The Sun. — London, England, 1833-04-22 00:00:00

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Wh en we l oo k :at, such of those p et i t i ons as go i nto de ad, and wh en we examine the Bill brought clipy Sir AN DREW AGNEW, we feel convinced both he and his supporters, however well meanin g th e th e i r wish y may b e , h ave rat h er consu l te d es rend er than w h at t h e f eel i ngs of t h e wor ld 1 ‘tler practi ca bl e. After what we have e t a , i ' l ' respecting the desirabl e n es s of having 1 ,, 11 - ot,k B ii n lg a daY pres erve d as a day of rest to the Populatio n, we shall not fear being mis n"ersood in attempting to cony.'" those of our readers, who hav e signed any of these l ! titie ns, that the o bj ec t t h e y h ave i n view f Can not po ss ibl y b e atta i ned b y means t o a,ll legisl a ti ve enactment. Those who, pr:Plte of the r e l axat i on of the ancient law ex pressly sanctioned by th e Di v i ne f oun d er o f o ur b e t'l'n contend that servants should not even -h eir ine„;ll°Yed to serve th e i r masters w ith their i ii - 1 /1 the Sund a y ; t h at s hi ps s h ou ld sto p a re eir course at sea—such persons, we say, pot Suite justified- •in going the length of sop beta' g Sir in AGNEW'S Bill. But when pr ' ,see 'nen of rank and wealth framing a law f ° o , l e4 ing to he founded upon a command o th tn ' 4 ,PP I Ying equally to all, which law leaves .h and any of the enjoyments of the high l iit ih rieh, but studiously endeavours to cur .,l,"e most innocent recreations of the poor te n i llen we see the framers of that law re tateng t° themselves the right of ordering their th e lg " to go where they please, but preventing conl:°°rfrotrt ordering their carriagcs,because each we eYsru any persons instead of one person—when to Les ords Lords and Baronets reserving to them hour ol . the Power of ordering their butlers at any 14, 4 the Sunday to bring them a dozen bo . ttles be se le ' but takin g care that the poor shall not of 0 tve(i by their butlers even with half a pint t he . ° l : te t, l- ' because they live in a house open to a lloth' e tjuli c , we cannot help thinking of the 4 C a - g i ill of straininc, at a knat, and swallowing 4,,, 41 , e " In truth, the fact that Sir ANDREW Co iiihs tW and his supporters in the House o ..1 0 .... t4 peet "s are chiefly Conservatives, leads us to 4 10 t , e that their conduct which courtesy 145 re N r eve nts us d enom i nat i ng pharisaical— thaofeence rath er to things of this world, ill ii: f th e world to come. JUDAS was loud 811 0 11 1 d hargl-i Meta that th e p rec i ous o i n t men t th e sold, and t h e money appropr i ate d to eattle of the po or , not , as t h e apost l e o b serves, ti e Un4 s cared f or t h e poor, b ut t h at h e ti4 al ti the b ag. So now are the Conservatives ii , , l 7:ns for Lord ASHLEY'S Factory Bill, and th e e ll "( AGNEW'S better Observance of kt 'tl - „ 4hb arh BA), to preserve the health tit o -'°hAls of the poor ;—not that they for th e 'ltem po o r, but that, knowing . their titableed Measures of amelioration are imprac- Nl v f . th ey hop e to bring those, .who, being itit'd:netids of the poor, oppose their measures, w hi t h 4te t-tte with that part of the community l'llt sets,n,l4Y to itself to be misled by the 414,1, :icenetier b ie e vii 4 , l4 g 7ie h s osA t . tre now so ready to ever, that there are hilit}y individuals who do not see the impractica -4 the°C injustice of complying with the prayers 4r) e, Petitions, we will examine some of them . met al ' . pe sdi The first petition printed in the 'ztt e 1 to the tenth report of the Com p e All n public petitions is that from 4p, eWi 1, '4ll C. '• The petitioners deplore the i ih il S a hZ te ,t't to which the desecration of ; 4 14,, '" is now carried, and particularly l tk l , ' `` as coming most within their obser tiv ) Che ss th et acid P a ssing of boats along the navigable "ce i s canals 011 the Sabbath clay." Now l e t Nti„: l ll ° m ore healthful exercise, or innocent 11 is t o ' th an may be taken upon the water. '"e tg before the inhabitants of a city r e () t o e th "c'o can, upon any of the roads, saril the ,„_ ' h o s, wi i-ti country, and therefore thou ,,4t b 'cl , eau afford it, every Sunday take t : 1 / 4 th t u [ l ; t 'te river. The only difference be sli°l'4l N bend th e parties who are fortunate to vv , ill theirialselves by 3i , Pei th e _ mini reach of fields, is that . they means of their arms instead th tl Y r,, e!!' Exercise of some kind is abso b county to the health of artizans. Surely ' 4)4 4 )1 , Y friends would not condemn a large i i,)li t b of their fellow creatures to diseases which :one ill tow uarded against, merely because they Whi ehth as, and have only one day in the week t hi tli t h e the y Can seek that exercise and fresh air 41 rural Population have the good fortune i Joy ev fey fed tile ` , eer y day ? Again, the parties who the to th e Wilmington petition " particularly re -0 lit), sYsternatic violation of' the Sabbath, by Pa Po; t i -Y W hich the law now gives to travelling, I ,' -e 'lt Lng, coaches, steam-vessels, rail-roads, I ` l,le ' l l" utl ets ,: q l)4 rge s , and other public c onve y ances :' 1 I (1 . 11 , ,, s eve r y Sunday leave the me t r opolis by ll 4 id e(i e nt coaches and steam-boats, which are 1 )%14, th f °r the public u se an d amusement; b ut t . );, hav e 'se parties are not rich enough each I 'eY uni t e conveyance of th e i r own —because Je .e h t t ' )l 4 a employ their se r v an t s , are t h ey to Als t , t • 11 4, 4 t they s h a ll not d o what Sir t t'ch ih . ' et fell o w rislE'svis Bill expressly enables their cri tt tl . i,' s ohject s to do ? Those who main tkal, Th""etrine must either be unjust or hypo part S r "' it ) ,; te i s no escaping from that dilemma. tli e :''' th e e 1 :. .induced to hope that the greater cf petit ion Pe`ltioner s have put their names to th e t heir 'in Otter ignorance of the nature ifitoPtutrloterPraY". Some of the blunders e k , ' lr e s n - q the Sabbath Bill have fallen -pi nci - w e l l , tho e " by 4 Cloaked in fallacies, only to be Perhaps,w° h ot . 