The Sun. — London, England, 1833-03-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OIL' THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Yesterday the metropolis was in a state of unusual excitement. The Household Troops were under arms—the Foot Guards were bi vouacked in the Parks—the Police force was mustered in the Riding-house in Portman street—two pieces of horse artillery were sta tioned in Duchess-street —the shops north of Oxford-street were universally closed—the in habitants in a condition of indescribable con sternation. This state of things lasted till about four o'clock, when, to the inexpressible relief of the public, the following placard was posted in the principal streets :- 44 Fearing that if I were to attempt to express my thanks to the electors of Marylebone, I might originate some disturbance of public tranquillity, I have preferred ad dressing them in writing. (Signed) " T. H. HOPE." It is impossible to describe the tranquillizing effect of this announcement. The troops were returned to their barracks, the shops were re opened, and we are confidently assuted the Dowager's card tables were attended as usual, and not a single guest was prevented from attending the Field-Marshal Beresford's banquet, or the party which was afterwards given by the locurn tenens of the Marchesa Jerrynena. Raillery apart, however, we must own that it was never our lot to read a proclamation more replete with insolence than the address of Mr. T. H. Hope, from which we have extracted the lines we have quoted above. We do not attribute it to the poor little person whose signature it bears; we are satis fied that if he had the penning of his own advices, they would have been couched in language far more modest and unpretending. A word or two might have been inserted about Dutch Bonds, and a touch of pathos dedicated to the uphol sterers ; hut we should have found none of that insolent vituperation of others, including even those to whom the address is directed, which proclaims the pen from which it came, and enables every one to recognise the ex-secretary and ex-reviewer the ever re aly paroles of the Tory faction. In this modest manifesto the electors of Marylebone are coolly told, that , 4 their suffrage has been reduced to a market able commodity ;" and that whilst those who have supported the man of their choice have sold their votes, those who abstained from voting at all "have been intimidated or controlled." We • recommend this proclamation to the attentive consideration of the electors, to whom it is ad dressed. It is a fair specimen of the•feelings of the party from which it emanates. As long as anything is to he gained—as long as there is a chance of any dirty job—of any sinecure—of any compensation for sinecures—of any Beres ford iniquity (we give the word, because it has become the genuine name for jobs of the worst description), so long is no adulation too base— no flattery too gross. But let the people exhibit their independence—let them show by their acts that they cannot be deluded by tricks of this kind—that they see through the shallow devices of a party who seek to cajole in order to enslave them ; then the peals of ignorance, and radi. calism, and revolutionary principles are rung, and those who were deified yesterday, are to day described as worse than brutes.—We trust that this early candour will not be lost either upon the electors of Marylebone, or the people of England. If it be not, another good will result, even beyond that, on the attainment of which we beg to offer our congratulations to the 2,800 voters who have so nobly vindicated their independence. But that, even were it attended with no other consequences, we should consider of no little importance. The aristocracy has received a blow which it will not easily recover the effects of. The nominee of the Dowagers of Harley-street and Wimpole-street— the step son of the great Portuguese Field-AirShal— the adopted child of the whole tribe of jobbers, has been defeated—and in his place has been chosen, for the first district of the metropolis, one without birth, without protection, without aristocratic influence—simply upon the grounds of his being an honest man and a Reformer. This is the true triumph of the people—this the secret of the soreness of the Tory Manifesto writer—this the circumstance on which we can congratulate the electors of Marylebone and the Reformers of England.—Morning Chronicle. The Irish Disturbances Bill, as we observed yesterday, has, in its passage through the Com mittee, become quite e new measure. Sir Robert Peel, with the charity for which he is distinguished, came forward last night with a friendly suggestion, that as the Courts in the proclaimed districts would differ so " essentially from courtsmartial according to the Mutiny Act they should not bear that denomination. He was sorry that they retained the name of courtsmartial, which was always an obnoxious name to Englishmen. It was very easy to alter the name, and get rid of the feelings which such a name excited." Sir Robert very carefully ab stained from throwing out this suggestion till the new courts had been deprived in the Committee of all that endeared them to him—namely, the power to render them instrumental in the col lection of tithes, and to try libels. Moreove'r, Sir Robert knew that the name could not now be altered ; for, as Lord Althorp observed, the clause alluded to had passed. The only thing martial about the courts is, that the Members are military men. The proceedings are not to be conducted in the manut r oh courtsmartial. Another very important modification was last night proposed by the Solicitor-General. Much discussion ha- arisen on the subject of domici liary visits in the proclaimed districts between sun-set and sun-rise. " His Majesty's Go vernment," said the Hon. and Learned Gentle man, " were very anxious to mitigate the seve rity of this enactment, and to lessen the inconve niences which it might occasion. —(Hear.) They had, therefore, prepared an amendment, which ht should have the honour to propose, and which they hoped would meet the approbation of all parties, and at the same time secure the object which the clause had in view, without render ing it necessary to break or force an entrance into any of the houses.