The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-30 00:00:00

AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S SPEECH, (Extracts from.) " It gives me great pleasure to congratulate you upon the hpppy condition of our beloved country. By the favour of Divine Providence health is again restored to us; peace reigns within our borders, abundance crowns the labours of our fields, commerce and domestic industry flourish, and are on the increase. Our condition abroad is no less honourable than it is prosperous at home, seeking nothing that is not right, and determined to submit to nothing that is wrong, but desiring honest friendship and liberal intercourse with all nations. The United States bare gained throughout the world the confidence and respect which are due to the character of the American people. " I continue to receive the most am!cabie anurauces from the Government of France, and the most friendly relations exist between the United States and that Go. Yernment. It hto be regretted that the convention, con eluded on the 4th of July, 1831, remains in some im. portant parts unsettled. "Since the last adjournment of the Congress the Secretary of the Treasury has directed the money of the United States to be deposited in certain State B inks designated by him, and he will immediately lay before you his reasons for this direction. I concur with him entirely in the views he has taken of the sub ject, and some months before the removal, I urged upon the department the necessity of taking that step. The near approach of the day on which the charter will ex• pire, as well as the conduct of the Bank, appeared to me to call for this measure upon the high considerations of public interest and public duty. The extent of its mis conduct however, although known to be great, was not at that time fully developed by proof. It was not until late in the month of August that I received from the Government Directors an official report, establishing beyond question that this great and powerful in stitution had been actively engaged in attempting to influence elections of the public officers by means of its money, and that in violation of the express provisions of its charter it had by a formal resolution placed its funds at the disposition of its president, to be employed in sustain ing the political power of the Bank. A copy of this resolution is contained in the report of the Government Directors be fore referred to, and however the object may be disguised by cautious language, not one can doubt that this money was, in truth, intended for electioneering purposes, and the particular uses to which it was proved to have been applied abundantly show that it was so understood. Not only was the evidence complete as to the past application of the money and power of the Bank to electioneering purposes, but that the Resolution of the Board of Directors authorises the same course to be pur sued in future. " It being thus establi.hed by unquestionable proof that the Bank of the United States was converted into a per manent electioneering engine, it appeared to me that the path of duty which the executive department of the Government ought to pursue was not doubtful. As, by the terms of the Bank Charter, no officer but the Secretary of the Treasury could remove the deposits, it seemed to me that this authority ought at once to be exerted to deprive that great corporation of the support and countenance of the government in such an use of i ts fund, and such an exertion of its power. In this point of the case, the question is distinctly pre sented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiassed suffrages, or whether the power of money of a great cur- P u ration are to be secretly exerted to influence their judg !tent, and control their decision. It must now be determined whether the Bank is to have its candi dates, for all offices in the country, from the highest to the lowest, or whether candidates on both sides of political questions shall be brought forward as heretofore, and supported by the usual means. " At this time the efforts of the Bank to control public opinion, through the distresses of some and the fears of Others, are equally apparent, and, if possible, more ob jectionable. By a curtailment of its accommodations rtiore urgent than any emergency requires, and even while it requires specie to an almost unprecedented amount in ite vaults , it is attempting to produce great embarrassment tU one portion of the community, while through presses known to have been supported by its money it attempts by Unfounded alarms to create a panic in all. "These are the means by which it seems to expect that it can force a restoration of the deposits, and, as a neces i!il consequence, extract from Congress a renewal of its Charter. lam happy to know, that through the good 4 4. le of our people, the effort to get up a panic has hitherto a iled, and that through the increased accommodation which "'estate banks have been enabled to afford, no public distress 4 44 followed th e exert i ons of the Bank ; and it cannot be 01i bted that th e exerc i se of its power, and the expendi • 1 4 4 of its money, as well as its efforts to spread ground salarm, will be met a n d re b u t te d as t h ey deserve. In Tee ts own sph ere o f d uty, I should feel called on, by the disclo se d, to or d er a scire facias against the Bank, ' it tl a view to put an end to the chartered rights it has Palpably violateJ, were it not that the charter itself citl ld expire as soon as a decision would probably be oh il ed from the Court of last resort. 4 I called the attention of Congress to the subject in my t annual message, and informed them that such measures * ere within the reach of the Secretary of the Treasury been taken, to enable him to judge whether the 6 1 10 deposits in th e B an k o f t h e Un i ted States were tire] safe, but that as his single power might l e 4 dequate to the object, I further recommended I h tlbject to Congress as worthy of their serious hives ttion--declaring it as my opinion that an inquiry into 'ell of th e i ns tit ut i on embracing the branches tell as the principal bank, was called for by the credit, ll was given thro ug h out t h e country to many serious L itel, impeachi ng t h e i r c h aracter, and which, if true, "I justly excite the apprehensions that they were no et 4 safe depositary for the public money. d li he extent t o w hi c h the examination thus recom ed was gone int o i s spread in your journals, too well known t o requ i re to be stated. Such as ma de, resulted i n a report f rom a majority of a Corn. "f Way s an d M eans touching specified points only, and ild ing with a r eso l ut i on that the Government deposits t safel y h ave b een continued in the United States. res olution was a d opte d at the close of the Session • • 1 11 k elonty of the House of Representatives. 