4 ve ca reful train of reasoning, that t hei r l.) e °lice adopted them will not, %Net err be I,4dtly induced to acknowledge ~ 4 )at . It ance q-estiolis Putting ignorance upon a.b tfth u f th e a side, we will produce an in 4t.t.el: 13' the upog:oss ignorance of the supporters le a nce, k at ; a matter of fact, which may, ‘lor e e l 4 ally nt - w th L em to think that they may )tie out (4 , I . `atseu upon points somewhat th e i,, tt t , h of th ' usual train of thought. e ob . S 4 R - p e : bill . jettB of the Sabbath Ob is titi )1 Pet's' u„,,,_ to Put down Sunday i, tt ; 'h us r ti 1 1 l u hid) the Wilmington tiiielt direetold for th :--" Your petitioners °use to _,t i le anent of your Honour- It enormous evil of Sunday 1 newspapers, which, - *bile they call for the labour of numbers in the printing and circulating , them, are distracting the minds of thousand ,, from the great object of the Sabbath, and become the means of disseminating principles totally subversive of the ordinances of GOD." We will leave the Sunday Papers to defend themselves against this charge, our object being to convince the petitioners, if possible, that they have not perfect knowledg Now, it so hap pens, that all the so-called Sunday newspapers are every one of them got up on the Saturday, and a very large proportion of them are ac• tually sent out of London by the Saturday night's post. It is the daily Morning papers which are really prepared (one day out of the seven) on the Sunday. Al the petitioners, therefore, ought, in common consistency, to cast out the Times, the Chro nicle, the Post, the Herald, and the Adver tiser, and take in the Sun, the Globe, the Standard, or some other of the evening papers all of which are prepared on the morning of the day of publication. This is a point to which we may again advert, for the benefit of those of our readers who may not feel inclined to admit that they have, in their petitions, been righteous over much. It will be seen by our Parliamentary report that Sir H. PARNELL has this day taken his seat as Member for Dundee. `We perceive, by an official proclamation, in serted in the Frankfort Papers, that the German Diet have caused a military occupation of the environs of Frankfort, consisting of a corps of Austrian and Prussian troops, in order to pre vent any attack from without. This measure, says the proclamation, is not meant in any way to " endanger the freedom of the city,"—a singular assertion which hears very much the air of an Irish bull. At any rate if the freedom of Frank fort be not " endangered" by the presence of an overpowering body of military, it will not be improved by it. The news from the East is still vague and contradictory, but nevertheless we can glean quite enough from it to be assured that the SULTAN'S position, so far from improving, daily becomes more perplexed and hazardous. W hat with the wily intrigues of the Russians, the bold defiance of the Egyptians, and the dis content of that vast body of his subjects whom his late reforms have alienated, and who are inclined to look on the advance of IBRAHIM rather as a god-send than as a movement to be deprecated, it is clear that he is all but reduced to - the last extremity. According to some recent accounts it would appear that he had expressed his readiness to treat on the basis of the propositions dispatched by MEHEMET ALI, through lIALIL PACHA, while other accounts make no mention of any such agreement on the part Jthe SULTAN ; but simply state that IBRAHIM, at the head of a numerous and well appointed army, flushed with past victories and confident of future ones, was hastening, by forced marches, upon Constanti nople. It seems well ascertained that at the express entreaty of the SULTAN, the Russian land forces were also rapidly advancing along the coast of the Black Sea, by Sizeboli, on the capital ; so that it was deemed not im probable that the two armies might cross each other's path on the outskirts of Constantinople. Possibly the SULTAN, who has survived many political shocks, may survive this also,—but it will be only for a season. By her present in terference (the onus of which she has artfully thrown upon him), Russia will have claims on the Turkish Cabinet, that will be but the pre lude to the overthrow, at no distant period, of the dominion of the Crescent. Whenever the St. Petersburgh Cabinet—which is only an alias, a synonym for NICHOLAS—makes public boast of her disinterestedness, the conviction is at once brought home to the minds of all ob servers of passing events, that she is secretly medi tating some atrocious act of aggrandizement. Of late she has been wondrously self-laudatory on the subject of her relations with Turkey ; she has no idea, as the St. Petersburg Journal assured us the other day, but of acting solely for the SULTAN'S benefit, who has himself implored her interference ; whence we deduce the fact that she is busy with schemes for founding a future eastern capital at Constantinople. That European policy would allow of such a step as this—a step that would at once place Russia at the head of all European Powers—we cannot for an instant bring ourselves to believe ; still as little doubt have we that Russia will attempt it by all time multiplied means within her reach, and never desist from her ambitious project till not a chance remains of accomplishing it. The China patronage is the most valuable in the gift of the India Direction, and seldom al lowed to pass out of the families of the Direc tors. When a China writership falls vacant, the usual course is fur the Director who has the fortunate turn, to present his son, if he has one of an age and qualified to receive the appoint tnent,—if he has not, it descends to the next, and so on, till it comes to a Director who has a son of proper age and qualification. So valuable, however, is the appointment considered, that the Director who is fortunate enough to obtain it, is required to give up all his other patronage for that year to his colleagues ; and so rigidly is this rule enforced, that if he has previously disposed of any appointments, he is obliged to give up an equal number of similar appointments from his next year's patronage to balance the account. The monopoly of the China trade and the China patronage, like the Siamese twins, came into existence and must expire together. THE LORD'S DAY.