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COURT CIRCULAR. A Deputation of Gentlemen interested in the iron-works of St.dfordsliire, headed by Sir JOHN WRcrrEsLEY and Mr I,lrri.nrox, the Members for the county, attended yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade, and bad a ctnference with Mr. llnutnce. The Russian Ambassador had an interview yeste►day With the Earl of Antranrxx at the Foreign-office. Viscount Mm.vzi.LE, as first Lord of the Admiralty, held a Levee ypt7.thlay at the Admiralty, which was attended by, a number of naval officers. Mr. I%lacQtritan, M.P., and a Deputation of Gentle men, had a conference with Sir GEORGE Munnair yester day at the Colonial-office. Mr. la.v.ma, the Inspector- General of Imports and Exports of the Customs, assisted at the interview. The Neapolitan Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Viscount MELVILLE entertained the Cabinet 11Iinisters to dinner yesterday evening, at his resi,lenee in the Admi ralty, for the first time this season. It is not intended to fill up the vacancy in the Commiasiotera of Excise, occasioned by the death of the late latheritea Lord GRAYEB.-Morning Paper. Mr. Secretary PEEL will on the 18th of Much apply for leave to bring in a Bill " to consolidate and amend the law relating to furgery." Mr. HERRIES is to retain his situation of Master of the Mint, in addition to his other appointment of President of the Board of Trade. The office of Treasurer of the Navy will not, as hitherto, be united to another, it being found to require more time and attention than was formerly thought necessary. By the new arrangement a saving under the head of salaries will accrue to the country. •--Morning Paper. Yesterday a ballot was taken at the East India House for the election of a Director, in the room of RICHARD CHICHELEY PLOWDEN, Esq., deceased. At six o'clock the glasses were closed and delivered to the scrutineers, who reported the election to have fallen on ROBERT CBTLAR FERGUSSOX, Esq. DINNER TO Mn. ALDERMAN THORP.— On Tuesday a very large and respectable body of the householders of the ward of Aldgate gave a dinner to Mr. Alderman THORT, at the Three Tuns Tavern, Aldgate, and between 60 and 70 of the principal inhabitants of the ward were present, including Mr. Deputy WEDDELL, and all the Common Council; Sir CHARLIE/ FLOWER, Bart., being one of the guests invited. Mr. WlLLiast. Tax was the Chairman. The Rev. Dr. DFALTRY, Vice-Chance l lor Witshester Cathedral, is appointed by the Lord Bishop of Vi r tscxxxxxa, successor to the late ►enerable LASCEL LES Inutonoza, as one of the Prebendaries. The landed estate of Prince BOROHESE in Italy, extends over no less tints SOO square leagues, and comprises two millions of inhabitants. Sir J. GRANT is, we understand, recalled as Sedge, but means to remain in India, and practice as a barrister.— Times. The cause of " ELLENBOROUGH V. ELLEN zotoucm," for a divorce, is appointed, we understand, for hearin g in the Consistorial Court oa Saturday next. It will, we believe, be undefended. ' Captain EvANs, who, in May last, passed to " that bourn from whence no traveller returns," and Whose name has been mixed up with the diabolical mur ders at Oddingley, appears to have been singularly visited with compunctious feelings of conscience, after those acts had been committed. An aged man, named DOORME, of Canterbury, engaged with the monster, after his partici pation in the crimes, as servant; but such was his turbu lent character—such his dread of persons approaching the !louse, lest apprehension should follow their entry—that ingress was rendered oftentimes troublesome, in conse quence of tke doors and window.shutters being kept in a state of closure, and bolted ; but this fear seems to have somewhat subsided as the case became involved in per plexity and mystery. The agitated movements, however, of the hell-born brute plainly betokened there was some thing within that harrowed the soul, end held him a felon in his own mind until the day that death " marked him as his own."—irentish Chronicle. It is expected that the Commission for the trial of prisoners in the county and city of Dublin, which commenced on Saturday, will terminate to-day or to morrow. In the city there - are but eight prisoners for trial, and in the county not one ! Perhaps there could not be found in any country in the world such a small quantity of crime amongst so large and so wretched a population. —Dublin Morning Register. - - The Duke of ST. ALBAN'S house at High gate was burglarionsly entered on the night of Sunday last. The thieves effected an entrance by breaking open the door to She conservatory ; several other doors were likewise forced, until they reached the drawing-room, from which was taken a valuable time-piece, and other property to the amount of 1301. The new police have lately taken charge of that district, bat so few are they in number, and so in competent in many respects to perform the duty, that com plaints have been made to the Commissioners of Police upon the subject. The answers returned have been, that no alteratio n in the system should be adopted. The inha bitants of Highgate have, therefore, re-appointed the esta blished watch, for their security and protection, and funds for defraying the expences have been raised by voluntary subscription. A letter from Nfoscow, dated the 16th ult., contains tome remarks on the trade of that city, intended to show that it has been considerably increasing in mag nitude and infortanc e during the last fire years. The following staMnent relative to the amount of imports, exports, and custom-house ?.uties paid thereon, from 1825, is given in support of the writer's account of the commercial prosperity of Moscow. It is to be observed that this statement only relates to goods which paid duty in that city, so that it does not manifest the whole amount of trade Imports. Exports. Custom Duties. roubles. roubles. roubles. copecs. 1826 ••• 186,196 ... 73,392 ... 15,940 ... 86 1 826 ..• 919,725 ... 13,000 ... 94,718 ... 66 18 27 118 8228 3 9 1 :8 9 4 3 4 9 :8 1 4 6 3 3 ::: 163,580514:924 73 2 : 8,2 10 1 5 2 ... 4 ,468,213 ... 200,502 ... 991,793 ... 