4 4 1 1t boug h may notl from such able s to u h a concur sou w r c i e t , h of the p u bli c i nterest, or the duties of its agents, Gobe t a k en b y the other departments of Qo vernment, or eith er o f i ts branches, i tle twithstauding, wh o ll y i ncapa b le of receiving, te e th an w ith th e most sincere respect, all suggestions proceeding , art or or respect to none am I more i ncl i ned so than to the House of Representatives; will b e seen from the brief view at this taken o f the subject by myself as well more amp l e ones presented by the Secretary of the I t 'Y, th a t t h e c h ange in the deposits which had been , h as bee n d ec i ded to be called for by considerations l 'e not affected by th e p rocee di ng re f erre d t o , an d j i 4 , I f correctly viewed by the department, rendered its ' t ter of imperative duty. , j ags as y ou d o, for the most part, immediately , 'l People and t h e States by election, and pos e full es t opportunity to know their sentiments t it Con gress will be sincerely solicitous to carry 44,1 fair eff ect t h e will of its constituents in regar, I t 4 , ~A titu tion. It will be for those on whose behalf we f ,;:eeld e w h et h er the executive department of the „ I ns la th e s t e p s w hi ch i t has taken on this sub- Leo found in the line of 'es duty. Ar;DREW JACKSON. NEWGAT, Beet, inferior ...... -- middling -- prime 3 NEWCASTLE CORN MA RKET.—Dec. 28. W e had a• good supply of Wheat from the fanners to-day, the best samples of which went off readily, but the other quail_ ties were dull, at a b ou t th e prices of this day se'nnight. Having a speculative demand for Oats, there was more life in that trade. The arrivals of Barley continue to equal the demand, and sales are difficult at drooping prices. M a lt i s d ull. Rye is wanted. eis little doin g in Beans or Peas. Flour still dull. Whe7.l, Northumberland New. Ol d. ---40 s 53s 48s. 535-- Norfolk and Suffolk.. ......... ....Ws. 53s —s. --s. l Foreign -- Berwick and 5c0tch....... ...... 44s. 495.. ..... — s . — s. Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk Foreign 365. 395....... — s . — s. 30s. 34s —s. —s. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk...3os. 325......, —a. —.. s . Grindii.g and Feeding 265. 28s .. s. —s, . Ream, Small 355. 375.. .... Tick 33s. 355....... s s . 38s, Pease, White Gray ...................................... —s. —s — s . — s. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 17s 19s. ...... 19s. 9.05. Feed .......... lss 16 s l7s. 18s. Foreign .................................. — B . """s F lour, Fine (per sack) ........ ....—s• ..13 36s. 49 5 ." ...... .. LECTURES ON POLITICAL ECONOMY.-- We understand that the Lord Chancellor, with the view of furthering the interests of the Mechanics' Institution in this town, has kindly undertaken to furnish a course of lectures on Political Economy, to be delivered to the mem bers. It is not known when this valuable contribution will be transmitted; but of course no time will be lost, after their receipt, in communicating these lectures to the public. It is arranged that they shall be delivered by Honorary Members of the Institution.— Manchester Chronicle. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE -(THIS DAY, FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, DEC. 29.—Wind W., fresh breezes.—Arrived the Britannia, Ferris, from the Cape of Good Hope-- sailed October 23 ; and Corriere di Amona, from Venice. Arrived from the river and remain the Sophia, Barclay, for Jamaica; Duke .of Bronti, Harris, for ditto ; hive, Luscombe, for New South Wales ; Druid, for Montserrat; and Montreal, Stewart, for the South Seas. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 28 AND 29.—Wind N.W., very cqually.—Arrived the James Watt steamer, from Lisbon— gailed 23d instant; Aginorea, Atherton, from St. _Michael's; and Ralph, Cumming, from Seville. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Reward, Goss, from Messina; Theresa, Rowlus, from Prince Edward's bland. I.3lOUTti, DEC. 27.—Wind W.S.W. to W., strong breezes, with heavy squalls.—Dzc. 28.—Wind W. to S.W., fresh breezes and squally..—Arrived the Skylark packet from Rio Janeiro—sailed on the 14th ult. ; Eclipse packet, from Jamaica—sailed on the 26th ult. ; and Mutine packet from the Leeward Islands —sailed from St. Thomas on the 4th inst. POOLE, D EC . 28.—A rr i ve d t h e Earl Selkirk, Frond, from St. A n d rew ' s , New Brunswick. COWES, D EC . 29.—A rr i ve d the Calcutta, Bowman, from Bengal—sailed July 29, and from St. Helena on the 9th ult. ; and Marmoria, Sampson, from Batavia. LivEitroor., DEC. 28.—Arrived the Robert, Blyth, from Bengal—sailed from the Sand Heads Aug. 15. ; and Ripley, Lloyd, from Bengal. GREENOCK, DEC. fn.—Arrived the Calypso, Melville, from afmerara ; Scotia, Stewart, and Euphemia, M'Gra, from Newfoundland; and Camilla, —, from Seville. ___......_ The Sceptre, Dento n , f ro rn Havannah, has arrived off ;he Wight. The Thompson, Nelson, bound to Tobago, has put back to Gravesend, having been on shore between the Nore and Margate. The William Taylor, from Bristol to London, was wrecked on the Nass Sands on the 26th inst.—crew saved. The Hopewell, Meyrich, sunk near Milford on the 26th inst., and all on board drowned. The Menopla, Moyse, from London to Waterford, put into Falmouth with damage and leaky, being struck on her anchor, &c. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY. 1 CORN EXCHANGE. The past weeks' ar r i va l s f were cons i derable of most descriptions of grain, and th e quant i ty of flour was also lar ge . Th e trade re mained dull through ou t th e wee k at the prices of the previous Monday. Thi s morn i ng t h e fresh supplies were again tolerably w w ood. The s in tender conditiog eather continuin damp, the samples of Wheat ere chiefly in ; such as were dry obtained a ready sale a t rat h er higher prices, but other kinds were extremely dull at former rates. Barley continues very plentiful, and sale dull at last week's quotations. Beans also meet a heavy sale at previous prices. Boiling and Grey Peas meet a slack demand, and are rather lower. Oats are abundant, with a limited demand, and may be reported Is. per quarter lower than on this day se'nnight. In the Flour trade there is not much doing, and former prices are unaltered. PRICES ON 80 . Wheat, Red (old) ----White (old) 46s. 575. -.--. Red ;1833) - Fine 483. 50s. - Superfine 503. 525. White (1803) 4ss. 503. - Fine s2s. 545. - Superfine s6s. 58s. Foreign free -s. -s. 323. 365. 245. 265. 275. 30s. 30s. 325. 445. 50s. 525. 565. 3.35. 355. 365. 38s. 40s. 425. 445. 465. ►ARD OF slur. Beans, Small (new: Tick new 010 ).... —s. —s. (n) .... 231 32s .----- (old) .... 335. 355. --- Harrow (new) 325. 