—( Hear.) It was proposed that, in the first instance, the justice, or any person with warrant of justice, accompanied by a commissioned officer or chief constable, should go to the house and require tl e male inhabitants to come forth, and thus enable tl:e authorities to ascers tain that they were not absent ; and that if, on the ground of illness, or on any other ground, the male inhabitants above the age of fourteen should refuse to come forth, the p ersons aut h or i ze d should then have power to demand admission into the house, but should not have power to enter without the leave of the inhabitants ; an d that if they were not allowed to enter with such leave, then the male inhabitant or inhabitants should be deemed and taken to be absent, and should be subject to the operation of the Act." It was suggested by Mr. O'Connell that the in mates should be called " by name," and a sugges tion of his was agreed to by Mr. Stanley, that the names of the inmates should be marked on the doors, on the distinct understanding that a clause iI should afterwards be added, calling on the people • to furnish the names of their inmates to the police. The Bill is now quite out of favour with the Con servatives. Colonel Yorke was out of all patience with the amendments. " They frittered away the Bill," lie said, " so as to render it utterly in efficient. It would, therefore, be no protection to the peaceable—no terror to the criminal, and would only be an useless piece of legislation. He thought the best way of disposing of it would be to put it into the fire." Mr. O'Connell caught at this proposition, and observed that he should have the greatest pleasure in seconding it. From this ebullition of Colonel Yorke, some idea may be formed of what is passing in the minds of his brother Conservatives. When the Bill has passed the Commons, it has to go through another ordeal—that of the House of Lords ; and it would not at all surprise us if their Lordships were, in sober earnest, to follow the advice of Colonel Yorke. In the meantime the Bill makes progress—the Committee have now got through the twenty-third clause. We sup pose all the clauses will be disposed of to-day —Morning Chronicle. Two very important petitions were presented last night, from Liverpool and Glasgow, com plaining of the disadvantages under which the proprietors of British shipping laboured, in consequence of the higher cost of their vessels, and the greater expense of navigating them ; in the charges for provisions, stores, and wages ; and also of the impolitic restrictions on com merce, by which, in their trade with Brazil, Cuba, St. Domingo, Java, Sincapore, Manilla, &c., they are deprived of homeward freight, in consequence of the chief productions of those countries being prohibited from use or consump tion in this kingdom. The Liverpool shipowners say, that " British shipping cannot be navigated in competition with American and other foreign shipping, when carrying cargoes to foreign ports as, besides the extra expense at which British vessels are navigated, they also incur a further charge for commission and management to a foreign agent, and have to perform a second voyage in ballast to a British port, or return in ball a st. to a more distant one for further employment." Tney state that Brazil alone furnishes freight for 120,000 tons of shipping, in sugar and coff ee , in returns for 131itish manufactures; that Cuba, • Manilla, &c., furnish upwards of 200,000 tons o f similar productions, the greater part of which, as well as the produce of Brazil,is carried by Ameri can and other foreign shipping to European ports, although actually the property of British mer chants, or received in return for British manu factures. The British ships are also excluded from the China trade, whilst Americans, Danes, Swedes, &c., are permitted to sail with British goods from British ports to China, and to return with Chinese productions. It is strange that a country so favourably situated as England is for commerce with all parts of the globe, and which is so deeply interested in the maintenance of a powerful commercial navy, should voluntarily forego, by absurd restrictions, the aadvantages above enumerated. We trust that the Liverpool and Glasgow shipowners will not rest, but insist on justice being done to them. The shipowners of the out-ports seem much more enlightened as to their true interests than the old women who have figured away at meetings of shipowners in the port of London. It was said of a certain personage in the country, that he had discovered the way to make a great empire a small one. It may be said, that if the Londoners do not play their cards better than they have done, they will in like manlier show how the greatest mercan tile capital in the world may hold rank beneath a town which has grown up in our own times.— Morning Chronicle. To the infinite amusement of those who heard the proceedings in the House of Commons on Tuesday last, and not much to the surprise of any who have read the reports in the news papers, Mr. O'Connell—Mr. O'Connell ! of all 'nen on earth—has given notice of a motion for a Committee to inquire into the expediency of adapting poor laws to Ireland. Every one recollects that this Learned Gentleman had hi therto declared himself a determined enemy to the introduction of poor laws into that country, If we remember right, he affirmed within the last three weeks that it would be tantamount to "an agrarian law." What, then, has converted the agitator to a seeming acquiescence in this measure of compassion and of peace? Have the discussions on the subject found their way into Ireland, and shown the people that Eng lishmen were ready to award them food, while Irish " patriots " were anxious only to put them in the way of being hanged and shot for in surrection ? We shall be not a little curious to watch the development of this characteristic manoeuvre.— Times. The Archbishop of Dublin, in reply to that wise and dispassionate personage Lord Roden, on Tuesday evening, took up the defence of the new Board and system of education for the poor of Ireland, and we hear from all quarters that hii Grace produced a deep impression upon the House of Lords. The frank and honest man ner of the Most Rev. Prelate, together with his forcible and emphatic language, and the straight forward statement of facts which he laid be. fore the House, could not but be subjects of an highly favourable contrast with the display of another Right Rev, and somewhat notorious politician, exhibited on the same evening. if pedantry, special pleading, the rancorous hatred of all members of a rival church, and the genuine ..pirit of financial intolerance and persecution, could have served Lord Roden's cause, his Lordship might have drawn a powerful rein forcement from a di,course which came later in the evening than that of Dr. Whately. But happily it came a day too late. Lord Roden " took nothing by his motion."