—The fuss made by the Agnewites ab,ut the Lord's Day puts us in mind of an anecdote that we Once heard in a country town—not remarkably apropos, to be sure, but let the pass. A looseish fellow had run in debt with a baker, one of the super-sanctified Alter much dunning, the man brought his money—one Sunday morning —to the " master of the ro!ls ;" but the pious baker objected to receive it, saying ihat he never took money on the Lord's D,y. '• Oh ! very well," said th.. other, pocketing the affront, " when you ran tel me which is not the Lord's Day, you shall have the money—.bat not till them"— The Town. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, APRIL, 21. —Wind eagteriy.--Arrived the Hatnpton, from Jamaica ; and the Trident, Douglas, from Laguira. The outward hound have sailed. PORTSMOUTH, Apart. 20 AND 21.—Wind S. to S.S.E.—Arrived the Lady Kennaway, 1 4 Ioncrief, from London, and sailed on the 21st for Madras and Bengal. Sailed on the 20th, his Majesty's NilipS Scout and Con way, for the Downs; the L-idy MaNaughton, Faith, for Madras ; and the Dorsetshire, Carrick, for Bengal. FALMOUTH, APRIL 19 AND 20.—Wind variable, light fresh breezes.—Arrived the Renalda packet, from Ri o Janiero, sailed on the 17th of February; the Thais packet, from Vera Cruz, sailed on the 27th of February, and Havannah on the 13th ult. The Flamer steam-picke•, from the Medeteranean, left Patras on the Ist, Malta on the sth, Gibralter on the 13th, and Cadiz on the 14C, instant. Off port the Fancy, Snell, from St. Michael's ; t h e Souhwack, Coombe, from Madras. Sailed, on the 19 , h, the Staumer packet, for St. Domingo, Mexico, and Havannah ; the Emulous packet, for the Leeward Islands ; his Majesty's ship Serpent, for Lisbon, with mails. His Majesty's ship Speedy arrived on the 19th from Ports. mouth, and sailed again on her return. The Renal,lo packet, from Rio, has on boari 100,000 dollars on freight; and the Thais packet, from Vera Cruz, 700,080. Tile Renard packet, from Falmouth, was spoken with off Vera Cruz, on the 27th of February. LIVERPOOL, Arum 20.—Arrived yesterday, the Con gress, from New Orleans ; the Pocahontas, from Balti. more ; the Flora, from Cadiz and Dublin ; and the Hel vellyn, from Buenos Ayres (sailed the 19th of January). Ariived to-day, the Asia, from Bombay ; the Mary Anne Webb, from Calcutta ; the Collingwood, from the Mau. ' tidos ; the Ladimans, from Jamaica (sailed the 13th ult.) the Dyson, from London ; the Tagus, from Lisbon ; the Miry, from Jamaica; the Apparancer, from Gotten burgh ; and the Camilla, from Cephalonia. GREENOCK, APRIL 18.—Arrived the Buckingham, Man, from Trinidad. DOVER, APRIL 21.—Arrived the Mosewv ; Morris Willem, Stanhope, front Matanzas. DARTMOUTH, APRIL 21 . —Off Port—Southwark, Combe, from Malta., sailed Nov. 1 1 ; Cape of Good Hope, June IS. JERSEY, APRIL IS.—Arrived the Jane, Savage, from &his. GUERNSEY, APRIL 18.—Arrived the Patriotic, Neil son, from Tarrogona. HARWICH, Aram 20.—Arrived the Eagle, Todd, from the Clyde, put into Harwich with troops. The Frederick, Backhouse, from Sunderland to Oporto, put into Torbay, leaky. The Duch ship Cornelia, Richart, from Batavia, has ar rived at Ferrol, and the Eliza, Jansen, from Batavia, at Corunna. The Southwark arrived off Dartmouth, spoke with the Duke of York, from Falmouth to Mexico, 1. 26. 1. 38. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK A Malta mail has arrived, sailed on sth April ; from Gibraltar, 13th April ; from Cadiz, 14th April. Also mails from Rio Janeiro, sailed 17th February ; from Bahia 19th January. Arrived a Mexican mail; sailed from Vera Cruz, ,27th February, and from Havannah, 13th March. The Packet Thuis has brought a freight of 756,000 dollars. POSTED AT THE NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN COFFEE. HOUSE. Extract of a letter from Buenos Ayres, dated Jan. 19 : " The Buenos Ayres schooner of war, Sarandi, from the Falkland Islands, having on hoard the garrison of the said islands, which had been sent from thence, arrived at this port on the 15th, and brings intelligence, that on the 3,1, his Majesty's ship Clio lisd taken sovereign possessio❑ of them in the name of his Britannic Majesty. This oc r•urrence has caused a great deal of excitement in Buenos Ayres. The naives declare it to be a more vile proceeding than that of the American corvette Lexinpion, because they looked upon Great Britain as their kind and sincere friend, and as a protector rather than a destroyer. Some of the naives, who are acquainted with English politics, say that the act was worthy of the Whig Administra ion, and that the Tories would have had too much dignity and honour to have lent themselves to such a transaction. Ochers advise retaliation, and that the treaty with England be annulled. The Americans here chuckle a great deal at it, because it has shiffed all the odium from their shoulders to those of John Bud. Business is a little bitter; Exclornce upon Englan 7 1. per paper dollar ; doubloons 115 paper dollar each." The accounts from Frankfurt state that the environs present entrely a m laary aspect, and travellers on their arrival there imagine that the town is in a state of blockade. The Senate has published a proclamation to the inhabi tants, stating that the sanguinary events of the 3 , 1 has de termined the German Diet to occupy that town by a mills tary force, in order to prevent any further commotions. Accounts from Boulogne state, that reinforcements are still shipping for the army of Dun Pedro. The only information of consequence we have this morning is from the East, and we find, that after the va rious intrigues resorted to by the French Ambassador, as well as the. Russian, with the Porte, the latter has con sented to treat with the Viceroy of Elypt on the terms he proposes. This may he a ruse de guerre on the part of the Porte, to gain time fur the Russians to arrive in the capital, as well as to prevent any serious insurrection in the capital. The intelligence from the Brazils is favourable, all was tranquil there. kxchange