345. Brank --s. —s. Oats, Feed ............... I7s. 21s. .------ New ....... Poland ........... 20s. 245. - New Potatoe ............ 235. 255, - New ._ —s. —s. Scotch ............ 245. 265. --- Irish l7s. 20s 225, Flour Town (per sack) 45s 50s. -- Seconds 425. 45 s --- North Country 38s. 40s. Bran Rye Barley -- Grinding ----- Malting Malt Fine New Pease, Grey New ---- Maple New White --- Boilers ------ t i, ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN 'LONDON DURING LA --- ST WEEK. as ~1 2 to From Whence. f ,-2 . g rZ g a . i , ..._._____ - ' f Aldbormigh 577 Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Q rs . 1 Qrs. Scks. 2284 - - 80 1 161 200 1- Bridlington lO - - 420 - 1 - - is Boston 829 --- --- 2495 -- --- 300 , ,_ Colchester 270 388 995 - 142 159 1291 e Harwich - - -, g Leigh 892 201; 90 - 31 458 101 - '` Maldon lOBO 300 12 63 372 387 1721 t Exeter - 534 25 - - - 159 3 Hastings 94 15 - - - - 66 Hull 450 2453 1 14 23 1 " 73 . 7 I 160 r Ipswich Kent 1209 530 660 120 1015 501 743 Lowestoft - 109 207 ~ - -.- 535 t Lynn 7BB - - 127 - - 920 Newcastle ...... - - - 85 - - -- . Newport - Poole - 7 - - 1 35 - -' - - - , 215 - Southampton - 270 41 - - - 1 10 60 0 Stockton Wells 2O 935 - - - - Wisbeach 1045 - - 1217 - - - Woodbridge 224 1552 261 - 12 112 I 243 Yarmouth - 3419 1589 - 21 1775 28 Aberdeen - -" -" 1830 - - - Banff 3360 Berwick - l4O - 695 80 Dundee - 49 - 65 26 - - - Inverness 175 - - 340 - - Leith - - - i - - 33 - Montrose - - 1 8101 11969 5301 15048 2217 1627 11114 1 Ism. Cork Dublin - 45 3463 - - - ' Londonderry - - - 1312 80 a Waterford - 643 - 1036 -- -- - Wexford -1 - - 2947 ...... _ i _, FOREIGN. 11 Archangel - -. 1250 - - - Quebec 515 -- - - _ -__ % Coastways - - 544 - - - - it Total - .___ 7:77 - * ti, AGGREGATE Rye, o —Tares, ( 8716 i QUAIC i7—Lin Musi 114552 I TITY 0 'seed, ;Lard, 540 I 5346 121555 F OTHER. RI 1 2217 1 NDS OF I, 70-] 1 1627 111641 F PULSE. -Drank, 12-- I—Seeds r , 299. SMITHFIELD MARKET This day's supply of Beasts, Sheep, Calves, and Porkers, was limited, and the trade was brisk throughout, at barely Friday's quotations. PRICES PER STONE OF SIRS. TO SINK THE OFFALS. inferior Beasts 24 to 2 6 Large Lambs 00 0 Second quality ditto 28 3 2 Prime small ditto 00 0 0 Prime large Oxen... 3 6 310 Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 8 Prime Scots, &c. 310 4 4 Prime small ditto 5 2 5 8 Inferior Sheep. 263 01 Large Hogs Second quality ditto 36 4 0 Small Porkers 3 4 4 Coarse-wool led ditto 444 10 Suckling Calves 103. 028 s. each SouthdownWethers 410 5: 21 Quarter old Pigs 12s. to 18s.each SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. I I Beasts, I I Sheep. Calves. Pigs. 2,053 12,160 6O 130 About 750 of the beasts came up the St. Alban's road ; about 10171 upl the other nort h ern roa d s; a b out 100 (including Irish) from the western and midland districts; about 330 from Nor folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire; about 60 from Kent and Sussex • and most of the rem a i n d e r f rom th e mars h es, &c. in the neighbourhood of London. AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. ,t per stone, by the Carc ass . s. d. to s . 2 2 2 4 2 4 2 6 rgp... 3 2 Mutton. , inferior... middling.. prime...... call. r ge- ........ .......... . Pork, la 4 B. d. toe. d. 2 6 210 30 3 4 3 3 6 8 3 4 0 4 2. , 4 6 These Sessions commenced this morning, before B. ROTCH, Esq., and a full Bench of Magistrates. The Grand and Petty Juries having been sworn, some appals were called upon; but in consequence of the absence of parties, as well as some of the Counsel, the Court was kept idle for a considerable time. An appeal against an order of affiliation made upon a Mr. Weston, of Arlington, occupied the whole of the morning. The particulars of the case were unfit for publication. THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.) BUSRTESS of the HOUSE of COMMONS " If a new motion be made, pending the former motion, as to adjourn or by way of amendment, or for the pre. 1 vious question, every Member becomes entitled to speak again upon that question. " Every Member may speak in a Committee as often as 21 he pleases. ` 59 66 " An y Member may spe a k, a f ter t h e question put, and . - voice given in the affirmative, but not after the voice given -, in the negative. 535 43 " A question having been o nce put an d carried, either 926 in the affirmative or negative, stands as a judgment of the House, and cannot be questioned again in the same session. (001 ' " If a Bill has been rejected, the same Bill cannot be 5 offered to the House again the same session, nor any similar Bill ; but if altered in any point material, both t` 3 in the body and in the title, it may be received a second id time. .: " Since the union with Ireland, petitions are to he ad -80 dressed, 'To the Hon. the Commons of the United : Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament as - sembled.' They should be entitled ' The humble peti 'Tehxecfeopltiowthinogsehaovfe Pbeeeenrs,dewemhiecdhcaaurseesefnortitwleidthd‘raTwh_e :—That there were several interlincations t s he signatures were all in the same hand tval;;:ttaittohnat the petition was against a tax-bill depend btheeen withdrawn without any reason entered on : 1 1 : 4 ti hand writing; niin p ongr e angi t is i i t ;D i hpt o geal petition.' so and erasures, p o e r tit a i l o t n era w ti a o s ns in a fo n r d ma i l n . ter s lin om ea e ti t o in n i s es in the petition ; that the petition was not signed; that the pe titiontio of Commissioners was signed only by their chair ' he journal. f" The following have been deemed causes for rejecting petitions :—That the petition takes notice of what passed in a debate in the House; that it reflects on the conduct of the judges; that it is printed; or that it contains matter offensive to the House. " It is irregular to enter too minutely into the pro •ieions prayed for, and to prescribe to the House the mode of relief: and the doing so may be cause for rejection of the petition. " A petition which states any distress, and 'prays to be relieved by the charity or munificence of the public, ought not, in point of form, either to prescribe the quantum, or to mention the fund out of which that relief is to be granted. The prayer should be general, and it should be left open to the consideration of the House what the nature and extent of the relief should be. " The petition must be written, and not printed, on parchment paper. It should he in the English language. A petition in a foreign language will not be received, unless accompanied with an English translation, which must be certified to be a correct translation by the Member pre senting it. "The petition must be signed by the parties petition. jug, with tbeir names or marks by their own bands, ex cept in