The Sun. — London, England, 1830-02-23 00:00:00

mentary privilege ; and in his address to those in whose sefferings we all sympathize, and who are bearing it with a degree of patience, resignation, and forbearance, which redoubles our natural sympathy for affliction, says to them, " Do not be moderate, do not be temperate, it is your duty to resist the legislature with force, and while you do so resist what shall I do ?—Shall 1 head you in your resist ance? No ; but shall be glad to hear that you resist while I sun safe from all penalties or consequences."— ( Hear, hear.)—.l ask if that was not the effect of the language used by the Hon. Gentleman ?—(Mr. Hume negatived this,eepresentation). Oh, Sir, lam glad that the Hon. Gentleman in his cooler moments disapproves of what had escaped him. Mr. HUME said he retracted nothing of what he had before ex pressed. Mr. PEEL—I thing the Hon. Gentleman distinctly said, that when corrupt majorities of this House supported the Government in extravagant votes, the people had no remedy but in a recourse to physical force, and that he should rejoice if that appeal to physical force were made. Why, Sir, let me ask what would be the result of such PH appeal ? Could the Government in that case have any other alternative but that of meeting physical force with a decided, successful, and unqualified resistance? And then be would ask the Hon. Gentleman what were the conse quences of his appeal, and of the necessary resistance to it ? Could he reconcile it to himself that he, in his place in this House, had expressly said that he should rejoice if an appeal to physical force were made? Sir, I cannot venture to trust myself further on this subject. My feelings are really too much excited by language of the nature which I have heard, and I deprecate too strongly the success of such an appeal, to be able to enter further into detail. There are none, lam convinced, likely to support the Hon. Member for Montrose in such an appeal ; and I believe the people of this country are too cautious of the advantages they enjoy sander the form of Government which protects them to listen to his appeal ; but if, unfortunately, any portion of those who are suffering distress should attend to it, what would be the responsibility resting upon the head of that man who, saving himself under his Parliamentary privi leges, had excited them to a fruitless, hopeless, and wicked resistance?—(l he Right lion. Gentleman sat down amidst loud cheers.) Colonel DAVIES said that, if a total loss of temper showed which party had the worst of an argument, his Hon. Friend behind him was not the one who had to lament It is defeat. The Right Hon. Gentleman's censure for attacking the conduct and motives of the majority of Friday, applied equally to him (Colonel Davies), for it was he who made the attack upon them. Mr. PEEL said that his observations had not been directed against the Gallant Colonel. He had not been peeseat when the latter Gentleman made the remarks to which he now alluded. Mr. HUME (to Mr. Peel)—Why were you not pre sent ?—( A laugh.) Colonel DAVIES said that, as the Right Hon. Gentle- Men censured his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hume) for condemn ing the Government without hearing the arguments, so he should not himself acquit unheard. He would ask what proportion of the JGO majority had heard the arguments in support of which they voted. Certainly his Hon. Friend behind him was, of all men, the least open to blame for not being constant in his attendance. He did not con ceive his Hun. Friend's observations to admit of the con struetion which the Right Hon. Gentleman had put upon them He (Colonel Davies) understood his Hon. Friend only to have expreaasel hie apprehensions as to what might by the consequence if the present distresses of the people accumulated upon them, and no means were re , orted to for their redress. God forbid that he should endeavour to foment violence or discontent, but really no man could foresee the result, rr the country continued to go on from bad to worse, without any relief. When men were goaded by privation and want, they would pay regard only so the dictates of nature ; and it was tine duty of prudent men to eke all in their power to guard egainat the possible censequencea of such a state of things. Me. JEPHSOX made a few observations, in win:ell he combated the policy of any present reduction of tine pay of the soldiery. Nil- 11. HARDINGE, participating folly in the indig nation which the speech alluded to had ecited in the m i n d of hie Bight Hon. Friend, should proceed io reftita as concisely as Ise eould the misrepresentations advanced in that speech. Tine lion. Gentleman was mistaken when he described the pay of the soldier as having been increased since former times. In 1796, the prey with an increase of id .per diem lead been settled by Mt. Wiedharn, since which the allowance of beer formerly grantea via com muted to a penny additional, But no one could Fete:cal to maintaira that such commutatioo was a virtual increase, of pay, which on the whole had remaioed on the footing eetatilishell in the reign of Queen Anne. It hail bean also said that the pay of the officers was too high, and that of the Guards more especially was depreeated, i3nt he ap pealed to any is/ember present whether the subalterus of the Guards might not be said to give their services to tire public gratuitously. to feet, many around him gave higher wages to their wrier:it; 0 1 4 of livery than 7s. 10d. a day, which was their quota, and di,4 pot include many of the rosemary expences requisite to keeping op tine ap pearance at a gieptleman. They \vete, meremeee . , Fobie is go abroad, Ind aufierat to the other contingeneiez of tary life. No corps of the line had seen more active ter., vice than the Guards during tha last thirty years. They had been in Egypt, in both Ameaeleae, and the Peninsula. In the Ist regiment of the Guards, in which he and a gallant Colonel opposite had had the hollow: 444 aarye, not less than 28,000 mere lead passed through the ranks wie;oiß that, period. The pay is proportion was at the same time lower than in the time of Charles 11. Where there Were formerly IA battalions, there were pow only 56. They were likewise maintained at a cheaper vats': than in 1792, es there were at present fewer officers exit mete •e men. As in the manner in which they discharged their out, - in the metropolis, he belicecoad it gave general satisfac tion, and be had no doubt isat the Hon. Member for Westminster would testify that the .yery best under standing subsisted between them and the inliabiSente. The cavalry likewise had been stigmatized by the Hoe. who bad observed that they were more numerous now them in 1792. But he begged lease to reminp him that there were fewer regiments now than at thet period, and the ex pense W:l9 to he estimated according to the officers and not tha number of ! nen, There were then 180 rani; and file, and the number now was 300. In France the propoetioo of soCdiers to cavalry was at present as four to one, while in this country they bore a proportion of nine to one.— 'Thins the proportion of cavalry to infantry on the conti nent, was double that of ours. 