90 ofSaturday morning, at day-light, the brig Jane Scarborough, f rom O porto , w i t h wine, JonN Goon, 'ster, was discovered aground on the rocks, off Beachy Head; but as the tide waa flowing, she succeeded in get ting off. It was soon after discovered that she had re reiver ld en much damag e as t o ren d er it necessar y t o b eac h littet° to he prevent oinking ; she was therefore run ashore a westwarat Beachy Head. Immediate ex ertions were mad e to remove the cargo, the greater part etozfeetrplitiiocnh of already safe; and the remainder, with the thatft the bri "Ile casks that have been bilged, will no doubt be all got ont. Confident hopes are entertained C he brought into Newhaven harbour this a ha s e b r r nn ' b Y the Talbot stem-vessel, else having left the harbour this morning for that purpose.—Brighton Guardian, A compar a ti ve estimate is given in a Belgic paper o f t h e quantity of meat consumed in London, Paris, d Bruamela, in the course of the year, and of the relation ofthat quantity to t h e amount of population in these capi tals respectively. The total quantity consumed in London 1 1 5 Stated to be 18 9,710,000 lb., and the population being 1 1 ,Y. 25 .° 00 , each i n di v id ua l would consume on an average .)o lb. This is probably a grea t er re l a ti ve consumpt i on of animal food th an i s k nown i n any ot h er part r f t h e Forld. In Paris the consumption is perhapsinore accurately know n 'than i n L on d on, and is estimated in the reports of 4 1 de eIfABROL at 61,927,444 lb., w hi c h, supposing the 13°Pullition t o b e 715,000, would allow to each individual 861 b. Two-thirds of this is in beef, one-sixth in mutton, qit y attar t h in veal, an d a f ourt h i n por k . In Brussels t h e which of meat consume d i n 1828 was 8,888,0241 b., to estimating the inhabitants at 100,000, would give p_ouenacdos person on a n average 89 lb. Thi s wou ld b e t h ree rn ore tha n i n P ar i s, b ut wou ld f a ll s h ort of L on d on by nearl y a h alf. In cons equence of the severity of the weather Lards --- in": sailor walk e d f rom t h e s h ore to t h e i r vesse l s i n L ynn .aroour, ' au • week, on th e i re , a di s t a nc e of 60 or 70 ya circumstance hitherto unprecedented. flesh e On .1 'euneSClay last JAMES DAVIDSON, r killeda cow, weighing a b o ut 4A- cwt., when, his great astonishment, he found attached to her stomach, tin that part which is known to the trade by the technical echof " th e Ki ng ' s hat, " a breakfast knife, exactly seven es in length ! The blade was sharp and clean, end the h an d le complete, the brass rivets by which it was 6IN I on being also perfectly clean. Finding that this weapon was much sharper than that which he intended to !Ise, he actually completed skinning the beast with the knife vvhieh he found in her inside. We understand that he is 'Titling show the knife to any person who may have the cariosity tx) e el i t—Aberciten Chronicle. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF I.ORD; - , -(LAST NIGHT.) The Earl of SHAFTESBURY sat so-day for the Lord Chancellor. llis Lordship laid on the table some returns relati; to Convicts. Mr. Johnson, from the Chief Secretary of Im inutes Office, presented some Returns (pursuant to Act of Parliament) relating to the state of Prisons is Ireland.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS-(LAST NIGHT.) FEES OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. Mr. James Barber, from Doctors' Commons, brought up a Return of the Amount of Fees taken by the Consistorial and Prerogative Courts. [IS DAY.Y\ T. —Arrive d fax. arired the Sailed the r Rtdst2o:l DD obi . ill°, brother 01 incendia/P thy the a I th- Petrol, tmler, CON' )m Charles' 11, Dunstath ri at Cowen ' :tit :tied v' re the mud D, and go vs ornwto nas•Tv. with in- I toy , mon ,; xis i p 116 t Colo— -1 11 , s committed GATE, 30 TS 11 1 110 1 ~...... ~. 903 ndicttd for n. Nadler, property of end. On ienee Iron' ken out a found at & ratch wag le prisoner Ind which 3n the d,y a k e u rn e aum the lg that he TwArdand , ery. the Jury the watch as it did e value of !tiling, bat stealing a of Wm• been cons which is no proof prisoner, cquitted. .e indicted Snsannna than the ng. The y returned In of the t•cted that nit in the in frauthi- pui - chastt , he paid order for went to and bad them go Ler, how he bristles I for eagh, t the cart. prisoner e them to ers for.-- mu neyer 1, and re had been her or not vsEiem (,f t larceny, ntboriti,s, !oreictiore I by him, larceny ; n certsin urtil those ow in this rted with, wiglel be Besidee, ty to give e the ease was good an, bowed an. lions of a tion. The , Ennyon. r &scrip lot to Mr. ny. The ! of ()pi nyon and arta of it, did not at good in am Aber ' indicted story note a Ann ra foetid held over time,' ap .re admit- lodged in highway. er return, had been Idietrnent charge of rodge, re t in their one, and with the to COM tied. hi r wit it who is in the Nit of which se on the ottom oft THE CURRENCY. Mr. DENISON presented a petition from an in habitant of the county of Surrey, named William Cobhett, praying the House not to abandon the metallic currency, but entreating them to reduce taxation by every means in their power; and press ing the necessity of Parliamentary Reform. The Hon. Member said he agreed with the views of the petitioner, and suggested the addition of silver as a standard to that of gold, as an improvement on the present system.—The petition was ordered to be printed. DUTIES ON BEER. The Marquis of CHANDOS presented a peti tion from the inhabitants of Stoney Stratford, pray ing a reduction of the Duties on Malt and Beer.— Ordered to be printed. DISTRESS IN TRADE. Mr. JOHN WOOD presented a petition from the retail dealers of Salford, complaining of the dis tress under which they suffered, and declaring they were induced to sign the petition in order to nega tive the assertion that such distress was not univer sal. The Hon. Member urged the necessity of economy, retrenchment, and Parliamentary Reform; and observed that he feared, with a House consti tuted like the present, Ministers could not go so far as they wished. Mr. SYKES bore testimony to the great dis tress of the retail dealers in the town he represented, and asked the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Peel) if he intended to proceed with the Bill for the better recovery of Small Debts ? _ _ _ Mr. PEEL said the reason of his abandoning the Bill last Session was the difficulty he met with in allotting compensation to the officers of the several Courts, whose interests would be affected. He intended, however, to submit a preliminary pro position to the House to-morrow evening, and he hoped, by watching its progress and effect, to be able to accomplish all that was desired on the subject. Mr. Alderman WAITHD•IAN took that occasion to remind the House again of the distresses of the Retail Dealers of the City of London. They had hitherto shewn great confidence in his Majesty's Government, and expressed their gratitude for the benefits conferred on the country by passing the great measure to which he need not allude; but they were now very much inclined to believe that Ministers were unacquainted with, or indifferent to, the distresses of tho country, and the meeting which was to take place at the Mansion-house on Monday next would probably exhibit the nature of their opinions. The petition was then read, and ordered to be printed. - Mr. LITTLETON gave notice that on Thurs day the 25th instant, he would move for leave to bring in a Bill to render more effectual the laws re lating to the payment of wages in money.