case of inability from sickness, and not by any agent or other person for them on th e i r b e h a l f. There must be come signatures on the same sheet or skin as the petition itself. " Petitions of corporations aggregate must be under their common veal. " A petition signed by an individual as chairman of any m eeting, assembly, or commission, will not be received ex cept as the petition of the individual signing. It is deemed a breach of privilege for any person to set the name of another person to any petition to be pre sented to the House. But some false signatures to a peti tion were held not to vitiate those that were good, and the petition was received. "If it appear that any persons have signed the peti. tion for or on behalf of others, such signatures may be erased before the petition be offered to be presented to the House, without which erasure it cannot regularly be re ceived. " If a petition not regularly signed has inadvertently been presented to the Howe, and notice is afterwards taken of the irregularity, the petition must be withdrawn. " Every petition must be presented to the House by a Member, except petitions of the Corporation of London, which are presented by the City Sheriffs; and of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of Dublin, which may be presented by the Lord Mayor of Dublin at the bar of the House. " Both the Sheriffs must attend ; but in a particular case of emergency one of the Sheriffs was allowed to pre sent the petition, the House having been informed by a Member, that the alter Sheriff was confined by illness, or WAS absent on indispensable business. ' The privilege, that all grants of monA• .''l "------ " After the previous question, whether a particular ques ton shall be put, has been carried in the affirmative, no words can he added to or taken from it, nor is any further debate allowed; but the main question must be imme diately put. "When the mace lies upon the table it is a House; when under, it is a committee; when the mace is out of the House, no business can be done; when from the table, and upon the Sergeant's shoulder at the bar, the Speaker only manages, and no motion can be made. " When the execution of a subsisting order of the House is called for, the matter having been already resolved upon and ordered by the House, any Member has a right to insist that the Speaker, or any other person whose duty it is, shall carry that order into execution, and no debate on the subject or delay can be allowed. This frequently happens in the cases of admitting strangers into the gallery, counting the House, when notice has been taken that 40 Members are not present, &c. But in cases where there is no standing order or resolution of the House, if a Mem ber propose any thing, and that proposition be not seconded, the Speaker takes no notice of it, and nothing is done in con'equence of it. " If upon the division of the House, or of a Committee, it appear that the numbers are equal, the Speaker or the Chairman has a casting vote upon all questions. But in the Lords, upon an equal division, the rule is Semper pm. sumetur pro negante. "In debating Bills in the House, no Member may speak twice in one day on the same question, unless the - Bill shall be read more than once; in which case any Member may speak as often as the Bill is read. It is otherwise in Committees, or when in the House the debate arises upon some motion concerning the order of the 7 s . House. EXTRACTS FROM THE MANNER OF PROCEEDING ON BILLS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, BY GEORGE BRAMWELL. " All motions must be made by one Member, and seconded by another, before the question is put by the Speaker or the Chairman of a Committee ; but for the facility and despatch of business, questions of course, such as appointing persons to bring in Bills, appointing mes sengers to the Lords, &c., are usually put without having been thus formally moved. The Member who moves a question (not being an ordinary proceeding) puts it into writing and delivers it to the Speaker, who, when it has been seconded, proposes it to the House, and then the House are said to be in possession of the question. 4' After the question has been proposed from the chair, it cannot be withdrawn but by leave of the House. " On the question for leave to bring in a Bill, and on all the subsequent p rocee di ngs, amendments may be moved. " On an amend men t b e i ng proposed to leave out some words, in order t o a dd ot h er words instead thereof, the first question put is, That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question.' And being resolved in the negative, then the question is put, That the words proposed be added.' And being resolved in the affirmative, the main question, so amended, is put. An amendment may be moved to a proposed amendment, either to a question or a Bill. " The Speaker must read the question to the House as often as any Member desires it for his own information. " When questions are moved upon which the House does not wish to give any opinion, they avoid it by mov ing either to adjourn, or for the orders of the day, or for the previous question, or by making such amendments to the question as change the nature of it, and make_it in o p to ro adjo urn takes adm,,iAsslbmleoteivoennfobry the Hous e o w u b s of any motion before made, or question proposed, although the same may have been long in debate ; and is often re sorted to as a method for putting an end (at least for the day) to a matter which the House does not think proper to determine by a question upon the matter itself. This motion, in order to take place of a motion already made, must be simply, That this House do now adjourn, without adding to a particular day; nor can it admit of any amendment by adding a particular day. If the motion be carried in the affirmative, an adjournment takes place to the next sitting day, unless the House shall have come to a previous resolution to adjourn at its rising to a particular day : in which case the House is ac cordingly adjourned to that particular day. "A motion for reading the orders of the day to entitle it to precedence must be for the orders generally, and not for any particular order; and if that should be carried, the orders must be read and proceeded on in the course in which they stand. But a motion to adjourn' will supersede even this motion ' for the orders of the day.' " The right of making a motion, for the orders of the day' to be read, in the midst of another proceeding, does not hold, where the House are actually proceeding upon one of the orders; it will only supersede a question upon another matter, not being properly the business of the day. I upon the people shall proceed from the Commons, has r been established progressively, and its boundaries have been from time to