'fie tabtia tine Guards, At a cut of 6,0001. perannum, was referred it; by the Morr. Member as another itoin of extravagance. Bur: recollected some years ago haviog had a similar discussion ran this very subject, when he stated that the subalterns of seven battalions of the Guards cost the erenatry less than env, r battalions of the Line ; so that after all tire.:: was a difference of one half the expense in their favour. It sea, observed, amongst other details, that the recruit:ng depart ment was higher now than last year ; bu t t the fact could be easily accounted for. There was a plan agitated, by which soldiers would be allowed to receive their discharge 1:4, years after entering tine screi,ee, and be thus enabled to leave the army (Awn at 35 years of ice, in the prime of life. He felt ,convinced, that hitherto the ditfi.carlty of getting out was a principal elute 9f the popular disgust ezainst entering the :army, and it was as well to meet this objection as to create a saving in the pensiomiisi that the step he spoke o t .r was taken. Diacharges to the number of 2,000 were so given, not as formerly, at 201., but at 16i., 7.. or 51„ according 40 the year. of nteryice. Tine charge of our colonial and l o nian islands haying been alluded to, he trusted lt. could ,„ t i,r y Ow Committee tss that point, by merely stating that theta' was a sexing eateeted in this department of 100,000/. since 1822. A fe\v eathee items would go far towards showing generally ths extent ,Of thre reduction. Iu the staff, the eluting since 1912 amounted to -g0, : 0;-;./.; in the miscellaneous; ,department, comprising eleek , e' salar*sr Las., it was 25,05 V. ',errs than in 1822: in the tueelical , department it was 11,93,31,; in the Military College it was 13,005/. ; in the Paymast.ar_ Genevan; Office it was 56,000/. ; in tine full pay of sestpg4 officers it was 41"01. ; in the half-pay it was 149,951/. ; and in the foreign ball-pay, 19,0004 The commutation bAtaveen the old half price commission , : would induce a saving o 10,0001. a year. Then there were other considerable le e/a:talons. In 1815 number of og)cers had been ; and in 1830 it sy - a,. only 14,910 ; ,t-Hs 3,495 ten the half-pay had died in the intern ti. been ssanid about .41ft/inhaling our military force; but if some , eoutesetropine, such as the massacre of the whited, were to! take eLCZ in our eeltwies, he apprehended that Govern ment would pot forward ;104 - a sorry justification if they could onlyallege in excuse thattlaew had made such a reduc- It:eon in conformity with tine redviCe of phe Hon. Member ear ifontrose. He was deecidedly opposed ao those sug getaieea, and hoped that Menr.barA would not be deterred trout doing tieeir duty by virulence end invective. DENOION professed a sir - weer iri isit to econo- I anis e , but &ft . at the earue thee the necessity of .taitably ,maiotainiug our estaldishmeorao In the colonies a very', considerable saving, in his opiniors, might be mule, con-' siietently with their safe keeping and the pepper dignity of die mother country. Lord ALTHORP, in reply to some,observstiona of tine Right tion..and GatlantSeeretary at War, could trot adroit that the present military evablialunent was tar eessary for: SIN C. 9 "ut r Y v9u l Li he vviictfr ia the krillciPle lb his comparison between the British and foreign relative number of cavalry and infantry. The Bight Hon. Gent. had said that. the proportion in foreign countries was to have four infantry to one cavalry soldier, while the Bri tish was nine of the former to one of the latter ; but the condition of these countries was entirely different, and therefore the principle of the comparison was inapplicable. With respect to the amendment of his Hon. Friend, he must say, that were it pressed to a division, he could not, for want of sufficient information as to the details, vote : . or it. Mr. Alderman C. SMITH said a few words, which were quite inaudible in the gallery. Mr. MONCK was of opinion, that both numerically and arithmetically these reductions might be made by a careful inquiry into th- , irnimstances of each colony and depot, and by a reduction of the soldiers' pay from 13d. to 11d. a (lay. He admitted, that with only a reduction of 1,000,000/. in the expenditure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not take off taxes ; but were the savin4 extended to 3,000,0001., which he thought it might, then the public might have the benefit of such a system of eco nomy, by an immediate reduction of a portion of their burdens. Mr. HUME in reply said. The Hon. and Gallant Secretary had denied that the Hors., Guards and Life Guards hail at present a greater number of officers than they had in 1792, when the fact was, that in that year their number was 7.3, while in 1828 it was 104. Sir H. IL'aRDINGE—I never said a word of the Royal Horse Guards, but confined myself to the Life Guards. Mr. HUME said, that then his whole argument bad been mistaken, for he had spoken of both descriptions of corps, and the paper which he now handed over to the Hon. Secretary, signed by Lord Palmerston, would prove the fact he had stated. (This paper was handed across the table to Sir Henry Hardinge, hut not being immediately returned, Mr. Hume excited some laughter by saying, in a loud tone, " Give me hack my paper.") The Royal Horse and Life Guards amounted in 1792 to 678 rank and file, while in 1828 they were 1,144. Each man, too, cost 751. a year, without his horse, while the infantry cost only 311. He complained in the strongest terms of the great increase of late years in the estimates of the army pay, which in 1822 and 1823 only averaged 2,550,0001., while at pre sent it was 3,000,0001., and he then enumerated the various savings in the Colonies which might at once be ac complished by proper military reductions. It was unfair for Hon. Members opposite to insinuate that he had stigmatized the Guards as unfit soldiers—he had never east such a reflec tion upon them, because he knew they had always done their duty, and were ever ready for service. He had never indeed denied the efficiency as soldiers of any of the corps, but he had shown, he thought, that the extent of force kept up was unnecessary for the country, and had entailed a great burden upon the people. Then the Right Hon. Gent. (Mr. Peel) had attacked him, and said he wished to excite the country to rebel, going in at the same time upon the whole question of the doctrine of non-resistance, lle denied that any Government could exist upon the doctrines laid down by the Right Hon. Gentleman; or that any thing which had fallen from him could encourage rebellion. " Which," con tinued Mr. Hume, " is it, I or the Government who are stimulating resistance-.. 