—(Hear.) Sir W. INGLEBY presented a petition from the Woollen Manufacturers of Lincoln, praying for the abolition of the East India monopoly.—Ordered to be printed. On the motion of Mr. R. GRANT, a variety of Returns were ordered to be laid before the House respecting the individuals who had served the office of Sheriff in Scotland during the last seven years, the number of persons who had been tried in the Justiciary and other Courts, the sentences, &c. • Mr. W. PEEL presented Returns respecting convicts, which were ordered to be printed. Colonel DAVIES gave notice that on Thursday the 1 lth March he would move to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the Act of the 15th Geo. 111., c. 117, respecting the regulation of pensions and super annuation allowances. On the motion of Mr. HUbIE, various Returns were ordered to be laid before the House respecting the charges for diplomatic services abroad. Mr. HUME gave notice that he would to-mer row move for a Return of the Frauds which had been committed in the granting of pensions and allowances to pri rate and non-commissioned Officers. TOBACCO AND SNUFF DUTIES. Mr. C. CALVERT presented a petition from the Manufacturers of Tobacco and Scruff in the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark, complaining of losses which they had sustained in consequence of certain circumstances, and praying for relief. The Hon. Member stated, that the petitioners had in 1825 sustained a loss of 23 per cent. on their stock, in consequence of being misinformed with respect to the intentions of Mi. sisters. An Act by which they were affected hav ing expired in July, 1825, a delegation waited on the then Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Robin son), and, in consequence of the communication which he made to them, they had subsequently in creased their stock to the large amount of 2,500,0001.; on which they had afterwards been compelled to pay a duty of 125,0001. They had memorialized Govern ment in rain upon the subject, and they now came to the House for redress. After a few words from Mr. HART DAVIS, the petition was ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. R. DUNDAS presented a similar petition from the Tobacco and Snuff Manufacturers of Ips wich; and Mr. W. SMITH, a similar petition from the Tobacco and Snuff Manufacturers of Norwich. —Ordered to lie on the table. MILITARY OFFICERS HOLDING CIVIL SITUATIONS. Mr. GORDON said that, in compliance with re peated wishes which had been expressed to him from various quarters, he begged again to call the attention of the House to the subject of Military Officers holding high civil situations, and retaining their military pay in addition to their civil allowances. The impropriety of such a proceeding was increased by the consideration of the severe regulations respect ing officers on half-pay, whose affidavit had been re cently altered, and WllO,Oll claiming their half-pay,were called upon to swear that they had no civil appoint ment, and did not receive from Government any other allowance than their half-pay. He was aware that a distinction was attempted to be set up in this re spect between the officers on half-pay and officers on full pay ; but Le considered it to be unfair and un tenable. If the regulations were not strictly appli cable to Officers on full pay, it could only be because the circumstance of their holding civil appointments had not been contemplated. How was the case? A general Officer, receiving his full-pay from what is called the Unappropriated General Officers' Fund, held a high civil office, the salary of which he also received. It should also he remembered that a General Officer having a regiment not only received his full pay as Colonel, but all the various allowances derived from clothing the regiment, &c. Was it fitting that an Officer thus circumstanced should be qualified to hold a civil appointment, and receive the emoluments atta c h e d t o it ? Th e same thing hap pened in the N av y. Th e L or d o f the Admiralty whom he saw opposite to him, he believed, received his full-pay as an Admiral, while at the same tune he held the situation and enjoyed the emoluments of a Lord of the Admiralty. It might be said that the Lords of the Admiralty were not well enough paid. Granted. But let them be paid as Lords of the Admiralty. As in his opinion the subject was not unworthy the consideration of the House, and as the Right lion. Gent. opposite had told him that he had no objection to the motion, he moved for a Return of the Name, Rank, and Yearly or other Pay, Allowances, and Emoluments, derived from whatever sources, of all Military an 1 Naval Oflic r.; holding Civil or Official Sit Hatiwis. The motion was agreed to. On the Motion of Mr. K. DOUCiLAS, variou s Returns were ordered to be hid before the House of the quantities of sugar, coffee, rum, (Sze., imported into Great Britain and Ireland from our West India Colonies. FEES PAID BY PERSONS ACQUITTED OF CRIMINAL CHARGES. Mr. Secretary PEEL rose, in pursuance of his notice, to move for leave to bring in a Bill —by which, however, he did not feel quite satisfied that the immediate object which he had in view would be gained—namely, a Bill to abolish all fees here tofore payable by persons on their acquittal or ether discharge from any criminal charge. In 1818, a Bill had passed that and the other House of Parliament, the intention of the framers of which must certainly have been to abolish all fees payable by persons on their acquittal or other discharge from any criminal charge. The construction which had been put upon that Bill, however, was, that