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\ a \ \ 1 ' t 1 , 4 I RON AND COAL COMPANY'S OFFICE, lioTi. Liverpool-street, London, March 7,1833. c E is hereby given that the HALF (,,, YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of th e said ic,l advertised to he held (pursuant to th. Act Iviatn'at) at the Compiny's Office, N. 9' Liver .4l .t, Broad.s,reet, in the City of London, on . at n„„", the 7th day of Match instant, at 12 o'clock 01.6' P r "isely. tint 12 for 1 o'clock. was adjourned by . isth idrectora of the said Company until Tifultsnayt c (1:4 lo °Y , o f APtil next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely 0 /4 c ~ clock for 1 o'clock) to be held at the Company's r ' l\ ''. 9 , Liv er pool -street, in t h e Ci ty o f L on d on . Ily Or , !er of the Board o' DirectorQ. HENRY ENGI.I-41 Secr. tary• • ''• ' • ( ( i \l l\i' \ 0 / /.,/al t e;6 (~ k r / ,Gl-6-1 1 t/t/i_g:_.-- -- , t , . . • , -- - 1. . • # 4l *\ I i ni ,;"-- • ff -, 1 i` ~ t , ' -- 4.,-,.....:0 , i , - t.) , x,, ,mss .- ".-N.;,:.. I clai 1,- - -;.--,-..---;•- ..r. 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S, • 4 \ ll 4 t K l ..„-,‘,„...„ 7; 144 ig an amendment, to introduce a proviso into the first ‘use,exempting all meetings lawfully convened by the Lo d !utenant, or Sheriffs, or four Magistrates of counties, or the Magistrates of boroughs, from the operation of the lug.. :NC' !Ilyn (VIL'") 7 •et ~e Mr. STANLEY said, be believed there could be no ,jection to the proviso, but it was unnecessary. How er, if the Hon. Member would postpone it till th?. , port was brought up, he certainly should have no objec )n to insert the first part of the proviso. After a brief conversation, Mr. LYNCH withdrew the ace) ote dam eJ colt gTe and tile ' 4 , , ,_ (No. 12,641.) LONDON, SATURDAY EVEINING, - MARCH 16, 183:3. ( PRICE 7D. )vino. ;Mr: H. GRATTAN wished to have some words intro ; fiuced making a notice of the prohibition to hold meetings necessary ; but, after a few words from Lord Asruorte, She, Hun. Member did not press hie wish. The question was then put, that the clause, as amended, stand part of the 13111- Mt. O'DWYER, acting from a feeling of duty, rose to protest against the clause. He maintained that the chief cause why Great Britain had escaped those revolutions which, in modern times, had desolated other countries, was, that the people possessed a quiet and la , vful means of making their opinions known. This clause would pre vent that for Ireland, and produce bloodshed, violence, and revolution. He therefore felt bound to oppose it. Mr. MAGUS O'CONNOR also opposed it. This law was so bad, that it actually made the Irish ask to be allowed to retain their old hated system. It mid them in love with their old misrule and miseovernment. It was so bad, that it would embalm the memory of Lord Castlereagh, and make him an object of veneration to the Irish people. He strenu , uslv opposed the clause. Colonel PERCEVAL thought the first clause might a s well be expunged, since an alteration had been ma , e. x eluding all political meetings, and all politic-i 1 offences from being tried by courtsmartial. Those politic meet ings were the source of all the evils of the country. He gave his support to the B:11, as it was introdileed, but as it was now modified, it would t e csimpletely useles s He must, then, protest against the first deviation which had been made from the principle of the Bill—(011, eli)— which would make it quite inefficacious.—(N s no.) Colonel TORRENS opposed the first clause, hector e he had confidence in his Majesty's Ministers. He was sure that they would not stop in their career, and that they would do ample and complete ju.t , ce to Ireland. Doing that, would restore tranquillity, and make this law a dead letter on the Statute-honk. had listened atten tively to the speech of the Right Hon. Secretary for Ire land, but was convinced, since he had time to reflect on the matter, that the Right Hon. Gentleman had made out no case to justify this measure. On this ground he el ould oppose the first clause. Mr. C. FERGUSSON was understood to express much regret that the course of remedial measures had been stopped last night. He wished to see the remedial mea sures carried into immediate effect, and was sorry that the time which might have nerved to forward them had been wasted. With respect to the first clause, he should have preferred, according to the suggestion of the Hon. Member for Monaghan, to see the law revived which was directed against the Catholic Association. He wished that the Lord-Lieutenant should have power given him to disperse all meetints which he thought dangerous to the public peace, without having the power to creve a misdemeanor. By one clause of the Bill, the Justices, when they directed a meeting to disperse, would only have the power to punish those who remained in d. fiance of the law with three months' imprisonment ; while by this clause, those who went away—who obeyed the prohihitinn and dis persed—might he punished with five years' imprisonment. Thus the real offenders would escape with a very trifling punishment, while those who had ignorantly and innocently attended the meetins, or went away when they were bid, would be severely punished. Ile wished the punishment to be fixed by the clause, and that a more severe punishment should he as signed to those who refused to go away than to those W 1147 dispersed. It was, in his opinion, absolutely necessary that such ot the emeetingsphysical forceshoulddescription be p whatever, the ep u e an end people eh itcoh attemptedto. compel th n e tL i e s s g o ei s c ml i a a bt t ,u t , r ye to pass any measure, or to overhear it, be that measure the repeal of the Union or any other, such an association could not be suffered to exist without endangering all authority. Power then should be given to the Lord- Lieutenant to repress all such meetings as he should deem dangerous to the public peace. He, however, wished the clause modified accordine to the suggestion mule by the Learned Member for Monaghan on a former evening. la (taken) MAR TIN , -.'