1 who warn them of their impend ing danger, or they who precipitate themselves into it, by pressing with an iron hand upon a suffering people ? If a starving population address the Government, and say we cannot bear your pressure of taxation. ' 0, you are mistaken,' replies the Right Hon. Gent.,' I know better, for you can bear it well.' Who is the person, then, I ask, who promotes rebellion—l who wish to see justice done to those who are suffering, or the Government who have ' overburdened the people until their patience can no longer endure the load. When the Right Hon. Gentleman talks in this mariner he mistakes the effect for the cause. I wish to ward off uproar by timely concession, and he to promote it by withholding just economy. I stand here, thank God it is here I stand—(A laugh)—when I say these things, for I see the Attorney-General just entering the House ; and I know that if I repeated my words out of doors ) be would have me in his fangs in another place, where I could expect no justice from hint. But I will take care of myself out of doors, and that I am not to be caught by the Law Officers. A little prudence is, They say, worth a good deal of valour, and it is for practising it that I am to be stigmatised as a cowardly rebel. It is not I, but the Minister, whose acts tend to rouse the people to the exercise of physical force, and I have no hesitation in saying that I shall be ready to repeat every word that has drawn down upon ma the animadversions of Hon. Gentlemen opposite. I have no fear of being made re sponsible for the consequences. That responsibility rests on the head of the Government, and not of the individual who ;rankly warns them of their danger." The Hon. Member proceedail to remind the House that although he had acceded on Friday night to ;,... coneitierable limitation of his amendment, that concession was unattended by any good affect. Ile now therefore fell back upon his own ori gipa) yi faw ,, 4 4 woold persevere in proposing the larger retjuctiort i anti it was not for Ministers, but the House, to cieida, op the ease which he had made out. Mr. PEEI—I Isiah, Sir, tp explain the oloseryations which I made a short thaw ago, and I beg you to remem ber, that when I made them I said, I felt entirely satiafiad that the Hon. Member would himself, in his cooler mo naepi.a, condemn and disavow the strong expressions into the pap of whialt be had been for an instant betrayed ; and I think 414 eaapeetatiou has been realized by the ex planation whichhe leas &iYeilp therebi ahowing I did not form a false estimate of the lion. Nerober'a feeiinZo= The expressions which caught my ear, and at time moment excited my anima:version, were that the vote of this 49:-Isa: on Friday night would justify the people in an ap peal tot;hysia;al. face, and that the lion. Member, so far front regretting, WoOld Fijoit:e et that result—a meaning which would 1 knew be dwavowed t E 7 ,iw ppop reflection. I beg to take this opportunity of sae ing, that 1 neirea nsed such an expression as "cowardly rebel." I shauld be ta.ary ; hinder any circumstances, to employ an offensive phrase to a 4 :loc, 4jember who may happen to differ from my view of public afa4ra, The Comin'ttee then divided-a-- For Mr. Home's amendment w.i st g.clpst it Majeritti -io i'aeottr of the original resolution.. —132 £100,347 for the eta, pap of staff officers for the cur rent year was the next reaolutioa e Mr. HUME objected to the vote as far Pactea4iifg tlfe necessary military peace establishment of the country, par aitaa:aaly as it stood in 1792. There was the Adjutant- G a n e aara f a aaartment that imperatively called for time pruning knife of aetae,aphotent, its cost having nearly trebled since before the beginpiag of the French war. In 1807 not less than 5001. per annum waa a,l,led to, the pay of the Adjutant-General, on the pretext that he had 2u7 coa t -; to visit officially, so that his salary, which formerly was flied at ;.,VO/. per annum, now amounted to 3,100/. 'Then there was the ;riall Adjutant-General's department, still more extravagant in it:: e;,:patt4iture than the English, the former having not less than nine Adati.t4r4-14e!?era!s on O a jaay, and the latter but eight—a number which lag thought ata a iat tp be reduced at least one half. Reduction should also be umad.a. the staffs of the lonian Islands, the Cape of Good Hope, the 'A;a,arit.ius, Ceylon, New South Wales, and the other colonies, whit), iileed, he saw no raaaau why they did not maintain their own tniiita';' asta blishrne4,Lia 'We on. Member proposed as an amend ment, that but 0‘;.,43411. he granted for the expense of staff cfficers,—an amount Vi-!i i ;l4l , e , , ",td, though 15,0001 less than that proposed by the kixbit llop. Secretary at War, was twice as much as the estimate beI.QT.T ~e !"?In inencana;nt of the French war. Mr. INIAfaZIILY advised his lion. Friend not to press his amendment to a tiiv„;aion ; as his so doing would be but 3 wasting of time. fiia ;1..)1IN WROTTESLEY saw np reap why the QuartermssieraGetteral's department shoalld loe kept up k‘t its present high rate, .Whet was time necessity of keeping a Quartermaster-General at Plymooth and another at Portsmouth ? till li. HARDINGE begged leave to remittal tios;. Mpphata,, that the staff estimates had been reduced 27,06 a wati4 the last two years. The Hon. Member was in error in stattt4e.g a l e ;sat no reduction had taken place in the staff department in Ireaaria:, for the present estimate contained provision for one AdjutantaZiea.ea•a:, e Assist ant-Adjutant-General, and one Brigade Major 'fesa ;;:te,r. that ad t :aat year. He was also in error as to the pay 4 time Adjutant-4e: ; eaal, which was in fact more than 1,0001. per annum ii.a'af: illaja in 1815. The Hon. Mem ber for Staffordshire (Sir J. lis'roit.;:ea;. , a; , ) :ps also in error with respect to the Quartermaster-Generale f:a4rtinotit, for, wit:, the exception of one officer, it stood at preaai:t on the. Ot:A1184 tl - , , c establishment iii 1792. Coloneil p.A.I.K.' i,•; ~:.,;1 to know on what grounds it was pretended;o Pat,laY Ale .i'a , i Wtr t 2f. from six to 10 In spectors of Militia otthe loranialsa, : - - t s pad been the case for the last 15 years, though, taa the tigkt Hon. Gent. very well knew, there was no militia of any j;rntl tha, island. Sir ,i. MURRAY said that those inspectors were not paid as inspectors, ;iot as residents. Colonel DAVi.k‘A . retslie,; rho' they were paid as resi dents as well as inspectors. 41 1 . me . eneu. - i;; :if the military establisio‘aots called for a minute inqu , arY,—the' raaner, tic those colonies (iiial not belong to us, and were a great, burden annually to the country. Sir G. MURRAY said that every reduction hail la en leffixted compatible with our existin; relations with those islands? and with the Melittrraneau generally. In fact, ' the estimate was not less than 3,20/. less than that of last year for those islands alone, and they contributed in some degree to the expense of their own military establish ments. Malta, in the same way, contributed to the mili tary chest not less than 10,0001. per annum. The lion. Member for Aberdeen was in error in supposing that no reduction had been made in the staff of the colonies, for that of Sierra Leone bad been le•sened 2,000/.—that of the Cape, 4,oool.—Ceylon, 2,400/.—Trinidad, 9311,_ Mauritius, 8001.-4Nlewfoundland, I,2ool.—and several others to the amount of 1,8221. The Canada estimate was not reduced, it being found necessary to maintain a force to protect it against the consequences of domestic oppression. Colonel DAVIES was of opinion that the Cape of Good Hope had been always a source of too great an expense since that colony came into the possession of England. Mr. HUME wished to know how the Right Hon. Gentleman could justify the enormous increase that had taken place in the salary of Commanders-in-Chief within the last forty years. In Lord Amherst's time the salary was but SOO/. per annum; in the Duke of York's it had increased by degrees so as to amount to its present charge of 15,000/. per annum. Sir H. HARDINGE denied that the reductions had fallen exclusively or peculiarly on the Medical Department, and said that the pay of the Commander-in-Chief of the Forces was the same now as it was in 1792. The Committee then divided, and the numbers were— For the amendment Against it 122 Majority ~..-81 . . The resolution was then agreed to. The next resolution was then proposed,—namely, that 106,530/. 