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rden4, ly and upon )rtdot is an- had :..alled r bad Janke esta- Joint that 2om- time, Chad been !rn of f t eep and long experience, and of great sagacity, who did rot concur in the policy and justice of that change—who •warned Government of the dangers to which it was about to expo se the country, and reminded it of the debt of 800 millions contracted in paper, and which according to the pending measures, was to he repaid in gold. These indi viduals, whose opinions were then rejected and ridiculed, had anticipated, even in some of their minutest details, the calamities by which the country had since been visited ; and he could not look back to the prophecies of those men, and to the progress of those calamities, without some feel ing of satisfaction, however melancholy, because they af forded decisive proof that the prevailing evils arose from artificial causes, and not from natural necessity—though appalling, they were vincible ; and as they bad arisen from legislation, by legislation they might be remedied. Looking to the past, he could not persuade himself that the House would refus e inquiry, or that Ministers would take upon themselves th e tremendous responsibility of recommending and enf orcing that refusal ; and if an inquiry were insti tuted, he pledged himself to prove that the existing dis tre9eB were susceptible of remedial measures, not only involving uo ,hreach of public faith or national honour, but tending directly to the preservation of both, as well as to the restoration of the country to its once envied power and Prosp er i ty. Mr. PEEL felt the full force of the observation which had been made, that the subjects which had been brought forward,, numerous as they were, were so important that a separate investigation was no less than each subject de manded: Of all the topics which had been discussed, there was one which had been introduced by the Hon. Baronet, the Member for Cornwall (Sir Vyvyan), Which he (Mr. Peel) should certainly exclude from his consideration ; he referred to what had fallen from the Hon. Baronet in respect to party considerations, and the hearin g o f Govern ment. the present motion upon the interests of the He did not think it necessary to discuss the subject of the sufferings of those who were labouring under the calamitie s of the present moment, in that tem per of mind which a reference to party subjects was cal cchualartet dof t t, o ubic c e re t a s te.—(Hear.)—Looking to the crowded dian line to direct his him, without the- aid of a men-- his course by, he would endeavour at least to confine himself to the subjects which had been ad verted to in the debate. 'With respect to distress, he ad mitted it did exist to an extent which ought to excite great sympath y , an d which imposed a d uty on Parliament of deviiing means of mitigation, if those means were com patible with a comprehensive view of the whole state of the 'country. He never meant to deny the existence of dis tress; though, in some instances, he differed from the views taken this akenby several M em b ers as to i ts extent; and w i t h re f erence Point, he would beg to advert to some of the arguments used by his Right. Hon. Friend, the Member for Liverpool (Mr. Huskisson). His Right lion. Friend, in a speech, tho temper and moderation of which he would wish to imitate, stated one fact, which, at the time, be (Mr. Peel) felt, made an impression on the House, as affording a proof of the existence of distress. These related to the with drawal of deposits from the savings banks. His Right Hon. Friend said, that the amount deposited in those banks in 1828 was 945,000/., and that the sums drawn out in that year Were 678,0001. ; and in 1829 the sums deposited did not exceed 449,000!., while the sums taken out in the same year were 1,445,000/. ; and these his Right Hon. Friend took to he conclusive proofs of the existeirre of general distress. Now, without denying the stoteMents of his Right lion. Friend, he trusted that in a few Words he should convince him, and that, too, in the Most satisfactory manner, that the conclusion to which he had come from those facts was not the correct one. This was a most important point of the subject before the House, and therefore he begged its indulgence for a short time, while he offered an answer to it. The facts stated by his Right Hon. Friend were, as lie had said, correct, but the. circumitances of the country, with respect to the savings banks at the period, would explain them. To wards the end of the year 1828, a change took place in the law as regarded savings banks, which made a material difference in the deposits of 1829, as compared with the preceding year. Previously to November, 1828, the interest on deposits in those banks was 3d. per day for 100/., or 41, 11 it. 3d. per cent. In November of that year, which date was exactly coincident with the commence ment of the alteration in the amount of deposits quoted by his - tight Hon. Friend, a law came into operation, which not 'only reduced the interest to 21d. per day, or 31. Bs. 5,1. per cent.; but also limited the deposits of any one person to 30/.. in any one year, and to 2001. in the whole, so that after that amount was deposited, no further sums would be received from the same party. The effect was an imme diate drawing out of the deposits of those who held large .81ms. He was sure that his Right Hon. Friend would be glad to hear that an explanation so satisfactory could be given of this difference between 1828 and 1829, which some Hon. Members seemed, at the time it was stated, to think Was rte slight ground for inquiry. He held in his hand an account of the amount of the several deposits in savings banks in 1828 and 1829, distinguishin g those of 201., So!., SOL, 1001, and 2001. The contributors to sums of 2001. were, in 1828, 2,273/. ; and to the same in 1829, they were 1,850/. But what was the fact, and it *as a cheering one as far as it referred to the condition of the humbler classes? In 1828, the depositors of sums not exceeding 20/. each were 66,204 ; but in 1829 they bad increased 4,ooo—being in that year 70,150. He felt that it was not necessary for him to offer any apology to the House for going into minute details on this subject, be cause it was one on which much stress had been laid by his Right Hon. Friend, and from which, he was sure, when the real state of the case was known, his Right Hon. Friend aid the House would draw a different conclusion from that to which he had come.—(Hear, bear.)—He would therefore state to the House the names of some of the places in which an increase of the deposits of th'e sums last mentioned had taken place, and he would do this to show that the improvement of which he took it to be a proof was not confined t o one town, or one di s t r i c t o f th e coun t ry . In Liverpool, for instance, there had been an increase of those deposits. In Norwich there was also an increase.— In the bank at Panton-street, Haymarket, there was like- Wise an i ncrease. In Shrewsbury, Sheffield, Southampton, Truro, Warwick, Whitechapel, Worcester, Exeter, and in. Leeds, the same increase of those deposits was yManifest, making, not a decrease, as his Right on. F r i en d had said, but an increase of 4,000 depositors of that class. Still, in adverting to the situation of the louver classes, no man felt more strongly than he did how much Parliament was hocnd to consult the interest of those classes, with the view of increasing their comforts in every possible way ;. for he knew that so far' as it did this, it gave a new guarantee for their good conduct, a n d at the same time afforded additional security f o r the happiness of the higher classes of society.