it was applicable only to persons retained in custody, tried and acquitted, and not to persons who were held to bail, tried, and acquitted. The object of his Bill was to relieve all acquitted persons, whether they had been in cus tody or only held to bail from the payment of fees upon acquittal. At present, a person so circum stanced was liable to pay 13s. 4(1. to the Clerk of the Peace, 2s. to the Crier of the Court, and (which was the most extraordinary fee of all) 123. to the Jury on every traverse. On grave considera-1 tion, however, it appeared to him that the Bill for which he was about to move would not go far enough. It would only relieve the person acquitted from the payment of fees, but he would still be subject to the payment of different formal processes of the Court. Among other charges there was the drawing up of the record, for which the person tried had to pay a shilling a folio ; amounting, in some cases, to five or six pounds, and in many to two or three; although, in numerous instances, no record whatever was drawn up. Since he had given notice of his Bill, the Hon. Member for Cumberland had expressed his intention to move for the appointment of a Commit tee to inquire into the amount of the Fees receivable by Clerks of the Peace, and the authority on which those fees were demanded. He (Mr. Peel) highly approved of the proposition, and, if that Committee were appointed, would not press the Bill upon the attention of the House until the result of their inqui ries was known. He understood that last year it was a question with many country gentlemen whether granting compensation for fees was desirable, very large sums having been demanded on that score. The Act of 1815, to which he had before alluded, provided compensation for the officers whose fees it took away, and subjected the county to the pay ment of that compensation. He confessed, however, that he (lid not see the justice of rendering the county liable at all times; although, with respect to fees, he was certainly inclined to think that on the ter mination of all existing interests, it might be advis able that they should cease. The whole subject was one of great importance, and as he understood the Hon. Member for Vumberland would take an early opportunity of moving for the Committee to which he had alluded, he would merely now move for leave to bring in the Bill, but postpone any further pro ceeding:with it until the Committee had inquired into the subject. The Right Hon. Gent. accordingly moved for leave to bring in his Bill. Sir T. BARING expressed his satisfaction that it was intended to appoint a Committee to inquire into the amount and nature of the fees paid to Clerks of the Peace. In his opinion all officers of -County Courts ought to be paid by salaries, and not in fees; and he was happy to find the Right Hon. Gentle man of that opinion. He would take the oppor tunity of observing, that the Act which had been introduced by the Right Hon. Gentleman for com pelling the county to pay prosecutors their ex penses, though very good in principle, was not so in practice; and in some cases had increased the County Rates so alarmingly, that it was a subject which ought to be considered by the proposed Committee. Mr. Secretary PEEL wished to guard himself from the supposition of having absolutely declared that in his opinion all fees ought to be abolished. A great deal might probably be said on both sides of the question. Sir T. BARING, in explanation, said that in many Courts the Clerk of the Peace disposed of his fees for a certain sum to 'a Deputy, who, of course, extended their amount as much as he was able. Mr. W. SMITH hoped that before any corn. pensation were granted for fees, their nature and amount would be strictly inquired into. Sir. JAMES GRAHAM observed that it was very desirable a system of uniformity should be established on the subject; and, therefore, that it required a general inquiry. Mr. O'CONNELL thought that all judicial fees ought to be abolished. Leave was granted to bring in the Bill. CLERKS OF THE PEACE. Mr. PORTMAN moved for leave to bring in a Bill regulating the office of Clerk of the Peace, par ticularly with respect to the abolition of fees and to the substitution of a regularly salary. Mr. FREEMANTLE could bear testimony to the fact, that the present regulation of paying the Clerks of the Peace by fees was attended by very great confusion and inconvenience. The preferable mode was to pay by a regular salary.—Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. HOUSES OF INDUSTRY. Mr. GRATTAN moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Irish Act, 11 and 12 Geo. 111., respecting the establishment of Houses of Industry in Ireland. After a Tew observations from Lord L. GOWER, leave was given to bring in the Bill. CHARITABLE ESTABLISHMENTS OF IRELAND. Mr. CALLAGHAN moved for a Return of the different Charitable Establishments of Ireland. Th e Hon. Member felt himself obliged to say that the condition of the poor in the city which he repre sented was so appalling, that a delay of one day in inquiring into the causes of the evil might b e dan gerous to the peace of the community. He regretted that so distant a day was fixed for the motion upon the subject, particularly as it was not understood in Ireland whether it were intended to introduce the Poor Laws into that country. Mr. S. RICE, in reply to the Hon. Gentleman, must state that his motive for deferring his motion was, because no relief granted to Ireland could be complete without a previous inquiry into the charitable institutions of that country. His first object was to ascertain the actual state of the poor of Ireland, which would not require any laborious examination; particularly as papers upon the subject had already been laid before the Emigra tion Committee in J 825. The second subject was the Charities of Ireland, and the effect they had in relieving distress. The third subject 'nos the question of the Poor Laws. Many Gentlemen maintained the expediency of Introducing the English PoorLawsinto Ireland, but no person could think of doing this with out a full inquiry into the effect likely to be produced by the measure upon the people of Ireland, and into the mechanism necessary to carry the measure into operation. Many gentlemen, who did not think that the introduction of the Poor Laws in Ireland would be beneficial to that country, were of opinion that they ought to be introduced for the sake of