15s. 3d. be granted for the allowances of the principal officers in the several public departments of Great Britain and Ireland, and for the payment of their deputies, clerks, and contingent expences for the year 1830. Mr. HUME pressed upon the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite the necessity of reducing the expences of the Pay master-General's-office. The business of that office might be transacted for 5,0001., if a proper system were adopted. He observed that the Judge Advocate's salary had been in creased in 1817 on account of the large number of corps then kept up : upon the same principle his salary should now be diminished. He thought that by adopting a better system the vote now proposed might be reduced 40,000/. ; but he would content himself with moving, as an amend ment, that it he reduced to the extent of 10,000/. only. 11r. CALCRAFT said, that the office which he had the honour to hold was a most ancient one. O❑ looking back for the last 125 years, he found that it had been filled by some of the most distinguished persons who had taken a political part in the affairs of the country. Whether a better system of accounts might not be adopted in the office was a question upon which he would not now enter. He administered the office as he found it. Referring to the accounts of the office for the last 50 years, he found that the public had not lost a single shilling of the money which had passed through the office. When the House recollected that during the war hundreds of millions passed through the office, this was a fact of no small im portance. Though the office which he held was not a very laborious one, yet it was one of great trust arid re sponsibility. Ile had various duties to perform, which occupied a considerable portion of his time. Amongst the rest, he presided at the Board at Chelsea Hospital ; and so constant was his attendance there, that since the proroga tion of Parliament he had not had a single spare week to himself. The office at the present moment stood lower than at the time of Mr. Burke's great reform ; for then there were two paymasters and two deputies. Sir 11. PARNELL said, that the Right Hon. Gent. had made out no case to rebut the charge advanced by the Finance Corn arittee—mmely, that the office which he held was a sinecure office. The Right lion. Gent.'s deputy told the Committee that he executed all the duties of his principal's office. It was, in his opinion, a serious objec- • tion to the establishment that the ()Slicers i❑ it possessed too uncontrolled a command over the public money. The Right Hon. Gent.'s reference to the period when there were two paymasters, was a common-•place fallacy ofjusti fying an existing abuse by the example of one still greater. He was surprised to hear the Hon. Gent, say he would postpone the consideration of the question whether the business of his office could be better conducted than it was at present. Ile thought that this was the time for con- sidering that question. He hoped that Ministers would not call upon the House to agree to the vote now before them next year. He WAllof opinion that the duties of the Treasurer of the Navy, the Treasurer of the Ordnance, and the Paymaster of the Forces, now paid at the rate of 55,000/. a year, might be effectually performed for one third of that sum. Mr. CALCRAFT denied that the officers in this de partment had unlimited control of the public money. Mr. MABERLY said, if he recollected rightly, the flight Hon. Gent., when he sat on the other side of the House, disappro‘ed of the office which he now held.-- (A laugh.)—With respect to the manner in which the business of the office was conducted, he begged to remind the Committee that Mr. Sargeant, in his evidence before the j?inance Committee, said, that be had it in his power to go r,way with from 200,000/. to 250,0001., and the loss could not lie discovered in less than a week, Mr. CALCRAFT denied that he had ever spoken in disapprobatio❑ of the office which he now held. Mr. MABERLY had spoken from recollection only. Mr. CALCRAFT said, that all the accounts connected with his office had been submitted to the inspection of Mr. Ahl4,tt anti two oilieF gentlemen appointed to inquire into the public establidiments, and who were perfectly satisf.ed with tLeir correctness. There was no cstabliahmeut in which so much justice was done to the public in the mode in which its business was transacted. Mr. MAIIERLY said the Right Hon. Gentleman should ssunie no merit for submitting the accounts of his de p.. tmeilt to tlw inspection of Mr. Abbott, for he was obliged to do so. Mr. CALCRAFT denied his having claimed merit on that ground. Sir 11. lIAtiDINGE stated, in justice to his Right lion. Friend, the Paymaster of the Forces, that as Chair man of the Cheispa Board, he had to attend the Board frequently. The meetings or the Board for the payment of the out. pensions, amounting to 1,241,6011., amounted to forty-two in the year, exclusive of the meeting of the Board of Chelsea Hospital, which wade the number of nle;,- ; tiin,rg his Right Ilon. Friend was obliged to attend amount to fifty, 4iid ;:e had known his Right lion. Friend frequently come from the country, where lip bad heen two or three days, to attend those meetings. These duties, it should he recollected, were exclusive of those which he had to discharge as Paymaster of the Forces. Mr. G. DAWSON wished to correct the random as sertion oi tic,' porn 1 ember opposite (Mr. Moberly) with respect to Mr. Sergeant's eyidpripe before Ilse liance Committee. Mr. Sergeant's statement was, that if two or three other officers connived with him, he might be able to draw .200,000/. or 300,000/., without being dis coyered for the space of twenty-four hours. But the very officers whose connivance, according to that evidence it would be necessary to command, opted as checks against the possibility of such an occurence in a public establish= went. Mr. MABERLY had made no random assertion regard ing Mr. Sergeant's evidence. The evidence had, in fact, when gives - . 4,:fore the Finance Committee, made such an impression, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer took upon him to say that he should forthwith talp suttee steps to make the public money more secure in future. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that oh ;;otie side; of the House they were speaking from their recollection as to tl.e eyif!ence, and that therefore allow ances should be mutually made. He would agree with the Hon. Member opposite, that the impression made upon his the Chancellor of the Exchequer's) mind by the evidence of My. Sergeant before the Committee, was that the public toriey which could be drr s wn, as Mr. Sergeant stated, wus not apfficiently secured, and accordingly a Treasury was passed, which pup it l'fice;_;7:, 4ut powev s 4Ry inelividual dry morNy as 4lr. verges} :t had described ; fur i,s ;t was rcanired that 411 drafti fqr money should be signed by two Olieer; pf t h e Tre , 3oy the Chancellor of the Exchequer had always the nicst per» feet confidence in the honour and integrity of Mr. Sec- geant—(Hear, hear)—but the facility which he stated to vi,.th respect to the drawing of money in the Trea sury it wai'uteesa - i.r7 to nut an end to, tor the general security. Sir J. BECKETT said, the lion. Mertabey fat /Our deen was incorrect in his statement as to the salify of the oiee which he (Sir J. Beckett) filled—that of Advoca,r,e t7I, Geperail . f:r from that salary having been increased, it was lower now tban it wall ;41 1922; it was then 5,4001. This year the salary was 4,4001. let 'thoteld