------- -- 1 ---_____ HILL, , •nd CO., NO. 8, COlti\ li /th r._ 444 No. 86 Oxford -stre e t being duly cr e 'Rani' • * b . A 'f• he SALE of the ,kBO imeoners as t-ei -.gents aft . t . . _ if ~,., author.sed th4t th. „W LOTTERY, fore, leave tn inform the r . r i a ' iirawing will take place on the 17th of Apri . &Aid, 3 Priz-s of 10 0 00/, :Mlle , on 1 1 man other Capitals. The Property o r _ . zo ; tiii i i kat hd, at the option of the holders of the Prl : tiii li 't i t i) l, 4l Y t °s per cent. dis e tint. 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Cooke, 11 e , by applying at Is i gio ii :7 ,a , '-qt Cowes (etters, post P aid )" ds, Wifo r b CARPETING. s'p'SALE AND RETAIL WAREHOUSE, ,, 139, j°3(\-‘7°.„IIIISTRIEET,NEAR BOND-STREET. i r4L.S FOIt,D., and Co. beg most re -141 A i?" f ul yto int mate to the Nollifiqt Gent i rz s , wi•t, u"lle, th tt they have just opened the above p i re r t , n oiii- - k r, ,l'i,st splendid assortinent of BrtisQels, 4l' ' dt e :„ " '" , and tither Carpetines of the new K est ifi l t ia s :tt . er & l7 .. , bite h ih4et", flota•-cloths matting, hell-Pul's' &c. 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(Successor to Henry Col'.urn.) IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. present reformed Parliament wo.ild throw into the hands of the Lord-Lieutenant, or Cliief Secretary for Ire- m h e e e ld ting ir: t h h ei r t e l e in day D s' ub n i o in ti , ce an b , e , t g e i n ven 6 o y f e ti n te ot p ic u e rp o o f se t s ho o s f e counties, to the Lord Lieutenant or his secretary." A discussion, somewhat confused, then took place, rather upon the principle of the Bill than on the amendment is.-fore the House, in which Lord Althorp, Mr. Ruthven, Mr. F. Young, Mr. Maurice O'Connell, Mr. Lilor, Mr. F. O'Connor, and Mr. T. Attwood took part. Mr. O'CONNELL then said that the question now came to be whether the House was determined to place the whole of Ireland under the individual control of one man, or if they were willing to accede to one small qua lification—a poor miserable qualification—which they ask.l as a boon amidst so many despotic clauses. He would, therefore, propose, as an amendment, that the following words be added:—" Provided always that it shall not be allowable to suppress any meeting convened and held, or to he convened and held, for the boon fide pur. pose of petitioning the King or Parliament for the redress of any grievance ; and provided always that the Lord Lieutenant receive due notice of the time and place of meeting, at least ten days before the add 'mating is held." Was Ireland so cast beyond the pale of the Con stitution that that one qualification should not be ac ceded to her? !tt It r Sg 3 °it HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 15. land, the power of preventing any such meetings as those which had met for the bona fide purpose of petitioning either the King or the Legislature against an actual and really existing grievance ? Was despotism to be carried to the extent, that the Lord- Lieutenant should con vert into an unlawful assembly, and subject to punishment, any men who might meet for the exclusive and highly lau :able purpose of petitioning the Legislature? He could not conceive any thing so atrociously oppressive as to give such a power. It was idle to tell him that such a power would not be exercised.—(Hear, hear.) He would a-k those who said so to join with him, for it would he only a wanton and oppressive species of cruelty to take that power which was not required. It would be worse—it would be ho'ding in terrorern over the heads of the people a power given by this Act which might he exercised in the most improper manner, by con verting a strictly legal meeting into an illegal assembly. --(Hear, hear.) He would not urge this further, as he would have to (fiscal; it in the Committee.—(Hear.) He admitted that when he came to argue upon the clause itself, this mitig :lion ould be raised against hint, his reasoning against the clause would be much stronger in taking the clause without th , s investigation, but if the HoasOvould refuse thus to modify it—if--he w”uld not say !*. - (lia Reformed Parliament —if this Parliament refused thus to modify it, he hoped the House would never afterwards talk of their affection for Ireland and their anxiety to protect its people, be cause on any such occasion he would hold up this Act against them by which they prevented them from peace ably complaining of a dreadful grievance. Was it not a monstrous grievance that an immense body of persons should be compelled to pay tithes to a Church which they never entered, and which they did not want ? How were their grievances to be redressed? Was it by Whiteboyism and a system of lawless proceedings, or was it not rather by presenting petitions to that House, over and over again, until their complaints were entertained ? Could any body believe that the grievance was not great, if no less than 10 parishes, being situated together, were compelled to pay tithes to a church into which not one in three parishes ever entered. It was impossible to bring this clause into operation, as it at present was, without its being made a Tithe Bill of, and with these onservotions, he submitted his motion to the House. _ _ At four o'clock their Lordships formed a Committee of Privileges, when the claim cf Lord Macdonald to vote for representative Peers of Ireland was considered, and al'owed. 3 Ren) iken ) ) t (taken, Mr. PENDA AVIS and others, from the Commons, brought up 'he Exchequer Bills BPI for 1833 ; also a Bill granting certain Supp'ies to his Majesty fur the sauce year. . . . . ew ton's NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF "MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS." This day was published, in 3 vol.. post Svo., 2Ss. THE SKETCH-BOOK of FASHION. As , ti,e Aotlior of " The F.& of May Flit." "The most finished moral satirist that this age has seen."— Spectator. " Full of delicacy, strength, and feeling."—Town Journal. " Lively, keen, witty, and full of relish."