The Sun. — London, England, 1833-01-29 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION. SUN-OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. IM PERIALPARLIA MEW 'I HIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. The House resumed after a short time, when the Lord Chancellor and the other Commissioners took the oath,, which were also administered to the Duke of Argyll. the Marquises of Salisbury, Thomond, and Ailsa ; Earla Fife, Tankerville, Albemarle, Eldon, Vero lam, Rnsslyn, arid Cloncurry ; Viscounts Clifden and Strangford ; Lords Teynham, Stuart de Rothray, and Cowley; and the Bishops of Chichester, Heref rd, Llanclaff, and London. At 4 o'clock their Lordships adjourned till Thursday a 2 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. This being the day appointed for the return of the w, its of the first Reformed Parliament, this House, at an early hour, was opened for the reception of the Members. Al. though it was generally understood that the Lord Chan cellor would not open the Commission before 2 o'clock, long before that period numbers of Members had made their gopearance, and taken their seats, by putting their names im slips of paper on the back of them. Several rumours were afloat in the lobbies as to the operation of the new ar rangement with respect to the swearing in of the Members, it having been arranged that instead of swearing in a sufficient number of Members to form a House before the Lord High Steward the Members should attend the Cummissif , n, and then swear in themselves a sufficient number to constitute a House. Shortly before two o'clock the Ministerial side of the House showed a complete phalanx of Members, while the opposition exhibited but a scanty appearance. Among the Members, we noticed Mr. Cobbett who sat next to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Francis Burdett and Lord Morpeth, the mover and seconder of the ►at_ Speaker were most enthusiastically greeted on enter ing the House. The Honourable Gentlemen took their seats at the back of the Treasury Bench. Mr. Manners Sutton sat on the Treasury Bench, by the side of Lord John Russell. Mr. O'Connell, with several of his sons, was in the House at an early hour. The Honourable Gentlemen did not appear, on coming down to the House, to be recognized by the mob. At 25 minutes past . o'clock, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod all. peered at the Bar, and summoned the House to the Lords, to hear the Commission read. A great number of Members from the Ministerial side of the House immediately pro ceeded to the House of Lords, but not a single Member from the Opposition. Mr. Cohbett resumed his seat on the Treasury Bench when the Members returned. Mr. HUMS rose. Before proceeding. to the business of the day, he wished to ask the Noble Lord opposite (Althorp) whether it was the intention of Ministe rs to bring in a Bill, or introduce any other measure, relative to the annuity to the late Speaker? Lord ALTHORP rose to order. He believed the House had no right to enter into any discussion at the present moment, except as far as regarded the election of a Speaker. Mr. HUME then begged to call the attention of the llow•e to the very important duty for which they wero met. In his opinion there was no duty so important, considering the circumstances in which that Honour• able House at present stood. He was well aware that he had undertaken a duty, which, personally, was ex• tremely unpleasant to him. But it was an act of public duty which he was called on to perform, and in the per formance of it, no unpleasantness should have any weight with him. In his opinion any person who might be elected to the high hanour of the Chair of that House, ought to enjoy, not only the good opinion of the House, but of the public at large.—(Cheers.) He was well aware that it had been customary to make arrange ments for the choice of the Speaker. There had been generally certain parties in the House who had so arranged the nomination, that, from their majority, they expected to carry it. It would, doubtless, be considered, on his part, presumptuous to offer any opinion on that mode of electing a Speaker, and it would perhaps he considered equally' so that lie should conclude his present address by proposing an individual he thought fit to fill the Chair of that House, instead of leaving it to those who might have made arrangements for the purpose. The excuse he had to offer for the course he was now to pur sue was, that the House had met under most peculiar circumstances, and at a time when, if ever the public at tention was directed to their proceedings, it was at that moment. The House was, therefore, called on to be pe culiarly careful in the selection they were about to make of a person who should enjoy its confidence end esteem—(Loud cheering)—one who would entertain the sentiments and opinions of the majority of the House. --(Hear.) It had been usual that a majority of the House should nominate a person to the chair, whose po -1 tical opinions accorded with theirs.—(Cheers.) On no occasion had the people taken so great an interest in the proceedings of the House; and on no occasion bad they had so great a nomination of Members as on the present occasion ; and therefore en no occasion had the House been placed in the situation it now stood, with re gard to the person it chose for its Speaker. The grounds on which he now proceeded were not official ones ; he hail no communication with any individual connected with the Government, or any other party. He had, however, been informed it was the intention of certain Members, by pre vious arrangement, and by previous consent, he did not know how extensive, but so extensive he understood that it was considered certain to propose the Right Honourable Charles Manners Sutton, the late Speaker of that House.—(Cheers.) There was no man in that House who had more respect than himself to ex tend towards Mr. Sutton those feelings which one gentle man extended to another, for the kindness he had al ways extended to all the Members of the House. He begged it therefore to be understood, that in any observations lie might make, he only acted from a sense of duty, which made it necessary to lay aside all private feeling. There were circumstances at the present moment, which parti cularly in his (Mr. Hume's) view called upon the House to consider, independent of what had been the practice on former occasions, what was the course that House pur• sued then. As the acts of that House were peculiarli now open to the public, they should be prepared to state why they were about to deviate from the unanimous prac tice of Parliament. He (Mr. Hume) could not, as a Member who had always advocated Parliamentary Re form, not of great importance in itself, but as a means towards most important changes—changes essentially ne cessary to the institutions of the country, for without those changes Reform would fall to the ground, and the people would not derive those advantages they were en titled to from their exertions—he, therefore, as a Mem ber advocating Reform more extensive than that which had been given to the country, could not concur in the opinion that this House could express its sentiments fully, if they bad at their head a Speaker directly opposed to them in principles. He could never bring himself to believe that such a Spesker could enjoy the confidence of the House. He would challenge any person to produce a single instance where the majority of a body of men, assembled together to elect an individual to regulate their proceedings, selected an individual known to profess sentiments contrary to their own.—(Cheers.) In saying this he meant to convey no reeiection upon the Right Honourable Gentlemen who had maintained those principles during a long politica: life; but times might arise when men might be required of no ordinary talents, who entertained opinions con sonant with the majority of the House. That time he (Mr. Hume) had no hesitation in saying had now ar rived.—(Cheers.) Differences might arise between that House and the House of Peers ; and he (Mr. Hume) could not but think, if any such circum stances took place, and an individual professing con• trary opinions to the majority of the House was elected as its Speaker, that great danger would ori-e lest those opinions should be compromised. He would not say that such a thing would take place ; lie hoped it would not, but in his opinion the House ought to guard against the probability of such an occurrence. He was anxious, therefore, to see if the House could not find some other Member who agreed with the sentiments of a majority of the House to be its Speaker, a man who had been sent there as a Member of a great por tion of the community. He (Mr. flume) could point several well qualified to till so important a situation ; and he begged to inform the House that it was his intention, before he sat down, to put in nomina tion one of the present Members for Staffordshire— (Cheers) —ass in his opinion, a fit person for that high station, though lie must confess that he did not come up to what he (Mr. Hume) wished.