he. izollect,ed that his Deputy in Ireland was pail put of the mini gi-en in the estimate. The affice of indge-Advoe;ate was regulated c.F, it at present stood in 1806. The salary up to th tt ;re upon certain fees and c•rneluments at tached to tiie Thiiice hot Lords Greaville and Spencer, justly thinking dint a .it;liciel Officer should not be paid in such a manner, made the sab.:iy fixed one, and it was thou settled (h e mem t the mere salary, exclusive of the eher allowances) at 2,500!., whic:.. automat it reinabord to the present day. Tlt rt. ainodnt wagichnscn tts eq..eval...t to the salary of a Puisne Judge'th'en ; inif . tlidugh'ehe sal wies or Puisne Judges had. been since increased, that of the Judge-Advocate •int'd same. Since that time, too l reduction 4 had been made in the officers attached to that Court, by which a saving accrued to the public of 1,0001. per annum. A saving of 6001. a year had been also effected by the reduc tion of the office of Judge-Advocate in Ireland, and a saving of 5001. a year by the abolition of a similar office in North Britain. By the reduction of an Assistant deputy in this country another saving had been made of 600/. ; and in the Colonies, by the reductions of offices similar to those attached to the Court in this country, a saving of 1,0001. a year had been made. Thus a saving to about the extent of 3,700/. had bee• made for the public. The duties of all those offices had devolved upon the Judge-Advocate in London, and not a sixpence had been added to his salary. Mr. MIME contended that his statement was correct. In 1798 Sir C. Morgan did all the duties of the office for 1,031/. a year. The salary was raised in 1807 to 2,5001., in consequence of the great number of cases that came before that Court, owing to the great army which we had then on foot. But as that reason no longer existed, they should ranee the salary to its former amount. The Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Ca'craft) had said that he had never given a vote in opposition to the opinions which he now expressed in support of the office of Paymaster of the Forces. Now the fact was, that when in 1822 he(Mr. ilume) moved an address to his Ma jesty for the reduction of that and various other estab lishments, for the purpose of effecting a saving for the public to the amount of 4,000,0001., the Right Hon. Gentleman spoke and voted in favour of that motion.— (Hear, hear.)—He did not mean, in stating that, to charge the Right Hon. Gentleman with inconsistency ; for when he supported his (Mr. Hume's) motion, he sat on that side of the House; but it was now his duty, sitting on the opposite side, to oppose the reduction of this office. Mr. CALCRAFT said if he had, upon the occasion al luded to by the Hon. Member, voted for the reduction of this office, it must have happened from its being lumped together in one sweeping motion with several others, so as to escape his attention; but even when he sat on the other side of the House he had uniformly supported the maintenance of the present military establishments of the country, which he considered to be on as low a scale as the public service would admit. Mr. HUME, before they proceeded to divide, wished to observe that the Right Mon. Baronet below him (Sir 11. Parnell) had said that there were two establishments, one of which this was, costing 90,000/., and that 40,0001. might be saved from the estimate for them. Now he (Mr. Hume) did not go so far as that—he only asked for a saving of 15,0001. out of 106,530/. The Committee then divided, when the numbers were-- For the amendment 42 Against it Majority against the amendment —76 The original resolution was then put and carried. The next resolution was 14,420/. for the charge of me dicines and surgical materials for his Majesty's land forces, and of certain hospital contingencies, for the year 1830. Mr. MABERLY took that opportunity to refer the committee to the evidence of Mr. Sergeant before the finance committee, which he had since procured, and in which the witness stated that he could draw 200,0001. or 250,0001. out of the Treasury without the chance of a discovery pro bably for a week, when the accounts would be laid before the inspector. That showed that he (Mr. Moberly) had made no random assertion on the subject. Mr, G. DAWSON maintained that the check which the inspection of the accounts afforded in that case had been left out of sight in the former statement of the Hon. Member. Mr. HUME conceived it injurious that each branch of the public service should have its medicines contracted fin• in a separate way. He was convinced that by such a plan the House left the public open to great expence. Such was the opinion of the Finance Committee. Every branch of the public service should be supplied with medical stores in one uniform manner. He had no objection to the vote this near; but he thought that it was one whirls required the immediate attention of Government. The vote was then agreed to. _ _ _ On the resolution to grant 60,812/. Bs. Id. to defray the charge for volunteers in England and Ireland fur the year 1830, Mr. O'CONNELL rose to object to the vote, so far as related to Ireland. He thought that the army in Ireland, during what he might, perhaps, be permitted to call the late civil commotions of that country, had performed its duty, from the highest officer Jowl' to the lowest subaltern, in the most exemplary and praiseworthy manner. He sug gested to the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite that it wan necessary to recollect that a large portion of that army had been employed in the north of Ireland for purposes into which he would not enter. The conduct of the yeomanry in that part of the country he could not praise. It was supposed to have bees kept up for purposes not of protec tion, but of oppression. He submitted that it was a description of force which might be well spared. In the province of Connaught, where the population was almost entirely Catholic, the amount of yeomanry was but an unit. In the province of Munster it was only a decimal ; in the province of Leinster it was a hundred ; but in the pro vince of Ulster, where the population was chiefly Presby terian, it was a thousand. If the yeomanry wet e diminished there, the army might be diminished too ; for the presence 9f the army was wanted for no other object than to pro tect the people from their outrage. For these reasons he should move that this vote be reduced to 50,8121. Bs. Id. Sir G. HILL—If the yeomanry force could be spared, should have no objection to the proposed reduction. He could not, however, submit to the insinuation of the Hen. and Learned Member for Clare, that disturbances had os iginated in Ireland from the conduct of the yeomanry corps. As a proof that the yeomanry corps in the north of Ireland had merited well of their country, he would merely state that the Insurrection Act lid travelled through every county in Ireland, save the nine counties in the pro vince of Ulster. Mr, S, RICE supported the amendment, on the ground of eonomy, and of the internal tranquillity of Ireland. Lord F. L. GOWER said that it was only doing bare justice to the Hon. and Learned Member fur Glare to declare that he had touched upon the subject of the Irish yeomanry with a moderation which must be highly ger viciaable to his view of the question, He was of opinion that any inconsiderate meddling with that body at the present moment would produce an irritation of feeling in Ireland, which it was desirable to