time enlarged. • " Prior to 1671, the Commons appear to have been satisfied with maintaining the principle, that all Bills of aids and supply, or charge upon the. people should begin with them, and that the Lords should not commence' I any proceeding that might impose burdens on the people. At that period they laid down the rule more largely, and on the 13th of April, 1671, resolved, that in all aids given to the King by the Commons, the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords. The rule was ag iin enlarged by the resolution of the 3d of July, 1678, that all aids and supplies, and aids to his Majesty in Parliament, are the sole gift of the Commons : and that all Bills for the grant ing of any such aids and supplies ought to begin with the Commons ; and that it is the undoubted and sole right of the Commons to direct, limit, and appoint, in such Bills, the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations, and qualifications, of such grants ; which ought not to be changed or altered by the House of Lords. " The first instance that occurred where the Commons expressly took exceptions to the Lords inserting pecuniary penalties in a Bill was in the year 1690. The principle upon which this objection was made, and has since been maintained, is to prevent the Lords evading the rule, under pretence of imposing a pecuniary fine or penalty. Upon the same principle, the Commons have objected to any al terations made by the Lords in the application or distri bution of pecuniary penalties imposed by the Commons. " But this abjection has not been extended to cases in which the Lords, by disagreeing to clauses, or otherwise amending the Bill, as sent from the Commons, have en tthir:zynthdrsactiri,neaf.rottx_, " The privileges claimed by the Commons, of limiting should eu:gr eh th . e_ °Meet upon which the interference of the Lords in money Bills, may be classed as follows " 1. In Bills of aid and supply, the Lords can only amend verbal or literal mistakes, such as clerical errors, appearing to be so from the context--..a surreptitious or unauthorized alteration—or such dates as may have elapsed while the Bill was depending, and words in conformity with suck an amendment;—amendments within the scope and support of the Bill as agreed to by the Commons. " The Commons also claim the exclusive care of the accounts of the money granted by themselves. " 2. In Bills imposing pecuniary burdens on the people directly, the Lords cannot make any amendment relative to tolls or rates, or in the appointment of the Commis sioners or Collectors; but verbal mistakes in designating them may he rectified. ange, would the Whigs yield to that plea ? If they would not yield to such a plea, then they would require a Tory Ministry supported by the part of the country favourable to the Corn Laws to do, against their notions of policy, what they the Whigs will not do in accordance with their notions of policy, and supported by the part of the country hostile to the Corn Laws! Any measure which honest men can press upon the adoption of others, they are bound to attempt to carry when the power is theirs. It may here be asked, are the Ministers to risk defeat ? The risk of victory on the side of the opposition is a much graver question. While the Government fights the battle of the more intel ligent, the more combined, the more energetic por tion of the people, it is indestructible, and will take nothing but glory from defeat. The fable of Antmus is of excellent application : while he rested on theground of his power,he gathered new strength from every overthrow, but when suspended between heaven and earth—in a juste milieu—he lost his charm, and was destructible and destroyed. Mr. Thomson objects to the cry of cheap bread. He says— " The cry which was raised for cheap bread, as being the all-important topic with those who wished ;to change the Corn Laws, did injury to the cause itself as much as any thing always must which was not strictly in accord ance with truth. His notion was, that cheap bread, in the sense in which it was understood by those who pro ctatmerr-R, - Ina - by Those to whom it was proclaimed, would oot be the result of such a change as they desired, The benefit resulting from a c:hang:r in the system would certainly be a more equal price of bread, and that, instead of fluctuations to the extent we at present experienced, we should have an equal range of prices; and above all the benefits which he anticipated was this, that whereas we drew the large supplies of grain which we at present re- ceived at uncertain dines from the country which afforded them, so there could be no certainty whatever that those supplies would be always equal to the demand, or that they would afford a fair and remunerating price ; and not only was the large amount of price which the country evert-- tually paid for grain actually increased by charges of other, descriptions —for instance, by charges for warehousing and interest, but the foreigner who produced that which we took from him at uncertain periods had necessarily lit tle to be paid for, for paid for at least it must be, and there- fore he could not acqu:re that taste for the products of our own country, which, under a fixed and regular scale of duty, he would be enabled profitably to do." Thus Mr. Thomson proves, that the present sys tem by its various mischievous operations raises the price of corn, and yet he alleges that to hold forth the promise of cheap bread upon the destruction of the system that makes dear corn, is not accordant with truth. There are certainly other important considerations connected with the Corn Laws, but the most important in the eyes of the people will be a reduction of price, though the amount may seem insignificant to persons of good appointments. In conclusion, Mr. Thomson said, with regard to his conduct as a legislator since his accession to office— THI .ARANGUES OF THE MINISTERS " 3. The Lords cannot begin Bills, or make amend ments which indirectly, or in their consequences, may be a charge upon the people. " 4. The Lords cannot insert in a Bill any pecuniary penalty or forfeiture, nor alter the application or distribu tion thereof, or any enactment connected with it, however remotely : and therefore the effect of the Lords' amend ments requires to be considered with much circumspection. "It appears, however, by a recent resolution of the House of Commons, which has since been made a standing order, that some relaxation is contemplated with respect to pecuniary penalties for offences." (From the Examiner.) NV ver reproach may attach to Ministers on the of want of resolution and incomplete per form of objects undertaken, it cannot be denied that ' .pon one subject they have shown matchless courage, and a determination to go all lengths, and unsparingly