—(Hear, On this subject he might refer with some confi dence to the measures which his Majesty's Ministers had propos e d for the reduction of taxation, and in which, as ad been observed bv an Hon. Member, Ministers had not faulted what m i g h t promote t h e i r own patronage or ' 'PAce, but what would most conduce to the interests 4111114.r.e.,01Tufztilooftit)17 lower classes. His Right Hon. Friend in alluding to this reduction of taxes, .„-,ir.tf-d,t9.one point which was of considerable import. e . brew out a suggestion whether it would not 4 -rt -airea4 eit4if , to have commuted some of the taxes his. Righ t n g r. tor some others of a different kind. Now nienti o nn * Friend had someuvhat skilfully avoided the of t . b, nof that other tax, for which he would have some consPr;tlnt commuted ; but still it was evident, from altner in which he alluded to it, that he mooted for larger the question of a property-tax, by which a Snare of taxes might be remitted to certain classes. s t o ,"' l IOSKISSON, in explanation, said, as we under oerutZ, that his object was that the taxes should affect only k classes who were able to bear them. th4, l ;: e, P EEL—Nothing could be mere inconvenient than the as as a Minister of the Crown should touch upon .routiction of that or any other tax, if it was not a In'eAniure intended ,to be brought forward as one of Govern the Right. Hon. Friend had correctly stated that miolleltuelect had b een d u l y cons id ere d b y hi s M a j esty ' s those tie t il t-Ixeaus e it was of the tatinoat importance that • be serio us n ; Affecting the interests, of the country should bearing 1--,eiglied before any decision was made. The be ex ' ti e' , a tax on land, if other interests were to em P tr rorn • • • 'd r Con. Ilia . it, was also deserving of serious cons' e subject,. and on ' d the Right Ministers had given to the Right ti on - . 1,-'e result was, as had been stated by his would be bett.o d : they came to the conclusion, that . it se t : h at any other coure directly .011 th rt ° remit three millions of taxes bearing Peat mass of the people, than to adopt give any oth ar .ax, suen a might h. have suggested itself. To t icul t ' er , el "inn now upon the merits of any par ticular , 3 t hat which seemed to be in . the con vert to be prudent ma Right Hon. Friend, would certainly not f or him, and therefore be would not further ad upon b it., - Another aubject which had been touched j ug. j ci .ilia b ßight Hon. Friend was the system of Irink vnin„,.. :t r piglit be done with a view to its improve bil-tnoett,cf 6 g l 7:!"aa a topic which he thought could not was not ai ie o f too great care and delicacy. He important is'e r vie ei .°%,ho under•rated the value of the Indeed, inlaoln tvra.ich bankers rendered to the country. he 041%4 thal.'": re the ,valu e of the whole as a body, adVarttage, der ive d' 1 .2 t.o° apt to overlook the general vidual them , cas t and t o d we ll on indi th, of a use He, however, was no t o f iis numb er , and' he ti . C did 0 I:4litt might be possible, ' • • in lay mptoremento thspt made in the system, to reconcile the interests of the body to:which he alluded with those of the public. Upon the nature'of any improvements that might be wade in the system, he was not then disposed to enter ; but he must say, that to throw open the banking system to every adventurcr i —to consent to the establishment of joint stock banking com panies with only a limited responsibility, while the re sponsibility of the private banker extended to his entire property, were measures which ought to be considered with great caution. He would sow approach some of the remarks made by the Hon. Member who last addressed the House, and he must own that the speech of the Hon. Member confirmed bins in what he had all /dung feared, — that whatever might he the views of the Hon. Member who brought forward this motion, those of very many by whom it was likely to be supported would be directed to some inquiry which would go to a revision of our currency system, and also to that of free trade. If he might. take the Hon. Member's speech as an indication of his inten tions in this respect, there could be no doubt on the sub ject; and he was glad of it, for he did hope that their discussion of That night would put an end to the currency question. He knew the lion. Member could agitate it again and again, if he pleased, but he did hope that this, the seventh or eighth decision of the House upon it, would put an end to all further doubts upon the subjece, and that they would now debate for the last time, by showing that it was their firm determination to adhere to the system already adopted with respect to our cur rency.—(Cheers.)—But the Honourable Member (Mr. Attwood) asked with great force of declamatory elo quence, " Will you abdicate the functions of Parliament by refusing to enter upon an inquiry upon a ques tion so important to the country ?" He (Mr. Peel) would answer, No. Parliament had now discussed the question so frequently and SO fully, that Members were now in possession of every thing which could be known respecting it.—(Hear, hear.)—Did the Hon. Member, by the proposed inquiry, mean that the standard of value should be altered, or was there any great error which he would wish to have corrected in the measure of 1919? If he did, he hoped the House would now pro nounce its opinion upon both points. As the author, in a great degree, of the measure of 1819, he hoped the House would indulge him while he offered a few remarks in sup port of its principle, and the more particularly as lie hoped they were now discuss'ng the questions for the last time. The two questions he would aslc the Hon. Member were —had there been an error committed in the measure of 1819, and in what way were they to correct that error? Let the House bear in mind that ten years were now elapsed since the adoption of that measure, which had since been farther confirmed by repeated decisions of that House. Upon that adoption, and its subsequent confirmations a va riety of contracts, mortgages, and other pecuniary engage ments, had been entered into on the faith that the measures of Parliament would be strictly persevered in. He asked, then, was it advisable that the whole of those engagements should be given up ?—that the faith of Parliament, pledged for the measures in which they were founded, should be broken ? But what course would the Hon. Member take? Would be have a paper currency convertible into gold ? Would he alter the standard of value, or would he have an inconvertible paper currency? If any one of those were the measure he would point out, and to momesof which in his own declamatory mood, he had alluded, why should not he, who knew so much on the subject, provoke a discus sion by the introduction of a short Bill? A single sheet of paper would contain a Bill for any of those objects; why then not introduce it at once ? But as the Hon. Member had shrunk from such discussion, he would not then enter minutely into it, but would make a few observations on the facts brought forward by the Hon. Member. The Hon. Member stated that we had 800,000,000/. of debt, which had been contracted for in a currency depreciated more than 20 per cent. below that in which it was to be paid. But if the Hon. Member looked to the real effects of the case, he would find that this was not so. Let him consider that a large portion of this debt was con tracted fur in a currency nearly as high as that in which the public creditor was now paid. But suppose the pub lic creditor was to be paid only in the currency in which the debt was contracted, let him (Mr. Peel) ask the