—Morning Post. Richard B -ntley, New Burlington-street. (Successor to Henry Coll,urn.) !....' n i DAIr r: PETRI: and others brought up the Broxtowe Hun dred Compensation Bill. Petition+ for the abolition of slavery were presented by the E.ri Of ALBEMARLE, Earl FITZWILLIAM, and Lord TEVNHAM. K a re In t jot • firm 3 0 3 ° red' degi Lalte uttie verY Earl Furz WILLIAM presented a petition, praying for the aim ition of the corn laws, from a place the name of which we could not ear. Ito. I 4 27' w 4 1'5. . 0 , 0 ;T o d; itelY go t hroi s du i _ ton e;, o 4cl. 5 Cl t 7 at O s ; 1 4' he t C TO E ttl°l 0 1. ......... 6 " 1 I claw' 3 1° !( . 3 ive. 5 0 51 ditto,. 5 ; ........ 4 1 . 6., ...... • to o ives 19 ' t og/ . 19 ":„ . 7 Egg' - 'l , lO MA I/14 10. w -Q1 e . er ior." idling' 310 :; ...... 3 6 , S I ....... 4 I ........... NEW EDITION. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Svo., THE BUCCANEER. A Story of the Protectorate. Petitions fir the better observance of the Sabbath Day were presented by the Bishop of BRISTOL, Lord CLIF FORD, and the Earl of RODEN. By Mrs. S. C. HALL. ty the Author of " Sketc' es of Irish Character," &c. Toe Earl of RODEN preNented a petition from the Isle of Skye, praying tor an alteration in the Church Patronage of Seothnd. Richard B ntley, New Burlington-street. (Successor to Henry Co!burn.) . Agents for Scotl .nd, Messrs. Bell and Bradfut.., Edinburgh; for lrelatai, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. The House then adjourned till Mond Mr. PRYME said, that no man felt more than he did the injury which the aaitatistn of the question of the re peal of the Union effected ; but he could not see that, that was a sufficient reason for the suppression of meetings for the repeal of grievances. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MARcu 15. A Wecige foul the Lords announced that their Lord ships had given their assent to a private Bill, and requested that the House would communicate to their Lordships copies of Education Returns for the years 1818, 1819, 1820, and 1821. Orders received also by all respectable Booksellers in the Unit d Kineom. MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE Mr. HUME begged to ask the House if it were not most probable that the people, when they found thst they would not be allowed to meet peaceably to petition for the redress of their grievances, would resort to midnight meetings to obtain the same end ? He begged the Noble Lord opposite to consider well, before he put that measure in force, whether he should not promote outraees, where he thoueht to allay them. The people had a right to petition, and if this right were taken from them, they might expect that it would be but the prelude to further deprivations. Small inroads paved the way for greater, and the ultimate re sult would he, the total subversion or the Constitution. The Hon. ➢lember then alluded to the opinion of the Noble Lord now on the Woolsack, in speaking of the repeal of the Catholic disabilities in 1825. That Noble Lord said, that be advocated the right of the Irish people to meet and petition for the redress of their grievances. It was lamentable to see a person who advocated such principl-s; now a supporter of the present Bill. The amendment moved was the last hope the people of Ireland had to escape from tyranny. The House was asked whether they would allow them to petition, or put the whole power into the hands of a tyrant (or one who might, at all events, be a tyrant if he chose). He would ask if that was the way to pacify the country ? It might, he ac knowledged, smother the flame of discontent for a time, hut that flame would hereafter break forth with redou bled fury. (From the Ballysnannon Herald.) Inn neighbouring county, a young lady was some years ago married against her will, she being at tached to anothi r. However, she and her husband lived apparently on good terms; but the husband's health daily declined, and although frequent consul. tations were held by medical practitioners, the nature of his disease could not be ascertained. Provi dence, however, in its own good time, revealed the secret. It appears that al hough the lady seemed content in her married state, she was anything hut happy. Her firmer lover continued to visit her without the least suspicion of any improper int;- macy existing, he being her cousin, and the unfor tunatehusband loved her too well to doubt her fidelity. The lady having one day received a letter from her cousin, was observed by the servant girl to be much agitated on perusing it, and having frequently kissed it, exclaimed, "It shall be done." Fortunately, in putting the letter into her pocket, she missed the pocket-hole, and it fell on the ground ; it was quickly picked up by the servant, who concealed it until she got a person to read it. It contained a request that the lady would double the dose she was in the habit of giving, which would soon finish him. Information of the discovery was carried to the husband, but it was with much difficulty he could be persuaded to question his " dear wife" about the matter. At length he told her there were strange rumours current about her and her cousin ; the lady became enraged, arid said, " Since you are base enough to harbour an improper opinion of me, 1 will no longer live with you." The poor man be L rged of her to forgive him, that he did not intend to hurt her feelings, nor did he believe the reports, and hoped she would forget what had passed—she was inexorable, and, after some time, wishing he would in future be as well taken care of as she took of him, and kissing her children, she left for her father's house. She was followed by her husband for the purpose of prevailing on her to return, but calling at a friend's house he was surprised to find her and her cousin there. He then mform'ed the I.ldy's father of the circumstance, ,vho gave informa tion to a magistrate, and had the lovers quickly ap prehended. The husband, anxious to ascertain the particulars, and doubting still his wife's guilt, told her that if she confessed the truth he would forgive her, and take her back to his house; she did so as follows :—She said that she never loved him (her husband), that she had a plot made up with her