—Times. A letter signed " Mutius" is intended by the writer to illustrate the possible abuses of all honour and justice incidental to the administra tion of courtsmartial : we say the possible abuses, because no reasonable man will suppose that ,uch an interference by commanding officers as our correspondent describes is of more than very unfrequent occurrence, or, indeed, other than an extremely rare exception to general and long-established usage. We should suppose that such conduct as is here ascribed to the commanding officer of a regiment would be much more apt to disgrace him at the horse guards than the parties whom he designed to injure. At the same time, every post from Ireland proves beyond all question that justice can be, and is, administered, we ihould say, fearlessly, -at least efficiently, by the ordinary tribunals of the land. Convic tions are obtained at every assizesin the south of Ireland by dozens, and for that identical class of offences which it is now the object of the new law to submit to trials by courtmartial. In short, Ministers have already conceded so many dis puted points upon this courtmartial question, that it is hardly worth their while to incur the odium o) standing out for the little that remains. To persist in the clause, when, if we may be lieve the declaration of Mr. Stanley that special commissions will be employed, it must evidently become a mere idle string of sentences, looks as if the Ministers had an abstract love for military law, and wished to put on record what some of them are said to express in private—an anti- English contempt for the sacred palladium of personal liberty and life—the Trial by Jury.— , Times. The Marylebone election appears to have ter minated in a manner the most satisfactory that circumstances would permit—viz. isa the defeat of the Whigs, Tories, and Ultra-Radicals, and in favour of the best and most rational Reformer to be found among the candidates. Whether the candidates were any of them exactly such as it might be desirable to see emanating from such a body of constituents is not now the question. It was not the fault of the electors that they had not better materials to choose from ; it is suf6• cient if they have done the best they could under the circumstances, which, to us, it appears un deniably that they have. But on looking back at this contest, there is one feature connected with it, which cannot fail, we should think, to strike every impartial looker-on as marked with peculiar folly, if not with something worse—we mean the conduct of the Government ; first, in interfering at all upon the occasion ; and, secondly, in putting forward a candidate in whose person they have sustained a disgraceful defeat. On this occasion the Whigs may be said to have put up a post rather than a wall to run their own heads against, and, not having much popularity to spare, seem to have determined to show the world at how low an ebb it was in one of the most wealthy, enlightened, and influential dis tricts of the metropolis. What had the authors of the Reform Act to do with convertiug this new creation of their own into a nomination bo rough ? «ith what consistency or prospect of success could it be done ? Yet that the attempt was made there is no manner of question ; and that it has failed, as every honest man must have wished it to do, must be a source of satisfaction to all but those who were fool-hardy enough to risk their public reputation against such fear fil and improbable odds. Another singular reature of this election has been the marked difference between the show of hands on the day of nomination, and the result of the poll. While the hands were all on one side, the votes were a I on another; showing evidently that the persons who assemble before the hustings on such occasions, and whose " sweet voices" candidates and their friends are at such pains to propitiate, have no more to do with the matter than the veriest strangers in existence; yet the hands of these nonentities would be allowed to decide an elec tion—were not a poll demanded. This arises from such meetings being held in the open air, and in a public street, where every pickpocket can at once follow his own vocation and usurp the most valuable rights of those whom his pre sence keeps away. This is an evil—unavoid able, perhaps, in the first instance, and insepa rable from the infancy of the new boroughs— which cannot, in the nature of things, have ready at hand public buildings adequate to the purpose.) In time, however, we trust they will ; and it would be an object worthy of the great and opulent borough of Marylebone were it to take the lead in providing for its constituency a better place of meetin g than in the mud and mire of Portland-place.— Morning Herald. From the conversation which took place last night in the House of Commons on the presen tation of petitions it is evident that it is intended to make a determined stand against the Bill for the protection of children employed in manu factures. Some Hon. Members complained of exaggeration in the evidence given before Mr. Sadler's Committee. No doubt there was, as in such cases there always is, some exaggeration. But in this instance we doubt whether it would be just to allow for this unavoidable exaggera tion to such an extent as in any sensible degree to reduce the value of the whole mass of testi mony. There never certainly was an inquiry instituted in which it was less necessary to the object of its promoters to encourage exaggera tion, or we ought rather to say in which they had stronger motives t o repress the disposition to exaggerate generally manifested by witnesses who embark their feelings in the cause they are called to support. The whole process of human de struction was not merely related to the ears, it was exhibited in each of its successive stages to the eyes, of the Committee. Did the wretched cripples exaggerate who held out to view their paralyzed, contracted, and distorted limbs ? Did the men and women exaggerate, men and women in what ought to have been the flower of their