lion. Member to discriminate who were the parties to whom the depreciated rate of payment was to be made? A great majority of the original contractors had passed away, and since 1816 a vast portion of the public funds had got into the hands of persons who did not pay for it in a depre ciated, hut in an improved currency ;—not in the value which the Hon. Member would set upon it, but in the improved mercantile value. Surely the lion. Member would not tern round on those parties and say to them, " you must he the dupes of your confidence in the resolu tions of Parliament, which state that faith should be kept inviolable with the public creditor !" When, then, the Hon. Member deducted from this 800,000,000/. the amount standing in the names of those who purchased at a rate nearly equal to the present value, and those who had since purchased at a full value, he would find that this sum would be reduced to a very small amount indeed. He would now come to the alteration in the standard of va lue. it bad now existed for eleven years, and under it a variety of contracts and obligations had been entered into. Would it not, then, he would ask, be a greater evil to de part from the system, than to persist in it as it is ? If the lion. Member thought not, he would again tell him that his best mode of bringing the question to an issue would be to introduce a measure by which he might show, if it could be shown, that no inconvenience would result from the alteration.—(Hear, hear. )—He would now come to tisk Bill of 1819, and however unpopular the assertion, or to whatever degree of obloquy it might sub ject him, he must affirm that the introduction of that Bill was no error.—(Hear, bear, hear.)—No doubt many Hon. Members, then in the House, who had taken an active share in the discussions of the measure, would be ready to relieve him from any degree of personal re sponsibility attached to it, by stating that it was one in which they also had joined. Indeed when he mentioned that it was a measure that had been sanctioned by the Legislature, he might relieve himself from all equitable or legal responsibility. But without sheltering himself under that, he would then contend that in that measure Parlia ment had pursued the wisest and safest course for the wel fare of the country, and nothing could be more grossly in correct than the assertion that it was not so.—(Hear. ) It was said that this change in the currency had depreciated the value of commodities more than twenty per cent., and in fact every degree of distress—every depression of trade —every panic or commercial revulsion that had since occurred, had been owing to that Bill. Now it might not be unimportant to ask whether there had been no con vulsions, no panics, no depression, before the introduction of that Bill ? Let him beg of the Hon. Member to con sider what had taken place in 1793, just at the com mencement of the war. What was the situation of the country in 1797, when we had restricted the issue of gold, and had substituted a paper currency ? What was the state of the country in 1810, when there was net even a whisper of intention to return to cash payments ? Why, in that very year a Committeee was appointed to inquire into that distress, which reported that credit had been de stroyed in the country, that many of the commercial trans actions of the country were carried on at a loss of from 60 to 70 per cent., that a number of manufacturers continued their men in employment only to afford them a precarious subsistence, and to prevent the injury to their machinery which inaction occasioned. Every symptom of the country at that time was much worse than at present, and yet there was then no appearance of a return to pay ments in gold. He would next direct the attention of the House to the year 1816, and he begged, in doing so, to remind the Hon. Member for Essex, that that Hon. Member brought forward a resolution, stating the very distressed condition of agriculture at that period. He did not know whether the Hon. Member had lately referred to the able speech which he then delivered on the causes of the distress, or whether, if he had, he might not think that the different circumstances of the country since then would be a just ground for his having altered it. In that speech the Hon. Member attributed the agricultural distress to a fall of prices, and he argued very powerfully to show that tin inconvertible paper currency would have a prejudicial effect on the value of the produce of home tillage. The Hon. Member bad also then argued that a paper currency was the effect, and not, as it had been since asserted, the cause of law prices. He (Mr. Peel) was willing to admit that at the time the Bank of England had given some in timation of returning to cash payment. This induced hbn to revert to another point connected with the subject— namely, the decline in prices. lie would admit that great distress was occasioned by that decline, but he did not be lieve that one-tenth of that distress could be fairly attri-. bated to the resumption of cash payments. While he was on this point, he begged to say one or two words, to rescue the memory of the late Mr. Ricard o f ro m an imputation which had been unjustly cast upon it. Mr. Ricardo was stated to have said that the differences between the prices before and after the resumption of cash payments was only from three to four per cent. Now Mr. Ricardo said no such thing. What he did say was,—that the great dif ference between prices before and after the resump tion of cash payments was a difference—he (Mr. Peel) did not know at what amount Mr. Ricardo stated it—not referable to the change of currency, but referable to the change from war to peace; but he said that the amount of reduction of price in consequence of a return from paper to gold was not more than from 3 to 4 per cent. Now when he (Mr. Peel) admitted that a great change took place in prices after the resumption of cash payments, he must look to other cati-as for that change. Let him refer to the war, which was of SO years' duration, and let him look at the p: ices to which all articles were raised during that war, and he would ask whether it would be possible, under any systa in of currency, to have kept up these prices in time of peace. To the retur n , therefore, from war to peace trust he attributed the differ ence of prices, awl nut to any change in the currency. Now, going to the p•Tiod of the French war, which he would not stop then to defend, he would only say, that in his opinion, and he agreed with an Hon. Baronet wh o institutions,— that it, was a war for the support of existing that it had tended to promote the (he hoped) permanent settlement of Europe. Now, if he divided that war into two periods of 14 years, in the first of these the expendi ture of the country exceeded its revenue by 189,000,000/. In the second period the excess of revenue above expendi ture was 236,000,0001., making an excess in the two pe riods of 425,000,0001. Now lie would ask, after such an extraordinary expenditure as be had stated, could it be expected that the country should resume its ordinary condition without great depression, and whether the seine high prices could he continued as in mu.? It was with a nation as with an individual: if he bad, for some cattle, whether necessary for his defence or not, made a large anticipation of his income, he could not return to his former condition without great weakness being apparent in his resources. Another cause of this great differ ence in prices was, that by the system which Napoleon obliged us to adopt, with respect to our colonies, we became possessed of the monopoly of the trade of Europe, and of course that