cousin, to whom she was attached to poison hint, that they might he marred —•he at empied to carry their internal plan into efr-ct twice, but failed; once she had a large dose prepare d but the cat spi led it—again she 'nail ano ther dose, but he imagine t it was a dirty vessel and would riot think it—and she had been giving him slow poison for a length of time—she said she was cony for her conduct, but promised in future, if she was forgiven, to be a loving and dutiful w ife. This was all the husband wanted, and they are now living together apparently happy. The disconso late lover is in custody to stand his trial at the en suing assizes. The above particulars have been furnished us by a correspondent, but we forbear mentioning the names of the parties, through re spect to their friends. Mr. Übertson presented the annual report relative to the state of Shy reh im harbour. Lord DARLINGTON wished to ask the Hon. Baronet opposite, the S- cri tary at 'War (Sir J. (1 VI hi ) whether it was his intention to bring forward the Mutiny Bill ? His object in asking this queslion was founded on a Royal Warrant, lately published, for granting certain allowances to discharged soldiers. There were soiree enactments in that warrant which were well worthy of observation ; and he believed the most proper opportunity fur calling the attention of the House to these provisions would he in the second reading of that Bill. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE begged leave to remind the Noble Lord, that with respect to the warrant in question, the whole of its provisions were only applicabe to soldiers enlisted after 1832, and had no retrospective operation. Lord DARLINGTON was quite aware of the fact that the warrant was only prospective, at the same time there were several of its enactments that would operate very injuriously on soldiers previously enlisted. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE considered this a subject of considerable delicacy; at the same time he could not help observing that the warrant had been brought in with the most perfect concurrent:, of all the military authorities, and on the proper occasion he should be able to show that the effect of its provisions would be salutary ; at all events it had the concurrence of Lord Hill. HERTFORD ELECTION. re) 1 ' stlis i" :;i ood, °f e d bf ti c?' i ttend. ' tp ,: 0 / ° we l s ', P er" Po' to 49. 6 ' 4 M •••• S 5 o , e, 7ton f! c l:oth.,:', t ; P r ' 4 4. Pi Ives. ,j! ... ,0/ u3ricet e,3, to 4 0 / ch 13 ' s. .........1 ;i0, . 7,.. I" dull. I E 115 :i l l/ tli Mr. S HEIL said that by the amendment moved by the Noble Lord, no meeting could be held without ten days' notice, and then in all cases notice was required to be given to the Lord-Lieutenant. This was to be the case in the proclaimed districts ; but what, he would beg to ask, was to be the law where the district was not pro claimed? He begged to put that question to the Noble Lord, and he should be happy to see that the Noble Lord had as much sympathy with the people of Ireland 811 he once showed to the Creoles. He begged to ask the Noble Lot d if the Lord-Lieutenant was to have the power of preventing meetings in the districts not proclaimed ? From the way the clause then stood, be (Mr. Shell) understood that he had. Then it followed that the Lord-Lieutenant was to know by intuition what was to be said at rneetini.s. He was to know it by anticipation.—(Hear, hear ) In other words, the people of Ireland were to have no right to meet for the purpose of petitioning, either in the pro claimed districts or those which were not proclaimed. He then saw no difference between the proclaimed and the other districts.—(Hear, hhar.) Hon. Members bad spoken of the suppression of meetings in England ; but they ought to remember that justices of the peace were not then allowed to suppress meetings, but to change the place where the meetings were to take place. And be ask.d why harsher measures should be adopted towards Ireland now, than were adopted towards England in 1819 ? He denied that Ireland was in more peril now than England was then. He supposed that Ministers would perhaps endeavour to procure the passing of the Bill upon c , mditions, because the Bill of 1829 was passed upon conditions. And what was the condition now to be imposed ? That the Bill fur the Reform of the Irish Church should not pass through the other House, if that House did not pass the Coercive Bill.—(Hear.) Mr. CAYLEY would support the whole Bill, because there were remedial measures in the contemplation of the Government for the improvement of Ireland, which he was sure every English Member would support. . . Mr. BERNAL had been directed by the Committee appointed by the House to inquire into the validity of the election of Lord Viscount lngestiie for the borough of Hertford, to make application to the House, that a mes sage might he sent to the Lords, requesting the Marquis of Salisbury to attend the Committee, for the purpose of giving evidence, and producing all leases, agreements, and copies thereof entered into by his Loritship, of tenements situated within the borough of Hertford to certain persons named, among whom were the tollowing:—John Beastly, Thomas Walker, George Little, Ch.irle, Little, John Chapman, James Eagle, and tithe's whose names did not reach the gallery. He (Mr. Bernal) had been directed by the saute Committee to move the House that a Message be sent to the Lords, that they might give leave to the Marquis of Salisbury to attend and give evidence, and produce the said leases, agreements, as t copies thereof on Nloritlay next, at ten o'clock. The Hon. Gentleman then gave notice that, on Mond iy next, he-vrouln make a motion to send the message to the House 5 - at& ............. to 9. 55 Mr. RUTHVEN proceeded, amidst much interrup tion, to deprecate the notice given by the Member for South Durham--that the notes of the Bank• of Ireland should be a legal tender. Mr. C. FERGUSSON would suppose the following case t —lf the Lord-Lieutenant should issue his prohibi tion against a certain meeting, and a person wholly ig norant of the illegal nature of the meeting—who had not heard of the order for its suppression—should attend it, would that person be subject to the penalties of this Bill ? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, that a public no tice was necessary, and that it was only after such was issued that the meeting became illegal. In his opinion, a person circumstanced as had been supposed, would have a clear defence against the penalties of the Bill. But he begged to remind the Hon. Member, that by the common law the fact of being present at an unlawful in•eting con stituted an unlawful act, though the person present might have had no knowledge of the illegal nature of the !met ing. He thought the fixing of the punishment at two months' imprisonment, would be injurious, in Ismuch as there might be different degrees of guilt. One man might do little, another a great deal ; he might say, " What do I care for the Lord Lieutenant ? I'll resist any force he sends here." These two persons would deserve different degrees of punishment. •••• 4 gi. to f. 00 .6'4 to "" ‘2l". t° 4 1 ' ".. 05'• " d. o ".; to 23 t t r I I Y' pe . o to `, rdarc b 8 ,01• 1 . 1 o • 6 By . 1 1 . 4 o •6 9 g • 8 gi • I 5 • a ° 4 1` o 30 • 3 5 • • 4 9 06 • 0 55 5 5 0 0 44 o 44 o 44 4 ° 4 9 0 0 0 °° 53 0 3 6 9 .3 o 55 „ it. o i ) 1' t ot I 4.0 4 : vc. 5 00. sl 799 of Lords. Mr O'CONNELL reminded the Hon. Member that the report quested that the Marquis of Salisbury should attend the Cimmittee on Monday. _ _ The SPEAKER said it was true that the Committee expressed tbeir wish that the N-ble Marquis should attend on Monday, but as the !louse had nut been awate of the repot until it was brought up, the Hon. Member to whom it was intrusted, thought it be ter to give notice of the motion, than to proceed with it immediately. Mr. HAWES asked whether the proceedings of the Committee were to be delayed in the mean time, or whe ther they could sit to mot row ? for as, by any delay, great expense would be created, by keeping witnesses in town, he should advise the House to lake a different course. Mr. BERNAL was unable to give the Hon. Member any answer, as he was unacquainted with the particulars of the evidence, and the request for the Marquis 01 Salis bury's attendance hai only been made to the Committee just before they rose this afternoon. Lord ALTH.ORP moved that the order of the day for a Committee of the whole House on the Disturbances in Ireland Suppression Bill be read. Sir ANDREW AG sEW wished to ask the Noble Lord whether he should have any objection that an hour on Monday should be devoted to the presentation of peti tions 'dative to the better observance of the Sabbath. Mr. LAMBERT begged to ask if it was to be in the power of the Lord-Lieutenant to suppress a meeting in my district of which he had received no notice? Mr. HALL disapproved of the proposed amendment (which bad anticipated one be had intended to move on the 9th clause), inasmuch as it appeared to sanction the extraordinai y power of the Lord-Lieutenant to suppress meetings at all—a power which he considered most un constitutional, and likely still more to sever Ireland from this country. _ . o 011? e 411 v o tt' foi r,nel oro' r A•P . ► WYAIor- GePt? • t ) f Mai e e e' WO rn;a ..CO Ve ) I di 4t 1 , a- ' 3 0° 1 7 A be i, r° aw ire , t ov , die° fi?, Las, nE 0116 tha t : jea d ji q uite b i l l o 03 ' bra e° ti ~ ,t her rhe • e ' ;brar p onus -Y „o .; Mr. O'CONNELL said that the proceeding suggested by the N..bie Loin, the M.-lime'. for Devonshire (Lind John Russell), had succeeded exceedingly well to-day, and, in consequence, a great number of petitions hail been pre sented. RHEUMATISM, GOUT, COUGHS, AND COLDS...—Life Pill., entirely vegetable, discovered by the Rev. C. CARRINGTON, Vicar of Berkeley, one of bis Majesty's Deputy Lieutenants, &c., fir thf. county of Gkucester. Enford, Wilts, June S. Lord ALTHORP, in answer to t►.e question of the Hun. Baionet, said he only wished to consult the general convenience of the Those. If the House wished that the petitions relative to the observance of the Sabbath should be presente.i first en Monday, he could have no ohjection. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he could put in a claim for an hour in favour of the Jews—(Hear, hear, and laugoter)—•fur he had art important petition on the subject from his constituents. _ . _ I am in the habit of taking your Life Pills for the Rheu. matism, with which I used to be dreadfully afflicted. Nothing so effectually relieves it, and though I am seventy three years of age, yet by using them the moment of an attack, I keep off the tit. ED W. RA WLINS. Sold in Boxes at Is. I id. and 4s. 6d. each. kr. WARBUR lON could put in a claim for another hour for the Beer Bill —(Laughter.) Lord GEORGE SOIBERSET said, he perceived two 'notions un the list for to-night —one to lie brought forward by the Right Honourable Baronet, the first Lord of the Admiralty (Sir J. Graham) regret ting the Navy Estimates, and the other by the Right Hon. Secretary (Mr. S. it,ce) for the expenses of the revising barristers. flu wished to know whether they could be brought forward to night, and if so, at what time. Lord ALT HORP was understood to say that the motion respecting the revising barristers, would be brought forward to night, but he could give no answer respecting the other motion. 34 tt . one . thick vo l ume . 