avoid. lie ad. witted that the time had at last arrived when this question ought to be looked at. He should be sorry if the Hon. lleinhar for Glare pressed his amendment, for he bad no objection to take the sOject matter of it into immediate consideration. Mr. RICE, after such an admission front the organ of the Irish Government, should suggest to his Hon. and Learned Friend the propriety of leaving the 'eduction in the hands of the Ministry. Mr. BROWNLOW could not intend any thing disre spectful to the yeomanry, in whose ranks he had had the honour of serving, but he thought that the time had at length arrived when, in point of economy, it ought to be dishanded. O'CONNELL was most ready to withdraw his amendment, and would prefer the proposition for the re duction of the yeomanry coming trom the other side of the House rather than from himself. He denied every in tention to traduce the yeomanry of Ireland. When tirst called to the bar he was one of their number, and had moved that they should extend their services to every part of Irelaad, He hoped that nothing which had fallen from him that night would have the slightest tendency 'o embitter the quarrel between the two parties in the north of Ireland. Mr. TRANT desired the Government to be cautious how they reduced a force in Ireland which had rendered such inestimable services tp the country. Mr. lIUME submitted to the Right Hon. Secretary for the Dome Department the propriety of reducing the amount of the English yeomanry. Let them tither be dislu pr continued at their own expense. 41r : PEEL said, that in the speech which the lion. Umber for Alierdeen had delivered on a former evening, hp had accused him of acting in contravention to the rule which Lord Lansdowne had laid down for the reduction of the yeomanly corps. Ile ap l aialed to his Hon. Friend the Member for Limerick, whether he had not strictly followed the rule which had been left in the office of his noble predecessor. When Lord Lansdowne left office, the ex pense mg the yeomanry force amounted to 66,0001., and it was now reduced 10 per cent. There were only 22 corps in the mint:factoring districts. lie then proceeded to eu h;gize the yeomanry corps in Ireland, and mentioned as a proof of their spirit, xhat ;ta 1814, when Bnonaparte te turned from :I".lba, they had yolunteered their services, both Catholip , 'od Protestants, to any part of Ireland. The flop : P!:Ptleman concluded with expres&ng his readiness so mike inquiry it;tp the propriety of rethieing the yeomanry of Ireland, as bad beets done in England, but he was not preo , red to agree to an immediate reduction. Mr. R. GO,DON observed that the yeomanry were not the fittest corps to put down local disturbances. Ile co; hi nr.t help igcolLePtiflg—he wished he could not recol lect.'..—the occ i urrences at 4lanchester. Mr. PEEL raid there Were yeomanry ()dicers in the House, to wlstaz. he would appeal, in confirmation of his assertion that full confidence might be placed in those I.cortus who would never refuse to put down dis b4nces, t t s defend the laws, or to co-operate in any legal object , ( I rear.) If his Majesty were W iNuelts order tv-4prww, • the Ma. Gentleman would find that not a single corps would desert their colours. Mr. LAMB concurred in this opinion. Mr. GORDON said that much dissatisfaction prevailed in the country, owing to the manner in which its distresses had been treated by Ministers. He might even say that there was a revolutionary spirit.—(No, no!) Mr. PEEL observed, that whatever opinion the Hon. Member might entertain of revolutionary spirit being in the country, he placed as entire confidence in the yeomanry as in the regular force. The Marquis of CHANDOS, as an officer of yeomanry, bore testimony to their excellent spirit. Mr. HUAIE called the attention of the Committee to the resolution before it. He complained, that of six mem bers who had voted against his general motion, but had pledged themselves to be present and vote with him on the individual items, not one was present. He moved, as an amendment, that the vote be reduced to 17,808/. A division then took place: the numbers were— For the amendment 23 Against it B3 Majority against the amendment —6o The original resolution was then agreed to The Chairman was then ordered to report progress, and the House resumed. GAME LAWS. The Marquis of CHANDOS moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws for the preservation of game. It was his intention to repeal all the existing laws on this subject, and embody the whole in a single Act. One of his objects was to legalize the sale of game under restric tions similar to those in Mr. Bankes's Bill of last session. Mr. O'CONNELL said he should propose to put an end to the Game Laws altogether. Sir T. FREMANTLE observed that the Noble Lord's Bill was the first step towards the attainment of that de sirable object. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. The Marquis of CHANDOS brought in the Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Tuesday, the9th of March, and to be printed. DRAMATIC WRITINGS. Mr. LAMB obtained leave to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the provisions of the Act 54 Geo. 111., e. 156, with respect to dramatic writino. The object of the Bill was to take away from the managers of the theatres the right of acting plays without the consent of the authors, and to prevent dramatic pieces which had been acted at one theatre from being performed in others, without the like consent. Adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock. LIS' OF TITUNTY-BIZTUN 0:, OF THE MINO xe. muma's MOTION INTRIATEIi 400,0001. 'Guest, J. J. Marshall, W. Gordon, It. Monck, J. B. Heron, Sir H. O'Connell, 1). Heathcote, Sir W. Warburton, H. Hon wood, W. P. Wilbraham, G. Hobhouse, J. C. Wood, John Ingilby, Sir W. I Wyvill, M. Lambert, J. S. Maberly, J. Marshall, J. ITY 0 REDUCE TLIE •RMY Bentinck, Lord G. Blake, Sir F. Blandford, Marquis Birch, J. Brownlow, C. Bright, H. Buxton, T. F. Davies, Col. Dickinson, W. Dawson, A. TELLER. Hume. Joseph LIS' OF TWENTY-TIIRIM Yfl Blandtbril, Marquis Byron, 'l'. Calvert, C. Dawson, A. Duncombe, T. Gordon, It. Ingilby, Sir W. Jephson, C. D. Lamb, Hon. G. T OF THE MINORITY 00 Yomo AukINST THE ESTIMATE OF 42,0001. 'oR lINGLIsH YEOMANS *. Moberly, J. Warburton, H. Marjoribanks, S. Whitbread, S. C. Marshall, W. Wood, Alderman Macdonald, Sir J. Wood, John Morpeth, Viscount Wilson, Sir It. Monck, J. B. O'Connell, D. TELLER. Protlieroe, Ed. Huine, Joseph Rice, T. S. WENDERS IN THE NW TION OF THE smri IN TUB FIRST Althorp, Viscount Bernal, R. Cavendish, W. Duncombe, T. Ebrington, Viscount ORI7'Y OH THIRTY-F.1(311T, FOR THE REDUC ' FROM 109,3471. To 91,347, wno WERE NOT Jophson, C. D. Whitbread, W. U. Marjoribanks, S. Whitbread, S. C. Macauley, T. B. Whitmore, W. W. Morpeth, Viscount Wood, Alderman MEMBERS IN THE MIN, OF THE PAYMASTE FROM 106,5301. TO O. SECOND DIVISION. Burdett, Sir F. Calvert, C. Colborne, N. It. Euston, Earl of iORITV OF FORTY-TWO, FOR THE REDUCTION ER-GENERAL'S AND PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS 11,531!1,, WHO WERE NOT IN THE FIRST Oft Howard, Henry Rice, T. S. Martin, J. Smith, Hon. R. Macdonald, Sir J. Sefton, Earl of l'arnell, Sir H. WiLson, Sir It. DURHAM AS3IZES.—The calendar for our approaching Assizes will be rather heavy. The following is a summary of the cases :—Murder (the case ofJostirtr flurcitimsoN), 1 ; burglary, 3; bigamy, 1; embezzle ment, 1 ; forgery, 1 ; house-breaking, 1; horse-stealing, 1 ; larceny, 3 ; manslaughter, 1 ; sheep-stealing, 2 ; steal ing from a dwelling-house, 1; stealing from the person, 3 ; aiding and assisting ditto, 1; uttering base coin, S.