youth, when they presented, in their shrivelled and feeble and emaciated bodies, the unequivocal marks of premature old age ? Did the sunken eye anti pallid complexion of human beings visibly hastening to their early graves, in obe dience to the murderous mandate of the factory system, exaggerate either the extent or the con sequences of excessive and unnatural labour? And, if there could be no exaggeration in these direct appeals to the senses of the Committee, what could be the motive, or where even the room, fur descriptive exaggeration ? The attempt to depreciate the value of the evidence collected by Mr. Sadler, on the hackneyed plea of exag geration, is utterly desperate, and should be at once abandoned. The incontestible facts of the case have, or we are greatly deceived, produced an effect upon the public mind against which it will be idle and unwise to contend, upon this poor carping pretence of exaggeration. There is another class of Members who, admitting all the horrors disclosed to the Committee, fairly take the bull by the horns, and contend that it is not possible, and, if it were possible, would not be expedient, to mitigate those horrors by specific and direct legislation. These are the bigots of free trade, who ascribe every hardship endured by the labouring classes to the corn laws, and will hear of no remedy but their abo lition. We will bring the discussion with these cold-blooded theorists to a short issue. Is the wholesale murder of helpless infants, or is it not, a crime on the part of the individuals who per petrate, and the nation that permits it ? And, if it be, will they consent to repeal all the laws by which crime in its thousand other forms is repressed, until the Legi s l a t ure s h a ll h ave come to a decision agreeable to their notions of policy upon the subject of the corn laws ? Will they refuse to the Administration the Coercive Bill which it requires for the purpose of putting down crime in Ireland till the corn laws are repealed ? And, if they will do none of these, why, we indignantly and contemptuously demand, will they legalise a system which destroys the li ves of myriads of children, and depraves and brutalizes the minds of myriads of men, in ho nour of a question which is at the best a doubt- . ful one of political economy ? The slavery of the negroes in the West Indies, contrasted with that which our factory system has established in Great Britain, is proved by evidence the most indisputable to be a state of perfect beatitude. There is some reason at least to doubt whether the abolition of the former description of sla very will operate practically to the advantage of the negroes, but there can be no doubt whatever that the mitigation of the more cruel and de structive slavery of our factories will improve the physical and moral condition of its vic tims. Why are the arguments of capital em barked, of vested interests, of national policy and wealth, advanced so confidently in the one case, when they are so little attended to in the other ? Is it that the clothiers of York shire and the west of England, or the cotton lords of Lancashire and Glasgow, are more our fellow-subjects than the planters of Jamaica ? Is it that calicoes and muslin and broad cloth are products more essential to the wealth and power of this commercial and sea-girt country than the sugar and coffee of our tropical de pendencies? No. It is that sordid interests are powerful in proportion to their proximity to the seat of empire, while the spurious philan thropy of the day is warm and active in pro portion to the remoteness of its objects. It is that unprincipled theorists have reason to be lieve that their best chance of obtaining legisla tive favour of their schemes of innovation is to make them accord equally with the cheap and hypocritical benevolence which seeks its objects in another hemisphere, and with the thirst for gain which violates humanity at home.— Morning Post. STATE OF IRELAND. DUBLIN, 111ARcil 16. It has been frequently stated, and I think history auctions the assertion, that the poor of all nations, and of all times, are easily led to believe that their poverty proceeds from a conspiracy among the rich to exclude them from a fair share of the good. things of this world, and to preserve the mono poly to themselves. Nothing is more easy than to persuade the majori'y of the people that they are wronged, oppressed, and insulted ; and when such doctrines ate for some time inculcated, they become, like religion, a most important and sacred article of belief. How extensively, and for what period :of time these notions have prevailed in Ireland, I shall not stop to inquire, much less discuss the honesty of aggravating a sense of in jury, which all admit his been long suffered to exist, and many wish to see removed from the wretched people of this country. The reflection has been suggested by a recently-perpetrated mur der, the leading particulars of which have already reached you. When all the circumstances con nected with the atrocious mariner in which Mr. Leonard was made the victim of a ruthless usurpa tion of the laws •hall have come to light, they will form a graphic exhibition of the feelings and opinions which unhappily prevail among, I fear, a very large portion of our deluded peasantry. That unfortunate G entleman was a Roman Catholic, of most exemplary conduct, not more remarkable for his amiable manners, and social intercourse wit h every persuasion of men, than for his benevolent and liberal indulgence of a tenantry who had been considerably in arrear to him for rent for some years past. He had for some time resided in New Ross, on the borders of the county of Kilkenny, where he had a small landed property, the tenants on which are suspected of his murder. One of these tenants owed him upwards of 1401., for the payment of which, or a part of it, Mr. Leonard had of late made frequent application., And it is a fact, incontrovertible, that a few days before his untimely end, he offered to take 20/. front this tenant; take his promissory note for such portion of the rem tinder as he might find it convenient to himself to pay at a future period, and thus discharge him from all further claim or demand for money then due. This offer not being complied with, Mr. Leonard threatened to distrain his property; but how far he intended to act upon that threat may be roller ed from the fact of his not allowing the cattle to be