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To discover a remedy, or a preventive rather, of this insidious power —the dry rot—has long been a problem. It is now, however—we think we may venture to be sanguine about it—found ; corrosive sublimate is that remedy. The pre servative powers of this substance have long been known to anatuit ists, curators of museums, and others interested in an acquaintance with antiseptics. It occurred to Sir H. DAVY, some years ago, when applied to for a receipt to check the approaches of the book-worm in the magnifi cent library at Althorp, to suggest corrosive sublimate; but he was induced to abandon the idea, from a supposi tion that a poisonous atmosphere would attend on the vo. lumes which should be charged with this active mercurial. Dr. FARADAY confesses that it was he himself who influ enced Sir HUMPHRY in coming to such a conclusion ; but the result of his researches since that time, and particu early within the last two or three years, warrants him in staling now the contrary. Organic matters treated with corrosive sublimate form with it a chymical compound, and contract none of its noxious qualities. It is on this principle that Dr. FARADAY is enabled to show , and in. deed may be said to have succeeinproving, that timber which has been steeped for a time in a saturated solution of the sublimate becomes indestructible, and affords that which has been so long a desideratum in the building of our wooden walls. The lecturer detailed the various ex periments which have been made on this subject atWool wich, under the sanction of the Lords o f the Admiralty ; and in every instance wherein the results have been exa mined (fur sonic of them are yet undergoing the test of time) it appears they have been eminently marked with success. Pieces of the same wood, some saturated, and some left untouched, have been expos.d to the same in fluence, when the latter have turned out to be utterly de voured with the rot, the former remaining perfectly sound. The saturated and the unprepared pieces have even been mortised into each other, when the dry rot has eaten the latter to the boundary line, and stopped there. The same thing occurred with pieces of cotton canvass ; those washed in the solution remaining uninfluenced by the rot, while those not so protected perished. A Mr." KYAN, we understand, is the inventor of the remedy.-211edicul Ga2ettc. 11°11 a f boil , $t rge 0 op ,t 39 see mliei° „ad the tha t I . ° l the Just coo 51d er riv 4 sv' t:ear a d s ye" `, 1 10 1, 6 ~dy' 7 Aeri' h tt c oo' - ff ir , P ut 4 j a t otA• 0 t be r d ,/ I to uor ought ._ of 13° uIY G r°9 PE Jty cart . el is, „ Go o t 34 0.9 10, f i 6 ise l-st " , : 1 0 : • Gray n son o f 13e. 000' 1 1 13te l c , f the slOor' ev o f Co" - jO bet rD * 0 VN" ire ° I :he coo Li Or hf IRISH DISTURBANCES BILL. The order of the day was then read, and the House re solved into a Committee upon this Bill, Mr. BERNAL in the chair. Mr. O'CONNELL rose to move an addition to the first clause. As that clause at present stood, it empowered the Lord-Lieutenant, by his order, to suppress any meeting he thought fit, by that means rendering it an unlawful meeting, and placing those who attended it under conside rable embarrassments, and subjecting them to imprison ment. He did not intend to argue the clause ; but he wished it to be explicitly understood, that what he hid stated was the effect of the clause, and he wished now to take the sense of the House upon excepting from the operation of that clause one par ticular description of meetings—those which met for the bona fide and exclusive purpose of petitioning apinst actual existing grievances ; and the addition to the cl ,u , e which he would propose was this, " Provided always that it shall not be lawful for any Lord-Lieute nant or Chief Secretary of Ireland, by any such order to prohibit or suppress any meeting to be held for the bona fide purpose of agreeing in a peaceable manner to the presentation of a petition to the King or either House of Parliament for the redress of any grievance, either in Church or State." Before the House decided upon the present despotic clause, he wished to take its opinitni upon the addition he had proposed. If any person was charged with having got up an illegal meeting the lioneurable Member did not intend that he should have the benefit of the addition which be propeaed to the clause, unless be could satisfy both the Covet and the Jury that the meeting was a bona fide one, that it was not a meeting for the pre tence of remedying a grievance, bur for the bona fide purpose of remedyi ng a rea l ex i s ti ng ev il.— (Hear.) He wished to have it ascertained by the House whether his Majesty's Ministers would throw a meeting of that sort into the hands of the Lord-Lieutenant, or Chief Secretary Of Ireland. He wished to know whether the Lord ALTHORP said the Hon. and Learned Gentle man was mistaken if he supposed that he (Lord Althorp) would not at once say that the object of this clause was to give to the Lord-Lieutenant an arbitrary power. The intention of it was to give him power to prohibit and sup press any meeting which he might consider dangerous to the public peace. The Hon. Gentleman wished his amend ment to be introduced at the end of the clause, hut if such were allowed, the only effect of it would be to render e whole clause nearly nugatory. A meeting might be held under the pretence of petitioning for the removal of a grievance ; that meeting might be a mere pretence to cover some ulterior proceeding. Now the effect of the Hon. and Learned Member's amendment would be to tape away from the Lord Lieutenant that power which it was proposed to give him by the eause— the power of suppressing such a meeting. How was any one to know the intention with which a meeting might be held ? How was any one to say that the avowed intention of the meet ing was the real and bona fide one—(Hear)—whe ther they really met for the purpose of petitioning for the removal of a grievance? Who was to decide whether the subject was really a grievance or not ? The only effect of the addition to the clause would be to prevent the Lord- Lieutenant s .ppressing any meeting at aii, for whatever purpose it might be held The Hon. and Learned Mem ber had not entered into the discussion of the whole clause, neither would be (Lord Althorp) proceed further than to say that the proposed addition went entirely to vitiate the whole clause. lie intended to meet any objec tions to the clause entirely on their own grounds, and would - at once avow ti at it was a most despotic clause, but rendered absolutely necessary by the state of that unfortu nate country. Mr. O'CONNELL was not answered at all. What ! was it to be said that there should be no complaint? Was the pone resource even of complaining to be taken away ? The Lord Lieutenant would still have it in his power to issue his