benefitting England, by the preventing of Irish immigration, lie begged them to reflect rchetlier it was not more probable that the measure would have a decidedly opposite tendency. It would be premature to argue the question at present. He had stated that there were public charities in every county of Ireland, and he could assert that in every town of Munster there were houses of industry. He had admitted that the distress of Ireland was less than that of England, but still there was a distress sufficiently great to need inquiry. He had received a document from Ireland, in which the writer bad said, that for the last 28 or 30 years he did not re eollect• any one period so replete with distress,. or any one in 1\ ilit 11 11 retchedness had prevailed to such extent. It was a question with the writer a•bether the viii or eould pass without commotion. Considerable improvements were going on through out Ireland; [nit !hough capital was augmenting, the increase of population was greater. Mr. M. FITZGER ALD rose, and spoke as fol lows :—I feel the impropriety of making any pre liminary observations; but I must say, that the do cument referred to by the Hon. Member for Limerick does not in the least exaggerate the state of dis tress prevailing throughout the south of Ireland. All those who depend upon the produce of butter and cattle in that country, must be mainly affected by the fall of prices in the English market. This I believe to be the source of the distress, which, however, I am far from wishing to underrate. I have received from Ireland a description of this dis tress, and I will beg leave to read a quotation from a country paper, which informs us that the Earl of Kennard (whose agent, Mr. Galway, was the writer in that paper) had ordered his agent to give employ ment to the poor, in consequence of the very severe distress that prevailed ; and he fu,-Cier commanded, that if employment could not be found for them in that neighbourhood, they should be set to work elsewhere, and at his expense. Mr. Galway had carried his Lordship's intentions into full effect. I must now acknowledge that great distress prevails throughout the county of Kerry. Having been se• lected as an object of the grossest falsehood, as to what I uttered in this House, I have a right to jus tify myself upon this, which is the first convenient opportunity that has offered. No public man can perform his duty to his constituents, if he is to be subject to such gross tnisrept esentations and slanders. Gentlemen connected with Ireland will recollect, that on the first night of the present Session I of fered a few words upon the state of Ireland, and I stated explicitly that great distress prevailed throughout that country. lam in the recollection of every gentleman who then did me the honour to attend to what I said, but I am reported to have stated the reverse in every paper of London. This is the case, whatever may be the intention of the writers; but in the statements professing to convey to the public a correct deliberate report of the language held by Irish Members of Parliament, I am re ported to have denied, in tote, that any distress whatever existed in Ireland. To render the case more coarse, in the next number of the newspapers, it was stated that Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Peel, Lord L. Gower, and Mr. S. Rice, represented the dis tress in Ireland as only trifling, and to exist only in parts. lam not aware that this language was held by any Hon. Gentleman, but in an Irish newspaper this is the language used about me—" Mr. M. Fitz gerald had the effrontery to say that there was no distress in Ireland, and for which abominable and flagitious mis-statement we pray Heaven that the people of Kerry may kick him out:next election."— (A laugh.)—lii any case of an abuse of character, either private or public, I am sure that I am the last person to complain. No gentleman in this House regards more the publicity given to our pro-, ceedings titan I do, or is more anxious that every act of mine in this House should be known to my constituents. I am always ready to abide the con sequences of my own conduct ; but whilst the pro ceedings of this House are reported with an accuracy almost miraculous, I say that, in any thing profess ing to be a report of our language, or of the proceed ings of the House, it is unfair to insert so gross a mis-statement as that of making me state the very reverse of what I said. This is a a degree of license which it cannot be the interest of this House or of the country to allow to proceed. But no thing can be more dangerous than persons being misrepresented to those for whom they sit in this House. I stated that great distress prevailed in Ire land ; but at the same time I added, that I believed the resources of Ireland would ultimately work out great prosperity for that country; but, with reference to the existing distress, nobody more un equivocally represented that distress to have existed. The purpose of this mis-statement is to bring for ward the peasantry of my county in public meet ings, under the impression that their distress was denied; and thus to exasperate them to a vehement expression of their feelings. This is not the way to cure the distresses. To what earthly motives could be attributed my underrating the distress? I appeal to the House if any :nan ever exceeded me in the importunity with which I have uniformly called the attention of Government to the state of Ireland, and with which I have suggested practical remedies to meet that distress ? This being my conduct, I say again that it is most unfair to mis represent my conduct to my constituents. The forms of the House afford me ample means of re dress for such gross misrepresentations ; but I am the last person who, for the present object, would be disposed to call for the aid of the authority of this House. With respect to the actual fact of the expressions I used, I appeal to every man that hears me, and I am sure there is no gentleman in this House more ready than the Honourable Member for Clare to remove any erroneous impressions of this sort. Mr. PEEL participated in the indignation of the Right Hon. Gentleman. Within the last six months, of all the Representatives of Ireland not one had evinced a more sincere desire to mitigate the cala mities under which any part of that country may be labouring; and he had always represented that the poor of Ireland were distressed for want of employ ment. The