—(Great laughter.) His reference both rn public and private affairs would highly quality him to the appointment. It w as on ly ne cessary to appeal to the manner in which d a y a f ter d ay , and session after session , he had discharged his duties in that House to ascertain whether he was qualified or not. He (Mr. Hume) did not think that the experience of any Speaker during the four or five last past nomina tions could have entitled any of them to such confi dence and respect as that of the Hon. Gentleman whom he now appeared to nominate. Upon a trial he would be found to be a person most proper for a Speaker. His station in life was likewise to be. taken ;wt. account ; and then it was hoped that no future Speaker would ever become a pensioner on the public ; it might be very useful to look to the fortune and station in life of the Speaker now to be appointed, and both the one and the other could not fail to insure the Hon. Member for Staffordshire the confidence of the House. The Hon. Member would refer to the speeches of Sir Robert Peel, and others on that side of the House upon former nominations, as regarded the qualities necessary for a Speaker, to show that the Hon. Member whom he now propo , ed possessed all the essentials in the highest degree. Sir Robert Peel had said, in addressing that House, that the House elected a Speaker to be the guardian of the duties of its Members—duties that might affect even the remotest posterity.—(Hear, hear.) Whatever might be his talents and attainments, he considered it to be absolutely necessary that the Speaker should pos• secs the confidence of the House. Was it, then, possible that the people of England could have confidence in the proper discharge of the duties of the House, if the House of Commons this day should elect the Right Hon. Charles Manners Sutton ? He (Mr. II.) confessed he could not have confidence in it. He judged of others by his own feelings ; and if the House elected a decided Anti- Reformer to till the Chair, was it to be supposed that the people of England would be satisfied with such an election? It was upon that promise the Hon. Gent. viewed with alarm the po,sibilitity of such an appointment. It would be impossible for the House to commit itself more against the general feeling of the country by any step it might take than by by making this appointment ; and it was but justice to the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel) to say, that in the short speech, already alluded to, which he made, he had com prised all the views —(Cries of " Comprehended, compre hended," and laughter) —comprehended all the views that could be taken on this subject. He was sorry to find any attempt on the part of Ministers to carry into effect their reforming measures through the agency of other par ties ; and looking at the expression of feeling which had been manifested in regard to the appointment of some of the official servants of the King, he certainly regretted much thot Ministers did not take a lesion, and learn not to oppose the feelings of the great mass of the people. The present appointment was to be taken as the only honourable appointment in the hands of the people—all other high appointments were in the hands of his M , jesty. The present appointment, then, involved principles of the highest importance, and the great question was, whether, under the Reform measure, the Reformed House of Commons would place in their chair an individual whose opinions were known to be against the various and important changes that had been effected and were in progress towards the relief the country ex pected. Was it possible to reconcile any man's mind to the sincerity of those who held out to the hopes of the people their desire to carry into effect all the advantages of the Reform Bill, if they placed in the chair a person whose opinions were directly opposed to the Bill—(clear, hear) — and to all its consequences ? On the contrary, it would be taken fir granted that little was to be expected from the representatives of the people of England, if they per mitted to be placed in the Chair one, however impartial the Right Honourable Gentleman might be, against whom even the tinge of suspicion could attach, or to any act of his that might be construed to be against the interests of the people. He (Mr. Hume) had been told, since he entered the House, that if he opposed the re-ap pointment of the late Speaker, it would he supposed lie acted contrary to the principles of economy which he had hitherto advocated. If he could believe that any such paltry or trifling consideration—(Laughter)—actuated the mind of any one, when the forwarding or the retarding of the interests of the people were at stake, he certainly would consider it beneath the notice either of the dignity of the House, or of any individual Member. lie denied that he had ever refused to any individual full com pensation for the duties he hail rendered, to his coun try ; but he had always opposed giving to idle and useless persons large sums, dragged from the pockets of the people by excessive texatien—(Hear, hear, hear)— and it must only have been some of those persons, feeling the effect of that line of conduct on his part, who had raised that report. When the appointment of a Speaker was regarded as an appointment likely to effect great good, or produce much mischief to the country, pecuniary con sideration was to he put out of the question. He (Mr. Hume) had not been able to get a copy of the Bill ; hut at the same time he had been informed that by the Act of Parliament, if the House re elected the Right Hon. Gentlem in to be the Speaker, he would not only have his salary as Speaker, but be in pos session of his pension of 4,0001. a-year.—(Hear, hear.) He understood the pension did not cease upon the Right Hon. Gentleman becoming Speaker again.—(Cries of " Nor any pat tof it.") The pension only ceased upon ac cepting an appointment from his Majesty. This was not an appointment by the Crown, but by the people. Therefore, any gentleman who might give his vote for the re-appoint. tnent of Mr. Sutton, under the impression that his 4,0001. a year would cease, would vote under a mistake. The Right Hon. Gentleman sat down by proposing that Ed ward John Lyttleton, Esq., should be elected Chairman of the House of Commons. Lord MORPEFU said that he failed not to con sider the request which caused him to conic forward on this occasion as a just compliment to the large consti tuent body of which lie was the representative. In ap proaching the object for which he had risen, he felt hound by what was due to himself as well as of a sense of truth to mention that there were strong feelings both of a private and public nature which had at one time induced bin, to contemplate a different ar rangement—(Hear)—but those circumstances to which he thus but faintly alluded had not arisen, and, therefore, he had turned to the Right Hon. Gentleman, who, for 16 years, and through six successive Parliaments, had filled the arduous post of Speaker in that House, with so much credit to himself, so much satisfaction to Parliament, and so much advantage to the public, and he called upon the House, without any disparagement to the fame of the Hon. Member for Staffordshire who would not re quire any ass trances of his friendship, he called upon the House to secure to itself the benefit of the continuance of those services which had already been so fully appreciated, and so tvarmly realised. The Hon. Member fur Middlesex had admitted, with his usual candour, that the Right Hon. Gentleman was sure to be animated by a sincere desire conscientiously to do his duty; and it was not to be sup posed that the only solitary objection urged by the Honourable Member for Middlesex, that the Right Hon. Gentleman was not a partizan of the line of opinions which he (Lord Morpeth) professed himself to be of, could be deemed a very appropriate objection to the re appointment of the Right Hon. Manners Sutton. It was always irksome to utter a panegyric in the presence of the object of it. From this necessity his Lordship