had been therewith the exception of 3 farail%e!, con. ~ had sojourned there for a short period, that the Par s a to the Sftr.um Pun Dublin, from tamed 4,000 Roman Catholics ; that . the tithes, owing .. . Composition Bill, had been lately ate d tthat Ir e f rish except t,; and that the protestant rector never visited the Pa f f the / ' for the purpose of collecting the tithes ; that the roof ; n e ( t ) o the ;'' Catholic chapel had fallen into a state of ruin, ev 4 444. ssis .e44::„ poverty of the parishioners, which arose from the oppre .0 , burden of tithes, and that though there was no Church letsl i.„ the parish they had been paying vestry cess for the %,, Mr. F. O'CONNOR intimated 14. twenty years. :f Mr. BLAKE supported the prayer of the petition. „,.,. i . Mr. F. O'CONNOR concurred in the petitions most heal. , l for Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Limerick, ~. t -• the repeal of the union. 1 , -.: Mr ROCHE • supported the petition. but withdrew his motion subsequently in consequence of the . , presence of Lord Duncannon. Mr. CHILDERS presented three petitions from the Fro" i testant Dissenters of the counties of Cambridge and Glamorgan, for relief from their grievances. ' Mr. SULLIVAN presented a petition from Kilkenny for ' repeal of the union. The petition was signed by 2,000 indivi - 4 duals. Mr. Sullivan bore testimony to the injurious efibcts st- , tributed to the union by the petitioners. Mr. S. read a tette( : from the physician of Can f ce, depicting the wretched conditio n of the people, and the aggravated horrors of disease and P °- verty. The hon. member presented a petition from the saw ; place for the abolition of tithes. Mr. T. O'CONNOR was glad that the noble Lord (Duncan' would r°rn 2 c n l t tllehous. e;.1,1:1 non) was present while the letter p roduced b y Mr. Sullivan ~, was being read. a Lord DUNCANNON wren perfectly aware of the distress,, ./ state of the population of Ireland, but he did not exactly know what his Majesty's Ministers could do to alleviate it ;,. Mr. F. O'CONNOR could point out severa l cours es OM ' . might be adopted. In the first place he should a dvise ~? vernment to levy the tax upon the landlords and not upon the _, . t tenants. Another course would be for Governm ent to loo t : :, into the proper expenditure of the local taxation. Wa s G i p , vernment to sit in that house to levy taxes, and no t to atten d the wants of the people? Lord the '• to which DUNCANNON hardly knew the tax hon, memher referred. ' ' Mr. F. O'CONNOR said,that he referred t the Cho l e ra t a s. ,•; Lord DUNCANNON said,that he considered that tax to be ' 1 ; very fairly and equitably assessed. After some observation, „.' the petition was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. ROBINSON presented a petition from the merrha ntgt 't . bankers, and traders of the City of London against the '4'm. pressment of seamen. - Mr. F. O'CONNOR presented a petition from the rl payers of the county of the city of Cork, praying that th u d ~ for keeping a certain turnpike road in that city in repair , Id . P l . f i , which expired after the present session, might not be NOW ~ , Lord DUNCANNON said the subject was under the coonee, deration of an hon. friend of his, and he had no doubt se ...j it thing would be done to remedy the present system of trusts 1.- , i, turnpike roads. 5 Of r t Mr. RUSSELL presented a petition from Dissente! a a remedY •, Blockley, in the county of Worcester, fo r grievances. w a WO the rf d i '4. Mr. HEATHCOTE presented a similar Pei"s pen '.;/•''' protestant dissenters of Tiverton in the county Of Dettr. the tfs, Mr. PENLEAZE presented a similar pttition f ot r o p, ‘ - ',t dissenters of the town and count,' a statedS it 4. he ton ; and in support of its Pray er dissenter*, his own opinion as well as that of most of the t. e ~__„n o t that the bill of the noble lord, the paymaster of II 4° ' . ~ would be far from giving general satisfaction. of 6141- Mr. BLAKE presented a petition fro m the coura . , . way for the repeal of the union. ....Ashes 1 i, - Mr. R. TREVOR presented two petiti ons front Y— an d t . o .