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Perio of One Thousand Q uar t ers o f WHEAT, 1 Between d the Ist Delivery. and 31st to Weigh 601 b. t o b e t h e B us h e l day of May next. Five Thousand DUCK ' , Roc KS.. , Five Th ousand Pairs of DUCK TROWSERS One Hundred Thousand Yards of The whole b e f ore t h e Ten Thousand SHIRTS in Piece 31st day of July next. One Thousand HATS, Wa , er-proof One Thousand Gross of BUTTONS Ten Thousand Yards of CALICO-- eve BOYS' SLOPS. Hundred BLUE CLOTHI F JACKETS, No. 2. ive—ilu ndredPairs of B LUE CLOTH T ROWEs, No. _2. One Thou:l S ad FLANNEL, WAIST COATS rive Hundred Pairs of FLANNEL D RAWERS Two Thousand SHIRTS One, Thousand Pairs of SHOBB in that House, he found rh was no instance in which tho property of the church bad been dolt With the liberal fashion recokrended by the lion. Alernher,:whyre the property of the individuals had been held sac s+:!. If IK! ',tread live to see the eiturell poperte thse dealt with, he should no longer rieem his tors property' safe. Ile should therefore oppose such projects to the otroost of his pager. Lord OXMANTOWN found fault pith the ey.srern by the Curates of the church of Ireland wine I. ft co t:rely at the mercy of the incumbents of livings . .. if which they discharged the actual duties. He proposed the follow ing alteration, as en improve:snot of that system-that evrry Crtrale should receive his' license as soon as be re ceived his curacy. By such a system he would be placed under the protection of the Bishop of the dieceSe. instead of being lett, as et present, in a state of dependence upon hie Rector, differing very little from that of a servant upon his masters Sir JOHN NEWPORT did not rise to prolong this disetOon, but merely to remind the House that it was not many days since it bad presented an address to the Crown, praying that it would appoint a commission to inquire iuto the abuses of the ecclesiastical establishmentein Ireland. That commission had since been appointed ; cod he there fore was of opinion that, until the report of that eimmis. 'ion wits presented, arty discussion like the present was both ill-timed and injudicious. Mr. MOORE would net hare said a word upon the present occasion, had it not been for the extraordinary misapprehension under which the Hon. Member for Aberdeen appeared to labour. He would beg leave to re mind that Hon. Member that this petition bed been in progress for some months before it was sabwitted to the public for signature. Those who had proposed it had challenged all the Protestants of Ireland to some forward in support of it. That challenee had not be-n an swered—a circumstance which, by itself, was a sufficient refutation of the allegations of the Hon. Aletnher for Aberdeen, that his views with regard to church property had met with the sanction of the great body of the Pro testants of Ireland. _ . f • ~, No. 11,739. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1830 PRICE 7D. This illy was publislwd, in Four large Volumes, Svo. Si.l rice 3s. in boards, the Second Edition, revised and corrected, of A..NEW ANALYSIS of CHRONO LOGY and GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY and POLICE INTELLIGENCE. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. brad, for the abolition of the punishment of death in case• of forgery. RIANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday a young well -dressed man, named George Williams, was brought befoie the LORD MAYOR by Roe, the of►icer, charged ►with having exposed for sale several pamphlets of a very bad moral tendency to youth of both sexes. A labouring man, named Alley, who said he had children of his own, stated that as ha was ►walking along Bishopsgate-street he saw the defendant exhi biting small books and pictures which he carried in a basket. As the young persons round the basket appeared to be more than ordinu•ily interested he stepped up to see what it was all about ; and he found that, although the pictures and books at the top of the basket were harmless, and some of them even pious, the defendant occasionally drew up from the bottom one of a very different character, whiel , he found a purchaser for in an instant. The sale became very smart, and the witness supplied himself With prints and a great deal of dialogue for the small sum of fourpence. This purchase he imme diately conveyed to the Justice•room and put into his Lordship's hands, who, as the action was quite unceremoniouF, Was somewhat surprised at the exhi bition, and asked what, in the name of all that Mo. horrible, it meant. MOLTS?, OF LORDS-(LAST NIGHT). ESTABLISHED CEIURCH OF IRELAND. PROPHECY : in which their Elements are attempted to he explained, harmonized, and vindicated, upon Scrip tural and Scientific Principles ; tending to remove the Im perfection and .Diacordanco of preceding Systems, and to obviate the Cavils of Sceptics, Jews, and Infidels. By the Rev. WILLIAM HALES, D.D. Rector of Killesandra, in Ireland, and formerly Fellow of Trinity College, and Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Dublin. Printed for C. J. G. and F. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-yard, and Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. • The LouD CHANCELLOR, entered the House at Twenty minutes past Five o'clock. Mr. KING rose to present a petition from the city of Cork, praying for the reformation of certain abuses in the established church of Ireland. The petition was rro.t respectably signed, and it well deserved the serious con sideration of the House. The object of the petitioners was to effect a snore equal distribution of church property, and also to correct abuses which prevailed in the admioi,tra tion of the secular affairs of the Church. The petitioners. who were all members of the established church, stated, that they were convinced of the purity of the doctrines of the established church, and of tire excellence of the e, iseopal form of government, and that they were de sirous to support that church, and to extend its influence. They distinctly acknowledge the right of the clergy as a body to their Property ; they did not consider that pro perty too great far the purposes for which it was intended, if it were more equally distributed, and they stated their opinion that any attempt to Zenate that property to semi. par purposes would be a violation of the first principles of justice, would endanger all kinds of property, and would tend to revolution and national ruin. To such objects, and to such an attempt, the petitioners expressed