Right lion. Gentleman had submitted to him projects for affording relief to Ireland, and on which more labour must have been spent than could be well imagined. He confirmed what the Right Hon. Gentleman said, and it was impossible to conceive so gross an inconsistency as the lan guage imputed to the Right Hon. Gentleman and his suggestions to Government for the relief of Ireland. Mr. JEFFSON said, that the Mc6on should in clude the sums paid to Secret;lfies, for the Cha ritable Funds of Ireland were much diverted from their purpose. Mr. O'CONNELL certainly did understand the Right Hon. Gentleman to have differed from him in his statement of the distress in Ireland. He must say, that no county sent to Parliament a Member who had more entirely the confidence of all the coun try than the Right Hon. Gentleman. He had re ceived accounts from Ireland confirming the state ments he had made of the distress. Lord L. GOWER said, that if any disturbance arose in Ireland, he should deny that they were caused by distress. Mr. O. CALLAGHAN said he felt obliged to the Hon. Member for Limerick for his explanation ; and stated, that in speaking of the distress in the city of Cork, he had no intention of referring to the general question. He merely alluded to the pauper population which crowded into the city from the adjacent country. The motion was then agreed to. Lord W. POWLETT moved for leave - to bring in a Bill to extend to the county palatine of Durham the Act of Queen Anne, " for the better security of rents, and to prevent frauds committed by tenants." The Noble Lord also moved for a return of the quan tity of foreign lead ore imported into the United Kingdom during the last five years.— Ordered. Mr. WODEHOUSE moved that certain Re turns relating to Poor Rates and County Rates, in the different counties of England and Wales, during the years from 1823 to 1827, should be re-printed.— Ordered. SUPPLY. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committee of the whole House, to con sider the expediency of granting a further Supply to his Majesty. Mr. HUME, after stating that he was one of those who had voted against granting any further supply to his Majesty, until Ministers had given some pledge that the distressed state of the country would be taken into consideration, and promised to come forward with some information on the sub ject, declared that since the Chancellor of the Ex chequer had stated that he would give that informa tion on Friday, he (Mr. Hume) did not feel himself obliged to oppose the present motion. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply. 2,500,0001. were then granted to the service of his Majesty, to discharge the like supplies as in the years from 1824 to 1829 inclusive. 25,438,800/. were next granted to discharge the amount of such outstanding Exchequer-bills of the years 1829 and 1830, as remained now unpro vided for. 168,8001. were next granted for the discharge of Exchequer-bills, to defray the expence of public work , , fisherie', and additional churches. The House resumed, and the Report was then brought up. LOrd W. Powlett's Bill, for extending the provi v;ons of an Act of the Bth of Queen Anne, to the County Palatine of Durham, was read a first time, and ordered to be printed and read a second time on Monday next. The House then adjourned at a Quarter to Seven o'clock. THE ARMY. (From the Limerick Chronicle of Saturday.) Letters received yesterday at onr orlice, from the 27th and 93d regiments—the former from Granada, the latter from St. Kitt's and Antigua—left those corps in good health on the 12th December. The 93d had only three men in hospital. On the arrival of the 65th regiment at St. Kitt's, the 93J will be removed to Demerara and Berbice. The 2d hat. 60th, at Bcrbice, had not a single man in hospital in December. By a letter received yesterday at cur office, from Ja maica, we are concerned to hear that Lieut.-Col. Dorn ford, commanding the Royal Artillery, died on the 20th December, after three days' illness. His Excellency the Lieut.-Governor of Bcrbice has been pleased to appoint Lieut. Croker, of the 60th Rifles, to be Captain of the Fort at the port of Berbice, vice Lieut. Skinner, of the Royal Artillery, who has quitted the colony. The Ann and Amelia transport, having the head quar ters of the 74th regiment on beard, arrived at Cove on Tuesday. They immediately disembarked, and on Wed nesday were landed in Cork, where they will be quartered for the present. The 98th depot embark at Cove, in the Ann andAme /its transport, for Plymouth. The 2d Dragoon Guards (Bays) and 2d Dragoons (Greys) leave the Irish establishment next month. The former will proceed to Edinburgh. The Ist King's Dra goon Guards, from Ballinrobe and Gort, replace the Bays at Caber and this garrison. His Excellency Lieut.-Gen. Lord Combermere, of Com bermere Abbey, Cheshire, - Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in India, is on his return to this country. His Lordship took his passage in September on board the ship Blond. Report in India says the 11th and 13th Light Dragoons are going home, and that the 3d Light Dragoons and 15th Hussars are to go out to relieve them. The 3.1 Buffs were to march last November from Bhan gulphore to Meerut, to relieve the 31st regiment. The Buffs would not reach Meerut before the end of February, 800 miles, four months' march. The Hon. Company's ship Marquis of TVellington ar rived out in 87 days from England. The 62d regiment, quartered here, embark at Cork (in the vessels which convey:the 28th to Ireland) for Chatham, previous to proceeding for Madras. This excellent regi ment, now forming a part of our garrison, have received instructions that a medical inspection will take place of the corps, in order that none but young and healthy men should leave for India. MISS FANNY KEMBLE'S POETRY. (From the Spectator.) At the Harmonists' Society on Thursday, a very excel lent new glee, by Sir George Smart, was sung by Master Phillips, and Messrs. Terrail, Horncs,stle, Goss, and E. Taylor. We understood it was lately produced at the Concentores. We subjoin the poetry, which was an nounced to be the production of Miss Fanny Kemble. It has not yet appeared in print :.