Front Mexico it is of the same tendency, and more shipments of specie are to be forwarded to England from Buenos Ayres. They are much displeased at our Go vernment taking possession of the Faulkland Islands. Jamaica papers to the 9th of March have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house :—From the Jamaica paper of the Bth of March :—More smashing by the Governor, but it trill not do, as public opinion in Jamaica is not to be curbed while it directs the govern ment of the mother country. Lord Mulgrave must adopt some new scheme to counteract his lieges, or we are afraid his Wing masters will very soon be tired of the complaints which will reach them from every corner of Jamaica. Dismissal of Anthony Whitelock, El., from the com mission of the peace in Westmoreland. " Sir,—His Excellency, the Governor, having observed your name signed, as chairman of the meeting, to certain resolutions. purporting to have been adopted at the late meeting of an assoc , ation, styling itself The Colonial Church Union of Savanna La Mer,' by which the members pledge themselves to adhere to resolutions adopted at a former meet.ng. lam directed by his Excellency to in form you that he feels it impossible to allow you to bold any longer the office of magistrate." THE FUNDS ConKik, which left off on Saturday at 871 opened at 87k, and went up to 81, at which price they are at present. HALF-PAS T ONE. The private letters from Vienna state that they expect by the next arrival from Constantinople to bear that a peace between the Porte and the Egyptians has taken place. We hear that the cholera rages with great violence at the Havannith on board the shipping as well as on the land. We hear of a late arrival at Portsmouth from Oporto. Nothing as yet transpired. There has been very little doing in the Funds during the morning. Consols have been done at 87i and 1371, and at present may be quoted 87i for Account. The letters from Vera Cruz state that five millions of dollars are to be shipped to this country. In the Foreign Market Dutch and Mexican Bonds have improved, as well as some of the money shares. Mr. Attwood's motion to-night causes some excitement in the city. _ THREE 0' CLOCK. Consolm for the Account, 87i I. CLOSING PRICES.-FOUR O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto for Account 574 Greek Brazilian Bonds 60 Buenos Ayres... Chilian Ditto.... 21 Columbian 1H24 17 Mexican ..., '36 Perir4an ...,.... Russian..., lO2l Sp a piA NPLUENZA IN THE IRISH METROPOLIS. —For some weeks past an influenza, somewhat similar to the affection atone described (the writer alludes to an AC count of the influenza here, which preceded this papagraph in the pap er from which it is extracten), has prevailed to a considerabl e extent m Duhlin. We are also informed that a sort of epidemic catarrh is now very general amongst nurses and other descriptif;ris of c atle. The severe and very variable state of thc weather for some time past may Dollin Pilot. account for the A SURVEYOR ABSCONDED.—No little sensation has b,-en produced in this place by the sudden disappearance of the surveyor of one of our canal compa nies, who left town on Thuisday n gilt, and is supposed to have fl d to the cootinent. lie took with him 1,5001. and the d b - s he has lelt, exceed that sum. It appears, also, that some discoveries, of a serious nature, have been made, reta•ive to his giving receipts for money.—Leices- C ar Chronicle. 11 ) IMPERIALPARLIAMENT THIS DAY, MONDAY, APRIL 22. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The gallery was not opened until a quarter past twelve, at which time we found about one hundred members in the Rouse. Mr. CALVERT brought up the report of the Committee, with amendments, on the C ,, ester Tolls Bill. Amend ments read, and ordered to be engrossed. Mr. HALL presented a petition from the merchants and shipowners of Newport, praying that the Swans,a Harbour Bill m iy pass into a law. Mr. TYNTE presented a petition from Watchet, pray ing for amendments in the Swansea Harbour Bill. - GREENWICH RAILWAY. Mr. Sheriff HUMPHREYS presented a petition from St. John's, and from another parish in Southwark, pray ing that the Greenwich and Loudon Railway Bill be not passed into a law. Mr. WATSON presented a petition from Kent on the sain, subject. Mr. 1"1-1ILLPOTTS presented a petition from the port of Gloucester, praying that the Swansea Improve ment all may not pass into a law. Lord ARTHUR CHICHESTER presented a petition from Belfast, against the Dublin Steam Packet Bill. ➢lr. CHARLES BULLER presented a petition from Sunderland, praying that the petitioners may he heard against the River Wear Dock Bill, in person or by counsel. Mr. W. BANKES presented a petition from Dorset, in favour of the Improvement Bill for the road from Frome to Bath. OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. Mr. DUGDALE presented a petition from Nuneaton, and other paces, for the better observance of the Sab bath Day. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Mr. DUGDALE presented petitions for the abolition of slavery from the same places ; and against the Beer Bill, from Norbury and other places. Mr. CALVERT presented a petition from Wolgar, praying for the immediate abolition of colonial slavery. Air. HADLEY presented similar petitions from Burton upon-Trent, Bridgenorth, and other placee in the county of Nottingham. CORPORATION OF EXETER. Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from the city of Exeter, complaining of the abuses existing therein. Re fereed to the Curporation Committee. Mr. W. PETER presented a petition from Bodmin, in Cornwall, against ❑egro slarery ; and from Fillack, to the same effect. BEER SHOPS. The Earl of KERRY presented several petitions against the beer-houses from the churchwardens, over seers, and others, of Caine, in Wilshire, and from the ministers and churchwardens of Wootton Basset. ASSESSED TAXES. Mr. WATSON presented a petitoTrifrom the Mayor, Alderman, and Common Council of the City of Canter bury, for a total repeal of the Assessed Taxes. The Hon. Member also presented a petition from the same place for the abolition of negro slavery. The Hon. Member next presented a petition from a person of the name of S iinuel Dobell, residing at Cranbrook, in Kent, praying the House not to pass the Sabbath Bill. Also a petition from the inhabitants of Gravesend and Milton in Kent, against negro slavery. Mr. W. BANKES presented petitions for the bettter observance of the Sabbath from the inhabitants of Strat. field, Dorset, and Farninchatn. BEER BILL. The How. AIEMYER also presented a petition from the Justices of the peace, the overseers of the poor, and a great many respectable inhabitants of Dorset, against the beer houses. The petitioners stated that the cases brought be fore the sessions had greatly increased since the passing of the late Act._Referred to the Committee on the beer bill. SUNDAY TRADING. The Marquis of CHANDOS presented a petition from Buckingham, for the prevention of Sunday trading, and Sunday travelling. The Hon. 111 ember also presented a petition from Atnersham and Ileaconfield to the same effect. BEER ACT. The Hort. MEMBER. also presented a petition from the minister and inhalii!ants of Uxbridge, in Middlesex, praying the House to tike the subject of the late Act for the sale of he-r into consideration; and from Great Miss sinton, in Buckinghamshire, praying the House to make such alterations in the Beer Act, as would tend to dimi• nish the desnoralization which at present existed among the poorer classes. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Major HANDLEY presented petitions from Dollington, Spalding, and other places, praying for the immediate abolition of slavery. Mr. COLLIER presented similar petitions from the Wesleyan Nleiliodis!s of Ebenfzer Chap,l, the Congrega. tion of Baptists, and of the Independent Dissenters, all in the borough of Plymouth; and from Walkehampton, Prater, Vympton Maurice, Plyinpton Earle, Tainerton Foliott, and other places in the county of Devon. The Hon. Member expressed his decided concurrence in the prayer of the petitioners. Mr. WYNDHANI presented a petition from Diss, Gresham, Bradford, and other places in Norfolk, praying for the abolition of slavery; also a petition for the aboli tion of the duty on tax carts from DlB4 ; also a petition from Norwich for the repeal of the house and window tax. Mr. EVANS presented a petition for a reform of their corporation, signed by 5,846 inhabitants of Leicester. The Hon. Member entered into a detail of the abuses of the corporation in the administration of their funds, election of officers, the administration of justice, and other pafticulars.--Tbe last petition was referred to the Committee on Corporations, and the others were laid upon the table. The Hoz.% MEMBER also presented petitions against slavery from Bond-street Chapel, Leicester, Longford, and from Rothlev, for the better observance of the Sabbath. Mr. HALFORD defended the Corporation, and said that the Corporation had undertak-n a prosecution against the local newspapers for pu dishing the statements of the petition. He begged the House would therefore suspend its judgment. Mr. ROEBUCK asked, as there was a prosecution, whether it bad been in such a form as to admit of the truth being pleaded in Justification ? Mr.HALFORD—The proceeding was by criminal in formation.--( Hear, hear.) Mr. WYNNE ELLIS supported the prayer of the petition, and only feared the Committee would not be able to carry its sufficiently far hack. Mr. HALFORD said that some of the sums complained of, as expended by the corporation wrongfully, had been allowed by the C .urt of King's Bench. As for example, a sum of 5,000/. in a contested election. Mr. O'DWYER said that it would subject the corpo. ration to a prosecution. Mr. EVANS said that the corporation was charged in the petition with spending 10,0001. in the election. Mr. POULTER presented a petition, praying for the ;iboli.ion of slavery, from Shaftesbury. Mr. A. WILLIAMS presented a petition from the ma gistrates of Alontnouth, against the beer shops.—Referred to the Committee. Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY presented a petition for the abolition of slavery, from Chipping Sudbury. Mr. DANIEL GASKELL presented similar petitions from Horton, in Bradfield, Yorkshire, and a parish in Essex; also, a petition from Wakefield, for the abolition of taxes on newspaper 9, th, : assessed taxes, the soap, and other taxes pressing or, the poor. He concurred in the prayer of the petition, considering these taxes the cause of the increasing pauperism and crime. A property tax only cools relieve the people and effect this object. Colonel HAY presented a petition from Kintore in favoce of burgh reform. Mr. HENRY HANDLEY presented petitions for the abolition of slavery, from Billingham and other parishes in Lincoln; also a petition praying that places of dissenting worship might be exempt from any charge for poor rates, from different Methodist congregations; also a petition from the farmers of Peterborough and its neighbourhood, complaining of the losses they have suffered by the adoption of the imperial measure. Mr. MICHAEL ANGELO TAYLOR presented a petiriOn avainst slavery frt,m Sudbury and two other places. M r . NALL presented similar petitions from Monmouth. HOUSE AND WINDOW TAX. Mr. TENNYSON presented a peti.iorn from the inha bitants of St. Cimberwdl, praying that the House and Window Tix might be abolished. Mr. W. ROCHE presented petitions from the Chris tim people of Limerick, praying that the same indul gences and privileges might be extended to the Mo ra vi,ns And Quakers which oth er c l asses o f h i s M a j esty ' s sub j ects possessed, and from the Christian people of Ennis, to the same effect. 111 r. H. SHAW presented petitions from several parishes in SuffoElf, for the abolitio❑ of slavery. The petitioners were "ti.fiell the whole of the population of Engand wi-re really and willin g to sacrifice every thing to attain th s object. SUNDAY TRADING. Lord WAI. LENNOX presented a petition from the roaster bakers of Kiug's Lynn; praying for the suppres, of Sunday trading. An HON. MEMBER wished to know whether there was any local Act that compelled master bakers to bake pk and puddings en a Sunday....