themselves firmly oppose !, but t , ,ey at the same time were anxious to see a more equal distribution of the revenues of the church made amongst the clergymen employed in disseminating its doctrines. They st act!, that while some dignitaries of 'the established church were posses'ed of revenues far beyond what might, upon the most liberal estimate, he deemed necessary for them, there were - other pbrtions of the clergy of that church upon whom most important duties devolved, and who received salaries barely sufficient for their own support, and not at all adequate to provide 16r the wants of an increasing Protestant population. The petitioners referred to the abuses which bail crept into the administration of the affairs of the church ; they corn plained of the evils resulting from the system of pluralifes and non.residence, and they expressed their conviction that Most of throe evils would be removed by a more jest and equal distribution of the revenues of the church. The petitioners also requested the House to take into its serious consideration the delay and difficulty attendant upon the deprivation of immoral clergymen from their benefices, with a view to provide a remedy for so great an evil. The petition having been brought up, on the question that it be read, Colonel BERESFORD did not intend to offer any op position to the reception of the petition, but be merely wished to state one or two facts, as his Hon. Friend, in presenting the petition, bad spoken of it as being most re spectably signed, and as if it represented the sentiments of the entire Protestant population of Cork. Now the fact was, that out of a population of :30,000 Protestants, only 3.080 had signed this petition; that though there were seven or eight Peers resident, or connected with that county, only one individual amongst them had affixed his name to the petition : and that out of 300 Magistrates, only fifty-eight had put their signatures to it. Ile (Co!. Beresford) did not at all mean to question the respectabi lity of those who had signed it, but he understood that since the public defence of his motives, which had been made by the noble promoter of this petition, several gen tlemen who had signed it had expressed a wish to with draw their names from it. The whole by ;.he 31st day of July next. Earl FITZWILLIAM presented two petitions from towns in the West Riding of York, praying for the removal of the Assizes to Wakefield. The Duke of SOMERSET presented a petition from the Jews of Totness, praying for the removal of their dis— Ailit'es. Samples of the WheAt must be produced by the party tendering ; Samples of the Calico, and of each of the above -mentioned articles of Slop Clothing, and the Con ditions of the Contracts, may be seen at this Office. Each Tender must specify the price in words at lentil', and be delivered before One o'clock on the day appointeol ; and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person en his behalf, must attend to answer when celled for. The Marquis of SALISBURY, seeing the Noble Vis count (Gcderich) in his place, who had a motion relative to the National Debt 0 mike this evening, rose for the purpose of requesting him t) postpone that motion for some future day, in coniepience of the proceedings on the East Retford Bill. On the lit of May will he published, price only 4s. 6d. neatly hound, M. WALLER CLIFTON. ITALPY'S FAMILY CLASSICAL LI BRARY. No. s.—Containing BELOE'S TRANSLATION of HERODOTUS. Lord STANHOPE wished to know whether the Noble Marquis wonldiwish.to make the same request to every Noble Lord in a case like the present? IMPERIAL BRAZILIAN MINING ASSOCIATION. 'Winchester House, Broad-street, N pril 26, 1830. ° OTICE is hereby gi A ven, that the HALF YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PRO PRIETORS of this ASSOCIATION will, in pursuance of the Bye-law passed at the Special General Meeting of the 6th February, 1828, be held on WEDNESDAY, the 12th of May next, at the London Tavern, Itishopso-ste street, for the purpose of fixing a DIVIDEND, and ' on other business. The Chair will be taken at One o'clock Precisely. • The object of the Proprietors of this undertaking is to produce a work, which fromt its cheapness and elegance may recommend itself to all classes. The expensive exist ing editions have hitherto precluded the community at large from an acquaintance with the writings of the greatest Poets, Historians, and Orators the world has produced: The Four Numbers already published commi.'e DE MOSTHENES, SALLUST, and XENOPHON. The Marquis of SALISBURY certainly thought it Would be much better to pursue such a course in a!l mat ters like the present, as . a great deal of time and expense would be saved by its adoption. Lord GODERICH, however important he might think 'his own 'motion, had no objection to postpone it, being quite certain expense and time would be saved thereby. However, it must he understood, that in doing so he should certain]) expect some early day to he appointed for the making of his motion. He should himself have mentioned tith day week, was not a motion of great importance op pointed for that day. Tho Noble Lord gave notice, that oa Thursday, the 6th of May, with the leave of the House, he would make his motion, an I requested the Lords to be summoned. • The complainant having given the above account, the LORD MAYOR asked the defendant what he had to say about the dreadful way of life into which he had fallen ?—Williams said he had been led into this sort of bookselling by an officer who belonged to Bow-street. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 8, New Burling ton-street. L. J. SINIOENS, Secretary. THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL and NAVAL and MILITARY MAGAZINE for MAY, price 2s. 6J. d.fo&t a. woo INSURANCES 'ON THE LIVES OF OTHERS. PARTIES having a fixed or variable interest in the lives of others, may have a general admis sion of interest on the policy. Contingent interests,—as a father insuring the life of his son, or a husband his wife, during minority, —may also be admitted, the insurance being confined to the par ticular interest detailed in the proposal. ASYLUM FOREIGN and DOMESTIC LIFE OFFICE, 70, CORNIIILL, and 43, PALL-MALL, LONDON. DIRECTORS: The Hon. WILLIAM FRASER, Chairman. Colonel LUSHINGTON, C.B. M.P. Deputy Chairman, Foster Reynolds, Esq. C. W. Hallett, Esq. William Pratt, Esq. Sir James Gambier John Rymer, Esq. William Edmund Ferrers, Esq. Francis Kemble, Esq. Thomas Fenn, Esq. Capt. Geo. Harris, 11.