„ the county of Carmarthen for the aboliti on of tithes, • v arrest all proceedings now pending to recover then , . ' V The SPEAKER left the Chair at three o'clock. EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDIN G ,, g a . id: ' ''' An T 1 lE extraordinary E AS TIND scene w h lerAe wasHO UcoS witnessed t . —— R : H t i d: S e .5.,: : id ) I 0 , = House this mor • ning, a wa g s reater excess than ever before remembete° The au eul e c u o, , men occasioned by this being the day appointed for 0 0 _, n i , in its cem ent of the last sale of Teas by the East India C 7 0 7 e 4 to trading character, and the trade being theyge nereilP tlif. the large declarationmade . and tt►t TI - by the Company , ~of t I' ther require, that all Teas on hand in the possessio lot t , ) , buyers, and purchased at the last sale, should be en =' the Company. : seat , lir. I' As soon as the presiding Chairman had taken 11'9,,hairmall+ Norton addressed the meeting , and asked of the '" tell the let whether the wishes of the trade contained 11° addressed to the Company, would be attended to ? t he teal , The CHAIRMAN then said he attended there to sell the die and not to argue. He regretted the trade was Ple c pirec tol o ", situation it had been, and thought the Court ° . ille would attend to their wishes. .h Me et it. Mr. NICHOLSON and Mr. TWINING addressed the iit i 0 t , ; some length. The former gentleman moved a rt. " ---- :onside' in order to afford time for the Court of Directors to A Olt - tbe the desires of the trade, the sale should be arl:l° Urnd.- IV po wer to adjou rn uro o it- The CHAIRMAN stated that he had the sale if the trade would not buy and he accordingli i° a trad e ' of the te A committee was then formed of members to confer ......------------"-• -- 19 .s croW--.4age ril DA SHIPPING IN TELLIGENCE-(T.-5 ti.elwLLAi----;Ordr yi Dveltpcheciceznfinaonwes, et , IsRIiA D .CRO E CJw A na L n. , seII. MARCH 2.- Wind N. 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Daniel, t ß : r n t 1 Dunn, C un t i e e ny , ,11 1 : fir e d° t a : the Chiefta'''' 4 ke t, o_ 4 , ' ' p af den, rno o r m from v n s g it G l I. A i . a r n L Leghorn. Henry,lmrn. BRISTOL, MARC - Odm ; . fr° • 1 LIN ERPOOL MARC 1 New Orleans; Authentic, Crosby, from Savannah L,llOll/ '' Robstone, from Lisbon. Off port the Corsair and Desaccio Breeck, from V i t t iiala, es , 4 ; ,: '-;, Stuart, Follett, ett, from Palermo; Columbia, Ford, fl r°- ra w ' fi lo . . Richard Hill, Hopper, from Marseilles;and Vii.•' l icaf• ~ ~ 3.. 0 , , ~ ROTTERDAM, FEB. 27.-The new Lenticular theLigh O w ' , 4 4 on Goeree . Steeple, was lit on the evening of G and a 'g ilt inst. ; it is visible at a distance of four . miles of fifteen to a degree. lei s • _____4.-- ---- was a l 00l to Boston, saved. The Newton, Hathway, from LiverP n ight- -- c rew vr . drill on shore in Drogheda Bay on ThlITSdaY Leer, , t o , , The Catharine, Zylstra, from Liverpool t° on shore at the Isle of Man on Thursday, but exp e c t P" 1 0 ' , got off. uCes t r;',,d. ' The Valentine, Williams, from Milford to Glo 401 0 driven on shore in Sandyhaven Bay on Tuesday, sl ' l to vire stP° The John Leith, bound to Liverpool, put baol‘ ' ' , leaky, having been on shore-cargo discharging' 0 1/ •••••-------"""'"'"•••••• -------- • ' ~,t l O A 8) BAD NEWS FOR BAD CHARI" - g ls '''•to A SHOCK FOR THE LIBEL TRADE.."Aie are ' ll° 0 e 113 t). arVaeleM,fr-oAniulaeL'rj::: ' 'l , see that sonic of the judges have begun to opP t og, 4 and fraud, disguised as law, by annotleciago sOttlot ~ gentry, who bring action after action on the king to e r ; not in the hope of getting damages, but 1 0 ' 0 1 00g 1 0 0 . i penny by costs, may expect, if they ge t a oble b l e diet, that they will certify for the defendant/ 0 i Pr e ;ol, deprive the plaintiff of costs. This W il ' e n fa) W beg° step will save their lordships' time, and Pu t e- .1011 s IOPt 1 of those nefarious schemes which have e' u l e r te cter P e worked on a grand scale. 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