( Hear, hear, from Dlr. ROEBUCK.) Mr. W. BRODIE presented a petition from the inha tntants of New Sarum for a repeal of the house and window duties. T e Hon. Member also presented peti tions from the Wesleyan Methodists, Church-street. Salisbury, for the abolition of slavery, and from the Wesleyan Methodists of Steeplefort chapel, Wilts, Alhany chapel, Dowton chapel, Winterburne chapel, Ciiitter, Wilton, Campwith, White Parish, Fordham Bridge, and Amesbury, and from the inhabitants of Hiekrninster, Dowton, Berwick, St. John's, and various other places in the county of Wilts, all praying for the emancipation of the slaves. Mr. Sergeant SPANKIE presented petitions from St. George's, Bloombury, and St. Giles's in the Fields, pray ing for a repeal of the hou•e and window tax. FACTORY BILL. Mr. STRICKLAND presented a petition from Highan. Bridge, in HaUtz, in favour of the measure for the relief o' children working in factories, and praying that the pass ing of that Bill might not be delayed. Also several peti tions for the abolition of colonial slavery, from the Wes leyan Methodists of Methley, in York ; from the hills tants of Cadton, in the West Riding of York ; from th, Protestant Dissenters of Green Harnerton; and from th, inhabitants of Hamswiel, in Yorkshire. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Mr. SLANEY presented a petition from the metho dists of St. John's Chapel, in Shrewsbury, and from the independent congregation of Swanbill, Siirewsbur, for the immediate abolition of shivery BETTER OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. _ _ Mr. C. MARJORIBANKS pr,sented a petition from Esberwood, in Berwickshire, for the better o-servance the Sa bath. He trusted that, unmolested by harsh snit severe enactments, the people would still be permitted to enjoy a walk on Sunday. Th' proposed Bill would en velope the English Sutiday in a Scotch tnist, and he was of opinion that the existing laws on the subject were quit, sufficient. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Mr. MARJORIBANKS then presented a petition it, avour of the immediate aboltion of slavery, from Col ston, i❑ Berwickshire. The Mon. Member supported the prayer of the petition ; and then presented petitions of a similar nature from other parishes in the same county. ' 7/ MALT TAX. Sir R. SIMEON presented a petition from the inhabi tants of the Isle of Wight, praying for the immediate repeal of the malt tax. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Sir FRANCIS BLAKE presented a petition from the Primitive Methodists in Berwick-upon-Tweed, in favour of the immediate abolition of slavery. The Hon. Mem her supported the prayer of the petition. Mr. M'LEOD presented a petition for borough reform from Nairn, and regretted the Lord Advocate's Bill had not given entire satisfaction to the people of Scotland. The petitioners objected to the limited nature of the con stituency, and to the power given to the Provost and other burgh officers. He concurred with the petitioner to a considerable extent, and thought their suggestion worthy of the attention of the Comtnittee.—Referred to the Committee. Sir J. TYRELL presented a petition from Manning tree and other places in Essex, for the abolition of slavery and tithes, and the better observance of the Sabbath ; also from the housekeepers of Essex, against beer shops; also a petition from Braintree and Bocking, in favour of the repeal of the house and window tax. Mr. ROEBUCK presented a petition from London and Westminster, signed by 2337 persons, praying that the British Museum and other scientific places might be open on Sundays, as a means of diverting the working classo from public-houses, &c. When Sir Andrew Agnew's Bill came before the House, he should move that the prayer of the petition be embodied in one of the clausea. He had also a petition from a boy, named George Barber, who had been imprisoned for selling unstamped publica tions. lie pointed out that newsvenders lent papers out for hire without being punished, although the penalty for each act was fil. Also, a petition from Richard Cathie, who complained to him that he had not been able to get any Member to present his petition.—(Hear.) His petiti-n contained nothinr; improper, and he should think it a breach of duty, if he did not present the peti tion of any person that r quired him. Mr. Carlile had now been in prison for three years, being unable to find security to keep the peace, for the t-rm of his sentence was only two years. The Hon. Member then detailed from the petition, the heads of the persecutions, as ll should call them, Mr. Carlile had suffered, and took occa sion to make some strong remarks upon the incompetency of the present Recorder, and hoped he would not long encumber the country with his service. Mr. LAMB stated, in reference to the petition of Geo. Barton, who complained of having been imprisoned for selling unstamped publications, that no mitigating circum stances had been stated, except that another branch of the Act of Parliament had been frequently infringed without any punishment following. As to the petition of Richard C irlile, his prosecution by the Attorney-General had been perfectly justifiable, and deserved punishment indepen dently of his previous character and conduct. The publication he had written and circulated among the agricultural population when the fires were blazing in almost every county in the kingdom, had been pronounced by a properly constituted jury to be libellous and tending to excite to incendiarism. The conduct and principles of this individual were extremely shocking to every virtuous mind ; and the justification now held forth was most frivolous. At the same time he (Mr. Lamb) would make inquiry into the allegations contained in the petition. Mr. O'DWYER reprobated the opinions and conduct which had been entertained and pursued by the unfortunate Carlile, but expressed hie hope that some inquiry would take place into the circumstances of his case. Mr. ROEBUCK in explanation stated, that he bad not the remotest intention, in presenting the petition, to ad vocate or approve of the principles entertained by Mr. Carlile. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Mr. WATKINS pre , :ented petitions for the abolition negro slavery, from the Baptist persuasion of Hay, Breck neck, Llangovcn, and from the Methodists residing a' Brecknock. Mr. W. TURNER presented a petition for the aboli tion of negro slavery, from the Wesleyan Methodists of New Row Chapel, of Horton 'rower, of MeHand Chapel, Blount-street Chapel, Blackburn Chapel, and Dernore Chapel, all in the county of Lancaster. Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition, mml numerously and respectably signed, from the Protestan dissenter , . of the independent denomination. The Hot 4. MEMBEa also presented a petition from the electors and rate-payers of Brecknock, complaining of the corporation abuses.--Referred to the Corporation Com mittee. And others from the town of Arundel, iAa.l its vi cinity, praying for the abolition of what they justly termed the greatest of all abuses—colonial .davery. The Noble Lord had fully concurred with the petitioners in their de testation of a system revolting to a just sense of human nature, and of the obligation of the Christian religion, which imposed on us the duty of doing by other, what we would wish to be done by. Mr. LOCII presented a petition signed by 876 magis. trates and inhabitants of Devizes, together with sever:a other petitions front various congregations of Protestart Dissenters in the county of Wilts, for the entire and int me,iiate abolition of slavery and a better observance of the Sabbath, An HON. 111EianEa presented petitions from the inde pendents of Devon for the abolition of slavery; also front the agricultural Union of Devon, in favour of a commuta tion of tithes. Mr. WILLIAMS presented a petition from the Baptists and Independents of Dorebester, for the abolition of negt o slavery. Sir G. PHILLIPS presented petitions from the Inde pendent, 134ptist, and Unitarian bodies, of Kiddermins'er, Worcestershire, in favour of the abolition of coloni.i slavery. Mr. GORDON presented petitions from Kettering, Posey, Killshead, Rolestone, and Aylesbury, to the same effect. Sir S. WHALLEY presented a petition from the ves try of Maryl e b one , earnes tly but respectfully in•isting etf the abolition of the house and window tax. He hoped the Noble Lord (Lord Altborp) would atter.d to the prayer of the petition. His plan was only an insult to those who had 1 eg suffered under an accumulation of taxes, which they were no longer able nor willing to pay. Mr. COUTTS resented a petition from certain Pro-, testant Disseutars against slavery. BURGH OF DUNDEE. Sir H. PARNELL then presented himself at the ta bl e; and toook the oaths and his seat, havin... ' been elected for the Duadee district o f b urg h s, i n the room of Mr. Kin loch, deceased. The SPEAKER left the chair a► 1 r;..it minutes past :three! THE INFLUENZA.--A sick lady assured her me :icAl attendant the other d.iy that she way quite 'tire there would be a general epedewic disorder, for the mackarel came in so soon and plentiful. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WE/rk, : , -,,,,-----., 17 ji e. :,• From From Whence. A.... ' F ; k.'• ‘.4 • • r. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs, Qrs. Qrs. Scks. Aldborough lO5 511 - .... - - 50 Alemouth Boston 1 - -- - 3427 60 Bridgwater - - - - 00 Bridlington - --240 30 -, - Cowes - 30 100 - - 259 Dartmouth - - 15 - - - -, ~. Colchester 322 217 450 - 3(1 11 3so ,-' Harwich - 14 - 740 ;',, 4 Leigh 498 132 - 75 120 24 _ Ma'don 394 129 50 72 900 55 1 534 Exeter - -- - -- - - 111 Dull B6O - - ...- - - 157 Ipswich 64 1009 1496 - 50 - 396. Kest lO4B 699 - 122 115 67 660 Lowestoft - - 431 - - - - Lyme ......... - - - - - - 150 Newcastle - - 55 .... - ..- - I: , , l i ewh o a u vg _.- 10 - 1 ..: ...- .:...... t..20 Poole _ ..._ .. - - - 105 Rye 5O -.- 110 - - _ Southwold - 290 540 - - Spalding - - V3O -- 1 3.,0 Stockton - - -.- 25 .... F3O Woalbridge l7B 1062 38 - 32 _ 405 Yarmouth 122 966 2172 -- 26, 20 470 Aberdeen - - 1060 Op 6 _ Arbroath - 410 -.-. ..,. Banff - law 7 - 8 21 Berwick - -2 20 q 13 - 50 Dundee- .... .... -. 23 _ Inverness 430 --..- 160 - 60 Leith 'l ., •-• -20 - 11 -, .........11. •1''..+.0 .......... ....., ............. ............ ..........., 32:19 6035 6861 10113 792 28,5 i 6470 1 RIM% Belfast Cork 2397 - -. 1433 - - a 64 Dublin - 117 - - .- - 611 Galway ... Londonderry - 1499 - - -, Newry Sligo ..... ... ~••• • • - - - 250 - - - VVatertbrd -, .. ..- --I - am Youghall 534 - - 3239 - - - FORkIGN. Dantsic - - - ... - - 100 Total AGGREGATE QUANTITY of OTHER RINDS OF PULSE. AGGREGATE Rye, 20—Tares, Bt')3o QUA 'M' [THFIELD MARKe.I :, 0.~ This day's supply of Beasts, Sheep, and Porkers, was but li, mited ; of Lambs and fat Calves moderately good ; the trad e was dull throughout, With Beef, Veal, and Pork, at Friday's qua tations ; with Mutton And Lamb at a depresston of 2d. per stone s PRICES PRA STONE OF BLit% TO SINK THY OFFAL% s. d.tos.d., s. to t, d. Inferior Beasts 242 8 ; Large Lambs 00 0 0 Second quality ditto 3 2 3 101 Prime small ditto 5 6 610 Prime large Oxen... 310 4 0, Large coarse Calves 3 4 4 0 Prime Scott, 5m.... 4 2 4 4 Prime small ditto". 4 8 410 Inferior Sheep 36 4 0 Large Hogs 32 3 8 Second quality ditto 4 4 4 Small Porkers ...... 44 4 8 Coarse-woolled ditto 410 5 0 Suckling Calves 12s. to2B. each. SouthdownWethers 5 4 5 6 Quarter old Pigs 128. to 18.. each. SUPPLY, AS PER. CLERIC'S STATEDIENT. Beasts. I Sheep and Lambs. Calves. I Pigs. 2,000 I 16,100 100 up the other northern roads 104 130 about About 50 of the beasts came up the St. Alban's road; , sor. from the western and midland district s; about 1(.50 from.. bout 40 from Kent c.ilk, Suftblk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ; . & . n the neighiumrhood of London. _ sod Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, e. about WO (includi_ng Irish) NEWGATE AND LEADk:NHALL MARKE TS. At per 'tone, by the Careite. I. d. toe. cf. S. d.toe. d, ieel, inferior ....... 2 2 24 I glutton, liiferior 2 4 2 --- prime large... 3 2 3 4 —...—..—... prime nio 4 210 --- mi d d u ng 3 4 ---- prime small... 3 8 3 8 Pork,lar . " 4 8 Veal 3 0 4 s _____,„l,l:- : -•-•• 8 2 3 8 loanlb TIVIMIMOVI.CM.III 5 5. 