felt him self materially relieved, by referring to what took place shortly before the close of the last Parliament. It would, however, be remembered that when the Speaker of the House, at that time, announced the probable prospect of his retiring from the Chair, the most powerful and brilliant testimony was borne by those best qualified to make it with effect, of the respect in which the Speaker was held by those who had been observers of his entire career, as well as by those whose more recent experience had been exercised. Of his condnct in the midst of long, agitating, harassing contentions, but one uniform opinion was expressed and entertained, of his un failing punctuality and diligence—his dignity without pedantry—his courtesy, without civility—qualities high and rare in themselves, but invaluable in such an office, and which had been exhibited throughout the whole of the Right Hon. Gentleman's official conduct. Since he had occupied the eminent station of Speaker of the House of Commons, the number of Parliamentary transactions had immeasurably increased. The department usually designated as the private business department, which' perhaps came the most under their immediate cognizance, and more than any other called for the positive guidance of the Speaker, had shared largely in this increased growth. As an illustration of this, the adoption and increase of rail roads might be referred to. Upon all these matters, as well as upon those of greater import, which aroused the feelings, and affected the destinies of nations, he was ever found to be accessible and clear in his communications of information. Interest, vanity, and piny-spirit, re pined at his decisions. Violence and intemperance were rebuked by his gentle, dignified, and forbearing conduct. He knew not what had occasioned this change of opinion of the individual who had been thus adjudged to be the best qualified to fill the Chair, by the unanimous assent of tie House to which the Hon. Member for Middlesex formed no exception. So far from thinking that more la borious duties would be required from any Speaker, his Lordship felt confident that any mode of conducting the business of the House must be greatly forwarded by the ap pointment of Mr. Sutton. He was not desirous to introduce at this moment any topics calculated to disturb the attyn don of the House, or to draw it troth the immediate sub ject before it; but he could not refrain from mentioning that the changes which had recently taken place in the constitution of Parliament, the source of so much hope to some, to all of so much speculation, could not make it less advisable that for all the purposes of expediting business, preservin g regularity, and maintaining order, the House should borrow all the assistance in its power from practice and tried ability.—(Cheers.) He hoped, therefore, it would appropriate to itself all the valuable set viers of those high attainments awl great experience which lay within its reach. He believed that with whatever defects former Parliaments might ' be chargeable, few would be found to say that the forms of proceedinem which generally prevailed in them were not those calculated to expedite business. If the Right Hon. Gentleman was again placed in the Chair, he would bring into exercise all the advantages afforded by former Parliaments and by long experience. He there fore had the honour to move that the Right Hon. Charles Manners Sutton he appointed Speaker of the House. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT took the liberty thus early to express his concurrence in all that had been stated by the Nohle Lord near him, which at the same time laid him under considerable embarrassment, his Lordship having touched upon every point importance in a man ner so able as to make it imprudent for any person to at tempt to follow him. The Honourable Member for Middlesex also had left it difficult to add any thing to what he had stated, though he had conic to a conclu sion hardly to be expected. He would take this case upon its merits—upon its merits only would be put it, and the question was, who of the Nlembers of that House was known to be the fittest to discharge the important func tions of Speaker. At a time of this difficulty, in the eyes of many persons—a time of embarrassment and danger, in the eyes of many—in his, of nothing but a time of hope, and to be looked forward to with satisfaction—but at a time when undoubtedly it was highly important the chair of the House of Commons should be filled by a person of the utmost abilities—not upon a spe culation of what any Member might be capable or willing to do, but possessing experience, and bringing forward the most solid grounds of competeney, who was possibly to he put in competition to the Right Hon. Gentleman, who for 16 years had pursued a course of con duct, in that Chair, that had called forth the univer sal approbation of the Members of the House, during many successive Parliaments, in which the Honourable Member for Middlesex had been invariably included. Th e Right Hon. Gentleman seemed, according to the Hon. Member for Middlesex, eminently qualified for the office of Speaker, except in one instance; but the House would recollect the conduct of the Right Hon. Gentleman during the great struggle for Reform, when he made no distinction between one Member and another of the House. It was not only his conduct in the House which entitled him to commendation, and indeed it was the vulgar, that the Speaker of the House bad nothing to do but to sit in the chair ; but it was his great services in regard to pri vate Bills, which were far more important and laborious than his services in the Home.—(ll , ar, hear.) It seemed, indeed, to be trespassing unnecessarily on the attention of the House, by repeating those feelings of approbation which seemed to be expressed on all hands. He (Sir F. B.) was in a situation something like the man who was reproached at a public meeting at Rome, while panegyrising Hercules; he was cut short by a person exclaiming, " Who has found fault with him ?"—(Laughter.) In the present instance they had even the panegyric of the Hon. Mem ber for Middlesex, and which even outweighed whatever anybody else had said of the Right Hon. Gentleman. Upon this question no man could be a competitor of time Right Hon. Gentleman for this great circumstance, that no other person bad the advantages of long experience that he possessed. It would be unbecoming in him (Sir Francis Burdett), to take up the time of the House further than to state the gratification, and the honour which he felt at having to second the nomination of the Right Hon. Gentleman, and he hoped the House wou'd ❑ot lose the present opportunity of doing justice to them selves, and him by electing him.—(Cheers.) Mr. LITTLETON entreated the indulgence of the House while be expressed himself in regard - to a question which materially concerned himself.—(Hear.) He would have been gratified if any representations which he could make had prevailed o❑ his Hon. Friend not to have placed him in competition with one, whose sixteen years' expe rience in that House, and whose whole conduct during that period had so justly and so universally endeared him t.) all with whom he had been in connection.—(Hear, hear.) He was satisfied that his Right Hon. Friend had never been at any period, since he (Mr. Littleton) bad the honour of seconding his nomination in the year 1817, and that lie never would be at any future period, if he should be re-elected, a timid asserter of the just rights and privi leges of Parliament.—(Hear.) It was on the nature of the Right Hon. Gentleman's past services that his pre sent claims were founded for the renewal of those ser vices. On this and on all occasions, in a House of mom • mons which contained so many new Members, it was highly important that they should have a gentleman to preside in the chair as Speaker, who was used to the laws and usages of the House, and whose example of great patience and urbanity had been the theme of general admiration.—(Hear.) He would now merely entreat of his Honourable Friend (Mr. Hume), that having availed himself of that form to which he was justly entitled, he would concur in what appeared to be the almost unani mous feeling of the House, by placing the Right Honour able Gentleman (Mr. Manners Sutton,) in the Chair.