monopoly raised the price of every cuticle here, and of the value of the labour expended in its pro.. duction. That system was now at an end, and of course the high prices ended with it. It had been repeatedly said that the transition from a state of war to one of peace ought to have been over before this, but no mistake could be greater than that under which those persons laboured who entertained such an opinion. They should have recollected that it was not possible for countries on the continent of Europe to enter all at once into a compe tition with England, the seeds of manufacturing industry were so completely blighted every where amongst them by the long continuance of hostilities. In fact, immediately after the cessation of the war, our manufactures received an impetus rather than a 'depression ; but gradually, as continental industry resumed its tone, we were driven to the necessity of struggling to maintain that pre-eminence which we had before uninterruptedly enjoyed. And who could now shut his eyes to the conviction that we should be necessitated and compelled to regulate our prices by theirs, if peace continued and capital increased in the bands of our competitors, and machinery should be introduced amongst them, which we, however desirous, might not have it in our power to prevent?—(Hear, bear.)--We should be obliged, he repeated, to regulate our prices by existing circumstances altered as they were to our preju dice, and to abandon those which we could exact in the days of our monopoly during the war. Was it fair, then, to load the authors of the Bill of 1819,—he could not say with calumnies, because no personal charges had been made against him, but—with accusations of being the originators of evil which was referable to circum stances over which neither they, nor Parliament itself, could have any possible controul? Even from the battle of Leipsic,—from the first symptoms of the downfall of Napoleon's power, the real causes began to operate ; nor were they long in operation before they ex hibited their effects. It would be found, by a reference to dates, that the fall in the price of wheat, for example, was not coincident with changes in the circulation. On those subjects which, he regretted to say, were but little understood, Hon. Members would derive much valuable information from a perusal of the many able works which had been published, in order to put political men in pos session of the facts, and arguments necessary to a proper knowledge of what was allowed to be so important. But he more particularly alluded to the labours of Mr. Tooke, to whose abilities and information he was happy to have an opportunity of bearing testimony. No man felt sin cerer or more cordial sympathy for the landed interest than he had always entertained. From political considerations alone he should deeply lament their permanent.depression, as he thought it necesssary to the welfare of the State, and the proper balance of society, that those who were possessed of incomes amounting to from 1,200/. to 1,500/. a year should be upheld in their station, and it was at all times painful to his feelings to be a spectator of their de • pression or decline. After the restoration of the peace, however, it was unreasonable to expect that they could maintain the old prices which had existed in times so different from the present. There was one cause of the distress now complained of by agriculturists, which was certainly beyond Legislative controul, and which, at the same time, appeared to him to be greatly under-rated.— He meant the improvement in steam navigation and the mechanism of modern machinery, which suddenly brought the bad laud of this country into competition with the richest land of Ireland and Scotland, which imported agricultural produce into England with a facility of con veyance unprecedented hitherto. A steam-vessel was in cessantly employed in transporting the produce of the most fertile districts in the west of Ireland to Liverpool, whence it was as rapidly passed on to Manchester, where the cargoes were immediately disposed of. In short, the effect of this introduction of Irish produce on the agricultural resources of England was precisely similar to that occasioned in the West India Islands by the annexation of the rich land of Demerara to the British Crown. The causes which he had mentioned would continue to operate, maugre all our anxiety to remove them or to neutralize their necessary effects. He had taken leave of the cur rency question, and did no t i n t en d a gain to resume it. The H on . Member opposite, he perceived, shook his head on his say ing this ; but he hoped that lie would not shake it agai n during the session, if the gesture was indicativ e of a reso lution to bring the subject again under their consideration. In reply to those declaimers who had so vehemently con demned the Bill of 1819 as ruinous to the country, h e should not deal in counter d ec lamations, or answer th e i r vague assertions and inconsequent conclusions b . y a si m il ar mode of defence, but would rather confine himself to a few facts which lie submitted were quite sufficient to confute their misrepresentations. He had endeavoured to ascertain the bearing of this obnoxious measure in several of the large manufacturing districts, by inquiries into the condition of the population now, as compared with what it was at the period of its introduction. Iu the town of Manchester a very animated controversy, they were in formed, was at present going forward, as to whether the in habitants were distressed or not, some contending that they were, and some that they were not—(Laughter)—nor was it probable that the contest would ever know an end until the legislature should decide the question by its own authority and arbitration. He should, then, pass over Manchester, and likewise 'Liverpool and Leeds, as there were others better entitled by local knowledge to speak as to the existing state of those places than he could pretend to be, but he would select the fairest example, where he could meet the Hon. Member on fair grounds, as he might himself be said to represent the district to which he alluded, and could contradict him in any statement he should advance if it teas incorrect or erroneous. Bir mingham was that part of England he should instance; and lie did so more patricularly, as it was the nucleus of a certain political union which bad extendeg its ramifica tions elsewhere, originating in Birmingham, he presumed, on account of the pre-eminence of the inhabitants over their fellow-sufferers in distress.