compass a full measure—that subject, we scarcely need add, is their own praise. Here there is no faltering, no hesitation, no backwardness, but all opposite qualities. On this question they are in advance of public opinion, and, to confess the truth, we know of no man, or set of men, who could bring the same zeal and courage to the same task. Rome had its Cicero, who congratulated the good fortune of the State in having him Consul : we have a dozen such, or they are mistaken in their estimate of themselves and their achievements. The cus ' tomary Ministerial dinner circuit has just concluded, and we ask whether there is any thing in panegyric ro match the speeches of the different members of the Government in commendation of themselves and their Administration. There runs an old maxim, audacter to vendita temper aliquid haret, rendered in homely English, "Lay it on thick, and some will stick." At the Plymouth dinner Lord John Russell thought it necessary to instruct the company that he and his colleagues were not superhuman : " Gentle.. men," said he, " it should always be remembered that in conducting human affairs we have only human abilities to bring to the task." One might have forgotten it ! This naive stroke, the beginning of the modesties in renouncement of Divine honours, reminds us of a scene played by Elliston in a for gotten comedy. A citizen, just raised to the dig. nity of an Alderman, the pinnacle of all werldly am bition according to his notion, receives an old friend, and tempering the pride that swells within him, and humanising his greatness, addresses him thus, " Sit down, Sir, s i t d own; d on ' t refuse to take a chair in my presence, for though I am an Alderman, I must remember that lam a man." Elliston's mannbing made this touch of humility exquisitely rich, but Lord John Russell's is the finer flight, for it sup. poses that others had forgot that he and his col leagues were men : "It must be remembered that in conducting human affairs we have only human abilities to bring to the task." Certainly, if we are to believe what we hear from the persons themselves, we have a dozen Catos in office, having this advantage over the ori ginal, that to the most incorruptible virtue they add the happiest success in all their undertakings. By their own several and separate showing we have Mr. Cato Thomson, and Cato Lord John Russell, and Mr. Cato Stanley; and so abundant, indeed, are they, that Mr. Cato Macaulay can be spared for India. We are reproached for not praising these personages, but they take the office out of our hands, and perform s it so as to defy rivalry, and to discourage any essays in the same arduous business. One of the Fathers asked how many angels could &rice on the point of a needle; we know not what can be done on such a stage by such agents, but upon points yet finer, points according to the ma thematical definition of points, we see how bound lessly self-complacency can expatiate, prancing and figuring about. Upon some of these points, which we have certainly passed by, thinking that no ground of praise was to be found in them, Ministers rest their trophies. Thus, in Mr. Thomson's speech at Manchester, the Irish Church Bill, which conti nues the enormous abuse of fixing a Church of one faith upon a people of another, is made a topic of glorification : "In the eye 3 of alt who are well wishers to their coun try—in the eyes of all who are desirous that the spirit of true religion and of genuine Christian charity should reign amongst our countrymen, how long was the state of the Irish Church considered as the great barrier against peace, and as the great obstacle to tranquillity ? Did the Go vernment show any opposition in grappling with that question ? Did they show a desire to avoid entering into the difficulties of it, or of surrounding the consideration of it with perplexing and technical objections? The Govern. went prepared a measure, which I will venture to say there is no man here present, who five years ago could have predicted, or if he had, who would not almost have been laughed at. To have reduced the Irish hierar. chy by nearly one-half—to have cut off one stem from the twenty-two prelates in that establishment —nay, to be pre pared to carry into immediate execution further reforms connected with that measure—proves that there must have been no backwardness in the attempt to repress a practical and a crying grievance." True, the Irish hierarchy was reduced one-half (prospectively) after Lord Grey had clearly demon strated that it should be reduced to one-sixth, but were the revenues of the needless sees withdrawn from ecclesiastical appropriation ? Not a stiver. Mr. Thomson knows full well that the Catholics of Ireland do not care a rush what is done in the Pro testant Church, their grievance is its 'imposition on their shoulders. Whether one man called a bishop, or a score called rectors and vicars, enjoy the reve nues, is a matter of indifference to them; their com plaint and their wrong is that the revenues are drawn from a Catholic people, and that injustice re mains unredressed, and was indeed protected in the passing of the laudable Act. Mr. Thomson says— "ls there any man who will sly, that after having ad ministered reform to the Church of Ireland, reform is not needed in the Church of England ?__(Enthusiastic cheer ing.) The Dissenters call loudly for relief from, ng to Inanx practical grieva nces —f rom or contributi they do no t he the s u pealiblishment to whi c h ioug ; and theirs appears to be a just and far demand." If from what we have seen done in the instance of the greater abuse of the S'necure Irish Church, we are to infer what will be done in the less flagrant case of the Established Church of England, the Reform will be a mockery truly. Lord John Rus sell, indeed, plainly asserts, that the revenues of the Apostolic Church are not too large, a proposition which encountered the instant contradiction of his friends assembled to do him honour. We respect their manliness. For admitting the claims of the Dissenters to exemption from contributions to the support of the Church, Mr. Thomson is entitled to praise, and be and Lord John Russell are here at issue, for the exemption of Dissenters will subtract considerably from the revenues which his Lordship deems not larger than necessary for the purposes of morality and religion. Upon the subject of the Corn Laws, Mr. Thom son gives us to uuderstand, that nothing is to be hoped from the Ministry. He says that they deem the system mischievous to all parties, but as the country is divided on the question, Ministers shrink from the attempt to carry a change beneficial to all against the prejudices of one moiety. This seems precisely the state of things in which a wise and intrepid Government would throw its power