seized or driven off the land, up to, or on the very eve of, the day appointed for sale. It is, in truth, alleged by his friends, that he did not intend to sell the cattle, only hoping, by the threat of doing so, to induce them to come to some settlement with him. Such was the man whom an infatuated band of miscreants thought fit to make a sacrifice to their offended laws and violated rights ! The bloody deed has, in fact, answered their savage ex pectation, for it has diffused a terror, not easily described, among every description of people who have anything to demand, or anything to lose. Whether or not the Coercive Bill will afford, to all, th• protection anxiously waited for, is a problem which, cons dering the state of parry feeling, cannot be at this moment easily solved. The following incidents may illustrate the doubt here intimated : A witness on Mr. Leonard's invest said, " Two policemen were seen near the scene of murder, about the time of its perpetration." And it is as serted that policemen were detected, in the city of Waterford, in the act of seducing and compelling a drunken sailor to fix on a wall a notice not to pay tithes. I have heard both these facts stated by re spectable persons, and whether they be true or not, th y tend to show how odious the police are to many of the people, and what angry collisions may be expected to take place between them. I shall only add, for the present, that the people in the neighbourhood where this sanguinary crime has been committed, are really in alarm, and anxiously looking to Government for protection to life and property. REPEAL OF THE ASSESSED TAXES. Tuesday, at twelve o'clock, a numerous body of gen • tlemen, consisting of the Members for the Metropolitan Districts, and of deputations from the Metropolitan pa rishes, waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street, for the purpose of impressing on him the necessity of repealing the whole of the assessed taxes. Amongst those present were—Sir F. Burdett, Mr. Byng, Mr. Hume, Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Sir J. Key, Alderman Wood, Mr. Grote, Mr. Briscoe, Mr. Hawes, Dr. Lush ington, Mr. Tennyson, Majer Beauclerk, Mr. Goring, and Mr. D. W. Harvey ; together with several gentlemen offi cially connected with the metropolis and its environs. Mr. CORDER, the Vestry Cerk of St. Paul's, Covent garden, addressed Lord Althorp at great length, and argued on the oppressive character of the taxes in question. My Lord," he said, in the course of the speech, " it is the painful duty of this deputation to state, from our own local knowledge, that such is the state of trade in this gr at metropolis—(Hear, hear)—and its immediate envi rons, and so unable are its inhabitants to ply these im posts —we say, my Lord, that it is our painful duty to state our firm conviction that these taxes can no longer be collected."—( Hear, hear.) Lord ALTHORP said that he felt considerable difficulty in addressing the meeting on this subject at the present moment, alihou. 4 ll it was one which he had taken into his most serious consideration, and looked upon in all its diffe rent details, preparatory to laying his financial statement before Parliament. He bad maturely considered the sub ject, and was aware of the difficulties by which it was beset, and all who heard him must be aware that it would be most inconvenient, and indeed impossible for him, as a single member of his Majesty's Government, to decide upon the expediency of repealing any particular branch of taxa tion. He was afraid, therefore, toat he could not give the deputation a satisfactory answer as to what course he s hould hereafter feel it his duty to pursue. He was aware that this answer would not give satisfaction to the nume rous body F whom h e h a d t h e h onour to a dd ress —(C r i es o f No, no")—but filling the situation which he filled, he was bound by public duty, however numerous and respect able might be the meeting, to confine his communication within those limits which were compatible with his situa tion, as a confidential member of his Majesty's Councils. Mr. E. BROWN said it had been stated that there had been no general expression on the subject of these taxes ; but he would say, that if agitation were n e cessary to show the general f ee li ng , h e cou ld comman d plenty of it. The am 'lint of assessment for the last year wa , 11.154,0001., of which enormous sum the county of 5114- dlesex alone amounted to no less thin 5,143,000/. — (Hear, hear.) Thus the metropolis an , ' the metropolitan districts alone paid more than half of the whole assess ment —(Hear, hear.) It bad been stated that this was one of the fairest taxes, because every man was assessed ac cording to the situation of his supposed property, but he could shcw that the inhabitants of the principal thorough fares—for instance, those from Holborn to Oxford-street, from the Strand to Cheapside, and from Piccadilly, Regent street, &c.—where rents were highest and trade most prosperous and profitable, the inhabitants had been bank rupts in the proportion of one housekeeper to three. Lord ALTHORP—Do you mean to say that one out of three of the housekeepers in Regent-street has been a bankrupt ? Mr. BRowN—I do, my Lord ; and I can prove to your Lordship, that within the last five years the proportion of bankruptcies amounted in a ratio to more than three and a half for Regent-street alone. If his Lordship doubted his assertion the Gazettes w• re before him ; and if so many bankruptcies occurred within so short a period every gentleman must know that at least three composi tions occurred for each bankruptcy. His object Wag to show that although for the last five years an embarrassment of trade existed beyond all precedent, vet these taxes were enforced with a severity almost beyond example. A re port hail been circulated, which he had no doubt W 39 in tended as a calumny on the Government, that his Majesty's Ministers intended to take off the house duty on all houses rated under 601. per annum. He never could believe that such an idea could enter in , o the thoughts of an enlight ened Ministry. Those present were old enough to re member that when the people of England sought for a repeal of the property tax, the then Administration de clared that they wouA stand or fall by that tax. And yet it was repealed to the extent of fourteen millions at one full sweep, without displacing the Government. The country, alter 18 years of peace, had a right to expect that these taxes should be repealed. Mr. HOME said it was his firm conviction that unless Government made a timely concession, the people would before long effect the repeal through the medium of the House of Commons. However, as he believed that the meeting had no wish to embarrass the Government, it might perhaps be advisable to knew what day the Noble Lord intended to bring forward his financial statement, in order that the Hon. Baronet (Sir John Key) might be prepared with his motion on some early day after the Budget.