—( Hear. )—Most willingly would he give the Hon. Member his choice of a test or criterion of prosperity, and by his own selection he should abide. His object was to compare the circumstances of the inhabitants in 1818 with those under which they were so loudly complaining in 1830, in order to ascertain how far the Bill of 1819 had operated as a cause of their de pression. And first as to the population. In the year 1818, there were 19,000 premises, includin g warehouses, in Birmingham, whereas, in 1828, it contained no less than 22,000 inhabited houses, exclusive of warehouses. The Hon. Member's arguments went to prove that the alteration in the currency had depressed the value of pro perty, but he was assured that there was nevertheless in Birmingham a great increase in its value since the Bill had been introduced. Three acres in the neighbourhood of the town had been putchased in 1827 for 6001., which were since sold for 2,4261., and ground rents, where 40 years remained unexpired, were disposed of at 100 years' purchase. Land which had been sold in 1826 at 3,500/, was bargained for in last November at 4,200/. The number of licensed traders amounted in 1820 to only 198, but might be estimated in 1829 so high as 1,150. Then with respect to the consumption of the luxuries of life, there was an increase in exactly the same ratio. The four-wheeled carriages, which were charged assessed taxes in 1819, numbered but 38 ; in 1822 they were 41.; in 1824 they came to 94; in 1826 to 106; and in 1828 to 157. Horses which were charged assessed taxes in 1819 were in number 923 ; in 1822 they amounted to 791, but in 1823 and 1825, when the tax was taken off, there was no means of ascertainin g the progressive increase. , In 1828, however, they might amount th 977. The ma nufacturing activity, be thought, would be best estimated by the amount of tolls on the roads in the vicinity of Bir mingham ; and here also the same increase was manifest; for the tolls on the Holyhead and two other roads had b een let, in 1822, for 1,200/. a year; but in 1829 they brought 1,7671. The tolls on the Kidderminster-road, likewise, were let in 1820 at 1,1001. a year, whereas in 1827 they were raised to 1,665/. A like increase took place in the item of canals. The custom on the Worces-1 tcr and Canal in 1821 and 1522 averaged at I(0/., awl in and 15•29 its relative prosperity was marked by tittn ay+ mage of 1651., making a difference of 65 per cent. The offl Birmingham Canal in 1821 and 1822 averaged at 9:3, and in 1828 and 1829 at 105. These Teets, in hit opinion, dearly established the con clusion, that the Bill of 1819 had not been productive of that overwhelming distress which was described as the consequence of its operation. Touching the subject of that night's debate, which, after all, had no very con siderable share in the discussion, he could not see what they were to do with the motion of the Hon. Mem ber for Shaftesbury, who had proposed that the House should resolve itself into a Committee to consider of the causes of that general distress complained of in the peti tions, and endeavour to devise a remedy for the same.— On his asking the Hon. Member at a quarter to six, what was the precise motion which he intended to bring forward the Hon. Gent. replied that he was too old a soldier to give him any information upon the subject.---(Laughter.)— The result,. however, of a fortnight's deliberation, was a motion for a Committee of the whole House, instead of a Select Committee, and he thought that the Hon. Member lied judiciously preferred framing his motion as he had done. But the lion. Baronet, the Member for Shoreham, had certainly not treated him well.—(Laughter.)--He had riot paid the' originator of the first motion that deference and respect to which his zeal, assiduity, and long cogita tion upon the subject had so deservedly entitled him.— (Hear, and laughter.)—The motion of the Member for Shaftesbury he considered by much the better of the two. If such distress as was described did in reality exist, it was greatly preferable that an inquiry should be conducted by a Committee of the whole House, where all Members were on a fair equality, and where the public were thoroughly acquainted with their proceedings.—(Hear, hear. )—But the Honourable Baronet proposed the appointment of a Committee of 21 Members, who were to sit and inquire by oral evidence into the extent and causes of the distress, and also to suggest a remedy. Was it possible (he put it to any dispassionate man) that such a Committee, with such a' subject before them, could press nt a satisfactory report dur ing either this or the ensuing session?--(Hear.)—He hoped that the House would reject both motions—( Hear, hear)—not because most of those who supported them would desire to have an alteration in the currency, but from a conviction that if an inquiry of this nature were insti tuted, large classes in the couutry would immediately infer that a depreciation of the standard, or some measure af fecting the currency, was contemplated. Certain indica tions of a return to prosperity were at present beginning to exhibit themselves, and he had received, no later than that very morning,. letters from Manchester and Leeds, which induced him to believe that we had already reached the lowest point of depression. Hon. Members had observed, that we were entitled at this peculiar season to witness a revival of our manufactures, if the distress was not entirely irretrievable, and he concurred with them in thinking that the breaking up of the severe and long continued frost ought to produce such an effect as they anticipated. But he feared the disease less than the remedy.—(Hear.)—The hapless fate of a patient under the joint superintendence of three physicians was adverted to in the progress of the debate, and he should entertain similar fears for the nation whether submitted to the dewtoring of 658 of the faculty, as pro posed by one gentleman, or to 21 as suggested by another. —(Laughter.)—He did not like to trust the Constitution cf the country to either of those Hon. Members, with their bundle of prescriptions, which only excited in him an in voluntary shudder when they were produced. In refusing to assent to both propositions now submitted for their adop tion, they were not abandoning their duty, but acting con sistently with the true interests of those whom it was in tended to relieve, shunning an inquiry which would only cause fruitless anxiety and excitement, and awaken hopes that were doomed to disappointment ere they were formed. Sir C. WETHERELI. said he was not a little sur prised that nearly the whole speech of the Right Hon. Secretary was a defence of what was called his own pill, 'and that scarcely five minutes had been devoted by the Right Hon. Secretary to the discussion of the real prac tical question before the House. The question was, whether so much of agricultural and commercial distress prevailed in this country, as would justify the House in instituting the proposed inquiry. The Right Hon. Secre tary said that there was no distress at all.—(Cries of " No, no," from all parts of the House )—Well, then, the Hon. Member for Bramber had said so—(Hear, and laughter)— and the speeches of many other Hon. Members bad gone to the same extent. There were great contradictions on this point. The Hon. Member for Bramber (Mr. Irving) had said, that far from there being any distress at Coventry, he weavers there were as fresh as a bunch of their own ribands, while the Hon. Member (Mr. Fyler) near him, who was in the habit of visiting these weavers, and shaking hands with them—(Hear, and laughter)—said that their distress was great ; and lie was inclined to take the opinion of the Hon. Member for Coventry in preference to that of the Hon. Member for Bramber, who did not live at Coventry, hut, be believed, in Richmond-terrace. Then, again, they were told by sonic Honourable Members, that there was no distress, or next to none, nt Leeds; but in contradiction to such statements, they had the authority of an Hon. Member whom he was afra;d he should not describe correctly—he meant the able, the enlightened, the accomplished Member for Newark—(Loud laughter)—able as a writer and as a reasoner—(Laughter)striking in his eloquence—(Shouts of laughter and cries of " 011,")—well versed in ancient and modern learning, and accomplished in his mode of applying that learning. (The loud and general burst of laughter which followed this sentence prevented our hearing whether the Hon. and Learned Member finished the encomium here.) The authority of men like the worthy Member for Newark was at least better' than the unopened budgets of the Right Hon. Se cretary and the Right lion. Master of the Mint. He meant to support the amendment for the appointment of a Select