›.1., C.B. George Farren, Esq., Resident Director. The LORD MAYOR said he could not credit a word that was uttered by a fellow who obtained a livelihood by such means. a I'7B. —4. e f 45,11% • yds. e '77s. e Hse. v -388. 44/1 " e 2.51. 9 " - . tine 5 1 " e 434. Iv" w 355. 4 6 1' w —4. . fin; ••• - .t • 4U " fine - -46 floe , tin "*" c .. e 1 , 45 .,: . tine Am. fine — 4 • 4 2 .. 4"s' CONTENTS:—Memoranda relative to the Lines thrown up to cover Lisbon in 1810—Service afloat during the late War—the Blockading Fleet off Boulogne—the Story of le Far, Son of the Sultan of Wadai (continued)—Vox Populi—Visit to the Island of Anticosti, by a Naval Officer—Sierra Leone in 1827, by a Military °ricer— Parker the Mutineer—On the Capture of Curacoa—Al giers, Narrative of O'Reilly's Expedition—Letters from Gibraltar, No. 2, by the Author of the Military Sketch B'oh—A popular View of Fortification and Gunnery, No. 3—Additional Statement of Facts on Breaking the Line, 12th April, 1782—Recollection in Quartera—Naval Reminiscences—Foreign Miscellany—General Correspon dence: Ancient and Modern Tactics—On Promotion ex clusively by Seniority—Regimental Staff Officers—Oldest Record of Naval Uniform—lndian Army—Editor's Port folio: Abstract of Parliamentary Proceedings relative to the Army and Navy—General Orders and Circulars— Monthly Naval Re3ister—Annals of the British ArMy— G zettes, &c. &c. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented a peti 'ion from tiargate against the punishment of death for Forgery. Lord DURHAM presented petitions to a similar effect from Stockton-upon-Tees and Darlington. Lord VERNON presented a petition, signed by above 400 of the hankers, manufacturers, and traders, of the borough of Derby, praying for the suhstitut,on of some other punishment than that of death for the crime of forgery. Lord HOLLAND presented a petition from Anglesea, praying that the Welsh Judicature might be improved, but not abolished. 'Williams most solemnly declared that the very publications which had been seized in his possession were given to him by the Bow-street officer in pay ment of a debt. " I was confined," said the de fendant, " for some time in the hospital, and I 11;16 this Bow-street officer, who is a printer, to do some work for me. I paid him beforehand, and I sent to him to request that be would give me back the money. He sent word to me that he could not let me have the money, but he vtould supply me with books which would be sure to sell; and when I came out I found a note from him accompanying those very books, desiring me to make money of them. The LORD MAYOR—That's no excuse; you knew what sort of books they were before you boll one of them. The Marquis of SALISBURY proposed that on Mon. day and Friday the examination of witnesses on the East Retford Bill should take precedenee.—Agmed The Duke of BUCCLEUG II presented a petition from Dalkeith, for free trade to India. Their Lordships then proceeded to hear evidence upon the East Retford Disfranchisement Bill, and examined Richard Harman, who deposed to the payment of various sums by Mr. Osbahleston to the electors of the Borough. On his cross-examination this witness was asked whether he did not conceive that all disclosures now made relative to the election involved a breach of the confidence which subsisted between himself and Mr. Osbaldeston ; to which he replied by a denial that there was any stipulation of secrecy between the parties. He was then ordered to withdraw. Pursxer.t N.—Dr. Ferguson. Su /taxon. —H. Mayo, Esq. F. R. S. and T. Callaway, Esq. LOWER RATES than in any other Office in England for trading voyages, foreign residence, naval and military service, and domestic insurances. Insurances may be effected without delay, and full par ticulars obtained from the Resident Director, at the Com , pany's house. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 8, New Burling ton-street. Williams—Consider, my Lord, my poverty. I have a wife and two small children, and I am bring ing them up in the fear of God.—(Laughter.)—l never was in a Court of Justice in my life before, anti I would not be here now but for the Bow-street officer.—(l - lere he named one of the establishment alluded to, shout whom the publics are not in the habit of hearing scandalous representations.) The LORD MAYOR —I do not believe you. You are a disgrace to any sort of employment followed by honest men. 01 Os. 61, 6e. 71. Os. 91, 9s. Si. 6s. 61. 155• 51, 151. KERRY ELECTION.—On Tuesday, the Right Hon. AIAURICE FITZGER LD, Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, was re-elected Member for Kerry without opposition, after which he was entertained to a public dinner in the Cham ber of Commerce Rooms, Tralee.— Tipperary Free Press. This lNA day was NCIA publ L ished,REFORM in Bvo., price 2s. SCRU 6d. sewed, p NIZED, in a Letter to Sir Henry Parnell, Bart. M.P. By Gen e r a l Si r S AMUEL BENTHAM, K. S. G. Formerly Inspector General of Naval Works. Printed for J. Hatcharel and Son, 187, Piccadilly. r 10 R. Died, in this eity," , on Thursday last, deeply regretted, WILLIAM HARNETT STACK, Esq. At a very early age he became a scholar and graduate of Trinity College, and obtained distinguished honours for his claisi cal attainments. During the last eight years be was Par liamentary Reporter to some of the leading Journals of London. His intense application to the duties of this laborious and honourable occupation, in which his talents reflected additional credit, debilitated his constitution and engendered the seeds of disease. For several months his health had been on the decline, but his life insensibly waned to a close with little suffering, and he sank, with the hope and patience of a Christian, into the repose of death without a struggle.— Cork Southern .Reporter..-- [lt is our duty to add that the late Mr. STACK was con nected with the Morning Journal from its commence ment until within a few weeks of his decease, and that he has died deeply and sincerely regretted by those with whom lie had been long associated. His talents were of a very high order, and his kindliness of disposition and conciliating manners endeared him to all with whom he came in contact.]