—(Hear, hear.) Lord ALTHORr begged that the meeting would not give credit to any report which they might hear with regard to the course which Government intended to pursue respect ing these taxes. Such reports were equally unfounded and mischievous, and could not tend to advance any mea sure which the advoca es for the repeal of these taxes had in view. Mr. JACKSON, one of the Deputation from Maoebone, said that Sir William Horne would have attended the meeting but for the shortness of the notice. The parish of Marylebone paid no less a sum than 150,0001. annu ally for taxes, being as much as the whole of Scotland paid ; and yet in the parish of Marylebone there were no less thin 1,500 houses emry—(Hear, hear)—and almost every house that was occupied was either let out in lodgings. or divided into two, in order to meet the de mands of the tax-collector. Lord ALTHORP said, it would in his opinion be pre mature to call the attention of the House of Commons to the subject on so early a day as that fixed for the motion of Sir John KT. All that he (Lord Althorp) could do in that case, would be to move that the discussion be postponed until after the Easter recess. It was impossible that he (Lord Althorp) could say what species of taxa tion be could with propriety remove previous to the sth of April, because it would be . necessary to include in his statement the accounts of the past year. The Noble Lord concluded by observing that he should bring forward his financial statement as soon after the Easter recess as pos. Bible. Mr. C. PEA RcON said, that in his opinion the motion of Sir John Key ought to be brought forward previous to bringing forward the Budget, otherwise the Noble Lord would be in the dai k re-petting the merits of this question. Lord ALTHORP—I don't think I can be much in the dark. There is a good deal of light in this room.—(A laugh.) Mr. PEARSON—I wish your Lordship bad a little more fire.—(Renewed laughter.) Dr LUSHINGTON concurred in the proposition of the Hon. Member (Mr. Hume) that this question should not he brought forward in the House of Commons, until after the Noble Lord had br , ught forward his financial statement. The effect of what the Noble Lord stated amounted to this—" I have not changed my opinion with regard to these taxes, but as a Member of his Majesty's Councils lam not at lit►erty to tell you what the inten tions of Government ate respecting them ; I must reserve this disclosure for my financial statement." Sir J. C. HORHOUSE begged to assure the Noble Lord that it was not for want of feeling on the subject that the public had not remonstrated more generally on the unjust imposition of these taxes, and he conceived that it was a pretty strong indication of the teeing of the metropolis, that 13 out of the 16 metropolitan Members were now present to 'mess for their repeal. The Noble Lord might be assured of this, that whenever the subject ,hsuld be brought before the House of Commons the whole 16 Mem bers would be found voting for the entire repeal of these taxes. He (Sir J. C. Hobhouse) begged to add a hope, that after their repeal lie might see the Noble Lord hold ing his present situation.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. BRISCOE said, that whenever he asked his consti tuents what portion of taxation they wished to be relieved from first, their invariable answer was, " Relieve us, if possible, from the house and window tax.—(Hear, hear.) The Deputttion then withdrew, and having adjourned to the British Hotel, Cockspur-street, it was determined that the question should not be urged in the House of Commons until after the Chancellor of the Exchequer had brought forward his Budget. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the " London New Price Current" of Tuesday.) SUGAR-The Sugar Market was very heavy all the last week, and the prices are again Is. per cwt. lower; good Sugars with some colour have sold at 485., and brown at 475. and 465. ; the estimated sales are only 1,800 hhds. and trs. for the week. The stock of West India Sugar is now 14,904 hhds. and trs., which is 4,637 more than last year. The stock of Mauritius is 60,616 bags, being 23,236 more than last year. The delivery of West India Sugar is 1,897 hhds. and trs., being 301 less than last year. The delivery of Mauritius 9,011 bags, being 386 less than the corresponding week of 1832. The demand for Muse°_ ♦ades has improved today; the estimated sales are 1,000 hhds. and trs., at firm prices. In the Refined Market there was great heaviness last week, except for low Lumps, which were very scarce, and for which 61s. and Gls. 6d. was paid, which was full market prices, all other goods were heavy and lower. Crushed 295. 6d. and 30s. ; the goods which were lowest in pro portion were the Grocery descriptions, which were offered on rather lower terms without facilitating sales to any extent. There is no alteration in the Refined Market this afternoon. EAST INDIA SUGAR-Nearly 5,000 bags Siam have been sold at a reduction of Is. per cwt., ord. to mid. white 21s. a 225., brown and yellow in bad condition 17s. 6d., a 19s. 6d. ; good white Bengal 235. a 235. 6d. MAURITIUS SUGAR.-The quantity of Mauritius Sugar offered at public sale last week was nearly 8,000 bags, and as the Market was very dull the offers made were about Is. per cwt. lower,:and a small part sold at that decline, but the holders would not generally submit to the reduction ; the consequence was that a large proportion was taken in. FOREIGN SUGAR.-On Friday 90 boxes Havannah Sugar sold at very low prices indeed, mid. strong white 275. 6d. a 285., being 3s. a 4s. under the nominal market prices. This day's public sales about 250 boxes Havannah, mid. white 265. a 275., which is about the last sale prices; white Pernams 235. a 245. 6d., also at the previous currency. Average price of Sugar, 1/. 7s. 70. per cwt. COFFEE.