Committee. He thought that the country had a right to information by means of its representatives; and he believed the best way, as well as the most usual and Parliamentary way, of gaining that information, was to appoint a Select Committee. He rejected and repudiated the notion that those tvlio voted for this motion meant to disturb the present currency, and to substitute a paper cur rency. He meant no such thing ; and to prevent this, and get rid of the objection on this account, let there be an instroction to the Committee that they should not enter tain the currency question. He begged to press upon the consideration of the House this mode of getting rid of the objection which induced the Right Hon. Secretary to op • pose the moti , m. Mr. O'CONNELL rose amidst loud cries of " Ques tion." As soon as the lion. Member could obtain a hear ing, he said that he felt he could not at that late hour do justice to his constituents—(Cries of " Oh, oh")—and that he begged, therefore, to move that the debate be adjourned. --(Loud cries of " No, no.") - Mr. PEEL said, it appeared to him that this discussion might be very easily brought to a close now—(Loud cheer ing)—and that be did not think they would be consulting the public interest by devoting their time for a fourth night to a measure which caused all other business to be neg lected.—(Cheers.)—He had done all he could to bring on this motion. and to have it fully discussed, and he should therefore oppose the amendment of the Hon. Member for Clare, and take the sense of the House upon it if it were necessary.—(Cheers, and cries of " Question.") After a desultory conversation on the question of ad journment, between Mr. HUMP, Sir E. KNATCHBULL, Mr. Hosicissos, Mr. DAVENFORT, and other Hon. Mem bers, the gallery was cleared for a division. While we were excluded from the gallery, we understood two divi sions took place; the first on the simple question of the adjournment of the House till Monday, on which there ap peared—Ayes, 9 ; Noes, 341. The second division was on the motion op the Hon. Member for Clare—that is, for the re-adjournment of the debate, for which 12 voted in the affirmative, and 329 in the negative. An Hon. MEURER, as we are informed, then expressed his intention of re-dividing the House on the motion of ad journment till Monday, with a view of compelling an as sent to the re-adjournment of the debate; upon which de termination, Mr. PEEL said he should be unwilling to throw any obstruction in the way of Hon. Members expressing their opinions, and therefore would propose that the further dis cussion of the question should stand over till Tuesday. The resumption of the debate accordingly stands for Tuesday next. The House adjourned at Three o'clock till Monday. It was remarked in the House of Peers, on Thursday, that his Royal Highness the Duke of CUMBER LAND made his appearance in the House for the first time since the conumeneement of the late rumours with which he was in no small degree mixed up. Lord ELLENBO- Aoucit also made his debut, if we may be allowed the ex pression, on Thursday.—the proceedings in his Lordship's Divorce fill preventing him for some days taking his seat. Lord ELDON also made his appearance in a blue dress coat, with gilt buttons ! the first time he ever ap peared in the House in such a dress. His Lordship ap peared to be very jocose, laughing heartily every now and then ;so also was the Duke of . CUMBERLAND. Lord Er:- LzrutoitouGn, on the other hand, appeared cast down; nor did'he sit in the course Of the evening, as he used to do, next to the Duke of WELLINGTON.—Morning Paper. utici vote port the had been ved were lieularly led on to distress. .irerpool re been ion wasp d suffer. fe should and to itable to the state horn► he anguage iich the he had ht Hon. ►nfirma- cornea. letters )Lm him countri opposi.6 thought thought tened to r error. it wail et fora, not in-- ople peeeli of id given ad said lot told ttwood) alters in fast, 50s. a landed to from whole a trait s ~c►ity. Dns to in any ;ht to :ers of a was uncial be in mided only and SPRING ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NOTITIfERN CIRCUIT.—LANCASTER, MARCH 15. Paul Rigby, aged 47, and John Grimes, aged 62, two ferocious looking fellows, together with Mary Grimes, datigliter . of the latter, wen! indicted for a highway rob bery, at Seotforth, near Lancaster, on the 23d of Fe bruary Fist. Robert Stanley lived at Oswestry, and passed through G3lgate at a quarter past six on the evening of the 23d of February, when he met a woman, who asked him for money to pay for her lodgings. Two men came up, and one of theist struck him a blow on the cheek, which stunned him, and he fell to the ground. When he arose, they tore his shirt and coat open. They knocked him down again senseless, and he remembered nothing more. On his recovery, he found he had been robbed of two si. Bank of England notes, some silver, a silver watch, and a parcel containing some linen. William Clark found at a place called the Greavrts a hat, and afterwards found the prosecutor lying at a gate ; he thought him quite dead; on endeavouring to raise him he found his hands were tied behind his back, and to the gate. He went for assistance, and on hi's return found some other person had released him. His neckcloth was removed, and wire and packthread were found twisted several times round his neck, he did not come to himself fur nearly an hour afterwards. Richard Dixon, a publican at Scotfortb, saw the pri soners at his house ; they appeared to be acquainted with each other. Rigby had a box and a stick, Grimes a bundle, and the woman a basket. They went towards Lancaster about seven by my clock, the real time would 13s about half-past six. Rigby told me to notic,, what time they left. Titus Slater, a little boy, saw the prisoners on the day in question at Scotforth, and heard the old man, Grimes, say, "We are just right for killing a man, we have got plenty of wire in the basket." The woman said, " Hush, hush." They went towards Lancaster. Lie went home, and told his father and mother the same evening. The JUDGE summed up, and the Jury found the pri soner Guilty. His LORDSHIP said he should defer passing sentence until the following morning, and at the same time ob served it was the most barbarous case he ever knew. THE LATE MARQUIS DE LALLY TOLEN DAL.—The Bourbons have sustained a great loss by the sudden and unexpected death of this venerable and staunch Royalist. It was but a few weeks ago that the KING con ferred upon him the Order of the St. Esprit. M. DE LALLY was the only son of the celebrated General Count DE LALLY, who fell a victim to the intrigues of a factipn when in command of Pondicherry. The Marquis lived many years in this country, where he was the friend and associate of BURKE and Fox, the two great models of his admiration. He married in early life Miss HALKEr, a daughter of Sir CIIARLER WTEDDFRBURN HALRF.T, Bart., of Pitfirran, N. 8., a near relation of WEDDERBURN, late Earl of ROBSLYN, of whose friendship when Chancellor M. DE LALLY postres:ed a large share when in this coun try. He was a distinguished member of the Institute, and has left several literary works to perpetuate his name. His defence of Louis XVI., and his pleadings for the memory and innocence of his father, will entitle bins to the designation of WALTER SCOTT, " the eloquent and noble LALLY TOLENDAL." In the Chamber of Peers, where all are nearly debaters, M. DE LALLY was the only real Speaker—the only Member who had any claims to do quence. His influence with men of all parties was im• mense ; and his hospitality was as generous as his heart. Descended of an old Irish stock in the county of