-- Total, 23.—Durham Chronicle. THE LATE SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE.- The following anecdote which we have from an eye-wit ness, may amuse those who arc curious as to the early days of the late Sir T 11014.19 LAWRENCE. In the summer of 1784 or 1785, Drury-lane theatre was hired for the pur pose of acting HAYLEY'S tragedies, by a party of amateurs, among whom were young LAWRENCE, then a student at the Academy, and his father, who had recently been an innkeeper at Devizes. On one occasion, our informant happened to be present when the future President of the Royal Academy played Algernon Sydney, and his father played the Duke of BedPrd, in the tragedy of Lord Russell ; and the circumstance was rendered remarkable by the following ludicrous occurrence. When the news of Lord Russell's execution was announced on the stage, Lady Russell, as became an affectionate wife, had to faint, and it was the business of the Duke of Bedford to catch her in his arms. At this critical juncture, however, the ei-deuant innkeeper was indulging in all the " modes, shows, and forms of grief," with a white cambric hand kerchief, and not knowing exactly what to do with this emblem of woe, when his hands were required for the ser vice of the lady, he, after a moment's doubt, obeyed the impulse dictated by habit, and stuffed the cambric, nap kin-like, under his arm. This mal-apropos, and un- Duke-like movement had an electrical tifect upon the au dience, and the house resounded with roars of laughter.— Portsmouth Herald. TRADE OF PAISLEY.—There has been little variation in the trade of Paisley, from the time that the weavers began to get employment generally, at the close of last autumn, till about four or five weeks since, when a considerable demand took place for trimming weavers, and owing to the Iwo ty of the greater part of them being so great, that they could not purchase mountings necessary for that kind of work, an advance of about 2d. per shilling was freely obtained by those who could engage for trimmings. But although this is the case there is still but an inconsiderable number (we should suppose not more than one-third) employed at these beautiful fabrics, to what was before the introduction of the Canton crape shawls. Dining the winter, a great nuather of the Paisley weavers have been employed by the manufacturers of this city in the zebra line, a very poor description of work; and after paying of carriage, and other drawbacks, must leave but a trifling remuneration to those engaged in it. The working of plain cloth from Thibet wool for the shawl middles, has likewise formed an important part of the work done in Paisley, for some months past. The weaving of woollen cloth of any description is comparatively a new thing there ; this, however, was much more easily over come, than the finishing of the cloth ; but nothing ap pears to come wrong to the ingenious inhabitants of that town, and the goods of this description made by the snore respectable houses there, are now allowed by judges in the London market, to be as well got up in every respect, as the goods of the same description made in the woollen dis tricts of England. These shawls are all crept or cut, in a manner somewhat similar to broad cloth, and those who first commenced the mak ing of them in Paisley, were under the necessity of send ing them to England, to have this operation performed ; but in the course of last year two or three of these cutting machines were gut down to Paisley, and within these few mouths a number more have been procured ; besides, some have been made in that town and neighbourhood, and the manufacturers can now have their shawls finished at home, in every department. Before the introduction of these machines, which were originally of American invention, woollen cloth was cut with a very heavy kind of shears, but an ingenious individual in Paisley, since the introduc tion of die Thibet shawls to that town, has invented and used a hand-knife, of a particular construction, for that purpose, with great effect. Many of the manufacturers consider the cloth finished by this plan equal, if not supe rior, to that done with the machines, whets it is properly executed, because it cuts the cloth equally bare on the sur f i ce, yet dogs not impoverish it so much in the body, leaviug it with a more aft and vglvet kind of feel. A good nember of hands have been employed itl finishing the shawls with these knives for some time past ; they can execute them on the same terms as those who use the ma chines, and earn fully better wages than they could make at i.ny other kind of hand labour. In fact, neither the Olean nor the machines got from England are well cal culated for the light fabric at present snaking in Paisley; part;c4larly as the selvage of the shawls are left by them in the saute rough and unfinished state as we see the sel vage of cloth. This is obviated by the knives, and a ma chine has also been finished to obviate this delect by a me chanic in ,fohnstone within these few weeks, which we Ini4erotmv,l it sloiva 0/asgow Chronicle, OLD BAILEY, FEs. 22. These Sessions having terminated the Recorder passed sentence on the following prisoners— DEATIL-Jeremiah Crane, Gilbert Witt, Robert Far.) thing and William Adams, for stealing goods and moneys to the amount of 5/. and upwards in a dwelling-house ; George Williams, Henry Richards, Thomas Burdett, Thomas Sales, and James Webber, for househreakinz anal larceny ; William Jones alias Grey, for horse-stealirw. ; and William Hewitt Watkins, for uttering a forged bill of exchange. TRANSPORTATION FOIL LIFY.-James Brow., Bin" jamin Nicholls alias Page, George Walker, John Harris, Caroline Buses alias Johnson, Sarah Beazeley, Mary Weekes, Susln Jones, F re d er i c k B uc k c h e , D an i e l Ham mett, and William Shabert. . FOR FOURTIEN Yxans.—John Bailey, William Smith , John Lawrence, Edward Sampson, Robert Scothrop, Robert Elston, James Thomas, John Fordiaam, and Sarah Berry. FOR SILVEN YEARII.--Edward Brady, Samuel Webb, Richard England, John Jones, John Mildenhall, Mimi' Roberts, John Boyd, Eleanor Bryant, Francis Blackburn, Charles Crease, Thomas Jones, John Webb, Margaret Warren, James Adams, George Davis, James Spencer, Thomas Conolly, Thomas Jackson, William Harrill, George Wilkins, William Wildmao, Richard Spendiloe , George Kirby, George Abbott, Henry Abbott, William Feared, John Ludnis, James Armstrong, Th o mas Tay lor, James Jacobs, M try Malian - 1, William Evans, Thos• Clayton, Louisa Williams, James Currie, Wm. Bloom field, James Birnie, Samuel Lucas, James Beadle, and Laurence Martin. Several were sentenced to various terms of imprison ment from two years to seven days. The Court then adjourned to Thursday, the 13th of April. Samuel Pratt was brought into Court on Friday even ing, after every reporter had left, and was sentenced by the recorder to be transported beyond the seas for seven years. Our able Dean (PHILroTTs) is now in London, in oonverse high with the highest personages from whom promotion cornea; but the vaeaucies that were seem to have been filled up without his name appearing.