-The purchases of Coffee last week were in St. Domingo at 555., good ord. Havannah 535. 6d., ord. Brazil 50s. a 505. 6d. ; and of East India, Ceylon 535. 6d., ord. Sumatra 465. a 48s. ; good green Mocha was taken in 675. 6d. and 6Ss., good yellow 745. ; broken African 50s. ; Jamaica at public sale was dull, and fine ord. taken in at 81s. 6d. a 82s. Gd., ord. sold at 775. This day's public sales 322 bags Havannah Coffee sold 555. a 56s for the good, and 51s. 6d. a Ms. for the ord., be ing previous prices; 66 casks 51 bags British Plantation sold at firm prices; the demand for the latter by private contract ap pears increasing. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—We mentioned on Tuesday last the increased demand for Rum ; it continued to improve all last week, and above 1,500 puncheons changed hands, chiefly at the advance of Id. per gallon ; proof Lee_ wards, formerly sold at Is. Bd., are now held at Is. 9d., and few sellers. The Government contract a.lvertised for 75,000 gal_ ions of Rum, has brought forward many export orders, which had been in London for a length of time, and which were not executed on account of the generally received opinion that a further decline in the prices would take place. In Brandy or Geneva there is no material alteration. TALLO W.—There is no material alteration in Tallow ; the Market has been rather heavy. INDIGO.—There is little alteration in East India Indigo. By public sale last week 63 serons Guatemala Indigo sold 28. 11d. a4s 4d., being a shade higher than the last public sale. SPICES.—There is little alteration in Spices. Some parcels of Pimento have sold a shade lower. This day's public sale of Pimento, 495 bags went off' at higher prices, and with more briskness. ASHES.—Ashes at public sale established a decline of Is. to 2s. per cwt. TURPENTINE.—The last arrival, 2,500 barrels, landed by importers, Ils. 6d. being the most offered, Mt demanded. FRUIT.—The only demand for Fruit is for Red Smyrna Raisins for export, which continues very considerable. IRISH PROVISIONS.—The import of Foreign Butter in the last week was 1,426 casks, of Irish 272 firks., and of Bacon J,519 bales. The Provision Market ~.,,issi a very i na ctive s tate, and prices exhibit Wry tendenel nth lower; the holders of Irish Butter have been preasig.so particularly of secondary descriptions, and in the Theca been more business doing, but at very low prices. VI:00i speculative purchases in singed Bacon at 455. a 46 61 „ e at it for forward shipment are not likely (at least from Pt; co si pearances) to prove very profitable ; similar Porch° 1► now be made at 40s. and 415., as well as of Belfast Bale ; 0 0, at 355. ; and Belfast Bladder Lard at 508. on beard. 11 2 . e bic h sle ing we give at this day's quotations landed, some of :,, 000 1 Belfast Hams, 445. a sos. ; merely nominal. Fine Friesland Butter at the goal generally still 001101",. le per cwt. ; Carlow as to quality 68s. a 8s • ; W ate ! s lo*i 70s. ; Limerick 695. a 70s. ; Cork (as to assortment) I. - se vr! Belfast 78s. ; Sligo 60s. a Ws. ; Bainbridge 598. a 60 t_. ; 41 0 565. a 58s. ; Dublin 545. a 565. Prime sing ed sizable oleo a 445. ; heavy 19s. a 40s. Bale Middles 365. aP* gosi . s tierce Middles 365. a 395. ; Limerick tierce Dliddles ~-• es Belfast Bladder Lard 51s. a 525. ; Waterford and VIA $ quality, &c., 565. a 58s. India Beef 7!. ss. India It/ bl i t i e. 5 5 1 8. a 6/. Mess Beef (first quality) 5/. 10s. ; second qu 6d 28. 6d. Mess Pork (firstquality) a ss • a al ' 79. ' ,4 second quality 3/. a 31...5. 6d. oo' Co r - T 1 (Th.- he Cotton Market continues very st the purchases . tensive 0,61 _ are not on an extensive scale. Java RICK-Rice continues very dull and lower, in parcels. 4 Coe TEA.-Since the sale several breaks of B - t iii from have been sold at Id. per lb. advance ; demande Limerick small Haras 606.4 0 country for all descriptions is very great. ET.—.lllarc in , o 2 13 . Per W a lls End Newn,!........0 Larnb t on's Prin arm ' Walls nd Walls End Lam„, yrv:..--. is Walls Ai , ' e !a ide j i W..11s End Ade gold 1 W a lls End Butter ... _.19 'N. E. Musgrove,.._, 8 Walls End Te es is f Hartley !akist°rnwaarrkdest.'4.4l' eatyll,e3rYn WO/ ING 111.• g e eat pat,• Barley. 8. to 8. • 1° 14 24 •"" -- 34 56 41 'I 25 IC 24 30 1 2 14 18 2.5 3 3 7 ~ 21 30 5 9 i s 2S 35 14 23 30 3 6 21 26 32 COAL MAR Per Ton. E. d. 17 0 tiebburn Main 17 3 Efolywell 1 19 0 rownley l5 6 West Hartley 17 0 Wylain 17 6 Walls End Brown's l7 6 Di , to Chirton l5 0 Walls End 18 6 Walls End Hilda lB 0 Ships arrived since COON fRY CORN 1 Wheat. Per Quarter. 8. to S. Boston _ 48 Gainsborough .....,.... 57 Grantham .......—..—.—.. 53 67 Grimsby 42 58 H0rnca5t1e.................... 44 52 Lincoln Spilsby 4B 54 Stamford 47 59 York— 52 64 -- --- --------- " ----7 0. 6 LE WLs MAIt K tf,T.- March *4 ~. .c 3 . 0 White Wheat (per quarter)..............X2 16 2 1 ' 1 !), 0 Red ditt0„.,.........—...--............ 2 10 v 1 ' 0 ~ 8ar1ey....... lB 0 016 Oats, New „..„ 0 17 ' Pease 1 P . Oil Cake, New , . 19 }itc ll9 ' d. I v I CHELTENHAM MA lIKET..-1 a Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Pet lb. 6 1 Wheat Barley Oats 446 0 00 4 58 3 60 V BM" e u a tf l t. 01. n.....................................:.:. '''''''''''''' 3 , 70 0 0 4 Beans .0 Pease 5 0 7 0 Lawb ............... 1 . 00. Hay Wheat, oN O r 00 l i d rgfo. Si. IN to 3/. 15s. od. Per ~,, 6 0/ ' HULL MARKET. Oats, Small Poland F or Foreign g t Ar i t i ' s e t e i d t :::.... 255 1!.. fi1304°;:55:.......-1,....:.....i.1:::,....1:?..t.:16.::17.1:.a..w..°2°:.4:::...... ..... .... 4.... „ ;4:4'4 : : .1 . 4..4. ..., , i/ : ..b i1 l — Barley F , .i. Foreign .... .............. . ............................. Beans Pease, White ' R l'a a r pe s seed. in bond n -4-43Cts on ... e -3 . 3625::. -34381: FF P G: r r e rreee e li: , gg. p n.n. e; :l::::l:.: ..1g2:1: NORWICH. March 16. ...,..... 0 ' 0 4, Wheat (per qr.) .... 42s 575. 60s. I Beans (per ( 1 , • ) _,...,,11. 96'' - • Barley -..............--- 20s. 28s. 325. Pease, Grey , 'T a cjt) ' Oats - 18s. 225. 255. Flour: (per- - Wheat, white........... CAN'P 56 E ft 8 0 1 6 11 1 1. 8 1 . ~......IVl. a ro c t l d t . „„ l 6 ~, 0. 4 ..4. 1 0 . ,1 0 -- red—............. 465. to 57s ......... 01d......'''' 0. ,„elli Barley, Malting,....,, `..'6s to 355. Graidt _ng.' gis.' t ;oo l . Oats ..,-..--.—. 17s. to 245........ 01(1.•••••"" - o.o o ' Beans ....----- 34s to 38s 01d......"' 62/. Pease .