-211orning Journal. Mr. John Mee, the town clerk of East Retford, next gave in evidence the original roll of the burgesses who bad been admitted to their freedom, for the purpose of showing that those who had received bribes were freemen. Mr. William Baker, a freeman of the Borough, having been examined touching certain cases of bribery in East Retford, the succeeding witness was Mr. Samuel Hind, whose cross• examination was objected to by the LORD CHANCELLOR, on the ground that it was contrary to the general practice of the House to allow of the services of more than two counsel on the same side. In the cases of Grampound, Penryn, and Cricklade, which were similar to the present, the rule had been observed, and he could not see any reason why they should on this occasion establish a precedent to the otintrary. The Noble and Learned Lord then moved—" That two counsel only might be heard on either side." .141 23 6 ° 10 0 „. 15 - Defendant—Please your Lordship I am a printer. The Loup MAYOR said that if there werenot miscreants in that trade there would be no publica tions of this kind, which was the worst he had ever seen. In a few days will be published, in foolscap Bvo. price 7s. S extra hoards, WEEPINGS OF PARNASSUS ; a P'•-- 7 Collection of Poems, with Essays i a Prose on Mis cellaneous Subjects. London : Printed for Hurst, Chance, and Co., St. Paul's Church-yard. a.tod• -its 19 ). 14 18 ). 41 2 6 ~ 18 8 1 , 1(103 211 Defendant—Have mercy upon me,. my Lord. Consider my poor wife and children. God knows to what they may be reduced by my being kept away from them. Poverty will make people do any thing, and that was the only thing that could drive tue to the trade THE ORIENTAL QUARTERLY RE VIEW will he published TO-MORROW. CoNTarsTs :-1. Territorial Conquests of the East India Company --2. Sufferings of a Desert Journey, from the Nile to the Red Sea-3. On the Various Systems of Law in British India-4. Original Picture of 'Society in Artn en i s „.-5. Opinions of Sir Thomas Munro -6. Origin of Hieroglyphics and Alphabetic Ws icing —_'7. Memoir of Sir Stamford Raffles—S. Travels in Central Africa-9. Review of the Evidence produced before the Committee of the House of Commons on the East India Company's Mo nopoly of the Trade with China, during the present Session of Parliament. London : Hurst, Chance and Co., and all other Booksellers. CHE, 24. 110 e. od' . d. toed . 8 0 ent, The LORD MAYOR—I adjudge you to the House of Correction for two months. The defendant, who evidently expected a heavier punishment, said, " Thank you, my Lord; it is a lesson to me. I shall never be caught in such business again." kfter a short conversation which arose out of the ob jection, 1. to Om. 1 Lord DURHAM moved, as an amendment—" That he further consideration of the subject be postponed to 2:30J• NY 0 32 9 ,, 112 - Sit ° 33 6 SS 9 Si Is —35 9 —S3 9 M 35 0 E. 34 9 32 —27 0 22 0 ch 34 0 YT 0 29 0 - 17 0 .... 18 rt DREADFUL ACCIDENT BY COACH, AND LOSS OF LIFE. On which the House divided— Content Not Content 111Jjority Adjourned at Nine o'clock. • -7 AP MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR FAMILIES. On the Ist of May, price only Is. 6d. No. 1., containing nearly One Hundred Octavo Pag e i, o f THE FAMILY MAGAZINE. HOUSE OF COMMONS-(LAST NIGHT). In consequence of the ballot on the Rye and Limerick Elections, the gallery Was not opened until Five o'clock. RYE ELECTION. The following are the names of the Committee : Mr. T. P. Williams, J. W. Horton, Sir T. Acland, Chas. Mackinnon, Col. J. G. Bramstone, L. W. Buck, Lord Palmerston, R. Walrond, R. Downie, lion. H. King, and T. B. Fyler. LIMERICK ELECTION. , 224. on the Joh), and rage, top 7eturne .l. ferage 2d. 00 Beans. 314 Ott 931 0( 1 31a Od were sca' re 1, m g r' • • of tb. Beasts. 39$ se. cia 32s Od 1ir=51205 lodgkio' reellenci G. C. 13•? J. bi►l~'► Green , Rev. Cr : 0 C a t • O ' I , iiar n, EA.° h-toWo* Collard. ts-parl 4 Esq. P, rswati► -Nue* a-groo , )f3. C. Mount , !at NJ' n Jack. L to the ring tk e niluctett 33 095 (0, 0 The attention of the Public, and of the Heads of Fsmi lies in particular, is respectfully invited to this new Perio dical, 'as one of the Cheapest, and at the same time most Original, moat Amusing, and most Elegant, of the day; to which the young of both sexes may recur for instruction and entertainment of an elevated and refined nature; and which the reader of maturer years may peruse with advan tage. When the Proprietors state, that it will be con ducted by the Editor of the " Forget Me Not," and en riched by Contributions from the ablest Writers, they need offer no other guarantee that whatever is offensive to good taste and to the strict.st delicacy shall be carefully excluded from its pages. Hurst, Chance, and Co., 65, St. Paul's Church-yard ; Constable and Co., Edinburgh ; and W. Curry, jun. Dublin. This day was published, in 12mo. price 9s. in hoards, Dedicated, by permission, to his Grace the Lord Primate of Ireland, ----- p ASTOR ALIA; a MANUAL of HELPS for the PAROCHIAL CLERGY: con taining a Scriptural View of the Clerical Duties—Prayers for the Use of the Clergy—Scheme of Pastoral Visitation— Outlines of Sermons —and hooks for the Use of the Clergy. By the Rev. HENRY THOMSON, M.A. Of St. John's College, Cambridge, Curate of NVrington, Somerset. Printed for C. J. G. and F. Rivington, St. Paul's Cturch-yard, and Waterloo-place, Pall Mall. Tbis day was published, in small Svo. price Ss. in boards, • the Second Editi on o f PRACTICAL REFLECTIONS on the ORDINATION SERVICES for Deacons and Priests in the United Church of England and Ireland: for the Use of Candidates for Orders, and of those who renew their Ordination Vows: and respectfully proposed as a Manual for Ministers of all Agts. To which are added, apixopriate Prayers for Clergymen, selected and original. By JOIIN BREWSTER, M.A. Rector of Egglescliffe, in the county of Durham. London : Printed for C., J., G., and F. Rivington, St. Paula Church-yard, and Waterloo•plice, Pall-mall. Also, by the same Author, I. MEDITATIONS of a RECLUSE. Svo. price 9s. 2. MEDITATIONS for the AGED. 12mo. price 3. CONTEMPLATIONS on the LAST DIS COURSES of our BLESSED SAVIOUR with hisDIS CIPLES. Svo. price 101.6 d. 4. LECTURES on the ACTS of the APOSTLES. New Edition. In 1 vol. Bvo. SELLING OFF UNDER PRIME COST, IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE LONDON BRIDGE APPROACHES. IMPORTANT SALE of STOVE GRATES, KITCHEN RANGES, PATENT WARM AIR STOVES, with ascending or descending fluor' FEND ERS, FIRE-IRONS, TABLE and SUS PEADING LAMPS, CHANDELIERS, VENISON DISHES, WATER PLATES, TEA and COFFEE URNS, PAPER-MACHE and other 'fEA TRAYS, PATENT DISH COVERS, KNIVES and FORKS, and Culinary Utensils in general. ST°V The extensive Premises denominated the LONDON sew H GRAT E BAZAAR, being requ i re d f or th e a line of approach t o L ondon Bridge, the most exten sive rind valuable Stock of F urn i sh i ng