into the balanced scale. Why are a whole people to suffer a mischief that one half may be spared the idle apprehension of an injurious change ? Lord John Russell has compared taxation to indispensable me dicine; let as borrow his instance wish another ap plication. If one of the Siamese Twins were sink ing under a disease for which he rejected the proper remedies as poisonous, and the other implored the physicking of his worse half to save their common lives, what would be thought of the physician who argued that as they were divided in opinion, it would be better to let the malady take its course ? No, the honest doctor would be cruel to he kind, and compel the remedy. But the Lords will bite and kick; let them, but it is for Ministers to do their duty—to propose what is necessary to good government, and leave the responsibility of neglect. ing or defeating it to those who may be guilty of the folly. To forbear from attempting what ought to be done, because others may do what they ought not to do, would be a rule paralyzing all virtuous endeavour. The course of all improvement in our state of things lies through a series of defeats which must be exhausted before success can be attained. To shrink from the prospect of defeat is to turn from the road to victory. If the Tories were in office, would not the Whigs in opposition press them to a re ties! .n.. "But I tun bound frankly to avow that, independently if my connexion with the Government, had I been in the Commons' House of Parliament, simply as an independent Member, and could I have arrived at the knowledg e which nothing but official communication can give, and which, therefore, it is out of the power of any man to obtain in any other capacity—l should, I say, having that know ledge, although unfettered by the ties of connexion with Government, have acted precisely as I have done." Here we have the Cato. Office has not been even as the dust in the balance of Mr. Thomson's judgment. In another place he asks, what are the charms of place, and dwells on its toils ; salary, as they say in advertisements for comfortable situa tions, " is no object," we know; but how, accord ing to the showing of Mr. Thomson, are we to account for the sacrifices of ease and peace of mind which statesmen make to their country ? Is it the 0 the th in g knowledge but official u r c s o u rn ed under Thomson love of that m y s t er i ous k nowledge of which Mr. difficulties) makes me whichnti o n n , munication can give, and which, therefore, it is out of the power of mortal man to obtain in any other capacity ? What appears to the ignorant world a desire for place is doubtless a thirst for this know ledge. That knowledge is power we have long been told, but now we learn from Mr. Thomson that power is knowledge. There certainly is some thing in the knowledge which lies in public offices more than we read of in our philosophy. It opens quite a new view of things, and yet it cannot be communiceted in the way of reason for altered opi nions. A wonderful part of the matter is that if a man be thrown out of office, away goes all its knowledge, and he returns to his former opinions and attacks his successor upon the very points on which his official knowledge had before causal him to hold the same language, and pursue the same course. Mr. Thomson, for example, would, as an independent Member, have acted in the House of Commons precisely as he has acted as a Member of Government, supposing he had had the know ledge which nothing but office can give; and, as a Member of Government, he has held silence on his once favourite subject, the Newspaper Stamp Du. ties ; but were he in opposition to-morrow, the official knowledge which now seals his lips on that topic, would melt away, and he would show that it is above all things important to give information to the people. Having the knowledge which nothing 1 but office can give, Mr. Thomson voted against the abolition of impressment or man stealing. Detach him from office and its, knowledge, and he would , id - Veit - k' too, and speak well against the villainous practice. When the Tories were in power, they, too, had its knowledge, but we don't remember that the Whigs ever accepted its asserted fruits in pro fligate votes and tyrannical measures, in lieu of argu. ments. Had Goulburn said, "This course of policy is dictated by a knowledge which nothing but official communication can give," how the Whigs would have covered the pretension with derision and scorn. The knowledge which office can give none but an of ficial can know, and he cannot tell it ; but this is to be remarked, and it is fully as curious as the accession of official knowledge, that when a man enters office' he appears to lose all conversance with the feelings and opinions of the public. In justice to Mr. Thomson we must remark, that one set of most valuable opinions, those relating to the freedom of commerce, have not been disturbed by the knowledge that comes of office, and that he has manifested, on more than one occasion, an honesty of resolution which we respect. At Evreux, lately, a surgeon, in bleeding a patient, hiving pricked the artery, by which amputation teas rendered necessary, the tribunal of that town has condemned the unskilful practitioner to pay him 600 francs as damages, and to settle on him an annual pension of 150 francs.— Galignani's Messenger. Lord Napier took leave of the Directors at the East India.house on Saturday, preparatory to hie leaving England for Canton, to enter upon the duties of his new appointment as chief commissioner for regulating the tride with China under the provisions of the Act recently passed. The Queen of Portugal has been graciously pleased to present the Countess of Sr. Vincent (t! e Lady of the gallant Napier) with the Cross and Ribbon of sixty the Order of St. Isabelh...—H am pshire Telegraph. A P PROFESSIONAL WOMAN. Bail lie ' Lumsden, of Glasgow,a d f a t y e e r , sentencingimprisonm eantCinypßriraidn,ewwelir had just completed , to a further term of sixty days for disorderly conduct, grave ! ly told her that she was " a di sgrace to her profes sion" A DENSE POPULATION.