-- Liverpool Paper. Covent-garden market is, we percei ve, nearly finished, with the exception of the terrace and the grand entrance from Russell -street, both of which are to be highly ornamented and tastefully embellished beyond the original plan. The terrace will occupy the entire oast front, and on the south part of it a green-house will be erected upon a novel construction, extending from the north to the south, which will be occupied by the princi pal nurserymen, and filled with exotic as well as natty , shrubs and flowers. In the front of the green-house as extensive promenade is intended, the ascent to which will be by a handsome flight of stone steps. The green-house is entirely gratuitous from the Duke of Bunion') to the Florists. We regret to hear that the men belonging to Varteg Iron Works, Monmouthshire, are standing out for wages, and that a spirit of insubordination and out rage has manifested itself among them.—On Friday, 1 04 again on Monday week, great numbers of them paraded the streets at Pontypool in a disorderly manner, and rescued from the civil power a man who had bee❑ appre hended as the ring -leader. The inhabitants of the town are in a state of great alarm, and anxiously await the arrival of the military, who are said to have been sent for to maintai❑ order and arrest the progress of anarchy and the evils consequent on lawless proceedings, which are in jurious alike to the workmen, to their employers, an d to the public.—Cambrian. A fine embergoose was shot by Mr. CRAvvrt spirit-merchant, at Burlington, during the last week, in a small rivulet that runs along the south side of the tow► , the plumage of which is really beautiful. LALHAM de arribes this water-fowl as common in Switzerland, where it is known by the name of Milder. He says it makes , its nest among the reeds and flags, and platten it in the water, so that it is continually wet, as in some of the Grebe genus. It utters a loud shrill cry. lie adds, that it is sometimes taken 20 yards deep under water—namely , with a net, or iron hook baited with a fish. And Bur Fox also asserts that it dives to very great depths, and swims under water to the distance of an hundred paces, with its ascending to take breath—a portion of air, included in the dilated windpipe, supplies its respiration during the in. terval.—Doncaster Gazette. SMUGGLING CASE.—On Tuesday last JESST YATES, JERRY BUTLER, EDWARD ETiaRTON, Rtitl EDWARD ROBINSON, were brought before EnWaal. CARTEL and DANIEL HOWARD, &qrs. Magistrates for the Borough, to answer informations exhibited against them at the instance of the Board of Customs, for breaches of the Revenue LAWS. It appeared by the evidence that they were taken on the 11th inst. at eleven o'clock at night, about three miles and a half to the westward of the Owen , Light, in a boat, by a boat's crew of his Majesty's cutter Snipe, commanded by Lieutenant PoscELL, havidg oa beard thirty-nine ankers and a half of foreign spirits. They were all convicted, and YATES being fit for the Navy was adjudged to serve his 'MAJESTY for five years. The others were each fined 1001., and in default of payment committed to the Borough gaol. YATES was escorted from the Town Hall, underithe custody of the Master at Arms, by a party of the Royal Marines.—Portsosoutit Herald. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—About three o'clock on Tuesday morning the inhabitants of Penzance were astounded by an explosion that shook their houses as if the town had been visited by the shock of as earthquake. Numbers rushed front their beds into the streets, when it was soon discovered that a small vessel, lying at the pier, had blown up. On further inquiry, to the amazement of the whole town, and we think, we may say, of all by whom the story shall be heard, it was ascer tained that the vessel had been deliberately blown up by one of her owners. This man was one-third owner of the vessel, and the day before quarrelled with his partners for refusing to appoint his brother Captain, and told thero he would blow her up—a threat to which they paid no attention, never imagining it would be carried into execu tion. The angry man, however, determined to be as good as his word, purchased a hundred and a half of blasting powder, and executed his purpose to the terror of all his townsmen. Happily no person was i n j ure d . The offender has been committed to prison. A STRANGE AFFAIR.----O R Thursday a young woman, the newly married spouse of an Italian figure-maker, had a narrow escape from a dreadful and sudden death ; but the story will be best told in the lan guage of her lord and master, as delivered by him in the Police Office. " I sent her out von message, to see von de boat sail for Fife ; and gave her de raonie to pay for my ticket. My vile vera long coming Lome--tree hour. Igo to small house at teatre to make de enquire. Dey tol' me lily vile gone two hour. Coming up de bridge I meet PXDRO, selling de figar of Suter Jon and de Taut o'Shant.' Ile tell me my vile carried polish offish, dead. Me vas glad when de offisher tell me dat her ear.ring and two gold ring on de finger vera safe; for de rest I do not mind at de present." The fact is, that the lady having fallen in with an old acquaintance got drunk, and in a tit of shame or madness, jumped on the parapet of the Bridge► and was only prevented from falling over by two gentlemen passing, who gave her in charge to a police patrol. She lay in the office about two home, when Gurserro, having previously secured her jewels, thought of returning for. Let dear 821 f; and the liquor having by that time somewhat evaporated, she walked home on the arm of her loving husband, who declared " vould make her a good vife is future, for she should never get von shilling more to get drunk with."—Cciledonian Mercury. Extract of a letter from on Officer on board his MAJESTY'S ship .sitrachnc, slated Port Royirl, Dec. 21st, 18211:--" We left Havannah on the 12th of No vember, and had a quick passage and tine weather; b u t 1 'l am sorry to say we lost four poor fellows on our passage before our arrival at Port Royal, which was on the 21st. n The crew of the Shan are very unhe a l t h y. Th e S e ' eond Master is now in the hospital laid up with the fever') he' it':das beett been ge lole to is se new a crew in the hospital , an d God knows how many more poor fellows are laid up i n th e ir hammocks on board. She remained at anchor betwe en th e quays fora week, in hop'f forced tothere furleaving the recovering. n last o fortnightles,!i than e forty-six of ber in a dangerous Shannon has been s fre that the sea-breeze and fresh air would set t112.m 4L rigllt age • n ; but unfortwnately this did n o t hale the effect, and i they were obliged to put to sea at last. We have been waiting here ever since the 21st of November for Admiral Fleming, and, I am happy to say, he arrived on the 18th in the Barham, having left Mrs. Fleming at Ca raecas. We shall sail on the 24th, with a convoy, for St. Jago de Cuba. The Admiral will sail on the 2551 for Nassas, calling at La Guyare on his passage for Mrs. Fleeming, and I believe he intends to remain there until Admiral Colpoys cornea out to relieve him on the station. Mr. Provost has passed fur seamanship. We expect to for England in May. There have been three slavers taken in different vessels since the Go/atea lert."—Porta mouth Herald. f ere( ti f iAt ban]. C on , 14 eni With ein ol ev e , gel.° Cent to 1 led* U bj ww•ill whic "will run The foul bet able Wet the the froz that IRO the mad and LuL liqu busi Pr is cent of p 4rltit to ti to door ings, Dan Ore Ditl Gui Me: Litt Uric are Witl C4lllt awl( agai lath rise, kvei Go, Ina„ th: of t i veritl Chas Cent Pari Cii;