Ironmongery in the ' down th e P r i m' kingdom must be sold forthwith, preparat or y t o p u lling liament. • Bea '. In compli ance w i t h t h e Act of Par price attached to each article. public inspe c ti on , an d the FISH-STREET-HILL. Advices were received yesterday from Cal cutta, by way of Bordeaux, stating the failure, on the let of January, of the old and eminent house of PALMER. and Co., of that city. On that day the partners held a private meeting of their friends, when the deficit on their books appearing very large, and the concerns of great intricacy and importance, they thought it their duty to declare their insolvency, and to talie the benefit of the recent bankrupt law in India. On the 4th January a notice was accord ingly given and published in the Gazette, and the 6th was appointed for a meeting of creditors, for the purpose of appointing assignees. The house had also notified its ability to produce assts equal to one-half the amount of its debts, as soon as assignees were named to receive them. The shock of this failure was very severe in Calcutta, but a hope iv expressed in the letters that its effects would not extend further, and it was understood that the superin tendence of the winding-up of the affairs of Messrs. PAL MER and Co. would be confided to two gentlemen of the highest respectability, connected with one of the most eminent mercantile houses in Calcutta. The firm of PAL men and Co. has been established more than half a cen tury, and is said in great measure to have owed its fall to the extreme liberality with which it has ever made ad vances to the members of the two services (civil and mili tary) in India. The following are the late Lord ERSKINE'S observations on the Probate duty, in his Armata, published in 1817. They are eloquent and just: —" Having thus closed the account of the taxes upon the living, I will conclude the subject with their dominion after death. The highest duty to Government only twenty years ago, either on wills or on inheritances, amounted to only 60/. , but now, (except when the property rests in near relations or kindred), on the former it may amount to above 200 times that sum, and on the latter to nearly SOO, as the highest duty on the first may be 15,0001., and on the last above 20,0001., without taking into the account a proportion of the property transmitted, which in some cases amounts to a tenth. This is the most grievous of all our burdens. The justest Government may have occasion to resort to a moderate duty on alienations and transmissions of all de scriptions of property, but •it ought to advance with the most cautious and even trembling steps. A mighty nation in its public character should acorn to sit like a vulture over departing breath." NATURAL CURIOSITY.—On Wednesday last a beautiful pebble, of the size and form of a pea, and of a bluish thrystalized colour, was brought to our office, which had been discovered a few days previously, in the very centre of the fleshy part of a muscle. A fisherman in Burghead discovered it in iti strange location by its re sisting the hook when using the muscle for bait. How it came to' find bush a habitation is a problem which our philosophy is unable to solve. Those who are curious in such matters wiil have an opportunity of inspecting this articie, by calling at •the Courier office, any time in the course of the next few days.—E/pin Courier. The Birmingham Journal of Saturday con tains a long account of two religious impostors, one of whom is a fishmonger, pretending to be the real Simou, and the other " the Loan's Messenger." " SHILOH himself," says the Birmingham Journal, " in in person about five feet ten inches in height, squints most hideously, and weighs about fourteen stone. The place selected for their disgusting ministrations is a chapel formerly occupied by a congregation of Independents in ;Lawrence-street. The two last Sundays the place has been crowded with persons of all grades, drawn together ley curiosity, and the streets around the chapel filled to repletion by all the thieves and scoundrels infesting the town. On Sunday last, we visited the spot professionally, and a more dis graceful scene was presented to our view than, we should suppose, ever occurred in this country under the sanction of any new-born religious creeds. however fanatical or blas phemous its tenets. At the conclusion of any passage in the speaker's address, containing more than ordinary mon strosities, the audience occasionally broke forth in loud yells and hootings, and were at last roused to such a pitch of indignation, that, either intentionally or accidentally, several of the benches upon which they were sitting gave way, and universal disorder and confusion prevailed through out the whole assembly." Last Saturday afternoon, about half-past five o'clock, a coach called the Accommodation, which travels between Louth and Lincoln, was on its re turn from the latter place, and when near the vil lage of LangtonA . .two miles from Wragby, t h e coach was upset. It appears that during the day a violent gale of wind had blown, which rendered driving very difficult; there were at th e t i me fi ve outside, and one inside passengers. Amo ng th ose outside was Richard Whitton, a very stout man, who for a number of years was coachma n , until within this last few weeks, when his corpulence disabled him; he was returning from Lincoln fair, and when the coach arrived at Langton proffered his services to drive. As lie was well acquainted with both the road aid horses, the coachman did not object, and the vehicle passed on at its usual speed, all the parties being perfectly sober. About half a mile beyond Langton there is a sud den turn of the road, and while the coach was passing this corner, a gust of wind came, the pas sengers felt the coach " lift," as they de scribe it, and immediately afterwards were all blown into a ditch on the left hand side of the road. Three of the outside passengers were fe males—they escaped with a few bruises ;—a fourth was a young man named Woodruff, lie sus tained no injury :—the coachman. was hurt a trifle, but poor old Dick Whitton, the facetious good qumoured coachman, who was celebrated through the county for his pleasant disposition, and who was like Falstaff, not only witty himself, but the cause of wit in others—he fell to the ground with great vio lence, and in his fall came in contact either with a lamp iron or one of the wheels, which fractured his skull from the ear to the eye-socket : immediate help was given, but he neither