Galway, M. DE LALLY never forgot the land of his ancestors, and all his strongest feelings and affections were enlisted in admiration of Great Britain and her institutions. During his short illness the KING and all the Royal Family sent requently to inquire after the state of his health. The Ranter sect, though in a dormant state in most of our market-towns, now and then show symp toms of superior vitality among the country people. At Messingham, and some of the neighbouring villages, there is much boasting of what is called a revival,—a sort of proceeding more curious than intelligible to those not initiated, but which generally tends to the effect of unset tling all the ordinary affairs of life till the crisis of the fever has passed, causing maidens to forget their milking, and even farmers' wives to lay a-bed. Some amusing anecdotes of this sort are current in that neighbourhood. Trances and visions too are coming into fashion : a young woman lay fur several days, awaking at intervals, and stating " whom she had seen in happiness, and whom in misery ;" and some of them (say the believers) people whom she never knew ! Lincoln Paper. Wednesday morning Colonel ROWAN and Mr. Maymc the Commissioners of the new police, were in attendance at an early hour, together with several super intendents and inspectors, at the office in Scotland-yard, to inspect several fire-dresses for the use of the new police in cases of fire, should they be considered available in saving the lives of the inhabitants of houses on fire. The inventor of these fire-proof dresses was said to be a fo reigner, but his name did not transpire. A large fire was made, and several of the constables put on the dresses. The outer dress is a kind of a wire gauze, under which is another dress, also fire-proof, of a different material, and of a snore pliable nature. The constables held their heads in the fire for above ten minutes without feeling the least heat, and also held a red-hot poker in their hands till it was quite cooled, without sustaining the least injury. After several experiments of a similar nature, the Commissioners expressed their approbation of the invention, awl intimated their intention of trying the efficacy of the fire-dresses in a few days on a more extended scale, as soon as the neces sary arrangements could be made for the purpose. From what we could learn, it is the decided opinion that the fire-dresses will be approved of by the Commissioners ; and if that should be the case, it is intended to have a sufficient number of dresses at the different police stations to be in constant readiness for the use of the police constables in case of fire. VIENNA, MARCH s.—The water of the Danube continues to subside, and this afternoon is only eleven feet eight inches high. The greatest height was on 2d of March, when it was 23 feet six. The number of persons who have perished in the suburbs, as far as has yet been found, is seventy-two; but we have no posi tive accounts from the parts beyond Fabor bridge and on the left bank. Besides numerous contributions from the public in general, Barons Vox ROTHSCHILD, V. GERGMULLER, V. ARNSTEIN, and ESKELES, and Che valier V. SINA had contributed in equal shares 30,000 florins, for which they had received his MAJESTY'S tbanks.—A later account, dated March 6, says,— Our apprehensions respecting the dangers of the in undations have for the present vanished, as the waters are returning into the usual channel of the Danube which still brings down a great quantity of ice, but not in large masses. The damage done is greater than has occurred for these 100 years. Up to yesterday even ing SO dead bodies were found, but it is feared there are many in the houses which it has not yet been possible to examine on account of the standing water and the ice. The pressure of the times still shows itself to a grievous extent in many parts of this county. Between 20 and 30 families are emigrating to America from Co ningsby, Dogdike, and the fens in that neighbourhood, principally middle :farmers and mechanics. The parishes are holding vestry iseetings, to devise plans for assisting the industrious poor with large families to follow their rather better off neighbours in their migration. Many families(who went last year give flattering accounts of their situation —Lincoln Paper. A son of St. Crispin, resident in this town, and who has been years married, having become a prey to the green-eyed monster, jealousy, determined to try the strength of remaining affection in his suspected rib. For this purpose, a few days ago, he hit upon the following Notable expedient. After various shrugs and groans, and sobs and sighs, Ile intimated to her that he was tired of living in this wicked world, what all was deception, and threw out a dark hint that he should probably resort to a deed that would astonish her. In accordance with his plan, he retired to his chamber, and erected a " hang ing' apparatus, arranged so as to disentangle himself when he had had enough. Listening to hear when his wife was coming up stairs, he instantly placed the noose round his neck, and gallantly "threw himself off," sagely suspecting that his better-half, when observing him in this perilous situation, would be irresistibly drawn by the cord of love to commiserate his fate, and hastily cut him down, and repent of her cruel tr ea t men t. Al a ck for erring huma nity ; she did approa c h him, but for a far different pur pose charitable wu iii, s, —The a p paratus, owndeterminationchoice, (ashe should be treated to "a few struggles ! she than the one he had contemplated ; she pulled him lustily expressed bythe legs, that gs, efface with the it however, fortunately for the poor cobler, gave way, an d, instead of being 'aunche d into another world, h e was once more landed on terra firma: Tieing now sat i s fi e d where .his wife's affections lay , he immediately gave h er a sound d r ubbing, for which he was brou g ht b e f ore the Magistrates 1 on Tuesday, and bound over to keep the peace. The parties; who have no family, have since separated.—hall fax Paper. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. Commission in the King's Regiment of Cheshire Yeo manry. Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Chester. The Adlington Troop of Landers.--George Reade Gent. to be Cornet vice Norbnry, promoted, dated March 6, 1830. Whitehall, Feb. 24, 1830. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Darneh Fox, of Beaminster, in the county of Threet, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the high Court of Chancery. Whitehall, March 15. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Hitchcock, of Deddington, in the county of Oxford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the high Court of Chancery. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY Robert Garraway, Mary-place, Bow-lane, Poplar, mariner. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. James Wagner, Piccadilly, tailor, from April 9 to IS, at eleven, at tho Court of antniesionors. BANKRUPTCY SUPERS/MED. Frederick Ince and Ely Ellies, Dudley, Worcestershire, coach-builders. BANKRUPTS. George Holt, Walton-on.tho-Hill, Lancashire, school master, to surrender April 1,3, and SO, at two, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. Appleby and Charnock, Ray mond-buildings, Gray's Inn; Whitehead, Manchester. George Sweet, Uplowinan, Devonshire, maltster, April 7, 10, and 30, at eleven, at the Lion Inn, Wiveliscombe, Somersetshire. Holme, Frampton, as Loftus, New Inn; Waldron, Wireliscombe, Somersetshiro. Isaac and Barnett Nathan, Westminster-road, nansio sellers, March 26, at one, April 2, and SO, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Paterson, Mincing-lane. Mark and William Wainwright, and Joseph Johnson, Cateaton-street, woollen-warehousemen, March 23, at twelve, April 2, and SO, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners. Fisher, Walbrook-buildings. Lazarus Jacobs, Gloucester-place, King's-road, Chelsea, broker, March 26, at twelve, April 2, and SO, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioner,. Spytte, Broad-street buildings. Valentine Hocking, Claineo, Worsestershire, builder, April 6,8, and 30, at twelve, at the Hop Market Inn, Worcester. Platt and Hall, New Boswell-eoart, Lincoln's Inn ; Hyde, Worcester. Thomas Gooch, Crawford-street, Marylebone, linen draper, March 26, at twelve, April 2, at eleven, and 30, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Brunei, Fleet street. Joseph Lauriere, St. James's-street, jeweller, March 23, April 20, and 30, at ten, at the Court if Commis sioners. Roe, South-square, Gray's Inn-square. Henry Carver Pratt, Norwich, lines-draper, April 5, 6, at five, and 30, at one, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. Brutton and Clipperton, New Broad-street, Loeiles ; Rack ham and Morse, Norwich. Mansell Sambruck, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, draper, April 2,3, and 30, at two, at the Commercial Rooins, Bristol. Brittan, Basinghall-street, Landon ; B,ya,i and Brittan, Bristol. Thomas Davies, Glandyar, Carmarthenshire, linen draper, April 2,3, and SO, at twel►e, at the White Lion Inn, Bristol. Jenkins and Abbott, New Inn, London ; Clarke and Son, Bristol. William Holt, Kearsley, Lancashire, shopkeeper, April 2, at five, 3, and 30, at nine, at the Bridge Inn, Bol ton-lc-Moors. Mayhew and Johnston, Conn-street, Lin coln's-inn, London ; Ha.mpson, Bolton-le-Moors. Richard Wilkinson, Epworth, Linsolushire, linen-draper, April IG, at two, 17, at ten, and 30, at one, at the Gnild ball, Doncaster. King, Castle-street, Holborn ; Mason and Collinson, Doncaster. George Armitage, Moor-Well, Alsnonbury, Yorkshire, woollen-cloth-mannfacturer, April 15, at six, 16, at ten, and 30, at one, at Messrs. Whitehead and Robinson's Offices, Huddersfield. Clarke, Richards, and Medealf, Linenln's-inn-fields, Loxdon; Whitehead and Robinson, Huddersfield. Edward Bryant, South Bank, Regent's-park, surgeon, March 26, April 2, at one, and 30, at . twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Gadsden, Faraival's- inn, Holborn. George Heighington, Shef f ield, wine -merchant, March 26, at twelve, April 2, and 30, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Michael, Red Lion-square, London ; Burheary, Sheffield. William Armstrong, Birkenhead, Chester, draper, April 6,7, and 30, at eleven, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Frodsham, Liverpool; Adliegton, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London. Thomas Ireland, Newton, Manchester, dyer, April 5, 6, and 30, at nine, at the Star Inn, Manchester.. Milne and Parry, Temple, London; Wan. &xi Jesse, Man• cheater. George Raven, Greville-street, Ito'bete, apothecary, March 26, at twelve, April 2, at eleven, cad 30, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Sawyer, Step DITIDINDIL W. Raishleigh, Lattiford, Somerestshire, dealerin cheese, April 13, at the Greyhound Inn, Wineanton—E. Bird, jun., Cardiff, iron -founder, April 21, at two, at the Com mercial Rooms, Bristol--J. Wells, Aldbourn, Wiltshire, corn-dealer, April 23, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners—J. Atkinson, Leeds, dyer, April 12, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds—S. A. Turner and J. Sharp, Cambridge, woollen-drapers, April 13, at twelve, at the Red Lion Inn, Cambridge—J. B. Masan, Cambridge, cook, April 12, at twelve, at the Red Lion Inn, Cambridge —G. Hassell, Hanover-street, Hanover-square, dealer, May 14, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—R. Stanfield and J. G. Rigby, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lanca shire, cotton-spinners, April 12, at nine, at ties Palace lan, Manchester—H. Badcocke, Wells, Sonsereetshire, mercer, April 23, at eleven, at the Somerset Hotel, Wells—J. Par kinson, Louth, Lincolnshire, grocer, April 16, at eleven, at the Blue Stone Tavern, Louth—H. Shaw, Ulverston, Lancashire, money-scrivener, April 27, at ten, at the Brad dyll's Arms Inn, Ulverston—J. N. Thurston, Bath, up holsterer, April 10, at twelve, at the Christopher Inn, Bath. CER fIFICATIC4.-Arm, P. James Williams, of Holborn, of Fleet-street, of Cheap side, and of Skinner-street, Snow-hill, boot and shoe maker—Wm. Petherhridge, of Whiteshapel, linen-draper —Henry Walker, of New-court, Throgmorton-street, wine-merchant—Edward Dubbiae, of Brighton, plumber and glazier—Charles Henry Stayenhagen, of Fenchureh street, merchant and commission-agent.—John Andrew, of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, scriyeaer—John James Parry, of Madrasfield, Worcestershire, boarding and lodging house-keeper—Thomas Edward Heron, of Beech-street, oil and colourman—Richard Hale, of Tooley-street, Bo rough, druggist—William Tongue, of Birmingham, toy man and jeweller. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVID. G. W. Cookson and R. Larkin, Rotherhithe, Surrey, barge-builders—R. Howard and T. Fisher, Norwich, car pcnters—T. Wooden and E. - Hawkins, Kent-road, coal merchants—W. Oliver and J. Cheatham, St. John-street, Clerkenwell, timber-merchants--W. Main and S. Marks, Duke-street, Grosvenor-square, Middlesex, milliners—S. and F. Jones, Wood-street, Cheapside, porter-usereliants —W. Renshaw and G. Branson, Holt-town, Manchester, flax-spinners—M. Moorhouse, T. Mosorkerse, J. Sykes, G. Moorhouse and J. Moorhens', Woe Male, Kirkburton, Yorkshire; scribbling-millers—T. Darninghant and S. Sherman, Ipswich, coal-nserehants--T. Smith and J. Holliday, Wapping, mast-rakers--E. and D. Norton, Newington-causeway, Surrey, stone-mations--T. and G. Clark, East Retford, Nottinghamshire, innkeepers—W. Atkinson and W. Rowlandson, King-street, Cheapside, linen-warehousemen—J. Brartinnare and W. Baddeley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, smallware-dealer— Y. and J. Brunt, Macclesfield, Chester, batten-manufac turers—R. Ackermann and T. Bailer, Strand, dealers H. T. Payne and H. Clark, Guldeford, Saws, lime-burners. PRICE OF SUGAZ. The average price of Brown or Museovado Nagar, com puted from the Returns made in the week ending March I 6, is 235. Id. per cwt., exclusive of the duties of customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thoreef into Great Britain. A female, nearly related to the miserable cri minal EMOND, lately formed a design of conveying poison to him, with the view, of enabling hitn to commit suicide. Her object, however, was not, as might kayo been sup posed, to spare EMOND the ignominy of a public execu tion ; but as she absurdly imagined, to defeat the foifei- Cure of his goods and gear to the Kum, a part of his sen tence which, it was supposed, would not take effeet pro ♦ided EMOND could be induced to commit self-dTetruction. But she . had communicated her intentions to another indi vidual who immediately conveyed the information to the proper quarter, upon which orders were in consequence issued for excluding her from the prison, and preventing her again visiting EMOND. She had previously been ad mitted frequently to his cell. The sulbstanee with which this woman had provided herself, was what is vulgarly called acid of sugar ; a powerful poison, with which the readers of the public prints mast be familiar, under its. proper name of oxalic acid, being the preparation so fre quently resorted to u the means emenstittieg eelf-de. struction..... Glasgow Cleroniele;