order, and the party who might be sued for having held the meeting, must prove to a jury that the meeting was held for the real bona fide purpose of petitioning for a redress of grievances, and that it was really a grievance up- n which they met to consult. Would the House grant the Government so corn plete a despotism, because they sought it, as not even to allow the existence of a meeting perfectly peaceable, entirely exclusive, and complaining of an actual grievance? Good Heavens! in what country were they ? Would they not al low men to petition for the redress of actu a abominable grievance—against, perhaps, the tyranny, the misconduct, and despotism, exercised under this Act—against the gross instances of pet version of its powers, arising from personal hatred? Let him suppose that the same abuses should take place wit% regard to this Act as had taken place with regard to the Insurrection Act, which notoriously hid been pervei tea to gratify avarice and lust. Yes, in the speech attributed to Lord Clon curry in the House of Lords, it was stated that the in surrection Act had been ex rcieed to gratify avarice and ust.—( Hear ) Now this Act went infinitely farther than the Insurrection Act; and would it be said that a petitioning ag 'lust the pet version of the powers of this Act, perfectly bo,a fide should, by a Lord Lieutenant's proclamation, be converted into a misdemeanor, pianist,. able by courtsmartial ? Mr. HENRY GRATTAN protested against the ab solute despotism wlitch, under the terms of this provision, would be given to the Lord-Lieutenant. There was a meet ing in the diocese of Derry, the otner tlay, of the clergy to protest against this Bill, and the Lord -Lieutenant might have I suppressed it under the pretext of being unlawful.— ( Hear, heir.) The Hon. Member concluded by moving an amendment, to the effect, as we understood, that no proclamation should take place for the suppression of auy association, assembly, or body of persons assembled in a peaceable manner, with the bona fide purpose of petition- Mg against grievances, without notice signed by 20 householders. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, the amendment pi-spew(' by the Hon. and Learned Member f it Dublin was inconsistent with the spirit of the clause.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Who was to determine what was a bona fide grievance? The Hon. Member said . 4 A Jo , y," but this was inconsistent with the spirit of the clause.—(Hear.) It they had to refer it to ascertain what were, in fact, real grievances, who could say what were and what ere not real grievances ?--(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Some called the want of poor laws a real grievance, others the tithe system, and others again, absenteeism. The clause to which the Hots. Member for Dublin objected was similar to a clause for suppressing meetings in the Act passed in the year 1829 ; and if the amendment were allowed to be introduced, that clause would be wholly inoperative. With respect to the meetings referred to by the Hon. and Learned Member, he (the Solicitor- General) was of opinion that if the Lord-Lieutenant dared to suppress such meetings, he would be guilty of a misdemeanor. The power contained in the clause was to be given to the Lord-Lieutenant, in whom a confidence would be imposed that he would not use it improperly. At:. O'DWYER, in reference to the assertion that the Lord Lieutenant would be guilty of a misdemeanor in suppressing certain meetings, said there was a clause in the Bill which protected him in case of his indis cretion, or of any error committed by him..—(Hear.) The clause was one totally destructive of constitutional liberty. " You stretch us on the rack," to use the language of Junius, " and then you cruelly deprive us of the power of complaining." He hoped, for the character of the country, and for the character of a Reformed Parliament, to which the country looked for pretectien, that the clause would not pass. Mr. G. YOUNG said, that although he admitted an unlimited power ought to be given, yet if any limitation whatever could be imposed on that power—(Hear)-- reserving that most sacred of rights, petitioning, it was the bounded duty of his Majesty's Ministers to accede to it, unless they could show that the effect of that would be to neutralise the clause. Mr. O'CONNELL expressed his willingness to yield to the modification of his amendment which bad been pro posed. That which be requ red the Huuse should guard against was allowed by the Solicitor-General, if done, to be an impeachable act ; and yet it was now intendtd to give that power to the Lord Lieutenant with impunity. He would be quite content to withdraw his amendment in favour of that of the Hon. Aiember for Aleatb, pro• vided the following words were added to it Tbat Mr. O'CONNELL explained. He did not think he could be suspected of any intention to sanction such a power. Mr. TENNYSON said, that though he bad been tour t-en years in Parliament he had never witnessed such ex traordinary exhibitions in the House as had taken place in the course of the discussion on this Bill. The House, in fact, seemed determined to lose its character with the p °pie --(Hear.) The personalities which had been in ,ulged in were disgraceful—he more particularly adverted to the conduct of the Members on his side of the House (the Ministerial) ; for the gentlemen on the other side of the House had almost invariably reflected the highest credit on themselves by the forbearing and cour teous manner in which they had carried on the discussion. —(A laugh on the Ministerial side ; Hear, hear ; Ques tion.) With respect to the amendment, he should most decidedly support it; for be entirely deprecated the clause on which it was founded. The clause was certainly the same as one which he had advocated in the Proclama tion Act passed in 1829 ; but he had supported that because be considered it directed against the Catholic Associations, not against meetings for petitioning or other legitimate objects, which he thought might be the effect of the clause now in question. He protested against any infringement