--. The moment must come, when the hands that unite In the firm clasp of friendship will sever; When the eyes that have beamed o'er us brightly to-night Will have ceased to shine round us for ever. Yet wreathe around the goblet's brim With pleasure's roseate crown • What though the future hour bediro—. The present is our own. The moment is come—and again we are parting, To roam through the world each our separate way: In the bright eye of beauty the pearl-drop is starting— Yet hope, sunny hope, through the tear sheds its ray. Then wreathe again the goblet's brim With pleasure's roseate crown: In hope, though present hours be dim— The future is our own. The moment is past—and the bright throng around us, So lately that gather'd, has fled like a dream; And Time is untwisting the fond links that bound us, Like frost-leaves that melt with the morning's young beam. Yet wreathe once move the goblet's brim With pleasure's roseate crown : What though our future hour be dim— The past has been our own. The following hand-bill has been circulated in the city :—_ " Meeting at the Egyptian Hall, by permision of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. " On Mond..y next, February 22, a meeting of the merchants, ship-owners, manufacturers, and traders of London, will take place in consequence of a requisition to the Lord Mayor, to take into consideration the general distress which pervades the commercial and agricultural interests, and to petition Parliament to institute a full, rigid, and immediate inquiry into the causes thereof, and for the adoption of such measures as will best tend to an effectual and speedy removal of the same. The meeting will he held at one o'clock precisely." COUNTY WATERFORD ELECTION.—The following letter, addressed to HENRY Dxxxnr, Esq. was read at the late meeting in Dungarvan : " Lismore Castle, Jan. 19, 1830. _ _ " Dear have no hesitation in stating to you in writing that of which I last evening assured you verbally, that the Duke of Devonshire himself remains neuter in the present contest, leaving the election to the free and unbiassed choice of the freeholders, including in the num ber his own tenants. This I shall take measures to make known to the whole of his Grace's tenants who have votes. " I am, dear Sir, your obedient servant, " W. S. CURREY." The amount of dividends due and not de manded on sth January, 11330, was 1,296,2401. 6s. 6d., and that of lottery prizes not claimed, 1,9391., making 1,298,1791. 6s. 6d. ; of which there has been advanced to Government 1,193,872/. Bs., leaving in the hands of the Bank 104,3061. 19s. 6d. The following is an account of the amount of advances made by the Bank of England to Government on Exchequer Bills and all other securities, including Ex chequer Bills, Deficiency Bills, Navy Bills, Victualling Bills, &c., at the under-mentioned periods :-1826, August 26, 1,865,315/. ; 1827, February 26, 3,014,9061., and August 26, 3,727,331/. ; 1828, February 26, 3,328,628/. and August 26, 3,533,895/. ; 1829, Fe bruary 26, 2,303,4981. and August 26, 3,373,350/. The amount of property locked up by the Court of Chancery appears by a return of the Accountant- General to be as follows :—Cash, 1,4964337/. 4s. 2d. ; invested in securities, 37,719,9881. 15e. 11d., arising from 9,007 accounts. The number of persons committed for con tempt of the Court of Chancery since March, 1827, was 96 ; of whom 65 were discharged from contempt, six died, and 25 remain custody. So vivid were the flames issuing from the burning of the English Opera House and its neighbour hood, on Tuesday morning, that the reflection, as:far off as Kensington, illumined the street and the windows like the rays of a bright morning sun ; and the smell of the fire was as strong as if it were raging at the Palace, instead of being so distant as the Strand. The light was much stronger, and more expanded, than that of the Argyll Rooms, as seen from the same spot, though the latter fire was a mile nearer. see If pure specimen any body of the native Yankee, such as MA THEWS would represent, if the New England character England were very anxious to were to be truly represen , ed by him, I should say with you, look at Sir FRANCIS 13URDETT, Or ROBERT OWEN, of Lanark. Either of these would pass through New England for a native New Englander. Their carriage, their look, and voice, their general habits in society, are so very much like those of the New Englander and the well-educated American of the New States, that 1 could never listen to either for five minutes without being car ried away by the delusion.— Yankee and Boston Lite rary Gazette, THE HADDINGTON MURDERS. We have learned from undoubted authority the mode in which Emend describes himself to have committed the murders. Imaeining that a haber dasher of the Southside, called Mr. G., and Mrs. Franks, had occasioned all the bickering. and heart burning betwixt him and his wife, he conceived the most deadly resentment against both, particularly against Mrs. Franks, whom he seems to have re garded as the chief enemy of his domestic peace. Under the influence of this feeling, he began to me dite evil against his sister-in-law; and so fully pos sessed was he with this fell purpose, that some time before the murder was committed, he says he would have " taken his revenge had she (Mrs. Franks) been a man." But "he bore _himself down," to use his own language, and the mortal purpose passed away. On the Sunday, however, after the quarrel with Mrs. Emond, Ind his attempt to throw her bodily into the well, when he came to reflect on his conduct, he was stricken with remorse for his usage of his wife, and he determined to be revenged on the person whom, right or wrong, he believed to be the principal, if not the sole cause of his domestic disquietude. Accordingly, on the Sunday evening he left his room by the window as described in the evi dence, and set out for Abbey, with a predetermined purpose to murder Mrs. Franis. When he reached the cottage he knocked at the garden-door, at the same time announcing himself; and Mrs. Franks,knowing his voice, after a short while admitted him. Then Emend contrived' to lead her into conversation, and having thus thrown her off her guard, he struck her a violent blow with a bludgeon, which,however, had not the effect of stunning or depriving her of her senses; for, strong from terror and the love of life, she ran out of the house and fled towards the gar den-door, pursued by Emond. • lie overtook her near the pig-sty, seized hold of her, cut her throat with his pen-knife, and then threw her into the pig sty. He next bethought himself that Magdalene Franks was still alive, and might _bear witness against him; so, having despatched her mother, he