94, • •••"" 4 43 114 to 44. QV,, middling 2 // i EAST INDIA HOUSE-(TIIIS DAY.), The Proprietors again assembled to-day, at the East India House, to renew the discussion on the subject of the propo sitions made to them by the Board of Cnatrol, re respecting their Charter. C. MARJOKIBANKS, Evguirs., in the Chair. Among the proprietors were, Mr. Heave, M.P., at d Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS. Mr. HANKEY said, in addressing the Court thus late, be lahnurid tinder considerable difficulty, from the almost impossibility of advancing any new argument. With was b the t amendments regardto th moved resolutions t originally emh little di s ti nct i on b etween them ; for although t h ey were different i n wor d s, they breathed the same sp i r i t, and spoke in t h at conc i liatory tone which the discussion of etho thought there proposed,an such an important subject so much demand-d._-(Herr, hear.) He thought the propositions made by fi . a Majesty's Government were altogether inequitable and inconsistent with the just rights of property—(Hear) —but particularly on two points—firet, as respected the amount of compensation ; and secondly, but more espe cially, as respected the situation in which the security for the payment of the dividends would be placed by the terms proposed. It was not enough for the Government to sav, " You shall have security that you receive the same amount of income that you have hitherto derived ;" fir he would maintain, that he had a right beyond that interne to the fee simple of his estate.—Hear, hear.) The Government viewed them as a corporate body only, and ituegined that as such the laws of the country gave them an exclusive right to touch the property of a eta:ite ration, although they could not by any law deprive any individual of his property. He, however, maintained that the capital of the Campeny should not be viewed as corporate property, but that it was individual property, and as much entitled to the protection nt the law as the private property of any individual in the kingtl,en.— (Hear.) Their capital was wholly the result of private and n contributions, awl he contended that in the whole of the propositions there breathed a spirit of ill: pity —(Hear)—at regarded the amount of compensation. —(Hear, hear.) They were called upon to mike a change in their affiire, which never before was contemplated, and which they ought never to be required to submit to.—(Hear, hear.) They must be aware that a large portion of their present security lay in the tenure by which they held India; but they also had a large ee curity in property on this side of the water. They were, however, called upon to give up the whole of their pro perty to other hands.—(Hear, hear.) He thought the propositions not only inequitable as regarded them selves, hut impolitic as regarded the situation of the country, and that, if persisted in, they would defeat the views of those who proposed them.—(Hear, hear. ) They would be, in fact, to transfer a large debt, due by the inhabit iota of India, into altogether a new chan el. At present the Indian debt was a favourite with the p pu lation of India, in the same way that the debt of Eng land was a favourite with the people of this country ; so that it had become, as it were, a bond of union between the people and the Government. They would also place the payment of the debt in a very new and odious light in the sight of the natives of India. The trade to China, the trade between China and India, with the facili , y at present existing of remittances between the different countries, were like the silent and gradual ope tion of a powerful machine, the wheels of which were not heard working, while the effects" produced were powerful and good.—(Hear, bear.) If the proposi tions were agreed to, the natives of India would view every farthing of the payment of the income in a new and different light. They would speak of the advantages which they had derived from the Company's trading, and speak in a different tone of its being transferred to the British nation, and indeed it would be regarded by them as a tax levied on themselves, to satisfy the demands of foreigners.—(Hear, hear, hear.) It was upon there grounds, that be considered the proposi tion sande by his Majesty's Government as unequiteble in all its essential qualities, and such as the Company crel,' not, with a due regard to their own character or existence, sanction.—(Hear, bear.) It must be remembered that the Company were the representatives of others who could not represent themselves ; they had, therefore,' moral duty to perform to others which they could not, in honotr to themselves, yield up to Government.— (Hear.) Why, he would ask, was all this demanded of the Company ? why were the C impany to sacrifice their trade to China, and everything else?—(Hear, hear.) It was because they were a Corporation, and one of the pleas of bis Majesty's Government in bringing furwaru this proposition was, under which he =et say a great deal was covered —that such was the course and current of public opinion that they could wit (Litre SPEAKING.) ---- - THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.) The arrivals of all sorts of Grain ►ere moderate during last week, and the trade was limited to the wants of the consumers. There is a good supply fresh up this morning, and the demand was pretty brisk, at little alteration from last Monday's prices. The Flour trade is without variation. CORN EXCHANGE. PRICKS ON BOARD OF SNIP. Wheat, Red (old) —s. —a. —White (old) ----Red (M 32) 42a. 466. Fine 4Bs. 525. Beans, Small (new)... --a. --s. (old) .... —s• Tick (new)....a4s 30s. (0161)....na. 345. Superfine.. 545. 561. (1832). 465. 50s. Fine 528 545. - Superfine.. 58s. 60s. Foreign free 428. 658. Rye Barley 228 245. - Grinding 258. 27e. - Malting 3os. 348. Malt 428. 488. - Fine New s2s. 565. Pease. Grey New 3OB. 325. --- Maple New 32s. 33a. - White - Boilers - HarroW (new)3os. (old).. 365. 38s. Brank —s. Oats, Feed l4s. 16-. --. New . 17s. 18s. Poland lBs. 22.. New 17s. 21s. Potatoe 26.24 a. New ...216. 235. Scotch 21s. 245. --- Irish lss. 18s 20s. Flour Town (per sack) 45s 508. Seconds 42a. 4.55. - North Co u u try 40s. 44 a. Bran