on the right of petitioning, and had no difficulty in foreseeing that the power of this clause might be perverted to th it infringement ; and be was decidedly of opinion that the thus driving a people to secret meetings, which would inevitably be the result, would produce the worst consequences. He should support the amendment, because he thought it would be fur the security of the crown. Mr. STANLEY denied that this clause could or would be perverted to any such unconstitutional objects as an infringement on the right of petitioning, by preventing legitimate meetings. He was quite astonished at the Hon. Gentleman's offering any opposition on these grounds to a clause precisely the same, even in the wording of it, to the one so strongly supported by him on a former oc casion, and front the operation of which not a single in stance had occurred of the infringement of the Constitu tion, which he now seemed to apprehend. Thus, since no such consequence had arisen from the former operatiim of the clause, it did not appear to him to require any great stretch of logical reason to calculate the effects from the clause now. It was necessary to make the Lord- Lieutenant the judge of what were bona fide legitimate meetings, and what were meetings fur illegal purposes. If he had not this discretionary power. to give which was the intent of the clause, the law could have no effect. Any man acquainted with Ireland, understood how easy it was to convene a meeting as a bona fide meeting to petition, and turn it to seditious purposes, passing resolu tions at it which might set all Ireland in a flame. The object of this clause was not to punish violations of the law, but to prevent them. Mr. O'CONNELL said, the right of petitioning was sacred ; as to what the Right Hon. Secretory had said about no meetings for legitimate petitions having been in terfered with under the power of the former clause, the reason was, that no one had ever attempted to get up a petition at that time; there was good care taken to pre vent any such a thing being attempted. Mr. STANLEY replied. The Committee then divided on the amendment, when there apt eared. Ayes Noes 246 Majority against the Amendment...-161 Upon our re-eutering thegallery, Mr. LYNCH was mov- Mr. C. FERGUSSON made an observation which was inaudible in the gallery. Mr. PEASE considered it his duty, as a loyal subject, to uphold the welfare of his King and country. He would support the clause, because it did not, as had been said, take away the right of petition. T=o or three persons might frame the petition, anti then procure the signatures of every individual in the town or district. lie firmly believed that his Majesty's Ministers had no disposition to invade the liberties of the subject. —( Hear, bear.) Mr. ROEBUCK wished to know whether, if a person went to a prohibited meeting, which was afterwards ordered to disperse, and be should obey the order, would he be guilty under the Act? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, that a person at tending a prohibited meeting would Ise, by that Act, guilty of a crime; and should he refuse to disperse on the requi sition of a magistrate, he would he guilty of a second crime. Mr. ROEBUCK thought still that the illegality was constituted by the refusal to disperse. In his opinion, the real object of the clause was to put down the Hon. Mem ber for Dublin (Mr. O'Connell). To such legislation be was opposed. The Bill, besides, would be inoperative ; for the Hon. Member for Dublin might describe a meeting that never existed ; he might thus diff .se his views, and do all the mischief through the country that was appre hended by some persons from him. Mr. AGLIONBY spoke from under the gallery, and was understood to say that the ohjections of the Hon. Member for Kirkcudbright (Mr.C. Fergusson) were, in his opinion, fatal to the clause. The Hon. Member made some other observattons, the purport of which could not be ascertained Mr. COBBETT rose to declare that be should vote against the clause, as he would against the entire lbw, however amended or altered. He resisted it because its direct tendency was to take from the Irish people the right to petition—(Hear, hear)—and because it was a stepping stone to the introduction of a similar measure into Eng land.—(Cries of" Hear, hear," and "No, no.") Everything would be done to narrow it and destroy it by degrees.— (Nc, no.) But he would on this, as on all occasions, endeavour to do justice to his Majesty's servants: if they attacked the right, it was because they could not maintain their system without destroying it. They had two courses before them..-redress of grievances, or deprivation of right. The former they were resolved not to grant, and, consequently, they were compelled to attack the rights of the people. Though, therefore, they might become tyrants, it was from necessity; and the question would be, whether the nation would submit to their system. The Member for South Duthite (Mr. Pease) deserved the thanks of the country for basing let out so much of the real state of the case. The reasons be had given were perfectly understood, the whole matter was quite plain to him (Mr. Cotibett); and to show his gratitude to the Hon. Member fur the service he had rendered, though without intending it, he would tell him an Ame tican story.—(Laughter, mingled with tries of " Ques tion," and " No, no.") During that war, which he (Mr. Cobbett) should always consider a rtbellion— though the lion. Secretary for Ireland, and the Hon. Member for Leeds, pronounced it a glorious r e volution — two men, lovers of peace—(A laugh)—who would not engage in war—no! not fur the whole world—men who would not touch a hair on the head of a hum an bein g but who were persons of exceeding loya lt y. offered, final their extreme attachment to the K in g and I:is (,overn meta, to conduct the Bri tish army into the American camp—(Laughter)—but th at Wa.hingttm, who was so Gentlemen, seized those loyal person s and Lanced thew on the highest tree in th e co untry.—(Laugh t e r. ) Mr. crcoNNELL had heard of sash a thi ng u p ass i ve . much praised 'by Hon.