spoke nor groaned, nor gave any other sign of life,—and his death must have been momentary. Whitton was forty-seven years old, and has left a widow and seven children. An inquest was held upon the body yesterday after noon, before Mr. BUNYAN, coroner, and from the proceedings in that inquiry we have collected these remarks; the Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death. A singular fatality appears to attach to the spot : for on Sunday last the coachman was proceeding in a gig over the ground, together with Mr. Cabourn, of,Horncastle, who was drawn to the place by curio sity, and when near Wragby the horse suddenly fell, broke both its knees, and the shafts of the gig were snapped off; both the riders were thrown out of the gig, but fortunately escaped with a few bruises. The coachman's arm, which had been bled in consequence of the serious accident the previous night, started off bleeding afresh, but prompt assistance being ren dered, the vein was again bound up. The Corporation of Dublin have an intention of starting Sir CHARLES WETHERELL as a representative for the Irish metropolis the next vacancy.— Tipperary Free Press. THE TENDER PASSION AMONGST SA vAc Es.—( From Kotzebue's Voyage to Kamtychatka.)— A girl had four lovers, amongst whom the fiend of jealousy stirred up a deadly strife. After hard blows on all sides, which resulted in cooling down the passion of none of them, they resolved upon murdering the object of their adoration, who drew her last sigh under the deadly thrusts of their spears. The whole tribe assensbled round the funeral pile, on which her body was burnt, and sang a hymn, of which some of our fellow countrymen, who had been long resident on the settlement, made out the follow ing expressions :—" Thou west too fair ; it was not meet then shouldst abide with us; to look upon you was but to steep our senses in deliriutn." The following are the names of the Comniittee : Messrs. T. G. Pennant, R. S 'Alderson, Mastertou Ure, Ridley Colborne, R. E. Heat!mite, Carrington, Antrobus, Penruddick, W. Burrell, Colonel Wemyss, and Sir A. Chichester. Several private Bills were forwarded a stage. Mr. R. H. DAVIS presented a petition from the Cham ber of Commerce of the city of Bristol, against the East India Company's monopoly. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition from the congregation of York chapel, Walworth, against the punishment of death in cases of forgery. Several other petitions, to the saint- effect, were presented. Mr. P. MILDMAY presentei a petition from certain licensed victuallers against the opening of the beer trade. Sir M. W. RIDLEY wished to know whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not consent to take part of the beer duty on the quantity of beer now in hand, and allow a drawback for any quantity that might remain on hand on the Ist of October. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER load re ceived a similar proposition from various quarters ; but though the Treasury would not lose so much, by allowing a drawback of only part of the duty, as it would if a draw back of the whole duty was granted, yet lie could not ac cede to the proposition, as the Treasury would, he was sure, thereby suffer great loss. Sir M. NV. RIDLEY inquired whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer intended to renew the composition of the Assessed Taxes. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER should in a very few days submit to the House a Bill fur continuing the composition of the Assessed Taxes, Sir W. W. WYNN presented a petition from the nobility, clergy, and freeholders, and from a majority of the Grand Jury, of the county of Denbigh, against the Welch Judicature Bill. Alr. R. TREVOR presented a similar petiiion from the county of Carnarvon. Mr: BRIGHT gave notice, that on Tuesday next he should present a petition from certain creditors of France, claiming under the treaty made with that country, and that upon that occasion he should call the attention of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the state in which those funds now are which ought to have been distributed under that treaty. Colonel LYGON presented a petition from the land holders and farmers of Worcestershire, against the imposi tion of an additional duty upon British spirits. The same HON. MEMBER, presented a petition from the Justices of the Peace in the county of Worcester, complain ing of the expense of passing Scotch and Irish vagrants. Sir J. NEWPORT wished to know from the Noble Lord opposite, whether any steps had been taken by his Majesty's Government to appoint a commission to examine the present state of the Catholic church in Ireland ? Lord F. L. GOWER should be able either on to-mor row or the next day to give an answer to the question of the Right Hon. Baronet. Mr. W. SMITH presented a petition from the fisher men of Wick, against the abolition of the fishery bounties. Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from the parish of Newton, in Bedfordshire, praying for the mitigation of the punishment of death in cases of forgery. Mr. MARSHALL presented a petition from the licensed victuallers of Sheffield, against the Sale of Beer Bill. Mr. BERNAL presented a similar petitition from the hotel and public-house keepers of Leamington. Mr. R. PALMER presented a petition from Maiden- Mr. HUME was glad to find that the statements which he had been making year after year, as to the abuses which existed in the Protestant Established Church of Irel as to the pluralities, non-residence, and other abuses there, thus confirmed to the fullest extent by this petition from a respectable body of Protest tots. A petition with 3,000 signatures was an important one, and if it only bore the names of fifty-eight Magistrates, and one Peer, it was to be recollected, that the nobility and gentry were interested • in upholding the abuses of the Irish established church. He (Mr. Hutne) differel from the Hon. Gentleman who presented the petition, in the opinion that the established church of England and Ireland was at all suitable for the times, or fit for the country at the present moment. That establishment should be taken into the immediate consi deration of the House and of Government, with a view to effect that reform so loudly called for in it. No one who had a sincere respect for the established church could wish to maintain the gross abuses of the exist ing system. He thought the revenuesof the church much too large for the purposes, for which they were intended. He would