-_A man com plained at the police•offce of having been robbed at a house in the rear of 130, Duaue-street; and Mr. Hunting.. lion, a police-officer, was sent down to the house to inquire into the matter. The woman who opened the door denied all know!edg e of the affair on the part of herself and family, but said that there was another family in the house, who were perhaps the delinquents be was in search of. The representative of the second family then presented himself, and made a like asseveration of innocence, but referred the officer to a third family :ill° resided in the !louse. A person on the part of the third threw the onus on a fourth ; the fourth on a fifth; the fifth on a sixth ; and ao on, until it turned out that there ;.._ —4— families. BRIGHTON, DEC. 29. AIMEN. Mr. Cobbett, in his Register of Saturday morning, asserts t h at a plot has been formed fo r hi s destruc tion ; arid he acmes, that since the Ist of July last almost hi,. sole occupation has been to defeat the scheme, and to blow the conspirators to atoms. h s. e is to s p rea d a report that Parto not t f h e the r ealScheme, auth author h of m any says, rm of th e wr itings he has put forth und er hi e name, and that he has been indebted to his children for a great portion of the articles which have gained him his celebrity. The circulation of this report he attributes to the lawyers, " those ruffians with rusty camlet gowns on their backs, with briefbags as empty as their skulls, and their skulls covered with old grey mares' tails." He concludes thus-- " I can conceive nothing more malignant capable of being engendered in the heart, even of devils. The reader must be satisfied that such a monstrous lie could not be invented for nothing. Every one will be satisfied that it must have had some ulterior object in view. Time will develop that object completely, and I will as completely defeat it. In the meantime my constituents, my friends at Manchester and everywhere else, will now discover the cause why I have been penned up at Bolt Court for the last four months. I have not thought it safe to quit it for more than thirty six hours at a time, except in one case, and then I was absent three days. This is the seat of war; it is here that the battle must be fought, and I am resolved not to quit the spot until that battle be over." CURIOUS CIR CUMSTANCE.---There is an aged woman, about 70, now living in a town in this county, who has just cut two teeth, and is actually under the painful process of cutting two more.-- Galway Ad, vertiser. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—Between one and two o'clock on Saturday a desperate ►ttempt at self-destruction was made on Blackfriambridge by an elderly woman, dressed 1n little more than her night clothes, endeavouring to throw herself off the middle recess, which she would have succeeded in doing had it not been for some of the passers by timely catching hold of her flannel petticoat. On being remonstrated with as to the nature of the crime she was about to commit, she said that she only lived a few doors down Thames-street, and would go home immediately and go to bed ; consequently (there not being any of the police near) she was suffered to de part, when, after the lapse of a few minutes she was ob served running down the stairs at the city side of the bridge, towards the water, pursued by a little girl, who was also in a naked state, and crying bitterly. The pas sengers now secured her until s•:une of the city police came up, when she was taken to the watchhouse, on arriving at which place she exclaimed, a Oh, I am a mother of ten children, and am distracted an.d unfit to live any longer in this world." On the poor little girl being questioned, she said that the unhappy woman was her mother, and resided at No. 4, TurnmilLstreet, Clerkenwell_green, and that her name was Matthews. The child added, that about eleven o'clock, her father, who is a labouring man, came home intoxicated, and commenced destroying all the house hold furniture, as well as heating her mother, who was then in bed. The latter got up and left the house in her night clothes, closely followed by her (the child). The poor woman, after solemnly declaring that she would not again attempt so rash an act. was This morning their Majesties attended Divine Service in the Palace Chapel ; prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Wagner. In the pew with their Majesties were the Duke of Gloucester, the Marchioness of We.4tmeath (Lady in Waiting), Lord James O'Brien (Lord in Waiting), and the Bishop of Worcester and the Suite in the pews ad joining. The Rev. Dr. Everard preache.l, and took his text from the 14th chapter of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Romans, and 19th verse. Mr. Gutteridge presided at .the organ, and the choir sang the 90th and 103 d Psalms with much taste. The Princess Augusta is daily improving in health. The Earl of Errol and Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence have taken leave of their Majesties for a few days, and left for town. Prince Esterhazy and his son, Prince Nicholas, arrived at the Albion Hotel, from Chandos House, on Friday, and bad the honour of dining and passing the evening with their Majesties. His Highness's stay here will be limited to a few days, as he entertains moss of the Cabinet Minis ters, Foreign Ambassadors, and several of the Nobility at dinner at Chandos House on Wednesday. The Royal dinner party in the evening, by invitation, included Prince Esterhazy, Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, Duke of Argyll, Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmon deley, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Earl of Belfast, Lord and Lady Msryborough, Sir William Alexander, Miss Bagot, and the Suite and Household. Lady Burghersh, Baron Gurney, Lieutenant -Colonel and Miss Evelyn, Lord and Lady Maryborough, Miss Bagot, Lord Amelius Beauclerk, Colonel Frie, and Mrs. Vansittart, are amongst the fashionable arrivals. The Venerable Earl of Egremont, whose health has been in a delicate state for some weeks past, is now con valescent, and is shortly expected at E tat Lodge. Yesterday their Majesties were in public, in their cha riot and four, and received from the people, in the course of their drive along the cliffs, that respectful homage which their well deserved popularity has earned for them. Captain J. Ross, R.N., and Lieutenant -Colon e l Shawe, had audiences of the King in the afternoon of yesterday. Prince and Princess Lieven arrived at the Albion Hotel about six o'clock last evening from London. Their Highnesses, shortly after their arrival, paid their respects to their Majesties, with whom they will have the honour of dining and passing this evening. Sir Philip and Lady Sophia Sydney took leave of their Majesties this morning, and left for London. Lord Amelius Beauclerk had the honour of an audience yesterday afternoon of his Majesty. Prince Esterhazy, Prince Nicholas Esterhazy. Marquis and Marchioness of Conyngham, Earl of Belfast, Captain J. Ross, R.N., Lieut.-Colonel Shawe, Admiral Lord Aurelius Beauclerk, the Bishop of Worcester, their Ma jesties' relatives, and the suite, formed the dinner party last evening at the Palace. Tl' Queen's band attended from nine until eleven o'clock. I I; chi ;Tic Loral tches§ I Se in s ; sveno 'imp° 11-str Loft , fro r Et )n-BLI ;onyJ Rani the Valdes Deer t 'Word Brigb' y Trol; rollarl , a 100 a 85 ) 83 ) 72 ) 70 iay. .embe