— (Cheers.) Mr. O'CONNELL hoped the Honourable Member for Middlesex would not withdraw his motion. The ques tion was one of very great importance; and this was only another instance of paltry truckling to the present Ad ministration. He could not concur with the Right Ho nourable Baronet in thinking that the two gentlemen were nearly alike; the distinction was between a gentleman of Tory principles, and one of Reform principles. He fully admitted the great talents possessed by the Right Ho nourable Gentleman, and his capacity as Speaker of an unreformed House of Commons. He (Mr. O'Connell) could never fail to remember, that when he first became a Member of the House, he was assailed from both parties in the House, and he did not find that support and protection from the Right Hon. Gentleman which he had expected ; for while he was being attacked on all sides, he was cut short in his expla nation ; but lie would forget that, in consequence of the subsequent information which the Right lion. Gentleman had afforded bins in his Parliamentary career. Again, he would say, he saw no objection to the Right Hon. Gentle man as Speaker of an Unreformed House of Commons ; that he was an accomplished and intelligent Gentleman, and had the almost marvellous facility of expressing the sense of the House, he (Mr. O'Connell) had no doubt. But the people ought to be informed that the Ministers were not looking out to place their enemies into political power—(Hear)—but that the people's enemies should be left to shift for themselves as they best could.—(Laughter.) He (Mr. O'Connell) put the question entirely on the Toryism of the Right Honourable Gentleman. He was bound to say, that if, on the one hand, it was asserted and admitted even by the Hon. Member for Middlesex that the Right Hon. Gentleman possessed peculiar fitness, not a word had been said to impeach the extreme fitness of the Hon. Member for Staffordshire (Mr. Littleton) for the office of Speaker of the House. He would defy any one to say that the Hon. Member was unfit for the duties of the office—he had long been a Member of the House, and had h ul great experience and great knowledge, which he was at all times willing and anxious to impart to the House with the greatest candour. Thus he (Mr. O'Con nell) perceived in the Hon. Member that great quality evinced of perfect candour added to the other high qualities which he possessed. There was a considerable degree of fitness in both the Gentlemen, and the question was whe- ther a Reformed House of Commons was to have a Re former or a Tory for its Speaker. He had thought that the great advantage of the Reform Bill was to put down Toryism in England ; for if it were not put down, of what use would be the Reform Bill? If, indeed, the Right Hon. Gentleman had conformed—if he had found that he had been all his life a dormant re former, and like many gentlemen at the late election had had all his reforming principles awakened upon coming, for the first time, before a real constituency, his (Mr. O'Connell's) objection to him would be at an end, and he would not urge the family disqualifications, if he might so speak, which attached to the Right Hon. Gentleman. The Hon. Gentleman is present, and has given good services for his salary—certainly a large one— but he has been tasked harder than even a factory child, and, therefore, he might say that there was no family in the kingdom, different members of which have received so much of the public money for nu service. He knew one member of that family who had occupied a high office in Ireland for twenty years, against the inclinations of every man in it, and had received fur his services 25,0001. That individual had been Solicitor -General here, but, not being found the best lawyer in the world, he was made a puisne baron of the Exchequer —the Court which at that time had the least of all to do, and required the least talent. Ti.is individual, too bad for an English Solicitor-General, was thought good enough to be Chan cellor of Ireland, and such he was for twenty years. This was the system which the Reform Bill was intended to put down. and now was it proposed to begin a new system? The Minivers had assembled, and according to the old system of drudgery, it having been settled who should be chosen Speaker, al who did not concur in the Ministerial arrangement were to he shouted down.—(A laugh.) He was glad to hear that laugh ; it was a laugh of the same tone from the Lords of the Ascendant on the Treasury B-,nch opposite, which used to proceed from the Treasury 13ench of an unreformed House of Commons. But the object of the Reform Bill was to unseat those Lords, to make them simple Members of the House, giving votes man for man with the rest of its Members. The peopl had been struggling, almost to rebellion—almost to revolu tion, to get rid of the Tory faction. The House of Commons was about, as the first step to the extinc tion of Toryism, to place in its Chair a T ,, ry ; Con servatives were about to swell the Ministerial majority, which was to rejoice the Jews of the Stock Exchange, to-morrow, by cresting a rise of two or three per cent. in the funds.—(A laugh.) With respect to the laugh that proceeded from the Treasury Bench, upon the Hon. Mem ber for Middlesex alluding to the point of economy in this question, it should be remembered that it was that very Treasury Bench that proposed the grant of 4,000/. per annum to the Right lion. Gentleman, with a reversion of 3,0001. per annum on another life. This was a gross abuse of the House over the public purse ; and ho trusted the time was not far distant when they should inquire as to the right of an unreformed House of Commons to make large grants of money to its own Members. But with re'pect to the saving of the pension, as the law stood, the Right Hon. Gentleman would be entitled both to the salary and pension. He did not doubt that the Right Hon. Gentleman would give up Lis pension, if elected, hut still he was entitled to it ; so that those who second the Hon. Memher for Middlesex do not show any want of economy. fie protested, therefore, against this relapse into Toryism, carri-d by a Conservative majority.—(Hear, bear, bear.) He would venture to prophecy that this would not be the last time the House would see such a combination to resist principle. " Coming events cast their shadows before." And, perhaps, th7re was solid foundation for the reports that had gone abroad upon the subject of combinations; and, perhaps, this was one of the first steps to be taken in pursuance IS the determination of Noble Lords and Gentlemen opposite to render this a final measure. Lord EI3RINGTON regretted that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had made the reflections he bad upon the connections of the Right Hon. Gentleman proposed, for it could not affect his qualifications for the office.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The Noble Lord then bore testimony to the ability, fairness, and candour with which the Right Hon. Gentleman proposed had presided in the Chair for sixteen years. Mr. TENNYSON said he had never felt himself in a situation of greater embarrassment since he had had the honour of a seat in this House. He would not support the motion of the Hon. Member fur Middleex, because, although be agreed it was desirable to have a Speaker en tertaining sentiments in accordance with those of the people, yet those of the Right Hon. Member for Staf fordshire, he thought, were not entirely in accordance with those of the majority of the people.—(A laugh.) He wished to know how it happened that they had not had the opportunity of choosing such a per son. He wished to know whether the Ministers of the House had presumed, as was said in the rumours al luded to by the Honourable Member for Dublin (Mr. O'Connell) to negotiate with any one as to who should sit in the chair of that free House.—(Hear.) He (lid not place faith in the rumours, for if he did he should be obliged to withdraw from them that general support which it was otherwise his intention to give them. He hoped to have a disclaim•r of the truth of those rumours from his Majesty's Ministers.