instantly returned to the house and beat in the brains of the daughter with some heavy instrument which he calls a bludgeon, but which, from the nature of the wounds inflicted, must have had sharp angles. He had no sooner done so, however, than he was struck with remorse, and in order to conceal from his view the shattered head of his innocent victim, he covered it up hastily with the carpet. And having thus murdered Magdalene Franks, he took a table-knife, daubed it with blood, stuck on it some grey hairs, torn from the head of Mrs. Franks, in order to create a believe that the murders had been perpetrated by this instrument, and then threw it carelessly down. The pen-knife with which he cut the throat of Mr.. Franks was taken from him by Mr. Lloyd, superintendent of police for the county of Haddington ; and he has been heard to remark, that " Lloyd little kens what the whittle did which he carries in his pocket." He appears to have no remorse whatever for the murder of Mrs. Franks, whose life he seems to have conceived himself en titled to take, in order to satiate his ve n gean c e ; b u t whenever the name of Magdalene is mentioned, or the idea of her shoots across his mind, he is imme diately seized with the most dreadful fits of despair, and exclaims—" The innocent blood calls for ven geance 1" The miserable wretch has not yet ex plained in what way he left the premises after the murders were committed ; but it is manifest that the breaking of the panes in the two windows of the lumber-room, the upsetting of the flower-pots, and the overturning of various other articles, must have been done for the same reason that he dabbled the table-knife with clotted blood and hair—namely, to create an erroneous impression as to the real mode in which the murders were committed. It was his intention to have been back to Berwick before day light; but the precautions which he judged neces sary for his safety delayed him too long. Never, in short, was a great crime perpetrated with mere des• perate barbarity, or with a greater degree of caution and foresight in the view of preventing a disclosure. —Glasgow Herald. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE. On Tuesday last an inquest was held at Driffield, by Mr. Conyers and a respectable Jury, over the body of Miss Mary Johnson, a respectable female, who came to her death by taking arsenic. The de ceased had resided with Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, of Driffield, from her childhood, being an orphan ; and on Monday morning was left, along with Mrs. Dodgson, in charge of Mr. Anderson's house, while he and Mrs. A. went to IC;lham, to attend the funeral of a relative. About eleven o'clock the deceased told Mrs. Dodgson that she wanted to go into the Market-place, upon some business. Mrs. D. endea voured to persuade her to stay at home, alleging that Mr. Anderson would not be pleased at her leaving home in his absence—but the deceased said that she must go. She went, and returned in about twenty minutes,—and upon Mrs. Dodgson saying in a jest that she believed that she had been seeing Todd, a young man with whom she was acquainted, the de ceased burst into tears, and exclaimed—" 0! Mrs. Dodgson, don't tease me." A little after twelve o'clock, a young man,who had paid his addresses to her, called to see her—she eagerly seized his hand, and said in a loud tone, " This is the last time this hand will be shaken by me on this ride eternity." The deceased began to be very sick, and called out for water, as she felt a burning heat at her stomach. From this time the deceased became visibly worse, but would not allow a doctor to be sent for, and as Mrs. Dodgson and Mrs. Randall (a person who had been called in) had not the least idea of her having taken any poison, medical advice was not sent for till after three o'clock. Mr. Horwood, surgeon, was then called in; he found the deceased insensible and vomiting blood; he gave her medicine, but she lingered in great agony until Ave o'clock. It ap peared in evidence before the jury, that the deceved, when she left home in the morning, went to the shop of Mr. E. Creasser, druggist, and asked for half an ounce of arsenic. The young man in attendance asked her what she wanted with it, as it was poison, She said her uncle wanted it to kill mice. He asked her if site was sure of it, and she said she was. He then began wrapping it up, and placing a label with the word " poison," printed in large letters, upon it, when the deceased said he need not do that, as her uncle knew well what it was for,—but the young man put the label upon it, and the deceased took the parcel away. The deceased had been for several days in an irritated state, owing, it is supposed, to an expected disappointment in marriage with a young man, to whom she was to be united on the 20th instant. She was in the 24th year of her age, and was the daughter of the late Mr. Johnson, well known as a schoolmaster is Driffield.—The Jury, after a patient investigation, returned a verdict— " Chat the deceased came to her death by taking poison in a fit of temporary insanity."—Hull PacAct. We are sorry to announce another breach of the Glen-bank, which occurred Billet the termination of the front, beyond Guthram. The inundation has spread itself over what is called Digby's Wa'h, and several hun dreds of acres are flooded to the depth of three or four feet. —Boston Gazette. MELANCHOLY S UlClDE.—Yesterday an in- L ues t t h e Vr Si b s o h d e y l d o a f t vv_ tti l e L l L J i n A i lc corn s , T J zz er ß m i s i3 tr A ee x t ;R S , t..J g a ed me 2 ll;: : The deceased, who was a law student, lodged at 26, Duke-street, St. James's. For some time past he had been in a low nervous state of health, frequesstly complain ing of his head. On Tuesday, his father came up from Shrewsbury, to visit him, and in the evening they went together to Drury-lane Theatre. The deceased, who com plained of indisposition, returned home before this per formance was over, and immediately went to his room, where he was found by the servant on his knees, engaged in prayer. Ile soon after retired to rest, and about five o'clock in the morning got up, and threw himself out of the window into the street. He was killed on the spot.— The deceased's father, who was examined, said his son's habits were temperate, but he had lately lst•oured ul:tict• gi eat depression of spirits. lie knew no vasse fur it; A verdict of "Inasnity" was retursod by the Jury.