maintain that Parliament had a perfect right to deal with the church property as it should think fit. The property of the church of England and Ireland was public property, with which the Legislature might deal as it thought proper. If the House should, in its wisdom, tomorrow determine that the established religion of the country should be Quakerism, as in that religion there were no paid Ministers, what then would become of the church of England ? As the duties of its Ministers would cease, the right to hold the property which they possessed would cease also; and Parliament might• then apply it to any purpose its wisdom might direct. He denied alto gether that church property was upon the same footing as private property. He trusted an inquiry would be insti tuted, to ascertain what number of clergy were really wanted for the Protestant church in Ireland, and that the surplus, or useless ones, would he dispensed with. He hoped the day was not distant when a proper distribution would be made of the church property in England, Scot land, and Ireland, and that his Majesty's Ministers would avail themselves of the opportunity to correct the abuses of which the petitioners complained. Mr. KING explained—The statements which he had made he had made from the petition. The petition had attached to it the signatures of two or three Members of that House, and' of the Mayor, Sheriffs, and other respec table inhabitants of Cork. The petitioners were mem bers of the church of England, and unconnected with any party. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose, far the purpose of entering his protest against the suppo sition that his unwillingness to enter into those details now, argued an acquiescense, on his part, in the principles avowed by the Hon. Member for Aberdeen. The Hon. Gentleman appeared to allude to some contests which he had had with him (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), upon this subject, and he seemed to intimate, that in these contests, he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had uniformly attempted to defend, or to deny altogether, the abuses stated to exist in the established church in Ireland. Now he was sure that those Hon. Members who bad done him the favour to attend to what had fallen from him with regard to those different subjects when under discussion, would recollect that he had, pn those occasions, uniformly expressed his opinion, in accordance with the sentiments of several of the most respectable clergymen connected with the church of Ireland, that evil had grown out of the state of the established church in Ireland that required correction. There had been more done within the last few years to place the church of Ireland on the footing on which it ought to stand than during any antecedent period. There had been, within that time, a desire in all ranks of people, and especially in the church itself, to remedy those abuses which were admitted to exist, and which owed their existence not to any neglect or fault of the heads of the church, but to the particular circumstances in which the church itself was placed. He hoped that this subject would be discussed upon the principle of removing abuses where abuses were proved to exist, but not upon the prin ciple of condemning the whole body of the clergy because there had been some members of it Who had misconducted themselves; still less upon the principle of appropriating the revenues of the church, as was proposed by the Hon. Member opposite, such purposes of their own as might best square with the wants or the conveniences of the public ex chequer. Lard F. L. GOWER rose for the purpoea ofsaying a few words, in consequence of the-self-complacency with which the Hon. Member for Aberdeen ref reed to this pe tition, signed by 53 Magistrates of the county of Cork, as a confirmation of the peculiar views which he had himself previously taken of the state of the property of the church in Ireland. However valuable the Hon. Member might conceive this petition to be, as a confirmation of his own arguments, this he (Lord Gower) would venture to affirm —that there was very little concurrence in the main be tween these petitioners and the Hon. Member. The peti tion set out with a description of the advantages which ae coun try the petitioners considered their country to have deri ve d from the established church—a point on which th e i r opi nion was much at variance with the opinion usually ad n with eii o Hon. the Member.other establishments T hen, a s to of h th ving the church were by re ly much on the propheci es w hi c h the Hon. Member for v u r c c ed h d h e y ai t t h Aberdeen had made on that head. • On referring to that old aluaanack of which they had occ • as:tonally heard so much Mr. BARING entered his protest against the decttine just laid down by the two Right Hon. Gentlemen oppo site, that in no case was it competent for Parliament to meddle with the eroperty of the church, which'wa* to be considered as cafe as any gentlemen's private property. At the same time he' felt himself bound to declare, that notwithstanding ell the respect which he felt for the pub lic conduct of his Hon. Friend the Member for Aber deen in other respects, that Hon. 'Member was the last man in the world to whom he would submit either the reformation or the re-organization of our church esta blishments. Still he was of opinion that, without seme revision, these establishments might be involved in treat danger. Ile particularly adverted to the mischief likely to arise from the unequal distribution of the property be longing to them. We had several Bishops in England who were unable to reside in their dioceses, owing to the want of proper residences within the limit.: of them, and owing to the insufficiency of their incomes to provide such ' residences. He happened to know that a most venerable and meritorious prelate, the Bishop of Hereford, resided, not in his diocese, but at Winchester. The'Bishop of Llandaff resided in London, where he held (Aber pre• ferments, from the insufficiency of his income to pro vide him a suitable residence in Wales. The Bishop of Rochester, whose jurisdiction extended ever a large portion of Kent, hail an income not larger than marry of our parochial clergy, whilst there were Bishops of other sees, with incomes so green as to amount toloo,ooo/. a-year ; or at least with incomes which would reach that amount in a very abort time. When such was the care, he thought that it could no longer be denied that sums change must be made in