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman had his unbounded approba. Lion, and he would vote for him, but he still regretted that his Majesty's Ministers had thought it their duty not to take another way of providing for him. Lord ALTHORP said his Majesty's Government was charged with using undue influence, but as far as lie was concerned, he believed, no influence at all had been used. He was ready to admit that when he found that the Right Hon. Gentleman had been returned as a Member of Par. !lament, and having had so much experience of his ad mirable conduct in the Chair, knowing, ss he did, that that Right Hon. Gentleman was, as far as experience went, better fitted than any other Member for the Speaker. ship, he did at once make up his mind to support him. Looking at the lion. Member for Staffordshire as an untried man, he was free to say lie was perfectly qua lified to till the Chair with great benefit to the House, and honour to himself; but it was impossible to put him, in respect of fitness for the Speakership, in competi•• don with the Right Honourable Gentleman. On these grounds, nothing could influence him to vote for him, in opposition to a Gentleman of such experience. After the Right Hon. Gentleman's return he had written to him, askin; whether, in the event of his being elected to fill the Chair, he would have any objection to take upon himself the office, and telling him if so, he would have his vote, and this was what was cued dictating to the House.— He trusted that the measures which his Majesty's Govern- ment intended to introduce, would meet with the con currence of the House. The Honourable Member for Dublin had taunted him with having said that the Reform Bill was a final measure. But he wanted to know what was a final measure ? he bad always considered, and in that he perfectly agreed with the Hon. Member for Middlesex, that that Bill was a means to an end—(Loud cries of Hear)—as a means by which other improvements might be effected.—( Hear.) He had been entirely misre presented by the Hon. Member when he was said to have called it a final measure, and that he was opposed to any of the measures which would naturally spring from that Mil— lie had said that the Bill so far as Reform in Parliament Was concerned, he hoped would be final. lie would give his vote to the Right Lion. Gentleman, entirely on the ground of his fitness for the office. The only objection to the Right Hon. Gentleman seemed to be, that in politics he was opposed to the present Government and the ma jority of the House, and the Hon. Member for Middlesex had siid that this was the first occasion on which such an anomaly had been seen. He would only instance the list Parliment, when the same Right Hon. Gentleman was under similar circumstances unanimously elected to the Chair. At that time he was certainly as much op posed to the then House of Commons as he was to the present. He agreed with the Hon. Member for Middle sex, that this question was too great a one to be looked at merely on the score of economy. it soared much above that, but even on that point, the Honoura .. . . ble Member was mistaken, for as he (Lord Althorp) understood the law, whenever the Right Hon. Gentle man re•asceoded the Chair, the pension granted him would he suspended. Some of the former speakers bad argued as if the Hon. Gentleman had resigned the Chair, and was no longer Speaker after the prorogation. Such was not the fact. He continued Speaker up to the disso lution. However, at present he hoped the House would come to a speedy and unanimous decision. Mr. WARBURTON and Mr. COBBETT rose together. The cries for Mr. Cobbett were very ❑utnerous, and the former gentleman gave way. Mr. COBBETT then said, the Hon. Members who had preceded him on this question had wholly mistaken the case. The real question was wholly thrown out of their calculations. What he considered the real ques- ton to he, was, not that they were to please themselves in the choice they were about to make ; hut, what would the people think of the person whom they placed in the Chiir ? They were now able to select one from among themselves. When they had agreed upon him, and placed him in the Chair, they said to the people that that was the best man amongst them.—(A laugh.) Now if they placed a man in the Chair who, for such a length of time, had been feeding upon the people, what would be said out of the House to such a choice ? Surely they would have but a poor opinion of the Reformed House of Com mons, if it were to be said, that the Right Hon. Gentle man was the best man in it. He would come to the law of the case as regarded the pension bye and bye. He had no doubt that there were lawyers present, and that there were merchants present, who were perfectly aware that the business of the Renee could be carried on by one tenth of the clerks and clerks' assistants, and all the other officers that tlle Speaker had to assist him, in what was called his arduous duty. It had been a con stant cry, and was repeated that night, that the Right Honourable Gentleman had done much. Allowing that he had, had he not been well paid for it ?—(Hear, hear.) Had he not been receiving much more than the President of the United States ? And all that for the sixteen years during which it was said he had worked so much ? He would ask, had the Honourable Gentleman any right to saddle the country with a greater salary to the Speaker of the House, than was paid to the Head of the whole United States? But the whole thing was a nest of infamy. What with the Speaker, Chief clerks, deputy clerks, sergeants, and other officers belong ing to the House, it cast more than the whole of the Civil Gi;rernrnent of the United States, including the salaries of the ten Ambassadors they sent to Europe. He then called on the House to take into consideration what the people had said for ma'.y years past, upon pensions. He knew much of the petitions that had been sent to that House for the List 25 years. There was the Right Hon. Bart the M.P. for Westminster behind him, who had in that time pre sented hundreds of petitions, and be would defy him to say that in any one calling for Parliamentary Reform, the just reason assigned for it, was pensions granted for un merited services. It was easy for Hon. Gentlemen to talk, for it was an ascertained fact, and by consulting Cocker for only a few minutes, the case would be demon- strated that the rich had taxed the poor, forty times more than they had done themselves. Now were they to tell them (the people) hat the man who had 4,0001. secured for his own life and the same earn during the life of his son—that man who had thus received upwards of 100,0001. of the people's money, and who, in the Natural calculations of hunta❑ life, might -receive hundreds of thousands more— were they to tell the people, the overtaxed people, that this was the only man in that House who was fit to pre side over its debates ? Were they to tell the people, who were in a state of starvation, which must oe seen to he be lieved, that they were to expect no relief which would, in effect, be done by placing such a man in that chair ? . The Noble Lord hadientirely mistaken the meaning of the Act of Parliament. It was a pension of 4.000/. a-year for life to the late Speaker himself; and of 3,000/. a year tc hie heir-male; there weuld repuire another Act of Par liament before it could be rescinded. How much hones , y, moderation, and mercy towards the people was there in !the matter ? But then theiNoble Lord thought it would cease. No, it would not cease. What uas the actual situation at the present moment in which they stood ? Why, if the Right Hon. Gentleman was reelected, awl heknew nothing of his qualifications, for he had never seen him in his chair—(A laugh)—it could not be un done ; and immediately on his appointment he might t o and sell his annuity for life.—(Rear.) Would ►thte House be party to an imposition so flagrant towards the people? Was this the way they were going to take the leaves out of the accursed Red Book? Why it was the most effectual way to introduce new leaves into it.