---...--......... 355. to 375....... GreY...-""' 0 i1 4 ..1 0 how:, 0 per ^:- 2 MANCHESTER, March 1 b• TO . to s 1 Wheat, per 701 b. Bs. 6d. to Bs. 10d. Red ...... „ 0 57 Barley, per 601 b 5 0 5 6 Oats, ••••• 3 :,. 5 ; 0 6 1 1 Beans, per Imperial quarter Pease, White, per Imperial bushel Malt, per (1 Imperial bushels 43 „..../.." Flour, per Sack .12801 b .. •.. , V', Beef 6 ' (scoro_ EXE Bs T o E d ß 9 1% . 1A 6d RK I‘ E , T hi S:— „ M bu a s r ti c e h t , ) , 1 % . /s7 : Mutton (Ib.)---0 5; 0 6 8ar1e ..........„ ....,...",%, Veal and , amb-..0 6 0 7 Oats 6 1 1 P. rk 0 4 0 6 • Beans .........s.'d, ° 1 ' Geese (each) 4 0 5 6 Better (1b.).... ,-- : 0 Ducks 'coun!el...-..4 0 5 0 Eggs (12) Fowls .................-3 0 4 0 Potatoes (pee'q IRISH MA DUBLIN MARKET NO'l R K ETS. 1 . E.--FRIDA' From I 21 0 liP rcb 141 , A A V 0 0 .•• 30 5 1g " 1,282 Wheat, per barrel 20 stonel ,„ ,36 Here .16 stone 12 0 ~ 1 'l3 2f6 Harley —... 16 stone 12 0 .' ..- 3,472 Oats...—. l2 stone '7 0 '" 0 1 0 15,711 Cwt. F10ur............. 9 stone 6 0 1., 0 1 482 Oatmeal .......—..— 8 stone 8 0 1 "" 0 Sold to ',takers only. 11,482 Cwt. F10ur,,,.,.,, A Average price of Wheat and Flour 40 , ''',g s . Oli• 1' I First. from 1 ,6 d. 0' 13 0 ,r, :r se to il i o t) Receipts of Flour, 13,942 i m _ 'a from 1 3 ' pd. tO Sales of Do. 15,71! :-'"' Thirds, front 64 * _./., PRICE OF BREA D• ....''.; ..............7.34(1. I Half Quartern 1 . , , Harley. 1 oats. 1 PUfil PRICE OF BREA D• ..0 .................1 ' rt Quaern Loaf 7.34 d. I Half Quarters re" Wheat, Barley. oats. I ' l°' 41' i per barrel per barrel per barrel , (t . . 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. • •• • • ,,,/sel l ---- --- 7 ~, d• '5 0. il, s. d. as. d. s. d. as. d. s. d. as. d. s. e• 3 / 6 6 0 0 IR Cork 18 0 23 0 10 8 6 14 6 1 9 , 0 0 01 Limerick ;234 26 8 9 4 11 41 82 —Ol6 0 i s 01 0 0 o' Waterford;2l 0 25 010 0 12 01 711 6017 0 1 7 o' o 0 Clonmel ...19.3 4 24 412 0 13 01 7 0 891 6 2 , 2 1 0 Carlow —124 0 2.5 012 0 13 01 7 0 8020 u oter' t , . !Beef, Mutton,' Pork, per lb per lb. per cwt. __lst : ....... , 2 it,09 0 1 1 , ci. s' it 0 Id. ad. d. a d. s. d. aa.d.s. d. ~' 56 n itl ~0( Cork 5 6 5 627 0 30 076 0 ,' 4" v• i Limerick— 31 41 31. 434 0 35 0170 ODA 70 0 0, Waterford 3 6 3 533 0 35 0740 7 3 ' l 6O 0 „ . 7 4 0 :,'", 0 Clonmel 3 45} 6,1 32 0 33 076 . 1 ‘,"' (lu , g . tOj Carlow—. 4 5j 0 0 0 0 0082 0 Py_ . ~,,, re"-,011 toy ig * t --- - t oe- di, P l o s KILKENNY.—Butter 82s to 84s. per cwt. ,• to 5 - 06,0 per barrel; Flour 2ns. to 345. per bag; Oats ; rel ; Barley 12s. to 13s. ; Beef 4d. to sd. per I.•r CA to sd. ; Potatoes 2d. per stone; Coals Is. 2d.. Pigs 355. to 365. per cwt. SCOTCH MARKETS, IV Mare Oi H ADDINGTON CORN AI A R.KET. -- 0 01 Wheat. I Barley. oat, fe l .1 oj first 6os Od 33s Od 28s Ott 9 0 ,90 Second 49s Od 28s Od 19s Od od ere Third There were 427 qrs. of Wheat in market,4 1 sv 4e " 26 Unsold.-0 Grey. 01. 2/. 9s. lad. 1•1 Average ------ C A f a 1,14. 01 DA LKIETH CORN MARKET. -- - .. -r e . 51:: Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. „„„r e- od 95, I I First...,.. tiOs Od :30s Od 24s Od ‘ , 42 , " od V Second ... 50s Od 2.7 s Od 20s Od „,..:, - si Third ...- 42s Od 24s Od i 178 Od " 1 h la. s 4 i DUMFRIES MARKETS.—Marc- ' Ot Wheat, Imp. Bush... 6 0 to 6 6ißutter, 16oz. ......... ''''' 0, 0 0a s. d. s.d.j '', 0 8a a r t 1 5 e .. y . ......... ........ , ... 3 2 3 0 3 2 5 3 B E e g e g f s , , , d )e o r ze lb n: .. ... : ......... : 0 0 I Flour, Illb. 3 0 3 4 Mutton ... .. ....... ,„.. 01 Oatmeal Potatoes, cwt. - . o il - d S 3 , OYSTERS. — There was di s cover e opp oo , time ago, in the Bay of Luce, an oyster ba" k g horg_;s farm Of Castle Sintiinets, within a mile of the 0 0 , 0 1 oysters dry Sid to be the largest found in the 1; e diP t . o I and, one hundred of them weighing 961 106 , m 4 . 0 0 0 ,1 promises to be of great advantage to the 61 " e ver Glenlucp, a class 01 the most industrious Pe" - -Scotsman. t , t h e „ *if A il BIR. On the 17th inst., in Upper THS G ros venor-str ut ' t bei r. l T. Cuninghame, Esq., of a daughter• f /*Sh ire' ii g On the 18th inst., at Holmr Lacy, Here o n _ t io 1 Sir Edwyn Scudamore Stanhope, Bart., of a 9° ' - ident to On the 17th inst., in York-street, Covent-ga 0 1 Mr. Henry Bohn, of a son. the la" On the 17th inst., in Bryanston-square , t o, s o , Chauncey, Esq., of a daughter. On on t th he e 2 1 0 .i t t h h i i i i i i s s t t . . : a M t rs t . h ß e o p be ri r e t t O y, bb l a4 , ,, o t f o l.: 4;a : r ., i Mrs. Samuel t'age, of a son. of i On the 20th inst., in Berners-street, t he lady J 1 n H : .oeoo l , t i l inn s kl , sit j tete u hylie n :d . 72 , l:Es E tqi s ,si q eoG . ix ,: : e st. : dzhryter. Harvey, Esql., Li, MARRIED • City-road, to Margaret, daughter of the late v• '- Esq., of Stockton-upon-Tees. ler oo°lc tif On the 18th inst., at Guilford, Henry Co hter e Southampton, to Sarah Elizabeth, eldest Baugh Bar i lle" On the 19th inst., at Brighton, John Henry mid • i f F t l o:M r d u i . : February, D u p m elrE s i t s D e dh perished 0 f i nntahl the : e l : I' .r i ' icrod n o e :l e : tell j . °1 i going to Belfast to join the 80th regiment ~_,l i, no r eldest son of W. P. Jervis, Esq , of Beecb- hill, „dot in his 18th year. On the 18th inst., Fanny Afargaret Atherton Park, Esq., aged 18 months. , burn, f • fMr eP .5.4 , On the 16th inst., lary, wife o • ''' Bermondsey, aged 66.Will'P' Thomas On the 17th inst.,•Sarah, wife of Mr. of market, aged 53. eldest soil f Millen, eld 001 On the 19th inst., George Henry Rirnell, New Bond-street, aged 0 11 to Br' liton, IWO On the 15th inst., at Portland -place, g , ro ye. , daughter of the late Charles Hibbert, FA. , ''. A. i tenliam, aged '22 fiss Ann P 3sri : 14' ,0 On the 15th inst., at Earl's-court, 1% , . ,_ . ..„ r ee On the 2,th inst., at her residence, Wiliesaci.. Co;pi l Devon. in 3litre - • at her brother's, s On the 1 dth inst., street, Miss Mary Ma-kall. daughter, sellif, ir f On the 16th inst., Louisa Jane, the son, aged % ° vio , the 18th inst., George Stewart, the Harrod,Anne's-road, Brixt,,n , vua re, On the 17th inst., at his house in Dorset- 4 Coussmaker, Esq., aged tB. . Youngest chi. 114' PRINTZD AND PUILIARLD BY MURDO 01. 140 y o Bux Orricx, IN, STRAND, 1, OPpie r , tam MAJ' IN, c hin, office . he d P ft , ris 48 Al 7 ,, °° to e t, — „ n ' r b f ro met th• ii 44!f1':1 Wont at ox tot e Nina It kmul 410 14 ., ' t y feed), Lktr of the , ! "a"t' "Yal (