the distribution of the property ef the church, for the sake of the church itself. He had no wish to establish an equality of revenue and of rank in the church. He felt the advantage of our having and re taining a gradation of both; but still he thought that it would be of great advantage to the character of our hierarchy--which, be admitted, stood as high as that of any hierarchy in the world—to have such a distributi. n of property made among them as would enable all of them to reside within their dioceses in a manner suitable to their rank in the church, and to their respectability in society. When he was told that there were matters with which it was not competent for Parliament to deal in any imagin able case, he felt bound to protest against the doctrine. Sure he was that if Parliament acted upon it, it would not promote but injure the success of the church. What the state of the church of Ireland might be, he did not pretend at that moment to know. On that point lie should have better information when the report of the ecclesiastical commission was laid upon the table ; but this he knew, that there was sufficient power in the three branches of legislature to revise the distribution of its property. He would say the same with respect to the church of England ; not that be thought that church too rich or too well paid; all that he contended for was, that Parliament had not merely the power, for that was un questionable, but also the equitable right to exercise the power of distributing the property of the church as it thought most advitetble among the members of the church. Whether Parliament had a right to say, " The church is rich, and too well paid, -and we will devote iss surplus revenue to the formation of schools and collegiate endow ments," was another question, into which he had no inten tion of entering on the present occasion. Dr. LUSHINGTON had no intention of speaking upon this petition when he entered the House, but felt himself called upon to rise in order to set right a statement just made reercting some of our Bishops, and their mode of performing their duties. His Hon. Friend the Member for Callington hail stated to the House that the Bishop of Llandaff, who possessed but a small income from his dio cese, resided constantly in London, swing to his being unable to provide himself with a suitable residence in his diocese in Wake. Now he (Dr. Lushington) could in form the Rouse from his own knowledge, that that meri torious prelate had held it to be his duty to hire it his own expense a residence within his Bishopric, and had gone down to it last summer, for the express purpose of per forming his episcopal duties. Next, as to the residence of the venerable Bishop of Hereford at Winchester. When the House cousidered that that prelate was now past 80 years of age, and that he had discharged his duties its a most exemplary manner when his health and strength per mitted, 'he thought that it would hardly expect a man of his advanced age to do more than what he now did. It was only last year that lie had gone down to his own dio cese, though with great pain and suffering to himself._ (Hear, hear.) But then, said hie Hon. Friend, " There are sees of which the incomes either are, or shortly will he, 100,0001. a-year." Now last year they had had be fore them a Bill for the purpose of enabling the Archbi shop of Canterbury to raise a sum of money fur the repair of Lambeth Palace and other purposes therein specified. Upon that occasion it was proved that his whole income did not exceed 32,0001. That was the greatest amount of income enjoyed by any English Bishop. Neither the see of York nor the see of Durham was worth any such sum. The revenues of the see of Durham, he was as sured upon good authority, had never exceeded 2 2,0001. a year. As to the revenues of the - Bishepric of London, oe must admit that they were on the increase. What might he the consequence of building on the land belonging to that see, he could not pretend to tell : but be was of opinion that the most sanguine calculator could not anticipate any thing at all approximating to such an incense as his Hon. Friend had just stated from the buildings recently constructed. With respect to the church of Ire land, he had only a few words to say. The Noble Lord on the other side of the House thought it a defect in the discipline of that church that curates were not licenced as soon as they received their curacies. Now there was no such defect in Its discipline as he imagined. If the Noble Lord would look at a small volume, by a writer who pos sessed as much talent and ability as any Bishop who had ever sat upon the bench,—if he would look at the first charge which Horsley, Bishop of St. Asaph, delivered to hie Clergy,—he would see that the Bishop told them, in words as plain as could be, that if they continued to employ curates without licence*, he woald proceed against them, one and all, as the law directed. The licensing of curales was, in his opinion, a matter of -treat importance; and he could wish that greater attention was paid to it throughout the country. He could enure the Noble Lord that the employment of curates without liceuces was not the discipline of the church of England ; on the contrary, express provision was made that no man should perform permanent duty in any of °trr churches er chapels without receiving either institution as incumbent, or licence as a3's proceeded to so observe o u r curate. That provision was one Of th e b es t sa f eguar d s i f tpt t ii h ieoa e s et Iti c vlo h ihrs u ,i c r c hurch, after viewsh , had v spru n gt Nh r e gard a n d vaei had al greatest writers upon eceleeisetical matters . Th e L e a rne d el obse r v a ti ons, ga r u d p to in etlhi c is d h i c propert yussion. v did n In ceorttaaicn ! cord exactly with th ose avowe d b y e i ther of the tiro par ' cases he considered church property to be individual pro petty, as in the case of advowsons; in other cases be looked upon it as public property. As to altering the pre ' sent system of distribution, that war a project to which he, for one, could never consent. With respect to the church of Ireland,—and be might also add with respect to the church of England,—he agreed with those who said, that pluralities and non-residence were the source of great mischief and inconvenience. He would accede with plea sure to any Measure which would put a stop to the viva num ber of pluralities and non-residencies which existed at present. He had often considered whether it might net be expedient