—(Hear.) He thought there was some weight in the observations of the Hon. Member for Middlesex ; but he objected to the re election, on the ground that it was a declaration of war against the peopl e of this kingdom. Mr. WARBURTON said the different qualifications of the gentlemen proposed to fill the chair were undoubtedly to be considered. if their merits were equal on both sides, the House ought to give the preference to that gentleman whose political opinions agreed most nearly with the ma jority. He did not think it an unimportant thing to say of the person who was raised to that chair, this is the man whom the peep'. deli ht to honour. He rose 4 nply for the purpose of stating that the House had never on former occasions granted a pension to a retiring Speaker until the period when be had actually ceased to Jill tl e chair, and should that Right Hon. Gentleman be raised again to the chair, the least he expected was to hear that either his Majesty's Government, or some Hon. Member would mike the motion that the vote of the House in granting the pension should be rescinded at the earliest possible period in the present Session. So that the House might still have a proper security in its own bands, by not voting a pension till the final retirement. The Noble Lord has said that ceteris paribus the House ought to elect bins with whose political opinions it most nearly coincided. Now, from the experience which he had of the conduct, in that Chair, of the Right Hon. Gentleman, he was quite willing to pay him that coo• plimcnt which his merits deserved ; but, on an occasion like the present, they were expected to unbosom them selves with perfect candonr, and he was determined to do so. He would observe, that not only were mental, but even physical qualifications neeess iry to be considered ; and he stated with plainness, that many occasions ;cad arisen, when he observed the extreme il'ness of the Right Hon Gentleman while fitting the Chair. He entertained the strongest doubts whether his strength was sufficient to go through those more than ordinarily ardu -01/9 duties now to be required, of the Speak, r of that House; and, therefore, in nalancing the men's of the two Hon. Gentleman, he considered that the Hon. Member for Staffordshire, being more vigorous in health, would be more competent to fulfil the duties of the office. If, however, the Right Hon. Gentleman was re elected, it would be his duty to bring forward a motion for rescinding the pension granted in the former Parlia ment to the Right Hon. Gentleman before his retirement from office. Mr. C. M. SUTTON then rose, but spoke in so low a tone of voice that it was with great difficulty thathe was heard in the gallery. He presented himself to the Howe under considerable embarrassment on the present occasion. It was, however, a great gratification to him t hear even from Hon. Gentlemen opposite, and from all who had spoken, the compliments (as we understood) which had been bestowed upon him. It was his duly, under all circumstances, to submit himself implicitly to the opinion of the House. No one could feel more deeply, he had almost said more painfully, the difficulties belong• ing to the high sitvation of filling that Chair. But he owed too much to their kindness to hesitate E'er one instant to obey the commands of the House, in again undertaking the trust if it was their pleasure to replace him in it. —(Hear, hear.) Among the qualifications which be longed necessarily, or at least ought to belong necessarily to the Speaker of that House, no one was more im portant, and he trusted he could appeal to the House that he was not wanting in it, he meant strict im partiality. Indeed, he confessed that it was a diffi culty to his understanding to draw a line of dis tinction between honesty and strict impartiality, and he hoped that he had succeeded in blending them together, and that the majority of these with whom he had the honour to act for six successive Parlia ments would do him that justice. Having said so much, he would say, that if it should be the pleasure of the House to elect his Hon. Friend the Member for Staff,rdshire, whatever assistance his sixteen years experience could afford would willingly be given him, and every Alember of that House. If it should be the p'e sole of the House to re-elect tim to the high bonour, he had only to say, as he had done before, that he would exert his best endeavours to discharge his duty to the House— to the country—and they would permit him to say, as an honest man, to himself.—(Hear, hear, and cries of " Question," and " Clear the gallery.") A MEMBER, on the representation of the people. wished to know from Minirters whether Mr. M. Sutton, if he was re-elected the Speaker of the House, would be entitled to keep the pension of 4,000/. a-year vet al by the last Parliament, during the period he filled the chair of the House. He thought it would be more to the eredit of the Government, the House, and the Right Hon. Gentleman, and more satisfact ry to the people of England, that th question should be answered before they went to the poll. Mr. M. SUTTON stated his belief of the law to be that it was impossible for any individual occupying the chair of the House to be entitled to a siugle shilling of pension.—(Hear, hear.) That was his firm belief of law,the determinationbut teo c elaacwpt might oneshilling consider of i pen sion t was e his firmsion as long as lie had the honour of filling the Chair of that House. Major BEAUCLERK thought the Speaker's salary ought to be reduced, and was proceeding to address the House on the subject, when he was reminded that the House could not then entertain the subject. The gallery was then cleared for a division, when there appeared for Mr. Littleton Against Urn ...... 24.1 On our re-admission to the gallery, we found Mr. COBBETT on his legs - protesring against the re election of Mr. Manners Sutton, observing, that if he was ' again chosen Speaker the House would decide its own character with the people. Mr. FAITHFUL had heard that since be came into the House, which restrained him from given his sanction to the appointment of the Right Honourable Gentleman, Mr. Manners Sutton. He wished to know from Mi nisters whether, in the event of the late Speaker being re-elevated to the Chair, it was their intention to intro duce a Bill for the purpose of repealing the Act that passed last Session, giving the Right Hon. Gentleman a pension of 4,000/. a year. If they would not pledge themselves to do that, he should certainly oppose the re election of the late Speaker to the Chair. SIR F. BURDETT thought that the Hon. Member for Brighton had put forward one of the most extraordi- nary points he had ever heard—(Cheers)--nothing more nor less than asking them to pledge themselves to brine in a Bill in order to :repeal the Act by which the late Speaker was given a pension of 4,000/. a-year, if he again took the chair. Ministers had given their opinions upon that Act, and the Right Hon. Gentle man had done the same; and those opinions, he (Sir F. B.), should have thought would have been satisfactory to the most unreasonable man. The public would save not a farthing of that pension, unless the Right Honour able Gentleman was re-elected to the chain—Wear, hear.) If economy wes of the slightest benefit in the world, all the arguments which had been used would have a contrary effect to that given them by the Hon. Member. He disliked such a 21-d. principle of economy. No Parliament, he would venture to say, would repeal the Act giving Mr. Manners Sutton a pension of 4,000/. a year. It had been hardly named, for no man could say that sixteen years' service slid as the Right Hon. Gentleman had performed, w as no worth such a remuneration. (Cheers.) Mr. WARBURTON said that one great objection with him was, that they were setting a precedent of electing a man as Speaker who had already been appointed to a pension . for past se rv i ces. What was to prevent a Minister i n some fut ure P arl i ament proposing to grant a pension to a Speaker b e f ore b e finally withdrew from th e s peakership ? A discussion then followed between Mr. O'Connell, the Soiicitor- General, (Sir John Campbell) the Attorney-Ge neral, and Mr. Hume as to whether the Speaker was entitled by law, or bad, in fart, received his pension, which was at length put an end to by the Solicitor-General reading from the 2d and 3d of William IV., cap. 05, Which regulated the Kidneys (York) Scotch Reds.., Marsh Champions* Oxuobles and Shaws --• 01. Os. to 41. 08. Pe: 3/. 108. to 3/. 15s. dit t o " 04 Os. to 4/. les. dit to. 3/. N. to 3/. ss. ditto PRICES 0) Per lb. d. to d. dutts, English 15 'LI Ditto, Foreign 14 ‘2O Dressing 12 15 Ditto l4 16t LEATHER. Per lb. pl English Horse HideSo ig Spanish Ditto Per dozen. 14 Calf Skins.. 30 to 4(lb. if t Ditto 50 to 70 1 2 16 Ditto 70 to 80 12 • 11 Small Seals. Greenland I'2 Large Ditto, light Crop 11ntes, 19. 14 Ditto 40 to 451 b. 13 16 Oi;to15 18 SHEEP SKINS. Best Polled 6s. Od. to 7s. 6d. I Half-breds..... 4s. Od• Middling Polled 5 0 56 I Downs--. 3 6 RAW HIDES. , Per Stone. s. d. to s . d. P er Stone. g• 0 Fle,t Heifers& Steers 2 4 2 8 Ordinary of 10 2 0 Market i e a r - c h i Ly s, the , .nd d d e o s i p ve a r t e c d h e to s t vi h ' e er p e ur e se i rs os o e f d t : he viz. : Kellie C aA tk ; C apta i n 11 011 0 low a w s Y i t n l g e n s :l t hips, TULLO, for Bengal and China and the Heref Captain EDWARD FOORD, for Bombay and China' THE FRENCH COAST SEEN QUITE I'V g AT HASTINGS AS IF THROUGH A T ELESCOPE „--00 th e of July, 1798, at Hastings, at five, P. at., Mr. d , saw the French coat, which is ab ou t f or ty o r fifty distant, as disinctly as through the best glasst: i sailors and fishermen c o u ld not at fi rst be petsua d reality of the appearance; but as the cliffs grab' peared more elevated, they were so convinced, tha pointed out and named to Mr. LATHAM the ul a , places they had been accustomed to visit; such bay, the windmill at B o u l ogne , St. Vallery, °- A places on the coast of Picardy. AU these places 51 to them as if they were sailing at a small distance harbour. From the eastern cliff or hill, Mr. sin , at once Dungeness, Dover cliffs, and coast, all the way from Calais, Boulogne, on to °";• lery, and, as some of the fishermen affirmed, 1 . 14 Dieppe. The day was extremely hot, without a - wind, and objects at some distance appeared greatly nitied.—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia. BIRTHS. On the .. ) 7th inst. in Hertf o rd street, Mayfair, th e Captain St. John Mat - nay, Royal Navy, of a daughter• On the :rah inst. in Wilton-cre scen t, Mrs. Die)) , ~ of a daughter. On the 26th inst. at the Dean e ry, th e l a d y o f the v erY the Dean of Hereford, of a son. On the 28th inst. in Upper Wimpole.street, th e ladY of Arbuthnot, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the :24tli inst. Edmund R o b er t s L ar k en, of College, Oxford, eldest son of the late Edmund Larkes ti , Bedford.square, to Mary, second daughter o f ThoMa , '- Esq., of Dunsby, Lincolnshire. DIED. • On the 26th inst. at Woolwi c h, Lieut.-General Sir .1 011° leod, G C.H., Director-G enera l and Colonel Comnla r the Royal Horse Artillery, in the Blst year of his age. On the aith inst. at Sevenoaks, Kent, Lousia, third CP O Alexander Macdonald, Esq., aged 19. 1 0 ' n the t2tth, in Gloucester-place Harriet AO daughter of A. Trevor, Esq., in the 16th ' year of her ag r o On the 18th inst. at Harttield, Sussex, Anna youngest daughter of the late Rev. Richard Slade, .11•• o f of NVestwell, in the county of Oxf or d, an d s i s ter 0 Dean of Chichester. On the :13d inst. at Leintwardine, in his ;79th year" Sir Banastre Tarleton, Bart., Governor of Berwick, an c Member of Parliament for Liverpool during seven Parliament. SUN O►FIOE. 112, STRAND LONDON. li t 4 i 4 ) a , u' 4t.„ re P t; SUL 1 I tt) 4 1. ith( I'EET t 0 Jb v , LE ()) ° , r o ther L I EU, ` L eTN - benti oO I6C Dt tr r:4tr ona 4 e ' '" ge it, al eXI YEt , t eZ P r e a c i t ItY p 6 Z ttT il Or t t, „ ht„ 'fat flied 0 , I °Q 4 a 41i an )res ' 4 , () 1 111 t01 1 ) ' t \VI N h'* er h 'Vei et;itelli atrg'i aF '.ll ‘ '44 y ar of % e e l Pe ° . 4 ' of NA t h 11: 1 2 Oregate:: t v ,-ost r ltoi4eov rri ri kation :: 11 ,kg a is ord, r th 4l4 : :h - "e ei 'Pt 41 4 e 44 1 ! t t ' f S al an 1 e; ;1' el.eee'p it re ,Par eti 4 ' e M ay i rotr k °Til Y ovh, • 20,. 4 0 4 i,. Caut i(}Stir 4 th the N 4 ,411 ; 10i, ) ,:sar ela r ~road;atte 41 txel3ldeltfri ; .., N ort ° o 4 ri n ge erl,.gh r' • a s ''' Aro, Y ) b, L ; n r , d t uysh [N IL. TO V , enrtreo:ck;b 'l4 MA . salary of the Speaker, the proviso of t which it was enacted that the l, inase S xd pop done expressing n e i tnrehg:sehtioongiu,tytplildhl rieh s eco e t. b ,i,.. , c n e r ii i_ ? oi t : .:....4\li ci l .l , (t ri 'l . O i l. N .. vL .l4 : 4 : t y . ). b ie i i3 e t tvn ° t ' s'"ii i t la ° l S s: re h l ' amp l e , C nrul I t l j t (b ° l h e o,i e n nt ill ..) inManners ui further r a s till s uatt confirmedonne that by the whteahsehcandsot beenas e te n ;il statement i r s eo v cfe i ei the e o o f if t:f .e:t!i. , _______ .....,.,,,LHoino s dszew s , th e /3 , hen r 1 and not the pension. The question wag t • e 0 ten ta iv uI,LE ) answered by a shout of ayes. Oa the neg putt, one or two Members said No. Li d it, / I , Ed [. Mr. LEIGH hiving decided that the Ayes " # 'lli ~',e n ard 11, r Morpeth and Sir Francis Burdett conduct -1 M r. 14, 01, 4 8 11 vi cltk r na , . Sutton to the chair. ti 01 k egsr, erl i n Toss; S fo P r EA th K e E h n o n s o i u ti r d - it t t i h " e Tn s hk e es venth time in this Chair, I have only t° be t This d I constant attention to tl.eir rights and pi ivileges I v 11, a Y was put ; ctiebnececotrtthtitetedrublttns„fiancidality.rtfloetr.stuhendpeur c iurtesy to every Member of:the House, ' Prai A . afford every information I possess, and to give eve j Yhi 'ard th f e AI LIATJ to the transaction of business in my poi"' fret 4E4 4 t • lii• uNi fortunate enough to acquire the same cotvilifileiceb,linyeli'o:,:dirsiietio'llig!terTeß't.l4:nlcilol,YaNtEh,,eAtii, ) House which I have bad the good fortune to en ) t, ' i its six predecess, rs.-(Cheers.) he i l, Iliellard J3 t I Lord ALTHORP, in rising to move that t s , at its rising do adj , urn to Thursday next. li t. " e s' . the Speaker, and observed that it must u e ,_ . ,,Oli t 4 B Rir . tory to him, that during the discussion that n ; i • pl ice, although some doubts had been expve s p i the propriety of electing a Speaker set' ve se rf ILh sentiments differed from those which it w" it t o " SP n . 04 f," Pb., 'lt, P A , the majority of the House entertained no 0-- phir f] - -Lie n] , '-- -en with his conduct in the Chair had expressed anY, a f to , % " Zl i aa c t fi r e i r d aCCei son of his era luct being different to the inin °vd , l - 1 4.r4rpo:"ed with a it was from the majority of the House. For &.'s) part, he bore most cordial tesemoDY t 5,, tr )l4) tti ' l , 4 'uth e u n s l' u ,' of the Speaker having acted in just the sam e pi IN ' JO hl Alag a - ;i td towards the m'nority as tows ds the major , p i, .;itlidtPeeratory di House, and he begged to assure Members who ba' sv oltlt, : 4 ' 11 44 „ I t l' iz a i s et she same experience as himself, that there 5..:14. t)tuatualtri occasion to apprehend the inconvenience .thgelt, ted:‘,-aut h e is wt o c t arsi n v i e ia . , u r 11 4 might arise from baying a Speak rin , „,„„tzgidt,4 field_ who differed in his political sentiments to the 011 .' , ‘ lo ll,,, W orld, au that House. ..; 4: - News bit ° lehard Be, After a few words from Mr. COBBETT, W o,' lost in the confusion of Members leaving the et Itit (Sucre the question was put and carried, and the Hous e tied ; T RADE ( journed accordingly at 6 o'clock. 1 1 /7P ted 4'"4 •________,....._________ si , 't, pet 11 ti i 'RAE l i t: i i '4 l L)NI)( ) N GA 7.4 I% 44 L AND :0 0, , , .: 1 1 0: ,,,i ,. ' a e n : b THIS EVENING. -, d' •.'e Sec ...20.--_____ . sf t stith DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 29. ...,ioSt i pl, 4 tlkpa s Sum m appoint The King Ad m ir h a a l s si b r ee c n ba g r r le a s cio T u y s l l e y r pleased t C t oon : m io a w nd3e r s , ....4, a ,,, ► , To Which Most Honourable Military Order of , the Bath, W I) ,, e f i f i' l -"pio us Index Grand Cross of the said Order, in the room of Athol , ' Exmouth, deceased. B Y AID His Majesty has further been pleased to nominate h a t VS: t , 1 ...p b , of Lincoln Admiral Sir Charles Hamilton, Bart. to be a Knig". a fht 11l L Alo. der of the Most Honourable Military to of the m k. Nd nenry room of Admiral Sir Charles Tyler. tob 9 ; , . 4 ld tt , n, John II ...0.-- DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. , c lip ~ ' ur niiii JOHN BARBER, jun., and WILLIAM DAVEi , 11. case-makers, Cateaton-street. A S E BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. . en ‘ .. fc . r pEB T JOHN SHAW, general dealer Great St. Helens'. 0 9 4 - ‘4la, Th BANKRUPTS. ant . ' kph *O4 ree R, RICHARD HAMLIN, tailor, Aladdox-street, Eelme. ~L , 9 4 DUN] s n PERCIVAL CLERK, tavern-keeper Clement'. l3 t , t he.,,Th," k t ..,r al GEORGE LAMPOR'r, salesman, N ' ewgate-marX c e e elNo t ,„ t 4, ,, " oir SAMSON SAMSON, broker, Stock-Exchange, r :, N , Lt, l l. l th it i h y, tt , Bartholomew lane. l'e n A `kl9, (41 of fry JAMES ILBERY, merchant, Doughty-street, St. , 1 41 t h }a J G A E L 4 E R S GE H N o V L O L R I . N I - H as ti v ee o n i s t e T d ii v , ic i t , u ri a n il t e e r r , , C so ler u e t n h o r se . ;, nj iot St i tt Nhy e a t r h e e rn Au , , ampton. 0, p h eiar gat ~ SAMUEL COLMAN, miller, Shottisham, Nora , , 4,, , s , e - JOsHUA HENZELL, glass.cutter, Manchester. „tel t : , L `'` the Di JOHN ATT WOOD, victualler, Wincticomb, 6l ou!. ,),"g_ hi , ,, John G. I, L c L IS I I Tu A AsA S 3I ; P I ,Bl3 ( E ) ir tt C AEE O NNN C ,NN K bAikN s Ne h ,Dri e ,) - d Liverpool.e al e sheep-dealer, ,Sp e e n , Berkshire %I N A, - 0 111. 5 P 44 i .' S E JAMES'I rr I V I. La a N n icl s . B l L ' E ir l e l A i l i M WOOD r., so , j u e u n . r , r Susses i c e h ne r e , a l E i l i l iN v i c s:t ß : o PY l l3:o i , l i g: t n h ei o l r l , 'TlVLe so l t i :: l l '4lt : t e: i b ej'r_ . B' ; ''nal a vE n ee n s a : a l in F. : ar t ( 0 - 4 Rain DAVID DUNCAN, victualler, Tooley-street, '01 ) 1 JAMES JOHNS, printer, Devonport. LONDON MARKETS. N'a' l4 Ps, &c. CI. tt Is H PRICE OF BREAD. i 9 3 . 114 A A Nd . ° T VA The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis -', L 4d , I 'l -S , 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from %,I, to +, i y,i, i Unuer that price. ,4 It, PRICE OF SEEDS.-Jan.2B. E dited„.... 4 Ao,kocl ec I' New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) -s. 50s. 6 °' ~..4, "Icrlt y ' r e Your s Old Ditto Ditto -s. -s. tin e ,s bc Ai Ilie l , ° _nr duty t New Foreign Ditto -s. 565 fin e ,...41. 4 04 1 41,""t Classic Old Ditto -s, 5.15. 60 „0 . ,:t0, °1 P arned gaol New White Clover . 525. 60s. fio' ,„s.. 11 10 , e Old Ditto Ditto -s. 565. one 40 l ~ 1 ,4 1, ' 8, the New Trefoil _ 31d Ditto ..........-..._-- -s. -s. fin! „.1.11%,, ,A, ':n th e „,.,„ Rib Grass ---. ___ ...........-...-.... --s. 295. fill' be e it 'ilp .ls, ) , 1 ", --1 English Carraway Seed.. •-.8 .-s 68 8 . tvle '. 11, ' only, Foreign Ditto o th -s. -s. 6 ',„..5. ili,, sews, Coriander . -s. 12s. fine / 0., q 1 141 14 1, __ _ St. Foin .(per Quarter)............. 38s. 4•25. an . 5 , 266.", 10, ~,u , ers air( Rye Grass , -s. -s. new - ,6. 6 1 f„llo',',nleh ma , Pacey Ditto ....................... 348. 30s. new kJ; AN .Yrfi ß , i' Linseed, for feeding _ , ....,, 565. fine nod t.e, ON, HENS! Ditto, for crushing- _ 50s. 55 - 4 • one ii' i t , d "ON'S Canary Seed, New a , - s . s„ 60s one, ot, 4r. . ' la° Old .._. , - s . -s. -- - s• fine '14\1b131., White Mustard Seed -(per Bushel) -s. Ss. 9 s• onto koiAl L '" u Brown Ditto., -a. 20s. '. 2 : 35 ' pie i D i t !. 'cl Wra Turnip Seeds, Rounds . . . _............. -8. -s. 1 8 ' 4 one 1 t At) Green and Red Ditto -s. -s. 1 85 . 56.1 INAII Fares, Old -s. 4s. O le 6sli Ilici'Ll " 4 AN Ditto New e , t, \'' "'',. s '. 6 . ° .lb vil S TA( Eta; eSeed, English, fine (per Last) 23/. 25/. ......... Foreigl , , ii i , 0 Ik,l, l e t 'ASTI. PRICES OF HOPS.--Jan. 2S. 11 1 ' 1 1 Jts't.kr. Ksnt Pockets...-. --... ti/ 10s. 81, Os. to it. 0 , v b , it Sussex Ditto -.-- .............. 6/ i i i . 71. Os. to 0 1, i end tw.N,, PE Frsex Ditto - -.. 0/. O. 01. Os. to 0 l'i p i ti , \,'', l .-. and P F Amhara Ditto, Fine 01. Os. 121. 03. 0 1 11 1 ,, bstl, IJlbt, ......---- Seconds .....-............. 0/. Os. 101. 10s o '9l. ' , 41:44,-,., 3 , Kent Rags ~......................... 71. Cs. 81. Os to 01. t o k bViOh ''rl'S Li Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto. . 01. os 01. 05 . t . ../,,,,i/ , 4 ~ C AS ) , , I 4'Ali ,','"USA PRICE OF OIL. PI Etio'' COI Rape Oil, brown ...........,....311. Os. ............ Refined •••••"' 1" , ,,1 b lb, eLL Q ' 1 , 1 !, Linseed Oil ........-.........„..-....--......-...................................' li , q(), , r16 ~,, ill Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand ................" 5 . ,„; 1 1.0‘,'141 ES No Na rage Cake, per t0n...-. ''''' It' At N i 0,,, ./ Is i„ 08. 3, PRICE OF POTATOES.-Jan 28. tot , ' 11,,, NUS, jps Kidneys (York) n, n. .... . , n.. ...or 1. % PT: 't.4l3d Public --- Nol,''kiiii„,; lo B. 3", PRICE OF POTATOES.--Jan 28. , sot' li: uS, iEs_ Kidneys (York) ......-...—...... 01. O. to 41. Os. P e .•, n , N L , Scotch Reds Marsh Champions—,......... .. 31 0/1 Oxoobles and Shows ...-.....—.. Si. Os. to 3/. ss. (1 1 1 ° 2% 11,N1 5-11 re t • , 4 1 b a e lan PRICES OF LEATHER. d." CA Per lb. d. to d. lO os s . . t t o o 4 3 / 1: 1 1 0 5 5 5 . . dc1:4.0-: Per lb. 1: ; 0 ~ 4j r ,,,-,„, dutts, English ---...... 15 23 English Horse Hide s, ll3 ,'O p,,•.1,1 , - , k,r, Ditto, Foreign....--_,.. 14 20 Spanish Ditto ..........,...# ' TEEWit'lt()h,rii, Dressing Hide 5—............ 12 15 Per dozen. „14 N,,„`"k l -11,E Ditto ......... 14 161 Calf Skins.. 30 to 4111.' j 6 ! () k ' Ditto, light -_-_. Ditto ....-...... 50 to 70 1 ? 16 • +NS a b et Lig Crop flutes, 1ight.,...,. 12 14 Ditto 70 to 80 10 A• 11 'h a , 'Eiji.? Ditto ---40 to 451 b. 13 16 Small Seals. Greenlan d 1.; 1 ,• `,.,,tt.,,' e 011.11) f -- - 0, to.- • ...........,.......... 15 18 Large di tt0.....................:„." 4 tip,,i, ,---entist tt a 11 , 106 1.00/kj SHEEP SKINS, P rl,' , 1., , to , k . 10, n le r , Best Polled -- 6s. 0,1. to 7s. 6d. I Half-bred 5.......... 4s. ("'" ~ tr b ,, p a ,„ -AD Middling Polled 511 56 I Downs--.. 3 ( 1.... AN r'qf -- `ona. rap.. esii ge av RAW HIDES. A l ' r ' l li "al rt , i i k ,8 r exert Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. 1 . 0 141'01 " Pectin' Best Heifers & Steers 2 4 2 8 Ordinary ..,............. OO ti, ED gen eral ~t , i link—..----..1 10 2 0 Market Ca1f..„,,.,..,,..' , - ‘4,„ Tt t , ,ti „nlty u Akr,%, T ,. /1, . ,i aw veth. z Or t -..uM,, Yesterday the despatches were closed he ti b, t'l k t rlde in a East India-house, and delivered to the pursers of t i nt ti "Toed in lu t , n lowing ships, viz.: Kellie Castk ; Captain Roßr li di At o v - r Press u ve i t - 1 0 4 r a t, -4 oner TULLO, for Bengal and China and the Herefa r le P to Captain EDWARD FOORD, for Bombay and Chios. A t 4slc `-ARTT a fp ee, () to .2 THE FRENCH COAST SEEN QUITE rv- Al s2 l ;vith_".°DlE AT HASTINGS AS IF THROUGH A TELESCOP K. _. on Ili: 1 41 4 ' kr i ,: e l l r t WIR of July, 1798, at Hastings, at five, P. M., Mr. l';‘,, 0 1 1%;1`Ch a 'very saw the French coast, which is about forty or 01 ! Il ia!, kili, r ," °ll aa i distant, as diwinctly as through the best 00 08 " ; 5 1 l'l,olt i .,"' l , 4 re ref sailors and fishermen could not at first be persuad et 'llileff (.),, - th e 11 reality of the appearance; but as the cliffs gra ciul3 ,'r i t t 9 ., Pe tio,l °f the peared more elevated, they were so convinced, til ,,lffer ° ' q t N, - ;Z il A i , pointed out and named to Mr. LATHAM the u ' to 'F or "'ming places they had been accustomed to visit; such, d4l e g e te-str i lit bay, the windmill at Boulogne, St. Vallery, 3° ' i -I Nr, ~v e , R EE places on the coast of Picardy. All these places a r n 'to i rk to them as if they were sailing at a small distance '',o4 ''t , I harbour. From the eastern cliff or bill, Mr. Peet '. e m ost , tt 'lt • s afe VW) at once Dungeness, Dover cliffs, and the) s i' 'itin i i N, (I ,4' e °ve„ coast, all the way from Calais, Boulogne, on to --t i,fad A. j,, , -e niv a l ' lery, and, as some of the fishermen affirmed, aa e ol , trfOr L'. t atie, r , a Dieppe. The day was extremely hot, without a il filif• en,Pitig Disor der , wind, and objects at some distance appeared greatb ' 'ith - ' 4 iu m I eure f h . th e ali th in nified.--Dr. Lerdner's Cabinet Cyclopedia. ....„,,,_7 lei, k i r eefh ( -_ _______ )'''' 1441' 'I'S j, pt,,, 0 4 • area BIRTIIS. P 'earn . ~ 11 ts It N On the 27th inst. in Hertford street, Mayfair, the ~,b„,,"4 ii k ,',, 'Ai a of -1 Captain St. John Mildinay, Royal Navy, of a claughte,,,f',oll" ,rs, l sev a Pltr a ,?; On the 27th inst. in Wilton-crescent, Mrs. Digby I''' .- fr‘g in n ' , tie "ate ofd daughter. VerY ! Ilea, ' 4 4s sj a its On the 26th inst. at the Deanery, the lady of the • o ,f r, - -e k e 4f• , ' the Dean of Hereford, of a son. 1 6 r e 41 4 1, Peal On the 28th inst. in Upper Wimpole.street, the lady of may t, Arbuthnot, FAN., of a daughter. thou' f r °TII Y b 'ttk , y . , i , A e Vlin MARRIED. l'fl lu 2 0 4 0 0 Om i t of .c I ain On the 24th inst. Edmund Roberts Larken, Esq., - f-jf ic, ' g th e College, Oxford, eldest son of the late Edmund Larkes,,,' or' ~'''Oi,,, Bedford square, to Mary, second daughter of Thorna , " -- ' ti r .'•••••••,k , o ti , Bth Esq., of Dunsby, Lincolnshire. , Ag e t' ' ere ,Itra 44, ,, , 13 W rittf DIED. , tiii $ IA S. • t 44 • . On the 26th inst. at Woolwich, Lieut.-General Sir .10 1 ' ,?, I N . ' 4 , te r leod, G C.H., Director-General and ('olonel Conan , ' t „,.. ett,, , ,„ clay , ~ he Royal Horse Artillery, in the 81st year of his age. pa ' road , ‘htl e „.„, .r On the 26th inst. at Sevenoaks, Kent, Lousia, third ~oyal , lil do _"reet if Alexander Macdonald, Esq., aged 19. „,„lis, ,ltn . ~Xe 1 14 ,,, 4f riari On the 214 h, in Gloucester-place Harriet Al" - . 0 .% , A '''ge • , ort , ri laughter of A. Trevor, Esq., in the 16th year of her Ag r os, , t„, ou On g the 18th inst. at llartticld, Sussex, Anna 'lt, o ,r 0 - , 4, .0uh ; a nd ;ounest daughter of the late Rev. Richard Slade, A' f th e tivo a oill t S OUt if NVestwell, in the county of Oxford, and sister 0 ( 1., ey, on . A "IN b ath ' Dean of Chichester. r feet, n rld L., l'shi On the 23d inst. at Leintwardine, in his - 79th Ye 3- Ijo„,,) ett, L. ' ni g h r( iir Banastre Tarleton, Bart., Governor of Bei - wick, o °...,siu Ils Liver -htre Member of Parliament for Liverpool during seven •'- eta Fool . ,_, a Parliament. °' and f ''Vllnt, z , s. , a Af PRINTr.va curb Plilil 'cairn us , llf TT It T 1 II IT A TT r• s',